The Last Surviving Alchemist Wants to Live Quietly in the City

"Lord Gark, thank you for today! This will be enough findings for ten days!

The young scourge of the Labyrinth Crusader Army, Gipsum hands Grandpa Gark a dossier with the findings in his appearance against the admirer. Ten days after the last investigation, Grandpa Gark was on his way to the Labyrinth Crusader Army again after being contacted that he was likely to manage to enter the 56 tiers. The gentle-faced eyeglass man accompanies him as an assistant this time.

Looking at the findings handed to me, Gark compares them to the sampling samples arranged on the desk and writes something down on the findings.

The samples on the desk were taken by Gipsum in the way that Gark taught them. Ten days ago, the guards were collecting syringes, pumping gas through liquids, throwing various minerals and metals into 56 strata, all reacting with specific gases, or degenerating in a constant temperature range. There is no memory indicating the concentration, amount, or the like, and the changed state is "Material Appraisal" to understand the situation.

He has not reached the level of Gark, but Gipsum also has the skills of Material Appraisal, and is assigned to the Labyrinth Crusader's scouts because of his high physical abilities.

The method of applying the skills of material appraisal to the search for the labyrinth has been developed by Gark, and the information is disclosed through the Adventurer's Guild, but it is very different from being taught directly. Wait for Gipsum to stiffen up his checks. Girk hands over the checked findings.

"Evil, but be a little more precise."

"Oh, thank you. Sit down! I can't believe you coached the legendary scouts!

Gipsum, delighted with her sparkling eyes, waves a tight hand, "If you have time to watch such old age, look at the material and appraise it up," Gark said.

"Fine, grandfather in law, tell me something too."

An assistant man speaks up. It's not too high or too low, it's a soothing voice, but it doesn't sound as flattering as I'm saying.

"You don't have an appraisal, and you don't need this kind of knowledge in the first place."

"It's terrible," the assistant replied to Grandpa Gark, responding as if he were frightened.

"Um, isn't that you, Mr. Gark's apprentice?

In the first place, it was impossible for outsiders to enter the Labyrinth Crusader Army, and they thought that they were appraisal apprentices.

"Well, he just stuck around on his own."

"My name is Void. I'm Grandpa Gark's grandson's husband. If something happens to your grandfather, your wife will be sad."

Well put, a man who seems harmless to humans and animals and, to put it badly, doesn't seem to be at all a force for war, but there's no way Gark could have brought him in if it didn't do him any good. Though he did not fall, Gipsom was convinced and called out to the two of them, "Well, shall we?"

Once again, the three dressed in protective clothing headed towards the deepest part of the labyrinth via the basement of the Labyrinth Crusaders.

The coastal cave on the fifty-fourth level has a large pump made from the demonic stone and wreckage of the "Floating Column in the Sea", which pumps the water up to the fifty-sixth level. The plumbing connecting the fifty-fourth to the fifty-sixth level is metallic in caliber so that small animals can pass through it. Once the inside of the pipe of this hand is filled with water, the rest is the Siphon principle that keeps sending water to the exit of the lower one until the air enters it, but because of the climate of the hierarchy and the strange action of the labyrinth that preserves the environment, the water stops at the boundary of the 56 tiers, and we cannot send the water to the lower level without pushing it out with a pump.

There was only one pump, even though plumbing alone could pass more than a few, and its ability had slowed down the cooling speed of 56 tiers. Because of the labyrinthine climate and the ability to preserve the environment, 54 tiers of sea water never disappeared.

The 55 tiers, which were lush, had completely changed their appearance by a ten-day cooling operation: the water sent from the 54 tiers had cooled down 56 tiers and turned into water vapour, dissolving the toxins contained in the air and coming up to the 55 tiers; the water vapour blown up to the 55 tiers had been cooled and turned into weak lysate-like rain and poured down, destroying the 55 tiers of green to the full. After 10 days of sending water, it seems that the 56 levels have gradually cooled to the level where people enter, and now there is only a small amount of water vapor rising from the hierarchical staircase. The composition of the 55 levels of the atmosphere is also stable, so it will soon turn into the original lush stratum.

"Why does water vapor come out when it has to be pumped in?"

"You have a guy who hates water," Gark responded briefly to Void's squeaking voice as he saw the thin rising steam.

As last time, after examining the situation on the 56th floor from the top of the hierarchy staircase to make sure there were no problems, the three of them dived to the deepest part of the labyrinth where no one had ever stepped yet.

Three full-faced goggles cloud in the muddled humid air. The 56-story air is still poisonous, even though it has faded, and I can't let go of my mask. I guess the reason I can't breathe is not only because of the thin oxygen in the air I inhale over the mask, but also because of the thick steam. The filter on the mask made from Wyburn's lungs is a high performance that purifies the poison and also removes water vapour, but it seems to take area from the treatment of water vapour and find it breathless.

Avoid the steam passage to ensure vision. After all, it was a hierarchy of volcanoes with a solidified earth. The hierarchical staircase is buried in a rock whose lava has been cold and solidified from the way down into a cave with a gentle descent.

The cave is large enough for the three of us to walk sideways and the ceiling is high enough for steam to pass far overhead. The three of them found that the road was narrowed in various places and branched out by crumbling rocks, but that it led to a single wide area.

Proceed with caution while regularly measuring the composition and temperature of the gas.

