Golden Experience - Chapter 592 The Unseen World

No.592 talk「 still see Nu world」

“─So, you must be getting bored soon,”

“……Not really.”

Somehow, Lyla had made her way to the queen’s chambers.

Blanc was there too.

“It’s so dark! I feel so gloomy being in such a dark place!”

The vampire said something. It’s better than the blazing sun, though.

“……I have ‘Magic Eyes,’ so I’m not bothered by the lack of light.”

“Or maybe, it’s not that you illuminate the surroundings, Rare, but rather that people only recognize your presence once they notice you. Maybe it’s because you become so captivating that you appear to be glowing…”

I don’t quite understand what they’re talking about.

Previously, they had considered magical lighting, but since no one needing light came here, the plan fell through.

By using ‘Magic Eyes’ to sense mana in the atmosphere, even if one couldn’t see, it wouldn’t hinder their activities.

The same goes for ‘Divine Eyes.’

Here, one can see earth spirits and dark spirits wandering around, so it’s a bit noisy.

That’s right.

It might be good to use this for the verification of ‘Spirit Arts.’

Go to various places and unleash ‘Spirit Arts,’ verify the effects and power at each location.

Map it out, narrow down the conditions if there are any trends, investigate the differences in effects based on terrain, weather, time of day, and the causal relationship with the nearby spirits.

“By the way, about the verification of ‘Spirit Arts’─”

“Oh, Eliza from our camp is handling that. Just wait a bit longer. I think the report will be ready soon.”

“Oh, I see…”

Come to think of it, there was someone here. Even the spirit king was in the camp.

The motivation that had started to swell quickly deflated.

Or rather, what did Lyla come here for? Wasn’t she here to motivate Rare, whose motivation had dropped?

When asked indirectly, Lyla smiled slyly and said, “I have something I want you to see. It’s dark here. Shall we go to a brighter place?”

“If you need brightness, just create some light.”

As Rare spoke, she cast ‘Light’ on the ceiling.

“Whoa! It’s so bright!”

Blanc, who had been absentmindedly following the magic released from Rare’s hand, crouched down.

What on earth are they doing?

Their overly exaggerated behavior made me laugh involuntarily.

“So, what do you want to show? If you need light, does it have something to do with colors or such?”

“Not colors, but words. Well, it’s a book.”

Laila pulled out an old book from her inventory.

If it’s a book, there’s no helping it.

You can observe the shape in detail with “God’s Eye,” but you can’t read the characters written there.

And the value of a book lies not in its shape, but in its contents.

Accepting the book from Laila.

Although it looked old, it seemed to be designed that way, and the actual paper was fresh.

No, not the design, but this.

“A replica?”

“Yeah, that’s right. It’s valuable information, so bear with the difficulty of reading it.”

Prompted by Laila, flipping through the pages, dirty, worm-like characters jumped into view.

Certainly difficult to read.

In this world, there is no printing technology, so all books are handwritten.

Yet, what is circulating is solely thanks to “Replication Magic.”

Items replicated with “Replication Magic” deteriorate in quality, so in the case of books, the text and illustrations degrade.

Naturally, with each repetition, it will continue to deteriorate. This is probably a copy of a copy, or even further.

“…Um. Is there anything written about gods here? This is…”

A fairy tale was written there.

In ancient times.

Even older than when the golden dragon arrived.

There were gods in this world.

The gods sought power and fought.

The battles were fierce, sometimes forming alliances to seal powerful gods, sometimes betraying each other, and in the end, the remaining two gods stabbed each other in the chest with their swords, resulting in mutual destruction.

Thus, an era without gods arrived, and the creatures greatly reduced by the gods’ battle increased, leading to the present day.

Roughly summarizing, that was the content.

“Before, Xenovia mentioned that she had only heard about gods in fairy tales. She was born in the western continent, not the central continent, so I wonder where she heard about that.”

Indeed, the Holy Church that praises the existence of gods only exists in the central continent.

According to the professor, in the western continent, system messages were considered the voice of the world.

Therefore, if someone from the western continent, not the central continent, said that there are “gods,” it is highly likely to be something other than the administration.

“When I investigated, these fairy tale-like ancient documents came up. And well, leaving aside the fact that they are dead…”

“The sealed powerful god might still be somewhere, right?”

