In a Different World with a Smartphone

"Light, come, little lights, lights"

Relying on the lights that Lindsay created in the universe, we stepped down the stone stairs and went underground.

The stairs draw a spiral at a gentle angle, leading everywhere underground. As I walked, I got that ridiculous anxiety, as if it was going on in hell.

Eventually, at the end of the long staircase, a wide stone aisle appeared.

Straight ahead, covered with darkness, you have no idea what's there. There was a slight humidity and what a creepy atmosphere.

"Hey, that's creepy... even ghosts are coming out..."

"Become... what are you talking about, Lord Else! No way, you can't leave a ghost or anything!... right?

Eight times overreact to Else grumbling words. I don't care, but you guys stop pulling my coat... because it's hard to walk...

In contrast, Linze goes flat down the stone aisle. You have a lot of nerve.

The leading Lindsay illuminates the passage with a magical light, followed by us. Every time I proceeded, the aisle ceiling gradually got higher and higher, eventually exiting into the large hall.

"What is this...?

What was there was some sort of letter-like object, painted all over the front wall. On one side of the wall, four meters high and as long as ten meters long, it is surprisingly followed by many steps.

If you look closely, it also looks closer to emoticons than to lettering. I felt similar to Incas, Astecas, and ancient letters around there.

"Linze...... can you read what it says?

"No... I have no idea. Ancient magic language... but it doesn't seem like it..."

Lindsay looks at the wall in front of her without turning to my inquiry.

Surely this must be an historic relic. My amateur knows about that. However, if you ask me if this is a treasure, I honestly feel different. I also felt I could understand the "search" reaction.

Whoa, yeah, let's get it in the picture for once. Setting up a smartphone and pressing the shoot button on the camera app, a dazzling flash was burned.

"Ugh!? Why is that?

The sudden flash of light freaks the Yagami out. He gestured that I was okay, and when he showed the smartphone in his hand, everyone sighed in relief. They seem to be getting used to my bizarre behavior. [M] Why don't you call yourself bizarre?

Divide it into several pieces and shoot all the murals. And why is there such a thing here...

"Hey, hey! Guys, come here for a second!

Else, who was exploring the hall, suddenly raises her voice. On the right wall side of the hall, in front of that wall, she pointed to some of the walls.

"There's something buried here."

Part of the wall, just at the height of the line of sight, was embedded with one brown, transparent rhomboid stone. It's about two centimeters in size. Gems… they are dirty and of poor quality.

"This is... a demon stone, isn't it? It is a demonic stone of earthly attributes. Probably some kind of trick starts when the magic runs."

"Something... a trap or something?

"I can't say it's unlikely... but it's not normal to have such a clear trap"

I'm satisfied with Linze's explanation... I don't know, this anxiety. If I had a switch, I'd want to push it. I thought it was a trap that used that feeling... Am I thinking too much? [M]

"Then winter night, let the magic flow"

"It's me!?

Turn to Else's sarcastic remarks with the momentum he thinks. Even though it could be a trap!?

"'Cause I have an earthly attribute. It's only winter and night."

Mmm, sure. Linze has no fire and water, and light, and Else has no, and Octave has no attributes. And I'm all attributes. Well, there's no choice...

"... why are we all leaving?

"" "Well, for once..." "

Take a distance from me and stare at everyone who laughs and deceives. [M] I sighed one and then let magic flow through the Demon Stone.

Zuzuzuzuzuzuzuzuzuzu...... and I thought the ground rang out, all the walls in front of me sanded and flowed down, and the hole was hollow. Much flattering open and close doors.

"This... what?

Peeping into the back of the disappeared wall, objects filled with dust and sand were placed in the center of the room.

What a way to describe that... The first thing I imagined was a bug. Koologi. He looks like me. Six elongated legs stretch from an almond-shaped object that also looks like a head. Although it broke a few bottles.

Will it be about the size of a light vehicle? Hands and feet, imagine a dead wolf.

Its form, however, in a streamlined, simple form, also looks more like a machine than an organism.

"What is this? Could it be some kind of statue?

Else peeks in from various angles. When I looked closely, behind the visible part of my head, I could see a red object as clear as a baseball ball.

Paying off the dust and sand on the surface, it turns out that this mysterious object is made of translucent supplies.... Is it glass? You're dim and you don't look good...... hmm?

