Chapter 396: Departure
The next morning, I take Aro and the nightmare with me and crawl out of the Great Alban Mine. I've already set free the steel horses that I took yesterday, so we'll catch some new ones.
Aro herds a steel horse with a [Gale] tornado, and then the nightmare traps it with thread. Treant-san stands next to me and watches them work.
Treant-san… Couldn’t you stop the steel horses with [Gravity]? I ask, and it shakes its trunk forlornly. The memory of disapproval over the indiscriminate usage of [Gravity] might be too strong.
I see… It’s hard. With your legs, getting the steel horses into the range of [Gravity] is difficult, right…
While I’m being melancholic with treant-san, Aro and the nightmare finish preparing two steel horses.
After checking over the steel horses that are nervously observing their surroundings, I look beyond them to the city of Alban. Today, this time for good, I’ll settle things with that slime. I can’t allow it to do as it pleases any more. No, it’s not just the slime. I also want to settle things with God’s Voice one day.
God’s Voice is meddling with the slime in some way. It is responsible for the creation of that monstrous Demon Lord which leads monsters to eat humans. In Lilixira's view, she interprets the playing of monsters against humans by God’s Voice as leaving the fate of the world in our hands, and said that she had a basis for that interpretation in her Holy Country, but… After all, I find that view hard to believe.
I don’t know if there’s anything I can do about the system of this world itself. But now that I’m aware of the evil deeds done by the slime in the capital, there’s one thing I know for certain. For God’s Voice, which toys with human lives through the slime, is not an existence that can be allowed to continue, no matter what justification there might be.
God’s Voice. I haven’t called out to you lately, but you’re probably still watching me all the same. I’m not going to forgive you. First is the slime. But after that… I don’t know when, but I will absolutely destroy you too.