“No more is too much.”
“It is no longer possible to obtain water or ice attribute stones in large quantities. Money is not an issue, there is really no property for sale.”
“Same goes for slaves or races of those traits. Mermaids cannot be captured in the first place. There is no point in capturing just one or two.”
Caiman looked down with cold eyes at his subordinate, who was lying on his back at the anxious report.
“In addition, the storm orbs are also being pursued, but they are literally just preventing them from passing where they want.”
Both chasing and being chased were powerful elites. As a result, like a tense tug-of-war, one side could not run away at once, or could not hold on to it, only repeating getting further and closer.
That meant that neither the hands of Caiman nor the powers they had seized would have the marbles of the storm going in for the time being.
At that, Kaiman laughed and said, “Huh.”
Wherever his breath passed, red mana rose, and then a short spark rose and faded.
“… Too bad.”
I prepared and tried so hard, but wasn’t it just mine?
Kaiman rubbed his forehead. It contained quite a bit of the power of the essence of fire, but the power it possessed was too powerful in the first place.
This ideal was not a gamble.
Mixing and absorbing fire mana with other things to neutralize it has now reached its limit.
‘If you’re greedy.’
I’ll have to risk my life
If he succeeds, he will become a fire dragon, but if he fails, he will not be able to leave even a handful of ashes and will re-dedicate everything intact to that fiery essence.
And Caiman was a cold-hearted man with too many possessions to take such a gamble.
“It was ultimately not enough for me to contain the essence by myself.”
It is necessary to quickly admit what is to be admitted and weigh the gains and losses.
It was Kruger’s instinct that kept weighing against the continent for a long time.
“Guardia will be on vacation soon. Bring them here.”
At Caiman’s words, those who prostrated themselves away from him trembled.
“no way… Are you thinking of doing that?”
If it weren’t for Caiman’s most loyal people here, in his words, ‘Crazy with power, you’re finally sacrificing Gadia to neutralize that fiery mana.’ would have thought
Externally, it was seen that Caiman only cared for Adelian when he sent Guardiaman away to the academy and Adelian acted so foolishly that he kept him by his side even though he smeared mud on the family’s glory.
Furthermore, Gadia hated Caiman, who cared only for Adelian, and hated him thanks to the memory of her mother who died giving birth to Adelian, and eventually came to hate the existence of men themselves.
But the truth was different.
“Yes, it’s time to share the power of the essence of fire refined with my body to Guardia.”
A daughter who resembles the deceased Grand Duchess.
The only person he cares about is Caiman, who is called a snake with cold blood.
The only being willing to share the power of the essence created by all this karma and suffering.
That was Gadia.
“then… What is Prince Adelian thinking?”
Caiman twisted and laughed at someone’s question.
“He’s just a bait, as always.”
In the first place, its value is nothing more than a shield for Guardia.
Or just a living cache of Kruger’s rings.
Caiman himself is so powerful that his collateral bloodlines cannot bear to reveal it, but Caiman, who has a lot of doubts, has used Adelian since he was a child to free Guardia from the danger of assassination.
“Leave it, as always. All he can do is a life of dissipation and little rebellion.”
There is no need to protect or watch.
There was no need to know the current situation, nor any reason to include it in future plans.
If it just exists, it exists, and if it dies, it’s worth the hassle of finding a new storage box for Kruger’s ring.
“If it wasn’t for this overflowing, violent space of mana, there would be no need to put Kruger’s ring outside, and in that case, the child wouldn’t have any value.”
It’s just such a minor thing.
Caiman rested his hand on the arm of the chair and rested his chin on it, smiling slowly.
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“When the time comes, bring only Guardia to safety.”
* * *
‘what.’
Apparently, he just moved his body after sitting Levy on the bed.
However, what you see is an ambiguous space, not inside the magic tent.
It was a forest, then a sea, then an airship, then a cabin on a capsized ship.
Like in a rambling dream.
‘Let’s not move right away.’
Let’s start by thinking about why I’m here all of a sudden.
I sat with my buttocks pressed against the floor, which is now a sandy beach.
The sea without waves looks awkward as if a layer of glass was placed on top of it without any ripples.
At the end of the sky, the sun was setting on one side and rising on the other side, and the moon was spinning above it.
First of all, considering what happened with Levi, the grace of the sea witch is right.
But it must be a dungeon where each of us faces the thing we fear the most.
‘What am I?’
I know that grace has been sidetracked from myself because of the feeling of wealth. In addition, I don’t know why, but Levy thinks that I may have gotten tangled because I was hugging him, that is, in a state of contact.
The sea witch’s dungeon is classified more like witchcraft than magic. Witchcraft is a bit more spiritual than magic.
Of course, I also predicted it based on the knowledge of an over-immersive otaku, so if you go into details like black magic or soul magic, it should be different.
‘But what’s wrong here?’
Let’s say that Levi made contact and got tangled up.
Then what is this place?
I rubbed my chin and pondered, then got up from my seat. You have to move.
At least I’m sure it’s not my nightmare.
