"Technique...... Roland frowned. He had seen in the devil's memories how these aliens had been promoted—by merging with more powerful magic stones to define their talents or talents, and if they succeeded, they would live, and if they didn't, they would die. In essence, it is not much different from the abilities of witches, they are all resigned to fate, and even more cruel.

But the technology is different...... As long as you grasp the rules, you can quickly scale up and develop according to your needs, which does not bode well for humanity.

"Are you sure?" Anna, the person closest to Roland's thoughts, was clearly aware of this.

"Further research is needed on the remains that have been brought back, but ......" she looked at Selene.

The latter nodded his beard and led the group to a black boulder covered in cracks, "This is part of a massive skeleton, and from the results of the current rough dissection, it is likely to be a living thing. 」

"Hmm...... It's not surprising that living creatures," Roland said, touching his chin, after all, in the post-war report, an officer mentioned that when the enemy's giant skeleton was hit by a cannonball, it let out a howl that resounded through the battlefield. "This thing is the armor of a deformed devil. ”

"No, Your Majesty," Selene's tone was a little odd, "I mean...... The stone is alive. 」

"What?"

Everyone was slightly stunned, and then took a step back in unison.

"Wait, you mean it has life?"

"Could it be that stones are also a kind of devil?"

"I'm not ...... Understand, can you explain it in more detail?"

For a while, the hall resounded with gossip of inquiry.

"To put it simply, it has a self-contained system that can perform simple actions autonomously. Selene rolled up a hammer and slammed it down on the broken edge of the stone, and with a "dang" sound, the stone trembled slightly. Through the gap, Roland could see something similar to a meridian squirming inside, and this tremor lasted for half a minute before stopping, obviously not because of the hammer.

"From what we saw at the scene, we know that there is a huge tissue hanging from the abdomen under the giant skeleton, which we have always thought to be the body of the deformed demon. The anatomical results proved that the two were not the same thing. "After discovering this, Selene and I never understood why the deformed demon in its abdomen existed if the skeleton could move on its own?" ”

Anna was the first to react, "Carrier?"

"That's right," Selene approving, "whether it's the Primordial Carrier or the Devouring Worm, they all have a distinct trait, which is that they remain living creatures in the absence of a controller. She turned to look at Roland, "Your Majesty, do you remember what Cabradabi said—'Did you also grab a piece of the Legacy Fragment and upgrade your civilization?'"

"And then there's one more sentence," Roland nodded, the first time he heard the word "I'm Tadarin", he was particularly impressed, "those weapons are also based on the contents of the fragments?...... That's probably what it means. ”

Tilly thought thoughtfully, "Now it seems that the reason why Cabradabi thinks this is because they have had a similar experience and obtained the method of making the carrier from the fragments?

"It's very likely, after all, there are too many similarities between the two, such as the carrier's vitality is extraordinary, it can survive for a long time in a dormant state, and even if it is hit hard, it is not so easy to die, etc. 」

"It's not impossible to attribute the inheritance fragments in the devil's mouth to the underground civilization, but isn't the latter's control of the carrier achieved through soul instruments? The devil's method seems to be a little far from this......

"Perhaps...... They don't have the full mana core manufacturing method to transform their shells like the Underworld," Agatha replied, "or maybe it's a more appropriate way for their race—just as the Federation invented the Divine Punishment Transformation Method in the absence of an abundance of carriers. In a sense, the Divine Punishment Samurai is a kind of vehicle. ”

"Wait, isn't that right?" Nightingale said with a confused expression, "I don't quite understand your reasoning, but one thing is certain, and that is that humans have never received any inheritance. The weapons used by the First Army are all from His Majesty's ideas, and the transformation of the Divine Punishment Army is the research result of the Federation, so as a result, we still mastered the use of the magic core and took over the relics of the underground civilization?"

"Actually, that's the crux of the matter," Agatha said seriously, "and I suspect that there's more to the Legacy than just a Divine Relic, and that's the main reason why I call it a technique rather than a ability. ”

Roland suddenly felt a chill all over his body, and an indescribable feeling welled up in his heart, "What do you mean...... Studying?"

"Yes," the Ice Witch exhaled, "through teaching and learning, even if you don't devour the relics of the gods, or the fragments of inheritance, as Kabradabi said, you can get everything that civilization has accumulated, and I think that's the essence of 'inheritance'." ”

There was a brief silence in the hall.

After a while, Selene's words resounded in everyone's minds, "Considering that the devil has appeared so many new weapons of war in four hundred years, perhaps the function of the relics of the gods is to greatly shorten the long learning process, or even complete it instantly—and the evolution of civilization from this is what they call 'upgrading'. 」

Roland finally knew what the feeling was in his heart at the moment—perhaps Cabradabi was right, humanity did have a legacy, but not by the relics of a civilization, but by word of mouth, the oldest of them. As a traverser, he invisibly connects the two worlds.

"If that's the case, doesn't that mean that the relics of the gods are keeping track of us all the time?" Wendy looked worriedly at the secret room on the side of the main hall, where the relics were kept.

"Unless we get a piece of it too, no one will know the answer. Agatha shook her head, "But if the devil does master the carrier technology, we will most likely encounter more challenges than we have ever seen before." She looked at Roland apologetically, "I'm sorry, Your Majesty...... I'm afraid that the experience of the war that the Federation has gained over the centuries will not help you much. ”

"It doesn't matter, for the devil, the third battle of divine will will also be a new experience. Roland reassured that despite the uncertainty of the future, he had to keep faith in front of everyone and not take a step back no matter what, "In addition, if the upgrade is limited to technology, it means that we can also learn what we need from each other, and even from civilizations that have long lost the fragments of inheritance, doesn't it?"

"You're right," Selene replied, as if in a heart's estimation, "and that's one of the duties of our Quest Society. 」