That character that everyone has been waiting for, HE finally appears.
Year 7444, Month 1, Day 1
I somehow managed to return to the town of Baldukk in time for dinner. I had a slightly extravagant New Year's dinner(it's just that the ingredients were slightly higher quality) with everyone and then returned to the inn. I was invited by Toris and the others to go drinking but there's something I have to do alone in my room for a bit.
It doesn't even need to be said, trying to release the {Report} spell cast on me. It's a spell that's supposedly God-level extra high difficulty to use in addition to taking an ultra amount of mana, but you know~ even my mana is God class. Probably though. I sit down on the chair in my room and grab my head with both of my hands. Right, in order to deploy an {Anti-Magic Field} on my head. The amount of mana I'm putting into it is all of it remaining except 5 MP. Since I have 7,063 MP remaining right now I'll use 7,058 (I only recover 12 MP per hour from natural recover after all, I used a reasonable amount of MP in the combat on my way back. The amount of MP required to use the spell {Anti-Magic Field} multiplies in 5s with an addition of 3 so if I were to use it all my MP would hit 0).
Since I just ate and it's just a matter of getting tired enough to go to sleep so I thought of using all of my MP as well but I want to avoid being unable to endure it and attacking a woman walking down the street. And right now as long as my MP doesn't hit 0 I'm safe inside of the inn so it's fine if I just sleep after.
I calm heart and start kneading mana. I normally use {Anti-Magic Field} quite a bit but the amount of MP I put into it is at most a few hundred. The last time I used this much all at once was when I was still small and devoted to increasing my MP. Even then I've only used {Anti-Magic Field} while trying to precisely control the MP used in it about five times so it would probably be best to resolve for it to take about 10 minutes to properly activate.
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Alright!
I take the {Anti-Magic Field} I deployed and while remaining focused on the spell {Report} cast on me I aim it towards me head.
..This should be fine. I'm probably already fine. The only thing remaining in between my hands right now should be the MP remaining from the remnants of the {Anti-Magic Field}. If I Identify my glowing hands then I can tell exactly how much MP was used on that spell {Report} by subtracting it from the MP remaining. I should have 5 MP remaining. If I use Identify it will turn to 4 but it should be fine. Since I'm interested I'll try Identifying it.
Eh!?
My hand isn't shining!
I can only think of one possibility.
It perforated through my {Anti-Magic Field} that was using 7,058 MP, in other words over 7,055 MP was used on the spell {Report}, is what it means. Since I've used {Anti-Magic Field} a lot since the past against my brother and sister I've completely gotten a grasp on it's characteristics. The bare minimum uses 1 MP in earth, water, fire, wind, and 4 in void for a total of 8 MP. With this you can erase any spell that uses up to 5 MP. I just said it but after that if you add 1 MP for all magics after that (in other words, 5 MP each) you can increase the aggregate amount of MP erased with just that. If it's the {Anti-Magic Field} I just used then it should be able to erase a spell that uses up to 7,055 MP.
I just stared at the palms of my hands in a daze but I've gradually started to feel like laughing.
"kukkukku"
I don't know if it's a {God} or a {Demi-God} but the world is a vast place.
"Ufufuffufu"
With just 7,055 MP.
"Heeeee e e e"
I guess it's the frog in the well doesn't know the ocean.
"Ahhaahahahah"
There's someone that would use this type of spell which you never know when it would come in handy after countless years of checking. It's truly a God, this is. If I try to calmly think about it, it's not something man could manage. I already knew more than well enough that the beings called Gods existed but once again I can't help but think they're amazing. Simultaneously I feel some sort of pitch black emotion rising up that is difficult to control but I decided forcibly push it back down.
Well if it thought of me as something harmful and intended to remove me then if it can use this much mana then shouldn't it already have been able to do it, rather, I'm sure with just a single fingertip something like me would be turned to ash. Since that hasn't been done to me until now, I guess it means that it's accepted my actions. No, it's also possible that it's just observing me. Either way I'm sure it doesn't see me as a threat and most likely doesn't have any intention of killing me as well. I don't know if it was able to tell that I just tried to remove the {Report} (Since it seems that it can only look in on my memories when my conscious is decreased {Report}) but in the case it does know, I wonder what will happen to me?
