Chapter 173

[Ah, can you hear me?]

“Yes, I can hear you.”

[Confirmed reaching the 15th floor.]

[Currently, the lowest number of floors is the 15th floor, please report the number of floors from 101st floor.]

[Room 101, North 13th floor.]

[Room 102, 14th floor north-northeast.]

[Room 103, Northeast 14th floor… … .]

Second day.

Various voices continued for a while from the communicator. They were all wizards scattered somewhere in this wide and deep abyss.

“I think we will have to wait on this floor for at least two hours.”

I put the food supplied from the 10th floor base camp yesterday into my mouth and chewed. It is a dried fruit, so it has a moderate taste.

“Are we the fastest?”

“It has to be.”

‘Cause I’ve never stopped

As the entire Abyss Cave is the habitat of huge monsters, from the 10th floor onwards, monsters are often encountered.

Since the minimum is an intermediate level, the strength of each individual is incomparable to that of monsters commonly seen from the outside. It is a careful step-by-step approach.

But I’m different. To be precise, I am a borrowed barley bag, and Auril is different.

“Are you going further down?”

Wrong!

Euril was definitely looking at me, but a monster creeping up from the other side over my shoulder suddenly pierced a hole in my belly skin.

“… … no.”

It was also shocking that his normal ability did not consume magic power, but Auril’s ability had more characteristics than that.

‘What is that?’

It activates even if you are not properly aware of it.

Of course, he said that this would require a little bit of mana. Although it is absurd to write ‘a little’.

It’s usually lower than humans, but even monsters have a body temperature.

Auril always stays cold, so if you lightly scatter magical energy around you, you can easily detect minute temperature changes within the area, and it is said that you can attack immediately if it is not in the form of a human being.

In short, it is an automatic interception system with a thermal imaging camera. It’s absurd that it’s an appropriate example, so it makes me laugh out loud.

A dangerous monster in the bottomless cave?

I don’t know anymore. No living monster has ever come close within 10m, so what?

“Let’s open up a bit. comfortable for others.”

“okay.”

Auril and I are 179 trillion.

If you reach the lower floor before the other groups, go around the area and deal with monsters as soon as you can afford it.

In this way, exploration is smooth.

Currently, the base camp is normally installed on the 10th floor, and the top is neatly organized. Follow-up personnel are steadily descending to clean up the monsters, and the speed is faster than expected.

By far, Euril’s credit was the greatest.

Even just walking around, the monsters were completely swept away, which is why the load of the other groups descending from the upper floors was reduced by at least half.

I said while glancing at Euril who was yawning sleepily.

“It sounds like a stupid idea now. I have some regrets.”

“why?”

“I wish I could have gotten to know Euril a little sooner.”

It’s a meaningless lament, but it’s because I have nothing to do right now. Because we’ve been walking side by side since yesterday.

In ＜Academy Summer Turge＞, there are only two characters that can reach level 10 in magic. Only Auril and the child from the last episode.

However, there is a difference between the two.

A child grows up Although it is absurdly fast, there is a procedure called time anyway.

Auril, on the other hand, does not grow. Instead, the setup is that when your emotional state becomes unstable, your abilities run wild and you reach level 10, but to put it simply, you are angry.

‘… … You can get angry at any time.’

He said that by the age of ten he was already able to handle this level of ability.

In other words, Auril was a character who had the highest level of military power in the world regardless of the time period.

“What if?”

Euril showed interest, as if he thought it was an interesting story.

In the past, when I said something, I tended to listen, but now Euril has become more talkative.

“Um, what… … . It would have been different if there had been Auril in the barrier.”

“Before that?”

“Professors wouldn’t have been attacked by murderers.”

“Before that?”

“Come to think of it, Euril doesn’t even work, right? Even when I was kidnapped, I must have escaped.”

In many ways, there are many regrets.

Of course, the current performance was made possible entirely because of the blood of llamas, so it is impossible to predict.

Euril asked in a slightly quieter voice.

“Are you too late now?”

“Ah no. It can’t be.”

I laughed and shook my head.

Even if it is certain that he will be active in the tenth episode, it is something that takes place in his home country, Mashu. It’s different from completely following my words.

Moreover, Auril does not play a big part in the 14th episode if things go as they are. It will be helpful to stay in Summer Turge and deal with the monsters in the Whirlwind Islands, but there is a mention that it was not good against flying monsters. Now is?

“Right now, I only trust Euryl.”

“know.”

“I can’t help it if I’m disappointed. Still, you should keep looking at Euryl.”

Originally, Euril was doing everything I had to do, and now I’m just Auril’s companion.

Maybe this role won’t change much until we reach the 100th floor.

“I like it.”

“That’s fortunate.”

“Only one thing I care about.”

“What is it?”

hot.

Euril inhales and opens her small mouth, then closes it again.

“… … No, that’s okay.”

“Why don’t you talk? curious.”

“There is such a thing.”

“What is that?”

Euril walked a little ahead of me for about 10 minutes in silence.

Why did I want to go there?

“… … Before,”

“yes.”

