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◈ Got a Gallery in the Wild ◈
Chapter 216: Normalization (1)
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[Post title] Title) Praise Aris.
[Post] (Photo of the giant Cain statue)
[Post] (Video of the Cain statue moving)
[Post] (Video of the Cain statue ascending into the sky)
[Post] (Photo of the Hero smiling brightly)
[Post] The great Aris has revealed her will, and Cain has arrived in answer to her call!
└ Can't we praise the Hero instead of Aris?
└ They say the Hero stopped the entire army. Now that's a real Hero.
└ As expected of the Hero. No mercy when it comes to the Demon King.
└ Think of the Hero as Aris's sword and will too.
└ So what happens to El Dorado now? The top brass all got wiped out.
└ No idea. Apparently, some people are saying it might become a republic?
└ What happens if it becomes a republic? Does the Papal Palace disappear?
└ No, no, no. The Hero is restoring the demoted commander to their original post. The system itself will probably remain.
└ Looks like they're creating a separate faction to keep the Pope in check? The Pope, the Hero, and one more, so three of them.
└ With three of them, they can definitely keep each other in check.
└ Plus, Cain showed up, so the influence might become even stronger. It means Aris is watching over them.
└ Where the hell did that statue even come from?
[Post title] Title) Nothing else matters.
[Post] (Photo of El Dorado stocks shooting up)
[Post] (Photo of stock listings filled with red)
[Post] If your stocks shot up, upvote lol
[Post] There aren't any idiots who sold just because of the protest, right? lol
└ Friend. That's not a surge. It's called normalization...
└ It was scraping the bottom just three hours ago;;
└ Wasn't it practically at its lowest point when an update about Hans was posted?
└ Yeah. But why does El Dorado even have that many stocks?
└ Because it's wedged between Alvenheim and the Messiah Empire. If El Dorado gets fucked, trade basically becomes impossible.
└ Cain seriously saved all the small investors lol
└ The great Aris restored not just the Holy Kingdom, but the stock market too;;
[Post title] Title) That aside,
[Post] Where the hell did that statue come from?
[Post] Did it really just fall from the sky?
└ Yeah. That's what witnesses are saying.
└ (Video of Cain falling from the sky) Look at this. It fell like this.
└ Whoa;; It fell crazy fast, but the ground only got a little damaged.
└ Can something like that keep being summoned?
└ No idea. It looked like even the Hero summoned it by accident.
└ Still, the biggest thing is that Aris is watching over them.
About two hours had passed since the Cain statue fell like a meteorite.
I had a hell of a time patching the collapsed ceiling during those two hours.
I had even run out of spare supplies, so I had no choice but to call Kkobong outside.
“I don't want to work! It's too cold!”
“Sweet potato confiscated.”
“Actually, I've gained weight. I'll exercise.”
That was more or less how I persuaded Kkobong. Every time we talked, I seriously wondered whether Kkobong was actually a person.
Anyway, the protests in El Dorado had ended well, so all that remained was the Blood Cult.
According to Heavenly Demon, they had not made any major moves yet, but it would be soon.
‘Still, that statue got that big?’
I looked at the Cain statue, which was presumed to have saved El Dorado.
In the Gallery photos, it had been two or three times larger than an average building, but the one I was looking at now was quite small.
Could something this small really become a statue much larger than a building?
The timing was too perfect to be a coincidence. Even their appearances were identical.
More than that, considering it had wriggled after crashing down, it definitely had a sense of self.
‘Even if that's true, why is it here? And inside a Mimic?’
There were plenty of things that made no sense if I looked at them one by one.
But this was the Forest of Four Seasons. It was better to casually burn common sense to ashes.
‘What if...’
If I rode this thing while it flew, could I escape?
It sounded not just stupid but suicidal when said out loud, but I was serious.
There were prerequisites. First, the Hero.
‘According to Ludwig, it rose while saying it would answer the call.’
And in the Gallery video, it said it had answered the call.
