Chapter 659 – Raid on Atlantis (1)
“Don’t worry too much. I’m just doing a little research, so what?”
“… Yes, I see.”
After answering readily, Veronica handed over her breastplate as if she would say no more.
“Take it. It is a magic item enchanted with diving magic.”
“This is an oxygen mask.”
Lalilura also handed over a leather mask.
Wore her breastplate and put her mask on her head. She was so tight that it was difficult to breathe, but when the oxygen-breathing magic turned on, she managed to breathe freely.
Chew. The gas mask is PTSD.
“You must be familiar with the performance of diving magic, right?”
“It resists changes in air pressure and water pressure and pushes water in a range of 3 meters.”
Even in the sea, you can move freely in a space of 3 meters. Since the center of magic is me, it was roughly about gaining a range of activity that was close to the tip of the spear.
“Yes. However, even if the water is blocked, it is the same as falling into the sea while remaining in a transparent container. I didn’t let it float by buoyancy, but be careful about the water pressure restrictions.”
“I practiced several times, but it’s new.”
“… You don’t have to go there, can you just send her down to her Val Curie?”
Kwak… ! Veronica grumbled as she tightened her breastplate.
But she knows she too. If we let them down, we won’t be able to see what’s going on down there. It is, after all, a pointless complaint.
Still, it wasn’t a pointless complaint. I feel good when I feel loved. I smiled and kissed Veronica on the cheek.
“I’ll be back soon. What kind of shame is that if a guy who came back alive from hell drowns in the sea?”
“Ha… Again, just do some research and come?”
“Yes, yes. If you want to be 100% safe, then let’s go down together.”
Having said that, I climbed into the magic circle with the Valkyries wearing the same equipment.
Standing up the hairpin I gave her and the improved staff, Veronica made a disapproving expression, but when I winked at her, she seemed to have no choice but to recite the spell
A light flashed, and the world changed.
Rumble… !
When I opened my eyes to the sound of bubbles popping, all around me was total darkness.
I turned on the magic item I had brought beforehand to light it up.
I could just use magic, but the only thing that consumed my concentration was the handshake. It would be wise to substitute anything that could be replaced with a tool.
─Break it! The surroundings brightened and the city scenery revealed its true identity.
When the Valkyries turned on their lights, a total of four light sources illuminated the path.
‘I don’t feel like I’m under the sea after all.’
I felt it when I practiced before coming, but since not a single drop of moisture touched my skin, I felt like I was just walking around in a dark underground city.
If it wasn’t for the heavy pressure of water every time you took a step, you might have thought you had just landed in a strange city at night.
Thump, thump…
A quartet of divers walked on a damp stone floor.
With the power of the barrier that pushes away water, he was able to walk on the ground. Perhaps thanks to the water pressure, the body did not float like a star with weak gravity. Quite the opposite.
‘Looks like I’ve come to a planet with 10 times the gravity.’
Movement speed slows down, like when running around in a cold bath.
It was like entering a big fucking ball from a variety show and moving while pushing the others. In fact, it was similar because it moved while pushing the water around here into the barrier.
Still, it doesn’t slow down as long as it’s moving in the same radius.
Especially when swinging her arms, she was able to move normally without any resistance thanks to the barrier. This is because the inside of the barrier is close to the inside of the submarine.
It was thanks to that.
─Tuck!!
That’s why I was able to break through the liquid-repelling barrier and catch the attack that was aimed at me.
The weight in my hand was quite heavy.
That’s how much power went into that throw. After snatching something from the darkness, I half-opened my eyes at the shape. It was a weapon of familiar structure with barnacles viciously parasitic.
‘Trident?’
I glared at the spot where the attack came from.
I saw a squatting silhouette in a building where the light couldn’t reach. It was too far away to see properly, but the skeleton looked human.
It’s a bastard who wears something like tattered leather over his head. Something that looks like a peeled banana peel is swaying from the top of the head in the ocean current.
─Break!
He got up from the roof of the building.
I half-opened my eyes. Fuck, such a light movement? It was a breezy gait that seemed to forget that this place was under the sea. Absolutely not normal.
Could it be a deep-sea monster that made this city its home?
No, I liked that bastard’s origin.
“This chewy. Isn’t that a gift you gave me to be close to?”
I was even hit with the first bread, but there was no reason to skip it.
I threw away the trident roughly and pulled on the bracelet. The spear hanging from my wrist regained its original form. The anticipation, sharper than before, was terrifying.
Ugh ugh… !!
The bruenak in his hand trembled wildly as if to warn him. I roughly understood the meaning of the vibration, and at that moment, the monster dashed through the current. It was quite fast.
“ᚱ(Raidō).”
