Chapter 40 - Book of the Dead
We tortured Selma, a dark elf who was being held captive in the Toran's Kingdom, and we succeeded in obtaining information from her.
「I'm from Morph's Village. Uuhhh.......and I'm here to help a human man .......khhh」
「Morphs? Is that the country south of the Vernia's Kingdom?」
Saki confirms. Come to think of it, what's south of Vernia? I don't know much about it because Saki and her men in the castle usually take care of the political affairs on their own.
Selma answered Saki's question honestly.
「That's right. Rather than a country, it's just a collection of free people who are not bound by beast or territories, though there is no king.」
「So why was you being held captive in Toran?」
Serina asks the important question.
「That's ......」
「Tell me.」
I said that and used my 【Super-Fast Tongue】 to lick up Selma's chest and cheeks.
「Aah, that's good! M-Moore, aahhnnn, don't stop!」
「If you throw up everything, Darling will lick you all over and do more amazing things to you, you know?」
「M-More amazing things ...... gulp. F-fine, I'll tell you. I'll tell you! I was secretly ordered by the head of my clan to travel from place to place. One of the purposes is to investigate the new world tree. And the other is to bring the 『Book of the Dead』 back to my village.」
「Wha! 『Book of the Dead』, you say!? D-Don't tell me you were caught in Toran. ...... Take it out! Quickly! Take it out, Oraaaa!」
Letty suddenly reacted violently to that words and grabbed at Selma, who was tied up, so Serina pulled her away.
「Hey, Letty, stop it. Why do you think she has the 『Book of the Dead』?」
「Of course she does. I've looked into it before, and the 『Explorer of the Holy Grail』 found it in the seventh layer of the Labyrinth of No Return, right?」
「Ehh? I don't know, what I don't know」
I don't know anything about finding it, but I'm familiar with the name of 『Explorer of the Holy Grail』, a clan with the largest A-rank party at the time, famous for the Labyrinth of No Return.
However, its leader, Gallard, lost his life on the ninth layer, and a number of people left the clan, and the Black Cat of the Wind took his place.
「What? How come you don't know that the highest price of 2 million gold was paid at the auction, you unqualified adventure!」
Two million gold, huh? Come to think of it, there was a time when a Mithril Armor sold by the slaver Janatha sold for 320,000, so it must have been before that. This was before we left for the Grand Sword Kingdom.
「Well, that's all well and good, but could it be that the person who bid on the auction was from the Toran?」
Saki said with anticipation, but Letty snickered.
「Ha, there's no way those people who don't know the first word of magic would pay for a book like that. The nobles of the Austin Magic Kingdom bought it up.」
「Hmm? If that's the case, then why is it that Selma here is in possession of it?
「Mmm, geez, you're getting impatient, that nobleman's next stop was the Gates of the Underworld, the place where Cerberus is, where we're headed now!」
「「「Oh, I see...」」」
He was probably killed by Cerberus there, or he challenged the Toran soldiers and they confiscated the 『Book of the Dead』, or something, and Selma stole it.
「Hmph, it's not something that can be handled by those without qualifications. Only we dark elves or demons with dark blood can handle it.」
「Shut up! Nothing is impossible with this A-ranked mage, the genius Crusher Letty!」
「What? You're that natural disaster mage known as the walking god of destruction?」
「Fufunn. It's a shame about my abilities, I try to hide them, but the aura that oozes out of me and my fame just won't leave me alone. Oh, is it a sin to be a genius?」
She call herself a genius, and she's not trying to hide it at all. In addition, Selma's meaning of 『Natural Disaster』 is clearly 『Calamity』, and the letters are probably different.
「Muurgg, ominous. ......」
Selma frowned, but Letty grabbed the brim of her hat and posed as she said.
「Now, to this genius, give me the book!」
「But I refuse.」
「What!? Alec, give this cheeky little bitch a good fucking lesson! Make her squirting with an ahegao. Make it so mellow that she can't hold it!」
「Wait a minute, Letty. Before I go any further, I have to ask you, how do you use the 『Book of the Dead』?」
「It can be used in many ways. Well, the most famous one is the one about reincarnation and immortality, but it's also more practical in that it can be read at the funeral of a nobleman to guide them to heaven, or on the other hand, it can be used as necromancy to create zombies, or even knowledge of the underworld, or any other wisdom related to death. It's a definitive book that Deathmania will drool over. Like this, like this, like this, and You'll be amazed at how many runes there are in that magic book.」
Letty talks as if she's seen it all before, but she's probably never read it either. If she had already read it, she wouldn't need to get it, and I don't think she'd give it up once she had it.
「Selma, do you have a copy of the 『Book of the Dead』?」
「Th-that's ......」
Selma hesitated with a tense look on her face, wondering if she should answer.
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