EP.26
Dungeon.
It refers to a threatening space created by a mad wizard or an ancient structure created by a great being of the past. The dungeon we will explore is the latter among them.
This dungeon is now being used for actual combat practice after the advance team’s raid was completed. It is managed by the empire and anyone can use it if they follow the proper documentation procedures.
Perhaps that’s why it was bright and extremely clean. If I were to exaggerate a bit, it would be even cleaner than the Purple Magic Tower’s laboratory.
“I heard that academy students often come here because the facilities are clean.”
“It’s really easy to gain experience.”
“That’s right. If you start your career as a mercenary…”
The senior with facial scars and the tear-pointed guy walked ahead, chatting a lot. Academy students growing up in warm greenhouses don’t have enough poison. Last time I hired an academy student, he ran away when he saw a goblin.
They started talking about how their lives became more difficult as time went by, so they slowed down their walking pace slightly and walked backwards. Because I heard the same story twice last night.
It seems that the beastman thief had the same thoughts.
I think I liked yesterday’s fantasy magic, the Granjeol of the Flame of Apology, and the two-hour reading of the Romance of the Kingdoms next to the bonfire. If you see him tagging along and asking with hand signals if there is anything else interesting to say.
Something must come for something to go. I asked the beastman thief for a fair deal.
“Why aren’t you talking?”
After eating delicious food (it was fantastic) yesterday, didn’t you exclaim in admiration that it tasted like home? At that time, I heard his voice was fine and it didn’t seem like he didn’t know what to say.
However, since most everyday conversations are conducted using hand signals, I can’t help but wonder.
The beastman thief muttered for a moment and stuck his tongue out on the sackcloth.
A clear brand remained on the tongue, as if it had been struck by something. It was a pattern I had never seen before.
The beastman thief stuck out his tongue and spoke.
“I didn’t want to show this.”
I have memorized the patterns commonly used in the Magic Tower. So, the patterns I don’t know about… are those that are secretly or secretly used. Seeing as they were trying to hide it, it didn’t seem like they meant anything good.
I took a quick picture just by looking at the shape of the stigma.
“Vampires or bats or blood sucking?”
“No. This is the shape of a vessel with thorns. The brand of a living sacrifice.”
“Is it used by warlocks?”
“Yes. I barely escaped. Thanks to Rowillen.”
The beastman thief looked at the back of Teardrop Guy with a strange look. The eyes looked like a mixture of favor, gratitude, and affection.
A back story was created in my head. Evil warlocks attack a village of beasts for experiments, kill those who resist, capture the test subjects, and take them away. Dark and gloomy days. approaching death.
Just before being offered up for the ritual, Tearpoint Guy appeared along with the sunlight, took out his longsword and shield, and charged…
Hmm. I wonder if something roughly similar would have happened.
“But can you show it to me?”
If you hate it so much that you keep your mouth shut and use hand signals out of fear of being revealed, there would be no reason to show it to someone you’ve only met for a few days.
I carefully grabbed the necklace. It is one of the 49 types of artifacts that the magic tower lord tried to place. This is because I was nervous inside, fearing that the beastman thief who revealed his true colors would say, ‘Once you see this mark, you can’t return alive——!’
The beastman thief raised his index finger and pointed at me.
“It smells similar.”
“…Similar?”
“huh.”
If I interpret the flow of the conversation as it is, doesn’t this mean that I smell like a slave? It’s not, but I wash it with clean magic every day…
Maybe this is a high degree of disdain for graduate students…?
While I was wondering whether or not I should explain that Purple Magic Tower’s company welfare was really good, the beastman thief took the lead and walked away. I felt strangely uncomfortable.
I was wondering if I was missing something.
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“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-!!
I was so shocked that I covered my mouth. Among these members, I was the only one who could scream and scream. But even if I covered my mouth, I could still hear the screams.
Someone else named it. Who is it?
Is it time to change the name Tear Point Guy to Tear Point Guy again?
Or did the beastman thief or the elf archer show an unexpected gap moe?
No, it wasn’t. This high-pitched, high-pitched scream belonged to the senior with the facial scar. Tearpoint Guy also looked at his senior with a puzzled expression.
The senior screamed as if he had just seen a bathtub infested with cockroaches. I followed my senior’s gaze, wondering if an evil warlock had created a human centipede and made it appear.
“…Golem?”
“It’s a golem, a stone golem.”
It was a golem.
It was even a small cleaning golem. I wonder if he was about 1 meter tall and he didn’t even have arms for attack. There is only one duster hanging carelessly.
I patted the trembling senior with facial scars on the shoulder and stared at the golem. Is there something I haven’t figured out because my level is low? Or did the golem have built-in illusion magic like 『Unlimited Hatred』?
To me, it was just a golem. There is no separate magic installed.
Tear Point Guy asked me the questions I was most curious about.
“Why are you so afraid or disgusted…? It’s just a golem.”
The senior with the facial scar took a moment to catch his breath and muttered.