The rocks that fill the hierarchy are not as smoothly shaped as those found in the mountains and rivers, and there are several small holes as black bumps. They say the volume swells roughly a thousand times when the water turns to steam, so it probably collapsed with that impact.

The floor surface is hard to walk with scattered rocks, collapsing everywhere, small and large rocks are creeping into hills, inhibiting the progression of the three.

Occasionally, the ground sounds that neither Zune nor Dawn can make, and the piled rocks fall apart. Care should also be taken where these rocks are stacked. It may collapse at the time of the earthquake, or the interior may remain hot. The three of them are proceeding by choosing a cold spot where the water seems to have gone through, but the back, which is not excessively cold with the water, is still red, hot enough for rounded thrown paper scraps to touch or burn up.

Poison gas, high temperature steam, cracked and splashed rocks. Even then it seemed like hell, but I entered this hierarchy and haven't come across any demons yet. Of course, they take care not to be noticed by such things because they are scouts, but there are no demons in the first place.

(It would be nice if you came out around the golem.)

Grandpa Gark will take care of you. Hierarchists and their guardians tend to weaken because if there are many miscellaneous fish, they can sort out their magic power for that matter. But instead of being attacked by demons, the three couldn't even find traces of them.

The temperatures around them are getting higher enough to eject the shoe and steam now, avoiding the occasional boulders. The heat resistance temperature of the protective clothing is also close to the limit. The Labyrinth Crusaders will need to chill the hierarchy a little or some kind of help to march on.

When this hierarchy opened, volcanic gas erupted. I guess the internal pressure of the 56 tiers due was higher. High temperature and high pressure volcanic gas. It should be consumed by lava or something that fills the hierarchy, and there can't be oxygen or something. But there is oxygen here, which is about as thin as a mountain, and the three of them can breathe.

Evidence of breathing demons.

It withstands high temperatures, does not use high pressure as a thing, and is not offended by poison gas.

Such demons...

Zscene.

It sounds like ground again.

When he tried to turn back that he was unlikely to last any longer at high temperatures, Void raised his hand softly and gazed behind him from the shadows of the rocks.

The two following it. Across the aisle there is still a lava area that remains hot, and the ground shines red light everywhere. It is probably the lava accumulation that leaks the strong light that burns my eyes from everywhere.

Eye of the Eagle

Labyrinth Crusader scouts, Gipsum activates a form of telescopic skill. Skills that are inherently invisible due to obstacles. Gark and Void also look ahead with farsighted magic props. It doesn't work as well as the eagle's eye, but these also carry some curved ahead sights that can't be confirmed by the naked eye.

The three lurking rocky shades were stretched over so much space that I wondered if they had gone outside and.

Z-Scenes. Sounds like a resounding ground again.

Oh, was that the sound of this ground? That was all I could confirm and understand with my own eyes.

He walks terribly slowly with eight or possibly more legs as he sounds the ground.

I can see that. I know you're walking, but I am.

"Volcano, huh?

The legging-volcano was slowly moving through a vast hierarchy.

"Gaooooooooooooo"

Sound the air and something flies off the top of that mountain.

"I knew it was over. The dragon."

Do you feel comfortable or uncomfortable with a hierarchy where the temperature and pressure have dropped enough for people to get in? Its face cannot be distinguished from the far away rock shade. However, a dragon with a red and black scale reminiscent of lava had spread its wings and swirled slowly through the 56 tiers of sky.

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"Are you still there?"

Leonhardt frowns after Gark and the others report. The presence of the dragon was expected by everyone gathered in the conference room. Robust life form with no high temperatures, no high pressures, no poison gas, not even objects. It goes without saying how difficult that is. It is a demon classified as the most powerful.

"But you say it's a moving volcano?

There is nothing like a head in a moving volcano. It is a small mountain that can circle in half an hour, but it is a circular mountain somewhat close to the ellipse, with a fire exit at the top of the mountain and shaped like laying low. The bottom of the mountain is supported by more than eight thick and short legs away from the earth. I'm walking very slowly on that leg.

If you look at the shape of the legs and the slow walk, maybe the turtle is close. But I have no eyes, no nose, no mouth. On the contrary, it doesn't look like an organism because it's a mountain with no head, but it's already walking out of smoke over the top of the mountain. The destination is the lava accumulation that is gushing out here, and when we reach the lava accumulation, we go straight in. After a few legs on it and a while, the lava is sucked up and they say it's just turning into a blur, so they're probably moving around using the lava as bait.

Meals, it may be more accurate to say replenishment than to say, but volcanoes after incorporation of lava only slightly enliven their movements and say they see bohun and gas eject or small eruptions with rock ejections.

The dragon, supposedly the protector of the volcano, is sleeping on the volcano, or appears from the eruption and swirls around for a while before returning to the fire exit.

"Anyway, there's no way to set up an operation without gathering a little more information. Weishardt."

"Yes. Fortunately, the lower temperatures are not returning. It's also the composition of the air. I guess temperature highs and lows and air are not important to 56 tier residents. We should first proceed with cooling and air replacement to make it easier for us to operate. In parallel, let the scouts investigate volcanoes and dragons. Nielenberg will gather information about the potion that will help us attack."

Even if there is only despair there. Not while I can.

Leonhardt slowly rose out of his seat.