"Ugh... Gu Gu"

Lilia in her human form was nodding and crying.

Melvi says.

"Wasn't it a little unpopular?

"... reflecting"

I got high on Lilia's unexpected prowess, and I overdid it.

I think 2 x Gatling Rail Guns running on MP developed with Mr. Alphesia was too much......

Why couldn't I restrain myself?

"Not a little weird lately, Edgar"

"Ugh."

I'm gonna stare at me and say it, Melvi. Stuck in words.

"I'm not blaming you for bastards, I'm really worried about you?

Melvi says.

"So this house... I didn't object to the journey, either. It doesn't necessarily make you crazy if you're doing all that work."

"... yeah"

It usually recesses when Melvi worries me so much.

I don't want to blame people, but I have the skill of [hard labor]. Until now, all its good aspects have come to the fore, but it is a skill that purges together elements such as fatigue and sleep that are essential for humans. There could have been a build-up of something like side effects in the inconspicuous.

"Or I fought the Fire Dragon and won...... haha"

Mr. Rutwara is leaking a dry laugh with his eyes that have slightly itched.

The depressing Fire Dragon daughter and the depressing me and the fairy who comforts it when I see it, the female adventurer who is shocked and flabbergasted by the battle just now, and the pro-Fire Dragon watching them...... kind of made me unsure.

For once, I was the fastest to get back on my feet.

"Sorry, Agnia. Too much on track......"

I don't mind. It would have been a good pill for that kid, too. And it's Edgar. You lifted your arms in a little while. "

"I mean, the last one was a tool."

Sixteen years ago, when I fought the Veal Fire Dragon (now Lilia), I used the method of running current through the coil and ejecting the rail. Compared to its primitive methods and today's gatoring electromagnetic rail guns, it is indeed the difference between cloud mud.

"That's in strength again. Besides, the unfamiliar tool was made by you?

"Well."

Anyway, you're a firedragon for everything.

"Previously, I barely gave Lilia down in bundles with children. This time, you won by yourself. Honestly, I can't say for sure if I can beat what you're doing."

I can't be sure, I guess you think that somehow outweighs my attacks right now.

"What, Agnia try hard too?

"Let's not. I didn't forget where this place is."

I'm told, I realize.

Yes, this is by the fire escape in the middle of an eruption. If I really did this with Agnia here, that would be the volcano that could erupt.

... Yeah, in short, I forgot.

It's Edgar. I need a favor in anticipation of your power. "

Agnia said out of the way.

"What? Agnia asked me to do it?

It seems like Agnia would do something about it herself if it was most of the time.

"I feel uncomfortable with this dragon peak eruption. More importantly, I think this is unusual."

"Anomaly......"

Indeed, it was a sudden eruption in the mountain that was thought to be a deadly volcano.

Of course, it is possible that the perception that it is a dead volcano was sweet because volcanology is not developed as in previous life.

But the Flame Cactus we ran into along the way also seemed to think this eruption was unusual. Because that's enough for their collective consciousness to awaken and escape barefoot.

It's Edgar. I want you to dive into the fire escape with my daughter and check the spiritual nucleus at the bottom. "

"Spirit nucleus? What the hell is that..."

That's the first word I've ever heard.

"The Spirit Nucleus is the node of a network of spirits strewn around this world. Little things are everywhere, but the Spirit Nucleus of Fire that exists in this Dragon Gap Peak will be the largest on the continent."

Is it like an Internet server?

"I see... that abnormality in its spiritual nucleus and doings is what caused this eruption?

"I can't say for sure at the moment, but the suspicion is strong."

"Why aren't you going to see for yourself?

It's a simple story. My body is too big for me to get close to the back of the fire escape. Even if you dig holes with braces, there are magmas in the ground around you like leaves. "

"Oh, you know what?"

Lilia, who was humanized, seems to be able to get in, but I guess she was anxious to let Lilia go alone. Lilia is young in spirit compared to her real age. No, if it's a dragon, does it deserve to be old? Dragons may take longer to develop their spirits than humans.

"I can't even ask a human to do that. The people of the ministry have not been brought here, and even if they were here, they would be nothing but suicide, such as diving into the fire escape."

If I told you, I'd be laughing at you again.

"... ok. You owe me."

Borrowing means that Agnia was asked to evacuate the nest she had just built at the time of the "Yata-glass" incident. Agnia helped me draw on my circumstances with dragon-like generosity when she said she was fighting Lilia and wounding her.

"... what about Mr. Rutwara?

When I heard it, Mr. Rutwara trembled.

"Yes, I don't want to go..."

