Hitsugi no Maou

If you think calmly, it was a lame story.

At the end of the day, Yuk's plan was a force versus force push to gather ancient powerful weapons and subordinate them to a modern military state.

Assuming that we have gained enough weapons to destroy a country, how are we going to set up a negotiating seat with the state afterwards and get people's endorsement again?

I was still interested in the vague plan because Sante himself did not have the means to make his dreams and ideals come true. The ridiculous power of the ancient sword that was shown in front of me moved my heart.

With fantastic events in my eyes, I somehow felt like I could get out of my current precarious position if I acted with Yuk.

I also thought it would be better to take some action than to have an ideal and repeat wandering.

So Sante was taken by Yuk to step into the Adventurers Union building behind the slums, where he completed his registration as an adventurer.

Adventurers in snobbery are nationally recognized professions. On the other hand, anyone who is a snobbing citizen can take up office, the activities of which are stipulated to be carried out entirely under the responsibility of the Union and individual.

In other words, the State will release some aid funds to the Union, but will not be responsible for any accidents or inconveniences caused by adventurous activities.

The state will not react with regard to the adventurer's life or death, and vice versa means that when the adventurer works in the country, he or she is relentlessly (shamelessly) captured as a criminal.

Freedom of work and activity, but no identity protection whatsoever. That was the profession of adventurer.

Yuk hooked up with his two buddies, laughing at Sante filling out his fake name on the paperwork. A young man and a woman with red copper hair.

In Yuk and his hometown, the two men, descended from the same brave Hilnor, at the time simply named him Adventurer Makito, Adventurer Mariela.

After discussing the way of the Snobba Empire with the Euks overnight, Sante set out the next morning, under the leadership of Euks, to search for the legacy of the brave Hilnor.

- Two years. The journey, which began on the tip of the slum, lasted for two years.

Traces of the legend of the brave Hilnor were investigated into the tunnel and walked around the territory of Snoba from end to end.

The abandoned legend of the defeated kingdom was told from the mouth of a vagrant people who at one time lay awake on the side of the road, and at another time were transformed into another faith, which could be seen in the inscriptions of the Church on the border.

There are two legacies that Sante and the others were able to recover at the end of those journeys.

One was behind a cave near a volcanic crater that was also dangerous to approach, 'The Unbreakable (Fudge) Battle Axe', where the blade was left in a state of stripping.

Another was "The Sword of Regression", buried at the root of the inscription left by the brave Hilnor, the deepest part of the tree sea where a group of dangerous cannibal wolves nest.

They were all legacies acquired at the end of the adventure of life, but none of them appeared to Sante to be weapons enough to end the war between the country and the country.

To Sante, who speaks of dissatisfaction, Yuk said this with a cool face as he moonlighted the sword of regression he had just obtained.

"The sword of flesh slaughter, the axe of unbreakable battle, and the sword of regression. These are the weapons used by the brave Hilnor to defeat the bandits, beasts, and demons that stood in the course of his crusade against the Demon King.

The last remaining fourth legacy was the direct burial of Rayakels, the host demon king. Heritage says this regression sword is needed to 'liberate' the fourth legacy "

"... liberate...?

"Mariela, is the inscription decryption progressing?"

A nod as Mariella, who was headed for the inscription of the brave Hilnor, turned the dictionary of ancient letters that she had taken out of her house.

"Half of the sentences inscribed on the tablet were drained of the regrets and excuses of the brave Hilnor. If you're not interested in the circumstances of the ancients, you can ignore them. He seems to have regretted exercising the sorcery that the country had already forbidden in order to defeat the Demon King"

"I really don't care. What's the other half?

"Why did you leave the legacy of a powerful weapon without destroying it? Hilnor tried to dispose of all his weapons after defeating the Demon King, but only the most powerful... fourth legacy could not be destroyed.

He decided to leave another inscription describing how to control immortality and other legacies together, for when the greatest legacy of immortality seemed to sprinkle disaster upon the world. "

Yuk raises a single eyebrow and looks back at Makito and Sante.

