46. A Vampire and a Golem
There were a lot of unexplainable things in the world. The concept of mana or alchemy in various worlds was different, but very similar.
Perserque’s power of the abyss was a part of the divine authority, a power equivalent to an unidentifiable power known as ‘holy power’, which was also called the ‘divine will’. And there was also the evolving core of golems, which was known to be the perfectly powered core, although it couldn’t actually be perfect.
There were a lot of ways to describe the machine heart. It was the heart that had the life that sought after the extreme in the field of alchemy, but the existence of Deus Ex Machina (The God of Machinery) couldn’t be explained with current knowledge.
“I’ve got to take this!” Throwing his usual personality out the window, Davey’s voice turned lively as he glued himself onto the glass capsule with wide eyes. The Heins Territory’s gigantic climate control system was bewildering, but Davey knew best how much more valuable this was.
However, Sio and Lucia, who didn’t know how valuable it was, just looked around the hall in fascination.
-Davey, look here.
Perserque, who flew around and examined the hall quietly, called Davey after finding the control panel. The control panel was presenting the condition of the capsule’s contents like a hologram, and it was secured like it was waiting for someone’s hand to be rested upon it. Once Davey did so, the mana he released through his hand enveloped him and began changing the words in the hologram.
-Deus Ex Machina.
[Ready to link. Adjustment complete.]
-White Wings, The Lion of God.
[Suspended animation. Ready for heart transplantation.]
“White Wings…”
It was unfamiliar to Davey, as expected.
“The ‘Lion of God’… How arrogant. Go and repent.”
As Davey hollowly chuckled and skimmed the list that showed the status of the capsule’s contents, he began to sort of see the purpose of these capsules. One was the God of Machinery, the heart of a golem that had its own ego, and the other was a unique kind with no heart; if the small girl was really one of the White Wings, a unique kind of species, and the Lion of God, perhaps the owner of this ancient civilization who made this facility had a crazy idea to transplant the God of Machinery to the Lion of God and use it.
-Davey. There’s an experimental record journal here.
Perserque, who was still silently looking around, brought Davey a small book. To the others, it would look like the book had just hovered over to Davey, but he could see her fine.
“It looks like the experiment record journal, but I can’t read it because it’s different from the control panel.”
It was obvious that Davey couldn’t read it because it was written in a different language. He also didn’t have enough data to decode it.
“Let’s just take it for now.”
Even though he didn’t know what it meant, Davey would be better off with it than without. He took the experiment record journal and pulled out Blue Ribbon. With force, he slashed the glass capsule that held the God of Machinery.
Clang!!!! However, the hard glass was totally unaffected by it and endured the hit well.
“Look at that?”
Davey was unable to cut through the glass by slashing it with Blue Ribbon combined with [Aura Blade]. ‘You’re kidding, right?’
“Wh—What are you doing?”
“I’m going to take this. But it’s a little hard.”
“Oh my… A glass that cannot be cut even with [Aura Blade]…”
The Tionis Continent had pretty good access to glass; it was different from how glass was made on Earth, but an ore that turned hollow and glass-like if it was melted in high temperatures and slowly cooled existed in the continent.
“Then we can’t take this out, right?” Lucia asked cautiously.
Davey nodded, then said, “That is true. Can you back away for a second?”
Davey chose to slash it with Blue Ribbon as he thought that there might have been a defense-type magic on it, but it seemed like there was nothing like that. This meant that it was just extremely hard, which actually made things a lot easier.
Whoosh… Red Ribbon twirled inside Davey’s hand, leaving a red afterimage, and a thin coat of [Aura Blade] began releasing onto its red sword body. As soon as a compact [Aura Blade], which looked faint, was created, Davey immediately slashed the capsule.
Slice!! The glass capsule that wasn’t even dented previously was sliced into half and was spilling out a green liquid. It was a relief that it wasn’t able to tolerate the power of Red Ribbon.
Davey grabbed the heart that was floating inside the solution as the liquid disappeared. He felt a weak beating in his hand. ‘It’s beating on its own even when it’s just a machine.’
No one else knew, but at least Davey knew what this meant; the two swords that were in his hand were the exact same. Considering that, Surtr had taken a step into godly territory by creating Red Ribbon and Blue Ribbon, and all Davey had done was just polishing it. By this, it was confirmed that Surtr was also just a crazy craftsman.
Davey took the heart, which had a metallic smell to it, then slashed the other capsule next to it.
Slice!! The capsule, which was slashed in the front and back, was cut cleanly without injuring the girl. Davey caught the girl as she fell out of the capsule as the liquid poured out. She wasn’t human, but she just looked like a human with wings.
Davey took a robe out from his pouch and wrapped the girl up. He pushed the mechanical heart inside of his pouch and piggybacked her.
“You’re…taking her out of here?” Lucia asked.
“Finders keepers. Why? do you need her?”
“N—No! Nothing like that!”
“I know. I can’t give you something like this even if you asked.”
Lucia chuckled hollowly after Davey spoke with a smile.
Shwing… That was when…
“Good job.”
Something cold and terrifying touched Lucia’s neck as she was approaching Davey.
“Now hand both of those over.”
An emotionless voice of a woman could be heard, and Sio Howl widened his eyes at the woman’s sudden appearance.