That's right.

Mr. Rutwara will look me in the eye when I'm convinced.

"But I have to go. The spiritual nucleus and the rattle must be driving the mountain crazy, right? Then it is incumbent upon me, seconded on behalf of the city of Kreutz, to see to the end"

Having said all that, Mr. Lutwara was definitely prepared to live in his eyes.

That's right, A-rank adventurer. No, isn't it? This is the qualities of Mr. Rutwara himself. You're rude if you don't think so.

"Okay. Then we'll go together."

"Oh, but..."

Mr. Rutwara will be the boss.

"I'm sorry... protect me properly, okay?

"Of course it is"

Protect yourself! I didn't mean to say anything.

To the best of my knowledge, is it about me, Melvi, Asura and Alfred's father? It's incompatible with Steph's magic sword, and Jeremiah and Julia's mother remain anxious about the magical power of the ice system. Even Boston, who was General Hundred Ultra's only magician, wouldn't be able to do it.

That's why we're going to investigate the Dragon Peak fire exit.

"is oh-ooh!

and Lilia raises her pretty voice.

but not as cute as the effect.

Released braces wear through the ground, creating passages through which we can pass.

Just in case I cool down the aisle with cooling magic and stiffen it up.

We lead Lilia down the aisle.

"Hey, are you okay with digging so hard?

Ask Lilia.

"It's okay. I'm checking the location of the magma."

It was us lapeling down from the fire escape, but naturally there can't be a path through which people can pass.

Lilia is digging a hole in her brace and heading further down the bottom of the fire escape.

Of course, it's like having a magma right there.

It's so hot.

Melvi and Lilia seem fine, but it's hard on me and Mr. Lutwara, so I'm trying to get some cold air around them.

"Hey, I have a simple question..."

Mr. Rutwara asks, looking at the cold air.

"Mr. Edgar, you've been using quite a bit of magic since you went into the volcano, but is MP okay?

Sure, that's a natural question.

'Cause I have 80,000 MPs.

"Eight... ten thousand?

I tried to answer honestly, and Mr. Rutwara solidified.

Moreover, the MP recovers after a little bit due to the effects of [difficulty without labor]. Unless you can spend 80,000 in an instant, I don't have to worry about running out of MP. To use up 80,000 in an instant... you'll need to do enough to blow it up even in the mountains.

Mr. Lutwara is silent, and we will proceed by passing on Lilia's open passage.

"Don't remind me..."

I snap.

It was when I was thrown into the Fire Dragon's Nest with everyone in my former boys squad.

I thought it would be interesting if we could be adventurers together, but in the end we're falling apart. Miguel and Beck are adventurers, but each belongs to a different party. Donna is a traveling pharmacist with her grandfather, Grandpa Ganash.

Only Jeremiah is with me, but I left that Jeremiah behind this time.

My chest hurts properly.

In doing so, we were right under the fire escape, right up to "really right next to (by Lilia)" the magma buildup.

There was a wide cavity there that Lilia didn't dig.

A huge red sphere floats behind it, which is a domed lung sinus. Will there be four meters in diameter? The surface of the sphere is covered in flaming fluid.

That red sphere, which looked like a true sphere, had a big crack running. The crack spreads around one place.

In that "one place," a black wedge was punched in. Its huge wedge, which seems to be made of magic, breaks the outer shell of the spiritual nucleus and eats deeply into the spiritual nucleus.

Behind the cracked spiritual nucleus, I saw something like a blue-white, radiant crystal. The wedge also eats into the surface of that crystal, but this one doesn't seem to crack enough.

I could feel the Spirit of Fire leaking enormously out of the crack of the Spirit Nucleus made by the wedge.

"Ahhh! The spiritual nucleus!

Lilia screams.

"This is terrible."

Without a doubt, this wedge would be the cause of the volcanic anomaly.

The spiritual nucleus is broken by the wedge, from which the excessive spirits of fire leak. The Spirit of Fire stimulated a build-up of magma just around the corner, a situation in which the Dead Volcano erupted.

It would be reasonable to guess so.

I [appraise] the wedge.

"The Devil's Wedge. A wedge that, by tampering with the status information of a living demon, makes it alive and destroys the Spirit. The Devil Who Became a Plain Body: The Egmeness (Advanced Devil).

"The Wedge of the Living Devil,"

Tampering with status, when I hear it, I really remember him.

but he's already dead. It also confirms quite nervously that there are no signs of resurrection.

