361-329 Restart (2) (1/2)

”Then we'll go down in order. We'll just collect the stacked mash and frozen onions if there's room.

These two foodstuffs that grow on the cliffs, I tried to eat the ones I collected last time: ...... Well, they were edible.

The stacked mushrooms looked like fungus with little flesh, and while I wouldn't say they weren't tasty, they weren't the kind of mushrooms you want to eat a lot of.

The flonion was a slightly flat green onion-like plant that tasted both pungent like raw onion and pungent like ginger.

It's good to use as a condiment to accentuate your cooking, but the taste of both pungent flavors makes it a little hard to use, and it's also the type of vegetable that you only use a little, so it's not something you want to force yourself to collect.

I tried taking them to the adventurer's guild, but they gave me a high price for both, but they are only wild vegetables.

None of them were enough to force me to collect them.

Haruka and the others who had already gone down were only collecting what they could reach and carry in their hands.

It didn't take them long to collect, and everyone except me went down.

”Nao, it's okay.

”Okay.

The rope is reeled in, retrieved, and stowed in my backpack.

As I descend, we are all harvesting flying gars from Toya's doorplate on the ledge.

”Everything okay?

”Yeah. Yeah. It's only piercing the surface, not the steel plate in between.

Yeah. Except there are more flying gars than I thought.

That's not a problem. I'm happy!

Little girl snapping the necks of flying gars.

Yeah, you look pretty happy.

The picture's not quite right.

”Yeah. As long as it doesn't stab me. --Give me a warning a little sooner. That was a little scary.

Yeah. Maybe we should stick to the wall a little tighter. You don't want to get side-swiped.

Copy that. I mean, Toya was [spying] on you too, right?

You'd think she'd have noticed before I warned her. .......

”It's fast, the Flying Gar. I'm not sure what to do. I'm not sure if it's because I'm on my back with the doorplate on my back, or if it's because my detection range is slightly narrower. Also, the sound of the waterfall is too loud.

Oh, there you have it.

If your ears and vision are restricted, your range of detection will also be reduced.

This is the subtle and realistic aspect of this skill.

But it's good to know that you can descend without problems. Now we just need to set up a transition point and start descending.

Yeah, let's go for it.

Yeah!　Let's get the fish!

Yes!　And the bird meat!

Oh, I see it was Mary who dismantled the Arrowhead Eagle.

It was already gone by the time I got down there.

But Mary, you're not the one who's supposed to do the hard work.

Then I went down the cliff over and over again, a hundred times.

One of the cliffs collapsed when we hit it with the impact hammer, but since Natsuki and I had judged that it was suspicious before we hit it, no one was hurt so far.

Of course, no one had fallen.

We continued down the cliff, steadily increasing our stock of fish and poultry, until dusk.

It was around that time that it appeared.

”That's .......

It was me who found it.

It must have been a simple matter of visibility.

It was obvious that Toya, who was carrying a door plate, had a much harder time seeing his surroundings, and Haruka and the others, who were descending the rope ladder, had a little less visibility than me, who was using a rope to descend.

I only noticed this because I was trying to keep my body upright and my legs propped up on the rock wall to avoid scraping the rope on the wall.

We were about six meters to the left of where we had set down the rope ladder.

About halfway between the upper passage and the lower ledge, there was a hole hidden by a little protruding rock.

The size of the hole was just enough for me to stand in and not jam my head, and it was about a meter wide.

It was not a mere crevice, but a passage.

That's where it was.