Pov Nira:
“That’s extortion!” (Queen Melissa)
“No, this is negotiation.” (I)
“Do you have any idea what treasures Gregory Roux has amassed by stealing dozens of the nobles by his side? Not to mention the things that must have been siphoned off while he was pretending to work for me.” (Queen Melissa)
“I imagine a lot.” (I)
“But that doesn’t change the fact that I have information to trade and you have items I consider of value.” (I)
“…” (I)
She doesn’t show it with her expression, I’m also not able to feel her Aura because I’m very weak, but Yomi felt the danger and crossed a wall to land on my shoulder.
“How about in addition to the forbidden books, adding about 100 crystal cards?” (Ivan)
“I think that’s very fair.” (I)
Queen Melissa had dangerous eyes turned towards me and Ivan, she was very angry, but her expression didn’t show what she was really feeling.
“You really don’t expect me to accept such a deal, do you?” (Queen Melissa)
“I honestly hoped so.” (I)
“(This will prevent the master from doing something outrageous to get at least copies of these forbidden books.)” (I)
“Even without your help, I would be able to find these secret Gregory bases in a matter of days.” (Queen Melissa)
“That might be true, a place like this where Lilian has spent her entire life certainly has the wherewithal to do so.” (I)
“But I wonder if that time can become precious time and that when I get there, everything is empty.” (I)
“You already went in there, right?” (Queen Melissa)
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” (I)
“But if we find it, others can find it too, maybe you’ll be unlucky to find everything empty if you wait too long.” (I)
“What does my aunt think she’s doing around such despicable people!?” (Queen Melissa)
“Could what we’re doing be wrong?” (Ivan)
“I’m sorry to hear that, it means we can only negotiate up to that point.” (I)
“That’s right, I don’t need to do anything else with people who clearly have ulterior motives.” (Queen Melissa)
“I’m someone sincere who just wanted to make fair negotiations for both sides, that’s a shame.” (I)
I spent a few more minutes talking to Queen Melissa and told her the date of our departure, she said her part of the deal will be ready by tomorrow, so I say goodbye while I count on Ivan.
On our way back, I used an item that allows me to mentally communicate with Ivan by holding his hands, which we did after a few steps outside the government building. .𝒄𝒐𝒎
“(She won’t like what comes next.)” (I)
“(She won’t like to find all of Gregory Roux’s secret bases empty, the master will make sure to steal the other half of the things he left for her.)” (Ivan)
“(Perhaps.)” (I)
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Pov Zenos:
After the two days passed and we left the city without looking back, I would like to leave this continent now, but it seems like I have to spend some time going back to the village of the Elves.
Getting back to the Poison Forest Elf village will take a long time, but it would be good to sort out a few things in the meantime.
I was in my room, it was the first night of the trip and I put a table outside on the porch where I placed Nicolas’ core.
“A beautiful landscape this night sky.” (I)
“I’ll have to believe you since I can’t see.” (Nicolas)
“You still don’t tell me why you did this to your body.” (I)
“Why is this amazing!” (Nicolas)
“A body I created myself, materials that had been selected after years of deliberation.” (Nicolas)
“I was so happy building that body, I remember balancing the spells was really hard.” (Nicolas)
“A mechanical body is the best thing that can exist, never feeling thirsty or hungry, not feeling pain, not feeling tired, all this is amazing enough but the real degree of happiness comes from the working of magical interactions, I’ve spent over 100 years in my research to achieve a better understanding of applying programming logic using magic.” (Nicolas)
“I’ve tried something like that too, that’s perfectly possible, it helps put spells in their best condition.” (I)
“It also helped while I was studying layered spells.” (I)
“I tried using spells to program, but it went terribly wrong, but I found that I still had some use in that knowledge.” (Nicolas)
I spent some time talking to this madman, he was always into technology and wanted a body more suited to his robotic beauty standards.
He spent years gathering the materials he would need, the magic he had heard of several that would be essential to be able to control this body, but the biggest problem was that he needed spiritual Runes to link a soul with that body.
He used the magic as if they were computer programs that he placed in that core, then he used Spirit Runes as part of the programming language to control the magic programs.
He did this by using a slave Necromancer to do everything he ordered, this Necromancer was a spirit energy user, Nicolas said he was a very annoying crime slave who spent all day complaining about how he was going to turn him into a Ghost and then put your soul in a stone for daring to keep ordering him.
Nicolas with the help of this Necromancer managed to place his Soul in this very special core.
He said that in the past he asked for help from an Alchemist who possessed the unique ability of Synthesis to fuse the core of a Multi Elemental Golem and a magic crystal made from the core of a Specter.
He said the two were national treasures that he had to steal when the rulers refused to make a deal with him.
He calmly told how he destroyed one of the castles to steal what he wanted and how he took advantage of an Annual Monster Wave to dig a well beside the castle to steal what he needed from the national treasure vault.
He’s a madman who doesn’t even realize what he did wrong, he talks about these things as problematic ways to get rare materials, and he even talks about how these two nations kept going after him even when he only took these two items and nothing else, he actually left the settlement money he offered earlier in the safe.
The voice that comes out of the core where he is seems kind of robotic, but it seems that it was done by him on purpose, it was strange to hear his stories, he seems unable to realize what he did wrong, he believes he only did things necessary for his search.
Nicolas seems to live only for his technological research, his main focus is robots, he said his dream was to build a giant robot.