I tried thinking about it a bit but I thought that it wouldn't particularly do anything. In my past life around when I was an elementary schooler in the 1970s. I kept a beetle inside of a fish tank, I took care of and observed it everyday. I kept some crayfish as well. I've gotten hurt from being pinched by both of them. However, both the crayfish and the beetle were existences that were far for me to consider them a threat. Even if the crayfish and beetle I was keeping were to have the ability to think, and think that the fact that they're made into pets isn't amusing, and I knew that they were thinking of trying to escape from there, I'm sure I wouldn't have tried to do anything special.
Of course, even then I would properly give them food and as long as they're alive I would remove the dirt, clean the fish tank, and take care of them. Even if I know they're planning to escape since I also know they can't open the lid of the fish tank with their power, even if they were to try it right in front of my eyes I wouldn't get angry at them. Let alone that I'd probably think, "oh~ they sure are energetic" and show even more affection towards them.
In other words it's the same as that. It might not be any different from researchers who put trackers and such on dolphins, sea turtles, and other animals and watch their behavior patterns and such like that. Rather than a child taking care of his crayfish the researchers would probably be the ones les likely to involve themselves with the target though.
Of course I don't have any proof. It might all just be my own delusion. For the most part there's also a God that reincarnated me so it's possible it might just want to know if I were to die or the cause of death or something. After all, the first time I met God it replied that several had already died and told me what the causes of death were for them. If I were to mention the harm of it, then it's about some random memories being sealed up and even then if someone mentions them it's a seal so weak I'll remember them. It's certainly a bad memory that I forgot about things in regards to the efficient way of acquiring the magic special skill but I completely remembered that after being punched by brother.
Since then I've made sure to be careful as well and written a memo called "to keep the laws of Bakuddo" and have it hanging on my wall. Right now the only memories that I would be troubled by forgetting are just these. It's an extreme argument but even if I were to forget anything other than this I wouldn't be troubled right away by it. Of course, if I were to forget something like language, the way to use magic, or how to use Identify there's a lot of things I would be troubled by but according to the story I heard from Karl what is lost is limited to memories of declarations in episode memories so it's not just limited to language, knowledge, or some type of skill (It's not just limited to Unique Abilities and magic. The way to use the sword or fishing techniques are included) those sorts of meaningful memories are probably no problem.
In other words, the "method to acquire magic skills" that my mother developed and the "exhaust mana during infancy to increase it at a certain probability" are within the range of meaningful memories so I won't end up losing them (being sealed away). However, because "keep both of these pieces of knowledge a secret" is an episode memory there's the possibility they could be sealed. Giving one or two more examples and since the knowledge "exhaust mana during infancy to increase it at a certain probability" is a meaningful memory I can remember it but the reason why I managed to learn that is an episode memory so it's possible it could be sealed. Although, since this is something I can find by using Identify to check the sub-window on MP so if I see it again I'll probably remember.
Just the same way my name Alan Greed isn't a meaningful memory but an episode memory. However, the names of third parties and items are classified as meaningful memories. Because the first method someone has of recognizing their self-awareness is to know their name and a lot of the first memories are of their name. Particularly in the case of me with experience reincarnating, I already had the ability to retain episode memories since I was a baby.
In my case, it was the same as being born with an adults level of ability in regards to episode memories so the instance I learned my name was like a once in a lifetime event on the end of episode memories. However, learning about Status Open was a meaningful memory so I can't forget it. Even if I were to forget my own if I check my own status or use Identify I would remember it right away just like when brother pointed it out.
If I think about it like this I can calm down a bit. However, it's bad having memories sealed. It's bad but since I don't have any method to resist it, if I don't at least force myself to think this way then it's not good for my sanity. It's true that even if I were to stomp around cursing here it wouldn't solve anything after all, I need to do whatever I can to maintain my thoughts and emotions in a stable direction.
