§ 370. Breaking up with innocence
On the way back from the palace, I stopped the carriage for a moment.
“What are you doing, Wolfram?”
“No, there is an arrangement nearby.”
“······?!”
Suddenly Eve ran towards me and covered my mouth with both hands.
What are you doing? I can’t forgive you.
“······.”
“Oh, no. This is all Wolfram’s fault. Why on earth would you say such nonsense for other people to hear? The hell?!”
ah.
That’s true.
Anyway, Eve took a deep breath and slightly removed her hand, realizing the importance of breathing.
“So, you’re not planning on going?”
“···I have to go. I will go.”
“I see. That’s a good idea. It would be of great help to you, too.”
“A huge help···?”
“hmm.”
I defeated the soldiers and went into the forest with Eve.
Oh, right. Before that, we need to take some quarantine measures.
“Wolfram. There will be a lot of soldiers watching us. Is that okay?”
“Ha. What good is a mere soldier doing keeping watch over the grandson?”
“That too, but···.”
“And wouldn’t it be enough to just shoot all the soldiers watching with spears?”
“yes yes?”
“【Listen carefully. We are the royal family. It might be okay for ordinary citizens, but if soldiers who swore allegiance to the royal family commit such an irreverent act, it would be okay to punish them immediately.】”
The soldiers’ gazes disappeared in an instant at my words.
“···Wolfram. Are you serious about that?”
“What do you think?”
Eve looked at me and the soldiers and sighed.
“Please don’t bluff like that.”
“It’s your nature. You endure it.”
“I know, but···!”
“More than that. Let’s go quickly.”
“······Ugh, ugh. Okay! I’m going. Let’s go!”
okay.
You listen well.
·········Good,
“No, that’s not it.”
“What did you just say?”
“I didn’t say anything, I didn’t think anything.”
***
The dungeon we are heading to is, strictly speaking, an extra dungeon.
Literally outside EX specifications.
The timing of this release is really mind-blowing, the Eve von Lohengrin ending. It also opens after seeing the normal ending or higher, right before the epilogue.
So it’s not that difficult.
It’s just so, so f*cking difficult.
After lightly breaking through a few mazes, authenticating with the magic of light, reciting a spell in front of it, and doing about fifteen other annoying tasks, voila! A dungeon like this appears before your eyes.
“···What is this place?”
“It’s a dungeon.”
“No, I know that, but what kind of dungeon is it?”
“Haven’t you been here before?”
“No, that’s not it···.”
“This is a dungeon that was designed by our great ancestors, or to be precise, the first empress.”
“···Uh, uh. Really?”
“Well, why would I lie?”
“If that’s really the case… wow!”
Eve looked around, smiling like a child.
Come to think of it, I really liked the first empress.
“Are you that happy?”
“Of course! Don’t you know that I have loved the Empress as much as my ancestors since I was little?”
“······.”
Al Bania.
Come to think of it.
“Then be careful not to get shocked.”
“······Shocked? Ha, I’m already shocked. I’m telling you, I’m in the middle of history right now. You’re the one who doesn’t know anything!”
“······.”
Yeah. Well.
It’s good to dream.
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Even if it’s just a dream that will soon break into pieces.
We stepped inside, and soon the same guidance voice we had heard in the previous dungeon rang out.
【Welcome. This is Lindy’s Secret Dungeon.】
【I don’t know exactly how many hundreds of years this place will open, but it’s my child’s… maybe my child’s child’s child? Welcome. My descendant and Haruk’s descendant!】
【You don’t know my name, do you? At least I told you to keep recording it as Lindy in the history books. Oh, you don’t? Then I’ll say this. I’m the first empress, Haruk’s companion, and the mother of Seira and Filtia, a great person!】
Eve looked at me, mumbling.
okay.
That is the first empress, Lindi. Lindi von Lohengrin.
To Piltia, she was the most caring mother, and she was recorded in history books as a virtuous and intelligent wife. However, in reality, she was said to be very playful and jealous, and she laughed a lot and made those around her happy.
