"What is it! What is it, the temple's alley!
The scream was quite imminent.
It's been a long time since I was so upset.
"What are you... Whoa, no way, you ran into me directly from the front -"
"I didn't, they haven't noticed!
Samuel, who was talking to the maid in the living room, changed her blood phase when she came to visit me in the middle of the night.
This man was an apostle of the wind god, fighting against the family of the evil god.
... you should have known, what lurks in the Vault Temple.
"Why did you go to the temple?
"Wait, wait! Big voice!
Mr. Samuel grabs my shoulder and stops trying to question me.
So I finally realized.
I still have a blue-haired maid indoors.
"Ah..."
"No, he knows my activities. It's okay."
But I don't know where the eyes and ears are. Samuel said and nodded to the maid.
When the maid nods back, she pours mana onto the engraved plate of some "sign" and places it on all sides of the room.
From what I can see, it's a sign of the junctional lineage. Probably for espionage purposes.
... Thank you very much. You seem to be a maid of honor or skill.
A childhood friend of a blonde cleric warrior. A blue-haired maid as an assistant.
And the back face is The Apostle of the Wind God, The Sky Gone, the bandit who runs the night of the capital - I don't know, it's amazing.
If this was an entertainment novel or something, not a reality, it would surely be someone like him who would be the star.
"- I'll bring you some tea."
Pepper lowered his head and the maid withdrew.
Along with the sound of the door tightening, only a little force fell out of my shoulder and Mr. Samuel's.
As shown, long exhalations.
"What a brilliant rush……………"
"That would panic. The precinct chief's heart didn't pulse."
"Can you tell if there's a heartbeat?
"Yeah."
Mr. Samuel smiled bitterly.
"Who do you think you are?
"It must be the demon of Nara."
Their bodies are just a provisional first, a copy of that of the other world.
Many individuals have organs like that, including the heart, and although steep points are similar, they are not exactly identical to function and motion.
"Don't you consider the possibility that even the immortal?
"Impossible."
Immediately, the apostle of the wind god in front of him, the righteous thief, snapped his neck in surprise.
"You assured me."
"Individual immortal resentment. Whatever this is, Stagnate will not strike a hand like this on a level involving the gods."
Somehow, although I have a lot with her, I don't doubt it there.
Besides, in the case of the Evil Dragon Crusade, Stagnate should have used his powers considerably, and he should be quiet for a while.
"You're very close."
"I'm not close... I've done it a few times and fought together."
There's no way I misjudged her M.O. now.
"……… boulder"
Mr. Samuel's bitter smile thickens.
"I found out in our god's revelation."
Saying so, he put his index finger and middle finger on his forehead - his finger on my forehead, mumbling the words of prayer.
When his finger hits his forehead, some image flows in like a ripple through it.
One of the prayers is Empathy Prayer.
Communicate the image you have in your superficial consciousness to the other person as it is.
It's just a superficial image, it's easy to resist surgery, there's a lot of things that are hard to use inside, but...
"... eh"
The images that have propagated were intense.
The first thing I saw was the red lotus flame.
The columns burn, the house collapses with the roar, and the firepowder scatters.
Crowd shouting.
The shadows of the devils bounce through the confused cities.
Metal sound. Footsteps.
Silver armor forming a row.
The unfolding prayer sanctuary - the Vault Cleric Warriors.
Even if they appear in the crusades of the devils, they are forced to struggle.
The devil is skillfully dispersed by fire and the crowd, and does not let him take his place.
The neck of the senior cleric warriors who packed into the temporary headquarters and conducted the command while organizing complex information was skipped from behind.
That old man, Maynard Precinct's skinny body swells up.
... it was like a statue of distorted clay pinched by a child.
A severely twisted hook-clawed hand, a head large in distortion. That's a thin, long body in imbalance.
Originally, one vain dark ellipse just opens up where the nose and eye should be.
