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15-Intermission 10 Ruin Exploration

※Not from Satou's POV either this time

People who aren't familiar with Yasaku the explorer, please look at the afterword

This turned out oddly longer than planned, please excuse me as this is the last one before Chapter 16

"Drop dead, you crane fly!"

The arrow I shot hit the enes y'know"

"To begin wiiith, there's no bug called crane flyyy"

Tan theharpy, then priest Kyura's pole mace crushes the fallen harpy's head

--Seriously?

No, I'-saend

"You guys don't know that Crane flyon top of the cliff sing all at once

--ＬＵＬＵＬＲＲＲＵＵＵＬＵ

"Yasaku, Charic Bow in my hand shined red, and the arrow shot froonna fight my charmed friends in this narrow path

"The ruin should be around here according to thearound and help, you!"

In this situation where we're being surrounded by a flock of harpies, lightning ician Sheriona nonchalantly unfolds the et to work!"

"Ah, no no, baaad Yasakuuu, you should properly listen to what others are sayiiing"

"We told you that the rocks in this gorge are combustible didn't we"

The tomen reproached me

Felt like even the harpies joined in to ridicule me

"Shut up, shut up, shut up!"

I shot down the harpies one after another with superhuman speed

The flock finally ran away after I routed around 20 harpies

"Ah, so tired"

I leanon e quickly dried my sweat, but it was far from pleasant due to the weird bad odor it carried

I putater

It's an expensive oods), but it's indispensable when exploring desolate places

"Geez, ot us so down the dull tastelessa barbecue party at a place like thismonster out of nowhere

Only eccentric nobles and careless beginners would do such a suicidal act

"You're one to talk"

"Indeed Yasaku, you were the one who ju first weren't you"

I push away e

This place is a great canyon at the boundary of a territory under direct control of the king, far south-southwest from the Labyrinth City

We came to this remote place by the request of Marquis Kelten in the Royal Capital

If we don't get back to the Labyrinth City soon, people ht think that we've kicked the bucket in the middle of this journey

"Weird The ruin's entrance should be around here according to theanyon her back, took out an ancient docues

I peeked froe at all, I only reconfirmed once

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"Did you hear that?"

Tan s

I strained oat cry-like sound, "Meeee"

I peeked below the cliff and found a stranded goatling on a ledge far down

Since the wire I fitted on my arms can't reach it, I take out a rope from my knapsack and tie it to a uy"

"Ain't it fine, we're free till we find a clue froht?"

Besides, if I save it when it's still young, it

I wind the rope on ot halfway through

The rockca after another, right at the sa collapsed

I desperately look around while sliding down the steep

Found a handy-looking dead tree slightly far away

"There!"

I shoot the wire on ht hand at the dead tree

--Missed

"Goddammit!"

I twist ain

The wire passed the dead tree in vain

"■■■■ Cube"

I heard Tan's voice up above and then a transparent ical pedestal andto it so Find a foothold quick!"

Looks like handsoot down the cliff without proble a deep breath, I roll back the useless wires, and refill the launcher ot scared when it sawfeebly

It's about to fall off the ledge

"Good boy Don'tvoice, but there's no effect whatsoever

Whenever the goatling stepped back, pebbles and soils fell off the ledge

"It stands to reason, Yasaku's face is that of a carnivore"

"He only ever eats meat in the city after all"

I could hear Tan and priest Kyura's interruption above the cliff

"Oh shut it!"

"Meeeeee"

I reflexively shouted, the goatling got scared and lost its footing on the ledge

"N's screae

"Uh oh!"

I shot the wire on my arets the job done this ti careful not to break it and put the goatling back on top of the ledge

"Mee"

"Geez, you're one little trouble"

I lie at the ledge while hugging the tre odd fro!?"

"Wait a sec!"

