Leah, who jumps over the rubble and runs alongside me, looks around and asks.
"Dear Marie-san, is this passage...?!
"It's a hidden passage. Looks like Dalkan's ahead."
"I see... If you're sure you can't keep up with Dalkan no matter how long you run, you should have thought about the possibility of a hidden passage... If you notice that and turn it back, or find a hidden passage right away, that's Marie!
Leah glanced at her eyes as impressed. I feel good about myself, but this is Nicolas's thing, so it's really uncomfortable.
"Ahahaha...."
I turned my face away from Leah, who looked at me with respect, laughing in love, and decided to run down the aisle. Let's run straight ahead before Leah loses his temper.
After a while, I saw the entrance to the room at the end of the aisle. We pause near the entrance and carefully step inside.
The place was unusually large and high ceilings, if underground. Nearby, there are large wooden and mortal statues that mimic the human body, and inside the pot placed by the wall, you can see a lot of canes standing up to be packed.
I've seen similar places in Surtoria. It's Tori's magic field. It is probably used for similar purposes here.
Dalkan was originally the owner of the magic equipment store. Perhaps this underground magic equipment laboratory was built a long time ago, and the dungeon where Kati was being held was built in the last few years. To the extent that it seems so, this hall is old and in use.
As I was looking around, I could hear dota dota dota and footsteps. Turning to the opposite side of the sound hall, I saw Dalkan walking in a constant breath as he swayed his body from the aisle.
Dalkan stops when he finds out about us and wipes his sweat off the back of his hand.
"Ghii, bufu, buhaa ~... Well, it looks like we found a hidden passage and chased it... but unfortunately, we didn't make it?
I'm a wet toad with sweat all over my body, but I still think I can afford that face. I wonder if that spare factor lies behind Dalkan. It was less visible in the dark passage, but it had a more overwhelming presence than Dalkan.
"It's still a young bird, but its combat power is quite good. Ufufufufu...."
As we were introduced, Dalkan slipped his body to the side, and the silhouette behind him was revealed in the hall lighting.
Is the torso about the size of a large dog? Sharp beaks and silver wings were the monsters of the birds. The strange bird who folded the silver wings turned his beak towards us as he asked.
"Mudball"
I immediately shot a mudball at Dalkan. Nicolas said, "Weird to be with you," which means that weird bird. Better defeat the owner quickly than enter a combat position.
Barringe!
However, when Mia attacked Dalkan, the sound she heard sounded in the hall, and the mudball bounced. Though I thought so, they probably have a lot of talismans on their fat bodies.
"Ufufu, that doesn't work for me. Here, look at this... this massive amount of talismans I made with my money!
Dalkan opened the front of his jacket with a big belly, and there was something different in shape from the silver eagle's talisman I had, but it looked like a talisman, wrapped around it several times as if it were a belly wrap. Dalkan proudly raised his thin eyebrows...
"Mudball"
Barringe!
"Buho!?
"Mudball"
Barringe!
"Bfufu, I don't think it's a lot of magic as a child...."
"Mudball"
Barringe!
"Mm, you're saying it's useless!
Mudball Mudball Mudball
Barrier, barrier!
No, no, the talisman will be gone someday, and it's not a waste, is it? It's starting to feel a little better with the sound of valimbalin, and I wonder if there's still enough stress? Why am I so upset? [M]
Dalkan cries out with his face bright red as I constantly punch dirt balls.
Yeah! I hate children who can't read air because of this! Fernil! "
"Kluuuuuuu!"
A silver-wing strange bird called Fernyl flew forward to swap with Dalkan, spreading his wings and raising his armpit. As if I had reacted to that voice, my mud balls would pop right in front of the weird bird.
"Oh dear, I wasted an expensive talisman. This is going to hurt a little bit, and I'm going to have to educate you... fufu"
Darkan laughs lewdly behind Fernyl. Even so, the current phenomenon... Leah whispered as I stopped to see how Fernyl was doing.
"Dear Marie-san, that silver eagle... Fernil has been enshrined by my Count Waltrail family for generations as a guardian bird. Its sacred cry and beautiful silver feathers have the power to protect itself from danger."
"Eh, that eagle is the guardian bird? That means maybe...."
"Yes, Fernil's feathers also serve as a medium for the silver eagle's protective talismans that I and Marie have."
Leah distorts her face like she sees something painful and throws a gaze at Fernyl.
"Dalkan is right, he still looks like a young bird. They must have stolen it from Fernil's nest, pulled it away from its parent bird, and forced it to listen with magic equipment. Besides, how pathetic it is to have so many feathers ripped off..."
Fernyl's feathers, which spread their wings to intimidate Rear's gaze, seemed to have fallen off somehow like a worn-out comb. It must have been forcibly harvested as a material for a protective talisman.
Dalkan smiles happily when you see that I stopped him.
"Ufufufu, that's exactly what I should've done from the beginning... However, education has not yet begun. Come on, Fernil, hurt that little girl!
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
When Dalkan waved his hand forward with the order, Fernil slammed his sharp eyes at me and soared to the high ceiling.