The Extra Strategist’s Royal Road Chapter 282
Underground facility beneath the bottom of the lake.
This place was even larger than the underground market of the Alliance.
‘I can’t believe such a place actually exists…’
We were waiting briefly in a room similar to a VIP lounge.
Since Grisham, a Lizardman, went somewhere to convey the message that we wanted to meet Olkin, we took advantage of that short moment to catch up.
“Oh! I was surprised at first too!”
Melodie spoke as if boasting about her adventures.
Listening to her story, she was initially kidnapped by monsters. The monsters who kidnapped her took her to where the Lich Ninia was, intending to use her as a sacrifice for resurrection.
However, Ninia had decided not to use blood magic for resurrection through a sacrifice. In any case, resurrection was impossible with Melodie alone.
The monsters then tried to offer Melodie as prey to beast-type monsters, but Ninia stopped them.
“Ninia seemed curious about the situation in the external continent.”
“So you lived in that dark and gloomy castle?”
“Yes, I learned language there and told her about our continent. Then it seemed like there was some misunderstanding.”
What Ninia was curious about was the story of the Ellan Kingdom or the Alliance, but what Melodie talked about was the situation in the Central Continent.
“Ninia thought something was strange and sent me here to talk to a large tree. After that, I received permission and have been living here.”
“A tree…?”
“I guess that’s Olkin.”
A dragon called the existence of hope, who was corrupted by the mother goddess.
‘Why is such a creature here as a tree?’
It seemed there was another underlying story.
“What happened to you, Lysithea?”
Lysithea, who had been having a power struggle with Lucretia for a long time, shrugged at my question.
“For a year, I wandered around this continent. I was wondering if there were any missing persons in the same situation.”
“That… Must have been incredibly difficult.”
“Truly, it was. I can’t even count how many monsters I encountered.”
Eventually, she settled here after finding Melodie.
Lysithea looks at me and Ash with a hint of resentment.
“You two seem to have had a good time. You went to a magic academy?”
“Well, compared to you, our situation was better, but we also went through hardships.”
“Ash too?”
“Ash also suffered a lot.”
Ash nods and urges further defense.
“Well, you did drink alcohol when you had free time.”
“That was just me drowning my sorrows of missing Lysithea in alcohol!”
Lysithea’s gaze turns cold.
“And yet you met another woman?”
“N-No… It’s not like that with Luc…”
Ash shrinks, his voice becoming smaller.
Everyone was watching this scene with a faint smile.
At that moment, Grisham returned.
Mirabel translates his words.
“Come along. I’ll let you meet him.”
Meeting with Olkin.
With this, I had now met four out of the five dragons.
Altron from the Elf’s island.
Mepatra of coexistence, whom I met during the war with Article.
Vandalin of balance, who is currently helping me.
And now, the hope, Olkin.
Through these meetings, I was getting closer to understanding the true nature of this world.
* * *
The place where Olkin was located was even deeper underground.
The temperature rose as if magma was flowing below, and it became difficult to breathe.
Soon, fresh air filled my lungs, and a wide cavern appeared.
There was something that looked like tree roots.
That tree seemed to have pierced through the ground and stood upright.
‘Come to think of it, there was a large old tree near the lake.’
I thought this might be that tree.
Grisham gestured for me and Mirabel to step forward.
As we approached the tree, a voice suddenly began to speak.
“Uoooh…”
A deep voice as if crawling on the ground.
“Mirabel…! You’ve finally arrived.”
It seemed he was welcoming not me, but Mirabel.
Mirabel shrugged with a puzzled expression. It appeared this was her first time facing Olkin.
However, there was a connection. Olkin had once given a revelation to her parents.
That their child would save the world.
Therefore, the Elves praised Mirabel’s descendants as the bloodline of the savior.
‘…Wait a moment.’
Something seemed strange when I thought about it.
If Olkin’s prophecy was taken literally, Mirabel’s descendants would not apply.
Broadly speaking, it could be interpreted that way, but looking strictly at the revelation, it seemed limited only to Mirabel herself.
Although the Elves turned their attention to her descendants after Mirabel’s death, ironically, Mirabel herself was present at this very moment.
‘Could the revelation’s child be referring to Mirabel? Then what about Altron’s revelation that a great person would emerge from my children?’
My mind was slightly confused.
At that moment, Olkin took an interest in me. He spoke to me in the continental language.
“What are you? A human…?”
I cleared my throat and answered him.
“I am one who received Altron’s revelation and is working together with Vandalin.”
“With my brothers…?”
I briefly explained to him everything that had happened so far. Olkin was silent for a moment before speaking.
“Really… So you were the one brought from the outside world by our divine being. You are not a person of this world.”
My vassals thought it was just a reference to the Central Continent, but I knew.
