Chapter 433 – The Holy Sword and the Arena (5)

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The bonfire cracked and sparks flew. It was starting to get dark, so we quickly set up camp. It was time for the sun to set and the moon to rise.

To be precise, the sun doesn’t go down. The sun is not visible from inside the dungeon. Of course there is no moon.

But for some reason, day and night flowed in the dungeon the same as outside.

Of course, exploring dungeons at night is dangerous. You can see the terrain on the minimap, but seeing it with your own eyes is another matter. Even if you find your way with a map app, it’s the same as getting confused in real life.

Above all, monsters are a problem. Even if it’s me, I can tell from the minimap, my kids don’t have anything like that.

“This side is ready.”

Said Ariel.

“Good work.”

Ariel has set up traps while walking around the campsite. A trap is enough to set off an alarm, but that was enough.

Although they are called monsters, they are wild animals after all. Most of them don’t like fire, so they won’t approach it at all.

Of course, there might be undead that would rather attack them, but it wasn’t something to worry about. It’s enough to hit the counter with Lenny’s divine power.

Thanks to the buff, Lenny’s divine power is truly absurd. You’ve hit zombies with non-lethal magic like light before, right?

After setting up camp, we sat around the campfire and ate dinner.

“Look at that. A star has risen.”

Yuri, who had been mumbling something similar to a sandwich, pointed to the sky.

The sun and the moon do not exist, but the stars are visible again. It’s an incomprehensible space, really.

Yuri turned her head around and sighed.

“I don’t know of any other place. If you get lost, you’ll be really stuck.”

“Can you see the constellations?”

“Because I rode the mountain.”

Ariel said after seeing Yuri shrug her shoulders.

“In a dungeon, constellations are not particularly meaningful.”

“Nothing in particular?”

“Yes. They say a star has never looked the same. In the first place, I doubt that it is even a star.”

“Huh…”

Yuri looked blankly at the sky and said.

“It looks like a star, but it’s not a star. This is… What the hell is a dungeon?”

Yuri’s question, almost like talking to himself. Ariel answered very naturally.

“I do not know.”

“Kek…”

Yuri was taken aback at the calm and weak answer. It’s ridiculous to me too.

“Aren’t you saying that for granted?”

To my words, Ariel replied in a tone that said it was nothing.

“Magicians who study the identity of the dungeon itself are rare. Usually, people are more active in researching the increase in magical effects using manastones or making items using materials. “

“Why? Aren’t you curious?”

Lenny and Yuri had faces that didn’t quite understand, but
I thought I could understand Ariel’s words of hers. Even in modern times, applied engineering is more popular than pure natural science.

“You don’t have enough money?”

“Well, if you put it that way, doesn’t it sound like material desire is everything!”

“No?”

“Of course not…!”

Ariel couldn’t finish his words of her. I can’t bear to say no.

“Hmm, hmmmm… Of course, there are also worldly desires. But it is not simply because of material greed.”

“Okay? Then?”

“I avoid it because the results obtained by studying dungeons are insignificant.”

Ariel said in a slightly apologetic tone.

“I don’t know when the dungeon started, but the history I know is hundreds of years. It might have been in the early days, but now it’s hard to make new discoveries. I don’t know if it’s research using the products of the dungeon, but it’s safe to say that the research on the dungeon itself is stagnant. In particular, there will be no one who can answer the essential question like what a dungeon is.”

“Hmm…”

The identity of the dungeon.

I had something that suddenly came to mind.

It is said that there is a dungeon inside the mountain range, but there is only an entrance. Just looking at the scenery, it is not the size to fit inside the mountain range. Then wouldn’t it be more convincing to think that the entrance to a dungeon is a 2D portal?

At my words, Ariel nodded her head.

“It’s not like there wasn’t an idea like that. Rather, that would be a more reasonable guess. However…”

“However?”

Ariel said with a frown.

“According to what has been revealed, it is said to be a type of subspace.”

“A subspace… ?”

Yuri tilted her head and said.

“What do you mean? What is sub-space? Are you talking about the subspace pouch?”

Ariel nodded.

“Yes. You can think of magic like subspace pockets hanging over the entire mountain range. It’s an oversimplification, but that’s it. No, back and forth. The dungeon comes first.”

