My villains 0 vaporization
19. Escape (4)
We fell into a new space as we were afraid to be engulfed in strange magic.
“… Knock off.”
As I carefully stood up, Ellen let out a small groan and looked around.
“Are you okay Ellen?”
“Eh, is this…?”
“…I think it’s a relic room.”
We woke up in a mysterious space surrounded by white glowing walls. In a narrow space that seemed to be three or four pyeong at most, a stone statue was standing there.
What is this sudden development?
Stunned, I turned to Ellen.
“What happened? Strings and symbols suddenly change.”
“I changed the formula a bit.”
“Change the formula?”
I carefully set Ellen down in one corner of the room. The boy continued with a slightly tired expression.
“Those magic circles weren’t traps.”
“Isn’t it a trap? then?”
“It’s kind of… a door. A door that can only be used by those who know the magic circle.”
Hearing Ellen’s continued explanation, I swallowed a blank laugh.
So those magic traps were like doors with passwords on them.
If you combine the strings correctly, you will come to the artifact room, the escape route here, but if you combine them incorrectly, monsters will be summoned or attack magic will be activated.
…I’m proud of the rotten waters of the Dark World, but this is the first thing I’ve learned. There must be information that is unknown in the game.
After the explanation, Ellen looked around the narrow room with an uneasy expression on her face.
“But… are we right? This place is full of strange mana…”
“I think there was something similar in the book. Oops… um, I think there was a reference to the mysterious room as well.”
“…okay?”
After Ellen’s dubious answer, we started looking around the room.
The room was not very large, but except for the objects in the center, it was empty, without a speck of dust.
However, it did not feel empty because the walls of unknown material were pouring in bright light.
Among the objects in the center, the first thing that caught my eye was a stone statue of a young man.
The man, wearing a small bojang (寶冠), was wearing loose-fitting clothes with puffy shoulders and sleeves, and held a thick book open in his left hand.
The jewels adorning the storage cabinets all looked elaborately crafted, and the hem of the clothes dragging on the floor had a vividly wavy pattern.
In addition, the thick book had traces of hand stains and even small letters.
Ellen, who was examining the stone statue, drooled and murmured in a small voice.
“It looks like an old wizard outfit.”
“You came all this way through the facilities of the ancient empire. Isn’t this statue also from that era?”
The stone statue was in the posture of covering the front of the eyes with the palm of the hand. The stone statue, which imitated a human as if it were a statue of a master, did not feel awkward at all.
Among them, the highlight was the face. He sculpted a surprised expression with open eyes, half-open mouth and naturally folded wrinkles, but it was so lively that it seemed like he would scream at any moment.
Suddenly, Ellen swallowed dry saliva with a slightly pale face.
“Poi, this is not a stone statue.”
“what’?”
What kind of ghost eating shit is this again?
I examined the stone statue again and scratched my chin.
“Um, no matter how you look at it, it looks like it’s made of stone.
“No no. This is… a person cursed with petrification.”
“…the curse of petrification?”
“huh. It’s a terrible magic that turns the living into stone. It is said to be a spell that was practiced a long time ago…”
I suddenly had a creepy thought and asked Ellen.
“Couldn’t this person be alive?”
“…Well, how should I express it? It is neither alive nor dead.”
“What are you talking about? Not even undead.”
“It’s virtually dead now, but if the curse of petrification is lifted… it might come back to life.”
crazy is that possible?
wait for a sec. then…?
“When did the ancient empire fall?”
“It was the first year of the light calendar, so it was 763 years ago.”
“So if you bring this person back to life, you mean you can talk to someone from 763, maybe a thousand years ago?”
“So to speak.” Hey, isn’t there a completely frozen person?
In terms of Earth, it means that a Korean in the 21st century meets a person from the Goryeo Dynasty
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“However, it is the same that the spell to cancel petrification was actually used. As the ancient empire collapsed in an instant, the generations of many magic schools were cut off. As far as I know, there is no way to bring this person back to life in modern times.”
“… aha.”
I was excited because it was a situation that strangely stimulated my imagination… but it turned out to be good.
