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“It’s complete.”
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Aegis held up the doll with a trembling voice.
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A doll embedded with a Starlight Stone instead of a heart.
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It was a kind of golem, possessing the power to draw in and contain certain forces.
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SHUUUUUUUU—
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As proof that it was properly completed, starlight pouring in from the wide-open ceiling was filling the doll.
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No. 5 kept tilting its head, as if feeling a strange sense of familiarity.
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Evan rubbed his sore eyes.
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It was easier than I thought!!
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The time it took was roughly 2 hours.
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When I focused a bit, it just flew by.
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Fortunately, the method of making it was easier than expected.
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Aegis was beside me, and the shrine maiden was there to assist properly too.
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It’s not without regrets, though.
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Evan smacked his lips as he looked down at the first volume of Elixir Arts.
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Originally, he had planned to get a little used to elixir arts.
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But it failed.
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The reason?
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It was simple.
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You can’t learn this here. At least… it would require the old folks helping directly.
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It was too difficult.
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It required a high understanding of the human body.
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He wasn’t some doctor.
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It’s a shame.
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What Evan wanted was elixirs.
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The content in this book was related to human anatomy.
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Still, it wouldn’t be bad.
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If he learned it, it would be a great help.
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He might even improve his frail constitution with this.
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The drawings of the brain are a bit grotesquely done, making my stomach churn.
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The first volume of Elixir Arts mainly dealt with the human body, especially the human ‘brain’.
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The brain is the human mind.
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In other words, it is deeply related to the mental image.
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Understanding this would allow one to take a step closer to proper ‘human body refinement’.
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…Somehow, I ended up getting more material related to homunculi.
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It wasn’t intentional.
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Anyway, he’ll check it separately later.
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He should have Aegis review it too.
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It’s disgustingly grotesque.
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Old books are mostly like this.
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I see why alchemists were ostracized for no reason.
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Such a high understanding of the brain?
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It’s obvious at a glance.
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They must have killed and dissected people directly.
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Otherwise, this level of knowledge doesn’t make sense.
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What’s the difference from black mages?
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They raise dead humans indiscriminately, and this is the same kind.
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But I understood one thing.
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If there’s a problem with the brain, there’s a problem with the mental image.
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The mental image is the collection of achievements and power a person has built.
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If there’s a problem with that mental image.
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It means there’s an issue with the ‘domain’, the unique world used by those who have reached Sword Master or higher.
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In fact, there were cases where superhumans whose brains were damaged by drugs couldn’t use their domain at all.
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Not now, but in the future.
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There are crazy bastards who eat others’ brains to fix their mental image, but that’s what ignorant fools who couldn’t learn do.
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This is exactly when elixir arts should be used…
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There seemed to have been attempts to fix it in the past, with a line full of indignation.
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Fix by eating brains?
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What nonsense.
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It seems faster to die from disease?
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Uh. I should stop thinking about it now.
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CHUK!
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While opening the subspace and putting it inside.
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The doll had filled with starlight to its maximum.
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The shrine maiden carefully picked up the doll.
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Actually, it was too small to call a doll.
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Just the right size to attach to a bag.
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At most, keychain size?
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The shrine maiden raised her head.
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“…Thank you. Thanks to you two, it turned out well.”
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“You’re welcome.”
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“Evan did most of it.”
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“It seems preparations to enter are done now. Let’s rest briefly and go in right away.”
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“Yes.”
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The shrine maiden moved while carefully holding the doll in both hands.
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Is she planning to carry it like that?
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…You don’t have to worry about it breaking. It’s not weak in durability.
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Since it’s made of sand, it will auto-repair too.
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“But my heart…”
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“Then, for a moment.”
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Evan took the doll. As the maker, no understanding was needed, and through [Reconstruction], he reduced its size.
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He wove the remaining materials into a necklace and hung it around the shrine maiden’s neck.
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SLURK.
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“This way, it will be more convenient to carry.”
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The shrine maiden looked down at the doll for a moment.
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Unfamiliar with it, she fidgeted with the doll’s legs before expressing gratitude.
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“…Thank you.”
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“You’re welcome. Is there anything else you need?”
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“This is enough.”
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KUGUGUGUGU!
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The tightly closed door opened automatically.
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A middle-aged man in fluttering white robes.
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Purity gazed at us with emotionless eyes.
