Chapter 215 – Orihalcon (1)
After a roar of joy, I calmly made a plan.
What was the purpose of our coming here?
‘It’s farming.’
When I was working, my motto was to quickly withdraw the knife, but today I had to pay special attention. Because I transformed into Nord, a giant ape, and everything that I caused must have attracted a lot of aggro.
Let’s get this out of the way before anyone else finds out.
If he was accused of being the culprit in a disappearance case, he could be screwed.
“I will cover the ceiling of the ruins and come. ᛒ(Berkanan).”
─Flutter! Veronica spread her black wings and flew into the sky.
Transformation magic runes seem to be able to partially transform. But Sifal wings! I like it. If you are Korean, you should put wings on your avatar.
Gurg ruck… ! Veronica, who became a flying bicorn, roughly covered the ceiling with the magic she used in god mode—the one that blocked the zombie well.
Of course, you can’t fill the fucking thick ground alone. In other words, it was just a cover.
Veronica coming down at a slow speed after the flight. Perhaps even with her wings growing, her movement speed was not fast enough.
“With this, there won’t be any detection during the exploration. It usually won’t break.”
“Thank you.
When I went out, I planned to go towards the well so that aggro would not be attracted. We went into the hole where Yerna jumped out and threw a surprise attack.
There was no way they had set a trap for the emergency exit, so although we were a little careful, we were able to quickly enter the deepest part of the hidden room.
Buzz buzz… !
It was a square column shaped like a tumbler that was making a noise. The square pillars gushing out of Manai were connected to the magic circles on the floor, and when I saw them, I intuited them with the sharp eye of an archaeologist.
“There is no dust. The magic circle is also new. Is this the core of the ruins that Yerna touched?”
“Everyone, don’t touch me hastily. Fran, Veronica. I’ll leave it up to you.”
At Dana’s request, Fran and Veronica used their knowledge to investigate. Yerna had quite a sense of life, as if she had been hanging around here ever since she disappeared.
It feels like arresting a criminal and finding traces of that bastard’s crime and entering a rented room.
“There are no dangerous things here. Pitfalls too. I’ll keep looking from the inside, so everyone check this way first.”
Frank inspects half the room and says so. Veronica muttered as she turned over the book she had picked up.
“That magic circle looks like the contents of this book. Look.”
“Book? What a deal.”
I got it, but I was a bit skeptical. It didn’t seem like something important.
This place is like a business trip hotel to Yerna. Valuables were probably left in a safe place, but books weren’t such a big deal as I thought.
The book was a sorcery book with the simple title 《Alone》.
Contrary to the title written in the language of Narmer-Nile, the text was Romanian. I guess so. How many people write books in their language, which is close to hieroglyphics? Not even a slate.
I read the book speed reading. Roughly summarized, it was a magical method of making an alter ego similar to the user with a specific material. I noticed why this book is here.
“Yerna, you read this book and made an alter ego. Originally, it was magic that I did not know how to use, so I brought a specialized book and tried to study it.”
“Senior? Here, there is also a magic formula.”
Where Ralilura pointed her finger, there was indeed a calculation formula written in Yerna’s handwriting. Dana, who took a quick look at her calculator, threw away her paper as if she had picked up something dirty with sincerity.
“It’s disgusting. It’s a way to make a homunculus out of human blood and flesh.”
“Look where you are.”
I read what was written on the paper. Yerna’s handwriting was 30%, but 70% of the letters were unknown. It was probably a trace of giving and receiving between bastards like Yerna.
Homunculus refers to golems that are very similar to humans.
It is said to be classified as a kind of alchemy, but in this world, there were many traditions that humans were made from soil. The homunculus is like a clone golem that was conceived from there.
As you can see, it is very difficult to make. It was magic banned in many countries due to humanitarian issues.
‘By regenerating blood and flesh into human form with the mana of light… Write, no doubt.’
I just read it with my eyes, but it’s bloody.
The fact that the mana used was the mana of light added to the creepiness. It was like the diary of a serial killer who dissected people with medical tools and turned them into furniture.
“Is that why you kidnapped and killed adventurers here?”
The moss field may have been the birthplace of the alter ego.
Wasn’t the abduction of an adventurer committed for no reason?
Well, even though she was a character-breaker, she was close to a sociopath. He must have known that it would choke him.
“… Did you know of the pursuer’s existence and were preparing for a counterattack here?”
“You can think of it that way.”
I also cast one vote for Ralilura’s reasoning.