Nevertheless, the status information tampering technology that he was conducting - the Embryobag research facility - has not yet been able to discover. How carefully did you hide it or have it already been disposed of? Even if it stayed, if it was concealed in such a way as the relics of the past reincarnated in the crows, it would be impossible to find it no matter how much you searched the earth.

No way... he has a successor? Though I didn't seem like an exceptional winner to raise a successor.

Or, by chance, someone discovered his legacy? But even if so, what's the point of diving beneath the volcano and damaging the Spirit Nucleus?

"Can't you even think about it here?"

I take a sword out of dimensional storage.

The sword itself is just a long sword made of misrills. Of course, it is a trade there, but not an ancient artifact.

I breathe slowly.

Clear signs of plugging from the top of the sky.

Pour it into the sword in your hand with care not to pollute it with greed.

The sword brings together the white holy light.

I approach the Spirit Nucleus, wedge and leap.

"Holy Flute slaughter!

A sword that has been swept away breaks the wedge.

- Ggaaaaaaaaaaaa

And I heard a scream from the wedge.

The wedges were broken in two and then scattered, and each fragment was wrapped in holy light and extinguished.

[Holy Swordsmanship]. A skill that specializes in tearing demons apart, but I make them kanst and integrate them into the Weapon Master class.

"I knocked down the devil who was wedged for now..."

View the Spirit Nucleus.

With the wedge gone, I could clearly see the painful crack.

From the crack, the spirits of fire are spraying more momentum than just now because the wedge is gone.

…………

"You suck!

We have to block that hole somehow!

"Duh, what are you gonna do, Edgar!

"I'm gonna erupt like this. Yikes!

Melvi and Lilia panic.

and that's where I realized something was trembling in dimensional storage.

I take it out on purpose.

Something like a smartphone from a previous life.

It's a goddess phone that you can call with a goddess.

The goddess von was ringing a ringtone.

"Hello! A goddess!

'That's right. That sounds like a tough one, so I'll just make the point! It takes a lot of MP to repair the Spirit Nucleus. The core of the Spirit nucleus can transform MP into a Spirit. The Spirit forms the outer shell of the Spirit nucleus.'

"Can't the spirits leak now!?"

'Sounds like you're losing control because your core is hurting. The core has automatic repair, so just give me an MP and I'll fix it soon. Give me about 800,000 MP!

"Ha, 800,000!?"

"You'd be fine, wouldn't you? I'm sorry, I'm begging you! Because the Spirit Nucleus is quite important!

The call is dead.

But what we do is clear.

I lay my hands on the spiritual nucleus.

Use Magi Adept from both hands to radiate magic directly.

The core of the Spirit nucleus sucks my magic.

That's a hell of a momentum.

My 80,000 MP is gone in a matter of minutes.

Rest a little.

MP recovered quickly due to the effects of [difficulty without labor].

80,000 again.

Repeat this ten sets in a heartbeat.

The core completes self-repair in a few sets, after which the crack in the outer shell gradually fills.

The crack that was in the outer shell was completely buried in the tenth set.

"Phew..."

Sigh unexpectedly.

"Good luck"

Melvi says.

I looked sideways, but Melvi and Lilia were using [Spirit Magic] to retrieve the first spirits that escaped. He says he's already got some escape from the magma buildup, but the big eruption seems to have been avoided.

"It's hotter than that..."

I notice it in Mr. Rutwara's voice.

To spit out the MP, I had cut the magic of cold air.

I dare to rework the magic.

"Hey, is the temperature up here too?

The cold air doesn't work well.

"Maybe the magma buildup is in danger!

Melvi says.

At the same time, the walls of the cavity burst.

Magma erupts from the back.

"- We're getting away!

I grab Mr. Rutwara's collar and run off, unleashing the magic of ice on the magma.

"Ugh!

Mr. Rutwara screamed as I dragged him.

Melvi and Lilia are following with no problems.

It was almost at the same time that we jumped into the original aisle and the cavity was filled with magma.

Back on the ground, Agnia said in a calm voice.

Are you back?

"Oh. I've had a rough time, but I don't know"

What about the Spirit Nucleus?

I'll explain what I've seen to Agnia.

"At the end of the day, I buried you in a magma, but are you okay?

"Not something that breaks to that extent. If it had been repaired, it was likely that the Spirit of Fire would oversupply the Magma."

The Spirit Nucleus seems to be quite stiff. Also, otherwise I wouldn't be putting it under the volcano in the first place or anything like that.

After you threw some questions at me, Agnia said.

"Right. After all, there was an artificial manipulation behind this eruption."

"But I don't even think there are people who can do that. I can't believe we're using advanced demons as wedges."

