Volume 4 Chapter 13 (2/2)
She nodded repeatedly and then sat down to drink some tea. In that moment, Aura interjected.
”Rorono-chan, it's your chance! Good luck to you; here's a little something from me.”
Aura, for some reason, handed over to Rorono a bottle that contained a pink and highly viscous fluid. When Rorono saw it, even her ears turned bright red.
”I don't need it!”
She said so and handed back the bottle to Aura. When Aura looked disappointed, I whispered to her.
”Aura, what's that?”
”An aphrodisiac.”
Devoid of any hesitation, she replied so. To which, I was almost at a loss for words.
”……how come you have such a thing?”
”I got it as the spoils of war from when we fought with the [Evil] Demon Lord. I analyzed it, extracted the toxins in materials such as mushrooms, herbs, and what not, readied all the other materials, and began the mass production of it. It's being sold in Avalon too. It's quite popular.”
”No, what I'm asking is why do you have something like that? Why even make it?”
”To earn some pocket money and to help the girls that lack the courage! Actually, the Dwarf S…mgmmgm.”
Mid-speech, Rorono interrupted and covered Aura's mouth.
”Don't talk about that.”
Rorono stopped Aura but I already knew what she was talking about.
So, that Dwarf Smith gave this to Wight.
It being effective on him was amazing since he should have been immune to poisons. But then again, maybe this mixture wasn't regarded as poison but rather as medicine. Otherwise, if it did register as a poison, his resistances would have instantly activated and purged it out of his body.
Also, if it worked on even him, it should work on almost all monsters and naturally, on Demon Lords as well. What a frightening thing she has made.
”Well, whatever, just make sure it won't cause any dependency on it. If such a thing happens here in Avalon, I will punish you for it, Aura.”
”I've already made precautions so rest assured! The ones being sold are highly diluted ones so it would be extremely unlikely for those to cause addiction.”
”Alright. But Aura, Rorono's still a child; she's not yet ready for such things.”
Aura bowed and apologized while Rorono made a complicated face.
”For the moment, give me some of those. The undiluted, more powerful ones. It might come in handy in the upcoming fight.”
”Will do! One dose of an almost undiluted variant is enough to render a human incapable.”
”Yeah, that's what I want.”
I had obtained a weapon in an unforeseen form. A chance to make use of it might not present itself but I'll keep it be sure.
”Now, let's talk about something for when we've finished breakfast. I will obtain a new [Creation] medal today and with that, I intend make a new monster. If you're interested, you can come along and watch.”
”Yay, a new little sister! ♪”
”Mhm, I'm going to drill the new monster as her older sister.”
”I'll be happy to watch. I have been the youngest all this time so I think I want to experience being the older one.”
Even though I knew it was a bit ineffective and futile, I still decided to protest.
”We still don't know for sure that it will be a girl. It may be a man for all we know.”
At that, the girls exchanged glances and then huddled up. After a short while, Kuina, their representative, spoke.
”That won't happen! Monster made with Oto-san's [Creation] will assuredly be a cute little girl!”
”No, what about when I used [Rebirth] on Wight and turned him into a Black Dragon of Death!? He's a man, isn't he!?”
After that, while I felt somewhat crestfallen, we finished breakfast and then stealthily headed to the mining area.
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In the mining area, as ever, the golems were busy digging up ores.
Thanks to the increased number of Dwarf Smiths that were faithfully making one golem a day, the number of golems here had increased substantially. Unlike Rorono though, they could only make up to a C rank golem which was more than enough for this task, to be honest.
”Now, everyone, let me explain the new monster I'm going to be making.”
The girls looked at me with eyes full of expectation.
”Avalon's war potential, thanks to everyone's contributions, have grown a lot. However, Avalon still lacks an intelligence and counter-intelligence monster. In other words, we are weak in that field. And so, I am going to make monsters that will remedy that.”
I knew that after I made the S rank intelligence-gathering monster, I would be made eligible to buy the B rank monster under it. So, to be able to buy them as soon as possible, I hadn't used any DP since I bought the Darkness Dragons of the aerial combat corps.
