Legend

Starting to go through the underground space for about two hours… naturally, some of the Centaurs are unhappy to continue going on like this.

If this is the ground...... meadow, you won't be particularly dissatisfied where you ran for about two hours.

If you run through the meadows, the wind blows, and there are blue skies, clouds, and suns in the sky, and if you look around, you can see the rich gaze of various grasses, trees, stones, rivers, etc.

But... this underground space is different.

I can feel the air on its own more than I'm running, but it's only air and not wind.

Above all, it would have fatigued the spirit of the Centaurs, whether they ran or not, that the sights around them would not change at all.

I know it's actually subtly different, but like a meadow on the ground, there's no difference so much that you can see it.

I didn't like to keep running through that, and there were a lot of people going back to the slopes connected to the ground along the way.

... Still, most of them kept running because they still looked like the queen who tormented them... and that's what they wanted to see, because it could be flesh pieces, charcoal, or ash.

As for Ray, who knows how much damage Centaur has suffered by Dragonias, if the Centaurs, starting with Zai, want it that way, there's no way they won't.

(Yesterday, I already saw the queen.... no well, whatever I said I burned it, it doesn't make any sense)

While watching the distance on Seto's back, Ray puts his thoughts on the smudge and yesterday's battle.

Yesterday's battle was a rather dangerous one for Ray as well.

"Ray, what's going on?

Asdena, who was running nearby, looks strangely at Ray.

On Seto's back, I guess he questioned Ray, who looked like he was looking far away.

Against such Asdena, Ray shook his neck sideways saying it was nothing.

"I was just remembering yesterday.... Yesterday, I could already see the queen from about this distance."

"... ho"

To Ray's words, Asdena looks intriguing.

I suppose you're thinking about how big the queen was that she already saw it from here.

"Dragonias doesn't do magic. Or did the dragonias in this underground space use magic?

You were listening to Asdena, Dolphina asks Ray that.

I was so busy yesterday that I couldn't hear more about the battle in the underground space.

Again today, I had breakfast when I woke up in the morning...... and then I missed asking Dolphina what she wanted to hear, even though I had some time to slow down.

After that, I came all the way here without being able to ask... but now is my chance and that's what I asked Ray, who is talking to Asdena.

Ray, unaware at all of such a Dolphina's condition, opens his teasing mouth with a little thought.

"Right. There were dragonias with all sorts of special abilities, but no one was using magic."

"Special abilities? Is that like a speckled dragonias?

"That sounds like it. Optical camouflage… the ability to become transparent, to regenerate immediately even when the body is slashed and torn, to throw up braces, short distances but metastasized, to walk freely in the sky.... On second thought, you had a tremendous ability. The queen was a queen with special abilities."

What would surprise Ray was that the queen used the same regenerative abilities as the black scaled dragonias.

Maybe other Dragonias abilities could have been used, but fortunately such abilities were never actually used

... Instead, I've done things like let out countless tentacles whose tips are vibrating, or violently tremble my body to increase my defense.

(The Queen was definitely highly intelligent.... Somehow, he was capable of communicating with us. But the communication was just a word, so I needed to translate it here.)

Only such a queen, if she could have used other abilities, would have used them when she was fighting Ray.

Most importantly, if you're a queen giant, there's no point in using an optical camouflage, because the attack would easily make you hit, and the ability to metastasize is basically short range.

Also, I wouldn't be able to imitate anything more like walking in the air than being that giant.

The strong leg strength of the dragonias of the transparent scales did not seem to Ray to be equally helpful to the queen.

(If so, will only a brace of white scales dragonias help)

I think so... As we continue our conversation with Dolphina, and further time passes, we eventually arrive at a place where the ground is becoming glass, either due to the effects of burning the ground with high heat or extensively.

"Wow..."

Who the hell squealed like that when I arrived at the place?

... For some reason, Ray was surprised to see the sight again.

When I defeated the Queen, I didn't realize the ground was like this because my consciousness was already hazy.

I also did things like checking its performance using terrain manipulations that went to level five, but I guess it's still a testament to the fact that the limits were close around where I didn't realize the ground was like this.

(For once, my consciousness should have been clear... was it so vague that I didn't realize that much? Nevertheless, if anything like this were to happen, it would be okay to notice.... then maybe this happened after I walked away from here?

If that's the case, it's understandable that Ray didn't notice the glazing of the ground when he was here.

You don't want to think you didn't even notice this, Ray is half forced to rethink it.

... Most likely, given yesterday's battle, no one would blame Ray for it.

"That's amazing, this"

Anastasia was the first to return to me while everyone was blinded by the fact that they could not even speak on the glazed ground.

I guess it's more impossible not to be interested in glazed ground just because you have a curious personality.

As soon as I get off the deer I was riding, I rush out towards the glazed ground and start looking into it.

Like following such anastasia, Fana also goes down from the deer to the glazed ground.

