Kuro no Maou

The next day, he visited Tor Heavy Industries again for the production of Fiona's new wand, "Walpurgis".

Having seen the blueprint she submitted, Mr. Dayne was roaring with a difficult face, um, but just saying that the man had no two words, he took it on.

It is not a waste of money to make a magic wand that will be the finest product on a boulder, but a lot of money will be paid. Still, it's breaking enough.

When Mr. Dayne started talking a lot about blueprints from his client, Fiona, he went into the fast-track and professional content, leaving me almost completely unschooled, so I left the rest to each other and let him gently leave the room.

"I'll stay with Fiona."

"No way, Lily, can you keep up with those two stories"

"I've learned magic engineering and smelting techniques in modern magic theories in seminaries, somewhat."

What, did you learn that?

Yes, I gave up all the magic language around here because I couldn't decipher it.

"I'm more interested in the best workshop in Adamantoria than that."

"I see. An industrial spy."

"Ugh, it's just a tour."

With that Nico smile, you want me to steal Tor Heavy Industries' confidentiality?

As a lily, it would also be true that I am interested in places like this because I am rebuilding Shangri-La. If there's anything I can help you with, you're lucky.

No way, I really don't imitate you like a spy... don't you?

"Well, then, I'll take my quest in the guild."

This one's going to be a long story, and in the meantime, let's do what we can.

On the subject of the original monolith of the Iron Blood Tower, we must also proceed with the investigation.

"Sariel, I need you to show me to the guild."

"Yes, Master"

With a wack of that, I decided to stick with Saliel, who is visiting the Adventurer's Guild of Damask within yesterday, and head off.

Quest Third Prince Carl Search

Compensation - 100 million clans

Deadline/Until Found

Client/King Dvor Balrog Adamantoria

Please, help me, everyone, my sweet son!

I decided to take it for now with Sariel's recommendations, even though I was slightly confused by the request for out-of-the-box content, which I don't think is a bit of a royal fate.

The request did not contain any specific details, but Saliel researched the circumstances of the Prince's search yesterday, so I know what happened.

"Honestly, do you think this prince is alive?

"It's very likely that he's dead"

Within the guild bustling with adventurers burning to rescue the prince, I moved the place and asked Saliel what was a little hard to talk about.

By the time I left the guild, it was just lunch time, so I came to eat in an Adamantrian mass cafeteria called Diner. Whatever. Yesterday, Fiona had a fries big eating challenge or something. I guess it's not that big of a meal. I'm not gonna take half the joke, because I can see it's gonna suck with heartburn.

But if you eat a moderate amount, it's delicious, or, normally, no, it's pretty good, these potatoes. Sariel just recommends it.

Me and Saliel sit in the counter and discuss, tongue-in-cheek at the taste of nostalgic junk food. With all the potatoes and classic menus in the burger, it reminds me of my way home from high school. Although the atmosphere in the store is entirely tavern, as the Dwarves are the majority of the guests who drink beer and thrive during the day.

Anyway, set aside the student and drinking moods, and now I'm seriously talking about work (quest).

"I knew you would."

"We were caught in a collapse, and there's a good chance we're dead. Even if you avoid immediate death, if you are seriously injured, you are equally at risk of death"

"But a prince would have about an elpotion. Some injuries should heal."

"There are also limits to treatment with potions. If you are completely losing an organ or limb, taking Elpotion is not expected to be resilient enough to act immediately"

That's true, you're right. But there's no doubt that even fatal serious injuries can cure quite a few wounds.

"But if you had your life, there would be a slight possibility."

"Carl, the third prince to be searched, is not superior to martial arts and his strength, magic and skill are ordinary. Even if we cut through the collapse intact, there is a very short period of time during which we can survive in a pit that is a dungeon"

More than three days have already elapsed since the Prince was involved in the collapse. Indeed, I have heard that even disaster relief dramatically reduces the chances of survival after three days.

If he had been buried alive in the collapse, he would almost certainly be dead.

Even if not, it's close to suicidal behavior for ordinary people to go on monster wide walking dungeons.

A prince would have the finest gear, but if it's amateurs handling it, it's not a big help. Whether or not a Rank 1 monster can win, even against an opponent.

The Prince is missing in a deep area, equivalent to Hazard Rank 4. How much luck does it take to keep going for more than three days in a place like that, without encountering a monster...

