Now, Satou of Shiga kingdom! I've come to pick you."
The one who has come here is Aialize-san.
What are you doing high elf-sama.
"Please call me Satou. Then, shall we go."
"Yes."
Aialize-san whose face has reddened holds out her hands slanting from below.
Does this mean that we should join our hands?
We might be going with space magic.
I grasp her hand while thinking such thing.
Arisa leans her body from the balcony and shouts, "Guilty!" Pochi and Tama have also joined saying, "Guilty", but I wonder if they know the meaning~?
Although it might be called space magic, we entered to a block of the world tree with the Dryad's [Relocate] like before.
It might be boorish of me, but there wasn't any need to join hands right?
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The sky is filled with stars.
Rather, this is the first time I see stars that aren't twinkling with naked eyes.
The place where the Dryad has taken us is the observatory room at the center of the city part on the zenith block of the wold tree.
If the AR and the map are right, then we're about 300 kilometers high above the ground. We haven't reached the orbit of geostationary satellites, but this should have exceeded the stratosphere quite a bit. I guess it's in the slightly lower part of the low earth orbit?
Even though we're this high, the gravity is still at 1G, I wonder if it's due to magic?
No, before that, such long tree shouldn't have been able to hold its own weight. I timidly try to ask that matter to elder-san but--
"How is the tree not broken apart and destroyed."
"It's the gods protection."
Don't think that you can deceive me by using gods, protections and such.
Apologize to physic teachers!
I wanted to shout, "Ugaa" like Arisa, but I forcefully held it down with my will. Since Poker Face-san is doing its best, the elder should not know it.
"I'm sorry, the elder is ignorant in the technical sort of things."
A researcher-like woman elf, Jia-san who's waiting beside us explains it to me.
I'm told that the countless branches of the world tree drive themselves into the adjacent sub-space (Isa Plane) like anchors which help distribute the world tree's weight and support it. I've abstained from understanding what the [Adjacent Sub-space] is, but it seems the weight of each branches isn't much by itself, so they're not disintegrating.
There's still something that bugs me, but I'll just regard it as some mysterious tree (Fantasy).
Let's cut to the chase.
"Please look at the branch ahead."
I look at the gigantic branch that extends on the empty air that Jia-san has pointed. The branch diverges innumerably in the middle of the way, and the last bunch look as thin as threads. It extends through as far as eyes can see, but Jia-san points out even further than that.
Aialize-san who looks bored beside me is looking through a telescope on her hands, is that some kind of magic? I can't help but feel that's not it. I'm interested in what kind of thing that Daisaku-shi has influenced it with, but let's not touch it now.
I can't see anything with normal sight, so I use [Distant View], [Looking Afar], [Night-Vision], [Light-Intensity Adjustment], and [Mana Perception] together to look.
Jellyfish?
"Is it about the jellyfish things that wrap their legs on the branch that looks like a thread?"
Jia-san who's presenting a telescope to me stiffens, but she answers by just nodding her head.
However, why is it jellyfish in space. It should have been whales--no, Tuna. Yep, tuna fit the space well.
I expel the stupid thought in my head.
I've forgotten since I was drunk with the space-station like spectacles. It's a bit late, but I execute [All Map Exploration].
The branch only looks like a shining branch that extends up to one kilometer long from where I am, but I know from the map that it extends like a superfine thread for about 100 kilometers long.
This thread-like branch is probably scooping up the mana from the ether.
From what I've gathered with the map, these jellyfish are called [Evil Fish], they are around level 20-40 averaging at 30, they're just small fry monsters. However, there are 10.000 of them. They seem to have special racial ability called [Absorb]. When I look closer, their category is not monster but [Mysterious Creature]. The heck is that?