Ch.10 I really have a bad feeling, So I run away.
“I’m back”(Taichi)
When I come back to the Adventurer Guild, the sun has already set.
Because I’m learning about magic theories and various type of magic with a magic soldier troupe, but it was worth all the time I spent.
And I learned that there are forbidden magic types that you need permission to possesses on the skill list too, such as Mind controlling magic and Brainwashing magic, I shouldn’t learn that.
“Welcome back—. You took a long time.”(Marl)
Marl who was writing something on the counter stopped, and come to me.
She must organize the information she got today.
“Ah, I’ve been recognized as a Hero”(Taichi)
“…………………Eh?”(Marl)
“I’ve just become a Hero, and to receiving an official approvement I need to go to the capital soon too.”(Taichi)
I admitted that I’ve cheated.
But being recognized as a Hero is too unbelievable, HAHAHA.
“Ehh………..You’re kidding right?”(Marl)
“Sorry, but it’s true. They even confirm it with a magic tool called Status checker.”(Taichi)
When Marl heard my explanation, she suddenly turned and at Oldman Ulz and glaring at him like he had killed her parents.
Oldman jumped from that gaze and scratching his head like it can’t be helped.
“Sorry, Jou-chan. But I can’t pick a fight with higher-ups.”(Ulz)
“………Let’s go, Taichi-san”(Marl)
The atmospheres become tensed for some reason.
What? What happened?
I, who still didn’t understand the situation got dragged out of the guild by Marl.
This is the first time Marl acting like this.
Marl who always have lively and courtesy, is glared at Oldman Ulz like that. Now, I’m really worried.
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“Welcome back………What happen?”(Pinea)
“Pinesan, please bring dinner to our room.”(Marl)
Then Marl shove a large copper coin into Pinea’s hand, whose still don’t understand what happens, then continue to drag me to our room on the 2nd floor
I’ve been silenced by Marl seriousness and dragged here without being able to say anything.
When Marl pulled me into the room, she slammed the door shut then crossing her hand over her back and leaning back at the door.
“Taichi-san……………….Do you know how grave is it to become a Hero.”(Marl)
“O, ou…….”(Taichi)
I got pressured by Marl angriness.
I’ve done something wrong.
“Hero has a duty to take down a strong monster that countries can’t deal with. Conversely, countries need to protect and provide Hero with support, that’s only the front.”(Marl)
“Front??”(Taichi)
“In reality, they choose to eliminate instead of taking care of a Hero, who is hard to control and can bare they fang back at the countries anytime. Listen, Taichi-san, Hero is a being that can take down a dangerous monster, alone. Which that needs an army of knights with a high amount of loss to take care of one.”(Marl)
“Marl is scared of something like [Hero’s end], right?”(Taichi)
Maybe, because she is getting what I said, Marl opened her eyes wide.
Even when I heard about Hero, I also think like about that first too.
“From the country position, Hero is a real troublemaker. If someday he has a bad mood and then rampaging, they can’t stop it. The kings are also afraid because Hero might raise a revolt and take the throne from them because, with power and authority as Hero, he can easily gather people under him.”(Marl)
Just as she said, first meeting with them might be persuasion or a.s.sa.s.sination.
If there is a lot of factors to worry about, they should just erase the cause.
If I’m the king, I would do that.
“What do you think? Will they come after my life?”(Taichi)
“I can’t deny that. Karendale kingdom doesn’t have any Hero emerged for whole 50 years, it also makes a rumor that they killed all Hero candidate from their birth in secret to stop a fire from start.”(Marl)
Marl nodding seriously.
When they can still handle, If Karendale kingdom thinks like that, they must send someone to kill me.
Plus, they know my status and skills.
But from the information, it can also interpret as fighting force too.
There is a chance that they’re still hesitating to kill me or not.
First, what should we do?
