Chapter 206 – Elven Ruins
The next morning.
As we planned, we headed down the Elven Ruins towards the Barrier.
If you go all the way down the corridor filled with dozens of white bones, you will see a purple barrier.
It was shining brightly and showing off its majesty as if it would never allow intruders.
“It’s a barrier that leaves admiration every time I see it. I really wonder who made it.”
Orca muttered and took out a long scroll from her backpack. That’s the barrier scroll she made. According to her, if you bring that scroll to the barrier, the barrier will open.
She unwrapped her scroll and brought it to the barrier.
Whoops. Along with the sound of the air reverberating, a wave spread across the barrier centered on the part where the scroll was attached.
Weakly at first.
But little by little stronger.
Around the time the waves hit the barrier, the barrier began to vibrate and soon cracked and cracked.
It took only an instant for the cracked barrier to collapse.
The barrier was quietly broken without any noise like a loud spear or a clanging sound. The fragments of the broken barrier became purple particles and disappeared.
“…Really broken.”
Belita laughed incredulously.
“Didn’t I tell you that you can do this much? Didn’t you believe me?”
“Among all the slick talkers, there has never been a decent one. But you seem to be different. I’ll admit it.”
“Do I look like someone who deserves your approval?”
Orca frowned at her, as if Belita’s words were unpleasant. I put my hand on her shoulder to calm her down.
“Don’t be too angry. Because Belita also acknowledged Orca in her own way.”
“…If you say so, I can’t help it. Why don’t you just look at it once The barrier has also been opened, so let’s go in quickly.”
Blushing slightly, she walked towards the hallway where the barrier had disappeared. Belita looked at me and Orca with a puzzled expression, and I shrugged her shoulders.
We followed Orca down the hallway.
How long did it take
By the time we felt that we had come a long way from the collapsed barrier, a new blue barrier greeted us.
We stood stiff and stared at the indigo barrier.
“Damn it. I hoped…”
Orca patted her forehead and brushed her bangs. The eyes looking at the barrier are full of annoyance.
“Han Yuseong. There should be another scroll in the backpack. Bring that.”
“Yes.”
As she said, there were many other scrolls in the backpack besides the Haeju scroll.
“Can I bring anything?”
“Doesn’t care.”
I took out the scroll right next to the Haeju scroll and handed it to Orca. Orca unfolded her scroll and, as she had done before, she brought it to the indigo barrier.
Light flowed from the joint surface of the scroll facing the barrier.
As the light faded, Orca removed her scroll and began to gaze at the newly inscribed letters.
‘Isn’t it that he can’t read Orca?’
While having such doubts, Orca suddenly crumpled her scroll and let out a deep sigh.
“What should I do with Han Yuseong?
“Why is that?”
“The barrier ceremony is much more complicated than last time.”
Orca said while showing the text on the scroll. Even if you show me something like a barrier ceremony, I don’t know. However, I do know that the arrangement of letters has become more complicated than last time.
“Are you not able to do that?”
“I don’t know exactly. Because I can’t read this But maybe it will.”
“Isn’t that fine then? Even if it takes a little while, go back and do it and then come back…”
“A new barrier will greet us.”
“Ah…”
It was. There is even a second barrier, but there is no guarantee that there will be no third or fourth.
It is said that in order to go inside, you have to open all the barriers before entering.
It’s obvious, but it’s nonsense. It takes too long and above all…
“Honestly, I’m not sure I’ll be able to do it until the barrier that’s there. Just this time, the level of barriers has risen dramatically.”
There is no guarantee that you will be able to open the barrier there. As I thought before, I don’t know if I can find a wizard who is knowledgeable about the barriers in the Mage Tower…
If you do, most of the ruins’ treasures will be stolen by the Mage Tower.
But there is no other way.
In the end, it means that the treasures that may remain in these ruins have left our hands.
“Is there really no way…?”
I turned my head to where the voice came from. I saw Patrick with a dejected expression on his face. I felt bitter.
Patrick, whose plan to retire with a bang was discovered, had been explaining his retirement plan at length the whole time.
First of all, because of her wife’s illness treatment, she moves to the capital, and uses her wife’s food skills to open a bar. In the small yard, I said that I would make a vegetable garden and grow vegetables for cooking.
It was when everyone was looking at Patrick with a bitter expression. Only one person. The ignorant, unnecessarily energetic elf walked toward the barrier with a face full of laughter.
“Did you know I was like this? There’s no way you humans can break the barriers our ancestors opened. You idiots!”
“Hey you…”
Get a feel for the atmosphere.
I looked at Ariel and twisted her face.
“Hick..!”
Seeing my expression, Ariel took a cold step back from her.
“Oh, no. I mean… What?!”
