Part 4[แก้ไข]
---[Underwood] Harvest Festival Headquarters.
Kuro Usagi and Jin had been requested to meet up with Sala after the invasion attempt on Underwood. During the invasion of the Titans, Jin who had already been asked for and had been at the Headquarters was hidden away in the interior of the Great Tree.
Though he was really embarrassed about himself being unable to join in the battle, he knew that it wasn’t the time to be worried about that sort of thing currently.
Jin and the [Will-O'-Wisp] members who were summoned to the Headquarters like the [No Name], posed their question to Sala.
“Sala-sama, what’s happening now? Wasn’t the Demon Lord that invaded [Underwood] 10 years ago already destroyed? “
Hearing Jin’s question, Sala leaned back on her chair and tilted her chin upwards in a backward stretch with her head facing the ceiling.
“……Sorry. I’d actually thought of telling you of the details tonight. But I really didn’t expect those guys to act up that fast. In fact, I have another reason for inviting your Communities to come to [Underwood] ……Would you be willing to hear me out?”
“Yes.”
“Yahoho……Nn. If it is just hearing you out, there’s no need for us to decline.”
Jin had given his reply immediately while Jack smiled in an evasive manner.
Sala leaned her body forward as she started her explanation.
“I guess you would have heard that [Underwood] was previously attacked by a Demon Lord right?”
“Yes. I heard that it was something that happened ten years back.”
“That’s right. Though we managed to defeat the Demon Lord successfully, we were left with serious wounds. Moreover, the Remnant Group of the Demon Lord seems bent on getting their revenge on [Underwood].”
“……the Remnant Group that you have mentioned were the Titan tribe earlier?”
“That’s right. However, it might not be only the Titan tribe. Having inspected the grounds before this, the situation of the surroundings were very strange as I had feared. Even those Perytons who are the lead Man killers of the Eudemons have also started to gather. To be unresponsive to the intimidation of the Gryphons, it could very well be a certain type of spell that controls them.”
“I see……But the Titan tribe of before was from which tribe? Kuro Usagi seems to have no recollection of seeing that kind of mask.”
Sala responded with a “Nn” before lapsing into a short silence. Seemingly finding trouble with expressing her thoughts into words, she continued albeit slowly:
“Those remnants of the Demon Lord group ……are the descendants of the Titans who have fled into Little Garden and are of mixed ancestry.“
“So that’s how it is.” Kuro Usagi nodded her head.
“Many of the titan tribes in Little Garden are the remnant armies running from the other worlds after losing their battles. One of the most significant would be the Fomorians of the Celtic Myths, there are even those that come from the Nordic lands.[3] And since they have had the experience of suffering defeat and escaping, their characters are much more peaceful now, not thirsting for battle but a tribe that specializes in crafting……However, there was a sub-faction that got their hands on a Grimoire called fifty years ago and started to use the [Authority of a Host Master] to dominate the Titan tribe. And that was the origin of it all.”
Kuro Usagi ‘s rabbit ears drooped down seemingly in thought.
“? Was the game called ‘Labor Gabala’?”[4]
“Do you know what it’s about?”
“Yes. Though I can’t really say that I know it fully but I’ve previously heard of its information briefly. I heard that this [Authority of Host Master] was obtained from a different book called [5] and it can forcefully start up a Game that places the land as the bet.”
“That’s right. Amongst all of the [Authority of Host Master]s, this could be said to be a very normal ability. And it was with that ability that these guys were able to slowly expand and develop their Community to become stronger.”
---However, the Demon Lord group was defeated in the battle.
The titan tribes had then returned to a group of disorganized mob of the losing army.
And since Sala had described them to be a peaceful race, then why would they continue their attacks on [Underwood]?
At this moment, Sala stood up from her chair and rolled up the Alliance flag that hung on the wall.
Taking a stone that was about the size of a human skull from the secret treasury behind the flag, she presented it before the others.
“This ‘eye’ is their target.”
“…… ‘eye’? You mean that piece of rock?”
“Nn. Though it is currently sealed……but if it were to be unsealed, it is said to be able to wipe out a hundred Divine Spirits within a breath.”
The VIP room was suddenly filled with the sound of the others drawing their breaths loudly.
Kuro Usagi and the others had just fought with Demon Lords of the Divine spirit levels a month ago and they understood the might of a Divine spirit. However, Sala was now holding an item that was said to hold a power which could easily wipe out a hundred of those with Divine Spirit level. Kuro Usagi felt the chills that ran down her spine as she asked gingerly:
“What in the world is that Gift?”
“…… This is ‘The Death Eye of Balor’.”
*Peng!*[6] Jin and Kuro Usagi stood up in shock.
“Ba…Ba…Balor’s Death Eye!”
“You…You are joking right?! Talking about [The Death Eye of Balor], it’s the strongest and scariest of all Death eyes in the Celtic myths! It’s a Demon Lord eye that can kill just by one look of the Gift!”
Kuro Usagi’s face had turned pale and her gestures were much more exaggerated. However, seeing how brutal that item was, her reaction was very much a normal one that one would have expected.