Volume 5 Chapter 225: A Thousand Things Waiting To Be Done At The Benedict Manor
Translator: The Light
Edits by Kenny
In the basement slope of the Benedict Manor, Bella didn’t have the courage to let her people light up the lamps. She didn’t want to see what the monsters lurking in the dark looked like. Bella didn’t want to have nightmares after going back.
The chains that bound the young female thieves weren’t very heavy. Bella easily cut off the chains. To be on the safe side, Bella reached out and touched their bellies to make sure they weren’t parasitized.
Those beautiful young thieves didn’t dare to resist. Their lives were entirely in the hands of this female Demon King. If this Demon King left them here alone, they would be finished. Fear of alien monsters in the underground world had made them give up their fear of demons.
“Please, we really haven’t been... haven’t been ‘that.’ Please take us away.”
“Are you sure... For my reward, you will become slaves of demons forever. Are you willing?”
“Yes, it’s better than being eaten by those monsters.”
Bella ordered her skeleton soldiers to carry the thieves out of the underground tunnel. It was hard to tell what sort of monsters these demons that climbed up from the basement were. They were fearless in the face of firearm attacks.
Lolita went behind Bella, looking a little cautious as if she minded the alien demons here. The armed skeleton soldiers were gradually retreating towards the ground. The power of the arquebus and copper guns only slowed down the progress of these alien demons.
“Mistress Bella, use Betty’s potion. It’s perfect for this situation.”
“I almost forgot. Thank you, Lolita.”
Bella had almost forgotten this important prop. She took out the Omnipotent Corpse Fluid given to her by Betty, unscrewed the lid, and smashed it at the demon in the frontmost center. After revealing out a mournful cry, the demon’s body dissolved away.
The Omnipotent Corpse Fluid potion was also highly toxic. Once the bottle was broken, it would spread in the air like water. They shut the basement door. Since the Corpse Fluid didn’t corrode metal, this door happened to close off everything in the underground lair.
This lair was disgusting. Bella planned to clean it up and get Extradimensional Creator Alfreia to teleport this lair full of horrible memories to somewhere with lava so that the fire could burn everything.
After leaving a large number of skeleton soldiers to keep watch and clean up the scene, Bella saw Kriss, who looked worried outside. After seeing Bella come out safely, Kriss went to her and hugged her.
“Bella, are you okay? Is there anything inside that you can tell me about?”
“Mmm, I’ve worried you. It’s okay, Kriss. Don’t worry about the stuff inside. I’ll take care of it. After I hand this over to Elven Princess Delias, it’ll be a whole new place.”
Since Bella didn’t want to say anything, Kriss didn’t ask either. They left with Lolita. As for Bella’s spoils, they had been quietly transported away by Extradimensional Creator Alfreia.
That night, Bella and the others quietly returned to their dormitory building “Pure White Heaven.” Kriss was too tired. She and Bella went to bed after taking a bath.
Bella wasn’t in a hurry to sleep. She was naked indoors and went out after wrapping her body in a black towel. Most of the girls in the dormitory building were part of Bella’s harem, apart from President Lucia and a few others whom she hadn’t laid hands on yet. So it wasn’t a problem to dress like this in the dormitory building.
Bella came to a secret room in the dormitory building, which was the private playroom of two evil Chaos Bringer lolis, Noesha and Betty. Those beautiful young thieves brought back from the Benedict Manor were all brought here for a medical examination.
Bella didn’t want any of those alien-like creatures to appear in this Other World. It was better to check these female thieves and make sure they pass the medical examination. Through the crack of the chamber door, Bella could clearly see the situation inside.
More than a dozen beautiful thieves were undergoing a full-body examination here. They were wearing black blindfolds and were naked. Noesha had tied them up in strange positions with red ropes and stuffed their mouths with a red ballgag, so they couldn’t scream even if they wanted to.
Besides Noesha and Betty, there were many succubi in the room. They served as a deterrent and helped Noesha and Betty work together. Looking at the two evil lolis enjoying themselves, Bella was a little embarrassed to disturb them.
Bella only knew that Noesha was a hidden sadist before, but she never expected Betty to be the same. The beautiful young thieves were played with using various props, making them blush like ripe apples.
“Noesha, Betty, you’re having a good time!”
“Older sister Bella, it’s good that you’re here. This drawing shows the treasure location of those thieves. They’ve told us everything. Take it then!”
“Mistress Bella, these female thieves have good physical quality. We can play a lot of new games with them. Don’t worry, we won’t hurt them. They are our property, after all.”
“They haven’t been infected, but the time for their physical examination is up to us.”
Bella took the treasure map and thought to herself that she had made a lot. The thieves had been wiped out. She had to send someone to take their treasure. As for the female thieves, they would be given to the two Chaos Bringer lolis to play with first. After training, they would be allowed to work under her close aide, Assassin Lola.
This could also be a kind of punishment for them for joining a thief gang and was better than them being locked up in prison and becoming playthings for prison guards. The female thieves knew this, so they could only helplessly accept their reality.
