“This is… a forbidden art, a taboo…”
My name is Solty Barnarz.
I serve as the副団長 (Vice Commander) of the 【色彩の騎士団】 (Knights of Color).
Shortly after Commander Asylas Bafalor ordered me to investigate the West Gate incident.
There was an unexpected delay at a brothel.
Upon arriving at the scene.
Fresh Golems (Alchemical Beings pieced together from living creatures) were attacking the surrounding residents, attempting to absorb them into their bodies.
“Let’s go!”
“Ooooooh!!”
“Ugh, what the? Ooooooh!”
“There might be a sorcerer! Keep an eye on your surroundings!”
“Ooooooh!!”
With the Colorless Knights that I led.
I swung my weapon at the Fresh Golems… whose forms retained their original appearance, suggesting they were former employees of the brothel.
I severed their multiple long arms.
Flinging the blood-oil stained blade with force, I splattered the oil.
And then, I cut down the hands that lunged once more.
“They seem to have pain sensation. It’s troublesome that they don’t flinch…”
I cast a brief glance at the battle situation.
They were struggling to press the attack, unable to break through their persistence.
Though they appeared to have the advantage in numbers,
they couldn’t deliver a decisive blow.
The Fresh Golems, while reducing their body mass,
were regenerating new arms and weapons to attack with.
“Ngh! Killing intent!”
Without seeing the source of the killing intent that suddenly appeared from behind me… I threw the sword I held, knowing I had spare weapons.
“Gah?! M-monsters!”
“There it is!! That must be the cause of this disturbance! Capture him—!!”
It possessed a different will than the Fresh Golems and could speak.
I’ll have to torture him to find out how he bypassed the front lines.
At my command, those who were free immediately moved to apprehend the man, the culprit.
“Don’t let him escape!”
“Yes!”
Alright, with this, the incident—Huh?!
An explosion and the astonished cries of my men came from the direction they pursued.
“What the hell!! Did he self-destruct?”
Is it to send second and third agents into this capital?
I can respect them as enemies… but
as someone who has to report to the Commander of the Knights, I can’t be happy about it.
I had been fighting with those Fresh Golems for several hours.
In the end, they shrunk to the limit of their volume and stopped moving.
That’s why I hate them. Alchemical beings that don’t need to create a heart-like organ.
They rampage as commanded,
then die on their own, leaving us to clean up the mess.
That’s why they are forbidden in our country.
To create them, one must take lives and allow them to rampage endlessly.
They are truly troublesome. It’s a new development to learn that the enemy also uses Alchemical Beings, though.
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“Don’t mess with me!! What was that guy?!”
His possessed magic power was abnormally high, so any surprise attack to kill him would be noticed.
And he cut down even my precious living dolls without using magic or skills!! What a joke, dammit!
I knew the capital’s security was tight, but this level of protection, comparable to Pesword and his ilk?!
What am I supposed to do? Considering there are other monsters out there,
I don’t have the luxury to enjoy beautiful women alone… Dammit! Dammit, dammit, dammit, dammit…!
Rayos holed up in the attic of a residential house, continuously lamenting the fact that the Knights had arrived so quickly.
That the knight squad members who dealt with the situation included monsters.
And that the living dolls, the Fresh Golems, were completely gone this time.
“Ah, crap.”
Manipulating the residents of the house with his possession ability.
He took over a body and raped his wife.
With the same hand that snapped his son’s neck, he thrust into her anus.
His wife’s eyes rolled back, but Rayos continued to thrust.
While thinking of his family on the front lines.
And how to counter the combat power of the Knights, the Knights of Color.
His expression was that of a sage, but his body was that of a beast.
He continued until excessive blood flowed from his wife’s anus, along with her love juices, and she died.
Rayos couldn’t come up with a good plan.
“Alright♪ With this plan… Ah… She died.”
Should I use it on a living doll?
For now, I need more hands.
Replenishing and securing living dolls was difficult.
My initial strike was supposed to throw the capital into chaos, but it was
repelled. There were strict patrols, and they even visited houses one by one to check on residents for any signs of abnormality.
It took a lot of effort for me to attack and turn them into living dolls.
“But, it was worth the effort♪”
Rayos smiled as he looked back at the unit of living dolls forming ranks behind him.
The sounds of hammers striking hot iron echoed down the blacksmiths’ street, where weapons and armor were delivered as supplies to the front lines.
Civilians were ordered to stay in their homes. If they needed to buy food or daily necessities, they could ask the visiting knights to purchase them in exchange for money.
Under the watch and guard of knights, the blacksmiths and their assistants.
Today too, they swung their hammers onto red-hot iron.
BOOM!! Gyaaaaaa?!
An explosion suddenly occurred in the warehouse where completed goods were being boxed.
“What was that?”
The knights, who hadn’t heard the details of the incident from a few days ago, were bewildered.
While trying to evacuate the blacksmiths and their assistants, they maintained a strict alert until information arrived from their colleagues who had rushed to the scene.
“…? Nobody’s coming?”
“The evacuation is complete. Shall we go? Or…!!”
“Huh? What, Ahhhhh?!”
He tried to cry out that a monster was slowly descending from the ceiling, but no sound came out.
In the meantime, his partner was being brutally killed, his neck crushed by a scythe-like blade, half of his bones destroyed.
“D-dammit, haaagya.”
Realizing there was another monster behind him.
As his vision blurred, he lost consciousness, looking at the monster.
“Hahaha, well then, I’m taking all your weapons and armor♪♪ Go on, grab ’em—♪”
Rustle, Clank, Jingle.
Combat living dolls began boxing up the weapons and armor that were visible, as if handled by human hands.
Rayos’s sabotage, Act Two, was about to begin.
