Regressor, Possessor, Reincarnator

Episode 82

Allen’s Joe got used to the ruins day by day.

Unlike the second day, where most of the day was spent and passed through the first floor, the record began to shorten as time passed.

On the third day, they didn’t just go down to the second floor, they passed about 30%.

On the fourth day, I almost managed to cross the second floor.

If William hadn’t been exhausted from the forced march that lasted several days, he might have gone down to the third floor.

On the fourth and fifth days, I took a break to relieve the accumulated fatigue.

On the sixth day, the party, who was going to enter the ruins in a fully recovered state, passed the second floor safely and went down to the third floor.

On the third floor, not only the Living Dead, but also golems began to appear.

The party tried to break through the 3rd floor as quickly as the 2nd floor, but due to the stronger golems and secret traps, they had no choice but to spend time acclimatising around the beginning.

So, on the seventh day, I completely acclimatized to the third floor, and one day later, on the eighth day, I succeeded in reaching the fourth floor only after half of the days I practiced.

The next morning after returning from an arduous journey in one night.

Ariel opened her mouth with a serious face.

“It can’t be like this.”

“What do you mean? Weren’t you doing well?”

Evan answered with a puzzled face and adjusted the bonfire.

There was a fragrant smell from the pot fixed over the fire. Unlike the first day of eating plain soup, Evan got used to it enough to make this dish good.

Well, it was thanks to the salt I got from the merchant.

“Absolutely not. Evan, how long did it take us to get down to the fourth floor?”

“… Well, except for days off, 6 days?”

“okay! 6 days! Going down to the 4th floor, half of my practice days have already been consumed!”

Despite her enthusiasm, Evan had a sullen face.

“Still, there are only 3 floors left until the 7th floor. Thinking about the remaining period, I think it will be possible enough?”

“The lower you go, the higher the level gets! Even if I do my best for the remaining 6 days, my estimate is that the 5th floor is the limit. They are physically too far away.”

“Isn’t that enough?”

Ariel patted his chest as if his attitude was suffocating.

“No, haven’t you heard the news? The group Maria belongs to has already completed the map up to the second floor and then entered the third floor!”

Her appearance was different from before.

Minimal light makeup and modest leather gear over the academy uniform.

The arrogant princess who entered the academy was nowhere to be seen, and there were only archers thinking to somehow get ahead.

“… what? Wasn’t the reason we gave up on the complete attack because it was too difficult? By the way, did you finish attacking the second floor and come down to the third floor?”

“Yes. I even ignored it for being less… .”

She continued talking after examining Allen’s expression as she spoke.

“It is said that a lot of relics are found in each room where the supplementary group is found. Although the score is low, the number of relics is not that great, so I think we will at least go to the top.”

She wasn’t the only one who changed.

Evan has put aside some useless manners, bluffs, and arrogance while going back and forth between the ruins.

“It means that we are not the only ones going ahead.”

“… Then it’s difficult.”

“Well, then what do you do? Shouldn’t the goal be changed to a complete attack rather than the shortest breakthrough even now? .”

William, who emptied a bowl of soup, said cautiously, but Ariel shook her head as if it wasn’t.

“It was too late. It will only take a long time to uncover all the maps from now on.”

“… then.”

“We need to tweak our goals a bit.”

The only thing that hasn’t changed the same as the first is Allen.

“I have something on my mind… , How about Allen? Let me know if you have something in mind first.”

If a little dignity was not reflected in their actions, they would look like young mercenaries or adventurers.

Or maybe you look like an ordinary colleague or a plain student.

He himself is no different from them… .

Allen came to his senses at Ariel’s puzzled gaze. The straight eyes of her crew pierced Allen.

“Is there any problem?”

“If you are sick, I will treat you… .”

“I was thinking about what to do next, as Ariel said.”

“Then you mean you have a barrier… ?”

Allen put the answer he had been thinking about in his mouth at the gaze that was filled with subtle anticipation.

