Chapter 146 – The Tower That Extends Underground (9)
“Take a taste of my Psionic Storm!! 〈 Lightning Missile〉!!”
I shortened the chant and activated the magic.
─Parts zuzzus!
After casting the spell for the last time, a lightning orb was created. There is only one.
The 〈 arrow 〉 type of magic was magic in which the difficulty level increased as the number of arrows increased. It was also possible to use it in reverse, reducing the number of arrows and shortening the spell by half.
The same application that Tyrsi used in the sewer scouting quest!
“Mother! There is only one 〈 〉 lightning arrow!!”
Fired the generated electric orb. ─Peeing! Although it was a mass of lightning, its speed was not as fast as real lightning. It was like when you throw electricity at a battery, it doesn’t fly into your brain.
“Is that right, you idiot!!”
The adventurer I targeted moved and evaded to see if there was time to feed. Originally, 〈 arrow 〉 magic is not a single shot.
However, when the arrow flew close to the calf, I released the mana that had condensed 〈 arrows 〉.
“Cass-Break!!”
“100 million?! Giggigiggigigiggig!!”
─Pazuzu immediately!!
Electric beads ruptured, and lightning bounced randomly!
The one who avoided the arrow’s trajectory was electrocuted by a lightning strike that spread nearly a meter and twisted his body like a pretzel.
─Fluff! Like a drug addict hit by a taser, he was an adventurer who buried his body in the grass and shook his back.
“Sick.”
I raised the corners of my mouth. Other arrows cannot be applied in this way, but 〈 Lightning Arrow 〉 was different.
The moment they are released from compression, the electrons flow through the air like a dick and get messy. Even if a current is generated, the voltage is extremely low, so the power is insufficient, but isn’t there a side effect for electric shock!
─Softly.
Even the electrocuted adventurer has a lifeline attached. I’m paralyzed, so I can’t move.
If I had good skills, I would have recovered quickly or not been paralyzed. I continued to launch the 2nd and 3rd arrows.
“〈 bolts of lightning 〉! 〈 Lightning Bolt 〉! 〈 Lightning Arrow〉──!!!”
“Fuck!! Rain, cowardly bastard!! Ugya gyaya gyakya-!!”
“Lightning!! Avoid!! Gurl rrrr?!”
“Run! Cling! If you get close, that bastard can’t even use magic!!”
The little brainy bastard gave the order. It was a fact.
This wide-area electric shock attack does not discriminate against enemies. It was impossible to use at close range.
I wouldn’t know if I modified the magic formula like Tyrsi, but if it exploded in close proximity, I would be electrocuted. The maximum range is also about 5-6 meters, so it takes a little more practice.
“Come here, bitch!!”
At that time, the adventurer approached silently and reached out to Dana.
Perhaps he was thinking of taking him hostage. I held the spear like a staff, fired magic, and wished the fool to rest.
“──Bitch?”
Dana furrowed the corners of his eyes. Sometimes he asked me to follow him and pour him a drink, but he said that he was a bitch. That would have upset anyone.
─Tuck! Dana grabs his outstretched hand and snatches it.
“Hey. What are you if I’m a bitch?”
“Uh, huh? Profit!!”
Surprised by the violent grip, the idiot hurriedly threw out the other fist.
Aigoo, you sick bastard. You should have drawn your weapon. Dana ducked his head to avoid his fist and landed a knee kick.
─Kooung!
An intense knee-kick raised the stomach of an asshole wearing leather armor. Dana swung the asshole with his feet in the air like a bowling pin and threw it at the adventurers.
“Go away, all you horny bastards!!”
“Aaaaa!!”
“Quaaaaa!!”
Quaang-!
The two of them collapsed together while trying to accept the flying asshole. In the meantime, I aimed at the good assholes and shot electric marbles.
“〈 Lightning Bolt 〉.”
“Ughyakyakyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyastic!!”
“Giggiggiggiggigig!!”
All 10 adventurers were able to get a job as an electric whole chicken. I grabbed the skinny guy who had all his front teeth pulled out first and raised him up.
“I’m sorry!! Help me!!”
Was it surprising that all of his friends got a job at a new job after two minutes of holding down a nosebleed? At my merciless touch, the skinny man begged for his life.
Well, what a surprise it must be that the friends who lived in Amsaeng together decided to put an end to their past and become whole chickens!
As the chicken master who guided their lives, I said sternly.
“Wake up, boy. Stand upright.”
“Yep!!”
