"Uh-uh… So you killed one of these 'Sub-Circle' mbers and took over as one of them, basically infiltrating the enemy and finding out more information on them, then coming to find ?"
I asked Kawaii as I took a bite of the crackers placed in front of . I had managed to get her off of and she ordered for so snacks.
"Yeeewwwwssss!!! Kawaii sooo hawwwppy! Kawaii fooouund mawwstewwwr!"
"Wait… how did you find again? Also why are you speaking like that?"
"Kawaii shwould stawwp?"
"Yes please."
"Okkie!"
She said then cleared her new throat.
"There is a certain screen in front of that showed where you were."
Her speech was fluent. That [Assimilation] skill was really impressive, wasn't it?
"So you can see the system as well?"
"Hmhm."
She nodded proudly
'Interesting… and Yokino and others still can't see the screen? Is there so form of qualification?'
[Servant Yokino does not have the required amount of Loyalty Points to access the system]
'[Loyalty Points]? What's that?'
[Points that your servants acquire. It determines how much love they have for you]
'Eh? Since when?'
'Oh… that's right. And which of my servants has the highest of these?'
[1 – Kawaii (250)
[2 – Shiroi (190)
[3 – Sylvie (189)
'Those are the 3 with the highest? I honestly didn't expect Shiroi to be up here. What's the required amount of points?'
[150 Loyalty Points]
'Egh… how much loyalty points does Yokino have?'
A screen popped up before and showed I was shocked speechless.
'So much for my best friend… Welp.'
"Master, master! Are you ok?"
I hadn't even noticed that Kawaii's face was inches away from mine.
'Agh! S-sorry. I just saw sothing interesting.'
"Master?"
'Ignore … Anyway Kawaii. What is it that you have learnt?'
"Oh yea, there is going to be a fake auction tomorrow to trap you."
She said, right before nibbling down on a bowl of biscuits.
'The auction was fake? As expected. But why didn't Yokino tell that exactly. It's not like anyone can actually see the ssage she sends to .'
"Two mbers of the 'Sub-Circle' are pretending to be poor folk. Vladimir Kyde and Violet Kyde of the House of Kyde. The weakest out of all the workers, but quite dangerous and more influential than most."
'So they aren't her parents?"'
"Oh no, they actually are her blood parents. She is just one of their many artificial childbirth projects. Made from the blood of a vampire and two humans. I think they wanted to artificially produce vampires but failed and made Ulva instead."
'What do you an failed and made Ulva instead?'
"Well, you see, they kept on trying to create artificial dhampyrs, but it would never work. So they ca up with the plan of making their own daughter into a dhampyr and then clone her instead. Doing so, they managed to create Ulva and a bunch of other clones under Project Blood Bite."
'Huh? I'm confused. Is Ulva their daughter or a clone of her?'
"Um… I'm not sure. There is too much information there that is not known since the incident about 3 years ago."
'What incident?'
"Apparently soone destroyed their old lab and all their research just disappeared. They blad it on others, so ever since then, they've been tight lipped on their research projects."
Seriously? In this fantasy setting? Cloning and other stuff? Damned scientists should go to the right genre!
'I see… do you at least know how many clones they had?'
"According to this woman's mories… two hundred and seventy-nine."
I stood up in shock.
'That many!? What the hell? Maybe while I'm rescuing Ulva, I should try and get those kids-'
Almost as if she had been reading my mind, Kawaii said sothing.
"Don't bother trying to rescue them. They are all dead."
'Dead?'
"Percy McAllister."
She ntioned a na.
'Who?'
"Also deed "The Boss". He has a hobby of raping demi-humans to death."
'Total creep right there.'
"Indeed."
I took another sip of my tea, then asked.
'Where will Ulva be? Since this whole auction is fake and all.'
"She will be in the nobleman's room."
'Eugh… he wants to **** her?'
Kawaii nonchalantly nodded. Her unfazed appearance was actually starting to get creepy.
'So they wanted to have kidnapped?'
I asked.
"No. That was Grimm."
'Grimm?'
"Yes. A vampire nad Grimm Black."
'Ugh… that's so cringe.'
"Master, you have to be very careful around him. He is actually one of the more dangerous mbers according to this woman's mories."
"The dangerous, huh? What are his abilities?"
"I don't really know. All I know is that he is quite good with ice magic. And he is also very cunning. Sothing about him committing a grave cri that forced him out here. He has even taking out several high ranking adventurers before. He also claims to have defeated a drake."
My mind went back to that ti I fought the wyvern and almost died. That thing was definitely not weak. And I could only assu that drakes were way more powerful, since those guys would probably be of direct dragon descent.
I took a sip of the tea in front of . I let loose and laid back. I stopped straining myself so much and cancelled the [Humanoid Form Transformation]. I let out a heavy sigh and stretched my wings. It had been so long since I was able to relax like that.
"Oh master, I also have a request."
'Hmm? What is it?'
"I want to kill the Nobleman Percy McAllister."
The look in her eyes was scary. Her deep blank grey eyes that seed to contain fathomless rage. I simply couldn't understand where all of that was coming from.
'Kawaii?'
"I'm sorry, it's just… I made a promise to the person who gave their body. I told them I'd set all the prisoners free and kill the nobleman. I don't know why, but I want to complete that promise."
'… I didn't expect this.'
"Master please, give the permission to do this."
I really didn't like the thought of other's lives constantly being placed into my hands. I wasn't so sort of Judge.
'Kawaii… I-'
"Master! I beg of you."
