"You know how powerful that crazy woman is, right! Subduing her took a lot of my strength. Look, look! My arm is all swollen! This is all your fault!" Iri said, pointing to her arm. However, it wasn't swollen; Iri was basically unharmed in that battle, after all, she had used the Champion Armor. She was just trying to bluff Gelos.
"You mean? You defeated her? The fully armed young lady?" Gelos looked surprised.
"Dealing with her was easy and pleasant, what's there to be so surprised about? If you don't believe me, you can go ask her yourself." That's what Iri said, but she was incredibly smug inside. The so-called strongest native had already been trampled under her feet.
"Oh! No, it's not that I don't believe you, it's just a bit surprising that you could defeat the fully armed young lady." Gelos's face was a bit pale. He probably didn't expect to be able to beat Death Knight so easily.
And how could he dare to ask Death Knight? He would probably just be pressed to the floor and rubbed again.
Hmm? Perhaps he didn't come to apologize this time but to confirm the outcome of that battle!
After all, after saving Death Knight that day, Iri and Death Knight had left together, and they met Gelos, who was waiting for the result, outside.
However, when Gelos saw Death Knight looking unhappy then, he didn't dare to ask.
So, today he came to confirm the outcome under the guise of apologizing? If that's the case, then don't blame me for being impolite. Iri thought.
"What's so surprising? Do you think I would be inferior to that crazy woman?" Iri brazenly called Death Knight a crazy woman in front of Gelos and even put on a very angry expression.
"No... I didn't mean that. I'm just a little curious, why didn't you intend to go to the appointment then?" Gelos continued to ask, looking unsure of what to do.
Uh... it seems the higher-ups, those old foxes, must have known about her duel with Death Knight and sent Gelos to sound her out, right?
Otherwise, even though Iri was pretending to be angry, Gelos, not fearing for his life, kept bringing up the topic, clearly trying to get information out of her.
"That's not simple at all! The High Priests gave me a mission, and I wanted to execute it in peak condition! I didn't have time to waste my energy on that crazy woman! It's all your fault!! You made it so my ultimate skill hasn't recovered yet! How are you going to compensate me!" Iri said, very annoyed.
"Ah... is it that serious? I'm truly sorry! It really is all my fault, I didn't consider these things... I'm so sorry! So... Clementine, what gift do you want as compensation? I'll prepare it for you right away." Gelos quickly said with a placating smile.
"Hmm! That's more like it! I don't have any other demands, I just want to recover my ultimate skill as soon as possible, so... go and send me all the delicious food Theocracy has." Iri said.
"Ah... delicious food?" Gelos's eyes widened.
"That's right! Delicious food, hurry up and get it! I need food to recover my state." Iri said.
Of course... this was all Iri's bluff. Since Theocracy's higher-ups wanted to gather information about her through Gelos, she would directly use this to transmit false information to them.
So she conveyed to them that her strongest ultimate skill required a long recovery time after use, and that she needed to eat to recover quickly.
Hm! Although it sounded absurd, this was another world, and even the most absurd things would be believed.
"Is that so? Okay... I'll go prepare it right away." Gelos said, but he showed no intention of leaving.
Because he had already noticed that on Iri's table, there were not only various strange vessels but also pieces of various irregular fragments.
"What are you waiting for! Hurry up and go, I still don't know when the Fire Extinguishing Scripture will summon me! I don't want to go to the battlefield in this state." Iri said with a feigned unhappy expression, but in reality, she was secretly chuckling.
"I'll go in a moment, um... Clementine, when I first came in, I was very curious, what are you doing?" Gelos asked, pointing to the fragments.
See... he noticed after all. Since that's the case, she'll continue to bluff him.
"I'm developing a new original magic." Iri rolled her eyes at him and then said.
"New... developing new magic?" Gelos was surprised again. Looking at the fragments on the table, he couldn't tell what the so-called new magic looked like.
He knew that many of the spells Clementine used were ones he had never seen before. He had thought he was simply unknowledgeable, but he hadn't expected... that all the magic she used was developed by herself!
"Of course... otherwise, where would my original magic come from?" Iri said impatiently.
Then she deliberately ignored him, picking up a cup from the table, made of an unknown metal and carved with many beautiful patterns.
One could tell at a glance that it was the kind of item only wealthy families could use. This was something Iri had told Bell to get: metal vessels made of different materials, and Bell had brought them. Iri didn't care how she got them.
"Uh... can you let me see? The new magic you're currently developing?" Gelos asked.
Oh? You want to probe even this? Fine, you won't understand anyway, after all... even Iri herself didn't understand the principle of this decomposition!
"You can, watch closely!" Iri used an enhanced version of the recovery spell on the cup in her hand. Like a normal recovery spell, the cup was enveloped in green light, and then nothing happened.
"Huh? You used recovery magic on the cup?" Gelos recognized it as a recovery spell from the green light.
"This is not recovery magic at all, watch closely! Hmm! It's done, pick it up and look." After Iri finished speaking, she carefully placed the cup on the table and then motioned for Gelos to pick it up.
Gelos, utterly confused, reached for the cup. The moment his fingers touched it, the cup immediately fell apart and shattered, turning into a small pile of metal fragments, just like the other metal fragments on the table.
"This... this is..." Gelos looked at Iri, bewildered.
"This is the new magic I'm developing, Internal Burst... It's still in the development stage, and the effect isn't ideal yet, but it won't take too long to complete." Iri said proudly.
"Internal... Burst, huh..." Gelos repeated the name Iri had made up on the spot, his face pale.
Iri saw Gelos's bewildered expression after she bluffed him and laughed out loud in her heart.
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