Book 2: Chapter 80: Hamelin Sae

Book 2: Chapter 80: Hamelin Sae

“He actually fled...”

As all of our attention had been drawn towards Sae killing the clown, we were unsure of when the auction house master Wilkis had run away after regaining our senses.

“Do you need me to capture him back, oh great Lilith?” Sae asked with an eager voice.

“Let it be. He’s already cornered.” I shook my head in reply: “Everyone that we ought to rescue are all present. Let’s leave first.”

There’s definitely some big figure from Theocracy standing behind this auction house. This could be seen from the sudden appearance of that Saint Realm expert. Therefore, there were too many unknown variables present if we were to continue keeping up a hunt for Wilkis. Compared to that, it would be much better to get everyone out of here as fast as possible, right?

Furthermore... with the Twin Stone in my hand, won’t I be able to destroy the auction house at will after leaving here?

“[Fixed Point Transmission]”

I casually used an extremely valuable Fixed Point Transmission Scroll. This was an item that could be considered as a strategic wartime item for a country, as it could drastically speed up the execution of military matters, and had played the role of deal-breaker in several key battles in history. Furthermore, the people who could create it were few and far between. Therefore, one of these could be exchanged for a small city!

In fact, the scroll I had just used could even be exchanged for the entire Holy Theocracy. Naturally, there wasn’t a need for me to save it.

The powerful spatial fluctuations unleashed by the scroll gradually stabilized, before a silvery spatial door appeared before everyone’s eyes.

“You guys go first. There’ll be people on the other side to receive you all.” I said to the crowd of young slave girls. After all, it’s safer for those without combat capability to leave first.

The young girls walked obediently into the spatial door. However, from time to time, they would turn their heads to look towards Sae, with expressions of wanting to say something appearing on their faces, though not a single one of them dared to say anything aloud.

After all of the young girls had entered the spatial door, I mustered the courage to ask Sae: “Speaking of which, is there any chance for Eleanor to return?”

“That’s no longer a possibility.”

“...” looks like my decision to ask after all those young girls are gone was right. If not, there might be some of them that would duke it out with Sae. After all, in their eyes, Sae had taken over Eleanor’s body, and had even caused her death. However, in my eyes, I could tell that Eleanor’s life was already flickering like a waning match that could be extinguished at any given moment when she had appeared. Perhaps, her life had already been extinguished a long time ago. It was only through some invisible power that she had managed to forcibly hold her life together, giving rise to the incomparably injured Eleanor that had appeared right before our eyes.

Without a doubt, the source of that power within Eleanor came from the young girl Artifact Spirit standing right before us.

All of a sudden, Sae twirled her hair around her finger, before letting it go, and proceeded to repeat this set of actions, just like what a shy and embarrassed young girl would do. However, these series of actions were incomparably familiar to my eyes, as those were the actions Eleanor would subconsciously do during my first meeting with her.

How is this a small problem? Doesn’t this show in some sense that Eleanor had already kicked the bucket? At this moment, the body before me is inhabited by a ghost with a shattered consciousness.

“Don’t worry, oh great Lilith. Eleanor’s soul had been transformed by me, so there’s completely no problem even if I don’t have a physical body to inhabit.” Sae calmly patted my shoulder in response.

“...Speaking of which, did you get Eleanor’s approval before doing this?”

“Nope.”

??

Woah! She admitted it! She actually had the courage to admit it!

“Don’t you feel ashamed for not having obtained the approval of the original body’s owner before transforming her soul?”

“I don’t,” Sae replied with a look of inevitability on her face. “Due to her albinism, Eleanor’s basically unable to live past the age of 25. Furthermore, it’s her own wish to transform herself into an Artifact Spirit of a Saint Artifact in order to continue living. It was me that prevented her from becoming an inferior Artifact Spirit, and allowed her to become one with me, who was created by the supreme Dragon God! Shouldn’t she be deeply grateful in return?”

That’s not the case! Furthermore, you’re the inferior Artifact Spirit you’re talking about, okay!

Being truly unable to argue with a fellow who believed in racial supremacy, I decided to change the topic.

“You should show some self-reflection at the very least after causing someone’s body to die.”

“Huh?”Sae opened her eyes wide in confusion. “Oh great Lilith, aren’t you the one who had killed this body?”

“Huh? Isn’t the cause of death the two successive stabs you’ve made by pulling out the sword and stabbing it once again?”

“That’s not the cause. In actual fact, Eleanor’s body was already extremely weak. When you stuck the sword into her body, she had definitely died, oh great Lilith. My power’s the only reason why this body is able to continue functioning right now.”

“...” okay, my head...

“However...” all of a sudden, Sae gathered herself, before rubbing her icy cold body against mine, “If you want me to be a scapegoat, oh great Lilith, I’ll not say no to that~, after all, you’re my master, so you can do anything you want to me~”

“......”

Can I have a ¥%$* talk with my own ancestor? I am talking about the one with wings.