Three years after D Genesis Dungeon
§ 177 trillion 2/26 (tue)
Far away, it's raining.
That's the sound of a regular fall from the front of the house and a slap on the ground.
It's getting bigger and bigger.
"Gabe."
"No!
I jumped up on the bed, and when I took off the little object that was clutching to my head with both hands, I brought it in front of me.
"Ken!"
Is this the guy who sounds like water falling from the end of the house?
"You were slapping me in the forehead. Is it time?
"Ken!"
Graysat is not particularly rebellious against me. I wonder where the glass guy was. I think so from the beginning.
With Graysat's head in my hand, I quickly launched the makings and distributed the SP to the desired status of today's participants.
"Ha, this is getting more and more troublesome too."
That said, you won't be able to stop right away.
Anyway, it's a profit restoration business. It is also difficult to close with the excuse that we have a deficit.
"Well, when that happens, there's going to be a bunch of guys out there asking me to raise my fees and keep going,"
A system that contains an alternative, unfavourable person has not been established as a system from the outset.
This system could naturally have stopped working without me, even without Kathy.
"I wonder if it should be limited in time..."
Blurry and thinking about that, I remembered Fuji's dream.
Speaking of which, I feel like I've been doing something in my dreams...
Dreams rapidly lose their traces after consciousness awakens. As soon as you wake up, that's why you have people to write down your dreams.
Is it because, as an external experience, it is not written into the short-term memory area, but plays directly in the brain?
How lucid a dream is, you can't escape its curse. Although it may be somewhat advantageous.
"What is it? I dived into the dungeon with Sanho, like he was swinging a stick of wood..."
That's with Real.
I thought so with a bitter smile, but speaking of which, this was a dream. I reckoned that the real experience was reflected and obvious.
Then, I had abdominal pain - I guess I ate something weird too.
And the stone in my hand...
"It's gone"
I feel like I was surprised by something, but why...
Speaking of which, I think I came up with something then...
The memory of the dream was already about to be lost to the other side of the indifferent electrical signal that ignites all over the brain, but only that part was strangely creeping into the corner of his head.
I got up and headed to the bathroom to take a shower.
I still have a weakness in my body, but the feeling of sleepiness faded with that one.
I was going into the bathroom, twisting the hot water handle and taking a shower set at a slightly higher temperature out of my head, thinking about something that came to mind.
"The stone that's gone... why is it gone?
I started washing my body with an old-fashioned, cheap polyester body towel that didn't look like a fine bathroom when I put the handle back on and stopped the shower.
I prefer old-fashioned body towels to soft sponges.
"Something like this, I think I've been using a lot of stuff... use it... uh, I think I'll remember it in a little while!
The moment I accidentally stepped on the group thickness, I stepped on the bubble and slipped my foot.
"Whew!"
I hit the back of my head against the wall in the bathroom and groaned at the pain that hit my back once.
"What is pain... a swivel in the bathroom, or a child?"
From the showerhead I looked up like that, like a remnant of a dream, I remembered everything when I saw the droplets of pompous water.
"That's right! It's a rock shift!
When I saw how the metastatic stone was made, I was thinking of doing it in a real dungeon.
When I quickly washed off the foam and left the bathroom, I headed down the stairs to the office dressed in a ruffled outfit with just chino bread and a t-shirt without a mustache.
Items in the dungeon of dreams were turned into something else by magic.
How do you say you can get into something else - by putting a D factor in an item in a real dungeon?
You can say that our wheat is one end of the natural sciences using the dungeon system. Everyone has established a reproducible procedure, and it can be verified.
But how about a golden tree made into Tsukuba? I thought that was an example of the application of dungeon items to the rules of Earth's natural sciences. But probably not.
After that, Kagelow, with the tree, also brought out the branches, apparently. That should have been given away somewhere for a while, but I still don't hear stories of golden trees growing.
That's an example of a demonic crystal reacting accidentally to a dungeon item, but the reason it reacted was probably to the person who did it.
Yes, Sayama "prayed" so that the fruit could be picked even on the ground and grown big.
Usage of Demonic Crystals with Items in Dungeons -
"Pray, huh?"
I snarled down the stairs in a hurry and opened the office door vigorously, right in front of me.
"Senior?! What happened to you all of a sudden? Are you okay now?
"Three good! I see. Science and religion could be one in the dungeon again!
"Huh? Is it Einstein?