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“Are preparations complete?”
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“Yes.”
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“EVAAAAN! I’m here!”
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Lapis running from far away.
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Her arms full of vegetables.
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Where did she get those from?
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He alchemically made a basket to hold them, and Lapis and Felix fully joined.
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He also picked up Hati and Skoll, who were still sleeping soundly in the corner.
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Wow, looking at it like this, it’s completely a raid party?
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“Preparations are complete.”
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FLUTTER—
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Purity turned his body.
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His pure white robe fluttered.
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“Let’s enter like this.”
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“Anything else?”
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“These clothes and weapons. This is sufficient.”
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Wow, damn, so cool.
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Should I try that too?
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Evan packed as usual.
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A strange confidence boiled in his chest!
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Yeah! What preparations!
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Go like a real man!
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And a moment later.
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Evan regretted it.
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Sh, shit.
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A space where space-time is twisted.
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He thought it would be much further in the past than now.
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HWIIIIIIING!
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“It’s snowing.”
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“It’s snow, huh.”
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“Is this snow?”
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This is too far in the past!
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Surprisingly, a snow mountain unfolded.
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He thought it would be a jungle at best?
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SHIVER SHIVER SHIVER.
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Cold.
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So cold!
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He might freeze to death like a dinosaur.
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His nose tickled, and eventually, he sneezed.
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“Achoo!”
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“Evan! Are you okay?”
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“Yes. I’m fine.”
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The staff Evan held trembled.
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Hati and Skoll, held in his arms, hurriedly shared their warmth.
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Even that was far from enough.
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He couldn’t endure this.
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Real man or whatever, he had to survive first.
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“La, Lapis. Th, thread.”
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“Yes!”
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Lapis quickly pulled out threads with mana.
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For now, let’s make do with this.
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He held the threads and used alchemy, filling the inside and outside of the living armor with fur.
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Warmth finally began to circulate.
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Life returned to his cheeks.
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I, I’m alive!
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HUH!
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White breath scattered over his lips as he exhaled.
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How long could he last?
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One thing was certain.
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With this frail body of Evan’s, he wouldn’t last long!
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I roughly grasped where this is.
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“!?”
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“?”
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“Everyone, may I have a word?”
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“I think I roughly know the feel of it.”
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CRUNCH.
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Footprints remained on the white snow.
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“As quickly as possible… let’s resolve the issue. Is that okay?”
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“Yes. Of course.”
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“Yeah. Of course.”
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“I’ll like anything if Evan does it!”
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The others nodded in agreement.
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Evan tightly fastened his clothes.
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“Then… No. 5. Please.”
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Let’s go!
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***
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The objectives inside the dungeon are largely two.
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One is to find the missing persons,
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And the other is to conquer the dungeon.
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“We will narrow the search range.”
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“The search range?”
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“Yes. We will explore only that village.”
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“Why?”
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“First, the scope of this dungeon isn’t that wide.”
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He had already checked with alchemy’s range.
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Just a bit smaller than the imperial capital.
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Nothing existed outside there.
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Meaning outside the dungeon.
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An invisible barrier was up, preventing exit.
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“And looking at this weather, ordinary people can’t survive outside.”
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“But if they’re strong, they might have endured.”
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“If they were that strong, they would have reached the village long ago. Also, among the missing, there are no mid-tier knights or higher. Right?”
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“Correct.”
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Purity nodded.
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As a result of this reasoning, that is.
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“The missing persons will be in the village. The ‘boss’, the core of the conquest, is also highly likely in the central village.”
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“Normally, I could read it with constellations.”
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The shrine maiden rubbed her eyes with a bitter smile.
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“But now I can’t see… so this time, I’ll follow Evan’s opinion.”
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Nice!
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Evan cheered inwardly.
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With this, half is success.
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“Let’s head straight to the village.”
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“Yes.”
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“Evan, shall I carry you on my back?”
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“No. 5.”
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No. 5 bent down and carried Evan.
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Felix quietly began guarding Evan’s back.
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Lapis puffed her cheeks, complaining why he didn’t trust her, and chewed on a thorn-removed cactus she had brought.
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“Euck! It’s hard!”
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She screamed at the frozen cactus.
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Aegis muttered.
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“It won’t be dangerous, right?”
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“When I approached before, the residents weren’t dangerous.”
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“Then?”
