Chapter 602 – Mining
Celestia’s power is to create incarnations and dolls that can be controlled with one’s will.
For a woman with the ability to create such an incarnation, a simple camouflage that would change the skin color of others was not a difficult task.
With the power of her Celestia, I disguised myself with blue skin as if I were Zephyria.
And after coming down to the Zephyrian residence, no one has recognized it until now.
‘Did you skip it?’
At first, I briefly thought that way.
However, Nora’s words cut to the core rather than just passing it on.
From all the Zephyrians she has met so far, she has pointed out things that no one else knew.
‘Is precognitive ability real?’
If Nora really saw my future self with her precognitive abilities, she would be somewhat understandable.
I wouldn’t have been disguising myself as a Zephyrian my whole life.
Either my future self returned to the Great Devil Castle on Earth… Or I returned to Pantera.
What if you saw your future self with your original skin color back?
“The reason I’m saying this to you, Bark, is because I saw you, the large man who was with Helena.”
“I was with Helena?”
“Yes, when I saw Yeji at the time, I didn’t know who the large man next to Helena was… But the moment I saw you here, I knew clearly.”
Were me and Helena together?
Does this mean I succeeded in escaping the imprisoned Helena?
Otherwise, there was no reason for me to be with Helena.
Nora said she was looking for Helena to prevent Zephyria’s destruction. And with her powers of foresight she saw me with Helena.
Nora seemed to have a strong belief in her own foresight… When I think about it that way, it makes sense to some extent that she gave me such a strong attitude from the first time I saw her.
For Nora, there is no one she can trust more than the person she is with Helena.
“Wouldn’t this be okay?”
She asks, standing in front of an open tunnel next to her cliff path.
Now we are talking about slowly entering the tunnel.
As I was climbing the cliff path while talking with Nora, I suddenly found myself far from the ground.
You can see people moving like ants under the railing of the cliff.
I could also see the panoramic view of Karaz at a glance.
Unlike the other places, the large building attached to the northern cliff of the city was made of metal.
It must be a military facility.
‘Did we come down there?’
Inside that building, there was a place where the prisoners captured by Gregory came down in the elevator.
My eyes turn to the south.
The barrier that imprisoned Karaz was visible.
And far beyond…
‘… What? Are there other cities?’
It hangs at the edge of the horizon and is hard to see. But then I saw something that looked like a castle wall surrounding something.
I was puzzled that there were other buildings besides Karaz, but it was not a question that could be resolved now.
I buried that question and followed Nora into the tunnel.
The tunnel was not that small.
Looking at the ample space above me, it seemed to be about 3 meters high.
But it was dark.
‘Let’s at least put up some lights.’
The only light is the torch held by Nora walking in front of me.
It was absurd.
In a world where cars fly in the sky, it’s not even a flashlight, but a torch…
Isn’t it okay to sell a flashlight?
This appears to be nothing more than a ploy to annoy the prisoners.
The only consolation to those serving time is that all the magical power suppression devices were removed except for the one on the ankle.
At first, I wondered why they released it…
Now that I think about it, I think it was for magic stone mining.
Mine work is hard labor.
If all magical power is blocked, there is no way the prisoners with poor stamina will be able to survive.
If magical power increases in the body, even if only slightly, then physical abilities will naturally increase.
Should I tell them to give me a bottle or give me medicine? .
If you think about it positively, it means that they didn’t force you into a tunnel where monsters appear so that you can die.
But even there, the gap between rich and poor is revealed.
In any case, the effect of the magic suppression device attached to the ankle is the same.
In that case, it means that humans with more magical power are more advantageous in mining.
The leaders of Rebellion, people like Claire and Cowra.
There was no hesitation in Nora’s steps as she walked ahead holding a torch.
Isn’t this an expression of confidence rather than fearlessness?
She said she had C-rank magical power, but for some reason, I felt like she didn’t have much power compared to the Rebellion leaders.
