The troops of Reigner 'somehow' became free of petrification.
Unlike Paula, they had no memories of Reigner even talking to them, so when the situation calmed down, the troops blinked their eyes in confusion. They couldn't tell what happened and why did they get turned into the stone statues.
Their blinking stopped when the sight of the divine child's petrified soul slipped into their eyesight...
"A soul became... petrified? Scary... What the hell happened here?"
"I don't know... but shouldn't we leave this place immediately?"
"Noble Medusa..."
Since Reigner was not that strict, the troops asked him a few questions with an inquisitive tone to which he didn't mind.
There were already a few things Reigner had in mind. So when his people regained part of their strength, the orders began raining down.
"First, get all the paintings for me. Then, we will take this stone statue to our border. As for the rest, burn, and let's get over it before Lora Kingdom's people come here."
As he spoke, Reigner suddenly turned around as Paula stood up to help others. She felt kinda useless, even though she could deal with the earth pebbles of the divine child... Just because of that, Reigner was grateful, but the lady thought otherwise.
She helped Reigner's people and one by one the paintings from the wall gathered around Reigner. The rest of the troops carefully raised the stone statue, then following the already opened route, Noble Medusa's troops left the underground.
No one was outside, thus, the group had an uneventful comeback.
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When Reigner came back to his border, he sighed and finally felt a little safer. He turned his eyes to the closest troop on the guard, then told him to pass the news. Along with that, Reigner also ordered his troops to increase in numbers when it comes to their watch duties.
The Lora Kingdom eventually will realize that something had happened.
So to avoid any meaningless deaths, Reigner added.
"Don't attack them at all, just raise your defenses when you spot them. Then, you must convince them that I want a peaceful talk."
"Y-yes... It might be hard though..."
"I don't care."
Reigner was willing to speak with the Lora Kingdom because his plans were already reaching 'The World Hope lands'. For now, he said everything that needed to be said to common troops, then send off the closest troops to the rest.
He himself went to his carriage to rest with Paula.
The rest was nice as both of them became closer. The light food and merry talk ensued within the carriage, then Reigner went straight to the point.
"I can make these paintings useful."
Grabbing one random painting from the side, Reigner looked at it with slightly narrowed eyes, then his powers erupted. The Item Creation System enveloped the painting, then after a few seconds passed, the message appeared within his mind.
[Low Fairy Whirlpools technique has been created.
- One time only.
- The painting is supplied with enough magic.]
The same thing followed the other paintings, turning them from mere 'comprehension' treasures to the deadly weapons that can bring way too many calamities onto this low world... Reigner knew that this is the jackpot that will bring him back home!
Also, it was both good and bad that these paintings can be used by anyone.
Reigner willingly passed one painting to his wife, Paula. It can be used by anyone, so there won't be any problems for her to utilize this power to save herself if bad events ensue. The worst thing is that everyone can use those, so he has to keep the treasure close.
It can be fine to keep them in the carriage, but Reigner wanted a treasure to be with him all the time. In various fantasy-like stories, the protagonists had a treasure which was either a storage ring or some dimensional pouch.
[You have failed to create a storage ring.]
[Lack of space knowledge.]
The same happened with the dimensional pouch... In the case of the paintings, these already had a lot of magic and 'concept' within, so it was easy to turn these into powerful treasures... Nothing could be done, so Reigner hid those within his carriage, then rolled onto the soft mat.
It was his and Paula's current bed. No one complained, whether the earthling or the princess. They were content with being close to each other. And now, with the wounds all over Reigner, cuddling could be only careful and gentle.
Paula luckily was a very sensitive lady, so she neatly held her husband and even helped with another medicine.
"Are you really fine about going to my world?"
"Yes. But Reigner, it shouldn't be possible for me to go here yet... Remember?"
"Yeah... I will do something about it soon."
First of all, Paula had been living in solitude as a 'failure'. She was bound to be used as a tool, so such fate with Reigner was something she couldn't be more content! The lady was willing to follow him, and wasn't she already bound to him anyway with her title - a wife?
Thus, the lady reassured Reigner who was now thinking about his future with her in his family! The couple cozily lied on the bed, both thinking about different things.
Reigner's mind was filled with a thought about fantasy. A fantasy medicine that can heal Paula's blindness. The more he thought, the harder it became to get rid of it... His wife was blind ever since birth, so it was not a problem for her.
But feeling the fantasy world, Reigner was sure that there has to be a medicine to fix that problem.
'What if... I won't be able to get rid of that fantasy? Once I come back home... I will still keep that power...'
Furthermore, the country had surely put some monitoring on the lost land. The houses of relatives outside the lost land also can be under a watch... Reigner was digging and digging into his theories, then he felt like puking.
'I might be not even able to come back home... For fuck's sake.'
The earthlings are also on the move in the low world. They have hope to come back as well and while they wield it, the world hope is also assimilating with the new world. The hope of earthlings slows down the process, but it will eventually happen if things are left like that.
'Ah, fuck this shit. I will see how it develops back on the earth...'
A few days passed after Reigner came back to his border.
He asked the general for the medicine to blindness secretly, but he said a simple sentence.
'If the king couldn't heal her, then the medicine is not in this world or at least we are unaware of it.'
'Or maybe he hadn't tried hard enough because her royal bloodline was sealed? Go back to your farm, useless shit.'
'I am going back, I am going back, Noble Medusa!'
Such memories brought up a lot of curses from Reigner. Luckily enough, Paula's bloodline is awakening and her fate's clogs are already on the move.
"The Lora Kingdom's people are here!"
"Oh, did you greet them nicely?"
"Yes! They are willing to talk with us!"
Reigner applauded when he heard the good news. He passed the huge wall, then the sight of the army unfolded before him! The torrents of the unseen wind were constantly going through them and if one could see the army from above, then they would see that the earth was also moving slightly.
Just a water element was lacking here.
"Hi there, Lora people. You all are really terrifying, so how about you unclench your buttocks?"
"You must be that new noble! Tell us whether you know what happened to our third royal prince!"
"Medusa is a surname. And yes, yes. I vaguely know what happened. Come in~~"
"We refuse. Just tell us what you know."
A few minutes later, the explosion of earth element swallowed more than eighty percent of the Lora Kingdom's people.