132. Four days (3)
The situation on the 4th floor has been sorted out.
Even by just one person.
After securing safety, Tia, I, and Erea went into an empty lecture hall nearby.
“For now, let’s make this a base.”
Saying that, I took out an item from my bag.
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[Warp Gate Creation Order]
: A scroll that allows you to install a warp gate in your current location. Once used, the order book disappears.
You can get 100,000 gold when you resell it at the shop.
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Cracks appear in empty spaces.
The scroll he was holding turned to ashes as it burned and fell to the ground.
Just in case, check the situation outside the window,
Then, let’s look at Tia before going inside the gate…… For some reason she had her eyes wide open.
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“What is that expression?”
“…That’s 100,000 gold.”
“That’s right.”
“Rich…”
It was hard to know because he had so little change in his expression, but… It seemed like he was frightened.
Lucius Party is originally on the poor side, but among them, Tia is without a doubt the least money.
As a member of the cursed clan, he had no choice but to live in hiding, and even then, it was common for him to lose his place to live, so he lived a life close to a nomadic life. So, if you look at Tia’s story, you can see that he has a rather money-saving temperament.
Well, apart from Tia’s circumstances, who have no relationship with me.
I knocked on the gate and said.
“I went in and out for a while. In the meantime, Erua,”
“Sister.”
“……Sister Erua, keep an eye on the outside while I’m back.”
At my words, Er A nodded her head.
Then I see Tia.
“You should also follow me. There are things I want you to bring with me.”
“Yes.”
Tia nodded her head obediently.
Seeing that nod, she inadvertently compares it to Er Ah. Come to think of it, these two were the least talkative characters in Unknown Saga.
… Looking at the two people who are difficult to communicate with, I miss Claire for a moment.
It’s a pity. There are days when I miss Claire.
With a sigh, I entered the gate.
And what I can feel is the smell of the stagnant air.
The smell of dust was not pleasant at all, but the fact that the bloody smell had disappeared somehow made me feel refreshed.
This feeling mixed with the smell of oil is like being in a factory.
Of course, when I looked around, there was no equipment for printing things, rather it was more like a warehouse.
“Where is this?”
“It is the basement of a building that has no owner.”
Saying that, I took out an item from the shelf.
The basement used when attacking the Bletar Dungeon. Even after that day, I was coming here regularly.
The way to get here is very special. So, for now, only Mari and I were allowed to enter.
It is ideal for use as a warehouse in that there is no fear of item theft.
At the same time, it was an ideal place to use as an evacuation site.
‘…… Didn’t Marie come?’
I told Marie about this place…… Should I say When she attacked the Bletar Dungeon, she came here together, so Marie must have registered her warp gate information at that time.
She has already handed several warp gate creation spells to Marie, and she has told her in advance to evacuate here in case of danger….
Looking around, there doesn’t seem to be any sign that people have been there.
Marie hasn’t come here yet.
…… No, she’s probably not coming.
‘… It takes 30 seconds to create a warp gate.’
It must be difficult to earn even that 30 seconds.
… Thinking like that makes me impatient.
“……The cursed clan, take these items and go.”
After I packed a few items, I held out a bag.
Tia took the bag with her hesitant hand and said,
She looks at me with a face that still can’t read my emotions.
“What? Do you have something to say?”
“……There is.”
“Huh?”
“But the situation is urgent. I’ll do it later.”
And she says so.
I’ll do it later…. Hearing that kind of thing bothers me for nothing.
She didn’t bother to pry. As Tia said, it’s an emergency, so she doesn’t have time to listen slowly.
“I’ve packed everything. I’m leaving.”
“Yes.”
Like that, Tia and I went through the gate again.
The scenery changed and we arrived at the lecture hall again.
Erra stood there as if nothing had happened.
“I’ll ask just in case, does anyone here have ?”
I asked two people.
Then they both shook their heads.
“There is no aptitude for trees.”
She replies with Tia’s unique raspy voice.
In Unknown Saga, each character has an aptitude, and depending on that aptitude, the difficulty of learning and mastering skills is determined.
