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I explained the mirrors to my .
By the way, Veronica left my house in order to join up with Kazun and the others. And Helme went on standby inside my left eye.
1st: A mirror set up in my mansionâs room, located in the Labyrinth City Pelneet.
2nd: A mirror located at the bottom of some shallow ocean.
3rd: A mirror located in the basement of ăBeltzamăâs church in ăHesliphată.
4th: The witch dwelling in ăSaldia Wastelandă to the far northwest, where the wilderness spreads.
5th: A buried mirror showing dirt and darkness.
6th: A buried mirror showing dirt and darkness.
7th: A buried mirror showing dirt and darkness.
8th: A buried mirror showing dirt and darkness.
9th: A buried mirror showing dirt and darkness.
10th: A buried mirror showing dirt and darkness.
11th: A mirror in a warehouse in the Underground City DaâUmezalan, Viineâs hometown.
12th: A mirror located on an empty island.
13th: A mirror set up in the house of either some merchant, a major dealer, or a high-ranking noble.
14th: A mirror overlooking snowfall.
15th: A mirror located at a rocky mountain or a cliff with something like a huge waterfall.
16th: A mirror located in the evil statue room on the fifth floor of the labyrinth in Labyrinth City Pelneet.
17th: A mirror set up in a room, where time seems to have stopped. Itâs overflowing with armors, swords, and black frames filled with organs and eerie hearts.
18th: A mirror located in a place similar to a dark storehouse or a treasury.
19th: A buried mirror showing dirt and darkness.
20th: A buried mirror showing dirt and darkness.
21th: A buried mirror showing dirt and darkness.
22th: A buried mirror showing dirt and darkness.
23th: A buried mirror showing dirt and darkness.
24th: Seemingly has no mirror or some special conditions. The gate doesnât activate.
I think first I will start with the fifth facet. Taking out the 24-faceted orb(Trapezohedron), I traced the fifth facet, activating the gate where one could see pitch black soil.
And then I took off my leather clothes on the spot, becoming stark naked.
âMasterâŠâ Viine and everyone else had entranced expressions.
There was one dude mixed in there, but I didnât point that out.
I activated , and touched the attachment at my right eye, booting up the Kaleidoscope. Then I touched the glass hemisphere on the item boxâ surface, making the Dimension Scan boot up, too.
Inside my blue, framed field of vision with its increased resolutionâŠsomething like a mini map was added.
Focusing on , I released blood from my whole body. Next I activated , then .
Alright, time to manipulate the blood chains. While focusing on the inner clothesâŠI imagined the costumeâs design in the style of a berserkâŠenveloping my whole body with blood chains. A blood chain armor similar to the one from the other day was completed in a flash.
ââŠYouâre going to plunge inside the mirror thatâs probably buried in the ground in that blood chain armor, arenât you?â Mysty asked.
My looked pale, and I knew that it wasnât owed to me having covered my body with a fiendish armor.
âMaster, Iâm slightly worriedâŠwhat should we do if you canât come backâŠ?â Viine asked anxiously.
âNn, itâs just as Viine says. Iâm against it.â Eva opposed the idea.
Viine and Eva are against it, huh?
âMilord, itâs dangerousâŠâ Kaldo was against it, too.
âYou apparently tested out whether you can dive into the soil, but I still feel uneasy.â Mysty expressed her fears.
âIâm also against the idea. But, when Shuuya explained what heâs going to do, he said that he will definitely carry it out. Everyone, itâs better to give up on persuading him here.â Rebecca also objected to the whole plan, but she gave me the impression of accepting it as inevitable.
ăYour Excellency, Iâm actually against it, too. But, even if you were to be locked up in the soil for eternity, I will always be with you, not allowing you to feel lonely.ă
Helme, youâre a really good spirit-chan.
âRebecca, you might say that, but what are you going to do if Shuuya canât get backâŠ? Itâs possible for him to get stuck inside the earthâŠâ Yui exclaimed while being on the verge of tears.
âYui and everyone else, I will definitely come back. It might take some time since I might end up exploring various things, butâŠI would be happy if you could understand that to be one of my hobbies.â I tried to soothe everyone.
âNot allowed!â Rebecca insisted.
âNnâââ Eva joined in.
Yui, Rebecca, and Eva immediately shook their heads, making their hair sway.
âMaster, once it becomes possible to safely use the gate, please return through the mirror over here right away. And once you join up with us, we will set out on an exploration once more.â Viine offered a compromise.
âNn, I agree with Viine.â Eva immediately supported Viineâs idea.
âItâs a really reasonable suggestion. As might be expected of a former dark elf.â Mysty shared the same opinion.
âIndeed. It should be possible to use the gate if youâre able to explore various things. Ah, donât tell me! Shuuya, are you doing something like this because you want to cheat on usâŠ?â Rebecca walked up to me with a suspicious look. Blue flames covered her fists and dwelt in her eyes.
