Year 7446, Month 7, Day 17
We killed the 9th Minotaur in total at almost the exact time we predicted of 9:00 in the morning. After all it was correct that they revive on an average cycle of 17 hours. To be more correct I think it's just a bit longer than 17 hours. Ever since I returned Basutoral to the surface on the 13th about half of our spare time has been spent doing running around this room while also exploring it but we never encountered anything suspicious or any monsters. Just once shortly after defeating the Minotaur we teleported into the 9th floor and hunted some Red Battle Crabs but after that just in case we've always been keeping an eye on things as much as possible.
Also, up until this day we discovered what could be called a place for the second shower room. In a place about 200 meters away from the pillar there was a rock that was nicely shaped like the character for ko and the center of that was close to flat so we were able to confirm that it could be used as a shower room right away after opening a hole there and bringing a bucket. Though it's the second one, since the ventilation of the teleport room is bad, we'll probably be using this one as our main shower.
The reason we didn't completely relocate was nothing more than a result of our experiments. If we move the pillars for the shower around 100 meters away from the teleport room then within one night the ropes we used to tie it start to loosen and come undone all on their own before collapsing. However, strangely enough for some reason the binding on the buckets doesn't come off. Those will probably come off over a longer period of time. Also, it feels like when it comes to weapons or things with a lot of metal the amount of time until they break feels longer. They probably wouldn't break for at least a few decades up to several hundred years.
Through grasping those sorts of characteristics of the dungeon it could be said that the areas surrounding the pillar of the teleport room on the 8th floor are the ideal place for experimentation. Up until now we've always just relied on our intuition and it's possible we could have assumed things based on the wrong impression. In testing we just tried making a simple rope with a knot it in and leaving outside and in just one night it had loosened quite a bit after all. The Durability of the rope itself through Identify hadn't decreased. I guess that's only obvious huh?
Well, if we just close our eyes to the slight inconvenience of it we can have a shower in a bright and open place so it can't be helped worrying too much about it. It's that sort of thing and I'm sure there's no choice but to accept it. Although, things like that we had established through observations since quite a while back so it was nothing more than reconfirming the results of those observations. However, we can't just keep observing things in the dangerous halls so you could say it's nothing more than being able to more accurately measure the time and change relationship over here.
In any case, it was a big harvest just that we were able to get an almost perfect grasp on the revival cycle of the Minotaur and our base in the teleport room of the 8th floor has turned into something reasonably satisfying. Now then, first we'll return Giberuti ahead of us and then after earning some from hunting ogres on the 7th floor shall we return as well?
We'll get dull from just running and doing the radio exercises that we could only vaguely remember. Training is necessary.
....................
Year 7446, Month 7, Day 18
Now then, we've purchased a large amount of food so for the next week from here on out we'll explore centering around the 9th floor. We didn't earn much of anything last week (though even then we still made around 30,000,000 Z from the ogre magic stones), and we didn't do much work at all so even if we go without days off this time it was welcome with arms in the air. However just Basutoral won't be accompanying us this time and when we returned last night I had Giberuti follow after him towards the factory in the capital.
We arrived at the 8th floor at our usual pace. We rested for one night and had breakfast, then went for a good two hour run with everyone. In regards to showering we used the second show room outside of the teleport room as well. And then for raising morale we beat down the Minotaur that revived at around 9:00 in the morning before grabbing the teleport crystal into the 9th floor.
Now then, we're going to start walking around the same as usual after this aiming to clear through the 9th floor!
.........................
Year 7446, Month 7, Day 22
We arrived at our first altar room since we started exploring the 9th floor. Of course, we've found several normal monster rooms without altars. The bosses of the monster rooms were centered around the trolls from the 8th floor with just a slight increase in the number but there were also things like {Cave Troll} and {Troll.Kin} that appeared. Well it's fine if we just burn them all to death. Even if we don't burn them to death if we accumulate damage on them and burn them all together after false-killing them it's fine as well. Ah, I guess in the end it's still burning them to death? It doesn't matter either way.
And in regards to that altar room on the 9th floor but we're all holding our hopes high. That's only obvious. The number of gargoyles was the usual four but their levels had increased by 1-2. Also the monsters that were summoned were a bit unpleasant. One of them was called {Green Poison Lizard} and it's something like a relative of the {Frost Lizard}. That wasn't all. Of all things, a large number of {Kobolds} were summoned together with it.
