Chapter 207: Disaster Has Arrived
Chapter 207 – Disaster Has Arrived
Shiala eventually couldn’t remember who the mage in front of her was.
With just a polite, slight nod, she walked into the beautiful mansion with Shadow and Tooth behind her.
She was clearly an honored guest, and Mr. Basque immediately went out to greet her warmly with his wife.
Upon seeing Megumi, his expression froze, a reaction that must have been caused by Chandra, it seemed she had scared this guy enough.
On the contrary, it was Mrs. Basque who greeted him warmly.
“See dear, this is the learned mage-san I told you about, by the way, he also comes from the mountains of McCalla, I heard that this Servant-sama used to be there as well.”
At her reminder, Ciara instantly cast a subtle glance.
So it’s Veritas’ observer in the mountains ……
She thought so.
She knew about some of Heine’s “irregularities”.
The fact that those things were successfully hidden from Veritas meant that this person was at least one of Heine’s people.
She was thinking, and so was Megumi.
She raced through the relationships in her head, then guessed that Hiara would guess who she was.
At the same time she smiled and went up to the conversation, acting nonchalant.
Because of the prolonged two-line operation of communicating with Heine, she also had to be bombarded with messages and taut challenges from those guys.
She was now quite adept at doing two things at once.
That’s when she saw Duo.
“How did it go, did Basil know who you were?” She asked.
Duo: “Of course, he’s seen this face of mine before. Things went as planned, he was going to let me go with money, but then he thought I might spill the beans on something like his violation of the Shikoku Convention and let me stay.”
“Did he ask you how you got here?”
“I said Simon saved me, guess he’ll find a way to ask for proof.”
Megumi: “He won’t need to ask for proof, someone will come to your door to investigate the source of the ‘slave’, after all, Veritas doesn’t allow slaves, they’re going to have to put you on a new account.”
Duo: “As expected of you Megumi, you’ve thought of everything.”
Though she meant it as a compliment, how Megumi heard it made her feel like she was being conspiratorial ……
It’s over, I can’t go back myself after spending time with those guys.
Megumi: “So why is Shiala here? Is it because of you?”
Duo: “That’s not true, it’s the wisdom of the aboriginals oooh. Heine got the shipbuilder’s research in Eaglewing, he gave it to that wood elf named Linumu to decipher, and afterward sent a copy towards Godello City, and lo and behold, his old favorite came to talk business.”
Megumi drifted off.
No wonder. ……
Basque was a shareholder of the Eagle Wing City Shipyard second only to Golden Tooth, and knew quite a bit of insider information.
In front of profit, any traditional beliefs of the dwarves could be put aside first.
Duo: “But I don’t understand why her people are here?”
Megumi: “The court is in session, and the whole shapeshifter is a necromancer thing isn’t over yet, haven’t we all met Renee? She’s the defendant.”
DuoDuo: “Oh yeah …… these guys are so inefficient, two months and still no court.”
Huihui: “It might have been a deliberate delay before, but now it can’t be opened.”
She then started to tell what she saw during the day.
Meanwhile, the guests invited by Mr. and Mrs. Basque had arrived one after another, totaling about thirty people.
After a brief introductory speech, this dinner party, which was considered luxurious even in Veritas, officially began.
The spacious living room was filled with exquisite food.
Temporarily hired waiters carried trays of wine between the guests.
Inside the fence in one corner of the house was a small symphony orchestra that played automatically.
It was a magical instrument that had been subjected to an enchantment spell, and it was expensive.
Duo’s vestigial Raider was probably the most out of place in the group of attendants.
He wore a child’s largest size waiter’s uniform, and his stocky, stubby five-foot-four figure bulged out of his clothes.
Combined with his tanned skin, he looked like a big, stocky rat, and caused a gasp and a laugh wherever he went, enlivening the atmosphere instead.
Seeing this scene, Basil’s taut nerves slowly relaxed.
Even to this “no stage fright” Reid slightly higher.
In fact, he was just worrying.
It didn’t matter if he was a Cornu slave or a half-elf servant.
They were “slaves” with the tacit approval of Veritas.
These natives of the Makara Mountains who had seen the outside world were not allowed to go back, so this was basically their home.
Of course, even if they were allowed to, they wouldn’t go back.
These guests maintain polite expressions on their faces and mentally view these people like mentally deficient children.
That condescending pity permeated every move.
Perhaps only Ciara would look at Red with a slight frown on her face.
But under these circumstances, she could only remain silent as well.
…
Naga didn’t have many connections, so Megumi stood quietly in the corner observing the guests around her, picking out valuable NPCs .
Duo just hung around her, listening to her stories.
The two didn’t feel at all like part of the NPCs at this point, but rather players on some secret mission.
It was fun and exciting.
Megumi: “…… The court is in District 1, and unless the mages want to shake this shit up, it won’t be in session until the rift is resolved.
“I’m guessing it’ll be another three months, it took half a year to close the first rift in the game, there’s only one rift this time, so it should be over soon.”
Duo: “Noooo, I don’t think so.”
Megumi: “Why?”
Duo: “I couldn’t understand any of the meta-spirit, magic web, pollution, or whatever you were telling me before.
“But then, I just had a feeling.
“The meta-spirit and the pollution of the Void seem like profits and losses, and now Veritas looks like it can’t fill its financial deficit, and that’s why it’s thundering.
