Episode 163
Episode 163
As she slowly approached Leon and tried to make him a proposal, Rider flinched.
Leon looked puzzled.
“Huh?”
“Why…… are you like that?”
Leon immediately started walking backwards.
Faced with such strange behavior, Raida followed him quietly, carrying Ravenna on her back.
And I walked like that for about 30 minutes.
Leon tapped on the wall at the fork in the road long before entering the tunnel.
Then he lightly hit it with his hand.
Passs …
At the same time, something broke.
A certain magic that was maintained by using the energy of a huge torrent has been released.
The existence of the hidden space was not noticed by the radar.
No, Leon also seemed unaware of such strange traces of magic in the midst of such a strong torrent.
Interest appeared on Leon's face.
“Is it like an altar?”
The elaborately crafted altar had no unnecessary grotesque features.
Rather, it was as clean and pure white as an altar in a temple.
Strange characters and patterns never seen anywhere on the continent.
And something floating in the center of the altar caught the two people's attention.
After a while, Leon slowly approached the altar.
“Uh… um. I guess I’ll have to ask him myself.”
“That… feels like a holy relic of a holy country. It feels like I’m seeing something sacred. I think I’ve seen it somewhere….”
“Your speech has changed a little.”
“You deserve to be treated like this. And thanks to you, I was able to overcome the wall. I will never forget this favor.”
“Do whatever you want.”
Leon nodded at Raider's remark, which had become much more polite.
Afterwards, Leon heard the communication artifact.
Communication wouldn't be easy in a tunnel like this, would it?
Leon's expression turned irritated when the artifact didn't work as he had thought.
“Anyway, the machine…….”
What Leon did afterwards surprised Raida.
Because he slammed the artifact into the wall! Bam! Bam!
Then, surprisingly, the artifact reacts with Leon's mana and begins to operate with a crackling sound.
“It has to be right to be fixed.”
"her……."
Was the artifact simply a tool that was said to be hit?
For a moment, I had doubts.
Leon's voice rang in his ears.
“Luna, I think I found a sacred relic.”
-Holy relic?
“Hey, do you want to come and take a look?”
It took less than 30 minutes for Luna to fly in at incredible speed right after the communication.
“This is!”
Luna's eyes widened.
Luna, who had been flying at incredible speed, opened her eyes wide as soon as she saw something on the altar I was holding.
“This… this is!”
“You know?”
“I don’t know.”
Then why did you react like that?
She seemed to lose interest as she held the strange object I had handed her and turned it around.
“We’ll have to see for sure, but it feels a little different to call it a sacred relic.”
Although it wasn't a holy relic, it seemed like there was something there since the power of an angel could be felt from the outside.
“Then can you read the writing on the altar inside?”
She strode inside and glanced around the altar.
“It’s an ancient script even if you look at it. I’ve seen similar things before, but scholars have all given up on deciphering them.”
Luna narrowed her eyes, ignoring Radar's further explanation.
“Hmm…….”
“Read?”
“Diablo, the devil.”
The short mumbling startled Rider.
“Demon Diablo? A demon… sounds a little creepy.”
Certainly, to the people of the continent, the existence of the devil cannot help but be somewhat repulsive.
“Is that a familiar name?”
“Isn’t that a name from a fairy tale? A slanderous demon. Those who speak ill of others will be punished by the demon Diablo. That’s the kind of fairy tale it is.”
When I looked at Luna with a questioning look, she stared at the altar and shrugged her shoulders.
“Humans do not know much about angels and devils.”
Luna once said that there is no difference between angels and humans.
If the devil is the same, then so be it.
In fact, it was ridiculous to ask whether demons were necessarily dangerous beings.
Although there were numerous instances of bizarre rituals being performed, rumors of demons being summoned were all but unconvincing.
“It looks like that item is related to the demon Diablo. It wouldn’t hurt to retrieve it.”
She said that and threw herself into her own subspace.
“I’ll keep it just in case.”
“Okay. Oh, before that, could you please take a look at the situation over there?”
Luna narrowed her eyes as she glanced at Ravenna, who had lost consciousness and was still unable to come to her senses.
“I’m just tired. I’ll recover if I leave it alone.”
“That’s good. Prince Leon, would it be okay if I stayed here for a few more days?”
“What is the reason?”
“First, we need data to report that the mine has stabilized. I’ll stay here for a few days to investigate whether the mine has stabilized and then leave some records.”
Well, that would be the only way to lift the development ban that Bergal had put in place.
“Do whatever you want.”
He bowed his head to me.
