Kuro no Maou

By merging with Lily, I was able to restore the "Beginning of History (Zero Chronicle)" that was safely white stained.

It sounds like something I could blacken forcefully, but he's not just a stone slab. It's like precision equipment. Lily's guidance was needed to undo the function safely and securely.

Lily said if I tried a few more times, I might be able to do it alone, but I'm not too sure. Should I seriously study Ancient Language?

Anyway, with "The Beginning of History (Zero Chronicle)" undone, all the work was done.

When I left the temple, it was dawn at some point and by the time I got back to the town of Hyram it was completely bright. Yeah, it's a beautiful day.

"- Thank you very much for your work, Adventurer Krono."

At the Lords' Hall, report first.

Hyram lord Kernunnos seemed satisfied with the result that he wiped out all the monastic mechanical knights for the destruction of the Thundershock Regiment (Lysanders). The crisis in the town has left, and I guess it's appeased. You don't have to cry so much...

"I'd really like to reward you for saving this town. How about that?"

"I don't want more than a reward for my quest, I just want to say, I only ask for one thing"

Good thing we're lucky to be together this time. But it's going to be important.

I want the town of Hyram to have surveillance and security so that they can't serve the 'Beginning of History (Zero Chronicle)' again.

They should be able to dye it white again somehow, just as I could have done with the blackening.

But for the Crusaders, all of Pandora, including this Partier, is still an enemy land. Even if we can send our hands in secrecy, it's hard to come up with a big army.

If their aim is known in advance, each region alone is enough to pay attention.

Normally, a distant Spartan war opponent would not fit properly into saying that even Partier is in the dark, etc., and even if I ask him to keep an eye on the ruins, he decides to laugh at me with his nose.

But only this time, my appeal can be justified, and even asked directly from the lord who rules the town. With no more, the situation is in order.

"I didn't know the 'Beginning of History (Zero Chronicle)' could be targeted... I thought it was just an ancient relic..."

A familiar stone tablet everywhere in Pandora is actually an amazing magic device, what a Russian would be hard to believe, but as a matter of fact, the ones who attacked the town are after it, so authenticity is nothing more than caution.

I don't know how far the Lords will believe the crusader's conspiracy I speak of, but they will still ask for this much.

"Aye, okay, I'll believe this story. I promise to guard the ruins. Let's report to the other towns with the big 'Beginning of History (Zero Chronicle)' and also to the Wang Capital on this matter. There are sesame people on this plain like those runaway thieves. Again, the monastery appears and doesn't necessarily repeat the same thing. As our first victim, we are going to sue strongly for danger."

"Well, thank you for the later"

We're done talking. Your quest is complete successfully.

Let's go home to Sparda - and before we do, no, I want to have breakfast.

I have to take it to Lily as well, so do you buy something in the street appropriately?

"Ah, there it is. There it is. There it is again."

I don't hear you very well, but I receive dishes like shishkebabs, listening to pronunciations that largely make me know what you're talking about. I think it's meat in the morning, but it's good because it's not a wake-up call, it's after the fight.

After I bought a few others, I headed to the temple where Lily waited.

Why is Lily the only one in the temple?

It's not because I got hurt. Is the purpose, in other words, a kind of autopsy?

The Mechanical Knights I captured were all dead when I returned. To keep it confidential, he committed suicide.

It was suicide bombing, not classic means like chewing off your tongue or drinking the poison you had hidden. They wiped out the wearer, the knight, and the armor (holly gear) that the sole itself would be a lump of cutting-edge magic technology by letting itself blow itself up.

I didn't think there was a built-in suicide bomber feature. It was a detour, I don't know... they should all have passed out, but the fact that the suicide bomber was still activated also means that the armor itself also has the ability to detect the right situation.

Even if I knew, it would be pretty hard to prevent their suicide bombing.

Anyway, with the loss of the Mechanical Knight, which was supposed to be a valuable source, Lily looked into the body to see if there was any information she could retrieve - let's be honest, she's bluffing her brain.

Lily is in the temple to gather information that would whip the dead like that. No, 'cause you can't do that around the brain of a corpse.

Oh, wouldn't there have been any meat dishes after the bloody job? No, but Lily doesn't seem to really care about that.

Well, look, I reached the temple on the outskirts of town with mysterious trust in Lily.

"Good morning, Mahogany Kurono"

Waiting there was not an adorable fairy girl, but an ancient demon king.

