Twenty-eight

"You must be ready!

"You can't be doing this."

As she arrived at the lowest level of the sixth layer and descended to the hard ground, Emera went beaten to death by Zeph in the shape of the devil's brake. As a result of Zeph continuing to tease Emera, who is not even afraid of heights, but does not like the high places in the crowd, until she gets down there.

Noisy bastards.

He smiles bitterly and then drops off, and Mira turns her gaze to a bright white giant castle that can be found in the center of the hall. If Seoul Haul lived there was no better place than that castle. Mira had followed that from the beginning.

"Leave me alone, I'm going to the castle."

Tell the rest of the members that, and start walking on the ground, such as peeling rock beds. Slightly more often than not, but not enough to take a leg off.

"Let's go to the castle -!

Asbal nods at Mira's words and tells them aloud to the two of them chasing him near the lake. From the screams that echo from time to time, I'm not sure I heard it.

Asbal and Flicka are overwhelmed by the material feel of the giant castle looking up close. Tact, by contrast, shines his eyes and glances around.

"Though nothing, this is a sight to behold."

An inorganic mass of stone in the shape of a castle. Its immensity and the invisible walls of the castle. It would have been a famous tourist destination if it had been on the ground, not in a dungeon diving for treasure. Well, depending on the location, it's going to be a bandit's twist.

Mira creeps through the unobstructed gate and enters the castle entrance. At the front there is a large staircase and the walls are embedded with glowing crystals everywhere. Other than that, the undecorated stripping stone walls and floors continue to be extended.

"Now, will the lords wait here? Until then, it's a secret business."

That's as far as I can go with you. We are going to meet the Nine Wise Men by royal decree, so there is no way that adventurers will know. Mira, who knows the character of Seoul Haul, thought that at first it was also placed in the Golem in the protection of the castle, but that concern was dispelled when it was safely put into the entrance. Because, as the name 'Seoul Haul of the Giant Wall' suggests, it is too narrow for the castle's entrance.

And when I saw it, there seemed to be no danger on the sixth floor, so I decided to break up here once.

"Hmm, a secret?"

As for Asbal, I'm just wondering what kind of errand it is, but I can't say I'm going with you when you say that face to face. Flicka is the same, but she was delusional in a vector a little different from Mira's Hi-Mi-Tsu.

I'm sorry, but I need tact.

Mira says so and deposits Tact's hand with Flicka. Thanks to that, the cool-down flicka stops one step ahead of the rampage.

"Yeah, all right."

"Mira, be careful, sister"

"Um, don't worry about it"

Mira walks up the entrance stairs, stroking Tact's head. Asbal and Flicka, who dropped him off, begin exploring that the ground floor would be fine because the secret seemed to be up there.

Mira first searched early for a well-equipped room. Peek into the doorless room a little early and discover where they are in the sixth place.

After entering the room, peek into the holed chair made of stone in its center.

"Hmmm... that sounds good"

Mira sits down with her underwear in the room without a door. I exhaled, howling, even though I was worried about nothing.

After that, open the item field and retrieve the paper. Mira, who punished the poisonous flowers, was greatly inclined to keep paper ready. Finally, the lack of water washing function is replaced by intangible fire extinguishing water.

Mira explores where her goal is by wiping her washed hands with the hem of her robe [Immortal Skill: Biosensing]. But the only reaction was from the three of us downstairs. The sensitivity of biosensing depends on the distance, but if you are in the class of the Nine Wise Men such as Seoul Howl, there is no such thing as hiding existence, so it is not necessarily there.

Stay put. Mira heads to the top floor. I also thought about calling out loud, but I can't do that if the two of you could hear me down there. Instead, I also thought about calling it by the nickname I used within my companions such as Dr. Immortal Daughter, Perverted Circle, Warrior Gentleman, etc., but when asked, I felt this was going to affect my own impression, so I decided to check it with my eyes.

Get to the top floor, just in case Mira does [Immortal Skills: Biosensing] again.

"No, this is"

There was a very slight reaction. But the reaction is too small, so much so that you don't realize if you don't concentrate. I was finally able to sense it when I got close. Weaknesses that are likely to disappear.

I can't think of anyone other than a searcher, such as someone who is in such a place. Mira slowly kills the signs and approaches the reaction. I tried to surprise him because it was a corner.

The location of the reaction is a hallway up the stairs to the top floor and down the hallway, which can be called the front of the castle. From among kings.

Mira leans against the wall between the undivided kings and peeks softly inside to gauge the perfect timing.

"What is this?"

Mira's vision, which she expected to be surrounded by made-up zombies as well, had an incredible sight. Mira moves on pretentiously to the situation between kings, which also seems to be its madness.

Countless chairs were arranged among the kings, like concert venues, facing the throne behind them. Mira approaches one of them and closes her face to peek in.

