Most of this underground castle is a structure of one room connected to another, and after passing through this empty room with nothing to explore, the re-entry room is clearly a little more than the previous one. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In addition to the rubble as usual, an ornate fountain stood on the east wall of the room, and the dragon statue on the fountain was proudly beautiful, but the fountain had dried up, collapsed, and stained.

After first searching the ground, Besco came up with the same information as before, except that it was confirmed that the owner of the human footprints had headed north.

Shirley and Todak inspect the dry fountain pool, which looks empty except for silt.

The winged girl pressed her index finger and thumb against each other, her middle finger and ring finger and little finger crossed each other, and there were words in her mouth, and a layer of invisible energy fluctuations swept across the pool.

Detection magic, or should I say detection magic.

Shirley uses an ability similar to a spell, which is of no other use, that is, to manifest magic and magic items within a certain range in the form of magical aura, which is similar to the mage's spiritual power vision.

The winged people have a little bit of a talent for spell casting, and she still knows a little bit of this kind of small trick that can only barely count the zero ring.

After the detection magic sweeped, the bottom of the fountain lit up with a red magical aura.

"Is there really something?" the unexpected discovery surprised Shirley.

After digging a little, Todak and Shirley found a dragon rune at the edge of the pool.

"Nai...... Na, Ya?" Shirley struggled to make out the dragon's words on her stomach, "Bringing fire to the world?"

At the same time as Shirley said the dragon words, a red glow lit up on the dragon statue in the fountain of the pool, and a thick red liquid spewed out of the dragon's mouth.

Todak quickly pulled Shirley away from the jet path, and the dwarven warrior's hard tug sent Shirley back quickly, hot red liquid passing through her hair. The red liquid falls on the wet silt. Flames burst into flames, drying them at breakneck speed, and then extinguishing themselves.

Shirley patted her chest with palpitations: "This mechanism is so insidious. ”

Todak carefully examined the burning residue and shook his head: "No, it's not a trap, those red liquids are similar in nature to fire-breathing potions. It can be picked up and used in glass bottles. ”

The Dwarven Warrior doesn't usually talk much, but he's actually the most experienced of the three-person adventure team.

“...... Belch. Shirley paused and let out a mournful cry, "A bottle of 50 gold coins for two bottles flew past me?"

"Well, no. Todak couldn't bear to look at him.

"My heart hurts. The winged girl said depressedly as she lay on the edge of the pool.

The pool's magical aura was gone, which meant that it was useless to recite the dragon language again.

Besco was retrieving the ground, the Dwarven Warrior and Wingman Ranger were inspecting the pool on the east side, and Kirito was groping around the west wall for a while. A secret door was discovered.

As if his hand had touched something, the thin wall suddenly parted on both sides, revealing an intricately carved stone door inside.

The relief was a skeletal dragon, and Kirito, who was very close to the door, felt a chill, as if he was being watched by a resurrected from the dead—an unpleasant experience he had experienced several times during his research mission before coming to Oak Town.

Kirito took a deep breath and tried to push the stone gate hard, and the stone gate let out a buzzing and trembling sound.

"Be careful!" Besco had just finished checking the ground. Noticing Kirito's movements, he subconsciously shouted.

Sharp shadows descend from the sides. Kirito backhanded out the interpreter to block upwards at a speed invisible to the naked eye, and after a violent metal crash and flying sparks, Kirito was hit back by the massive potential energy.

There was a rattling of chains, and the two-meter-long scythe quickly retracted into the darkness above the door.

"Thanks for the reminder. Kirito withdrew the interpreter and shook his numb left hand, thanking Besco.

"There was no room for traps outside the previous secret lock. But there is a noticeable gap in front of this door. Besco pointed to the gap between the stone door and the original wall, "There is a trap in this situation. ”

The trigger mechanism for this trap is supposed to sense if the stone door is being subjected to an incorrect way of opening.

"Can you disarm it? Kirito asked Besco, "If you can't disarm the scythe, you'd better not try to open the door." ”

After thinking for a while, Besco nodded slowly: "It's a bit difficult." But it's not that it can't be done. ”

Iron drills, torsion bars, and other tools are turned out of the backpack by the wanderer, placed within reach, and put on face protectors. Kirito triggers the trap again at his request.

Prepared Kirito retreated when the scythe fell, perfectly dodging the trap's attack, and Besco took advantage of the moment's brief pause in the scythe's fall to the reset, inserted the iron drill into the ring of the chain, hooked the weight ball, and fixed the scythe there.

The chains were tight, but the hammers also made a terrible sound of overwhelm, and now Besco only needed enough torsion or shear force to remove the scythe from the chains, and the chains alone were not threatening. But now he couldn't spare his hands to hold the scythe.

Kirito pulled out the interpreter again, and the black blade cut into the arm-thick chain, causing a moment of condensation, and then only heard a tooth-aching sound, the interpreter continued forward, leaving a flat cut in the chain, not even like the usual iron chain that would fly out after breaking a large number of fragments, Besco's previous protective work was useless.

The scythe slammed into the ground, leaving deep and narrow grooves in the ground.

Besco noticed the cut in the chain and the unscathed interpreter in Kirito's hand, and couldn't help but secretly wonder what kind of material and craftsmanship this weapon was.

When chopping hard objects, the sharp blade is easily injured, and only the thick-ridged sword with a large enough blade angle has a good retention, but the interpreter is obviously very thin - if you look at its performance.

Todak and Shirley, who heard the commotion, also walked over. The winged girl is still a little haunted by the wealth that has flown away.

"What are you doing?" Todak asked, seeing the scythe standing on the ground.

"We want to break in. Besco made a funny face, "Help take a look." ”

The scythe was a bit heavy, but Todak moved it away with ease.

Shirley carefully examines the skeletal dragon relief on the door, and discovers a line of dragon script hidden under the relief.

Because of the previous lesson, Shirley didn't read the text directly, but after reading it all, she returned and said: "There is a line of dragon language on it, pronounced Tana, Aman, Heka, and Mon, which translated into lingua franca means to summon the divine power of goodness and open the door to happiness." ”

This sentence is almost a riddle, but the meaning is still relatively easy to guess, the four adventurers looked at each other a few times, and Besco spread his hands helplessly: "Okay, this means that we want to use the power of light to open the door, God, how can any priest run out to explore with the group, I don't have the kind of holy water that costs money." ”

From the point of view of the healing effect, the holy water is similar to the healing potion, but the price is dozens of times different, and no mercenary or adventurer will choose the holy water, unless there are special circumstances.

Todak touched the stone door with his large rough hands, smearing a layer of lime from above, revealing the black-green material behind it.

"It's chlorophyta, it's strong and it's very impact-resistant. "Every dwarf who grows up normally has a high level of mineral knowledge, and Todak is no exception.

"So?" Kirito asked.

"It has the nickname of the Living Stone, and the people who choose this material for the secret door must not know another property of it. Todak took out his great axe and turned the handle upside down, striking the door regularly with the thick piece of iron on the other side of the blade.

As the number of knocks increased, the stone door began to shake slightly—it was clear that Todak had not used any force.

"Instead of going underground, the energy is stored and spontaneously used to defend itself against attacks from behind. "But to those who are familiar with its properties, it can be broken with a simple resonance - like this." ”

The stone gate was already shaking violently, and Todak told the others to back off a little, then slammed the axe with both hands.

The stone gate, which looked so strong, collapsed. (To be continued.) )