The Bloody Valkyrie

“... Is that so. Well then, meet you at the Re-Lantier’s main gate in an hour.”

“An hour? Would it be too early? There is still plenty of time before sunset.”

“I want to rush over there quickly. If you reckon that your courage is lacking, and need some time to steady your resolve, then I will leave you here and go by myself. Do you have anything to say?”

“Got it, I’ll immediately start preparing.”

He spoke in a clear and loud voice, making Igavaruji give a straightforward agreement and subsequently got up. Ainz coldly looked at Igavaruji’s departing back then turned to survey the crowd remaining in the room.

“Then I shall immediately depart. I hope that the others are able to protect Re-lantier well. I don’t wish to find a prickly situation when I return not having encountered the vampire.”

“Ah, although we cannot guarantee that there will be completely no problems, but we will do our very best. If you encounter danger, please retreat as well.”

Ainz nodded then left the room.

There were three people left behind in room: Panasolei, Issac and Rakesheer who was portraying a longing expression.

“Allowing everyone to see my embarrassing appearance, I am really sorry.”

“Not really, relax.”

Panasolei had a wry smile as he replied to Rakesheer’s apology. However, everyone’s evaluation of Rakesheer had significantly changed.

Rakesheer himself also felt quite useless. But even so, he still found it difficult to conceal his look of exhilaration.

Before, when he had encountered the pharmacist Lizzie, she was animatedly discussing the matter with the potion. Seeing that jubilant appearance, with cold eyes Rakasheer himself had questioned whether it was necessary to be so overjoyed about that kind of thing. Right now he was filled with the urge to laugh at the feelings he had at that time.

He understood. When something appeared in front of his eyes which he could not possibly obtain, anyone would find it hopeless to repress their heart’s amazement and touched emotions.

“Was the item precious to that degree?”

Rakesheer was silent for a moment. That was to repress the teenager-like emotion that surfaced earlier.

“Yes. That item could have significantly overturned all past knowledge and everything magic-related. In truth, magic beyond the sixth tier is only legend. However, that just now was the first time I had witnessed it.”

Different types of magic called ‘magic tiers’ supposedly first appeared in this world six hundred or five hundred years ago. Although afterwards several magic casters appeared which were hailed as heroes, but of those heroes who were able to use seventh tier magic and above, apart from the thirteen heroes, the others were rumours.

Amongst hero legends, there was a hero which used a magic which made others wish to decisively say that “it couldn’t be done even if you use spells above the seventh tier”. But it was generally agreed that it was a story without evidence? Also whether the thirteen heroes actually cast seventh tier magic and above was also dubious.

But then——

Rakesheer thought to himself, perhaps not all of those hero tales were fiction. He put this event firmly in his heart, and told himself to remember investigating this in his free time.

For example, wielding the Branch of Tonelico, the goblin king who destroyed countless dragons; the winged hero able to soar in the sky for a long period of time; the magic warrior riding a Tri-headed Dragon; and the princess who, along with her twelve loyal knights, ruled over the Crystal Palace, among others.

“Well, can we trust him completely?”

The one Panasoleii was talking about, was without doubt Ainz.

A potion taken from the hand of an adventurer wearing black armor, and throwing this vial of potion against the vampire to make the opponent retreat—— this was the testimony of the surviving adventurers.

Therefore they came to this city’s most prominent pharmacist Lizzie to enquire about the effects of the potion. The conclusion was that it was an item almost as rare as the sealed magic crystal just now.

If there was only one rare item, others would feel suspicious, but if there were two, others would want to know who crafted it. But then, why did the vampire stop it’s attack?

There were two possibilities. The first was related to enmity, the other was abiding by a mutual alliance. That was why it was necessary to consider the possibility that Momon’s earlier information and this was possibly connected. Momon the adventurer’s sudden appearance along with the vampire, was there really a hostile relationship between the two?

“Could he be working together with the vampire?”

This was his area of concern. The three people thought back to the man Momon and what he said earlier.

“This possibility is very low. What do you think Rakesheer?”

“I am of the same view. There are better methods if he wants to pretend that he killed the vampire and then send that female vampire into hiding.”

Even if assuming he was working with the vampire, what Momon said just now would not be to his benefit.