The Traveling Hero Won’t Let the Innkeeper’s Son Escape

The Spirit King followed Gio's words.

"Originally Zagres was good at peeking and manipulating the spiritual aspects of creatures. It was originally meant to help people, and it wasn't that powerful... but we've been strengthening it over the last thousand years so we don't know."

The four gods nodded deeply in the words of the Spirit King, including Geo.

(... that? You're starting to get confused.

It was Ruth who was listening to the conversation, but he couldn't understand what Geo and the Spirit King were talking about. I realized that there was some decisive knowledge difference between them and myself.

"You put enough power into manipulating people to get yourself out of the seal?

"That's what's going to happen."

Zagres looked at mentally weak people and persecuted species. There was a gap in their hearts where Zagres entered.

Looking at the weak-minded, Zagres said that he softened his whispering spirit, sometimes showed himself as a god, and moved his hands and feet.

"Aristotelian God is one of them."

"Alice... Aristotle just wished she could get back to people for a reason. Just a little bit. I never accepted Zagres's spiritual domination. I couldn't resist being connected to the device, that's all."

Cittiadis, a man who had been silent for a long time, frowned and clapped his mouth at the voice of the man who had named Aristotle Telesia.

Each of the four gods who had slept as human pillars for a thousand years could do different things.

Whereas the three Zenobians, Fance and Citrus, were poised for perpetual chanting of sealing magic, controlling the sealing device, circulation and interior, Aristotlecia's role was outside the sealing device. It is said that the influence of Zagres has been confirmed through the atmosphere.

But that's why Aristotle keeps seeing the times move on and feels strongly that they are being forgotten. That's why it's a little wish.

(The goddess Aristotle was manipulated... yeah, I know that.)

Aristotle Telesia whispers from the glass case in Ruth's head.

At that time, she was dominated by Zagres, and her will was sealed. Kill Ruth - he used his body and position as a relay to awaken the brave (Alec).

Alec and the others have been saying that communication with Aristotle Telesia has been interrupted for some time now, probably because Zagres controlled it. Everything is speculation.

"Aristotle Telesia didn't mean to abandon her position as a human pillar and try to get back to earth... but Zagres didn't miss such a small wish. I entered a slightly shaken gap in my heart and ruled Aristotle Telesia."

When I heard from Aristotle, who is not here now, my body stopped moving well about fifteen years ago. It was roughly when Alec was born on the stars. Maybe I've been thinking about this plan since I saw Ruth's title associated with Alec. This is what the supervisor was saying.

"We did not realize that the sealed Zagres was tightly pressing himself. I was able to seal all my abilities with the first seal, so I didn't realize it was distorted by the years."

Geo moans with his eyebrows raised.

Zagres didn't have as much power in the boulder as he had from the sealing device. Yet years and changes in people's minds have given them the opportunity to prepare.

"I didn't understand Zagres' strong desire to live... that's what happened. We were obsessed with seeing a future in which everything was clear, and we didn't realize that it was collapsing."

"It's a foolish thing," the Spirit King groans arrogantly.

"I'm sorry, I'm a little concerned... but we heard that the growth of the Fusion Demon was artificial. But according to the Spirit King, Zagres did all of them....."

According to a noble man, some of the tissues that had lied about the fortifier and dispersed the medicine were caught by the hands of the brave band. What was happening at the time of the incident in Mikana would have fallen under that.

"No, no such organization has been discovered in our country. However, a large number of fusion magicians emerged and one fishing village disappeared. This is a quiet village where drug involvement is very unlikely. I don't think I'm going to do anything when I hear about fortifiers."

A subordinate woman with a harsh atmosphere objects to the remarks of a noble man.

"The same goes for Japan. Although there was an organization in a small village, Alec and his team eliminated it early. Besides, the Fusion Demon appeared in another city."

"Don't tell me there are a lot of organizations that haven't been found yet.

"Alec and the others said they destroyed all the factories and routes."

"If they fail, where does the medicine come from!?

To the noisy aristocratic winds, the Spirit King said in a calm voice, "Be quiet."

"It is highly probable that Zagres was involved in subterranean tissue on the ground. I wonder if you've given me instructions to get into people's minds and actually spread the medicine.... but Zagres is able to demonize people without using others."

Ruth and the others could not conceal their surprise at the clear assertion of the Spirit King.

Why does Zagres melt people? Different from the medicine? Is melting demonization something that can be done like that? - No, what's "Zagres” in the first place?

By joining the conversation, Ruth feels painful that he doesn't know anything. The very existence of "Zagres”, which was sealed a thousand years ago, does not understand what it is.

He raised his hand and spoke to the Spirit King, thinking that he could not remain unaware of anything.

"Um... I'm sorry to break your back... but what is Zagres in the first place? Me, I don't know anything... and I don't know what it means from the middle of the story..."

Ruth understands from the information he received in the ark that once humans had to reset because of the pandemic that had brought people to extinction. That was a thousand years ago.

