Chapter 443 – The Holy Sword and the Arena (15)

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“I think this is enough.”

We put together the sacks containing the aphids. 5 full sacks. If you take this much, you won’t be able to fight it no matter what.

“Keck. It seems to be wriggling now.”

“Ugh…”

Everyone is making a bad face.

Well, aphids are less repulsive than other bugs, but they are bugs after all. Humans basically dislike creatures with many legs. They even spit out a sticky liquid when caught.

“Where are you going to collect these things and use them?”

“I’ve been thinking about something.”

In Lenny’s self-talk, I talked about the guess I had made earlier. Speculation that aphids may be one of the items for artificial ant control in the arena.

Ariel said with a frown.

“It’s not unconvincing, but in the end it’s just the circumstances.”

“It is.”

The circumstantial evidence was there from the start. My guess is that it’s only one spoonful plus. If we were going to take action based on the circumstances in the first place, we wouldn’t be suffering like this in the dungeon.

By the way, I’ve told you many times that this guy’s forehead wrinkles, but whenever you say something serious, his forehead wrinkles as a reflexive condition. Well, it must be difficult to change lifelong habits in a few words.

“Hyaang?!”

As she rubbed her forehead with her fingers, Ariel let out a strange moan.

Right. Right now, this guy has a sensitivity enhancement! But she’s forehead, she’s kind of stroked, and she’s reacting like this, doesn’t she feel it too well?!

“What, what, why?”

“Oh, no. It is nothing. Hmm.”

Ariel tried to gloss over Yuri’s question before continuing.

“Uh, anyway… To think that monsters might be cultivated inside the arena. Security must be thorough as long as you do such senseless things, but I don’t know how to solve that. The guild will probably prepare in its own way, but…”

I suddenly had doubts.

“…Will those who do stupid things do common sense things?”

“What do you mean?”

“…No. Let’s go back and think about it.”

It is useless to just speculate in the absence of evidence. Then all that remains is to retrieve these worms…

“…”

I need to put this in my inventory… But I don’t want to put it…

Let’s say how I put it in my inventory.

But what if these guys got out of the sack and wandered around?

The problem is that I can’t look directly into the inventory. All I can know is the item window that pops up in the system and the sensations at my fingertips.

If the internal structure of the inventory is a way to store items individually, there will be no problem, but if it’s not like a warehouse, these bugs’ body fluids will be buried here and there…

Well. I don’t want to imagine too much.

I looked back at the second bottle and said.

“Can I ask you to keep this? Just like before.”

“No way…”

The middle 2 bottles suddenly shut up, and he tilted his head as if thinking about something. Then, all of a sudden, he starts to let out a bizarre laugh.

“Hehe, it’s a request.”

“… ?”

“This is already the second request. Nothing is free in this world.”

“What are you saying?”

“It is said that if you ask for something, you have to pay for it. Yes, because that makes sense to the world!”

“…”

I don’t know what kind of wind this guy has suddenly got and he’s saying such ineffective things.

Come to think of it, I don’t think I need to borrow this guy’s warehouse. You can buy a large bag from the point shop and double seal it.

Whether I thought of it or not, the second grader was talking freely.

“Okay. In return for me keeping it, next time just the two of us…”

“If you don’t like it, don’t.”

“Uh, huh?”

When I showed a cold reaction, the second grader seemed to be taken aback.

“Wait a minute! This isn’t just storage! If you want, you can put it in and take it out from the companion side too!”

“What is it, isn’t that just a matter of passing the subspace pouch to me?”

“That’s not it, uh…! It’s not like a pocket like that, it’s something a little bigger!”

The middle 2 bottle explained while mixing his hand gestures.

What the 2nd grader said was not a physical substance like a subspace pocket, but a concept like a kind of shared inventory.

I have a subspace and I can put things in and out of it, and I can give permission to myself. Having said that, it’s more like a shared drive than an inven.

I hadn’t even heard of that.

“How?”

“Whoops. Are you curious?”

The 2nd grader raised the bridge of his nose and said. I couldn’t see his face because of his helmet his, but I’m pretty sure it was.

What to say This guy has a corner that makes me want to interfere.

“No, I’m not really curious…”

“If you’re curious, I’ll have no choice but to let you know!”

“No need,”

“That’s right!”

The second bottle cut him off and made fun of him.

“It is always connected to my own space. It’s far superior to cumbersomely carrying around imperfect items like subspace bags.”

“… Uh, um. So. In short, you are directly connected to your house…? Even now?”

“Yes!”

“For a moment. How is that even possible?!”

Ariel stepped out in amazement. It’s just like that for me, it’s just what I want to say.

“What. What’s great about it?”

“You can say that!”

Ariel’s voice rose, probably because she was quite excited.

