Chapter 6 – The Aim of the Evil Tribes
“Sasha, my self introduction was delayed. I am called Moore Carp. I never thought I’d recover with『Max Heal』. Thanks to you, I completely recovered. I’m full of power.” (Priest->Moore)
There was no one in the surroundings of this room. From here, let’s apply『Silent』.
“Though I understood by chanting recovery magic, I found out the origin of Priest Moore’s dreams. Priest Moore was manipulated by an evil tribe. The contents of your dream are things related to Iris-sama, aren’t they?” (Akane)
“What, by an evil tribe! Hmmmm, certainly, in the dream there was a magic square on the altar somewhere, and lately I saw several people including me chanting everyday.” (Moore)
Because that wasn’t a dream, it was reality. Moreover, he remembered it fairly clearly, huh? He had more resistance than normal people, so he remembered it halfway.
“When I saw you, there was a strange line connected to the top of your head. The evil tribes, with some kind of method, connected to your mind, and have been applying the black arts『Brainwash』.” (Akane)
I thought he’d probably understand with this.
“What,『Brainwash』!? Wait a second. I thought ‘no way’, but what you said just now––––” (Moore)
“Yes, it was something that happened in reality, not in a dream. Perhaps, when you were sleeping, they manipulated you, and you were doing something. I think it’s tough for you, but can you tell me?” (Akane)
After Priest Moore calmed down, he spoke about what he had thought to be a dream and the situation at the time of Iris went missing.
1) At midnight, six people (Priest Moore included) appeared to have gathered at the chapel’s altar, and had chanted something. Due to all six of these people covering themselves with hoods, who they were wasn’t known. He had seen this dream for nearly the last three weeks.
2) When he heard that Iris disappeared from the chapel’s altar, he snickered without knowing why. Not even he himself knew the reason.
With this, it was confirmed that there was someone manipulating at least five people more.
“Thinking about it from the situation, the magic used on Iris-sama is『Transfer』. If so, it explains why she vanished in the chapel.” (Akane)
“What,『Transfer』? For us humans, something like that is a legendary magic, and shouldn’t be able to be used by anyone” (Moore)
“That’s just for humans, there should be evil tribes who can use it. It’s also possible to use the invocation method with magical power or evil power, so this time the magical power of six humans were used.” (Akane)
When I looked at Priest Moore, he was haggard. Well, although he was manipulated, the one who transferred Iris was he himself, so I guess it was natural. It appeared that I could trust this person. Let’s speak of the matter of Iris being safe, and the things from now on.
“Priest Moore, the things from here are important. It’s information that can relieve you.” (Akane)
“What, information that can relieve me?” (Moore)
“Yeah, Iris-sama is alive. Currently, I am protecting her.” (Akane)
“What~~! Really! You are!?” (Moore)
“Yes, I’ll tell you the detailed matters, so please calm down.” (Akane)
I told the sequence of events so far from when I came across Iris to Priest Moore.
After listening from start to finish, Priest Moore was overcome with surprise.
“What! A transfer to that large forest? She was being chased by B and C-class evil tribes, and Sasha and others discovered her by chance and subjugated them? You treated Iris-sama’s injuries, you used a magic tool of disguise, now she’s in the middle of resting? You’re telling a story I wouldn’t believe at all if it was normally. Well, I wouldn’t have believed you if it wasn’t for that『Max Heal』.” (Moore)
Good, he believed me.
“So, is Iris-sama well?” (Moore)
“Yeah, she’s fine. But, currently, she’s sleeping from the tiredness of the journey. Is it alright if I bring her here tomorrow?” (Akane)
“That isn’t a problem, but is it okay? Isn’t there a possibility that the disguise will be exposed?” (Moore)
“First, there’s no possibility it’ll be exposed. Until we arrived at the inn, we passed through everyone like normal. In addition, when she is disguised, she’s called Eris. Priest Moore, please do not tell this to anyone at all, okay? Because currently, we don’t know who the remaining five people are. Please be careful when you come into contact with people as well.” (Akane)
If they came to know that Iris was alive here, the situation would become complicated.