People then went down to the earth again and began to make civilizations from scratch.

So people nowadays don't know about stars more than a thousand years ago. This was also due to the huge difference between the artifacts that emerged from ruins around the world and modern technology.

Ruth thought that ”Zagres” was the name of an infectious disease and that the Four Gods had sealed it.

I'm free...

But if that voice were Zagres, I thought it might be a creature - if it was bad, it might even have emotions, but it was closer to people.

Ruth's questions were echoed by the people here. Looks like Ruth wasn't the only one who didn't understand the meaning of the conversation earlier.

"Is that so? When this happens, we have to talk about the beginning."

Geo sighed loudly when he said so.

"Zagres and Fusion have a lot to do with it. Let's start with the Fusion Demon."

Fusion Demon refers to the existence where people and monsters have merged. However, such a thing did not originally exist in the world.

"... Fusion magic begins when people combine to gain the greatest magic power of monsters."

"People...?

"Let's also talk about monsters, now called pure monsters."

Long before a thousand years ago, when Cyrus was still alive, a great war continued. At that time, along with the development of magical machinery, it was researched to artificially inject the power of monsters into people and strengthen their abilities.

"The monsters at that time were a little different from modern monsters... On the other hand, there were many species with more powerful magic than they are today, even though they were not aggressive. It was the prospect of winning the war."

But the experiment didn't work. After many times, people who had embedded monsters lost their reason and became violent. --I became what I now call the Fusion Demon. After all, their attempts failed and the laboratory was halfway shut down.

"The Fusion Demon that escaped from the laboratory is a creature now called the Monster - that is, the Fusion Demon is originally created by humans. And many of the creatures that are now recognized as“ monsters "were originally“ molten demons. "

"Huh!?

Except for those who knew the past, Geo had confused expressions in words that overturned his common sense.

(It's true that “monsters” in this world are a little different from so-called monsters.....)

A strange monster with a black translucent body and a distorted body - that's the basic form of being that Ruth and his friends called a monster and felt threatened. Ecosystems are not as well known as animals, neither their origins nor habits are well understood, and the appearance may vary from one individual to another.

Rather than the “so-called monster” that Ruth had in his knowledge of the previous life, he was more or less close to things such as chimeras and monsters.

(But to be sure, monsters resemble Fusion Demons... and some of them have shapes that resemble people in part...)

Ruth remembers what he saw during the Situtiadis season when he became a fusion demon. At that time, I was watching the change, so I recognized it as a Fusion Demon, but if I was told from the beginning that it was a "monster" - that's not strange to understand.

"... so now all the monsters are fused demons?

It was the sorcerer Curtis who answered Ruth's question. Apparently they already understand what Geo and the others are trying to say.

"No, the" real monster ”still exists today. This is what Geo-sama used to call a" pure monster. "

"What kind of creature is that?

"You know a G-ranked monster called Gejiji or Nako. That's the original monster."

Naco built a wall in the ruins. Gejiji lives in the forest. Both are called monsters, but they are almost harmless and not aggressive against people at all. Therefore, it is rated G rank. Even if I see Ruth, I am not aware of the danger so much as I touch him with my hands.

"Is that the real monster?

"Yes, monsters are not only magical, they are also very harmless creatures. Bal and others were" fusion evolutionary monsters "that evolved and multiplied as they existed in the experiments of the time. So I attack people - no, I try to eat them."

Monsters such as Bal attacked people because they were originally people. They have a deep-rooted consciousness of “wanting to return to people”, so they eat people in an attempt to increase their parts. There is no change even if you eat it, but you have to do it instinctively and attack people.

"Sadly, they've become monsters, and even Moore's de-cursing can't bring them back."

Eliza murmured as she lowered her gaze to complement Curtis's words. Moore, who had previously restored the person who was about to melt demonization, was also shaking his neck vertically.

"The problem is that the Fusion Magic exploded after the institute was shut down."

"Oh, it was spreading like an airborne disease at an overwhelming rate."

"Well, but Fusion Magic is a creature made from research, right? Can there be more after the institute has been shut down?

It's possible.

Even if a person is eaten by a monster, it does not become a molten demon. Even if you touch the Fusion Demon, it has the effect of erosion, but it does not turn into a Fusion Demon. Then, how to create a Fusion Demon is to put the power of a monster into your body - that is, absorb a special medicine to Fusion Demons.

"Medicine? Not magic?

"Merging the human body and the monster with magic takes a lot of skill. It's hard even for me. At the time, there were technicians who could produce such medicines because magic machines were developing."

Geo and others who knew how to melt demonization implemented a global policy of containment so that the infectious disease, melting demonization, would not spread any further. Investigations were carried out to identify the source, isolate the sick and seal off the place where it occurred - but the demonization of the people did not stop.

"Were there any special effects drugs?

"Of course, we made it in a hurry. But none of the medicine worked...."

Geo has a dark face.

"Because the melting phenomenon was not caused by the medicine of the time in the first place.... Zagres was using“ magic ”to demonize people."