LGHTNOVELBOOK chapter 259
Chapter 259. Brainwashing Device… Oh, no, It’s Saintess Armament
At the same time.
Inside a certain underground research institute belonging to the church, researchers, led by Dean, were excitedly shouting in response to a major research success.
Most magical items on the market, created by alchemists and mages, are generally used to make life easier or to protect themselves from monsters.
But the researchers at the Relic Institute belonging to the church weren’t focused on that.
Their goal was to thoroughly study ancient relics with strange powers and to create powerful equipment in the modern day that surpassed those ancient relics.
That was the ultimate equipment, named ‘Sacred Artifacts’.
But even ancient relics have varying degrees of strength. From the establishment of the institute until now, after more than a decade of research,
none of them dared to say that they had completely deciphered any ancient relic. They could only claim that the principles of some had been partially understood.
Each institute also focused on different projects.
One of those projects, the one Research Dean was in charge of, was a ‘brainwashing device’.
No, the official name was the Sacred Artifact ‘Saintess Armament’.
The Saintess Armament was a head-mounted device that allowed the wearer to maximize their fighting ability.
The price to be paid was the disappearance of the wearer’s personality and consciousness.
But that didn’t matter, as long as someone else inputted the commands for them.
If they didn’t have a brain, wouldn’t an external one work just as well?
Even a common nun who only knew a little Holy Light magic could demonstrate the power of a first-rate mage – that was the ultimate goal of these researchers.
Because it involved magic that interfered with the wearer’s mind, they had to use a magical device, also an ancient relic.
And to test if interfering with a personality was successful, Dean had previously lent the magical device to the First Princess of a certain kingdom, and after a period of time, successfully received news of the experiment’s success, reaping a wealth of precious experimental data.
After all, if the minds of demons, who were superior to humans in all aspects of combat, could be interfered with, then humans certainly wouldn’t be a problem either.
As for the Water City Bishop Horace’s request for a device that didn’t increase combat power, but was purely for hypnosis, they had made that as well, as a side project.
But because it was simply hypnosis, controlling people’s consciousness, that was all.
Dean wasn’t actually very interested.
Because that sort of thing could actually be done with the ancient relic magical device, he had just miniaturized it.
And even the black market actually sold similar things.
Although he had made it a while ago, Dean wasn’t in a hurry to send it to Horace.
It wasn’t until the ‘Saintess Armor’ was successfully created that he delivered it to Horace, who was the ‘client’.
Using the money provided by Bishop Horace, he completed his own project.
That was the clever part of Dean.
Now he was preparing to set off for Water City to deliver the goods, to hand the small hypnosis device over to Horace.
As for the Saintess Armor, he’d just take it with him, just in case it came in handy?
Mainly, Dean himself was also very interested in what would happen if the strongest nun of the church equipped the Saintess Armor.
He wondered if she could reach the realm of the ‘Angel’.
Dean wouldn’t dare to presume to say reach the realm of ‘God’, he would be satisfied even with the realm of ‘an angel who was a servant of God’.
After all, you had to reach the angel first, before you could reach God, and finally surpass God.
As for the fact that he had been doing research for over 36 hours straight without sleeping, he could just sleep on the way to Water City.
To prevent his precious research tools from being stolen while he was asleep, Dean had also specifically requested two church knights to be his bodyguards.
But Dean had not expected that the church knights were even more rigid than he was, planning to escort him to Water City wearing their official church knight armor.
Dean was baffled, did these knights have no brains?
Wouldn’t that be telling everyone that the things he was carrying were important?
It would be terrible if some suspicious people, mainly demons and evil sorcerers who worshiped demons, tried to steal them.
Although Dean didn’t think they’d be able to use such a complex sacred artifact with their brains, the fact that it had been stolen would mean that all their efforts would have been wasted.
Therefore, Dean finally managed to convince the two rigid knights to take off their white church knight armor and put on ordinary adventurer’s garb, and set off with him.
“…I see, so it looks like it’s just a matter of tomorrow or the day after.”
Seeing the three of them find a carriage and head towards Water City, Noah, who had actually been watching from the side this whole time, nodded with satisfaction.
The way things were unfolding for Dean was pretty much the same as in the original story.
They both created equipment that could control people, and both planned to use this equipment on the strongest nun, Clotilde.
The only difference lies in time.
In the original, because Horace didn’t provide money, Dean only barely managed to craft the equipment late in the game.
Without any experimentation, he used it directly on the female lead, Sister, who was preparing to destroy that evil laboratory.
Turning her into a mindless fighting puppet.
Since the original was an eroge, when Dean obtained the female lead as a fighting puppet, unsurprisingly, it also devolved into a defeat play.
Dean, who originally had no interest in women, tasted the forbidden fruit because of this, developing an ambition to turn all nuns into his beautiful puppets.
He went from a morally bankrupt, mad scientist to a morally bankrupt, l*st-addled mad scientist.
Judging by his attitude towards the female lead, Dean, as a yellow-haired guy, isn’t as passionate as Bishop Horace.
Noah, rather than hating him, finds him quite pathetic.
Dean’s position is more like Prince Morri from the Princess’s side.
A medium-grade yellow-hair, on par with Sister Belinda who enjoys S&M with Sister.
But this doesn’t mean Noah sympathizes with him.
A yellow-hair is a yellow-hair.
Since he’s a yellow-hair, then wait for the demonic female lead he trained to destroy him.
It’s merely adding another role to this time’s water city main storyline, ‘Awakened Succubus Queen.’
Horace, Dean, Belinda, Hilda, the yellow-haired villains from different periods in the original work are all gathered, planning to steal the female lead, Clotilde, from the ‘Goddess’s’ hands.
Except for the instigating succubus Cornelia, it’s utter chaos.
Oh, right, we can’t forget to count him, the strongest, fiercest, most evil hidden BOSS Evil God, of course.
Horace wants Sister to become his treasured possession.
Dean wants Sister to become a battle puppet who obeys any command.
Hilda, on the other hand, wants to turn Sister into a succubus like her.
Belinda, because Sister is still a virgin, doesn’t treat her like the lowly dog she did in the original.
And Noah wants to use all of their negative emotions to lure Sister to the pinnacle of succubi, to become the Queen of all succubi.
“Heh… what a luxurious lineup, like the final stage of a game, oh, right, have to be wary of other factors too, after all that dragon-slaying princess Agatha popped up out of nowhere last time, and of course, the priestess princess too, is she gone? I was waiting to meet the Goddess of Beauty.”
Thinking about the priestess princess, who failed to purify him and was instead almost corrupted into converting to his faith, Noah still felt a bit lonely.
Well, looks like he’ll have to use the real Princess as a ‘substitute’ for the priestess princess.
He’ll just go tease the Princess now to pass the time, then.
Who told the Princess to not go to the north of the kingdom to find the ‘Holy Sword’ for so many days?
Noah will just have to make her hate him more, so that she quickly executes him, the Evil God, so that he can transform into another character and start corrupting her little sister, Princess Veronica?
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PS. Second update, there’s another one coming later.