"What we should look for is the body of a prince."

"It's a reasonable expression... but in times like this, say what you want."

"Make a wish"

Is that what you're saying in the gag? No, it's about Sariel, so you're serious.

Whatever, it's not just a beauty of escaping reality because Lily has a chance to sense the magic of an ancient jewel and successfully find a prince. If the prince really miraculously still survives, we have to help him out quickly.

"Well, let's get lightly ready and get into the pit this evening"

"Master, excuse me"

Sariel wiped my mouth with napkins, whether it had ketchup or sauce on my mouth.

I'm not a kid, so seriously, I'm a little embarrassed about this...

"As a maid, a natural job"

Though expressionless, it was a satisfying atmosphere somewhere, Sariel saying things like sheep.

Is it because the maid director's education is good for his men?

Next time I decided to talk about Sheep and Saliel's education policy, I left the store.

'Ballog Abandoned Mine' is used as the name of a dungeon at the same time as it refers to a site that is not currently mined.

The pits, which continued to be dug in the Balrog Mountains by the hands of Dwarves more extensively than in ancient times, had at the earliest been transformed into vast underground labyrinths, of which no one could tell the whole picture. This pit, including flame oak, is also the very history of the battle against a wide variety of underground monsters.

At times, many mining sites have been defeated by monsters and forced to retreat, and valuable mineral resources and gemstones, such as raw stones, will still be abundant and buried. In addition, the artifacts of Dwarf warriors and adventurers who fell in the middle of their minds while still holding high quality weapons are rolling.

True, a mountain of treasure.

Naturally, the risks are there, but if you're an adventurer working in this country, it's the biggest dungeon in Adamantoria.

The dungeon designation distinguishes between the Ballog Mountains, which point to the surface, and the Ballog Abandoned Mines, which point to underground pits. But both have hazard rank 5 areas.

On the mountain side, the crater at the top of the mountain where the flaming dragon lives. At the bottom of the tunnel lies the ancient city that sunk at the bottom of Nara.

Both are super dangerous neighborhoods, where history only counts those who have gone and returned.

"This time, I'm glad it's as deep as it gets."

The higher the mountain climbs, the lower the pit descends, the more hierarchical the danger gradually rises.

The battlefield with Flame Oak, the scene of the Prince's disappearance, is around such areas as the Mid-level Rank of Hazards 3. From there, falling into a large vertical hole means that it may reach the lower reaches rank 4, and so on.

"Yes, no matter how many princes, if it were a shipwreck in the lowest neighborhood, the search would be cut off as impossible"

"I wonder if the city at the bottom is dying to see Avalon."

An ancient city sunk at the bottom of the earth, what a romance I feel, but I'm not going to step that far this time.

In an effort to search for the prince, we went into the abandoned Ballog mine that evening when we were quested, and we started going down a pit that leads far underground.

The members are me, Saliel and Lily.

This time, Fiona will leave a message. Never, in a pit at risk of collapse, I don't want to be with her, not a wack.

There is a good reason for the current situation where the main wepon named 'Ainsbroom' cannot be held for enhancement, the reason that it is dangerous to force it to follow, and the reason that it remained in Tor Heavy Industries simply because it seems that the person should also cooperate for the production of 'Walpurgis'. So it's not a wack that turned Fiona into a hub by no means.

"Nevertheless, this is more of a tunnel than a pit."

Heavy machines for drilling do not exist, but the pits we are walking in are likely to be about four lanes wide, and the ceilings are considerably elevated. The roads were paved, the walls were never just dug up, and they were well reinforced with stone.

Somehow, he had the image of a narrower cave, but more like an underground labyrinth of RPG.

"Adequate height and width are assumed to be the use of the golem. Supposedly made from a combination of Dwarf technology and earthly attribute magic. However, there are countless narrow and narrow branches."

Speaking of which, a large golem carrying luggage was seen in the damask, even if it was not an industrial compartment. The heavy machine golem for work is a familiar presence in Adamantoria, and it probably only spreads for that matter.

Still, Saliel, you know me well.

