Chapter 7: Ruins of Visitor (part one)
“Klaus-sama! Are you okay? You’re okay, right!?”
I rushed towards Klaus in spite of myself. I could finally see the face of Klaus who until now I could only see the back of, I was relieved from the bottom of my heart. I guessed I was also relieved since I met a familiar face. Gradually, the harsh expression on Klaus’ face disappeared.
“Aah, I have no problem. You are the one who is alone……You, what’s with that appearance?” Uh, he got right to the point. First of all, I thought about putting emphasis on practicality, and more than that I was in a hurry. Regarding my coordination, it was quite appropriate.
“I borrowed the clothes of Edward-oniisama, thinking that you are in the ruins, because I couldn’t come to a place like this wearing a dress.” “Oh, that sort of thing……you, you suit this appearance better.” “Oh, it is a great honor to be praised by you.”
Well, it was still impossible for me to wear a luxurious dress after all! I thought that Erica’s face suits it well enough. Was the femininity of my soul insufficient as expected?
No, it was good enough that practical clothing suits me. Let’s feel good. “I’m glad I found you, this is the most dangerous place in Aurelia territory, you know?” “I’m aware of that,
I just didn’t expect to waste my magical power to such extent by searching this ruins for such a short time.” Klaus had a hard face. It was a dark and scary place, so I certainly felt like I was getting frustrated— Had I had any difficulty in spending magic so far? “Klaus-sama, what do you mean by that?” “Erica, you, didn’t you notice it when you come to this place?” “Not at all.” “……You’re dense.”
“It couldn’t be helped because Western human beings are different from Eastern human beings.” A dense place with a good sense, that was the virtue of the human beings from Aurelia territory. I might not have noticed it because my efforts and talent weren’t enough, though.
“The magical effect that absorbs magical power is working on this ruins, even the activation of lower tier magic took a heavy burden since a little while ago.” “Is there such a trap put on somewhere? Can you find out something if you use Glam Sight?” “I already identified things that seem to be the starting point of the trap. But the spell to solve it doesn’t seem to be effective. I don’t know what kind of trap is this.”
“Surely, metals and jewels that impede magic are physically embedded.” I heard that there were metals with such effects in Lucanrant. Depending on the combination of minerals that I didn’t know, the same effect might be invoked, it was not only limited to the northern metals.
“It seems that wide area magic is blocked, and magic with effective range of 5 m or more in radius has failed.” “That said, I heard from Onii-sama that there is a trap that has been activated, but I don’t know the effect.” “Got it.” Although we from Aurelia didn’t mind the effect, people from Harvan seemed to be pretty incompatible with it.
Ruins of Visitor were like the culmination of the lost techniques of Aurelia of the West. Unexpectedly, these missing technologies might be said to be ‘abandoned’ by choice because of problems, rather than being ‘lost’. Like a trap that obstructed the magical power that was not friendly to outsiders, for example.
“Because of that……I’d like you to see this for a moment.”
Klaus spread a parchment. There were large rectangular outline and the name of the god of wind was written in twelve directions so as to surround it.
It was the most commonly used template in this world’s maps. But, except for the frame and several lines of Harvan’s magic language, it was almost blank, and things that seemed like maps were not drawn. “I tried to use Auto-mapping and put spell cards along the route.
However, thanks to the troublesome trap, even if I casted the spell it wouldn’t react at all.” “Oh, so it is a spell for that.” “If I knew a little sooner that Auto-mapping would be invalidated, I wouldn’t search so deeply.” Klaus shrugged his shoulders. When the talk finished, I asked what I was really concerned about. “Well, Klaus-sama. Where is Ann-sama?” “Wha—! Why are you talking about Ann now?”
Klaus’ body jumped in alarm. Huh, this guy, didn’t he feel like a small animal? “In order to follow Klaus-sama, I was using Urd Sight. Then I could see Ann-sama as well as Klaus-sama……”
“I have not brought my sister here.” “It seemed that she was pursuing Klaus-sama.” “But, I’m certain that I had put my sister to sleep with a sleeping magic……, no way, that girl, did she use a reinforced Magic Resist in anticipation of me getting out?” In his own way, he devised a plan to make sure his sister didn’t come to this dangerous place.
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