Chapter 34
Subject: Investigation
Sender: Lios
Message:
Here is an area where the infection is spreading .
Go investigate .
The words are
Λ Lambda Server Resurrecting Confused Judgment
BlackRose and were informed of these instructions from Lios so we rushed from Carmina Gadelica to the area .
“Hey, can we just leave things like this?”
On the way, BlackRose grumbled as usual .
“I feel like we’re just getting pushed around by him . ”
“Can’t be helped . We don’t have enough information on hand . Lios is a system administrator and I think it’s best to be on his side for the time being . ”
I said the empty words that I had seen several times .
“You’re right . I remember a little bit . The exchange between Lios and Helba from before,” she said .
“Couldn’t it be that Lios knows next to nothing just like us?”
“That is…”
I couldn’t say ‘not true . ’
“Or better yet, maybe we should be on Helba’s side,” BlackRose said somewhat harshly .
We arrived at the destination area .
There was an evening sky . There were eerie green cracks and scorched red stains scattered all over the place .
A series of data was floating inside the cracks .
BlackRose and I immediately stopped chatting and stood on guard .
The atmosphere was exactly the same as when I had encountered the Reaper .
“Be careful, BlackRose,” I said, looking around alertly .
“Kite, but… the Reaper should have already been defeated, right?”
A noise flowed through the space and suddenly a large shadow appeared .
“Something’s coming!”
Sponsored Content
I clasped my dual blades .
The battle with that horrifying god of death came flashing back into my mind .
At that time, Balmung was in my party, so we managed to defeat it .
Otherwise, BlackRose and I would have been among the unconscious .
Would we have to fight the Reaper again here? Didn’t we beat him already? Is it possible for BlackRose and I to compete against it?
Various questions circulated in my head, and the battle began without finding a clear answer to all of them .
The shadow descended and the thing that appeared before us was not the dreadful Reaper .
It was a monster that I didn’t know how to describe .
The size and air of the body certainly had something in common with the aforementioned Reaper .
However, its appearance could not be described well in just one word . To put it bluntly, it looked like a painting that had been cut out and carried around .
“What us that thing? What’s happening?” BlackRose groaned loudly .
“We have no choice but to defeat it, BlackRose!”
I yelled out, prepared for a battle to the death .
Sponsored Content
We won easily .
The mural monster sometimes ran around at a blazing speed that created afterimages, which confused us, but that was all there was to say . I felt that it was a few steps inferior to the Reaper .
After damaging and weakening it, I used Data Drain and it was possible to read its name from the character string, as with the Reaper . It read ‘Innis’ .
After that, when we gave it the final blow, the mural monster melted and disappeared, just like the Reaper .
“Perhaps we’ve become stronger . ”
BlackRose said what I was thinking .
“Yeah, we‘ve been fighting all this time under the direction of Lios . ”
We cleared up the enemies who had an air of strength and we were filled with relief .
BlackRose and I laughed heartily . It’d been a while since we’d felt like this on the internet and in real life .
That was, until we returned to Carmina Gadelica and reunited with Lios sour look .
The town had changed .
The PCs, not to mention the NPCs, had disappeared .
Sponsored Content
The usual BGM was playing, but this was eerie .
“The infection has spread . ”
Only one person, Lios, was waiting for us and staring at us .
“Lios, what happened? Where are the other PCs?”
“The Town’s data is no longer stable . It was dangerous, so I shut it down forcibly . ”
I heard him mutter softly .
“In addition, complaints started to increase…”
And he shouted loudly .
“What the hell did you guys do?! I told you to investigate!”
“That’s right . We just did the same as before,” BlackRose replied, but her voice wavered . Probably because she was shocked by the scene before our eyes .
“Okay, don’t move until I tell you . That’s an order!”
Lios then transferred out and disappeared .
We were left behind, standing in the ghost-town-like streets .
Please download our sponsor's game to support us!