“It can’t be said that it is a barrier. It’s just a measure that has been squeezed out somehow.”

“But tell me quickly.”

Allen responded briefly to the members’ torch that it was okay though.

“Missing superstition, guardian of the seventh floor.”

“Five!”

When Evan’s exclamation, which seemed to have guessed something, turned Ariel’s gaze, and Evan turned his head with a humble face.

“Hey, I’m just going to admire it.”

“… uhh.”

I looked at him with Ariel’s pitiful gaze.

“If you don’t know, I’ll just keep quiet like William, Evan!”

“… Oh, I got it. But isn’t William always quiet? ?”

“It’s about being half alike.”

“Well, I’m not that quiet… .’

As Evan sank quietly and William was also dehydrated, Allen continued his explanation.

“The original plan was to get to the 7th floor as quickly as possible, but… , no matter how you move in the time of the day, it is best to go up to the 5th floor due to the limitation of the physical distance.”

“If the time of the day is an issue, even if it’s a forced march… .”

“Then, can you pass the sixth floor, which is lower than the fifth floor, without taking a day off? No, even if you pass that way, you won’t be able to catch the lowest level Guardian you think will be stronger.”

Evan did not respond to Allen’s coherent explanation.

“I don’t even have the stamina to do that.”

This time William’s face darkened.

“Of course, as long as you are moderately satisfied with your score, it doesn’t matter… If you’re going to aim for it, shouldn’t you be aiming for first place?”

“No, that’s right.”

Evan and William nodded their heads in agreement.

“Originally, we thought that we would be able to aim for 1st place just by successfully breaking through to the 7th floor in the shortest time, but we are currently narrowing the gap with us in other ways, so we need a sure way.”

“Then the other way Allen said would be… .”

Ariel muttered that she was crazy over and over whether she understood the superstition and the meaning of the guardian that Allen was talking about, and eventually asked directly.

“Allen, I hate to say this… , are you really crazy?”

“I’m not the only one who feels that way, am I?”

Allen slapped the blade as if telling the groaning Bestla to be quiet.

She raised the corners of her lips with a face that she couldn’t think of when they first met.

“I like it. very.”

William and Evan looked at each other with puzzled expressions on the unfamiliar story. He burst into laughter when he heard that he liked Bestlaman.

There are many superstitions in the super-large ruins, even in other ruins.

When I looked back, the companions following me disappeared, the ghosts of the sleeping ancients were wandering around, or the ruins were in fact preparations for an unimaginable destruction.

Most of those myths are lies that cannot be proven, but… , the real thing sometimes exists.

Looking back, the reality of the story of the disappearance of a colleague is nearby.

It was moved by magic, a large plant swallowed it whole, or an unknown machine erased it in an instant.

It is a trap that appears frequently, and even if the types of relics are different, the moving trap was one of the traps that can be easily found.

The method was different for each ruin, but it was the same in that allies disappeared after opening their eyes.

As it is such a common trap, there were definitely traps in which allies disappeared in an instant even in this very large ruin.

Allen’s Joe had never experienced it before, though.

‘Shouldn’t I use this?’

‘Are you all motivated?’ At present, the other members were scattered.

William turned to the commoners he knew, while Evan and Ariel approached other nobles.

Alexius and Milred, who arrived late, also moved to look for other seniors and guides.

‘Bestla.’

‘… Bestla?’

“Ah, ah, yes. why?”

She made a stupid sound as if she had now heard Allen.

‘What’s going on? I can’t talk much these days.’

“No, I was thinking about something else for a moment. Sorry.”

Perhaps because Allen did not use a sword, she became less talkative after entering the ruins.

“Are you referring to what we talked about at dinner earlier?”

‘okay.’

“I think it’s ok as long as it’s not dangerous. It is also safe thanks to the artifacts, so there is virtually no danger.”

