Episode 118
In about a week, we arrived in Gerton.
I wondered if there was an incident or a devil’s intervention on the way, but… ….
“Well, it’s peaceful.”
“It is really peaceful.”
The two of them spoke in turn as if steam had drained at the point where the gutten was in front of them.
“I told you. It won’t be a big deal.”
“…Ummm”
Lian looked around with an expression that she couldn’t adapt to.
“No, this is really nothing special…Even if I couldn’t do it, I thought I would chop up some demons on the way.”
“of course. They don’t have the energy to do that.”
To be precise, it would be correct to say that there is no need to fight like that.
There is no need for them to reveal their identities in a situation where humanity has not figured out what they mimic.
Whatever.
“You’ve made it to Gerton.”
“…I arrived, but how the hell am I going to get through this?”
Lian muttered as she stared blankly ahead.
the city beyond.
However, many roads were complicatedly twisted before reaching the city.
And in front of him, several guides were roaming around noisily, soliciting guests.
“Only 5 gold! 5 gold and 3 days of guidance to you!”
“Three days for 4 gold!”
“Excluding nighttime, 3 hours per week! We serve you for 3 days and 3 gold!”
Visitors who looked like tourists were choosing guides here and there among the guides who were soliciting customers.
“What city is this from the entrance?”
“Hehe, this is a natural thing in Gurton these days, Prince Lian.”
It was the butler who answered Lian’s words.
“Recently, Geotten is a rare ‘labyrinth city’ on the continent, and at the same time it has become a famous tourist destination known to those in the know.”
“Is the Labyrinth a tourist destination?”
“Yes, it is a minister.”
The butler looked at the guides who were absorbed in soliciting customers with eyes that he missed them quite a bit.
“Gerten isn’t just a complicated road. Wherever you fall, you will find a variety of spectacles. Many people are fascinated by it and visit this place for recreation.”
“Hoo.”
“Of course, it has suddenly become famous in recent years, so it is not strange that Confucius does not know about it.”
“…Well, even if that’s not the case, I’m living with a wall from the news of the world.”
Ryan scratched his head with a face of disapproval.
Well, whatever the butler said.
Gerton is a labyrinth city.
It is too complicated for beginners to visit, and the roads are twisted to the point of being unreasonable.
Literally, the land for ‘guides’.
However, this generation’s warchief wanted to use the land for the guidance in a different way.
They give work to guides and earn huge profits as tourist destinations through the guides.
It was a pretty unconventional move.
It’s not that the warchiefs of the past didn’t do it because they didn’t know the value of the gutten.
I just thought it was ‘disrespectful’ to use the gut in that way.
For the followers of Root, Gutten was the land where the gods descended.
However, the warchief of this generation broke that custom.
As a result, Girten became much wealthier than before and made a name for himself.
“…Huh, that’s really great.”
Standing at the ‘entrance’ of Gurton, Lian couldn’t take her eyes off the sight beyond.
It’s not strange.
If you see it for the first time, it is an overwhelming landscape that you can’t help but admire.
The labyrinthine city of Gerton.
A city built on a huge rock.
The ground cut by the years naturally formed a labyrinth.
In some places the tenacious vines were tightly intertwined and filled with flowers and grasses.
I’ll get lost.
Even in such a lost and arrived space, a spectacle that enriches the mind unfolds.
“Then, are you going to get a guide first? It’s not like they’re soliciting customers for no reason.”
“Okay.”
To be honest, it was generally correct to have a guide to get through the grate.
“First of all, it is true that you need to hire a guide for sightseeing in Gurten. The way to become a gerton is not something that can be done by memorizing something.”
“…Is that enough?”
“It’s no use even if I memorize it. The length changes in real time. In the case of guides, it doesn’t matter because they know the ‘direction’ with the blessings they received.”
“Hoo.”
It is not magic or swordsmanship that is required to find one’s way in Gurton.
Root’s Blessing.
That’s why hiring a guide is almost mandatory in Gurton.
“Then I guess I’ll have to hire you first. When I heard that, the unit of employment amount was gold, although it was a bit expensive… …”
“What are you talking about? Why are we hiring guides?”
“…You say you need it?”
Lian looked at me with a puzzled look and asked.
“I told you. It’s called ‘normal’. But I am by no means that common person.”
“….”
“Even without a guide, there are plenty of ways to find your way.”
It’s the only way I can.
Ryan was looking at me with eyes like, ‘Hey bastard, he’s starting again’, but it’s okay.
It’s not even a day or two.
“Then let’s go in. If you know the way, there is no need to delay here.”
“No, that doesn’t work either.”
“Why again?!”
I told him calmly.
“I have to wait for a guide.”
“No, twenty is really.”
“Yeah, don’t listen. I will wait no matter what you say.”
Ryan’s shoulders trembled.
In the past, the madness that he called a mad dog for fun was visible in his eyes.
But what do you mean?
“I can’t believe I’m waiting for a guide for no reason.”
“He said he knew the way! Then you can just go in, you idiot!”
