Volume 7 - CH 5.2

Part 2

Shera guided them through the forest and they walked.

To Diablo’s group who had visited the royal family living room to ask about the situation, she said this.

「I have something I want to tell you, and something I want to show you, so could you come along with me?」

For about one hour, they advanced through the dark green view.

What they arrived at was a mound of large piled up stones.

Could it be something like an Elven stone monument? Vines crawled about it, moss grew on it, and it could be inferred that many long years had passed.

「It’s over here……」

Shera, who unusually did not have a smile, went around to the back of the mound.

There was a stone door.

There was a design carved into the door. It was hard to distinguish due to the moss that covered the surface, but it was a shape that they recognized.

──Is it the same Holy Symbol that Lumachina’s Church carries?

When Shera placed her hands on it, the stone door opened surprisingly easily to the left and right contrary to its old outward appearance.

There as a staircase that went underground.

It was similar to Diablo’s own dungeon, the 《Demon King’s Labyrinth》 that he made in his own personal space.

By some chance, could it be an Elven dungeon? Would monsters come out? Just in case, he held the 《Tonnerre Empereur》 in his hand.

They descended the stairway.

It was dark.

After checking with Shera, he used 《Light》.

Underground──

Rectangular stones that looked like bricks were laid down without any gaps. This was not a natural cave, and was clearly a manmade structure.

It was quite spacious. If he were to fire a magic with strong might in a closed space, the effect would reach even them, but it looked like it would be fine if he used a bit of it in here.

Diablo unconsciously ended up wanting to try confirming the thing that he didn’t need to think about in the game.

The ceiling had arches drawn into it, and they were also delicately made of stone. Unlike the outside, the inside did not have vines and moss spread out on it.

When they lowered their gazes alongside the wall of the room, oblong stones were lined up. They went to about knee height. It felt like they were a bit too low for workbenches.What could they be used for?

Rem looked up at the ceiling.

「……This feels a bit surprising, doesn’t it? I thought that tree roots would be the ceiling since it was a building of the Elves.」

「So that means that this might not be a building that the Elves built.」

「Eh? But wouldn’t that be strange, Diablo? This place is deep in the Greenwood Kingdom.」

「Umu. Or maybe──」

The map designer’s way of thinking was poor──is what he was about to say, but then he noticed that joke wouldn’t get through to her.

Since it resulted in a cool direction of “stopping in the middle of saying some meaningful words”, he decided to go with it.

Rose, who followed behind him, was silent……Or rather, she always saw nothing but Diablo.

Rafleisha turned her gaze to the back of the underground room.

The light of the Magic 《Light》 didn’t reach it, but she had night vision.

「It might be just as Diablo-san says?」

「Do you see something?」

「There is God’s Holy Symbol on the wall at the back as well. Not only that, the Greenwood Kingdom’s crest isn’t anywhere in this place.」

If this was a place that the Elves built, they should have put their own mark on it. For example, in Faltra City’s chapel, there was not only the Holy Symbol, the Lifelia Kingdom’s flag was also put up.

「Could it be that you are saying that God created it?」

In this other world, many of God’s traces remained. Diablo should probably think of it as a different existence from the God of the world that he was originally at.

Shera nodded.

「Un, I was told that this is a place that God created.」

「……The Grand Chapel’s Inner Court in the royal capital was also said to be like that.」

「Looks like itー」

Translator’s Notes:

[1] Written as 異種族愛者, read as クロスブリアン. I think it was meant to be something like a cross between crossbreed and lesbian.