âI havenât planned anything like that at all. Just think about it. Helme is dwelling in my left eye.â I defended myself.
âAh, I seeâŠbut isnât spirit-sama always with you!? Thatâs sly!â Rebecca staged a comeback.
ăI can understand how Rebecca feels, but I have no intention to separate from you. I will go together with you, Your Excellency.ă
Helme, who had appeared as tiny version in my field of vision, announced while pointing at Rebeccaâs face.
While laughing, I replied, ââŠYou are strong and great women who I can tell to wait and believe in me. Among my âŠisnât thereâŠâ
At that moment the expressions of my completely changed. As if having received an electric shock along their back, they straightened up. Eva was adorable after widening her violet eyes.
âMaster, this Viine will trust and wait for you without the slightest objection!â
âNn, I will wait for you, Shuuya!â Eva said.
âSh*t, sh*t, sh*t, I-I believed in master from the very start, okay~? Iâm going to continue my research.â Mysty added.
âUuh, Shuuya, itâs cunning if you put it like thatâŠI will wait.â Rebecca joined.
âI will wait for your return while obediently participating in the dark guildâs operations and polishing my katana skills.â Yui said.
My cute quickly changed their attitude.
âRollo, this time you stay home, okay?â I told her.
âNn, nya, nya, nya, nya~â Rolloâs meowing was different from usual. She tried to extend a tentacle towards me, but stopped on the way. Probably because of the grim blood armor I had equipped right now.
âRollo, here, I have opened up the armor a bit. âFeel free.â I manipulated the blood chains and detached them at the area from my face to the bottom of my neck.
Rollo moved the tip of the tentacle she had stopped before. She attached it to my cheek, and told me her feelings.
ăLonelyăăSeparatedăăNoăăHuntăăPlayăăLonelyăăHave fună
âRollo, I will play plenty with you once I get back, so bear with it for a while. I leave Balmint in your hands.â I replied to her feelings.
âNn, nyao.â Rollo removed her tentacle, apparently acknowledging my words.
âYou guys, if Mel and the others struggle in the dark guildâs battles, go and help them. Well, for you as my chosen bloodkin I think that will be at the level of a playful clean up, though.â I instructed them.
âYeah, leave it to us. I will blow them away with my blue fireballs.â Rebecca answered while cladding her arms in blue flames.
Next to her, Viineâs dyed the silver irises of her eyes blood red while declaring, âMaster, I will wait for your return here!â
âIt might be impossible since I got my research and the job as lecturer. I think I can at least repair the metallic items of Yui and Kaldo, though.â Mysty partly denied my request. Although she didnât use sh*t, it was very typical of her.
âNn, if you say so, Shuuya, I will help them.â Eva affirmed while releasing violet mana.
âFufuu, leave it to a former assassin.â Yui said.
âMilord, I will proceed with matters while consulting with the vice guild master and supporting Yui.â Kaldo added.
Yui and Kaldo got used to the work in the dark guild. I might need to pity the opponents who will face them.
While smiling to my trustworthy comrades, I said, âAlright, once I secure the mirror, I will let you know with a blood message. See you later,â and manipulated the blood chains to close the visor.
I blocked my field of vision, leaving only the three-dimensional frames and the simple map of the Dimension Scan in my visual field.
It feels as though Iâm controlling my body from within a robot.
âShuuya, come back without fail!â With Rebeccaâs shrill voice as background, I plunged into the fifth gate with the mood of being a superhero who wore a steel armor.
There was no feeling of heaviness, but I couldnât move about.
HoweverâŠI immediately manipulated countless, small blood chains that protruded out of the blood chain armor across my whole body, and finally started to move forward.
The Dimension Scan showed no response besides me.
First I dug around the mirror. Finely operating the blood chains while paying attention to not break the mirror, I broke, broke, destroyed, destroyed to disassemble the soil in front of me. I moved the dug earth to the soil layers on the sides as if pushing water aside with my arms during a breaststroke. I continued the work of breaking soil and sand, and shifting it away for nearly one hour.
Letâs change my manner of doing this as it takes too much time.
I made a part of the blood chain swarm transform into shapes similar to shovels, allowing me to head upwards right away.
While creating a huge hole, I carried a huge amount of earth and sand higher and higher. As if creating a small undersea tunnel, I kept going with a method similar to hardening the surroundings with concrete using a great number of blood chains.
I should feel the pressure of dozens, no, several hundreds tons, butâŠI didnât feel any of it. I could grasp the sensation of penetrating the soil through the tips of the blood chains, though.
The chains spit the transported soil out all at once. With this they could easily carry the soil. The sand and soil was transported by the blood chains like an automatic conveyorâŠall I had to do was to wait.