That call was most likely from the Hero, Asella.
The holy sword must have functioned as some kind of beacon, bringing Cain there.
Otherwise, it could not have reached the exact spot before the Papal Palace in El Dorado.
‘In other words, I'll need the Hero's cooperation to test it...’
Honestly, I had a rough idea who the Hero was.
The Gallery's Head Mod, DontAbandonTheHero.
Unlike her somewhat dim-witted(?) words and behavior, she was an impressive person with a righteous heart.
There was the fact that she occasionally said someone was chasing her, and that she worshipped Aris.
Most of all, she had made all kinds of accommodations for me while asking me to help Ludwig.
‘Still, I have to consider the possibility that I'm wrong.’
She would be busy cleaning up the aftermath right now, so I would put off asking directly until later.
The same went for posting it on the Gallery. Who knew what kind of consequences that might cause?
Once people learned the statue had moved, they might call it a “holy relic” and blindly come searching for the Forest of Four Seasons.
Wouldn't it be better if more people came to the Forest of Four Seasons?
Again, blindly.
If they came thoroughly prepared, I wouldn't stop them.
‘Still, I want to know how it works.’
I should ask Allfather. He was the right person for this kind of thing.
I would put off posting about it on the Gallery for now. Figuring out the situation came first.
[Wild Grylls]: Hello, Allfather. Are you there?
[Allfather]: Oh! Hello, Grylls. It's been a while since we talked like this.
Had he heard about the situation in El Dorado too? He was on the Gallery.
I had been worried because I had not heard from him at all after he asked for more Ambergris last time.
[Wild Grylls]: Did everything work out okay?
[Allfather]: Thanks to you, it was resolved well. I was thinking about how I should repay you.
[Wild Grylls]: Then could you grant me one request instead of repaying me?
[Allfather]: Gladly. What is your request?
[Wild Grylls]: (Photo of the Cain statue) You know this, right?
[Allfather]: I have been consistently reading the posts you upload, Grylls.
Then this would be easy. I explained the situation to Allfather.
It might have been a coincidence, but there was a high chance that the statue which appeared in El Dorado and this statue were the same being.
There was the fact that it had suddenly shot into the sky, then fallen as a meteorite shortly afterward.
Allfather quietly listened to me, then exclaimed.
[Allfather]: Good heavens. Something like that existed? My lower half is stirring again...!
[Wild Grylls]: Is this another mythic being?
[Allfather]: It is a mythic being, but in effect, it is mythology reenacted. A statue with a sense of self cannot exist in this world. No, I thought it could not. Can you trade the statue?
I had actually intended to send him the statue so he could analyze it more easily.
But as soon as I registered it, the possibility I had only half expected unfolded before my eyes.
[System] [Living creatures cannot be traded.]
“...”
A rule that could be called the Gallery's first principle.
Living creatures could not be traded. In other words, this statue was a living creature.
‘The statue is alive? Are you kidding me?’
I had thought surely not, but that unlikely possibility had turned out to be real. It was absurd.
The giant statue uploaded to the Gallery had definitely acted as if it were alive.
It had even spoken. The thought briefly crossed my mind that the Mithril in the cave, which could not even speak, had also been judged as alive.
[Wild Grylls]: It says I can't trade it because it's a living creature.
[Allfather]: As expected, it definitely possesses a sense of self. It may be a higher-order version of a Guardian.
[Wild Grylls]: Then why did it grow bigger when it left the Forest of Four Seasons?
[Allfather]: It may have reacted to the holy sword, or it may be due to the Forest of Four Seasons' uniquely intense pressure. Both are also possible.
[Wild Grylls]: So it's hard to figure out.
[Allfather]: It is essentially an artifact from the Mythic Age, no, a holy relic. Even I would not dare make predictions.
In the end, that meant we had no choice but to keep observing it.
Cain would likely react if something happened in El Dorado.