Yerna was being chased by the Tabula’s gang. She probably thought that she would kill herself here and then repel her with an alter ego in the space where she had laid the moss field.
I roughly read the research records that betrayed humanity. I didn’t even want to look at it, but I did it because I thought there might be some evidence, but my efforts paid off.
Who knows who fills up 70% of the research records!
Part of it was written by another person. It was said that at least three people were involved in this study.
〈I don’t think strong sacrifices are always effective〉.
The handwriting of so few cubs appeared occasionally in records.
It was as if the result was exchanged like a letter, but the professor wrote down notes on it as if he were correcting a thesis.
“Wait, but this… Where did you see the handwriting?”
“What?”
Dana took an interest. Even in another world, the handwriting test is valid.
Jernado, who was secretly working in the dark, had a position as a famous professor in the sunny. If so, the fact that I recognized this mysterious text editor meant that I had seen the handwriting of this kiddo somewhere.
“Here it is. Can’t you guess who you are?”
“… It’s definitely a strange handwriting, but I don’t know.”
Dana made an impression while reading the words I showed her.
Just as the handwriting can be distinguished by how the letter ㅎ is written in Hangul, the Romanian language also reveals its individuality in the way it is written. It was easy for us, Dr. Cheok Cheok-seok and his wife, who were used to reading papers and books written in fucking handwriting.
“Dana, if you don’t know… At least, I’m saying I didn’t see it at Carmine University.”
Or did I see it in the data I was collecting while writing my thesis?
It seems not. I wandered through the neuron’s memory while others investigated.
Then I woke up.
“… Oh fuck, does this look like an Abidus kid?”
“Abidus? That warlock?”
Frank, who had finished investigating the trap, answered my muttering. Hit. It is the handwriting of Ada Unicorn, who was in heat to make Nefertiti into a figure while controlling the giant golem.
“It’s the same as the one I saw at his lab. Left-handed writers used the direction of writing the lowercase o or the curves of the lowercase p and uppercase M.”
I remember that it was a little harsh on the eyes because it was a little calligraphy on the villain subject, but why is that bastard’s handwriting coming out here? I twisted my head.
‘… Does Yerna belong to Immortalis?’
The chances of that happening honestly weren’t high.
It was said that there was an organization of young black magicians. If Yerna had been a warlock, she would never have made it to the rank of professor. She must have been arrested before she got caught.
“The only thing we have in common is that we are not human, isn’t it?”
“Is it? When religious denominations say ‘human’, they include elves and dwarves.”
Fran and Lalilura are talking. Opinions differed in each country as to which race was included in the word ‘human’. Why, aren’t there many cases of fighting over the interpretation of the Christian Bible?
In that sense, the ‘cursed humans whose runes are limited’ as Veronica said was a term referring to all common races such as humans, elves, and dwarves.
In Germania, all but the gods are counted as humans.
Because 【Mannheim】, the word for this world in the language of that country, means ‘human house’.
“… Uhm?”
I thought so, but I pressed my head at a weak intuition that passed through my brain.
A species other than humans.
I have met many different races and races while living in a different world, and among the different races I have recently met, I felt like a lot of bastards.
Let’s make an exception for Fran, Veronica, and other bicorns.
But aren’t Abidus the unicorn, Ogre, and Yerna the elf who fought with me all ruled by the chosen people’s idea? It didn’t seem like a coincidence that Abidus and Yerna had a point of contact here.
“I bet not all gangs growl.”
These human beings often play with each other as long as they don’t touch me and Bari.
Could it be that other world criminal organizations are like that? They are idiots who live by catching Gao with the aesthetics built by their cock. Just like Yakuza and the Russian mafia do with AV and drugs, these fuckers must have something in common.
Unicorns and elves. Isn’t it a combination that goes as well as fucking kimchi and ramen!
These guys feel like some kind of pineapple kimchi and mint ramen. 1st child, the sin is deep.
“The relationship between Yerna and the other guys is something you’ll find out later if you look for that year’s memories.”
After Dana said that, Fran brought a box that had been checked for safety. Seeing the look of anticipation on her face, she seemed very satisfied with her weight.
─Suddenly! Fran picked her lock in one minute and opened the box.
“Hmmmm.”
After looking at the contents of the box, I decided to rename it Treasure Chest. The box contained three gold ingots the size of a wallet!
“Cee- feet!! Gold bar——!!”
“Go, I’ll evaluate it!!”
– Moongrak. Fran touched the gold bar and nodded happily. It means 24K Trupatta Gold Bar!!! I almost fell asleep as the filial son of Jingi Myunggi started a game like the client who sold for 1 billion won.
