What did Alchemia do?

Now then. We decided to take a look at the former Alchemia's territory.

"Huh, that's convenient. Being able to see the whole world from a room… any military secret'd be laid bare. Don't go using this anywhere else, alright?"

"… Ohh, that would be bad, nya!?"

"I already know that without being told. Personal use only."

First up was the former capital… Yeah, it's a crater. Reconstruction doesn't seem to be happening!

"Whoa. What the hell is this… This isn't something humans could have done."

"Yeah, the Goddess went on a rampage here."

"Eh? That gentle-looking Goddess went on a rampage, nya? What kind of evil deeds did Alchemia commit, nya?"

For the record, the Goddess that Misha's been meeting is of course the fake one, modeled after the Goddess statue.

Though since the person inside is the real deal, it's basically the same thing anyway.

"She seems gentle to you? Well, she is a Goddess, I suppose."

"Nyahahahaha, I get my butt curse exorcised regularly, nya!"

"Good for you, Misha."

Misha puffed her chest out proudly at Mashiro-san.

Of course, Misha's butt isn't actually cursed at all. She only gets called in because the Goddess wants to fiddle with her butt. All she does is get her butt spanked. "As long as you continue this treatment, there's no possibility of it worsening," she's been told, made to come in regularly for a curse that can't worsen because it doesn't exist in the first place.

… I suppose you could call that divine favor. Sure.

"Oh, by the way, Mashiro-san, if you want to meet the Goddess too, I could ask if it's okay?"

"Eh? W-wait, eh? Hold on… Ummm…"

"… A strong-willed, furry onee-san type… I'd love to strip her clothes off, put a collar on her, and walk her around town on all fours! She can keep just her socks on, though!"

"Ah, sorry, never mind. I can't let Mashiro-san meet the Goddess after all."

"O-oh?? I-I see…"

Mashiro-san looked a little disappointed, but I'm sorry. It's to protect your dignity.

"Nyahahaha! You got rejected!"

"Shut up! Hardly anyone gets to meet the Goddess!!"

"Well, anyway, Alchemia incurred the Goddess's wrath. Nothing to be done about it."

Partly to serve as an example to others, Alchemia will probably stay like this for a while.

"Still, there's really no one left here at all."

"True. We can't see into the shadows of the rubble from above, but… Oh, is that a Roper?"

"Tentacles, nya. They're pretty tasty when you grill them, nya."

There was an area with tentacles sprouting from the ground like a sea anemone, but no sign of people whatsoever.

"Did all the humans just… die? If it was divine wrath, that'd be possible."

"No, aside from the old geezer calling himself the Chaos God, she wasn't trying to kill anyone specifically, so there should be survivors, I think…"

"Ha! Could those Ropers from earlier actually be humans transformed into tentacles, nya!? Divine punishment, nya!?"

"That's terrifying. I don't think that's the Goddess's doing, though."

Turning people into tentacles… that didn't happen during the Tutorial…

… …

Now that I think about it, I did do things like create a grotesque abomination by endlessly duplicating the old geezer's arms. Crap. It's possible.

"Well, surely not. She's lenient toward unrelated ordinary people."

Indifferent, more like. Though she always has room for socks.

"Hm? There's something that looks like a settlement a little ways off."

"Huh? A village from Alchemia? Something like that survived?"

"Or it could be a bandit hideout, nya! There's also the possibility that a village got attacked and taken over, nya!"

So we decided to take a closer look at that settlement.