Chapter 1105 – Ep.1103 Smith, a Black Company in Another World
“Aggggguk~!!”
I only did a brief stretch to loosen my head, which had been tilted upward for a long time, but a groaning sound came out of my mouth.
‘No matter how strong your body becomes, this part is the same.’
While he was loosening his stiff neck muscles by turning it up and down once, he also relaxed his right wrist and shoulder, which had been cut into the wall with a dagger without stopping.
“I can’t do this for a long time.”
It wasn’t that difficult to climb up by digging out the wall in steps. The real problem was that having to constantly update numbers in the chat room was much more difficult than expected and took a lot of mental energy.
“Is it roughly 2 hours?”
It seemed like it was slowly rising to the point where I put the hand holding the dagger against the wall to spread the feeling. Just squeeze through the tight gap and climb up little by little.
“Oh.”
The feeling disappears after just a few seconds! And it soared upward and spread. The destination was just around the corner.
“You crazy bastards. I went out, but just went back down again. At that time, we will all just die together.”
Since they have been hiding for almost a century, these cult members have developed a strange habit of liking dark and humid places, and are especially fond of digging holes in clean ground to create hiding places.
At least all the cultists I encountered were like that.
“Should we update the numbers, spread the flag, carve the wall…” … It’s crazy, it’s crazy.”
Most mistakes and accidents happen at the last minute. This is because tension is relieved and alertness decreases.
‘If you break through the floor, you will be ruined. Come to your senses.’
I moved upward, carving the wall with more concentration and craftsmanship than when I had spent the first two hours digging.
**
“Whoa!!”
I was so focused that my entire body was drenched with sweat over the course of an hour or so. But it was a labor worth it.
A passageway with a ceiling high enough to allow you to walk with your back straight.
A staircase that allows you to freely go up and down in a whirling manner.
Assuming you don’t get caught, if you just crack the entrance, you will have a passage through which you can escape whenever you want.
Sigh.
I carefully thrust the dagger humming in my palm upwards and pulled it out. And I put my face close to the small gap.
‘Was it too shallow?’
With my senses maximizing and checking frequently to make sure no one was around, I stabbed the dagger two more points in with my index finger and took it away.
‘Heart, please stay still.’
What makes me so nervous?
I closed my eyes again, holding the dagger tightly as the light seeped through the small gap.
“… !!”
And everyone let out a silent cheer at the blue color visible in the sky.
‘No, wait.’
It was really nice to be able to see the sky. But after thinking about it, I sensed something was strange. The material of the wall cut out with the dagger from the bottom up until now was the same.
‘But the sky suddenly appears, not even inside a building?’
No matter how I thought about it, this was a little strange.
What kind of crazy person in the world would unify the flooring material inside and outside a building? Even if the materials were unified, it would end up being about a finger or two thick on the dirt floor.
“Ah.”
I hit my forehead with the hand that was busy tapping the hologram keyboard.
This is because he momentarily forgot to leak the number.
“Fuck it. “What kind of counting is counting?”
The sun will be up, so I’ll just have to go back around the time the sunset starts to set. If you can, take a watch with you.
I put aside the system window and lightly relaxed my stiff left wrist. And using the remaining materials, he created another sword of consolation. It is said that I can disappear with the help of the token, but in order to get out, I have to first cut the floor and lift it out, so there must be no one within sight.
It wouldn’t be a problem if I could spread my energy enough to cover an entire area like Ardel or Giena, but unfortunately, the maximum amount of energy I can unleash is at most the size of a couple of bedrooms in the mansion.
For that reason, I opened a new cross-shaped passage centered on the spot where I am currently standing. This time, since I used both hands and didn’t have to count numbers, it didn’t take long to clear a new passage.
Two hundred steps each based in the center.
I walked slowly along the newly opened passage with my spirit wide open.
‘Damn, why is there no one here?’
It’s normal to be happy when there’s no one around, but no matter how you think about it, if you walk this far, shouldn’t you have at least two or three people watching over you?
