Chapter 152 – Visitors From Another Dimension (6)
“Lalilura! 〈 Puppet 〉 puts the feet of middle-class guys!”
“Roll, roll!”
Lalilura, who had left behind her puppet, could not directly participate in the battle. Instead, threads of mana stretched from her fingers.
“Corororororo!!”
The thread of mana stuck to the feet of the bugs and created a hot kiss scene with the ground one by one.
─Suddenly!
I removed the head cover from the puppies who attacked.
Since it is a low-output magic, it cannot be manipulated by stealing its body. Still, it was possible to knock over weak mobs. Even if it only lasts for a few seconds, you’re just hanging your feet.
“Conureaaaaa!!”
Our surprise attack was successful and the encirclement collapsed. The merchant lady was amazed as she defeated the monster with her sword.
“Who-who are you?!”
“I am an adventurer who explored the tower of the ruins! Excuse me during the hunt, but I’ll lend a helping hand!”
I shouted, bursting the walking bug’s head with a spear. It was to let people know that they participated in the war with good intentions.
It is forbidden by unwritten rule to intervene in another party’s fight, whether in the ruins or anywhere else. There are problems with non-performance, and there are those who pretend to make mistakes and aim to attack other parties.
“──That intervention, thank you!”
But in a world like this, where can you afford to argue about that? As a merchant, the lady with a sword in light armor gladly agreed to our participation.
“Keep the line on the defensive and keep out those who have fallen! Those with bows should shoot at the back of the crowd!”
“Yes!”
The situation was reversed by the old butler’s instructions, such as dismuke. By breaking out of the encirclement and establishing a connection, the odds were clear.
‘Are all of them silver class or higher?’
I looked at the skills of the Merchant Guild party and set the angle like that.
All party members, including the young lady and the butler, were good enough. Teamwork is also good for a temporarily hired party. It may even be people who have been hired on a regular basis.
“Die, bugs!”
“You say you can’t use magic? Then you can shoot an arrow!”
“Physical punch! Physical kick!”
“Corrrr!”
The bug babies are weak on average, and when we swept the current, they were destroyed in the blink of an eye.
The only thing that gave me goosebumps was that no one escaped until the last one was left. They were real idiots.
What kind of other world Berserker bugs are they?
“Battle over! Everyone has worked hard!”
─Poof! The merchant lady shook his head and shouted like that. The next person to talk to is, needless to say, us.
“Thank you for your help! Oh, you should lower your voice. Sorry. I know it’s a bad habit, but I can’t fix it.”
“Nope. It is fortunate that there are fewer injuries than that.”
There were people injured, but no one died. The merchant lady roughly polished the knife and soldered it.
“Sure. They are my exclusive investigators. So far, no one has died while exploring the ruins! Ah haha!”
A business lady giggling, covering her mouth with her hand.
The lady who burst into such a red smile took off his gauntlet and asked for a handshake.
There is a ring on the ring finger of the left hand. Married woman? No, it looks like an engagement ring. Anyway, it seems to be a body that has an owner.
“The introduction is late. I am Selena Hermaion, the second daughter of the Hermaion guild leader.”
“I am Nord, a bronze class adventurer from the Audumla Guild. This is my party member Laliru.”
I also took off my gauntlet and rolled up my sleeves to receive a handshake.
I’m not familiar with it, but taking off the gauntlet and rolling up your sleeves is the greeting etiquette of adventurers. They say that you can stab them with a hidden poison needle and hit them in a surprise attack or something.
“Nord? Of the Auduumra Guild?”
Selena took my hand and shook it, widening her eyes.
“Is that Mr. Nord I know? You said you defeated the giant golem controlled by the warlock and cut off the head of that vicious beast?”
“Rumors are exaggerated. But maybe that’s what I’m talking about.”
I only presented accurate facts, but I feel like I’m being overrated.
Do media and temperaments exist in another world? Whoever hears this shit will know that the strong Boutak caught the mithril class Ada Unicorn alone.
“Also! Somehow I thought my skills were unusual! My eyes are never wrong!”
“Thank you. Selena and her sheep are also very skilled.”