While at it, I could burrow through the vicinity of the mirror, and succeeded in creating a small space surrounded by blood chains.
With this I have secured the fifth mirror of Paredes.
Having lost the pressure of the soil, the 24-faceted orb disconnected from the mirrorâs upper part, and floated over to me.
I grabbed the orb, integrated it into the palm of my right hand by creating an air pocket with the blood chains, and stored it away in there.
And then I released the countless blood chains that had stopped their rotational work from my feet. I entwined the excavated mirror with blood chains, and after dying the mirror redâŠI was ready to transport it to the surface.
I used the blood chains, which had pierced upwards, and created a loop with the chains. After hooking my armored feet into it, I got carried up with a feeling of Tarzan in one go.
ăYour Excellency, you have been able to safely move the mirror.ă
The mirror, which was entangled by the blood chains connected to my feet, was transported alongside me even while bumping against the surrounding earth.
ăIt looks like itâs going to work somehow as long as it doesnât break.ă
ăYes. But, being capable of destroying earth while obviously exceeding earth spirits; youâre dreadful in this blood chain armor.ă
The tiny Helme became pale in the middle of her words.
ăI can imagine that it will be a disaster even for spirits if they were touched by the countless blood chains while they are rotating.ă
Helme seems to think that itâs not unlikely for the chains to destroy even water.
CertainlyâŠI understand when imagining it.
ăâŠDonât be scared. I donât think I will use it much when you are in your human shape.ă
ăYes, itâs frightening, but I trust you, Your Excellency.ă
Once I advanced while talking with Helme, I protruded out of the ground, appearing in a room.
I manipulate the blood chains at the visor part, securing plain sight. I could see since I had activated , but it was a pitch dark space.
I feel a heat similar to my skin being gradually steamedâŠIâm pretty sure that this is an underground cave.
The geothermal heat of magma or a hot spring, huh?
Itâs not Murphyâs law, but I have a slightly bad hunch.
I felt the responses of magic sources at distant places all over. The mirror I had secured also appeared from the hole after being properly transported by the blood chain conveyor belt. I released the mirror, and stared at it, wondering whether it hadnât been brokenââ
There are no cracks! Alright, it looks fine.
Only traces of the frame having been scratched were left behind. Hence I checked whether I could actually use it.
I let the 24-faceted orb, which had been stored in a gap of my palm, surface on my palm. Then I erased the blood chains around the fingers of my hands. I traced the geometric symbol that had been carved into the fifth facet of the orb with my thumb as if fiddling with a smartphone, causing it to activate.
A light that was folded into layers took the shape of a gate. And then the excavated Paredesâ mirror shone in front of me. The scenery of the gateâs destination was reflected.
I entered the newly appeared gate, and was able to leave through the fifth mirror which I had dug out just now.
The 24-faceted orb that was attached to the upper part of the mirror as usual disconnected itself, and floated around my head. I seized it from below.
ăYour Excellency, congratulations. You have recovered the fifth mirror.ă
ăAye, it succeeded easily.ă
While speaking telepathically to Helme, I stored the mirror and the orb in my item box.
Given that I achieved my objective for the time being, I sent a blood message to all at once, ăI retrieved the fifth mirror. But, since Iâm going to explore, I will come home lateă.
I didnât send one to Kaldo, though.
ăYou retrieved it already? Come back as soon as possible, okay? Otherwise I will monopolize Rollo-chană, Rebecca answered.
ăMaster, youâre quick. Please have fun exploring since I will be waiting for you. -From the that loves Master the most.ă
As expected of Viine. Sheâs my number one .
ăNn, fast. Shuuya, do your best at exploring, Iâm rooting for youă, Evaâs angelic smile crossed my mind.
ăSo you retrieved it already. Then come backâŠand finish off the hostile dark guilds together with us.ă
YuiâŠIâm going to hug you once I get back. Crushing dark guilds sounds fun, too.
ăEnjoy the exploration. Ah, these blood letters are interestingâŠplease keep in touch frequently since Iâm going to sketch them to study them later. Also, if you find any unknown metals and ores clad in mana, Iâd like you to bring them with youă, Mysty replied with words befitting a researcher.
At that point, I contacted Helme telepathically, ăâŠNow then, I contacted everyone for the time being. Letâs explore the vicinity?ă
Right now Iâm in an exploration mode. I will fully enjoy an adventure and travel to the depths of the planet after a long time.
I hurried to the place with magic source responses.
Releasing from both my wrists and blood chains from my whole body, I stabbed many chains into the caveâs ceiling and walls, and while reeling in the chains as if using them as anchors, I moved comfortably at a high speed.
The owner of a magic source response came into sight, a huge monster possessing many legs which could be described as a rock dragon.
