Chapter 464 – Telepathy and Tablets

000

Following the map that floated above their heads, as they headed for area B, the first thing they could feel was the first.

The pods or drones guarding the facility were no longer showing up.

Was it that the intruder couldn’t judge it at the point of coming this far, or was it for some other reason?

In any case, since there were no obstacles on the way, the party’s progress accelerated.

“School, professor! There’s an unusual emerald tablet over there… Could it be that Tris Megistos was also here?”

“Professor! This machine seems to still be powered on! Maybe, there might be other information!”

The assistants, who have their eyes turned to various materials scattered like stones on the street, call for Artis.

“…”

Artis, with a smile on his lips, simply proceeded toward the ‘Area B’ indicated by the map without stopping.

When the assistants see Artis like that, they say, ‘Ugh…’ And get frustrated at the situation where they have a lot to say, but they can’t.

Leaving the materials of the primitive world, which are no different from treasures, just repeat, move forward.

‘Hey Artis. Suddenly nervous…’

Layla glanced at Attis, then raised her hand her to her ear her, focused her mind her, and threw her voice at Cleon, who was on the ground.

[Cleon. I can hear?]

Then, after not getting an answer for a while-

Soon, his answer came back as he felt the mana being connected by an invisible thread.

[Ah. I can hear. How’s the investigation going?]

[So so. There were drone-like guys below, so progress was a bit delayed. I barely made it to the deepest part. Did anything happen on the ground?]

In response to Layla’s question, Cleon told her story after she entered, and Layla, hearing that story, naturally frowned at her.

[Yes… The regressor… But it’s good that no one was seriously injured.]

[Be careful with that too. I don’t know what might be hiding in the ruins of the original world.]

[Huh. I know that. Well, there are several confident archaeologists here.]

At her words, it seemed that Cleon’s laughter could be heard from beyond.

“Ah~ Master. I’m talking to Papa!”

Then, Innis clings to Layla from her side of her, grabbing her head of her.

“I want to talk to Papa too!”

“Wait, Innis. It’s hard to move, so stay away. And there’s no way you can get into telepathy by attaching her head like that.”

When Laila tried to push Innis away as if she was annoyed by such behavior, Amelia glanced back at the two of them.

[Ah really. I can’t even talk comfortably because of Innis. Let’s go upstairs and talk about the rest. He might appear again, so be careful.]

As Layla says so, she pushes Innis away completely and lets out her sigh.

“Lyla, did you talk to Cleon? Are you saying there’s nothing up there?”

“Huh? Ahhh. Well, he’s not the kind of person to be attacked by a regressor. I think he was attacked by Laplace from above.”

When Lyla answered that casually, Amelia looked back at Lyla completely embarrassed and raised her voice.

“That, like that! Are you okay!?”

The voice was quite loud, so the members of the investigation team and Artis who were walking in front glanced back.

Amelia startedled, as she felt the gaze of her and started walking again as if nothing had happened, she came up to Amelia’s side of her.

“Cleon or Quon… Sasha too. Are you all right?”

“All right. If something happened, would I be here right now?”

Layla said that as if to calm her Amelia, and after hearing her answer her, Amelia let out a sigh of relief.

“Then I’m glad…”

Leila looked at her for a moment as she said that and squeezed her own armor on her, then she seemed a little troubled, then she put her hand on her forehead on her.

“Eh.”

Then, the flow of her magic power her flowing from her fingertips her flowed into Amelia’s head her, and information about how to talk to Cleon even when she was far away entered.

“Is it telepathy using imprints?”

“Yes. I use formal magic. Quon and Sasha are unable to do that. Amelia, you also have Cleon’s imprint, don’t you?’

Amelia nods her head and puts her hand on her own chest.

It’s gone now, but it’s where the imprint she received from Rubera when she was wounded by the Black Crystal settled down.

“That imprint is proof that connects you and Cleon, anytime and anywhere. So, if you focus your mind on that imprint and call Cleon’s name, you can talk to him anytime.”

“Go, thanks Laila. I’ll try, one more time.”

Amelia’s face brightened, and she focused her mind as she closed her eyes tightly as she clasped her hand resting on her chest her into her fist her.

Layla and Innis looked at it quietly, then watched Amelia’s face brighten up and sighed ‘Whoa’.

“Wait. Don’t imitate me.”

Lila says so, pushing her Innis away with her finger her, but Innis gasps and puffs out her cheeks.

“I didn’t copy it. I’m just worried about Amelia-sama. Amelia-sama is kind and kind unlike Master!”

“What’s up?”

When Layla spits out as if she is dumbfounded by Innis ‘words her, Innis puts her hands together and looks at Amelia with her eyes sparkling.

“Amelia-sama, Papa looks really good.”

“… Well. That must be so. For now, Cleon is taking care of her…”

Lila scratches her head, her face darkening a bit.