"Even Sinclair, the Golem is a widely popular technology. He has high civil architectural capabilities and has been used in pit warfare. With the launch of 'Taurus' in action in the Galahad War, it is also likely that a next-generation combat golem will be developed, using ancient technology"

"When you do, you mean it will perform more than an Adamantrian golem"

If you think there's not only a conspiracy around the original monolith, but also a simple technology development competition... there's nothing you can do about it on your own.

No matter how much Simon is a genius, he can't even get around to golem development. Around here, we'll have to get countries to work hard, including Sparda. In the first place, weapons development is a national project. Shouldn't we be more appreciative of the mass-production of guns?

Master, it's around here.

Sariel stops and checks the simple map.

What I'm looking for is a vertical hole to get down quickly. An elevator shaft was installed to carry the mined ore upwards.

It's an abandoned mine, so naturally, lifts are not operational, and many have been completely removed.

A long descent downhill is a classic course to the lower level, but with vertical holes everywhere, shortcuts are possible. If an amateur like-minded Rank 1 adventurer jumps in, it's an instant death pit, but for us it's just a shortcut to jump.

"Ah, Chrono, here it is!

Lily, a young girl who was choking, quickly discovered the hole and dived into the dark vertical hole without any hesitation, wow.

No matter how much anything is too alert… or even down here, it is still in the upper tier of the hazard rank of about 2. Even if a monster is ambushing him before he falls, it's not going to be any problem.

"Wow, there's something here."

Apparently, a monster was really ambushing us. Trying to deal with Lily with the strength of Rank 2 means she's impotent.

"Sometimes it's possible, and we should just get off."

Jump down to the hole at once with Sariel snorting cocklessly.

Within seconds, keep it up, Zun! and decided to land, but after all, the battle had ended in the meantime.

"Lily, are you okay?

"Yeah, Dawn! If I did, they'd all disappear."

Praise, but a sparkling smile Lily's hand held 'Meteor Striker'.

There seems to be an ancient weapon double-barreled pistol on the boulder, and using only one of 'Meteor Striker' or 'Star Destroyer' is the battle style of today's toddler, Lily.

The figure of putting up a pistol with two small hands is entirely the child himself playing with a toy cannon, but what is released from the muzzle is the light magic of a threat to erase it in herd units, such as low-ranking monsters. Never, ever point it at people.

"You did it. Then let's move on."

"Ooh!

In that sense, he began to advance vigorously through the hierarchy of hazard Lacun 2.

For the prince search, there were few monsters in the upper level area near the ground because of a good number of soldiers and adventurers in and out. The guys Lily dawned were the first to count in the pit. It is completely unclear what kind of monster it was because it only left like black stains left on the rock walls and on the ground.

Even if it's not a monster of great strength, if you come diving all the way around here, it still seems to breed quite a bit too. I'm starting to run into monsters there.

"Dawn!"

And, although financially released from silver pistols, the extreme lily beam largely ends the battle on the encounter.

"Hey, I think I saw you looking a little shadowy, but no way, you didn't shoot the other adventurers by mistake, did you?

"It's gonna be okay, okay? Is that true?

For the record, why is there a hatena mark at the end of the story?

"Master Lily defeated him with a monster, no doubt. It's all a man-made Rank 1 monster, Sandrais."

If Sariel says so, he'll be fine.

Sandrais, that means a guy like the sand version of Skeleton. Instead of bones, resentment and evil spirits enter the magical sand and move into a human form, a kind of undead monster.

Normally, it would be just skeletons or zombies, or raises as evil spirits are, but this kind of pit or cave, or a place where the primitive magic of the soil is intense, it would be an undead that turns the sole into flesh because it brings magic to the soil and sand itself.

Even if it's not a holy light attribute, it's just the right opponent for a rushing adventurer because if you sprinkle the flesh built with sand properly, you can defeat it. Though it is forbidden to be alarmed because it may look like a Sun Dreis, but it is actually a superior species or forms a hell of a number of flocks.

- Big guy didn't show up.

While proceeding with so many lower monsters such as sundresses, small worms, and blood-sucking bats, we finally reach the mid-level equivalent of Hazard Rank 3, which is a full search range.

Once we got here, we started seeing a bunch of adventurers doing searches there.

Near the scene where we fought Flame Oak, the Dwarf warriors spread their investigative network around, so we won't bother to go that way.

"So, Lily, what do you say?

"Well, I don't feel anything."