“Who’s going to joke about that? I saw guys like you often, so I just tried to get over it. I would have done it if I hadn’t yelled at my wives and friends.”
“Wives… What?”
“Why the fuck I wonder who is who?”
“Oh, no!!”
The military spirit is tight, and the answer is quick. I nodded in satisfaction and nodded.
“Get down, bitch.”
“Yep!!”
He was a skinny man who lay down without hesitation.
Resistance to harsh behavior is 0%. After all, adventurers are athletics. You listen very well I hit him on the waist with the spear.
“Don’t rack your brain and answer only what you know. Did you guys enter the ruins here? How far?”
“Yes, yep! I went all the way to the second floor!”
“Did you hear the monster came out? What kind of guys are they?”
I decided to listen to the story of how this happened. If you go through with it moderately, you won’t get paid for giving these bastards true education.
“That that. They were creepy looking guys. They were like insects that walked on two legs, but they didn’t know where their eyes were, and they were shaking their bodies incessantly as if they had epilepsy.”
“Are you? No, no. There’s no way you’re still alive if you’re strong.”
“Yes, yes. That’s right. It’s creepy to see them, but they aren’t great people.”
“Any other news? If you go inside, you won’t hear that dangerous guys will come out.”
“That… We couldn’t talk or talk to the other explorers…”
Fuck. It doesn’t help.
Done. You should wish for it. It must be these bastards who went to Seoul to do adventures with the money they stole from buying and selling together in their hometowns, but what would they know if these guys recognized them?
“Hey. Then blow whatever you know about the people over there.”
Then, Dana pointed to the tent camped at the entrance to the dungeon.
“You guys must have been dying here too. So even if you haven’t talked to them, you know roughly what they are doing, right?”
“Yes, yep! They are the adventurers, explorers, and Hermaion merchant guilds from Sargadis and Haysbent!”
“The Merchant Guild?”
At those words, I saw the tents gathered again, and among many, many tents, there was a place that was the best in the world.
‘There are a lot of numbers, and the quality of the tents looks good.’
In the tent placed in the middle, even a small amount of mana was felt.
Fuck, is that a magic item? In another world, an enchanted tent is almost the same as a camper. It must have been a merchant with a thick bone in the specter of capitalism or ruins.
“What are their personalities? Are you meddling like you guys?”
The skinny shook his head at Dana’s question.
“Oh, no. Even when I encountered them in the ruins, they ignored them. Still, those guys would have progressed all the way to the inside. Parties rarely come out of the ruins.”
“That is unfounded. For a ragtag like you, it shouldn’t take three days and three nights to explore the third floor.”
Hehe. That’s right. After all, you are a wizard!”
Tircy was also angry about the sexual harassment. The skinny cub was lying on his stomach and squirming without a belly.
Well, that’s it The three highly educated people who put me in asked a few things to know and removed the spearhead that threatened the skinny.
“Okay, with this we’re done. If they get caught doing this right in front of our eyes again, then they fall behind.”
I neglected the skinny like that.
Handing them over to the guards is also annoying, and scammers are widely scattered, so they don’t catch them well. If we had to deal with it any longer, we would only lose.
“Rarilura☆Kick!!”
“Gew!!”
As the finale, the skinny guy is blown away by Lalilura’s kick. Perhaps, being treated as a child was quite an upset stomach.
─Fangrrrr! Thud!
An adult man’s tail kicked by a slender girl and turning around was very impressive.
If women train, they can give men away and defeat them, so isn’t that why a system like polygamy was created? It was such a thought-provoking sight.
With a spear pole on my shoulder, I said to the idiots who pretended to be dead.
“Hey. I know you’re awake Spit out any relics you stole before stabbing them one by one and waking them up.”
“… Yes.”
That’s how we received a few things from the ruins and moved to the entrance of the dungeon.
This is not cheating. We only received appropriate alimony from the bullies who were targeting us.
Well. Don’t be like that.
***
“Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha!! Forward, forward again!!”
I was taking a break for about 10 minutes before rushing into the ruins, when suddenly such a loud voice resounded in the wilderness.
“Ugh… What, what?”
Fran made a slight impression that her ears were hurting soon after awakening Mana. She was like that until she adjusted to her five senses, which had become more sensitive with the mana buff.
‘It’s fucking noisy.’
I found the owner of the nuisance Noise, blocking Fran’s ears instead. It was because I was curious about what kind of bitch was making a loud noise in broad daylight.
The identity of the bitch was a woman with a high soprano tone like a strangled parrot.
