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Chapter 19
Galadriel is in deep thought, debating with herself over what she learned from Solution. She doesn't want it to be true; she refuses to believe that Sebas, Touch-Me's creation would have rebelled against her, there is no way.
"I refuse to believe he betrayed us, I refuse!" her aura is dark and heavy, the poor maids around were feeling all their lady's wrath and Galadriel didn't seem to realize that.
"My lady!" Demiurge tries to speak but was silenced by the ruler of Nazarick disbelief and anger.
"None of my servants would ever do such a thing! Especially Sebas! He is Touch-Me's creation! He would never betray me! No matter what!" She is so angry, so furious.
"How they dare to say such a thing? My servants would never, ever do anything like that especially someone like Sebas, I am so furious that I don't even know why my reaction is so extreme!"
"My racial level seems to not tolerate any insubordination or betray. I don't know... I will try to remember it later," Galadriel thought until she heard a big sound coming from next to her. One of the Homunculus maids is on the ground trying to breathe, Albedo and Demiurge seem to be in pain, she relaxed a little feeling guilty about how her aura seems to hurt them.
"I lost my self-control, I apologize, Cixous are you all right?" the poor maid, blessed her soul, quickly stood up.
"Please don't worry about me!" she said.
"I worry about you, I worry about everyone in Nazarick," Galadriel said.
"Albedo, Demiurge, please forgive me," she said.
"Please forgive us! We didn't know about Sebas, we should have reported until we have all evidence!" Demiurge said.
"Yes, you should have." that seems to hit quite hard to the demon since he flinched hard at that.
"Perhaps... someone used an item capable to mind control him, but there is no such item I already have [Downfall of Castle and Country] I can't think of another item that does the same, besides Sebas has [Odin's Aesir ring] so he is safe from other world items, then how? Or why?"
Galadriel debated herself. Meanwhile, Demiurge and Albedo looked at their lady with worry. She had taken the news badly, and she seems to be in a depressed mood. They blame themselves for the outrage of their lady.
"Demiurge, what can you tell me about this Eight fingers?" the demon empress asks.
"They are an organization that deals in many types of business, from slavery to a mercenary job, they have become influential in the Re-Estize Kingdom, we have been spying on them since we learned from them," Demiurge said.
"I see... Demiurge do you believe that Sebas betrayed us? I want your honest answer," Galadriel asks to the demon before her, with a small tinge of desperation in her voice.
"No, my lady, I don't believe it to be true but there is must be a reason for Seba's actions." those words brought a little hope to Galadriel, who relaxed a little after hearing that.
"What about you, Albedo?"
"I believe the same, my lady," Galadriel nods thinking about what she should do.
"My lady, if I may?" that brought the attention of the demon empress who seems quite lost at the moment.
"What is it, Demiurge?"
"If I may add something, I have an idea about what to do to test Seba's loyalty and deal with the organization called Eight Fingers and use them to our advantage"
"Go ahead, Demiurge tell me about it."
In the Re-Estize Kingdom, a group of Adamantite adventurers is currently holding a meeting before their mission.
"Are you certain about this, Evileye?" Lakyus asks with clear worry in her voice, as the rest of the team listened.
"Yes, Rigrit told me about it, they are really worried about this Witch Queen of Nazarick," Evileye said.
"How powerful is she?" Gagaran asks.
"She can use tier 6 magic and she in possession of a powerful item that allows her to create an army of undead and Skeleton dragons. And if the reports are correct, she is getting stronger and stronger." Evileye said.
"Wow! That is bad to hear shorty, but what about the Theocracy? They surely wouldn't just stand there and take the punch like that as well for the Holy Kingdom and The Elf Kingdom," Lakyus nodded as she had a hard time believing such a person exists, but knowing her sister in battle she is not someone who jokes about things like this.
"It's not like that. She is being spontaneous about her attacks. They are at random, they are low-level undead so they are easy to kill, the Skeleton dragons are quite the challenge to magic caster but not much for a group of warriors, the problem is that she is only... testing things like she is just experimenting."
"What do you mean by that?" Tina asks.
"Every time she appears, she would speak in a strange language, like a really strange language, then she would send a few dozen of skeletons and leave, it's bizarre... but there is something odd about her like she is just waiting for the right time like she is just making a show," Evileye said while thinking about the strange magic caster.
She is intrigued by such a person; she knows that she must plan something soon, but what could that be? Only time would tell.
"Whatever she is after, we would meet her if she comes here."
"Well, if she comes north, we will receive her with open arms!" said Gagaran.
"Sure we will, you especially with that weapon of yours, evil boss," Tia said while sitting in the corner.
Lakyus pouted slightly at her nickname then she saw her biggest price, the cursed sword, Kilineiram, the Demonic sword.
"You sure are lucky to have such a thing, although I must say the weapon kind of freak me out quite a bit," Gagaran said looking at the bastard sword with fear.
