Episode 616 Homunculus (3)
A device that turns monsters into magic stones.
What would happen if a human entered the device?
I don’t have that data yet.
But….
Tadat-!
As soon as he saw Raven, he kicked the ground and shot out.
The re fact that the kidnapped Raven was standing on that rail was proof to so extent. The fact that that device doesn’t just turn monsters into magic stones.
Jiiiing –
Fortunately, pulling Raven down from the moving rail wasn’t that difficult.
Because there was no restraint device in the first place.
All I had to do was grab Raven who was on top by her waist, lift her up and lower her down…
“Raven! Raven! “Co to your senses!”
Even if I grab Armman’s shoulder and shake him, he just stares into space with a blank expression and doesn’t wake up at all.
Tap tap.
The sa goes for hitting the cheek with a thick hand rather than shaking it.
“Tsk…”
What’s going on?
After seeing that he was moaning as if he was talking in his sleep, I slapped his cheek with more force.
Slap slap.
“Ugh….”
Puck! puck-!
“That’s enough…”
Raven’s condition seems to have improved and she finally spits out the complete word.
Perhaps the condition for waking up from that state of fascination is a certain amount of damage.
With that thought in mind, I spurred on even more.
“Raven! Raven! “Get up!”
puck-! puck-!
“Stop that….”
Puck! Wow!
“Stop it… do it… go…!”
“…You’re awake!”
As if my efforts had paid off, the intelligence that Raven had in her pupils slowly began to return.
“Are you okay? What about your body? Can you move? What’s strange? Where are the other colleagues? “Would you like so water?”
“…water.”
“Oh, here it is. “I’ll pour it for you, so drink it slowly.”
Soon, Raven ca to her senses as soon as she brought the water bottle to her mouth and gave it water as if she were giving a bottle to a child.
“…thank you. “For saving .”
“Thank you. “Of course it has to be done.”
“My jaw is sore, though. “I feel refreshed.”
“Isn’t there a saying that a hawk is dicine?”
“It’s a bit of a bitter pill, though.”
Okay, I feel like I’ve beco completely fine enough to joke like this…
“So what happened?”
“…I think it’s sothing along the lines of mind control. “Not long after Mr. Yandel got in there, we all suddenly lost consciousness.”
“So you’re saying you don’t rember anything?”
“no. It’s not like that. “I didn’t lose my mind at all…”
Raven slowly began to explain, saying that she vaguely rembers the events of the past as if she had dread them.
“I felt like my body was being controlled by sothing else while I was drinking a lot.”
When I touched a strange rock and lost consciousness.
Raven and her colleagues, who were also unconscious, just stood there in a daze along with the other mbers, sobbing.
Then, at one point, flying objects flew from the sky and were dragged across the river to the temple.
“From then on, it felt like I was constantly waiting for sothing. While they were gathered in one place, one by one, they were taken sowhere. And it happened to be my turn this ti…”
“One by one.”
“…yes?”
“They said they were taken away one by one first…?”
My heart sinks.
However, Raven didn’t seem to know why my expression changed so seriously.
“Hehe… it would be quicker to see it in person.”
Soon I was heading towards the rail that Raven was riding on.
So, I headed to a place where there was a device that turned monsters into magic stones.
Flash-!
Monsters that transform into fist-sized magic stones as light shoots out.
“What is this…”
Raven’s expression turns white as she realizes that if I had been just a little bit late, she would have passed by there.
Did he also realize the cause of my stiff expression?
“No way, then all the people who were taken away first…”
Raven couldn’t continue her sentence for fear that she might end up saying nothing.
It was ti for to make up my mind and check.
“Raven, how many people have been taken away so far?”
“I’m not sure… but there are well over ten.”
“Who was it…?”
Raven, frowning as if trying to force out mories, called out each person’s na one by one.
And at so point, I suddenly lost my words.
Exciting-!
My heart fluttered loudly at that action.
My unconscious mind, which had experienced countless misfortunes, had already noticed.
Why was Raven speechless?
“…Tell . “Who was it?”
Soon, Raven’s small lips parted and her ominous premonition ca true.
“Emily Raines…”
Dammit.
***
My heart is beating fast.
Exciting-!
Obviously, the heart is an organ that supplies blood evenly to the body, but for so reason, it feels like all the blood in the body is concentrated in the head.
“It was the turn right in front of …”
To put it simply, it’s already too late.
However, I tried my best to keep my cool and confird what I needed to confirm.
That’s right, because it’s not yet clear that Alia is wrong.
“The remaining people… where are they?”
“I do not know. “I don’t rember everything… except that it was a large space with a rectangular structure…”
It was decided that the remaining people should be rescued first, but unfortunately, Raven did not know the way to get there.
‘In the end, you have to search the entire building to find it…’
The problem was this rail.