“I didn’t expect you to actually slash open the glass capsule. That’s right; I was watching you the whole time,” the woman mumbled calmly. Lucia grew paler as she dug her fingernails deeper into Lucia’s neck and requested quietly, “Hand those over if you don’t want this child to die.”
Davey slowly put the girl he was carrying down on the ground and frowned. “Do vampires nowadays like to piggyback on someone?”
Perhaps it was a relief that Illyna wasn’t here; considering her personality, she would’ve charged at the woman the second she realized the woman was a vampire.
The woman had a threatening odor unlike the other vampires Davey had met, and her power of blood felt incomparably stronger. The difference in power was so large that he could almost see what would’ve happened if Illyna had just charged at her.
“I couldn’t have gotten her out. That is very important experimental data. So, hand it over.”
“…”
“That sword is sharp, but it cannot kill me. I won’t take your life, and I keep my promises.” The woman with pink hair requested without a hint of disingenuity.
* * *
“You!”
[De-spell]
Sio Howl was dumbfounded by the situation, but soon came to his senses and quickly cast an ice magic spell. However, Davey’s [De-spell] completely destroyed his spell and made him cough up blood.
“Shut up and stay down,” Davey quietly criticized Sio and stared at the woman.
“I’m Milpieu. You?” The woman asked.
“Davey.”
The woman seemed to grow curious when she heard Davey’s name. “Davey, um… Davey O’Rowane?”
“Has my name become famous among vampires too?”
“No, not really. I heard Pace talking.”
“Pace?”
“The guy who’s planning to kill you.”
‘Talking to this woman isn’t easy.’
It would make sense if the demonic beast and vampire that attacked the dwarf village of the Yellowstone Tribe was Pace’s doing.
“Why is Davey here when he should be defending his house?” Milpieu tilted her head as if she was truly puzzled.
“What are you talking about?”
“Pace. He said he was going to burn your house down.”
“Burn it down?” As Davey chuckled and reached his hand toward the ground, Red Ribbon, which was planted in the ground, vibrated and gravitated toward his hand.
“I don’t know what that vampire does…” Davey smirked and pointed his sword toward the woman. “But tell him that he’s going to get in trouble if he invades someone else’s house.”
It had just come to Davey’s mind, but there was someone on the territory right now who would display a monstrous level of power towards vampires in specific right now; from the olden days, High Elves were the natural enemies of vampires. It seemed that they had broken their silence that they had kept for three hundred years and infiltrated the territory because they had some kind of business with Davey.
“I don’t care. I need that heart and White Wing,” Milpieu demanded. She seemed to not care about anything other than her business.
“If I decline?” Davey asked.
“This child. She dies.”
“Did you clean up all the golem bits that were nearby?”
“They were bothersome. I crushed them all.”
Lucia, who was pale, clenched her jaw.
“Sir Davey! Don’t worry about me! I don’t know what that is, but you cannot give it to her!” Lucia shouted fiercely and struggled, but it seemed like Milpieu’s strength was beyond imagination despite her slender figure.
“I really won’t kill anyone if you hand it over,” Milpieu said.
“I said I decline.”
“Then, I can’t do anything about it. I’ll just take it after I kill everyone.” The moment Milpieu was about to cut Lucia’s throat with her nails…
Slice!! A blue figure came out of nowhere and boldly sliced her nails.
“Hup…” A little taken aback by the unexpected attack, Milpieu backed away and frowned.
“You. You’re weird.” With no thought to wipe the blood running from her hands, she stared straight at Davey in wariness. She then asked, “A telekinetic blade?”
“Yeah.”
“How? Humans cannot use [Aura Blade] if they do not metamorph.”
Like Milpieu said, metamorph, the level of Master was a stage of proficiency of controlling mana. It meant that it was impossible for someone who was so proficient in controlling mana that they could use a telekinetic blade to not metamorph.
“A telekinetic blade… A transcendental level of blade control. You’re really weird.” Milpieu frowned at the unexplainable make-up of Davey and slowly began to release her power of blood.
Although she was still extremely pale, Lucia forced herself up and left the battle area after realizing that she would be nothing but bothersome. But she soon felt the thick, cold energy taking over the surroundings. Sio Howl quickly ran over to support her as she stumbled.
‘I’m letting it go because you can at least take a hint.’
“You. You’re interesting,” Milpieu commented.
“I still haven’t shown you everything.”
“Please let me study you.”
At Milpieu’s unbelievable request, Davey pointed Red Ribbon at her while raising his hand toward the wall to retrieve Blue Ribbon, which was planted right there. Then, he used Perserque’s power with a cold expression.
Bleep.
-Name: Milpieu.
-Age: 223.
-Sex: Female.
-Species: Half-blood.
-Title(s): Alchemist Paracellus (Hohenheim); marquess-level vampire.
-Status Effects: Tired.
-Notes: A true half-blood; no experience in sucking blood; virgin vampire.
-Current Emotion: Curious. Curious. Curious. Curious. Curi…ous (?), curious...
Milpieu was a half-blood between a human and a vampire; it was quite unexpected. Davey didn’t understand why her virginity had to be listed, but the important thing was that she didn’t seem like she was in her right mind.
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