117 – Sun, Moon, and Stars – 2

Half of the achievements added by the DLC can be obtained by progressing through the main story of the DLC.

But the rest is the problem.

Fortunately, there are no achievements such as S-class teacher, S-class adventurer, or other ‘Master of ~’, but you have to clear side quests that appear as DLCs are added, which is also very cumbersome.

It’s not just a quest where you just have to look at the ending, but you have to go through all the linked quests.

Fortunately, there were not that many of them.

Come to think of it, I’m not happy.

Who paid for the DLC?!

“Well…”

“What do you think?”

“No. Nothing.”

I couldn’t pay attention to Lucille because I was thinking about how to break the newly added achievements most efficiently and quickly.

I reassured her as she stared at me worriedly, and when I found a two-way road, I stopped Moonlight.

Lucille tilted her head as she saw the moonlight, which had changed into a cane, stand upright.

“What are you doing?”

“It’s a magic called ‘Libra’. You haven’t learned it yet, have you?”

“yes…”

“It’s quite useful, so learn it as much as you can afford.”

The light emitted from the moonlight intensifies. What that light created was a scale.

The scale built around the moonlight slowly begins to tilt to the right.

“Libra is a magic that is used when there are two answers. Choose the right path depending on which one you use as a standard.”

What I want is the fastest way to get to the 3rd floor of the ruins.

I don’t care if any of them are dangerous.

“You can use this to get more benefits when you go around dungeons or ruins. And it’s also very helpful during war.”

I grabbed the moonlight and walked down the right path. I raised the moonlight while Lucille, who was following me, tilted her head.

The moonlight of moonlight dispels the darkness and reveals hidden things.

“That’s…”

All over the walls were slime that dripped ooze.

In normal games, slimes are treated as junk mobs, but this world is different.

In particular, most of the slimes inhabiting the ruins are highly acidic, giving penetration and corrosion damage, and in the worst case, ‘instant death’.

“When fighting slimes, it’s best to use magic attacks. If you get caught, your survival depends on how quickly you get out. Their fragments are acidic.”

– Iron!!

The slimes spot us and move. When the ooze came together and a large droplet splashed out, I brushed it off with moonlight.

“What a surprise!”

“Be careful because it nullifies the damage of hitting and slashing. Of course, if you slash or dodge, the slime that bursts will bounce off your equipment and reduce the durability of your equipment.”

Shards splashed on the robe as it slashed the projectile. Is that why? Lucille panicked and tried to use cleanse on me, but I shook my head.

“That’s why equipment with the ‘indestructible’ attribute like my robe is precious. Later, when you ascend the throne, give the knights an indestructible cape or robe to the escorts. Thanks to that, it might save your life once. Because.”

Some of the terrorists deliberately send in a lot of slime to make the escort lose their equipment before attacking.

Lucille nodded and I brushed off my robe to clear away the slime shards.

“The slime’s method is basically divided into two. The first is magic. The majority of slimes are weak to fire-type magic.”

Lucille raised her wand. After a while, a magic circle was created in front of her wand, and dozens of fire arrows were fired from the magic circle.

-Roaring!! Roaring!!

The slimes that had started to burn began to wriggle and resist. However, it was not easy to put out the already lit fire.

After about half of the slime group was burned and disappeared, all that was left was slimes with shiny surfaces.

“But in the case of metal slimes, fire-attribute attacks are also immune. What should I do in that case?”

“Hmm… Do you put some ice or something on it?”

“answer.”

The metal slimes change their appearance. It mimics the adventurers or mercenaries they ate.

As the number of enemies with sparkling bodies began to increase one by one, Lucille lightly lowered her staff.

“Master. It’s dangerous, so stay away. Ice Age.”

Now you can use ice magic without difficulty.

As I took a step back, a huge magic circle was created around the staff. Before the metal slimes within the magic circle can resist, their bodies begin to freeze.

-Jajeok, jjajeok… Pajijijik! Wow Jangchang!!

The leg of the slime mercenary who tried to approach us without being aware of it is broken. It looks like he’s trying to get closer while lying on the floor.

Perhaps because it was within the range of the Ice Age, it only froze even colder.

There are six ice statues that have completely hardened like that.

As the metal slime was also neutralized, Lucille slowly raised her wand with a proud expression.

“Ice Age is a high-level magic, but the magic power consumption rate is almost as high as the highest grade magic.

“Uh… yes. I see.”

Lucille blushed slightly and was embarrassed.

It’s not like I’m specifically trying to point it out.

After patting her hair once, I walked through the hallway where the aftermath of the Ice Age remained, maintaining my body temperature with warm magic.

“Hmm… I guess no one has reached here.”

“You mean that Prince Cecil went another way?”

“Is that likely?”

“Then it means that the traps and defenses here will be there.”

“maybe.”

In the case of ruins, even if traps or defenses are destroyed, they will be restored over time due to the core of the ruins.

Of course, each recovery time was different, but most of them took at least 12 hours to complete, so Cecil and the others certainly did not pass through here.

“Then wouldn’t it be better to go the other way and stop Prince Cecil?”

“It would be slow if I pursued it… I don’t know if there will be any other obstacles. Wouldn’t it be better to go first?”

There are so many distractions in a safe place.

Especially if someone like Rugal is blocking the road again, it will take quite some time to deal with it.

“In the case like before, we are lucky. Because we were able to reduce useless battles.”

“If I’m with Master, I think that luck will continue to overflow.”

“You reap what you sow. Now, look there. It’s a defense facility. It looks like a trap, right?”

