168 Sounds like a Dragon Nation country.

"Eh. The spirit of a creature with emotions and intelligence is a very precious substitute for use in a magical filter amplifier. This hell furnace is a magical creature at the bottom of it... I call it Puchiyog, but let this tentacle-filled creature live and place the furnace body on top of it. Keeping the sacrifice in the furnace causes Puchiyog to suffer as he captures it and pours magic into it. This act amplifies the negative emotions that the creature's body has and amplifies its magic power, and it's basically Puchiyog's ability to recover it and use it for another purpose."

"You're coming up with something ugly again. But I'm not sure how the furnace works."

"Look, sometimes a protagonist who's been hit by a buddy gets weirdly strong when he screams, whoa, whoa, whoa, if he's that powerful, right? There's no way you could've seen that or seen that. There's no way the main character would've been seriously injured in an attack like that. We have a story about an unintentional blow that would've rendered him incapable of combat, right? If I told you I had no choice but to expand the story, how did you see it? Why does the attack go through with its defensive value? Targeted?"

"withhold comment"

"I mean, when you analogize people, you can say that the ups and downs in their emotions also increase and decrease their output. So, look. There's a system that says it's easier to extract anger and pity classified as negative emotions than joy and ease classified as positive emotions, and torturously hurts them out and squeezes negative emotions out of research results..."

"What are you guys having a noisy conversation about?

In the wake of Leppard's calm voice, Emil and Lianya turn their gaze to Leppard.

At the feet of the two crouching on the ground were precise drawings that Emil had done with white ink removed from nowhere.

Apparently, it's a blueprint for what she calls a hell furnace installation, but for Leppard, who's totally negligible on that side, it just looks like a graffiti mixed with straight lines and curves.

What they are now was a cave that the Dragons call the "Inhuman Temple" when made to tell Cloire, an elf, and a very simple place where there is a transfer gate at the far back of a cave that is not so deep and doesn't look like much used.

Approximately half position from the "Dragon's Nest" at the end of the north to the boundary of the territory of the Dragon Nation, the edge of the temperament forest.

When I leave the cave, there's a street in front of me that's pretty well maintained, but it doesn't look like a sign of a person.

In short, even if we go to the woods to find out why we were cut off from the transfer gates, or to the Dragon's Nest to find out what's going on in the Dragon Nation today, we are in a very halfway position.

The location of the temple didn't seem to be much of a concern, as the elves were transported from this place by Wyburn, where the dragons were kept, or by young dragons, etc. who came to help them move on a whim, but it was a problem there for the current Lotus Mita.

The distance to the city, which would be the closest place, is also quite a distance if it were to be reached on foot, and I don't know what the state of the city ahead of me was in the first place.

Besides, not a single member of the Lotus Mita line has a land survey of this Dragon Nation.

Even if the members of the human race and the Beast tribe are out of the question, the two Elves, Grune and Kroir, have not actually visited this Dragon Nation country, they only know the stories to be told and the information from some of the remaining literature and materials.

Even so, rather than nothing at all, Cloire and Grune are currently ahead of schedule to explore the area, and there is no place for the rest of the group to rest, so they are waiting in a temple with a transfer gate.

The clogging and waiting groups are sparing no time.

Kurtz and the bespoke Beastman witch group had begun their naps by gently throwing out consciousness and tightening up amicably in a corner of the cave.

Theon and Lorna were wary of asking around quite a bit, but as far as I can see, there's nothing. You thought the landscape meant nothing to be wary of. This one also sets up near the Kurtz and the others in a gap where Mita Lotus took her eyes off to sleep amicably.

Below the remaining Lotus Ya, Emil, Leppard and Kaede missed the timing even if they slept in their spare time, waiting for the return of the Clowers, but in the meantime Emil and Lotus Ya began a somewhat suspicious conversation.

"There's no way you can make such inhumane equipment in a people's country, is there?

"That's right, both of you. No matter how well equipped it is..."

Kaede, who had succeeded Leppard and talked, looks at the two Lianya and Emil staring at the Beast Clan group with a decent look on their face and asks roughly as they said.

"I can't make it... right?

"Isn't there something you can't make and make?

Leppard and Caede's complexion turns slight, but blue, to Emil's words, which speak plainly.

"Well, it would be a good story if you just made it and didn't operate it"

"No, no, Lenya. I think if I made this, I'd definitely run it in any country, right?

A confident Emil for some reason.

Emil speaks with his chest stretched so that he does not notice the gradual pallor of a couple of Beastmen.

"Because in every country, criminals and whatnot, there are a lot of people in trouble at the end of the day. It's a dream facility that can be used for a long time as a source of abundant magic, in addition to being able to destroy troubled beings at once? There's no reason anywhere not to install a great low-cost high-return system, is there?

"I just think dreams are nightmares, even dreams..."

"But if that story is true, doesn't it seem good to have the opposite of hell?

You care about Kaede, who got pale, change the direction of the story as Leppard came up with it.

I did purposefully give that equipment the name "Hell Furnace," etc., so it's not surprising that there are installations with vectors facing the other way around.

"Uh, once it was that way... I mean, there was something about some furnaces based on the emotions on the front side."

He smiles bitterly and says Emil seemingly unable to say why while his cheeks are huge with index fingers.

"You disappeared for a number of reasons. This is it. The reason for this is to keep it to yourself."

"Oh... oh, my God. But I guess that's why, I have a prediction."

With a laid back look, Leppard understands that he failed to change the subject.

Lianya, who thought it seemed somehow not too good for them to continue this topic any longer, hangs on to changing the subject from herself.

"Nevertheless, how dare you build a portal where there's nothing like this?"

