72. The Saint (7)
72. The Saint (7)
The offensive of the Ners, bolstered by Physical Enhancement Magic, was too much even for the Holy Knights who had received the Blessing of the Goddess.
The Holy Knights were using magic barriers, but the sheer number of Ners was greater than expected.
They were barely managing to hold their formation and fight back, but it felt like the moment even the slightest gap appeared, they would collapse.
Considering the stats of the Ners and the Holy Knights, Viviant had thought this Ners subjugation mission, while difficult, would never end in failure.
However, an unexpected variable appeared.
It was Yui and the pregnant women.
They had somehow managed to deal with the damage caused by the pregnant women, but a problem arose with Yui.
The already strong Ners were running wild, receiving Physical Enhancement Magic.
'How is this even possible!? Physical Enhancement Magic can only be used on oneself!'
Physical Enhancement Magic is a very widely known spell.
In fact, it's such a simple spell that it's almost embarrassing to even call it magic.
It is used by people who have Mana but no talent for magic.
However, Physical Enhancement Magic can only be used on oneself.
Physical Enhancement Magic is a spell that infuses one's own Mana into one's own body.
If you try to cast it on someone else, the Mana won't permeate the body.
And yet, the mage named Yui was casting Physical Enhancement on the Ners as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
And not just on one or two.
There were at least hundreds of them.
The reason this is possible is simple.
Although Yui isn't perfectly creature-fied like Amber, Yui is still strictly classified as a creature.
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Viviant.
A Saint Candidate and an Otherworlder, she is presumed to possess the Unique Ability called Status Window.
I don't know how good the Status Window ability is, but there have been a total of two humans with a Status Window so far.
One of them noticed exactly what kind of creature Gluttony was and even identified its weaknesses the moment they saw it.
Unfortunately, I killed that human because I was inexperienced in how to handle Unique Abilities.
But now, it's different.
A place where humans with Unique Abilities, created with the help of Evolute, are gathered.
I call this place the Museum.
A place where I gather and utilize humans who possess the Unique Abilities I desire.
I looked at the human in front of me who was allowing me to use my first Unique Ability.
Twitch. Twitch.
A naked woman is trapped in a wall of tentacles.
The tentacles have wrapped around the woman's head, covering her eyes, nose, and mouth, with a long tentacle inserted into her mouth.
Slop is now flowing out of that tentacle.
It's called slop, but it's a nutritious gruel that provides all the necessary nutrients.
Twitch. Twitch.
The human embedded in the Museum is twitching, feeling pleasure.
If I had seen this scene back when I was a man, I might have even gotten an erection.
The human isn't just stuck in a wall of tentacles.
Tentacles are attached to the woman's breasts, continuously inducing pleasure, and although her lower body isn't visible, they are stimulating her genitals inside as well.
The reason I'm doing this is because of stress.
The reason I can use this woman's Unique Ability is because of the tentacle embedded in her brain.
A very thin, tentacle-type creature forcibly kneads and stimulates the woman's brain whenever I try to use it.
That induces significant stress, and if the stress accumulates severely, the brain eventually can't take it and she could die of shock.
To prevent that, the tentacles are encroaching on the woman's body with pleasure.
They are reducing the stress applied to the brain with dopamine released by violating her body with tentacles.
You know how that is, right?
Like when you're having fun playing and don't realize it, but when you calm down and come to your senses, you realize you're hurt and feel the pain then.
That's the state she's in right now; by stimulating—or more accurately, violating—the woman's erogenous zones with tentacles, I'm making her release dopamine to lessen the pain caused by forcibly manipulating her brain.
To be precise, I'm covering the pain with pleasure.
The human brain is very precise and smart, but sometimes it's stupid.
I harbor the hope that if it keeps perceiving pain as pleasure, one day it might not feel pain as pain and get stressed, but instead perceive it as pleasure and enjoy it.
Do you know the experiment called Pavlov's Dog?
The phenomenon where a dog salivates after repeating the process of playing a bell sound when giving food to the dog, so that it salivates just by hearing the bell sound.
