194-188 One way

After releasing the water dragon and wind dragon safely, I noticed that the twin dragons had disappeared, leaving behind their bows and jars, and after retrieving them, I turned back the way I had come.

As he walked, the feeling that he was left with a fuzzy feeling in his mind as to what the identity of the one called 【Rafiluna】 that Ssanglong had told him just before he disappeared was, halved the joy of releasing Ssanglong.

And when I thought about convincing myself that I would clear up that fuzzy feeling by hitting the wind spirit, I felt a little bit lighter on my feet.

But as I climbed the stairs and exited the sealing gate, I was hit with a situation I hadn't expected.

''Why isn't there a magic elevator?''

The wind spirit and Lydia were nowhere to be seen, and when I thought about it calmly, there was no way the two of them could stay here without food, since they had been training with the twin dragons for several days.

When returning, I carefully examined the place where the magic elevator was located, but there is no mechanism for the magic elevator to fall down, and it seems that it is not made to go up from the bottom.

''........what a flawed product it is. Or is this a system to keep you from escaping outside when someone breaks into this place?

As I stared upwards, I was unsure whether to use my Wind Dragon power as soon as possible to reach the magic elevator that was too high for a normal human to reach.

'If you fall before you reach that place, you could die instantly if you're not good at it. Even if you can get there, you'll just be stuck underneath the magic elevator, you can't operate it....

I regretted that I should have let Lydia have the Magic Ball or exchanged the power of the Magic Ball with Orford-san.

He also remembered that there was a telekinesis skill, but there was a restriction on this one that if the skill level was low, it could only be used within a range of a dozen or so meters, so even if he acquired the skill with SP this time, it would be useless.

'What do we do now?'

He emptied his head and sorted out the information from scratch.

If it had been a labyrinth until now, the magic circle of return would have appeared, including the cave where the earth dragon was, too.

However, this time, perhaps because it wasn't a labyrinth, the magic circle didn't appear.

If the magic circle of return was deliberately erased, then the possibility of this place leaking out to the outside world...!

''Come to think of it, there were no Evil God's magic stones, and if Ssanglong was fighting against the Evil God when he was in that place, wouldn't the technology he wanted to keep secret be a floating magic stone or magic circle?

When I think out loud, the images keep growing.

"There must be an emergency way out for this kind of situation.

If Nadia came back soon, I wanted to have her wait here and make sure she didn't get lost with Lydia or the wind spirits who might possibly come for her....

The situation won't change if we are forever asking for something that isn't there, so that's when we tried to go under the door of the seal again.

I noticed a faint glow leaking from behind the sealing door, and decided to head that way first.

Unlike the small, huge sealing door, a light was leaking from a small door about a meter high.

As I approached the door, I could hear what seemed to be a human voice, but it was too small and weak to be heard.

'Who's there?'　Are you ready?　Whoa!

After calling out to be sure, I opened the small door and a large amount of gold coins came avalanching down from inside.

But the avalanche of gold coins wasn't the only thing that fell down.

Armaments, magic tools, furniture and other items were being pushed out of the door.

''........Let's leave aside why there was such a large amount of stuff.

There was a possibility that human lives were at stake, so I hurriedly put every single one of them in the magic bag.

As I retrieved them, I was able to see what was inside, and that's where I found Lydia and the wind spirit.

''Are you okay?''

However, they didn't respond well, and it was possible that they had been squeezed like this for a long time.

I immediately activated the extra heel and their bodies began to glow and they seemed to be breathing, so I was finally able to relax there.

''Since you're unconscious, will you ever regain consciousness? .........But then again, what the hell is this place?''

Looking around the room, there were several bookshelves floating around, and there was a grimoire that looked like something out of a fairy tale.

''I mean, this isn't the real grimoire, is it?

Yes.

I was about to look around until the two of them regained consciousness when, for some reason, there was a voice that responded to my muttering.

I turned around and saw that Mr. Orford had gotten up.

'So you're okay.'

Orford's body was dying, but it seems your magic has cured him of not only a life-threatening illness, but also a serious stomach ailment.

You can't cure a disease with recovery magic. For that matter, is this the real grimoire?

'Hmm. What I can put in here has the blessing of a spirit, and is essentially undistorted in the mind granted to me... I never thought that what the wind dragon held would appear and come down.

''I've freed the water dragon and the wind dragon from the curse of the evil gods.

What?　An evil god I can't believe it.

It was a wind spirit that seemed to have a really surprised reaction, but it still left a strong feeling of why to this spirit.

It was Ssanglong and this wind spirit that had been supporting this Nerdal, so it was hard to understand why he hadn't noticed Ssanglong's mutation.

If it was true that they hadn't seen each other for decades, then I was eager to hear why the rift between them was created.

''Well I don't care if you really don't know or are dumbfounded. Why didn't you, the Wind Spirit, realize that an evil god had entered Nerdal?!

I know there's no point in saying this, but I really wanted to hear this one thing properly.

Even after this Nerderdal was established, the four of us, including Rain, would drink together.

Four?　And you've been drinking?

Left. Both dragons and spirits can be turned into human beings by using magic power. Well, it requires an enormous amount of magical power, so they don't usually do this, but at the time, thanks to Rayne bearing the burden of magical power and transferring it to me, I was able to turn into a human being even though there was a time limit.

It would be after defeating the Demon King without knowing it, so it doesn't seem impossible, but if that's the case, couldn't they summon Lord Leinster as a heroic spirit?

I feel like I could live a more relaxed life that way.

In a few years' time, if I had the chance to run into Lord Leinster in Rockford again, I would ask him about it as well.

More importantly, let's get back to the topic at hand.

''Well I really thought there was something to it, but was it kept away?''

After that, I tried to show him my face, but he wouldn't see me.

It was indeed impossible to blame the wind spirit, who was in the form of an old man who was about to cry, any more than I could blame him.

Since the atmosphere was not as usual, I looked away troubled and saw that the little door that was supposed to have entered was gone without a trace.

''........The little door is missing?''

It is a one-way street that can only be accessed from here, but is invisible to anyone without my permission.

I thought it was a great trick, but I was a little proud of myself, so I decided to change the subject.

''Well before the wind and water dragons disappeared, they disappeared with the words to remove the seal of Rafiluna if the world is in real danger, what is Rafiluna?　A man or a dragon or a spirit?　Or is it a holy sword or something?

"Hmm, you can ask Fruna the Pope about that. I can't tell you anything, either, since I don't know what Lady Rafiluna's intentions are.

Apparently it was either a man, a dragon or a spirit.

It seemed useless to ask any more questions, so he decided to accommodate Lydia, who wasn't waking up in the casket of the hermit, and return to his room once.