And, those {Kobolds} but all of them had this sort of feel.
【】
【Male/22/7/7446.Puppy-People Race.The Sixth Clan】
【Condition: Normal】
【Age: 0 Years Old】
【Level: 5】
【HP: 10(10) MP: 24(24)】
【Strength: 2】
【Speed: 2】
【Dexterity: 1】
【Endurance: 2】
【Special Skill: Earth Magic(Lv. 3)】
【Special Skill: Water Magic(Lv. 3)】
【Special Skill: Fire Magic(Lv. 3)】
【Special Skill: Wind Magic(Lv. 3)】
【Special Skill: Void Magic(Lv. 5)】
Right? Doesn't that give an unpleasant feeling?
Up until now the only enemy that has used any proper magic was the ogre mages on the 7th floor but only a small fixed number appear ahead of time in the monster rooms on the 7th floor. Even when there's a lot of them it's at most five. Also, while there's generally some variance in their magic special skill levels at highest they were level 4 and fundamentally they only use attack spells sending some element of bullet flying at us.
However, these guys were completely different.
The first they they were summoned it was 15 of them at once on top of every single one of them being able to use all elemental magics and their magic special skill levels were all the same. And then making it even more annoying it's only obvious they use attack spells but among them there's ones that use {Anti-Magic Field} and {Quagmire} at the same time. Furthermore there's even some that use basic healing spells like {Cure}.
In other words, my overwhelming and powerful certain kill trump card's burying and freezing are almost meaningless. Since there were so many of them before I even tried identifying them I just froze them all but in just a few short seconds when they opened a huge hole in the ice I was so surprised I almost fell over. It was to the point where I only realized they could use all elemental magic after I used Identify on their corpses. It's effective range isn't very wide but {Quagmire} is an unpleasant attack in a simple way. When your feet get stuck in the bog and you can't move around to evade the poison breath from the {Green Poison Lizard} comes flying.
If you inhale this poison it starts bringing a pain like the inside of your chest is inflamed and breathing becomes difficult. Since your breathing gets difficult accompanied by that you fall into a low oxygen state and obviously your physical abilities fall as well. It's not like you end up with some kind of poising state under Condition so it helps that you can recover from it using Cure type healing spells but after all the pain still remains and in order to fully heal it all at once it requires pouring a considerable amount of mana into it.
Well, if you fire off something like a {Stone Bolt Missile} with over 5 bullets that exceeds the amount of MP the Kobold's have then it will tear through the {Anti-Magic Field} and even just one remaining bullet will instantly kill it but the only one who can practically use a spell like that is me. It was to the point where I thought of just hitting them with a considerable {Fire Ball}. Though thinking about it afterwards I realized that was the correct answer.
It's fine if I just hit them with a {Fire Ball} using about 200 MP or so forcing the Kobolds to all use {Anti-Magic Field} at once and annihilating them with the explosion(the one that it directly hits will try to use {Anti-Magic Field} but obviously it'll break through that and completely cook it and then the rocks that fly around in the explosion will tear through the {Anti-Magic Fields} of the other Kobolds exhausting their mana). After that if you just remain careful of the pitiful arrow type attack spells and the {Quagmire} then there's no problem with calmly dealing with them.
However, the first time I couldn't think that far so after the ice was erased I'll just blow them away with consecutive attack spells one after another! and the blood went to my head like that. While cleaning up the Kobolds with my spells and Miduchi and Bel's arrows, Zulu and Gwine were sticking their tongues out and gasping for air from the reduction in oxygen and pain, and that was just as the remaining Zenom, Ralpha, Toris, and Angela all swarmed the {Green Poison Lizard} to kill it off.
In any case after repeating healing spells on Zulu and the others to treat them and cutting off the heads of the gargoyles that I buried alive, the shrine door finally opened and was empty as usual so we had no choice but to keep advancing that day after learning a valuable lesson.
Miduchi had previously said, "It wouldn't be strange for there to be individuals among Goblins and Kobolds that can use magic as well" but at the same time said, "It requires a considerable amount of concentrate and mental training to so it so I don't think they'll be common and even if they do exist their abilities would probably be limited." so including myself we all completely forgot about it. After all, up until now we've never heard of anything like that other than from Miduchi and something like, "a kobold that can use magic" is something never mentioned by any adventurer in Baldukk other than her.
Honestly even I didn't even dream that Kobolds would be using magic. I guess even among Kobolds there's ones with the willpower to do magic training..I guess it's different huh?
