Armed Summoners - Black Spears and the Brave Men of the Other World

Setuna and the others, returning to the fact-finding team camp on the ground, rested for the night.

Most of all, for Setsuna to go to sleep, she had to go through a contest next to Setsuna by Miliu, Rem and Urk, and fell asleep feeling sympathetic to Sheila, who just didn't participate.

The next morning, Setuna and the others dived into the ruins again as escorts for the investigation team, and when they reached the crossroads, they proceeded along the aisle on the right as planned. The long entrance corridors were numerous divides, and each branch explored among labyrinthine ruins in consultation.

When the pocket watch needle points to noon, lunch is taken inside the ruins and the investigation is resumed. In the evening, it was decided to install a relay point in a space just the right size. Because the ruins turned out to be as vast as they could have imagined.

"You're not going to be able to break through every corner, at least in one day."

"I have a bad feeling about this."

"Hmm?"

"I'm guessing you're not gonna be able to get back on the ground until the investigation's done, are you?

"No way."

It was like Jean-Jackwar didn't have to smile back at Miliu's bitter expression.

"This will not be the only time the investigation ends. The vastness of this site is far beyond imagination. If we're going to do a full investigation, we're going to organize a bigger investigation mission."

"I mean, do you feel like doing a little research on this one?"

"It will."

"I wish I knew something from that little research."

Miliu put his jaw on Setuna's shoulder and groaned. I guess I'm tired. I kept walking all day. Though I could have stopped my legs every time I went into a small room or a large space and had some rest.

"There's only one thing for sure."

"Hmm?"

"There's something about this ruin."

Will-Weed's deepening conviction has to do with Setuna's sudden unconsciousness. He saw the phenomenon the Setunas encountered in the narrow space between dreams and present as a defensive function of this ruin. I mean, I trusted Setuna and the others. In the ruins of the "buried civilization", there was the historical fact that various strange phenomena had occurred, and he thought that the experience of Setuna and the others was also a kind of strange phenomenon.

I don't know why the defense function only attacked the Setunas, but it was also clear from the fact that the five of them had the same dream that it wasn't just a dream.

Will-Weed and other investigative teams seemed to be telling themselves that by believing in the Setuna and their stories, the investigation of this site was not pointless.

In fact, I don't know if it makes sense.

In the first place, they haven't quite figured out what “buried civilization” was essentially like yet. Letters are often inscribed on the ruins of “buried civilization” by the language used by that civilizer in those days. However, those letters differ from the common language currently used on the continent and from the ancient language used by armed summoners for spells, and although they have been found somewhat, they have not been fully elucidated.

There was no doubt that something called “buried civilization” existed. A group of ruins exhumed from the ground across the continent proves it. However, the story of the existence of such civilizations has not been passed down to the people who live on this continent from hundreds of years ago to the present, leaving them without even knowing why those civilizations were buried in the ground.

On top of civilizations buried in the earth, the present continental history is built.

It is a civilization far older than the history of the continent, dating from five hundred years ago to the unification and division of the continent, and it goes without saying that it is a site of it.

With such a story, Setuna and the others spent the night at the relay point.

The next morning, although the investigation of the site went further, there was no encounter with the Imperial Devil, or interrupted by the site's defensive function, which was just to keep walking. Miliu and others were tired of walking and wanted to go home. It's not like Miliu doesn't have the strength. Her strength, endurance, is arguably the highest of the investigative team's personnel. The flesh, forged up as an armed summoner, does not lie.

But she had a flaw,

Against the lack of interest, the focus doesn't last.

"If it's about Setsuna, I'm motivated."

"Because."

"What do you want?"

Setuna wanted to hold her head in Sheila's frightened words.

Later in the third day, Setsuna began to travel around Miliu, but that was never a bad thing either. Because it will be a workout to build strength.

"I'm happy and Setuna can train. Not the best, this?

"You're not the best."

Lem forgives Sheila for her puffiness and crushing, and Urk was impressed to see both of them in a distance.

In that way, the first site survey closed because we could see the end of the aisle the survey team was exploring.

"This is the end of the line."

It wasn't long before the lead lem, looking back on this one, pinched the break and reopened the investigation this afternoon. Rem was in the lead because Setuna was to travel with Miliu on her back, and also because her “Reaper” symbol had the right ability to grasp the terrain.

"The end?"

"What, are you turning back? That long road?

He was obviously a disgusting voice, Miliu, but that felt the same way about Setsuna. Turning back down the road with Miliu all over is hard even with just Setuna. Already plugged into the evening. When you get back on the road, do you have to spend about two days in the ruins before you reach the entrance and exit? Thinking about it makes me feel dark.