Maybe I could look for a chance to escape then. It might be a decent plan.
[Allfather]: But it is certain that it is linked to the holy sword. Let me tell you in advance, it would be best to give up on escaping with that.
[Wild Grylls]: Huh? Why?
[Allfather]: It seems you truly had that idea. Do you know the concept of fixed coordinates? It is similar to warp travel.
[Wild Grylls]: Is it edible?
[Allfather]: You can think of it as similar to a vacuum tube.
A vacuum tube was a type of communication device. In steampunk, it replaced wired telephones.
The holy sword and statue were built on a similar concept. The problem was how they worked.
[Allfather]: Do you know what lies beyond the sky?
[Wild Grylls]: Space.
[Allfather]: You know quite a lot. I suspect it rises into outer space, then travels to the designated coordinates.
[Wild Grylls]: ...It doesn't teleport?
[Allfather]: Yes. If it teleported, it would not have shot upward.
No. Fuck.
What kind of rock had missile-like capabilities built into it?
It was even on the level of an intercontinental ballistic missile. What the hell kind of technology was this?
It was only a hypothesis, but it was highly convincing.
It had shot into the sky, then fallen like a meteorite.
Its accuracy was incredible. It had not even missed by much.
[Wild Grylls]: Then how does it return?
[Allfather]: I don't know that much. Has Ludwig ever prayed to the statue?
[Wild Grylls]: A few times.
[Allfather]: There is a high chance the coordinates were fixed through that. Especially since I heard that he possesses a great deal of divine power, it is not impossible.
The moment I heard that, I looked at Ludwig.
Maybe because I had told him the news, he was quietly praying to the statue.
I was so dumbfounded that I had nothing to say. If I had my way, I'd throw the thing away.
[Wild Grylls]: Then I should give up on escaping with this?
[Allfather]: If you want to become a meteor yourself, I will not stop you.
[Wild Grylls]: I can't survive it?
[Allfather]: It reaches several thousand degrees. Do you think you would be all right?
[Wild Grylls]: ;;
In the end, I gave up entirely on escaping through the statue. I had no idea when this thing might fly off.
All I could do was live as usual and search for ways to escape whenever I could.
‘Let's not post it on the Gallery.’
It would not help even if I did. I should just keep it as a decoration.
Still, since I did not know when it might shoot up, I thought I should make a separate launch shaft.
‘The launch shaft... should I put it there?’
The ceiling the statue had smashed through twice. It was currently blocked with wooden boards.
Maybe I could build it up like a chimney later.
“Old man. Stop praying and let's go prepare food.”
“Mm.”
Besides, I could not obsess over one statue.
I called Ludwig and started preparing a meal.
Tyrano headed outside, and just as I was about to move too.
Clunk-
I heard a rattling sound behind me. Hearing it, I turned around.
The statue I had roughly placed on top of a box had fallen onto the floor.
Come to think of it, hadn't it rattled around when it first crashed down too?
As that thought occurred to me, I looked up at the ceiling blocked with wooden boards.
“...Hey.”
“...”
“Quit pretending you're a toy from some kids' movie and crawl over here.”
Did it think it was some toy from a children's movie?
I now clearly knew it had a sense of self, and it had even spoken in El Dorado.
So it should be perfectly capable of doing it now that it was small too.
“I'll give you three seconds. Come over here before I use you to scrape dead skin off my feet.”
“...”
“Three... two...”
Just before I reached one.
Clunk! Clunk! Clunk!
The statue stiffly walked over like a Nutcracker doll.
It would have been deeply horrifying to anyone who did not know better, but not to me.
It was just a troublesome thing that had wrecked the cave ceiling.
The Cain statue soon stood proudly in front of me.
And then...
[$%$#%$...... #$%#%]
The statue spoke in the same language as Ludwig.
Naturally, I could not understand it, but I got the nuance.
It had answered the call.
“...Good grief.”
After a dragon, now a talking statue.
It just keeps getting crazier.
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