"Linze...... was the magic of the lights so short in duration?

"Huh? Sure, I, I don't like light attributes... but I'd still have about two hours if it was about lights"

I swell my cheeks just when I'm outside my heart, Linze, but I tilt my neck when I see a sphere of light floating in the universe.

"Is that it? It's like the light is getting weaker..."

"Like, not. He's definitely getting weaker. This..."

"Winter Night Hall!

Returning her gaze to the octave cry, the red ball that she saw in the head, the back, was starting to shine. The body of the wolf is vibrating fine.

"Winter Night! Light's magic is absorbed by the array!

That's what made the light weaker! The glow of the ball grew more and more, and the koologi began to move the body a little bit. No way... are you alive, this!? My broken leg is regenerating at some point. You mean you took in the magic and let the activity resume!?

Kiwi, kiwi, kiwi!

Kiwi, kiwi, kiwi!

Kiwi, kiwi, kiwi!

"Ugh... this is... ugh!

A tall noise echoed around me, like when my tinnitus rang. Impact enough to reflect all over the room and tremble all over your body. A crack enters and exits the wall in a pissy fashion. Shit! We're gonna be buried alive like this!

"Gate!"

I make the Gate of Light appear in front of me, sending everyone to the ground one after another. The last time I tried to knock at the gate, the wolf stood up and stretched out one of my legs at a tremendous speed. Five meters has really stretched like a spear to me.

I walked through the gate like I was rolling and out on the ground. [M] Soon the gate closes and the ground ruins spread in front of you. Apparently, it didn't have to be buried alive.

"What was it, that?

"You've never seen such a monster..."

When Else and Hachi were looking at the entrance to the basement, talking with a tense face, the goggles... and yet again the ground rang.

Soil smoke rises with the roar behind the ruins. Perhaps the basement hall collapsed. There's no such thing as that koorogi demon or one, it should have been caught up and crushed......

Everyone takes a breath and silence dominates the neighborhood.

... Quinn...

This sound... no way...

Kiiiiiiiiiii...

Coming...!

Kiwi, kiwi, kiwi!

Dokah! and broke through the ground, and he appeared to the ground.

Almond shaped head, elongated six legs stretched from there. Crystalline bodies glow in the sun. Is that translucent organism also called a crystalline life form?

I stretch out my leg once more and flank it. The walls of ruin behind me, which were swept away by cancer, are cut off like tofu. What a chop.

"Flame, come on, red streak, fire arrow!

Linze strikes out flaming arrows toward the koolgi in a row. But Koologi took it flatly, without avoiding it. It disappears so that the arrows of flames are sucked into the wolf one after the other.

"Magic absorbed!?

"Fuck... then!

Yae pulls out a knife and fires a blow to the head of the wolf. However, only a few scratches could be applied to him as a result of the attack.

"What a stiffness!

"Oh my...!

Else then releases a positive fist poke from the side of the koologi. I was slightly grumpy but still can't seem to scratch a lot.

Else's leg stretched as she hung herself. Stand on the brink of skewering.

"What am I supposed to do, this!?

Magic is absorbed, blades do not pass. What can I do......!... Wait, the attack magic doesn't have to work on him to be indirect... do you want to try it?

"Slip!"

The moment I set the coefficient of friction at the foot of the wolf to zero, he fell. All right!

"Linze! It works indirectly, not directly magic!

"I see...... I get it! Ice. Come on, big ice cubes, ice rock!

Linze casts the magic of ice. Huge chunks of ice appear over the head of the koologi and fall as-is. Crush the koologi. All right! They absorb direct attacks of magic, but they can't absorb objects created by magic.

"Gi!"

I give it a rusty door-like twitch, and the wolf frightens me. But even an attack with an object created by magic seems to do only minor damage to that hardness.

Else jumps in like a bullet towards the guy who stopped moving.

"Boost...... open it all!

Use the unattributed magic "boost" that enhances your physical abilities, and release a full kick with the elongated leg of a koolgi.

At the next moment, one of his legs smashed with the sound of the glass smashing.

"Yay!

It's not like you can't scratch me. If you can do a little damage, you can take it down one day!

"Gi...... giggle!

Suddenly, the koologi roars and the red ball on his head shines. As if to react to it, the legs that should have been crushed are regenerated. Hey, you're lying...

"Played..."

