185 – Side Story – Their Story – 1
Some say that the life of an adventurer is romantic.
Those who solve the world’s problems with a single sword.
Those who risked their lives for a single gold coin to explore difficult places.
If they don’t have romance, why would they do such a hard job?
That’s why adventurers were called romantics, and among bards, the highest peak among the romantics was called a man.
“Ah~! The wise man and his beloved wife have been called by God!”
Playing the lute, the wandering musician sings. The people at the tavern who hear it close their eyes and are excellent adventurers.
A great adventurer who fought dangerous monsters in exchange for a girl’s soiled coin.
I remembered the heroic sage who saved the world.
More than ten years ago, after he married Veronica, the heretic inquisitor and cardinal of the church, he disappeared after being called by God.
These songs quickly spread across the continent.
Anyway, the heroic story is attractive enough to be made into a song.
In fact, it was no exaggeration to say that everything the wise man did was the work of a hero.
Isn’t it natural
Who fights the ogre for a coin?
Who saves a person from a dangerous witch in exchange for a bowl of cheap chicken porridge?
that who
Do you risk your life to do good for a small price?
That is why the bards preferred to sing the heroic song of the wise as a precursor to attract people’s interest before starting to play, and as they thought, the innkeepers enjoyed the song and sipped their drinks.
and.
The adventurers gathered in the city of Okalje, located in the northeast of the principality, were also sipping alcohol with the sage’s heroic song as a snack.
“Kuah. You wise man. I thought he would go away like that.”
A huge human male warrior with impressive shiny hair.
Sixth Man, an S-class adventurer, grumbled while sipping beer. Soo-in, a fluffy cat sitting on his lap.
Rachel, the wife of the Sixth Man, an S-class adventurer, and an excellent shaman with an ultimate skill, licked his hair and sighed.
“Nya-nyang. It’s unfortunate.”
“That said, I can’t do anything about people who have already left. I’ll be satisfied.”
The men around her were peeking at her because she barely covered her private parts, but the dark elf Cyron, who had a great body, took a sip of her beer and didn’t pay any attention to those eyes.
A party of S-class adventurers who often hang out and go on adventures, they glanced at the front row.
In their eyes, the wizard with blue bobbed hair and a slightly cold impression was stunned.
“Why are you looking at me?”
Her name is Cecil Claudia.
The duke’s duke and an outstanding archmage.
There is one reason why she belongs to this adventurer’s party.
It was because Karin had hired them to solve problems in the duchy, and Cecil had participated in investigating the singularity.
“Nya-nyang. I thought Her Highness Cecil also liked the wise man.”
“I thought you were going to have a cat fight.”
“Yeah. I think so.”
When the three adventurers spoke in unison, Cecil shook her head in amazement.
“Hey. You guys. You know I’m your employer, right?”
“You know?”
“By the way, I just told my employer that it’s okay? And I’m the king?”
“therefore?”
This is why S-class adventurers!
As a vagabond wandering around without a nationality, he does not know how to respect those in high positions.
Rachel grumbled and asked Cecil, who was grumbling and sipping her beer.
“So? How was it actually?”
“…no comment.”
Sipping beer, Cecile thought. ten years ago. About two people who were called by God and left as soon as they got married.
sage.
and Cardinal Veronica.
To be honest, I would be lying if I said I wasn’t interested in the sage.
The face is not bad, the ability is good, and the personality is good.
We have similar tastes, so it wouldn’t have been better if we were together…
“I mean, Prince Gong. Did you think that such a Prince would do that to someone else? You have social reputation and face.”
“Then why aren’t you married yet?”
flinch.
Cecile’s shoulders trembled slightly.
“I see. Isn’t there a lot of space when it comes to His Highness?”
“As far as I know, I heard that there were quite a few people who proposed to Her Highness Cecil…”
Cecil clenched her fists at the sight of the three excluding herself having a serious discussion.
I want to beat them up, but those three are skilled S-class adventurers among S-class adventurers.
That’s why you won’t be hit unless you attack with sincerity.
“Is it just me? Huh? Is it just me? Lucille, the queen of the kingdom right now, is like that too.”
“Queen Lucille, don’t go too far!”
“Nya-nyang! Yes-nyang! Don’t touch Lucille-nyang!!”
I remembered the time I went to the kingdom not too long ago.
The only disciple of the sage, and a great magician like Cecil.
With the so-called crazy witch, Wheeloth, by her side, she quickly learns her magic.
A red-haired beauty who is rapidly growing to the point of becoming the best wizard on the continent in a few years.
Lucille is the absolute ruler of the kingdom and is currently praised by wandering bards as ‘the red rose’.
Cyron scratched his cheek thinking about the time he met her.
“Yes. Wouldn’t it be better to leave him alone?”
“ha…”
Cecile let out a deep sigh at their perplexed expressions.
“That’s okay. Show me what you’ve investigated.”
“Ah. Here.”
the joke is over. This is where the work begins.
As she received and read the report the three had been investigating, Cecil licked her bitter taste.
A problem had already arisen in the ruins that had been investigated a long time ago.
Strangely, monsters were gathering in the ruins.
I don’t know if it’s just small low-level monsters like goblins or slimes, but cruel monsters with four arms are four-handed.
Like a spider monster with eight legs and the face of an old woman.
Like a three-headed three-headed woman with two horns.
