Chapter 318: translated
I Killed the Demon King. It Was a Mistake.
Chapter 318
Caesar followed Raven.
Where Raven moved forward as if entranced, there was a flat, disc-shaped rock.
'Up to here, it's exactly the same as the content of the Valent Saga.'
There are exactly two ways to get to the City of Sin, Grezawa, through Undertour.
One is to find the entrance with Moonflower, like now.
The other is to gather information spread throughout Undertour to find the entrance.
However, the first method is impossible to achieve in the game.
First, the Moonflower can only be obtained by those born as wizards, and the quest to find the City of Sin, Grezawa, is only possible for those born as adventurers.
Even if you try to head to Undertour as a wizard to find the City of Sin, Grezawa, and try to dive, using the Moonflower itself is impossible.
This was made impossible by the game system, so there was nothing that could be done.
Then what about adventurers? First, it is possible to find the entrance by gathering rumors spread throughout Undertour. Didn't Mayor Gelman hire adventurers to send them to the entrance of the City of Sin, Grezawa?
If you complete a few hidden missions in Undertour, you can find the entrance to Grezawa. But the problem is that it's at the bottom of the river, and all the adventurers who went to find Grezawa have disappeared.
Since nothing is known about what's on the path to Grezawa and why they didn't return, it's impossible to know what to prepare.
From then on, it depends on the sense of the player playing the game and the abilities of the character.
Flash!
With an unidentifiable sound, a hole appeared in the disc.
A narrow hole just big enough for one person to enter. Raven inserted her body through the hole. Caesar first sent Gloria right behind Raven.
'From now on, it's maze navigation.'
Whether one can find the path to Grezawa depends on the proficiency of an adventurer's 'Search Skill.' You must have the Search Skill raised to S rank to find it, and below that, you cannot.
Of course, Caesar remembers the entire path to the City of Sin, Grezawa. But the reason Caesar didn't take the lead and deliberately put Raven in front was because he had used 'Psychometry' on the adventure log written by Cheche himself.
Cheche had explained that the moment he entered this hole with the Moonflower 'moonlight creatures' guided him.
'This must be what he meant.'
While Raven might not notice because she was distracted by the Moonflower, Caesar and Gloria could physically feel the guidance of magical creatures.
As soon as Caesar and Gloria entered this deep, dark passage, something alive kept pushing and pulling them.
It felt like receiving the rough care characteristic of wild animals.
'We must be going the right way.'
At the first fork, the correct path is the first path on the left, and all other paths at the fork are dead ends.
The other paths have various magical traps or 'Golden Monsters.' Encountering traps underwater is terrible, but meeting those monsters is the worst.
Raven moved unhesitatingly toward the first fork. It seemed the magical creatures were properly showing the way.
Flash!
As they approached the fork, the entire passage was bathed in white light. As Raven's floating magic was cut off, Caesar, Gloria, and Raven all slowly fell to the floor of the passage.
It was a magic nullification trap.
This was not the kind of trap that could be avoided, so it couldn't be helped.
Then, Raven stopped in her tracks.
This was because there was a diving suit at the entrance of the first fork that had been torn to pieces, with limbs severed, as if mauled by something.
***
Roland followed the eye of the Holy Grail. The eye of the Holy Grail was clearly pointing to beneath the river.
Roland's diving suit was an artifact.
Since one cannot swim while wearing a heavy diving suit, the suit itself had a special 'underwater swimming magic' cast on it, allowing Roland to move quickly as he wished.
Seeing how it moved precisely in the direction Roland was looking, it was undoubtedly a proper diving suit.
Then, Roland's eyes caught sight of a flat, disc-shaped rock.
-There is a flat, disc-shaped stone under the river.
-That is said to be the passage to the City of Sin, Grezawa.
Roland stood near the disc. The light of the Holy Grail was still pointing downward.
'So they must have gone to find Grezawa.'
Why would they be heading to the City of Sin, Grezawa?
No, why specifically the City of Sin, Grezawa?
Roland and the other Holy Grail knights could not relax their hardened expressions.
Roland moved toward the disc-shaped rock. The center of the rock opened, and moonlight poured down.
Roland inserted his body into the hole. Penetrating through the deep, dark passage was a tense affair even for knights with strong hearts.
An ordinary person would have fainted long ago from claustrophobia. But the Holy Grail knights pressed forward with firm resolve, with the sole determination to find the saint.
How far had they gone like that?
Roland and the Holy Grail knights encountered their first obstacle.
Flash!
With a white light, the underwater swimming magic cast on Roland's diving suit was extinguished.
The realization that they would have to move through this deep passage not by swimming but by walking was daunting, but soon they faced a second obstacle.
A fork in the road. And there were four paths.
The light of the Holy Grail pointed to the third path on the right, but it wasn't easy to choose a path blindly in a situation where they didn't know how many more forks might be waiting ahead.
Roland examined the floor. Caesar must have fallen into the same magic nullification spell.
If so, he would have walked, and surely left traces.
Roland examined the floor and saw the two most recent footprints left behind.
There were footprints from three people in total, one on the first path to the left, and another on the third path from the left, which the light of the Holy Grail was pointing toward.
'Let's go.'
Time is precious. The extra oxygen tanks Roland brought have 2 each. Since each tank can be used for 1 hour, they can only last for 3 hours. If they delay like this, they won't be able to accomplish anything. Roland trusted the light of the Holy Grail and proceeded toward the third path.
***
Caesar moved forward comfortably.
Although magic cancellation spells were deployed multiple times, it didn't particularly matter. Caesar had intentionally created items without any magical equipment.
Then, a strange sound reached Caesar's ears.
Crack!
"Huh?"
The glass part of Caesar's helmet cracked.
