30 - To the Underground Lake

<You leveled up.>

The place where we left the room was a vast underground lake.

With such a large space underneath the royal capital, I was worried about a rock fall or something, but according to the history books of the royal capital, nothing happened for at least 500 years, so I guess it’s safe.

There are eight kinds of beasts that live in this underground lake that we have just encountered.

One of the monsters was a big slime. It’s a familiar monster, and it can’t beat Dekasura-san, who is of high-ranking species. Fornutanelty, I recovered the intact nucleus.

A crab larger than a Big Scissor is a Great Scissor Crab. The scissors are ringed and large, and look good enough to eat.

The big lizard there was a wild lizard. It seems to have a basic bite attack, and the strength of its limbs is so strong that it could have pierced and bitten Dekasura-san.

The larger version of the pebble soldier is a rock soldier. It had gone from being a misshapen doll to a beautifully equipped humanoid.

They were slow, and when Dekasura-san held them down, they could hardly move.

A Big Frog. It has strong acidic saliva, that is caused by magic, and when you apply magic power to it, it becomes just mucus. Gross.

The Greater Cockroach is a huge cockroach that moves even faster than the Big Cockroach, but it’s useless if it runs into Dekasura-san.

The Greater bat is a giant bat. Not only is it huge, but in its fangs it also has paralysing poison and it emits sound waves that interferes with magic slightly

Its low defense makes it easy to knock down.

The Giant Spider is a big spider. It’s a monster that uses its sticky threads to trap its prey, and then uses its poisonous fangs to weaken and eat them.

The problem is that there are slimes that can be digested regardless of their viscosity.

It seems that the beasts in the underground lake are basically higher than me, and I already levelled up 2 times.

Of course, there’s no way we can fight them all in a row, and 90% of the enemies that came at us were defeated by the spirit.

She shoots water bullets in rapid succession, has unusually large water cutters that shoot water blades, or simply manipulates water to suffocate them, but it’s still incredibly strong. It’s like the quintessential spirit.

On the way, I asked her why she was helping me. “It’s only natural because you know the wise man~.” And the wise man is the Old Man, right? …Did Reinya talk about it?

At any rate, I took the beasts we killed. It seems that the spirit has no particular use for them.

I picked up a few other items.

The red stone is a fire stone. The blue stone is a Seishi (water spirit stone). The green stone was a windstone. The yellow stone was an earthstone. Then the iron ore overflowed from the exposed veins.

Perhaps because this was a place where the spirit came, we were able to obtain a type of stone called Seishi.

It’s called a spirit stone, and it’s not something you can get very often around here, so I’m glad I got it.

Was it a lightning spirit stone that was used in the wand Reina had?

…Given that clarity, it’s probably a spirit crystal on top of that. In other words, it’s a lightning crystal.

And so we arrived at our destination.

The location was in front of a small island in the middle of the underground lake. It was hard to see because of the darkness, but there was a place where the water was shallow and we were able to reach it just in time.

Old Staff Quality:C Rarity:? Durability:A

Note: An old staff made of hard metal, it has a certain elegance to it.

The island is filled with a magic circle made of metal plates, and a wand gently sits on a pedestal in the center of the circle.

“Is it okay if I take it?”

I asked her. I’ve read the book and there were no particular restrictions, but just in case.

“There is a barrier there~, you can’t enter it~”

As the spirit said, there was a transparent wall that prevented entry to the small island.

I observe that it’s just like the invisible walls that the field restriction had.

The flow of magic power in the surrounding area indicates that this barrier gets its magic from the entire lake to maintain it.

In the northwest of the lake, there is a huge crystal, and excess magic power is flowing into the lake, so it will not run out of magic power.

In addition, the magic circle itself is not written on the metal plate, but dug into the metal plate itself.

The metal itself seems to be more than just metal, and even though it has been in place longer than the history of the kingdom, it has not weathered.

In order to break this ward, a special technique is required. However, there are two ways to open it.

The first is to destroy the barrier itself by striking the thinnest part of the barrier with an amount of magic that exceeds the limit of what it can withstand, and compressing it to the size of a needle.

The second is to decipher the magic formula and release it.

In other words, it either opens or unlocks the door. Incidentally, my magic power is not enough to destroy it, so I have to choose the second option after all.

When I touched it, I saw that the barrier itself was powerful, but the key to unlock it was simple.

If you change the nature of the magic slightly and hit it with a specific wave…..

“Okay, it’s open.”

“Ara~? You’re a really weird child~”

I collected the thing I was looking for and took the base and the metal plate as well.

The only thing left to do was to take it down…

“Ara, it found us.”

“Hm? Wh, what?”

Suddenly, the spirit said something unpleasant. She also said it in an uninterrupted manner.

The voice, accompanied by a sense of urgency, alerted me to the area.

A warning from a strong person means that…it’s bad.

All around the underground lake, the sound of metal clanking echoed off the walls.

The water was split and in the only escape route we had appeared a super giant Crab.

The metallic sheen of its body would not be harmed by any ordinary means of attack that I possessed.

The multicolored crystalline pillars on its back shone like stars in the night, and it constantly leaked a huge amount of magic power.

Its scissors are ridiculously huge, the right one is a pair of sharp scissors tinged with the cutting magic attribute. The left one is as heavy as a blunt instrument, and is clothed with the magic power of striking attribute.

The bubbles that it casually spits out of its mouth are filled with acid magic that is powerful enough to instantly dissolve my low magic resistance, making my magic interference useless in terms of output.

In conclusion, I’m really in trouble this time.

First, the shell.

It’s not just the hardness, but also the enormous amount of magic power flowing in from the crystal pillar on its back, creating a wall of magic power that is far too tough.

The right scissors will definitely cut through steel. The left scissors create a devastation similar to a meteorite crash, if not worse.

In other words, even if Reinya and Tia were there, they would never be able to win.

My throat gurgled, and cold sweat ran down my cheeks.

The crab silently stared at us——

——And it started to attack.