......................
Year 7446, Month 7, Day 23
We arrived at a different altar room than the one from the other day. The same as usual we buried the gargoyles leaving just their heads outside and this time for sure carefully proceeded into the center of the room before the altar. The magic circle was deployed on the floor and the monsters were summoned. This time it was close to 20 goblins but the result of Identifying them showed they weren't much different from the Kobolds. And then, in front of the altar, right in front of us, what appeared to be a goblin with pitch black skin was summoned.
Miduchi tensed up my side as she was surprised and tried hitting it with a {Stone Javelin} equally fast but that black goblin dodged the spell that came flying and started floating in mid-air. It had wings almost like a bat growing from it's back. As a bonus it even had a long and thin tail hanging from it's ass with a sharpened end like an arrowhead.
【】
【Male/23/7/7446.Imp Race】
【Condition: Normal】
【Age: 0 Years Old】
【Level: 8】
【HP: 59(59) MP: 38(38)】
【Strength: 9】
【Speed: 15】
【Dexterity: 10】
【Endurance: 9】
【Special Skill: Floating】
【Special Skill: Earth Magic(Lv. 4)】
【Special Skill: Water Magic(Lv. 4)】
【Special Skill: Fire Magic(Lv. 4)】
【Special Skill: Wind Magic(Lv. 4)】
【Special Skill: Void Magic(Lv. 5)】
"It's a demon!"
By the time Miduchi had called out warning us it was just before my {Fire Ball} with added missile was about to hit the imp. The face of the imp distorted since it couldn't completely dodge it and deployed an {Anti-Magic Field} but it soon changed to surprise I guess seeing it eat through that mana as the {Fire Ball} hit the imp and was engulfed in the explosion as burning stones went flying. Of course it also engulfed the surrounding goblins as their bodies were torn apart. However Miduchi, how did you know? When I tried asking afterwards I was casually told, "If it has wings like a bat and arrow-shaped tail then there's nothing other than a demon right?" I didn't really get it but I guess it's that sort of thing?
All of the remaining goblins would have started using arrow type spells (probably) but before they could finish concentrating Zenom, Ralpha, Toris, Zulu, and Angela jumped into their group and started rampaging around while Gwine stabbed them to death with the spear, and Bel sniped the further ones with the bow so only a single one of them actually managed to use a spell. That {Stone Arrow} ended up being deflected by Toris's shield and Miduchi threw a knife stabbing into it's neck killing it.
After that we finished off the gargoyles and when the shrine opened up there was a single sword stored inside of it.
While making sure not to touch the handle, Angela picked up just the scabbard part as she respectfully presented the sword to me.
The length of the handle was about 15 cm and it had a flashy hand-guard with delicate ornaments carved into it, the length of the white scabbard that had similar ornaments to the guard was about 80 cm I guess? It's the size of a long sword.
"{Status Open}"
【Flame.Tongue】
Uhyo~
Following that I used the {Cantrip} {Magical Detection}.
There's a reaction.
Hmm.
Just in case I'll use the void magic {Detect Magic}.
There's a lively reaction.
Hmmhmm.
Finally it's only obvious but I used 【Identify】 on it.
【Flame.Tongue】
【Titanium Steel】
【Condition: Normal】
【Manufacture Date:23/7/7446】
【Value: 1】
【Durability: 53256】
【Ability: 135-205】
【Effect: Through generating flames from the blade of the sword it can deal up to a maximum of {Quadruple.Damage} to targets weak to fire. Also, the brightness of the flame is equal to that of the average {Light} spell.】
Hohou. After reading the sub-window and it seems that if the wielder chants the incantation command word carved into the surface of the blade while holding the handle for just 30 seconds the blade of the sword will generate a magical flame and it's added as extra damage to the normal! It's possible for this flame to be generated a number of times but it will always disappear 30 seconds after it's generated or if it's put back into the scabbard. It makes sense that it's made of Titanium Steel which is strong to high temperatures.
While holding the scabbard in my left hand I grabbed the handle with my right as I pulled it out and was surprised. The blade of the sword has gentle waves to it. On the pitch black ricasso of the sword blade the command word "Emeron" was carved into it.
"Amazing."
"Ah..magic a {Magical}.."
"It's a {Magical.Weapon}."
"It's giving off an amazing mana right."
"Ho~ A flamberge huh? It's unusual for it to be one-handed."