“Yeah, that’s it!”

“However, despite the fact that there are quite a few people in the Central Continent, the Western Continent, and even in the Southern Continent, there have been no reports of such suspicious entities.”

When it comes to sealing, one recalls the ‘Crystal Wall’ at the northern pole.

However, there is no way such a thing could go unnoticed on the continent.

Moreover, it is dubious whether there really was a sealed god or not.

The system message clearly stated, “There are no gods other than the rare ones.”

Even if the sealed state is not considered a deity.

For example, if that god was a spirit deity, currently the rare one is in that position, but what would happen if that god were to be resurrected in that state?

It is unlikely that the administration would make such a mistake that could lead to such inconsistencies.

Nevertheless, the system message also stated, “The reasons cannot be disclosed.”

There is clearly something going on.

It seems like they want you to investigate thoroughly and pursue it until you are satisfied.

Considering that the message was addressed to the rare individual, it seems to suggest focusing attention there rather than causing havoc with other players or NPCs.

In other words, although it is very roundabout, this pseudo-ancient document may be a guide to end-user content.

“Well, all I can say is that there might still be someone unknown sleeping somewhere.”

“Even if you say somewhere…”

I don’t think there are any more places to search.

“So it’s my turn to shine!”

Blanc said proudly.

“I went to the Magnamelm Utopia in the Far East Archipelago the other day–”

“Sorry, what? Where did you go?”

“The Magnamelm Utopia?”

“…What’s that?”

“It’s a paradise for spirits and undead in the Far East Archipelago.”

“…What’s that?”

According to Blanc’s story.

The terminal that appeared in the Far East Archipelago seemed to be the golden decay beetle Perpet Caspar that had appeared before.

There weren’t as many as when Blanc and the others defeated it, but it was still a threat to the spirits.

Appearing there were a group of undead spirits, led by a powerful lemur.

This group, led by one powerful lemur, helped the spirits with coordinated movements and together defeated the golden decay beetle.

When Blanc went to check on them later, the lemur leader knelt as soon as he saw Blanc.

When Blanc went to check on him later, the lemur leader kneeled as soon as he saw Blanc.

“Epilogue”

The spirits who witnessed it rejoiced, believing that they were saved by the will of Magnamelm. They decided to pass down the entire archipelago as Magnamelm’s utopia and talk about it for a long time.

Not quite sure how to get along with the undead, but for long-lived spirits, the undead, who die when killed just like them, are not something to be avoided or anything like that.

Since I didn’t understand even after asking, I stopped trying to understand. Blanc also seemed to not understand well, and the unclear explanation only added to the confusion.

“…Well, never mind. So, who was that spirit or undead?”

“You know, it seems there’s something even further east of the Far East Islands. It’s a story from a long time ago, but there was a shipwreck that drifted to the east side of the island.”

Further east of the Far East Islands.

Considering it was called the Far East, I had vaguely thought it was the easternmost point, and there was nothing beyond that.

Using the central continent as a reference, there was something like west, east, south, and north of the continent.

However, as the professor who went to the western continent said, for the people of the western continent, that place was the center of the world, and the central continent was just an eastern continent.

It is known that this world is a sphere from the existence of the horizon and the sea level.

If that’s the case, until you go around the world, you can’t say for sure that there are no other continents or islands beyond the Far East Islands or the western continent.

Having gained the power to overlook the world from a great height, perhaps they thought they had seen everything in the world.

But no matter how high they climbed, they couldn’t see the other side of the world.

It was just like the real moon.

Lea had only seen the front side of this world.

“…I see. It’s not too late to get bored and see the other side of the world or the ancient gods with your own eyes, right?”

“You were already bored, huh.”

“You’re so annoying…”

“If you’re motivated, let’s go somewhere! Oh, by the way, Banbu-kun said he wanted to consult you about how to use the experience points of the Golden Dragon! It seems he found something called Auri in the confusion–”

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Exciting things.

Angry moments.

Moments of humiliation.

But also fun moments.

Various memories of this long gaming life floated and disappeared in Lea’s mind.

Shaking off all of them, now they just focused on the “enemy” in front of them, unknowingly smiling.

Next time, “Epilogue”