Chapter 447 – The Holy Sword and the Arena (18)

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“Leave it to me. I will make it work now.”

Saying that, Ariel reached for his crystal ball.

Her expression didn’t change much, but it was clear to me that Ariel was confident. I’m going to blow out a small snort.

“…”

“…”

There was no change in the crystal ball.

“Can’t you see anything?”

“…Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute and see.”

Ariel said, ‘Why, why didn’t it?’ As he muttered something like that, he tinkered with something more, but again nothing much changed. The crystal ball is just dyed black.

Ariel?

…Hmm, hmm.

Ariel cleared his throat, and his words poured out like rapid fire.

“Hmm. It must have been broken. Nothing special Even if it looks fine on the outside, there is a high possibility that the circuit has been disconnected somewhere. Well, it must be even more bizarre that the equipment is as good as this in such a messed up place. But if you take the time to do some more research and try again, hey! What, what?!”

Ariel’s ears were so red that I thought I couldn’t even see the haze. Can’t you just let it go when you see this?

“No, I think I’m overheated, so I’m going to cool off a little.”

“Hey?! That, if you carelessly touch it like that, hiyaaak?!”

“Um, it’s nice that it’s warm, but it’s still a little creepy because it’s a cave, but this is perfect for warming her hands.”

Hehe…”

Ariel heard her legs tremble as she nearly melted away. Well, it’s still much better than talking nonsense out of shame.

“Warm? Then where do I go…”

“Huh?”

“Hey?!”

Yuri rushed in without me having time to say anything.

“Huh, gham, uh geureuk?!”

“Yu, is it Yuri? For a moment…”

“Why, what, why? “

Yuri stared at me with pitiful eyes. Hmm. At this point, even just eye contact can make you think. These are the eyes that I secretly did with Lenny earlier and still have them in my heart!

I thought it was going overboard, but it seems it wasn’t.

Having nothing to say, Yuri immediately began to focus on Ariel’s ears.

“Higiik, that, stop! Hiyaang!”

“Wow, this is no joke. Why is it so soft and soft yet also has a bittersweet feeling?”

This guy is concentrating on a new sensation.

I think about it from time to time, but what can I say about the glass noodle stone… I don’t think there’s any objection to that of the same sex.

Well, looking back, I think it happened every time we did 3p, and it seems like there was no resistance to touching other women’s bodies. Rather, I used to touch it out of curiosity.

“Yu, Yujin?”

“Huh?”

Lenny was dyeing her face red as if she was trying to hold her breath. It sounds like you can hear a moaning sound.

What do you want to do?

“What’s the matter?”

“…It’s nothing…”

Lenny quickly became sullen about her.

What the hell did she want to do? I’m used to noticing my kids, but I’m not mastered at the level of mind reading!

“I’m sorry…”

Lennie hid her face with both of her hands, as if she had suddenly heard something embarrassing.

“Wow, I think I’m going to get addicted to this…”

“Whoops!”

Yuri seems to be distracted by Ariel’s deafness, and Ariel is unable to do anything because she is caught on her weakness.

If the crystal ball hadn’t broken, I wouldn’t have been in such a mess.

“…”

It’s futile.

Lately, it’s been really hard to explain in various ways.

The arena, which I thought was the background of the ant wave, suddenly asked me to get aphids, and when I came to get aphids, suddenly some tentacle wasps appeared, and there is a strange experiment space behind the tentacle wasp nest.

The root cause of all those incidents… Even if it’s too much, I thought I’d find at least some clue.

The ending ended with a broken crystal ball!

…For a moment. Breakdown?

So, what was that popping up on the UI when I touched it earlier?

I touched the crystal ball again.

[Do you want to activate? ]

[ Yes No ]

…Ariel said it wasn’t a trap, so it’s not dangerous.

I clicked ‘yes’. Then, light came on in the crystal ball.

“…Guys. Look at this.”

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Hey, let this go!

When Ariel saw this, she was horrified and hurried over.

Hey, how did this happen?! Obviously when I…

It’s me, because I’m supported by the goddess.

I shrugged and said.