“Marl, we must be sleeping outside for some time, will you come with me?”(Taichi)
“I’ll always be by your side wherever you go, Taichi-san. Because I’ve received Mithril sword.”(Marl)
I hug and stroking Marl’s head, she spoke something cute.
When I think about what will happen from here on, a tear is coming out because I’m not alone anymore.
But if a situation goes bad, I might have become Karendale kingdom’s enemy.
“And what do you will you do next?”(Marl)
“First, we should buy necessary things for camping. Weapons maintaining tools is also needed, other is a lot of foods.”(Taichi)
“…………You’ll run?”(Marl)
I smiled happily at Marl who is worried.
“For a short time, yeah. I still have not received an official approvement for being a Hero too, that means I still not have obliged to do any duty.”(Taichi)
Right? when I answer her with an eye, Marl thinking for a little then nod.
“And while we’re camping outside, we’ll hunt down monsters. When we defeated a monster and raising Level up, you should know what happens?”(Taichi)
“Yes, when you Level is raised, you’ll get stronger and it’ll be a tremendous jump up for a Hero………. Now, I understand.”(Marl)
Look likes Marl understood my intention now.
“If you have power, they won’t easily put their hand on us, right?”(Marl)
“Yes, I’ll become strong enough that country can’t pick a fight with. When it becomes like that, a possibility that they will send an a.s.sa.s.sin will be lower.”(Taichi)
If they can’t kill me easily, they need to persuade me.
Even though I didn’t have any ambition right now.
But for me, to be worrying about getting killed all the time is not good for my mental health.
And also, to reduce the chance of Marl being held as a hostage, I need her to be stronger.
“We need to procure many things…….. Getting guild’s help might be better.”(Taichi)
“That is a no because Adventurer guild is connected with the country, it’s may leaking our information. And the reason for established the Adventurer guild is to find a Hero from the start.”(Marl)
“………….So that’s the story.”(Taichi)
Adventurer guild’s monster handling duty come from them being able to check for an adventurer that has unnatural growth and strength which is a Hero.
And they also have support policy like population control, training talented person, peacekeeping, market supporting.
The one who thought of this structure must be a very good country governor.
“Good, let’s get necessaries things in town.”(Taichi)
“Yes”(Marl)
Together, we run around the town at nightfall.
When we come back from shopping, we got angered by Pinea who brought us dinner to our room.
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Next day at early morning, we run out of town when the town’s gate open.
There is almost no checking, different from when we getting in, so it becomes easy for us.
Our appearance is also concealed with hoody coat we bought yesterday.
And for the reason we left, we told the Burning Golden bed “We rent a house in town.” and we didn’t tell them our new address, so it would be a few days later they will learn that we run away.
For the shop for camping tools yesterday, we can’t really hide that, it can’t be helped because for the convenient magic tools, I’ll spend as much as we need, and I spent 15 gold coins for all tools we bought.
It equal to 1.5 million yen, spending that much in an hour, if you can hide that fact, you’re insane.
Now, for schedule, first, we have must leave Crossroad’s knight jurisdiction territory.
“We should aim to go through the forest at the south-west because it a vast forest and there is some rumor state that, there are some ancient civilization ruins in the forest. And if we pa.s.s through the forest, we’ll enter the territory of Miscronia kingdom.”(Marl)
As Marl explained, it seems like among various countries Miscronia is giving the best treatment to a Hero.
Because the royalties over there is a Hero’s lineage.
And also a lot of n.o.bles in the kingdom are Hero’s comrade lineage too.
“Hoh, it interesting. So for a starter, we should go and have a look at the ruins.”(Taichi)
We have our destination, so we departed.
Every tools and food, I throw it all into inventory, so we walk comfortably without any baggage.
But I have Marl carried some foods, water, and medicine at minimal volume because there might a chance that we would get lost and separated from each other.
We walked for some time, then we encounter a Small boa.
Even if though it’s weak, its meat is delicious. Let’s it be Marl practice target.
