Vol 2 Chapter 6 (1/2)

Chapter 6: Torasayuya’s Cradle

-Translator: MiaoMix

-Translator: Options

-Editor: Alex

>>Satou here Infor fro to do with intent; distortion is inevitable as long as it goes through ‘someone else’

I dove into a pitch black void

Without any light or sound, it’s like being subed in shadow Of course, there’s no air either

This isn’t gonna be good Bothslowly but surely, but likely thanks to 」 skill, they jump back up every now and then

…I don’t think I can even die from suffocation anymore

Even if there was air, staying in a place like this for too long could make someone insane

The feeling of hypoxia is keeping hts

—Right, Mia

I can’t even see my own body; so naturally, Mia’s silhouette is nowhere to be found Even if I try to reach out and feel around, it’s fruitless in a place where I can’t even tell up from down

I took out the 「Tinder Rod」 froht this would let me see myself, but I still couldn’t

The 「Radar」is also only displaying me

I try to use 「Full Map Exploration」 for the first tied I seem to really be the only one here

I open up the Map

One line is written on top— 「No Map Available for this Area」

“What kind of game is this?!”

I yell with all th

Then, as if reacting to lass-like shards slowly fade away

It was a place called the 「Audience Chamber」and was filled with a lot of symbols

The deep, spacious hall is as large as several school gymnasiuiant colu the walls The lahts that illuminate the whole room

Atop a more elevated section, a throne sits with a two- near it at knee-level It looks just like a ed

—There!

Mia can be seen sleeping on the throne

An unknown blonde beauty is tending to Mia Her appearance is quite similar to Mia’s I suppose that’s what she will look like when she’s older

Still, that body has quite outrageous breasts About D, or even E cups

Wait, that’s not iht now

Before I a on some music stand-like device near the throne, notices my presence

“But how?!”

Despite his shock, thethe music stand does not slon

“Not bad! But how?’ How did you escape from my prison of shadow? A lowly coainst this!”

Is that shock, boasting, or mockery? Just pick one

Perhaps due to the 「Shadow Void」 just now, s are still a bit weak

“I have a Medallion of Light, so Shadow Magic is useless against me”

shi+t, I wasn’t going to tell the truth, but this excuse is too ridiculous Has one haywire?

“The trialcannot be tolerated This chamber is reserved for people who have conquered the 「Cradle」 That is the rule”

Having said that, Zen pauses to nod in agreement with himself

“You think you are a Game Master?”

If he wanted a death gaame himself

“A shaaame”

—No one will die? What’s that about?

“Only the Hero who has coht to slay I, the Null-Life King”

This guy, what the heck is he saying?

He wants someone to conquer the 「Cradle」 and kill him?

This guy is pissingthe Manager for a reason like that?

“Go kill yourself if you want to die Don’t drag others into it”

“Huahahaha, as long as I have 「God’s Blessing」, I’ll always be immortal”

For some reason, Zen’s words see” is actually a “curse” to him

It was unpleasant listening to his

I cover around fortyMia is the priority right now

Just as my hand nearly reaches Mia’s clothes, Zen’s hands that have been busy operating the console stop

“Now, isn’t it about time you leave the master chamber?”

The feeling under ed

What’s ed even more

I barely stop round beneathup the dirt, but I quickly jue

“Where’s this place?”

I mumble to myself as no one replied

Apparently, I have been teleported byIt seeh shadows Where have I been sent to?

Looking at the vast scenery around me, this seems to be the summit of a mountain

Under the cliff in front of roup ofit

The Basin is full of fog, I can’t see clearly The distant tall tree al withered branches

There is a Bright Light outside the surrounding mountains, doesn’t look like there are monsters inside either

I took a deep breath and closed my eyes

I opened my eyes to see the view

—Yeah, still there

This ti, to let my heart calm down

And opened my eyes with determination, but the scenery is the same

—So, it really wasn’t an illusion, huh

I look at the gigantic tree in the middle of the basin

It looks better than the other giant tree

Strangest thing is that the tree is as tall as the surrounding mountains

“Isn’t that the so-called Yggdrasil?”

In spite the size of the tree, it doesn’t have any sign of toppling over Still, it’s better to let the next generation of researchers to unlock the s I need to do

Looking at the side of the Yggdrasil, there is an AR displaying 「Torasayuya’s Cradle」

The Large tree has spider-web like silk on it Although the branches are hiding the web below, the silk definitely looks like a path

I need to head to where Mia is and rescue her, the place must be inside the tree

I opened the e」 Luckily, it’s near Seiryuu City, but after rescuing Mia I don’t think we can come back here

I used “Search All Map” to investigate 「Grey Rat Village」, the first thing to do is to find a good path to return to

The distance to the near the nearest Ratmen town is over two e

In front of my eyes are the stairs to the 「Cradle」 It’s a few steps by the cliff side from before