But even if it’s fast, it’s not to the point that you can’t catch up.
I used the Rune of Acceleration to speed up my body. Aurors cannot be written. The burden of going to the barrier increases. If the diving magic that prevents the water pressure is broken, it will be fucked. I can’t use it now.
Fortunately, there were many ways to fight without having to wield a weapon.
【Intercept with magic.】
【Confirm command. Follow the instructions.]
The Valkyrie immediately threw a spear of light.
─Pajijik! I also pulled out a lightning bolt and threw it, but it was scattered in an instant. Can’t you use it because it’s in the sea? Rather, it seemed that only the allies would be electrocuted.
The monster pulled out the spear on his back and threw it.
Accelerating, I easily dodged it. He even had time to intercept the trident sent to the Valkyries with a mana javelin. The particularly threatening barnacle spears were intercepted the fastest.
─Kooung!
A shockwave exploded as the barnacle window shattered.
The shock transmitted through the seawater shook the barrier of the diving magic. The mana contained in the spear exploded. If it wasn’t for Odin’s eye, it would have exploded closer.
“Uearthy!!”
The monster who stupidly approached was pierced by a javelin.
Even I couldn’t avoid all of them if the three of us were throwing at each other on the Valkyries. Although they took advantage of the advantage of the sea, their machine-like killing skills sometimes frighten even me.
“ᚱ(Raidō)!”
I activated the rune of ᚱ (Raidō) once again and struck my hand down.
I drew a vertical line toward the other side of the space, as if I was feeding honey chestnuts, and a lightning bolt burst out, ignoring the distance. With the short-distance space transfer effect, lightning strikes the monster’s torso.
It cost a lot of mana, but it was worth it.
─Kwareung!!
The monster was fried by an intense lightning strike.
Even in that state, the cub did not die and struggled as if it were trying to escape. Quite sturdy. If he had been hit that hard, he would have died instantly unless he was a warrior of my level.
‘Compared to strength, toughness is good.’
It’s just that the bum-sin puts up a fight first and looks disgraceful.
It would have been annoying if they came in droves. Brunak hummed as if to throw himself, but I hung the spearhead on my shoulder as if I hadn’t even bothered to respond to the request.
“Arthur. What if I throw it here and can’t retrieve it?”
That doesn’t mean I’ll watch you run away.
─Tukak!
Kicking off the floor and cutting through the water, I approached and grabbed the monster by the neck. As expected, the repulsive power of the fingertips is strong. The baby’s neck was almost an alloy of steel.
─Tuk! The monster’s head, which entered my diving barrier, rolled on the seawaterless floor.
The severed skin snapped back, revealing the face inside. It was a fishman with strangely large eyes. It looks like a humanoid deep-sea fish, so it looks like it vomits.
“Severe. Then there is nothing you can do.”
The struggle for survival is natural in nature.
I’m not an arrogant human supremacist enough to catch a pod there.
Deep-sea fish is a wonderful life that gives courage to live even to those who are not confident in their faces. It is truly a Digimon with the Crest of Courage.
Little Kang Buk-ho, who only thought Agu-jjim was made from Agumon when he was young, was surprised to learn that the strange fish was not a deep-sea fish when he saw Agu for the first time in his life.
But do these creatures inhabit the sunken city?
The existence of the sea unknown to humans… A special feature on the horrors of the deep could be a book. If it were an adventurer’s experience with mithril-class skills, the Million Seller would be a good thing.
“Evie, Deer.”
– Bang! I roughly kicked the head.
It’s not that the bottom of the dark sea isn’t scary, but wouldn’t the true forager path open only when you overcome your fear? Perhaps this city is the fork in the road leading to Bikini City.
“All it takes is Melong City.”
Will this road lead to the thrilling city that is responsible for Jammin’s trauma?
Or will it lead to a new city?
─Jeobuck, Jeobuck.
Questions like a paradise of curiosity were quickly answered. Continuing my investigation inside the island, I found the remaining signs in the castle in less than 10 minutes.
《Central Sphere of Atlantis.》
“… Indeed.”
Atlantis.
It wasn’t particularly surprising. Speaking of cities sunk at the bottom of the sea, is there any other city besides Atlantis? Rather, it can be said that it is a reasonable conclusion.
So what surprised me was not the text on the sign, but the texture of the sign itself.
‘This looks like Orichalcum?’
A legendary metal found in Germania’s Mana Generator!
That’s what’s used for signs in this neighborhood.
Of course, this sign would have been intended to show visitors the city’s technological prowess, not for something like ‘5km to Busan’. It’s something for Gao.
But still, there was one thing that was embarrassing.
‘Let’s take it.’
There must be a bastard who wants to steal like me, but to neglect it like that.
