Get off the carriage taxi and climb the rough rock-skinned mountain path. For a short time, the destination will appear so that it can be buried in a rocky wall that can be filled. There are neglected grasses of unknown names around, a large lake on the left hand side and a deep cliff with a black and sumptuous bottom on the right.
The castle fortress of the balance was built to block the land sandwiched between its lakes and cliffs.
The castle fortress consists of a boneless, huge gray castle and a wall that crosses from lake to cliff. Although it has faded over the years, its overwhelming presence is still alive, and the wind blowing down from heaven sweeps around it as if to reject the intruder.
It is the castle of the king, long ago known as the Undefeated King, where it became the final line of defense when the war between man and demon broke out. The walls, which boast an absolute defense, are so huge that even the demons of the giant body broke their horns while looking up. But the impact of the war was enormous, and the impenetrable castle gate was heavily distorted, and now it does not serve as an entrance or exit.
"Big time."
"That's right. Big time."
Sasori raises her voice as she looks up at the walls that make her stand up. Mira pointed her gaze at that castle wall only slightly, then responded with a gentle voice as if to return to the innocent words of her grandson, who was walking with her, as she saw the tail of a sasori shaking like dancing.
Slightly, it was a sasori that was in a tourist mood, but upon entering the small fort by the lake, he instantly switches that feeling and stops in front of the junction blocking the staircase leading from the dim fort to the basement. The gates, the original entrance to and exit from the castle fortress of the scale, are not usable, so the only entrance is now the path that was prepared as a hidden passage for escape.
Well, see how you're doing.
Aaron once came to the castle fortress of the scale, an A-rank dungeon. At the time, he was participating in the exploration as one of the six-member parties, waving his specialty on the front lines. But this time, I was assigned by the quail to be Mira's assistant. These battle personnel are Mira and Hidun. The strength of the sasori and snake can be roughly expected from the rumors of Hidun, which can be heard one by oneself if packed in the headquarters of the Fifty Bells Federation, but is unpredictable when he becomes an unprecedented disciple of the wise.
Having trained in the tunnels and gained his current strength, Aaron was more than excited to observe such categories of people as geniuses, who went beyond such a step. Because there are plenty of ideas in there that ordinary people don't realize. Aaron says that knowing them and aiming for higher heights is a viable ordinary person, but he doesn't seem to realize that being able to understand and capture genius moves just by looking at them is also a talent enough.
Go through the union's boundaries and down the narrow passage. That's about the width that the two of them manage to line up, reinforced by stone columns and blocks.
Every time Aaron touched the lantern's light, which was dim and similar to the rainy season, black worms scattered across the crowd, each time the sasori raised its fed up voice, and Mira also distorted her expression and affirmed silently.
Even more so if the aftertaste of the voice disappears, the footsteps of the four people resonate prominently. I followed that to the small room after repeating it a few times. As he advances out, the lantern lights blur and illuminate his surroundings. Nothing but a few decaying candlesticks attached to the bumpy rock walls.
It was a hidden room to hide a hidden passage.
"Well, which one was it"
Due to the characteristics of the room, the path that leads inside the regular castle fortress is also hidden, and Aaron takes out the folded paper with such a grunt and compares it to the wall and explores the opening and closing devices.
"That's what made it easier."
Because of how many times he had been touched with his hands, or when he found some of the walls that were clearly polished down, Aaron pushed there into the sigh mix. Then, with a slight vibration, part of the wall opened like a door, and a breeze poured into the hidden room to shake Mira's silver hair.
It's been a while.
Stepping out, stretching to the left and right, you can see a passage that is intertwined. The first level of the castle fortress of the scale, it was a complicated maze, and the hidden chamber passed right into its midst.
"You can leave the battle to me, right?
When Aaron confirmed that again, he said, "No problem!" Sasori replies joyfully, quietly uplifting his fighting spirit, the snake nods silently to create a golem for combat.
