Chapter 147
We left Philly’s laboratory and returned to the drawing-room .
The laboratory was filled with too many things and was a mess .
This made it unsuitable for a lot of people to gather and talk .
But then again, the drawing-room was also not very large .
When we arrived,
“I’ll put on some tea!”
Milka said as she ran out of the room .
Nia and Luchila followed after her .
Dorgo said,
“I am sure that Kathe has told you some of it, but I wanted to give you a detailed report . ”
“Hm?”
What was he talking about? I had no idea .
I looked to the side . Eric and Goran also didn’t seem to know .
“Oh?”
Kathe was also tilting her head to the side .
Dorgo saw this and continued .
“Well, first of all, allow me to congratulate you on forming the Ancient Ruins Protection Committee . ”
“Yes, thank you . ”
Eric bowed .
Kathe had at least told him about that .
“The dark ones are becoming more active . And so the fighting between dragons and dark ones have increased . ”
“Fighting?”
“Yes . ”
Dorgo nodded . Then he spread out a map on the desk .
It was a very detailed map . There were red marks all over it .
“These are all of the places where battles between dragons and dark ones have taken place . ”
“There are quite a lot . ”
“Yes . There are twenty in all . ”
I wasn’t sure if that was a lot or not . It was hard to decide .
But it was probably a lot, given that there shouldn’t be that many dragons .
Just then, Milka and the others brought in the tea and snacks .
“Thank you . ”
“No, no!”
They looked a little embarrassed as I thanked them .
“Yum!”
Kathe exclaimed after taking a sip of tea .
Dorgo watched this and seemed like he was about to say something to her .
“Thank you!”
But Milka looked very happy, and so he let it go .
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Instead, he bowed in front of my apprentices .
“It is very delicious . Thank you so much . ”
“Oh, it’s nothing!”
Nia said with embarrassment .
After that, we returned to our conversation .
“It was yesterday . I was hunting down dark ones as revenge for attacking the palace of the wind dragon king…”
“Dad, so that’s what you were doing…”
Kathe muttered . Dorgo glared at her but didn’t say anything .
“And I found something that I could not ignore . ”
And then Dorgo took it out of his bag and put it on the table .
“This…”
I said with surprise . Dorgo nodded .
“I knew that you would recognize it Ruck . Yes, it is an Evil God idol . ”
“Philly, do you recognize it?”
Philly had been making them when her parents had been taken hostage .
The head of an Evil God had been summoned then, and I killed it .
“But I only made one Evil God idol…”
“I see . ”
“This one is clearly much more detailed than the one I made . ”
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Philly talked a little more politely when she was around Eric or Dorgo .
“Well, you were forced to make it . This one was likely the work of passion . ”
“I agree with you . ”
“And it is made of the Fool’s Stone?”
“Yes . ”
Philly declared . And so it must be right .
“So we should probably assume that they have no shortage of Fool’s Stones then . ”
I said . And Eric and Goran nodded .
“Yes . It is practically confirmed now . ”
“Things have become quite dangerous . ”
Dorgo put his hand in the bag again and took something else out .
“And I also found this…”
“Groof!”
Grulf howled just as Dorgo put it on the table .
It did look familiar .
“Is that…a forbidden ham?”
“…Ham?”
Dorgo looked at me oddly .
They called them forbidden hams in the Mendilibar Kingdom .
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“In our country, we call them forbidden hams . ”
“I see . In that case, you also know what they are used for?”
And so I told Dorgo what I knew about them .
They were cursed tools . We had found one in Kabino’s house .
While they looked like ham, they were made of the flesh of holy beasts and had blasphemous curses cast on them . They were used to break through the barrier around the capital and to summon Evil Gods .
In the kingdom of Mendilibar, even owning one could result in the death penalty .
“We see these forbidden hams as incredibly dangerous . ”
“So they had an Evil God idol and a forbidden ham at the same time . That means…”
“They were probably going to summon an Evil God . ”
Their plans were moving very quickly .
Dorgo said,
“But it would take an immense amount of curses to actually summon an Evil God . ”
“That’s true . ”
There was likely to be an increase of humans who are attacked by dark ones .
We would have to be watchful .
“And that is why the dark ones have targeted dragons . ”
“The dragons?”
“Yes . We are stronger than humans and have lived longer . This means that they can gather much more curses from each of us . ”
Apparently, there was another reason that dragons were being attacked by the dark ones .