205-199 Summon Magic

Once the morning sun was firmly in our faces, we arrived at the village.

However, the simple fence was closed and there were no guards, so I was momentarily confused as to whether I was allowed to go inside.

''Luciel-sama, why did you stop?''

''There's no penalty for entering a village where there are no guards. It's said that as long as you enter an adventurer's guild, there is no problem.

Yeah,

'Yes, sir. The fences are generally closed to prevent wild wolves and demons from getting in.

''Since the St. Schurur Cooperative Kingdom has weak demons as well, I guess this level of fence won't be a problem for them.

Apparently, adventurers have no problem entering the village.

Puzzled by this, he removed the fence and entered the village and closed it again.

''First, I'll greet the village chief and then try to negotiate with him to give me a horse. Well, if I don't have a horse, I'll ask Forenoir to take care of it this time.

It would be nice if you could give it to me.

And I'd like to have some food if I could.

Nadia agrees with me, and thinking that Lydia is totally becoming a foodie character, we head for the village chief's house.

As we walked, we could hear the sounds of life coming from each house, and we reached the chief's house, admiring how quickly the villagers were getting up.

'Well, I hope you're awake,'

'Master Luciel, we'll take care of the business here.

Master Luciel will wait here.

I have mixed feelings about the two people who have really gotten their squire on board, but I had a feeling that the negotiations would go more smoothly if I was the one to negotiate, so I tried a simple persuasion.

'You two don't know the village chief, do you?　Well, I've only talked to the new village chief once, too, but I'm the one who has to go here.

I told them, and they nodded their heads in agreement, so I stepped forward and knocked on the door of the village chief's house.

''I apologize for the early morning, but is the village chief at home?''

Then he heard a noise from inside, so he was awake, and a little later the door opened.

'Who's there?'　In the morning, what........isn't it Lady Luciel?

The grumpy village chief smiled as soon as he saw my face.

''Good morning, sir. Sorry to barge in on you so early in the morning.

No, no. How can I help you?

''My horse was crushed on the way to the Holy City, and I'd like you to be flexible if you can. Of course, we'll put on quite a bit more color than usual.

I see. The Holy City. But this is just a rumor, but I hear that Master Luciel has been punished by God or something.

I feel shrewd when I hear about the fearful divine punishment, but it's boring to lose time here, so I'll actually show you how to use the magic.

''Well, it's just a rumor. Heel.

As I heel over the village chief, his slightly lowered right shoulder changes to an even posture.

''Oh!''　My back pain disappeared like a lie. With this.....

He swallowed the last word, twisting his hips and looking happy.

'Well, it's just a rumor. That's why it won't bother the village.

'What?　Oh, I don't mind that, and I've had Luciel-sama save this village before. Well then, let's go inside first.

Thank you, sir.

Hiding his upset, the village chief invited me into the house.

When I entered the house, I saw that the books were scattered around the house, unlike when I visited before

I'm sorry for the mess.

The village chief then shyly brushes the book off the edge.

''As I said before, we barged in here all of a sudden, so don't worry about it. By the way, you have all these books with you.

Then the village chief shook his head and replied, "This is all the property of the former chief.

'These are all the property of the former village chief. Originally I thought they would be collected by the church, but they were left here, so this is how I find time to read them.

I hadn't seen the male when I cleaned up the place before, but I decided not to pry too deeply into it, but to let my guard down by talking about the book he said he liked, before I got down to business.

'That's a good hobby. What on earth is it about?

Many of them describe what it takes to govern a village and preach the idea of human supremacy. There are a lot of them from the Duchy of Brange, the birthplace of human supremacy. There are also many works on Lord Leinster.

Maybe not as many oddball books as I thought.

There was a bit too much stuff in there, so maybe I won't read anything else.

But still, human supremacy and other organizations that seem to be on the opposite end of the spectrum from me.

If a human supremacist organization was working in the dark within the church, the culprit in this riot would be a religious organization.

In that case, that person I know would be the one who sparked the riot.　

Thinking about that was almost depressing, so I continued.

'I see. I'm actually a miscellaneous type of person who likes to read books, and I read a lot of stuff. So I was hoping to find something unusual here.

'Then there's everything from lore about spirits, dragons, and labyrinths, to the dubious, but oddities like books on summoning and immortality.

