31 Episode 30 Room and Demons

It doesn't matter if it's day or night in the cave.

I'm going to start setting up now, is that okay?

Oh, ......, we're fine, but are you okay?　I don't want you to die. Take it easy.

Mr. Gaither is worried about me. Well, I don't want to push myself too hard.

I'll come back as soon as I feel it's too dangerous.

"Well, I'll send one of the miners who hasn't been in the cave lately to guide you, though he won't be able to go deep enough.

Thank you.

I'll call him on my way back, and you can wait here.

A little while after Mr. Ga-inta left, a miner came to us.

He's a man, but he's probably a dwarf.

Oh, you're the one who's going to take care of that mine, follow me.

Then he walks away quickly.

That's a dwarf. I hurriedly followed him.

After a while, the man stops in front of what looks like the entrance to a tunnel. It is about two and a half meters high. It is about two and a half meters high, which seems high for a Dwarf.

I can't stay long at the entrance of that tunnel, I'll turn around as soon as I get there.

Wait a minute.

I haven't finished my preparations yet.

I need to reduce my magic power, so can you wait for ten minutes?

It's going to take 10 minutes. ...... Okay.

The guide then sat down on the spot.

I looked at him and began to put in magic power to deploy pressure magic as far away as possible.

It's an experiment in invisible sniping with pressure magic.

After ten minutes of incessantly releasing magic power, I have consumed about 6000 magic power. That's just over half of the maximum.

I've just realized that I've done this much.

Even after all this, it still consumes about 12,000 times as much magic power as a pressure spell that consumes 0.5 magic power, which is not even close to 30 to the third power.

Even if you multiply 30cm by 30, the distance you can reach is only 9m. It would be better to wait for a normal wand to be made, instead of talking about invisibility.

I activated the spell, feeling a little discouraged. The ground about 6 meters away is slightly gouged. About five centimeters.

I'm ready, I can do it.

"Oh, I didn't feel like I consumed any magic, but if that's okay with you, let's go.

With that, the guide started walking again.

After a while, he stops, points to the path on the left and says, "This is it.

He stops and points to the road on the left and says, "This is it, I'm leaving now, you're on your own.

With that, the person who was guiding me left. I wonder if it is already harmful to ordinary people.

If it were not harmful, there would not be much of a problem with not being able to enter one of the branches.

As for the lights, when we left, the guide left us a miniaturized version of an inn light. I wondered if it would be possible to return home without a light.

I don't feel anything strange when I enter the room, but I'm going to check the status just in case.

There doesn't seem to be a general way to know how much MP you have, but I'll be able to keep monitoring it as I explore.

Name: Suzumiya Kaede

Age / Race / s*x : 21 / Human / Male

Level: 21

HP:821/821

MP:5216/103542

STR:116

INT:181

AGI:143

DEX:154

Skills: Information Manipulation Analysis (Concealment), Complete Mastery of Otherworldly Languages (Concealment), Magical Qualities, Martial Qualities, Otherworldly (Concealment), All Attribute Affinity (Concealment), Fire Magic 3, Earth Magic 3, Water Magic 3, Pressure Magic 1, Perception Magic 4, Restoration Magic 2, Swordsmanship 2, Magical Adaptation unknown

Yeah, MP is normal, MP max is about 10,000.

...... Hmm? I'm sure you're not the only one. And there's a skill I don't recognize. Demon Adaptation. And what's unknown?

For now, let's give it a test.

Demon Adaptation Level unknown

Adaptation to magical elements.

Not enough information. No matter how hard I tried, Information Manipulation Analysis did not give me any more information than this.

I have never thought about this before, but perhaps there is a limit to information manipulation analysis. Or perhaps there is a condition.

What is a magical element, and is it not magical power? I re-evaluated MP, and found that MP is magical power.

This result suggests that the magical element is something related to magical power. There is a high possibility that it is also related to the maximum MP value.

Is too much magic power too much magic element?　However, it is also possible that it is not due to magical elements, but to magical power.

There's too little information to make a judgment, so I'll just keep going.

It's a little creepy, but for some reason a hunch or something tells me it's safe to proceed.

As I progressed, my maximum MP increased rapidly, finally surpassing one million.

With such an increase in MP, you'd think that the recovery speed would increase, but it hasn't even recovered, let alone increased. There was absolutely nothing.

After walking for a while more, the maximum value stopped increasing.

The maximum MP is now 8754289, which is a serious problem. If I'm not careful, it's going to hit the 10 million mark.

If the recovery rate is the same as before, the recovery rate will be one million per minute, which is too fast to use up.

