182 Episode 123: Exploring Ruins and Hidden Passages

Stone architecture nestled in a forest in western Erdia.

The little chapel-like sole was, in fact, the entrance to the underground ruins.

The villagers around the woods also knew that there was something like a chapel, but it was not known for a long time that there were ruins in its basement.

It was about 100 years ago now that the existence of that ruin was revealed.

When the young people living in the surrounding villages entered the woods, it was suddenly rained down and a hidden passage was accidentally discovered during a rainstorm in the chapel.

Among its ruins lay numerous treasures, and the young man instantly became a great rich man.

Most of the treasures were taken away by young people, but as the investigation progressed, hidden passages may be found, and new treasures may also be discovered each time.

It is also said that some of the treasures were precious magic tools (magic items), which led to the strengthening of the kingdom of Eldia. Something extra...

The discovery of such hidden passages was also exhausted in 50 years, and after that, no matter how many searches, no hidden passages were found, to the extent that the ruins maniacs sometimes visited.

The surrounding villages were also moist for a long time due to the special needs of the ruins, but without the ruins it would be the logic of the world to originally go to a rural town with no major sales, loneliness.

We came to the village near the ruins of the incident with a "portal" set by the maids.

Correction, I came to an abandoned village near the ruins.

... It is also the logic of the world to become a neglected and abandoned village as a result of loneliness.

It should be noted that not transferring directly to the ruins' portal 'is due to the doctrine of' adventure from where we go to the ruins'.

As a starting point for the adventure, there would be no better place than in the village where the young man lived.

I didn't have anything to see, so I just decided to take a carriage to the woods with the ruins.

… it really means nothing more than doctrine.

"It's not a labyrinth (dungeon). It's been a long time since you've been in the ruins. Super exciting!"

Actually, all the ruins you've been to in this world are labyrinth-related, right?

Estea Labyrinth, however, "The Secret Border of the Dragon Race (Dragon Newt)".

"Long time no see? Your husband, when did you go to the ruins?

"You've decided to go in the original world, haven't you?

Answer Mio instantly questioning my line.

If you have never been in this world, say you have been in the original world.

"Master, you were quite active in the original world..."

"Sort of. I've been touring the ruins with friends for a while. I wish I'd found a hidden passage or something..."

"Master, you were quite amazing in the original world..."

In the original world, the three of us, Higashi and Asai, repeatedly said that we would put our hands on a variety of hobbies.

One of them was a site tour using the holidays.

But with luck, brains and vision, most of the ruins will work out. It was easier than I thought, so it's a shame it wasn't such a long time hobby.

As Mio spoke lightly about touring the ruins, he quickly arrived in the woods.

The forest is quite large, but the ruins were at the entrance of the forest, so I never walked that far.

The ruins are in the basement of the chapel, so go into the chapel first.

The chapel door was left open. Since it seems to be a heavy door, I wonder which was the trouble to open and close.

"Sorry to bother you."

Shima-su!

Doesn't make any particular sense, but I'll just say hello and then go in.

Dora says hello in a nutshell, imitating me. It's totally pointless because it's a reading.

Upon entering the chapel, all the chairs and other conditioning items were at the end.

A hidden staircase leading to the basement was left open at the centre of the chapel, which felt wide due to the lack of objects. … there are hidden passageways that remain open, and so on without flair.

"Past investigation team, you didn't clean up..."

Mio tells me like he's stunned.

Including the entrance door, I said I would put it back once I used it, and I haven't been able to take care of it for granted.

I'm a former King Eldia citizen, and I guess that's the thing...... (hot reputation damage to the former King Eldia people).

"Sounds like it.... By the way, what's Mio carrying?

Mio currently carries something like a cage.

When I asked the question, Mio's submissive beast (Myao) (female, 0 years old) turned up from inside the cage.

"Mi!

"Exploring the ruins wouldn't be so dangerous, and I thought it was a chance to adventure with Myao. I'm just scared to keep him around, so I said I put him on my back for now."

