EP.36 St. Tantalus of the Underground
I arrived at the training room on the 4th floor with two trainees and one trainee and immediately started the lecture.
“Come on, quiet. Everyone stay quiet! Let’s start today’s class.”
As always, Aji yawned with a spinal reflex, then went to the back of the management office and lay down on his stomach. Anyway, I don’t understand, and I don’t even see the will to do so. If the difference between wisdom and intellect contained in language is so clear, is it true that a dog’s voice is accepted as equal to a dog’s voice?
However, gentlemen are those who find something to learn from rude people. Even if a dog doesn’t know manners, humans can’t fall the same way. I spoke to the trainees in the most dignified manner possible.
“Be prepared to be amazed as I’m going to tell you a crazy story today. Please prepare in advance to give a warm applause.”
“If the content is not great, daggers will fly instead of applause. try.”
The regressor responded sharply, as if he still felt uneasy about being dragged. I can’t even joke properly. I’m afraid of regressors, so can you explain it?
Lamenting the authority of the church, which fell into the abyss after falling to the ground, he began to explain with a human and a corpse in front of him.
“To check your concentration, today we will change to an active participation class. bottomless pit. Does anyone know what this word means? Are you a Tyrkanjaka trainee?”
The vampire, who slightly raised his parasol, replied in a relaxed tone.
“Isn’t it a word used in the Great Mother Church with a similar meaning to hell? The language of the land that was cursed by the Earth Mother and lost the support of the Earth Mother.”
“That is correct! 10 points to Tyrkanjaka trainees! These points will be reflected in the ranking in my heart later, so save them!”
After paying for the answer with a blank check, I continued shouting.
“you’re right. The bottomless pit is a hell commonly described by many religions, and among them, it is the hell of the Mother Goddess. It’s the first concept the mama boys of the Earth Mother Goddess came up with when describing the most horrific space for punishing sinners. Like a mama boy, they say that a space without a mother is hell. Oh my gosh.”
Than the hell where you have to suffer for eternity than purgatory where brimstone burns.
Those who believed in the Great Mother Goddess were afraid of stepping off the ground. They didn’t look for fear in the distance. The dizziness you feel when your feet don’t touch the ground and the terrible horrors it creates. That was the hell of the Protestants.
“By the way, the land that should exist in the doctrine of the Protestants. Hell, which had no impact because it was too simple for a hell that I had struggled to think of, appeared in reality through a certain incident. That place is right here in the bottomless pit of Tantalus.”
I tapped the floor with my foot. To emphasize the fact that this whole land we are walking on belongs to the bottomless pit.
“Since the military plan to use the abyss, the hell of a major religion, as a prison was established, Tantalus has been regarded as a prison for serious criminals. In any case, the essence is not a prison. ground where you can’t set foot on. An abyss where you fall forever, without time or space, where you have no choice but to die in solitude. That is the bottomless pit.”
however.
You should feel something strange here. You must realize the sense of incongruity and point out my words.
Why can we stand on our feet in the abyss?
One-sided transfer of knowledge is not real education. It is the duty of educators to help learners to think and reason for themselves.
I raised the topic and read the thoughts of the trainees.
‘Oh oh. Interesting.’
‘A story you know so far. When are you going to talk about the structure of Tantalus?’
“Muk…”
I shouldn’t have expected it. They don’t have any motivation to actively try to fit anything!
Not even the last thought! Really barking!
“Aren’t you curious? How can we stand in such an abyss?”
“I’m curious. Please explain.”
It’s like these guys don’t have any of this spirit of improvement. It’s not a baby bird that screams in the nest, is it that you have to feed it in your mouth?
I grabbed a piece of white chalk and headed to the blackboard. Two long vertical lines were drawn in the middle of the green chalkboard. It is bottomless.
“Come on, look. The bottomless pit is basically bottomless ground and therefore a deep pit into which you will fall forever. So if anyone falls into the abyss.”
Spin the chalk and insert it between your fingers, and process it by raising magic power from your elbow. At the tip of the chalk, the evidence of containing the faint mystery of alchemy glows as if it were melting into the air. A symbolized person was drawn between the vertical lines with enchanted chalk.
The human figure stretched out its limbs, looked downward once, then looked straight ahead again. It fell comically, like in an outdated cartoon.
“There is nothing to reach the bottom, so it will keep falling. You will have the rare experience of death coming before crash.”
As if it had come from a real abyss, the figure of a man fell to the bottom corner of the blackboard, wobbling its limbs, and disappeared beneath it.
Through a simple enchantment on the chalk, it is possible to move the picture drawn with this chalk according to my will. The amount of mana it takes is not much, so even a mana bug like me can use it enough.