He wears a particularly discreet, everywhere black robe, but still, the young appearance of his dark hair and red eyes is invisible.

"Mia... you were expecting me"

"Yeah, if you want to talk, think it'd be quicker"

Sit down, Mia sat down on the bench in front of the temple. I can't feel any wonder and signs of people around me. Originally, are you just idle, or are you paid?

Whatever. If you say you showed up at this time, there's only one thing you need to do.

"It's been a while since you've shown up in this world."

"Really?

"Right."

"Maybe so. Um, I wonder if it was true that being a god makes you loose in time."

Is it natural that the sense of time is different from human beings because they are beings who live eternally?

And I don't care about such public talk between God and people.

"So, what's the story?"

"I know you're already guessing - sorry, hey, don't you smell anything good?

All right, I'll give him the knife. Talk fast.

"Wow! Thanks!

I dedicate my breakfast set to offerings to a god with a tenderness of food.

"Delicious."

"I like the taste, so get down to business."

"Let me eat as slowly as I can already, right? I have limited time in this world, so I need to taste right."

"Then you better talk to me soon."

Did you just taunt me with rice? At the same time, when you're out of time, seriously, what are you doing here?

"You don't have to rush it. It's a simple story. Thanks to you, I know what the Crusaders are after."

It's got sauce on its cheeks.

You're a helpless guy. If I imitate him like a real child in the way he looks, he gets suspicious about his godliness.

Just wipe him and encourage him to continue. Wow, he's so cheeky. Lily, you look like one.

"... of the Crusaders, I understand the purpose"

"That's where we're going to start again."

Even though she shyly missed her face, Mia started talking.

"It would be speculative that they are after the beginning of history (zero chronicle), right?

"If you're painted white with such grandeur, it's more impossible not to notice."

What matters is what the benefits are to them by controlling 'The Beginning of History (Zero Chronicle)' with white magic. I mean, it's a true purpose.

"The Crusaders always have one purpose. Expansion of the faith of white God. Seek more believers, go farther, go anywhere. Until you anoint the white of God with all this star."

They're like cancer cells. It also matches the metastasis.

"So, if we rule The Beginning of History (Zero Chronicle), how do we affect their invasion?

"As it is, it ties in with equals. certain 'Beginning of History (Zero Chronicle)', I guess it would be tricky to say. Certainly in this day and age...... it's called 'Monolith'"

"Monolith? It looks the same as The Beginning of History (Zero Chronicle), but what's the difference?

"In modern times, only things that emit a certain amount of black magic are specifically called monoliths and considered sacred"

"I've never heard of it."

"The existence of Monolith is not as confidential as it is, but it's not something that we all worship publicly. If only those who know knew, that's how it's handled."

It's not so much a serious state secret or the secret of the Pandora Temple that it's completely covered up, which means that you can deal with the immense power of ancient ruins instantly, just because you have monoliths, I guess.

"But only the Crusaders are different. If they get the monolith, that's it, they can purify the whole land"

"Purification, what happens?

"It will definitely be a place where you can receive the protection of a white God. Omg, I don't know if I can brainwash people there, erase non-human species, or how far it will work. But if one apostle comes aboard there... you'll find out later, won't you?

Why does the Apostle, who boasts the strongest power, not come directly, into the enemy country, because the more he leaves the Crusade's sphere of power, the less power he will have. If you go completely unscrupulous into the back of an enemy country, at best, you fall to that level of superior adventurers and knights, apparently.

Still strong enough, but not enough to defeat.

But if an environment in which they can exert their full power could have been created in the middle of an enemy country... really, it could have dropped that country by itself. If obtaining a monolith can secure a place where the Apostle can be fought with the strongest of powers, then that alone creates the value of the strategic weapon class.

"Nature and the faithful will also be born if the Apostle is turned into a strong sphere of power that can seriously fight. Maybe the followers will expand the forces of the Crusades without having to use apostolic force."

"What, so... so you're saying they can rule Pandora, not even war!

"It's not impossible. Similar things should have been done many times by the Republic, and besides, Pandora's monolith and white god have as much power as it can"

I'm not kidding. Across the continent, if the Crusadist forces happen on their own, there will be no more hand-to-hand hitting. My enemies may not only be invaders who have come aboard from the far Ark continent, but also former Pandora residents of the Cross.

"Then why did you make such a dangerous thing?"

