Watashi Ga Betsu No Sekai De Umarekawatta
8-10: Towards the City of the Maze
Two days after we departed from Kirik Earldom, we arrived at the sea near the trade city of Taltumina…
If I entered a harbor like this, I had to lower the anchor of the ship there, so we got off at the beach without any sign of life at night and decided to go by horse carriage…
The horses were also pleased with the land they had not seen for a long time…
There was no human habitation around this area, probably because of the many monsters here, but there was a remote highway outside of the nearby mountain, perhaps because of the many monsters, so I will go to the trading city and proceed towards the labyrinth city from the main highway after that…
"Master, night march is dangerous…"
"I want to do a practicum on the sandy beach…"
"Fireworks…?"
"Fireworks great…"
"Swoosh is good too, but crackle is good…!"
"Mrs…"
The practicum Cronoa refers to is about fireworks…
It will attract monsters, but I think I can exterminate them if they get close…
I handed the short stick to everyone and put it with the requested [<< Fireworks Illusion >>]…
"Kuraroos…"
"Beautiful…"
Totona and Mia run around the sandy beach with fireworks radiating in both of their hands…
"See this correctly…!"
"OK…"
Lina and Tiane play writing letters in the dark of the night using fireworks…
It seems that the letters were formed from the pictures that followed…
I thought she would write『I love you』, or 『Lover』, but, please stop writing messages that are far above her like『When yobai?』…
Please learn from what was written:『Very much love you』…
"I wish for a chick…"
Cronoa…?
"I wish for a chick…"
He said it twice…
Do you like chicks so much…?
I couldn't imagine the shape of the fireworks, so I tried to create the shape of a chick on the fireworks that scatter in front of a short stick…
Fireworks is not something that exists in a predefined pattern, so the preparation is time consuming, but I try my best to meet the eager eye expectations on Cronoa's expressionless face…
"It's an amazing chick…"
"Master, he disappeared when I touched him…"
"Because they're illusions…"
Suddenly touched like that, troublesome girl…
If it wasn't light magic type, he would get a burn…
I placed the same magic on the short stick once again and warned him not to touch it…
I enjoy the sparkle of fireworks…
"It's good…"
"Well, there it is…"
Before I knew it, Tiane and the others had gathered together and lit a fireworks…
Some rude monsters tried to intrude from the sea and forest, but I chased them away with [Remote Stun] before they entered in the range of their crisis perception...
If this was a game, they would probably attack precisely, but it seemed that the monster's perception ability was not high, having attacked them with Remote Stun bullets several times, instead, they feel scared or alert when they return to the sea and forest…
The next morning, we played around on the beautiful sandy beach and enjoyed ourselves swimming in the ocean…
We didn't make the hasty trip, but as of now, it was likely that we would camp here for a few days, so I finished it during the day and returned to the trip…
"What is this car…"
"No shaking, it's scary…"
Complaints appear even without shocks, yes….
Really troublesome…
This train was not like the one we had used before, but a small box-shaped train like the one we rode inside the city…
Not only does it have a self-propulsion function on the train section, but there is also a sleek aerodynamic engine loaded under the passenger section…
It has low output power, so it can only fly a few meters above the ground for a short time at most…
However, it can hover 10 cm above the ground to absorb shocks without any problems…
I ground it properly on the train section, so it should look like a normal train from the outside…
The coachman's box and passenger parts are completely separate, so the passenger seat members and the coachman's seat alternate every two hours…
Currently Ciel is a coachman with Lina in the chair…
Cronoa and Tiane rode heavily armed horses, walking side by side in a carriage…
As expected of a remote highway, we met monsters a few times, but since they were just small fries, we did, they were easily obliterated by Lina's sword slash and Cronoa's nature magic arrow from afar…
I was surprised to see Cronoa who had been able to simultaneously fire five magic arrows at once before I realized it…
We could see the town of Taltumina trading at night…
The city is directly controlled by the King, just like the labyrinth city…
Just like the capital Duchy, the surrounding area overflowed in this suburb…
Outside the city fortress, I saw a long line and a line of people and chariots who had been waiting their turn to enter the city until the night before the gates were closed…
Despite being involved with annoying things like dueling with other Nobles because I couldn't cut ranks, we were somehow able to enter the city before the gates closed…
Geez, please stop the childish thing…
Since the high-class inn refused to let anyone other than humans stay there, I asked the gatekeeper to refer to the high-grade inn that allowed it to stay…
The inn certainly has a smooth interior and the room is also spacious, but I do not like the shallow attitude of the officer…
We will stay here today, but will be in a different inn next time…
"Really, who does he think, he says things like “sleeping on the floor because falling hair will dirty the bed”…"
"I express dissatisfaction…"
"Yourself…"
Lina and the others looked offended, but Ciel herself…
"The floor's also hairy…?"