"You don't have a choice. It's the end of the line."

"Well, yeah... but well, come on"

"Hmm?"

"I can enjoy Setuna."

"... tart"

To Miliu, who cheeked happily from behind him, Setsuna could not be dismayed. Then Urk pinched his mouth to see how Setuna looked like that.

"Miliu. Seems that Setuna is tired, so when she turns back, I will take her place."

"Huh!?

"Yes, that's good. That's right, Urk."

Sheila smiled briskly as she struck and changed.

No, of course not.

"What's natural! I want Setsuna!

"Even if Miliu is good, Setsuna is not good."

"Even Setsuna says she's happy to carry me!

"When did it happen, man!

(Really)

Nevertheless, it was also true that it was never unfortunate or anything else. Miliu is taller and not lighter than Setuna, but her body temperature, which she feels with its weight, can also carry some kind of happiness in Setuna. Most of all, I'm not in the kind of situation where I can be immersed in that happiness, and if I think about it, I'm heartless because I've decided to be chilled by Rem. Also, the fact that Miliu seems happy in itself makes him happy for Setsuna. As a result, Sheila's chest aches from giving her a disgruntled look, but she'll have her demands too. You can make it as good as you can.

"I'm sorry I'm in the middle of a crazy fight."

"Where's the bickering?"

"It's true."

"I said it was the end of the line, but apparently there was a staircase leading upwards."

"Stairs?"

"I mean, you can get out of this earlier?

"Come on? How far does it go?"

"Would you like to go, Mr. Will?

"Yeah, yeah, sure."

Will's reaction was subtle, possibly because he was frightened by the verbal fights between Miliu and Sheila.

When we reached the end of the aisle, still led by Rem, there was certainly a staircase leading up there. The end of the line was a cylindrical space, where the stairs seemed to spiral along its walls and stretch overhead. The ruins buried underground are enclosed in complete darkness without the light of the Demonic Crystal lamp. The space of this spiral staircase is the same, meaning that the staircase continues to a height where the light of the Demonic Crystal lamp cannot be reached.

"It's expensive..."

Setsuna didn't miss hearing Miliu say it like some other HR while looking overhead.

"We're not gonna make it to the stairs."

"Yep."

"Not eh. What do you want me to do?"

"You can cover for me then."

That's what I'm gonna do.

"Will you shelter me?

"What's so obvious?"

Setuna shook her head for Christ's sake. Protecting them was a very natural way of thinking as a setuna. Regardless, Miliu is not the only one. Lem, Sheila and even Urk were subjects to be protected for Setuna. Urk would say it's unnecessary, and that's how Rem decides. In fact, the two will not need to be protected by Setuna or anything else. But in Setuna, that's what I think.

Setuna has power.

That's how powerful it is in this hand that you can't compare to them. It's not my own. The power of borrowing. But it is Setuna herself who uses the power of that borrowing, and as far as she can control it, it would be indisputable to call it her own. That power is not just for defeating the enemy. At least, Setuna thought so, and as a matter of practice, she wants to protect one of the people around her.

Most importantly, sheltering Miliu if he falls down the stairs has nothing to do with the power of the black spear, it's a story of readiness.

As Miliu accidentally jumped off Setuna's back, he snapped as he looked up at the stairs that ran far beyond the darkness.

"Naturally...... ah"

I couldn't see well in the darkness of the ruins, but she seemed somewhere, happy.

Waiting at the end of the spiral staircase was a narrow passage. I'm glad to say that a passage narrow enough for one person to pass is completely different from the previous construction of this ruin. What the Setunas have seen so far is the kind of place that was and may have been created to suit giants like Griff, and the investigation team was also speculating and concluding that this ruin might be a remnant of the civilization of the Giants. Both gates and passageways were of a non-standard size, and it was unlikely that the present existence of mankind and the earth would have created the ruins.

However, the passageway awaited before climbing the spiral staircase may be referred to as a passageway for humans, and the findings of the investigation mission were to be overturned.

And as we proceeded through that passage for man, the walls were broken along the way and the passage was hampered by the soil and sand that flowed in.

"Unfortunately, that seems to be it"

"Oh. Looks like it."

When I nodded to Rem's words, there was something creeping up on Setuna's back. There can't be anyone else but Miliu.

"What do you mean?

"Beyond this dust, it's completely buried in the dust."

"Are you saying there's no point in getting rid of the dirt sand?

