Is this really just an RPG? !

"Neil..."

"Neil?"

"Neil, wake up, wake up quickly."

"Wake up! Neil! Don't sleep anymore!"

I can vaguely hear someone calling me, and pushing my body constantly, trying to wake me up, it sounds like Emily's voice, and it seems that there is something very urgent. It's just that I can't respond, let alone speak, I can't even open my eyes now.

There was an indescribable pain and exhaustion all over his body.

feeling bad.

That's about it.

"Neil... that's right! Drink this down!"

Emily seems to be planning to drink something for me, it's like clear water, and the coldness makes me feel a little better... It's no wonder!

"It's so spicy, so spicy, so spicy! Are you going to kill me! What did you give me to drink!"

[image]

"Emily's special chili water has a transparent appearance and a cool taste. You can only feel the fiery spicyness when you drink it in your mouth."

"To put it bluntly, it's a prank prop! How bored you are to make this kind of thing!"

"It turns out to be very useful, doesn't it?"

"I have nothing to say……"

It was indeed completely awakened by her bottle of chili water. Apart from some pain in some parts of the body, there was basically no problem. I sat up and realized that Emily and I were in a strange place, kind of like a prison, at least the doors were locked and there were no windows.

But it's surrounded by rocks, not walls, maybe underground or in a cave?

The dagger I carried with me disappeared, and then there was a strange bracelet on my left wrist. The mana in the air was a little sluggish. It took a lot of effort to gather them, and I couldn't use supernatural magic, but various small skills and Magic scrolls can be used at will. The current situation is roughly like this, and the rest is...my senior who has become a child is struggling with her breasts for some reason.

"Can you divide the occasion a little bit, there are boys here!"

"So Neil, you are a boy."

"Of course I'm a boy!"

"Because Neil is so useless and looks too weak, I thought she was a cute girl."

"Shut up!"

Why did I take this person away on purpose at that time, wouldn't it be good to just leave her where she is!

That way I won't be attacked... Wait, attack?

"Well, sister," I just remembered the most important question now, "Where is this place? I remember being attacked by members of 'Warren' before I fell unconscious. Could this be one of their bases? "

"Is it possible to reach the base?"

The senior who finally got tired of playing with her breasts stood up and walked to the iron railing.

"This should be the relic they are looking for. It is located directly below the college and is called the 'George Sanctuary'."

"……What?"

"You just need to know that it is a place where something is sealed. After all, it is a 'sanctuary', but I don't know what religion it is. The name George is too strange. Only in this academy I just heard it, and it probably has something to do with the first dean."

I looked at her incredulously.

"Then how did you know, Senior Sister?"

"Because this is a dungeon named 'George Sanctuary', so of course it is George Sanctuary!"

"Excuse me?"

"Why is the pronunciation of this sentence so standard, okay, okay, I'm joking," Emily waved her hand with a smile, then turned around and took out her staff, and knocked hard on the iron door, which should have been locked. It was opened like this, "Before you woke up, I had surveyed the surrounding situation, so I know something."

"........."

How on earth did she open the door.

This is a question that I really want to know, but I can't ask it.

"Oh, because the door is unlocked!"

Understanding my thoughts, Emily told me so straightforwardly.

The door didn't lock.

Since the door does not have a lock, it is easy to open.

That being the case, why did she deliberately tap it with her staff, as if it was some kind of ritual.

"The door is still quite heavy."

"I think I'll just push it away."

"Neil's strength value is not enough."

"..."

Why do I have to stay with this woman who wants to hurt me for nothing!

Qiuqiu is much better than her!

"Neil, if you still want to stay inside, please feel free, because I need to finish reading this thing."

"Eh?"

I looked up suspiciously.

Emily had left her cage and ran outside to a table with a half-burned candle and what looked like a notebook. I don't know why people from the "Warren" organization can leave me and Emily here so casually, and even leave something that may be a clue.

Is it really not that important?

But judging from Emily's tone, that notebook seems to have recorded something worthy of attention.

