Chapter 270 – In the Ruins (5)

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The source of divine power and magical power might be the same? No, it’s not that much, but it might be similar anyway?

Ariel’s story made Lenny very angry. Well, Ariel did what she said, but she did feel quite uncomfortable, guilty, and she did.

It is blasphemy. It is an incomprehensible feeling to me, who came from a world without God.

Are magical powers and divine powers so different? Aren’t they both made by goddesses?

“Something is coming.”

My doubts were no longer followed by Yuri’s warning.

Okay. Points visible on the mini-map, approaching quickly. It wasn’t the monster’s unique red dot, though. However, it is not a speed that seems favorable. If they’re not hostile, they’ll walk slowly from a distance to give you plenty of time to react. But this is almost flying speed. Like a missile intercepting an enemy.

Flying through the corridor is…

“Is this a real missile?!”

“What?”

A blue curtain appeared in front of us. Lenny used protection.

Lenny herself was not confident because her skills were low, but that was only the right attitude when output was low. Choosing a spoon as a weapon is an idiot, but if the spoon is as big as a person, then it can kill people as well. Although the efficiency is slightly lower.

Lenny’s technique is like that. It is inefficient, but the output is high, so the cost performance is ignored.

Well, this is all thanks to my buff, though.

Fortunately, the missiles slowed down on their own before getting hit by the spoon. Then…

“Did you change?!”

“What are you talking about earlier?”

It stopped in front of the protection and transformed into a humanoid while crunching.

“Wow… What is that? You really see everything.”

“Is it some kind of automata? But there are no seams, no connecting lines.”

It is not a humanoid because it looks like a human, but a humanoid because it has limbs. Um, so it feels like sentry bots from portals or foldable drones from star wars?

…Since when did you suddenly shift to the sci-fi worldview?

I’m so absurd that I don’t even have the energy to pull out the holy sword.

-Beep!

“Ugh.”

A high-pitched, high-pitched noise that suddenly emanated from you. At the same time, information appeared on my system window.

[ Guardian ]
[Level: 60]

…Okay. A futuristic guardian of forgotten ancient ruins is a cliché of clichés!

-Beep! Beep! Beep beep!

The drones continued to emit incomprehensible warning sounds.

“What do you mean by that? Can you understand… Can you hear me?”

The sounds the drones make gradually began to change into voices. No, rather than saying that they changed their voices, they spoke so fast that it sounded like a high pitched sound, and then they lowered the tempo to suit us. Quite intelligent.

“…Please.”

“What?”

“Unauthorized visitors are prohibited from accessing this facility. Please initiate verification or leave immediately.”

“…”

Be careful. The way he speaks is also strangely refined. However, when I hear the words access or non-access, I get confused as to whether this is really the SF worldview.

“Accessor? Access? What are you talking about?”

If I wasn’t the only one confused, my kids were also confused when they looked at each other.

But the quest is still in progress. I can’t seem to get out of here.

“Certification, what should I do?”

“Unauthorized visitors are prohibited from accessing this facility. Please initiate verification or leave immediately.”

“No, so what is that certification?”

“Unauthorized accessors…”

It was a big deal. These guys are literal bots that can only repeat the same thing over and over again.

“What should I do? I think I can handle it if I know what the certification process is.”

“Isn’t there anything that pops up in your brother’s… System or something?”

“How nice it would be if it went smoothly like that.”

I couldn’t do this or that because I didn’t know the meaning, but suddenly Ariel coughed.

“Well. Hmm. Big hum. Hmm.”

He seemed to have something to say, but he was hesitant about something.

“What? Talk.”

“Umm… You said that visiting this place was the will of the goddess.”

“Right.”

“And this ruin… This facility… Anyway. Whatever this is. This can be seen as the realm of the goddess.”

“Right?”

“Then, aren’t those automata supposed to prove that you came here by the will of the goddess? It is your ability to certify.”

“Um… That sounds like it. But how do you prove my abilities?”

“…”

Ariel stared at my face … And glanced at my lower legs of her.

“Ah.”

Yuri let out an exclamation as if realizing something at Ariel’s glance at her, and similarly, my lower legs at her…

…!!!!!

“No, no, no, it can’t be, no, I hate it!”

“Mr. Eugene?”

Lenny, who was the only one who didn’t understand, looked at me incredulously, but I didn’t want to explain.

Sval, what is the way to verify the Crusader’s ability? It’s sex too. But what about sex? With bots? To do? A perverted Botbak worse than Furry?!

“It’s not that you have to do it to the end, it’s just that you use your skills.”

At Ariel’s words, I resisted the rising nausea. Sibal, start petting the robot!

“Wow. I’m curious. I… I don’t know what that is. Will it work? If it works, that’s also funny… Puheh.”

In the meantime, that guy is distracted from laughing.

“Hey! You think that makes sense?! It’s my job to catch the freak, but I’m about to become that freak!”

“What, I’m not avoiding anyone, but it’s such a mess. Is it that hard to just use some skills? You used it well against monsters, right?”

“Or is there something you are good at? Using your sexual fluid… Um. You don’t have to say it all the way through. Do you have no stockpile? Then it would be good to make a stockpile now.”

