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Chapter 168 - A Friend at the Temple and One's Reach

Prev | TOC | Next They traveled by carriage to the temple northeast of the royal capital, near the royal castle. The temple was a large building whose shape somewhat resembled the churches of her previous life. Its white, crystal-like exterior walls sparkled beautifully during the day, but on this rainy night, they merely reflected the dark sky. Dahlia had assumed Irma would be in the infirmary next to the temple, but Marcella asked the coachman to stop beside the main temple building instead. There was an entrance there, smaller than the one at the front. She hadn't passed through here since Carlo's funeral. Dahlia tensed slightly. Beside her, Volf was also frowning, his expression unmistakable. After walking a short distance past the gray walls and along the dark-gray corridor, they greeted a priest sitting in a chair. The priest seemed to know Marcella already. Casting him a sympathetic glance, he bowed to the three of them and allowed them to pass. Farther down the corrid...

Chapter 167 - Rain and a Friend's Plea

Prev | TOC | Next (Author’s Note: This is where the suspenseful arc begins. The payoff starts in Chapter 175, with everything resolved by Chapter 182.) "Huh, it's already this late..." They had gotten so caught up in reading and discussing the book together that more time had passed than they'd realized. It was getting quite late. After dinner at the tower, they had opened the monster encyclopedia from the neighboring country that they'd bought the other day and sat side by side at the table, reading it together. The beautifully illustrated Sköll and Unicorns, the impressively imposing Great Forest Serpents, and the terrifying Hydra were all captivating in their own way. The book also covered how to raise Magical Silkworms and how to pasture Crimson Cattle and Magical Sheep, making it clear just how much the neighboring country valued monster husbandry. "So Cockatrices take a long time to charge up before they unleash their petrifying breath. I guess that...

Chapter 115 - A Troubled Heart

Prev | TOC | Next ~Quite Some Time Before Auf Fell Ill~ "Master! We've saved up enough points to make the nineteenth floor! Let's build it! Let's build it together!" "Already? That was fast. The Claps Knights did gather curry before they left, but I wonder if the fact that some of the residential areas are now powered automatically by steam has made a big difference, too." I had no idea how the mechanism worked, but some of the mobile residences reserved for the knights of the Kingdom of Sepans had been designed so that their wheels turned veeeery slowly whenever they used fire to heat the hot springs or cook food. On top of that, after moving about twenty meters, they automatically started rolling in the opposite direction, so the buildings never went careening off in some completely random direction. “The researchers at the heart of the kingdom must be ridiculously smart to come up with such an incomprehensible mechanism in the blink of an eye. The p...