I also wonder if it would be appropriate to say pet companion to the site exploration.

Well, it doesn't mean it's a ruin that's in danger, so it doesn't matter.

"Mio, can I stroke you?

"Fine, Sakura. Myao, be caressed."

"Micha!

When Mio gave permission to stroke Sakura, Miao said, "Come on, stroke! All I said was," I put my face up and my neck forward.

"Okay, I'll go..."

Sakura, who begins to stroke Myao immediately.

Sakura, please stroke Myao's neck. Myao, pleasant to be caressed.

"When you look at your back, don't remember when you broke through the cemetery area carrying Mio in the Estea Labyrinth. Mio was equipped with diapers then..."

Mio, scared of the labyrinth cemetery area, diapered with his eyes and ears blocked and left the labyrinth with me carrying him. It was a critical and forgiving outfit because it was a girl near a young girl, an outfit that would never be forgiven by a 24-year-old woman.

"Hey!? Don't remind me of anything weird!

Look at me like Mio panicked.

"Mi!?

"Ah..."

Suddenly turning around, Myao, who was on his back, wields momentum well.

Myao, who was stroking, suddenly leaves his hand, and Sakura leaks unfortunately.

"Micha..."

Did your eyes turn, Myao flailing your neck?

"Ugh..."

Myao did his best.

"Ah, Myao, I'm sorry..."

Don't move hard with a creature on your back.

This is how Myao was sent back to the Mansion (drunk, weak).

"Finally, I ask, isn't Mio afraid of underground ruins?

"I'm fine. It's not weird."

The labyrinth itself was fine, and without the horror element, the ruins themselves seem fine.

"Horror element, I hope not...... Now it's time to enter the ruins underground"

"Hey, Master, what do you say..."

"Dear Jen, I will precede you. Serra, my lord, please."

"I'll take care of it!

Before Mio runs out, Maria goes down the stairs leading down to the basement.

Some hands say the shield-equipped sera will lead the way, but Maria, with high application and reaction speed, will often be more stable to lead the way.

Two hours have passed since I dived underground.

The underground ruins were quite large, with endless vertical and horizontal passages strewn out like a labyrinth.

It would be about the same as Tokyo and Shinjuku stations.

In other words, it would be no exaggeration to call a Japanese station a labyrinth. Japanese labyrinths are just as good as no dead......

This time it is totally tourist (play), so the use of maps is prohibited.

Alta says there's no dangerous stuff (at least about us), so don't worry, we're suspending the map feature.

Aside from the story when the Weaver class is opponent, basically only Alta checks the map, so he'll be able to deal with anything that comes out of nowhere dangerous.

"I guess this has largely ended the mapping. Really, it's big."

Because maps by are forbidden, Mio was really mapping them. What do you care, Mio?

Unlike the labyrinth, the walls do not glow, so I am forced to brighten my surroundings by activating Light Magic. I think the average person uses a lantern or something.

Later, for once, demons do not occur in this ruin (the magic is faint), but demons live there. Simply put, it is a demon of the forest outside that came in through the entrance left open.

It is not suitable for living because there is no food, but it is suitable for sleeping beds because of the rain storm.

Now he double-crossed the last demon that Maria had left in the ruins.

The chapel doors have been closed when entering the ruins, so there will be no demons coming out after this. Even when you come out, you just follow the same end as all the demons you've ever had......

"Well, it's time to find a hidden passage"

"Yeah, I'm telling you for granted, this is the site where the hidden passage has already been searched for, isn't it?

"Well, Jen..."

So...

"It's a really terrible killing complaint..."

Mio's questions were flushed with a convenient temple of Sakura and Dora.

"Master Jen, are you going to check the map?

"No, as I was saying, the use of the map of Genius is forbidden in site exploration.... Around here maybe."

Answer Maria's question while putting a red circle on the (real) map I borrowed from Mio.

It's just a blank area in the aisle. My sensors are responding, I feel it.

