◈ 156. [Side Story] Nightmare Slayer
“What was the ‘secret name’ you received from above?”
God Hand had said that he had received a secret order before being dispatched here.
What is the secret name and who gave it?
You should check this out.
“Yes, Your Highness. I will tell you everything.”
God Hand gave me the contents of the secret order he received from the upper level right before he was sent to the southern front here while he was imprisoned as a death row prisoner.
“… indeed.”
It wasn’t anything great. Melt into the southern front. Observe the dynamics of the front lines and report any abnormalities. Cooperate with the Chief Priest to closely intel.
“And one last command.”
“What is it?”
“that… It was an order I couldn’t quite understand.”
God Hand looked at me and spat out cautiously.
“Keep an eye on the lord’s aide, Ader… .”
“… ?”
Suddenly, something so unexpected came out that I froze.
Ader, not me? why? why?
‘no way… .’
That Ader is a person related to the system of this world… … Do you know
I urgently asked for more.
“Who gave the order?”
“This is the 2nd Prince, Her Highness Fernandez.”
He is also a good person.
I narrowed my eyes. As the older brother said, I think we will have to talk face-to-face sooner or later. It sounds like you have a lot to say to each other.
“I apologize for not telling you earlier. I just apologize, Your Highness… … .”
God Hand mumbled with his head almost banged on the floor. I clicked my tongue softly.
“If you apologize, stop taking pictures of your hair and show it with your future actions.”
“of course. majesty! What can I do?”
To God Hand, who earnestly asked, I said simply.
“Be my spy.”
“… !”
I smiled at God Hand, who shuddered.
“You know what that means? You will have to become a double agent for me from now on.”
A little while ago, Marherita said this in a communication with the central government.
– ‘I’ was caught. sorry.
In other words, it means that no one but himself was caught.
In other words, God Hand leaked the word that it was not caught. Of course, this is what I did.
The center will judge that ‘Marherita has been caught, but God Hand has not yet been caught’.
And here on the southern front, the only remaining intelligence line, God Hand, will try to use it somehow.
Using this point, God Hand is used as a double agent.
“With your contact network, contact the center separately. You haven’t been caught by Prince Ash yet.”
“… .”
“From now on, you must report to me everything the center tells you to do and deceive the center as I tell you. can you do it?”
“Of course, Your Highness.”
God Hand did not hesitate.
“I will do it. On the honor of our race.”
Facing God Hand, who nodded heavily, I smiled.
‘Well, it’s not that easy.’
The opponent is a dark-haired woman under direct control of the imperial family. It is also an intelligence unit led by the Minister of Government Administration.
Now that Marherita has been caught, it is natural to doubt that the spy line on the God Hand side is still alive.
From now on, God Hand will be constantly questioned whether or not he is a traitor, both from the imperial family and from this front.
Right now, I intend to transfer Ader’s surveillance back to God Hand.
And in the unlikely event that they betray me and show signs of harming the Southern Front, I intend to use the ‘leash’ I received at the beginning to get rid of them.
‘What can I do? That this is the fate of Undercover.’
In addition to that, I was able to dig up a lot of information about the Aegis task force’s intelligence system and the center from God Hand.
God Hand, as if wanting to prove that he was completely on my side, told me all the information he knew, including not asking.
After digging up enough information. I nodded and looked around at the three Shadow Troopers.
“I have one last thing for you to do.”
To the three of them who were looking at me with focused faces, I muttered heavily,
“Only you three can do it, but all three of you will risk your life.”
***
About an hour later I came out of the drawing room.
“Seniors.”
Outside the door, Evangeline, Damien Jr. and Lily were waiting.
I made eye contact with each one and nodded.
“I think everyone’s head is complicated by the sudden events today.”
Everyone didn’t answer, but it seems like I meant it. Everyone was embarrassed and lowered their eyes.
In particular, Lily’s face was dark. The fact that God Hand tricked him seemed quite shocking.
“First, let me tell you the conclusion.”
I decided that reinforcements would come from the center. He also talked about the decision to embrace Marherita and God Hand instead of rejecting them.
“It’s true that they tricked us, but those friends… Because you followed the orders of the imperial family.”
Anyway, they were also loyal to the Empire. It was only on the side of the center between the center and the frontier.
However, this is the frontier, and the party members who make eye contact with me are also people of the frontier.
Even if we all ultimately move for the empire, there is bound to be a difference in our views on the empire.
“I won’t ask you to trust them again. All of you, keep your eyes open and watch them.”
“… .”
“Because they will prove themselves whether they can be our teammates again.”
The party members silently nodded.
To evoke the heavy atmosphere, I clapped.
“Come on, I understand you’re all down, but let’s do what we have to do.”
A week later, the defense battle begins.
I don’t think Fernandez won’t send reinforcements after hearing my threats, but he doesn’t know.
‘You can’t just trust the reinforcements and stay still. In case the reinforcements don’t come or are late, we have to prepare our defenses too.’
We have all the defenses we can so that we can carry out a defensive war on our own.
I distributed the roles to the party members to perform in the next defense battle and told them what to prepare.
After a brief meeting.
I asked before dismissing everyone who was tired.
“Oh, and tell me what kind of equipment each of you would like to have.”
Everyone looked at me with round eyes. I grinned.
“I will make it all.”
In this stage 5, there were many gains as much as the losses were great.
It was time to open the reward box and go to the blacksmith to request equipment production.
***
Considering the farming efficiency, it is correct to open the box first and then ask the blacksmith to make equipment, but this time, due to circumstances, I decided to visit the blacksmith first.