“Leave it to me. 1 minute. No, 30 seconds would do it.”

“…”

Kut. These guys don’t know what a bot is, so there’s no concept of a botbak! No, more than that, what did this Kamp say?! If you don’t have a stockpile of semen, let’s make it now? What kind of nonsense is Yuri talking about pulling it out in 30 seconds!

“Eugene, what do you mean by that?”

“Ah, sister, listen to me… “

Lenny grabbed my collar, but I didn’t want to answer. When Yuri whispered something on behalf of me, Lenny’s face began to contort in a strange way.

I couldn’t do this or that, but suddenly the bots started moving again.

“Initiate eviction proceedings.”

Oh Their eyeballs turned red. It went from blue to red! The Machine Rebellion has begun!

“… Let’s get out of here for now. Those guys’ levels are no joke. We can’t catch it… It’s dangerous!”

The sticks pulled out by the bots began to bounce. Then, the machine’s unstoppable beating begins…

-Bang!

It didn’t happen.

Lenny blocked the attack of the bots with protection, and then pushed them straight into the wall.

-Bang! Bang! Bang!

These guys are over level 60, but there is no answer to Lenny’s power teeth protection. By the way, Miss Lenny, I can’t attack because I don’t have high-level divine magic, so I said what to do, and even with low-level magic like protection, you beat me well.

“Person, accreditation, procedure, opening, initiation, certification, eviction… “

“…”

That’s how the guardian drones of the ruins over level 60 were silenced. Rather than beating Lenny, it felt like he was pushing against the wall as a protection and the drones crashed back and forth between the wall and the shield before breaking apart.

Is this passive aggression or something? It’s a little scary.

“Sister. After all, these are some sort of… Angels of the Goddess? Apostle? Aren’t those things? You’re guarding the domain of the goddess. But can I mess it up like this?”

“…Ah.”

Lenny’s expression became dazed at Yuri’s question.

“There is no point in buying something like this. You didn’t stop attacking even though I used divine power. It is impossible for a person who guards the realm of the goddess to not recognize the divine power. They are dolls at best.”

“…”

The reason for this is that I feel like I’m just going to stick with it later. But Lenny’s face showed confidence. Well, if it were you, that would be it.

“Hmm. That’s right. So you’re saying that you won’t be punished even if you deal with this?”

“Yes. …Maybe.”

“Maybe, what else?”

Yuri shrugged her shoulders at Lenny’s words, took out her bow her, and began firing arrows with unstoppable momentum.

The small dots flying from the minimap… Are disappearing…

“Hmm. You’re definitely doing as well as you’ve learned.”

Beside her, Ariel is nodding her head with a satisfied face. Come to think of it, she said that Ariel taught her how to coat arrows with mana. And since Yuri also received my buff, she must have fed the coating with overflowing mana.

“…”

I have nothing to do. I’m literally just doing the buff shuttle and I don’t have to step out myself.

We left behind the level 60 Guardians and set out on the road.

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“Do you think this is the end?”

The room that reached the end after clearing things that were high-level guardians like that. Normally, a boss or something should appear in a space like this, but there was no sign of such a thing appearing. There’s just a crystal ball in the middle that says, “Please touch me.”

“I don’t think there are any special traps, but… I’ll look around for a bit. Maybe because looking at that is like an older brother’s role.”

“Okay. Okay.”

We stood in front of the crystal ball like that while Yuri alerted the surroundings.

“It doesn’t seem like there’s anything special…”

“Mr. Eugene?”

[ Do you want to connect to the admin channel? ]
[ ▶Yes / No ]

….

I feel a sense of discomfort. Anxiety of the unknown, anxiety of the unknown.

This feeling of incongruity was not experienced once or twice. I did feel like the UI that appeared on the system was strangely refined before. In addition, the moon that shoots beams like the Death Star, the bots in the ruins, and now the admin channel?

I feel like I shouldn’t be pressing this for some reason.

[What are you hesitating about? Do it faster. ]

“Uh? Hey!”

This, this guy, he just popped up a lot on my UI, and now he was able to interfere.

Regardless of my intentions, the holy sword crushed you, and my vision was stained pure white.

….

….

….

I stared blankly at the scene in front of me.

The woman in front of me…

Scattered hair, loose shirts and crumpled miniskirts. Frayed stockings and a three-line trap. And high heels tumbling around beside them.

She was a woman who could not get off work for about a week and would look like this if she worked overtime while eating and sleeping at the company.

I was in a world of swords, magic, and dungeons until just now? Are you back to modern times?

………You’re back?

No, this can’t be!

I panicked and looked around, but all around me was an endless white space. There seemed to be no way back. No, I wonder if I can escape from this space itself, not from the original world.

At my frantic movements, the woman finally turned to me.

Tangled vermilion hair, raised eyes, decadent dark circles, and rustic, thick horn-rimmed glasses that look practical.

I could feel it viscerally.

This woman is a goddess

“Ah. We finally met.”

The goddess looked at me with her weary face, and she grinned and fired her sparks with her fingertips.

-False, fall.

“Keeeee!!!”