[Anyway, go out first! 】

I left the cage and walked over to Emily.

"Pictures, albums?"

"It seems so."

What's wrong? !

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George Sanctuary, probably the place where a pot is sealed... Ah, it doesn’t matter if it’s a chamber pot if you want to complain, because the appearance of the pot is quite similar, and Emily and I had a three-minute discussion on this point After discussing, I finally came to the conclusion that "the aesthetics of the ancients is a little problematic", and then put this question aside, and continued to think about the question of "why seal such a pot".

"Probably something is in the pot!"

Emily made inferences casually while flipping through the album in her hand.

"Isn't this nonsense! There's nothing in the pot, why seal it on purpose!"

"Neil, calm down. Even though you said that, if the pot is really empty, you can't complain. After all, the ancient people's thinking is more subtle."

"Silently map the cannon."

"I'm just judging all this from an impartial perspective."

"I didn't see it at all."

"Please experience all this with your heart."

"I'm blocked by your position, I can't understand it."

"what a pity."

The topic shifted to a strange place like this, I really don't know whose fault it is.

There is nothing worth noting in the atlas, and most of them are inexplicable patterns. I also tried to understand it from the perspective of rune, but I still couldn't understand it. Emily read it very seriously, but she browsed too fast, and almost stayed on each page for two or three seconds. I really couldn't believe that she understood the content here, or just flipped through it to pretend, Then turn around and say something like "I've got it" to me.

"I see."

She really said it!

He also solemnly closed the album and put it in his pocket, turned to look at me, and tried to pat me on the shoulder with his feet up.

Although she can't reach it at all.

"Can you squat down?"

"cannot."

"goodbye!"

"Let's leave, do you know where the words come out?"

"have no idea."

"Then you can wait a while before saying goodbye to me."

"I think so too."

I think Emily and I must be the worst combination. No matter what kind of environment, we can complain to each other without pressure, and we can't bring the topic back for a long time. All in all, if you have anything to say, let's wait until you go out... Although I don't think Emily is the kind of person who can bear not to speak.

Besides, she would probably mention the contents of the album now.

"Neil."

Look, she did speak.

"Although my staff was not confiscated, it's better to get your dagger back."

"Yes, yes... No! Shouldn't it be the content in the album!"

"What are you thinking?"

"No no no no, I'm just surprised that my prediction turned out to be wrong."

"I didn't understand that booklet either."

"Then you understand clearly, what do you understand!"

"Of course I understand things like 'it's useless to look at it now, let's put it away and talk about it later'."

"It makes sense!"

I wouldn't mind sitting down and talking to Emily about the booklet for hours if the time and occasion allowed, but it's simply not possible under the current circumstances. Although the members of "Warren" are ignoring us now, who knows if someone will come over to check the situation suddenly, and I always feel that the door is not locked, which is really strange, as if it was done on purpose.

Emily and I had no other choice, and it was impossible to stay inside forever.

When I came out, I saw a staircase leading to the top, which made me more sure that the previous location was underground. To be precise, it was similar to an abandoned underground prison! At the end of the stairs is a wall. Emily knocked a few times with her staff, the wall suddenly turned, and a dark passage appeared, and she walked out to a wide place.

It looks like a relic, and it is the main road leading to the main hall of the relic.

There are strange patterns on the walls, pillars, and ceiling on both sides. These patterns seem familiar to me. I recalled it carefully and remembered that I had seen similar patterns in that album. It can only be said that they are similar, and I can vaguely remember that there are differences.

Emily walked straight ahead, as if she knew the route here.

Go straight, turn right and come to the wall, she put her hand on the wall and began to chant strange incantations, the mana in the air began to gather, after a brief fluctuation, Emily stopped and took a few steps back, and the mana in front of her The wall then "creaked" and turned, revealing a passage.

"It's here."

"Wait, wait a minute, senior?"

"The reaction of the magic item is detected inside, your dagger should be inside."

"That's it..." I was stunned for a moment when I heard Emily's explanation, and followed her in subconsciously. It took a while to realize, "Wait, magic props?"

