153 Episode 153: The Temple of Sealing

It's an old building.

As you approach a building built on a hill, you can clearly see its details.

"This isn't a building where people live."

Either that or it looks like a temple to perform some sort of ritual.

That building is a lot degraded and doesn't look strange whenever it collapses.

Maybe the venom of the corrosive earth is speeding up the deterioration of building materials.

"Let's go inside"

"Yes."

It was then that I approached the building.

"Hmm?"

I felt a certain discomfort on my skin.

"This is..."

"What's the matter, Mr. Rex?

I see how I am. Mr. Liliera asks me if something is wrong.

"No, anything..."

Yeah, it sucks when they notice, and now it sounds like you should still keep it out of your mouth.

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It was simple in the building.

Because there was no such thing as furniture in there, and there was just one big, worn out altar.

"What the hell is that?

Mr. Liliera also seems to be concerned about the openly seated altar, with his neck tilted.

On the altar stands a large disc with intricate letters.

Would it make sense if I told you that it felt like I had enlarged a painting plate of ornaments with support for exhibitions on the back?

"Hmm, looks like this is some kind of seal"

"What!? I just saw it!?"

"Yeah, look at that. the text inscribed on this altar."

"Huh? Was this a letter!? Not a pattern!?"

They told me they didn't notice the inscriptions on the altar, and I was a little surprised.

Liliera should be able to read the letters on the Adventurer Alliance request board...

"Maybe this is the ancient letter he is? I've never seen it before..."

Oh, well! This letter is from my time, so if you look at it from Mr. Liliera, it's ancient!

Dangerous. Dangerous, I was accidental.

"Uh... Mr. Liliera never had a chance to touch the ancient letters in his previous adventures?

"I'm afraid you didn't. I worked in the vicinity of the Warcraft Forest to cure everyone's illness in my hometown, so I never explored the ruins. If I insist, maybe when I met the astronauts and the underground ruins in the mine that I participated in as Mr. Rex's support. Well, neither of us had a chance to touch the ruins themselves."

Speaking of which, yeah.

When I was in Gotagota with the Sky Man, I spent more time on Morijima and the West Village than on Sky Castle, which is a relic.

Even the underground ruins in the mine weren't in the ruins' library because Liliera and the others were turning to the campsite escort.

"Then why don't we go on an adventure to some ancient ruins next time?

"Pfft."

And suddenly Mr. Liliera laughed out, so I'm confused.

"Li, Mr. Liliera?

"Oh, I'm sorry. But even though it's a dangerous ancient ruin, it's like inviting me on a date."

"De, dating ⁉ Oh, no, I didn't mean to..."

"I know. Mr. Rex doesn't mean that. But it's really easy to say."

I'm surprised. I didn't think they'd treat ancient site exploration like a date.

"Hehe, that sounds like an interesting dungeon exploration or something."

Dungeon exploration. It's a place I wasn't very close to in my previous life.

Essentially, the hero's job was to crusade demons, so places without demons have become remote from nature, haven't they?

"Still, this seal is a bit of a hassle."

"Trouble... could it be caused by this?

Mr. Liliera points to a diagonal wound that is engraved large on a disc with a surgical ceremony sitting on top of the altar.

"Yeah, this is obviously a wound that was put on later. This wound seems to have weakened the seal and accelerated erosion of the earth of corrosion. That's also the reason why the concentration of poison in the center is only abnormally high. And in the aftermath, the seal itself is deteriorating rapidly."

I don't know who it is, but you've done me a lot of trouble.

The people in the surrounding villages are annoying.

"Isn't that bad?

"That's not good. If it stays like this, the seal will be completely broken and the guy sealed inside will be released."

Even so, I could have largely predicted what was sealed by previous events.

I'm just wondering why you bothered to take such a cumbersome means of sealing it.

I was wondering if you took the means to seal it with the wax to use it for something?

This seal can't be released until it breaks once it is used up, so it doesn't seem like it's meant to be reused for anything.

"Hey, what happens when the seal breaks"

He asks me what would happen if Mr. Liliera broke the seal looking anxious.