For example, Tia’s Lightning Elemental aptitude is set to 99, Wind Elemental’s aptitude is set to 30, and all other elemental aptitudes are set to 1.
Therefore, it is very easy to learn and master lightning elemental magic with Tia, but on the other hand, it is very difficult to master other elemental magics.
As another example, in Claire’s case, the Earth Elemental aptitude was high, but this guy wanted to break into the inn I was staying in, so she learned the Wind Elemental type .
It’s a level of difficulty similar to that of an Englishman learning Korean…… Or is it similar to a right-handed person using chopsticks with their left hand? It would be inexhaustibly difficult to learn once, and even if you succeed in acquiring the skill, difficulties in raising the skill level will bloom after that.
No matter how much Claire trains , It will be difficult to raise the skill level by more than 5.
“Unfortunately, I also have no aptitude for non-attributes.”
Marie and Claire seemed to have some aptitude for shamanism, but I didn’t.
Ariel felt that her water elemental, dark elemental, and lightning elemental aptitudes were higher than average, and the rest of her aptitudes were evenly low.
She has tried a few times to learn For flexibility in strategy, but…… As a result, all failed.
In this way, each character has an aptitude, so it feels like the training tree is subtly fixed.
Only two of the Unknown Saga characters are free from this aptitude limit.
One of them is standing here.
“Your sister has aptitude for all elements, right?”
After saying that, Errea nodded her head.
Surprisingly, Era’s aptitude for all elements is set to 90 or higher.
So Erua can freely learn any magic skill.
“Yes, but there is no .”
However, having talent and learning skills are different stories.
Erra answered that.
“…It’s not that only non-attributes don’t have aptitude, can I ask why?”
“I didn’t learn because I didn’t have anything to write.”
“…….”
It feels like deleting the messenger app because there is no contact.
… Well, to be honest, I thought it would be like this.
I already knew from my experience playing Unknown Saga that Erua does not have the Skill. She was just asking just in case.
I’m a fool for expecting it.
“There is no way to contact anyone. And it is not a situation where you can expect help from others.”
In other words, it has to be solved by the three people present here.
“Cursed clan, I know where your comrades are.”
“……Lucius, weapon combat department building. Ron, sacred combat department building. Rose, archeology club room. Lapisca,……I don’t know.”
“They’re scattered all over the place. Then Sister Erua, can you go to the first training ground right now?”
“Yes. I’m not going.”
“Yes. If you go to the first training ground, Mari… What?”
A refusal has returned from Era.
I inadvertently opened my eyes wide at something I had never experienced even in Unknown Saga.
“…I won’t go? Why?”
“Because I’m Ariel’s older sister.”
“No… That doesn’t matter now. We haven’t even made a soul bond yet.”
“I am Ariel’s older sister. She is not the older sister of a child named Marie.”
Without even listening to me, Erre continued her words like that.
There, I realize anew. The difference between Tia and Era.
It’s similar that they both don’t talk around. While Tia is relatively obedient, Erua is a character at my own pace with no communication.
“If I must save one of them, I save Ariel. That’s what I’m here for.”
“…That’s why he’s alive and well.”
“If I leave, Ariel will be in danger.”
“Ha.”
It’s frustrating….
Of course, I wasn’t completely wrong. It can be said that Tia and I have completely secured her survival just by Erua’s presence.
It is also true that if Erea leaves, only two mage characters with poor tanking ability will remain, so the risk will definitely rise.
Knowing that, Erua does not go to the place where Mari is.
“Even if I don’t want that?”
“Yes, I am Ariel’s older sister.”
“That’s why we haven’t had a relationship yet.”
“…….”
Er Ah looks at me with her quiet eyes.
… This is wrong.
Era had no intention of listening to me.
It is still alive.
Marie realized that fact a beat late.
“Whoa… Whoa…”
This is the corner of the first training ground.
Hiding there, Marie watched the surroundings.
Hell spreads before your eyes.
“The professor has collapsed!”
“We have to get to the training ground somehow…! Secure the entrance!!”
“Wrong! Monsters are coming from outside!!”
“Quaaah…!!”
Screams and confusion. Dissonances are mixed.
Many students fight monsters and fall and bleed.