‘okay. Among the many traps, if you use a trap that moves you to the lower floor, you will be able to jump over the stairs.’ After that, if you catch the guardian of the ruins on the 7th floor, others will not be able to overcome the gap no matter what.

“It’s really good. AHH. I hope there will come a time when I will use the sword.”

Bestla grunted in an exaggerated voice for nothing.

‘maybe… , maybe sooner or later.’

“Really, really?”

“Hurray!”

Allen’s gaze turned to the entrance of the ruins, where a commotion was heard as if something had happened.

“What happened all of a sudden?”

“Hey, don’t you know there’s a riot now? The one you got the Escape Artifact, you said, doesn’t work?”

“What? is that real? No, I hope… .”

According to the story I heard, Joe, who was exploring the second floor, was on his way back and found the students who had passed out and collapsed on the first floor.

Escape Artifacts forcibly evacuate students when they sense danger to the bearer.

The same goes for fainting or fainting.

If consciousness was lost, the artifact had to be activated for some reason.

But didn’t all the fallen students escape?

“Notify all students who are not currently entering the ruins! Due to an accident, the schedule will be temporarily suspended. Once again, al… .”

“No, Professor. what does that mean… .”

It sounds like something in the ruins has finally started moving.

Unlike the second floor, at the entrance going down to the 3rd and 4th floors, there was no information that was directly related to black books or white books.

Then, the incident happened, and it was fortunate for Allen.

‘… Should we investigate the old mythology era?’

Allen recalled the writing on the doorway leading down to the 3rd and 4th floors.

Το ιερ? δ?ντρο δεν ?χει καν φυτρ?σει.

Ο Σο?ρι, που υποτ?θεται ?τι ?ταν στην κορυφ? στ?χτη?, ?χασε ?ναν φ?λο του.

Μ?νο ο γελοιοποιημ?νο? που κουβαλο?σε το πτ?μα κρ?φτηκε μ?νο? του σε ?να υπ?γειο.

μεγ?λο? βασιλι??, πατ?ρα? των σοφ?ν, Το Evil Thorns βρυχ?ται.

?χω κρ?ψει κρυφ? ?ναν πολ?τιμο θησαυρ?.

?ποιο? κι αν, θα αποκτ?σετε καλ?τερο? σ?ντροφο? για το υπ?λοιπο τη? ζω??.

The sacred tree has not yet sprouted.

The repair scheduled for the top spot of ashes has lost a friend.

Only a sneer bearing a corpse hid alone in a dungeon.

The great king, the father of the wise, the evil hand cries out.

Because I secretly hid a precious treasure.

Whoever will get the best companion for the rest of their lives.

The advance team that entered the ruins and the basement of the 7th floor where none of the students entered.

The hall on the lowest floor of the ruins.

A place where only the academy’s investigation team checked out and left.

In such a place, a doll was busy moving.

The golem, the size of a garden, guarding the depths, remained in place without even realizing it.

What he did was simple.

Tak- Tak- Tak-

“Erase this… , leave this alone.”

Getting rid of the murals and sentences that need to be erased, leaving only what should be left behind.

“I’m glad we finished it before the comet fell.”

brown-haired green eyes.

A middle-aged man with a protruding stomach finished the work without losing a smile on his face.

“If I had come a little earlier, I would have finished upstairs… .”

He clouded his expression as if he was sorry, and pulled out a small mirror from his arms.

And with a reverent expression, he knelt down and opened his mouth.

“Kasha-sama, all work is finished.”

“Good work.”

A beautiful voice came from the mirror.

He flinched for a moment, then lowered his head deeper.

“Oh, no. Isn’t it all his arrangement!”

“Yeah, all your hard work will be rewarded… .”

The surface of the mirror began to discolor black.

“Fern.”

“AHH… .”

The blackened mirror emits a white light for a moment, then swells up in an instant and swallows the man.

The golem checked the place belatedly, but couldn’t find anything as if there was someone there.

The space fell into silence again.