Bella didn’t continue watching the super erotic training scenes about to happen next. She turned and left because if she didn’t leave now, she might not be able to control herself. She was more sadistic than Noesha or Betty.
Betty promised Bella not to use the bodies of these beautiful thieves to do any biochemical experiments. After receiving her word, Bella left satisfied.
What were the alien demons in the underground lair? With Betty’s help, Bella understood more about them. They were indeed man-made demons. It just so happened to be canceled out with the transformed Corpse Fluid that she developed. The lair had probably been forcibly emptied.
Bella had used a demonic communication stone to ask the Creator of Light Vianne and the other female Creators about the “God” in the Black Scripture. They didn’t seem to want to mention who that person was, but they told Bella to leave the matter alone and said they would deal with it in the future.
What the “God” wanted to do in the underground lair had become an unsolved mystery for the time being. Creator of Darkness Mystica figured that this guy was trying to cultivate some sort of horrible biochemical demon, and raised it for tens of thousands of years, only to be destroyed by a colleague’s potion when it was almost successful.
Aside from the Black Scripture, the Human Continent seemed to have many evil things similar to the Black Scripture that hadn’t yet been discovered. The origin of the “God” of the parasites on these evil beings was probably only known to the Creators.
“Hey, Isaman, what are you doing in my dormitory building in the middle of the night?”
“Bella, isn’t what you’re wearing too...”
“What are you afraid of? We’re all girls. There are no men in this area.”
Outside the dormitory building, Bella met President Isaman, who was visiting in the middle of the night. Isaman wasn’t wearing very formal clothes either, but a set of casual white garments. This was much better than the Olsylvia Academy uniform she usually wore. At least her collarbone and shoulders could be seen.
“You settled the Benedict Manor yourself? The demonic being turned out to be... Alright, when President Angelia returns, I’ll discuss it with her to let that manor fall under your Rose Society’s territory!”
Bella omitted a large part of her experience and roughly told Isaman what happened. She didn’t mention the armed skeleton soldiers and the female thieves. She only said that the alien demons there were killed by herself. Bella didn’t mention anything about the underground lair either.
Isaman’s receptivity was quick, and she was going to leave after they spoke about it. Right then, Bella’s shifted her gaze and found a white light flashing in the grass outside the dormitory, which seemed to be the reflection of a sword.
“Isaman, don’t leave tonight. Come in with me!”
“Bella, you...”
While Isaman wasn’t paying attention, Bella had brought her into the dormitory building and shut the door. She wanted to ask why, but when she saw that Bella was looking through the observation window on the gate to observe the situation outside, she guessed something might have happened and didn’t speak.
After watching Bella enter the building, several figures appeared on the grass and headed towards Bella’s dormitory building. Tonight was a moonless night, and it was dark outside. Bella couldn’t see exactly what the assassins looked like.
The dormitory area was originally guarded by the secret guards of the Olsylvia Academy. However, Bella speculated that these assassins had someone on the inside. That was probably how they managed to easily bypass the secret guards and come to her dormitory, “Pure White Heaven.”
The assassins looked at the dormitory building and hesitated. After Duchess Bellina became an important member of Prince Frauer’s faction, the political assassinations against her had increased significantly. But outsiders couldn’t enter Bella’s dormitory building.
In the end, the assassins failed. Bella looked unhappy. They actually wanted to assassinate. It looked like the assassin organization wanted to remove her.
“Bella, I can handle these clowns...”
“That’s not the problem, Isaman. I don’t want to stain your hands with their dirty blood.”
“Bella, I couldn’t tell that a problem student like you actually had a soft side!”
“Of course. How about staying tonight? There are enough rooms and the sheets are provided free of charge.”
“What bad ideas do you have... Forget it, I’m a little sleepy anyways. Lead the way. I’ll try staying one night then.”
The news that the Benedict Manor had been taken over by the Rose Society spread throughout Olsylvia Academy the next day. The cursed land where countless people went missing reappeared in the public’s eye.
The mysterious lair under the Benedict Manor had been remotely teleported by the Extradimensional Creator to an underground lava tube for disposal. Bella didn’t send anyone into the underground lair to explore it again until it was teleported away. The exact layout of the lair became a secret forever.
The thieves who knew about the existence of the lair had been taken in by Bella’s Darkness Sacred Region, so outsiders wouldn’t find out about this. Now, the Rose Society employed a large number of artisans to work at the Benedict Manor and demolish the cathedral that made them all feel uncomfortable.
“Bella, this land here is very big. But I feel like there’s a lot of resentment here! It doesn’t feel like a curse. What is it?”
“Um... Princess Delias, I’ve already removed the curse in the land. There’s no problem for you to use the place. By the way, as compensation, I’ll cover the renovation costs.”
On the site of Benedict Manor, a large number of artisans have gathered. With a large sum of money, the artisans didn’t care if the place was cursed or not, and gathered up their energy. Bella demanded that all the old trees in the manor be cut down, and the roots of the underground trees be destroyed.
