232 – Mirror Scroll
With very few exceptions, the basics of game level design are to make items and materials with better performance more difficult to obtain.
Typically, it’s the Nightmare with Lost Wings, which is designed to test the limits of human blood pressure while performing a quest.
The Ancient Scroll series was no exception.
If you were to pick the characteristics of the ‘Mirror Scroll’ found in this dungeon first, you would be able to point out the maze inside the dungeon designed to befit the name of the mirror and all the mirror traps placed in the maze.
And the final fishing that kicks the back of the head of the player who stepped in for the first time is to hit the finish line.
“A trap? What does that mean, child?”
“If you look closely at that thing floating in the air, you will know it. I can’t see it, but Minerva-sama should be able to observe it.”
At my words, Minerva and Parnari’s eyes were all focused on the scroll floating on the ceiling of the dungeon. Nix was still busy hugging my waist and rubbing his face against his body.
By the way, that thing looks like it’s floating in the air at first glance, but it’s actually placed on an invisible bridge. You can find out if you break through the maze spread out below to the end.
After examining her scrolls for a while, Minerva opened her mouth with her excitement slightly subdued.
“…… It’s fantasy magic.”
In an instant, his face regained his composure and became calm again. There seemed to be a little bit of anger mixed in. It seemed that the fact that he was playing with the scroll made his fever run wild.
“If floating above is an illusion, where is the real thing?”
“It’s right next door.”
“The side?”
Minerva made a puzzled expression. I took the three of us and turned to the side of the dungeon’s entrance. At first glance, there is nothing, just a place cut off by a cliff.
At first glance, it seemed so. At first glance.
There was a concave space on the wall closest to the entrance. The location of the concave space was about 6 to 7 times my height.
If you don’t deliberately look up for a long time, you’ll never notice it, and at first glance, it’s just an empty cliff, so there’s no reason to pay attention.
“The real scroll is hidden there.”
The first player who came here was usually busy memorizing the structure of the maze by approaching the cliff in front of him.
If items are placed on the ceiling and a maze is spread out in the center of the dungeon, the only way to think of it is to break through the maze and obtain the item using common sense.
In addition, given the height of the concave space, if you do not install a separate mod, you cannot find the space above it even if you move right before falling off the cliff with vanilla FOV and camera structure.
It was because the object at the edge of the cliff was restricting the movement of the camera.
Because it is exquisitely located outside of the 3rd person field of view, this was the place designed to prevent finding the concave space above, at least while on the cliff at the entrance.
“…… There is something ahead.”
Minerva surveyed the concave space and lightly touched the floor with her staff. Then, the blue mana came down like a snowflake and landed in the empty space.
As mana piled up like snow, the outline of the transparent slope was revealed.
It’s a way to climb up close to the wall, and the width is narrow enough for one person to climb, so it’s hard to notice unless you rub against the wall.
It is a mechanism to prevent players from getting caught on a slope while wandering around.
Because of this design, the player only realizes that he has been hooked after passing through the mirror maze, traps, and enemies to reach the scroll above.
When interacting with the scroll, the concave space lights up brightly, and a shortcut to the entrance appears, revealing a transparent slope.
‘Vicious things.’
Well, so once you get caught, you don’t have to go into the maze, just go up the transparent slope and eat the scroll, so it was overwhelmingly easy.
And like a brunet production company that avoids irrationality, it gives you a chance to notice this. If you reach the middle of the road going down to the maze and turn the camera backwards, you will see a concave space.
That’s because most of them just skip it after seeing it.
“You are amazing. Do you know anything about that?”
Farnari looked very surprised.
Minerva had seen me do this not once or twice, and she seemed oblivious to the scroll in front of her eyes, and Nyx was still busy fulfilling her desires.
“It’s a bit vague to explain, but you just have to get used to it. If we meet in the future, we might see this side of me many times.”
“Getting used to it, how?”
Parnari tilted her head and was about to ask more questions, but Minerva staggered between the two of us like a madman, her eyes widening and she was cut off.
The fact that there is a real thing up there also means that there is an ancient scroll right in front of you. That meant that Minerva was on the verge of losing her mind.
“Skientia? What’s the matter?”
Minerva deftly ignored Parnari’s question, and she stepped her foot into the empty air. Her feet, wrapped in her sandals, trampled her air.
It’s not that she climbed the transparent slope. He is stepping up into the air where there is really nothing.
When I found the crystal scroll, it showed similar symptoms, so I dismissed it, but Parnari didn’t seem to be able to do that. The embarrassment was evident on her face.
Minerva’s back disappeared into the concave space. The trembling pupil was looking behind him.
“Mr. Parnari.”
“…… Huh.”
The answer was quite late, as if he was still in shock.
“I’m sorry as soon as I joined as assistant, but it might be hard to see Minerva for the time being.”
“Can’t you meet Schientia-nim? Why?”