"Does that mean controlling the fourth legacy, or else trying to destroy it by aggregating other legacies? I hear the last legacy has a different performance."

"Mariela, I guess the place where the fourth legacy is sealed is well written"

Mariela laughs and sees Sante in the words of Makito, who was responsible for one of the legacies, the battle axe.

Towards Sante, who looked down, Mariella said, with her right hand thumb on her cheek.

"At the southern foot of the volcano… the land where the minerals where diamonds are picked (and) run. They sealed their last legacy at the bottom of a huge natural hole there."

"Diamond Minerals...... Big Hole......? Hey, you mean where Snobba's Royal Castle is?

Makito sees Sante as he says.

Mariella walked over to Sante, who opened her eyes, grinning deeper and deeper as she put a white finger on Sante's neck.

"Snoba's Royal Castle is built from holes in the ground to prevent attacks such as stone throwers. From the tower of the castle, which protrudes from the ground to the end of the hole, there is a bridge that allows people to enter and exit. When the enemy comes in, raise the bridge and launch a group of soldiers in a secret way that you dug from the bottom of the hole to the ground, attacking the enemy from behind.

Although it is built specifically for the Battle of the Castle... does the Emperor realize that ancient weapons lie asleep in its depths?

……

"Sante. There were no rooms in the Royal Castle where people were prohibited from entering or leaving, or unused stairs? There's a sealed place where only emperors or a limited number of people can get in."

Taking the gaze of the other three, Sante dropped his eyes to the ground.

Answer as if it were creased between your eyebrows.

"Of Emperor Sideon, in the throne room… in the room directly below it, there is a huge metal door… I have heard for a long time that it is an open door. The emperor is the only one who knows what's inside. Other than the fact that the Emperor's reign is taught directly by his predecessors, he says it's a forbidden door that has no way of knowing who he is."

"That's settled. The last legacy is in the royal castle. Sante, guide us. We'll sneak into the royal castle."

"Yuk... it's easy to get you guys into the castle, but the forbidden doors are too huge for the four of us to open. If it's locked, it'll be fine."

"Hire an Army Unlock (Kaiji) from the Adventurers Union. Anyway, it starts with not looking at the real thing."

Sante could not argue with the words of Yuk, who giggles, and as a result, it was there and the outside who were to be drawn into the royal castle where he was born and raised.

As we approached the last legacy of the brave Hilnor, Sante first returned to the royal castle by himself and was supposed to help bring in the Euks.

The emperor and his queen said nothing in particular to the Empress, who had not returned in two years, and the ministers returned to their work by greeting her only.

The only thing I said in the novel was that my sister, Theodora, was not the only one who worried her father much, but Sante listened to her without taking it seriously.

Spend only ten days as usual, and occasionally go out to the Imperial City to get in touch with the Euks.

On the evening of the eleventh day, on the verge of the bridges of the royal castle being raised, Santé drew the eucs into the castle, mixed with the flow of those returning to the imperial capital and those returning to the royal castle.

The guards and samurai watch Sante behave like he usually does, so there was no wind that particularly cared if he was bringing in youths under the same age.

Careful not to meet the imperial man or the ministers, Santé and the others proceed to the back of the royal castle and run through the front between the thrones. Sometimes it was just dinner time, and there was no one between the vast thrones.

Continue straight down the aisle, down the stairs, and push downstairs.

Its room, the deepest part of the royal castle, was vast beyond the ceiling, between the thrones. The floors and walls are not even flat, and the rock skin is uneven as it is.

In a basement dominated by darkness, Mariella lit a pine light for the number of people she had prepared with a portable fire starter.

The fire starter is just that the firestone and the firecracker gold were connected by a rope, but if you slip the firestone over a gutter of bumps dug into the firecracker gold, countless sparks will burn easily into the pine lights that have been scattered and stained with oil.

As Santé and the others proceeded to the back of the room with burning pines in their hands, a huge metal door eventually appeared, soaked in rocky skin. The width is long enough for a person to fall asleep by dozens, and the height cannot be illuminated by a pine light fire. Probably stretched to near the ceiling.