Einstein said, "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
One of them is, 'Soon science and religion will be one'. I don't think Einstein thought that.
"No, I'm not.... No, it's not?
I told her the hypothesis I had been thinking about.
"Senior. I know what you're trying to say, but the problem with the golden tree, for example, could be Dantsk's interpretation of the legend of the Nemi Forest, right?
"Sayama's the king of the woods, and he says the next golden tree won't show up unless he dies?
"Yes."
Sure, that would be possible.
"But I think it was someone's advice to see me stuck in the use of magic crystals that gave me that weird dream."
It was so weird. Whatever I thought, I just thought I had some influence from the outside.
"Seniors. Instead of being unscientific, there is a God. Logic is Sherman."
I don't know about Sanho, but if you say so, is this the same as saying it's a dream announcement?
"But I don't insult the intuition of researchers when I think about it all the time."
Sanoko stood up saying so.
"What?
"It wouldn't start if we were discussing all the hypotheses without making sure that we could be sure right away, would it?
"Sasumi. You know that."
"Sasumi, what..."
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And so we came to a layer of Yoyogi, even though it was evening already.
"Can I do this when I say I'm sick?
"I'm curious, you can't even go to bed"
"This is why people in black physique..."
Trinity frightened us, but still, we picked up the proper stones around the area and walked towards an area with no one on one level.
After about five minutes of progress, in a suitably sized room, Sancho took out a round table and two chairs and stood three candles together on the table.
"Why are you a candle?
Sure, it's dim, but if you're going to turn out the lights, it's the LED light.
"It's the atmosphere, the atmosphere. 'Cause seniors, think about it. We're going to pray, aren't we?
"But if someone comes, isn't this a whole bunch of suspicious people?
"It's okay, because LED lights are suspicious enough."
If you say so, it certainly is.
Men and women sitting behind dim dungeons, surrounded by tables. Besides, we're doing an unknown and suspicious experiment, and the theme is "prayer".
No matter where you look at it, it's a suspicious secret society itself.
"So, what do you do?
That's what the stones I picked up at the table and the three good ones with the demonic crystals asked.
"Can you appraise this stone?
"Er..." The Dungeon Stone, "right?"
"Bingo! You're getting kind of more credible!
The stone in my dreams, too, was definitely that name.
"It's kind of refreshing to me."
"Look, when Sayama talked to me before, I told you, 'What if I needed a demonic crystal and a dungeon catalyst to do a miracle?
"Oh, it's time for the branches to spread."
"Yes."
At that time, I considered the branches to be catalysts. I grew up, but because trees are trees. The miracle originated in a magic crystal, a D factor that could be transformed into anything.
But the miracle originated in both dungeon items and demonic crystals, and the catalyst was likely a prayer.
"Prayer, is it?
"Yes, we said it was a reflection of consciousness."
"Prayer is the means of communicating your will to Dantsk?
"Of, I guess it feels like one"
Sanhao put his arms together and prayed, prayed... what a bumpy squeal.
"Senior. Remember that fabulous inscription story?
"How dare it rain too much? Is that it?"
"There are a number of phrases out there that don't make sense, but there's a phrase: 'PUNES * $PLU # % PLINA PLEASE'"
"Punez pruprina?"
"It's sort of a line of characters that don't make sense, but it's like that when you just take out the readable sound."
"I mean, it's a concept that's not on Earth, so you mean the phonemes were arranged as they were"
"Probably. So there's a monica translation of that phrase that's used like a idiom - pray, what is it?"
It wouldn't be uncommon for the characters in the fable to pray for something - if it were Earth, it would be God. If before civilization developed, prayer should have been a normal act.
But even so...
"Well, that feels even more credible again."
"I just pick up information that's convenient to me and connect arbitrarily, so there's no credibility or crap."
"There's no systematic research anyway. Sometimes amateur researchers just think about it. Well, after that, we'll just pray."
That's what I said. I touched the magic crystals and the stones in front of me, and I prayed.
- I hardened up there.
"... three good"
"What?
"I... am an atheist! You have no god to pray for!
I said, "What are you talking about?"
"Don't you have to pray to God for something else? Then let me pray for your bank account."
"Bank account, huh?
"If you have the contents, you can do anything, isn't it the vessel of modern God? Dungeon Stone - be an item to transfer to other floors!
"So if you succeed, the money will disappear from your account, won't it?
"Yeah?!
A hasty trinity, of course, but the stone remained a stone.