“Because what’s inside is what Minerva has been longing for since before. I am studying it.”
“Um…… How long do i have to wait one hundred years? Two hundred years?”
“…… Not to that extent. Wouldn’t it be a month or so at the most?”
Parnari tilted his head.
“A month is too short. She said it was something she had always wanted. No matter how bad it is, it should be fifty years.”
“… ….”
Perhaps it’s because he’s a dragon who can look beyond four digits in terms of age and even look up to five digits, it seems that his concept of time is very different from ours.
I wondered if that’s why he calmly accepted 300 years as Minerva’s assistant, who was practically the same as a graduate student.
I left Farnari, a face that was puzzling in many ways, and looked down at Nyx, who was still clinging to my waist. Nyx, feeling their gaze, raised his face. The sullen smile returned.
“hehehe, why are you like that?”
“I just want to ask you one favor. Can you teach me some dark magic later?”
A question popped up in his head.
“Did I already teach you black magic?”
“Ashes are not ashes, nothing else. Regardless of whether it’s offensive or defensive, I want to learn everything you can teach me. Why? No?”
“No, there is nothing I cannot teach you…… Rather welcome…… Lol.”
Nyx smiled timidly and glanced at me.
“Because you said last time that one black magic is enough. Oh, I really don’t mean to blame. Just curious… ….”
“Things have changed since then. From now on, I think I can use black magic properly, so I’m trying to learn it.”
Judging from this reaction, Nix didn’t seem to be able to sense that my magic power had increased explosively like Minerva’s.
“hehehe. All right.”
Nix nodded his head several times. I stroked his hair, and his face was buried in my arms again with a hesitant laugh.
Somehow, I felt like I could hear a groaning sound somewhere.
“Ahh…… !”
A voice filled with deep joy rang out. Parnari flinched as if surprised, then realized that it was Minerva’s voice and returned to her original form.
“Just now, Skientia-sama?”
“Who else is there besides him?”
As if breaking Parnari’s thoughts, Minerva slowly walked out, unlike me, who answered calmly because she had experienced it once before, and who looked in disbelief.
Overall, it looked similar to last time. Eyes that fell into ecstasy, wide-open mouth, trembling body, arms that cherished the scroll.
Seeing that, Farnari froze in place.
“Skientia-sama…… Why are you here?”
“This is a normal look. Accept it.”
“Is it normal? What is that? Humans are weird…….”
He soothed Parnari, who suddenly became convinced that humans themselves were strange. To be honest, the wizards who found the ancient scrolls were strange to me, so I had nothing to say.
Minerva was walking this way, limp. Like the name Mirror Scroll, her surroundings were reflected on the surface of the scroll in her hand.
“Minerva.”
Nod, Minerva nodded her head instead of answering her.
“Please return to the Mage Tower with Mr. Parnari first. I’m staying here for a while because I have something to do with Nix.”
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“… ….”
Nod.
“It will take a while. If someone asks me where I went, just answer that.”
“… ….”
Nod.
“And, after you finish deciphering the scrolls, I want you to teach me some magic.”
“…… ?”
Nod?
Minerva involuntarily tried to nod her head, then hesitated for a moment, then slowly came to life in her silvery-white pupils.
“Hey, what did you just say…… ?”
“Tell me some magic later. Now that you have magic, shouldn’t you use it properly?”
Minerva, dazed for a moment, nodded her head with her laugh.
“Leave it to me, child.”
This is going to bring you back to your senses? While I was surprised inside, the humans and dragons left the dungeon. With just the two of us left, Knicks slipped away.
It seemed like Minerva had disappeared.
“hehehe, then even if it starts… ….”
“Before that, ask one question.”
The biggest reason I stayed here with Nyx was because I wanted to learn magic. It was time to question it.
“I heard it directly from the god of the Holy Land. Nix, you said you came here from another world.”
“… ….”
The corners of his mouth, which had been hesitating and laughing in a friendly way, slowly went down. The black pupils sank dully.
“I won’t ask how you got over it. The goddess must have figured it out.”
“… ….”
“There is one thing I want to ask. The world you came from, it seems to be in my memory. I can guess.”
Nix himself mentioned the centipede, so I was half sure, but at first I was going to say brunet 3, but just in case, I expressed it in a vague way.
“Who was the person who killed all the humans inhabited by immortal centipedes in that world and decided the end of the world?”
In other words, he is the main character of Brunet 3.
There was a reason why I asked this question. Since then, I’ve always felt something strange.
Obviously, the production company said that brittle 1-3 and brittle 4 are completely different worldviews, but here it came out as if they were ruled by the same gods, the sun and the moon.
At least as far as I know, that shouldn’t be the case.
“… ….”
Nix, who had been staring at me for a while with eyes that had completely turned off the light, slowly opened his mouth.
“You are in front of me.”
“What?”