Chapter 651 – ■■’s Territory (2)
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The Rune Magic Detector had a more ordinary appearance than I thought.
『My benefactor. I will tell you how to use it.』
“Ah, please explain to my wife here.”
The person who will use the arrowhead of the goddess Satis is Veronica who came with you.
‘Because Veronica will have to see it for herself to be able to move through space.’
The elders explained it to Veronica as if she understood, and our Goddess wisely understood it right away. Because the future of the clan was at stake, it seemed that a 3x buff was applied to concentration.
『According to the clan’s rules, we must also watch, but I swear that I will never divulge what happened here. We ask for your understanding.”
“Yes. It’s natural.”
Speaking of clan rules, haven’t you guys made them yourself for a thousand years? I could have argued, but I decided to move on.
‘It is the only supercomputer radar in the country. I should be grateful for even lending it to you.’
If you trust us and leave it to us, it’s annoying if it breaks down.
Ah, annoying here means we are like that. The elders and other elves would faint and froth, but it’s a big deal that won’t end with just saying it’s annoying.
Sssss-.
As Veronica raised her arrowhead and cast her spell, an image appeared in the detector’s mirror.
‘Ah, we can watch it on video too.’
If it was like this, Veronica wouldn’t have to do it.
It wouldn’t have been a problem if Dana and I were there, but Veronica would be able to focus on this more than anyone else. I trusted my wife, and she reciprocated with results.
Chwaaaaa!!
The image in the mirror moved at breakneck speed.
The speed at which you can’t even read the scenery as if you turned on your mobile phone’s video recording and swung it!
Physically faster than sound, it was a speed that even a real fighter could not compare to.
‘… How far is it?’
That’s why I was very embarrassed to see the screen moving for several minutes without stopping.
‘Isn’t this almost the same distance as crossing continents?’
It’s so far away that we who watch it can think that way. It had already left the continent and was on the sea. The arrowhead floating on the detector is pointing all the way to the southwest.
‘Southwest from Tatarnia, tens of thousands of kilometers across the sea.’
There are no continents like that.
When arrowheads were used in Britannia, they were clearly somewhere between Gorgalia and Germania. But when I opened the map in my head, something was strange.
Could it be a place like some uninhabited island on the sea? Like the garden island where the prophet’s alter ego was?
─Stand up!
Thinking that far, I looked at the screen standing tall in the open sea and opened my mouth.
Veronica has turned her perspective 360 degrees, but there is no such thing as an island. It was literally a blue sea composed of half water and half air.
『… I don’t know what you’re looking for, but it seems to have sunk to the bottom of the sea.”
One of the elven elders spoke as if it was difficult to say.
『Isn’t it that the ship carrying the item you are looking for was wrecked, or that it ended up drifting along a river or sea and ended up in such a vast sea?』
『If the item is small enough to be swept away by the waves, it may be difficult to find. When we arrived at that place, it might have already been swept away… 』
“Shh. Wait.”
He raised his finger and silenced them. The arrowhead above the detector stands tall, pointing downward. Right there, 90 degrees down, is the source of the curse.
Veronica moved the omniscient radar point of view.
‘A sea cave?’
The arrowhead was heading down into a large trench under the sea, as if it were manning.
I didn’t really realize the expression ‘several times the size of Yeouido’, which is always said in the news, but that trench would undoubtedly cover an area 10 times the size of Yeouido.
But for a moment I was in awe of her natural grandeur. I immediately noticed the discomfort.
‘… The light intensity is strange.’
I hadn’t even gone deep enough to call it deep, but the inside of the trench was too dark. Even if it is not at a depth or angle where the sunlight cannot reach.
“It is difficult to observe. Would it be all right if I turned on the light?”
Veronica asked if she thought so too.
Her elder, who spoke Britannia, strained her neck in embarrassment.
“If you mean it’s OK to use magic near the detector, that’s fine. But turning on the light here doesn’t brighten the view in the mirror.”
“I hear you mean it doesn’t matter.”
Veronica making light between her palms.
─Pat! The light shone like a highly compressed stun grenade for an instant, then disappeared. And a light burst from under the sea in the mirror. The elf elder opened her mouth.