When I laughed and told him, it seemed to inspire something in the village chief, and he told me with a smug look on his face that he was multi-genre.

But the title I was curious about came out.

Summoning Magic and Elixir of Life... but why didn't the church officials collect the book?

Well that's what the people in the church did, right?

Yes. Yes, I suppose. It's an eyebrow-raising one originally, and apparently it was written in the Duchy of Brange, since books like this seem to exist everywhere.

I can't help but wonder what the Knights have come to investigate.

Are they really going to be okay?　Or inside the church - don't think any more about it.

I take a pause and tell him the main point.

''I see. So, the horse, will you get it ready?

We don't have any good horses in this village, is that all right with you?

Yes, sir. I'm sorry to ask you to do this. Ten gold coins per head is enough. Please give me three horses.

If you can give me that much, by all means. I'll be right over to the one who manages the horses, if you'll just wait here for a moment.

'Yes. And while you're at it, may I read your book?

Of course you don't mind.

With that, the village chief happily ran out of the house.

'At that rate, I suppose the horses are there.

'Well, what do you think?'

It's true that we, too, were humanitarians. But since we became adventurers, the barriers have diminished.

I wasn't as evasive as I could have been because of the spirit thing.

We both reacted to the supremacy of the human race, but remembering that there was no subject matter, I chuckled and told them exactly what they wanted to hear.

'No, I'm sorry. I didn't have a subject. I just thought that the mystery of the demon tribe's sudden appearance was the summoning. Come to think of it, does the Duchy of Blange still perform the summoning of brave men?

If I asked them to partition, they each told me what they knew.

''Yes, but the details are rarely known, even by noblemen. But details are rarely known, even by noblemen.

'They will tell you about the fact that you have summoned a brave man, but they won't even know if the summons was successful or not.

Is that because no demon king or demon race has shown up?

I don't know about that either.

'We left home as soon as we came of age, and since we weren't powerful aristocrats...'

Come to think of it, she said she was pressured into a marriage proposal, and that's why she became an adventurer.

An ordinary nobleman........come to think of it, Elinus-san in Nerdal was also a countess, but she said she was studying it because she didn't want to get married for political reasons.

Is the future of Duchy Blange safe?　I didn't get any significant information, but well, I'm going to look for some clues anyway.

''I see. We don't have much time, so let's narrow down what we have to do. The two of you, if there's anything that bothers you at all, just let me know.

I understand.

After I took over for the two of them, I decided to read the book on summoning and immortality that the village chief had mentioned.

So far I don't know what the commonality between the demon race ruckus that happened in this village last time and the rumored demon race that I saw in Brange this time.

It's not just the miasma, but also the miasma of the miasma and the moxie of the miasma.

If the rituals of that time were the contents described in this summoning magic and immortality, then we might be able to find out what the demons were after.

I'm sure you'll be able to find the book as soon as you start looking for it.

The book was well wrapped and looked expensive, but its contents were so dirty and rundown that you could barely read the words.

I wanted to purify everything but the text, but if even the text was deemed dirty, I wouldn't be able to read this book, so I held back and began to read it.

Because summoning magic is classified as space-time magic, it's generally considered a legend, but apparently it's not really.

In fact, even if it doesn't have any attributes, is it possible to carve a contract that offers a consideration into the magic circle?

The consideration here is that if you summon a person, then of course the consideration is also a person.

It's not all contracts are made for life, but they can also be made for magical power.

The miasma is so strong that the price of all of them must be the lives of the villagers. No matter how you look at it, there is no doubt that they were trying to summon an existence that was not normal.

As I rolled up the page further, there was a section on summoning using tools, and when I looked at the rituals using the jar, I saw that it described horrible things like soul spirit spirit exchange and soul spirit possession.

If the summoning magic circle had been activated at that time, the souls of the villagers would have disappeared at the same time as the summoning, and the souls of the summoned demon race would have been in the villagers' bodies.

If this outrageous detail was true, then if they had arrived in this village a little later at that time, the soul of the villagers of the demon race would have been born.

''It's a bit out of the ordinary nerve to think about this.

As I rolled up the page further, I saw that it said something outrageous.

'Let's buy this one at an asking price.

As I closed my summoning book, I noticed that it was getting noisy outside and decided to go outside with Nadia and Lydia.