Episode 198
Allen looked at the city where only the ruins were left in front of him.
Thousands of years have passed since the huge city, and only traces of it could be seen.
At the bottom of the fortress wall, square bricks were broken and scattered on the floor, and there was not even a single building in common sight.
Of course it was, but… .
‘too bad:
I couldn’t help but feel a little sad.
Remains of the empire from hundreds of years ago still remain, and things like drawbridges and sewers are still the locational conditions to consider when building a city.
But even before the ancient empire was built, the age of dragons and giants thousands of years ago.
No buildings from that mythical period could be found except in the plains of Nastrond.
It is said that there are a few ruins left in other places, but unlike the ruins of the ancient empire, most of them were not maintained.
Therefore, Allen was excited when he discovered the city, but the appearance of the city with only the ruins left was disappointing.
But he quickly shook his head.
‘Now we have just come inside.’
His final destination is a palace located deep in the plains of Nastrond.
It would be nice to find out something on the way there, but it didn’t matter.
He cautiously stepped into the city. Surprisingly, there were no undead in the city. The same is true if you look at it with your sense of curiosity.
“••• Is there anything special about this place?”
Allen concentrated his mind and spread his senses.
I looked through it in advance, but couldn’t find any living things, including undead. However, even if it was far away from the outskirts, it was easy to find with the naked eye.
Then there must be something different about the city… .
‘Are you too sensitive?’
Is it because of the story that Arcanthus said that there is an undead king who rules this place?
Allen looked all over the city at the conjecture that came to his mind, but there was nothing left of the city as he could see. Just as he was about to regain his senses, Allen stopped his body.
His head turned towards the center of the city.
“Is that?”
A place with only low-rise grounds, like any other building.
Only the remains of the building remained and the bottom of the place, which was no different from the surrounding area, was empty, as if there was one more floor.
Allen, convinced that his guess was correct, quickly approached it.
Then he looked around for a moment and swung his fist in one direction.
Allen’s body snapped and fell down.
As expected, he landed lightly and looked around. As if it had not been visited by anyone in a long time, the densely dusty cavity revealed a bare face that had not been exposed for thousands of years under the sunlight.
“•••Temple, is it?”
The place exposed by the sunlight was very different from Allen’s expectations.
huge statue.
As if reminiscent of a temple that existed in the past, a statue of a giant and a chapel built around it stood out.
There seemed to be another statue next to it, but there were only traces of where it had disappeared.
The place where Allen fell was the place where the bench had been placed.
However, because it had been there for a long time, it had already rotted, leaving only the remains of it. The cavity was too wide to be seen from Allen’s point of view, whether it was made assuming the size of a giant.
As he slowly looked around the place, he heard a small pop.
Allen’s nerves were focused there in an instant.
tuk” tuk_
The sound of hollow metal hitting the floor. Yes, it was as if her bones were hitting the floor, and Allen grabbed her sword strongly.
He frowned as he sent his senses.
‘Sensing is blocked in the middle:
Normal monsters can’t block their senses. The same goes for ogres belonging to the powerful class. That means one of two cases.
‘The opponent has equipment that blocks the sense of the magic tool used by the nobles.’
Comparable to yourself, at least a strong person of the 7th rank or higher.
However, neither of them was an opponent that should not be met here.
He found this place out of a sense of incongruity that he felt for a while, and if it hadn’t been for that, he would have passed by immediately after looking at it.
Allen’s destination was the center of the plains.
Threads of magical power spread around the floor. The power to hold the sword grew stronger and stronger, and the deep sunken eyes were busy predicting who the opponent would be.
That’s when Allen’s momentum soared endlessly.
A bewildered voice was heard.
“Can’t you just relax for a moment?”
Hearing this, Allen’s eyes lit up with astonishment. The reason was simple. Because he had heard the same way of communication countless times.
“It’s been a while since I’ve been a visitor, so I was just trying to play a prank… , if you just appear, you will disappear without being able to speak.”
A voice like hers echoed in my head.
“Welcome visitors. My name is Vpr, usually called the wise Bor.”
At the same time, a giant made of bones appeared from the passage on one side.
“I’m going to ask you because I told you my name. Visitors who seem to have inherited the blood of their clan.”
Bor, the skeleton giant wearing a robed robe, asked with a smirk.
‘Prince Allen. In fact, we couldn’t originally leave the central area:
‘•••What does that mean?,
‘It’s literally true.’
Arcandus opened his mouth with slightly gloomy eyes.
‘Thanks to the tribes called the guides of the desert, I succeeded in getting in deep… .’
Was it because he was too negligent when he discovered the palace, or was he caught in a trap from the beginning?
The investigation team that Arcandus joined almost couldn’t come back when monsters that were dozens of times stronger than the outskirts and endless quantities came in.
One reason they were able to return safely.
‘Because they suddenly stopped moving just before they passed us.