""Congratulations! Master!""
"It's black just like Miduchi-san's sword."
"It had a name right?"
Miduchi said the last part with confidence while looking at my face.
"Yeah, it's amazing. It's supposedly called Sword of Flames 【Flame.Tongue】. Is it this? Emeron!"
The moment I spoke the incantation command word a small amount of flames burst out from the undulating blades lighting up the area. After that even when I tried waving it around randomly the flames didn't weaken at all and continued to coil around the blade of the sword. The shining flames of the blade left an afterimage beautifully lighting up the area as if putting emphasis on itself.
..For a short while, I just gazed at the flames coming from the blade of the sword.
I think around 30 seconds must have passed, the flames quickly withdrew as if they were drawn back into the blade.
After I returned the sword into it's scabbard I handed it to Toris and said, "Toris, you use it. Just like Bel's sword if you chant the command word while holding on to the handle of the blade it seems that for a short period flames come out." before taking my bayonet off my shoulder and holding it in my hand.
"Eh!? Shouldn't Al-san use this sort of powerful {Magical.Weapon}?"
While taking the sword Toris said unexpectedly.
Idiot, you, because the ornaments on the guard are in the way it won't fit into my bayonet.
Also even if it did fit if the flames were to come out I wouldn't be able to use it right?
"It's fine. You can't use fire magic right Toris, then it's just right. Later on test out how much you can use the flames. Then let's gather the magic stones."
I said that before stabbing my bayonet into the chest of the goblins myself. Just as expected from the Kobolds that were able to use magic the values of their magic stones were on the same level as a room boss from the 1st floor. I'm sure even these are something similar. It's a waste to ignore them.
A flaming sword is pretty cool right. Honestly I wanted to try using it, but well it's fine. In the first place with emphasis on close combat my techniques are based around bayonet fighting from the SDF and in regards to a {Magical.Weapon} my abundance of mana makes up for it.
However, it's nothing more than a guess of mine but that 【Flame.Tongue】, wouldn't it be a certain kill weapon against Trolls? Also, it should be considerably strong against the insects and crabs as well.
When I tried asking Miduchi she said, "I think that's probably the case. Also, it should be quite effective against undead and such as well." That's great isn't it, Toris.
Year 7446, Month 7, Day 17
We killed the 9th Minotaur in total at almost the exact time we predicted of 9:00 in the morning. After all it was correct that they revive on an average cycle of 17 hours. To be more correct I think it's just a bit longer than 17 hours. Ever since I returned Basutoral to the surface on the 13th about half of our spare time has been spent doing running around this room while also exploring it but we never encountered anything suspicious or any monsters. Just once shortly after defeating the Minotaur we teleported into the 9th floor and hunted some Red Battle Crabs but after that just in case we've always been keeping an eye on things as much as possible.
Also, up until this day we discovered what could be called a place for the second shower room. In a place about 200 meters away from the pillar there was a rock that was nicely shaped like the character for ko and the center of that was close to flat so we were able to confirm that it could be used as a shower room right away after opening a hole there and bringing a bucket. Though it's the second one, since the ventilation of the teleport room is bad, we'll probably be using this one as our main shower.
The reason we didn't completely relocate was nothing more than a result of our experiments. If we move the pillars for the shower around 100 meters away from the teleport room then within one night the ropes we used to tie it start to loosen and come undone all on their own before collapsing. However, strangely enough for some reason the binding on the buckets doesn't come off. Those will probably come off over a longer period of time. Also, it feels like when it comes to weapons or things with a lot of metal the amount of time until they break feels longer. They probably wouldn't break for at least a few decades up to several hundred years.
Through grasping those sorts of characteristics of the dungeon it could be said that the areas surrounding the pillar of the teleport room on the 8th floor are the ideal place for experimentation. Up until now we've always just relied on our intuition and it's possible we could have assumed things based on the wrong impression. In testing we just tried making a simple rope with a knot it in and leaving outside and in just one night it had loosened quite a bit after all. The Durability of the rope itself through Identify hadn't decreased. I guess that's only obvious huh?
Well, if we just close our eyes to the slight inconvenience of it we can have a shower in a bright and open place so it can't be helped worrying too much about it. It's that sort of thing and I'm sure there's no choice but to accept it. Although, things like that we had established through observations since quite a while back so it was nothing more than reconfirming the results of those observations. However, we can't just keep observing things in the dangerous halls so you could say it's nothing more than being able to more accurately measure the time and change relationship over here.