So-called wireless blah blah conditioning.
That's what I'm aiming for.
If she accepts the pleasure and is happy without feeling stress even when I use her Unique Ability, my human heart will also be at ease.
I remember the humans who would be in pain every time I used a Unique Ability, even if just a little.
This is an experiment to cleanly erase those feelings.
Later on, the human in the Museum will feel pleasure from the tentacles in daily life, and when I use the Unique Ability, she will be happy with even stronger pleasure, dopamine, and endorphins, and I will be in a win-win situation where I use the Unique Ability and she is happy.
If I manage humans this way, I can use Unique Abilities for a longer time without burden.
No matter how I think about it, I must be a genius.
"I wish Viviant were in this spot soon."
Next to the woman with the Unique Ability to create fire, a tentacle creature that wants to eat a human quickly is opening and closing its mouth.
I stroked that tentacle creature.
I wonder if Yui is doing well.
Yui is a truly fascinating existence.
Even though she was determined to kill me at first, in the end, she is more obsessed with eating humans than anyone else here.
'She's having quite a bit of trouble, isn't she?'
I checked the scene where Yui was fighting through the Hive Mind.
Yui is struggling, sweating profusely.
Actually, this can't be helped.
In terms of martial power, the difference is so great that she could just wipe them all out, but the problem is that she has to capture them alive.
No matter how big the difference in skill is, capturing a human who is fighting with the resolve to die is quite a difficult task.
That's why I told Yui that it doesn't matter if she kills the Holy Knights, but she must definitely capture Viviant alive.
However, I told her I would give Yui a reward for the number of humans she captures alive, so it seems she is trying to capture all the Holy Knights because of that.
It seems Yui, who is obsessed with strength, wants to eat as many Holy Knights as possible.
Seeing her trying to capture the Holy Knights to that extent.
She seems to want to eat a lot of Holy Knight humans.
Actually, I also covet the Holy Knight humans. Viviant included.
Because humans who use both Holy Power and Mana are extremely rare.
I am quite curious about what such humans taste like.
And I am really curious about what kind of results I would get if I conducted various research and experiments with such humans.
Creatures are basically focused on evolution.
Evolution, adaptation, change, mutation.
Literally things that suit a monster.
The Ners that ate humans who possessed Mana have already given birth to Ners that have adapted to Mana.
Little by little and slowly, our legion is also adapting to and evolving with Mana, the power of this other world.
Of course, it will still take a long time before we can freely use magic through Mana.
Because Mana is still at a newborn baby level.
But what if the Ners that possess Mana grow, and those Ners reproduce again, and continue to evolve and increase?
I'm already excited about the future.
But what about Holy Power?
According to Erina, all Holy Power comes from the Goddess.
Usually, Holy Power is a power that is heavily influenced by the Goddess, to the point where it can be snatched back if the Goddess just makes up her mind.
But is that really true?
I think the Goddess cannot take back my Holy Power because of my Hive Mind, but I also think there are other cases.
Namely, that the information Erina knew was false.
There is no way to prove this.
I want to research and experiment on that through the Holy Knights.
Actually, the most suitable subject for research and experiment is Viviant.
For one, she is a woman, and she is also the Saint Candidate most loved by the Goddess.
On top of that, she is an Otherworlder.
It contains a lot of great elements. Perhaps if I conduct research and experiments with Viviant, our legion might grow significantly.
However, Viviant is a human who possesses a Status Window.
She must receive as little stress as possible and be trapped in this Museum for the rest of her life to become my Unique Ability.
What if Viviant's Unique Ability isn't a Status Window, but just a small ability like 'can know the information of a target'? Was it my misunderstanding?
Well, then I will immediately use Evolute to expose everything from her whole body to her brain and examine it thoroughly.
But I am certain that Viviant's Unique Ability is a Status Window.
No, it must be a Status Window.
'Please, please!'
Let me try saying "Status Window!" coolly too.
Honestly, if you've come to another world, you really should have a Status Window.