『… How is it at the bottom of the sea that is tens of thousands of miles away?”
How It’s
‘He sent the magic-made light over there.’
The weight of photons that make up light is almost the same as that.
If that was the case, even if he moved that distance without a magic circle, the mana burden would have been small. To make such a judgment in an instant, after all, our Goddess wouldn’t be fooled anywhere if she was smart enough.
‘It’s because it’s a bit bizarre.’
Blowing light into her trench, Veronica stared into the mirror without answering her elder’s question. I could see right away why.
Passes…
“The light… ?』
The light that Veronica emitted was buried in the darkness, as if it were covered by something other than a shadow. Of course, I couldn’t reveal the inside of the trench.
“… It is not a natural darkness.”
“Are you talking about magic? Whole area of that size?”
Dana questioned Veronica’s tone as if she was dubious, but Veronica just shook her head as if it could be.
“It seems that the seagull itself has been used as the sphere of the barrier, using seawater as a medium. Even if there are intelligent beings swimming in the open sea, don’t notice what’s inside.”
“As an archaeologist, this is exciting news. I will help you.”
Dana immediately stood up and took Veronica’s hand. It was nice to see the two beauties like that, but I calmed down and turned my eyes to the mirror.
Faaaaa!!!
The light Dana created exploded on the seabed.
By borrowing the power of Dana, who has a high mana and aptitude of light, this time he was able to drive away the darkness like the deep sea and illuminate the inside of the trench with the mana spotlight.
And what was revealed was an amazing sight.
An island was hidden inside the trench.
“Castle?! No, it’s a city!』
『Rather than a castle, an island… It seems to be.』
『You mean the city-state is sunk at the bottom of the sea?!』
The audience watching the mirror were swept away in astonishment.
I exerted the master’s visual acuity to the fullest. Everything except me slowed down, and I quickly scanned the island in the sensible time that seized and increased the moment.
Perspective is far away, but there is nothing unrecognizable.
‘If the streets and buildings are divided for the sake of the residents, I can guess the approximate size of the island based on that.’
Measurement is not difficult if there is something to compare
This was also one of the approximate virtues that an archaeologist should have. While examining the roads and buildings, I assumed that I was standing there and set up a calculation formula.
The conclusion came quickly.
‘… Incredibly spacious.’
It’s wide enough to make me wonder if I’ve misunderstood the formula.
‘Didn’t I say that the area of Jeju Island was 1800㎢?’
And that island was bigger than that.
If you look at the road as a standard, one block is almost 2 to 3 times the size of Sargadis!
There are four such blocks to the northeast.
In addition, there is also a central section that is larger than the northeast section.
If my calculations are not wrong, it was probably more than half the size of the northern part of Brittany. Besides, from my point of view, the shape of the island looked like a section resembling a steering wheel of a ship or a steering wheel of a car split in half or less.
If that thought is true, the size of the complete island would be at least three times that.
Total area… Maybe 40% of Britannia.
‘… It’s no joke.’
The island we are currently on is barely as large as the Marquess of Romania-Germania.
It is about the same as or slightly smaller than the land of the Armials family.
What is the meaning of the size of the island that has sunk to the bottom… An island like that is sunk at the bottom of the sea, and no one in the other world knew about it?
Traces of a civilization that even Dana and I, the archaeologists, do not know about, at least an island city-state of an ancient civilization.
The source of the bicorn’s curse was in such a place?
Confused as a person of common sense, excited as a scholar, and troubled as the goddess’s husband—and master—I ended up putting on a strange expression.
─Kaching!
As if to alleviate our perplexity, the red arrowhead transformed into a cube as if a trap was closing. It seemed as if he was saying, ‘This is the destination’.
─Click.
Veronica taking the cube off the detector.
Then the cube took the shape of an arrowhead again, and the image in the mirror turned off. Said Veronica in the tent, which had become as quiet as people splashed with cold water.
“It’s a suitable stage to decorate the end of a long journey.”
She walked over to me and smiled mischievously.
“First you have to learn to swim. Will you teach me?”
“… Sorry, actually I can’t swim either.”
Before I came to this world, I could count on one hand the number of times I had ever been on a plane.
I’d rather have run on the sea, hundreds of meters under the sea.