I know that name - Shaping Demon (Modeling Demon), Specular.
He is an extremely dangerous "General" demon who freely changes his appearance.
The devil one, when he raises a creepy growl, jumps back into the darkness of the city surrounded by flames.
All that is left behind are the bodies of the cleric warriors.
In the rubble. On one of the rolling corpses, the gaze turns.
That blonde, shapely head...
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"Huh..."
Consciousness returns from the image shared by the Prayer for Empathy.
It was quite a nightmare and an intense revelation.
After breathing for a while, an earlier maid brewed me some tea.
Thank you and take a breather.
"... let me see this. 'I've risked my life many times already, and don't like it,' so I'm a mean god, I'd love to."
It was a choice, said Samuel, with a crease between his eyebrows.
... I see. What a god with habits.
"That was a much more detailed revelation."
"One pillar of the great god though - but this time it was particularly detailed."
Well, if they don't have this, they can't, but they snort at the grunt.
"Are you Specular, the demon of shaping?"
"…… in the days of the Great Upper King of the Devils, the Great Collapse (Breakdown), above all the feared Demon of the National Collapse."
Fighting power is not.
Kernunnos, a powerful magical warrior who also uses Abominations (Taboo Word) and has strong resistance to magic against himself.
Scarabaeus, a beetle demon who has an extremely tough crust and is also a cleric warrior with the thick protection of the demons' god, the dimensional god Diarigma.
Those "generals" I've encountered so far would have a better advantage in terms of combat power.
Specular is not another weak demon, and he boasts high fighting ability and suspicion - but it is not that kind of direct part that makes this individual dangerous.
Kernunnos and Scarabaeus may kill a thousand miscellaneous soldiers if they go out on the battlefield, but Specular can kill 10,000 people just because he's alive.
That's all there is to the ability to transform and the intelligence that only transforms people.
"The one and only Specular who started a leap in the city is worse than the army of 10,000 demons"
Nod at Mr. Samuel's words.
I want you to imagine. A demon with transformative abilities enters an urban area, a situation that it discovers along with a massive arson incident.
What happens if you don't even know that the demon physically mowed the heads of policing organizations and fled without the city?
policing organisations that do not retain control and cannot control disruption.
Citizens caught in suspicious darkness and start 'vigilante' to protect their own and their families' lives and property.
Lower demons disputed by rioting citizens and carrying out further leaps and intermittent raids.
If this happens, I can't imagine how much time and effort I should spit out before I can clean up the mess anymore.
According to this, really one city, one country, could even collapse.
- That's the devil.
"The aim of the Specular side is..."
"We are drawing the evil men who have fallen into the evil god faith and the demons at the bottom into the city. Store up supplies and personnel, decide at a definitive time, the sight of revelation, I guess."
I've missed my ears here recently due to a bandit commotion, while crushing a small base several times, he says.
"As for political standing, there are more words and deeds than" defensemen ". There are particularly many words and actions that incite a sense of crisis into the South……………………"
"In the south, there are many great bases for the demons."
"I don't want to get anywhere near Germany."
Though not easily spoken of, the Southern Frontier Continent (Southmark) also houses the city of the dead, the seal of the Upper King, in addition to the base of the demons.
For the resurrection of their king, it must be the sum of the devil's faction that they do not want to drive the human sphere of power southward.
"…… It's dangerous."
With this, Leo will be able to establish himself as the fourth faction in the current three-ways succession war.
"Or if the opponent is also the Prefect of the Temple of Vault..."
"I can't openly claim to be 'the devil'. You can't complain if they beat you to death by magically revealing who you are or by casting a spell without consent."
A social position is protecting him.
…………
…………
Share recognition.
The situation is serious.
If so, this is-
"Why don't you and I sneak into the Vault Temple and kill each other crisply now?
Isn't it good with a simple and extreme assassination?
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"... after all, you think about it too"
To the suggestion, Mr. Samuel grinned and nodded.