In any case, it was a big harvest just that we were able to get an almost perfect grasp on the revival cycle of the Minotaur and our base in the teleport room of the 8th floor has turned into something reasonably satisfying. Now then, first we'll return Giberuti ahead of us and then after earning some from hunting ogres on the 7th floor shall we return as well?
We'll get dull from just running and doing the radio exercises that we could only vaguely remember. Training is necessary.
....................
Year 7446, Month 7, Day 18
Now then, we've purchased a large amount of food so for the next week from here on out we'll explore centering around the 9th floor. We didn't earn much of anything last week (though even then we still made around 30,000,000 Z from the ogre magic stones), and we didn't do much work at all so even if we go without days off this time it was welcome with arms in the air. However just Basutoral won't be accompanying us this time and when we returned last night I had Giberuti follow after him towards the factory in the capital.
We arrived at the 8th floor at our usual pace. We rested for one night and had breakfast, then went for a good two hour run with everyone. In regards to showering we used the second show room outside of the teleport room as well. And then for raising morale we beat down the Minotaur that revived at around 9:00 in the morning before grabbing the teleport crystal into the 9th floor.
Now then, we're going to start walking around the same as usual after this aiming to clear through the 9th floor!
.........................
Year 7446, Month 7, Day 22
We arrived at our first altar room since we started exploring the 9th floor. Of course, we've found several normal monster rooms without altars. The bosses of the monster rooms were centered around the trolls from the 8th floor with just a slight increase in the number but there were also things like {Cave Troll} and {Troll.Kin} that appeared. Well it's fine if we just burn them all to death. Even if we don't burn them to death if we accumulate damage on them and burn them all together after false-killing them it's fine as well. Ah, I guess in the end it's still burning them to death? It doesn't matter either way.
And in regards to that altar room on the 9th floor but we're all holding our hopes high. That's only obvious. The number of gargoyles was the usual four but their levels had increased by 1-2. Also the monsters that were summoned were a bit unpleasant. One of them was called {Green Poison Lizard} and it's something like a relative of the {Frost Lizard}. That wasn't all. Of all things, a large number of {Kobolds} were summoned together with it.
And, those {Kobolds} but all of them had this sort of feel.
【】
【Male/22/7/7446.Puppy-People Race.The Sixth Clan】
【Condition: Normal】
【Age: 0 Years Old】
【Level: 5】
【HP: 10(10) MP: 24(24)】
【Strength: 2】
【Speed: 2】
【Dexterity: 1】
【Endurance: 2】
【Special Skill: Earth Magic(Lv. 3)】
【Special Skill: Water Magic(Lv. 3)】
【Special Skill: Fire Magic(Lv. 3)】
【Special Skill: Wind Magic(Lv. 3)】
【Special Skill: Void Magic(Lv. 5)】
Right? Doesn't that give an unpleasant feeling?
Up until now the only enemy that has used any proper magic was the ogre mages on the 7th floor but only a small fixed number appear ahead of time in the monster rooms on the 7th floor. Even when there's a lot of them it's at most five. Also, while there's generally some variance in their magic special skill levels at highest they were level 4 and fundamentally they only use attack spells sending some element of bullet flying at us.
However, these guys were completely different.
The first they they were summoned it was 15 of them at once on top of every single one of them being able to use all elemental magics and their magic special skill levels were all the same. And then making it even more annoying it's only obvious they use attack spells but among them there's ones that use {Anti-Magic Field} and {Quagmire} at the same time. Furthermore there's even some that use basic healing spells like {Cure}.
In other words, my overwhelming and powerful certain kill trump card's burying and freezing are almost meaningless. Since there were so many of them before I even tried identifying them I just froze them all but in just a few short seconds when they opened a huge hole in the ice I was so surprised I almost fell over. It was to the point where I only realized they could use all elemental magic after I used Identify on their corpses. It's effective range isn't very wide but {Quagmire} is an unpleasant attack in a simple way. When your feet get stuck in the bog and you can't move around to evade the poison breath from the {Green Poison Lizard} comes flying.
If you inhale this poison it starts bringing a pain like the inside of your chest is inflamed and breathing becomes difficult. Since your breathing gets difficult accompanied by that you fall into a low oxygen state and obviously your physical abilities fall as well. It's not like you end up with some kind of poising state under Condition so it helps that you can recover from it using Cure type healing spells but after all the pain still remains and in order to fully heal it all at once it requires pouring a considerable amount of mana into it.