"Hmmm...... Your husband's right, I'm sure it's suspicious around here, but isn't that how much investigative teams have been looking into it?

"Well, I guess so. Just because my instincts are about to complain that there's a hidden passage in the ceiling..."

"My intuition is beyond the dimension of my intuition..."

That's what Mio said with a pulled grin.

Quickly, head to a (conclusive) location with a hidden passage.

We're scheduled to arrive about five minutes from here.

"... Your husband, didn't you buy Cynthia and the others to attract the right route in the labyrinth? I need skills, or something... Did you really need it?

What Mio is saying is that slaves with the skills of < Labyrinth Adaptation > who say the correct route of the Estea Labyrinth is intuitive.

In fact, four of them accompanied the Labyrinth: Cynthia, Karen, Soura and Kate, all of whom had Labyrinth Adaptations.

"If there's a proper procedure, I'd like to prioritize you wherever possible."

I'm not saying I was lucky enough to get a gory push with the map.

But if there is a regular procedure, it will be more interesting if you choose that one.

I don't know if it was accidental or intentional, but there were kids with just the right role in the corner, so I didn't have a choice to tell them I wasn't taking them.

This time? I think it's more of a regular procedure to be lucky and gory pushing this site exploration.

The basic investigation itself is a site that has already been completed...

"Oh, you didn't need anything... I can't tell Cynthia and the others..."

"Right. I can't tell you that the purpose for which you were bought wasn't so important...... Is that it? I (I) remember being told there was no big deal in the reason I bought it too..."

"Serra, hold on!

For some reason, Serra was being bombarded somewhere extra.

I said there's no big reason, but there's a good reason to say 'sounds interesting' and 'intuitive'. However, usually putting those two forward is not treated as a basis.

Too bad......

We walked a little and arrived at a point with a hidden passage.

"Oh, my goodness. This heck?

"Almost right, I guess. Yeah, around there."

Consider the concealed passage to be on the ceiling and let Dora find where her intuition shows it.

Dora, who is flying in the sky, wears half her pants under her usual piece.

Of course, all the skirt groups that said Mio, Sakura and Sera are pants equipped.

Skirts are unlikely to be ruins on boulders.... Was it skirt gear during the labyrinth? The labyrinth and ruins are separate.

"Yes!"

When Dora pushed the ceiling, the ceiling came off at a size that people could pass along with the sound of saying it was gucky.

Oh, my God! It's off!

"Dora, well done"

"Yeah, why!

Dora, who came down quickly, hugged me, so I stroke my head as I was told.

"All right, all right."

Eh heh.

Soothe.

"What this atmosphere...... It's a scene of hidden passage discovery of ruins, but there's no sense of tension or accomplishment."

"Mio..., do you expect Jen to feel nervous or accomplished...?

"I don't care what you think!

Sakura told me as Mio was convinced.

I have trouble being convinced with that. But I can't even deny it, so I'm in trouble.

"Cohon. Whatever that is, why hasn't anyone noticed this hidden passage before?

In the meantime, I'll change the subject.

"Normal people don't think there's a hidden passage in the ceiling. Besides, the ceiling of this ruin is quite high, so it will take a while to find out."

Serra is right, the ceiling of this ruin is about 4m up. It is arguably a difficult height to investigate.... but it's not like I'd ever be able to say it's high enough.

"That's right, but you'd have had a tip, wouldn't you? The length of the hidden stairs, obviously longer than the height of the ceiling here."

"Isn't that all that hard to notice?

The height of the hidden staircase, which was in the chapel, was superior to 10 m.

Since the passage in the ruins is 4 m high, it should have been possible to imagine the spread in the upward direction.

And mapping will tell you that there are no passageways around here, so if you focus on the ceilings around here, you won't find any hidden passageways.

In other words, it is obvious to say that this hidden passage could not be found because of the neglect of the site investigation team (decision making).

"Come on, Exploring the Ruins says things with a little awareness. I have to say, I don't have the talent to look into the ruins."