She leaned against her barrier and waved her hand.
The barrier suddenly faded and then disappeared, and Ariel, whose barrier she was leaning on disappeared, fell headfirst on her back.
“Aaaaah..!!!”
Ariel grabbed her by the back of her head and flopped across her floor as she struggled. Either that or not, we just stared at the disappearing barrier with bewildered eyes.
“Ugh… What! Why did you suddenly disappear…”
Eventually, when Ariel, her pain subsided, stood up, all eyes on her were on her.
“What, what is it? What. Why, why are you looking at me?!”
Embarrassed by her gaze gathering on herself, Ariel shook her head, and then she quietly walked over and hid behind her behind my back.
* * *
Ariel was an almighty card key.
These are the feelings I felt while putting Ariel in the lead for the past few minutes. Her barriers that Orca praised as so great faded and disappeared when Ariel stretched out her hand.
“What the hell are you?”
“I don’t know~”
Ariel took the lead, humming her hum.
The light step made me very excited.
At first, she disapproved of taking away her ancestors’ inheritance, but when she said that she would buy her new clothes in exchange for some pocket money, she quickly became excited and opened the barrier the most.
Ariel was watching Orca closely.
She said that the conditions for disabling the barrier must have included touching Ariel’s body.
That’s why I just asked Ariel what her true identity was. What the hell was his identity, so he entered the condition to release the barrier of the elven ruins?
As she walked away with doubts, this time a red barrier blocked her way.
“This is the last barrier.”
Kara looked at the barrier and said.
“The last barrier? How do you know?”
“Huh? Until now, the barrier color was the opposite of the rainbow color. Purple, indigo, blue like this.”
“Ah.”
And I see.
She was so busy thinking about Ariel that she didn’t even notice the simple thing.
“Hey, master!”
She had Ariel tell her to call me master and not ‘human’ from now on, in order to make her respect her master.
I turned my head from Kara to Ariel.
She didn’t open the barrier to open, and stared at me with her arms crossed.
“What are you doing? Aren’t you going to open the barrier?”
“Before we open, we should definitely get an appointment. If I open this barrier, will you buy me pocket money and new clothes? I promise! You can’t say anything else like last time!”
“What? Hey, when did I say something different?”
“You did! The other day, I forcibly dragged them to the place where those strange monsters were, and when I came back, they didn’t give me the allowance!”
Ariel exclaimed in her pitiful voice.
Except for Celis and Kara, the eyes of the other party members turned to me.
Hey, so you think I’m the bad guy?
“That’s because you didn’t keep your promise first.”
“What promise did I break?!”
“I do not remember? Your role was to look after us as spirits. But what did you do there? You were the first to run away after being scared by the undead.”
“Ugh… That’s…”
“And what did you do when Seris, Kara, and the paladins fought Maria? Oh, did you just hide in the corner and watch? If you had helped me, I wouldn’t have known that even the dead Paladins wouldn’t have died.”
The party’s gaze turned to Ariel this time. Ariel rolled her eyes here and there in confusion again, then pointed at me and shouted.
“Ah, whatever! Just don’t keep your promise. At that time, I’m not standing still!”
“What if I don’t stay still?”
“…Uh?”
“What if I don’t stay still?”
Because of the slave contract, no harm can be done to me and my companions. Even if you go on strike, if I give you a compulsory order, you have to follow it.
Therefore, Ariel has no influence on me.
That stupid elf must have realized that too, and his pointy ears wandered around wagging here and there. Then, as if something came to mind, he pricked up his wandering ears.
“Ah, I will never see your face for the rest of my life! Don’t mix nonsense!”
“…What a fool.”
I have seen it somewhere
I turned my gaze to Seris. Cerys turned her head away from my gaze.
“Haa… Ok. I will keep my promise, so open the barriers quickly.”
“You promised?! If you don’t keep it, I won’t see your face like that girl… Seris?!”
“Ariel!!!”
Seris shouted as if asking why, but Ariel pretended not to hear her and put her hand on the red barrier.
Again, the barrier faded and then disappeared.
The barrier disappears and the only thing blocking us is a huge door taller than us.
Seris pushed open the huge door.
Hard. A huge door opened, revealing a wide corridor lined with huge columns.
At the end of the rows of pillars were three steps and a chair that looked like a throne, and on that chair sat a handsome male elf with the same hair color as Ariel.
The long-haired elf was wearing armor, and it had a different level of splendor than the armor he had seen in the hallway.
Eventually, the elf, who had been lowering his head, raised his head.
The elf looked at us with a cold expression that seemed like it would freeze. Then she turned her gaze to Ariel and said with a warm smile that was different from before.
“You’re here. He is my one and only nephew.”