“No.”
I lightly slapped myself on the cheek.
I’m trying to think of those guys who are more unreasonable than anyone else and who hesitate to do things that go against ethics, in terms of common sense.
“I’m coming to my senses now.”
When you’re confused, shock therapy is the best. My head, which had been cluttered with all kinds of confusion and doubt, was cleared with just one stroke. And with all my doubts cleared away, I immediately took action.
‘If there’s no one, you just have to dig until you find it, right?’
I decided on a direction and moved forward, cutting through the wall without stopping with the daggers in both hands, until someone was caught by the feeling I had laid out.
**
“Whoop! “Whoa!”
My breath rose to the bottom of my chin. I really didn’t rest for a single moment and just kept scraping the wall and moving forward.
As a result.
The person who was looking for it did not find it in the end, but the solid wall finally disappeared and dirt finally appeared in front of them.
Okay. It is soil.
I tried to calm my heart, which was about to start pounding again, and stabbed the dagger upward, creating an opening.
‘Good.’
Fortunately, seeing that the sky blue scenery that I saw for the first time looks the same, it looks like the small scenery that I can see through this gap is the correct sky.
The starting point was so far away that I couldn’t see it anymore, but the fact that I hadn’t been noticed at all still made me feel uneasy. However, since I had no reason to hesitate anymore after discovering the dirt, I immediately swung my dagger diagonally and cut off the ceiling of the passage.
The reason it is cut diagonally is so that it does not fall down when it is put back on like a lid.
‘In times like this, having broad shoulders is a flaw.’
No matter how I tried to fold my body in half, I had to cut out a significant amount of my body to completely remove it.
Grrr.
The completely gutted ceiling was carefully lifted.
In order to avoid being detected, the right thing to do would be to move it to the side rather than lift it, but the moment I touched the ceiling that was perfectly cut with the token’s ability, the token’s hiding ability was eroded through me as a medium, and its color became lighter, so I did not hesitate to move the cut part upward. I was able to clean it up.
‘How long has it been since I last saw sunlight?’
I took a moment to appreciate the warmth of the sun, then climbed up, being careful not to let the cut off lid fall off my hands.
‘… No problem.’
After getting out of the passage, I immediately turned my head left and right to check if anyone had come at that moment. And after confirming again that no one was around, I quickly closed the lid and erased any traces so as not to reveal the secret passage.
The cut-off lid fit so neatly that you would never notice it unless you were looking for it. It fit so perfectly that it was a bit difficult to go back later…
‘I guess I can turn it over with a knife.’
I decided to think about it later and then slowly took in the surrounding scenery that I had not seen properly.
A beautiful garden spread out under the warm sunlight.
Large and small palace-shaped buildings spread out behind them.
‘… Palace?’
It was a moment when my expectations, which I thought were at best some noble mansion or somewhere in the deserted mountains, were completely shattered.
“Crazy.”
The unexpected scenery made me feel dizzy for a moment.
No, of course, I had teleported to a distance of about three days from Goldias Kingdom. But can it be so blatantly called a kingdom?
“Ha, no. And…”
In fact, I was in a state of doubt when I heard that the first princess had been brainwashed. Since there is no context, you cannot believe it straight away.
But now it has become a situation where I have no choice but to believe.
Of course, this may not be the capital of Vittorio’s kingdom.
All I have seen so far is just a palace-shaped building. But I didn’t need to check this myself. Since I don’t even know the emblem of the Kingdom of Vittorio in the first place, it’s difficult to know right away just by seeing something.
I looked around once and twice, then went deep into the garden, where colorful and beautiful flowers were blooming brightly.
‘It’ll be okay at this point.’
I felt a little sorry for the flowers, but I went into the flower garden and fell flat on my face. Then, I released my hiding and spoke very softly.
“Line. Please help me.”
I asked for help from the World Tree, who threatened me not to come looking for me again.
