Year 7444, Month 5, Day 28
"It will take time, around how much?"
If it's just several tens of seconds then I can probably earn it. If it's at that speed (the speed an adult and walk quickly) then if we just do a lap around the doughnut depending on the course we might be able to earn three or four minutes.
"Probably over 10 minutes.."
So it's no good.
Then how about this?
"Let's pull it closer and then throw the rocks with {Light} cast on them at it without letting them touch my {Anti-Magic Field}."
"Eh? I understand."
I'm sure she has some doubts about it but it's good she obeys right away.
Miduchi quickly picked up a random rock and used the spell {Light} on it. Simultaneously I threw the second {Long Duration Rock} I had into the center of the passage in order to secure light.
I guess because I had been standing still, the eyeball bastard had already approached to within 10m.
The rock with {Light} cast on it hit him right in the center of his muddy white eyeball with a thud. There was no change to the rock. It's HP didn't decrease and there's no change to the number of uses on Magic Reflection either. I guess it doesn't reflect low-threat magic?
We raised our speed again a bit and increased the distance. Something we can throw..20 throwing needles and a knife with a chipped blade. Miduchi has a total of 9 knives. 4 throwing darts. Blowgun. We don't have anything decent..If Bel was here we could have her shoot consecutive arrows from behind the anti-magic defense wall though...
Even if we try using the blowgun with wind magic instead of blowing into it according to Miduchi due to problems with the durability of it, the power can't be increased very much. Maybe I'll challenging the production of metal air gun when we get back. In the past I made several varieties but according to the stories I heard about crossbows it's power was below that. Due to problems with the shape of the ammunition there was too much air resistance. It ended up being single shot but I went through quite a bit of trial and error to prepare my bayonet.
I made an iron pipe and then put an exclusive arrow in from the back. Then put some cotton in the middle or back of the arrow and use your fingers to seal the remaining side and use wind magic from that finger. It will only fly about 40 meters or so and there's a limit to how much power it could have. Though because the arrow will have cotton on it, it will quickly decelerate. Even if you raise the level of wind magic your hand will come out of the pipe this time and it's pretty much the same in the end, since you can't aim there's no meaning to it. Integrally speaking it's a bit better than just blowing a blowgun with your breath but in the end I gave up on it.
In any case no matter what we throw that we have onus right now it can't do any damage to that eyeball bastard. If we were to throw ours swords and it hit right then it might be different but if throw it once it's over after all.
"It's fine already, next is..I'll get even closer to the inner wall. You hide behind {Anti-Magic Field} while making dirt walls in an appropriate location on the other side of him from the pillar. The height will be where I can hide from them and a width of 1.5m should be plenty... now, go!"
"Yes!"
After confirming that Miduchi had run off I glared at the eyeball bastard again. He's still looking atrocious as usual. I'm sure if I were to release {Anti-Magic Field} here even once I'd die an in instant. I really want to make fighting in close combat while holding my long sword and using {Anti-Magic Field} at the same time my last resort. After all his Magic Reflection takes effect around 50-60 cm from his body. Since I don't know what will happen if {Anti-Magic Field} touches it, I don't have any method of attacking while maintaining that much distance. I'm sure if I were to jump over the {Anti-Magic Field} even if I stab it, if a beam hits my hand I'd probably die. I raise my speed of moving backwards against thinking I should increase the distance to 30 m or so.
"I did it!"
I heard Miduchi's voice that she's finished the work.
"Alright, standby just like that. I'm going to move into the inner walls so you follow along it as well!"
I threw down the third {Long Duration Light}. Suddenly I looked the left where the pillar is acting as the core of the doughnut and I can see a passage just like here. The passage bends directly to the right and obviously I can't confirm the teleport crystal.
"I'm 5m behind you. I made the wall about 2m to my right."
Miduchi called out to me.
"Alright, pull back at the same speed as me. Just before you can't see me anymore stop. Once I'm hidden behind the wall count to 20 seconds and let me know."
