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Grave of Swords (4)

The sword’s tomb was not far from the city.

Chris and his party, who were riding horses, knew at a glance that they had arrived at the ruins. That’s right, in front of the huge tunnel-like entrance, there were crowds of peddlers with stalls open.

Looking at them, Chris thought of his gloomy school days, especially the graduation ceremony and the day.

Illesis looked at them and tugged at Chris’s collar.

“Shouldn’t we stop by there and go?”

“don’t worry. I prepared everything I needed for the exploration in advance. They judge things at outrageous prices.”

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Merchants lined up equipment excavated from the ruins as well as consumables, but really good equipment was not sold in these places.

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Most of the items sold here as trash are items on the verge of being scrapped.

It is not a proper exploration team, but equipment left by grave robbers who tried to rob the tomb.

Tyrone and Illesis looked bitter when they saw the traces of those who were aiming for riches like themselves. Chris gets off his horse and packs his gear whether they do or not.

Illesis was worried that the horses left outside would be stolen, but the ghost horse greeted her as if to have a good trip.

“Purreuk. Food deuk.”

“Wow, is your attitude different towards this bastard Illesis?”

When Tyrone saw the heinous figure, he clicked his tongue and was kicked by the ghost horse’s hoof.

As the three men prepare to enter the graveyard of swords, competitors outside blow a whistle.

“Hey, are you going to fight with three people?”

“Why don’t you join us without getting hurt by acting like a guest?”

“Tyron. If they come after us, kill them.”

Chris answered in a small whisper.

It’s quite common to hit your rivals in the back in these ruins. Some even set traps along the way to prevent it.

When the three of them went deep enough to not hear the ridicule of their rivals, the whole view of the ruins was finally revealed.

Illesis and Tyrone, who expected a cramped crypt, were overwhelmed by the unexpectedly wide and high space.

Chris takes the lead by casting a night vision spell on Tyrone.

“I heard that an ancient city was buried entirely in the ground. When there are no attackers, the worker golems repair traps, so don’t be alarmed.”

“Remains subject to repair?”

Tyrone clicked his tongue at Chris’ words and drew his dagger.

Indeed, at the entrance of the ruins, there were a lot of remains of huge pillars and buildings.

The shape of a giant’s hand roughly driving the city into the ground. Vines and moss growing here and there represent the flow of time.

Chris strode forward, not wanting to waste time.

Illesis swallowed his saliva when the safe passage ended thanks to countless grave robbers passing by and soon came to a place where no footprints were left.

“chris! Now, I know you’re confident, but wouldn’t it be better to go a little slower?”

“Don’t worry too much.”

Chris, who stopped walking at her dissuade, finally pulled out his trump card.

As he uses the mirror ring, countless clones appear without sound.

Illesis was stunned to see it.

“This… Is this the epic item?”

“okay.”

As soon as he answered, Chris closed his eyes and moved his alter egos forward.

Tyrone nodded, as if he now understood his meaning.

“You thought you were going to explore with them from the beginning? Will your magic be okay?”

“that’s enough.”

The Mirror Ring is classified as an A-class epic item, so it has excellent cost performance, but it is difficult to trust only this and proceed with exploration. If a normal player tried the same thing as Chris, he would soon lie down from exhaustion of mana.

However, Chris’ magic power is more than 4 times that of normal players. The speed of mana recovery was also incomparable, so he was able to pull out as many clones as he needed.

Following Chris’ orders, the clones moved forward and soon set off traps all over the place.

Hit by arrows protruding from the wall, and the clones crushed by the rocks that fell from above, vanish so easily that it is futile.

However, there was still a lot of magic left to use to summon the clone again.

“Let’s see who wins.”

Chris rushed the clones until the trap ran out.

Soon, when the trap no longer worked, the three of them moved their precious bodies.

Those who safely passed the trap raised tension when they saw the light in their eyes that appeared in the dark.

“Are you enemies?”

“It’s a golem that guards the ruins. Illesis, step back… … .”

“The Earth Mother’s bondage, a piercing stone spear!”

Before Chris could finish his sentence, Illesis fired a series of high order spells and destroyed the golems.

The golems made of stone are so hard that even Tyrone would have a hard time defeating them very easily.

As the two men stare at Illesis, she tilts her head.

“what’s the matter? did i make a mistake? Since Chris needs to summon an alter ego, he thought it would be best to conserve his magic power as much as possible… … .”

“Oh, no. good job.”

“Hey, he said he was a student until recently.”

Surprised Chris struggled to say a word of praise, and Tyrone asked timidly.

Chris replies as if he is trying to convince himself.

“The student was a student, but he was a top-entry student and skipper at the royal Seidran, a prestigious school among prestigious schools. By the way, it’s the first time I’ve skipped a class in 20 years.”

“Is that too strong? If you fight me, won’t I lose?”

“Yeah, maybe you will lose.”

Chris was able to answer easily because he did not rate Tyrone’s fighting power so highly.

While Tyrone blushed slightly at his answer, Illesis caught Chris’ gaze anxiously.

“What’s wrong?”

“no. Then let’s move on.”

Even if he had been taught the secret art of sucking magic developed by Elgar, Illesis’ skill was a bit too good. But Chris didn’t think deeply about it.

The magician in the party is strong, so there’s nothing particularly bad about it.

Chris and his colleagues conducted the exploration with ease using the mirror ring and Illesis’ magic.

After going through the trap-filled aisles three more times, the party was finally able to find the seniors’ equipment.

Tyrone picked it up scattered across the corner of the building and shouted loudly.

“Oh, look at this. Don’t you think this pike would be useful?”