“Yosh, Marl do your best. once your dodge it charges, slash its side.”(Taichi)
“Y, Yes!”(Marl)
Marl unsheathing Mithril short sword and enter a stance facing Small boa, while her waist is still bent back.
Small boa considers Marl as its enemy and charging at her.
Even though her waist bent back, she dodged it charged with considering high speed, and piercing its side.
What should I say, her dodge is not bad, but her attack doesn’t have enough power.
Might be that she doesn’t want to hurt some living being.
It took some time, but she took down Small boa.
“I should teach you how to handle sword first.”(Taichi)
“I. I’ll try hard.”(Marl)
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After that. we took down a lot of small flies while heading to the forest, and its become dusk.
“Let’s camp here tonight……… Will it be fine?”(Marl)
“Ou, leave it to me.”(Taichi)
Marl must be worried about a monster that might attack us in the night.
But it’s not a problem because I asked magic soldier earlier about the magic that is necessaries in camping.
So I use remaining point to raise that Facilitate magic to 3
And raised Magic recovery to Lv.2
My skill points become 0. Now, If I want a new skill, I need to level up.
Then I prepare my battle staff and focusing on magic power.
I don’t plan to fight anymore today, so I put in considerable amount of magic in.
“Safe shelter!”(Taichi)
I plunge down my battle staff that has a magic power in it onto the ground and releasing magic power.
From the point that I plunge it down, magic formation emerges from its as center and radius are around 5 meters.
At outer circle, the light barrier dome is forming up, and completed at the top of the staff.
I put in 100 Mp, and when checked with Appraisal, It shows that it has 10-hour long of effect, so it uses 10 Mp per hour.
When I calculate with my normal Mp recovery rate, it took considerable amount.
My max Mp is 670 and I use 100, so it considerably high price. Fortunately, I raise Mp recovery and Magic power.
“Waa, amazing”(Marl)
“This is Boundary magic that I learn from a magic soldier at the barrack before we left the town. It still amazing magic whenever I look at it. With this, we don’t have to worry about night time. It won’t budge even for a Trolls.”(Taichi)
It can repel sunlight and rain, we can light up campfire too, what a convenience magic. All hail convenient!
What about a toilet? Hehehe, we can use portable toilet magic tool.
Problems with food preparation, toilet, setting camp, it all solved with magic tools.
A magic stove is 3 gold coins, a portable toilet is 5 gold coins.
Everything just needs to put magic in to use. Wow, it’s a nature-loving tool.
“Let’s prepare a food.”(Taichi)
I put a chopping box on a wooden barrel and putting magic into a stove.
I also pull out pan, pot, and dishes out of the inventory.
“For the menu, soup and Small boa that we hunted at the morning should do.”(Taichi)
I use Daily life magic to put water in a pot and put in salt-cured meat.
Then put in roots that look like a carrot and cabbage-like vegetable.
If I made to much, I can eat leftover tomorrow.
“So, Taichi-san can cook too.”(Marl)
“If it’s just this, yeah”(Taichi)
Small boa meat that was stored in inventory was dissembled and seasoned with salt and pepper.
When the soup is boiled I tasted it, let’s put more salt in.
Food, spice, and seasonings are plenty, so no problem.
We can live for 2 months.
“This is a guy food, so don’t expect too much. But If I have time I wanna try making delicate food too.”(Taichi)
“I’ll eat it for you!”(Marl)
How can you be a woman! I thought about that while skewering meat with a stick.
Soup has a sweetness of vegetable and richness of the cured meat, it good.
Small boa neat is still fresh too, so it can be eaten without seasoning, and If I eat it with a tender bread, it got much better.
Inventory is very convenient.
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“Hoh, so this the ruins.”(Taichi)
We left Crossroad for 3 days.
We took down monsters and pa.s.sing through the forest to reach here our destination.
There is moss covered here and there, material that used to build might be stone.
We’re standing in front of something like an entrance.
There is a straight path when I look inside, I see temple-like building covered in moss.