─Aww!
Pulled out the sign. It could be used as a map, and if I took it by boat, it would be money or a weapon, or at least something that would become my achievement to show off to the academic world.
I moved while interpreting the map with Loki’s Papago power.
The districts of Atlantis were more neatly divided than in the clumsily modernized new towns, so it was easy to navigate in this dark, fucking neglected state.
The city immersed in silence was creepy and dreamy.
Seaweed and deep-sea fish are roaming around in a beautiful city that can be seen in ordinary ways, so it is truly otherworldly scenery.
If it is true with the sensibilities of modern people who grew up watching the scenery of the deep sea, would it be embarrassing to the people of the other world who are disgusted by the sight of octopuses? If you aren’t a fan of ruins, you won’t come to this town even for sightseeing.
─Round.
The arrowhead, which had turned into a cube, moved as if attracted by magnetic force. Following it according to the map, I stopped at a building as large as the City Hall.
“Is it down here?”
In the garden at the entrance of Atlantis City Hall, all the plants that should have been there had already died.
It can’t be so gloomy because only the corpses of seaweed or disgusting crabs and shrimps suitable for the deep sea roam around. Even if a witch came out from here and offered to trade her voice for a human leg, she would still do it.
‘Is the suspicious one on the top floor?’
I looked around, but there was still a solidly locked space on the top floor of City Hall.
‘The inside of the wall is an empty space.’
I put my hand on the wall and my eyes lit up.
I tried to accelerate the floor with cardiopulmonary arrest, but there was no sense of resistance from mana from the inside. This means that there is no water inside. It must be an enclosed space.
Undoubtedly, it has been neglected for a long time.
In other words, it was a strict and strong seal.
Even if it has been neglected for at least hundreds of years, it is still intact.
“You’re lucky.”
The damage would have been unavoidable. No matter how you block it with a barrier, the water would have filled it up someday, and it would have broken the space preserved there.
But I had magic to get through this wall.
“Air Door.”
When I activated the essence of the Munmun Fruit, my body passed through the wall while passing through the dimensional rift. At this point, can I call this rune Kamu?
Upon entering, I took off my mask and smiled.
“As expected.”
The containment space on the top floor was a dazzling treasure trove.
There is not even a drop of water outside the diving barrier. I hurriedly put on my mask again because of the smell in the air that had been there for hundreds of years, but it was a place worth farming for treasure.
Piing-!!
However, rather than an ancient artifact that was hard to take my eyes off of, I focused more on the huge device pointed by the arrowhead. It was like holding onto something invisible.
‘… Is this the source of the curse?’
The Curse of the Bicorn Clan of being on the other side of the dimension.
It is an object that seems to have fixed its source with a magic tool. It was like an upright hook, and it was big enough to be compared to a decent truck. I love the fantasy feel.
I inadvertently reached out and returned it.
‘Let’s not rush.’
This time it was for an investigation. Now that we knew the location, we could discuss the details with the bicorns before proceeding. There is no answer if you break it as you please and then it gets fucked up.
“This is my husband. Found a device that appears to be the source of the curse. I’ll do some more research and send you an autograph. I hope it will be salvaged with
It was planned to be the same when I came back, just as I flew by
Since I spoke to the stone slab, the Valkyries inside it will serve as heralds.
Truly an automatic voicemail.
‘Let’s start looking elsewhere.’
It would be wiser to search facilities such as this city hall rather than treasures that can be retrieved at any time. Seeing that, I quickly rummaged through the warehouse.
I called it a treasure house, but it’s more like a core area where valuables are placed.
While going through a place full of magic tools and devices of unknown use, I found something that stood out. A terribly large ultramarine blue crystal in a private room with transparent glass windows.
A scene that could only come out of a cartoon or movie made me intuit that it was a key organ of this sunken civilization without any evidence.
─Suck. I rolled my eyes down. A bone collapsed in front of the device.
It was a corpse of white bones, wrapped in yellow cloth and scattered.
“… Is it the corpse of an ancient Atlantean?”
The corpse of an ancient Atlantean.
Look at the tone. Fuck. It’s so heartbreaking.
The white cloth seemed to be a garment worn with a large piece of cloth wrapped around the body, like Veronica’s. After the culprit died, it seemed that he had become a shroud.
“Rest in peace.”
And excuse me.
I took the paper he had and read it.
It wasn’t weathered because it was special paper, and all letters were encrypted. Of course, it’s meaningless security to me. I’d rather not be a robot. Authentication would be more troublesome.
But when I saw the letters, I was so horrified that I couldn’t think of anything else.
《Description of the Navigational Functions of Atlantis.》
Because the content of the code he analyzed was that absurd.