"Yes."
A wall appeared in my field of sight. The eyeball bastard is about 30m ahead.
I quickly hid behind the wall and released {Anti-Magic Field} before using a new magic.
It's a spell I just had Karl teach me at the start of this month. I've still only practiced it using the standard amount of mana but it should be plenty.
"{Delayed Blast Fire Ball}"
Of course it's also possible to use this like a normal {Fire Ball} but it's true worth is that there's no need to fire off the warhead. Or to be more correct you send it flying but since you're just moving it about 1 cm it's not much different from not moving it. You can set the time on the delay before it explodes, and quite literally like a landmine, it's possible to match the timing up for when it explodes. This time I'm setting the time. After all I can't let go of {Anti-Magic Field}. I was able to create 10 of them in the 20 seconds before Miduchi gave me the signal. I set the timer on all of them to 5 seconds later and then used {Anti-Magic Field} once more before quickly retreating along the inner area of the doughnut.
It seems the eyeball bastard lost sight of me since I was hiding behind the wall but must have guessed I was behind the wall. Without floating around in that spot it kept moving without slowing down over here. It's already in a place about 5m away. 4 more seconds.
It seems to have sent off a beam of light towards me after I appeared from behind the wall and some lightning ran along the surface of my {Anti-Magic Field}. Oh~ I forgot to Identify. It's MP is 51 huh? Alright! Another 3 seconds.
With {Anti-Magic Field} still deployed I quickly retreat. There's only about 2 m between the dirt wall and the inner wall of the doughnut. The only way for it to chase after me is to follow along the outer side of the wall. Of course it could fly over it as well. If it uses Magic Reflection to reflect the wall then that would be even better. Another 2 seconds.
【Alan.Greed/5/3/7429】
【Status： Normal】
【Level： 21】
【Strength： 29】
【Dexterity： 27】
【Unique Ability： Identify (MAX)】
【Special Ability： Earth Magic (MAX)】
【Special Ability： Fire Magic (Lv. 8)】
【Special Ability： Void Magic (MAX)】
【Midu~ritto.Chizumagurol/5/3/7441】
【Status： Good】
【Level： 11】
【Strength： 17】
【Dexterity： 20】
【Unique Ability： Unit Organization (Lv. 6)】
【Special Ability： Inclination Sensing】
【Special Ability： Water Magic (Lv. 5)】
【Special Ability： Wind Magic (Lv. 5)】
【Experience： 172656(210000)】
Now then, since we've finally been able to take a deep breath, there' some important to do. First off is the magic stone. I don't really want to dissect this rotting shell but I can't overlook it.
It took over an hour but we took the magic stone out. It was considerably heavy and a hue that you could almost call it pure white. The value when I identified it was 1...12,345,678..Seriously? If I were to sell it wouldn't that be close to 100,000,000 Z! Rather~ I wonder if a magic tool shop in Baldukk would really buy this? Up until now the most expensive magic stone hasn't even exceeded 4,000,000 Z once. It's suspicious even for the capital.
After that is the main event. There was a magnificent globe shaped crystal that came out from the large center of it's biggest eyeball. It's a big help that it doesn't require being polished but it has a diameter of even over 30 cm. The weight is easily exceed 40Kg and feels like it might even be close to 50Kg. I can't easily carry it around. There's no other choice than to roll it but I don't want to damage it.
I wonder if there's no other choice than to do it here...
I don't think a new boss will appear for at least 10 hours but I think we should at least go one floor above.
Also, it's only obvious but there was nothing else that was worth anything. I thought there might be crystals inside of the eyeballs on the tentacles but that wasn't the case and they were just filled with a gooey gray fluid.
We tried investigating the room in the hole in the center of the doughnut but after all the teleport crystal rod was standing on a pedestal there. However, there was no incantation floating in it. I wonder if that means this is the lowest floor and you can't proceed any further than here so there's no other choice than to return to the surface? We went through quite a bit of labor to carry the crystal ball over and I somehow managed to hold it with one hand while holding the crystal rod together with Miduchi and chanted the incantation.