It has a vast s.p.a.ce, must be around the baseball stadium.
“It looks like a worshipping ground here. But looking from here I don’t see any offering here.”(Marl)
Marl checking around with her eye at my side, her crossbow is ready in her hand.
These 3 days, My Lv. become 16, Marl is raised to Lv.7.
She might be able to kill some goblin easily.
Other than gaining Sword skill, Marl is also gained Stealth and Detection.
Even though she is a princess, skills she has is that of a thief or a scout.
But she is getting stronger is a good thing.
For me, I just get the Magic power eye skill, so my skill points are now 18.
“Taichi-san, let’s get inside.”(Marl)
“yeah, if it’s a worshipping ground, there shouldn’t be any trap here.”(Taichi)
When we stepped inside the ancient ruins, we got a feeling that it was purified somehow.
So, I try looking around with Magic power eye I just got.
It shows me that around here is full of magic power.
What to say, If that place is full of magic, a monster will appear.
But magic here is pure, not tainted even one bit.
Because the forest tree shade doesn’t reach here, so the whole place is bright, the place with soil has various colored flower grows too.
“It’s so calm in here.”(Taichi)
“Even though it was forgotten, but it was used to worshipping a G.o.d. The ancient magic formation that was made here might be still activated.”(Marl)
While We climbed stairs that have moss-covered, I look around the vicinity.
When I think about it, there is only around this ruins that there isn’t any tree grow, so weird.
Normally it should be overrun by forest trees.
But for worshipping ground here that doesn’t happen.
And waterway that was built around the ruins has a small fish swimming around too.
“It’s so beautiful here, If it wasn’t in a middle of the forest, it would be a tourist attraction already.”(Taichi)
“I agree………”(Marl)
There is a lot of building around worshipping the ground that was built with stones too.
Must be used as a lodging for priests or staffs of this worshipping ground.
But we leave it for later as we entering the worshipping ground.
“…………..Seem like nothing make a nest here.”(Taichi)
If there is animal or monster here, it will reek of animals and feces.
But there is nothing like that here too.
isn’t it too weird? It has water here, can be used as rain shelter and look safe without anything dangerous.
Why isn’t something live here?
“Marl, can you feel anything?”(Taichi)
“…………Nothing, there is no dangerous feeling too.”(Marl)
Marl answer while tilting her head.
If it’s Marl, she might sense something.
I can’t sense anything at all.
When we walking deep inside, we found corpses.
Even though there is only bone left, there seems to be no injury on them.
The clothes their wore is fretten by time.
There are shiny gold accessories lying around.
Look like it belongs to female priests here.
I found something interesting among those accessories.
“A ring, is it?”(Marl)
“Ah, made from Mithril, and it has magic in it too.”(Taichi)
I use Appraisal eye on it and it shows as “Protection ring”.
It can protect the wearer from a death threat once.
There is nothing like a curse, so I’ll have it.
“You might not want it because it forms the dead, but just wear it. It has a protection magic in it too just for precaution.”(Taichi)
I gave the ring to Marl and place my hand together to pray for them.
If I told her the real effect, she will just be too courteous. So I just lied.
I’ll be fine, but Marl is still weak.
When Marl saw my action, she followed and doing the same as me. No, she is praying.
I leave the corpse leaned against the wall, and we continued further inside. There we found prayer room, no, a large hall.
At the furthest inside there is an altar. and two big statues behind it.
But, the most eye-catching thing is.
“Corpses, there are so much here.”(Marl)
“Ah, and everyone seems to be prayed to the altar.”(Taichi)
Every corpse wore fretten clothes, bones are almost lost its former shape.
And as I thought, even if they’re in prayer posture, there isn’t any clearly wound like fracture on any of them.
It looks like they bow to praying and then died like that.
When I use Magic power eye to check, there is a small trace of magic power on corpses.
Must be something like a magic tool just like the ring from before.
Other is a magic power that gathered at the altar.