Bella’s plan is to demolish the Benedict Manor and rebuild a new place to symbolize the rebirth of this cursed land. The reason she dug the ground was to show those among the onlookers who had any ideas. She wanted to tell them that Benedict Manor didn’t have any treasure, so they would give up and not cause trouble in the new Benedict Manor in the future.
Bella appeared at the construction site of the Benedict Manor with the Moon Elven Princess Delias, who was now wearing the uniform of the Alessandra Academy. Like the Olsylvia Academy’s uniform, it was rather conservative and offered no “benefits.”
This inevitably made the boys feel very disappointed. They saw the beauty of the Moon Elf, but they couldn’t see her figure. Bella was wearing the ceremonial attire of the Gabriel Empire’s Dukes and a red rose armband symbolizing the Rose Society on her right arm. This was a formal occasion and one of the rare occasions where Bella was serious.
The Alessandra Academy was an academy for foreign races. Although it was usually closed off, some foreign students were allowed to open some small shops in Olsylvia Academy next door to earn funds for their clubs.
“Your Highness Princess Delias, you’re here. I am Nina, President of the Rose Society.”
“Older sister Nina, you don’t have to use any honorifics. Um... are you an astrologer?”
On the vacant lot in the Benedict Manor, Bella and Delias met Astrologer Nina, the President of the Rose Society. She was a beautiful girl with dark silver hair. Holding an astrological dial in her hand that was shaking violently, her golden eyes were full of caution.
“What’s the matter, Miss President. Is there a problem here?”
Bella grabbed Elven Princess Delias’s hand and went with President Nina to a secret pavilion at the construction site. Nina had been invited by Bella to take a look at the grounds, sort of like the way they would invite a feng shui master to look at the place before starting construction work in the previous world. The feng shui master in this Other World was also an Astrologer.
“This place... has too many leftovers from ten thousand years. If you want to use it, you must have a strong living breath such as the Seed of Life and pure light to purify this place.”
After all, it was her society’s business. President Nina was also in a difficult position. They had to find ways to eliminate the evil spirits of those who died in the demon experiment at the Benedict Manor over ten thousand years, or else it would be difficult to put this area to use.
President Nina motioned Bella to one side and quietly told her the actual situation. Those evil spirits, many of which have entered the trees and soil of the Benedict Manor, cannot be purified even by the current Radiant Pope.
Evil spirits of ancient times had to be purified by the popes of the first few generations. Only popes from the same time as these evil spirits could purify them. The evil spirits have mixed with the land, which made Creator of Light Vianne’s “Praise of Light” useless.
If they wanted to use the “Praise of Light,” they had to purify the entire Benedict Manor and even the land. In that case, the cost of filling in the land would be even higher, at least double, which Bella couldn’t afford.
Among the popes of the first few generations, Bella had the third generation Radiant Pope, the wandering spirit of McPherson. However, Pope McPherson had fallen ten thousand years ago. Now even the most basic holy light of the priest would be a corrupted version, which was useless.
Looking back on the previous generations of the popes of the Radiant Church, the popes had all gone dark, either having fallen or demonized, with all sorts of betrayals. Only the first generation Radiant Pope Goldsmith, known as the “Origin of Light,” and the fifth-generation Radiant Pope Roxanne, known as the “Adjudicator of Light,” had adhered to their belief in the light right up to the point when they disappeared.
After Goldsmith and Roxanne, the sixth to the eighteenth generation Light Popes were all men. Bella didn’t like male popes, so there was no way she would look for them.
It was already more than ten thousand years later, so it was hard to say if Goldsmith and Roxanne were still here in this world. However, Knight King Liath was also a legendary hero ten thousand years ago and managed to live to this day. It was very likely that the two priests didn’t disappear.
“The Seed of Life? Are you talking about the Sacred Object of our Elven Race that has been lost for thousands of years? We have been searching for that thing with the Fairy Race for thousands of years, but still have not found it...”
After learning from Bella that she needed this thing, Elven Princess Delias was very pale. The Seed of Life had disappeared long ago. Legend has it that it lay dormant in the remains of the Goddess of Life. However, it was located in the Arcana kingdom, the Aldridge Empire, so they couldn’t explore further.
The relationship between the Aldridge Empire and the Elven Race wasn’t very good. They secretly supported the slave trade. It was difficult for them to look for the Seed of Life in that empire.
“Bella, I just remembered, this time, our academy’s magic department’s off-campus social activity is held at the ruins of the Goddess of Life. They are now halfway through the event. You should go have a look. Ariel is taking part as well.”
“If the Seed of Life is there, we can buy it with money. If we don’t have enough money, borrow it from Sharon’s family. His family is the richest one there.”
With Nina’s reminder, Bella immediately set off on her way to the magic teleportation array, ready to be directly transferred to the Aldridge Empire to join Ariel. They didn’t have much time, so Bella set off before she could bring a roommate along.
As soon as Bella left, Isaman arrived at the Benedict Manor. The impetuous girl missed an opportunity to be intimate with Isaman. If she had asked, Isaman, who still remembered the warmth of last night, would be willing to accompany her.