I licked my lips and looked around the stone statue. Everything the young wizard was holding turned to stone, but the things that fell from him remained intact.
The items were a wand a couple of feet long, a small box, and a leather case.
Shall we say that it is like the goods left by a wizard who turned to stone? All the objects were old-fashioned, but they somehow gave off a sense of mystery, and they were surprisingly well-behaved.
The wand was a light gray object made from twigs. Even without any decorations, it somehow gave off a luxurious atmosphere.
As if possessed, Ellen picked up the wand and began to examine it as if possessed.
“It’s a staff made of birch. Cinnabar? No, it looks like it was coated with platinum…”
“Is it good?”
“…you have to use it to know, but it seems like a pretty useful magic tool. You’re lucky.”
Lucky for me, I thought I was going to die because I was going all the way here.
At first glance, it’s not unique, but it looks like a rare or magic item at best.
no no no Isn’t that the end?
Putting aside my disappointment for a moment, I inspected the box.
The box, slightly smaller than a brick, was made of ivory. Judging from the gold leaf decoration attached to the outside, it seems to be a kind of jewelry box.
As befits a box that looked precious at first glance, it contained all kinds of jewels and gold pieces.
“…Is this all true?”
Of course, having lived my whole life with a dirt spoon, I had no ability to discriminate between gems. Well, I don’t think there’s anything like cubic in this world, so there’s a high probability that it’s real, right?
When I hold up the pendant with a ruby the size of my thumb nail,
“It doesn’t look fake.”
Ellen replied in a half-hearted way, then looked at the wand.
“…I was just really distracted.”
I rummaged through the jewelry box. A silver ring with jewels, a bracelet made of pure gold, and a gold coin engraved with a human face seemed to be worth a lot.
…I’m rich, right?
While he was alone, there was something that stood out to him.
“Look at this, Ellen.”
“What else?”
Ellen looked back annoyed, then looked at the object in my hand and widened her eyes.
“What magic is this? I don’t think it’s pure mana…”
What I found was a pair of earrings or ear cuffs (an accessory worn over or over the ear rather than pierced through the ear lobe).
Ear cuffs were made of silver, shaped like wings, and decorated with sapphire jade around the edge of the wings. The workmanship was so delicate that the feathers seemed to fly away one by one.
This earcuff was something I had seen in the game.
Was it called… ‘Aello’s Feather’? Among the rare items, it is a fairly well-known item, and the activation effect is quite useful, so I remember playing with it a few times.
“It doesn’t look like a phrase was engraved on the outside… but what the hell is this to have such clear power?”
Ellen made a fuss by examining the structure and pouring mana into it to figure out the identity of the accessory.
Um, can I just tell you what it is?
…No no. There’s a certain level of blaming someone for reading it in a book. How suspicious would it be if the effects of suddenly picked up objects were lined up all the time?
I watched what Ellen was doing and shrugged my shoulders.
“There doesn’t seem to be any problem, but try wearing it.”
“Are you okay?”
“If you feel uncomfortable, should I wear it first?”
“…that’s great. Even the letter ‘ma’ in the magic tool doesn’t know.”
He snorted and brought the feather accessory to his ear. Then he started whining to himself to get it in his ears.
“This is not going well.”
“What are you doing? Give it to me.”
“Fuck.”
I squatted down next to him and snatched the feather accessory. Then, slightly open the loop and insert it into the small ear, then slightly push it up to secure it completely.
“How comfortable?”
“…Hmm, I think it’s fine.”
Ellen, who had been tying her ears, closed her eyes for a moment and nodded slowly.
“also. It looks like something possessed by spirits.”
“okay? effect?”
“wait for a sec.”
Ellen used magic to activate the effect of the accessory.
In fact, the reason I gave this accessory to him was because of the item’s characteristics.
Ellen, who possesses the highest level of magical power in the same level, will be able to use this item properly.
Whoops.
“Uh uh uh!”
Confused, Ellen’s body began to float in the air. As the slowly rising torso began to stagger, the boy opened his mouth and widened his eyes in embarrassment.