“Fufu, I understand. Acting is my speciality.ᴬ Then, once the matter is resolved, I’d like you to tell me who you are, Onee-san. Onee-san’s power isn’t C-class, I can sense more than that.” (Moore)
“Fufu, I’m just an adventurer. What can be said for sure is that I’m an ally of Iris-sama. Today, I’ll excuse myself with this for now. At nine in the morning tomorrow, I’ll visit here.” (Akane)
I cancelled Silent, and returned to the inn after parting from Priest Moore.
“Oh, both of you have woken up, huh? How do you feel?” (Akane)
“Onee-sama, it’s perfect. I got much better.” (Iris)
“Master, thanks to sleeping a lot, I also feel at ease.” (Finn)
It seemed like both Finn and Iris had recovered a lot.
“Well then, shall we eat dinner afterwards?” (Akane)
“”Yes!”” (Finn+Iris)
After dinner, we returned to the room and I told them about meeting with Priest Moore.
“Then, six people were manipulated by the evil tribes, and they made me transfer to that big forest? And one of them was Priest Moore?” (Iris)
“Yeah, regarding him, he’s fine already. I completely severed the connection with the evil tribes, and also told him about the evil tribes, so he shouldn’t be manipulated anymore.” (Akane)
“Thank goodness, I’m relieved.” (Iris)
“Let’s go to the Priest’s room in the chapel at nine in the morning tomorrow. We have to talk about the matters from now on.” (Akane)
“”Yes!”” (Finn+Iris)
○○○ The Viewpoint of Some Evil Tribes
This place, was inside of a cave several kilometres away from Sphereart.
What’s happening! Suddenly, really suddenly, Dorion died. Even among us evil dragons, he was someone quite tenacious. The bastard, who had both strong physical and magical resistance, was burned to nothing by a white thunder magic which we don’t know where from it came. How did this happen. Who the hell killed him? No presences of humans were sensed in this area. There shouldn’t be something like a human accurately perceiving us this far at a long distance. What bastard did it!
“Oi oi, don’t lose your temper, Jake. Well, you and Dorion did have a good relationship. But, Dorion made a blunder. It can’t be helped, I guess. Fortunately, our hideout wasn’t exposed, and we’re allll right.” (???)
This guy, despite Dorion being killed, why was he easy-going like this?
“Oi, Cazak, our friend was killed, how can you have such a composed face?” (Jake)
“That’s because it’s a war. With the races other than the evil tribes. In a war, if you think about each and every friends’ deaths, you will lose your will to fight. Our mission is to annihilate every race other than the evil tribes, and deliver those souls to Evil King-sama. We killed the saint Iris. That brat, she didn’t have a divine protection, but she didn’t come out even one step from Sphereart, which is surrounded by holy magic. Due to that, although making a plan to kill her was fine, the humans we brainwashed resisted more than we thought and couldn’t assassinate her, and in the end, as a result of performing a transfer to the big forest, we killed her, though it took about three months. Well, let’s decide to blame all the humans. The attack this time was unforeseen.” (???->Cazak)
Chi, he gave a sound argument. However, it was an extreme view. This was a war that had been going on since one thousand years ago. Even if I was thinking about each and every friend that died, it was inevitable.
“Cazak, has the installation place of the holy magic magic tool been discovered?” (Jake)
“The rough place. But, to completely narrow it down, a bit more time is needed. There’s a shot if we can brainwash that Pope, but precisely because he’s the Pope, his mental resistance is too high. Well, if we have six more days, we’ll know the location and will probably be able to destroy it. Once we do that, it’s a fierce attack surrounding all sides. We can kill as many humans as we want to.” (Cazak)
“Chi, patience for six more days?” (Jake)
Whatever. If we could make our desired Sphereart fall in six more days, I’d attack the enemy then. The saint Iris was killed already. If we removed this place, the holy ground where the goddess Sphere was said to have gone down to, the humans, beastmen, elves, and dwarves would fall into despair. First, we’d kill the humans in Sphereart, and send them to Evil King-sama. The humans probably didn’t know. That thanks to them, the seal almost didn’t have any meaning anymore. After all this, it was too late even if they summoned heroes from a parallel world.
Kukuku, a little bit more, and the age of us evil tribes would begin.