“This Shiva!!! How much is all this!!!”
“Wow wow wow!! It’s so dazzling I can’t see it♡!!”
We are frightened By damn weight, this was at least a billion! I don’t know why I brought so much money to this place. Did you dispose of the property before hiding?
Or were you thinking of making a deal? Bribe? What do we know? It’s ours now!!
“I’m happy, but at the same time I’m annoyed. You were fucking rich in Yerna.”
“Hmm. Gold. I’ve never touched anything other than placer gold, a magic material.”
The only ones who were cold were Veronica and Dana. Veronica, it’s like that because I don’t know the human world yet, but did you become indifferent to money while working as the head of our eye-catching research center? We are fools who are happy.
“Why is my wife so unconcerned? Don’t you know where the gold is going?”
“West. Shall we quickly take it down before it gets hit? How could these not be our money if we don’t take them home?”
I grabbed Fran and Lari Lura’s hand and grabbed her earlobe while playing her gang-gangsullae. Oh right, I was still exploring. If you get arrested like this, everything is gold and everything goes out.
“Okay, I got it. All that’s left is… Is that all?”
We drool over the long-awaited artifact.
“Veronica, can you analyze what?”
“Analysis or something, I recognized it as soon as I saw it. That is an alloy of orichalcum and mithril.”
“Orichalcon?”
It was a familiar word to me, a 21st century earthling, but was it a foreign word to the sisters from another world? It was the first reaction everyone heard except me.
“It is a rare metal that is also called mountain brass. I heard that it was practiced in modern times… It seems to have mixed in some mithril. It seems to be absorbing something from the nature here.”
“Ah, this is it.”
It seems that this metal absorbs the mana of light and condenses it.
Maybe it’s because I’m late talking to the party members? Except for me, no one knew that this ruin was a mana power plant. Veronica pricked up her ears at my reply.
“Do you know anything?”
“I’ll explain later. But can I take this out?”
“No problem. In itself there is nothing dangerous or great about it, except that it is a precious thing. It is only connected to the structure of these catacombs.”
“Is it?”
For a nuclear power plant, this was an important part, but it didn’t seem like a power plant.
Well, even if you rob a power plant, there must be a limit to how many people can take it. I just needed to be able to bring even expensive core parts.
Just by looking at Veronica’s bright eyes, I can tell that this is a very precious thing. Could this be the reason why he didn’t respond to pure gold?
‘I’m looking forward to hearing an explanation of what kind of metal it is.’
─Kooung. I pulled out an Orihalcon square pole. It was hard to pull out because it had been stuck there for a fucking long time, but luckily the ruins here didn’t seem to collapse after removing it.
“Take the slate below. The elf has taken care of it, but it will be useful.”
Said Veronica. Instead of asking him anything, I quickly tore up the slate and put it in my bag.
Asking questions was a waste of time because it is only right to follow the expert’s advice. And the more things I had to pack, the more impatient I felt. You have to jump out quickly so you don’t lose these things and you can take good care of them.
It sounded like a fucking grave robber, but I won’t deny it.
Archaeologists are a race that robs the remains of other people’s countries and exhibits them in their own country’s museum. If you have any complaints, please come to the Lupine Museum. Haha.
“Let’s take a book. It’s already been 30 minutes since I bought it.”
It was a time when the soldiers of the Germania Kingdom Army would not have been surprised by any reaction. Let’s run away quickly in order to exercise the legitimate rights of the thieves.
“A book, an alter ego book? What if it is designated as prohibited?”
“No problem. It is an alter ego made from natural materials. If you don’t use human flesh and blood, it’s normal magic. It would be good to say that it is a derivative of the spiritization technique.”
Veronica grinned as she piled up her pack in her foal mode.
“Human magic is also quite interesting. I don’t seem to have any aptitude.”
“Is it an alter ego? I’m a bit craving it.”
If you train your shadow clone technique, it will be useful in battle. Of course, I had no intention of writing it anywhere else. For example, if my wives asked me to take my alter ego out of bed, I would absolutely refuse.
No matter how much you look like me, you want to see Fran and Dana being held in the arms of someone other than me? Are you crazy human?
Ah, but if Fran and Dana increase to 10 or 20… No, let’s not think
‘It’s not like I’m making a homunculus, so I can’t use it for that purpose anyway.’
With that thought in mind, I took the rooted items and went up to the ground.
Let’s at least do appraisal after returning to Qudsess.