Is there something on that altar?
“I sensed some magic power from corpses, it might be something like the ring before, let’s pick them up.”(Taichi)
“Yes, cause we’re an adventurer.”(Marl)
Other than monster hunting, dungeon diving and searching a ruin is also income source for adventurers.
As I can see, there is no trace of someone coming here before, there might be some treasure.
“It’s rings and necklaces.”(Marl)
“A basic things, but some of them look great.”(Taichi)
We got Protection ring, Dark magic resistance talisman, Magic conductor ring, these 3.
Other than that are gold and Mithril accessories without effect.
And all that left are decayed metal.
“I’ll wear this conductor ring. Other than that Marl should wear it.”(Taichi)
What we got from corpses, we wipe it with a rag and put it in my inventory.
Only Magic conductor ring that I put in my left-hand middle finger.
With this, I can use magic at full strength even if I’m bare-handed
Marl also put on accessories as I said.
“Well, I feel a little discomfort.”(Marl)
“Dead can’t use it anyway, just get used to it.”(Taichi)
It better than let these things forgotten by time, I feel sorry for makers.
Then we proceed to the altar at the furthest.
Even if I say altar, a person can lie down on it.
“There is nothing here.”(Taichi)
“Yeah.”(Marl)
Magic has been gathered at this altar, but there is nothing special.
Well, I thought I might found some naked girl sleeping here, or some legendary weapon.
The reality here is disappointing.
“Really, what happened here?”(Marl)
“Well, it must be a result of some sort of ritual here.”(Taichi)
I looked up at the statues.
It must be because of time, the face of male statue got flatten beyond recognized.
“I think this is a statue of G.o.d they worshipped, do you know his name?”(Taichi)
“Nope…………. The face is beyond recognization, there are no sacred tools too.”(Marl)
As Marl explained, a G.o.d in this world must have some sacred tool with them.
Generally, there will be a sacred tool that indicates themselves on their statue.
Then, this statue mustn’t be built on normal tradition.
“So it’s ancient G.o.d that was worshipped in ancient era?”(Taichi)
“Possible, if it’s some archeologist they might know something though, but I can’t tell you anything.”(Marl)
Marl shaking her head.
Well, we don’t know a thing, but when we turn back it happens.
Sunlight that shines through here is gone.
Torches on the wall are light up.
What happen? Illusion?
[Please send us, please send us.]
I look at the altar by following the voices.
I see peoples that should have been corpses, wearing an identical uniform, both men and women.
Dedicated they magic……….. No, everyone is even given out their life to pray.
There are even children among them.
[Please send us, please send us, G.o.d. Please send us Hero]
One by one, giving out their life and died.
No, even if their collapse their still sending it, a power.
This doesn’t end with just giving out they life. They even give out their souls.
I looked back at the altar.
Over there, is a black haired boy in school uniform(TLN: j.a.panese one.)—————–Then all vision is turned back to same as before.
Seem like Marl also saw that scene too, she is looking around restlessly and comes to lean on me.
That is something that happens here?
“Marl, this Hero thing, are they all summoned?”(Taichi)
“N, No, Hero is just someone with supreme talented one that rarely born. Something like giving out a soul to summon one is never heard of.”(Marl)
So Marl is telling me, that Hero is just a mutated human, not summoned one.
Then what is that summoned “Hero”?
“…………………………Let’s look around for a clue.”(Taichi)
“……………………………Yes.”(Marl)
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-Magic tool-
Is a tool that using magic as a power source.
Even though it expensive, but recently there is ma.s.s production method.
It makes it easy to find in a majority of the big town.
What is sold out most is daily use thing, such as a portable stove that use to cook with little magic power.
A portable toilet that can be reused, Tinder rod that easier to use than fuel box.
Price is varied but even cheapest tinder rod costs 1 silver coin.
Expensive thing like installment bath boiler can be reaching 70 gold coins.
There is also magic weapon like a magic sword too.
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