Legend

Many researchers gathered there as Ray approached the fire pit.

Not only Eugene and his companions sleeping in the camp, but also Gosh and his companions who come here every day from Gilm.

In addition to the researchers, there were also assistants and escorts, so it was in a fairly dense state.

(Do you have an escort to deal with it in case something happens?)

Normally, I wouldn't need an escort as long as I had a hell of a fire.

I didn't even know when the monsters were going to raid me outside the camp like I did when I first built the Lake of Flames, so I needed an escort.

However, this many guards in the camp... I guess it's because of the peculiarity of being in a hell of a fire and still surviving.

Until now, it was impossible to get out of the fire.

As if they were programmed, they didn't give up, they kept imitating the flames, but they still couldn't do anything about the flames.

However, even though a few days have passed since we captured them, we are still alive.

No one has survived this long period of time - even for a few days.

Beyond this unprecedented situation, perhaps... maybe it is true, but I think it is not strange that the guards present in the flame prison should somehow break the flame prison or escape by any means without breaking it.

Ray?

One of the guards noticed Ray coming toward us.

Luckily for Ray, the escort was a favorable opponent to Ray.

Some of the researcher's guards are hostile to Ray.

If such an opponent found Ray first, it wouldn't be strange for him to get involved instantly.

If that were the case, it would definitely have been a hassle.

"I came to see how things were going... but I didn't think you were still alive." I need to talk to Eugen and Gosh, but let me through. "

"Oh, come on through."

That clears the way.

As the guard cleared the way, the other guards, who were watching the situation around them, cleared the way honestly.

I walked through the clearing and approached the side of the Fire Prison.

"Eugen, Gosh."

"... Ray. What do you think of this?"

Are you going to ask Ray?

Gosh looks at Eugene's words questioningly.

But Eugen nodded frankly to Gosh's words.

"That's right, Ray is the one who has the most contact with me at the end of the day." Then it's not strange if Ray has any opinions about this misfortune. "

Nuuuu

Gosh can't argue with Eugen's words.

In fact, Eugen is right.

There is no one more than Ray to deal with.

That meant that it was easy for Ray to notice that something was wrong when he saw it.

... at least that's what Eugen and Gosh thought.

But Ray was looking at me with such anticipation.

(No, I don't want you to expect it like that. If you want to defeat it, it's still not suitable for observation or anything like that.)

That said, Ray decided that it didn't start with what he didn't see.

I wonder if the dice survived better.

She says it was unexpected.

Ray recognized that the sphere was newer than the dice... in other words, it was an evolved race.

Or perhaps you're right to describe it as a new model because it's a programmatic move.

Anyway, with the old dice mixed with the new sphere, Ray wonders why the old dice survived.

"I know that newer spheres will survive... or newer spheres may be different from what I perceived."

Is that so?

That's what Eugen asked Ray's naturally spoken words.

In response to Eugen's question, Ray knew that he had spoken, but all he had to do was shake his head to the side.

"No, I don't know exactly. But for a short time… Isn't it strange that in a few days it might evolve into a new species? Besides, even after the sphere comes out, the dice usually show up."

"... I see. It's known that monsters evolve, but if it happens in a short amount of time, I'm sure I'll be able to question it."

For example, there is a goblin who uses a bow called a goblin archer.

This Goblin Archer may already be a Goblin Archer from birth, or the Goblin may accumulate experience, store magic power in places where magic is gathered, or become a Goblin Archer for many other reasons.

But it was still very unbelievable to researchers like Eugen and Gosh in a few days.

Needless to say, there are no magic stones, so you're not officially a monster.

Eugen, Gosh, and other researchers who heard Ray's words didn't seem particularly concerned about it.

I already knew that I wasn't officially a monster because I didn't have any magic stones.

Ray didn't bother to say anything about it, but he seemed to know about it.

“I know that much. But in the meantime, why don't you call me a monster?"

The monsters in the lake don't have any magic stones either.

Gosh tells him to keep following Eugene's words, but Ray turns a dumb gaze to it.

"The monster of the lake must have been transferred from another world." On the other hand, this world exists. "

“I know that much. It's just a joke. More than that, Ray. Looking at the curse, there's something more like this...?"

Looking at Gosh, he doesn't laugh at his own jokes, but asks for his opinions on frustration while showing his frustrated gaze at Ray.

After all, there's no doubt that Ray has been in contact with his closest friends for a long time.

After I was captured in a hell of a fire, I didn't have to talk about it.

It wasn't strange for a researcher to ask Ray for an opinion.