“…That child of hers is still 10 years old. It’s only natural that she needs to be protected by adults. Her environment around her is just too harsh.”

As if Laila superimposes herself on Amelia after her grandfather’s death her, she says so.

The number of people living without parents or guardians in this world is not small, and it was a story that could be seen and heard everywhere.

Amelia, while one of her parents is still alive, she has been in a form of near-abuse.

In addition to that, her personality is also like a ‘candlelight’ girl who sacrifices herself to light up her surroundings.

It would not be Layla’s misunderstanding that it seemed precarious.

Whether or not all of her wounds her from the incident when she left her kingdom her had healed were unknown to Lyla.

‘…By something. Because the wound beneath her scar could open again.’

As Lila looked at her Amelia, thinking so quietly, Innis put her hand on Lila’s head and stroked her.

“Wait. Why is the homunculus stroking the master’s head?”

“Eh. Master seems to be very worried about Amelia-sama too~.”

At Innis’ words, Layla shut her mouth for a moment, then she turned her head excitedly.

“It’s great to be close there, but don’t forget that you’re in the ruins right now.”

And, the voice of Artis coming from the front.

At some point, both the members of the investigation team and Artis stood still.

In front of them, a door with a large information board written in an ancient language was blocking the group’s path, shining weakly.

“Are you there?”

“That’s right. This is the command room for Area B. So to speak. The place where the production of ‘Leviathan’ was overseen. Come on.”

Artis, as if he couldn’t stop the elation flowing from the fact that he had finally arrived, raised one corner of his mouth and adjusted his glasses.

When the lenses of the glasses sparkled and shone with light, the action was like that of an evil scientist.

“Aren’t you expecting too much? What if I told you that it had nothing to do with the Dragon Mountain?”

When Lyla says it to lower her expectations a bit of her, as if it’s necessary, Artis crosses her arms, looks at her, and talks.

“That’s not going to happen. My intuition. And based on the data I’ve been researching so far, I’ve thought about it and the conclusion I’ve drawn. There’s definitely information about what’s sleeping inside that dragon mountain range here. “

“…Well. It would be nice if that was the case.”

Layla said so, but there was a little uneasiness inside her.

‘Artis. Do you remember the name of this laboratory? It’s called ‘Weapons Lab’. …If it really is ‘Leviathan’ at the bottom of the Dead Dragon Mountains. The fact that information about its production lies dormant here means-‘

Lila’s dark expression and what she’s thinking. Whether Artis knows or not.

She raised her head and spoke to the map floating above their heads.

“Open the door to the command room in Area B.”

[Approval. Unlock the door.]

Once again, after a woman’s voice mixed with mechanical sounds resonated through the facility, a clang from the door blocking the group opened automatically.

“Hehe. I’m glad it’s being managed by someone I can talk to.”

Artis adjusted her spectacles as if satisfied with the situation, and went inside the command room with her assistants.

Inside, while exploring this facility, it was a room full of objects that were far more complex than the machines I had seen so far, and I had no idea how to use them.

First of all, what caught my eye was the huge emerald tablet in the center of the room.

An information-gathering crystal invented by Tris Megistos to store vast amounts of information.

And, from the machine that was positioned like the pedestal of the emerald tablet, various lines stretched out and spread all over the room.

The largest of them all was something made of glass that was sitting in front of it.

“That… What is it?”

When Amelia asks that question, Artis answers her by fixing her spectacles.

“That’s something called a monitor. On that glass part, you can project illusions and show various things. If it’s connected to a machine, it’s used to project the information inside the machine.”

“Is that all, a projection device…? It’s incredibly large…”

Boasting a width wide enough for three adults to stand side by side with their arms outstretched, it was, after all, a bird, so huge that it exceeded 2m.

“I think it’s about 2.5m.”

When Lila tells her eye to eye about the height of the monitor-

“It should be about 98 inches.”

Artis also spoke without losing.

“Ah?”

“Yes?”

In the next moment, I felt a clash of life, as if a violent chemical reaction had taken place between Layla and Artis.

His assistants his hurriedly intervene and open their mouths.

“Well, then. I’ll activate the Emerald Tablet and extract information, Professor.”

“Please rest Lila Chief as well. You must have gone through a lot escorting us all the way here.”

The assistants who forcibly separate the two people in a strange war of nerves quickly spread throughout the room and begin to restore the room’s facilities by manipulating various machines.

Lila then, as she puts her ass down on her overstuffed couch in her command room, she leans back and lets out her sigh.

“Are you okay, Master? Even if you don’t investigate anything.”

“I hate it when there are so many machines. Strictly speaking, it’s not even a magic tool. I like the ruins of the inherited world more than the ruins of the original world.”

Layla stretched her as she said that, and as she patted the seat beside her with her hand, she sent her eyes to Amelia.

“Why don’t Amelia get some rest? She’s been nervous the whole time she’s been here, right?”