And Mira also flipped her coat and summoned the Dark Knight just because it was another showcase of summoning, further mutating it into the Dark Road as it was. Specializing in the killing nestled next to Mira, its appearance is the style of a knight who sold his soul to the devil to protect the girl. The blade armor covering its entire body had a dull glow like paint on blood.
"Oh, is this the mutation summons?"
Sasori, who was in a pre-battle prep movement, raises his voice in the eyes of Dark Road. As a Hidun who performs his tasks alone, Sasori is deeply knowledgeable about the skills of various warriors and magicians in particular. She seemed intrigued by the mutation summons she'd only heard of, mounted on Dark Road to observe every corner.
"Be careful."
Dark Road looks literally like a halibut with no shards of love to it, called a systemic murder weapon. Mira advises in a voice she doesn't like so much as she looks sideways at a sasori obsessed with such a dark road sticking her face into the gap between its blades with a single piece of paper.
Then Aaron shifted his consciousness to the paper he was staring at with a wrinkle between his brows.
"You look a lot harder."
Mira says, peeking at Aaron's hand, slightly higher than her gaze, ahead of her nails.
"I used to see enough. I'm getting old. It's thin and it doesn't look very good."
Aaron exhaled one sigh as she looked down at Mira's head, holding her eyeballs at her fingertips as she grinned slightly at herself. The paper depicted the maze, the first floor of the castle fortress of the balance, in detail, and the path of the correct answer was color-coded red. Further precautions have been added by hand. That's a landscape of the dungeon, one that the players who broke through wrote down.
Back in the Dunbroof era, dungeon views were only dealt with in deals between players, but now these maps are also lined up in adventurers' stores as usual.
From that time on, it was an even more sophisticated view, but of the castle fortress of the scale, it was a substitute for too much boulder.
(I feel a little too fine, but I'm too old...)
Mira shifted her gaze in the direction of the correct route as she shifted her face away from the extremely precise plan covering even the unnecessary route.
The aisle is about three metres wide, with an unexplained blue light of light emitting principle illuminating the maze at equal intervals without gaps. Cold stone walls, like enclosed silence, that do not look old despite being centuries-old buildings, some of which are only stains and scratches that are traces of battle.
The castle fortifications of the scale are roughly divided before, during and after, each with a different role.
The rear layers are even bigger and more robust walls than the walls Mira and the others looked up when they visited the castle fortress, and even the top warcraft is said to hold back. The middle floor is a very large hall with the gate of the front wall leading through. This is where it was once the most intense battlefield, with the remnants of trenches, a number of decaying weapons, collapsed walls and other unbroken rolls. And the front floor is further divided into four floors, the top floor of which is the command room where the Spirit King descended.
"Leave it to me. Guide."
When the snake says that to the two roaring people, he starts to lead the way with the golem. In that hand there was a schematic prepared by the snake itself, describing concisely the correct route.
Mira and Aaron glanced at each other lightly over their shoulders before smiling and chasing the snake.
Slightly enough after stepping into the maze, the snake's golem stops that foot in front of the bend.
"Enemy."
At the same time as the snake reported, Golem ran out in such intense footsteps that he was likely to step through the floor that he slammed a boneless fist into the pale smoke that appeared, trying to erupt from the corner.
It's not a trick.
Its smoke is a demon called the Night Ghost, and the body built by thought is resistant to physical interference. But Golem's blow was definitely damaging.
As Nightghost slipped through the universe misting to escape the fist that caused it, he once again appeared away from the Mira and the others. The demon wears a silhouette like a knight in armor, but by the way, he can see the debacle. It would be the part that was shredded by Golem's fist.
"I'm bringing Astral Gel, if I don't need this"
Looking at the demon with the hand wound, Aaron hangs the axe in his hand on his hips and returns the vial he had in his other hand to his pouch. The emerald-colored blade in the three-sun moon shape, which returned without a chance, rocked a little lonely at Aaron's waist.
"Maybe so."
