Chapter 495 (2/2)
“Our apologies Heand have a short fuse, but his abundance of knowledge is real at least”
The scholar talked to Mito while saying so that didn't help with the bespectacled man's case
“The only thing we know is that the gems embedded on this tree relief may be of the same colors as the colors that represent the seven Gods as depicted in the old docu to the temples”
“What about the thing about deements of mounds?”
“It's just a delusion the runner-up has It has no basis”
The girls caeic circle?”, but judging fro of thea copy of Satou's Map information, they couldn't confirm if that was the case
“And what about the cracked spot over there?”
“Ah, that's…”
The scholar looked at the place Arisa pointed at while looking like he was enduring a headache
“That, you see–”
It was the runner up scholar's doing
Despite having been strictly told not to do anything reckless by the higher ups, he came with a pickaxe from who knohere and broke the spot
“What an idiot…”
“Un, I'll talk to Sete and have him removed from his post here”
Arisa and Mito had the same expressions as the scholar earlier
Zena s
“So did you figure out anything?”
“Yes, that the surface of this mound was only about as hard as fieldstone, and that the broken pieces vanished into thin air like an illusion Once it broke enough to fit a wrist inside, the pickaxe passed through it like it was before the change, and putting your hand on it drained your strength”
“Is it like the shell of an egg I guess?”
The
After asking opinions froathered at this place, it was decided that they would add uards to watch over the mound for a while
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There was no change on the next two days–
But the day after that, the e happened
“It got even bigger again eh”
Arisa otten more than 100 meter tall
“The tree relief is the saht now”
“The gems therown bigger linearly with the mound's size”
The bottoround, while the upper part was now about six meter tall
“And this pattern on the root–”
Mito reached out her hand toward the tree relief while saying that
“Don't touch it!”
A scholar ca
“Please don't touch it, it's dangerous”
“What's dangerous about it?”
Right as she asked that, there was a sudden smell of blood, then a bloodied man came out of the pattern Mito was about to touch and fell down
“Runner up!”
It was the bespectacled man who should have been stripped off his position here
The lens of his trademark spectacles were cracked, the frame was bent
“What happened? Runner up!”
“D-don't call me Runner-up…”
The runner up fell down on the ground and passed out afterthat
“People could apparently went inside through that door-like pattern over there, but no one who got in came back out!”
At first the scholar disappeared when he touched the pattern recklessly, and then soldiers went in to save the guy, but none came back out
“What about summoned beasts?”
“Their ot cut off the moment they went in Apparently, it felt like they had been forcefully unsummoned”
They were currently in the process of transporting goleate further
“Look at that!”
Men came out of the door pattern
They were soldiers
“Only you three?”
“No, they should got out together with us–”
The soldier spoke in puzzlement and turned back
But no one came out
Mito stopped the o back in
“Tell us what happened inside”
The soldier hesitated a bit before speaking up
“It was very vast inside We couldn't see well since it was foggy, but there's no doubt that the circuer than the outside h as well and there were pillars that were thicker than if us three joined hands We picked up that scholar at one of those pillars”
“What was it that made him turned out like this?”
The soldiers had no idea
“There was a pattern similar to this on that pillar He probably went inside that pillar”
The soldier pointed at the door pattern
“Okay then, let's wake this guy up”
Arisa said so, took aand sprinkled it on the man's face
Despite the rough treatment, the man's wounds immediately went away
“–He's not waking up”
“I'll make him to”
One of the scholar seeet impatient, picked up the bespectacled man and slapped his cheeks around
He er
“W-where's the monster?”
“Monster? If you're really a researcher, describe what you see objectively!”
The scholar de about polite speech anymore
“aa I found a similar pattern as the one at the entrance inside–”
Apparently, he found different patterns in all directions inside
He went inside of those patterns to find himself in what looked like ruins, there he encountered the
“It was a purple oblin outwardly, but that thing is no goblin!”
The purple goblin didn't even flinch when the bespectacled ht with hi Statues the uards in no time at all
Arisa and Mito looked at each others when they heard about purple goblin
“Could it be, the Goblin King's been revived?”
“Must be a mistake, no? That Goblin Demon Lord wouldn't have let this man escape, don't you think?”
“Oh you're right…”
The two returned their lines of sight on the man
“By Living Statues, you uard the mound?”
“That's right! Those Living Statues that could knock out several holy knights, like there's a goblin that could beat them in a flash!+ With bare hands to boot!”
Despite taking equip back empty handed on top of it, the man didn't feel responsible in the least
“I'ed to flee”
“I was treading an unknown territory Isn't it only natural to coic to protect yourself?”
The bespectacled man seemed to have interpreted Arisa's ridicule as a praise, he lifted up the center of his bent spectacles' fraer
Arisa asked what ic he used to protect hiic famous for its defensive power
That defense oblin in two hits
He suffered the injury earlier from shock waves of the second attack
Furthermore–
“There were more than one monster I only saw it for an instant, butout of the back There's at least 10, or maybe even more, I'm dead sure of it”
“In other words, are you saying that this is a labyrinth? With er than ordinary?”
The bespectacled reement to the scholar's question
“Okay that's bad”
“Would be a huge disaster if thoseout”
Similar mounds could be found in the outskirts of cities all over the world, and about 30 of them had potentially turned into labyrinths
“Arisa”
“Un, I know This is one for Master”
Arisa nodded at Mito and got in touch with Satou through her Familiar Link
“–The end”
“Wait”
That purple goblin inside the Purple Mound sounds like trouble, but there's another thing that intrigues me more
“It's been seven days since I went to the Realm of Gods?”
“Yup, and?”
I myself felt like it had only just been half a day
Excluding the time at the Rift, it should only have taken about six to seven hours
“Could it be, passage of time flows differently in the Realm of Gods?”
“Yeah, seeht”
“Stop, stop! You two, you've got your priorities wrong”
Hikaru clapped her hands and stoppedderailed
“Satou-san!”
A voice called for me from the sky It's Zensan
Looks like she was checking out nearby villages
“I'm back Zensan”
“There is no change with the Purple Mounds in the vicinity Not only in sizes but also their characteristics”
Zensan reported to us folloith, “This tis to test it out” as she faced Arisa
“Looks like it's causing uproars in other cities too”
Using a coic [Clairvoyance], I confir similar here
I'oblins showed up in other Purple Towers, but at least it doesn't seem like those toould spit out flocks of monsters en masse at the moment
“Well then, I'll go check it out”
I walked forward toward the tower's entrance as I declared that
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