I Reincarnated into a Game Filled with Mods – Chapter 28

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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“Keeeeeeek!!!!!”

As soon as the blessed dagger pierced his body, the lord let out a bizarre scream. It wasn’t coming from the lord himself, but from the demon that was half-fused with that body.

I pulled out the dagger and stabbed it in again, repeating the process of pulling it out and stabbing it back in. For the first few times, the more I stabbed, the more intense the writhing became, but after that, the movements gradually dulled.

Aurora watched the lord being purified by divine power and dying, with her arms crossed under her chest, not even blinking an eye.

I deeply stabbed the dagger one last time and withdrew my arm. The lord weakly collapsed on the floor, repeating strange sounds of “keee, keeee.”

“That’s enough. Let’s go.”

“That thing, it’s still alive? Can we leave it like that?”

Aurora’s finger pointed at the lord, who was wriggling slightly on the floor, barely clinging to life.

“Yes, it’s alive.”

“You’re not going to kill it?”

“I could kill it if I wanted to, but I won’t. Lady Aurora, from now on, we didn’t spare it, we couldn’t kill it. You have to coordinate your words with me.”

“Of course I will, don’t worry. But, we didn’t spare it, we couldn’t kill it… There’s a reason for that, right?”

“Of course there is.”

I pointed to the lord with the tip of the dagger and spoke.

“What did I say I absolutely needed to kill a demon?”

“You said you needed a weapon imbued with divine power or a holy spell.”

“Correct. But we don’t have a weapon with divine power right now, do we? So naturally, we can’t kill that thing.”

“Huh? If it’s a holy weapon, you’re holding one in your hand… Ah, I see. I understand. Indeed, we didn’t have any holy weapons. So we couldn’t kill that bastard. What an unfortunate situation.”

As expected of Aurora, who appeared as a very capable and intelligent NPC in the game, she immediately understood my intention and coordinated her words with me.

“But let me ask one more thing. Why are you specifically trying to hide that weapon?”

“I’m not trying to hide this dagger. To be precise, I’m trying to hide the fact that I used it.”

“Hide the fact that you used it?”

Aurora asked back. I nodded.

“A weapon imbued with divine power literally requires a certain amount of faith to use. Even if someone without faith uses it, it’s impossible to unleash its proper power.”

The explanation I was giving was a roundabout way of saying that in the game, the “Faith” stat and “Divine Power” stat needed to be above a certain level for blessed weapons to perform at their full potential.

Aurora nodded in understanding at my explanation, but then paused for a moment and looked at me.

“But how did you…?”

“What’s the first country that comes to mind when you think of faith and divine power around here?”

“Without a doubt, it’s the Holy Kingdom of Raphaella.”

It seemed the name of the Holy Kingdom had also changed. It was a good thing I didn’t speak first.

“…Wait, then are you from the Holy Kingdom of Raphaella?”

“No. That’s exactly why I want to hide the fact that I used this.”

At my words, Aurora let out an “ah” sound.

“Because you want to hide the fact that you used a holy weapon despite not being from the Holy Kingdom?”

“Correct.”

We had only exchanged a few words, but she immediately touched on the core. Seeing Aurora fully displaying the aspects she had shown in the game, I felt proud.

“…Yes, that reason makes sense. The Holy Kingdom folks are notoriously zealous. From your perspective, you wouldn’t want to get involved with them as much as possible. But then, how are you going to deal with that demon?”

“We shouldn’t be the ones to handle it. We need to send a letter to the imperial palace. Saying that a demon has appeared and asking them to kill it.”

In the game, there were also two choices the player could make.

Either directly kill the lord using a blessed weapon or holy spell, or beat him up as much as you want to relieve stress, and then send a letter to the empress asking her to deal with it.

Generally, it might seem much more convenient to kill him directly here, but if the player kills this guy, a very troublesome event occurs later where the Holy Kingdom shows interest.

I didn’t want to receive their attention. To avoid taking on all sorts of dirty and petty sub-quests, you had to visit the Holy Kingdom only once in the mid-game and never look at it again.

What kind of crazy bastard came up with the idea of 30 long-distance delivery quests without using fast travel?

“Well, alright. Although the one we have to deceive is the empress, if we’ve already fooled her once, we can do it twice.”

“You’ve fooled her once?”

“You’re talking about this idiot who messed with a book inhabited by a demon on his own and got devoured, right?”

“…Ah, right. I forgot for a moment. That did happen.”

That was a lie to begin with. So this is the second time.

“And.”

Aurora, who had added an aside, turned her body, slightly bowed her waist, and looked up at me.

“Of course I should show this level of favor to my life’s savior. I have a mountain of gratitude to repay in the future, don’t I?”

A smile appeared on her face.

“Iris, it’s almost time.”

“…I know. It hasn’t fully risen yet, so let’s wait a little longer.”