“…”

Then, as Amelia stared at her blank space in silence, she just remained silent and unanswered.

“…Amelia?”

When Layla, feeling something strange about her, calls her name her again, Innis talks to Layla.

“Aren’t you still talking to Cleon Papa?”

“Huh? Ah. Is that so?”

At best, it was possible to communicate telepathically with Cleon by using the imprint.

She must have wanted to hear Cleon’s voice even a little.

── Layla nodded her head as if judging, and closed her eyes.

To tell the truth, Lila’s body her was already exhausted enough.

That would also be the case, on the ground, he used his magic his enough to cause magic exhaustion once in order to fully deploy the magic barrier against the drones and block the concentrated fire.

No matter how much Lyla is a great mage and her magic recovery speed her is fast, what she can’t do with that alone is the fatigue that builds up in her body her.

In the end, Laila felt the sound of investigations coming from around her gradually diminishing.

For a moment, she closed her eyes and fell asleep.

001

“Lyla.”

The next moment, Lila opened her eyes with a twinkle as she felt something grab her own shoulder her.

How many minutes have you been asleep? No, how many hours?

The one in front of her own eyes was Atis.

Lila asks her question as she lightly pushes her hand around her own shoulder her with one of her hands her.

“…Artis. Is the investigation over?”

“Yes. I managed to restore most of the equipment in the room and activate the Emerald Tablet. …But-“

Attis slightly turned his gaze to look towards Amelia.

Amelia was standing blankly in the same position Layla had seen earlier before she fell asleep.

“…Wait. Amelia. How long are you going to talk to Cleon?”

Layla thinks that Amelia should be stopped soon, so she raises her body her and approaches her.

However, Amelia did not respond to Lyla’s approach to her and remained stationary.

“…Amelia!?”

There, Layla realized that something else was wrong with Amelia.

“As expected, it’s not a normal state.”

Artis also sees Layla’s reaction to her and nods her head, muttering that it was good to wake her up.

“It can’t be, it’s not even a machine! … What happened? She thought she was talking to Cleon through the imprint. But this … It’s like her mind her has been dragged somewhere .It’s empty inside..”

When Lila quickly turns on her magic power and examines the flow of magic flowing from her body, it is confirmed that the magic power is connected to the ‘Emerald Tablet’.

“Amelia’s spirit is in the Emerald Tablet…? Why…”

After thinking that far, she turns to Artis.

“You said you activated the Emerald Tablet. Output the data to that monitor or whatever. I’ll operate the tablet to see where Amelia’s consciousness is connected.”

“Well… Okay. I was going to investigate the Dead Dragon Mountains, but in this case, Amelia’s side of her is more important.”

Artis nods her head willingly, then pulls her up and instructs her assistants to turn on the monitors.

Then, the huge glass wall that looked black starts to glow, and green letters flow quickly against the black background.

“Amelia… Why did she suddenly lose her way…!”

Lila bit her lower lip, and she reached out to pull her mind out of the deep, deep sea of ​​information.

002

“…? Here is…”

Amelia, at some point she knew she was inside a black space.

The last thing I remember was the moment when I tried to make the conversation a little longer while talking with Cleon through imprinting.

In front of my eyes, Artis opened the command room door and was talking to Lyla about something.

And, when she tried to look around the entire room, the “Emerald Tablet” Caught her eye in her.

Previously, in her own mother’s hometown her, a massive object similar to the one she had seen in the lab where Mercury was located.

The moment her eyes met it, she was here herself.

Even if you look around, all you see are black spaces that stretch out everywhere.

And, from time to time, a cluster of twinkling emerald-colored lights only shows a dizzying movement, going up or down.

Once again, he tries to convey his voice to Cleon using the imprint, but the voice disappears with an echo on the way, as if blocked by an invisible wall.

“Such… Why did this suddenly happen…”

“That’s because you are the one who owns the ‘Magical Adaptation Factor’ produced in this laboratory.”

Then, at the sudden sound of her voice coming from behind her, Amelia hurriedly turns around.

There was a girl who looked exactly like Amelia—no, as if she copied Amelia’s appearance her—while standing there looking at Amelia.

“Magic adaptation factor…? Are you-“

From what she said, Amelia thought that there were so many things that bothered her, that she didn’t know where to start or what to ask.

First of all, he had to figure out whether the being in front of him was an enemy or an ally.

“Forgive me for calling you so suddenly. Inherited existence from the distant future. I am the artificial spirit that remains in this facility.”

She introduced herself thus, placing her hand upon her own breast her. She goes on and she talks.

“Please. I have a story to tell you, so I have no choice but to transfer only your mind to the Emerald Tablet.”

“A story that must be told…”

Amelia nods slowly at her words her.

“Yes. This is, you… And it is obviously related to the fate of this world. To protect the things you love, it is also something you must do.”

As she said that, she slowly started talking to Amelia.