Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyusoukyoku (WN) - Volume 5 - Chapter 10

Chapter 10: 10

5-10 . Maze of Trazayuya

When I became an adult, I occasionally went to fitness clubs to move my body, but in this world, I wonder if there are facilities that provide you place to safely forge your body?

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Right now I am falling .

I had prepared myself for the enemies when the door beside the throne was opening, but instead, the one who came out was a beautiful woman who looked exactly like the woman who was caring for Mia .

Right when I was distracted with that, they activated the true mechanism to reject me out of the master room .

The entire floor disappeared . To make the entire room into a pitfall, even a death trap has its limit . No, the trap discovery skill didn't activate so it might have been an impromptu trap .

I don't think that I'd die even at the current falling speed but I'd hate it if I'm sunk deeply into the ground without any mean to get out .

Maybe I should stick some things on the wall to decrease this speed, like often seen in manga .

I take out a sledgehammer from the Storage and kick it strongly, the reaction force makes me collide with the wall on the opposite side . The wall is soft and smooth, there is no place for gripping .

I take out a great black iron sword from the storage and stab it into the wall . With a screeching sounds, my falling speed gradually decreases . My wrist hurts a little .

After I reached a certain speed, the great sword, seemingly hit its limit, breaks .

I fell into a water body on the bottom of the hole before I could take out another great sword .

I experienced only little shock since I arranged my feet to make my fall straight

I sunk considerably deep but since the velocity was quite reduced, I didn't hit the bottom .

While swimming up to get to the water surface, I execute [All Map Exploration] magic .

The map displays [Maze of Trazayuya] .

The maze consists of 20 levels with each having 500 meters diameter . It's pretty small compared to the labyrinth in the labyrinth city . According to the book that I've read, there are at least 200 floors that has been explored there, with more to come . Furthermore, each floor is several kilometers wide, so this one is quite obviously smaller .

Moreover, most passages are systemically perpendicular . It's exactly a maze . While the demon's labyrinth felt kind of biological, this maze feels systematic or rather, artificially made .

I finally get my face out of the water .

The place that I've fallen into is blocked off by stone walls . I could see a few mosses growing on the stone walls . According to the map, the 20th level is 300 meter above .

Looks like this level is modeled like the outside .

From what I see on the map, there is no enemy here .

The exit is two kilometers to the west . A bit further to the east, there's a hidden door called [Room of Trazayuya] . Judging from the name, it's probably the room where the secret of this maze is sleeping, though since I already know the route, it's probably unneeded .

. . . . No, I cannot deceive myself .

I really want to save Mia as soon as possible but I'm curious with that Trazayuya room too . It might be just a simple intuition, but I feel like I must go there .

I apologize to Mia in my heart and begin dashing to the hidden door .

It's hard to swim because of my clothes . Particularly my boots, it's hard to kick the water because of it .

Since no one sees me, I put my clothes inside the storage . I discovered that I could directly put what I wear into the storage .

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The hidden door is protected by the same kind of riddle from the labyrinth of demon on Seryuu city but thanks to DeRiddle skill, I easily get through it .

The hidden door is letting out moldy smells . The walls and the floors aren't made of stones but resin-like materials .

This looks like someone's research room . It's fully equipped with dining room, bathroom and bedroom . From the accumulated dust, the magician (Zen) have probably never come to this room .

I'm fascinated with the tub on the bathroom, but this isn't a situation where I could casually take a bath .

There are many books and memo in this research lab . I don't know how many yeas has passed for the books, but most books beside the magic books have deteriorated really badly so I put them inside the menu to read from there .

I already have a guess it from the maze's name, but it's said that the creator of this maze is called Trazayuya . He is an elf . Moreover, it seems that he's from the same hometown as Mia .

All the books are written in elf language . If I didn't get the language from the red helmet, I wouldn't be able to read them at all .

There are some places where the inks are blurred, but I could roughly read it .   It seems that this maze was made by Trayazuya-shi and the elves for the sake of "Safety", mimicking the labyrinth's function .

The memo tells about the guy's anguish, or rather, his over-protectiveness for his tribe .

'We, the elves, have weak attachment to life . When faced with desperate situation, we don't struggle much compared to other tribes . Because of this, a lot of our younger generations died in the labyrinth . This maze is made as an absolute necessity for when the elves need to flee from dangers to safety . '

Others details are like, how the maze has something called Maze Core not unlike Labyrinth Core, although it cannot grow up like a labyrinth, but it sucks up magic power from its surrounding and refines it into magic cores just like a labyrinth .

And then I found some disturbing words .

'The facilities to make artificial monsters by inserting magic cores into existing creatures on cultivation tanks have been completed . '

Are monsters originally normal creatures?

Certainly the monsters that I've fought up until now are all looking like deformed normal creatures . Since Wagahai-kun was a demon, that particular one is probably entirely different .

After thinking about that, I feel a bit reluctance in drinking potions which are made from magic cores .

