Chapter 204.2

Reincarnated into a Game As the Hero’s Friend

“Of course, the Hero Yorg-sama took the lead in the building of a new nation, and we gathered and tried to salvage as much knowledge as we could from the now lost ancient kingdom. It became the starting point for a new age of humanity.”

And there were also several rituals that were performed during this process.

The biggest problem was to prepare for the Demon King, who would one day resurrect. Therefore, it was decided that the memories and power of the hero party that defeated the Demon King would be preserved in the Chronicle Stones to prepare for that eventuality.

“However, that ritual wasn’t completed for me and the hero…”

“Why…?”

“Because I discovered that I had a child with the hero in my womb.”

“…”

Technically, this ritual shouldn’t have any negative effect on the presence of the unborn child, but they simply didn’t want to take any risk.

Chronicle Stone captured a snapshot of a person’s soul – their memories and power. These stones could then be used to replace a person’s soul with soul data in Chronicle Stone. It basically allowed a person to “resurrect”.

The production of the Chronicle Stone itself was a task that could only be performed at this facility, a technology that was half-lost during the destruction of the ancient kingdom’s capital that occurred immediately after the Demon King’s resurrection, but the mechanics were not well understood.

Making of Yorg’s and Juliane’s Chronicle Stone was put on the back burner, and the work was temporarily halted after the other four had been made.

“On the other hand, Yorg-sama wanted to keep the memory of our child while his Chronicle Stone was created. So we delayed the making of our Chronicle Stones. But…”

Juliane held her tongue for a moment. The next moment, the monsters that had been writhing around her suddenly turned away, the hatred in her eyes filled with such a murderous intent that they all moved away from the area.

“…Soon after, I was poisoned by my brother.”

Juliane, not even bothering to look at Lily, continued with her words of hatred.

“To create the Chronicle Stones, a huge amount of magic power converted from nature was needed, so much so that when the four stones were finished, the great river that flowed near the city dried up. Indeed, at such a rate, even this underground water vein, the other source of water, would have been depleted.”

But that was not the reason he killed his sister, she said.

“He was trying to save a Chronicle Stone for himself to preserve his existence. There was a limit to the number of Chronicle Stones we could make because we didn’t have enough materials.”

Lily looked at Juliane silently, unable to say anything.

“At my life’s last moments, I hated mankind. As I wondered how I ended up getting killed by my own flesh and blood. I suddenly heard the voice of the Demon King, which should have been sealed there.”

Juliane then answered the voice of the Demon King. She revived as a demon, destroyed this underground facility, the last facility of the ancient kingdom, and its first basement floor, killed all the remaining engineers of the ancient kingdom, burnt to ash the knowledge of the manufacturing technology of Chronicle Stones and many others, and spread destruction to the surroundings as well.

The reason why this place was not destroyed was because those who targeted this place only aimed for the interconnected research facilities, neglecting to check this area, which they thought to be only a power source for the research facility, which would be virtually useless without the facilities or resources to make it run.

“But at the end of the day, the one whom I could not hate stood in my way, Yorg-sama.”

Juliane was defeated by Yorg. But Yorg, too, was reluctant to kill Juliane. In the end, Yorg decided to seal Juliane and hide her in a city covered with a huge barrier, which was a legacy of the ancient kingdom.

The seal prevented anyone from entering the seal from the outside, and at the same time, it also kept Juliane locked up inside it.

“Yorg-sama told me that he will come back to get me someday, he even cried and apologized to me as he imprisoned me in the seal.”

But that time never came, for Yorg himself became aware that he was slowly beginning to be contaminated by the Demon King he was supposed to have sealed. Juliane explained that this was probably the result of keeping the sword that sealed the Demon Lord in his possession, lest it fall into the hands of an ambitious man.

“Yorg-sama himself disappeared with the Demon King’s sword. He must have intended to contain himself in some way. I don’t know where he went. And several hundred years passed without any change.”

What happened to Juliane, who had been sealed up in the basement of the royal capital during that time? She carried too many negative emotions. For hundreds of years, only dark resentments had been amplified in the underground of the city where the family that had poisoned her acted as King.

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