How can you operate something that an expert judged to be broken so easily? I keep forgetting it because it is biased toward convenience, but the system is actually a cheat key is a cheat key.

…If you think about it, the cheat key seems to fit even in the combat part. He shows his weakness on his own, and even the holy sword guy moves arbitrarily, doesn’t he? Well, it’s because I don’t have much to go through in combat itself, but that’s also true.

While I was thinking about it, Ariel was touching the shining crystal ball here and there before I knew it.

“Ugh, uhm. No matter how much I received the assistance of the goddess, it was fixed so easily… Could it be that it’s a self-healing concept?! That, then…!”

Ariel looked up at me as if she had suddenly come to her senses.

“Could you try again?!”

“Again? I don’t think I’ll be able to figure out anything if you ask me again.”

Because all I did was literally click. But it’s not something that can be shown by showing this. It’s too vague to even explain.

But Ariel was almost ready to stick.

“Yeah, but if you put your body together like you do at night and focus your mind, yes. Just like the research I always do…”

“Wait a minute?!”

Lenny suddenly got startled and cut Ariel off.

“What are you doing now, what are you doing at night?”

Ariel was taken aback by Lenny’s momentum to almost grab him by the collar.

“Well, didn’t you already know about the amplification? I don’t think it’s anything special, but…”

“That, that’s not it, you said you were doing some kind of research. What research are you doing?!”

In fact, all Ariel does for research at night is to sense the flow of mana in the combined state and use the skill.

But Lenny seems to think that Ariel is doing some sort of physical exploration on me.

Of course, I’m doing a body search. To be precise, it was a quest for a female body, and the target was only Ariel, not me.

“So, what kind of research are you doing? We have a right to know its contents.”

Yuri said in an impudent tone.

If Lenny looked shocked that there was something special, Yuri’s eyes were curious.

“No, I told you before. What do you do at night, it’s your private life, so if you can…”

“Why? Are you doing something so shameless that you can’t speak?”

I was dumbfounded by Yuri’s reply. Who’s calling who’s shameless?

“If you look at it that way, you are the best. You’re leaving behind, eh?!”

Yuri quickly rushed in and blocked her mouth. The secret of anal play was just about to be revealed, but you’re quick to notice.

“That’s right. It’s not polite to dig into your private life.”

“What about the back…”

“Isn’t this more important than that? Let’s see what this orb shows.”

“Hmm, hmm. Yes. The important thing now is not what you did last night, but checking the crystal ball.”

“I’m sorry…”

A little urgency and moaning mixed with relief and dissatisfaction crossed each other.

We talked a little bit, but the important thing now is to check the contents of the crystal ball. Should we call it our children’s affection or obsession? Sometimes the priorities change, so it’s a bit scary.

I clicked a button on the crystal ball interface.

“Oh oh. What do you see…”

“Hmm… This is…”

The crystal ball was showing a certain place. It is a familiar place. Haven’t seen it in a long time. As if it just passed…

“Huh? Aren’t those us?”

Saying that, Yuri waved her arm and saw a small figure on the screen wriggling and moving.

“…What. I was looking at this Where are you watching? Looking at the direction, it seems to be somewhere over there.”

Yuri seemed to be trying to find the crystal ball looking this way, but shook his head to see if it was well hidden.

Everyone was buzzing like it was strange, but nothing special to me. This is just a little fantasy-like in shape, but it’s just a surveillance camera.

Ariel, who looked around the crystal ball, said.

“Hmm… Just showing the place? I don’t see anything special.”

“For a moment.”

I clicked on the arrow on the UI.

“This…”

The crystal ball didn’t just show the cavity. The passage we passed, the place where the wasp nest was, and even the entrance of the cave.

“Look here. It’s where we’ve been You can even see the broken wasp nest.”

“Uh? Came out.”

When I turned the screen a little more, this time the scenery outside the cave appeared on the screen. Ariel, who was looking at the crystal ball, said.

“It shows a fairly wide area. Running a joint like this in a dungeon, and installing equipment that shows such a wide range would have required a lot of resources.”

