165 161 It is necessary to have leeway, but it is difficult to maintain leeway. (1/2)

Called an ordeal, it's a natural act to wonder what on earth is coming.

So it was affordable to gather information and ask those close to you.

According to such an affordable existence, Mr. Muir said that only the top spirits can take the form of an ordeal.

For those below the medium spirits, they mostly settle for bargaining.

In short, the higher level spirits are that confident in themselves.

That's why they want to take the form of an ordeal from the top.

And the nature of their ordeals is largely predictable depending on what their rulers are.

If you are fire-attributed, you are belligerent and fight-loving, but you may borrow power from the blacksmith by dedicating your work with fire, especially blacksmithing.

The water-attribute is quiet and usually does not like to fight, but once it gets rough, it is like a stormy sea that cannot be tested except in battle.

Amidst these stories, the trials of the spirit Varus, who controls the nature of space-time, are shrouded in mystery.

This is because every person who has undergone the ordeal says they don't know.

no....to be precise...you were tested, but you've forgotten the details of your test.

That's why we have no information.

That's why I was unable to take any countermeasure, so I took the contract with only the best of intentions to fight.

To be honest, it is reckless to challenge a high-ranking spirit that can be called a natural phenomenon, but saying that doesn't get us anywhere.

So I was prepared for whatever might come.

The ordeal is quite simple. Escape from the infinite prison that eliminates the finite amount of time.

I was going to.

This spirit just said that to me, as if to casually say she was going to the convenience store for a bit, and changed the scenery in front of me.

Where are we?

If the previous world was monochrome, this is a world of white with a single color of black on the horizon.

There is no shield, just a continuous horizon.

...... Really?

I thought it was substandard, but I didn't expect it to be this good.

It's probably best to leave aside the story of how this world was created for now.

The problem is that the rules are explained in one word, with no additional explanation at all.

Seriously, you want me to find a grain of gold in the desert?

Then you take the ordeal from the spirit as it is worded and accept the reality in front of you, aghast at its contents.

As you stand there stunned for a moment, you have no choice but to decide that the fact that nothing happens, not even an additional explanation, let alone an appearance, must mean that this is the case.

And what are we to do in a world where the clues in front of us have been removed from the dictionary?

”...... was completely unexpected in this situation. And while it's open for a prison, there are limits to what you can do in .......

Jail would be a little more cramped, right?　The question of what to do in a cramped space would have been better in terms of the scope of the search, and I'm grateful for the thought that I would lose it if I hadn't panicked in any sudden situation.

And I am grateful for the fact that I can keep my cool, because I am familiar with the idea that no matter how unexpected the situation becomes, it would be a loss to be in a hurry.

But that doesn't mean that the situation is not going to get better soon.

Even if you are groping for action, isn't it a bit reckless to try to come up with something in front of this huge space?

I was expecting to be subjected to a fight or a similar situation, or a somewhat oblique ordeal, but I didn't expect it to come with a clean bill of health.

The best and standard course of action for the rescued is to stay put. ...... It's not sunny, but it's bright and it's not cold, so it's fortunate that the chances of dying of freezing to death or dehydration are low. If so, it's either starvation or something beyond this horizon will come and attack you. ......

First, say the information you are experiencing to sort out the situation, and then assume the worst situation that could come in this situation: death.

You have three days' worth of food on hand, and you have five days to trim it down.

As for drinking water, you don't have to worry about it, thanks to Muille's magical gourds, which you can use to make water flow.

If you run out of food, there is only one future that awaits you.

That doesn't mean we'll get through the ordeal, does it?

But if you ask me if such a future is best, I have to shake my head.

I don't think surviving until you're rescued is the best way to accomplish this ordeal.

Then I think there's something else, but I don't have enough information to come up with it.

You try to organize the information and organize your thoughts by putting them into words, as if to tell yourself, but you can't quite decide on a course of action, whether your assumptions are wrong or not.

I'm just like a person in distress, in a sense, to get so lost in the decision of whether to proceed or stay.

I have to get out of this space that Spirit-sama mentioned: ......

The genie Varus said.

Escape from the infinite prison.

You're free of finite time.

These are the two clues we were given.

There's no way to get out of this situation except to read them.

Is infinity in the spatial sense of a continuous horizon or in the temporal sense of infinity?

Either way, thinking about it will get us nowhere.

What's going on?

In the meantime, you have to twitch again to decide on a course of action to avoid consuming your energy in vain.

There's no nothing. It's just that I have magic. Or to put it another way, it could be taken as nothing but magic.

At first impression, I thought it was an empty scene, but when I meditated on it, I could sense a more dense magical power than usual, on the contrary.

The magic power is so dense that you can believe it even if this space itself is said to be made up of magic power.

Is this something that a guy who can space transfer can normally escape from?　No, it's not that simple. Should we see that they are also taking measures against transference ...... Well, you can't use transference magic anyway.

I thought that if I had magic power, I could find a way to get rid of it, but I looked around the area while strengthening my eyesight to see what I could find, but I couldn't find anything other than the horizon and white space.

I've never experienced a distressed situation like that, so all I can think of is the usual stuff that anyone can come up with right away.

The situation has been in limbo since the beginning, but I can't kneel here.

There's no tomorrow for me if I don't do something.

...... There's only one thing I should or could do: ...... This idea is so ridiculous that it's a brainiac! But,

Thinking and choosing the methods that came to mind, the reality that only the most probable and the most ridiculous of them could be taken seemed to bring tears to my eyes.

In the midst of thinking, I remembered an incident that happened one day.

It's not a question of what you can or cannot do, but rather the fact that it is the only way to do it.

But not doing it that way is not an option.

Gently reaching for the mineral tree on your back, instead of wondering if you can do it within the time limit, you reprimand your mind to make up your mind and get to work on it once you've decided.

Another side

To the time-space spirit Varus, a contractor was a pastime.

In a bad way, they were just a tool to pass the time for the eternal spirits of existence.

Therefore, this human was dealt with in the same way.

Infinite Prison.

As the name of the spirit of space-time indicates, that being governs space and time.

Exercise the power that does not shame the name and twist space and continue forever in front, back, left, right, and up and down.

It is in such a place that you imprisoned a man who called himself Jiro Tanaka.

Now, I wonder what his reaction will be?

In the name of ordeal, the spirit Varus enjoyed the view that only he could see.

Throughout the years, Valus enjoys seeing the final glow of his trials in times of crisis.

In short, he created this environment because he wanted to see the glow of his dying moments.

The story is in bad taste, if you ask me.