Demon Queen Rebirth: I Reincarnated as a Living Armor?!

Chapter 368 - Playing Dumb Until It Works Out

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After seeing Veronica generate a large gold nugget out of thin air through Golem Creation, Vairvec was so surprised that he was about to fall insane!

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"Impossible… just… You… millions… millions of Mana! How?! HOW?!" asked Vairvec, freaking out!

Ervas and Veronica glanced at Vairvec, as Percy tried to calm him down.

"Please sir calm down! We can explain it!" said Percy.

"Yeah, I have spatial magic, I brought it from there," said Veronica.

"Spatial… Magic?! You are not… tricking anyone! I SAW IT! I saw her… creating something out of nowhere!" said Vairvec, his intrigue, concern, and fear over Ervas and Veronica growing bigger!

Ervas and Veronica began to talk telepathically.

"It seems that it is as you thought, his perception is very high," said Veronica.

"I told you yet you still… did it. Anyways, how are we explaining it to him?" asked Ervas.

"Don't worry, let's just keep it in the lie," said Veronica.

"I agree, it is better to simply lie until he doesn't keep asking," said Ervas.

Veronica glanced back at Vairvec as she shrugged.

"I used Spatial Magic… Or you don't want to believe me, Vairvec?" asked Veronica, her crimson eyes glowing eerily, as Vairvec realized that if she even had millions of mana, she wouldn't be weak at all she should be monstrously strong!

Just the thought of realizing that made him almost skip a beat!

He should not have freaked out so much, if she was indeed just as strong… then it was pretty bad to treat her like that!

"I-I… I see… that's… what it was…" sighed Vairvec, glancing at the ground.

"(Whatever she is… She's… dangerous! Just what is she?! Just a Dhampir? Could she be someone who has lived for thousands of years? I have heard that Dhampirs who are half-elf can live very long… maybe she is someone above S-Rank…)" thought Vairvec, trying to figure out any reason for Veronica's ridiculous strength within his mind.

"Anyways, you can keep that nugget, and let's get to registrations!" said Veronica.

"Indeed, we don't want to bother you anymore," said Ervas.

"A-Ah, yes…" said Vairvec, as Percy seemed to give him a bitter smile.

Vairvec ended up registering Veronica, Ervas, Percy, Pekorina, Acathea, and Amelia as Adventurers, and even registered them as a Party, giving them all an Adventurer card as well.

He knew that Ervas and Veronica did not want their stats to be seen due to their pretty obvious monstrous strength, but it made it clearer when he asked them if they could.

"Sorry but we want to remain our status a secret…" said Ervas.

"Indeed, we got very… embarrassing Skills we don't want to show… yeah," said Veronica.

"Embarrassing Skills? Okay… As long as you are part of another guild, you can register this one through documents and a fee… So it should be done with this…" said Vairvec, signing a document.

After the registrations were finally done, Ervas and Veronica had decided in going down to pick up some 'easy' quests for today, leaving Vairvec finally alone, as he began to assess everything that had happened just recently.

For some reason, he felt something within Veronica and Ervas that was not so simple…

For a moment, he recalled the strong feeling that it gives him to touch Veronica's skin when he rosed his fingers with hers after giving her the Adventurer card.

He could only call it phantasmagoric.

"Could she have been… a monster?" he thought.

Could Veronica truly be a monster?

In fact, she was a monster, a Living Armor.

However, he did not have any proof other than this strange sensation when he touched it, which he had only felt when he interacted with Liches in the past…

"Could she be some kind of demon race not discovered yet? Or just a special type of Dhampir? Ugh, I better not think about her anymore… her crimson eyes and that boy too… their whole presences were simply… overwhelming…" sighed Vairvec.

Vairvec could not muster the true intentions nor the true power of Ervas and Veronica.

Not only Veronica was strong, but Ervas was seemingly also incredibly weird.