Monsters that were hard to see kept appearing in the ruins.
It would be fine if it was just a ruin, but the problem is that the ruin is located where it is connected to the underground waterway of Okalje City.
“All the monsters approaching are monsters with strong poison…”
“That’s right. The antidote the Cherubim gave me was enough to turn me black in an hour.”
It is an antidote brew made by the great alchemist Cherubim, who can be said to be top-notch even after searching the continent.
If it turns black in an hour, it must mean that the miasma around the ruins is not normal.
Right now, priests and alchemists are desperately purifying.
It is questionable how long that cleansing power will last.
After all, there is something wrong with the ruins.
“The investigation of the ruins was completed several years ago. And the person in charge of the investigation…”
“self?”
“Sage.”
“Uh. Then it’s not like I was fooling around.”
Almost ten years have passed since the sage disappeared, but the weight of the name was by no means small.
Since the sage personally investigated the ruins and revealed that there was no problem, the problem that has arisen now can be said to have occurred after that.
It was then.
The door of the tavern opens and a lizardman with white scales tattooed all over his body walks in.
The tavern, which had been noisy, became quiet for an instant when he appeared with a spear in his hand, but that was only for a moment.
The main party didn’t care and just drank and talked about what to say to each other.
“Gwalteirak. Why are you so late?”
“I’m sorry.”
A Lizardman who came later than the others, saying he wanted to investigate more alone.
An apostle serving Cosmo, the god of space. Gwalteirak sat down in the seat Cyron pointed out and calmly ate the fish dish on the plate.
Cecile, who had been watching him, earnestly asked,
“So? Investigation results?”
“There is something in the ruins.”
“……”
No, now who doesn’t know that, so I’m asking.
There must be something happening that has never happened before.
As Cyron, Rachel, Sixth Man, and Cecil stared at him, Gwalteirak rolled his red eyes.
“Uh. So there’s something very dangerous.”
“Hey. Take the plate.”
“Ah! That fish dish is my favorite… Don’t take it from me! Don’t take it from me!”
Gwaltayrak, who was barely able to keep the fish dish after the commotion, delicately ate the flesh from the head of the fish.
“After the sage and the cardinal left, I went to visit Cosmo-sama’s temple. Then I did some research…”
“What?”
“Cosmo said the world has changed a bit. He said a lot of things are getting right.”
the world has changed
So, is that and what happened at these ruins the right thing to do?
Is it because of that or some other reason?
Cecil groaned with her arms crossed, Cyron tapped the table with her fingers, Sixth Man sipped his beer, and Rachel licked his head.
While each of them was thinking seriously in their own way, Gwaltayrak caught the mood and opened his mouth.
“I have something important to tell you.”
The opponent is the only apostle of Cosmo, the foreign god of space.
That way, they can come up with ideas they didn’t even know existed.
The three looked at him with anticipation.
Receiving that gaze calmly, Gwalteirak said.
“Can I have another plate of fish?”
Cecil was grateful that she was a magician who could always keep her cool.
If not.
“This crazy lizard?”
“Seriously talk about additional orders!!”
“Just kidding!!”
Like the three of us, he must have tried to catch and eat Gwalteirak.
In any case, there is a limit to what can be learned through preliminary and external research.
So, the five of them decided to enter the ruins.
After finishing preparations and arriving at the entrance to the underground waterway, Cecil sighed.
“The problem is miasma… How can you solve it?”
“I’m going to pack a bari-bari of antidote. Is there an answer?”
Cyron shrugged and clapped his hands. At the same time, a lizardman walks.
“Oh? Cherub? Why are you here?”
“I was contacted by Cyron. So? What you need is my antidote? Other than that, how about this?”
He smirked and pulled the vial from his pocket.
“If you drink just one bottle, you will be immune to the damage caused by the poison. It lasts about a day…”
“…Is there such a wonderful thing?”
“Yeah. I made this by accident. Originally, this is a recipe for cold medicine, right?”
It was a medicine made while researching some time after the wise man left.
It’s obviously a combination of cold medicine, but after making it, it turned out to be a strange medicine.
There’s no way an alchemist on the level of a cherub would make a mistake.
It could also be that something went wrong.
“It’s not just this. Some combination methods have changed. After the sage left, the position of the stars changed a bit and the flow of magic power changed.”
“Did the position of the stars change?”
“It’s not particularly special. Even in the records of the Alchemist Guild, there are things that change when the position of the stars changes.”
“That’s… amazing. So? Is there a problem?”
“What?”
There must be those who would like to dig into and study this matter, but the Cherubim were not interested in such things. The important thing is that a new combination method has been discovered.
“There are quite a few things that have changed besides alchemy. The monsters’ habitat. Things like weaknesses. And they have new weaknesses… or.”
“…..”
“That it completely breaks the rules and passes through the wall, or that if you step on something, you’ll bounce off the wall.”
The cherub’s eyes flashed.
“All. It happened after the sage disappeared.”
The atmosphere becomes heavy.
The cherub’s eyes flashed in the infinitely serious situation.
“By the way…”
“…What?”
gulp.
Everyone was nervous, and the cherub grinned coldly.
“Couldn’t you just buy me a fish dish? I heard that the fish dishes at the tavern in this city are so delectable.”
At that, the three thought.
Lizardmen are all out of their minds.