Episode 66
EPISODE.33
“Huh.”
A couple of times I walked around the entrance of the ruins with quick steps and let out a bewildered sigh.
It didn’t take long for Spiegelman to regain his cool.
“Hmm…”
Spiegelman, who took a step closer, reached out his hand.
He touched the darkness that accepted Russell with his fingertips.
At that moment, the gripping-.
A blue flash jumped out.
As before, his body is pushed out.
Spiegelman murmured as he gazed at the darkness a few steps back.
“Heh, this must be…”
It was because a type of ruins he had read in a book a long time ago popped into his mind.
“It’s a ruin that directly selects the owner.”
I knew there were such ruins, but it was the first time I had actually seen them.
Hey, the last time a ruin like this was discovered was already several hundred years ago.
A mage who showed incredible talent at such a young age.
And the ancient ruins that chose such a wizard.
There could be no better story for the bigots who like to talk.
However, despite this, Spiegelman couldn’t help but laugh.
It wasn’t because he was jealous of Russell, who had entered the ruins alone.
It was just because I felt to some extent how dense the net of the laws of the world was.
‘What kind of fate is this world trying to bring to that young man?’
If you look at this far, it can be said that it is a heroic story that comes out of a story.
However, there must be countless hardships and adversities behind him until he is called a hero.
‘I hope my worries are unfounded.’
Thinking so, Spiegelman turned around. Something unexpected happened, so I had to write an additional report.
‘Rather than that, what would happen if the ruins chose the owner…’
Perhaps the possession of all the objects obtained from the ruins was entrusted to the chosen one.
For a moment, Spiegelman frowned as he recalled the old rules.
‘How should I report this to the lord of the stupa?’
Thinking about the contents of the report I was going to write made my bones hurt already.
“Phew”
I let out a sigh.
and-.
-There was a pair of eyes watching the scene hidden in the darkness of the forest.
A body as big as the palm of your hand and a tail as long as your body. And two eyes that glow red.
Take-.
One of the mice cries and turns around.
Spiegelman hurriedly ran in a different direction from the mountain road down.
Squeeze.
* * *
“Uh-?”
Much to his dismay, Russell was no different.
I stretched out my hand expecting it to bounce off.
‘On the contrary, it was sucked in.’
Russell tilted his head and turned around. He checked the direction he had just entered and which now became his exit.
As seen from the outside, you can see the darkness blocking the exit, as if cut off from the world.
If it was possible to come in, wouldn’t it be possible to go out?
At that thought, Russell reached out again.
Paige at that moment!
A flash of blue flashes and pushes Russell’s fingertips away.
‘It’s possible to come in, but I can’t let you out.’
Russell finally let out a sigh at the barrier, where he could feel his resolute will.
When this happens, the only thing left is to advance into the ruins.
Prior to that, Russell first entered the barrier and chewed over the words he had heard.
[Mage with dragon’s eyes-.]
‘Awaken the understanding and intuition to properly look at magic.’
this made it clear
It was clear that this ruin had something to do with his ability.
‘Probably the structure is similar to the one I saw at Pompeio Volcano the day before.’
A form of giving a certain type of task, solving the task, and paying a reward.
The difference was that the assignment hadn’t come out yet.
‘Should I go inside?’
As soon as he could finish his thoughts, Russell’s fingers crossed the air.
Swoop-.
The lights along the trajectory are aggregated to form a sphere.
Light, a 1-circle luminous magic.
Russell moved Wright forward first.
It was to understand the surrounding structure.
‘As I guessed from the outside, the way to go down to the basement using the stairs.’
A spiral staircase can be seen leading all the way down.
Runes were lined up all over the wall around it.
Rune words stretched without any form or rule.
‘It looks like a sentence made by a child who has just started writing.’
Of course not.
Because these ruins were of a high enough level that space sever was used.
‘If I investigate, I’ll understand why.’
After making his decision, Russell moved on.
Jerk-jerk-.
Immediately after going down the stairs, what appeared was a long, straight passageway.
The unknown letters listed on the wall are also the same.
Jerk-jerk-.
No one knows when or where something will pop up.
Alert, Russell walked down the aisle.
Jerk-jerk-.
Jerk-jerk-.
The sound of footsteps stepping on old ruins resonates regularly.
how long did it take
Feeling something strange, Russell stopped walking.
I looked around with deep sunken eyes.
The aisle of the date not much different from when I first came in. But, oddly enough, the aisle doesn’t end.
‘Even though it seems like I’ve already walked for several hours.’
Two hours by straight passage.
Even if they had already crossed the Calvein Mountains, there was nothing strange about it.
Something was strange.
A sense of incongruity, as if going round and round in the same place over and over again…
‘No way?’
Thinking just in case, Russell moved his hand.