I never knew that this dagger I got by accident turned out to be a magic item.

"you do not know?"

"I have no idea."

I really don't know, because the dagger doesn't have any mana fluctuations, and it can't be injected with mana, and even the system appraisal result just tells me "it may be used in the future", if it is not an important item and it is not important to me Had it not weighed, I would have thrown it away long ago.

I'm sorry for whoever gave it to me though.

"It's normal if you don't know, after all, that thing is almost abandoned."

"I see."

A light appeared ahead of the tunnel.

Inside is a small room similar to the previous prison cell, except that there are no iron bars to lock people up here, only some randomly stacked boxes and a table with a lighted candle on the table. Some of these boxes were open, some were closed, and only a few were locked.

However, the key is still inserted in it and has not been pulled out. I really don't know what the meaning of this lock is.

"This is it."

Emily threw something at me while I was looking at the boxes.

While hastily catching it, I really wanted to complain about her too casual behavior, but I finally gave up on this plan, and nodded to her after confirming that the prop in my hand was my short sword.

"Then let's go."

"Leave directly?"

"Oh, according to the way of the brave, they usually clean up wherever they go. It's very bandit behavior."

"It's not!"

Why would a warrior do such a thing.

"Isn't it? Could it be your desire to see that the treasure chest has not been opened?"

"...There is a sense of compulsion."

Under Emily's straightforward eyes, I admitted this fact decisively. In fact, I can't explain clearly. The root cause of looting the treasure chests of the Thieves' Den in the past is not that I have no money, nor is it that I want to manage those guys, but simply want to open the treasure chests to satisfy my strange preferences.

This is probably a unique habit of the brave.

If you don't open the box for a long time, you will feel uncomfortable all over.

It's a delicate setting.

"Actually, the boxes are all empty."

"Eh?"

"It's just a decoration here."

"Why is there such a strange decoration!"

Who the hell is so boring to do such a thing.

"Because the box can greatly slow down the speed of the brave man. Anyway, this is not the first time Warren has dealt with the brave man. Besides, they have already guessed your identity, Neil, so they will naturally make these preparations, even if the door is not locked. Because the brave always have a way to open the door, so they give up the meaningless behavior of locking the door."

It seems very reasonable.

I was actually convinced by her strange reasoning.

"By the way, this is called 'The Asylum of Burglars'."

"What?"

"Because there was a brave man who successfully sneaked into the God Realm and opened the Newman's vault in history, and he came back alive."

"... how boring the brave men in history are."

Newman's words must be a god of stealing.

How miserable this god is, he was actually stolen.

"However, Emily, how do you make sure the box is empty without opening it?"

"Because I have an asylum too."

"Is it the asylum of 'you can know if there is something inside without opening the box'?"

"correct."

"These shelters are really boring."

"Because the previous brave man was always attracted by the boxes and disappeared, I had to tell him which ones were empty before his consciousness was transferred, and I had to convince him in every possible way."

"..."

The more powerful the ability, the more inexplicable the source is.

Probably some kind of truth in life!

I followed her quietly like this, and returned to the main road again. Although there is a torch for lighting, I can't see anyone. There are only Emily and I in the empty passage, which looks extraordinarily weird. In addition, this is an underground ruin, which makes me feel like "a ghost will suddenly appear behind me". a feeling of.

Maybe it's my illusion.

Maybe it's really there, I just can't see it.

Emily began to speed up her pace, heading towards the main hall of the ruins.

Looking up, I can easily see the gate with intricate patterns carved on it, but because the distance is too far, and the light above is not bright enough, I can't see what those patterns are. Emily didn't intend to go directly through the main entrance. She walked to a relatively close position and stopped, turned left and came to the wall, and repeated the action I had seen before, activating the mechanism inside the wall to open a new road. Secret passages.

The secret passage this time is the stairs leading to the top.

"I thought you were going to ask me why I didn't enter through the main entrance."