"That sort of thing"

Even if the dirt and sand in front of him were removed by the power of a black spear, even if the ruins ahead were crushed by dirt and rocks, there is no way to investigate. Regardless, the investigation while further removing them is probably called a site survey, but in the first survey it was not meant to be that far. First of all, it is the purpose of this investigation to find out what size the site is.

"But I've only found one thing."

"What?

"The bleak that was nesting in this ruin was apparently coming and going in this dirt sand"

"Really?

To Rem's unexpected words, Setuna looked back at her. She stares carefully at the dust and sand along with the Reaper. That chilling look was what she deserved as a reaper.

"Yes, the smell of the bleak that was in the nest remains slightly"

"Do you know that much?"

"I mean, you can remember very well"

"Because the smell of the Imperial Devil is unique."

"Is that the problem?

"Yes."

As Rem smiled, Sheila clasped her shoulders.

"... means..."

"So you can get out of here on the ground, right?

"You will be."

Nod to Will's question and put your gaze back on the dirt sand.

It is unclear what easily broke through the walls of the ruins that seemed sturdy, but to see the great ruins of destruction, something seemed to clash and destroy the walls without a doubt. Were the walls broken after the ruins were buried in the earth, or buried in the ground with the walls broken? Based on the amount of dirt and sand that slipped into the aisle, it seems likely the latter, but I'm not sure about Setuna.

Anyway, the investigation team decided to remove the dirt and sand, and the removal work started with Setuna and the others as the main focus.

Although the ruins existed deep underground, they had also climbed long spiral stairs, and everyone had just imagined that they would be reaching a point close to the ground. I also have Rem's testimony. The speculation that the removal of dirt and sand must lead somewhere on earth was mid way, and Setuna and the others were greeted by a starry sky full of heaven at the end of the road that the Reapers had dug on.

It was night.

Above his head lay the dark sky, where numerous stars peered into his face and glowed with the moon. Although the wind is mild, it's just a little chilly. It would be because of the temperature difference from the inside of the ruins. Inside the ruins, although it was never warm, it was not even cold.

"Where should we be…?

"Is that the Fourth Wall of the King's Capital?"

In the direction Sheila pointed, there was indeed a king's capital. It is clear to the eyes of Setuna and the others that it is Gandion, the king's capital. When I leave Wang capital, when I return to Wang capital, I have seen it more than once. I can't forget.

It is the middle of the night and there is no other city that can be seen in the distance than thanks to the subpoena armies.

That's the East Gate.

"East Gate......"

"That means we've walked from the ambassador's forest underground ruins to the vicinity of the king's capital."

Will-Weed was feeling a little shabby, probably because he understood the immensity of the ruins and was excited.

"That makes you tired, doesn't it? Fuck you, already."

"I'm more tired."

"Oh, sorry, I'll heal you plenty. Ah."

Hugged hard by Miliu, Setsuna jumps into her chest, although she almost sprinkles but manages to stop. Miliu's busty breasts are always soft, but not if he is indulgent. Just admit the signs that Sheila is staring at us half-eyed.

"Whatever that is."

"Whatever!

"I mean, what happened?

Sheila watched the Will-Weed as she silenced Miliu's angry reaction.

"Which means that the underground ruins are of an incredible size."

"I know that... but how big is it?

"It's not big enough to swallow the Wang du Gandion whole enough...... it might be"

"... that's kind of unrealistic."

"Even so, in fact, it's true that it was vast."

I don't deny it.

Sheila sat on the spot. Knock gently on the ground and continue.

"But it's the king's capital, isn't it?

"I know what Sheila's trying to say. Gandhion, it's huge."

"I can't believe there's a bigger ruin sleeping underground than that."

"Sure."

Setuna had no other nod to Sheila's words as she fell asleep in the meadow as she bounced her chest.

"What I've seen, it's just a passage"

Although we came across long long passages and small rooms, occasionally large spaces, it was very unlikely that there would be ruins more than Wang Du with all that stuff. Most importantly, given the distance traveled, it's not surprising that there was as much.

"If the investigation goes ahead, the full story will be revealed, but the investigation won't be over soon either"

"This may not be our Intelligence Department job anymore."

"Oh. It's definitely going to be a business to work on across the country"

Will-Weed crushed with certainty as he looked at the opening of the ruins.

In fact, the underground site excavation project will be tackled by the Gandhian government-led former, citing the country as a major task.

Setuna and the others continued to gaze at the starry sky stretching overhead, not knowing that would happen.