"What is your husband like...?

I'll say things with a lot of sight from above, even though I just have a little experience and track record in site surveys.

You just have a little experience (20 site explorations) and a little track record (20 hidden aisle discoveries)......

"Well, that's about it for the nagging story"

"It was your husband who started this topic, wasn't it?

Mio's line is through.

"Well, that's about it for the nagging story, and I guess it's time to go into the hidden aisle"

"Oh, is it through? Really..."

Continue through the subtly squiggly mio again.

"Maria, use the junction technique to tie the junction in a staircase."

"Yes, I understand."

You can just fly in the sky with "Wings of the Immortal (Nosferatu)," but since the invisible staircase looks more like a ruin (but limited to the ruins of the game), ask Maria to build a staircase in the junction.

I said I can't see it, but I know it exists somehow because I make it in a translucent junction.

Go up Maria's built stairs and enter the hidden passage of the ruins (behind the ceiling).

If you take the place you've been exploring as the second basement floor, don't tell me the back of the ceiling you're on is the first basement floor. For convenience's sake, let's call it that from now on.

The ceiling on the first basement floor is about 3m high and the road is narrow enough that it doesn't even have 2m across. It should be noted that the horizontal width of the second basement floor was about 3-5 m.

"That's quite a long time..."

"Right. There's been a main road all along, but what lies ahead?

"Boss, the room. For games."

"If it's an enemy, I'll take it down."

Dora too!

There were no branches or anything on the first basement floor, just even the main road continued.

There's no trap, there's no demon, so I walk about 5 minutes chatting.

"Oh, I see. Is the first basement floor only a hidden passage (...)"

"Also, you're going back upstairs in the basement..."

When I thought I had gone through the main road and exited into the open space, there was a staircase set up there headed downstairs.

If you look at the location relationship with Mio's map, it looks like it's located outside the area you've been mapping.

Try this, and you'll know very well that the compartments you've discovered so far are not that wide from the whole thing. Because there is an undiscovered area both vertically and horizontally.

"Shall we take a lunch break here once? It's still going on for a while."

Oh, my God!

Just finding a passage to the first basement doesn't seem to be the end of the search for this ruin.

If you're going to say that exploration is still going on, try to eat well and get ready to go.

After that, after the lunch break, we proceeded to the ruins as we went between the first basement and the second basement, followed by the third basement.

Proceed while discovering hidden passages cleverly hidden laterally or longitudinally

"If I sell it, it's going to be a lot of money..."

Squeeze as Mio moans with his hand the decorated dagger that was inside the chest.

Yes, we have discovered quite a few treasures by the time we get here.

Basically, the first basement floor and the third basement floor are passageways for travel, and basement 2F is the main one. And treasures are placed in the treasure room quite often on the second basement floor.

The contents are diverse, including gold and silver treasures and magic tools (magic items), and are located in 2-3 locations when new passages are discovered.

It is an explorer-friendly ruin of construction that gives you a sense of accomplishment with every new area you reach.

The only unfortunate thing to mention is that the magic tools available (magic items) are pragmatic and not the kind of thing I find 'interesting'?

I guess the concept is to give people who come to the ruins something useful. That's a somewhat uninteresting concept.

I think if I did something similar, I'd run too far into stories, so that's the problem... And for some reason, I don't run the labyrinth.

Going down the stairs and back to the second basement floor, there was a wooden door right in front of me.

Until now, not a single door has existed within this ruin. Hidden passageways were always hidden by broken or detached walls or spinning walls, and never blocked by doors.

"A room with a different taste than before...... Sounds like a last resort."

"Right. But the door's made of wood, and it doesn't seem like a boss room."

"You said it was made of metal?

Boss, this is your room.

Answer Mio's question instantly.

The boss room should be blocked by metal doors (game brain).

"Dear Jen, I will open it for you"

"Oh, I got it"

Maria opens the door as she guards the trap.

Inside the door was a circular room with a radius of about 10 m, with a pedestal in the centre.