"You, too, I knew Mr. Samuel thought about it, didn't you, this hand?"
With this, Leo will be able to establish himself as the fourth faction in the current three-ways succession war.
The more complex and elementary measures, the more likely they are to fail.
It is highly instant and worth considering the simpler it is.
"I thought it would be best if I could."
He is the Skywalker, a thief who leaps into the Empire City.
If it is also an assassination by sneaking in, it is more suited to him skillfully.
"But Vault Temple security is tight. Especially now, it's summer when a territorial nobleman comes into the capital.... you think it's gonna come out?
"I honestly don't know much about covert activities."
No matter how much dragon power I get, I'm not a clandestine, subtle warrior, but a heavy warrior who fights harder.
The sneaking mission, to be honest, is out of specialty.
"Even as skilled as Mr. Samuel?
"Even I'm tough. Thinking about it, we decided that we had a 70% chance of breaking and entering."
70%. A calculation that fails about once every three times.
It's a subtle number.
"If you break in and are badly discovered, you will be surrounded by the Vault Cleric Warriors. If they tie you up, it's over."
The Precinct Manager is the devil! Even if claimed, it is unconvincing at a time when it extends to barbarism such as arming and breaking into the temple.
If you are disarmed and restrained, the devil's side will have more than one hand to kill this one.
If it did, it would be the end of "confusion, captivity and sudden death" before deliberation in a fair place.
"Right. On the contrary, I'd like to hear from you, can you disable that cleric warrior regiment and break through?
"You can't. … if you fight them in action, it's a life match."
If you unlock and challenge the magic, the protection and the power of the dragon, you won't lose to them first.
But today, their sophistication I went through with myself. The hardness of its protection.
I don't think you can forgive me for not killing you, quickly disabling you, making a light breakthrough and turning you into a precinct chief.
With faith and perseverance, they will devour me, whether my hands or my feet are lifted or my torso swept up. If that happens, I don't want to take any more lives.
And if you kill a cleric warrior squad, an important policing force, numerous problems will draw their tail even if you can take out Specular.
... before that, killing innocent people for good is out of the question.
"Then... with a slight handful, with my drunken gesture or something, I pulled the cleric warriors around the temple to fight, and Mr. Samuel broke in."
"Wait, wait. You had a good chance of breaking and entering, and don't think by your standards you can kill the General Demon lightly."
Ah, well.
... of course, but even a fair amount of masters have difficulty instantly killing the "General" demon on a one-on-one basis.
Even if you only have Mr. Samuel for infiltration into it, if the battle gets prolonged and noisy, it's Ami the original tree, and according to this, there's even a risk of payback.
"If we're lucky enough to get the first shot from the ambush into the steeple, I don't know..."
An even more subtle chance ambush from subtle probability intrusion.
It is also natural to hesitate with this.
"…… What is it about asking Mr. Cecilia to uncover all the circumstances and secretly guide the intrusion?
"He, do you think he's the type who can do that kind of art?
…………
He's a good man, but he's not for that kind of ventriloquism, I guess.
If this is the head of the Bagley Temple, he seems to do it slowly, but I can't count on anyone who isn't there.
"I thought about you or your one-on-one situation by signing up for an interview in the name of His Highness Ethel..."
"If I were Specular, I would try to avoid that kind of offer. You're an old man, so it won't be hard to twist your excuses."
"That's right."
I tried to consider some hands afterwards, but I still had to settle for the conclusion that the assassination decision at the moment was likely to be impossible to attack.
"Regardless, I can't keep the demon of shaping (modeling demon) in the precinct chief's seat forever."
"Yeah."
It's like a bomb in a national stronghold that doesn't know when it's going to explode.
The abandonment was completely out of the question.
"…… more than I've stepped in so far, I need your help."
"From the beginning, I intend to."
The hand to be derived is one.
"From outside the enclosure, let's tighten it"