Via clearly heard the abyssal tongue emanating from the black box.
The sound was very much like obsidian blocks grinding against each other deep inside a cave, or like some colossal creature swimming through a muddy swamp, the filthy sludge scraping over its scales with a strange noise that could penetrate the listener’s mind, where blatant malice would twist normal willpower.
She didn’t understand why the abyssal tongue, which only demon descendants could master, would appear here?
Using the abyssal tongue could, under specific circumstances, drive those monsters infected by abyssal aura.
This language was extremely dangerous to ordinary humans; unless one was a strong-willed expert, their spirit could easily be polluted.
If not for her memories from her previous life, Via might have kneeled on the ground right then and there, vomiting nonstop.
“gaki——”
The voice in the black box continued speaking in the abyssal tongue.
Via remained silent, carefully listening to its content and discerning its meaning.
The content was roughly an output of words like killing, madness, destruction… and the like.
The key was that she also discovered something.
That was, the accent of the abyssal tongue user was not authentic enough.
This was the first time she had heard such an accent; it was more like a novice learning a foreign language, with a vocabulary that wasn’t rich, and possibly not even a demon descendant themselves.
“Dxi！Wn！”
The black box used an almost irresistible tone to convey a command.
It meant to make the listener immediately take action, comply with the instructions mentioned above, liberate their nature, and launch an attack on the humans in Doff City without delay, allowing indiscriminate killing.
The black box had been on Emma earlier, so were these commands issued to Emma?
“……”
Via widened her eyes.
She understood; someone was using this black box to communicate with Emma, who had been eroded by abyssal aura and turned into a demonized being, twisting Emma’s remaining rationality through this method and turning her into a thorough monster.
Emma had suddenly fled from the old manor at that time because her own words made Emma think of her mother and want to return to her side.
But because her mind had already been polluted, Emma obeyed the commands conveyed in the black box and instead turned into wanting to kill the mother she found.
“……”
Perhaps because there had been no response from Via’s side for a long time, the other side of the black box also fell into silence.
Just like that, she and the black box engaged in a silent confrontation in a subtle atmosphere.
After a full ten seconds, the black box sounded again, but this time it wasn’t the abyssal tongue; it was the common language that anyone could understand.
“You are not a demonized being of our Abyss Eye; who exactly are you?”
“……！”
Via was startled.
Abyss Eye?
She had never heard of it openly; could this be the name of some organization?
Most intelligence related to demonized beings was classified content; even in the Holy Land, only high-level personnel were qualified to know it.
Unless one reached a level like Belon, with Via’s status, she couldn’t touch such intelligence.
Whoosh!
While she was thinking, the light emitted by the crimson single eye on the black box changed from an eerie red to blue, followed by a fluctuation of magic power; invisible magic power began scanning the surroundings of the black box.
She immediately recognized it as tracking magic; someone had locked onto the position in Doff City and also wanted to obtain her information.
She couldn’t just sit and wait for death.
Via stayed calm, pinched the black box, and released her magic power like a scalpel, invading it at the fastest speed, inserting into the core area, confirming the internal structure, and then destroying the core region.
The scanning magic that the black box was operating was forcibly stopped, so in this way, it probed Via’s information.
“What a troublesome thing; I knew I shouldn’t have picked it up.”
The pink-haired girl muttered; originally, she was going to throw the black box into the trash pile.
But after thinking about it, she still put it away.
She had roughly inferred the situation.
Emma hadn’t accidentally come into contact with abyssal aura; there should be a mysterious organization called Abyss Eye that was actively creating demonized beings.
Children who had mysteriously disappeared in Doff City like Emma might have been captured by Abyss Eye and turned into monsters in crazy experiments.
Perhaps this organization wanted to collect some experimental data, so they deliberately released Emma, letting her act in Doff City, and even possibly attack her own kind.
The black box should be the communication tool that Abyss Eye used to issue commands to demonized beings.
This organization definitely wouldn’t be satisfied with creating just one or two demonized beings; from the degree of completion, Emma shouldn’t be a finished product.
“However, what does this have to do with me?” Via said to herself.
Even if it blew up, it would be handled by the empire and the Holy Land.
After thinking it over, she didn’t plan to report it; problems within the human world should be left to humans to discover and handle themselves.
She was too lazy to meddle more, and she couldn’t let these broken matters affect her path to becoming stronger.
……
……
“Miss Via, congratulations on completing the commission; you have obtained the corresponding commission points and the commission reward.”
The receptionist pushed the adventurer badge in front of Via.
“Does the one I took count as completing the commission?”
Via took back the adventurer badge and tapped it lightly; the information displayed on it had a column for completed commissions, which was the D-class task 【Investigate Strange Noises in Old Western Manor】, and the points system in another column had indeed increased, also showing how much was still needed to reach C-class.
This could also be considered a resume showcasing an adventurer’s achievements.
“Yes, your reward has been deposited into your bank account; if you need it, you can go to the Saint Luo Imperial Bank to withdraw at any time.”
The receptionist still found it somewhat unbelievable; such a useless Via could actually complete a commission that others found tricky alone; could it be that she hired external help?
However, as the commission issuer, Mike had no objections to the completion of the commission and was quite happy, saying that he could finally start normal construction on the old manor, and it didn’t seem to have too many problems.
Therefore, she wouldn’t ask directly; as a receptionist, she had to be cautious in speech, lest she say the wrong thing and get complained about, which would deduct her salary and be bad.
“Is this… the experience of working?”
Via looked at the reward she obtained from completing the commission, and the corners of her mouth rose.
Although it wasn’t a big harvest, this feeling was indeed very wonderful.
The order established in the human world wasn’t entirely useless.
“The next step is to continue working to save money; I still need a lot of money to achieve my current stage goals.”