My MP hasn't recovered since I came here, but I haven't heard of any aftereffects of magic overload, and I'd like to believe that it will recover once I leave here.

This MP anomaly is probably the cause of this incident. I don't believe that two mutations of this magnitude could occur at the same time.

It's also possible that it was triggered.

When I searched the point where the MP increase had stopped again, I saw a hole in the bottom of the wall. I poked it with a slightly less powerful spell, and it collapsed, so I looked inside.

About two meters down, you can see what looks like the inside of a solid house, which is not the inside of a mine.

It didn't look too dangerous, so I jumped down from the hole and went inside.

The interior was a 10m square, 2m high space surrounded by blue-grey walls.

The place where I came in looked like it had been burned by fire.

There is only one desk at the end of the room, and I can see something around it. Other than that and what appears to be a lighted magic tool hanging in the center of the room, it's a bleak room with almost nothing in it.

As I approached the room, I found out what it was.

First of all, there was a human bone, a human bone that had fallen around the chair next to the desk.

I was not shocked, as I had already killed many people, but if I had just arrived here, I might have panicked.

Then there was a bunch of thin papers on the desk, like a notepad, and a sword.

It was a beautiful sword with a hint of blue in it, and although it was unsheathed, it didn't show any signs of age compared to the other things around it, and I could believe that it was brand new.

He took the sword and tried to swing it, and it felt right.

For some reason, the sword seemed to want magic, so I poured some magic into it, and something about it seemed to change.

When I thrust the sword into the ground, it felt like a piece of tofu, but it was much lighter than a normal sword, and it pierced through to the base.

I put the sword away and tried to poke the ground with Dverag's sword, but it just flicked off.

I think I may have found a great sword.

I put the sword away with a smile on my face. This sword is not for practical use yet.

The iron sword I've used so far is not that powerful, but I have a lot of trust and experience with it.

I won't start using this sword until I'm outside. I've also collected your notepad.

There is no particular need to read it here. The light given to me is too low to read, and I'm afraid of running out of oxygen with fire magic.

I retrieved the notebook, but then I remembered the light in the center of the room.

There is a good chance that it was meant to illuminate this room. I wonder if I can get enough light to be able to read it, even if I have to look at it a little.

The light has a string attached to it, just like the ones in Japan. I suppose it is enough to pull the string.

I approached and pulled the string. There was a click, and

The light went out. I don't mean that the light went out, but physically.

I quickly shielded my eyes and immediately heard a sound as if the light was cracking. It seems that I am not injured.

I open my eyes and see what's left of the light, and move toward the hole to turn back, but then I feel something gathering in the center of the room.

I turned around and saw that something blackish was forming in the center of the room. It is about three meters away.

After about five seconds of observation, it takes shape and becomes a kind of six-legged monster with no clear outline. It is about 1.5 meters wide and 1 meter high.

The outlines of the flames, for example, appear to be somewhat blurred, as if they were blackened. However, the outline seems to be getting clearer with time.

It does not have six legs like a green wolf, but six legs like an insect, but each leg looks like a bear.

To be honest, it's quite creepy.

I hurriedly put on my usual gear and hit it with a large number of rock spears. As you watch, you deploy your magic armor.

When the spears hit something, all of them disappeared with almost no reaction. It's as if they've been absorbed.

The demon-like thing itself didn't seem to waver in the slightest. I tried to cast a pressure spell just to be sure, but all I heard was a "buzzing" sound.

It's the same as when I cast it on air. It's safe to assume that it doesn't work.

As I was thinking about what to do, a monster with a clearer outline came flying at me. In a single leap, it completely destroyed a distance of three meters and jumped at me.

I don't know if physical attacks will work, but I immediately thrust the sword in my right hand.

The sword stabbed into the demon without any resistance, as if it were slicing through the air.

As it was, the sword sank to its base, and the demon's momentum continued unabated as it closed in on me.

Suddenly, I felt a response. It was just as my hand struck the demon when the sword had completely sunk into its base.

But it didn't stop the demon's momentum, and it seemed that the demon was going to push me away, but the demon put pressure on my body for a moment, and then it landed on the other side. I wonder what it wanted to do.

I turned around and looked at the monster again.

The demon seemed to have become much smaller than when I saw it before.

It seems to be about 40cm high. It's probably not my imagination.

Is it possible that I should hit this thing directly with my body?

I thought so, and when I tried to hit it, its volume disappeared in an interesting way. There was not much of a response, so it did not feel like a hit.

Before I could hit it ten times, it had disappeared, leaving behind something that looked like a magic stone from a light tool, and a much larger, blackish magic stone of about 30cm in diameter.

I wonder what it was.