"Are you stopping...?

Mira touched the cheek of a woman dressed as a maid sitting in a chair. Cold, I can't feel the warmth of my life. Lips tied to closed eyes, all of which have no expression, just there.

It seems to be evolving in a more perverse direction.

Mira looks around in awe. The bodies of Japanese and Western compromised women in costumes of a wide variety but classified as maid clothes were seated in all the chairs between kings. The embalming is perfectly done, and no matter what you think, Seoul Howl did it.

But all the bodies lined up here, there's no reason to react with biosensing. Mira, once again focusing her consciousness, the reaction returned from behind, from the direction of the throne.

Turning his gaze there, Mira's eyes clearly showed something different.

Two-lined throne. Mira's eyes will be nailed by the woman who sat on the queen's throne.

The woman wears a beautiful and elegant dress and is a beautiful woman with a clear nose and nose. Clear blue hair is all the way up to her waist and she has morbidly white skin. Around seventeen or eight sides when I was a year old.

Mira manages to stop and stare at her face, as if she was a stranger. His eyes are closed and his mouth is stiff with a smile on his face. Though I try to call, there is a life response, but there was no biological response from the woman.

Mira's hand, stretched out somehow, leaves at the same time as she touches her skin.

"It's freezing..."

The woman's skin on the throne was as cold as ice.

"Seoul Howl, you're not here!

Mira, unable to grasp the situation anymore on the boulder, had no choice but to call the searcher's name. But after ten or twenty seconds, Mira gave up after thirty seconds without responding, and decided to look for clues herself.

Mira, who first entered the room behind the throne, conveniently pulled the hit early. The room was littered with tons of paper and books. The central desk is stacked with dictionaries and ancient documents as materials, and countless running writings remain on the paper scattered on the desk.

Mira glanced through the countless runs and writings, saying that it might be a clue of some kind.

"Holy Grail of Divine Life and Glory......"

Mira mouths all the running writing and the answers led from the stacked material.

Holy Grail of Divine Life and Glory. By using it, he recovers all state anomalies, heals all wounds, removes all demons, and even dies, disabling the Despena. It is furthermore the name of an epic rare item that is supposedly equipped with an absolute defense and attack against the demons considered enemies of mankind.

But this was a substitute for no more rumours that after four years we had obtained it. It is therefore whispered as an unimplemented item among the players, who do not even know if it is a demonic drop or a production or dungeon placement item.

An item that exists only in information, that is the Holy Grail of Divine Life and Glory.

Why would he look into something like this?

The effect is definitely breaking. However, if you are also the Nine Wise Men, you will rarely have to use such items. Then why?

An earlier ice-soaked woman appeared behind Mira's brain thinking so.

Out of the room, during the king, observe the woman on the throne carefully, from toe to head. Mira felt like she was doing something she shouldn't have done, but she deluded herself into doing it for the truth.

"Don't you see?"

Having examined the whole thing, Mira tried to reflect on other possibilities as the woman had no particular problems. But now, once, Mira realizes one thing from the front. The woman was in a seated position, so the back was unconfirmed.

Mira, who slowly and carefully shifted the woman forward just a little, looks out for the red stain that spreads across her back.

It was a red stain that seeped into the dress. But that was not blood from wounds. The stain shapes the six dead stars, with symbols and shapes lined up around them. And at the center is the letter XV.

Besides, Mira looks familiar.

The strange formation floating on my back is an engraving. The curse of the underworld is also known as the blessing of the devil, and what it means is a confirmed death.

An event in the game is called The Shadow of the Black Wings. This was about helping an engraved knight, but as a result the knight dies from engraving. This event is supposedly the first time a player has been prepared to fight a demon clan and everyone experiences it.

But Mira still remembered it well because of its impression and impenetrability.

Remember, that memory leads to the Holy Grail of Divine Life and Light. Seoul Howl said he was trying to erase this engraving with the power of the Holy Grail. There is nothing that can erase the engraving on the surgery or medicine because it is an event-only change of condition. If asked if it was the only possibility, everyone in the player would answer that it was the Holy Grail of Divine Life and Glory. Mira herself concludes that there is nothing else.

Mira looks at the woman again. He's still alive because he's cold as ice but had a biological reaction. I'm sure this would be one of the Necromancers, but I don't remember Mira. Nevertheless, it would not be strange if, after thirty years, new techniques of these effects had been found. It is believed that Seoul Haul kept this woman alive, stopped that time and traveled for a solution.

"A living (...) woman is. I wonder if he's changed a bit."

Remembering her immortal daughter, Moe, and Seoul Haul, who was snuggling around, Mira followed between the kings as she thanked the woman on the throne.

There was no sign of him in the catacombs. Go around the castle all the way, put the materials in the item box that could be a clue to where to go, and Mira returns to the first floor of the castle where everyone is waiting.