The blackboard of the military is double sided. The picture of the person who went back to the blackboard now climbed up the blackboard upside down. Soon after, the figure of a person reappeared from the top of the blackboard and repeated the same fall as before.
How are you? my technique.
‘It seems that moving pictures are common these days. It’s strange… but it’s not that great seeing that no one is surprised.’
‘The delicacy of mana management is quite good. heh yes You mean this is the basics?’
Even though I tried the technique that a first-class instructor could do, the reaction was not very good. Nothing comes out compared to the ball thrown in. I will be more honest than you guys about stocks that are said to be fickle and incomparable.
Chet. Now, let’s not play tricks and explain.
“But the abyss has no bottom, not walls. There is no place to set foot, but there are cliffs all around, right? And if there’s even a tiny chin anywhere on this wall. Or if you make a chin.”
Along the vertical lines, he drew protruding bumps with chalk. In the meantime, the figure of a person who had been falling continuously hit a bump that just appeared and bounced up. The figure of a person struggling with short arms compared to the head barely stood on the bumps.
“Can you hold onto it for a little while like this? Even though this place is an abyss, there will be no falling.”
Of course, it is not enough land to eat, sleep, and live. Because human life requires a minimum of space.
However, since it is a corpse, the vampire, who only needs space to lie down, was puzzled when he saw the painting.
“huh? Wouldn’t that be enough to live a normal life?”
I shook my head at the vampire’s question.
“The curse of the Earthmother is not so soft. This is an expedient way. Any soil that can be stepped on is also ground. In the abyss, that land too will eventually erode away and disappear below.”
As soon as I finished my words, the bumps drawn in chalk slowly flowed down as if melting, and the picture of a person standing on it jumped anxiously and stuck closely to the wall. But I can’t help it. The bottomless pit is a cursed land. Everyone’s mother doesn’t allow us to set foot in this place.
Eventually, the footsteps disappeared and the human figure, who lost a small piece of shelter, continued to fall again without a promise
. The property turned into an inheritance. They nailed themselves to the wall and tied themselves with ropes, but in the end, they too became prey to the abyss as the entire land sank downward. After risking the lives of idiots who know whether eating is poison or food, people have finally gained the wisdom not to approach the abyss. However, our proud militia has decided to use this characteristic of the abyss as well.”
A large disc was drawn over the abyss drawn on the blackboard. On it, a large five-story building and tall lights were depicted. Unless you’re an idiot, you’ll know right away what that building is.
The vampire sighed lightly.
“This is it.”
“yes. The military has built huge structures. A round structure that will cover this abyss like a manhole cover.”
“manhole?”
“Since you were from a thousand years ago, you don’t know manholes. Think of it as just a well cap. anyway.”
He waved his finger as if in command. Then, the chalk drawing of Tantalus slowly falls into the abyss. With a slow but heavy movement like a huge meteorite.
It sounds like a thump ringing in my ears. Since it was just a chalk drawing, there is no way to hear any sound, but the dull movement and the falling chalk powder made me imagine even the sound that was not there.
Satisfied with the directing, he continued his explanation.
“For the Army Corps of Engineers, concrete is an all-purpose stone. He formed the ground with it and erected pillars to build a huge structure on top of the abyss. Prisoners were released on it. All those who dared to set foot anywhere in the Earth Mother’s cursed space had to sink below.”
however.
Although the ground may sink. Concrete doesn’t. This is because it is not a collection of soil and sand, but a separate object.
“However, this concrete structure, which was dug up by humans, processed by humans, poured into molds by humans, poured in with steel frames as frames, and designed by humans one by one. Even though it is made as a product of the earth, it can never become the earth. It is a gigantic structure ‘made’ by ‘humans’, in other words, a thing. Originally, the object should have fallen under the abyss, but since it was wider than the width of the abyss, both ends hung over it. As a result, this tantalus does not fall, it just sinks. like this.”
The walls of the abyss flow like soggy mud. At the same time, the large structure covering the bottomless pit gradually sinks downward.
But there is no falling. The manhole cover does not fall down even if it is overturned. Clinging to the walls on both sides, it slides slowly, maintaining a precarious balance and sinking.
“We live in a sinking land like this. Like a piece of bread stuck in your throat.”
Let’s thank Gamma.
If he hadn’t thought of going all the way down through the basement of the management office, he wouldn’t have found out. Thanks to this, my knowledge has increased.
The last knowledge you left behind. I will write well.
‘This land is all artificial… I thought it was foreign to a rock, but it’s surprising.’
The vampire looked at the blackboard and the ground with an excited look on his face. He even slapped his hips on the coffin and tapped the floor with his toes.
No, don’t be surprised, but feel something.