"Right. Maintenance is going to be tough where there's nothing like this."

"You didn't want other species to come near our city or anything?

"That's right if you ask me. The transfer gates that we found in the Beast Nation were connected to somewhere a little off, not in the city."

To Leppard, who tells me to recall, I wondered if the transfer gate from the people's country was like that, but even as I made sure, the people other than myself were easily asleep and in their dreams, and I felt bad to bother to wake them up and ask them, and Lianyi decided to shelve the question.

"The Dragon Nation is a little troublesome."

"Really? Alberto, the dragon warrior I've met before, was a rare, decent brave man, wasn't he?

It was quite a while ago already, but Lianya says, remembering the face of the brave man who only came to say hello once.

"Wait a minute, hey Lenya. What do you mean, a rare, decent-looking brave man?

Leppard, who listened to some of Lianya's words, eats and hangs on Lianya.

Apparently, he thought Lianya's words meant that brave men other than Alberto were not very decent.

Lianya stared at Leppard's face and the next look at Kurtz's face, who was resting easily, gave thought to Grune, who went further out to scout the cave, thinking for a while and opening his teasing mouth.

"I'm sorry. It's not decent. It was just you."

"I'm decent!

"Leppard, none of those words are convincing."

It was a lepard claiming his voice absurdly, but he shrugged over whether there were any words to disprove that Caede would say so without hesitation.

He's a leppard with his ears and tail hanging down and his big body shrunk and turned toward the wall, but he's unwilling to comfort Kaede.

"Sometimes I think, are you guys really good friends?

Lotus Yaya wondered if this was a place to lie or go to comfort her, but Kaed immediately waved his hand.

"Because if you spoil it, you'll wear it. It would be nice to speak of a man of the Beast clan just a little bit."

"I don't want to be reborn in the Beast Clan, even if I die."

I laughed at Lianya, who said she was upset that she would continue to be treated that way, with all the reasons why Kaede and Emil were.

"Was it also something fun?

I guess I didn't hear that laugh, but a sneak clower shows up from the cave entrance.

When I left, without particular armor, it was a cloire who left with a bluff, but on her right hand when she returned she had several wild rabbits strangled and her ears tied with an object like a bluff, hanging.

On the other hand, the leaves, which are probably vanilla or wild grass species, where this one came from, are bundled and gripped.

"Chloe, what were you doing out there?

When Lianya asked looking at what Cloire was holding, Cloire answered instantly with a full smile.

"Yes, check and investigate the surrounding area."

"What's in that hand?

When Lianya asked, pointing her finger at him for a moment, Kroir showed him what he was securing in both hands without breaking his smile in front of Lianya.

"Ingredients. Pleasure, Lenya. There was a herd of vanilla around here, and there are quite a few wild rabbits and wild mice."

"You're an elf...?

I wonder what an elf eats wild rabbits and wild rats with delight, Lotus Yaya sarcastically says, but it didn't seem to make sense to the croils.

"Since I started living with Lenya and the others, my diet is becoming more or less people-friendly."

"If you say so, yes."

"I'm a little worried about Brother Grune, but, well, it's not like you can't eat it, so you'll be fine"

"Report on the perimeter survey…"

"Nothing. No shadows, no sign of the army. I haven't even flown a dragon in the sky. Peace, no place to see."

I thought you might have forgotten your job, Lotus Ya, but he understood about what Cloire had to report once too.

"It might be a little hard to get around on foot. The smallest of the four continents in this world is this northern continent, and it's a very long way from the city."

"Dora, ask around to borrow one for the trip, dragon."

With a dragon's flying speed, you can tread without spending so much time even at a considerable distance.

There are no dragons in the sky in the words reported by Kroir, because if we find a dragon flying in the sky, Lianya would have thought to let us use it as a means of travel in some way.

In this case, it becomes a physical subject's method of specifically knocking it off and saying persuasion.

"For me, I wonder if I should stay in this temple today, whether I want to go for a nearby city or a dragon's nest"

"Well... it would be less onerous to get some rest and then move around, maybe like a patrolling dragon tribe and come and see this place"

It was harder to think about saying that the cave with Lotus Mita was completely abandoned than there was equipment to say the transfer gate.

Regular maintenance is necessary in order for the transfer gate to continue to function properly as a transfer gate, which is only a task carried out by the hands of a person.

If you're lucky, you might hit that maintenance time, and even if you weren't, it's not strange that the transfer gate inside this cave was forced to start from the national side of the elf, which is passed down to the Dragon tribe that manages this gate.

Then there's a chance they'll send someone to see how it goes.

"It's pathetic to wake up the sleeping guys and start moving... even getting ready for the camp"

If you decide to talk, you act fast.

Lotus Yachi, including the brave ones, has a large number of people, so we can't cover all of them with the amount of ingredients that Cloire has taken.

Although Lianya has been sticking various things into the inventory that are likely to be used, it is better to procure what can be procured locally than to get her hands on what is in the inventory as it is not known how long we will have to act in this Dragon Nation country in the future.

Once Kroir had set aside the ingredients he had taken, he would now go and talk to Grune to return to the cave once, and Leppard and Caede would go out to procure weed and meat.

"Renya, what about us?

"It's the treatment of the rabbit while you're leaving a message."

No member can eat as many rabbits as they want with hair and skin on them.

Then it will be necessary to treat wild rabbits into chunks of meat that can be eaten.

Dismantling, I'll take care of it.

Not to mention saying that autopsy is a treat, Emil, who took many knives out of the inside of his coat, quickly starts dissecting the rabbit that Cloire left behind.

Looking at that extraordinarily handy task, Lianya began to think only about what was going on and what was going to happen in her head.