"One of the swords of darkness, with immeasurable power, they said to be a curse to this world, some others said that only the strongest can use them or most evil ones, just like you evil boss," Tina and Tia said a unison.
"I am not evil!" Lakyus pouts.
"But still... that name there... it's something that frightens me," Evileye said, will looking at the embedded name on the dark edge with bright golden color.
"Galadriel Melkor," Lakyus said.
"That name has been around the world for a long time, since the six great gods, to the eight greed kings to the thirteen heroes... yet no much is known about her," Evileye didn't hear Lakyus speak because she was brought back to the days of her youth that company of heroes.
Remembering the one occasion when she asks the black knight about her, she didn't quite understand at the time but after 200 years she came at the conclusion that whatever the black knight told her, was perhaps true.
"She can be your greatest ally but as well your mightiest foe, she never lost a fight against other players, not once," Evileye was pretty sure that this race of Players were gods and that this Galadriel Melkor was perhaps the strongest among all.
"Well, it's not like we are going to meet her one day anyway," Gagaran said while drinking her beer.
"The legends said that she is asleep in her tomb, waiting for someone to wake her up, somewhere in this world," Evileye said.
"Then let her sleep," Gagaran replied with a snort.
"Let's change topic I have shivers," said Lakyus
"It's true, oh, I almost forgot that there is a new adamantite team in the kingdom and they are also only women," Evileye said.
"Oh, yeah, I heard about them, they supposed to be beautiful... and strong of course," Lakyus said looking suspiciously nervous about something.
"Oh, are you in love, Lakyus?" Gagaran teased.
"What are you talking about?! Of course not! I am just proud that there is another female team in our level, that's all!" she said with a huff.
"Sure you are boss," Tia said with a smirk.
"We should meet them, I am curious about them, they have quite the record in the guilds, so they must be very strong," Lakyus could only look away trying to avoid the look of both Gagaran and the twins.
"Lakyus is in love, she wants the know them better are you not enough with us?" Gagaran let a huge unladylike a laugh.
"Evil boss wants a harem! Evil boss wants a harem!" Tia and Tina were making sure that Lakyus was as red she could be. It was only when Evileye stopped it that they calmed down.
"Lakyus take the information we got back to the princess, see if she can get any more close that before with the cryptic message," Evileye said getting the team back into the business.
"Indeed, we should get ready as well. We got information about the Eight Fingers, we need to act carefully, Lakyus. Gagaran and I will wait for you in the guild building, so when the princess is ready to let her send that boy of her to contact us," Evileye said standing up.
"You truly hate the nobility, right?" Lakyus asked.
"I hate it, and I doubt Gagaran thinks otherwise," while the Blue Rose started to get ready for their quest, a certain butler in the city seems to be quite lost.
Sebas, the butler of Nazarick was deep in thought, asking himself about why he did it, there was no need for him to go out of his way and save the girl, anyone from Nazarick would be easily capable of abandoning her to her fate.
Yet, the ripples on his heart come from the simple truth that was bestowed to him on the day of his birth. The strong must help the weak, it's common sense. His creator's words rang in the butler's mind. He acted the way his creator wanted. There was nothing more to say about that.
Regardless of his selfish action on saving the poor girl. He decided not mentioning it to his lady in any of his reports. Sebas believed it was not important, nothing worthy enough to bother his lady.
Sebas ignored Solution's pieces of advice. Thinking there was no need to worry about something insignificant as this. It wasn't until the inspector, Stefan Havish, and his associated Succulent arrived. That Sebas realized the mistake he'd made.
"We received a report that somebody took away an employee of a certain business establishment, at the same time dirty money was also handed over to another employee, doesn't that sound like the sale of a slave to you?"
Sebas cursed, damming his carelessness. He left too many trails behind him that day.
He got the attention of the Eight fingers, an organization that is vital for their lady's success in the kingdom.
With a single action, Sebas has probably destroyed his lady's plans on the kingdom. He desperately tried to minimize the damage but to no avail. They got many pieces of evidence about his involvement. There was no way out.
They tried to take Solution to fill the hole as they mildly put it. The greediness did anger him but had to remain calm and collected.
"Still... I have to thank that slut I didn't expect a piece of rubbish taken out for disposal to end up being a goose that lays golden eggs," Succulent said before leaving.
He was now standing in the door thinking about all of this. Solution was nearby, surely she knows their situation.
"Will it not be over if we hand that human over?" Solution said.
"I do not believe that will solve the problem," Sebas said.
"Is that what you think?"
Sebas just left for a walk after telling her that there was no way for that to happen now that they know they have an advantage. He didn't know about Solution sending a message to their lady about their current situation.
"What should I do?" Sebas said to himself, thinking about pretty much all he did.
He thought about what his lady told him that day. About how she once loved Touch-Me, about how much he reminded her of his creator, how lonely and sad she gets when she looked at him.
"This is no way to repay her love, my insubordination will hurt her more... I should have let Solution report back, hiding this will end badly for me," Sebas said while he just kept walking in the city, trying to look for an answer.