Boundary Labyrinth and the Foreign Magician

Corliss cracks his nose and feels some magic, he tells me. Magic. Magic. I can see a few small magic reactions when I look at them with a single lens. Demonic props, the light of.

The life response is... invisible from above the ice.

"What do you want to do?

Ashley asks.

"Mmm. Except for the ice, which is an obstacle to exploration... I wonder if we should still leave the ship's posture intact. Because if you straighten the ship poorly even though you don't know what's going on inside, something could collapse and something that isn't broken yet"

"Then... should we do a little perimeter research before we think about the steps?

says Illumhilt with a few ideas.

Right. So it's a little pre-investigation and operational meeting.

First, we'll find out what's happening behind the ice-covered bow. Hit the magic sonar with Ashley to see the echo.

"This one is... ice pickled, but the ice has to go inside. Right."

Ashley says face-to-face from across the ship.

"This one probably does, too. I knew...... they came running down the ocean without sinking and adrift the coastline. It got icy... I think this is how the hull tilted. Remove the ice on the deck and we'll get it inside the ship."

Exploration with the ship obliqued makes it a little harder to do, but there will be some revulsions and no problems.

The lower side of the hull is frozen, so even if you retreat from the ice on the deck, the ship will fall. As a precaution, is it good to increase the strength of the ice in the part of the ship that supports it?

"Now remove it from this side of the ice"

"Oh. Then the ice on the underside of the ship will increase its strength and keep it from falling."

Ashley widens the magic circle as she moves to the deck side. The ice that was filling the upper deck is removed so that it changes from the bow section to water and splits left and right. The bow and mast show up step by step.

On the other hand, I also use the magic of structural strengthening on the ice at the bottom of the hull to secure the ship itself. If you replace the bright white ice with transparent and intense ice from perimeter to perimeter, you can see the ship's appearance gradually.

Eventually, along with the ship's overall view, the entrance to the ship's interior on the deck was also exposed from under the ice. The mast is broken and the sails are worn out. Some holes in the hull can also be seen to be holed or damaged... but nothing from the outside seems deadly enough to lead to flooding or overturning, don't look like it.

"Thank you, Ashley"

"No, it's cheap"

Smile and Ashley smiles.

"I wonder where the ship is. It would have been nice to fly the flag..."

"Oh, and if you look where the sails are worn out, there won't be any flags left."

When Stephania frowns at her root, Claudia closes her eyes and shakes her blink.

"The name of the ship... is being cut off.... I wonder what this ship is."

Rosemary frowned like she saw something frigid.

If you turn your gaze to that word, it caught your eye that the part where the ship's name is usually engraved is intentionally shredded.

"Due to some circumstance, did you want to hide the ship's books?

"That's possible. For example, a ship in the Kingdom of Groufonica would customarily name a distinguished person from the Kingdom."

Rosemary nods as Sheila tilts her neck and asks.

The Kingdom of Groufonica is a maritime state next to the western neighborhood of the Kingdom of Verdogal, as well as the country of origin of Rosemary's mother. Rosemary is distant from Glowfonica, but only in her mother's country of origin and seems to have proper knowledge.

"If I know the name of the ship, I'll keep a record of it, so do you know where it came from?"

"But... somehow, it's not an atmosphere of military ships or pirate ships."

Says Grace, who was looking at the ship with a shiver.

"Right, right. It's well made, but it doesn't look like an adventure."

There is a part of me that seems to have originally had a spectacular atmosphere if I hadn't worn it out this way.

"If that's the case... you don't know why to sharpen the name of the ship. The thief caught you, or what?

That's what Forceto says and tilts his neck. Sure, but I don't think it's starting to smell like a kina subtly.

... Can't you see anything more from the outside? I can't help it this way, and let's move on to exploring the inside.

Unseal Grace's curse and then move on to exploring the inside.

... because the cold outside air of Antarctica was entering because the exterior was damaged, or the interior was full of chilling air. Though the hole is already blocked by snow and ice.

At least it's not the kind of air that makes people feel signs they've been active lately, huh?

The aisle is spacious enough to allow just enough space for a certain number of people to move. It doesn't seem to be a problem for me to travel with levitation and shielding. The interior is… degraded over time, but it can be seen that it is originally a splendid atmosphere.

"Lighting magic props? Pretty luxurious, big boat."

"Mm-hmm. Some magic creatures, some danger of a trap remaining?

"Right. I also saw some magic reactions from the outside, and I can't deny it around there. Let's be vigilant, including the possibility that sailors are undead and demons lurking"

When Sheila's words are concurred with, everyone snorts and becomes more alert.

When you give instructions to Wiz, a frame of light appears at the edge of your vision. It shows our coordinates at the light point, forms a frame of internal structure from the surrounding passageway, and displays perimeter information in real time, which is automatic mapping by augmented reality.

It is free and convenient to zoom in and out and hide it to such an extent that it is not in the way of an overlooking perspective or consciousness.

"For now, from the captain's office and the VIP room, I guess. I might be able to find some clues about the voyage logs, the ship's schematics."

Both the Captain's Office and the VIP Room are usually located on the upper level of the ship. Not to mention this ship. It was right in through the deck, so I didn't hesitate to head there.

The door wasn't locked, there was no such thing as a trap, and I was able to enter the captain's office lightly.

Inside the captain's office - the ship was diagonal, so it was in such a state that various supplies were smashed on the wall with the desk slab on the underside. We float them in a levitation and we all look for them as we sort them out to see if they have anything in them.

Are there any items related to the search or that must be brought back to the surviving family? Anything that seems irrelevant is in the corner of the room, so we sort it out and load it up gently.

"There it is. Ship View"

And Sheila took the paper and said:

"Oh. boulder"

"Leave it to me."

Sheila put her chest up in my words. Mallane smiles and applauds.

Such an exchange made the atmosphere a little soothing, but Sheila said that she would make her expression serious.

"But weird. I don't have any personal belongings that have been used. I can also assume that the ship has just been able to do it and the ship moved in the absence of the captain... maybe someone handled it around so that I couldn't get my feet off my personal belongings, just like I shredded the ship's name... If it's the same trend in other rooms, maybe that confirms it?

"... there was something I didn't want to be out of touch with, is that what you mean?

Grace clouds her expression.

"Mmm. Based on what I know… could it be an external raid, internal break-up, or illness, distress, or abandonment of the ship itself? Anyway, the ship got out of control and drifted here. Somewhere in there, someone's more likely to have destroyed the evidence."

I don't know if it was the crew or the attacking thief who did it, but when the ship was found for any reason, it could have gone around hiding evidence that would lead to identification so that it wouldn't have legs on it.

Did you sort it out and leave the equipment you touched… to make it hard to understand what was important? It is also believed that there was time to carefully destroy the evidence.

Then...... there will definitely be no sailing logs or anything else left. Anyway...... I don't have enough information.

However, the ship's schematics were… not important.

I found a corner, and let me make the most of it for exploration.

Thank you. It doesn't seem like a simple shipwreck, and we just have to look inside the ship from one end as much as possible. I don't know if there might be any overlooks with the evidence.