She bowed her head to and even went down on one knee.
'Well, if you put it that way, how can I say no?'
"Really? Thank you master!"
[The servant Kawaii's Loyalty points have gone up by 30]
'Eh? Loyalty points go up if I allow my subordinates to have their way? Interesting.'
She jumped up and grabbed in a tight hug. She really was squishy and soft. Felt nice.
"Hehe, that's ok, Kawaii. Kawaii? S-stop that!"
I spent that night in Kawaii mansion, exploring the place, going through the armory and taking a bit of her gold. While I slept, sothing weird happened though.
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[The servant Shiroi has entered a dungeon]
[The servant Reiman has entered a dungeon]
[The servant Sylvie has entered a dungeon]
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[The Servant Shiroi has completed the First Floor of the ]
[The Servant Shiroi has completed the Hidden Quest: Dungeon Floor Soloing]]
[The servant Shiroi has received one [Special Dungeon Chest]]
[The servant Shiroi has reached max racial level]
[The servant Shiroi's evolution has begun]
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[The servant Shiroi successfully evolved into a White Faery Hound Queen]
[A specie variant of the Faery hound species. A very quiet creature that likes to hunt in packs. It is a natural born leader that takes charge of a pack and even the strongest have the ability to summon Mist Wolves]
[So gods have taken an interest in the servant Shiroi]
[The servant Shiroi has received the [Blessing of the demi-God of Strength, Kadil]]
[The servant Shiroi has received the [Blessing of the Goddess of White Mist, Silica]
***
'Huh? What's this about?'
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[The servant Sylvie has reached max racial level]
[The servant Sylvie's evolution has begun]
***
[The servant Sylvie successfully evolved into a Light Pixie]
[A very hyper creature that likes to play pranks on people. They are known for bringing havoc to weary travelers just for the fun of it.]
[The God of Light, Aoris has taken an interest in the servant Sylvie]
***
'Syvie did what now?'
***
[The servant Reiman has reached max racial level]
[The servant Reiman's evolution has begun]
***
[The servant Reiman has successfully evolved into a High Ratman]
[The evolved form of a rat man. They are faster and stronger than the average rat man.]
***
'Reiman too?'
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Day 29
The previous night, Kawaii allowed to sleep at the mansion. It was quite the welcod offer. I told her to grab a few items such as food supply, clothes, armor, weapons and books and stockpiled them into my inventory. We also found so booze and at at the bottom of the mansion, so Minerva wouldn't kill for not getting her anything.
We did this in the middle of the night, when we were certain that no one would see us. It would be weird, even to the servants if their boss is helping soone smuggle food. I then told Kawaii what her mission was. She was to go secure Ulva and protect her until I arrived, or if possible, take her out of the mansion. We had decided that we'd just leave the hero party alone. Nuke was going to be with the entire ti.
Then there was Yokino. She had made quite alard with the ssage the system gave . Apparently she had less than fifty percent of her health points remaining and had lost a lot of mana and stamina. In fact, she was off the grid now. I had no idea what was happening to her now. She had completely disappeared from the system itself. I had completely ignored her disappearance the other day as she just working about in the city, since I knew where she was at all tis, but I was starting to regret that decision.
Also, while I slept, I received so weird news about so servants evolving. Shiroi, Sylvie and Reiman. Those three had evolved. I told Kawaii and she said that she didn't care about them. I guessed that those three were the only ones who actually took the dungeon training seriously. I would have to talk with the hob-goblin captains later about training. Nuke was the only one with a good excuse, considering he was here with .
I thought it best to use the day for so profitable training. I was back to full strength, but I needed to prepare in the case of all-out warfare for Ulva.
I activated the skill [Shadow Being Summoning]. It took about 30 mana points to do so, but I honestly felt like it was worth it. Because a being, about seven feet tall appeared out of my shadow. It was pitch black with a body that seed to be alit with black hazy flas. Its eyes and mouth were simply white and I couldn't tell whether it was a simple two dinsional shadow or a three dinsional being. I looked at its stats and it was quite powerful. Was D in rank, had better defense than the current Kawaii, as well as better attack power. It even possessed magic skills and other stuff. It was only weak to light magic and it would never disobey or question a single order of mine.
I punched it full force, but my hand went right through it. But it could actually hit if I ordered it to. Logically speaking, if I put just 1 of these guys against an army of only swordsn, this guy would win easily. I even had Kawaii duel it. The outco however, wasn't what I was expecting.
Kawaii's stats lied to ! She was in a completely different league of her own! That was when she told that, unlike monsters, humans were unbelievably weak and for that reason, they ca up with the creation of [Techniques] that would help them overco their weaknesses and fight on an even field with other monsters. This was one of the reason why they were still in power over the lands.
That explanation made more sense to than my original assumption of them just being nurous. I decided to spar Kawaii by myself. It was actually not even a fight since my thods of using magic, according to her, weren't normal. That made wonder how stupid the residents of this world were not to utilize magic like how I did.
What I did that got her pissed was when I channeled mana into three balls up the battle area, used my affinities to turn those balls of mana into fire spheres and then rain them down on her. She had to use a technique to block those fire balls and in the process, I tripped her with her own shadow, basically ending the spar.
After having to listen to her complain for a bit, I got a ssage from Nuke telling that the Adventurer party we t had gone to the rented room in search of . I ordered him to escape, but when he tried, they all caught him and forced him to tell them where I was.
At this point I was tired of them, so I just went there, grabbed him and teleported back to the mansion with Nuke.
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