The dungeon comes first. What do you mean?

Ariel continued her explanation.

“When the dungeon first appeared, it was said that research into the identity of the dungeon was quite active. Subspace pouches were invented back then.”

“Uh, wait a minute.”

Glass suddenly broke in.

“I know a little bit too. Subspace pockets, that’s very expensive. When I asked why it was so expensive, I heard that a lot of magic stones were used to make it? How did you get the magic stone’s mana… Ah, no. That’s not what’s important.”

Yuri uttered gibberish as if confused.

“That… Yes, that’s that.”

“It?”

Yuri took a deep breath and said.

“I heard that subspace pouches have a lifespan. I think they said that if you use all the magic stones you used to make them, the magic will break, right?”

Guy Yuri, you know a lot. After all, Yuri was interested in being an adventurer from the beginning.

“Yes.”

Ariel nodded lightly at Yuri’s confirmation of her, but Yuri’s question was still unanswered.

“That’s what I’m curious about. If the dungeon was created with subspace magic, could it be released someday?”

Right. Guy Yuri, I was wondering why you were making such a fuss. However, I couldn’t help but be surprised by Ariel’s answer that followed.

“Yes.”

“What?! Then what?!”

“That…”

Ariel was speechless. Throbbing. Nervous. What if the dungeon is maintained by subspace, or space expansion magic, and the magic is suddenly released? Then what happened to being in the dungeon?

Said Ariel.

“I do not know.”

“Kek.”

Yuri let out an awkward moan, but Ariel had a calm face.

“The subspace bag is supposed to spit out all its contents before the magic wears off. Perhaps a similar phenomenon will occur in dungeons, but no one knows how things will actually go.”

“Well, then, if… “

“There is no need to worry so much. If the subspace magic that continues the dungeon is about to be dispelled, a harbinger will surely appear.”

“A portent?”

“Okay. Precursor.”

Ariel continued her explanation.

“If the magic is about to break, the dungeon will try to siphon mana from everything inside to maintain space. In the case of humans, mana would be taken away, and in the case of monsters, the size of the magic stone they were holding would decrease or disappear. The dwarves’ manastone mines will disappear. However…”

“However?”

“Until now, that has not happened. I haven’t even heard that the production of magic stones has decreased. My mana is also fine.”

We breathed a sigh of relief at Ariel’s nonchalant words from her. Come to think of it, even in the novels I read, the kind of future books the goddess spoke of, there was no story about what suddenly happened to the dungeon.

Yuri said in a slightly lost tone.

“I was cold for nothing. But dungeons are magic. Then who cast that spell?”

“I do not know.”

“There are a lot of things I don’t know today~”

Ariel’s face her slightly blushed at Yuri’s teasing tone of her.

“Hmm, hmm. In fact, I don’t quite understand either. To think that a wizard capable of such great magic did not even leave a name. It’s an achievement that rivals that of a god, but it’s a wonder.”

It is an achievement comparable to that of a god.

I somehow thought of a goddess.

The goddess I saw in the secret area of ​​the dungeon looked tired for some reason. What did you say Did I say that she appears as I can best understand? Then what is she, a goddess, that makes her so tired?

[Hey. Don’t you know anything ]

[ …. ]

The Holy Sword did not respond even when I spoke to him.

But looking at the system menu, it didn’t seem to be broken like before. She just doesn’t seem to be in the mood to answer. Is there something I don’t like?

“Mr. Eugene. Slowly the time…”

“Oh yeah.”

We got ready to sleep.

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The night watch was decided to stand in the order of Lenny, me, Yuri, and Ariel. It’s better for someone with good stamina to stand in the middle. But I didn’t go into the tent.

“What are you doing? Won’t you come in?”

“Wait a minute, the two of you have something to talk about.”

Yuri’s eyes widened. It seems you don’t like my answer. Ariel, who was standing next to her and sticking her head out her, didn’t look very nice either.

“The two of you are doing weird things together again!”

“Oh, no really. I’m really just going to talk to you for a second.”

“Huhhhhh… “

“I know that dungeons are dangerous places, I will be careful, huh?”

