episode_0089
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“Light?”
The first to witness it was, quite naturally, not the nobleman sitting in the cabin, but the coachman sitting on the coachman’s seat.
He thought that the light directed at him was not a ray of light, but rather sunlight reflecting off windows or metal poles into his eyes.
When a mere coachman with no magical knowledge came up with a reasonable inference and tried to cover his eyes with one hand in preparation for an unexpected accident.
Thanks to the small shade he had made by hand, he was somewhat free from the influence of the light and realized that behind the light there was a huge tree.
I saw a huge tree with flowers in full bloom on its branches like a flowering tree and was momentarily struck by its beauty, but that feeling did not last long.
To be exact, his life did not last long.
A heat ray extending forward, creating a haze that seems to distort space.
It wasn’t quite the speed of light, but it was a fairly fast speed within the magic, beyond what a mere coachman could perceive.
Before the coachman could even properly realize what had happened and was caught up in the heat, he died along with his master.
The power was so strong and the speed was beyond common sense, so the only consolation was that he felt no pain.
However, their masters were different.
Unlike the groomsmen who were lower leveled than the guards, let alone the students, and evaporated without even feeling any pain, the nobles writhed in pain as if they had been thrown into the fires of hell, although their punishment was far less than the crimes they had committed.
When the heat rays that covered the carriage melted the outer shell of the carriage and reached them, they experienced the vivid pain of their skin evaporating all over their body.
The splendid costumes and accessories imbued with magic that were made by squeezing the blood and sweat of the common people were meaningless in the face of the heat rays emitted by the Transcendent One.
Solar Beam is a physical attack, not a magical attack.
Although magic is used to gather solar energy in a short period of time, the heat itself is pure solar energy, so it is treated as a physical attack rather than magic.
Even if they were treated as magical attacks, the meager magical resistance they had given their accessories would not have been more valuable than ordinary accessories.
If the common people who sacrificed themselves to make such equipment had heard about it, they wouldn’t know whether to be happy or sad about it.
“Ah, aah!!”
Nobles who are swept away like insects without even being able to utter a single word, let alone a will.
It is said that death is equal for everyone.
Those who despised the commoners and considered themselves noble ended up not much different from the commoners they considered worthless.
Except for one person.
“Ugh, ugh!!!”
Gileon’s body, which had recovered a little from his burns and damaged organs thanks to the healing magic granted to his equipment, looked like a lump of charcoal that had been put in a furnace and then pulled out.
His hair, which was like a lion’s mane that he had been proud of, was all burned away, leaving only a bald scalp, and even that was not intact due to the severe burns.
A scalp so charred that the blackened skull is visible.
The heat rays melted my airway and lungs, and along with them my teeth, so there wasn’t a single tooth left in my mouth.
It was a truly surprising result, considering that General Hon, known as the Twin Dragons, was relatively unscathed after being hit by the Solar Beam.
Unlike Soul’s equipment, which was biased towards blocking physical attacks, Gileon’s equipment, which was vulnerable to sealing and binding magic, was biased towards blocking magical attacks.
As a result of being wary of the wizard Lang, such a biased equipment configuration was created, which became a problem.
“Huh…?(Honey?)”
Half-conscious, he instinctively looked around to find his wife, but all he found there was a black soot mark on the floor.
A familiar voice came to Gileon’s ear as he scratched the soot marks with his hand, as if he could not accept the fact.
-That’s strange… There’s no way a warrior over level 80 could be seriously injured by a single Solar Beam.
Gileon’s gaze naturally turned to the direction the sound came from, to the tree, as the voice was so flat and calm, as if he was appreciating the results of an experiment.
It was clearly the Druid boy I had met sometime ago.
The voice of the only priest who can use resurrection magic.
He was momentarily taken aback by that unforgettable voice, but then he gathered his light again as if he was talking to himself.
-… It’s not a game, so it shouldn’t be a critical issue, but an equipment issue? Well, I’m fine.
So you don’t have to do the work twice for nothing.
Immediately afterwards, the solar beam pours down once again.
Gileon, who momentarily threw himself forward, perhaps awakening to the desire for survival at the last moment, was able to avoid the Solar Beam by a hair’s breadth.
Of course, since my body was already as good as a rag, it only extended my life a little, and dodging that attack once didn’t mean much.
He must have known that fact.
Instead of running away or begging for his life, Gileon grabbed the only sword that remained unburned.
and….
“Ah, ahhh… !”
He was advancing towards the felt, letting out a lifeless shout like the yawn of an old man.
Gileon’s charge, with his leg muscles practically melting, was slow and ungainly, not much different from a baby crawling.