“Heh, you stupid thing.”
“Hey dog…!”
Lian barely suppressed the seizure and opened his mouth.
“You don’t have to hire a guide just to find your way, right?”
“In Gerton, a guide is in the same position as a priest in the Church. That means that the ‘higher’ of Gerton is also a guide.”
I said that and sat down on the benches set up nearby.
Still on the other side, the guides were touting loudly.
And the view from sitting on this bench was quite nice.
It was well worth the wait.
“Hmm, it’s good to relax and look at the scenery after a long time.”
The butler also sat on the bench with me.
Rian looked at me and the butler with her mouth open, then said.
“…A world where I see myself as a normal person is coming. I’m tired.”
“What bullshit are you talking about again?”
This guy has been talking nonsense a lot lately.
Did something change in the process of fighting and fighting against my fantasy of the future?
whatever
“wait. A response will come.”
Lian responded that he was not very trustworthy, but soon sat down on the bench.
It must be that he realized through experience that nothing will change no matter what he says.
Great job Lian. You’ve grown up.
and not long after
“Aren’t you in need of a guide?”
I heard someone’s voice.
When I looked up, there was an old man with a strong body standing there.
He was trying to somehow maintain a gentle expression on his scarred face.
[…] …Hmm?]
As Set looked at him like that, a different color appeared in Set’s eyes.
[Old Mikhail Lee….]
‘I know.’
I can feel the traces so thick that Set said this.
Looking at me, the old man carefully introduced himself.
“My name is Kum, the senior guide of Gutten.”
“…her?”
did it really come out?
Next to him, Lian muttered something incomprehensible.
whatever the guy is.
“It is an honor to meet you. Hero, Mikhail Walpurgis.”
As if it were natural, he bowed his head to me.
“Even if you are a high-level guide, it’s not that great compared to the hero, but first… …”
“No, I know.”
there is no way you don’t know
This old man was by no means an insignificant figure as he says now.
This old man is one of the reasons why I visited Gurton this time.
Even among the numerous guides in Gurton, he is a uniquely special being.
“Nice to meet you, Kum.”
Because it is the guide to this ‘grave’.
* * *
“I’m really sorry for being guided this way in the first place.”
Koom led me to a secluded place and said so with an expression of disdain.
“…I didn’t expect to see the hero like that.”
“it’s okay. than that… …Did you notice sooner than you thought? It’s something I hid.”
“Because I have a good sense.”
Kom let out a bitter laugh.
“Since ancient times, I have judged people based on my senses. Thanks to that, it wasn’t that difficult to recognize the hero.”
“Hmm.”
A sense of advanced guide.
No, more than that, it must be the sense of being a guide to the tomb.
He is the guide to the tomb, which is the deepest part of Girton beyond here.
Of course, it is unfortunate that he himself is not aware of that fact.
“But are you saying this because I am a warrior? You don’t have to treat me particularly well.”
“Uh um that…”
At my words, Qum seemed to be confused.
Once they approached me and set up a place like this, it seems that it is not easy to talk about it.
However, I understood the situation roughly, so I decided to wait for his words leisurely.
and after a while
“Can I ask you one question?”
“Yes you are.”
Kom cautiously asked me.
“What is the reason you visited our geotten this time?”
“The reason I came…”
I paused for a moment pretending to be worried.
then after a while
“Because of Gerton’s evil.”
“…That word!”
At my words, Kum’s eyes widened.
I knew something, but I pretended not to know and said it with a serious expression.
“There was a revelation. It was a revelation that a great evil was stirring to overwhelm the entire continent.”
Of course there was no such thing.
“That…“
Unfortunately, that is true.”
I didn’t receive a revelation, but that doesn’t matter.
In fact, it must be true that Mayril played a trick on Gerton.
“And one of those evils landed on the girten. That is why I visited Gurton this time.”
“Heh heh…”
“Hasn’t something gone wrong with the gutter lately? A disturbing being approached.”
“If it is a disturbing being…”
Kum muttered blankly.
“I hope that woman…Oh no, but if that happens… …”
“Tell me in detail.”
“Uh um that’s…”
At my words, Qum drooled.
he hesitated for a while
“A woman came here a few months ago.”
Kum frowned.
Just thinking about it seems annoying. The two tightly clenched fists trembled.
“I didn’t know at the time, but…Yes, now that I think about it, there is nothing strange about being called a ‘fairy woman’.”
“Keep talking.”
To my words, he spoke slowly.
An unidentified woman who suddenly visits Gerton.
“At that time…At first, there were no problems. She comforted him when he was in the midst of his disappointment.”
“It’s fine up to that point.”
“Yeah, it was fine until there.”
That is until there.
Kum gritted his teeth and muttered those words.
“If I had only comforted the warchief, I wouldn’t have been so dissatisfied either. Of course, I wouldn’t have been hostile.”
But the problem is… ….
Kom’s eyes were bloodshot red.
“…That fairy girl started coveting our holy land.”
Great mage who transcends by regression