Some students who witnessed the monster went crazy and began to change gradually.
Among them, Marie…… She was barely keeping her sanity.
‘What happened… ?! What the hell am i supposed to do…… ?!’
I don’t think I can stay still like this, but I can’t quite understand how things are going.
Still, she can keep her cool even a little, because she is one step behind everyone else.
Marie Ruhelif had a talent she didn’t even realize.
According to Unknown Saga’s system, each character has a set talent, and in Mari’s case, ‘presence control’ was that talent.
In the original work, it was a talent that was only used when secretly following the villainous daughter Rose in Chapter 1.
Right now, that talent was shining in a different direction, and the monsters were not noticing it.
But she knows she can’t stay like this forever.
As a result of thinking based on a little coolness…… We came to the conclusion that we had to get out of here.
‘I can’t do anything while I’m trapped…’ . We must evade somewhere safe…….’
A safe place.
Marie looked at the bag she was carrying at the thought of the word.
There is a warp gate order book that Ariel gave you a while ago.
In case of danger, she was told to go to the ‘basement’ and hide her body, along with the object.
‘…… I can’t use it here.’
Since the training ground is an open space, it is inevitable to stand out.
You can’t even buy 30 seconds to activate, and even if you earn money and form a gate…… There is a problem.
“Ginice, wake up! Why are you doing this!”
“…….”
Tentacles extend from one girl’s body and swing at the other students.
Wearing the uniform of the Student Knights, she…… It’s a face I’ve seen before. And she had even heard that name.
She was one of the people who previously participated in the Living Doll Raid in the Catacombs dungeon. She must have had that name on the list of conspirators who also drove Ariel to her death at the same time.
She has become a monster now.
It looks similar to the corpse of a mutated monster I saw on the way to school a while ago.
“…….”
Marie recalls her vague memories. She does what she did when she became a phoenix.
At that time, she was being manipulated by the phoenix, but she still has memories of her. What she fought with Ariel.
Ariel used her warp gate creation spell as a last resort.
Marie threw herself into the warp gate as it was, and she fell into the sewerage of the underground waterway.
Warp gates are reserved for humans, and somehow monsters never crossed them.
It has not been verified whether the warp gate is not recognized at all or if there is something else working, but the monsters do not even move to approach the warp gate.
So the monsters won’t be able to cross the warp gate.
But what about the students who become monsters?
What about Genis, who is still barely human?
‘… It might cross the warp gate.’
She has become a phoenix, and she has never crossed the gate herself.
So, in the case of a girl called Genice, there is a high probability of crossing the warp gate…… If so, there is a possibility of fighting her one-on-one in the narrow space of her basement.
Since it was unfavorable for the mage Marie to fight one-on-one in a small space, it seemed that it would be wrong to activate the Warp Gate Creation Scroll here.
…… But what should I do?
How to get out of here without being noticed by the enemies?
How to survive here?
How to meet Ariel… ?
“Miss Marie~. Where are you, Miss Mary~?”
A carefree voice echoed through the chaotic air.
– Kwaaang!! Bang!!
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A knocking sound comes from the entrance of the training ground.
Apparently, the monsters are swinging their arms and punching each other.
However, even after receiving all the attacks, that person walks out with a leisurely pace.
It seems to be a light step, but it has a young elegance.
It is clearly revealed that he is not very conscious. She moves her feet with her grace in a motion that seems to have been ingrained in her body since she was a child.
This is Ms. Claire.
“…Miss Claire?”
“Miss Mary~. If there is any, tell me through .”
That’s right, …. She forgot it was there.
Marie used By concentrating her mana.
[Hoo, it’s in the corner of the training ground….]
“The corner of the training ground? Okay~. I checked.”
Did you find out through ? Miss Claire walks all the way here at once.
The surrounding monsters rushed at Ms. Claire, but
“Oh wow, that’s really funny.”
It cannot deal any damage to Miss Claire who has already activated .
I just waved my arm moderately as if a troublesome mosquito had stuck to it and drove it away.
While swinging her sword and slicing down the monsters——soon, Miss Claire came right in front of her nose.
“Hello Miss Marie. I’m here to save Ariel.”