“Really…”

“Hmm. I trust you to take care of yourself.”

Ariel spoke before Yuri could say anything. A slightly stern face. Then, he slams into the tent and goes inside.

Yuri looked at her and gave her a bewildered expression, then gestured to her. She points her finger to her own eyes, then to me.

When Yuri went inside the tent for the last time, Lenny and I were the only ones left around the campfire.

“Whoops…”

When it was just the two of us left, Lenny smiled and looked up at me.

“Are you worried about staying?”

“No, there are things like that… “

“Even if Yujin doesn’t worry, I can do well. Yap.”

A blue film formed around it. Lenny’s protection. Certainly, the buffed Lenny’s protection won’t be able to pierce through most monsters.

“If it were me in the past, I wouldn’t have been able to do this… It’s all thanks to Yujin.”

As Lenny said that, he moved to me and leaned against me.

Lenny’s soft hair. The top of the head his smells good.

Is it because it’s night?

For some reason, I felt a bit bland and sorry. I’ve been paying little attention to Lenny lately.

I opened my mouth unconsciously.

“I was… Just lucky.”

“Yes?”

“It’s just that it’s not an ability I got through hard work. It’s just that I was lucky enough to receive the ability from the Goddess, and then it just happened that my ability suited Lenny’s…”

I just acted according to my desires with the abilities I had somehow acquired. Does Lenny deserve this undeserved appreciation?

“Mr. Eugene. It is not.”

“Yes?”

Lenny called me in a rare serious voice.

Not so. If Yujin had only her heart in her, she would have really used Yujin’s powers only for herself. Abandoning the mission of the Goddess, making money using her abilities her, everything, hugging women at random … Everything …

Lenny blurted out her words, as if it was painful to say such a thing.

But isn’t Yujin like that? Rather, he is devoted to us… Joe, although there are times when it’s a bit excessive…

Lenny…

“Even if it was just luck that I got her ability her like Yujin said, it was Yujin who used it correctly. She is more than enough of her qualifications to Yujin.”

“Yes.”

I slightly averted my gaze at the slightly manly compliment. Lenny looked at me like that and leaned her head back while smiling bashfully.

– Clap.

We watched the bonfire in silence for a while. For some reason, a part of my chest tickled.

When she turned her head, Lenny was looking up at me too.

Lenny’s eyes looking up at me get bigger and bigger. Is Lenny doing this knowingly? That her eyes looking up at me are a great temptation.

Lenny’s eyes narrow and she leans her face slightly towards me, as if expecting something from her.

I want to kiss you like this But if I did it here, I would really go all the way.

“…”

But if only for a moment. Wouldn’t it be okay if it was just for a little while?

Okay. Coincidentally, it was time for Lenny’s buff to end shortly after.

That’s really important Lenny looks fine, but when her buffs her run out, her psychosis her kicks in.

Okay. I’m determined. Even if it doesn’t work, it’ll be okay for a little bit. Then…

“Do you still have something to say?”

“!!!”

Yuri’s voice from the tent. Somehow, I feel a little bit of a cool vibe.

I said to the tent, raising her hands to mean that I hadn’t done anything.

“Uh, uh, uh. I’ll go in soon.”

“Huh… “

After that, Yuri stopped talking.

Chilly chilly Her mood instantly cooled, and Lenny was pouting her lips.

As the atmosphere breaks, she recalls what she forgot. Yes that’s right I was here because I was curious.

“Lenny.”

“Yes?”

“What were you trying to say?”

“Ah…Was it?”

“On the way here. There was something I couldn’t say because Yuri kept interrupting.”

“…Hot!”

At my question, Lenny stiffened her head as if she had suddenly come to her senses her. Then she glances at me as she alternates between the tent and me. Like watching.

Somehow, the face looks very guilty.

“Hey, a promise is a promise… “

Lenny muttered that, then she looked at me and said.

“Yu, Yujin. Have you forgotten anything?”

“… ?”

“Well, didn’t he decide to come too?”

“Is that him?”

“That …. Blonde, he who says strange things that he is a dragon …”

“…!”

Right. I completely forgot!

That blonde nerd! He was supposed to bring 2 of them along!