NOVEL WEB Chapter 273.2
Chapter 273.2. Disturbance
The fact that Ares and the others’ administrator privileges have been revoked is probably noticed by the enemy as well. As everyone nodded, agreeing that preparations for a welcome party were definitely being made, I sent the Nyannyan squad as drones toward the gate.
We waited for a while.
“Is there no one here?”
Receiving a mental message from the Nyannyan squad, I furrowed my brows. What I could see through my familiar was a large, empty metallic building. It looked like a battleship that had been converted into a base.
However, there was no sign of the enemy, who should have been on high alert. The familiars quickly ran, peering into rooms, but they didn’t encounter anyone.
“Fortune, can you send a mental message to Bacchus?”
When Serika tilted her head and asked me, Fortune stopped her movements and tried to send a mental message. But she soon responded with a serious expression.
“I can’t send it. It’s not being interfered with; it’s just that there is no response when no one is around.”
“This could be bad, Sakimori. Maybe Kaneda had an inkling that Fortune and the others would betray him.”
“I have many suspicions. We’ve always spoken harshly about that man.”
“Really? You should have kept that in your heart and secretly waited for a chance.”
These guys are idiots. No, if they didn’t think they’d be able to do something about the administrator privileges, they would have complained.
“We can’t help it. It feels a bit late, but let’s go. So, what was that doctor after in the first place?”
“Of course, it was the connection between this world and the original world. The fairy machines were sent to destroy dungeons. Based on that experience, they also intended to find a way to destroy dungeons in the original world, but Kaneda proposed the theory that simply connecting the two worlds would be enough.”
“This was a dangerous gamble. Connecting the worlds would have made it highly likely that the enemy would notice, and it would also bring dungeons from the original world into this one. According to Kaneda, humanity’s survivors would be relocated, and the gate connecting the worlds would be destroyed. After that, they could just live in this world.”
“I see. That would be attractive for humanity, who has no hope left. If I were in the same situation, I might accept that proposal.”
We passed through the gate that Fortune created and stepped into the base, thinking about it. A world with still weak dungeons and low technological power, but with humans who still had a population. The usual human nature. It seems like they planned to resolve things through invasion, not negotiation.
“That’s why the gate crystal, a magical device that connects spaces, was sent to this world first. By using that device and connecting it to the gate crystals set up in the original world, the gate was supposed to open.”
“It looks like we were too late. It seems they were expecting us to be gone before opening the gate.”
I sighed as I moved into a large research area, similar to a hangar, where the Nyannyan squad had found.
A cold metal room. There was a huge metal ring set up, with cables connected and terminal devices installed. I’ve seen this before. It’s a machine for traveling to other planets.
“They must have activated it. They probably aimed for the best chance when no interference could reach them… but what is this?”
The metal ring was broken. Sparks were flying, and there were many bodies piled up in front of it. Seeing the white wings, they were angels.
And then, one gigantic dragon was lying dead on top of the angels. It had broken through the wall of the room, and its huge body lay still without moving.
“I’ve seen this dragon before. It’s a type I encountered long ago.”
Even though the dragon was dead, I could feel its immense power. It was very similar to the dragon I met when I was a child. I could feel its mysterious presence strongly.
[This… I have never seen this type before. It’s my first time seeing it.]
“The angels must have teamed up to defeat it… but it’s too strong for them. Who defeated it?”
Shizuku was shocked, but I felt the same way. What happened here?
With a bad feeling, I tried to touch the dragon’s corpse, but it dissolved into the air, as if it was melting. Just like before. The corpse didn’t stay. All that remained was the overwhelming smell of blood and the corpses of the angels.
After searching the area for a while without finding anything, Serika collected some useful machinery, and we decided to return.
Who defeated the dragon? I have a bad feeling about this. Did the GM of this world chase it away? There’s always factional fighting everywhere.
Then, what happens to the victor?
[You have obtained a fragment of the primordial power from another world. The level of the Equivalence Exchange Store has reached 8.]
[You can now create skills.]
[You lack the necessary power to create skills. Please obtain all the primordial power from either this world or the original world.]
The Equivalence Exchange Store kindly informs me that it has leveled up. I must have absorbed power from the dragon’s corpse that vanished. Last time, it evolved into the Equivalence Exchange Store, but now it’s about skill creation.
Primordial power… such a fitting name. I probably have to defeat the GM. Could it be that I need to defeat both the GM of Shizuku’s world and the GM of this world? No, considering the dragon’s corpse, maybe the GM of Shizuku’s world was killed by the GM of this world… I’m not sure. There’s just too little information.
No matter what, things are looking worse. Reality is harsh. The final boss should just stay put and wait for the hero to arrive.