“If I were to choose the one thing an illusion wizard should fear the most, I would choose a golem, junior.”
“It’s a good attitude to expand and interpret personal experiences into general categories…”
“Go and win the fight, junior. If you fight ‘that’ and win, I’ll give you 30 points off of your human modeling.”
“Just wait.”
I rolled up my sleeves and went out. There was no reason to refuse a business that would inevitably win. If you catch one of those cleaning stone golems, it’s almost 30 modeling copy spells.
No matter how much I pour my entire life into creating simulations to make a living playing TRPGs, who am I? He is similar to the previous disciple of the Purple Magic Tower. There was no way he could not overcome a single stone.
A butterfly fluttering next to me was blocking my view as if it was vehemently objecting, but even insects can’t stop my passion for modeling 30 pieces.
I took out my wand…
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“『Elementary Nightmare Grant』! 『Deep Sea Maw’s Frustration』!”
It doesn’t work.
“『Ilenyar’s Target Reset』 『Space Coordinate Chaos』!”
It doesn’t work…!
Red light flashed from the golem’s eyes. Weeeeeeeee. It was making an unpleasant noise and was approaching me. Taking all my magic head on!
“I come out, ‘Heart’-!”
He even used his secret weapon and charged the largest number of holograms that he could summon on his own without assistance—as many as 10 physically powerful illusions!
Hearts, Butler Corps, and even full plate armor knights who have joined as new faces! (I put a mask on the heart in case there was trouble.)
They charged in all at once and knocked on the golem, but it wasn’t enough. Physical power was sorely lacking!
Since the golem had no faith, the power that the hologram could exert was at the level of a child’s cotton fist. The cleaning golem moved forward resolutely despite the heavy fire. Even though it’s rattling, it’s like it’s no big deal!
“This is ridiculous… Are you saying it doesn’t even tickle?”
-Beep beep. Beep.
“Kwaaaaak!!”
Pop! Pop!
The golem’s duster swung. I was cornered in the dungeon and had no choice but to crouch down and endure the golem’s blows. The duster hit every corner of my body and shook off the dust. I
was so sad that even tears came to my eyes.
I had to gather my wits. There will be a reversal. You must not lose. Isn’t it just a cleaning golem? I am…!
“I don’t want to lose… I don’t want to lose…!!”
Golems do not have souls and are not equipped with sense organs that are high enough to cause disturbance. Illusion magic doesn’t work. If it had been a golem with cutting-edge thinking, it wouldn’t have been so helpless!
I desperately tried to conjure magic. If illusion magic doesn’t work because the golem has no thoughts, you can just infuse the golem with thoughts and hit it!
There is no such magic. If you don’t have it, just make it!
“Walk upside down and hang. You are the one who walks in the sky and falls to the ground. Take a turn and come down to heaven── 『Forced Personality Department…』Kaaaaaaak!”
A duster was stuck in my muzzle. About 80% of the way through, my spell was shattered. I lost all motivation and fell to the floor…
The cleaning golem slapped its duster three times in my face as if declaring victory, then left deep into the dungeon. Now I finally understand the meaning behind the facial scar senior’s screams. It was a deep lament…
a complete inverse.
All my resistance was crushed.
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The adventure… was successful. I also obtained battle data from Tearpoint Guy and other adventurers, and learned how the ogre moves. The first steps had great meaning. If you input data to AI and spin it infinitely in accelerating time—do you understand?
There will be original sword and martial arts.
It is said that infinite time and infinite monkeys write Shakespeare’s plays. Since basic data was included, the probability would be higher than that. The more data you add, the higher the probability of selecting a plausible one.
Martial arts… you can do it!
After the crushing defeat I suffered from the golem, I became interested in increasing my combat power. If someone were to stab you while passing by, wouldn’t you be dead?
In conjunction with the battle data explained earlier, if you give the hologram at least a martial arts ability, you may be able to use it as a pseudo-summoning technique. Basic physical strength also needs to be strengthened. This is an area that requires budget and effort.
All of this harvest is used to create a session to treat to the 1st princess.
But for today, I wanted to sleep quietly with the bitter wound of defeat…
That night, I had a dream of being chased by a golem.
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A room in the dungeon where the adventurers returned. The cleaning golem, which was in a sleeping state, has ‘awakened’. And I reasoned. Why can you think of yourself? Who are you and what is this knowledge you have been given?
And then I realized the gap. About 20% empty space. The first answer I came up with was the puzzle pieces I gathered while continuing the missing link and thinking about my own existence.
Q. Who are you?
A. Abraham, Professor, Miskatonic University.
A word from the author (author’s review)
It’s a pleasure!
I thought it would be better to eat it as a side dish today….
How did you like it? Did it suit your taste?
Please consider the pictures as reference only! I added it because I was afraid it would be confusing if I wrote it down as text!
It’s cold and it’s snowing. Maybe that’s why Nobelpia caught a cold too.
Have a healthy and happy day, my friends!
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