Golden Experience

Episode 186: Crustal Fluctuations

"I'm talking about Bran... I think it's around here somewhere."

Originally, this period leading up to the start of the event should have been very busy setting up moxibustion in the Portley Kingdom.

Initially, I was reluctant to crush myself because it was like I had been beaten suddenly, even though I had done nothing.

But if you open the lid, what the target attacked was a retaliatory action against a burglar's raid. It's just a proposition because the other person is different in itself, but the other person is Lyla, Rae's sister.

Rare herself hesitated to attack because she was alert to enemy artifacts, but also because the awareness of those who were annoyed by Lyla somehow worked and the intention to kill was cut off.

When I was suddenly sparing some free time, I heard that there was a demon who would be Newt in a friend chat from Bran.

Then I took this opportunity to go away for a dragon, and I flew with Sugar. Literally.

Ah, that river.

I noticed a river flowing under my eyes around the distance where I began to see the shadows of the city in The Devil's Eye. The river is quite wide, for example, so much so that it is not possible for human-shaped organisms to cross the river alone.

The river is surrounded by grass and trees, but there are only a few grass trees around the road a little far away, and rock beds are exposed.

Blanc said it was a wilderness place, but you could call it a mild desert climate. When I say desert, I tend to imagine the land of sand, but I've actually heard stories about more rock. Riverside is also the only green area around here.

It seems to have been used to grow some kind of fruit tree or barley, but now dark charcoal is spreading. It doesn't seem like an environment where you do yakitori farming, but I'm not sure what NPC thinks sometimes.

There's something in the river.

"Sounds like it. Looks like a monster with no big deal from the brilliance of LP or MP, but is that Newt?

During the day, Rare hides his whole body with wings.

"Devil's Eye" and "True Eye" can be set to exclude themselves, and the outside of the wing can be checked without any problems because activation is centered on them. It is a magical skill that does not use the eyes themselves as a medium when activated, just like "flying".

Meanwhile, "Magic Connection" cannot be activated in this state because its gaze is one of the triggers.

We're supposed to rely on Sugar if we need an attack from here.

"All right, let's go down."

We made sure there was no one else around and lowered altitude.

The surrounding towns have been destroyed by Blanc. If anyone is there, it's just the dungeon player. The location of the dungeon is well known and there should be fewer players wandering off the street to the river.

I went down to the riverside and stood there, but something in the water didn't react.

Rather than being dull, it feels like I'm aware of it, but I don't care.

"I wonder if it's non ac"

Is that you?

"Non-active. It's inactive, which means enemies that don't attack from the other side. It's a word you don't have to remember."

In the water, the movement of the mana is different from that in the air, so it is very difficult to see the figure, although it is not visible. Also, "True Eyes" only reveals blurry shapes.

I opened my wings a little and tried to check them with my eyes, but the sun was still high, and besides, the water surface was very dazzling because of the random reflection of sunlight. I gave up immediately.

"Sugar, will you give me one on land?"

Yes, boss.

Sugar went into the water without hesitation and eventually returned with a sun shower.

Will it be about two meters long? It feels more like a scrupulous crocodile than a sunshaw.

According to the "appraisal", this is called "Hillsnut." Does it mean there is a newt with a different name in other countries?

Hillsnewt, who was given land, seems to have recognized Sugar as his enemy, skillfully using his tail to repeat the attack. However, the damage has not occurred at all due to what can be described as an overwhelming difference in ability. Sugar is also silently enduring humiliation because he recognizes that this is an important sample for Rae.

"It's really weak. I think it's about the same as 1 or something. Even so, the epidermis seems thick, and it seems impossible to cut it with a dull blade. I don't think it's strange to be overwhelmed and fed like this, but it doesn't look that way."

These people were at the deepest point of the river. Isn't it hard for human beings to capture them?

A difficult place for humans to capture also means a place for players to attack.

Then what is it that exists here for? At the bottom of the river there are numerous lumps of LP that seem to be quite strong in reproduction, but usually such organisms are often under the food chain. It's like an alien species bred abnormally as a result of the absence of natural enemies.

"It's hard to even think that someone brought you here, and if so, the natural enemies are gone from here or something? For example, they were extinct by some kind of natural mutation, or they couldn't come here because of terrain fluctuations or something."

It's about nature, and it doesn't mean there's literature somewhere. I can't even think about it.

However, it is convenient that the fertility seems strong. Let's breed them in the Rebe and Torre forests.

It would be more comfortable for them to flow through the lush forest than through the wilderness.

"For now, let's 'serve' and take him for what we see. It's not like the players will ever find us if we stay here forever. If we move some of it to Liebe, I guess we'll 'summon' the rest to World Tree Square to experiment."

"Before you do, say hello to Master Blanc. I've come a long way.

"Right. Let's do that."

"Nah! If you'd told me you were coming, I'd have something for you."

"Because I just ran out of time. Plus, it's hard to think you'll be here any minute."

Apparently Bran decided to do Ernthal as a 5 area.

Only the boss area, as Rae does, is hardened by powerful demons. Outside is not in the form of entertaining players with demons of difficulty. It has a difficulty of 5 in all areas. This is an example skeleton guidra can't help but take action to keep him out of the boss area.

In order to restore the distant guest feet, it seems that the difficulty was raised to 3 by getting to the neighboring city Altiva.

It is to be welcomed that the layers of players visiting the region are thickened and revitalized for Rare as well. Anyway, Rare's breathtaking NPC is partitioning a nearby safety area lodging town.

"If you ever have a problem running a dungeon, say anything. It's good for me too."

"Thanks! Oh yeah! I can't thank you enough, but the Count Senior told me I could pick Lizardman, right? Would you like to go?

I had Bran show me where Lizardman lives.

It doesn't seem to be that many, and I was asked to stop hunting all the Lizard Man, but it's still a big deal to get a lizard monster.

"Rae, come on, that outfit..."

"I don't like sunlight. Apparently, the only thing that doesn't like sunlight is the area about human skin. This means you don't have to get sunburned, and you don't have to worry about going out during the day."

"... no, I hope he's convinced"

It was the rock wall that stood upstream of the river earlier that flew with Blanc.

It was small on the rock wall, so large that a human could pass without difficulty, but only a small crack had been made based on the size of the rock wall. The source of that river seems to be flowing from it.

"I made that! He got out of there and jumped into town!

"It's a memorable secret passage. But I think there's something going on. I wonder if that's what we're going to do with the Lizardman."

There were several Lizardman-like monsters in the crack of the rock wall.

"Oh, really! Well, now that the exits are open, can they go outside too?"

I'm talking about the Lizardmans living around the underground lake in the rock walls, so does that mean they've been trapped in those rock walls for years? Otherwise you shouldn't come outside just because you've got a hole in you.

The Lizardmans, if you look closely, have that Hillsnew in their hands. That was their food.

A scenario is conceivable in which, for some reason, they became trapped in rock walls, and Newt, as a result of which there were no more natural enemies, reproduced abnormally and filled the river bottom.

"I wonder why Lizardman was trapped in a rock wall."

"Come on. I don't know, but that highland itself suddenly came up a long time ago, so I guess it's because of that."

"What's that? Did it go up? Is that what this is about?

"Didn't you suddenly say that?

"I don't care about that."

Either way, there used to be massive topographic variation here, and it seems certain that it was done at an observable rate.

I don't know if it's some character who did it, or if it's convenient to operate it, or if that kind of natural phenomenon exists.

But at least say no if Rae can do it now.

"... the world is wide."

That's right.

For now, the three Lizardmans, who were around the entrance, 'served' and decided to take them inside.