Anyway, because he is that kind of person, he must have created a dungeon like this.
【Ahem. Anyway, my beloved Hark! He said he made the artificial island Zephrin, so I tried making one too! Among my thirty-three nicknames, there is also the Magical Empress! In other words, I am a magician comparable to Hark! Do you understand?】
“······.”
How can the character and noisiness be clearly expressed in a voice created like a system?
【Haha. I see. If you know, that’s enough. Okay! Then let’s start the test! Do your best! The gift is huge! If you are really my descendants, there’s nothing bigger than this, right?】
With that being said, the door opened and we went into the next room.
“···That can’t be true. In the biographies I read when I was young, the empress was wise and kind···.”
“Wake up. There is nothing to be gained by denying reality.”
“Ugh.”
I patted Eve on the back and went into the next room.
***
First room.
Eve was shocked at the sight of the cliff stretching out before her eyes.
“Are you telling me to go down here?”
“No. That can’t be, there’s a path to the next room over there.”
“···You want me to run and go?”
“No way.”
Strictly speaking, here you have to step on a transparent platform using the presence detection system to get over it.
The foothold changes frequently, and if you attack it using the correct method, it will take an hour or two.
【By the way, flying magic is prohibited here! Come on! Let’s go!】
Lindy’s voice said so, and Eve looked down the cliff, then clutched her head and staggered.
“Uh, what should I do… without flight magic….”
“Eve. Do you have any cloud candy?”
“······yes?”
“Hurry up and give me one.”
“Why do you think it will be there?”
“Why would you think that it wouldn’t exist?”
At my words, Eve let out a “Ha,” mixed with anger and confusion.
but.
“So there isn’t any?”
“······There is, but!”
“Yeah. I thought so.”
He quietly put one out.
okay.
Surely you won’t be there.
***
Cloud Candy is, strictly speaking, an enchantment on candy, and is different from magic.
Just as there are differences in the time and occasion, and in choosing and choosing from the tag games we played as children, there are differences in the concepts of flying with enchanted candy and flying with magic.
in other words.
“It’s fun, but I have mixed feelings.”
“Don’t overthink it, just fly.”
【······】
If you suck honey, you should be happy as you suck it. How dare you.
Moreover, there is one good thing about flying like this: Lindy’s voice, which used to laugh at you when you thought you would step on the wrong thing, becomes quiet.
It felt like we were all going to get Lindy’s ass kicked, so we all brought some cloud candy.
As we landed on the other side, Lindy’s voice rang out as if she had been waiting for it.
【Haha! Congratulations! You’ve been through a lot of adversity, but you’ve made it through! Isn’t that amazing? I want to acknowledge it. But the next room is even harder?】
“······.”
Eve stared blankly into space, trying to follow Lindy’s voice echoing from beyond the ceiling.
That complicated expression. I know it very well. It’s disturbing.
“Okay. Let’s go to the next room.”
“···Yes.”
***
The background of the next room was red.
It wasn’t just red bricks, there were red sparks floating in the air.
【Now, this is a room where we will test your wisdom! If you are descendants of Hark, you will only be able to do well with the attribute of light! Do you have the confidence to put out that flame with light? If you do, try it!】
“······.”
Eve looked at the flames with her eyes gradually dying… and looked at me. Then she glanced at the scepter in her arms.
“Wolfram, is this it?”
“hmm.”
“······Is this even okay? That, that dungeon was arranged by the first empress, and she said it contained incredible treasures···.”
“Then shall we go back?”
“No, that’s not it.”
“Then do it.”
At my words, Eve took out the scepter from her bosom and ‘converted’ her magic power.
“My childhood memories… now goodbye. Thank you for everything. 【Sootan: Maximization】”
Leaving a strange farewell, Eve transformed the magic of light into water and extinguished the flame.
and.
【That’s great. Putting out fire with light is never easy. But you guys did a great job. Now, let’s move on to the next room!】
Lindy’s bright and happy voice echoed throughout the dungeon.