You can see the end of the hallway. Upon entering, there was a large room.

There was nothing special, the ceiling, floor, and walls were composed of various colors.

“How do you think we should get through here?”

“It looks like a trap with the bottom going off.”

“Correct. If you step on it wrong, the floor will turn off and you will fall and die.”

“Are there any hints to get past it?”

Of course there will be hints.

But I don’t think it will be inside this ruin.

“Preliminary research on the ruins, or data obtained from related ruins can be a hint.”

In other words, when exploring ruins, if you come empty-handed, there are almost no hints.

“So what?”

“What should I do?”

“Well…”

Lucille thought hard and snapped her fingers.

“How about gravity magic? If you keep destroying the floor with it…”

“That’s good too. But if you want to keep using gravity magic, you’ll have to spend a lot of mana? Maybe there’s something in the next room?”

“ah…”

“Remember. How much you can save and move efficiently is important. And that is.”

I lightly gripped Lucille’s shoulder.

“It’s also the way to become an archmage.”

After mastering the ultimate skill and going through the Awakening Quest, all jobs could rise to a higher position.

Of course, to me, a sage, it was a story that had nothing to do with it.

“At times like this, we have to use tactical makeshift armor.”

I raised my staff, and the ones I caught earlier crawled out of the shadows as shadow people.

That’s how the first shadow human followed my instructions and stepped on the floor.

-Wow!!

Fall off halfway through and die.

I checked the scaffolding he had passed and glanced at the remaining shadow people.

“depart.”

It consumed almost all of the shadow people, but it wasn’t particularly regrettable.

They weren’t the ones who needed it so much in the first place.

Lucille thought for a moment before asking cautiously.

“In a trap like that… you could use an innocent person.”

“Yes. Or you can gather a bunch of shamans like me, circulate around the battlefield, and use them to get through. There’s no single answer.”

The maximum number of shadow people is fixed. This is common to both great sorcerers and beginners who have just learned shadow magic.

How to solve numerical problems with quantity.

Rich people hire shamans to explore ruins that way.

Not a good way, of course.

You can never ignore the supplies you have to bring while exploring ruins, or the stress that comes from being with a group of people.

There was a consensus in everything.

“It’s difficult.”

“Nothing is easy in this world. Come on. It’s the next room. It seems that only monsters appear here.”

As soon as you open the door and enter, iron bars block the entrance and exit.

And what appeared was a large monster with a large cow head.

It would be comfortable to think of it as an ungrateful people, but it was a little different from that kind.

– mmm…!!

Because what was in front of my eyes was clearly a monster.

“…eww.”

Lucille flinched momentarily and backed away. understanding goes.

– mmm~!!

-help me…!

– mmm~!!

– mmm~!!

-help me…!

– mmm~!!

– mmm~!!

-please…

It wasn’t the cow’s head crying, it was because the dozens of mouths in the chest of that sturdy body were crying.

Cecil would have been frightened if she saw it.

Because he’s weak against grotesque things like that.

Anyway, you don’t have to just watch it.

“How did I say I should fight at a time like this?”

“Do you want to hit it once?”

“answer.”

Lucille’s eyes flashed and she immediately swung her wand. At the same time, dozens of magic bullets were fired.

The moment the monster that was being summoned was about to roar.

-mmm!!!

Dozens of magic bullets hit him, and the battle began with the advantage of a preemptive strike.

Continuing battles and destroying traps in this way, Lucille and I broke through the ruins.

Following the advice of Libra, which is the most dangerous but fastest way, we were able to find the way down to the third floor faster than expected after a few hours.

“There doesn’t seem to be any sign of anyone else coming. Master. Then…”

It was then.

Footsteps are heard from the other passage.

“…Sage? And even Princess Lucille?”

Five. I caught up.

In the lead was Cecil, who was properly equipped with magician equipment.

And standing next to her was a tall woman with jet-black hair wearing a butler’s uniform.

Cecile Claudia’s closest aide and an awakened archmage.

In addition, the swordsmanship is at the level of chewing and eating quite a few swordsmanship.

Karin Cloud, who is in charge of the wizard’s position among the seekers of the eight stars.

Finally, the Bikini Knights, no, the Knights of the Principality.

As soon as she saw them, Lucille’s face turned red.

“Uh-oh…”

“It’s your master’s favorite armor.”

“…Ah… Ah… Beautiful armor. I won’t be able to wear it…”

Lucille looked up blankly at me, even with tears in her eyes.

What. why. What.

“…Me, I… should I… wear this…?”

“Why are you wearing that? Cecil, by the way.”

“why.”

“Why are you here?”

Cecile thought for a moment and then smiled.

“Before that. Sage. Of course I don’t think so, but out of etiquette, I’ll ask.”

“Yes.”

“According to the records, those who have the mark can be chosen by Cronus, the foreign god of time, to become his apostles and reverse time. That’s why.”

Her gaze fell on the moonlight I was holding.

“The mark of the moon. You, the owner of the moonlight… a foreign minister of time. Do you intend to become an apostle of Cronus and reverse time to redo everything? You want to fix something you regret… or bring the dead back to life. want to.”

I was serious with her.

“Did you sit down and say something nonsensical?”

Even in the game, one of those who are qualified to have the tokens of the sun, moon, and stars will become the apostle of Kronos, so it is not known who will be.

Whoever wants to become an apostle of Cronus and turn time back, I intend to tear it apart with my own hands before doing anything.

The more you go back in time, the more you create the conditions for Cronus to descend.

Because that means game over, that is, the end of the world.