This set of stairs is floating in the air, ic But there isn’t anything to hold on to in the airand it’s approxi wind can make you fall to the bottom of the valley

The nor the ability 「Resist Fear」 stoppedof fear and helped me hold on

——This sure is dangerous

Ithis

While going up the straight glass staircase, I suddenly hear sounds of wings flapping

I turn in of the noise to discover a bee monster near my location

Since it’s still a bit far, the radar didn’t display it

I opened the Map, this place is no longer 「Grey Rat Village」 but it’s in 「Torasayuya’s Cradle」 area now

I hurried and used 「Search All Map」 to find out every detail and information about 「Torasayuya’s Cradle」

The AR is now displaying information about the nearby monster bee

This Species is called 「Red Needle Bee」, the level is a bit low, though it is poisonous I went to un and take theet closer to me

The usual Magic gun is kept in the All Function House, so this one is a spare

I quickly skimmed over the intel about the tree on the map display

If Zen finds out, there’s big chance he’ll say I’

Even though I can just climb the tree and be done with it, and the teleport ability by the 「Cradle」 deeless

Guess I can only follow the rules and go in

If the Objective is soo, but in exchange for Mia’s safety, a little hardshi+p is unavoidable

“What is that?”

I know the entrance is going to have an epic door

But the sign next to the entrance got me confused

On top, there are words in elf language written the place’s nah The bottoes

It says on top ——

This is a training facility designed for elves, any other race than elf will need to notice that the protection device will not activate

Training Facility will not lie, please be responsible for your own actions

If the Training Facility destroyed or daed your items, there will be no compensation

—— is what’s written on it

Looks like this is a wood styleelves

Although there is so like a life protection device, I still shouldn’t destroy the 「Cradle」 with this together If the facility is destroyed, the life protection device can’t protect Mia

Zen said that this is a Null-death facility, but right now there is no way to know if he will expand the protection to lives other than the elves

from the looks of the map, the tree truck’s inside is thefacility’s main body

There is some erosion on the bark and the tree truck, but it’s only a very little percentage of it

Through the big door, there is ain front of me

There is a title saying「Monster of the Wandering Tunnel」, so it is probably not an ale encounter battle

Theis a meter tall and looks like an imp

I first thought it was a wannabe Goblin, but the AR display shows a different naroup of weed ioblin

I went up and kicked it The weed fell apart with a very light swoosh sound Its level is probably just one I’ic core it dropped, so I just left it there

The 「Cradle」 has a total of two hundred floors, every ten floors is a unit, with twenty massive spiral staircases connected to the next level

In front of me is the first spiral staircase, in front of the stairs are eight doors connected the other floor’s entrance

There is aStaircase」

The walls of the roofless massive room that the stairs were placed in have countless a lanterns shaped things

Not only does the branch have a light source, it’s also growing all kinds of fruit

But there are apples, oranges and pears growing on the saht not be very natural It’s as if a researcher froned this with DNA manipulation

If it was not for this event, I really want to let my kids train here

Arriving at the end of the stairs, the level 10 door opened up a ninth hole

According to the black lithograph’s explanation, the door can be opened by defeating each floor’s boss to get a jewel called 「Key Pearl」 and inserting it into the door

Even though Zen didn’t agree, no ame

In a situation where there is no inserted jewel, the 「Door’s Guardian」 will appear and challenge the trainee

Since I need to defeat the 「Door’s Guardian」, I decided to quickly challenge it

After knocking on the door, the eht and a knight in full armor appeared

According to the AR display, this is a h it’s stronger than the other s nearby, in my eyes it isn’t much different from the imp earlier

After dodging the 「Living Armor」’s one-handed axe, I kicked the center of the armor

If I kicked with my toes it would hurt, so I added hipmy heels

“Ah!”

I used too much power The idea of defeat opponent with 1 hit is not a bad idea, but I didn’t think the ar out of the armor’s back

Al Armor」 n my inventory before I left

“Fooo, that scared me”

I ht through the now opened door

Next is at the back of the tree, now I can go towards floor 20’s staircase Really, this kind of config is like a PC game

This kind

——of game?

I was ready to give up, but I stopped

This is mostly a misconception Both 「Demon Maze」 under the 「Seiryuu City」 and the 「Cradle」 have a very rich game style

Like it’s created by soames

——If this is the case

I opened thefor s

——I found it

On this floor, there is a soeous level here

Through the hidden door in the wall, I walked through a water tunnel-like corridor formed by vines

At the end, there is a 2- vine cocoon

I need to find the guy and he’s inside that cocoon

If I beat this guy, I can probably get a shortcut straight to the top floor

Since the designer likes classic ames, there is definitely a mechanism like this

With this kind of strong being as a Guardian, a novice player is unable to use the shortcut, but can coer and then use the shortcut to get deeper in the n is cliché

“Stop hiding and get the hell out here”

Reacting to lowing green light

I waited for the Guardian to appear

“Shut up —— I don’t have enough ht next time”

“Sorry, but I can’t wait”

“God damn it —— I need to report to Toya I won’t hold back”

Froirl at the age of 4 or 5, she’s dragging green hair that’s twice as long as she is along the floor

——Strong Being?