"Return us."
..............
The location we teleported to was the corner of a teleport crystal room that I haven't seen before. The walls were made of rocks almost like sandstone and there was fine sand along the floor making it a bit hard to walk. However, it should cause any damage to the crystal and this place should be safe for the time being. I guess you could even say it's suitable for the urgent business. I exchanged glances with Miduchi and I guess all of our tension up until then dispersed, we both fell backwards exhausted on the floor. Since the place we fell backwards to is the same white walls of the dungeon and a ceiling of about 10 m that gives off light there's no need to use {Light} anymore.
The sand that's a bit of distance away from us giving off a light the further the distance it is from us but it still looks like each individual grain is giving off a shining light so it even has a sort of illustrious beauty to it.
It would be fine after we return to the surface as well but I doubt anyone would hear things here.
She casts her head down a bit and takes a deep breath, before finally, clearly speaking.
"..It's hard to say....I seduced one of his party members."
While I was quietly looked at Miduchi's face and a slightly unexpected response came back.
"Seduced you say, you did?"
I really can't imagine Shiina being able to do it but I guess that means that if it's Miduchi she can calmly do it.
"Even if I'm like this I'm still an Elf after all. In my hometown I'm considered unsightly but my face isn't all that bad right? And, just look, my breasts are unusually large for an elf after all.."
She said that a bit embarrassed and made a sad smile. A single line of tears was shed down the side of her face from the direction she was facing me. She sure does cry often. It's true her breasts are plenty above a D cup and are quite large for a 16 year old Elf. However, if you were to see Bel you'd fall over backwards.
"..I'm dirty..And I used the Unique Ability I used on you today to form a party with them. Of course I made it so the man I seduced couldn't tell my location from his end. I laid in wait in the 1st and 2nd floors. While hiding in the darkness I got rid of them using throwing darts and the blowgun. I used magic as well.."
"I see..How does it feel when you can tell the location of party members that are on a different floor in the dungeon?"
I wanted to change the topic.
"I don't know."
"Eh?"
I wasn't expecting this response. What does she mean she doesn't know?
"The dungeon is a strange place. I can only determine the location of members who are on the same floor. I can tell if they're on a different floor or outside of the dungeon but I can't tell what direction or how much distance there is."
"Hmn.."
There's nothing more to ask than this. It's fine as long as the mystery is solved. And, I didn't want to listen to anymore, I don't want to see anymore of the pained face she's making.
"I see, got it. And.."
I grabbed Miduchi's arm as she was sitting on my left and pulled her over to me.
"If you don't like it then say, just as you wished, from now on you're my woman."
Her forked tongue moved passionately inside of my mouth...
Simultaneously I dug out my wallet from my large pocket on the right thigh of my pants.
"Hey, for now put your clothes on. This magic called {Report} is troublesome and you know.."
............
We spent a bit over ten minutes putting our equipment on while I explained the details of the spell {Report}. Miduchi was so surprised over things that she couldn't say anything. It's not unreasonable.
"And there, that's where {Detect Magic User} and {Telepathy} come in. I don't know if it's alright to call it by chance, or whatnot, but I was able to get my hands on a splendid crystal ball to use as the catalyst. I can already use both of these spells myself. Prepare your resolve, I'm going to use them."
"Eh? Wai..Wait just a minute. That can't be, so suddenly..It's a {God} or a {Demi-God} right? At least let me prepare myself mentally."
She said in a panic interrupting me.
"Prepare yourself mentally? Something like that, always make sure it's prepared. So you don't panic when the time comes. I'm starting."
I said that and started to concentrate on the spell, kneading in the necessary mana. A shining light started to come out from the center of the crystal ball.
Miduchi is looking at the radiant crystal ball as well.
Gradually the radiance from the crystal ball calms down and something like an image of a marble pattern of yellow, or violet, or some limp black appeared and turned into a steady single image..What is this?