Chapter 129
129. This Girl… Is She Really The One?
The headquarters of the Adventurer’s Guild in the Holy Kingdom of Rudiloum──.
In the Guild Master’s office, Count Lafiel met her for the first time.
“This girl… is she really the one?”
Her black hair was braided into pigtails, and her freckled face had a plain appearance.
The girl named Sephilia Rize wore a gentle smile and exuded an air of harmlessness at first glance.
Yet her power was said to bring chaos, calamity, and… transformation to the world.
“She seems like a surprisingly ordinary girl.”
Guild Master Theodora also looked slightly underwhelmed.
Present in the room were Lafiel, Theodora, Vanessa, Elektra, and Sephilia—a total of five people.
They had gathered today for introductions and to conduct a certain “experiment.”
(Could this seemingly unremarkable girl truly possess the power to change the world?)
Lafiel murmured to himself.
He still couldn’t believe the story.
However, he knew.
The ancient gods recorded in ruins scattered across the lands──.
Currently, the most worshipped deities are the Supreme God Gareza, the War God Vim Force, and the Healing Goddess Arda El.
There are others, though now forgotten, like the Guardian Goddess Ilfaria or the Slaughter God Mergius.
She was said to have been chosen as an apostle by such gods.
Vanessa and the others hadn’t explicitly confirmed it—, perhaps they couldn’t—but Lafiel had deduced it from various circumstances.
If so, it would be foolish not to make use of her.
The power of the gods—an overwhelming force beyond human understanding.
If Vanessa and the others intended to use Lafiel and Theodora, then he would outwit them and use them instead.
He might even achieve his long-cherished goal of turning the Kingdom of Adonis into a mighty nation.
Perhaps he could rule this country from the shadows and become a conqueror asserting dominance over the world.
Lafiel’s ambitions burned fiercely.
He had waited a long time for this day to come──.
(Perhaps it’s about time to make contact with Haruto Riva as well.)
Based on the gathered information, he too was likely an apostle endowed with divine power,
just like Vanessa and her group.
(Maybe I could even use my estranged daughters.)
He’d heard that Alice and Lilith had recently reached Rank A.
Using that as a pretext, he could invite Hart to his estate.
The more pawns he had in preparation for the coming day, the better──.