375 Finding Some Mysterious Abandoned Ruins
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“It seems you have taught these children quite well, my lord.” Said Eleanora.
“You’re still calling me “my lord”?” I sighed. “I’ve been trying to tell you to adress me normally for years now…”
“I-I’m sorry, I just… it’s feels embarrassing to call you by name…” She said. Eleanora quickly broke her character as she blushed.
“Well, I guess I am at fault for that. You’ve been calling me like that all of my previous life…” I said. “I never stopped you back then…”
“Indeed… Well, now that you’re my Master and I am your Spirit, I feel like it is even more fitting to not adress you so without some sort of honorific!” Said Eleanora while puffing her chest.
“Fine… Do as you wish, whatever makes you happy, I am happy too.” I said, I’ve completely given up on that.
“More importantly… do you really believe them when they said that?” Asked Eleanora.
“Partially… I know they might be still doubting. But they will eventually learn.” I said. “Part of life is to learn and experience new things that will make us learn even more. You could say that it is like an endless cycle of experiencing something new and understanding it. Even as bored as I felt sometimes… now that I’ve been reincarnated, I feel curious about everything, and learn every day something new. I suppose I’ve been looking at the big picture for way too long, narrowing my eyes from the obvious things in front of me.”
“Oh…” Eleanora sighed while feeling strangely surprised. “Have you become wiser or dumber? I wonder…”
“Hey now! Don’t just say that out of the blue…” I reprimanded her. Eleanora only chuckled a bit.
I suppose we have indeed grown closer if she feels the freedom to joke with me like that.
As our telepathic conversation came to an end, we reached the swamps.
In front of us, there was a large lake made out of blackish water, bubbling as if it were boiling. From within, there were many floating bones and rotting carcasses. There were almost no trees around this boiling pool of miasma.
However, right in front of this swamp, there was an underground facility. Something that might had been built some time ago, as it seemed slightly ancient.
A hole had been made thanks to the cooperation of my Horned Rabbit Familiars, leading all the way down to this place. The jump was long though, so we had to slowly descend through flight.
“S-So this is all Miasma…” Said Elizabeth. “Should we try to purify it?”
“It is useless. This much quantity is too hard to purify, after we are done here, we’ll call the help of the priests to purify this swamp.” I said. “If we take care of most of the danger in here, I am sure even those cowards will come here eventually. Though I might need your help at persuading them.”
“O-Oh… Well, I will do my best to convince papa and the rest, leave it to me!” Elizabeth seemed filled with the conviction.
“Make sure to act very cute, that always convinces the adults and boys!” Said Erika.
“I-I will!” Elizabeth said while feeling even more motivated.
Erika seemed to be rather experienced in such things… Is she trying to say that she convinces me by being cute? Hmph, I will let this slide for now.
“Well anyways we are going down this hole I dug with my familiars.” I pointed down at the hole, everybody suddenly stopped talking and looked at the hole.
It was several meters deep, too many to even count. They couldn’t even see the bottom.
“…What?” Asked Chris. “Are you sure?”
“This feels a bit risky…” Eric sighed. “Maybe we should go back home for now and tell the adults about this I am sure they can do something…”
“Come on Eric, we have to go on ourselves.” Said Erdrich. “Or how else can we grow stronger and Level Up as Blake says?” Asked Erdrich as his bloodlust was rather clear, he really wanted to beat those cultists.
“Y-You’re letting out a lot of bloodlust…” Eric pointed out.
“Oh? I am? Hahaha! My bad.” Laughed Erdrich, patting Eric’s back so strongly he made Eric almost empty the oxygen of his lungs.
“Augh… P-Please don’t pat my back so loud…” Eric cried, as Erdrich quickly realized he was damaging our slightly frail friend.
“O-Oh, sorry about that buddy.” He apologized.
“Anyways! How do you plan for us to go down Blake? Do you got a plan? Ah! Are you using your crazy magic again?!” Erika seemed excited about seeing my “crazy magic”.
“Yes something like that. But to save Mana, Eleanora is carrying us down.” I said. Eleanora quickly nodded as she suddenly generated several shadow tentacles and used them to wrap all of us into a ball, grabbing us without any problems and then expanding her Vampiric Wings.
“W-Wait, this is too inefficient!” Eric cried.
“Trust her.” I said with confidence.
“And on we go!”
FLAAAAAASH!
Eleanora quickly flew down so fast everyone felt like they skipped a beat.
CLAAASH!
When we finally hit the surface, Eleanora’s legs shook the ground below, generating a small earthquake. At the same time, we heard a loud echo. It seemed we landed in a very wide space.
“Light.”
FLASH!
I conjured the Tier 1 Light Attribute Spell simply named [Light] that can illuminate spaces that are shrouded by darkness. The sphere of light flew near the ceiling and stayed there, illuminating everything.
What we saw was a dungeon-like room, completely filled with skeletons, broken magic items, magic circles halfway made, and several corpses and body pieces of monsters and demons.
“T-This place is… some sort of place were they did experiments?” Wondered Eric, looking around.
“It does seem to be the case…” I analyzed, quickly realizing there was only one path which was right in front of us to continue.
“Through here, let’s go.” I guided them, as we walked forwards.
However, as we moved on, I suddenly felt the presence of a few entities- no, countless of them.
And they were all marching directly towards us.
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