Although he did not saw him conjure millions of mana, he knew that his face was way too stiff, his crimson eyes resembled the eyes of dead fish, completely devoid of any life or emotion, and he had a horn that exuded a strong draconic scent, which he had only sensed in high ranked dragons, he also had vampire-like traits, and wolf ears alongside a wolf tail… his entire presence was all over the place.

"I've never seen a Dhampir with so many traits, and I am sure that there are no races of beast-kin with horns like those that are wolves… And… he had more than that, his entire presence seemed filled with… life? But there was something deeper than my perception barely caught… this… a strange and endless… void…" thought Vairvec.

Ervas felt just like that to the Night Elf, someone even more mysterious than Veronica due to his expressionless face and stiff body.

"So weird… both of them are weird… One has god-like abilities and overwhelming strength, giving the vibes of someone that isn't even alive… while the other has too many races mixed on its appearance, and seems to be some kind of void… Sigh… I will have to see what they will do in these next few days and see if they are truly dangerous for this city or not… I am sure that many aristocrats will sooner or later notice them… It is not as if they were not charismatic people," sighed Vairvec, resuming his paperwork at last.

However, after having decided that, he could not help but have a single thought linger on his mind as he worked…

"…Can I even defeat them?" he thought.

It seemed simply hopeless to even think about defeating someone that could use millions of mana so casually, meaning that she might have even more millions of mana to not feel any change on her own mana pool… such being could… no, even someone like him could not do anything other than resist and throw as many strong hits and magic as possible to see if something happens, although most likely, she would be able to obliterate him.

Seeing how it was hopeless to even think about such a thing, he began to think about the possibility of them simply being good people and wanting to protect this city…

But how many strong people are even good in this world?

Truly good people were very hard to find, even Vairvec found himself as someone of a gray person, not too bad nor too evil.

He was certainly someone selfish, as he knew that through his life and his power, he could do things to change the life of the people, especially those in the slums, and the issue with the Vampires.

However, he had decided to make a blind eye to such things because of his own selfishness, and because he wanted to live his life peacefully and without caring about others.

Every so often people as strong as him was treated as Heroes that could do everything in the world and were given arduous tasks after arduous tasks to do all of such things.

Although he had reached so much strength, he was still being used as a puppet, and simply decided to cut ties with all of these aristocrats that used him and make a new life in Seashore.

The issue with the Vampires was something he already knew one hundred years ago, and still decided to come to Seashore than to keep wandering around the continent, he had even thought about visiting the Empire of Bestellen, but the church was not a place he fancied, and a place that was a literal embodiment of the religion of Bestellen wasn't a place he would like to spend his life on.

Seashore was an ideal place, and so, he set himself in here and became the Guild Master of the Adventurer Guild when the former Guild Master, an old friend of his who had no descendants lend the Guild to him before he died.

At first, he had only come here to live peacefully, but due to his friend's will, he was given all these responsibilities.

Yet, such things were nothing much compared to all the tasks given to him by the aristocrats and their manipulative natures.

Thinking about the past made Vairvec recall more memories of his young years, and of all the friends he had made along the way.

Of all the people and of all the places he had been, Vairvec had never seen such people as Ervas and Veronica… and their presences, their Guidance Skills, were something which he could not understand.

Such presences he felt were in fact those Guidance Skills, something that he only felt as eerie and strange, as he was not someone with the right mind to follow their path.

However, he still hoped to make friends of such strong and mysterious people, and find out their true motives and what they truly wanted to do in Seashore.

Not long after he would discover from Potin that Veronica had made a scene on the first floor where she hit a thug in the balls and then followed the party and punched him until he was left unconscious, only to throw a golden nugget at them and a potion as compensation.

Just what kind of weird people were they?

After that, they registered with him and then… took one of the hardest available quests at the moment as of today, to hunt a Rank 6 Sea Snake King Monster that has been terrorizing the coasts lately, seemingly a female who was protecting her eggs underwater within a territory that the people used for fishing…

"Will they really… kill a Rank 6 monster in their first day as Adventurers?!" thought Vairvec.

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