“Po poi me”
“Hold me me!”
Since Ellen was paralyzed from the bottom of her body, she couldn’t struggle, but struggled with her arms to keep her balance.
…I think you’ll be fine if you just stay still.
“What are you looking at! hurry!”
“…Ugh”
I quickly grabbed his hand, but Ellen’s body continued to float as if it were a balloon filled with helium.
“Yumma, where are you going to go?”
“This is not well controlled!”
“This bottle *bumm* try adjusting the mana!”
“I know that’s easier said than done!”
Ellen screamed with tears in her eyes, and I pulled down the guy who was trying to cling to the ceiling. However, soon the magic power from the feather accessory began to entangle me.
Whoops.
“Uh uh uh- I’m floating too!”
“Ugh, what are you doing, you idiot!”
“jerk? Did you leave it open?”
“Isn’t this on purpose?”
But… this is kind of fun, isn’t it? It feels like swimming in a place with no gravity.
I quickly got used to the unfamiliar feeling of floating, and after balancing without difficulty, I burst into laughter.
“Hey, don’t panic, just stay still.”
“I’m not flustered- *ugh!* I keep flipping over!”
“It’s because you’re waving your arms!”
…There’s no such thing as a mess.
The activation effect of ‘Aello’s Feather Decoration’ was none other than ‘flight’.
Of course, not everyone could write it.
Since the duration and speed of flight are proportional to magic power, if a character with low magic power uses it, all it does is fly slowly for a very short time. I thought Ellen, who had high magical power, would be able to use it well, but… She had no talent for using her body, and she couldn’t even use her lower body, so she was having a hard time balancing herself.
Ellen struggled in the air for a long time, but soon the wind that had dedicated her to her began to dissipate.
“Uh uh uh poi-”
Feeling that, Ellen screamed in a shrieking voice, and I quickly accepted him.
chin.
“Are you okay?”
“…huh.”
Ellen blushed belatedly, perhaps feeling ashamed of her ugliness.
After all the fuss, I was able to examine the last item. It was a leather case, inside which were five bottles of magic potion.
No, it’s something else. Even so… A magic potion?
“…Isn’t this spoiled?”
Ellen held up the potion bottles and shook them or held them up to the light before speaking incredulously.
“It doesn’t look like anything out of the ordinary.”
“Hey, you said it was from seven hundred years ago? If you’re fine until now, is that a magic preservative or a magic potion?”
“Is it that surprising? Starting from this space, it is not a normal place.”
…that makes sense. Just looking at the light pouring out of the smooth walls that fill all four sides, this is by no means an ordinary space.
Moreover, seven hundred years would be the time when not only magic potions, but also wooden wands and leather cases would all rot away. It would be persuasive to think that there is something special about this space.
“Let’s take care of it for now. We can check it later.”
It’s a bit embarrassing, but… well, it’s more comfortable to follow Ellen’s words in this aspect.
I wrapped the treasure chest and potion case in a half-cloak and tied it around my waist. Ellen, who had been watching the scene, suddenly looked around and opened her mouth.
“So how do I get out of here?”
“Maybe there is some kind of device?”
“Hmm. Pick me up.”
Ellen started to scan the wall with me on her back and soon found a magic circle engraved on one side of the wall. The guy touched the magic circle with his fingertips and his eyes lit up.
“I think this is right.”
“Can you make it work?”
“huh. Looking at the structure, I can only pour mana into it.” I took a small deep breath. In the game, you could return to South Harbor directly through the artifact room, but I don’t know how it will be in reality.
Ellen also muttered ‘Okay’ as if resolving and then asked me.
“Are you ready?”
Holding Hrunting in one hand and holding Ellen’s wrist around her neck with the other, she nodded.
“let’s go.”
Whoops.
As blue mana flowed from Ellen’s hand, the magic circle began to glow. I felt a strange magic enveloping my body… I felt like I would get used to it. Soon, the light emitted from the magic circle reached its peak and I couldn’t help but close my eyes tightly.
