Riot Grasper

"Hey, you can tell me where it's time to go"

"Hmm? Well, don't rush it. You're gonna hate that guy, aren't you?

I was running through the sea of trees south of Amorphas, shaken by Luke's back.

Running through a land where demons travel is a dangerous act, but just in case you're burning incense from demons, and even if you encounter Nue, you're confident you can repel one or two.

Besides, it's Shania we're with right now.

For some reason, I can't confirm her status, but I can only honestly say that her physical ability to go side by side with Luke's speed on her own is amazing, even if it's not a full-fledged disease.

Besides, I'm talking to the one next door without disturbing my breath.

It is only called unexplored land, and there are no well-maintained roads, etc., but tree branches, diseased as they cleverly circumvent the bumpy ground.

She is a tough species called Dragonut. It would be comforting to be in battle.

"When I said I didn't have to borrow a horseback or something, I was worried it was going to be okay, but you look really fine"

"I basically don't have much money. I need to save something."

... Speaking of which, even when I met Rim, he was having trouble with the money.

Maybe I didn't spend much money in the Dragonewt where I originally lived or anything.

- Yesterday, they told me there was a place I wanted you to come with me at the inn, and it was this tree sea that brought me here.

Everyone else will be enjoying a relaxing holiday in the city by now.

I thought it might be a little inadvertent for Shania and I to go to the Tree Sea alone after we met, but I didn't look like a bad person when I remembered her trends over the past few days.

Lim seems to trust Shania, too, and I don't think he's going to do anything harmful to me here because of what he said about going out of his way to the Tree Sea in front of everyone.

"- Ugh, we're here. You're just a little tired."

That's how I conceived it, Shania, who was lying down, stopped her leg.

Leaning and hydrating a leather water bottle on her hips, I turn my consciousness to the building in front of me.

"Is this...?

It was... like an old ruin.

Over the years, massive quantities of pigeons have eroded buildings that make me want to suspect that they have ignored the growth limits of plants.

"Wow... wow. This is what happens when you leave me alone."

It can't be a hundred years or two... No, well, I don't know how long it's actually going to grow to this point.

But...... I know a place similar to this one.

Because I have helped unearth useful artifacts from ancient sites at a request I received in the King's Capital of Richelle.

Nevertheless, the ruins over there had been completely weathered, such as the surface area, to the extent that there was barely room for exploration in the underground area.

The ruins in front of us can be said to remain in shape, except that they are covered in plants.

Differences in the technology of those who made it... or in the times when it was built.

"Ooh, it looks like you're just an undeveloped land, and you don't really get roughed up or anything. Well, I don't know how I can get in the back."

Yeah, nodding, Shania does not hesitate to forcefully pull and chop off the pigeon covering the ruins.

... I don't know. I saw this sight somewhere. Well, okay.

"You wanted to show me this place?

"Mm-hmm? Yeah, but it's inside that you have business, not outside. I need a little help."

"Fine. Step back a little bit."

She shows so much strength that I don't need to help, but I pulled the silver sword blanche out of my sheath and slashed it over several times.

Thick, grown bamboo also feels only resistance to the extent that it breaks thin threads.

"Ooh!! That's amazing! Hmm...? That sword, is that it?... Can I ask you one question?

"Go ahead."

"What are the ingredients for you?

"Beh, a little something from Berga..."

Yeah. That was a deal after we convinced each other.

The precious phosphorous dragon crystal you received has now been reborn as a splendid sword, yes.

"Oh, you got that!?"

What are you doing? Could it have been something very important...?

I immediately processed it into a sword.

I can't go back.

Or I won't give it back. Defend yourself.

"... Huh. No, no, no, no. You're not gonna tell me to give it back, are you? If Berga gave it to you, it's already yours."

Ugh, not at all... you surprise me.

As I am relieved in my heart, Shania touches the dewy ruins wall with her hands.

"Eh, there was. This is how..."

At first glance it looks like a wall with no philosophy whatsoever, but the moment she touched such a strange part, a letter that she had never even seen on the wall appeared.

Letters commonly used on this continent could be understood as strange from the beginning of reincarnation.

But I have no idea the letter in front of me.

The collapsed font looks like a child's lackey, but it attracts wonders.

"Hmm. Here's the thing... If you push there, this one moves, so here's the thing!

At the end of the day, he bashed in the wall with momentum.

Oh!! Sounds kind of like it. That's amazing, Shania.

It's a piece of intelligence.

Then Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!

- 'Blown up' on the inside.

"... ho, ho"

With the cigarette about to break out, I decided to ask you a modest question.

"... you know, this is what this is all about?

"Yeah...... I'm sure you do!