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“The underground was dangerous. Dangerous monsters were lurking.”
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Underground.
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Is that the boss?
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Bosses in space-time twisted dungeons are largely divided into two types.
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Like normal dungeons, a monster as boss, or the ‘central figure’ of the dungeon as boss.
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The central figure at this point, the reason for the same background as now.
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If it’s a monster, easy.
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Just kill it!
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Much easier than catching an intelligent being.
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We soon arrived at the village.
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However, we couldn’t enter right away.
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The sign at the village entrance.
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Instead of a name, red letters were written.
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[Honorable life.]
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[Glorious death.]
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Bent sideways, exuding an ominous feeling.
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Distortion of space-time.
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The shrine maiden signaled with her eyes.
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Meaning to follow carefully.
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HAHAHAHA!
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HAHAHAHAHA!
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Laughter coming from inside the village.
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The village was in a festival mood.
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Clothes layered several times to withstand the biting cold, beer mugs and vodka in hands, axes for chopping wood.
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It seemed harmonious in a way.
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Just as the shrine maiden’s expression was about to soften a bit, Purity pulled her back.
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“!”
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“Honorable life!”
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“Glorious death!”
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The people who were laughing just now.
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They swung weapons at each other’s heads.
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CLANG!
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CRASH!
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CRACK!
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Heads cracked, shattered, split.
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Brains and blood poured onto the snow.
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Evan screamed inwardly.
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KYAAAAAAA!
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UAAAAAAAH!
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Not just cleanly killing, but smashing with blunt weapons, physically breaking heads.
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The axe even split a head in half!
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His complexion worsened in an instant.
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Good thing the cold hid it!
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Evan forced his head away.
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Good that his face was stiff.
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“…They’re all already broken.”
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The shrine maiden said with a gloomy expression.
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“They couldn’t maintain sanity in the twisted time and space.”
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“Then what do we do?”
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“…It’ll be fine to leave them. These people don’t die anyway.”
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Killing and being killed.
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Yet the dungeon persists, and the village is intact.
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This means one thing.
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“An infinite loop of repetition.”
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The shrine maiden said in a depressed voice.
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“Their time is already twisted… repeating infinitely.”
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“That means?”
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“They’ll revive soon.”
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The shrine maiden clutched her head.
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“What should we do with these people…”
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“Ending it is the way.”
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Purity stepped forward one step.
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“There isn’t. They’ll just become part of the repeating time. But even for that brief moment, wouldn’t it be better to give them rest?”
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Wait a minute.
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Just kill them?
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Wait wait wait!
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“Didn’t you say killing has no meaning?”
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Evan hurriedly opened his mouth.
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If you’re going to kill, kill somewhere else, not in front!
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If we clear this dungeon, won’t the dead people not revive?
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“Rather, subduing would be better, wouldn’t it? That way, it won’t be troublesome.”
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“That’s true too.”
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“Then.”
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Aegis touched the wall.
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Nearby items wriggled like earthworms and tightly bound their bodies.
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“This should do, right?”
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“Yes. This seems sufficient.”
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Phew.
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Saved.
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He split potions a bit for the injured.
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Just enough to extend life.
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Anyway, planning to conquer the dungeon quickly.
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No need to heal everything at once.
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“You’ve come.”
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“Yes?”
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Purity muttered, staring somewhere.
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Everyone turned their heads.
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DRIP, DROP—
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A man with black fluid dripping.
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Deep footprints and fluid remained on the pure white snow.
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“Huh?”
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Aegis’s eyes widened.
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“Pu, Purity?”
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Purity.
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A person who looked exactly like him was standing there.
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Covered entirely in black fluid.
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The real Purity just stared with his usual expressionless face.
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“It’s been a long time. Seeing my people enduring without dying.”
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The man who resembled Purity bowed his head, wiping the fluid from his face with his hand.
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“I express gratitude. For saving my people.”
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“…People?”
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“I am the king of this kingdom, their leader. And…”
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The man slowly raised his head.
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“The ‘core’ of this dungeon that you seek.”
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“!”
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The shrine maiden widened her eyes and turned to Evan.
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Still expressionless.
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As if he knew this would happen.
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Was that why he said not to kill?
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To buy favor from the dungeon’s core and king?
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What.
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Two Purities?
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Evan looked at the man with puzzled eyes.
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