The compliments he gave while pretending to be proud were so fucking clever.
I’m a human too, so when I get praised, I shrug my shoulders, but that lady is the daughter of a merchant guild leader. Let her listen through a moderate filter.
“You are overrated. Anyway, Mr. Nord, why are you in a place like this?”
Selena asked, putting one of her handshakes into the gauntlet. Do these people see me as a deceased person roaming a higher dungeon? The look in the eyes with a bit of anticipation is burdensome.
“Probably for the same reasons as you. Didn’t you step on or activate something like a magic circle while exploring the third floor?”
“Magic circle! Yes! That’s it! I didn’t find it and was swept away by a magic circle that activated it and flew to such a disgusting place.”
It’s a sharp reaction. It felt like an upset stomach.
“Is that so too? By the way, have you ever seen a large, much larger species that looks like these worms?”
“Is it a large species?”
Selena frowned. I guess I don’t know. I explained our experience and my hypotheses.
A large insect capable of penetrating objects brought us here.
The second floor was half destroyed because of that bastard.
And that if you find the summoning circle, you’ll be able to go back.
“Until you fly? It is a ferocious creature from another world!!”
─Extract! It was Selena who screamed at my words. I almost died a while ago, but I’m full of energy.
“We didn’t see anything particularly profane like that. You said you left and withdrew? Maybe he retreated because he thought he couldn’t win?”
“It didn’t feel like that. No, there’s no way to know how the bug feels, and I don’t want to know, but it didn’t seem like it was running away.”
I don’t even want to think of that bastard because he looks like a dick—but even if I think about it, I can’t distinguish his expression—I was able to notice it with an emotional feeling.
That bug bastard was meant to bring us here.
“Either way, sending us to such a special place!”
Selena stomped on her floor as if she couldn’t contain her anger.
“No matter how traps are intended to expel the enemy, there is a front line that people cannot cross! The people who built that tower must be heretics!”
“Miss Selena. I feel the same way, but let’s think about the origin of the tower after returning to the original world.”
Having said that, I was a little bitter.
‘Is it the original world?’
It’s not wrong since it’s where Fran and Dana are, but I felt a little strange. In terms of coming from another dimension, these bugs and me are there.
I proposed to Selena to forget the bitterness.
“You can go back if you find the summoning circle and move it. Question Excuse me, but can we move together? Even if you return to the original world, it is still unknown which floor of the tower you will be transported to. I think it is better to join forces.”
“It is what I wished for. Please cooperate. But I don’t have enough food to go around for days and days looking for that summoning circle.”
“Let’s go quickly. I’ll look for the summoning circle. If you have a mana potion, please invest in me, leaving only the share of the vanguard.”
“Yeah? Can’t use magic here? Even if you try to maintain the spell, it will break in a few seconds.”
“I can use rune magic. Look.”
I removed my bangs to show the ᚲ (Kenaz) rune that was still active. Selena was amazed when she figured out the identity of the weak light that was coming from my forehead.
“Is it magic that detects mana? Awesome! I will trust you!”
“I do my best.”
Because of the situation, we skipped the process of doubting Katabuta or watching Shobu. Selena would have thought that it would not be too late to evaluate or doubt me even after I failed.
“Senior. What if it is difficult to find the summoning circle because this place is absurdly large?”
At that time, Ralilura came next to me and whispered in a low voice.
“Why don’t you find something you can eat before you run out of food? I don’t know if I’m going to have a fight with those people later.”
“No, it’s dangerous, so stop thinking about picking up and eating grass that you don’t know what it is. The summoning circle will be around here anyway.”
I answered. It didn’t matter how wide this other world was.
Summoning magic is a branch of space movement magic, so it couldn’t be free from the point of ‘distance’. The amount of mana required to move 10 meters with 〈 Space Movement 〉 and 100 meters is different.
‘Spatial movement is also magic. There is no escaping the formula of consumed mana = output.’
Think about it. What would happen if a person living in Sri Lanka made a direct transaction request to a person living in Busan!
Even in districts where overseas direct purchases became possible, people preferred nearby places for the same price. How much mana to use to send them hundreds of kilometers away from the summoning circle? If there was such a thing, it would be better to lay another trap on the tower.