Castle entrance. Emera and Flicka were leaning against each other with their faces bright blue. Asbal looked somewhat pale and Zeph seemed to be playing cards with Tact, waving gently as she noticed Mira coming down the stairs.

"What's the matter, lords?

When Mira speaks like that, Emera and Flicka turn their vain gaze towards Mira.

"Ho... what's really going on...?

Slightly, Mira takes her gaze off while smiling bitterly. Then something suddenly hugged me from the side.

"Welcome back, Sister Mira"

"Have you been a good girl?"

"Yeah!"

Tact nods with a full smile on his face. Mira strokes its head, "Right or Right."

"Mira... what is this place... wasn't there anything...?

Emera has a tired face, and she clings to Mira without any concern for the difference in years.

"So what happened?

"A dead maid, a maid full of..."

Mira understands everything in that word of Emera as she is shaken by the crease. The Emeras must have seen the body of a maid somewhere, like he was among kings. It's also massive.

"You don't have to worry. Not by necromancy."

"So you're saying there's a Necromancer here?

Asbal turns his gaze only towards Mira as he sits down. Flicka also looked up to ask for answers next door.

"There were traces of him, but he didn't seem to be out right now."

"Does that mean Mira had an errand for the necromancer?

"Well, that's the thing. Then you don't have to worry about it. My hobby isn't a bad guy, as you can see."

Yes, Mira says, but if you try Emera and the others, you can call it madness.

Necromancer is not exactly the art of manipulating a corpse, but the art of manipulating a soul. And that soul is energy with pure positive power, a technique that can put it into stone dolls and corpses.

And necromancy is formally established as the Nine Arts Ceremony. For this reason, the inhabitants of this world have no image of outrage, disrespect, or morality. Nevertheless, it has the image of being dark and creepy because of its properties.

Even though Mira's words turned out to be the cause of necromancy, Emera, Flicka, and Asbal didn't want to do any more exploration on the boulders. Except for one, Zeph.

"Necromancer... I wonder how I can use it"

Beauty, shaken by the maids of all the beautiful girls, Zeph groaned half seriously like that.

"Why don't we just make it dinner? I'm hungry."

Zeph sits on the spot stroking around his stomach.

"Hmm, I guess so"

To the words, Mira also agreed not to feel hungry when it came to it. Other members nod halfway through their feelings "well, yes," and "yes," removing ingredients and cooking utensils from the item box.

"Look, the vice president, too"

"Ha... I wish I hadn't had anything yet"

As Zeph hung up, Emera shrugged in a sigh of breath.

A line to take a breather in tea after lunch. Emera and Flicka were in charge of the lunch and were just making a bunch of buyouts the other day that were satisfying. And apple pie handed out by Mira instead of dessert is also popular, and everyone's expression is gently sunny.

"I don't know, this place is amazing and cozy. It's a dungeon."

"Speaking of which, that was a dungeon. Here."

"Oh, you did. What is it, what is it, here"

When Zeph groans as he falls asleep, he also raises questions consciously that Flicka and Asbal were dungeons again. And no one can answer that. Even Mira doesn't know what it means here.

"Come on, we're done here. Shall I go home?"

Contrary to Sleeping Zeph, Mira stands up saying so.

The purpose of Mira's visit to the ancient temple was achieved once and for all. I didn't see him in person, but first I'm going to take the materials home and explore where he's going next.

"Right. Let's do that. No matter how safe, this is the lowest level of the dungeon."

Having finished cleaning up her meal, Emera repaints her sword on her hips.

"Heh."

"Right. Shall we go?"

"Come on, come on."

With Emera's words, other members check the weapon when they stand up, then twist or stretch to gently untie the body. When Tact stood up all the time, he was securing his sogginess and Mira's side.

After the White Giant Castle, proceed towards the upper staircase. As with going, the sixth layer, illuminated by the light of the crystal, can be seen bright and far without problems.

"Um, was there anything?

Zeph said so and stopped, staring in the direction of the lake. The lake, rounded like the one that decided on the rock floor with an ice cream disher, is indiscriminately reflecting the crystalline light falling from its surroundings on the lake surface. At the same time, it was shining brighter and more fantastically, as both the lake and the turbulent crystals emitted light.

"Isn't that a mistake? If there's no demons out here, it's a place where even your favorite adventurers don't come."

That's what Asbal said when he glanced at the lake. In fact, the shivering light on the lake surface also seems likely to misidentify it as something if it did capture it at the edge of the eye. Zeph himself thought so after he said it, but makes his expression strong with a word from Mira.

"No, there's something here."

Mira was exploring around the lake by [Immortal Skills: Biosensing] shortly after Zeph's words. Zeph's character is repulsion anyway, because that's what he says, and Mira considered the possibilities slightly, so it was a hit.