“I know. If there were people here, they would have noticed we were coming here, right?”

“I guess so.”

“Huh…Somehow, I feel bad.”

“…”

Listening to Yuri’s words, she was convinced of the thought she had inadvertently thought of.

It was surveillance cctv.

Of course, it wasn’t the type of monitors attached to the wall like in modern times, but the concept of being able to see multiple spaces at once was definitely the same.

But why is this?

“Even to a place like this… Isn’t this the place where we caught aphids?”

“Yes…”

Lenny’s words made me feel deja vu. What was our purpose for coming here in the first place?

“…Okay. I think I know a little bit now.”

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Where should I begin to organize the story?

Yes, the first start is a wave of ants.

There was a wave of ants toward the entrance of the dungeon, that is, the city, and the guild saw that there was an arena behind it. Various factors such as the administration office and the top of the church were intertwined, but putting that aside for now, the primary factor was the arena.

However, in order to infiltrate the arena, an excuse was needed, and there was a request that came in from the arena at the right time, so we secretly took charge of it.

That request was a somewhat, no, fairly unexpected quest to capture aphids. Why did the arena give such an absurd quest?

“Think backwards. Aphids aren’t even that valuable of a monster, so why bother?”

“Hmm…”

“Capturing the aphids wouldn’t have been that important. It is the place that matters.”

“A place?”

I nodded at Yuri’s question.

“Okay. The purpose was to send it to the habitat, exposing us to these surveillance cameras…Surveillance crystals.”

“Hmm…”

Ariel said, frowning.

“You mean the arena and this facility have something to do with it?”

“Okay. Probably because this facility was built in the arena.”

In the eyes of the children who demanded a more detailed explanation, I said what I had been thinking.

How could the arena cause something like a wave of ants?

It is a matter of method before intention. How is that possible?

Various kinds of iron bars and broken experimental tools in this cave. It must have been a kind of laboratory for monsters.

He must have been doing dangerous experiments that couldn’t be done in the city. There was no need to notice the guild guarding the entrance.

The introduction of living monsters is recorded by the guild. It would have been natural for the safety of the city, but it wouldn’t have been the case in the arena.

“That’s why we built these facilities in the dungeon.”

At my words, everyone’s faces became clearer. Ariel was the first to speak.

“Hmm…There are a few things I don’t understand.”

“Yes, I am listening.”

“First.”

Ariel, who had a lot of luck, poured out questions.

“It’s a valid reasoning, but isn’t there a simpler way? There must be people hired in the arena. I don’t think it’s reasonable to use such an unstable method of making a request to a guild and hiring a third party.”

Ariel asked a question.

“And the reason for sending a third party is unclear. What are you going to do by sending someone you know nothing about?”

Ariel was tilting her head as if she couldn’t understand it, but I already had an answer ready.

“Remember that story? Talk about the tamers going missing as a group.”

“Hmm…”

Tamer. Shepherd-like guys who control relatively docile monsters. The guild said they couldn’t figure out the whereabouts of that group, and they couldn’t figure out where he had disappeared.

“You said that most of them belonged to the arena. Since those guys disappeared as a group, they must have sent a third party like us here. What sent us was probably some kind of…Emergency measure.”

“Emergency measures?”

“Okay.”

Aphid capture request.

Aphids are not very worthy monsters. It doesn’t have any useful by-products, and it doesn’t attack people either.

To capture it with great effort.

“It was probably a sign of some sort. There is a problem on the main base side, so you should contact me…”

“Hmm…”

“How much time did it take to create a facility like this? How many months? No, a few years would be funny. So there must have been a manual or something for when the normal contact lines disappeared. It may not have been necessary to capture aphids. It might have been enough just to get there.”

Everyone nodded their heads, as if I was right. Because the situation couldn’t have been any better than this. The problem is that there is no clear evidence.

“Ugh. By the way.”

Suddenly, Yuri said.

“If this is such an important facility, then where have all the people here gone?”

“That’s the problem.”

Only traces of human life remain. These guys literally evaporated.

“If you look a little closer, you’ll find out…What is that?”