Makito pushes and pushes several times one door that hasn't rusted (rust) and then looks back at Yuk and says:

"Of course, but I'm not even scared. Looks like he's pushing the rock bottom."

"I don't even see anything that looks like a keyhole...... this is nasty"

A man from the unlock shop, brought by Yuk from the Adventurers' Union, leaves his door open and ears shut.

In the face where he turned his gaze, Yuk thought a little before seeing the sword of regression he carried.

The legacy of the brave was Euk replacing it with something new every time he got it and testing its performance.

Now Sante uses the sword of the flesh, but Makito uses the Unbreakable Battle Axe.

From the white sheath as snow, Yuk pulled out the equally pure white blade and put it in front of him. The sword of regression embedded with black gems in the patterned head (shackles) and grip looks faint (awkward) glowing without heart or in darkness.

Yuk drops the pine light on the floor and approaches the door. Shortly after Makito paved the way, the white blade cut the sky and was stuck straight out to the door.

Sante expected a hard sound, but it sounded like something had gone down in the water.

In front of the people who round their eyes, the door penetrated with the sword of regression becomes various lead-colored waters from that area, which melt away.

As if it were a candle dissolved in the fire, sloppy into the metal in front of Yuk, a hole was holed in the back, and eventually a horizontal hole penetrated the door for each person.

"... you didn't need an unlock shop"

"What do you mean," Sante said to Yuk, who laughed small.

"What happened? What the hell is that..."

"This is what the sword of regression would have done to free the last legacy. Perhaps this' door-like thing 'was cemented in the' shape of a door 'in the magic of the brave Hilnor, liquid metal. I would have ordered mercury or liquid metal close to it to clot in the form of sturdy, yet unopened doors via sorcery.

I mean, this is more of a huge 'lid' than a door. It's just like an undissolved mass of ice blocking the road. "

"... was it a product of witchcraft..."

"You've been around for a long time, but that's why you haven't floated rust. It's not a metal in its natural state. Doors made of real iron or wood will eventually be broken by humans. That's why we 'refined' the door from scratch with ancient magic techniques. What, don't be an unbreakable door to protecting this place permanently... or something. But"

Yuk looks back together as he returns the regression sword in his hand to his sheath. With a confident, invincible grin.

"If it's a regression sword made by the same Hilnor, we can drill a hole. The sword of regression is the sword that extinguishes the 'power of magic itself'. Disable the effects of witchcraft by inserting blades into objects made by witchcraft or caused phenomena, which are not forces of nature.

What, be a sword that rips apart all demons. Don't let the magic trick and power go to nothing... that's why the liquid metal that was made to clot by magic has returned to its original appearance. You've been restored to the state you were before you used magic. "

Sante doesn't really understand the laws and principles of witchcraft. None of this seems like an unnatural and irrational paranormal.

But Sante felt a definite 'contradiction as a story' in this series of streams.

Throw a voice on its back as it follows Yuk walking out to the back of the hole.

"Why did Hilnor... leave behind a regression sword that could destroy the door while blocking the hole that leads to the last legacy? Why bother letting the doors you built yourself rip open?

"Come on, I don't know. I'm not even interested. But... the answer is probably beyond that. If you know what the last legacy looks like, you'll know what Hilnor's will is."

Of the brave Hilnor, will.

Sante pulled his cheeks into an unspeakable and unpleasant hunch while avoiding the liquid metal dripping from overhead.

Why did the brave men and men who defeated the evil demon king leave their most powerful legacy in the basement of Snobba's royal castle?

No, maybe Snobba's royal castle was built later on in the land where the brave sealed their heritage in the first place. Does the Historical Emperor know who his father Sideon is in the legacy of sleeping at the end of this hole?

Eventually through the hole in the door and to the deepest part of the castle, Santé will know.

That the legacy of the brave men who pursued to lose the tragedy of the world was a weapon, to truly defeat the enemy… to take life.

Sante understood the hubris, the horror, at a glance.

The legacy was so full of malice and madness.

From rocky skin, the base of a hole peeps with countless diamond crude stones.

It was a giant alien, filled with red, shining serpents.