Chapter 772
Episode 190. Malliet Heister’s Legendary Place (2)
Whoa-!
The magical wind formed by Valeria gently wrapped around the two of them.
The two landed on the floor leisurely and adjusted their clothes.
“Is pushing it like this the beginning of a Tradition Trap? It’s an interesting monster. Same goes for your ancestor named Maliette.”
Valeria nodded and put her hand on the wall.
As if he wanted to directly touch the legacy left by his ancestors.
The wall was made of ore as transparent as crystal, and magical power subtly flowed through it.
It was something she would never have done if she had been Valeria in the past, and if she had come here alone.
You never know what traps might trigger if you put your hand on the wall.
But now, no matter what happened, Jin was there, so there was no problem.
Jin read her psychology and was pleased.
“The atmosphere here is a bit different from the lore sites I’ve visited so far.”
“how?”
“Traditional sites in the past have usually exuded a sacred aura that makes you feel solemn from the moment you enter. But here, I feel like someone is watching me playfully.”
“okay? Unlike her lore, which was notorious for being vicious, Maliette must have been a good person for some reason.”
In his previous life, Jin had never heard the name Maliet from Valeria.
In other words, this place was a lore that Valeria in her previous life could not find.
‘Besides the communication device that Jen Rutber made, I wish there was something else that would be of great help to my master. There are probably records and magic left behind by Malliet.’
Looking around, I saw a short drawn road.
At the end of the road there was a fork in the road.
“It’s a fork in the road from the beginning. Which way shall we go?”
Valeria lightly waved her silver pine staff to form a record window.
The idea was to look at the records as to which way was the right one.
However, the last record left in this space was more than three hundred years old, and there was some kind of disturbance.
“It seems that Maliette’s ancestors have taken measures to make it difficult to look through the records.”
“It means you have to take a picture.”
“Let’s go left first.”
As the two entered through the left entrance, an ominous noise came from far away.
The sound and vibration of something like a huge lump of metal rolling at high speed.
Coogu gurrureuk-!
It was actually an iron ball the size of a young dragon’s torso.
If you have enough combat power to barely beat Honka, it would be best to turn around and run.
Jin reflexively clenched his fist to break the iron ball, then remembered Honka’s words.
So instead of breaking the iron ball, I spread my palms and stopped.
thud-!
The iron ball stopped moving and there was a heavy noise.
“The slope of the road the ball rolled down is quite steep. This, somehow, seems like a device that forces you to deliberately proceed to the right entrance?”
said Jin.
Valeria was thinking the same thing.
The two left the iron ball and went out and entered the entrance on the right, but it seemed that a lower level trap than the iron ball had been activated.
All it took was a few stones.
“I think so. If you deliberately make them choose the easier side, it’s more likely that this is the real path.”
I decided to turn left again and enter.
Jin opened the way by pushing the iron ball up with brute force.
And about halfway up the road, the two of them noticed a hole in the floor.
The iron ball could never fall, and it was a hole that a person could fit into.
“Isn’t it like a shortcut?”
“Yeah, maybe.”
After falling through the hole, a vast common landscape was revealed at once.
And the two immediately recognized that this cavity was a space used as a kind of ‘battlefield’.
The floor, walls, and even the ceiling were full of traces of battle.
They were traces of magic that had gone astray, starting with the sword scars, as if something had been scratched.
[Guu, uu, intrusion, reaching… … 3 minutes… … 24 seconds. New record, update. Average, 78 hours and 13 minutes, overkill, fast. Above superhuman level, strong… … .]
This time it was a golem.
Jin and Valeria turned their heads in the direction of the golem’s voice.
I saw a human-like golem with a body similar to Jin’s, moving awkwardly with yellow eyes.
’78 hours? If you don’t have the ability to take shortcuts, does that usually take that long? Rather, it doesn’t look like it’s even a biological golem, but it has this kind of judgment and intelligence?’
I had never heard of such a golem in my previous or present life.
[Honka… … Survival, OK. Tradition sites damaged, none. Red, hair, perfect, magical body. Hester. check. Best armed, 1st class hostility not applicable.]
The golem gave a slurred, slow voice.
Chee-yi-!
Suddenly, runes appeared all over the golem’s body, and tremendous magical energy began to be released.
Jin was more surprised by the golem’s intelligence than its magic power.
[The successor, the last… … The test begins. If you’re going to die, shout it out. surrender.]
Right after the golem finished speaking, transformation magic of a form he had never seen before began pouring out.
