(EP.429) Those Who Do #4
429 – The Stopper # 4
said Priestess Miriam.
“It seems like they are going to enter the city soon. Let’s go separate in the city. That is our opinion.”
It was originally a temporary party.
It was a pity because I went with this party group and there were many things that were helpful, but if their opinion is their opinion, what is the point of refusing it for us?
It is understandable that Miriam said this.
Because a cold-hearted man got hurt while saving others and as a result did something that interfered with their ‘goal’. You want to prevent this from happening any more.
So, in the end, after we entered the city, we decided to work separately.
It was a great fortune in itself to be able to easily enter the city by meeting them in the first place. I’m sorry, but I can’t help it.
“This is the entrance.”
Then the hunter pushed the rock on the wall of the cave with all his might. Then, with the sound of something rolling, I felt the wind seeping through the narrow gap.
When the wind blows, it means that it is connected to the outside. Glancing at the gap, I could see old man-made structures rising here and there.
It’s a city view.
I was able to quickly get into a city full of monsters.
If that’s enough, the pursuers who might have been following us won’t even dare to come any closer. It would be a different story if they knew all the forks in this cave and followed them.
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Now, I decided to take a step forward with a glimmer of hope.
“Get out of the way.”
As I was peering through the hole, Renee, a fellow female warrior of the hunter, pushed me away. And then push the rock as hard as you can. Thanks to this, the narrow hole was large enough for one person to squeeze through.
Of course, Mirna trembles as if she is terrified.
“It’s not going to happen again… ?”
It must have been very traumatic for her that her butt got stuck every time she passed through such a narrow gap. Rene, a female warrior, snorted, “Hey,” and pushed the rock to the side a little more.
Thanks to this, the entrance was wide enough for two people to enter. Inside, the hunter party enters without hesitation.
“Then I wish you all the best of luck.”
Their appearance disappears with the light farewell of Priestess Miriam. It was a neat goodbye. It is like a knife to connect and cut without being sticky or sticky.
Thanks to this, we also had less time to immerse ourselves in the appreciation, so it was good. Ira said looking at the hole where they disappeared.
“Then let’s go in now.”
We, who came to our senses at Aira’s words, also plunged our bodies into the crevice of the rock. I was the first to enter. You enter the city by taking one heavy step in succession.
And I discovered something very surprising.
What I thought was the floor was actually the outer wall of the building. Yes. I was standing with my feet on the outer wall of the building.
I’m not a chameleon or a ninja, and I’m standing on the wall.
“what.”
I sensed a strange feeling and reached out my hand to the wall of the footpath. Then my body seemed to be pulled strongly by something, and I lost my focus and fell.
When I woke up hastily, I was sitting with my buttocks on the broken footpaths here and there. In my eyes, I could see the wives still standing on the wall.
“Here, the footing is strange. Be careful as you may be suddenly dragged and fall.”
At my words, the girls slowly walked towards me. Soon after, Narmi said, “The whole world is a mess. It feels strange.”
It was just as Narmi said.
As far as I know, gravity was only acting in one direction. from top to bottom.
But in this jumbled city, all the walls were attracted to our feet like magnets. I don’t know where is the earth and where is the sky.
Also, the labyrinth made up of stairs, roads, and buildings was endlessly connected.
Obviously the city didn’t seem this big from a distance. Once inside, it’s so wide that you can’t see the end of it. Come to think of it, Aira once said that.
This city is actually much bigger than it looks.
At that time, it was difficult to understand because it was a vague feeling, but when I felt it myself, it definitely touched me. This city is a different world in itself, where the laws of physics as we know them do not apply.
swish.
Stella looked around and said.
“So, where do we go now? I can’t even see the hunter party anymore.”
Unlike the monsters swarming outside the walls of Gargata.
The inside of the city was very barren. If the mysterious ruins where people disappeared at the same time one day were left unattended for a long time, this would be exactly the case here.
The roofs of the old plaster houses are full of giant baobab trees, which makes it feel like you are in a scene from a fairy tale or a myth.
“Where should I go… .”
I raised my head.
right above our heads. As if the world had opened its huge mouth, the cracks were spinning round and round like a black hole.
Mirna said.
“It’s like a scene from the apocalypse.”
The breadth and diameter of the broken sky did not dare predict.
If you listen quietly… .
Woo woo woo woo-woo-woo—-.
A sound so heavy that I wondered if the rotation of the earth would sound like this came from beyond that hole.
An uneasy feeling as if that huge hole would suck everything like this made my body freeze. Of course, it would be spit rather than suck.
If you look closely, you can notice that something is crashing down one by one from that big hole in the sky. palak. One of them fluttered and fell beside me.
I picked it up on the floor and read the letters.
「24-hour chicken delivery discount when packing at your doorstep… .”
These are the kinds of stories you don’t see in this world. These things are falling endlessly from that hole.
Shh.
Then Aira pointed her hand to the sky.
“Look everyone over there. There are stairs.”