Felt didn’t find that meaningless behavior funny or anything.
Of course, I didn’t feel any friendly feelings like respect.
If a knight or warrior who values chivalry had seen this, it would have been a scene that even an enemy would praise as great, but Felt was neither of those two.
-I thought you were going to run away… .
Felt was just confused.
Felt, who knew of Gileon’s actions, thought that he was more trash than Gus, so he would definitely run away or beg for his life.
Seeing Gileon’s unexpected side didn’t give me any great respect, but I didn’t feel like mocking him either.
Because to him, this was just a simple task.
He pointed at Gileon again with dry eyes, feeling no meaning in the rehabilitation that was not the rehabilitation of trash.
A heat ray that shoots out immediately after.
Gileon, whose luck ran out and he failed to avoid the third heat ray, was finally completely wiped out of this world, leaving a blackened soot mark not far from his wife.
*****
“Something feels bland.”
Felt, who had just finished all her work and started the dungeon and snowball fight again, felt an inexplicable sense of unease in the battle that didn’t even feel like a battle just now.
That feeling you get when something goes wrong.
Of course, this time I didn’t mean it in a good way, not a bad way, but I still couldn’t shake that uneasy feeling.
“… It was a landslide victory, right? You wanted to enjoy the battle?”
“It’s not really like that… .”
Felt didn’t have such berserker feelings because he didn’t attach much significance to the battle itself.
If I had to say, it is futility.
Sarah may not understand, but if I were to use a modern metaphor, it would be like leveling up a little bit before entering the final boss’ dungeon, then inadvertently leveling up to the max and getting all the final equipment?
It was nice to defeat the final boss in one go, but the wall I had to overcome collapsed so easily that I felt a sense of futility as I wondered where all that time had gone.
Of course, even if I could turn back time, I wouldn’t do something stupid like leveling up a little and then challenging it.
As I’ve emphasized several times, for Felt, battles were just a part of filling in the empty Pokedex.
still….
“I guess it’s not fun if it continues like this, so I wish those guys would show us something fun.”
Felt’s gaze was directed to the aerial dungeon, which still showed no movement.
About five hours had passed since a translucent dungeon suddenly appeared in the sky, but there was still no change in the dungeon.
The fact that someone had broken through the dungeon barrier just a moment ago felt like a lie.
When you’re waiting for something to change.
“Oh?”
I don’t know if I could call it a window, but something like a hole had collapsed in the outer wall of the dungeon, and smoke poured out along with the debris.
Although no sound was heard, the collapse of the outer wall suggested that it was probably smoke from an explosion.
‘It’s pretty high… .’
The point where the smoke came out was quite high.
I wonder if the guys inside are doing dungeon raiding?
‘wait for a sec….’
If that’s the case, what happens to the dungeon when the party that entered it finishes clearing it?
What new monsters are inside?
“I’m screwed… !!”
If the dungeon’s core collapses, the dungeon will collapse as well.
Felt, who belatedly remembered that obvious fact, wanted to enter the dungeon right away, but the door was already closed.
“Ppa, we have to get into that dungeon quickly!! Sera!! Can you summon a demon right now?!”
I blurted out that if it was a demon, it would know at least one or two ways to hide in other spaces, but Sera just shook her head with a bewildered expression.
“… I don’t know what happened all of a sudden, but calm down. How can you summon me without any tribute?”
“That, that’s true, but… !!”
“Why don’t you ask God instead? Prince said that. They say that in the old days, God would grant magic or skills.”
“God?”
It was an idea that any normal person would have thought of at least once, but it was an idea that had never occurred to Felt, who had experienced this world through games.
There was no such convenient system in the game, and the World Tree was not a very friendly entity.
The idea that a god could bestow protection or power upon his followers was not particularly strange, so Felt prayed to the god for the first time.
[God is not a being that can be relied on so easily.]
And of course, the cold words that come back.
It didn’t seem to mean it was impossible, so Felt prayed again and spoke to the World Tree.
‘If you grant my wish, I will establish Arbor Day in the kingdom.’
[My child, you are so wise, so why does this mother scold you?]
As I swallowed the words that were nonsense and quietly lowered my head, a new magic that I had never seen before was added, and I wondered if God was really a God.
[Branches that erode the world]
When you try to smile in satisfaction at the magic whose effect you can easily guess just by hearing the name… .
-Ku-kung!!!
Suddenly, a fire broke out on the top floor of the dungeon, and the dungeon, which had regained its original color, began to collapse.
“Huh, huh?!”
[… I kept my promise, my child. I believe that the sages have taught me enough lessons about what would happen if I broke my promise to God.]
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