“I said I liked it.”

It felt as if my slack mind had been pulled tight. I must have said that.

“It was.”

“it… … . Did you tell all the other kids too?”

“… … .”

I thought there would be no blockage no matter what we said since we had revealed everything to each other, but there was an ambush like this.

No answer came immediately. I needed time to think. No, it’s better not to waste your time here.

“Well, to be honest, I like them all.”

“I know that.”

“I think the only thing that came out directly was Aurill.”

Although it was only one Aurill who brought up the story with my own mouth. Is it because the consciousness of debt was the biggest? Since it’s Auril, I thought I’d throw it in and see.

Aini or Hirana. I have never said that I like you in front of the person in question. It was not intended.

“I see.”

Poof, the corners of her lips slightly raised from the profile of Euril who turned her head. Ice fragments form and fall from the fidgeting fingertips repeatedly.

I didn’t say anything for a while, so I muttered a little embarrassed.

“I did it because you asked me to.”

“Then did you force it?”

“It’s not outrageous… … .”

“hand.”

in the middle of this?

I politely held out my right hand.

Without eye contact, Euril’s gloved left hand abruptly snatched mine.

“Aren’t there many days when we’re alone like this?”

“Maybe not?”

The bottomless cave is the last one.

Anyway, I haven’t thought about it for a long time since then. Ainim and Euril promised not to fight each other, so this is the end.

Euril, who stopped for a moment, gave me strength and tugged at my arm.

The guy who deliberately distanced himself from the street because it gets cold when he is using mana.

“It’s petty.”

“What?”

“The other kids.”

“uh… … . What did I do wrong?”

You must be working hard to stop the monsters in Summer Turf? If you have to ask, aren’t you the one who cheated?

I was about to joke lightly, but I closed my mouth at Euril’s words that followed.

“I can’t even hold my hand properly.”

Talking while laughing, the voice is subdued.

“It’s not fair.”

When the three of us were together, Ai-nim would often hug me tightly.

I couldn’t do that with Euril’s usual clothes, so I guess I was envious of that.

“Aren’t they all good kids?”

“Yes.”

“Then it will be fine.”

Auril put a glove on my hand.

It’s the first time I’ve seen it, but it seems that I brought another pair besides mine in the first place.

“This much… … I will see you.”

Then, I gently place my hand on my cheek. It’s just a rough, stiff leather glove, but I’m looking for warmth with my eyes closed. A few strands of shiny hair cling to it and get messy.

Euril asked with her eyes still closed.

“I’m sorry, are you going to die?”

“… … If you know why.”

“Hi-Hi.”

After a mischievous laugh, they hold hands and start walking again. It is very arbitrary.

“Shall we go this way?”

“It goes round and round. I will mark it.”

“Okay.”

I walked around for an hour holding my gloved hand tight. It wasn’t cold, it was sweaty. Even when he said he was doing errands on the way, he didn’t want to let go, so he almost got into trouble.

“This looks strange.”

“Iknow, right.”

The scenery I saw while descending to the 15th floor was mostly similar.

It is a fork in the road that splits, a side road that goes down at an angle, and even a hole where monsters live and live.

Compared to those things, what was in front of me was a relatively fresh structure, so it was worth holding on to.

What should I say?

“It looks like a door.”

“Do you think the door fits?”

It has a door that can be opened.

‘Until it was banned, Abyss Cave was a sacred place for adventurers.’

There was a lot of talk in the world that it was a dungeon where legendary treasures lay dormant.

In fact, there are also treasures stored in certain places in the abyss.

In history books, it is said that the complex structure of the abyss was used as a hiding place, so there may be a structure like a door.

Even in the game, if you go around, you will sometimes come across a ‘room’ containing gold and silver treasures.

“For now, there doesn’t seem to be any monsters inside, so let’s open it.”

“yes.”

In that respect, what I expected was an artifact that could be used right away.

It’s gold and silver treasure.

However, in the spacious room that was revealed after pushing down three heavy stone walls, nothing that glittered was to be seen.

“Is there anything over there, Euryl?”

“There is nothing.”

“I thought there might be a treasure chest.”

It was a room of unknown significance.

First of all, the door itself was a structure that could never be created naturally. Even so, there was not a single rubbish in the room, only the towering pillars that can be seen in the abyss.

Although the scale is considerable, there are no signs of this. It would have been more plausible if there was even a monster.

“Are you leaving?”

“yes.”

Looking at the wall, there is nothing special. I wondered if there was a secret device or something, so I tried to mobilize magic power, but it was in vain. What kind of rooms are there… … .

“… … uh?”

“what’s the matter?”

“Wait.”

Did you see it wrong?

At that time, as I turned around, the light of the lantern suddenly illuminated the stone pillar of the abyss, which I had seen countless times before.

I didn’t notice it when I looked at it from a moderate distance, but I felt a strange sense of incongruity so I pushed the lantern closer.

“F, R, O, M… … “

An intaglio carved into a small square trajectory. I read the first sentence in order.

can be interpreted

[FROM EINDROK]

from Aindarroch.