“Black.”
And Eve wept.
***
The Lindy Dungeon that followed was a repetition of the pattern.
【Can we evaporate water this time? With light?】
“【Fireball: Extreme Heat】”
【That’s great!】
【Can we break the rock this time? With light?】
“【Gale: Strongest】”
【That’s great!】
Eve cleared the dungeons one by one with certainty.
This is what makes this dungeon so difficult.
According to the setting, only those with Lohengrin’s blood can enter, but Eve’s magic is only light.
Even if you learn basic magic, it is a level of difficulty that cannot be overcome, so you will eventually have to solve it like a puzzle.
but.
If you have a seven-colored scepter, it’s a completely different story.
Just change the magic, cast a few auxiliary spells, and you’re done.
In the first place, clearing all of the Demon World Gates in Filtia on the Eve route and obtaining the King’s Scepter was more difficult than this dungeon.
So, if you bring the King’s Scepter, it becomes a honey dungeon or a puzzle dungeon. It’s a kind of balance patch.
And we haven’t conquered the Palm Gate, but we have the Scepter.
There you can use the most important magic attribute division.
It’s completely impossible based on the original, but if you think about it, it becomes possible.
of course
【Great! You guys are really great! I’ll praise you!】
“······thank you.”
Eve, who was completely mentally exhausted after seeing the truth about the Empress, and who was using tricks to clear the dungeon, was completely out of her mind.
But, that’s not something I can do anything about.
***
The last quest in the dungeon was tag.
A puzzle where you have to catch the magic spirits distributed by Lindy.
It requires more physical and dynamic vision than you might think.
Putting your heart into each and every puzzle dungeon is the class of this D/Z SAGA.
anyway.
That’s a newbie story.
“Hmm. Got it.”
“······What did you do just now?”
【You have to catch the spirit now. That child is very mischievous, so it won’t be easy to catch him.】
【Hehe, look carefully at the direction that kid is running away】
【Oh my, what a pity. What a pity I had the chance!】
【Ah, it was just a little bit ahead!】
【Hahaha.】
【I didn’t know you could catch that. It must have been really fast, but you caught it well.】
【Excellent. I’ll praise you guys. I mean it.】
“·········?”
Eve was embarrassed.
That’s because I caught the spirit as soon as it spawned, and immediately after I caught it, Lindy’s voice kept ringing out of nowhere from above my head.
As if he was praising us for our hard work in catching it.
This is also one of the minor errors in the dungeon.
From the creator’s perspective, the voice would have been recorded with the mindset of ‘of course it’s hard to catch a spirit.’ And then it would have been set to output Lindy’s voice over time.
However, the easiest way to catch this guy is to run forward and catch it as soon as it spawns.
As a result, Lindy’s voice is bugged with the phrase ‘all the effort to catch it is output’.
This is a really annoying dungeon with ridiculous bugs.
As I told her about this setting, Eve squatted down on the spot, hugged her knees, and muttered something.
“···This is it, no, this is it, Your Majesty···.”
this.
Eve was completely broken.
“Wake up, Eve.”
“···Am I coming to my senses now?”
“Then come to your senses and look at the treasure.”
“······Ha. That’s right. If I think about it, you lied to me about having a huge treasure. If I think about it carefully, that’s impossible. Where in this third-rate dungeon would you find such a huge treasure? Even Your Highness, I’m sure it was just a joke. Right? Haha. It’s no use trying to fool me!”
Yeah, that’s the best way to rationalize it.
I ignored Eve and opened the treasure chest, taking out the treasure inside.
A huge seal with an eagle and a lion on the handle and twelve symbols engraved around it.
Yeah. Dojo.
Here’s the problem
What is the common name for a seal with the royal family crest and the twelve elder family crests engraved on it?
The correct answer is yes.
“It’s an early seal.”
“············Ugh.”
Oh my.
Did you faint from joy at the treasure?