Mira agrees as she watches the snake struggle. The unintentional, commonly called spiritual system has the characteristic that demons are strong against physical attacks. So it was Aaron's turn to bring a tool called Astral Gel. By applying this to your weapon, you can disable the opponent's physical resistance. Of course, it becomes inefficient, but it is also possible to beat him down without using it.
While Mira and Aaron were talking that way, the Nightghost was shattered and dissolved into the universe in a thousand pieces in the golem's opulent right straight, and the second body that followed appeared exploded due to [Funeral Art: Melting Wheel] while being assembled by the golem.
In the midst of a slight fire powder, the snake looks back with a freshly reworked look at the new golem. But Mira, the person she wanted to appeal to the most, was obsessed with the variety of items Aaron had prepared. Because there are many things I don't remember.
The snake is openly dismayed to see Mira like that.
"I care too much already."
Concerned about the snake, which seemed a little too tense, Sasori called out.
"You care a lot because Mr. Uzume interrupted where he said the three of us, and you're taking the lead. He said it had to be useful."
Sasori had a good look at how many times there were signs of it. This is mainly the case with carriages, where I feel good about them, but I can't say the same about fighting.
"No, I don't. This time the most important task. So naturally."
Though you're stubborn for nothing, Sasori snorts in trouble, slapping the snake in the forehead.
"Then forget it. This is our mission."
Snakes clasped their mouths at Sasori's words and nodded only dullly.
"What's the matter?
To those two, Mira speaks out after talking about the measures ahead. The retrospective sasori and snake shake their necks to the side saying it was nothing before paying attention to what Mira was holding.
"Insurance. It's not rare, but it's rare for demons to curse."
Saying so, Mira handed the bills she had in her hands, a piece of paper that was too masterful to know what it said anymore. It is an anti-spell spirit demon charm, an item that can disable a certain number of special state anomalies called "curses," which you may receive from demons of a high spiritual system. It is also an item that is not available due to limited usage.
"Heh, thanks"
"Appreciation"
Sasori looked at the bills he received intriguingly and then turned into a side porch, and the snake picked them up with both hands and put them in the back pocket of the robe looking important.
This anti-spell spirit demon charm is sleeping at the bottom of Mira's item box, something that Aaron remembered as he was looking at the items he had been preparing.
The high spiritual system was neglected by the position of the physical main, but for the magician it tended to be preferred due to the characteristic that the maximum vitality of the demon was low. That's so much so that at the time of the game, the magician was called Ghostbuster Oz, etc. Mira also goes down the same road, and the bills that she had just right are like the remnants of it.
Nevertheless, we don't even need to be so vigilant on the ground floor yet.
Along the way, guided by snakes, occasionally night ghosts appear in groups, but the golem becomes a wall, and countless blades of sasori and dark roads that jump around to scaffolding kick easily. Aaron was really excited, but his eyes were sharp to observe the situation, and Mira was just darkloading here again.
(I didn't know the walls could run. I wonder how I can make an effort)
Where he ascended the Nightgo-St population to the extent that it was time to reach double digits, Mira focuses on the manoeuvrability of the sasori. In a passage about three metres wide, while the dark road between Golem, a mass of rocks, and the systemic murder weapon is raging, the sawdust flies from top, bottom, left, right. The movement was endless as if it were a nested spider, from which the sharp blow was exactly as it was named Sasori.
"Sometimes, Sasori, where did you learn that body technique?
Mira asks for more precise motion sasori when the maze's strategy remains smooth and the collaboration is almost perfect. Because I couldn't get tired of just running through the walls and sticking my legs up to the ceiling. Such skills have never been seen in the game age, and new skills that I don't remember are touching Mira enough to contend for one or two.
"It's my village. It's called Kalasawa, but it's a traditional skill that we all learn when we're old."
Sasori jumps up from the front line and walks upside down on the ceiling, hissing next to Mira as she answers so.
"Then you think everyone in there can jump like your lord?
Mira turned her face to the sasori and threw the inquiry again as she caught Nightghost fogging sideways.