In any case, the spell that allows you to counter spells {Anti-Magic Field}, at the very least even if I use something on the level of 7,000 MP it seems to have been no good. I intend to try it once more using all of my MP this time after going to sleep and waking up with full MP tomorrow morning. Since my maximum MP is 7,436 the highest amount I can use for {Anti-Magic Field} is 7,433 and it will only be able to erase a spell that uses up to 7,430. It can erase something that uses 400 more MP than this time.
In my common sense I can only think of sister other than myself that can use over 400 MP for a single spell so normally with this much increment it would be able to erase any spell but...
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Year 7444, Month 1, Day 2
Obviously after I woke up I immediately tried using {Anti-Magic Field}. I put less than half of my hopes on it but after all I guess you could say, there was no blue light remaining in my hands as proof that the {Anti-Magic Field} was remaining. It's definite that the spell {Report} cast on me used more than 7,430 MP. Somewhere in my heart I had the thin hope that "maybe.." is only obvious. Though it just ended up being that reality is harsh and..Damn it.
Since I only have 3 MP remaining, after eating some food I thought of relieving myself before using up the last of my MP and going to sleep.
On my way to the restaurant and I started to consider whether {Report} was only used on me or if it was used on all of the reincarnated people. It seems like all of the ones I've so far Kuro, Mary, Ralpha, Bel, Toris, and Gwine didn't have any sort of issues with their memories. Well even if they did unless it was over something major it's unlikely they would point it out themselves so it's impossible for me to know about it...The closest thing is when Bel mentioned whether or not our mental ages have only grown up to around the as our physical ages again and she didn't say anything in particular about missing memories.
Even I only noticed something like missing memories about a year or so ago. It seems like it actually had started at least half a year prior to that but in any case around the end of the year before last I started to notice it was strange and had felt something was off but I wasn't completely aware of it. The only way I can think to resolve that is to have Karl look at them.
If all of the reincarnated people are targets of the spell {Report} then while it doesn't feel good but it's something I can accept and think that it can't be helped. However in the worst case if I'm the only target for it, the number of things that I'll need to think about will increase quite a bit.
Even just thinking about it a bit, why is it only me? is the problem. If the user of the spell {Report} was the {God} or {Demi-God} that reincarnated me then why among the 39 reincarnated people was I the only one selected? would be the problem that comes up. In this case, I could thing of things like because I had 2 Unique Abilities, or in the first place there were several of us chosen as samples, but it really can't be helped just thinking about it.
Next up is whether or not it was really the {God} or {Demi-God} that reincarnated us that used it on me? is the problem that remains since before. I'm sure the myriad of Gods aren't all involved with reincarnation. It's even possible that it's completely unrelated. I can't even deny the possibility that it's not a God but I can almost asset that's unlikely. Because even if there was someone who had more mana than me, they still shouldn't have more than double the MP. Particularly a spell like {Report} Karl said that it would only be enough to last for at best a few minutes. In other words, it would be necessary to re-use it several times in a day.
Of course, if they just use it once then after that if they leave a period between it for a short while it's also possibly to use it again but in that case it would be meaningless if they don't use it knowing it would have no effect when they use it on me again in the middle of the day when I'm conscious. At the very least, during the hour or so I met Karl, last night, and this morning, it would mean they've already been using it several times. Even if I suppose in the case that they have double my MP it wouldn't make sense. It's not unthinkable that it was just a coincidence but I should have been the target (or at least one of them) since at least a year and a half ago, and there's also the possibility that they're using the spell {Report} on my party members in order as well.
However, that's probably minuscule. Most likely it's an existence that has MP one a level far beyond how many times mine and can use it like an abundance of water, and it's unnatural to think of that as a person that's mixed in together with the average person of Orth or another reincarnated person. Even if that was the case then that person would be spending day and night just to use the spell on me so I doubt they'd be able to maintain any sort of lifestyle. It's not unthinkable that they can do other actions while using spells like me but even then it's difficult to think they can keep that up forever.