“hmm… It’s full of charged mana. I don’t think it’s worth much since the magic it’s hanging on doesn’t seem to be cool either.”

When the wizard, Illesis, made an accurate assessment, the excited Tyrone threw down his javelin.

Then, Chris speaks as if he were admonishing an immature child.

“This is still just the outskirts of the city. In a little while, the residential area of the old citizens will appear, so wake up.”

Eventually, as they left the outskirts of the city, Chris carefully summoned his alter ego to search ahead.

There were a lot of guard golems placed all over the place, so the risk increased, but the traps were noticeably reduced.

He probably gave up setting traps to secure the golems’ activity area.

Those were completely different models from the guys Illesis had killed earlier.

“From now on, I will avoid battle as much as possible. Those guys are the main culprits in driving out the expedition and robbers who attacked here.”

“At first glance, it looks much stronger than before.”

Illesis looked at the golems and nodded.

Chris has improved a lot in the meantime, but the guys in front of him now are formidable enemies who have annihilated the elites of each country. Therefore, combat should be kept to a minimum throughout the exploration. Even Chris can die if his mana is reduced and fatigue builds up from dealing with multiple enemies.

After a rough reconnaissance, he placed his alter egos one by one in each place.

“I’m going into the alley over there, so follow me. You won’t have much time.”

“There are still golems, so how… … .”

As soon as Tyrone revealed his question, the scattered clones began to move. The guys under Chris’ control catch the attention of the guard golems and quickly run away from their attacks.

The golems, who were tricked by a simple diversion operation, clear the way for Chris and his party to pass through.

“Okay, run.”

“As expected, a stone head is a stone head.”

Tyrone followed Chris in admiration at the back of the group.

Chris, who was detecting traps with his new alter ego, was able to meet old adventurers in a dark alley.

Those who seemed to be isolated among the guard golems have long since turned to white bones while leaning against the wall. I’m not sure of the details, but judging from the way he held his stomach, he seemed to have died from food exhaustion.

Illesis is appalled as Tyrone packs their gear one by one.

“Um… I feel like I’m doing something bad.”

“If it’s not us, there’s no one to take care of it, so what? How about this?”

“Oh, that looks pretty good. Most of the equipment here is of a high standard.”

Tyrone, who received Illesis’ appraisal, whistled and took the equipment one by one.

Prioritizing only the small and expensive-looking items, he secretly hid the rest in a corner.

“If you have space left in your bag when you return, take these with you. Wow, even if you sell this, you won’t have to worry about money for a while, right?”

Tyrone flirting with a jeweled ring.

In the meantime, Chris searched for the next area and deployed the clones again.

Without haste, he carefully measures the route and quietly sends a signal.

After that, the three easily broke through the ruins and took the property of the victims.

Tyrone said that he seemed to be making money too easily when he was expected to make a big income, but Chris had a slightly different idea. A talented person like him is risking his life to explore the dungeon, and if he doesn’t achieve this level of achievement, he will hit the target.

As the skinny backpack gradually swelled up, Chris considered the timing of returning to the city.

Tyrone, who was briefly summarizing today’s harvest, speaks with a remarkably bright expression.

“I just need to brush one more time. Let’s take a last look over there and go.”

“Is it so?”

After a brief thought, Chris nodded.

The harvest of exploration was already enough, so there was a sense of being a little greedy, but it was a pity that he hadn’t come up with a weapon he could use yet.

Long swords and one-handed swords were very popular weapons among adventurers raiding dungeons, so the quantity was not small, but none of them caught Chris’ eye.

So Chris, who accepted Tyrone’s opinion without difficulty, prepared a diversion of guard golems.

There were no mistakes as I planned it more carefully thinking that this was the last time.

It is not a mistake that holds Chris and his group back, but a different kind of hardship.

“Oops, it’s a trap!”

An arrow with a poison dart flew in front of Chris, who was running away from the golems.

Thanks to the alter ego, there was no harm, but the trap of this ruin was quite vicious and tricky. If there’s one trap you see, you’d have to assume that there are actually at least five of them.

Chris generously squeezed out his mana and summoned the alter egos, making them catch most of the traps with their bodies.

While he was following the path the clone had passed through, the stone floor he stepped on suddenly slumped.

‘Is this a decompression trap? What’s so elaborate about traps?’

The alter ego summoned by the mirror ring was a mass of magical power, so it was much lighter in weight than a normal human.

Because of this, this type of trap cannot be discovered by putting an alter ego ahead.

As Chris fell down, blaming himself for his mistakes, he heard Illesis’ sharp chant from behind.

“Flying Wings!”

Squeeze out and use the right spells precisely in the split second.

Chris, who learned magic at Seidran Royal, knew how difficult it was.

However, even Illesis’ excellent quickness could not overcome the trap maker’s arrangements.

“Thank you Elesh… Whoops!”

“no!”

Chris, who escaped danger thanks to the wings that sprouted from behind, received a strong shock and was thrown underground. It wasn’t enough that the ground suddenly disappeared, a part of the ceiling collapsed and a huge pile of dirt poured down.

Only then, no matter how many wings they have, they cannot escape the trap.

Chris slammed against the hard stone floor as he heard Elesis scream.

“Ugh! Oh really… Somehow it came off so easily.”

It was slammed to the ground from a height that might have been a three-story building, but thanks to the high power of magic, there were no major injuries.

However, because he fell underground, he was completely separated from his companions.

It was also very exciting news to be lost in the middle of the worst ruins on the continent.

When Chris got up from his seat, exclaiming annoyance and lamentation, the torches hanging on the walls around him suddenly began to burn one after another.

He saw the armor blocking his way and raised his sword and shield.