If Factor D can operate with such a joke of prayer, someone should be doing something already. Absolutely.
"Besides, isn't that an order now? It's not a prayer."
Ordering something is not the same as praying for something.
"Mmm. Bye, seniors. Are you praying?
Suddenly it's a philosophical problem.
I put my arms together, deposited my body on my back, and looked up at the dark ceiling reflecting the shadows that wobbled with candle flames.
"The essence of prayer is an act to connect with God within oneself - if I may say so, it would be a ritual"
"Senior, it's like saying that prayer is super personal."
"Well yes."
"Can you let that fall into science? If others can't reproduce their personal prayers, it's not science, it's ability."
"Besides, it's possible you can't even reproduce it yourself, this is it"
It won't be the first time that complex devices like humans can always do the same thing under shifting conditions. If you are clearly unrecognizable, spiritual, all the more so.
How practiced can a musician always repeat the same performance? Might be possible if Saito had zero spirituality.
"If that happens, isn't that just a coincidence anymore"
"Otherwise, it's God's business."
It is difficult to define prayer quantitatively. It would be more impossible than that.
What was at the end of science was the end of prayer, as if it were some sort of fabled SF.
"No, that was a blind spot. I can't believe it's so hard to pray."
"Can't you be conscious?"
"It seems possible."
"Are wishes and prayers different?
"There will be nothing but wishes in prayer. So don't feel different. Although I'm not sure."
"You think I'm gonna ask my friends to do it like I'm asking them to?"
"To whom?
"Factor D."
Factor D, huh? I can see it. It's been a character ever since.
"Huh? So what?" D-Factor there, yeah. I was wondering if you could turn that stone into a metastatic stone for a moment ', if I could just say - "
At that time, when the demonic crystal in front of him dissolved in the air without sound with light, the stone on the desk faintly lit up.
"Se, senior-?"
That was an instant event. The moment Sanho raised his voice, the light had already been lost.
- You're lying.
The demonic crystals that were there are wanting to disappear, which means something happened. That's for sure.
"Mi, three good. Appraisal"
"… Copy"
Sanhao reported the appraisal results as he followed the stone on his desk with his fearful finger.
"Metastatic stone, let's go."
"Any details?
"Transferring to one layer of Yoyogi, yes"
"Is it because I made it on one layer?
"Probably."
"Wait a minute."
When I stored all the stones in the vault, I picked up some stones from around there and put them in line on my desk again.
So when I took out one demonic crystal and put it on my desk, I said toward the sandwich.
"Now, Sancho, try it."
Comparative experiments are important, the most conditions are too gabby, and it's doubtful if they mean anything strictly, but at least we can find out if anyone can.
"Okay -" D-Factor there. I was wondering if you could turn that stone into a metastatic stone for a moment. "-"
Sanhao said so with a serious face, but the stones and demonic crystals on the desk showed no reaction.
"Nothing's going to happen."
"Well, it would be stranger if it happened. Senior, can you do it again?
That's what they said, and I talked to my friends, and I talked to them on my desk.
"D-Factor there, yeah. I was wondering if you could turn that stone into a metastatic stone."
Then, the demonic crystal in front of him, like earlier, dissolved in the air with the light. In other words, the phenomenon was reproduced.
"Senior...... no matter what you look at it, it's personal property, this"
Even the Sanho appraisal seemed to have the same thing just now.
"- The work of the making?
"If there's any other possibility, say it"
Sanho has pretty much the same experience as me when it comes to dungeon wonders, and he uses pretty much the same skill orbs.
If there's a big difference...
"Is that all... but it wasn't earrings, was it?
"There were no demonic crystals, and it wasn't a favor. But I didn't know you really had the ability to make me do my job."
"What am I supposed to do with this?
"Whatever you say you do, it's personal. For the moment, don't we have to find out what we can do?
"It's you, like all the other HRs"
"It's 100% other personnel. Plus, it looks so funny. Because it's an area of natural science that mankind has not yet experienced!
Trinity has been excited to get herself out.
If I wasn't a party, I'd be excited.
"As it were, well, leave that story alone. Look, it's possible that even humans who don't have makings can do the same than Mr. Sayama created the golden tree, right?
"There will be. But seniors, even if you can do that, it's personal technology."
"The industrial revolution can't be started."
Modern industry, after the industrial revolution, changed its methods from handicraft to large industry.
That's how large quantities of goods are produced.
