Chapter 21 (1/2)

Chapter 21 – Sightseeing

Fortress City Finale

Historically it began as the royal capital’s first line of defence against the powerful e to the north, but it see more than an unimportant frontier city

For a while after the founding of the Kingdosera Mountain Ranges were running raed when a few hundred years ago, an Ancient Dragon had settled down on the mountain

Perhaps because the powerful monster had become a powerful source of leadershi+p for the lower class monsters, or perhaps because they had becoer had the leisure to es that headed southwards towards Finale dropped sharply

Presently it was an extreh there weren’t any monster attacks at all, even so almost none of the powerful es had been seen around Finale

Right noas known as a trade city that was right between the capital and a nues, and there were more merchants than soldiers

It’s title as a fortress city was a leftover froave the city its fortress designation

He had brought Iris along, and talking a stroll through the city and finding everything extre himself

Being known as a trade city, there seeoods from various places, north, west, east and south, and it was enough that he wanted to spend a whole day killing time there

“Ojisama… Please look at this!”

Being told that by Iris, he looked at where she was pointing and found that there were ic tools, ornaments, and even food

Because she seelad that they came here

Moreover, he found not a fewsold there, and went over with Iris toshop, but contrary to his expectations there were a nuht one

The e; it was sus gun (Magia Pistola)

Having said that though, it was different not only to the one that Yuuht, but to the one that Luru made as well, and you could actually say that it was alic tool

The different between a us ic, and whether or not it would run only with the insertion of e differences, but there were also some differences in construction, and you couldn’t explain it siic tools where you inserted us nitude

In the end, differentiating the it simply, their effectiveness was simply different This wasn’t exactly correct, but with this way of thinking you could correctly distinguish most of them

However, the thing that Luru had bought was so that erroneous criteria of effectiveness, but in a true sense where it was in a transitional period in

Athat created phenomena different froic

It relied not only onof natural laws and the construction of the tool itself

Things built in such a us machines

Incidentally, what Luru purchased was shaped like a staff, and on the end of the staff there was a large crystal attached A shot of low class ic could be inserted, and that way you could fire a pre-prepared ic without any time required An extremely questionable effiency

It ic pistola, but the concept behind it was the saia pistola

The difference in forht issue

Being able to chantlessly use a single spell gave you quite an advantage, so you probably couldn’t call it useless Moreover, because you’d have already inserted the ic, even if you didn’t have e

Only, in a battle between icians, it was probably useless

If it was just low class h just to have chanted some of it in advance

At Luru and Iris’ level, they could use it without chanting, so you could even say this staff had no use to them at all

However, it seeood use as an excuse for when they had to actually use chantlessa staff seeht one

As for the problems in efficiency, he could just remodel it one of these days

“…Ah-”

While they andering about the marketplace, they bumped into people a numer of times

Luru did, Iris did, soether

Most of the tioal was apparent, and in fact, they slapped away the slippery hands that entered the crevices of their clothing a number of times

“Wealth disparity is so that won’t disappear no matter the era, isn’t it?”

Each time, Iris would say that with a sad expression

Both in the distant past and in the present, this was soed On the contrary, because in the past the world was embroiled in war, poor people and orphans just increased

She was probably speaking with that memory in mind

Luru felt the saive them protection, but even so he had seen not a few children with blacked faces, wandering the battlefields looking for food

“…That it can’t be helped, is so of which, the Church was zealous in giving shelter to orphans too, weren’t they?”

Luru suddenly recalled them

The organisation they had continued to ith held extre the de the the scale of their philanthropic activities

One of the things they did was shelter orphans, but the orphans they sheltered often ended up as believers of the church or soldiers who fought on the frontlines, so their goal was clear

It was ’s death but… It was hard to put it into words

Luru felt it a difficult topic

“The Church, was it? It’s a nostalgic organisation but… why don’t they exist in this era? Even though the ones on the ere undoubtedly the humans Could it be that the Hero really did destroy them?”

Iris raised a doubt

Indeed

In the seven years that he had been investigating, there was nothing like the Church from those days

They didn’t appear in the annals of history, and seened to oblivion

There were religious organisations that called themselves “the chuch” in this era as well, but they had no relation to the Church of that era, and Luru knew that they were different organisations

Froions that worshi+pped extreions that worshi+pped a number of Gods that were ions that prayed to rocks andtemples here and there However, that Church frole deity, that talked of being saved by a Hero, and carried a slogan of con or trace of them to be found

Just where on earth had they gone?

Had they disappeared in the waves of history along with the Ancient Demons?