In the first place, Mia fought to drive the Cross out of Pandora, becoming the Demon King. But how could something like 'monolith', such a device that they could attack back for thousands of years, have been built in ancient times? It is only natural to hold that accountable.

"Unfortunately, I'm not the one who made the monolith, and it's not our time"

"Really?

"Because you can't make your own stone tablet that glorifies you, you can't imitate that embarrassing!

Isn't it the ruler who cares about such an embarrassing imitation?

"Anyway, Monolith is a thing made all the way into the future, our battle has become a complete legend. Still, from your point of view, it's just part of ancient history."

Well, even if we call it ancient by and large, those days are thousands of years long. If Mia lived in the early ancient period, the late ancient period is quite the future. If you mean on Earth, the Pharaoh of the Pyramid is Mia, and it feels like Einstein made the monolith?

When that happens, it's unreasonable to tell Mia to take responsibility for future events.

"It's not my time, so I don't know exactly what Monolith is like. But I know its structure and purpose. The principle itself has been the same for a long time."

"What do you mean?

"Ether"

"What?

"It's the energy of purified magic. Crude oil is the primary color magic that fills the earth, and ether is something like oil, I guess it's easy to understand."

"Well, that's what ether was all about"

Lily said the energy source needed to move ancient artifacts is this ether. Both the spaceship Shangri-La and the 'Tyrant Armor (Maximilian)' seem to be moving by ether, not just magic.

Speaking of which, the liquid that was filled in the pod where Fiona and the others were trapped also called the ether, but maybe because it was a drug solution with sole as its main ingredient, it became known as it was.

"But I don't remember using ether..."

"Black magic and white magic are ethers of opposite poles."

"Really?

"Yeah, so you can imitate pseudo-attributes that reproduce the power of primary color magic with black magic."

Is that because it's the same thing?

"So Monolith is a device for obtaining an energy resource called ether, is it?

"Exactly. The 'Beginning of History (Zero Chronicle)', which remains in Pandora, although there are many truly mere stone tablet objects, the black magic, or monoliths that detect ether, undoubtedly all have the purification function of ether. The size of the monolith is also proportional to the amount of purification. The giant one, with dozens of meters, must be the original one."

Is there something original? The biggest thing I've ever seen is the same size I've seen in Sparda's park. Other than that, all the little things.

"The original monolith is built in a giant dragon hole, with multiple earth pulses, especially thick magic lines. Everything else is always built in some dragon hole."

"So, what's in this hyrum?

"This is a normal dragon hole. Since the flow of the ground pulse hasn't changed since ancient times, and the dragon hole of the same size remains intact, I guess the Crusaders also started to aim."

"What would have happened to Hyram if they had kept Monolith down like that?

"Purify the magic drawn from the Dragon Hole into an ether of white magic. By using the white magic thus gained, the purifying power of the Crucifixion begins to function. Until what kind of magic ritual that would be, I don't know either... but if it's the size of the dragon hole here, it shouldn't have as dramatic an effect as the Apostle suddenly comes aboard. Still, an organization that names monasteries can be an easy-to-do environment to increase the number of believers and become a base of activity."

That's an impact that's not immediate, but still too dangerous to leave alone. Simply because you can fly in warp is too much to be wary of.

"So does Avalon and Sparda, where the Aria Monastery is spreading, mean the influence is starting to come out"

"It's possible, but I don't think I've been able to get my hands on it originally. So I guess the most dangerous thing is the original one that's getting free."

Well, if you're an original monolith who can refine a larger amount of ether, you can build a level of power zone where you can rule just one shot once it starts running.

Conversely, Avalon and Sparda are also proof that the original monolith has not been suppressed, to see the movement of the Arian Monastery, which has not yet progressed that far and can only see authentic missionary activity.

"I mean, where is that big original?

"It's built in a giant dragon hole, and it's huge in itself, so it stands out. So almost everything is strictly protected, as a royal castle or a great temple or sanctuary of a country or something. Avalon and Sparta should be underground in the Royal Castle, and while this place is protected, it should still be okay."

The thing I want most is that I already have full protection. That's probably why I meant for a normal size high ram......

"The way you put it, I guess there is. An unprotected original."

"Yeah."

Seeing Mia snort strangely, I get a slightly unpleasant feeling.

This is a problem that is unlikely to be solved easily.

"Where there is now an original of the most dangerous condition, there is -"

Mia's little fingertips stick to my red left eye.

"- Carla Mara, the endless city of desire"

It became a small red light point on the far south side and the destination lit up.