Where Aira’s hand pointed, something like a strange structure was connected towards the sky. I don’t know if it’s correct to describe it as a staircase.
The result of taking Stella’s telescope and looking closely. It was because the distorted and misaligned buildings were floating in the air, layer by layer, like stairs.
but.
It seemed certain that he could enter the sky through that place. But looking at it this way, I don’t know if it’s the right way to go there.
“for a moment-.”
At that moment, Mirna spoke to us.
“The entrance we came in. Where did you go… ?”
We also looked around at Mirna’s story, which blinked in both eyes. Then, the crevice of the cave we had just entered disappeared and disappeared.
* * *
Stella, who had been staring at the wall for a while, finally spoke with a deep sigh.
“Not a clue. I look around, but I can’t find the entrance. I don’t know how this was possible.”
We searched the area, but nowhere could we find the entrance to the cave through which we entered the city. Of course, even if the entrance is gone, we still have the magic carpet.
If you decide to go back, you will be able to go back as many times as you want through the magic carpet with dimension magic.
So, to check the condition, I took out the carpet from the inventory «Squirrel Storage» and spread it out on the floor. A magic circle that moves with a strange sound as the magical energy flows.
“It works.”
Even though I was so relieved, for a moment I was a little nervous. The magic circle was working fine. None of the coordinate values that should have been felt came to mind.
The Royal Palace of Angmar, my room, the office of President Liddonoi of the village of Palen, whom I had recently given a carpet to, etc. Of course, the coordinates of the portals written on my magic carpets here and there must be read.
“… … .”
I calmly tried again, wondering if I could not sense the coordinates due to tension and embarrassment, but the result was the same.
Magic circle doesn’t work
That fact froze my heart like a cold icicle. The reason I was able to come to this city of Gargata boldly was actually because of this magical portal.
It’s a bit disconcerting that something like this breaks down at the moment when I vaguely thought of it like insurance, saying, “If it doesn’t work, just go back.”
Perhaps reading my expression, Elgar scratched her forehead with her finger.
“Why, what’s wrong?”
About that, Aira spoke to me instead.
“Here, the magic is not stable. Also, coordinates are calculated and applied because there is gravity in one direction. On the other hand, the coordinates and gravity are all mixed up here.”
“I have no idea what you are talking about, hey. Anyway, to sum up the conclusion, now we have lost our entrance. You mean you don’t even know how to go back?”
Elgar picks and kicks stones rolling on the floor. After seeing the rolling stone disappearing through the distant alley, he spoke again, quite nervously.
“It’s very rough.”
About him, Mirna interrupted a few words like a pimp.
“Liones little girl. Didn’t everyone already expect that there would be such difficulties? What’s the use of regretting it now?”
“Who regrets?”
“Sister, little Lioness. Both of you stop—”
“Yes, Miss Elgar. Miss Myrna. You all calm down.”
Mirna, Elgar, and the other young girls began to divide, raising their voices one by one. I thought I was doing well recently, but it seems that each of us has a lot to say as we are in a crisis situation.
it must be insecure
It’s my fault.
They lost their psychological stability because I showed a confused and bewildered figure for nothing. It would be better for me to step forward before it splits like this.
I said.
“Somehow there will be a way out. For now, let’s look around this area one more time. And if anything happens or you find something odd, please let me know.”
Don’t panic.
If you are a hunter, you will maintain your weight in such a situation. So Miriam and René, who trust and follow him, must have high trust in each other.
“Let’s do what we can for now.”
Elgar kept her mouth shut, as if a little reassured by my rational and productive comments. Soon we started to search the area once more-.
“Tae-oh, come here! No, everyone come! Here it is!”
We all stopped what we were doing at the sound of Narmi’s hoarse voice and turned our heads towards it. As I approached it slowly, Narmi said.
“Here on the wall. There was a strange mark painted on it. here.”
A really strange mark was drawn where Narmi’s finger was pointing. Because it was a mark, it was expressed in a vague way, but to put it simply, it was an arrow.
→.
→.
↑.
How can these arrows be drawn on the walls of a crumbling city? Does it mean anything? Then Stella lowered her head and pointed to something.
“Here, there is a part with text written on it. Let’s see… .”
However, Stella could not read the letters and frowned.
Whether it’s bad handwriting or just scribbles from the beginning, the letters were so twisted that I couldn’t understand them at all.
However, I remember seeing these squiggly letters somewhere. So I hurriedly opened the inventory 《Squirrel Storage》 and took out a book from it.
It was a record with the name ‘Taeo’. The record was probably written by my father, Isaiah Gospel.
When I turn the page and look at the back, I see graffiti written at random like the scribbles of a madman.
I compared the page and the letters Stella found by putting them right next to each other.
“Like it.”
Although graffiti is usually the same. My sensitive half-elf sense was asserting that these squiggly letters were written by the same person.
Isaiah was here.
If so, isn’t this arrow the same message he left behind?
“For once, let’s move along the arrow.”