Chapter 130.2 - Goma's Castle

Chapter 130.2 - Goma's Castle

「But still, how can it connect just like that?」

「Yuuto-kun, could it be that you're referring that there might be electromagnetic waves inside this dungeon?」

But of course, when we're speaking about communication via mail or phone with a mobile phone, it wouldn't be connected unless both phones were connected to the terminal via electromagnetic waves. For example, even if I were calling a person who stood right in front of me, my phone would've to connect to the closest terminal with electro-magnetic waves first, and only after doing that would my phone call be connected to the other party's phone. Distance had nothing to do with it.

So making a phone call was basically an indirect connection via the terminal, the one that directly connected with my phone was the transceiver in the terminal.

「Well, let's just call it Sage's magic.」

「Yeah, it's just as Kotori says, let's not treat it like how the phone in our world operates. Otherwise, it won't look like magic anymore.」

Anyway, we agreed to not dig any further.

「This is so amazing, Kotori-san! Now everyone can get in touch with each other! Let's quickly charge everyone's smartphone as well.」Finnd new chapters at novelhall.com

「Okay, leave it to this 『Sage』, Takanashi Kotori!」

Thus, we obtained smartphone magic.

Kotori-san then proceeded to charge everyone’s smartphone with 『Magic Alchemy Formation』. Maybe, it was the person herself who wished to be able to make a call once the smartphone has fully charged. And that strong feeling, bordering on a wish, was the main reason she turned the smartphone into a magic tool.

Maybe because we really could use our phones, even though most of us were still half in doubt, almost all of us were checking the mail, SNS, and phone calls to find out that it was functioning normally.

「But still, we can't make a phone call to the others unless we're connected to the internet.」

「Well, this is another world, after all, we're completely detached from our world. But still, we'll be able to contact the nearby people as soon as the electromagnetic waves connect to their phones.」

「I see now! You're right!」

Kotori completely misunderstood the explanation about the transceiver from the class rep. Sadly enough, her understanding of communication technology was even lower than a junior high school student but still, we might've to thank such a low level of understanding for allowing us to use our phone in this labyrinth.

For example, assuming that Kotori-san understood the meaning of transceiver, meaning that we're limited to short-distance communication, that's why her act of erasing the need for a transceiver in the phone communication had enabled us to contact someone from a faraway place. The combination of her vocation, 『Sage』, and her magic formation were the factors behind the creation of the smartphone's magic.

In fact, everyone was really happy about this. Except for Futaba-san who grasped tightly on her smartphone.

「It'll be even better... if I can exchange my email address with Kotaro-kun.」

She was looking down as she murmured to herself.

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After Kotori-san developed her 『Ignition Ring』 and smartphone magic, she kept on developing accessories-type magic items with a small magic stone. The effect of those accessories was negligible but that was mainly because of Kotori's low-level mastery. The quality of her magic tools would continue to improve along with her mastery.

With the pyramid as its center, its base was surrounded by numerous tent-like structures similar to the one we saw on the way to this place.

「... What are we going to do, Nii-san?」

「Capturing that pyramid with frontal attack seems to be impossible even with our current strength.」

As expected, even Sakura and Class Rep's face became gloomy upon seeing the sheer size of gomas’ city, or rather gomas’ metropolis. The scale was completely different from the encounter battle we’d experienced up until this point. The scale has increased from battle to war.

「But we've no choice but to keep going on. Since this place is located outside of the jungle, we can't expect to look for a detour.」

「Right! The transfer circle that I saw from the pedestal of that tower can't be in anywhere but this place.」

Takanashi-san declared so.

Though it didn't mean that I’d never considered such possibilities, at least we're not getting too caught up with the map function of that pedestal since we couldn't find another transfer circle towards the next area around this area.

Or else, the location might just happen to be outside of the map. And there was no guarantee that we could find the next transfer magic circle.

「But that place is a bit, you know...」

「Yeah, they've completely outnumbered us.」

Both Natsukawa and Asuna didn't seem to be too eager to fight an opponent who completely outnumbered us.

「Uhm, aren't just small fry?」

But Futaba-san was the only one who muttered those words with a usual calm voice.

「Futaba-san, such rash judgement is――」

「I mean it's just the same as before, it'll be okay as long as we use the transfer magic circle as soon as we defeat the boss, right? There's no need to defeat all of the gomas, we just need to defeat their boss as fast as possible and escape from this area with transfer magic circle, right?」

「That’s easier....」

Sakura stopped halfway after she realized that Futaba-san was right.

「In the end, we've no other way than to do that. We've to infiltrate the castle in secret, defeat the boss as fast as possible, and then extract its core. After that, we only need to escape.」

「You're right... that's the best option for us, let's do that.」

Though I was not too keen on doing that, everything was decided very quickly after we agreed to use the most reasonable strategy. Everybody might be still anxious about this matter, but they raised their weapon to hide their anxiety.

Nevertheless, we're not going to infiltrate the castle so boldly. We had to make as much preparation as possible.