"Come on, what the hell are you doing here?"

"There's no such thing as a demon here."

Asbal grips the hammer on his back, and Emera pulls out her sword and sets it against the lake.

Mira's [Immortal Skill: Biosensing] does not allow her to determine what she senses. All I know is if there's anything alive or not.

If it's malicious, you can't show it behind you. To confirm, Asbal and Emera took a step toward the lake, it was then.

"Become!"

A large water column rises from the lake. And out of that pillar, shining in the light of the crystals, a shadow of pitch-black popped up, and descended before a line.

"This guy... what's going on..."

"Oh no... why are you here!?

Asbal and Emera raise their voices to the identity of what suddenly appeared. An inorganic black body surface on a body resembling a person, four fingers at the tip of both arms swollen up in distortion with glowing nails catching the eye. His face is black and flat like a noble surface, he has no nose, he just has creepy distorted eyes and mouth. And the two most characteristic were twisted black horns, and bat-like wings growing from the back.

That appearance, which appeared before Emera and the others, was very similar to those that had plunged the world into chaos ten years ago.

"You're lying... why the devil..."

"It was supposed to have been exterminated ten years ago..."

Zeph dyes his eyes in amazement and squeals so. Flicka also opened her eyes and stared at the black alien creature on the front.

"What do you mean? Why is the devil here?

Demons. Absolute antagonists of humanity. The Battle of the Three Divine Kingdoms was a war that betrayed the demonic army led by the devil and his survival against humanity. And as a result, mankind was thought to have triumphed and the devil perished. But now it is indisputable that we are in front of you, the devil.

Only for a moment, the engraving of a woman in the castle floats behind Mira's brain. Does this demon have anything to do with it? However, the details of the engraving have not been revealed at all, so there is no means to prove its relevance.

Unlike some demons, demons are known as distinct beings. Therefore, in the game age, we will not meet outside of the Three Kingdoms Mission. Each has a title and is mutually or more powerful with players who become advanced even in the lowest Baron III.

Mira immediately summons Holly Knight to accompany Tact's escort and pushes her back "Tact, stay back in the castle" as she looks at the devil. Did the tact also feel the disturbing air full of surroundings, and when he nodded small, he took Holly Knight back to the castle.

"It's a shame to see people in places like this. Looks like a good souvenir for my king."

A huge sickle appeared in the hands of the devil at the same time as a creaking voice emanated from in front of him, as if sounding from the water. Exposed to obvious hostility, Emera and Asbal distort their expressions.

"Damn! I knew you were motivated!

As Zeph laid down his dagger in a hurried voice, Emera and Asbal also stood low with their hips open with a warning color. Behind you, Flicka starts preparing to activate the magic.

In the meantime, Mira examined the devil. I have never seen or heard of a demon in a place like this, so to confirm its strength. It's also the basic behavior of the player who was playing the game.

"Hmm... Count third? Do you think you can fight him, lords?

From below, come with the Baron, the Viscount, and the Earl, and their third place. If strength stays the same, at least six advanced players are at the required level.

Asbal had seen with his eyes the figure of the relative, and the devil. When I became an adventurer and stood up, a black cloud covered the sky. A bunch of demons pouring out of it. I can still remember that vividly. Ravaged adventurers, some of them admirers. And shall he be stronger than he? Think that far and shake your head. Which way to go, escape, etc.

"If you mean to each other, you won't be able to. It's a good place to buy time."

Asbal answered that with a painful look without distracting himself from the devil, recalling at the same time the heroes who swept away the demons attacking the city. the backs of those who readily exercise the power of human alienation.

"Hmm, right"

Mira alternates the expressions of Asbal and Emera, who are remorsefully distorted, in her sight. From the way it is, I understand that the four Ecalato Carillons are not decent opponents to fight.

(I've never come to this world to do my best...)

When Mira was still in Dumblrf, she had the experience to beat him down if not to third place in the Duke. But that was when it was still a game and equipped. Nowadays, it is accompanied by a sense of what is now a reality and an element of concern that some of the equipment has been handed over to Cleos.

Anxiety is piling up. There is still no sense of battle in the world that has become a reality, and we are not ready to risk our lives to fight it yet. As for Mira, the idea was to gradually get used to this world. How far does it work and how far can this body react? We were going to explore it carefully.

The only thing Mira has right now is the technology and knowledge she has developed as a game (play). And if you judge by that alone, the demon in front of you is not enough of an opponent to be careful.

"Back off, you lords. I'll do it."

Mira tells him to whisper, one step ahead of the other.

It was a short time ago, but I touched the goodness of Emera and the others, and I protect those who have gone out with me to this place. That would come true if we could do it as usual. For that reason, Mira decided never to fight her will.