As if hearing any command, the undead abruptly stopped moving and gave way.
That was the reason and reason that Arcanthus assumed that there was an undead king in the Nastrond Plain.
“What do you think so? How difficult is it to give you a name?”
grunting voice.
The giant, who introduced Bor, expressed so much emotion that it was hard to believe it was an undead.
‘As you know, Besttula did as well.’
He was so active that it was hard to believe he had been locked up for thousands of years.
“I wonder if it’s because he’s been locked up for a long time, but how much has he progressed outside? Has a lot of time passed?”
Allen did not feel the sense of time as if he had been alone for thousands of years from Bor, who looked at him from a distance, as if he understood his vigilance.
Allen did not release the tension and opened his mouth.
“••• Is there anyone else here besides you?”
“You have finally spoken. someone? No, as you can see, I’m alone. If you are curious, you can take a look. I’m not going to stop you now.”
As he took a step back, he saw the only passageway here.
Allen glanced at him for a moment, then scanned every nook and cranny of the aisle with his senses.
In the passageway, there was only one room he seemed to have lived in, and that was all. The fact that there was no warehouse or study that would normally exist in a temple was surprising, but it was not something to be concerned about now.
“Yeah, you’re alone.”
Allen was willing to talk for once, given that he wasn’t lying.
“It seems that the boundaries have been lifted… How about introducing yourself?”
“Allen Reinhardt. Noble… No, you don’t know, so just call me casually.”
“nobility? From what I hear, it seems like the ruling class of the current race, but we also have that kind of concept, so we know it.”
Well, I don’t intend to call it high anyway.
He burst out laughing like that.
“I have no intention of being treated even by an ancient being. That’s how it is…” O -Uhh •
Allen had no intention of having a conversation to pass the time.
“Why are you here? Why have you been guarding this temple for so long? And… do you have any means of controlling the undead?”
“Are we going to get to the point already? Hmm, I’d like to hear a little bit of outside news if possible.”
He shrugged and opened his mouth.
“To answer the last question… okay. All I can do is stop them from setting foot in this city.”
“Then the reason I was protecting this place…”
He waved his hand at Allen’s words and hung up.
“Wow, there’s no reason for me to even say that, is there?”
Allen was speechless for a moment at his question, and then he spoke again with a smiley voice.
“I want to say .., but yes, I have the blood of the same people, so let me know in particular.”
He straightened his posture, took a breath he didn’t need to take a break, and answered briefly.
“Obligation, because.”
“…duty?”
Bor spread his hands wide open.
“Yes, duty. In this place, the reason that carried the enormous work of thousands of years and the cause of holding the dying body!”
The skeleton’s body rattled. Even though the wind was not blowing, his ragged robes fluttered, and his light voice became increasingly heavy and low.
“Isn’t that the case with you, Allen Reinhardt!”
The giant moved slowly.
He didn’t even care about the mana gathered in Allen’s sword, and he exploded all the power of his body.
“Human beings who will end their lives as puppets of the two transcendents!”
The moment he heard those words, his expression, which had been secretly preparing for an attack, hardened.
“I have been waiting for you!”
The body of a skeleton with a strength comparable to that of Allen began to crumble. At the same time, a magic circle rose from the floor of the chapel.
The magic of a system that is completely different from the current system.
By comparison, yes, the magic seemed to mix the characters engraved on Bestla’s sword face.
“Ha ha ha ha ha! The one who has finally found the giant’s most precious treasure has appeared!”
Allen prepared for the attack. The sudden change in the author’s behavior was strange enough, but he had no trust in him in the first place, so it didn’t matter. However… .
Bor had no intention of attacking Allen in the first place.
Allen hurriedly spread the thread in the wave of the undulating space.
“late!”
The last sight he saw of the giant, with his body rising, did not appear to be the figure of the one who had thrown him into a trap.
He only sees a figure freed from duties that he was exhausted and exhausted and had no hope.
“It was a long time. It’s been a long time. finally… .”
I have finished my duty.
It was as if he could hear words in his ear that Bor could not finish.
Allen’s body was moved.
“…beat”
“We’ll stop it for you. So leave us…!”
A city that once flourished with a splendid civilization was destroyed by a meteorite and the dragon’s breath.
“••• Renim, how was the ceremony?”
“Of course, I finished it successfully. Just hiding it like this…
“… you were against it until the very end…
“It’s unavoidable…
The intelligence accumulated over a long life and the knowledge developed with it were meaningless in the face of war.
“Evil hand! Where are the lizards that yielded to the two transcendents?
ji… …
“••• Fight to the end, and execute…”
“But if that happens, there’s no hope for us…
“So, is there any hope now?”
At one time, one of the two rulers that divided the ages, the king of giants and the god they serve, made a decision.
“Build hundreds of ruins, fight to the end and die!”
for our future.