Let's get back on track . I'll think about that later .

Trazayuya-shi has made three prototyping facilities . A facility to cultivate monsters . A facility that produce golems . And a facility to create dolls that would serve people .

However, since he earned the cooperation from the rat-men community nearby, he abandoned the last one .

Suddenly, I'm interested with what the monsters who live here are eating . I wonder if they cannibalize each other or if there are feeder monsters being produced?

Even after the maze was completed, the other elves didn't come here .

There is one thing at the end of his note .

'No one would forget my failure in just 100 years . My life will soon end . This maze will be sealed until my countrymen need it in the future . I believe that the day where the elves lead the world once again will come--- Trazayuya Bornean . '

<TLN: I'm normalizing the elf forest's name to Bornean, since it probably comes from 'Borneo' . >

I see, so this is why Mia is needed . Still, the magician is good to have known how to solve the seal without reading this note .

I have obtained various informations but I have not gained the way to save Mia .

I'm a bit worried with a scribbling that read, "Explosions are romance!", but there probably aren't any idiots who would make self-destruction mechanism in a facility that was made for safety .

Since there doesn't seem to be any way to get back to the main level from this one, I decided to get out of the maze from one end and search for the main entrance .

I continue through the road from the underground lake that I had fallen into to the exit . I can't run since it's narrow with stalactites poking out here and there . Flowing water from the underground lakes are dripping from the stalactites .

While minding as not to step aquatic creatures that look like salamanders, I continue walking to the exit .

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The exit is on a vertical cliff 5 meters above the ground .

I try confirming my location on the map but since I'm in an unexplored area, I perform [All Map Exploration] magic .

This here is [Ash Rats Principality] . It's five mountains away from the highway that we had traveled . It seems there is a rat-men community about one mountain away from here . Even though it's called principality, the village only has around 1000 people .

The entrance of the maze is located near the summit of this mountain .

Since it's a bit dark, I take out the Light Drop to light the surrounding .

I can't find decent footholds .

It can't be helped, I jump down 5 meters to the ground .

I feel something not right when I look around .

I had thought that it was because right now is early winter, but it's too strange that there aren't even any sounds of insects . Most trees have their leaves fallen, and even among the fallen leaves, most of them are withered .

I have always call them another world tree, but the AR displays that they are called Shiiya trees . Even evergreen trees can have their leaves fall .

I'm bothered with them, but right now my top priority is to get to the maze's entrance .

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I run up the mountain . Since the underbrushes have withered, there aren't many obstacles .

Along the way, from the radar, I caught sight of a big tree on the mountainside .

It's not in red, but it's a level 20 fairy tribe . I wonder if it's a trent?

If I continue to run on this course, I would get near it, but since I could just escape even if it turn out to be hostile, I continue on .

When I run on the side of that tree, the log displays [Resisted charm effect] .

On the base of the tree . . . There's a big-breasted older sister in nurse outfit .

No well, I do like nurse outift .

But think about the TPO even if you're an illusion .

"Excuse me, o young gentleman over there . "

Moreover, her speech style is from the historical drama .

The AR indicates that it's a Dryad . Level 21 . It's a tribe with charm and illusion skills .

"Do you have to be so hasty in the middle of the night?　If you don't mind, how about a cup of sake?"

The girl points to a red table and chairs that appeared out of nowhere, filled with sake and foods on top .

Rather than dryad, I feel like being fooled by a fox .

The dryad approached me and took my arm when I was distracted with the table . I feel something soft on my arm .

I'm almost tempted to enjoy the poyonpoyon while drinking, but I mustn't forget about Mia .

"I'm sorry but I don't have any time to accompany you, if you have a business then can you please say it quick?"

After I said so, the illusion disappears, and a girl with green long hair that touch her feet appears, in bare skin . She looks to be around 12-13 years old I guess? So the feeling earlier was an illusion too, her actual figure is quite modest . Since I can't be turned on with that, I'd like you to cover yourself . Be more modest please .

Her expression has changed from the bewitching one earlier to stern . It's the face of a child whose not used to being angry so there is no force to it .

"Become mine, human!"

"I'm sorry, but how about proposing again in 7-8 years?"

"No, become my meal!"

The girl says that all kind of trees here has died for several months making the animals disappear . Furthermore, the earth veins on the mountain were cut off recently so she is dying .

It's most likely the fault of the [Maze of Trazayuya] .

"This is because you humans sucked the mountain's nourishment . "

"I could give you a bit of my health and magic, but I cannot allow you to eat me . "

Seems that I went easy because the opponent looks like a child .

"If you give me your magic then I'll eat it . "

"That's good . "

I let her sucks my MP . I had thought that it would be like vampire sucking from the neck but turned out that it's directly from the mouth . Frankly speaking, it's a kiss .

Kissing a young naked girl, I can't let my acquaintances see this .

The girl was satisfied after sucking 300 MP .

After that, I arrived at the maze's entrance without any particular problem .