A regenerated leg strikes at Else, who sits flat. A moment's gap, mistimed to avoid, profoundly pierced her right shoulder.

"Grr...!

"Sister!

Else immediately flies backwards and escapes from the pursuit hand. Blood runs down his shoulder and dirties his upper body's clothes. She finally knelt down, sweating.

"Yae! Linze! Stop, please!"

When the two snorted, Hachi stirred with its quickness, and Linze started dropping ice cubes again. I rush over to Else and perform a healing magic on the gap where the attention of the wolf is directed at the two of us. Wrapped in soft light, the twitching blocked the shoulder wound, and eventually the blood stopped.

"Thanks... I'm fine now..."

There's no way it's okay. The wound should be blocked but the damage hasn't disappeared.

Have the ability to play, absorb magic, and unusual hardness intensity...... how to defeat......? You got any weaknesses?

"No matter how much you crush your body, there's nothing you can do about it...!

"... Speaking of which... you left your body shattered when you found him... Why...?

Sure... absorbed Linze's magic and then regenerated it... Does it take magic to regenerate? Speaking of which, the ball on your head was glowing then, too. The red sphere on that head is at its core...

"Else, hey..."

Tell Else what you came up with.

"Huh? Can you do that!?

"I don't know... But worth a try."

"... ok"

When I breathed, I concentrated my magic on the koologi and thought of the object. Don't look so good because your body is transparent!

"Sports!"

A dull red crystal appeared in my hand. All right, success!

"Else!"

"Boost!

With the ball thrown by me, the enhanced Else fist is struck down. The object, sandwiched in the ground and fists and slapped, was shattered and scattered into pieces.

"Now... Told you!?

A knuckle-out wolf stops the movement. Eventually a crack enters his whole body and collapses raggedly. Reflecting on the sparkling sun, the crystal demon finally collapsed.

We've been trying to keep an eye on it for a while, but the crystal monster never came back. [M]

"Phew..."

The tension that was stuck is broken, and I sit on the ground. I tried it with my mind in mind, but I'm glad it worked. Else and Yae were also sitting around as well as looking to the side.

Linze had taken fragments of the shattered demon and was looking into it.

"Hey, maybe this is supplies similar to Demon Stone..."

"With the Demon Stone?

"Demonic stones are characterized by amplification, accumulation and release of magic. This demon absorbs the magic of others and uses it for its own regenerative abilities… no, even for that defensive capability for a moment… supposedly. Absorption, accumulation, release…. It's similar to the characteristics of demon stones."

Can't he create his own magic...? So some of the ruins were inactive...? Totally riddled.

"Should I report this to the guild or something...?

"No, an underground ruin or something… I thought that if this was the former king's capital, I should let the state agencies know. Let's talk to the Duke."

I see. Should I?

Let's go to the Duke's house.

"Gate"

"Well, there's such a ruin in the old king's capital..."

Put your arms together so the Duke can think, and hit the back of the chair as well. Master Su and Ellen seemed to be out and unfortunately were away. We were put through to the reception room and told the Duke about this revelation.

"Okay. This could be something to do with the royal family. Let's get a survey team out of the country and find out. And the demon, of course."

"Uh... the underground ruins have collapsed, so it may be difficult to find out..."

"What? Well... I was interested in what was written on that mural..."

A duke who unfortunately drops his shoulder. I've done something wrong... No, we didn't destroy that ruin.

"Oh, but I'm taking pictures of the mural, so I might be able to figure it out"

"Chasin?"

Open the photo screen from the camera app on your smartphone and show it to the Duke.

"Holy shit, what is this?!?

"It's my unattributed magic that can record images."

"Ho, ho..., you're still amazing, you are..."

The duke was fooled lightly by a firm lie. Excuse me, I'm sorry. The explanation is tricky.

"Give me some time and I'll write it down and give it to you."

"Please, it may contain the mystery of a thousand years ago transitional capital."

Oh, even the country doesn't know why I was transitioned? Normally, I think this kind of thing keeps a record or something in the country. No, maybe the Duke is right for a moment, that mural shows the cause of the transition capital. It might say something about that crystal demon.

I see the weakness of that demon. I think we can probably win even if we're going to play next.

But something catches on. I don't feel like that demon is the reason why the Old King's Capital has become such a worn out ruin.

In a mood of mourning, we left the mansion to the Duke to handle the aftermath.