I've done the magic wavelength that ancient jewels emit with Lily's reckoning that I can accurately feel it, but I still don't have any reaction.

"Master, this middle ground is where the most investigators are put in. Searching for similar areas is inefficient"

"What we should be looking for is another one down there."

Sariel's right, I can't help but say I looked for the same place as everyone else. The fact is, no prince has been discovered yet.

Should we descend further down the middle to the area around the lower area? It is quite possible that the Prince has fallen so far, and more importantly, it is a place where rising to Danger Rank 4 makes the search activity itself more difficult. But we, the Rank 5 Adventurers, will still be able to search safely around here.

All right, then we're going down to the lower realm.

Using Saliel's advice, we went further down.

Jumping down three or so vertical holes, the lower reaches changed the atmosphere much from previous pits.

"Something wore you out all at once"

"This area is supposedly a pit dug in an older era"

It is rough made, almost like a cave as it is. Neither the walls nor the ground are paved with stone. Columns and beams are stretched out at equal intervals, showing us that it is an artifact.

Coming to the lower reaches, there are also quite a few giant tunnels and so on dug by large underground monsters, so even complex pits are completely turned into labyrinths. Be careful not to accidentally get into strange places.

"Mm-hmm..."

"What's up, Lily?

"This way! Chrono, this way!

Apparently, Lily caught a magical reaction quickly.

"All right, that's a big win"

Following Lily's lead, we begin to follow the pit without hesitation.

I just want to rush out, but the magic response still seems far away, following Lily as she walks carefully Yochiyochi to avoid losing sight of it.

If the speed at which it goes slows down, it will also become more entangled in nature and monsters.

It's like the top sandrace, rock golem, and wilderness that have struck you in rank three. It's a big mole-like monster with together-sized crusts in there size sandworms, and a wide variety and number of them. Is there such a thing as a lower area that is highly dangerous for boulders around here?

Fortunately, a monster of this magnitude could be crushed with me and Saliel's demon bullets, so I could keep walking, at the latest, without ever stopping my legs.

"Isn't that pretty much down there?

"Yes, from the depth around here, it goes in the middle of the lower realm, with incomplete mapping and increased encounter rates with large monsters"

"Well, I've already found it. There!"

Looks like Lily finally got to the source of the magic.

Rather than a pit, a goal is the tip through a cave that is completely just a narrow crack.

"Oh, that's a lot bigger."

There, it was a fairly large vertical hole. It boasts such a huge area that a whole dome stadium is likely to come in.

Did Dwarf make such a big underground space as well... no, I don't see any columns or other artifacts, no matter how old the pit must be installed, no lights. Does that mean the space the monster dug?

"Chrono, there's a prince in the middle of here!

The reaction of the jewels seems to be emanating from this center.

Lily releases a large sphere of light instead of a flare into the vertical hole of darkness, illuminating everything in the space with a white glow.

"... nobody"

"Um?"

Within the brightened vertical hole, there is nothing.

With all the crap and the rocks just rolling around, there's no particular shield for people to hide themselves from, and at first glance it's obvious there's nobody there.

"Master, it's under the ground."

It's the next moment I thought it was buried.

Gogo, along with the earthquake, a giant column bursts out of the center of the vertical hole -

Gi, gi, gi, gi yeeee!!

It was a muckade. It is a giant mukade, not a pillar, but a straight out of the ground.

Hundreds of feet, no, a giant muscade of dozens of meters, with far more than a hundred feet and verses, appeared before us, whispering strangely high and disgusting noises.

"Rank 4 Monster" Ravagigant Pead ". Also known as Volcano Grand Mukade"

"Ah, Prince, you've been eaten."

Saliel, who calmly explains the monster name, and Lily, who, like other personnel, is convinced of the prince's predation.

We are adventurers who have flown from foreign countries, and the third prince, Carl, is a stranger to others in red, but still wants to feel somewhat sad about those who have sacrificed themselves.

"The balls are safe because of the magic."

"If the treasure can be collected, the quest can be accomplished"

"Hey, business lyke, don't talk to me, I'm just gonna take this muckade down"

I don't know if we qualify as a mourning battle, but I'd like to at least take him down and bring him back some of the prince's remains.

It's possible he's digested without a piece of bone left... but anyway, I'll just do it!