The room was silent.
All that could be heard were the wind and insect calls.
‘Did I mishear?’
Roan dared not let his guard down.
He inspected the detection formation and his blind spots, but he couldn’t find anything.
Just when he was wondering if he was being oversensitive, he spotted another white silhouette flashing across the mirror.
His hand jerked upward, directing his wand at the mirror, but the white silhouette was already nowhere to be seen. This brought a frown to his face.
So, he decided to fake the enemy out.
“I see you. Come out.”
“I-I-I refuse!” a shy voice echoed from behind.
Roan quickly turned around.
The voice was coming from the mirror. There was a translucent figure reflected in the previously empty mirror.
“A specter?” Roan blurted out.
‘No, this fellow is different from a specter.’
He had dealt with enough undead to discern that this fellow wasn’t undead. It would be more accurate to call the other party a soul entity.
The moving figure in the mirror puffed up in anger and exclaimed, “I am not a specter...”
“Then what are you?” Roan pressed on.
“I... also want to know...” The voice was filled with confusion.
Roan frowned. He couldn’t tell if the other party was feigning it. “What do you mean?”
The figure in the mirror fell silent.
A long time later, he replied with an uncertain voice, “I... might be your divine persona.”
‘...Divine persona?’
Roan was taken aback. He had no recollection of having anything like that.
“Wait...” The unexpected response threw Roan’s thoughts into disarray. He lowered his wand and massaged his temples. “You’re making me confused. What do you mean by divine persona? How are you related to Linte Isaac?” ᚱ�
While he had recently reaped a wave of faith, it was nowhere enough to forge a divine persona. It if was that easy to become a god, there would be Demon Gods at every turn!
His intuition told him that the ‘Machine God’ could be behind this.
“Linte Isaac?” The figure’s fleeting voice sounded confused. “What a familiar name... Can you tell me who he is?”
Looking at the figure in the mirror, Roan took a moment to construe his words before replying, “He is the final emperor of the Lyon Kingdom’s Isaac Dynasty, a man suspected to have once ascended to godhood. That’s all I know. Do you remember anything?”
The figure nodded, only to shake its head right after. “It’s blurry... I remember that he created me and placed me somewhere.”
Its tone suddenly became excited as it exclaimed, “Ah, I remember it now! It could be the demon king domain’s core!”
Roan was taken aback.
“The demon king domain’s core?”
【Let this foolish world feel pain!】
‘Vengeance, is it?’
But Roan didn’t think it was that simple.
After some thought, he looked at the unknown fog-like entity in the mirror and slowly asked, “How should I address you?”
“I don’t know... Why don’t you give me a name?”
Its voice was filled with expectations.
“How about Yuyu?” Roan asked after careful thought.
To his surprise, the other party angrily replied, “I told you I’m not a specter!”
“Let’s go with Youyou then.”
“...Is there any difference?”
Roan didn’t expect the other party to be so difficult as to reject both his suggestions. “Tsk. That’s all I have. Why don’t you come up with something yourself?”
“I’ll go with the second one then.”
“...”
‘I guess this fellow is more of the stick than the carrot.’
Roan calmed himself down before asking the next question on his mind, “What’s your range of activity?”
Youyou spent a moment in thought before replying, “I can freely wander around the demon king domain. Other than that, I’m restricted to your vicinity, roughly from where you are to the door. Right! I can also share what I see with you—like this!”
The mirror slowly turned blurry as if a screen submerged in water. Through it, Roan saw the players in the mining shaft.
These overenergetic skeleton soldiers had already hunted down twenty slave rats who escaped from the labyrinth, causing a huge fuss in the mining shaft.
One of the players even squatted beside a slave rat’s carcass, slowly slicing its body apart as if to see how realistic this game was.
In one of the prison cells, Chris woke up before fainting right away, offering 【Faith +1】 to the demon king domain’s core. A notification also popped up in Roan’s system interface.
‘I see.’
Roan should have realized in the mining shaft that it was odd how the faith absorbed by the demon king domain’s core was synced with his system. The two should have been unrelated.
“Interesting...”
Roan was getting more and more energetic looking at the mirror. Even his exhaustion dissipated in the face of his sudden surge of excitement.
‘Is this the joy of spying on others from the shadows? On this note, if this fellow can see what’s happening in the demon king domain, does that mean it can immediately sense an adventurer’s intrusion? I can even watch the show live from a safe area!’
Roan realized Youyou’s abilities were stronger than he had imagined.
‘I should bring a mirror wherever I go!’
He suddenly remembered another matter and asked, “Youyou, can you see the official site?”
“Official site? Of course I can... Waaa! The forum is bustling with life!”
The fog in the mirror transformed once more, revealing 《Calamity Online》’s official site.
It was just as Youyou had said. A commotion had broken out in the forum!