So, the conclusion we can draw right now is that it’s in the fear of someone in our party.
‘I can’t leave it alone.’
The outcome the sea witch hoped for would have been to overcome it on her own.
‘What do I know?’
We didn’t bring our kids here to raise their stats.
So much to get after clearing this dungeon?
don’t need it all
The mentality of my party is more precious. Anyway, as long as it’s like this, I can forcefully wake it up.
‘Oh, no way.’
Is it because of the rope pulled out of the subspace at the end?
If someone caught it and it was judged as a contact.
‘No, someone snatched me right before I passed out.’
First, two assumptions. Or hit the rope by contact. Was it determined who hugged her just before fainting?
As I am walking, a dark night and a bright day intersect with each step I take.
Is this a space like this because you are afraid of something?
“Ahahahaha! hahahaha. die! kill it! black… Whoa… after… Whoops. Lalala.”
I heard a strange yet familiar sound from somewhere.
No, to be precise, I heard a familiar voice ringing in my ears.
‘Leaf.’
I jumped again in a space that seemed to be entangled in all directions and headed towards the place where the sound resonated.
Flowers bloom or swamps form with every step, the sky shakes, and mysterious ruins rise and fall.
What the golem Leaf is most afraid of.
‘Analysis and things that don’t make sense.’
“Ahh… Ahhh! no. no, it’s fun Fun! what am i I am. What does it mean to laugh?”
As if something is broken, they suddenly laugh, get angry, get angry, and then they are happy.
It’s like pouring out emotions forcibly to Riff, whose emotions were insignificant.
Uncontrolled emotions in an uninterpretable space.
Leaf sits down in a place buried lower than other places, laughs while hitting the ground with his palms, cries while scratching with his fingernails, gets angry as he breaks the ground with his fists, and then lies on his stomach and hums.
However, if you look closely, your eyes shook when you laughed or cried, when you were angry or when you were happy.
As if this kind of self is unfamiliar and afraid.
Growing joy and anger. sorrow and joy.
It’s like you can’t control yourself.
Even while running happily in place, she cries as if she has lost everything, then claps her hands and laughs as if her stomach is twisting.
“Leaf!”
I ran and grabbed Riff’s hand. Originally, my hand should have been attached to the power of the leaf, but the hand of the leaf that I tightly clung to does not move.
“hahahaha! manager? it hurts… sick… … . let go… Black.”
Laughing and crying while watching me
Hearing that it hurts, I inadvertently let go of the hand I was holding, and the flesh that had been pressed white in the shape of my hand turned red again and a handprint came up.
‘… It’s not a golem.’
“Look at this, manager. I-I got weak. hahahahaha! Isn’t it fun? Smile! no… … . I can still carry out orders just fine. play… can’t play! Why? Why isn’t it better?”
Riff’s hands were red and bruised from the broken nails from hitting and scraping the ground.
Sudden changes in surroundings and changes in oneself.
It is an emotion that cannot be calculated.
Is that your fear?
But because that’s how you live.
In the midst of crying, laughing, and getting angry, I brushed Leaf’s disheveled hair and patted her hair.
“are you okay.”
even if you can’t do anything Even if you suddenly change and can’t adapt to an unfamiliar environment, you’re afraid, and there’s nothing you can do for me.
“You know I never asked for anything like that from you.”
If you only thought about efficiency and only thought about its usefulness. If you considered the riff as a simple tool rather than a riff.
I know, and Leaf knows, how many things can be done under the word performance.
It’s because there is no concept of dying as long as the core remains intact, even if it is cut, broken, pasted, and twisted anyway.
I hoped that someday a smile would spread across that expressionless face, but it wasn’t like this.
Somehow, I suppressed the rising anger and laughed while hugging the riff and comforting myself.
“I really, really love what you write.”
Even if you don’t become my shield, Kane can just do all those things.
Pictures are better, but writing is fine too. Because what you want to do is what I want you to do.
The shimmering scenery melts away. I opened my eyes to the warmth that brushed my body, and it was the edge of the magic tent.
“You were surprised!”
And something soft clung to my leg.
Looking down at my chest, I saw Leaf expressionless, but in my eyes, she was holding me with a slightly embarrassed face.
He lifted Levy up from his leg, smiled hahahaha, gave it to Leaf, took out fruit and water from the subspace, and shrugged.
“Levy, how long has it been since I disappeared?”
“Ugh. Five minutes?”
I nodded once as if I understood, then looked at Riff.
―I’m sorry for showing you that way. manager.
“This dungeon is like that. are you okay? By the way, Riff, did you catch me in the water?”
-yes.
He looks more blunt than usual, but in fact he is very shy.
I stroked Riff and Levy’s hair.
“Did you catch all the ropes?”
-yes. Apparently it was. Judging from the mana on the rope right before being moved to this place, all of them have been moved.
After lightly listening to everything, I nodded as I handed out heated water to the two people from the kettle hanging over the bonfire in the tent.
“I’ll bring the other guys soon.”
According to my thoughts, if you move as much as the length of the rope, you will be able to meet them all.