Young God Divine Armaments Chapter 18

Chapter 18 – A Malicious Scheme

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It was a gloomy room filled with the smell of mold and plastered with dust all over. Therese and Doris can be seen inside that room, sitting on the floor while holding each other.

The blanket that was given to them is only enough for one. In order to not losing their body heat, they curl their body as small as possible and put on that blanket together.

“That’s… right nanodesu* do you know where are we now nanodeshouka?”

Because they hold each other body closely, Doris can feel that Therese is shaking from fear. Because of that she did her best to stay energetic and make her voice as bright as possible in order to make Therese calm down a bit. With Therese who gives the aura that makes people wants to protect her and Doris tendency to act as the older sister, Doris can’t help doing that. But in truth, acting like that helps her subsides her fear.

Yeah, the two girls’ location now is not in the capital. They have been kidnapped when they are having a field work lesson in the forest near the capital. The field work lesson is a practical lesson where the students practice their practical skill like, in this field work case, gathering herbal plants.

Of course they have soldiers to guard them and there is also the teacher that tries to defend them in the attacks but they still got kidnapped in the end. And just to be clear, the student of the academy isn’t a pushover either. The entire student got trainings in the field of self defense and even the students who have aptitude toward magic can already cast arrays of low to mid level attack magic.

Gotten kidnapped this easily was really something that they could not even imagine to happen with that kind of solid defense line. But reality is cruel.

Those guys that is clad in black manages to repel the teacher and bodyguards in an instant and kidnap Therese and Doris that is keep on resisting them until the end.

Their hand wasn’t tied and their clothing also still intact. With that condition of course they will think of escaping away from their kidnapper but the door and wall surrounding them has been enhanced with a magic sealing effect. Therese isn’t much help in the muscle department and Doris also can’t do anything without any decent weapon to break the wall and door in the room so in the end they just meekly wait for a chance to escape.

With the pocket watch that is a set with their uniform they can tell what time is now but after they done checking, they realized that it hasn’t been long since the kidnapping began.

It was still too fast to hope for any rescue party to come.

Moreover the chance that help will come is extremely low. They don’t know the fate of the other classmates and teacher that were with them. If in the worst case they are all eliminated then rescue will definitely not come. And even if there are no casualties and the other managed to call for help, the chance of they being done in first by the kidnapper is overwhelmingly bigger than the rescue team manages to find their location first.

Despair.

There’s nothing can be done… all of them are futile… Doris heart is slowly dyed in the black color of despair.

Even if she tries to act fearless, in the end she is still a girl. Doris can already imagine what kind of ill fate will befall them in this kind of situation. She is no longer a kid who doesn’t know about the world.

But such dark feeling was cleared every time she look at how her little best friend tried her best to not cry by holding her mouth frantically beside her. Therese is her heart only support now.

And the girl’s resolution gets painted over by the deep darkness of the night sky.

“The student of the academy was attacked you say!?”

“I understand. Eventhough it was abrupt, leave the rest to us”

“I will hear your complain later but please be quiet for a bit. I can’t concentrate”

(I have already talk a few times with Therese. She is not a stranger for me and it should apply too for Therese… in that case… I can!)

Of course the ripple isn’t something that is visible to normal human eyes. In that place, the one who aware of what Renya do are only Floria and Elvira.

The area inside that divine power ripple is a point of view that can only be seen by the gods.

It automatically eliminates other useless information and focuses only on searching what the user wants. In this case, the divine energy ripple search for Therese figure and only her.

After the ripple found the target, it mapped the surrounding area around Therese into some kind of visual image.

It marks the place and composes the information within.

After doing all that, the divine power ripple reverberate back to Renya position by using Therese as reflector. With that, Renya can tell which way and calculate how far Therese location is now.

Renya controls his divine power, the power of god that still unfamiliar to him, with all his concentration and he somehow was able to find out where Therese location now.

“The fortress in the forest located northeast of the capital? ...... !! Renya-san, that must be one of the fortress that was used in the warring time and is now abandoned! Excuse me but can I borrow a map?”

“This one. We once have a practical combat training in that place. And in that direction there are none other fortress beside this one so this must be it”

“Oi! From where did you know such thing!?

Of course it was a lie. But telling the truth to them in this situation is troublesome and they are racing against time here. It was easier for Renya to tell them a believe-able lie so he can get into action quicly.

“Yeah!”

“As you wish!”

As soon as they reply, the three girls of Renya party rush out from the inn. Renya follows them from behind when suddenly Rudy calls him.

“What is it?”

“Roger that”

“After this we will go tell the academy and the guild”

Russel nods. This time Renya rush out for real.

Renya was amazed by the two schoolboy determination. Especially Rudy who is still lacks maturity and has a bad temper. It was amazing that he was able to hold himself to not do anything rash in this kind of situation and trust Renya to handle it.

He must want to rush out himself in this kind of situation and entrusting it to other people must give him a crushing feeling of powerlessness.

As the same fellow men, he can easily imagine how much the pain will tear apart his heart if he was to fall into the same situation as him. On top of it that boy still understand his powerlessness and still able to say ‘please’ to Renya.

He was just an acquaintance that he just knows and they don’t talk to each other much.

That kind of disposition, even if he was once a human that is just rising up and becoming a god recently, he still wants to answer Rudy’s determination no matter what it takes!

This body from the start is a thing that he gets by using all kind of things and technique that is available to finally risen to the seat of the war god.

For the sake of Therese and Doris, Renya release all the limiter that is shackling him from his inside.

The four of them run without speaking any words in the middle of the night. Their figures are soon to disappear in the darkness. As soon as they pass the town gate, they literally ‘fly’ to their destination.

The moon shining brightly on the heaven illuminates the fort.