In the ruins, if there was a pedestal in the last room (tentative), the best rare items should be placed on top of it.

Naturally, items were also placed on the pedestal in this room. No, should I say stab him?

Exactly what the treasure of the ruins deserved, with one sword piercing over the pedestal.

Light Knife/Sunshine

Classification: Knife

Rarity: Fantasy (Fantasma)

Notes: Unbreakable, Unkilled, Buddhist, Equipment Destruction

"You're a story weapon at the end!!!

That's why I haven't had a full penetration in a long time.

Hmm? Don't know why the penetration went in?

Shall we sort it out a little?

A knife named Sunshine.

...... Wooden.

Let me put it a little easier to understand. A wooden knife named Sunshine (...).

Yes, this is a complete, souvenir.... There is no mistake in carving 'daylight' on the part of the handheld carefully.

"This is completely Japanese. Or a foreigner who has come to Japan for sightseeing. I don't know if he's a brave man or not, but he's totally Japanese."

"Well, there's no doubt about it..."

"Yes...... I don't think it's a coincidence that I can handle..."

The Japanese group of Mio and Sakura also agree.

"Sounds like quite a few brave men have been summoned, and if even students on school trips had transferred, it wouldn't be as surprising as having one of the wooden knives, would it?

It does make sense what Mio says.

When I came to this world, I was transferring what I had in my hand with me. You can't deny the possibility that a schooltraveler who bought a wooden knife was summoned by a brave man.

"And this wooden knife is amazing. It's a fantasy class, as a matter of course, and regardless of 'immortality', 'immortality' means it's activated automatically (auto), right?

Using a normal knife does not work effectively. But if the wooden knife is granted an automatic, that would be valid and unmistakable.

In other words, it was possible to use the weapon while doing so.... So don't tell me what's wrong.

If you do poorly, it's the inferior compatibility of the 'non-lethal weapon' that was in the Adventurer Guild...

No, aren't you?

It seems to have pain as well, and it has quite useful effects, including 'immortality', in the first place.

It could also be regarded as a powerful weapon that cannot only be stopped.

"Why is it that just a wooden knife has evolved so funny and strange? I'm more concerned about you."

A: Analysed, it looks like the effect of a blessing (gift) that one of the brave men of the past had to say < Weapon Enhancement (Overarms) >. The effect was to slightly increase the performance of the weapons you own once a day. I guess the wooden knife, which went on and on for several times, even reached the realm of the fantasy class (Fantasma).

Alta, who kept her mouth shut all the time to prevent rattling, gave me an explanation.

In a way, can we say < Expanded Interpretation (Macrocosmos) >, which can only be used for weapons?

No. Unlike < Expanded Interpretation (MacroCosmos) >, disarming doesn't break, and it doesn't enhance to the maximum at once, so that's a completely different thing.

In other words, it is a weapon that the brave men who have been transferring have been using and reinforcing since the beginning.

Well, that's interesting inside to think about.

I put in the scratch, but I don't hate the story weapon itself.

Additionally, I rather like a story weapon with all its strength.

"It's a corner, and shall I take this wooden knife and go home? It's like preparing a treasure after a hidden passage. You won't have a problem taking it."

Whatever the looting, burglary is not a hobby.

Anyway, if you're going to kill me and take it, I basically don't want to take it away from the dead where it has nothing to do with me.

So even when I explored the ruins with my friends, I was holding back when I realized that the purpose of the ruins was the cemetery. Fortunately, two friends had the same sensibilities so it was quick to talk.

This ruin didn't look like a graveyard, and even if it was a graveyard, it's like having treasures in the back of a hidden aisle. It just seems like you're waiting to be trampled.

It's such a ruin that I decided not to hesitate to get a tread bonus.

"Well, then it's time to look for the next hidden passage."

That's what I said to everyone after I pulled the wooden knife off the pedestal.

Fortunately, there was no gimmick like I said only the chosen one could pull it out.