“The designer of the trap took great pains to conserve mana. Unleashing hostile creatures from the other world into the tower, and recycling the passage that summoned them into traps, are all traces of trying to reduce the mana used to activate traps.”
So I thought.
This trap is not a trap that ‘blows you to a place you can never return’.
“There’s no way we’re using mana like water to make sure we get rid of a few intruders. It’s a waste of mana. So, in my opinion, this trap is a trap that ‘divides the intruders and kills them by killing them in the insect’s nest’. That’s what the bugs’ cubs put to good use.”
“Are you that big bug? Why?”
“I don’t even know about Lehu.”
“Ah, this sunbaenim went well, and now it’s this again.”
Lalilura puts on an expression of disgust. Unlike Fran, who embraces us with love, and Dana, who has become accustomed to it, it doesn’t seem to work well for her.
“It’s a pity. Enjoy a new culture that you have never known before.”
“It’s Lehu I don’t like.”
Anyway, that’s how we left the place full of bug corpses and embarked on a journey to find the summoning circle.
“Mister Nord. Can you guess the direction?”
Selena asked, having a wizard draw her map. I said, trying to focus the rune magic’s effect on inspiration.
“I felt what the summoning circle’s mana was like when moving here. I move with the detection magic to the limit, and when there is a response, I move there.”
“I know. The area we explored is east. Let’s go west this time.”
Once you’ve decided on a direction, all that’s left is to move.
We moved west across the damp woodlands. No, I wasn’t really sure it was the west. The compass, a magic item, didn’t work, and the magnetic compass was different, so the direction went back and forth.
“Not even the wind blows, so it only gives me goosebumps. It’s like a world where everything has stopped.”
Selena’s words made me realize that this place is windless.
Damn, does this make sense in a world where there is no wind? Compared to the other world, where there were many places that resembled the earth, I felt that this was a really different world.
If it fell here instead of Britannia, it would have been 3 years, damn it, and it would have been a 3-minute time attack suicide. Also, I am a lucky kid.
“… There is no response.”
I moved in a straight line for over 30 minutes, but there was no mana applied to my sensing ability. Selena bit her nails like she was struggling.
“Can you cast that spell on our explorers?”
“It’s not like they’re disbanded and move separately, so it’s just a waste of mana. Because things that can be detected in the same place are similar.”
As I spoke while drinking the mana potion I received from Selena, she sighed.
“All right. There is a cave we found. I take a detour and check other areas and go back.”
“Yes. If the distance is too far, it will only separate you from the summoning circle.”
On the way back, I found a group of bugs and instructed them to evade. It seemed like it would be a long-term battle, so he tried to avoid combat as much as possible.
“There is. The worms are fighting each other.”
A scouting party saw the direction I said and came and reported.
They, who had some doubts, regained their faith when I pinpointed the location of the enemy. Even if it serves as a human radar, it pays for itself.
─It’s all over the place.
We go back to the cave that Selena’s party found. It was a cave similar to the one I and Lalilura found earlier.
“Sorry, Miss Selena. I was not able to show you the results even though I was the first to show off.”
“I don’t think it will be discovered in one day. We distribute food. Let’s do our best starting tomorrow.”
“Yes.”
Is it because the camp is set up outside the ruins? All that Selena and the others brought was a few meals to eat after descending to the ruins.
So, our share of beef jerky, biscuits, and drinking water were in amounts that were difficult to put on anyone’s nose. It is food to earn calories to be active, not to feed full.
I shoved it into my mouth, chewed a little, and swallowed it. It was impressive that Ralilura munched and ate it as if it were a persimmon. I thought I’d make at least one complaint.
After finishing the meal in the blink of an eye, Selena said.
“The order of night watch will be as usual. Mr. Nord, it’s important to stay focused, so take a good rest.”
“How about my party?”
“… That’s to be decided tomorrow night. There is no one to complain from the first day because we have the loyalty to help us.”
“Yeah.”
Larry Lura nodded her head awkwardly, then her face hardened at her next words.
“Then turn off the lights. The monsters of the other world gather in the light.”
