"Elizabeth…she touched…a trap, but it didn't…activate," Shizu said slowly.
Huh?
As soon as Iri heard this, she was so startled that she let go of the hand that was still holding the wall. When Iri's hand left the wall, she saw a magic circle flash from the part she had just been touching.
Xia Jiu immediately hugged Iri, clearly intending to use her body to shield Iri from the trap that was about to activate.
However…after waiting for a long time, the trap did not activate.
Shizu, seeing Shalltear's protective action towards Iri, merely tilted her head in confusion.
"Shalltear, this is my oversight. The reason I came here was to bring Shizu so that Shizu could register Elizabeth into Nazarick's trap defense system," Sebas said, bowing his head to Shalltear and Iri once again.
To be honest, Iri had initially been quite annoyed with Shalltear, but that action of directly using her body to shield Iri from the trap truly changed Iri's impression of Shalltear quite a bit.
"Sebas! Shizu! What exactly is going on?! You should have said something sooner! What if my Little Yi got hurt?!" Shalltear said, quite displeased.
"Shalltear, on the first day after Princess Elizabeth was born, I did request your permission, but you refused, citing that Princess Elizabeth was still very weak and it was inconvenient," Sebas replied.
"Uh…" Shalltear was speechless. So, it was your fault after all! Xia Jiu! Give me back my good impression! Iri thought to herself, and the little bit of good impression she had just gained vanished.
"Shizu, can you explain why the trap didn't activate? Was it destroyed?" Sebas turned his head and asked Shizu. It was normal for Sebas to suspect the trap had been destroyed.
After all, Insect Lord Cocytus and Xia Jiu were just fighting here, so it was quite normal for a trap to be accidentally destroyed.
"No…destruction…marks, it just didn't activate," Shizu replied after closing her eyes for a few seconds.
"The reason?" Sebas continued to ask. Nazarick's traps are a very important defense system, and problems with them are no laughing matter.
Shizu didn't answer, merely tilted her head, then walked in front of Iri. Shalltear, seeing this, hugged Iri even tighter. Fortunately, Iri's original build was similar to Shalltear's, so it wasn't too uncomfortable, though Shalltear's Valkyrie armor was a bit stiff.
Everyone was curious about what Shizu would say. Shizu took Iri's hand and pressed it against the wall where Iri had just been leaning. A faint yellow magic circle appeared on the wall again, which startled Iri, and she instinctively shrank back into Shalltear's body.
"Ah! Little Iri-chan! Don't be afraid, Mommy's here!" Xia Jiu's smile became even more infatuated at the sight.
Although a magic circle appeared, the trap did not activate. The section of the wall she had just touched, she had touched it from the very beginning when she got off Insect Lord Cocytus's shoulder. At that time, Xia Jiu hadn't even started fighting Cocytus yet. If the trap had triggered, she would have been hit long ago. What was the reason?
Iri really didn't understand this aspect, as the novel hadn't explained Nazarick's trap system in detail.
"Shizu!" Sebas shouted sternly. Sebas probably hadn't expected Shizu to directly use Elizabeth as a guinea pig for testing.
"Nazarick…traps…cannot…trigger conditions…there are two…Nazarick…trap registration list…level below Lv2," Shizu said slowly.
Uh…according to Shizu's explanation, Iri was not registered in the trap list, otherwise, a magic circle wouldn't have appeared when she touched the trap. So, it must be the second condition.
Below Lv2, so that means…she's only Lv1?! Iri was greatly surprised.
She's only Level 1? Hey, hey! Isn't this joke too big? Her body is a combination of Anzi's and all the Guardians' genes! Why is she only Level 1?
Iri was going crazy, of course…only internally. On the surface, she still feigned an expression of 'What are you talking about? I don't understand.'
"Huh?? Is my Little Iri-chan only Level 1?" But Iri-chan can use Ainz's Despair Aura, a Level 1 shouldn't be able to use that, right?" Xia Jiu was also bewildered, looking at Iri in her arms with utter confusion.
"Princess Elizabeth can also use my Ice Aura, which is not a skill that a Level 1 can master," Insect Lord Cocytus added from the side.
"Perhaps something is wrong, Shizu!" Sebas questioned Shizu sternly once again.
"Nothing…wrong," Shizu also firmly stuck to her opinion.
Iri, however, believed Shizu, because Iri knew that all of Nazarick's traps were controlled by Shizu, and they wouldn't easily make mistakes. Therefore, it could only mean that she was indeed only Level 1.
Afterward, with Iri's and Shalltear's permission, Shizu touched all the nearby traps, and all of them only showed a magic circle without activating. This completely confirmed the result that Iri's level was only 1.
After the experiment was complete, Shizu still registered Iri into Nazarick's trap list, just in case. Since traps wouldn't activate for levels below 2, what if Iri leveled up? So, she registered her first.
Subsequently, Iri was dragged back to her room by Shalltear, who then fiercely whipped the Vampire Brides who had been taking care of Iri in front of her.
The scene was quite inappropriate for children, and Iri couldn't bear to watch. In the end, she managed to stop Shalltear's "atrocities" by acting cute.
Hmm…that Vampire Bride seemed to be quite enjoying it. As expected, a master gets the subordinates they deserve. Xia Jiu, you pervert!
Back in her room, Iri was quite dejected. She had finally evolved from a small skeleton into an existence like Nazarick's princess, a being that combined the genes of Anzi and all the Guardians.
However, her level was only 1…this blow was too great.
But then she thought, at least at Level 1, she could still level up, and with this body, wasn't grinding monsters and leveling up just a piece of cake?
After all, at Level 1, she could already use Anzi's Despair Aura and Insect Lord Cocytus's Ice Aura. Hmm, hmm~ she could still grow! Thinking of this, Iri's mood instantly brightened again.
Hmm? It seemed she had noticed something about skill release conditions in the corridor earlier. Now that she had calmed down, Iri had time to consider this problem.
When she released Ice Aura just now, and when she released Despair Aura before, she had always emptied her mind, then unconsciously thought of being able to release it…and it would just come out.
Although she couldn't turn it off, what about…the other way around?
After all, Insect Lord's Ice Aura was still wrapped around her. Because of this, Xia Jiu looked displeased when she first returned. Although she knew that Xia Jiu, that masochist, liked the oppressive feeling brought by Despair Aura, its indiscriminate instant-death characteristic was just too annoying.
Hmm…let's try it!
Iri closed her eyes and concentrated…emptying her mind, thinking of Ice Aura…cancel…cancel, cancel. When Iri opened her eyes, she found that the faint chill around her had disappeared.
It worked! She could control it properly now!