66. Saintess (1)
66. Saintess (1)
Should I start separating the rooms?
After leaving the place where prostitution happens and bringing the women to the orphanage, I thought about the state of my bedroom as soon as I returned to the Colony.
It's huge for a bedroom, but it's hard to call it anything else, and suddenly, the place where I live started getting crowded with humans.
Amber the maid, Yui the Mage, Erina the Healer, Narim the chef, and Gwen and her daughter. And now, an Elf has been added to the mix.
I didn't really mind when it was just one or two, but now there are too many humans living in my bedroom to ignore.
'I should build a base in Medherun City where humans can live.'
Come to think of it, I only need humans here to manage the human farm.
A human farm.
I made it with the future in mind, but the fact that I have to wait so long is really tough.
It takes too long for the currently pregnant humans to give birth and for those children to become adults.
The only fortunate thing is that if the first children born become adults, then from that point on, new adults will be produced every year.
If those children have children of their own, I'll be able to collect quite a lot of food every year.
The problem is that it'll take at least 20 years for that to happen.
'20 years will pass in the blink of an eye.'
If I were still human, I'd think 20 years? That's way too far off. But I'm not human anymore.
'If I just play around doing this and that, it'll be here before I know it.'
I looked at the Elf sleeping on the bed and touched her ears.
'She's already at a level where she has almost no mana left.'
Perhaps because she's mentally broken, there wasn't a single normal part about her.
According to Erina, her uterus is severely damaged, so pregnancy would be impossible.
Even if her uterus were intact, in this state, there's a high probability that a normal child wouldn't be born even if she did get pregnant.
Both the mother and the child would be in danger.
An Elf who can't get pregnant and has no mana.
She seems completely useless, but I didn't bring this Elf here for that reason in the first place.
It makes me angry that humans did this to an Elf, but it's not like I'm feeling some grand sense of duty like, "I will save this Elf!"
Even when I was human, I was a person who calculated everything thoroughly.
The biggest reason I saved this Elf is simply because she is an Elf who proves the existence of Elves.
Amber said that Elves are such a rare race that she's never seen one while working as an adventurer, meaning the very existence of an Elf is extremely rare.
The important point here is this: wouldn't this Elf know where other Elves are?
Of course, I'm probably not the only one who thought of this.
Those humans also knew how expensive an Elf is, so they must have wanted more Elves through this slave.
But they failed.
Since they failed, this must have been the only Elf there.
But I'm different.
I can directly manipulate the brains of living organisms.
The problem is that the subject being manipulated suffers significant damage in the process.
If I touch the Elf's brain in her current state, she won't last long and will die.
That's how weak the Elf is right now.
Even if her body has recovered, if I recklessly touch her brain while her mind is broken, I'll miss a huge opportunity if she dies without me getting the information about other Elves.
I have to wait until the Elf's mind recovers.
It doesn't matter how long that takes.
Time is on my side.
==
In Medherun City, Holy Knights who looked holy to anyone's eyes were entering in rows and columns.
And among those knights was Viviant, who is called the most likely candidate for this Saintess selection.
Viviant, who came here to exterminate the Ners to ensure she is chosen as the Saintess in the Saintess selection, decided to quickly regroup in Medherun City.
She spoke with the Lord and secured a place for her Holy Knights to rest.
"Everyone, please rest. I'm going to go somewhere for a moment."
"Viviant-nim. Please take at least two guards with you. Medherun City is a fortress city, but it's only called that because the fortress blocks external factors like monsters; the crime rate is quite high."
"Is that so? But it's fine. You all know how strong I am."
"Even so—"
"I am always protected by the Goddess. So don't worry and get some rest. If there were anyone in the middle of the city capable of breaking my barrier, the city would have already been destroyed."
"Ugh... Understood."
Viviant left her Holy Knights behind and slipped out of the lodging alone.
Viviant had wanted to visit Medherun City for a long time.
That's because Medherun City is a fortress city and a trade city.
In Medherun City, where goods from all over the world gather, items from Earth are also sold quite often.
From the past, people who woke up in this world through possession, reincarnation, transmigration, etc., from Earth created many things here.
They implemented various things from Earth, from food to knowledge.
They created things like electric lights using Magic Tools, or devices to heat water, creating countless things through Earth's science and magic.
Viviant headed to the market to look at such things.
While Viviant was enjoying shopping, looking at this and that in the market, she turned around in a hurry due to a chill she felt behind her.
A child who was revealing their presence uniquely among the countless people.
Viviant immediately activated her Status Window and opened the child's information.
<Information>
Name: ??
Race: ??
Affiliated Country: ??
Affiliated Organization: ??
Gender: ??
Height/Weight: ??
Alignment: ??
<Stats>
Strength: ??
Durability: ??
Agility: ??
Stamina: ??
Mana: ??
<Unique Ability>
??
Description: The target's grade is higher, so the target's information cannot be viewed.
"What is this!"
Viviant shouted in a loud voice in a place with countless people.
Ignoring the gazes of everyone around her, she glared at the child who was walking along with a happy face, eating chicken skewers in both hands.
It was a Status Window she had never seen even once while living in this world until now.
Viviant carefully followed the child and observed them.
The black hair and delicate features, which seemed to prove with a high probability that they came from Earth, were enough to make people around look at them once and say they were cute.
'What on earth is their identity?'
First of all, there's a high probability that they aren't an ordinary child.
There hasn't been a single time she hasn't been able to see a target's information with the Status Window.
Viviant, who had met countless living things or objects, including monsters, magical beasts, demons, kings, and elves, and checked their information using the Status Window.
For the first time since coming to this world, she met a target for whom the Status Window did not show information.
She couldn't possibly think of them as an ordinary child.
'The direction here is the East District?'
The child was walking toward a place where buildings were becoming dilapidated and human traffic was decreasing.
Viviant, having heard that the East District of Medherun City was the most dangerous place of all, thought she should stop the child regardless of whether they were strong or not.
The moment she revealed herself to stop the child, a new child appeared in front of them.
It was a child with a height similar to that child.
Viviant immediately used the Status Window on that child as well.
<Information>
Name: Stacey
Race: Raksha
Affiliated Country: -
Affiliated Organization: -
Gender: Female(1)
Height/Weight: 143.5cm / 35.5kg
Alignment: Chaos/Evil
<Stats>
Strength: 82
Durability: 56
Agility: 90
Stamina: 85
Mana: 100
<Unique Ability>
Mimicry
'Crazy... What is this?'
The first thing that caught her eye was the stats.
The limit of stats a normal human can have is 100.
The moment someone exceeds that, they are called a great hero who will be recorded in history.
However, Viviant was greatly flustered upon confirming that this young child had a Mana stat of 100, and that fluster soon turned into astonishment.
It was because the race shown in the information was a race name she had never seen before called Raksha, and the age was marked as one year old.
Viviant focused on the Raksha shown by the Status Window with trembling hands.
Then, the description of the Raksha appeared.
<Raksha (Stacey)>
A creature equipped with the ability of Mimicry. Its original form is a slime form that can change into any shape, but the Stacey individual was born from a human uterus, so the human form is its original form.
To be precise, it means it is not human.
A creature.
The monster called Ners that attacked this city was also accurately called a creature.
There are two problems here.
The information that creatures can reproduce through humans, and the fact that creatures are taking on human forms.