hotmtlnovel Chapter 17 Medici owes him twice
Chapter 17 Medici owes him twice
Azik remained silent, showing no surprise, as if he had anticipated something. He simply said, "But if I continue to be parasitized by Your Majesty, it seems I won't have a good end either. And Your Majesty, at least, won't act now."
Once a parasite has parasitized to a certain extent, it can devour the host entirely, turning them into its puppet. Amon often does this, turning others into Amon.
"Sigh, it's all Amon's fault. Look what he's done to the reputation of thieves." Rosen sighed dramatically before smiling and saying, "Don't worry, I won't parasitize you forever. I just wanted to say hello this time."
"By the way, you don't need to prepare secretly anymore; I can see through your little tricks."
Azik, who was indeed preparing to break free from the other's parasitism, paused in his movements. However, before he could do anything else, he suddenly felt his body relax.
Azik suddenly realized that the parasite had actually left on its own!
Then another voice rang out, tinged with amusement:
"See you next time, Azik! Don't be so wary of me, I'm here with good intentions!"
The sound was faint, seemingly right next to his ear, yet also seemingly coming from a great distance. But when Azik tried to pinpoint the source of the sound, he could find no trace of it.
……
On the other side, Rosen, who quickly retracted his avatar using the power of the gem buckle, revealed an interested expression.
Unlike Azik, who had undergone countless reincarnations in the Fifth Age, cleansed himself of madness, and became so humane that he appeared gentle, the Death Archon of this period was clearly exceptionally cold-blooded due to the dual influence of death and divinity, which Rosen found quite novel.
The only thing that Rosen regretted was that the connection to Azik was not activated during this contact.
"So the peripherals aren't activated just by touching the person; perhaps there are some hidden conditions?" Rosen pondered to himself, not in a hurry, since the few peripherals he had activated so far were enough for him to protect himself.
Rosen then looked at Medici, who was talking to Ulrolius beside him.
After a short while, their conversation ended. Although the Angel of Fate was reluctant to leave, she still chose to depart, while the Red Angel looked up at Rosen and asked, "When can we go back?"
"I remember someone saying there was no rush?" Rosen said with a smile.
"Tsk!" Medici clicked his tongue, crossed his arms, and looked at Rosen, saying, "Actually, you'll probably be disappointed, but I'm not in a hurry right now."
"I know you're just confused." Rosen nodded, looking at Medici slowly, and said, "Unlike Amon, you can't simply separate Adam and the sun god. But you also can't completely see Adam and the sun god as one person. You clearly know that Adam is the sun god who has lost his emotions, and the mistakes he made shouldn't be equated with the mistakes of the person you serve, yet they are indeed one person..."
"...Enough!" Medici suddenly interrupted Rosen, his red eyes filled with pain and struggle. The proud Red Angel finally curled the corners of his lips into a self-mocking, bitter smile: "Is this the situation you wanted to see?"
"Are you taking your anger out on me, Little Red?" Rosen looked at Him calmly. As a cub, the divine child should have been looking up at the young man before him based on his height, but in reality, it was more like he was looking down at him.
"Did I just tell you the truth, or did you want me to hide all this from you and create a false, beautiful world for you?"
Medici was struck as if by a heavy blow. His breathing became erratic for a moment, and his usually straight shoulders slumped. He said, "...I'm sorry."
This time it was Rosen's turn to be stunned. He stared at Medici, who looked like a dog that had been kicked several times in the rain, looking utterly dejected. Finally, he sighed and said, "We can go back in at least three days. Then you can ask the Sun God yourself. Perhaps He can give you an answer."
Some matters are beyond the control of outsiders; only those directly involved can provide answers.
Rosen didn't mind going back early, since he could come back again next time. Although he had only stayed in this era for a short time, he had already seen enough excitement and was quite satisfied.
"...Thank you." Medici's voice was very low, so low that it was almost unnoticeable unless you listened carefully.
"What are you saying? Speak louder, I didn't hear you." Although he heard her clearly, it obviously didn't stop Rosen from speaking with a grin.
Medici was well aware of this, and he gritted his teeth, saying irritably, "Don't go too far."
After a pause, the Red Angel suddenly crouched down, bringing his gaze level with Rosen's, and said, "I owe you twice."
One was about the truth about Adam, and the other was about Rosen coercing Amon to help Him beat up Adam.
"Then you'd better remember this well, you'll have to pay it back." Rosen said with a smile, patting Medici on the shoulder, "There are still three days left. Want to take a look around this future world? Hmm, we can also learn about the history after the fall of the Sun God."
Amon's introduction to the future was interrupted by an unexpected event after the fall of the sun god, and the rest naturally needed to be learned by themselves—although Rosen already had a general understanding of it because of the original work, more details obviously could only be known by consulting the relevant historical materials.
After all, the original work does not provide a very detailed description of this period of history.
Medici paused upon hearing this, then stood up and said, "Alright, I'm also very curious about what happened in this world after the Lord's fall."
"Oh, right, I still have an experiment to do." Rosen suddenly remembered something and added, "We can go to the nearest city first; I need to buy some materials."
He wanted to test whether Peter Pan's potion really worked.
"Whatever!" Medici was clearly indifferent. He glanced at Rosen but didn't ask what kind of experiment the other wanted to conduct. He might have asked that before, but now Medici had clearly chosen to restrain himself.
This is His respect for the other person.
Clearly, after all these events, Medici's attitude towards Rosen has changed somewhat.
So Rosen happily led his newly appointed henchmen to find the ingredients to concoct Peter Pan's potion.
This is not a difficult task. Unlike the Fifth Era, which was mysteriously hidden from the world, during the War of the Four Emperors in the Fourth Era, neither gods nor extraordinary beings were secrets. Ordinary people, even if they could not become extraordinary beings, knew of their existence.
When Rosen designed the Peter Pan potion recipe, he also seriously referenced other potion recipes. This made the Peter Pan potion more complex in terms of materials compared to other potions, but these materials were still all at Sequence 9 and not too difficult to obtain. As long as you went to a gathering of extraordinary people in a slightly larger city, you could basically buy them.
So after wandering around for a while longer, Rosen successfully collected all the materials needed to concoct Peter Pan's potion.