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Chapter 73 - The Ancient Witch Merlin and the Soup of Super Evolution

The Witch's Shrine, deepest level. After Defray's full-course anaconda banquet, we stood before a giant, moss-covered stone door deep within the dungeon.

With a dull groaning sound, the door opened. Beyond it stood an old woman, holding a single, enormous staff.

Her entire body was covered in a black mantle, and her long white hair trailed to the floor. Her eyes, as if seeing through everything, gazed at us quietly.

"...You've come, 'heroes of the monster race.' Welcome to the shrine of the beautiful witch, Merlin."

"You're... the ancient witch, Merlin...?"

It was Amy who asked, but in the next moment, Merlin smiled brightly and said,

"Hey there, I'm 999 years old. Still a fresh young thing♪"

"Ugh... she's the type to say it herself..."

Then, when her gaze turned to Tiris.

"...Fufu. How nostalgic. You there, the Dark Elf... you look just like me when I was young."

"Eh!?" Tiris's eyes went wide.

"...Eeeeh!? This old lady!?" I couldn't help but let my voice out.

My mind was swirling with fantasies. (She used to be a slender beauty with long black hair... or something!? But now...) Before me was a stooped, wrinkled old woman, grinning.

"Back in the day, you must have been... well... like... your bust size..."

"Ufufu, D-cup."

"Stop iiiit! Don't ruin my dreams!"

"You want me to make the soup of super evolution, don't you."

With those words, she laughed. An elegant laugh, yet tinged with a hint of madness.

"However, the ingredients required are the organs, fangs, and 'love' of 'Super-Hazardous S-Rank' monsters."

We were all speechless.

◆Super Evolution Soup Ingredient List◆
① The 'Eye of Obsession' of the Purgatorial Beast Balgrum
② The 'Hardened Carapace Nerve Core' of the Four-Legged Armored Insect Spardion
③ The 'Discharge Feather' of the Thunder-Devouring Bird Curvak
④ The 'Reverse Scale' of the Crimson-Eyed Bear Rugan
⑤ The 'Tremor Hoof' of the Earth-Splitting Demon Bull Gormada

"Now then, go and gather the ingredients. The ones who make it back alive can have the first taste."

We were tasked with gathering the ingredients from super-hazardous S-rank monsters. Seriously?

As they left the ancient witch Merlin's abode, Mamoru the Hobgoblin felt as if he heard the Demon Lord's voice in his ear.

"Mamoru... I leave the rest... this world, to you."

No way, he's the Demon Lord, there's no way he'd lose to Hero Ares. He must have survived.

However, Demon Lord Regna=Val=Noct was dead, killed by Hero Ares.

Mamoru did not yet know that the world of the game called 'Legend of Brave Regalia' had broken just a little bit more.