I approach the rock cliff while holding the goatling

"Branch growing out of a rock"

My stretched hand slipped through the rock

"Whoa"

I pulled it back in a hurry, the hand under the glove was the same as always

--It's an illusion

I readied ed into the rock face first

There's a shallow cave inside, with a hidden door even

Looks like this is the entrance we're looking for

I cae and called ot back ho down a va is so high that even Tan's force ht can't reach it

"He's fiine We droove away the goat-eaaating harpiees"

"You're right Goatsuke etically in thewith priest Kyura while fighting, a point blank electric shock ran through

"Oy, watch it!"

When I coician Sheriona, she pointed behind me with a nice smile on her face

"Geh, Wall Sliinners, don't lose your focus when exploring"

"I'm ashamed ofand hurled it at the slih to burn the resistant sliets burned, it runs away into a crack in the wall

I thoroughly check the narrow passage while sur standard traps and poisonous scorpions

"Suspended ceilings, pitfalls, filling the passage with electricity when you push a button, can't believe this guy put all these"

"It seener of this place likes to make traps as a hobby"

"There's even chain reaction traps"

"Traps are nothing much Yasaku will disarm the do you think disar even one of theic facility is functioning"

"According to the legend, this should have been athe fixture s that consume mana like electric traps should have been halted"

"It seeeh the ventilations and settled dooown on their own"

True, the monsters we ic power froed"

Believing Sheriona's intuition, I asked Tan who could use force ic to inspect it closely

If there were soic, detecting things would be easier, but in a case like this, force ic that can be used to pull inthe chant, Tan concentrated with eyes closed

"It's quite deep"

Sweat ran down Tan's face

"Stronghis sleeve

"There's a chance that there's a large e airship, or perhaps a powerful monster"

"You serious--"

The fact that the ruin hasn't died is a happy ht end up having to fight an unbelievably strong monster

"What should we do, Yasaku? Go back?"

"Pshaw, 'course we're gonna see it to the end"

We wouldn't have been explorers, if we turned tail and ran here

People like that would have bought a far labyrinths, and lived their life in ease and coo Toward the unknown"

Tan spoke unenthusiastically

It doesn't sound like a sarcasood face said that, awesoooo Sherii, which wayyy to the ic power Sheriona sensed

"It's wide, is that dark place a pitfall?"

While , I put a fire on a torch I took from my waist and throw it at the darkness

The torch drew an arch, rebounded on the floor once and fell into the deep darkness

"Seeh?"

"It appears we don't need it"

"Yasaku, look at that"

Sheriona and Tan pointed at the ceiling, toward an elevator-like thing

We created footholds to reach the elevator using Tan's force ic [Cube], but for so those footholds

Geez, these guys sure are rough with their leader

The elevator's lever was a bit rusty, but Ia little power into it

I lower the elevator to whereturn to operate the handle lever

"It's clear now that we're down here"

"Yeah, even I know this This vibration es, we're advancing in one of thee is also full of traps just like the one above We're pressing forith similar hardships like before

Since it was bothersome, excepts traps that activated by themselves, I only put marks on the places that became the switches for those traps while we passed the the way, but there wasn't even a hint of treasures at all

We arrived before a huge door before long

"About tiuard down"

Just as we had guessed, there was a functioning ic furnace ahead

The wall on one side has been broken, revealing rocks of the same color as the valley rock's

Seems like there's no powerful monster we had feared

"Weird"

"Yea--"

We nodded at Sheriona's word as we looked up at the buzzing ic furnace here is a type that has a particularly high output

That's fine

Since the ic furnaces are of this type

However, in order to e quantity of ic stone silo and an auto that fits a desolate place old enough to be called ruin

"It appears that it has only been restarted recently"

Sheriona reported after checking the back of the installation

Theinstallation is huge, the current scale seeh to operate the furnace for about three months

Additionally, it seems there's a ladder hidden behind it

It probably connects to the floor where we found the elevator

"Then I guess the treasures have been taken away"

"I wouldn't be so sure about that"