"Even if they say so."... the dice are dice, I don't think there's anything particularly different about them. How did this dice survive in the first place? Did you absorb other pests or something? "

That was the first thing that came to Ray's mind when he said that only one pigeon would survive.

Beyond your behavior, you need to ingest energy from somewhere... specifically, food.

But more than being in a hell of a fire, how do you get it?

After all, the easiest thing to do would be to get rid of my people.

In the first place, it was subtle whether there was a sense of fellowship.

But in response to Ray's question, Eugen and Gosh shook their heads.

“We were wondering about it at first. However, as you know, this is the only prison of fire that is still alive, so I kept a close eye on it. That's what happens when you take turns all day. However, it still didn't seem like it was absorbing any of my companions."

Is that true?

Eugen's words were quite surprising to Ray.

I thought only one dice had survived because it was a situation that should be called a kind of cannibalism, but Ray's prediction was missed.

But it was something Ray could come up with.

If you were a researcher, you would have come up with it as a matter of course, and in that sense, you would have anticipated Ray's idea.

"We naturally thought about Ray's possibility. That's why I was observing it as a premise. And if you imitate a surviving dice eating an ally, do you think you'll miss it?”

Ray had no choice but to agree with Eugen's explanation.

Researchers have been watching the flames for a whole day without even looking away.

Besides that, if the bastard is eating together, he will not miss it.

Even if one or two of them fell asleep, it wasn't strange that they had to fall asleep... but as long as Ray remembered, the number of strangenesses in the Fire Prison was quite good.

If so, it is not necessary to think first about the fact that researchers are sleeping only when they are eating together.

"Well then, as far as I could possibly think... right, you had more power to act than the others?"

I heard that he didn't absorb other pests by eating together, and then Ray thought of it.

The power to act by an individual... there was a good chance that the energy they had was different.

The stalker that is still alive happens to have more energy than any other individual, so it is still alive.

Ray nodded, Eugene and Gosh.

“We thought about that possibility, too. But... it's also true that doing research can be a bit of a hassle."

Looking at Gosh's miserable expression, I'm pretty sure he didn't welcome Ray's idea.

(Well, I know how it feels. From my point of view, being a robot is like being a robot. In other words, the energy you have is neither uniform nor strange.)

That said, it's only Ray's perception, and it doesn't make sense to call him a robot in this world.

... it might be easier to describe as like a golem.

Anyway, there's only one left, but now that we've survived, should we stop destroying this hellfire?

Ask Ray with a little confirmation, Eugen and Gosh who were listening to it... no, many people, including other researchers and you and your assistant, nodded naturally to Ray's words.

(I'm disgusted just by looking at it... how are these guys going to overcome that?)

It was Ray who had seen it many times before, but even if it was such a Ray, the instinctive disgust of seeing it could not be overcome.

However, although it was disgusting, it also meant that there were no other negative effects.

(Because you're so enthusiastic about research, is that the kind of disgust... you're forcing yourself to overcome with your so called enthusiasm?)

If a researcher is enthusiastic about one thing, it is not surprising that the researcher can ignore the other.

Alternatively, there was plenty of potential to get used to the instinctive aversion to sagging.

“Of course. If I were to disarm this thing, I would stop it by any means necessary.”

That's what Eugen says.

As a researcher, it wasn't very easy for Ray to lift the flame prison, but it wasn't acceptable.

Ray has no intention of objecting to Eugen or Gosh like that.

Ray came to the camp because he decided that if the hell were in the way, we should disarm it.

As long as I was still alive, I didn't think Ray would be able to lift the hell out of me.

"Alright. Then I'll go back to Fairyland and do my best to study the moonshine."... oh, by the way, really, by the way, did you find out anything at all about this? "

"There's nothing new to discover." Although I have various expectations, it is only a hypothesis. Or it's just a hypothesis, a hypothesis. "

Even in such a situation, I can't say it yet.

As he continued to do so, Eugen convinced Ray that it was something like that.

I would like to hear it a little more if I could, but I don't think I would force myself to hear it.

If you try to imitate it, it's because you never thought Eugen would tell himself.

If you tried to force yourself to find out, it would make your relationship with Eugen and the others worse.

As for Ray, he never wanted anything like that.

Of course, that's not true if Eugen and the others are using that position to behave roughly, but it hasn't happened so far.

... some guards try to imitate me like that.

"Well, I'll be back around here." I don't know if I'll... tomorrow, but I'll come and see if I can find some time. "

For a few days, you were in a hell of a flame.

Ray doesn't know how long it'll last.

I don't know, but I still hope this will help the research, but Ray went back to Fairyland with Set.