“Prince Leon.”
“Go ahead.”
“Thank you for your good teachings. Thanks to your teachings, I was able to overcome a great wall. I will never forget this favor. But… do you have any plans to reveal your skills to the world?”
Mana mines only need to be managed, and there are very few unstable mines.
So, although there are very few places where chaos like this could occur at present, he seemed to want to eliminate that possibility itself.
“It may not be many, but if you use your magic circle, you will be able to save many people from the Mana Disaster.”
At his suggestion, Luna looked around and stared at him.
“It would be impossible.”
“What does that mean?”
“Even if I know it, I can’t implement it. There’s no way to do it other than by having Leon install it for me.”
“Then, Prince Leon……”
“Leon has no obligation to do that.”
Laida, who had nothing to say, lowered his head.
“Then I won’t ask you any more. However, if you ever need my help in the future, please contact me. I will be happy to lend a hand, however small it may be.”
“Go and report it to the association.”
It's true that I had an argument with him, but from the perspective of managing the mana disaster, he saw the significance of having people in such a dangerous place.
His actions themselves were sound, and I had no intention of criticizing his actions out of concern for human casualties.
If it weren't for that, we wouldn't even have had the conversation.
In any case, what happened in the mine was something that needed to be reported formally to Melissa.
“Take it.”
“What is this?”
Melissa, who spent most of her time by Arsha's side outside of work hours, tilted her head as she looked at the white lump I handed her.
“It looks similar.”
In response to my question, Melissa turned the lump around and asked.
“Silver? No, not silver. No way, is it mithril? Did it come from a mine?!”
She shouted with her eyes wide open.
Iron ore, copper, lead, and many other ores are found in mines, but one of the most rarely found is mithril.
Naturally, since it is mined only in a very small number of mines among the numerous mines, the value of Mithril is bound to be extremely high.
There was a look in Melissa's eyes that seemed to be telling her to hurry up and say yes.
“Why don’t you open your eyes? Does this look like Mithril to you?”
“What? No? I thought Mithril was discovered in the mine again.”
A look of disappointment crossed her face as she realized that it wasn't Mithril.
I thought it was going to be a great Mithril, but it turns out it wasn't, which is disappointing.
“What a pity. I never thought that such a top-grade ore as mithril would be discovered in our mines.”
“Is there anything to regret? This is better than Mithril.”
“Huh?”
“It’s Orichalcum.”
At my words, she stared at me blankly for a moment.
"what?"
"what."
“No, am I hearing wrong? What is this?”
“Orichalcum.”
She picked at her own ears.
“Uh… um. Am I mistaken? That… the metal of the gods? Orichalcum?”
"uh."
“Uh… um. So Orichalcum is mined in a mine?”
The value of Orichalcum was incomparable to that of Mithril.
The quantity of Orichalcum released into the market is extremely small, and once it is released, the flow of quantity is so small that it causes a lot of noise.
In a situation where common sense cannot keep up with reality, I gave a rough idea.
“Orichalcum is a mineral, so of course it can be mined.”
"how?"
“You know about the Magwang vein? It’s written in the report.”
“Uh… um. They say that iron ore of improved quality comes from magic stones, mithril, and mana.”
She quickly scanned the papers.
“They say that if a wizard manages a regular mine, there is no problem with mining itself.”
"that's right."
“But if it’s not a regular magic vein, but an unstable magic vein, then the story is a bit different.”
Her eyes opened wide at my words.
“That… is a disaster….”
“I figured it out.”
A look of bewilderment crossed her face, as if she was saying that she had dealt with a huge typhoon that was coming.
“What… solve it? Was that a disaster that could be solved?”
“What can’t be done? I’ll organize the details and make a report, so read it. In any case, even in those unstable magic veins, in places with strong magic blood, small amounts of orichalcum are created in extreme environments.”
In other words, it meant that if you were to mine a mine that was originally impossible to mine, you could now mine the orichalcum inside it.
“The reason there is no Orichalcum mine on the continent is… isn’t it because it was originally an object that couldn’t be mined in an environment, but you solved it?”
There are only a very small number of veins with such intense blood flow, and even if you find one, mining it is realistically impossible.
This was the reason why there was almost no Orichalcum in the continent.
Of course, it is also true that the amount itself is very small.
“Wow…… I can’t keep up with reality right now. Orichalcum…… Orichalcum…….”
I turned my head away from her, who was panicking because of the sudden news, and saw Luna looking around at the decorations she had brought from the Diablo altar.
You say you don't know, but it doesn't look like you don't know.
