In Another World With My Smartphone: Volume 28 [Parts 1 to 9] by Patora Fuyuhara

Author:Patora Fuyuhara
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter III: The Sacred Treasure, Complete

“Are there any Phrase other than us still in this world, you ask?”

The apparent Phrase sighting in Zadonia still bothered me, so I decided it would be worth asking Melle as the former Sovereign.

“The chances are very slim. And should one have appeared here, we would absolutely hear its echo.”

“But there are times barriers have prevented you from hearing it, right?”

It was a bit of an unrealistic assumption, but if they had appeared somewhere with a large and powerful barrier like a castle, then maybe that could be possible.

“Is that not a bit of a stretch?”

“Honestly, yeah, but...”

Melle was looking at me like I was talking nonsense, so I chose to rethink things. It was true that if a Phrase appeared somewhere like that, there was no way it wouldn’t cause a commotion.

“They likely would not be emitting an echo if they were in a state of suspended animation, however.”

Like if they were sealed after using up all their magic? That was similar to the first Cricket Phrase we encountered in the ruins of Belfast. It was a survivor of the Phrase that had appeared in Belfast 5000—no, 1000 years ago. The Arcana Clan had left it behind in order to make sure their descendants would know of the horrors of the Phrase.

If it was similarly sealed, then Melle wouldn’t be able to detect it, but the one in Zadonia was said to have been moving, so that didn’t match.

“Hmm...”

I crossed my arms in thought for quite some time before Melle suddenly spoke up.

“Oh, there is one other possibility.”

“And that is?”

“If it was an artificial Phrase, then it wouldn’t emit an echo.”

Wait, a Phrase could be artificial? Didn’t a Phrase asexually reproduce a next-generation core that would grow into its child? I’d heard from Ende that Dominant Constructs were the one type that could make a core between a male and female Phrase.

“Oh, do you mean like those crystal beasts you created during the Prismatis Rite?”

They had made Kuon fight a crystal chimera back then.

Ney shook her head from beside Melle and replied, “That was indeed artificial, but only us Dominant Constructs can make such creatures, and since they have no cores, it wouldn’t be quite right to call them Phrase. They only listen to the orders of the Construct that made them, so they don’t make for very good soldiers.”

“There was research being done to try to produce Phrase cores artificially without the power of Dominant Constructs in order to create crystalline soldiers different from the Phrase. As far as I’m aware, though, it didn’t succeed,” Melle added.

If they were trying to make something that wasn’t a Phrase, it would make sense for it to have no echo.

“I am unsure if this is relevant, but...the one who led that project on Phrasia was Yula.”

“Yula, you say?”

Yula was a Dominant Construct who had sold knowledge of the Phrase to the wicked god and had attempted to take control of both Melle’s power and this world.

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