Crack! Crack!
"What?"
As Caesar became flustered, Gloria stopped walking. Gloria looked at the glass part of Caesar's helmet. The glass part of Caesar's helmet was increasingly cracking. Given that Gloria's diving suit was intact, it seemed that Caesar's helmet had developed a microscopic crack during the earlier confrontation with Roland.
If the helmet breaks here, it would be a disaster. Gloria urgently grabbed Raven and pointed at Caesar.
Crack! Crack!
The entrance of Caesar's helmet screamed.
Raven used a shield spell on Caesar's helmet.
Although this prevented the crack from extending further, Caesar's expression was not good. Not because the helmet was damaged, but because Raven had used magic.
'Oh no.'
Caesar had told them not to use magic under any circumstances.
But Raven had no choice.
If the shield spell hadn't protected Caesar's helmet, Caesar would have died.
Raven saw the magical creatures glowing erratically.
They seemed to be greatly startled by something and scattering in all directions.
Caesar urgently took the lead. Raven found it difficult to understand why Caesar was moving so urgently.
But soon, the reason became clear. Rusty golden fish were swarming in from the path they had just passed through. They weren't just ordinary fish; their mouths were full of sharp, serrated teeth.
'Could it be that the adventurer we encountered earlier...!'
Raven recalled the adventurer's corpse from earlier, which had been so thoroughly gnawed that not even bones remained. She had wondered what had eaten it so grotesquely, and it seemed it was these golden fish.
Raven walked hard, matching Caesar's pace. But with Raven's stamina and strength, it was difficult to keep up with Caesar and Gloria.
Raven used magic toward the passage where the fish were entering. Thick ice formed from Raven's fingertips and completely blocked the passage.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
The sound of fish ramming into the ice passage was heard, and eventually they created a narrow path and broke through. Raven's expression hardened because she hadn't thought they could break through the ice wall she created so easily.
Compared to the fish's swimming, Raven's steps were like a snail's.
Strength drained from Raven's legs. In a place filled with water, running quickly was impossible from Raven's perspective.
A golden fish charged at Raven to bite her.
Just as Raven was about to use magic...
Slash!
Caesar's lefty moved.
Swinging it strongly enough to repel the golden fish, his diving suit couldn't withstand the force.
Crack!
With the sound of Caesar's diving suit distorting, water leaked in.
Oxygen escaped in the form of air bubbles. The golden fish rushed toward Caesar like a school of piranhas.
If they continue like this, everyone will die. Caesar raised Lefty.
Even Caesar couldn't handle such a large number. Those golden fish weren't simple fish but monstrous creatures created by a dragon's curse according to the setting.
Monsters cursed by dragons cannot be dealt with by ordinary methods.
'Will the Art of the Clear Field work here too?'
The Art of the Clear Field is basically based on the Art of Path of the Wind.
The problem is that water and air have different qualities and densities.
The answer to the question Caesar had asked himself was meaningless. If he doesn't act, they will die.
Caesar swung Lefty in a large circle. Through lefty, he read the density of the water and its flow. Water was certainly thousands of times denser than air.
Moreover, this place was nearly 40m deep. It's incomparable to swinging an axe in a swimming pool.
By normal methods, he couldn't even activate the Art of the Clear Field. Caesar drew a picture in his mind. The clear field spread before his eyes. But water slowly filled from the bottom of the clear field and rose high into the sky.
The grass swayed slowly in the water current. Caesar realized that to activate the Art of the Clear Field in this density would require tremendous power. Caesar took a deep breath.
Clear Field Form 9
Storm’s Eve
Aura poured into Caesar's body like a tide.
Caesar concentrated this unprecedented power in both shoulders and both legs.
Water had already filled Caesar's diving suit up to his mouth. Strong water pressure pressed down on his body.
Nevertheless, Caesar didn't stop drawing the picture. The picture Caesar wanted was just one thing: To create a flow in the water filling the clear field.
Caesar turned his body not toward the direction of the fish, but toward where Raven and Gloria were standing.
And Caesar swung down Lefty.
Clear Field Form 7
Storm
As Lefty was swung down, Caesar's diving suit exploded, and simultaneously, a destructive wave surged toward Gloria and Raven.
***
Gloria found it difficult to regain her senses as she was swept away by the powerful current created by Caesar.
Just as she was struggling to gather her thoughts and figure out where they were heading......
Swoooooosh!
Gloria was ejected somewhere.
Crack!
At that moment, Kos burst through the damaged diving suit from the inside and helped Gloria land properly on the ground.
Following that, when Raven emerged, Kos caught her.
Raven's diving suit was not in normal condition either. It was already crumpled and damaged in various places, with water leaking in.
"Lady Raven!"
Gloria quickly removed Raven's helmet and shook her.
"Lady Raven! Are you alright? Lady Raven!"
As Gloria frantically shook Raven, Raven frowned and got up.
"I'm awake. Stop it."
Raven raised her eyes to look at the wall. There was a large dragon's mouth on the wall, from which water was gushing out violently. It seemed that Raven and Gloria had been ejected from there.
"Wait a moment, Master!"
When Gloria shouted, her voice echoed throughout the cavern.
"Master!"
Gloria stood up abruptly and called out. At that moment, Raven grabbed Gloria's wrist.
"Wait, Gloria."
"We need to find the Master quickly."
"Can't you hear that sound right now?"
"Pardon?"
Clink! Clink! Clink!
The sound of hundreds of knights moving simultaneously could be heard.
Raven and Gloria identified the source of the sound of steel striking the floor.
"......My goodness."
In the distance, golden humanoid figures were walking in formation through the ruined underwater city.
The blue aura flowing from their eyes was certainly not friendly toward Gloria and Raven.