Jin and Valeria formed a protective shield at the same time, not to avoid getting hurt, but with the intention of examining the golem’s magic.
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The fact that a golem could use such high-level magic was surprising.
The golem told them to surrender if they were about to die, but the two of them watched the transforming magic with a comfortable mind for a while in the protective shield.
It was possible because Jin was there.
If it was an 8-star knight or wizard, he would never have been able to avoid the struggle, and the possibility of defeat was high.
“Your ancestor, you were an amazing person.”
“I’m in shock too.”
Honka said that she considered the traps Maliet had set up in the battlegrounds to be works of art, but the golem was probably the best among them.
“This magic… … Is it an infernal transformation? Changed the flow appropriately. The point at which the mana is released is particularly surprising.”
“It is also impressive that it is set to be cast together with the repeating flame jade. And seeing that the casting speed is at the level of a super-simultaneous chant holder, he’s probably shooting the magic stored in the runes.”
“Store magic in runes… … It’s theoretically possible, but how can you store this much high-level magic?”
“It’s impossible in the way normal wizards use it. I think it’s a variation of the record magic. It gave records the property of storage.”
As Valeria said, all of the golem’s magic was used by Maliette in her lifetime.
Malliet ‘recorded’ her magic to the golem.
“Record and save… … If this can be made into an alliance technology, all the knights in the alliance might be able to fight like magic swordsmen. Even if you don’t even have 1-star magic, you just have to use the stored magic at the right moment.”
Surprisingly, it was Valeria, not Jin, who said that.
Jin looked at Valeria’s profile with his eyes wide open.
Suddenly, Jin remembered that he liked seeing Valeria’s side profile like this in his previous life.
“Of course, it won’t be comparable to a real magic swordsman like you, but the fighting ability of all knights will be greatly improved. If we can study it, it will be as great a discovery as the communications device we were trying to find.”
Like that, the two of them talked for about 10 minutes under the shield.
By that time, the golem’s firepower was noticeably weaker than the first, as if it had run out of stored magic.
[10 minutes 32 seconds, elapsed, consuming magic, 871 pieces. Effective, hit, 0 times. test… … It’s over, successor.]
Soon, the golem erased the light from his eyes and said.
When Jin and Valeria removed the shield, the golem raised its left hand on its chest to show its respect.
[Follow me, come. Master’s, see the world… … It’s time.]
Jin and Valeria followed the golem and couldn’t take their eyes off its back.
Looking closer, the much more elaborate and complex build quality stood out.
After a few minutes, I saw a huge door that reached the ceiling.
[We will notify you in advance.]
“what? Is it something to keep in mind?”
[Inside, the deceased, who overlaid and recorded themselves on the lore, exists. They are, before, passers-by. The condition is, unstable, but harmless, so you can rest assured. Also, not your future. If you don’t make a choice yourself, like them.]
“Are you by any chance Jen Lutver?”
Valeria asked, and the golem nodded.
What was written in the letter was not a metaphorical expression, but a literal expression.
[Yes, and, Theben, Hester.]
“Theven Heister… … That must have been the honor of the ancestor who wrote this letter. okay. But what’s your name?”
Kurur… … !
The golem didn’t answer and placed his palm on the groove in the center of the door.
Then, a magical reaction occurred across the door, and brilliance arose.
Beyond the door that slowly began to open, the end of the lore was revealed.
A wide, open space like the sea on a sunny day, and hundreds of blue dots floating in it.
Each of those dots was a record window.
They are the essence of the record left behind by Maliet, which can be called ‘Maliette Hester’s World’, as Golem put it.
Valeria became pious in an instant, but before she could properly feel the emotion, she heard a new voice.
[Oh, oh! It’s a person, a living person! And new!]
[Finally, the descendant came… … !]
It was the voice of Theben and Jen.
They have ghostly, hazy features, but they have such excited faces that they can be recognized from a distance.
Valeria first bowed her head to them and showed her respect.
I wasn’t too embarrassed because I was used to meeting the dead these days.
“Nice to meet you, Ancestor. This is Valeria Heister.”
“This is Gene Runkandel.”
Theben and Jenn smiled broadly and immediately asked the two of them a question, instead of an answer.
[you guys!]
[Did you guys do all the weird stuff with elephant noses when you came in here too!?]
It’s not a question you’d ask a new person after 350 years, but it seemed like a very important question to Jen and Theben.
Golem looked at Zen and Theben and touched his forehead.