“Updating moving coordinates in real time? Even from outside the dungeon to here? It doesn’t even have the facilities. No, that would be impossible even with the large-scale facilities supported by the guild!”

“Calm down.”

“Huh?!”

I just held my shoulder to tell her to calm down, but Ariel jumped up again and let out an obscene moan.

No, no matter how sensitive it is, I don’t understand why you’re making this noise just because you grabbed my shoulder. It’s not like I take everything I touch with pleasure.

In fact, the eyes of the other kids were gradually changing. Are you misunderstanding that I wrote pleasure? It’s unfair!

“Ugh. I don’t know what you’re saying. Can you explain?”

“Mm, mmm.”

Ariel, perhaps noticing that her own reaction was apt to arouse suspicion, said while catching her breath.

“To put it in a crude analogy… Yes.”

Ariel tried to furrow her brow, but then, startled, she put her hand on it and spread her forehead from side to side. Something funny and cute, but it’s a pity.

Ariel said that, putting her hands on her forehead her, looking a little funny.

“Teleporting feels similar to walking to your destination with your eyes closed. It won’t be difficult if it’s within a few steps, but the greater the distance, the higher the probability of failure.”

Ariel said, pointing to a cave across the field.

“Close your eyes and imagine that you are walking towards the cave in front of you. No, not just closing your eyes, but blocking all your senses, such as touch, hearing, and smell, and walking using only your sense of distance. If so, can you be confident that you are in front of the cave when you open your eyes? “

“Hmm… “

I have to block all my senses and walk, but can I reach my destination accurately?

“That would be pretty difficult.”

“Right. So, the most important thing in teleporting is to obtain accurate relative coordinates.”

Ariel nodded her head and said.

“Teleport itself is a high-ranking magic, but teleporting from within the field of vision is beyond common sense. But you know the relative coordinates of a place out of your field of vision, where you’ve been walking for days? Could that be possible It is impossible for humans.”

Ariel said it was impossible several times as if she couldn’t believe it. Yuri, who saw that, scratched her head and said.

“What if I don’t know the exact coordinates?”

“…”

Ariel said with a shrug.

“Nothing will happen if there is nothing inside the coordinates, but if there is something at the coordinates you want to move to.”

“If there is?”

“Either something pierces through the body, or it explodes… “

“Explosion?!”

“Huh…”

Lenny groaned as if he was afraid and stuck next to me, but Ariel continued with a calm face.

“But that doesn’t happen these days. It ends at the level of losing her mana because she puts various good deeds magic as a safety device.”

In the end, long-distance teleportation like the second grader said is nonsense. But as she listened to Ariel, something struck her.

“Uh… That’s all. You know that.”

“Is that it?”

“Lizee said before… You said that there were several teleport gates installed from the entrance to the safe point. Isn’t that quite a long way? How is that possible?”

“There is no problem with that.”

Ariel continued her explanation.

“In the case of the teleport gate installed by the guild, the coordinates are fixed. Besides, isn’t it using the equipment?”

“Aha.”

It’s almost like you know. So, the teleport gate installed by the guild is like a kind of tunnel. It is a semi-permanent passage that cannot be relocated.

“But, isn’t this saying that I can use long-distance teleportation even though the coordinates are changing in real time? I can’t believe it.”

Ariel looked at her with suspicious eyes, but the middle two had a dignified appearance.

“Whoop whoop. That’s the difference between you and me.”

“You have to say that… “

“And above all, have I already caught up with you like this?”

“…!”

Ariel was shocked.

“You didn’t just follow me, you used a teleport?!”

“Okay. I followed the coordinates of the communicator.”

“I can’t…!”

Ariel continued to be astonished, but to be honest, she only had a feeling that I was like that.

“Wait a minute. What?”

Just as she was about to get bored, Yuri, who was quietly listening to the conversation between the two of them, spoke.

“You said you followed the coordinates of the communicator? Does that mean that if you have a communicator, you can know when and where you are going?”

“Yes!”

“Isn’t that total stalking?”

“…!”

The middle two bottled up his mouth. The appearance of being completely attacked by an unexpected attack. When the boasting actually ceased to be a boast, the second grader was taken aback.

“Oh no! You obviously got permission and followed me!”

“Knowing your every move is itself stalking!”

“!!!”

Yuri put her shoulder on the shocked second grader and said.

“Hmm. So show me how you did it. What device can you tell? Once they know the method, they might make extenuating circumstances.”

What kind of extenuating circumstances to freeze to death? Why did you decide that

…

Yuri squabbled over the communicator, and for a while, the two of them suffered from Yuri, and his shoulders drooped a bit.

After such a little fuss was over, I put in all the aphids I had collected.

It would be nice to go back like this, but there was one last thing I had to check.

“There. I can smell it from inside.”

“So don’t say it smells when it’s not even a real smell.”

“That, but… “

We entered the cave we had been concerned about earlier.

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