"If it was outside, it would reflect on the sunlight, and it would be so beautiful."

Vihera squeaks a little too bad.

The ceilings and ground shine here for some reason, but naturally it does not extend to the sunlight.

That's why once those lights were reflecting on the glass, they didn't look so pretty.

"Right.... but you can't do that on earth so easily."

Neither does Ray know exactly how much temperature the soil will need to be glass.

However, the au part is that it is not inherently possible for an ancient civilization that I saw on TV when I was in Japan before… I have seen a so-called feature on misplaced crafts in which an ancient nuclear war theory was introduced, in which the ground is glazed.

In other words, the fact that this ground is glazed means that when Ray infused magic and vitality into the Red Armor of the Flaming Emperor in the Queen's body and burned it from within, it should have been at a temperature comparable to that.

... Most of all, if that's all the heat that's generated, it's not strange that this underground space itself can be managed... That's the extent of the effect. Around, I guess it's because of the special nature of the skill called Red Armor of the Flaming Emperor.

"... hey, Ray..."

"Anastasia?"

Anastasia, who had examined the glass in such a fashion as she was intrigued until earlier, is like that's incredible... and she looks at Ray with a look close to a kind of fear.

"You... this is outrageous, right?

"Terrible?

To satisfy my curiosity, I encourage you to get ahead of the conversation, questioning what I don't think is going to be like anastasia penetrating out of you in some... no, quite dangerous way.

"Yeah, I'm an elf, so I'm not very familiar with the Spirit of Fire, so I'm late to realise... this glass contains the power of a powerful Spirit of Fire."

"... Spirit? Why?"

If this, or simply the power of flames, Ray would have been convinced, too.

Because it actually emitted a powerful fever by the Red Armor of the Flaming Emperor to burn the Queen.

But when that element of the Spirit comes in, why? And I guess it's natural to wonder.

Even less, I can't use spiritual magic on Ray.

(Wait. Spirit magic? Spirit... Spirit? The Queen wanted eggs of the Spirit to be called even a mass of the power of the mighty earthly Spirit. I mean, even if the Queen herself was a being who had some relationship with the Spirit, it's not strange. I burned such a queen to death with the Red Armor of the Flaming Emperor. If……)

With so much thought, Ray looks at the glazed ground again and opens his mouth.

"It's not strange that the Spirit of Fire is sealed in glass...?

Normally, it's weird enough.

But still, given the current situation, maybe... maybe really, but isn't it strange that there is such a possibility?

... It's no surprise that people like wizards, spiritual wizards, researchers, etc. say with their mouths together that that's probably never going to happen.

But still, given the current situation, it doesn't seem strange.

"I don't know why that happened, but I guess coincidences overlapped and some more coincidences combined on top of that."

"... how many coincidences were involved?

I suppose he also understands that Anastasia squeaks in a frivolous manner, but would not otherwise be in this situation.

"In the meantime, you should take this glass with you because it might help you in some way"

"... could it be a material for a magic item?

Just a little...... but surely with the anticipation, Ray asks Anastasia.

If you try to lay down a hobby for collecting magic items, if this glass is going to be material for some kind of magic item, you don't have the option to leave it alone.

Glass where the power of the Spirit of Fire resides.

If you think about what the hell it would do to be reborn into a magic item, it makes sense that you defeated the queen, a grin.

"Right. I think you have a lot of uses, don't you? I think that's what changes the alchemist around here. Besides, I think this glass could be used purely as a means of attack.... Look."

That said, Anastasia takes a shard of glass about her fingertips from the ground she is glazing and throws it a little further away towards no-one else.

The glass thus thrown creates an intense flame, no or no, touching the ground.

What Ray thought of when he said glass and flames was a flame bottle.

However, the flame produced by the glass thrown by Anastasia produces a flame so enormous that it is not comparable to a flame bottle.

... Most of all, what Ray knows about flame bottles is only what he knows about comics, cartoons, games, etc., and I've never actually seen flame bottles in person with my own eyes.

"This is... awesome"

Ray groans with surprise at the flames created.

The glass fragments thrown by Anastasia are a very small substitute.

If you throw a bigger glass shard than that, how much flame on earth would that be?

Just thinking about it, there's a grin in Ray's mouth.

"Can it be used as a means of direct attack, or as a material for magic items?... Definitely a first-class product."

To Ray's words, Anastasia nods… At the same time, she speaks the question.

"I was talking about this happening with Ray's skills, what the hell kind of skills is that? At least, as far as I know, there's no skill like this, is there?

"I guess."

To Anastasia's question, Ray returns it that way.

In fact, in the battle with the Queen, I have the feeling that Ray was pretty unscrupulous, too.

Skills also mean that people who can't use magic even if they have magic, make their magic their own technology or moves, which is a thousand different things to say.

You can say that only the number of people is skilled.

… Of course, it is not uncommon for some people to have similar skills.

With that in mind, Ray kept the glass in mysterious storage.