Chapter 407: One-Way Transfer Destination

Chapter 407: One-Way Transfer Destination One-Way Transfer Destination

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The moment I was slammed to the ground by the baby octopus, a blinding purple light suddenly burst forth.

I instinctively closed my eyes and held my breath against the intense light.

And, a few seconds later.

Cautiously opening my eyelids, the intense purple light had subsided.

What spread before my eyes was a pure white ceiling, faintly tinged with purple.

The place I was in just now was a ruin in a forest, and most of the ceilings of that ruin had collapsed... so this is... an unfamiliar place.

In other words, I was slammed into the magic circle and teleported.

That’s probably what happened.

“...Hah.”

I exhaled briefly, jumped up from my lying position, and looked around... this place also seems to be some kind of ruin.

It’s a private room, enclosed by the characteristic white walls with no seams.

The air, as before, is filled with blue fog, obstructing my vision.

This time, I turned around and looked down at my feet.

The magic circle that transported me to this place... is somehow emitting a weaker light than the one I saw in the previous ruin.

<...It’s out of mana.>

Extra-sama said quietly.

<This teleportation magic circle... probably only transported small things like fog and small fish until now. But you were forcefully slammed into it, and the teleportation was activated. It seems to have used up almost all the mana it absorbed and accumulated from its surroundings. Now, all this magic circle can exchange with that forest is fog. If it only uses the mana it naturally recovers, it won’t be able to teleport even a small fish for another ten years.>

“............”

Hearing that, I tried standing on the magic circle.

As Extra-sama said, this magic circle doesn’t react at all.

It just faintly glows.

“I see...”

So I...

Was sent to this unknown place.

One-way.

Those damn octopuses...

“Impressive...”

I have to admit it.

You guys did well.

But.

“AAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!”

This frustration of being outwitted!!

I can’t hold it back!!

I punched the ruin’s wall with all my might, without holding back!

BOOOOM!!

BOO, BOO, BOOOM!!

The impact punched a large hole in the thick wall of the ruin, breaking through the next wall, and the next, and the next, creating a path leading outside the ruin!

“Wow...”

I gasped.

What spread out before me was a sea of fog, stretching as far as the eye could see, under the blue sky.

From here and there in the sea of fog... the tops of stone pillars protruded like islands, covered with lush trees.

And in the distance... a giant... incredibly giant flying fish was swimming leisurely, its dorsal fin protruding from the sea of fog.

I was engrossed in silence for a while.

Gazing upon the beautiful and majestic scenery.

<...Well, are you calmer now, Emi?>

Extra-sama cautiously spoke to me after a few minutes.

I nodded.

After seeing this scenery...

My frustration has vanished.

But.

<But?>

When I calm down, a question I can’t ignore comes to mind.

<You mean... ‘Where is this place?’>

Exactly.

I looked around at the sea of fog once again.

It’s really a sea of fog, as far as the eye can see.

I can’t see anything else.

What is this place?

Where is this place?

<It’s easy to answer that question. After all, a landscape this unique exists in only one place in all of Ardyst.>

Extra-sama said that, and after a dramatic cough...

<This is... a different continent from the Golden Continent you were on just now... a vast basin located in the southeastern part of the Fantasy Continent, Nijial...>

Slowly, clearly...

<Well, it is a basin... but... rather than a basin, as you can see, it’s filled with fog all year round, so the people of this continent consider this place to be a ‘sea of fog’.>

After saying that in a slightly roundabout way...

<In other words, this place is called as follows...>

She told me the name of this place.

<Eserem Sea of Fog.>

And so, Emi has reached the stage of a new adventure, the Fantasy Continent.

From the next arc onwards, our usual Emi will be rampaging on this continent!

Be prepared (who am I saying this to)!!

By the way, this concludes Emi’s adventure in this arc, but we’ll have a few more stories about other people.

After that, Part 2 will start.

Thank you very much.

TL Note: I retconned ‘Niijal’ in some past chapters to ‘Nijial’.