When it comes to advanced demons, they say they can do it with dragons.

Moreover, because existence is hidden in the surplus dimension, one cannot be scratched in a normal attack.

Like me earlier [Holy Swordsmanship], but I need to use it, or I need to slash and tear every space like Mr. Siel was doing during the King's Capital case. There are very few humans who can use both means.

The only reassuring ingredient is the small number of demons themselves. Even the whole continent is said to have dozens of lower classes, less than twenty intermediates and less than ten bodies when advanced.

I'm worried about the other spiritual nuclei.

"Are you saying that other spiritual nuclei are being targeted?

"Hmm... only a very limited number of people know where the Spirit Nucleus is."

"What happens when the Spirit Nucleus is destroyed?

"There will be deficiencies in every system, spilled by the good gods. Especially systems like Atrazenek-sama's skills and levels, Attiela-sama's magic registry. If this neighborhood gets paralyzed, it's gonna be tough."

"What!

In this world where fighting demons is routine, if you can no longer benefit from skills, levels, or magic.

People will almost lose the means to counter the demons.

That's no other HR. If my skills suddenly become unusable, even I will have a limited way of fighting them all at once.

I left it in my hand, goddess. Phone calls the goddess.

The phone is limited to 15 minutes a day, but it was short earlier, so it will be fine.

"Edgar?"

"Goddess!

Oh, my God!

Agnia is surprised by my words.

He said, "Let me talk to you! Humanity will perish!

"... no, that's fine now"

I cling to a goddess who suddenly puts a story on me.

"That's not even a joke. Now that I've looked into it, I can see some anomalies in some of the nuclei of the Spirit. '

"Didn't you notice that before?

'That's the nasty thing about them. The opponent did not dare destroy the Spirit Nucleus. You took the time to accumulate anomalies and aim to bring them down.'

"For what?

'It will be to buy you time to discover. He has to find and manipulate spiritual nuclei scattered all over the continent. "

"If it breaks all of a sudden, the goddess will notice. But little by little, it's hard to be noticed. In the meantime, do you work on other spiritual nuclei?"

That's ingenious.

"I just scrutinized it and found out that some of the skill systems are already unstable."

"The skill system!?"

"It seems that a very small number of highly loaded skills on the system are becoming unstable. Specifically, a skill group that performs highly abstract processing, like your [difficult-to-work]. Don't you have any idea?

"I think... Speaking of which"

At the embassy in Mithrandia, I was disgusted with the pile of work and the impending Jeremiah Asla.

I have been bored lately with no exhilaration even as I fought.

In a return match with Lilia earlier on, I forgot to restrain myself to the unexpected strength of Lilia and put out some of my seriousness.

If [difficult labor] becomes unstable, it can be explained.

In short - I was tired (...).

I remembered the discomfort but didn't realize it was tiresome because it was so hiccups.

"Edgar. I'm not feeling well, but..."

"Oh, I know. You mean look for the Spirit Nucleus and check it out, right?

"Yeah. Please."

So it seems that the time limit has arrived and the call was interrupted.

... maybe this goddess phone is also a little unstable. I think it was a little short.

I'll explain Agnia's conversation with the goddess now.

"Has what I was threatening become a reality? Edgar Culver. I'll take care of it. Check the other spiritual nuclei and fix them if you have any problems. This is the only thing you can do."

"I'm going to do better than that."

I don't mean to thank you, but let's put on a daughter.

"What?"

"We're going to fly around the continent. Would you need a leg?

"Should I carry Edgar? Leave it to me!

Lilia stretches her chest.

"You're not coming?

"I'll stay here. Not that the bad guys won't be after us again."

"Well... be careful, will you?

The possibility is indeed undeniable. If Agnia will protect me. As long as there's nothing like it, it'll be fine.

"Do you know where the other spiritual nuclei are? I'm sure I'll be able to ask the goddess tomorrow, but it could be unstable to contact her."

Agnia taught me the position of the great spiritual nucleus as far as I know.

For security's sake, or all of this is in a very troublesome place.

Lilia back to the dragon lowers her body.

I rise to that back. Of course, Melvi followed me.

- Well, I'll be there.

That's what I told him, and he tried to fly, and I had someone to speak to.

"... Um... what am I supposed to do?

I'm sorry, Mr. Rutwara... I forgot I was totally here.

I entrust Mr. Ludwala with a letter addressed to the Alliance Master in Kreutz.

"It was like a storm... but I had a valuable experience."

Saying goodbye to Mr. Lutwara, who laughs like that, it is now time for us to rise to the sky.