Reincarnated as a dragon’s egg ～Lets aim to be the strongest～ - Chapter 630

630 – Suspicions of Miia
『…Fine. That’ll do. If you ever feel like telling me, please do.』

I’ve given up on getting Miia to tell me more about God’s Voice for now. I don’t fully understand her reasoning, but she’s refusing to say anything more.

Maybe it’s because she doesn’t trust me. She probably thinks that, if I heard how strong God’s Voice is, I’d run away. I’ll try asking her again in a bit, when she hopefully trusts me more.

『Then, there are two more things I’d like to ask. That [Naraka Realm] of yours… Also, about God of Madness. You understand what I want to know, right?』

Until now, I didn’t know of the existence of the [Naraka Realm] divine skill. The divine skills seem to conform to the Buddhist Six Realms. But, this is the first I’ve actually heard of this one in this world. I want to know why she has it and how she got it. I absolutely need Miia to explain this to me.

The other one is, of course, about [God of Madness]. I had thought [Dark Frozen Prison] would protect her from it, but she still has [God of Madness (minor)]. I can’t overlook this. I also need to find out how long we have until it begins to set in for us.

“There’s no problem with God of Madness. At present, I’m not feeling any particular negative influences. I hope you can tell that I’m rational from our conversation. But it’s also true that I don’t know how much time I have left, so I’d like to hurry.”

Is that really true I wonder? Is it really possible for [God of Madness] to appear, and for there to be no negative effects? Well…for now, I have no choice but to take Miia at her words.

『How many days was it until you started feeling something was off?』

“As you know, this place messes with your sense of time. But, I think it was about seven days, maybe?”

I look at Aro and treant.

“Hmm… Being pessimistic, I think it’s been about four days…”

Aro says, a little confidently. Treant nods his head slightly. I also think it’s been about that long. But, that’s an upper estimate, so in reality it might only have been three days.

If this all is solved by beating the hecatoncheir, then it shouldn’t be hard for us to leave before it sets in. This is assuming Miia’s telling the truth, of course… And, if defeating the hecatoncheir doesn’t give us a way out, we might become quite short on time. Besides, if Miia’s [God of Madness] progresses before we’re able to escape, we’d really be forced to fight her.

『…For now, we’ve no choice but to believe…』

I say without thinking. Trean’t shoulders shudder in surprise. I begin to put myself on guard as a result of my careless mistake, but then Miia suppresses a laugh and says “I’d be grateful if you did that.” I sigh out in relief.

“I got [Naraka Realm] by defeating the sacred beast that was sealed in a stone in the Holy Country of Liarm. That county is closely entwined with God’s Voice. In any era, God’s Voice raises the Saint to become zealous. It might be because the religion makes them easier to control, producing more loyal useful pawns.”

『S-sacred beast…?』

That bit trips me up. I get that it was hidden In Liarm. But, a divine skill should be an important thing, closely related to the foundation of this world. I’m surprised to hear it was left in a place where Miia would be able to find it like that.

“Are you that distrustful of me…?”

『…Isn’t it strange that your other divine skills were removed, but just [Naraka Realm] was left? Are you really not hiding anything here?』

I ask, pressing the matter. It might anger her, but… I really don’t trust what she’s saying. Perhaps she’s only saying what’s convenient to her.

“I don’t have them now, but for a while, I had five divine skills and [Laplace Interference Authority: Lv8]. As long as I had that, I could block the meddling of God’s Voice to some extent.”

『[Laplace Interference Authority: Lv8]…』

I think God’s Voice probably only has [Laplace Interference Authority: Lv9]. That reminds me, Umukahime did say that Miia had a skill that let her block out God’s Voice. That was about [Laplace Interference Authority], I guess.

“Well… I was attacked directly, so it didn’t matter in the end. God’s Voice sent me to this forest and tore away my divine skills. THey probably thought I had no way out of this forest. That’s why they didn’t hurry to finish me off.”

God’s Voice’s personality is awful, after all. It’s easy to imagine them taking their time to slowly kill the antagonistic Miia. No, God’s Voice might have had some other use for her in mind.

“God’s Voice probably intended to watch me struggle before finally tearing off the last sacred skill as I succumbed to God of Madness. Once my last divine skill would be removed, I’d die God of Destruction. That could have been avoided with replicas though, but either way God’s Voice would have taken it back. That’s why, at the last moment, I dived into the [Dark Frozen Prison]. I’ve been in there ever since.”

『I see, so that’s why…』

“Yeah. God’s Voice could have killed the origin matter, but fortunately I was found by you guys. I truly am grateful for you giving me another chance to point my sword at God’s Voice…”

Miia says, glaring up at the sky.

…For now, her story makes sense. It would be a lie to say that none of it sounds strange. But there’s no point doubting her here.

Her story is logically consistent, and I’m starting to get a sense of what God’s Voice can and can’t do. They’re pretending to be a god, but they only seem like one. They’re not completely omnipotent, and are just confident in their overwhelming advantage.

I might be being more wary of Miia than I need to be. Looking at her status, her true form is that of Legendary undead. It might simply be that I’m sensing her power, which is making me more on edge around her.

It’s true that she’s suspicious in all sorts of ways. Our ways of thinking are so different that our objectives might diverge, she easily got the [Naraka Realm] skill that I hadn’t even heard of until now, and she won’t tell me the details about God’s Voice.

But, it’s true that cooperation is needed to escape this forest, and it would be reckless to try to search for others who might not even exist. I need to cooperate with Miia. In the end, I’m going to depend on her a whole lot. It can’t be helped that I’d want to be certain of her.