Shania nodded with a bright look, as usual.

- Now, leave the door open in a fancy way as if it had been half-broken, and me and Shania stepped inside the ruins.

By the way, Luke's leaving a message.

The interior doesn't even smell of mold, wonder and constant cleanliness are preserved.

The aisle was embedded with pale light-emitting stones at intervals, with bright feet.

Hmm...... apparently the surrounding walls aren't just stones either. The ancient civilization sensor in me is reacting in a sensitive bin.

After a while, we go out into a large space.

Ooh... it's kind of like a secret base.

There are several doors on the wall side in the large room with upstairs, third floors - and stairs leading up.

If there is a small room in the back of the door, this is a little living space.

I grabbed my arm and pulled it gleefully as if my desire to explore was on my face or Shania, who was watching this one, was going to hit the lead.

"We can still explore. First, this way."

Hey, don't pull so hard on me. Because it's gonna be like an earlier door!

I can't talk about... etc., I follow Shania very hard.

Proceeding through the passage further back from the large room, he went out into a small room with a slightly different atmosphere.

It looks like a dead end here... but there is something like a console in the middle of the room.

The walls were fitted with large stone slabs polished like mirrors.

"Uh, this is it, isn't it? Hmm. Here's how..."

Shania in front of the operating board manipulates something with delicate finger movements.

It must be made with precision. Much more polite than at the door earlier.

"The last thing you need to do is disarm this place... and here it is!

Bassin 'momentum slammed his hands well.

Oh, no, no, no, no, no!

So why are you slapping me for the last time!

Does this ruin karaki have to make a shock at the end to move?!? Don't you dare!

... but now it looks like we just added or subtracted it.

Even as the sound is raised, the letters float on the polished stone slab, causing a large number of letters to flow slowly.

"Huh, I see. Oh."

As an image, it feels like you're scrolling through the letters shown on the display.

It would be a little surprising if this were a long time ago technology.

Shania nodded and followed the letters with her eyes for a while.

Naturally, I left it because I couldn't read the letters shown.

- Can I go home?... Nice, right?

and around the conclusion in my heart, Shania turned this way.

"I'm sorry. It took me a while because I had some new information."

"No, I'm fine... but you explain things to me, don't you?

Leave me alone.

"Mm-hmm. Which one should I explain?"

"What is this ruin? How did Shania know where the ruins were? How can you move things around? I can't read the letters? Why are you hitting me for the last time?

In the meantime, I've said everything I doubt.

"Whoa, I'll answer it in order."

Shania coughs up a small cohon.

"Um, do you know the story of the Demonic Wars that happened in the past?

Then I read the book, and Len taught me.

It was a long time ago when a fierce demon clan and a wise dragon allegedly fought. Only a brave human asked Hyun Long for help and helped defeat the Demon Clan.

"Oh, I heard that when I was traveling within the Empire, too, because I was wrong"

... Huh?

"It's true that Humans and Demons were arguing, but it seems that Humans, who were at a disadvantage, planned to take power from dragons and win the battle against the Demons"

"Wait a minute. All of a sudden we're talking differently. What do you mean, take away your powers?

When Shania messed with the console, a string emerged on the tablet.

"Seven great sins that cause confusion in the world, namely, arrogance, greed, jealousy, anger, bulimia, lust, and laziness." When these sins take shape and dwell in life, they manifest themselves in hundreds of faces'

I twisted my neck to what Shania read to me.

I see, I don't know.

"There are creatures living in this world with all sorts of abilities, right? Looks like your ancestors called that 'ability' a 'skill' thing. Among them, there are seven skills that are particularly powerful."

Hmm...... has there been a proper concept of 'skill' in the past?

"That's the seven just now?

"Yeah. I guess it's the kind of extreme skill that symbolizes every single one of the seven major sins to be exact. For example, if you have the skills to respond to Anger, it activates when the holder feels strong anger and attributes everything to dust... Oh, my God."

What's scary about it?

But... Extremely skilled? You look a little good.

I'd like to take it if I can. This is getting interesting.

"Undo the story, but the Seven Extreme Skills are powerful, so they also affect war. In the last Great War, the Demons had multiple skills."

I see. It's also a story of inferior human abilities being at a disadvantage.

"Looking to break the status quo, they sent troops to take that power away from dragons with great skills. It's a little arrogant how hard it is."

Really. I'm gonna take it away from you because you need it. How dare you?

"The mad dragon destroyed his troops, took his family and destroyed a number of human cities, and at the end of the day, the spearhead of anger was also directed at the demonic tribe of the disputed culprits. I guess that's what they tell us as a battle between demons and dragons."