Well. I was also making excuses for being a D rank, so I didn’t really want to ask questions about that.
There was only one fork in the tunnel, and we chose the left path and soon arrived at a dead end.
-Kang! Kang!!
At the end of the dug tunnel, I started working with a pickaxe. Nora was watching me with a torch.
The reason I work with the pickaxe alone is that Nora said something meaningful that I wouldn’t have to use the pickaxe for a long time.
In fact, even if it wasn’t for that reason, unlike Nora, who came prepared with various things for mining, I brought only a pickaxe.
In this situation, I had to use a pickaxe even though I was embarrassed.
“Isn’t digging a hole like this without any measures an act of suicide?”
While I was working with a pickaxe, a thought occurred to me.
There won’t be a problem if it’s nearby.
It naturally occurred to me that the tunnel, which was just open without any support, might collapse if we continued digging.
“Well… Didn’t the military use some kind of means?”
She may be a bit irresponsible, but she doesn’t manage the mine, and it’s not a problem we can solve.
“Anyway, you’re much better with a pickaxe than Evatt or Pettus.”
Evat and Peters are the guys who called Nora a priestess earlier.
Thanks to her support, my pickaxe smashed one of the stones that was sticking out, and a small magic stone rolled out from inside.
“You’re lucky. This is the first time I’ve seen a magic stone come out with a pickaxe.”
Is this your first time?
Does this mean that the magic stone was not mined like this?
I picked up the small magic stone and tried to use the pickaxe again…
“Wait a minute.”
Nora stopped me.
“Bark, can’t you hear something?”
As I listened to her story, I heard something crunching from the wall.
“Let’s step back.”
Nora seemed to know what this situation was and instructed me like that.
We walked back a little and waited at the end of the tunnel where I was working with the pickaxe.
– Crunch, crunch, crunch… Tuk-tuk…
In the darkness, where the light of the torch did not shine, I heard the sound of something heavy falling to the floor. And soon, something jumped out of the darkness and flew towards me.
But before anything could reach it, the pickaxe in my right hand chopped off its head.
-Kkieek!!
I frowned when I saw the creature screaming and dying with its head pierced by a pickaxe.
Because the creation of that monster was so…
At first glance, it looks like a snake.
However, to be considered a snake, it had a short body and a thick body, about the length of a human leg.
The head is eerily swollen into a shape similar to a real glans, and there are vicious round teeth at the end… It literally looks like shit.
Was this the monster that was said to come from the mine?
“Bark! There’s more!”
Nora warns after seeing the monsters that come out later.
It wasn’t such a threatening monster.
If you were to grade it based on Earth, it seemed to be no more than an F-class monster.
After that, three or four more monsters attacked, and we took care of them without difficulty.
Nora didn’t stop there, but walked up to the corpses of the monsters lying on the floor and smashed their heads with the mace.
It didn’t look very good to see white fluid flowing from the shattered head.
Is it because it looks so similar to that?
When I saw Nora smashing her head with a mace… I somehow felt a chill in my lower abdomen.
‘Is this a confirmed kill?’
I am a monster I have never seen before.
But she might know something I don’t.
She may be a monster with a habit of pretending to be dead. But Nora gave a different answer than my question.
“Here, the glans… Ah, no… Hmm… When you crack the head, a magic stone comes out?”
I think you said glans…
I guess I wasn’t the only one who thought it looked like a dick.
Nora was blushing as if she thought she had made a mistake.
It was polite to turn a blind eye to her lady’s slight mistakes.
“Ah! It’s here.”
Nora crushed the monster’s glans… No, she pulled out her magic stone with a bright face from inside the head.
According to Nora, this unpleasant-looking monster is a monster that eats magic stones, and it approaches when you use a pickaxe to mine magic stones.
Only then did I understand how prisoners mine magic stones.
In fact, Nora’s knowledge was originally obtained through audiovisual training at the mine management office.
Since I didn’t receive that education, I didn’t know.