”Kuina sure isn't good at those kind of things.”
”I might know whether there's an enemy but not what they are saying.”
Kuina and Aura who both were great at searching for enemies agreed to what I said.
After all, the most they could do would be to be prepared for any attempts at surprise attacks.
”The intelligence-gathering monster needs to be smart and be capable of understanding speech. So for that, I'll use the same medal as I used on all of you: [Person]. The second medal will be [Water]. Water is something that can be found just about everywhere. What I want is a monster that can enter water and then hide itself in a different dimension.”
I had asked Kohaku in detail about monsters with dimension manipulating capabilities. In his story, there seemed to be a restriction for those monsters to enter a different dimension. The restriction was that only some things could be used and those things have to be connected with the idea of other worlds.
For example, one of Marcho's [Monsters of the Covenant] uses shadows and could only enter and leave another dimension through a shadow.
As for me, I would make the new monster use water given that it's a popular thought that what lies beyond the surface of the water is a whole other world.
Besides that, it's greatly helpful that the new monster could open an entrance to another dimension at any time and any place it wishes.
Moreover, it would seem that the other world these monsters cross to was one and the same; a monster that entered through a shadow would be in the same world as a monster that entered through water. So, the quickest way to stop a dimension manipulating monster would be to chase and challenge it in that other dimension.
For all those reasons then, to make my new monster—and its B rank subordinates that I'm going to buy immediately—have an edge even if only a little, I believed that [Water], one of the four great elements, would truly be the optimal choice for me.
”So, [Person] and [Water]. After those, I'll add in my [Creation] medal. The one I'll make it change to is going to be… [Song]. Songs are the symbol of the mystical. Moreover, with it, they can use sound to transmit the intelligence they have gathered.”
If the monster's going to cross another dimension, [Water] alone wouldn't be enough.
Surprisingly, sound and water had good compatibility. After all, to transmit sound, it has to go through some medium and I had decided that water would be the medium the new monster is going to use.
With control over both sound and water, even if the sender and receiver were separated, so long as there was water in between, the gathered information could be transmitted. My plan was to create an information network made up of the new monsters I was about to create. With the S rank monster to lead the B rank monsters, they would be dispatched everywhere to gather information that would be sent back reliably to Avalon.
”Now, let's begin. [Discharge]”
By saying the word of power, I felt a hot sensation in my palm. In the next instant, my [Creation] medal appeared. I then took out from my pocket the [Water] medal.
And then…
”[I Shall Compose]”
I summoned my Demon Lord Book and bought a [Person] imitation medal.
With that, all three medals were gathered in my hand.
”[Synthesis]”
Particles of light then vigorously flowed out from the palm of my hand.
I then chose for [Creation] to change into [Song]. The light grew more intense and it soon took the shape of the monster.
Originally, everything from this point on was random. However, thanks to my [Creation] medal, I could grasp the future I desired from the myriads of possibilities.
The possibilities for the new monster came and went.
After a while, I reached out my hand and took hold of the possibility that I wanted.
”Now, come, my new monster!”
The storm of light ceased and the new monster appeared.
It was a monster with a human's appearance. She was a beautiful girl that had a boyish charm. A little older in appearance than Kuina, by my reckoning.
She had shoulder-length hair the color of sea. The same hue also prevailed in her strong-willed eye. Her ears were slightly pointy. A clear light blue dress covered her entire body.
That monster's name was…
”I am a R'lyeh Diva, songstress of the deep blue sea and shrine maiden of an evil god.”
Such a clear, delightful voice. Just her voice alone was enough to intoxicate me.
”Nice to meet you. I am your creator. I am the [Creation] Demon Lord Procell.”
”So, you're my patron, huh. Nice to meet you.”
She smiled and then gently extended out her hand.
I took it and with a tight grip, smiled back.
Note: R’lyeh refers to a city from “The Call of Cthulhu”.