The AR display appear and shows that this is a level 21 「Dryad」, as for the exact age, there are too its Compared to Mia, the dryad is much older

The dryad showed a sleepy expression like she doesn’t see her eyes, she quickly looked at me

I don’t feel anything hostile, so I went and caught her

“Human?! Become mine!”

“Huh?”

I stupidly replied, due to the surprise from at her words

But why is there a question ?

“I’m sorry, if you want to propose, let’s wait fourteen of or fifteen years, okay?”

Why airls?

I want to be pursued by sexy big sister type beauties too

“I’ to eat”

“I only have jerky, is that okay?”

Allkept by Lisa

Once I get back to 「Seiryuu City」, I a to replenish all kinds of food and snacks

“I don’t want human food Give me Mana”

From the AR display , it looks like Dryad’s have 「Enchant」, 「Absorb ic」 and other powers

A permanent decrease in MP could be bad but when I said okay, she says “It will only hurt for a bit You’ll feel okay right away”

After asking ic, after a while it will be restored

Oh, so it’s like that huh I don’t use ic much anyway, so it doesn’t really matter

“Hey, I can’t?”

“It’s okay, what do I do?”

“Just like this”

The little girl puts her hand on my face

I thought she was going to absorb using her hands, but then she put her lips against ue inside my mouth and spun it like a fan

I coh her appearance is like a child, she is actually very old

After 10 or so minutes, I was finally released

“Woo, I am full”

The little girl smiles and puffs up her flat chest

—— Forget it Sigh, it’s like getting bitten by a s

“As thanks, I’ll help you open up the corridor! You want to use it, right?”

“Yes, thank you”

This is great, finding the shortcut throughI can’t be too sad about this

I lost about 300ish Mana, it’ll take a few minutes to recover so it doesn’tquite violently

I step into the corridor opened by the dryad

＞＞＞title received 「Dryad’s captive」

I didn’t et this title, I wish I could reject it

The inside is like a research lab

It says 「Torasayuya’s room」 on top of the entrance’s door

Ittime since this roo The floor isn’t stone but made ood resin

I think it’s made out of tree sap, like that linen wood floor

The room has a kitchen, bathroom, and a bedroom prepared inside I don’t kno many decades have passed, the books have terribly eroded, except for sorimoires The others will probably crumble if I touch it

I guess I’ll just put them in the inventory and read it from there

Moreover, I can just search for the the menu’s function

I know it is not the tiht a way to hinder that forced release skill, so I decided to start browsing the books

As you can guess from the facility’s name, the one who made the 「Cradle」 is actually called Torasayuya he is just like Mia, an elf, I think the “Toya” the dryad was talking about is the man in question

The books are all in 「Elf Tongue」, and without Mia’s 「Elf Tongue」ability, I can’t understand the books

The ink in the books is all over the place, so I can only roughly read it

Looks like this 「Cradle」 is made by Torasayuyaand it’s a “Safe area” to nurture elves, so he made it like a maze to protect them

The journal records his hardshi+p, it talks about his worries for his fellow elves

『—— Ee the elves are not keen on life This world is dead-end for us, surprisingly, we didn’t have to struggle as hard the other species A lot of young people sacrifice themselves in the maze, there is a function in the 「Cradle」 thatsituation』

Other than that, the core of the maze is also the core of the 「Cradle」, so it’s not like the ic from the land around to refill the core

During this tie

『—— and just like that, I finished changing the nurture roo the creatures inside』

Magic beings were normal creatures?

Of course, to this day the ed or deformed version of their counterpart

No, there were ic items, so this can’t be the only explanation

I stop brainstor away from the topic and will continue to think about it after this event

Torasayuyafacility, a productive facility used by giant s, and a servant doll production facility for the normal life style

Even though he received help from the nearby ratmen, the last couple facilities are abandoned before completion

According to the infor is the fruit and sap of the “Cradle's” o outside of the surrounding area to do any hunting

However after the 「Cradle」 was completed, it seems that no other elves visited the place

The last thing written in his Journal is:

『—— In these short hundred years, everyone still hasn’t forgotten aboutto an end I need to seal the「Cradle」, even though my brethren need it I believe that one day elves will return to the world —— Torasayuya Bornean』

His family name is Bornean, as in Mia and the shop keeper’s tribe?

I’m afraid this is the reason why Mia is needed here Anyways, does Zen know the way to unseal the「Cradle」without reading the journal?

