144 Episode 144: Arrive! Land of Corrosion (1/2)

◆ Liliera ◆

We were on our way to the land of corrosion to collect the ingredients for Princess Idra's golem making.

Because everyone can use flying magic, they decided to fly away without spending a slow carriage just to pay for it.

By the way, at the beginning, I was supposed to fly to set the overall pace.

It's too fast for Mr. Rex, and Gyro, it's too shabby for you to be out of magic on the way.

Mina also handles magic better than we do, so I, the warrior, decided to allocate the pace.

Also, I'm the one who checked the road to my destination.

”The land of corrosion is about two weeks south of the king's capital by carriage, half if it's flying magic, etc.”

”Heh, you know a lot about Liliera.”

And Gyro, although I say it like you were impressed, as a senior, I need to say a little bit.

”At the Adventurer Guild reception, if you apply to use the library, it's easy to gather this amount of information, right?

Yes, an adventurer with one of his own weapons should not lack intelligence either.

Although it is not uncommon for a party to have a professional colleague who specializes in gathering information, his party informant is not here today.

And we and Gyro are naturally prepared as adventurers to gather information independently for another party, when something happens.

You haven't had enough experience around there.

”Yes, no... because I don't like reading books”

”Megri got out of the party, so it's up to you, the leader, to gather information. It's not like you can't read or write, right?

”Ooh! You can read letters properly!

”We taught the neighborhood right. If you're going to be a leader, you'll have to read and write at least.”

Mina's words are correct.

For adventurers with a lot of rogues and stickouts, it's Zara who can't read or write.

And you do have clients who trick unreadable adventurers, don't you?

There are actually few things like making people write unfair contracts for reasons or the information to be crusaded differs verbally from the request.

Of course, a client who repeats that will not be able to place a request on the Alliance's blacklist.

”I don't know what's going to happen at the first sight. From now on, do your own research. This is my advice as a senior adventurer.”

”Wow, I get it...”

”Okay, Mr. Liliera!

And, for some reason, Mr. Rex replied well.

”... Mr. Rex, well... I don't think you need to be too careful.”

”Huh? Why is that? I'm in sync with you, Gyro, and you're Mr. Liliera's junior, right?

No, well, it is...

In Mr. Rex's case, he's going to solve any unexpected problems with all his might...

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”Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Day 5 morning.

As we proceeded to pick up the inn in the towns and villages we stopped on our way, we noticed that we could see a purple-dyed earth from across the horizon.

”That was surprisingly quick. I knew if it was flying magic, we'd ignore the obstacle and move on.”

”But it's too early for that. It's only day five, isn't it?

You're worried about boulders two days ahead of schedule.

”Why don't we just go too fast? They flew in here, didn't they?

”Um, but I flew by choosing a route that I could always check the streets to make sure I didn't go to the wrong destination. That's not why it's the shortest distance, is it? Even though it's a week early in the first place, 5 days is too early for boulders...”

”But you actually got there. Well, that's good, then, right?

”Hmmm......”

Alliance info suggests we're still ahead of us...

”But that poisonous color isn't normal land. Isn't that the land of example corrosion?

Mina's right, it sure doesn't look like a normal place...

”Then let's just go! Let's collect Golem ingredients! Then he won't have to do Shadow Man either!

”Huh!?”

Oh, yeah. That's more important to this kid, isn't it?

”Okay. I can't help but get there early.”

”Hehe, that's the thing! Let's go, then!

”Wait a minute!

”Wow!?”

Gyro, it took a stop from Mr. Rex when you tried to jump out towards the land of corrosion.

”What is it all of a sudden, brother!?”

”I'm sorry, Mr. Gyro. But we all need to get into the land of corrosion before we equip ourselves with this.”

”” ”Gear?

That being said, what Mr. Rex has been offering was three necklaces.

”What's this, Mr. Rex?

Although I don't think it's just a necklace because it was prepared by Mr. Rex...

”This is a poisonous necklace. Equipped with this, you can disable all weak poisons.”

”” ”Venom Decoration!?” ”

What!? What's that!? Poison it out!?

”It's the same thing I gave Mr. Lune in Dragonia.”

Uh, speaking of which, I don't think I was giving you that stuff...

I only thought about resigning Princess Ryu's seat then...

”Well, but it's not such a powerful piece of equipment, so if you think of it as a junior all-purpose poisoner who doesn't drink it,”

”” 'Cause that's not' about '!? ””

Even the lower all-purpose poison removal potion was awesome enough, but now it's weird at the point of pumping out magic items with the same effect!?

I mean, if you had this, you wouldn't need the inferior universal poisoning itself!?

”When the hell did you get something like this...”

”I prepared it for you the night I decided to go to the land of corrosion.”

”” I made magic items in the mood for lunch!? ”

... No, I knew Mr. Rex was outrageous, but I knew it was too broad of what I could do...

Ning Ro, what can't this man do?

”How do you make disinfectant magic items... how did you incorporate the surgical formula into such a small necklace!?”

Uh, Mina's depressed.

”Oops! I can't believe you can even make something like this. You're my brother! I knew your brother was awesome!

I'm not a wizard, Gyro. You're innocently happy, but you're shaking and swinging. Sole, maybe worth about 3,000 gold coins, huh? Yeah, maybe more than that...

”Hey, I don't care, let's just go!

With that in mind, Gyro hastened us like you couldn't wait.

”Uh, I'm sorry. Shall we go then?”

”Yes!”

”Right. I arrived early. We need to collect a lot of material!

When we put a poisonous magic item around our necks, we descend into the land of corrosion.

Ha, when this happens, I'll have to accept that you've already got a handy item for me.

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”It's even creepier when you look close.”

Coming down to near the ground, I saw a detailed sight of the earth of corrosion.

The land of corrosion, though its name is the earth, was actually swamped.

It's also a purple, obviously poisonous swamp.

The surface of the swamp is bubbly enough to make a sound.

”Something stinks.”

Gyro, you're right, the air on the corrosive earth was full of indescribable odors.

”... here, you have all the poisonous air gushing out of the swamp.”

”Poison air!?”

”Yeah, maybe just breathing this air is bad for you. Well, it looks like a weak poison, so this poisonous necklace alone seems to be working it out.”

”... I'm so glad you got your magic items ready.”

”” Strongly Agree ””

If we were bad at this, we wouldn't be dead unconscious.

”The corrosive earth couldn't stay long, but the poisonous air caused it.”

This could be a more dangerous place than I expected.

That's a dangerous area where only the powerful are allowed to enter...

”Danger!”