I went to the magic blacksmith that night to say that the horn was also sweet.
Lake Kingdom Dungeon. Safe base base camp.
This time he came alone.
Flash!
When I arrived at this place through the teleport gate with the loaded cart, Kelly Bay, who came running in a hurry, stood up his beard and gave a squeal.
“hey! I thought you all died, Inum-ah! There’s too much news!”
I laughed bitterly.
“sorry. It was too late to come because I was out of my mind and exhausted.”
“You son of a bitch! People who are worried should think about it too! Isn’t it that hard to send a message saying you did a good job?!”
“Okay, okay. From next time, I will contact you right away.”
To Kelly Bay, who was spitting and getting angry, I quickly put the items I had brought into the cart.
“It’s a bit late, but I brought you a present.”
“Why did you bring something so shameless?”
Kelly Bay, who had been grumbling, stiffened as she saw what was being loaded onto the cart.
It was a coffin.
A long wooden box containing a corpse.
“This… !”
I grinned at Kelly Bay, who was frozen and unable to move.
“I agreed to give you the head of their lord in exchange for a weapon to kill the vampire.”
“… .”
“I kept my promise.”
After breathing in, Kelly Bay cautiously approached the cart and opened the coffin.
Needless to say, what was inside was Selendion’s corpse.
Originally, the principle is to incinerate the corpses of monsters on the spot after recovering the magic stones and loot, but they promised to give Celendion’s head to Kelly Bay.
“… .”
Kelly Bay, who had been silently looking at the enemy’s face for a long time, looked back at me with a slightly frightened expression.
“… But is it true that this bastard is dead?”
“yes. I’m sure.”
“Seeing that Sipearl vampire is lying in the coffin, I can’t tell if he’s dead or sleeping.”
bang!
Kelly Bay, who had closed the coffin lid, lifted the coffin. I asked purely out of curiosity.
“What are you going to do with that?”
“What are you going to do while sleeping? It’s not that I have a terrible hobby of playing with corpses. There are no usable materials that can be gleaned from the body of a vampire.”
Kelly Bay carried the coffin and approached the large brazier.
“You have to burn it.”
As the wind was blown into the bellows, the fire in the furnace intensified. The magical blue flames that swayed inside the brazier gave off scorching heat.
Kelly Bay set Selendion’s coffin down in front of the furnace and sprinkled glittering silver dust over it.
Perhaps the castle was made of fragments and powder left over from making weapons.
“Uracha!”
When the sprinkling of the silver dust was finished, Kelly Bey pushed the coffin with all her might with both arms and threw it into the furnace.
Fire-!
The coffin, sucked into the flames, burned in an instant.
“Look, brothers. This damn vampire lord who sucked your brothers’ lives is dead.”
Kelly Bay groaned in a dry voice.
“Now free yourself from his curse and fly away with peace of mind. Far far far away… .”
I watched from a distance as the blacksmith performed the requiem of the brothers.
“after! It’s a little chilly.”
Only after the coffin was completely burned out did Kelly Bay turn around. I asked him cautiously as he wiped his face with a towel.
“Aren’t you crying?”
“Hey! It’s hot, you rotten bastard. How hot is that fire?”
Annoyedly, Kelly Bay threw the towel into the corner and slammed the table in front of her with her big hand. Grandpa’s eyes were still red.
“Oh, stop teasing old man! Take out the loot you got this time. Let’s take a look.”
I’m just here to entrust you with making equipment with it.
From my bosom, I placed three magical power cores that emitted red light on the table in turn.
All three were emitting a terrifyingly clear light, but one in particular was shimmering with an unusual bloody color.
As a result of the last battle, I was able to obtain 7 SR-grade magic cores and 3 SSR-grade magic cores.
Among them, there were three SSR ranks. The ‘Vampire General’s Magic Core’ from Alpha Beta and the ‘Vampire Lord’s Magic Core’ from Selendion.
“Monster babies. I thought it might not be a monster that has been eaten for hundreds of years, so even the magic core vomited something terrifying.”
Kelly Bay, who examined the three magic cores in turn, looked at the ‘vampire lord’s magic core’, which emitted a terrifying bloody color, and stuck out her tongue.
“It’s the essence of Selendion. With this, I can make a Nightmare Slayer!”
“Nightmare Slayer?”
Come to think of it, Celendion said something like that.
“What exactly is a Nightmare Slayer?”
At my question, Kelly Bay grinned, raising her beard.
“What do you call the weapon that kills the dragon or the person who killed the dragon?”
“Um, dragon slayer… Joe?”
“yes. Then, what if we change the target to the nightmare corps commander instead of a dragon?”
aha really
“If you make a weapon with the magic core from a corps commander-level monster, that’s a Nightmare Slayer.”
“okay. And these have a power that is different from other equipment.”
In the game, it was just some good boss equipment. Is it differentiated enough to have such a grandiose name here?
Certainly, the magic gun ‘Black Queen’ has some insane performance.
‘Is it possible to prepare one more equipment equivalent to the Black Queen? This is really sweet.’
Thinking of it, Kelly Bay added a word.
“It also has darkness commensurate with its power.”
“darkness… What?”
Kelly Bay frowned at my question.
“What is it, your sniper friend was carrying a Nightmare Slayer and you didn’t know how to use it?”
“yes?”
“The more you kill something with the Nightmare Slayer, the more the nightmare sleeping in that weapon awakens.”
The spine was terrified.
I stuttered and asked.
“What will happen when you wake up?”
“Well, that nightmare. You can calmly lend your strength, or… .”
Kelly Bay shrugged humorously.
“It might eat you.”