At that time, the knight commanders of the Silver Dawn Knights were gathered at the main gate with an anxious air. The moon was already shining brilliantly in the sky. Iris’s silver hair gleamed radiantly under the moonlight.

Before long, the “time when the moon would hang on the largest tree,” as the newcomer had said, arrived. As soon as the moon hung on the tree, Lizé scanned the main road in front of the castle gate. But the street was quiet.

“Erica, do you see anyone on the road?”

“No. I don’t see anything. It’s completely empty.”

“I see.”

Iris answered briefly. It was a single word filled with very complex emotions.

“Claudia, Lizé, Erica. Prepare yourselves. We’re going to the mansion.”

At the tersely spoken words, the knight commanders mounted their horses without hesitation. The preparations to raid the mansion had been completed long ago. They were just waiting for the time to come.

Claudia, Iris, Lizé, and Erica all had a reason for acting so urgently. It was because of the words the newcomer had left before entering the lord’s mansion.

He had asked if they could come looking for him at the mansion if he didn’t return by the time the moon hung on the largest tree when viewed from the castle gate.

Lizé had laughed, asking why he was saying such ominous words, but the newcomer’s expression was serious. And indeed, the newcomer had not returned by this time.

Then there was only one thing to do.

If there had been a conflict with the lord in the past, the Silver Dawn Knights would have been the ones to suffer a loss, so they would have just endured it. But now the situation was different.

Because they absolutely didn’t want to lose that newcomer.

At some point, without anyone leading, the speed at which they rode their horses gradually increased. Especially Lizé, who was at the forefront, was almost galloping her horse.

There was no one to be seen on the streets, so there was no need to carefully ride the horses, and as the feeling of unease kept rising and the speed increased, they quickly arrived at the mansion.

“Uh…? Who are those guys?”

“Why are those bitches here at this time? Halt! Halt! Hey, can’t you hear me?! I said stop!”

The two knights who were yawning with their mouths wide open while guarding the main gate of the mansion shouted in confusion and called for a halt upon seeing Lizé, who was charging at full speed on horseback, and the other three following behind her.

Instead of stopping the horse in response to the knights’ orders, Lizé drew out her twin daggers from her waist.

Seeing that, the knights became even more flustered. They had never experienced a situation where the Silver Dawn Knights openly rebelled against them.

And they knew that if they confronted them head-on, their skills were no match for the Silver Dawn Knights.

By the time the two knights had barely grasped the situation and tried to grab their weapons, they were already frozen solid and diced.

“Kuh-ack!”

“Keuh-ek!”

The knights rolled on the ground, bleeding from all over their bodies. Lizé didn’t even spare a glance at the unconscious knights and rushed into the mansion. Iris, Erica, and Claudia followed closely behind.

The four knight commanders stopped their horses only after reaching the door leading into the mansion.

“The newcomer is inside here, right?”

“Most likely.”

“Shall we raid it, Sister?”

“Of course we should. No, even if you all oppose it, I’ll go in alone.”

Lizé’s usual playful and lively demeanor was gone, replaced by a brutal and ominous aura befitting the color of her hair. She had the determination to cut down anything that stood in her way.

“Why would we oppose it? If we’re going in, let’s all go together. And if we get into trouble for this, what more could happen to make our lives even more twisted? We can just tell that newcomer later that it’s because of him, so he should buy us a drink.”

Claudia stepped forward with her greatsword. She raised her arm above her head and then smashed the main gate with all her might. With a loud bang, the door made of old wood shattered like a straw.

Lizé was the first, followed by Iris, Erica, and Claudia.

“Welcome.”

As soon as the four of them entered the mansion, the first thing they noticed was a maid approaching them with short steps and bowing her head politely.

“…?”

Question marks simultaneously appeared above their heads. The hands holding their weapons slowly lowered.

“What, did she just greet us?”

“She said welcome? I must have misheard, right?”

“I heard it too. I thought my ears were playing tricks on me, but it seems all our ears have gone weird. Is it an illusion magic?”

Claudia, Erica, and Iris froze in place with puzzled eyes. Regardless, Lizé strode up to the maid and grabbed her by the collar.

“Stop messing around and tell me right now where the newcomer isㅡ”

“‘Mr. Newcomer’ has instructed me to escort the knight commanders to the reception room. Please follow me.”

Even Lizé couldn’t help but freeze in a daze.

As the strength drained from the hand grabbing the collar, the maid calmly straightened her collar as if nothing had happened and turned around to ascend the stairs. Her figure soon disappeared to the upper floor.

However, none of the four remaining moved from their spot.

No, they couldn’t move. Their minds, having received too great a shock, refused to think. Their gaping mouths wouldn’t close.

In the end, it was only after the maid, who had been waiting upstairs, came down again and told them to follow her once more that the four were able to slowly walk behind her to the reception room.

And in the room they entered.

“Ah, you’re here?”

“Welcome, Knight Commanders.”

There sat the newcomer and Aurora, looking perfectly fine, sitting across from each other at the table, sipping tea.

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