That's why in this case it's easy to come to terms with supposing it's some sort of super-natural existence, since super-natural existences have already been confirmed after all..Yeah, it should already be that the chances of it being a God are incomparably high.
Since there's no way I'll be able to guess all of the possibilities, there's no other choice than narrowing it down to a few candidates and cutting down the rest. Even if the correct answer was among those then that is that. No choice but to give up.
The remaining problem is..I've arrived at the restaurant. For the time being I wonder if I should talk about the things that happened yesterday? No, even if I talk about it there's no way to resolve it. Most likely it would just end up giving them feelings of terror in regards to something that is impossible to resolve right now. If I were going to talk about something it would be about the portions unrelated to the spell {Report}. Even that I'm sure it would best if I just bring them the next time I go to Karl's place. It's still four months ahead. If something comes up during that time I'll talk about it then.
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Year 7444, Month 1, Day 17
It's about something that happened in area we visited for the first time on the 5th floor. We discovered a room a bit ahead in the passage of the dungeon as usual. We carefully closed it on it. The only thing we could see from the edge of the passage was the dim wall of the room but in roughly the center of the room there was a 3 m or so stone statue of a giant demon. It has wings like those of a bat growing from it's back and horns growing, there were four stone statues of a demon or something like that all with their backs to each other facing each wall of the room. This seems to be that. Gargoyle. Near the end of last year I once caught sight of one. In that case I guess that should be the same as well...
I had everyone stop just before the room and as we carefully look into the room and after all it was there. There's something like an altar with black flames raising from it on the left side of the room. On the wall of the opposite of that altar there's two passages that go even further in and there's one more on the wall to the right as well. I can't tell if there's anymore passages on the other side of that from where we are.
If we step foot into the room the gargoyles in the center of the room will move and try to attack us intruders. Simultaneously the black flames coming from the altar will burn even brighter and I don't know what sort of principle it works on but another monster will be summoned in front of the altar. The first time we stepped into a room with an altar a group of ghouls was suddenly summoned and I got the chills.
However, the last time we found a raw ore of an emerald was near the end of last year, midway through November, we discovered it enshrined in a small shrine on top of the altar. After we finished wiping out the gargoyles and the ghouls and we're investigating the room, the altar that had just been spitting out flames until then, the flames gradually got smaller and the double doors on the shrine suddenly opened. We borrowed it from out of there.
Since we had heard that you can obtain treasures from the altars with the black flames on the 5th floor we got quite excited. And without a doubt after obtaining a raw gem, we returned to the surface quite pleased. Remembering back the raw emerald from that time ended up selling at an absurdly high price of 14,950,000 Z.
I looked around at everyone and pointed in the direction of the altar. After noticing the altar all of us zombies for money had smiles on our faces. I'm sure I'm grinning as well. If in just a single go we were able to find a magic wand that lets anyone use the spell {Fire Ball} then it's the same as making enough money I'd never have to come back into this depressing dungeon again other than visiting Karl. Even if that's not the case there should be a reasonably valuable treasure in there.
"Zulu, Angela, you two charge at the statues in the center of the room. I'll back you up. Zulu take the one on the left, Angela the right. I'll take down the two on the front with the spell {Stone Javelin}. After that I'll aim for the right side. Backing up Zulu will be the last. Be careful.
Zenom, Toris, Ralpha be cautious as you proceed towards the altar. Bel and Gwine you two back them up on that end. It's fine if you don't pay any attention to our side. After Zulu and Angela finish up the statues, if there's any monsters left on the altar side then split up and go after different monsters or if it's one then attack from a different direction. In the off chance that no monsters come out from the altar then Zenom you back up Zulu and everyone else remain cautious. Alright?"
After confirming everyone nodded, we checked our equipment once again.
Zulu and Angela stand at the front and I'm behind them. On our left side with Zenom at the center, Toris and Ralpha have their weapons in hand, and behind that Bel has heard bow at the ready, and Gwine is behind that ready to stab things with a spear that's about 3 m high. Since Gwine's weapon is a spear it's necessary to let her start a bit later. Our preparations are perfect.
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