Well, if you fire off something like a {Stone Bolt Missile} with over 5 bullets that exceeds the amount of MP the Kobold's have then it will tear through the {Anti-Magic Field} and even just one remaining bullet will instantly kill it but the only one who can practically use a spell like that is me. It was to the point where I thought of just hitting them with a considerable {Fire Ball}. Though thinking about it afterwards I realized that was the correct answer.
It's fine if I just hit them with a {Fire Ball} using about 200 MP or so forcing the Kobolds to all use {Anti-Magic Field} at once and annihilating them with the explosion(the one that it directly hits will try to use {Anti-Magic Field} but obviously it'll break through that and completely cook it and then the rocks that fly around in the explosion will tear through the {Anti-Magic Fields} of the other Kobolds exhausting their mana). After that if you just remain careful of the pitiful arrow type attack spells and the {Quagmire} then there's no problem with calmly dealing with them.
However, the first time I couldn't think that far so after the ice was erased I'll just blow them away with consecutive attack spells one after another! and the blood went to my head like that. While cleaning up the Kobolds with my spells and Miduchi and Bel's arrows, Zulu and Gwine were sticking their tongues out and gasping for air from the reduction in oxygen and pain, and that was just as the remaining Zenom, Ralpha, Toris, and Angela all swarmed the {Green Poison Lizard} to kill it off.
In any case after repeating healing spells on Zulu and the others to treat them and cutting off the heads of the gargoyles that I buried alive, the shrine door finally opened and was empty as usual so we had no choice but to keep advancing that day after learning a valuable lesson.
Miduchi had previously said, "It wouldn't be strange for there to be individuals among Goblins and Kobolds that can use magic as well" but at the same time said, "It requires a considerable amount of concentrate and mental training to so it so I don't think they'll be common and even if they do exist their abilities would probably be limited." so including myself we all completely forgot about it. After all, up until now we've never heard of anything like that other than from Miduchi and something like, "a kobold that can use magic" is something never mentioned by any adventurer in Baldukk other than her.
Honestly even I didn't even dream that Kobolds would be using magic. I guess even among Kobolds there's ones with the willpower to do magic training..I guess it's different huh?
......................
Year 7446, Month 7, Day 23
We arrived at a different altar room than the one from the other day. The same as usual we buried the gargoyles leaving just their heads outside and this time for sure carefully proceeded into the center of the room before the altar. The magic circle was deployed on the floor and the monsters were summoned. This time it was close to 20 goblins but the result of Identifying them showed they weren't much different from the Kobolds. And then, in front of the altar, right in front of us, what appeared to be a goblin with pitch black skin was summoned.
Miduchi tensed up my side as she was surprised and tried hitting it with a {Stone Javelin} equally fast but that black goblin dodged the spell that came flying and started floating in mid-air. It had wings almost like a bat growing from it's back. As a bonus it even had a long and thin tail hanging from it's ass with a sharpened end like an arrowhead.
【】
【Male/23/7/7446.Imp Race】
【Condition: Normal】
【Age: 0 Years Old】
【Level: 8】
【HP: 59(59) MP: 38(38)】
【Strength: 9】
【Speed: 15】
【Dexterity: 10】
【Endurance: 9】
【Special Skill: Floating】
【Special Skill: Earth Magic(Lv. 4)】
【Special Skill: Water Magic(Lv. 4)】
【Special Skill: Fire Magic(Lv. 4)】
【Special Skill: Wind Magic(Lv. 4)】
【Special Skill: Void Magic(Lv. 5)】
"It's a demon!"
By the time Miduchi had called out warning us it was just before my {Fire Ball} with added missile was about to hit the imp. The face of the imp distorted since it couldn't completely dodge it and deployed an {Anti-Magic Field} but it soon changed to surprise I guess seeing it eat through that mana as the {Fire Ball} hit the imp and was engulfed in the explosion as burning stones went flying. Of course it also engulfed the surrounding goblins as their bodies were torn apart. However Miduchi, how did you know? When I tried asking afterwards I was casually told, "If it has wings like a bat and arrow-shaped tail then there's nothing other than a demon right?" I didn't really get it but I guess it's that sort of thing?