"Lina, you'll be hungry if you're angry, desuyo…?"
He doesn't even care…
When I complained to the inn manager, he usually scolded the attendant, so it didn't seem like it was the policy of this inn…
I have little hope because the port is the international trading port of Shiga Kingdom, but there are only cheap goods from abroad and the goods themselves are no different from the port of Dukedom…
The only result was the fact that equipment made from monster parts was exported outside the kingdom…
It is not very popular in the kingdom, but it seems that they are sold at high prices outside the kingdom…
There seemed to be a postal train departing towards the labyrinth city and the royal capital of this trading city at fixed intervals…
They depart once every three days, but since about five trains depart at the same time at once, it is relatively safe on the journey…
It seemed like there were many traveling merchants setting out by matching their schedules with the postal train…
Since the postal train was about to depart within two days, the gatekeeper recommended me to stay for one day before leaving, but since it would be troublesome to deal with the matter if we were with someone else, it would be troublesome to deal with the matter, we keep going…
After we crossed three mountains, the barrier pillar started to stand out more…
This may be the kingdom's wheat-producing region around here…
It was the first time in the world that I saw fields extending as far as the eye could see…
Since the climate was warm, they had already started planting it seems…
After passing through several cities, we passed through Kelton, the junction city that connects the capital Duchy, the labyrinth city and the royal capital…
There was no place or event worth mentioning in this city, but he sold clothes and cloth that were in trend in the royal capital and soft white bread…
Unlike the royal capital and Duchy, there was not enough water to grow rice, so their staple food seemed to be wheat or rather bread…
Because there are villages that have windmills to cultivate wheat, the scenery is very beautiful…
If there were tulips growing, it would feel like we were in Holland…
After we passed through a town called Furusau that was between Kelton and the labyrinth city, the number of villages started to decrease and the vacant land gradually started to stand out…
Although the villages we occasionally encountered had windmills and barrier pillars, the land was clearly barren compared to the previous villages…
And then, after we crossed the last mountain before the labyrinth city, it could finally be seen…
Of course I'm the only one who can see it from this distance…
Although the area outside the mountain was large enough to meet the (Japanese) prefecture, there were no villages until the labyrinth city…
It looks like there are several resting places that look like bus stops built on highways, one every few kilometers…
I stopped by one of the retreats once, but it was just a simple building to prevent rain and wind with a well of almost dry water…
"Sand…?"
"The wind creaks..."
From the area after the mountain, the wind carried yellow sand like small sand mixed in…
Because there was a vast desert outside the mountains that was outside the labyrinth city, it might blow from there…
And that desert is where I play with criminals…
For the sake of our beauty, I used [Air Control] to prevent the sand wind from approaching the area around the carriage and the horses…
Of course, I made Cronoa to move near the train…
Even though it was empty land, it was not like no plants were growing…
Not only weeds, there are also short shrubs that grow infrequently…
There was also something unusual between them…
It looks like a cactus, but I wonder if it really is a cactus…?
I think it's called a labyrinth of cacti, so it looks like it's really a cactus…
As we approached the labyrinth city, I could see some holy stone monuments like the one I had seen near the labyrinth of Seryuu city, built at regular intervals…
Countless numbers were built perpendicular to the highway…
I know that the holy stone monument was built up into the mountains before the desert in a semicircular shape…
It is written in the traveler's journal that the labyrinth is restricted and cannot be extended to the kingdom thanks to this holy stone monument…
I can see the pitch-black mountain outside the labyrinth city…
According to the traveler's journal, there seems to be a labyrinth under the mountain…
On both sides of the city gate, there was a stone golem in the form of Nio (the two guardian deva kings) with a gloomy face standing…
One of them was a level 40 strong golem…
They look like marble golems from the outside, though probably not because they match marble gates…
"GIANT…?"
"Great…!"
"Announce that they are stone golems…"
Ciel and Totoba who had turned their heads out the window were shocked to see the golems…
Come to think of it, neither of them saw a golem in the capital Duchy, huh…
They had only seen the Living Doll and the numerous-legged Tank Golem in the elf's hometown, so this was probably the first time they had seen a normal golem…
"It looks pretty strong…"
"We're not sure I can hurt even with magic spear…"
"As expected, after you broke his stance with magic…"
I ignored Lina and Tiane who had started thinking about how to defeat him…
"It's far…"
"We're finally here, aren't we…"
I who was in the coachman's seat had a moving impression…
"Now let's go, our fight starts from here…!"
Please stop with the canceled END like a proclamation…
