Magi Craft Meister

"... Father, you'll want to see for yourself."

Before the hatch, Reiko groans pompously.

Absolutely right, Jen, who is in Penglai, had heartily agreed.

"... first when the hatch opens, I'll just wait a minute. Then you're ahead of me."

Ann will explain the plan.

I'll take care of it.

"If there doesn't seem to be any immediate danger, we'll be on board."

"Um, okay"

"I have too little information to say anything more. All I can say is, I'd like to move on to peace first."

I had no objection to that either.

"Okay, I'll open it"

Ann manipulated the lever. As you can guess, it seemed to be an opening and closing device, and the hatch slowly opened up.

The diameter of the pompous hole is about two meters the same diameter as the hatch. The lights don't seem to be on.

Three people about three meters away to watch how it goes. But nothing happened, and nothing came out again.

"It's been a minute. I'm coming."

Reiko, who carried peach blossoms, quickly disappeared into the hole.

And two minutes.

"Nothing abnormal so far seems to be happening. Let's go too."

"Huh? I haven't heard from Leiko yet?

Surprising Alektas. However, contact has been made between Reiko and Lao on the Magic Vegetable Communicator (Manacam), as well as between Lao and Ann. Therefore, it is natural that Reiko and Ann can be contacted via Lao Jun.

"Me and you can keep in touch."

Ann reserved it for Alektas to answer that.

There was no time for Alexandus to listen any deeper, and the two jumped inside from the open hatch.

The vertically stretched vertical hole is about five meters. A simple ladder is mounted, which would likely be an emergency entrance or exit.

"Or is it a shaft for air intake..."

Two people quickly descended the ladder, from which the passage was extended to the left and right. Ether emitter (AL) -like lighting is used and the interior is bright.

I see Reiko across one aisle. Apparently, that's the direction of the destination.

"... but what is this passage? Floors, walls and ceilings are made of metal..."

Alektas whispered.

Ann goes to Reiko silently. Alektas arrived one tempo late.

"There's no sign of people at all. The Magic Reaction begins in the future…"

Ann also tilted her neck at Reiko's explanation. And Alexis can't forbid to be stunned at the next Reiko's words either.

"This metal... you've never seen it"

Reiko touched the wall a little before presenting the results of the analysis.

"What?"

"I'm afraid your father doesn't know this kind of metal."

"Is it a metal you don't even know about Magicraft Jazz, a magic engineer?

"That's the thing. Who the hell made it?"

It was Anne who answered Alektas' question. And at about the same time, Reiko shouted.

"Stop!

"What?"

And in the sight of the three men, the door came out of the wall, blocking the hand that went. At the same time, the rear side was blocked by a door that was cut out.

"We're trapped!

"As many doors as this, it's not hard to break..."

When Reiko squeaked so slightly at the door. From the ceiling, a yellow-green gas drifted. Reiko decides instantly.

"Ann! Set up a complete defensive junction with Alektas!

Ann put up a complete defensive junction to that voice without asking any questions or hesitation. It is a junction that does not pass through any gases, liquids or solids. So they should shut out the poison gas as well.

On the other hand, there are limits to the oxygen in it. Anyway, Ann had limited time for Alektas.

"... sounds like poison gas"

Reiko shrugged 'Analyze' the gas.

"… definitely chlorine gas"

Chlorine is an element of atomic number 17, which stimulates the mucous membranes of the eyes and respiratory tract to cause coughing and vomiting. It is also a poisonous gas used in World War I, which may lead to death due to respiratory failure.

Heavier than air as a characteristic, deadly to soldiers caged in trenches and such.

I need sodium thiosulfate (Na2S2O3), also known as hypo, to neutralize it safely, but there is nothing like it here (hypo is a karki drain used when keeping goldfish and tropical fish in tap water. Hence, I knew Jen, so Reiko and Lao also have that knowledge).

"The callout... that's it. Flameball!"

Keiko, who identified calmly, first melted the callout mouth and sealed it. The next step is chlorine in the air.

……

I'll get in touch with you too and work out what to do.

"Let the chlorine gas be absorbed into the water, is it? I see, … please"

Reiko, who took advice from you, then expects your support. Immediately a huge chunk of ice was transferred.

"That's you, isn't it? Melt this ice first. …" Heating ""

The ice, which is about a cubic meter, dissolved and became water. Furthermore, Reiko heats up. Hot air already stood up.

The hot air filled with this air absorbs chlorine gas and becomes a mixture of hydrochloric acid and hypochlorite acid. This has a strong acidity.

So Reiko pulls out the peach blossoms and sticks them deep on the floor. The unknown metal on the floor had only about the resistance of ballpaper before the force of Reiko and the strength of the peach blossoms, making it easy to drill holes.

Strong acidic water poured out of its holes, eventually rendering the air in the Chamber harmless.

"You don't insult me. Let me open this door first."

Reiko, who set up the peach blossom, released four consecutive strikes. Twice horizontally and twice vertically.

The metal of the door is also slashed and torn as if it were paper, where square holes arise. Fresh air poured in.

For the first time here, Ann unlocked the full defensive junction. Alektas doesn't understand what happened, he's just stunned.

"They let the poison air out, so Ann protected it in the junction, and in the meantime, it harmless the poison air."

Reiko explained it very briefly.

"Ha ha... That's right, speaking of Magic-Craft Jazz's Automatic Doll (Automata)..."

"Anyway, let's move on. with greater care."

Thus were the three men who went further down the aisle.

There was a vertical hole at the penetration of the aisle, with a spiral staircase to the bottom.

"We'll have to go downstairs."

Reiko explores with a built-in magic detector. Although it is a simplified version, it is practical enough for close range because we know for sure whether or not there is magic.

"Sounds like there's no magic trap."

That being said, Reiko also took the lead and stepped into the spiral staircase this time.

This time it was the next floor just about four meters down. It is also bright here with ether emitter (AL) illumination.

For now, nothing happened, so Reiko called Ann and Alektas.

"See you in the aisle."

"Yeah. Looks like the destination is a little further down, though."

"Is that to say it's deep underground?

"That's what I'm talking about"

I waited a minute and nothing happened, so the line stepped out into the aisle that stretched out in front of me.

Without the earlier acid water dripping from the ceiling, the three of us proceeding. At about fifteen meters the passage turns to the right.

There was no such thing as a door on the way.

"Please stop."

The leading Reiko called out.

From there on, the colour of the floor is changing. Until now, it's grey, but it's painted purple.

"What do we have?"

It doesn't seem like a mere landmark. It is reasonable to assume that it shows some meaningful boundaries.

"Hey, can I throw you something?"

"Right. Bye."

Reiko's body has the ability to process, solidify and store food. It is spherically consolidated and can be used as a weapon.

but this time I decided to use it just for investigative purposes.

Pugh, and a ball about 1 cm in diameter was spit out of Reiko's mouth. The balls drew parabolas and fell to the purple floor, as soon as they touched the floor......

And the blue spark ran, and the balls were blackened, and scattered upon the floor.