"That dragon lived solely while following it's faith. Nothing is able to escape from the grasp of those grand arms. The second dragon that died. He who possessed the most ephemeral eyes Dragon General of Lustrous Green Scales. Borrowing the name of the Holy Dragon Emperor Shilard, I now pierce that barrier."
Just then, the stone monument started sucking magic power out of my arm.
Simultaneously the space in front of my eyes around the stone monument started to distort.
We could see ahead of the stretched distortion.
With trees overgrown in the place where there was the wall like thing, a building made of stone appeared.
"Oh, amazing."
"I've never seen magic like this before.."
Seeing that spectacle the two of us just let out voices of wonder.
However, I have a recollection of this sensation of magic power being sucked out.
It's the same sensation as the time when you make use of a magic tool.
Most likely, this stone monument itself is a variety of magic tool.
I wonder if it could be that the Seven World Powers stone monument is a magic tool as well.
If you were to split it open, you might find a magic circle inserted inside it.
However, this incantation.
I can't shake the feeling that it's an original of the Dragon God.
Holy Dragon Emperor Shilard, or something like that comes out after all.
This is, that right.
One of those guys that comes out in the legends, the "Five Dragon Generals" right?
This incantation, since it has no magic name most likely you can't figure out what it is from just the middle of it, but if I could understand it through the end, it may or may not be able to achieve the same effect as this stone monument.
For example, cancelling out all barriers.
I'm troubled since it seems possible.
"Let's get going."
"Sure."
If I could I'd like to extract this stone monument and take it home with me.
But if Orsted were to find out about it, he might come to kill me.
I'll stop there.
"Nevertheless, they certainly do give off the feeling of ruins."
"Occasionally, the entrances of labyrinths are this sort of feeling."
What appeared was just a single floor made of stone.
The walls had ivy crawling all along them, several places were worn down and crumbling.
"Rudeus it's your first time in a labyrinth right."
"Yeah."
"Be careful not to step outside of my footsteps."
"Understood... or rather, this place, isn't a labyrinth is it?"
"It's just in case."
Traps are scary after all.
However, I'm sure Elinalise isn't particularly a master or anything.
I wonder if it's alright.
Even if we get caught in a trap, I wonder if we would be able to stand it.
For the time being, I'll keep my Demon Eye open.
If anything happens, I should be able to deal with it on the spot.
"Then, let's go, if anything happens cover me."
"Understood."
Together with Elinalise we walked into the ruins.
".."
Inside was made of stone as well and from in there ivy and roots were coming out.
It's exactly the feeling of ruins deep in a forest.
Even though I say that, it doesn't seem to be all that large of a building.
There were only four rooms.
We decided to take a look at them in order.
There was nothing in the two rooms near the entrance.
They were just a space of about 4.5 tatami mats filled with clatter.
In the third room there was something like a closet.
After opening it to look inside, winter clothes for a man were placed inside for storage.
There are traces of it being used.
I wonder if someone would get changed here.
Someone, though I can't think of anyone other than Orsted.
According to the story, on the other side of the teleport it's a desert. I guess in the winter around here it ends up a snow-fallen area
You can't get your hands on winter clothes in the desert.
Therefore, that would be why they were left here beforehand.
Humu, if there was this sort of room, then it might have been fine to bring even more luggage.
Well, it's too late now.
"What's the matter? Staring at those clothes, is there something that's bothering you?"
"No, if we were to leave behind some luggage here, I was just thinking we could have made use of something."
"...Here, then it would be like throwing things away as you go."
Well, as expected you wouldn't be able to leave behind food goods or that type of thing in storage.
Even if there's a barrier, it seems like bugs or such things could get in after all.
"Let's go."
"Yes."
There were stairs in the final room.
Stairs going underground.
"Oh my, how suspicious..."
Elinalise was carefully investigating the surroundings of the stairway.
It was a movement kind of like clearing in an FPS. [7]
It seems there are many cases of traps in the vicinity of stairways.
"It's alright."
However, it seems she wasn't able to find anything.
In the first place, if there was a trap set, then I'm sure there would be more placed in other locations.
For example, the entrance of the ruins.
"We're going to descend. Follow me."
"Understood."
Elinalise was carefully proceeding down.
I was following behind in Elinalise's footprints as well.
I would look at the same place as her footsteps and step on the same spot.
Even though we're going underground, our surroundings are mysteriously bright.
The reason for that became clear at the time when we descended into the underground.