All of the remaining goblins would have started using arrow type spells (probably) but before they could finish concentrating Zenom, Ralpha, Toris, Zulu, and Angela jumped into their group and started rampaging around while Gwine stabbed them to death with the spear, and Bel sniped the further ones with the bow so only a single one of them actually managed to use a spell. That {Stone Arrow} ended up being deflected by Toris's shield and Miduchi threw a knife stabbing into it's neck killing it.
After that we finished off the gargoyles and when the shrine opened up there was a single sword stored inside of it.
While making sure not to touch the handle, Angela picked up just the scabbard part as she respectfully presented the sword to me.
The length of the handle was about 15 cm and it had a flashy hand-guard with delicate ornaments carved into it, the length of the white scabbard that had similar ornaments to the guard was about 80 cm I guess? It's the size of a long sword.
"{Status Open}"
【Flame.Tongue】
Uhyo~
Following that I used the {Cantrip} {Magical Detection}.
There's a reaction.
Hmm.
Just in case I'll use the void magic {Detect Magic}.
There's a lively reaction.
Hmmhmm.
Finally it's only obvious but I used 【Identify】 on it.
【Flame.Tongue】
【Titanium Steel】
【Condition: Normal】
【Manufacture Date:23/7/7446】
【Value: 1】
【Durability: 53256】
【Ability: 135-205】
【Effect: Through generating flames from the blade of the sword it can deal up to a maximum of {Quadruple.Damage} to targets weak to fire. Also, the brightness of the flame is equal to that of the average {Light} spell.】
Hohou. After reading the sub-window and it seems that if the wielder chants the incantation command word carved into the surface of the blade while holding the handle for just 30 seconds the blade of the sword will generate a magical flame and it's added as extra damage to the normal! It's possible for this flame to be generated a number of times but it will always disappear 30 seconds after it's generated or if it's put back into the scabbard. It makes sense that it's made of Titanium Steel which is strong to high temperatures.
While holding the scabbard in my left hand I grabbed the handle with my right as I pulled it out and was surprised. The blade of the sword has gentle waves to it. On the pitch black ricasso of the sword blade the command word "Emeron" was carved into it.
"Amazing."
"Ah..magic a {Magical}.."
"It's a {Magical.Weapon}."
"It's giving off an amazing mana right."
"Ho~ A flamberge huh? It's unusual for it to be one-handed."
""Congratulations! Master!""
"It's black just like Miduchi-san's sword."
"It had a name right?"
Miduchi said the last part with confidence while looking at my face.
"Yeah, it's amazing. It's supposedly called Sword of Flames 【Flame.Tongue】. Is it this? Emeron!"
The moment I spoke the incantation command word a small amount of flames burst out from the undulating blades lighting up the area. After that even when I tried waving it around randomly the flames didn't weaken at all and continued to coil around the blade of the sword. The shining flames of the blade left an afterimage beautifully lighting up the area as if putting emphasis on itself.
..For a short while, I just gazed at the flames coming from the blade of the sword.
I think around 30 seconds must have passed, the flames quickly withdrew as if they were drawn back into the blade.
After I returned the sword into it's scabbard I handed it to Toris and said, "Toris, you use it. Just like Bel's sword if you chant the command word while holding on to the handle of the blade it seems that for a short period flames come out." before taking my bayonet off my shoulder and holding it in my hand.
"Eh!? Shouldn't Al-san use this sort of powerful {Magical.Weapon}?"
While taking the sword Toris said unexpectedly.
Idiot, you, because the ornaments on the guard are in the way it won't fit into my bayonet.
Also even if it did fit if the flames were to come out I wouldn't be able to use it right?
"It's fine. You can't use fire magic right Toris, then it's just right. Later on test out how much you can use the flames. Then let's gather the magic stones."
I said that before stabbing my bayonet into the chest of the goblins myself. Just as expected from the Kobolds that were able to use magic the values of their magic stones were on the same level as a room boss from the 1st floor. I'm sure even these are something similar. It's a waste to ignore them.
A flaming sword is pretty cool right. Honestly I wanted to try using it, but well it's fine. In the first place with emphasis on close combat my techniques are based around bayonet fighting from the SDF and in regards to a {Magical.Weapon} my abundance of mana makes up for it.
However, it's nothing more than a guess of mine but that 【Flame.Tongue】, wouldn't it be a certain kill weapon against Trolls? Also, it should be considerably strong against the insects and crabs as well.
When I tried asking Miduchi she said, "I think that's probably the case. Also, it should be quite effective against undead and such as well." That's great isn't it, Toris.
