153 Episode 153: The Temple of Sealing (1/2)

It's an old building.

As you approach a building built on a hill, you can clearly see its details.

”This isn't a building where people live.”

Either that or it looks like a temple to perform some sort of ritual.

That building is a lot degraded and doesn't look strange whenever it collapses.

Maybe the venom of the corrosive earth is speeding up the deterioration of building materials.

”Let's go inside”

”Yes.”

It was then that I approached the building.

”Hmm?”

I felt a certain discomfort on my skin.

”This is...”

”What's the matter, Mr. Rex?

I see how I am. Mr. Liliera asks me if something is wrong.

”No, anything...”

Yeah, it sucks when they notice, and now it sounds like you should still keep it out of your mouth.

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It was simple in the building.

Because there was no such thing as furniture in there, and there was just one big, worn out altar.

”What the hell is that?

Mr. Liliera also seems to be concerned about the openly seated altar, with his neck tilted.

On the altar stands a large disc with intricate letters.

Would it make sense if I told you that it felt like I had enlarged a painting plate of ornaments with support for exhibitions on the back?

”Hmm, looks like this is some kind of seal”

”What!? I just saw it!?”

”Yeah, look at that. the text inscribed on this altar.”

”Huh? Was this a letter!? Not a pattern!?”

They told me they didn't notice the inscriptions on the altar, and I was a little surprised.

Liliera should be able to read the letters on the Adventurer Alliance request board...

”Maybe this is the ancient letter he is? I've never seen it before...”

Oh, well! This letter is from my time, so if you look at it from Mr. Liliera, it's ancient!

Dangerous. Dangerous, I was accidental.

”Uh... Mr. Liliera never had a chance to touch the ancient letters in his previous adventures?

”I'm afraid you didn't. I worked in the vicinity of the Warcraft Forest to cure everyone's illness in my hometown, so I never explored the ruins. If I insist, maybe when I met the astronauts and the underground ruins in the mine that I participated in as Mr. Rex's support. Well, neither of us had a chance to touch the ruins themselves.”

Speaking of which, yeah.

When I was in Gotagota with the Sky Man, I spent more time on Morijima and the West Village than on Sky Castle, which is a relic.

Even the underground ruins in the mine weren't in the ruins' library because Liliera and the others were turning to the campsite escort.

”Then why don't we go on an adventure to some ancient ruins next time?

”Pfft.”

And suddenly Mr. Liliera laughed out, so I'm confused.

”Li, Mr. Liliera?

”Oh, I'm sorry. But even though it's a dangerous ancient ruin, it's like inviting me on a date.”

”De, dating ⁉ Oh, no, I didn't mean to...”

”I know. Mr. Rex doesn't mean that. But it's really easy to say.”

I'm surprised. I didn't think they'd treat ancient site exploration like a date.

”Hehe, that sounds like an interesting dungeon exploration or something.”

Dungeon exploration. It's a place I wasn't very close to in my previous life.

Essentially, the hero's job was to crusade demons, so places without demons have become remote from nature, haven't they?

”Still, this seal is a bit of a hassle.”

”Trouble... could it be caused by this?

Mr. Liliera points to a diagonal wound that is engraved large on a disc with a surgical ceremony sitting on top of the altar.

”Yeah, this is obviously a wound that was put on later. This wound seems to have weakened the seal and accelerated erosion of the earth of corrosion. That's also the reason why the concentration of poison in the center is only abnormally high. And in the aftermath, the seal itself is deteriorating rapidly.”

I don't know who it is, but you've done me a lot of trouble.

The people in the surrounding villages are annoying.

”Isn't that bad?

”That's not good. If it stays like this, the seal will be completely broken and the guy sealed inside will be released.”

Even so, I could have largely predicted what was sealed by previous events.

I'm just wondering why you bothered to take such a cumbersome means of sealing it.

I was wondering if you took the means to seal it with the wax to use it for something?