Volume 3 Chapter 20 (1/2)

Volume 3 Chapter 20

Listening to Moka’s words, Sidonius recalled the data, that he saw this morning and the layout of the city.

And after considering all that, spoke.

「It will take five minutes for a person from our order to reach the injection point here. And the injection point for the lower part is the root stretched through the city streets. ……Climbing down there will take the order’s personnel at least an hour.」

「It took about the same time to go down even for the guild members with high-tier jobs. We also had Sidonius-san try it.……」

「Yes. I also tried. Going down took twenty minutes…… No, if I really try, I might do it in eight minutes.」

That’s right.

Since the early morning, we did a lot of tests, going up and down.

However, no matter how hard we tried we couldn’t overcome the time limit of three minutes.

「We also considered throwing the medicine down there by itself, but we don’t have a container that strong.」

「Right. Particularly because the fruits were used, putting the antidote into a bag with magic protection will affect the quality, making it useless. ……Really, it’s my first time dealing with an ingredient that remains unstable even after being processed into a medicine. 」

We tried everything we could try. Only physical methods can be used to carry the medicine, but the time becomes the bottleneck.

That was the problem that came with the current antidote.

「And so… You decided to ask us.」

「Yes. Since it’s Axel-san, capable of easily climbing the God Tree. We thought you might have some bright ideas. For example, climbing down the God Tree in under three minutes…」

「Aah…… It might be possible by using a few skills.」

「Really?!」

「Well. With the God Tree in this weakened state, it might be a bit dangerous though. A wrong step might even put cracks in it. I can’t really recommend this.」

Axel slowly said, as if voiced aloud his thoughts.

「Is that…… So.」

The mere fact that he saw the problem, on which they almost gave up, as solvable was big.

However, if it wasn’t realistically possible, then there is no point.

What should we do? Isn’t there some way? And while I was wracking my head over this.

「Ah, but. Not sure if this counts as a bright idea, but if you only want to go down in two or three minutes. It doesn’t necessarily have to be me, right? There are people besides me that can do that.」

Sidonius eyes went wide when he heard those words.

「Eh? Where, are they……?」

「Well, they are here, aren’t they? Right, Saki, Berzelia? 」

Asked in such a fashion, the girls exchanged glances and then nodded.

「Well, climbing isn’t easy, but if it’s only about descending, then it won’t take even two minutes.」

「Same here. I think I can just go down normally, even without turning into a dragon. Thought I might not be able to do it as skillfully as Master.」

Being told so, I remembered.

Yes. Those two also were heroes and held power matching that rank.

「ーThat’s how it is, there are people other than me, capable of going down.」

●

My words left Moka and Sidonius dazed.

Well, since they didn’t know about the abilities of the two I couldn’t blame them.

Well, for the time being, we found people capable to get to the ground in time.