“Dismuke!! Move fast!! Time is money! Coins fall from my hand one at a time with the sound of a pendulum!!”
“Yes, lady.”
A butler-like man in armor answered the order of the woman with straight orange hair. Wearing the ring on the ring finger of her left hand, the woman descended into the ruins, wiping her hair with her handkerchief as her blood splattered on her.
─Rumble.
A number of adventurers or soldiers, some unknown, followed the woman.
What the fuck Did you talk to the person right next to you in such a loud voice? What a waste of energy
“Oh. That person It’s that person, senpai!”
Lingling said Lalilura, who had descended from Unit 3.5.
“What is that woman?”
“The Hermaion Guild. Earlier, she saw the pattern on her armor that the woman was wearing, even in Romania ☆! She used to say Gingamin, but after seeing it in person, it comes to mind~.”
“… A guild in Romania? Are there any branches in Sargadis or Haysbent?”
“Well~? Maybe he heard the news that this place is the Ruins of Orwalia? Were you nearby?”
“Ah. Was Orwalia Roman-Britannia?”
During the time of the ancient civilization, Britannia was a small country.
It was because the Vikings next to them were piracy or primitive ancient Romania was in a position to expand their territory.
A country that struggles to secure its place among the great powers! Damn, I think I’ve seen it a lot.
Anyway, because it was such a country, it was often invaded by the country that was the predecessor of modern Romania. Roman-Britannia meant a country where the races or cultures of the two countries were mixed under its influence.
“If you are a business person in Romania, you might want to come here. Everyone will love it if you bring back an old relic from their hometown.”
Said Fran. In Romania, ruins exploration is a national project, so there are few ruins left.
Could it be that the representative nearby gathered people and was exploring? Running at the forefront of exploration with a hastily gathered number of people, the power of fucking capital is amazing.
─Rumble.
The men who had gathered to suck Romania’s nipples escorted the woman they called Lady and disappeared into her pit.
Maybe take a night off and resume your search? If so, now, when the Tier 1 Exploration Guild would dig into the inside, was a chance to calmly explore the inside.
“Let’s go. In this exploration, we will check the atmosphere and difficulty of the interior and investigate the first floor, the ‘rooftop’ of the tower.”
At the words of Dana, the client, the party members shook their butts and got up.
I had no intention of securing a temporary residence here today—because there was no one to look after the vacant house—so I didn’t even pitch a tent. You’ll have to look at the situation and hire someone to guard your tent.
That’s how we went into the pit where the ruins are.
The floor of a building made of stone was visible inside, almost like a large sinkhole excavating dinosaur fossils. That must be the roof of the tower.
“… It’s bigger than what I was told.”
Dana murmured softly. The inside of the sinkhole was said to be huge, but the entire roof of the tower was still unexplored.
‘Each floor is about the size of a playground.’
This size, after all, is not an ordinary ruin. Tyrsi sat down on his knees and picked up the broken pieces of the building.
“The people who came first made a hole. The walls look very strong, but I must have had a hard time waking up.”
“It’s good that we’re comfortable.”
“Whoops. It is.”
Tyrsi answered with a smile. Maybe someone else brought a drilling tool and drilled it over several days. If that were the case, it might not have made a huge difference.
“Let’s go down.”
We rode down through the hole drilled by the leader.
The tower’s height was as high as its width, so Tirshi, who couldn’t strengthen his body with mana, was taken care of by Lingling as number 3.5.
“〈 Friar’s Lantern〉.”
“Aha♡ I’m just a lantern☆!”
Tirsi and Lalilura lit up the dark inside of the tower.
The source of light is the responsibility of the rearguard. If you lose your concentration in the middle of a fight, if the light suddenly goes out, you can get fucked.
I checked the interior illuminated by the lights and made an impression.
“What is this? Is it a barricade?”
“… Shit, is this a frontline base?”
Dana’s expression was fucking appropriate.
Although the adventurers who preceded them all put out their spears, the entrance, which seemed to have been reinforced by collecting existing items, seemed to have somehow built an obstacle with insufficient materials.
And these obstacles are, of course, a means to block the ‘enemy’.
It didn’t look like it was built to prevent intruders from coming to the tower in the future. It was probably made at the time——before the ancient civilization collapsed.
Then.
Who was the “Enemy” They were trying to stop?
“… Let’s proceed I’m going to search the first floor first and find the remaining traces.”
At Dana’s words, we put our doubts aside and moved.
Only the light from the two lanterns, light and oil, illuminated the darkness of the tower.