Emily, who was walking in front, suddenly spoke.

"I can probably guess."

"Just maybe?"

"I don't like to say for sure."

"Does that mean you guessed it?"

"..."

It can't be said that I guessed it.

Because Emily's actions reminded me of a possibility, I deliberately opened the system map. Although there is no way to determine my location, after all, there are no markers marked on the map, but I can detect guys who are malicious to me.

Behind that gate, there are dense red dots.

Red means danger.

Maybe a large group of Warren members.

Wait, they gather so many people in this kind of place...

"Warren's target is the jug sealed here?"

"It can be understood in this way, but it is more straightforward to go in and have a look."

"look?"

I can't keep up with Emily's leaping mind.

Instead of continuing to explain, she stopped and used her staff to push off a few bricks on the wall in front of her, creating a hole just big enough for me to climb out. The outside of the cave is a very empty place. According to the previous route, it should be the main hall of the ruins, and the position where Emily and I are located is probably in a corner above the main hall, a very hidden place that is not easy to be found. The place.

Climb out of the hole and come to a platform. From the platform, you can clearly see the situation in the entire main hall.

Right in front is a huge altar-like thing, almost the light of the entire main hall comes from the magic circle on the altar, it looks like a very spectacular scene, but I am not in the mood to appreciate it, because I can see it vaguely There's something in the middle of the altar.

Presumably the jug Emily mentioned.

The members of "Warren" stood neatly in front of the altar.

It's like a ceremony is being held.

"Release the seal?"

"It's very possible, but until now I don't know what the pot is, but I don't think it will be a good thing."

"Do you want to stop it?"

"Wait first."

Emily said so, and I gave up my plan to prepare magic.

Throwing a Transcendental Magic at this position should be able to clean up this group of strange guys, but I'm not sure if it will break the seal. If I don't use supernatural magic, all I can use is some weird defensive magic, or choose to open the barrier to hit people.

【So sad. 】

I shook my left hand uncomfortably.

I don't know what's going on with this inexplicable bracelet, but I'm sure that because of this thing, my sensitivity to the surrounding mana is weakened, and I can't even gather mana. Since the current situation cannot be dealt with, it is not convenient to ask Emily.

I checked several times on the way, and she didn't have anything similar to mine.

Recalling the situation at that time, after finishing Montgomery, Emily fell into a coma, so I hugged her and prepared to leave the abandoned area, but when I met a member of "Warren" who was blocking the way and was about to draw out his short sword to defend, I was suddenly attacked by someone behind me. Attacked, wake up and be taken to this kind of place.

And Emily woke up before me.

She came to wake me up after investigating the surrounding situation.

So it's understandable to be so familiar along the way.

In other words, she should have noticed that there is something extra on my wrist. Is it because it is unnecessary to not tell, or will it cause more trouble?

Or do you not want me to use supernatural magic?

"They're moving."

"Eh!"

My thoughts are interrupted, and my attention returns to the "Warren" members below.

Some members came out of the team, slowly walked up to the altar, chanted strange spells around the altar, and then took out the short knife and began to cut their own bodies... Well, it means literally, they are self-mutilating, the purpose is not clear, about To donate blood? Or is it to complete some kind of ritual?

At least not like the guy who pierced his own neck directly.

"What a bunch of fanatics."

Emily gave such an evaluation.

"what are they doing?"

"Using blood to release the seal can probably explain what the seal is." Emily turned around and squatted down, while raising her hand to signal me to squat down, "This method of lifting is only applicable to two kinds of seals, one It is a seal that needs to absorb enough blood to be satisfied, and the other is to break it in a profane way, that is to say, the power and blood used to cast the seal are mutually exclusive."

Emily pinched her nose suddenly in the middle of speaking.

"Disgusting smell."

"Hey, why didn't I smell it?"

"I used to be a believer anyway, and this kind of thing is mostly related to the gods... It stinks, does it take a lot of rejection to make this happen, or is the blood of those guys already so dirty that it is comparable to a garbage dump that has been abandoned for many years! "

"..."