If there was such a gimmick, I would have given up adultery. And I've been looking for someone who can get out.

"Huh...? Jen, what does that mean......?

"Aren't we done here?

Sakura and Serra asked, so I nodded without hesitation.

"Yeah, it does look like it's over in this room, but no one's declared that, is it? There's no reason not to look for a hidden passage just because it looks like the last room in a ruin with a massive hidden passage so far, is there?

"If you ask me, you are... Thinking about it, isn't it super suspicious to have a pedestal or something?

"That's suspicious."

"It's suspicious..."

"I think it's suspicious"

"Oh, there it is!

Settling to the conclusion that the pedestal was suspicious, Dora shifted the pedestal to the side and discovered a hidden staircase leading to the basement.

Dora, I think I'm starting to enjoy finding hidden passages.

Going straight down the stairs, what was there was a room the same shape, the same size as the one above.

Unlike the upper room, which had nothing but a pedestal, however, the lower room was lined with bookshelves containing tons of books, a number of desks and chairs, making the impression that I said 'study' or 'lab'.

"Sounds like the last hidden room in the real sense."

"Maybe the creator's lair."

"Does Mio think so, too?

It looks like a hidden area in an admin sense, like a 50-layer platform in terms of an estate labyrinth.

Like the previous hidden passages, it is also applauded that no palpable treasure is available.

Especially if they insist that knowledge is a treasure because there is a book, it is also true that all they can say is' Oh, Yes'.

"I'd take a regular treasure, but I kinda hate to take books out of people's homes"

If it's a clear treasure like before, I'll take it without hesitation, but it's obviously different here.

Simply put, the place so far has been a 'ruin', but this is a 'safe house'.

Adventuring 'ruins' is not the same as vandalizing 'safe houses'. "Empty Nest" and "Grave Rough" are not my hobbies. Including 'Ruin', if you've abandoned it!

It's a corner book, but I don't know if I'm going to read it here, and I don't know what's going on.

A: The contents have already been confirmed by me. Vega has copied rare books and important notes.

Apparently, we already have a copy.

If Vega is going to make a copy, there will be no mistake.

I checked everywhere, just in case, but there doesn't seem to be any more hidden passages.

"You're stopping here. Looks like the Lord of this lair is gone, and it's time to go home."

Especially since there was no opposition, we return to the path we came from and escape from the ruins.

It's not a western film, so when you say escape, the ruins don't collapse.

Take a breather out of the ruins.

"It was fun to say, but you weren't very comfortable"

"Right. There's no threat, but I'll be on guard."

"Right. I'm tired for nothing."

Affirms Maria and Serra as they nod.

"Huh? Something wrong?

"Jen, what's wrong...?

"Mio and Sakura didn't seem to notice, but there must have been something else in this ruin besides us. I didn't use the map, but I noticed it."

The map was tied, but it was responding.

The two of them should be able to use < Signal Detection > with their integration skills, but maybe the other one's signs were too small and they didn't notice the two they weren't used to.

"Somewhere... were you hiding...? Is it in the hidden room...?

No? We've all been trying to flatter Dora and the others. Okay?

Dora answers Sakura's questions.

With that said, Dora was a 'visible child'......

"Hih..."

Mio came to the scene with a pitiful voice.

Stains spread on the trousers I was wearing. Well, this is what Mio would do.

"That's why I couldn't tell Mio in the ruins. I don't think you'd like to be roughed up in a boulder."

"Higu, Egu..."

'Clean (Clean)' Mio crying bees, and I'll bear him with a bitter smile.

The search for the ruins came to an end when Othi was attached to it in a good way.

For the record, Later I asked Alta for more information, and she said that this ruin was built by a brave man from a long time ago to rest the weapon he created (a super-enhanced wooden knife).

Finally, ghosts were gathered within the ruins because they were attracted to the effect of the 'adult Buddha' held by the wooden knife.

That wooden knife should be kept in the Unlimited Storage (Inventory) when you treat it. Something weird is about to gather......