Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody, Vol. 21 by Hiro Ainana and Shri

Author:Hiro Ainana and Shri [Ainana, Hiro / Shri]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2024-05-21T00:00:00+00:00

“This is the experience factory?”

I peered down through an opening in the rocks at the cavern below.

“It just looks like they’re fighting monsters to me,” Pippin commented.

From our vantage point, we could see people standing at a safe distance and using spears to jab at demi-goblins trapped in cages.

“Power leveiliiing?”

Tama tilted her head.

That was indeed what it looked like to me.

“Most of them are obviously being forced, but a few of ’em look like they’re enjoying it.”

I focused on my “Keen Hearing” skill and picked up on comments from a few men and women who were gleefully impaling demi-goblins: “Let’s cultivate those skills!” “I’m gonna make an offering to the Holy Woman!” “I’ll never disappoint the sage again!”

However, the vast majority were just mechanically thrusting their spears with lifeless looks in their eyes.

I learned later that “cultivating skills” referred to the belief that skills that were returned to the earth, so to speak, would grow back again.

“I smell something strange, sir.” Pochi sniffed the air.

“Demi-gobliiins?”

“Not demi-goblins, sir. It smells like a strange chemical, sir.”

Pochi pointed.

I looked and saw a desk with several vials on it. My AR display revealed the true nature of the drug that remained inside them.

Demonic potion.

It granted the user temporary strength enhancement and the ability to level up more easily, though the side effects were so dangerous that it was strictly forbidden in the Shiga Kingdom. If one used it too much, it could transform part or all of the human body into a monster.

If my AR display’s information was true, these particular demonic potions were made in Shiga Kingdom. In fact, the potion’s creator was an alchemist who worked for the corrupt noble Sorkell, who was formerly an acting viceroy in Labyrinth City Celivera. This must be where the contraband potions wound up after being smuggled into the trade city Tartumina.

“Yikes…!”

Pippin used his short-distance teleportation to land next to the desk, grabbed a vial, and popped back.

He aimed for the precise moment when the guards were distracted, of course, but that kind of stress was still bad for my heart.

“Young master, this stuff’s demonic potion, all right,” Pippin told me quietly after analyzing the dregs in the bottle. “I’ve gotta tell Lord Kuro…”

“Do you have a means of contacting him?”

I’d left a simple Space Magic–based communication device at the Echigoya Company headquarters.

“Not on me. But I think the gal who came to set up the branch shop has something.”

“Would you go and let him know, then? I’m sure Lord Kuro would come rescue all the people being forced into labor, don’t you think?”

Roundabout though it might be, I couldn’t very well let Pippin see “Satou” using superhuman powers.

“All right. Let’s head back to the surface for now, then. You lot should return to the village.”

“No, we’re going to look for some friends of ours who’ve been captured first.”

At first, I thought there was no hurry to rescue them if they weren’t being mistreated. Now that I knew this group was using stuff like demonic potions, though, I couldn’t just leave Arisa and Mia’s students in their hands.

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