So what is Emily's focus on?

"Furthermore, there are only a few seals that can repel blood, and the most severe one is Gloria, the god of ice and severe winter, because she has blood sickness."

"...Why does the god have bloodsickness?"

"This kind of thing is quite normal!"

"It's not normal!"

"It's fine, we'll talk about it later!"

Emily waved.

She seemed to dislike the smell, and her face turned pale.

"The guy who can seal with Gloria's power is probably related to flames, which means that the person locked inside is likely to be a certain Balrog."

"So they're going to let the guy out?"

"This is directly below the academy. When the Balrog is released, it will form a battle site for the Balrog, that is, a volcano. This academy will be completely destroyed in a flash...how come no one has noticed yet?"

"..."

Probably something went wrong.

I turned to look at the screen on the left.

Because Lilith and I have acted together, she is regarded as my teammate by default. I can see her situation at this moment: during the battle, the mana value is low, and the injury is small. This kind of situation will happen, no matter how you look at it, it will not be a struggle within the academy, and there may be some external reasons.

I tried to contact Qiuqiu, but the distance was too far and there was no response at all.

"YAHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

There was a raging cry from below.

I subconsciously covered my ears.

"It seems that we can't wait any longer, and find a way to stop the ceremony."

"Even if you say so, how can you stop it!"

"Of course it is!"

Emily yelled at me, then grabbed a brick from the ground and threw it at the altar.

The brick accurately knocked out a "Warren" member, and at the same time attracted the attention of all "Warren" members below.

Ding--

"What are you doing! The location is directly exposed!"

Seeing the flying knives stuck on the wall, I am still a little scared.

At that moment, nearly half a hundred short knives were thrown over at the same time.

"I think it's better for us to change positions."

"Eh?"

"The members of 'Warren', without exception, all know spells..."

"boom!"

Before Emily finished speaking, the platform shook violently due to the impact.

I turned my head and saw the flames below.

"Fireball【Fireball】!"

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There is a very practical magic in magic, which can kill enemies in battle, cook on fire, and give warmth when necessary, or present a beautiful red flower to those who have nothing to do with feeding dog food Fireworks, the name of this magic is [Fireball], and almost all kinds of textbooks that record recommended spells for newcomers will include this spell. It was originally intended to be named after the person who created this spell, but the age is too long, and no one knows who created it.

So it was just named [Fireball].

And then I'm being bombarded by a bunch of people with this spell.

On a bleak occasion.

The culprit was still waving his fist behind my back to support me, and at the same time helped me pull a wave of hatred.

"Stupid 'Warren'! Oh Sushou is an intermediate spell, Neil, can't you make a more powerful barrier, or change it to a water attribute!"

"Shut up, useless little one, if I could change it, I would have changed it already!"

"What are you talking about, waste wood brave! Isn't it just another defensive magic, don't you know how to double cast spells?"

"Nope!"

"What a waste!"

"It's better than you, a little guy who can only pull hatred! Well... If you don't think about it, senior sister, we will be wiped out here directly!"

"It's okay, let me sleep to reset the spell slot first, and then think about these issues."

"When will there be more settings for spell slots!"

"Because it's a dungeon, so add it temporarily."

"Don't add strange settings, just think of a way for me!"

If I really fell asleep like this, it is estimated that before Emily can figure out a way, the barrier I can barely support now will be broken by continuous attacks, and then directly incinerated. The "Warren" members outside are no longer just using simple spells, but have begun to prepare advanced spells.

Although it does delay the time for them to destroy the seal, I think it is useless.

Even if a group of people gather, there are still people working on breaking the seal at the altar!

The seal will be broken sooner or later!

"Sister!"

"Okay, okay, I know, Neil, you should try your best."

Feeling that the mana around him suddenly gathered wildly, he turned around and saw Emily holding the staff in both hands, preparing some kind of spell. Judging from the ups and downs, most of them are middle-level or above spells, and the mixed lightning and ice have begun to affect the barrier I support.