In the end, I got a lot of intel, but I still haven’t found the way to turn off the forced release

I noticed a rough sketch that says “Explosion is a type of romance” But there is no moron that would add a self destruct button in a place pursuing safety and nurture

Seeher from this area, I decided to return to the Dryad’s location,

“Ah? You have returned?”

“Ya, I’m back”

I lay down on a bed e of the bed, and then lazily stretches out both arms

“So quick Perhaps you want to kiss again?”

“No, that’s not necessary Anyways, I want to go to another floor, is there a trap door or so like that here?”

The Dryad turned over with no trace of interest and nods at the corner of the room: “There”

Where she pointed to has a mushroom planted in a circle, it looks like a there’s a flower bed there

“Step on top of that ic circle”

I followed the Dryad’s instruction and stood in the center of the circle

“To which floor?”

“If you can, to the master of the 「Cradle」 please”

“That’s a no-no”

The dryad nodding her head nonstop is pissing hest floor available

“Okay, then let’s go to floor 100’s 「Guardian Rider’s Hall」, the Guardian there is strong so be careful”

“Yeah yeah, no problem”

After hearing my reply, she hunched her sht a lesson first before being good, huh” But she did what I asked anyway

“Then, let’s go ■■■ et, towards floor 100 「Guardian Rider’s Hall」

The Dryad said a spell and the ht and swirls into a tube of light

When the light disappears, I have arrived on floor 100

But, appearing in the ht?

In front of , as well as a round table on the side with three playful beauties piling up a pyra wooden blocks

Perhaps my sudden appearance was kinda scary, because the busty beauty toppled over the wooden block pyramid, with a stunned expression

Subconsciously I wanted to say “Sorry” with an expression of regret

In short, I coughed a couple times to cover up

“Just a moment —— how do I announce this?”

One of the beauties is speaking a strange language and pointed with her arreement

The excellent student with long straight hair has a calm vibe, but her speech pattern is completely destroyed, this is such a shame

Even though I want to leave theo down

With this kind of design, I’m afraid I have to defeat the opponent to advance to the next floor

When playing ga restricted by this require and open a path to the top

If I throw a te by 「Force Release」 it will do ly decide to wait patiently

All three of the Beauties are wearing aa short rapier The hilt of the sword looks like a rose, the texture is quite high class

They are also equipped with steel gauntlets and steel greaves, but why is there no chestpiece or helmet? Unless there is no need to protect the heart and the head?

There’s no reason for me to question it, two of the one

The AR display says that they are level 7 Golee Technique」, they also all have a skill called 「Magic Control」, and each of them have the title 「Zen’s Doll」

The strange thing is that, even though they all have short swords, only one person has the 「 One-Handed Sword」 skill, the second one has the 「Spear」 skill and the last one has the 「Polearm」skill

Their appearance looks like the one attending Mia in the master chamber

I’ic tocreate life

Since it’s still a type of hu, there will be several people with the same face The face alone, is it taken from Mia?

The giantactivated Itshas quite a lot nails in it, the model looks like it's from before the last war

Orin the front flashed her sword

She coughs cutely and says:

“It’s really impressive for you to come here Mr Adventurer”

Even if you are reading off a script, it shouldn’t sound so exaggerated

In this situation the beautiful one now

“But I am a merchant”

“A merchant?”

The beauties looked a bit afraid, and looked at each other

After staring at the and continue:

“——Adventurer! You caood time——Praises to you”

So I am forced to be an adventurer now, eh?

Even though their way of speaking is strange, it's still better than reading a script

“Given you are to battle with the guardian —— so announced After defeating the boss, you will have permission to continue —— so admitted The victor in the master’s treasures —— so assured”

Although it’s better than reading frorade school play

Not noticingto the script:

“Coiant Golem will not show any mercy”

After reading the long speech, the beauty looked at me with satisfaction That really pissed me off

The giant Gole towards me with mechanical noise at full force, too bad that the movement is slow and has a little bit of problem

“No 6, No 7, after strengthening body scatter to the left and right,attack in a Z-formation”

At first I thought translating the ancient tongue was enough, but the beauties are now speaking lish

Since Torasayuya has given up on starting a Goleht by Arisa and Zen

The beauties that spread out into three directions,their foreheads start glowing Looking lowing then Body」 Could this be 「Manage Technique」?

Having said that, it looks like there’s not er than a nor

I paid full attention on their location

—— Not wearing a bra huh? That’s outrageous

I have no choice but to be attracted It’s full of bounciness

Maybe it’s punish such shaot close and pulls back his fist

At this kind of distance you should roll towards the enee, but I decided not to do that

I use 「Raise Strength」 and shot through a syun

On the Magic giant’s forehead there are English letters spelling “EMETH”, because I destroyed an “E” the word became “METH”

It ht actually be three Hebrew letters, but this does not see Yup, it’s our world’s trivia