The ‘outside world’ Olkin was talking about was Earth.
“Indeed. That’s how it was… Good, it seems the time has come to tell everything. I will tell you the story, so have the others withdraw.”
Then Grisham took my vassals and left the place.
Only I and Mirabel remained in the common area.
Mirabel seemed to have no interest and was just scratching her head.
Olkin says.
“You two are the wedges to eliminate the mother goddess.”
“A wedge?”
“In the past, this world has been destroyed once. We brothers tried to combine our powers to continue the lifeline and eliminate the mother goddess, but we failed.”
“In the past? But how now…”
“Do you know about the Teleportation Scrolls?”
I suddenly wondered why he was asking this.
“I know. It’s a magic developed by Vandalin…”
“It’s not a magic he developed. He just recalled a fragment of it. Its fundamental origin is a time-reversal magic created by our divine being.”
“Reversing time?”
“At the point of destruction, the divine being reversed the world’s time at the cost of their own elimination. It was similar to the Teleportation Scroll. They invalidated the world’s end and turned time back to the distant past.”
Something seemed incredibly massive in scale.
“However, we forgot all those memories. Only the mother goddess knew this fact.”
“…!”
“The Mother goddess was enraged and also conflicted. She thought that such an event should not occur again. Therefore, she changed her method and decided to corrupt all of us brothers, the divine being’s relatives.”
Thus, Mepatra of coexistence went crazy, and Altron of guidance shut himself in an island.
Vandalin began acting alone, and Olkin also fell into a state of despair, trapped by the mother goddess’s temptation.
“However, through contact with the mother goddess, I miraculously recalled past events. Therefore, I decided to trap the mother goddess in return.”
“A trap…?”
“That is the phenomenon you call great upheaval.”
Generating dungeons. While the mother goddess intended to destroy the world through this, Olkin’s intention was the opposite.
“I thought that good will, the will to coexist, would bloom someday. Additionally, I thought beings like Mirabel could reveal themselves in a new era through dungeons. Like now.”
“Huh…!”
“Finally, my plan succeeded. The Mother goddess believed I had fallen and revealed her own weakness.”
“Weakness…?”
“This is it.”
He continued speaking.
“This is the mother goddess’s body. It’s life. I stole this body and drove out my own kind. Through this, I was able to kill the mother goddess, an immortal being.”
Though it was difficult to follow the story, simply put, it seemed Olkin had tricked the mother goddess in reverse and struck a decisive blow.
“The Mother goddess, enraged, was trying to invade here using the human kingdom. Therefore, I continuously repelled the surrounding invasions by flooding the lake.”
This was the full story of the dungeon, ruler of the lake.
“So… Does this mean the mother goddess has become a killable entity now? That killing her would resolve everything?”
“Not everything will end. But we can remove the root cause.”
Olkin speaks in a heavy voice.
“The Mother goddess has been surviving as a magic being until now. Because I stole her body.”
“Just like Mirabel, right?”
“Yes, but a life made of magic is unstable in form. If too much time passes, she becomes a Magic Stone and scatters away. The Mother goddess, who has sustained herself for thousands of years, would have felt that crisis. Therefore, she devised a method to obtain a physical body.”
“Blood magic…!”
“Yes, she currently possesses an animal’s body. Whether it’s human, beastkin, or perhaps an elf. Anyway, in her current animal form, even you could kill her. In fact, now is the only time.”
Urgency could be heard in Olkin’s voice.
“We must handle it before she creates a new dwelling. If she moves her consciousness to a natural object and hides, there will be no way to find her. Now that she has obtained a biological body is the opportunity. O outsider guided here by the divine being, go find and kill her!”
With this, the world’s full story and the black mastermind were revealed.
The reason why I came to this world.
* * *
After leaving the lake, I hurriedly prepared to return.
According to Olkin, the mother goddess obtained a human body despite the risks to destroy the Central Continent.
The Central Continent is an environment where life can continue in any case.
The Mother goddess, who considered this a thorn in her side, had been eyeing the Central Continent, but as a magic body, she couldn’t cross over, so she had to obtain a body.
The purpose is to kill Omeron, who is maintaining the division barrier, and eliminate the barrier.
After that, she can hide in natural objects and destroy the world over a long period.
Since most of the divine being’s relatives, the dragons, have already lost their power, she judged this to be the final opportunity.
‘Although Juras and Kaien are dealing with it…’
I was worried, given the nature of the opponent.
I immediately embarked on a voyage to the Ellan Kingdom.
The kingdom I returned to after a week-long journey was quite tumultuous.
“Ars! Welcome back!”
Rosa rushed out with a desperate expression, continuing to speak.
It was news of a massive invasion by the Alliance.
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