"That's right. I think the seal will eject the toxins that were condensed inside at once, wiping out all the poisonous demons that lived in the land of corrosion. And the earth of corrosion will spread all at once, and a considerable extent will sink into the marsh of venom."

"Even a poisonous demon dies!?"

"Yes, and not long before they escape, towns and villages will be swallowed up in corrosive land, and many lives will be lost."

"Oh no!? I can't believe there's no time to run away..."

Knowing that many lives will be lost, Mr. Liliera's complexion turns bright blue.

"Hey Mr. Rex, how long do you keep the seal? We should get back to the nearby town and ask the Adventurer Guild for evacuation! The Alliance can report things to the country, and Mr. Rex is an S-rank adventurer, so the information's credible!

While Ms Liliera has gone blue assuming the worst, she has immediately proposed measures for the next good. This is a boulder A-rank adventurer.

I just don't have enough time to get that way.

"Mr. Liliera, I'm sorry, but we don't have enough time to evacuate the neighbors. Until the seal is unsealed, we're already three days out. This is the situation. It's been three days, too."

"So much!? But if you dump your stuff and tell them to run away immediately, only your life will be saved!

"No, I still can't make it. Given the ancient nature of the seal and the concentration of poison in the centre, I think the aftermath when the seal is broken will reach at least Wang Du. We can't all get in the carriage in time."

"Oh, no..."

"So why don't we re-seal it?"

"... that's all there is to re-seal... Huh?

Mr. Liliera looks at this one with a kyoton of eyes.

"Yes, it's impossible to evacuate before the seal breaks, so he said we should re-seal it first and then deal with it again"

"Instead, you could have re-sealed it?

"Yes, you can."

"What the hell!?"

"Why, if you read this seal, you'll know what kind of seal it was."

"How do you know so easily!?"

"Anyone can read the ancient language."

"It was an absolute lie. Whoa!

I'm not lying.

"Ha, I was serious about when the seal broke. I'm not like an idiot... I mean, if you can re-seal it, let me know from the start!

"Uh, excuse me. He asked me what would happen if the seal was broken, so I thought I'd figure out what to do after the seal was broken."

"You said there was a discrepancy in the premise from the beginning. From now on, I'll ask Mr. Rex if he has any measures before I think about it."

"Haha...... then you make a tentative seal first. Then again, we'll make a formal re-seal."

"Tentative? Don't you seal it officially immediately?

"There is still an old seal that is about to break, because if you re-seal it with this in place, there is a risk that something will go wrong later. So keep the provisional seal outside and lock in the toxin released by the provisional seal and the thing that was sealed when the original seal broke. Then we seal the book again."

"That's a lot of work."

"Instead, I'm going to be able to put the new book seal on top of the new seal without having to unseal it."

"Cheng Cheng, don't you dare bother the people of the future."

I'm convinced that's what Mr. Liliera said.

"That's the thing!

"... the only problem is that the people of the future will understand Mr. Rex's seal properly."

"Did you say something, Mr. Liliera?

Yeah, it's nothing.

"Shall I make a tentative seal then... long before then, why don't you come out?

I speak to someone hiding at the exit. [M]

"Huh?"

What's Mr. Liliera talking about? and give a Kyotong voice.

"Did you notice..."

A third voice echoes in the empty temple, while one shadow appears from a pillar near the entrance.

"Liar!? There are people here!?"

I can't help but be surprised at Mr. Liliera.

This is literally a cursed land invaded by high concentrations of punching demon poison.

"Remember, Mr. Liliera. The seal was damaged by someone and weakened."

"So he's the killer... of?

Liliera, who saw the full story of the killer who showed up, shrugged in an urgent voice...... I couldn't.

Anyway, I got confused about what was happening to the killer.

"That being said, gehogohogaho on the tense book where I destroyed the seal of the earth of corrosion!!"

The killer flourished until the end.

Yes, the killer who showed up...... no, because the demon was dying spraying blood from all over his body.

""... why is the killer dying!? "

What the hell is going on?