Chapter 83: Ch. 80 – Arke Sisters

It is the next day and Lucia snuck off with my Sun Cloak. She wanted to get back to her smithing work and today check with her master if they can make use of the titanium bars I can churn out for free. Let's hope that something comes out of that.

The flood shows no sign of change either, still just Umbrella Slimes. And despite being of similar composition, they are also hostile to Lydia. So I had to recall her before anything more significant happened.

She didn't take well to the close contact with other slimes. Or she was super happy, not sure. Always hard to tell with the pile of moldy, molten cheese.

"Hey, Justo, do you know if Maria is still babysitting?"

The house answers, "Yes, she's accompanying Carl into town, they wanted to look into what exactly happened to the head priest. Might I help you instead?"

"Not in that regard, I wanted to check on her state after what happened yesterday. Didn't have the chance to yet."

"I see..."

"Speaking of, how are you? Did anything happen to you or are you still fine?"

"I'm completely fine. Nothing out of the ordinary here. The Fortress Avatar is working normally as well, aside from a few cobwebs due to a lack of use."

"That's good to hear. ...well, maybe you can actually help me out a bit."

"How can I help you, little one?"

"Our title level increased a lot recently. Admittedly not by choice... Did that open up any important options?"

"That is hard to say. What level are you up to now?"

"Seven."

"Let me check."

While he does so, I start walking toward my office. If Maria isn't available yet, I might just as well start working with other work.

Justo has an answer, "Hmm... A few minor things like new construction options became available but nothing you were looking for. Though it is strange, it seems you have already access to the race-specific building options. Those should normally require level twelve at least."

"I mean, we would have that if we add Lucia's and my title level. But shouldn't that also give us access to pardons? I don't seem to have those yet. ...taking the consistency of the system into consideration, maybe whether it needs to be my level or the sum of our levels, varies from feature to feature."

"Hmm... I suppose that is possible."

I enter my office, Tina is cleaning it right now.

"Hey, are you finished with my desk so that I can start working?"

"Eek!", she is startled.

"Not the answer I expected... So, how far are you?"

She bows, "E-excuse me, my lord! O-of course, your desk is ready."

I sit down at my desk, "Thank you. Now, Justo, can you walk through those building options? That is if you know anything about them."

Tina mutters, "What is he saying?"

"What is wrong?"

"Nothing! Don't mind me, I didn't intend to disturb you, master."

"Okay, then keep cleaning."

"At once!"

"Where were we, Justo?"

He answers, "You wanted me to tell you about the race-unique build options."

"Yeah, right. Do you know about any specifics? Just the names 'Blood Palace' or 'Ruler's Statue' don't tell me much."

"I can certainly elaborate on those. Hmm... with which to start... I guess the simplest one would be the human's unique building, the Ruler's Statue. As the name implies, it creates a status in the image of the ruler, that would be you. It grants a small increase to base morale and minor resistance to fear effects for your subjects."

Human? So Lucia does play into this after all. But a morale increase, why does that again sound like brainwashing? It is a statue, not a newspaper!

"Doesn't sound too important right now, maybe later. And if anyone saw me wasting money on a vain statue... well, I kind of have an image to maintain. The next one, please."

"Alright, so how about the elven one?"

"Uh, why do we have that? There are no elves here."

"Aren't you an elf?"

"Am I? Oh, right, Silver Elf... why did I forget that..."

I guess that was never really relevant. I never could use its [Cure Magic] and apart from Lucia tricking me about the eye color... I think I only ever saw myself as a vampire and never as an elf. But in fact, I'm both of those right now.

You are reading story Deteoh – A Glitched World’s Isekai Story at novel35.com

"Right, so what option does that add?"

"You could upgrade a chapel or church to a High Temple. Those that serve in such a temple for ten years with a related production job can choose to upgrade said job to a combat variant of it. For example, someone with the  Nun job could become end up as a Cleric instead. Though which class they get is random to an extent, or if it isn't truly random, the exact conditions for which class they would get is not known."

Strange, given the elves' typical manners in stories, I would have expected a circus.

"So a long-term investment. We don't even know if we have these ten years. Put it on the back burner for later. We have more immediate issues that need to be taken care of."

"Alright."

Tina turns to leave the room but I can see that she isn't finished yet, "Where are you going?"

"I-I'm just getting new water from the well. I'm not shirking my duties, I-I swear!"

The well is quite a ways off...

"Come here."

"Huh?"

"Is it so hard to follow orders, Tina?"

"Ah, n-no!", she steps closer.

"Hold out the bucket."

She does as instructed, "Why?"

I fill the bucket with my [Water Magic], thanks to [Magical Secret] this costs me nothing. The water may not be suitable for drinking, but it should be sufficient for cleaning.

"There, now get back to work."

"Y-yes, thank you, my lord."

She bows and gets back to work. So do I.

"Justo, am I right in assuming that Blood Palace is the option for vampires?"

"Indeed. If you bought that, you would upgrade this manor into a vampire-themed palace. It would envelop your domain in eternal twilight, the light of the real sun would never reach here again. I think it provides a minor light substitute that barely satisfied the minimum needed for plant growth."

"Useless. I also need sun protection while traveling around and the lack of sun would certainly be detrimental to everyone else here, it would also worsen the food situation. Overall it would be an unpleasant atmosphere for everyone that isn't undead..."

"I see I wasn't mistaken when choosing you."

"Yeah, yeah. So are there any other new options that became available?"

"Hmm... one that I cannot read. In your menu, it sits between the Ruler's Statue and High Temple."

G̴̱̐l̶̖̋ī̷̭ṯ̸̓c̴͇̋h̸̠̏ ̶̙̒Ṱ̴̿ẹ̵̓m̵̙̚p̴̼͠l̶͈͌ḛ̸͑? What is that... Its price is even listed as negative? I would seemingly gain 186 gold from choosing it... though that could also be an overflow that would reduce our gold to zero.

In comparison, the other new buildings would cost from 450 to 600 gold.

Too bad that just like any other option it doesn't tell me what it does. There's no guarantee that it does anything positive or at least neutral. Just like the Blood Palace, it could be purely detrimental.

Too risky, I kinda lucked out with getting a cost-free spirit, the change to my two skills was neutral or slightly positive, the glitched title is just a waste of space, and now I'm just waiting for a glitch that screws me over completely. But then, being unable to add classes, titles or spirits for a year is quite detrimental.

"I guess that is another side effect of my... experiment yesterday. I guess we have no idea what it does?"

"None. I can only tell you what the options do either from my personal experience or what another mansion shared with me. But this one is completely new to me."

"Then let's just ignore it, Justo. Given my recent gacha luck, I'm just heading for a total disaster if I don't stop right now. And by the time the soul cleansing is done, the option will be gone anyway, if not sooner."

"Agreed."

There are no other noteworthy new options, so I start taking care of other paperwork.

A while later, Maria and Carl return.

Carl hides behind Maria as usual.

Maria says, "My lord, we've returned."

"I noticed. Before you give your report, can you tell me if everything is fine with you?"

"Mostly. I'm feeling fine but the addition of the second race wasn't without issue. I might even be weaker for it..."

And there is the detrimental case. I better check her status.

---