Chapter 101 (2/2)
「Hah hah hah, yeah, I fooled both of you.」
I laughed at both of their angry and embarrassed faces and took another drink of my tea.
I was thankful for both of them. They didn’t get lost in their anger, just looked at each other and then suppressed it.
So I looked back out the window again.
What I saw out there was the dateless orphanage.
The building and garden, children playing with a young woman outside.At one time, she must have doubted that Grond had killed her husband.
Then she knew that Grond and I knew each other, at a time I left the town.
That time, she seemed shaken when she saw me again, and she smiled silently but must have been thinking something.
(…she had to have.)
I didn’t know when that was.
Through the 【Holy Sword of Vengeance], I could see there was something black and hot that was inside her.
「…」
Her important orphans, when they were drugged and have died, how much of that did she knew, how did she feel.
No, even more than that, what happened if she was still alive.
「Ah, I made a mistake staying here!」
I stuck out the remaining chips to the other two.
「…no matter what bed, I can’t sleep in a place like this!」
From then on, I didn’t break another chip.
Instead of having something in my hand, my tightly squeeze hand dripped one drop of blood.
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The next day after resting while partaking in the chips and tea, I went into the dungeon near Dartlas.
Dungeons like this that were hard to know the difficulty weren’t very popular, but we had agreed that this was the place. An undiscovered dungeon was the best of all, but there were none near this town.
「Finally outside! Nice to feel the sun.」
We felt the humid air of the normal cavern-like dungeon, as we stretched and breathed in the clean, sunny air right outside it.
「It’s much nicer and warmer than the light of the light moss. Are we okay in the dark? I just don’t like the humidity inside.」
「I don’t like it much either. It’s a lot easier to dry your clothes in the sun than by a torch.」
Shuria’s words caused Minnalis to deeply nod.
…Minnalis had completely become a maid.
「Well, anyway, this first part is done.」
My hand was in the bag and holding the goal, the dungeon core.
Of course, it would be big trouble if this was revealed so I did all I could to hide it.
A dungeon close to the emperor, 『The nest of goblins』had a fragment of a dungeon core I got that gave the 『Absorption Sword』 its power along with some rocks that were mixed to form something like a dungeon core.
Even though this place wasn’t popular, there were still people around.
Soldiers and adventurers managing these dungeons could be tricked by Minnalis for a short while by erasing their memories and we could press on to a place where we could use a torch safely.
Of course, normally they would think it strange but we weren’t noticed.
In addition, there were a lot of magic beasts chased in here.
If we were discovered now, there would be a sudden request to expel us. Because of this, the main amount of adventurers avoid the place, and people visit less and less, so the dungeon monsters are a bit too late to be repopulated for new adventurers.
But as a time killer, it’s definitely enough.
「This dungeon core like thing will awaken that magical storm like thing. If so then that magic tools with transport magic won’t work.」
The magic storm is a natural disaster that is special to this world and occurs irregularly.
There are different ranges and patterns, the magic essence in a place gets thicker, becomes strangely chaotic, and precise magical waves become unusable. Normal magic becomes harder to control, and anything below the mid-level magic that the magical beasts use becomes difficult to do.
That’s why places of thick magical essence are places where magical beasts live.
If you have a dungeon core, you can generate one of these magical storms. That’s why you bring one in, and keep a dungeon core with you.
In order to trap Grond, he and the emperor, no, he and the princess’ connection needs to be destroyed. If he gets recognition from Alesia, our plan is half kaput.
In order to blockade the roads and set decoys, and for the magic monsters chased in here by Sura-kichi, the magic storm needs to be explained.
There is only one problem in all of this.
「Okay, how many potions are we going to open. We still haven’t prepared everything, so I’m a little leery.」
「I’m not good with drinking MP potions.」
「That reminds me Shuria, there are a lot of people that don’t like the taste. Even so, you need to put up with it and help no matter what.」
In order to use the dungeon core and cause that magic storm like thing, you need to make sure there’s no break in magic that exceeds the amount in an unbroken dungeon core, so you have to be careful.
「Even in exchange, you can’t avoid getting overwhelmed by all the MP…」
It would be good to get through this without a lot of foolishness going down, I said in a loud enough whisper.