He bent his fingers as sharp as a falcon’s claws and applied magic over them.
Giying-.
Sharpness Claw 2-circle magic in case of close combat.
The swayed fingertips fiercely licked a part of the wall.
Kwadeuk patter-.
The ripped off pieces of stone rolled terribly across the floor.
‘This should be enough.’
There was no way he wouldn’t be able to recognize the three scars, about two spans long.
And again after some time has passed.
“…”
Russell stood still in the middle of the straight aisle.
On the wall in front of him, there were only fingernail marks two spans long.
.
.
‘I knew it.’
Looking at the traces he left behind, Russell secretly rolled up his fist.
‘It’s true that he was circling the same spot over and over again.’
This was the identity of the sense of incongruity that I had felt until now.
There are two things to think about in this situation.
The first was that the structure of the ruins consisted of donut-like circles.
With such a structure, it made sense to keep going around the same spot.
but.
‘Dismissed.’
Russell dismissed that speculation at once.
‘In that case, I should have passed the first entrance at least once.’
Therefore, it was inevitable that it would not be in the shape of a donut.
Then the second -.
‘It must mean that the space from a certain point to the point is connected.’
By high-dimensional magic.
‘…to awaken the intuition to properly understand magic.’
Only then did I understand the meaning of the first words I heard.
‘To understand and intuit this space in a magical way and get out of it.’
Maybe this is a test.
Hwaaak-.
The magic power that flowed along the tip of his toe spread out in all directions like a spider’s web.
It read the flow of magical power located around it and covered the area.
from the bottom up.
He started climbing up the wall.
A movement of magical power as dense as a swarm of ants covering the floor and climbing up a wall.
‘It’s cumbersome and consumes a lot of magic power… but there’s nothing I can do about it.’
In a situation where the amount of information was low, the best way to understand the structure of magic was to read the whole thing.
The first thing that was transmitted through the rising magical power was structural information.
Then, the mana structure along the wall flowed into his head, and Russell fell silent.
‘hmm.’
understanding and intuition.
I tried to figure out the structure by mobilizing two forces.
I wrote down the formula little by little.
Dozens of hundreds of lines of formula begin to spread through a complex structure like a magic circuit.
‘Each formula is not complicated or high-dimensional.’
The problem was the overall structure of the equations.
‘Fourfold? No, did he graft the five-fold complex magic circle onto solid coordinates?’
A mind-boggling amount of information.
Drops of sweat dripped down along the jawline.
The tip of his nose was also slightly reddish.
How long has it been since he became a 4th circle master?
It was an exhausting and difficult task that required not only mental strength but also physical strength.
Nevertheless, Russell did not rest.
I burned my will as if I didn’t feel the slightest bit of fatigue.
Fragments of imagery flowing in the sea of information that is so far away that it makes your head explode.
Every time I grab that piece, ‘knowledge’ as if struck by lightning hits my head and passes by.
The fact that such a world exists was shocking and surprising.
‘The magic I used to know is that it’s just about taking its first steps.’
In a sensation close to ecstasy, Russell smiled brightly.
.
.
I didn’t know how much time had passed.
I wouldn’t know if you were paying attention.
Because the present Russell did not have the capacity to disperse his mental powers there.
And it happened.
An inevitability born out of chance.
A line of ideas penetrating layer upon layer of images and efforts.
It became an arrow called intuition and penetrated all formulas at once.
bang!
Lightning flashed in my head.
The space around Russell began to change completely.
Shaking chest and shoulders Eventually, Russell gasped for breath with a tired face.
“Huh. Huh.”
I spat as I stared at the space that was beginning to collapse.
“…succeded.”
It fulfilled the conditions to destroy the magic surrounding him.
If this was a completed magic, it would be absolutely impossible to destroy it with Russell’s skills now.
However, since it was designed for Fahe from the beginning, it was able to be destroyed.
It was a moment that felt like an hour, but the important thing was the result of ‘success’.
There was also a lot to be gained in the process.
‘Learning or training in this way-.’
I don’t know if I can call this learning or training, but for now, I decided to name it that way.
‘Even if I can practice a few more times…’
Thinking so, Russell spread his five fingers wide.
5 V.
After repeating the number five for a while, he shook his head.
It was about that time that the surrounding space completely changed.
Located in the back is the spiral staircase that Russell descended earlier.
Maybe-.
‘-I guess I was trapped in magic as soon as I came down the stairs.’
A secret magic that is unknown even when it was activated.
Are these the remains of the Age of Gods?
Russell, who stuck out his tongue and raised his head, was blocked by a huge door and the words
[First Gate] and
‘First Gate’ in front of him.
The first gate you just passed through.
‘The fact that there is a gate 1 is…’
It was because there was also a gate 2 or 3.
A small smile spread over Russell’s tired face.
dragon-swallowed wizard