"Um, I guess not. Anyone can stick to walls and ceilings, but from there on out, we need full training. It depends on whether you are trained or not without talent. By the way, I was praised for my best talent."
Sasori says that a little better and jumps up, he lands on the ceiling and starts walking straight ahead. Mira follows the figure with intrigue and mouths the main issue as she pretends to be as peaceful as possible.
"That's amazing. I want to try it too. Can't you tell me?
Mira turns her gaze to the sasori like a glimpse.
"Um, I was special and accommodating for a lot of things, but I'm more begged than told never to teach just this skill. So sorry."
When Sasori went back to the ground twirling, she stroked Mira's head as she said so.
"Mmm, thoughtless."
She didn't even care if her hair hung in her eyes, and Mira groaned so that she would be infidel. Sasori became happy with Mira's appearance like that. Because the disciple of the sage that the quail admitted was interested in his moves.
"But maybe if you go inside Karasawa, you can tell me. If the elders admit it, though. I think that's what happened."
"Ho, ho, ho! Is that true!?"
In rare cases, traditional skills were taught to outsiders. When Sasori remembers it, Mira reacts agile.
"Yeah. That's what I've heard. Sounds like tough conditions."
"If it's possible, I won't give it a try. So, where is it in Karasawa?
Smiling with pleasure, Mira continues to ask questions.
"Eh, it's in the woods west of Grimdart. I wonder if Foresthide is the closest continental railway station."
"In the woods. The neighborhood must have been a long way down, but did the railroad run all the way there?"
"He said a long time ago it was as small and hard to find as they called it a hiding place. But it's busy there now. When you're done, I'll tell you where it is."
The railways laid to circle the Earth continent naturally strike mountains, forests, etc. along the way. After overcoming various ordeals and cultivating them, there were occasions when interactions arose, as in Karasawa. There was something wrong with that at the time, but it seems to be calming down now.
"A hiding place. That's not a pleasure."
Mira casually poured mana into Dark Road, adding inside Karasawa to her upcoming plans that she didn't know when. The Dark Knight, thus awakening his special abilities, freely manipulates the black mist overflowing from the blades of his entire body, instantly sweeping away an impending group of nightghosts.
Mira's plans are already piled. Then I thought about getting rid of the matter in front of me quickly, and stopped doing anything. As a result, wild darkness devours countless spiritual demons. Sasori and the snake, who no longer had room to enter that wave of overwhelming violence, shrugged, and behind them Aaron groaned happily, "Is this the depth of the world?"
After that, the demons on the first floor of the maze will become dust and disappear from the edge of sight, thanks to the dark road, which showed its original abilities and ravaged around unrestricted. Sasori, who had played a game with Mira, had his cheeks slightly drawn to the tragedy, and when it came to snakes who realized they had bad minutes in battle, they decided to immediately follow the directions.
Excessive force and quick guidance led the line through the maze smoothly, reaching the crossroads just after the exit. This is a great branch in the castle fortress of the scale, where the path is divided straight forward and up, down, left and right.
Straight down the crossroads, you can get through to the middle level connected to the main entrance.
If you turn left, it's a square where a demon named Legion Ghoul appears only when you order a crusade quest.
If broken to the right, you can exit the middle belly of the cliff adjacent to the fortress. By using special tools, it is possible to descend from there to the underground field.
Down the stairs there is an altar with stone scales. But that was it, and to the best of Mira's knowledge, it had nothing to do with quests or anything else.
(Command room is up here.)
Each passage is illuminated with blurred lights without heart. Mira turns her gaze on one of them, the stairs leading up to the upper floor.
The purpose of the mission is to capture the executives of Chimera Clozen. Where to ambush someone you don't know when they'll show up, but they were finishing the discussion while traveling in the wagon around there.
That it would be best to stake out in the most relevant and profound places than the other person's purpose is to be the Spirit King. That is, the command room on the top floor.
The four of them walked upstairs without losing sight of another passage.
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