"Wait, you cast such a large spell now, how will you solve the altar later!"

"Leave it to Neil and you are fine. Listen to my password and lift the barrier when the time comes."

The magic circle under the feet began to radiate to the surroundings at an exaggerated speed, covering almost one-third of the entire main hall. The runes on the magic circle rose from the ground to the air, and even the magic circle was separated into multiple layers. The spectacular special effects made it clear what kind of exaggerated spells were going to be released, and then I once again learned what qualified enemy personnel are.

The group of "Warren" members below really stopped their movements, even including the fireball flying in the air, rigidly fixed there.

What a responsible member of the enemy!

By the way, what kind of strange setting is this.

"Magic net, connected.【Connect with magic net】"

“Constructing circuits of complex number.【Constructing complex number circuits】”

"Active instruction! [Instruction activation]"

Emily raised the staff upwards with one hand.

"Bombing Disruption! [Fault Blasting]"

As if time stopped.

A beam of light erupted upwards from inside the magic circle, causing the entire main hall to be covered in white light. The barrier I supported had long been crushed by the burst of magic power. I suspect that if I hadn't stood in the center of Emily's magic circle, It will also be crushed by these white lights.

Presumably that's why this magic is called "fault".

Like being repelled to a different space, without leaving any traces.

After the white light dissipated, what I saw was the empty main hall.

"Is it over?"

"It should be over."

Emily answered me like this.

Because the speed is too fast, I can't react. There are still one or two members of the altar who are doing their best to bleed, as if they don't care that their companions are wiped out in an instant, but soon they can't care, because one or two are used by Emily. Brick was knocked unconscious.

This Emily's brick technology is getting higher and higher, even to the point where I am amazed.

Emily and I came to the edge of the altar and looked at the jug in the center.

It is quite a beautiful pot. If I hadn't been informed in advance, I would have thought it was a work of art left by a certain writer, and it would fetch a high price if I took it out. But in fact, this pot used Gloria's power to seal a certain Balrog, and most of the surrounding circles had something to do with the seal.

Warren's actions were somewhat useful.

I can see that the pattern on the pot has been slightly eroded.

"Then what are you going to do?"

Turning to face Emily, I found that she was staring at the jug carefully, as if thinking about something.

"Sister?"

"Ah! Get out of here now."

Emily said so, taking a few steps back.

"makes sense."

Since there are no "Warren" members, there is no need to stay here.

"Then I'll take these fainted guys away too."

After all, it was just knocked unconscious, if they woke up and continued to break the seal, maybe the Balrog would really be released by them. Although I don't know what kind of Balrog it is and what kind of strength it has, but from the point of view of "the entire academy will be destroyed in an instant when it appears", it is better to let it stay in that pot for the rest of its life.

Anyway, he's not a talkative lamp god, so why should he let him out for a walk when he has nothing to do.

With that in mind, I was about to walk into the altar and drag those "Warren" members out.

"Wait! Neil! Don't go in!"

Emily suddenly called out to me.

It's just that she said it too late, and my right foot has already stepped into the range of the altar.

I wanted to ask her what's wrong, but before I could ask her, I heard a "crack", very crisp, like the sound of something being smashed, and it came out of the pot. When I turned my head to look over, I realized that the pot placed in the middle of the altar, for some reason, had a crack on the surface.

Emily hurried over and pulled me away from the altar.

"Crack!"

The sound resounded throughout the main hall.

The pot is broken.

A mass of flames suddenly rose, and then expanded to form a huge, human-shaped thing. I could see two blood-red spots of light in the flames. The flames exploded, and the heat wave directly blew Emily and me away, and finally stopped when it hit the gate. After finally slowing down, when I looked up, I saw a giant covered in magma.

"Finally, I'm out! Ants! Get ready to accept the Balrog's wrath!"

The giant waved his arms and shouted as he smashed the stone pillar.

"The Balrog, the Lord of the Balrog...Melville."

Emily's voice rang in my ears. do not know why. She seems to be a little desperate?