Therefore, even if this establishes a method for the use of magic crystals, it will not be possible to develop the method in a large industrial manner. Anyway, prayer needs people.
"And, seniors. Can you sell this?
That's what Trinity said as she followed the metastatic stone that was made again.
"There's demand, isn't there?
"That's demand. But if prayer can mimic the power of makings, this can be done by just picking up stones in a dungeon and praying, right? Why don't you make your own share of that?
Oh - I see.
That's right. It would certainly be difficult to make Kawahara stone a commodity.
"Is prayer the subject of a patent?
"Absolutely not, I think"
"Well, you don't have to sell there. I can't have this kind of technology to myself. I just... can you publish this?
"What is it, suddenly? Seniors started this experiment, didn't they? Well, it's like psychic powers, and people who can't may not, and those who can are likely to be told it's some kind of trick..."
"It's not there."
"Not there?
"Neither did I, because I really didn't think I could..."
"Senior!"
What are you talking about now, triple glance hurts.
"-No, 'cause you do, don't you? So I didn't really think about it."
"Someone creates an item that flies through the sky from the wings of a bat monster, Devil Wing! I put up on YouTube how to fly around the sky saying, 'Ha, that's Nippon. Things to do are comics,' like being seen with warm eyes from all over the world?
"It seems like a real story, but I wouldn't worry about a peaceful story like that."
I said with a serious face, looking into my three good eyes.
"Okay. There would be a lot of people in the world, wouldn't there?
"Yes."
"Too much radical thought has not greatly affected real society because there are some minor things in society and we don't have the means or the power to make it happen, but if it were to be readily available - what do you think would happen?
"Do you mean the time may come for him to come out to terrorize us after a walk?"
The status also had that danger.
But this means that if you can relate to dungeon items with a super personal technique called prayer, you get the same factory that can produce anything.
Without needing to give an example of an atomic bomb, the development of science has both positive and negative aspects, but this guy can be the ultimate level of questionable technology.
"Besides, the groove between what this technology can and can't do is not a status ratio."
"So we're splitting up with the Superman."
"It won't be the same as Nietzsche thought, but the herd side will be worse"
We've been thinking about it silently for a while.
"But I don't think it's the same thing that worries the person who invented it about using knives and metal bats."
"It's often called a retreat, but Einstein said if he'd known about Hiroshima and Nagasaki beforehand, the formula he'd discovered would have been torn away."
"If you really did, I think someone else was just discovering it."
"Well, yeah."
We're on track, trying everything out, but I feel like we're going to be worried about the magnitude of the problem with what we discover every time.
Besides, this time he's oversized.
"Growing up in this country, when we have to decide on something extremely influential, I think it's planted in a nature where we can't decide anything."
"State conspiracy theory doesn't mean it's happening on a level, but it's connected to terrorism, radical social incitement, and peace."
"The kingdom of God is the kingdom of the shepherds."
The candle swayed faintly, and the shadow on Sanko's face seemed deeper.
I'm sure the shadow on my face does, too.
"But you keep testing your prayers, don't you?
That's what Sancho said, as he regained his mind.
There is no direct link between whether to publish and whether to check the details in the experiment. Still, if you make a big discovery, I'm sure you'll want to publish it...
"If you make sure you can do the same thing in prayer, don't you want to publish it?
"That's when I think about it again."
He's a scientist.
"Okay. But I can't try it, so I'll take care of Sanoko."
"sloppy!"
Because there's the problem that I don't know if it's because of the making or the prayer that the successful outcome is because of me. This is a good reason, Sanko.
"Better than that. What do we do with this?
That's what I said with the metastatic stone on my desk.
"If you can really use it, if you sell it under the name Return Stone, it will reduce the number of Explorer accidents considerably."
"Right. Do you want to use it once anyway? Appraisal turned out okay, right?
"You don't have a negative description."
"But how do you use this?
It's not like there's a menu out there, like in a dream.
"I'm sure, hold it like this"
Sancho lifted it up and went.
"But if you're aware of 'let's use' -"
The moment I said that, the stone on the hands of the Trinity glowed pale.
"Three good!!
I called her name, and I stood up, and I panicked, and I took her arm.
"Yes?"
- There, there was just a three-way sitting with a surprised face.
"Nothing happened?
"No. The stone..."
The stone that was on the hand of Sancho had disappeared from the beginning as if it had not been there.
"You don't have to reproduce it to that point!
I shouted so unexpectedly, but Sanho was just a pocan without any explanation.