Chapter 107: Crowns shadow (1) (1/2)

'Similar to a certain overprotective brother, huh.'

Sol swung down his sword in the hanging garden of babel as he thought back to his discussion with Medea. Currently, he was just wearing leather pants, his muscular torso naked and covered in sweat because of his training.

Kali's words could mean many things, perhaps he was even looking too much into it, but when you took everything into account and her magic that was seemingly similar to molecular disintegration, only one overprotective brother came into his mind. A cold and basically unfeeling mage that could only feel when his sister was taken into account.

'But, Kali has existed in this world since a few centuries ago.'

Of course, it wasn't impossible because of that. It wasn't as if he knew the time difference between this world and his previous one. For all he knew, perhaps just a few minutes in his world was equal to centuries in this one. No this wasn't important. What was important was,

”You can hear me right?”

He looked around, but all that greeted him was silence. Still, even though he received no answer, he knew he was right.

Firstly, 'I am not the first reincarnator.'

This was a fact. From all the mishmash of culture as well as some historical facts and Tibbits he recently gathered, it was basically clear that most, if not all kings and queens of Lustburg were reincarnators.

Two, 'The reincarnators aren't only members of Lustburg.'

If he was right about Kali, she was also a reincarnator, and if she was one, it means that people outside of the royal families could be one.

Three, 'All the reincarnators I know are humans.'

This was rather inaccurate information as of now. The reason all reincarnator he knew were humans could simply be because he was confined in the human's kingdom.

Four, 'Names from myths and legends from my world are rather popular for members of nobility in this world.'

Athena, Lilith, Ares, Sol, Arachne. All those names had legends behind them. Basically, all the members of nobility he knew had such names. Of course, the cause might have been one of the previous kings.

It was something he had to verify. But, the fact that all kings from all countries had the obligations to have a name related to stars or planets, and said stars or planets were the same as his previous world was without a doubt too much of a coincidence.

It means that 'The goddesses know exactly about the existence of reincarnated. Not only that, but they should also know about earth, and what is more, they are either playing an important role in the existence of reincarnator or playing a bystander role.'

But here comes the problem. Why?

What did they get from such actions?

In some of the stories he read, the gods and goddesses generally reincarnated or transmigrated people either for them to act like heroes or because they were bored. Though sometimes it was also Truck-Kun.

The problem here was that one, this world didn't really have world-ending threats. All races had their respective goddesses and the goddesses weren't a kill or be killed relationship; What is more, even after death, he didn't remember meeting any of the goddesses.

Then, perhaps because of the Mother goddess of chaos?

It wasn't impossible. Though he struggled to know what kind of particular use they could have in a fight involving being who literally created this world and all races on it.

So, ”They are doing it because of boredom? Is it just a game for them?”

He murmured with a weird expression. He didn't know whether his thoughts were correct or not. Perhaps he was doing a film out of nothing or perhaps his reincarnation had some grand purpose.

'Well, even if so, it doesn't change anything.'

Some people might be outraged, but to be honest, he wasn't particularly so. He had been given a second chance at life and was given the greatest starting point possible. Why would he whine and complain about this?

If they wanted to observe his life to take care of their boredom, they were free to do so. As long as they didn't interfere, it wasn't a problem.

Even so, ”I need to become strong.”

No matter how easy-going he was, having his own destiny be decided like that didn't sit well with him.

'I need to enter the zone and finally reach the avatar at least.'

Only people at the level of creating their own zone were considered a really high-tier powerhouse. Meanwhile, all top-tier powerhouses had their own avatar.

Sol continued to swing his sword as he thought about how to reach the zone.

The zone was an illusory world that showed the vision of the world the user had. To reach such truth, not only a thorough training but also an intimate understanding of one's own personality was necessary. It wasn't just a question of power.

'I also need to form my contracts'

The more contract he formed, the more power and abilities he would have. Most of those abilities would be random, but for the very first contract, he could choose three innate abilities of his partners.

'I really need to form a contract with a phoenix or a descendant of the other fourteen divine beasts.'

No matter what, it would be a waste of his large capacity if his first contract wasn't an S-class magical being. Thankfully, from the goddesses' promise, as long as he passed their test, he would have the chance to form a contract with a phoenix. So it was one thing done.

'After that, if I form a contract with Setsuna, I could perhaps get her lightning attributes. After her, it will be Milia and perhaps Nuwa.'

He didn't know exactly what kind of power Nuwa had, but her rank was without a doubt B+ at the minimum.

”Your highness.”

Stopping his movement, Sol turned toward the one calling him.

'Speaking of the devils.'

On the side, Milia and Nuwa were standing together. Nuwa had changed from her previous short maid attire and was wearing a more traditional one, like Milia's.

The expressions on their faces were extremely contrasting. While Nuwa was scrutinizing his body with curiosity, Milia looked like she was giving her all to not simply jump his bones.

”Milia, Nuwa, what brings you here? Is it already time for me to prepare for meeting the Gorfard?”

Milia calmed down her stray and lewd thoughts before answering, ”No, your highness, I was just bringing Nuwa to show her the way and see her abilities. Using her as a simple maid has proven to be a...Let's say a rather bad decision. As such, I decided to make her a battle maid.”

”Heh, I see.” Sol drawled a little. He hadn't really spent much time with Nuwa.