“But a deficit isn’t something that can be solved with one thunderstorm… it just brings out the tip of the iceberg of the problem.
“So this time it doesn’t alleviate the problem.
“In the game, the reason it took three years for the disaster to completely explode wasn’t because the House of Truth held it back, but something must have given it a reprieve.
“So where did this thing come from?”
Duo’s words seemed to enlighten Megumi, sending her into deep thought.
Only after a long time did she murmur, “The McCalla Mountains?”
Duo: “I guess so. You’re not native to the mountains, but Ryder is, so I have a strong feeling that it’s nothing like the mountains. If I had to say it’s like …… coming from an idyllic reality to the internet with enemies on all sides.
“Even the air here is sensitive and irritable, as if it could be set off at any moment. So I think it was the ‘joining’ of that place that gave the House of Truth a reprieve.
“It’s like an inheritance that was meant for you to use to run a turnaround, and then this group of mages took it right up against the debt, and so it was only a three-year reprieve.”
Megumi couldn’t help but say, “Not bad!”
Very good point of view, making her brain race. If that was the case, then it was the meta-spirit of the McCalla mountains that had neutralized the contamination of the magic web.
That was why the Void disaster had been delayed for three years.
In other words, the fall of Sector 2 was just the beginning.
What would follow would not be a peaceful restoration, it would be an even more disastrous rift outbreak.
……
Same time.
Mark poured the powder of extinction in his hand into his mouth, washed it down with the water, and took a deep breath.
He felt the mental emptiness and exhaustion sweep away, replaced by a high level of concentration as well as sensitivity.
Even the green veins on his temples bulged slightly.
“Ready?”
A man carrying a portable lamp approached.
His lamp was somewhat similar to the projectile energy lamp, but more refined.
And the light it emitted was a miserable white halo, slightly tinged with gray.
“Ready!”
The twenty Mules, including Mark, replied loudly as they put on their silver protective suits and helmets.
“Then, set off!”
With a command, the blimp with silver paint wrapped around its hull plunged headlong into the rift in Sector 2.
The moment he entered the void, Mark felt an intense discomfort.
Countless chaotic desires were desperately tantalizing his sensitive mental energy.
But because of the protection of the helmet, they were like a group of prostitutes scratching their heads at him through the glass.
He instantly felt the urge to remove the helmet.
“Stay focused!”
A cloud of light swirled from the leader’s carrying lamp, soothing the restlessness in their minds.
The evil thoughts disappeared, and Mark breathed a sigh of relief.
He felt sweat soaking his back.
The dirigible moved slowly forward through the dark purple background of space.
It wasn’t clear if they were tilting or if the world was tilting, but Sector 2 in the field of view looked like a piece of driftwood floating in a purple ocean.
It clearly looked close at hand, yet it took them a long time to reach the warehouse area.
“Now check the time again, you have five minutes at a time to go in and salvage the goods, and when that time is up, come out immediately to receive the light.
“Your suits and helmets are more than enough to withstand the strange beast, other than that, trust no one, including your companions.
“Lastly, remember to prioritize salvaging the rechargeable stones.”
The leader gave an order, and twenty mules rushed into the dark warehouse one after another.
Mark panted and ran to the area assigned to him.
The prolonged intake of the extemporized powder had left his body long past its prime.
He held up a hand, soft white light released from his palm, illuminating the dark path.
Soon, a huge container came into view.
He waved his hand gently, and with a slight tingle in his brain, the container was stowed away in the void sac behind him.
The first one.
Then the second, and the third.
The tingling in my brain reached its limit when I received the fourth box.
In a trance, he saw a crack in the crate and a puddle of purple liquid oozing out of it.
But he didn’t think much of it and gritted his teeth and continued to collect it.
However, this time the chest didn’t move at all, and instead, the oozing liquid grew more and more, faster and faster, and had spread to his feet.
But he fondly remembered the chief’s words:
None of the strange beasts here are scary.
So, he urged the Void Sac once again at the box.
This time the crate disappeared and his brain didn’t tingle.
At the same time the weakness in his body disappeared, and he walked lightly as if he was stepping on cotton.
He felt like he was in such good shape that he could collect a few more.
So he continued to maintain the light spell walking to the side, towards the areas that were not his.
He saw a teammate who was also wearing a silver protective suit.
The thought that this guy had also collected at least four crates made him jealous for no reason.
So he waved his hand, and the annoying guy was stowed away in his void sac.
He didn’t feel the slightest bit bad about it and continued on.
This time, his teammates saw him as if they had seen the undead, and pulled their legs out and ran.
What are you running for?
He thought in annoyance.
Reaching forward, the purple liquid shot out like an arrow, penetrating the man’s body.
He walked over and collected the other man’s void sac filled with rechargeable stone boxes as well.
Good, I can still collect more crates.
…
Three minutes.
Five minutes.
Ten minutes.
Not a single person came out, and the man holding the carrying lamp began to panic.
Just as he hesitated to leave, movement came from inside.
Snap.
Snap.
Snap.
It was like a sticky ball of Slime being constantly slammed to the ground.
Then, a purple slime giant that was over four meters in size crashed through the door of the warehouse.
It let out a guttural wail as if it had eaten badly.
However, the stomach was expanding, and there was light looming underneath it.
The mage carrying the lifting lamp looked horrified and was about to pilot the dirigible away.
But the moment he turned around, a light from behind him illuminated everything.
Including himself.
(End of chapter)