I see. Is that the only part handed down to the Suaven Empire that's convenient for humans?

"That's how the dragon thought his anger had subsided after the battle."

"What?

"I think it's a little too much..."

Right? It's a little too violent, isn't it? Something isn't light!?

"So I tried to seal my extreme skills so that the same thing wouldn't happen again. By enclosing each of the seven collected over time in a special treasure ball"

Can you do that?

"It was this ruin that rested on one of its treasures. It is believed that the dragons evolved into human beings who became the guardians of the treasure ball - we, the Dragon Newts."

Hmm. That's why he knew where the ruins were.

Then it is also satisfactory to understand the mechanism of the ruins and be able to operate them.

Well... there's a lot of debate about whether or not that's the right way to operate it.

By the way, they said the letters I couldn't read were an exciting sounding language like Ancient Dragon Language.

"But it seems like no one lives in this place anymore?

"Looks like you had a limited time to keep your skills sealed in the treasure balls. They shattered your bread in a thousand years or so."

There are all seven ruins to keep the treasure balls sealed, and they were built to fall apart all over the world.

The treasure balls he was protecting were crushed, and Dragonut, who lost his role, moved to another ruin to become a new protector, or he said he had embarked on a journey in search of new heavens and earth.

Most importantly, it seems that all the seals have now been broken, so I guess I'm relaxing with New Heaven and Earth.

"What's going on with that extreme skill now?

"Mm-hmm. I'm traveling around the ruins to find out a lot, too. Apparently, the greatest skill resides in someone suited to the symbolic 'great sin'. I don't know anything about legality."

Hmm.

For example, if you have the greatest skill in dealing with Arrogance, does that mean living in an arrogant person?

"As I said earlier," Be hundreds of faces and manifest, "it seems to me that the people who live there will change into different shapes."

... perhaps manifest itself as rare skills, but not immobilized ones.

If another person had lived with extreme skills, maybe the skill names and abilities would change as well.

"Phew ~ Now I wonder if I will have answered the question just now"

The red-haired girl is sitting back on the operating board saying she doesn't like these difficult stories.

I'm not going to sit there.

"Uh, can I ask you one last question?

"Hmm? No."

Indeed, thanks to all the explanations, the understanding was deepened.

But I haven't heard the key part.

I mean...

"- Why did you bring me here?

Clear purple blue eyes, reminiscent of purple crystals (amethysts), slowly turned towards us.

I spoke with a little nervousness, but Shania didn't break her loose expression.

"... yeah, let's skip the hiding. Whatever, you want me to say something that makes me angry?

What do you suddenly come up with, Shania?

"Fine. Look, I don't care what they say, 'cause I'm not serious."

Even so, I don't possess the technology to make people angry.

"Oh...... speaking of which"

When I was in trouble, Ren's sniveling face glistened in my head.

I didn't know it would help at a time like this. The one I don't hate.

"... small"

"Huh? I can't hear you very well. One more time."

"....................................... Shania, chest, small"

- Gogggggggggggg!!

The next moment I uttered my voice, the floor around me was submerged with a tremendous sound.

I didn't understand what happened for a bit, but I'm wonderfully intact standing at the center.

"Hey!? Huh!?"

"... Er, great skill, rebellion with other great skill."

Shania, calming her breath as she took a deep breath, said that.

"Which means that those with the greatest skills are mutually effective."

That's... no way.

"And you're the dragon that just came out of the story... his name is the Red Dragon Emperor Blaze. I think it's easy to imagine because I was mad and violent, but supposedly it was Anger's skills that I was living in."

Red Dragon Emperor Blaze......? Hmm? Blaze?

However, Shania's name is - ……… Shania Blaze.

"It's strange, isn't it? This is how you come back to me, a descendant."

Well, shall we wrap up our thoughts?

Even I can understand if you say so far.

I mean, that's the thing.

It is likely that Shania's status could not be seen because the Bandit's Eye (Liot Eyes) was given to her in a set with the array.

Probably rebelled and the effect was cancelled.

Still, a fitting 'great sin'...... you say?

What the hell is applicable?

I'd like to think "Lust" or "Laziness" has nothing to do with excluding "Anger" because Shania lives there.

I don't look down so much on people as "arrogance" and I don't imitate being "jealous" of someone and committing a crime.

I did indulge in Mr. Dario's delicious dishes as he does every day, but can you say that it falls under "bulimia"?

Hmm? Wait a minute.

What's left of it?

…………

……

No, no, no!! That's not it.

No, no, no, no!!... 'Cause, hey?

I don't know about that as a person.

"Well, well."

As this one was on the run from reality, Shania peered into her face with a smile.

"- So, which one the hell do you live in?