Therese and Doris, who was brought to the wide ground that spread in the outdoors of the fort, had been wary of their surroundings while cuddling each other for a while.

They are surrounded by high walls.

Weeds growing wild everywhere, the wide ground that must been well maintained in the past is now ruined to the most from being exposed to winds and rains for who knows how many years.

And numerous people that wears black robe surrounds them.

Their height are not the same making a sharp undulation between them, in addition they also can’t tell those people that is clad in black age or gender because of the black hood that is covering their face.

Their figures that are bathed in the light of the surrounding torches making those people clad in black seems more terrifying in Therese’s and Doris’ eyes.

The only a man that shows his face firmly is only the one that stands in front of the out of place altar

He has long brown unkempt hairs that reach the shoulder that seems to never gotten any care.

The man's face that is illuminated by the torch in the vicinity of the altar looks very unhealthy, there is a deep dark color under his eyes, and those eyes also only minisculy opened, it gives an eerie because you can’t tell where those eyes are being pointed at

The man suddenly changes his look when the two prisoners were brought up close to his field of vision.

Therese and Doris naturally shocked by the man sudden changes.

"If you gonna apologize then how about letting us go?"

“If it was about that I'm so sorry for that we can’t fulfill that appeal. Tonight we are having an especially gorgeous moon, it is a wonderful night suitable enough to present a tribute to our great lord. And that tribute to be sacrificial lamb will be you two girls here, you two girls are precious offerings for our great lord. Because of that reason, the request that you appeal to us before is, truly regrettably, very truly regrettably, rejected!"

"Ah pardon me, in time like this where the conditions for offering tributes are fulfilled I can’t help but to get too excited.... Because on this special time, I can feel that the descent of out Almighty lord is getting closer and closer even by just a bit. Oh the JOY! The SCREAM! The TERROR! It shook my heart from its very core, a special night that even made the great lord's body tremble in happiness!"

"Well now, we have arranged two altars in front of you two."

"Then allow me to test how deep you two ladies relationship is"

"E ...... Eh......? A, Ugh, aAAAA......!"

The pain isn’t that unbearable but, the two girl experienced pain that is like having all of your body strangled.

The pain of the strangle they felt is like having their inner organ directly wringed out, the pain makes them having a little difficulty in breathing.

Unable to hold out from the pain, the two girls fall to their knees. And to top it off, the voice of the fanatic leader that ridicule them stir up their head and shake them to their very core.

This kind of pain is already making it hard to keep one consciousness and they are really going to double it? What kind of sick joke is that? But Doris can’t afford such wishful thinking seeing her little stout hearted little friend Therese trying her best to hold the pain, she can’t just leave her in pain like that.

And Doris quickly made her decision.

Actually, after graduation Doris will work as a trainee in the warrior guild. She takes pride in her well trained body and by the fact that she should be tougher than Therese who is an intellectual type.

Don’t know whether it was because of the pain or it was because of the inhuman option that is given to them, She held Therese arm who didn’t make any move and keep crouching in the ground.

"Yea yea, if it was just this much then it will not be too much problem for me. You should get some rest Therese"

"Doris-san! Doris-san! Why?!"

"Well well what do we have here, such a brave person you are to choose saving your friend without any hesitation. And the lady over there is also, seems to be concerned about your well being too. You ladies friendship is indeed a deep one just as we have witness before"

“But you know what? That would be boring"

That scream was not coming from Doris but it was from Therese.

“Well well, I had hoped for such a drama where you ladies worried more about it and start blaming each other for this misfortune but how you made your decision is truly heroic and beautiful. And thanks for your heroic sacrifices… the swapped altar function now can show its true worth."

"S, So that means...... No way."

"So you trick me...? Hey ...... Then ......"

"Don’t you dare joke about this!"

"Ah what do we have here again? Do you also want to feel the pain that your friend experienced now? You did think that doesn’t you? B-U-T TOO BAD! I should have said that earlier but, that altar negates any pain that could harm the person that placed in it, and moreover, it can even prevent the person inside from doing suicide! How about that! It really is a good stuff isn’t it? But it was difficult to make and it can be easily destroyed from the outside, so we can only play with this thing like this"

"Do-Doris ...... san"

To the voice that sounds like it had been considerably weakened from before, Doris reflexively turn her face to where the voice came from. When she looks that way, she saw Therese leaning her body on the barrier wall to help her support her body that is assaulted with an unbearable pain. Even in such situation, Therese still can act though and smile to hide the unbearable pain she had.

"Idiot! There’s no way its fine doesn’t it! This is my fault...... This is all my fault..."

"Great! Wonderful! Extraordinaire! Fufufufu, this kind of beautiful and nice friendship story are really rare! great! Absolutely perfect! Those expressions, that anguish, the despair! AAAAaaaa~, even if it was still during a ceremony I reached to the peak of ecstasy! You ladies are really splendid!"

Someone…

You don’t need to care this insignificant one in the least bit but please save my little friend.

Doris who doesn’t usually believe in gods starts to deliver a silent prayer to the gods.

It don’t have to be a god as long as that being can protect that little girl there from that kind of vicious evil who trap their victim in maliciousness and ridicule them in their agony, anyone can do.

Therese who are in a bad position herself, who supposed to get worried over, lamented over her own powerlessness just the same as Doris is.

She starts to run away from reality and imagine if she had even more advanced technology from what she currently have..

If she has those kinds of advanced technology then she won’t get played over by bad people like this.

And her important friend won’t need to get sad like this.

Please…

Anyone…

Just ignore this powerless one, please help my bright and cheerful friend.

Therese can only pray vehemently while withstanding the excruciating pain that assault her whole body.

"Please…… help ...... Doris-san ...... ......!"

"Ihihihi ...... hi?"

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The fact that in that very moment, both of their prayer had reached to a god.