Seemingly sensing me swiftly moving through the air, the four-eyed dragon raised its big face, and widely opened its mouth with red and black fangs growing within.
âGyuuooooooâââ It raised an alerting roar.
ăYour Excellency, shall I come out and support you?ă
ăNo, itâs unnecessary.ă
I shot two towards the dragonâs face, easily piercing its tough-looking forehead.
The two chains extending directly towards the dragonâs head looked like laser sights. While reeling in those two chains towards the factor mark, I imagined my whole armored body from the head to the toes as a huge spearhead, and made the blood chains transform. I, who looked like a single blood chain spear, plunged through the air while performing a transcendental, spiraling rotation similar to the Choudenji Spă.
Being guided by the normal , I directly hit the dragonâs head within milliseconds. Breaking through it without any resistance, I penetrated its huge torso.
Once I plunged through the dragonâs trunk in a straight line as if burrowing through jelly, the blood chain spearhead reached the ground.
I landed with one knee on the ground while releasing a part of the squirming blood chains from my entire body like a rising aura or smoke.
Because the bloodstained chunk of meat that used to be a rock dragon collapsed in my direction at that moment, I pierced the inclining dragon corpse with my blood chains, entangled it, and flung it away to the side.
A rain of blood poured down from the flung corpse.
ââJust the right time.
Since I had used up great amounts of blood, I opened my mouth and resupplied myself by gulping down the shower of dragon blood. The wall of rock shook due to the impact of the dragon corpse crashing into it.
Thereâs probably no magic stone in that corpseâŠbut, since itâs a dragon-like rock monster, its materials might be profitable.
ăTremendousâŠă, Helme muttered, but I didnât answer.
I shot towards a tall wall located diagonally above my head. After affixing the by stabbing into the bare rock, I pulled the slightly, checking its sturdiness.
Once I made sure, I reeled in the towards the factor mark on my left hand. When I arrived at the tall side wall, I shot blood chains extending from my left shoulder towards the rock surface at the ceiling, and affixed them by penetrating the rock, obviously destroying a part of the dome, to stabilize my body.
With my feet against the side wall, I gazed ahead of the cave from a high spot.
âŠThis cave seems to be quite wide in all directions. It might be connected to the underground place where I wandered around in the past.
Something like a lava flowâŠa bright red liquid similar to magma could be seen streaming in the far distance. So thatâs the source of the heat, huh?
In addition I could spot several rock dragons of the same species as the one that I had just defeated. They seem to thinly inhabit this cave.
ăHelme, lend me your eyes.ă
I grabbed Helme who had appeared in my field of vision.
At the same time as Helme vanished, my sight turned into a thermographic view.
In the far distance there were countless, small, red responses different from the rock dragons.
Is something gathering there? I guess I will aim for that place as I donât know the answer. However, the magma is so brightly redâŠthat it dazzles my sight. Since the rock surface is black, the contrast is terrible.
If I were to fall into that magma, even I might melt away. Though, I donât think it would happen if I covered my entire body with blood chains, but if I were to melt, a revival might be impossible.
But, assuming the blood chains were to be evaporated, I amâŠthe true ancestor of the abnormal Light Demon Lucival. I might turn into blood vapor or dust, but I feel like I would still be able to revive.
Since I havenât experienced something like that yetâŠhonestly said, Iâm slightly interested in the feeling of reviving from vapor, but I wonât run such a scary, painful experiment.
Now then, I guess I will proceed while running across this rock surface.
I made my blood chain armor transform a bit. Changing it into a short sleeved version by imagining summer clothes, I had it grow many, small spikes at the soles of my feet.
I tried touching the wall of rock with those spiked soles. It gave me a bumpy, pleasant sensation I could get addicted to.
Just like that I ran across the wall while ignoring gravity. Because the small blood chains that served as spikes properly pierced into the wall and didnât come loose, I didnât fall down.
After running for a while, I discovered bat-like birds that were different from monsters, but apparently startled by the sudden appearance of an armored monster, they all flew away at once while pooping.
Yeah, itâs inevitable. After all itâs the appearance of an alien, blood chain armored, mysterious person running across a wallâŠanyone would be scared.
And then, I left the rock dragonsâ cave area by passing through the magma area.
ăYour Excellency, you seem to have fun.ă
ăYeah, somehow the sensation of the spikes growing at my soles is, well, not that of health sandals, but still feels nice. Running across a wall is also fresh and fun.ă
ăCertainly, it looks interesting! But, itâs impossible for meâŠă
ăWell, isnât that fine? After all you can watch from the special seat called my left eye.ă
While holding a carefree conversation with Helme, I enjoyed running a wall marathon. Once I sensed many magic source responses, I looked at the thermographic responses of the owners. Do I have to fight them one way or the other?
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