If the rails are still running, there will be casualties while I’m still running around looking for them.
Okay, so….
Quaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Hit the hamr on the rail.
Crackling, crackling, crackling!
The rail, which was shattered by physical impact, made a creaking sound and then stopped working.
And at the sa ti.
Bleep-! Bleep-! Bleep-!
An alarm sound sounds and the drones head in this direction.
I wondered if they would stop treating like an invisible barbarian and be hostile to , but for so reason, the drones just passed by and settled in front of the damaged rail.
“It looks like you’re trying to… repair sothing?”
“….”
“What are you going to do?”
“I’ll leave it alone for now.”
For so reason, I expected that destroying those drones would be a waste of ti.
It seems like they’re going to fly in from sowhere and try to fix it.
‘It would be better to find out for sure how long it will take to repair.’
“Raven, follow for a mont.”
“Where are you going?”
“First, I need to know what kind of place this is.”
Afterwards, I led Raven and moved along the stopped rail for a while.
Before long, another rail appeared that was operating normally, and that rail was transporting a box full of magic stones sowhere.
“But… if I kept waiting here without having to destroy the rails, wouldn’t other people have co too?”
“…Well, that’s also a thod.”
“Ah… you didn’t think.”
No matter how hard you try to be cool, it’s not easy.
Disgust exists in everyone.
“Okay, take a good look around you. “Maybe there’s a way to save the people who passed by first.”
“Yes…”
As I followed the rail that carried the boxes, I ca to a point where the magic stone boxes were gathered.
There were three unknown chanical devices, and a hook, often seen in claw machines, was connected to the ceiling and was inserting magic stones into the chanical devices.
Tuk degurrr.
As the magic stone rolled into the slot, sothing on the ceiling emitted light, and when the light faded, sothing was created beyond the transparent glass plate in the center.
“….”
It was a monster.
Has characteristics of goblins, orcs, and ghouls.
A monster with such a terrible appearance that I have never seen it in the labyrinth.
“What the hell is it? That…”
“If you follow it, you’ll find out sothing.”
The monster created by the chanical device moved sowhere on the rail that started working again, and we carefully followed behind.
And I completely realized the structure of this factory.
Flash-!
The created monster rides the rail and enters the device, turning into a magic stone again.
For so reason, there were three magic stones instead of one.
Flash-!
Additionally, the magic stone that was divided into three went through the chanical device once more and went through the process of being reborn as a goblin orc ghoul…
‘What kind of bullshit is this?’
After completing all the procedures, the monsters went up to the upper floor of the building under the control of the drones again and were imprisoned.
“Could it be that this is happening over and over again?”
“…I guess so.”
I’m more confused than if I didn’t know anything about this space.
What on earth is this space?
For what purpose are we repeating such aningless actions?
But I still felt a little relieved.
“In a situation like this… I guess everyone can be safe?”
“…I hope so.”
“Anyway, I think the repairs are almost done.”
When we went underground again, the heavily damaged rails had been restored to so extent to their original state.
So, I thought about breaking it again, but…
“Why don’t you do as I say? “You don’t even know where other people are trapped.”
On Raven’s advice, we held off on destroying the rails.
“I will stay here and rescue people. Mr. Yandel, go around and look for him. “Isn’t that more reasonable?”
Considering what happened later, it was definitely safer this way.
Even if you can’t find where they are trapped, you will be able to rescue more of your colleagues.
Well, it’s not like I’m uneasy.
“It seems okay now, but if I’m gone, sothing dangerous could happen.”
“That’s true, but…”
“We’ll stay together. “After I wake up about ten more people, it will be okay without .”
“Ah… that might be better.”
After that conclusion, we sat down in front of the rail and waited for our colleagues to show up.
One hour, two hours, three hours….
As the indefinite wait continued, we continued to exchange opinions.
“You an Mr. Yandel lost consciousness the mont he grabbed that rock?”
“okay. But when I woke up, the stone had disappeared from nowhere and ten days had passed.”
“Is there anything wrong with your body?”
“till now.”
Raven’s expression beca serious when she heard what had happened to , but she couldn’t give much advice.
“Do you know what that rock is?”
“no. I don’t know either. But…”
“But?”
Raven took a mont to reply to my question.
“Do you know what a homunculus is?”
“I know. “Isn’t it a level 8 monster?”
For reference, its representative habitat is the 3rd floor Witch’s Forest, and even if it isn’t there, it sotis pops up out of nowhere in various places, so I caught it often.
However, Raven shook her head at my answer.
“What I was trying to say was about homunculi in alchemy.”
“I don’t know anything about that.”
“Homunculus in alchemy originally refers to artificial life forms… or, more accurately, artificially created ‘humans.’”
“Of course… the homunculus I t in the Witch’s Forest also had a human-like appearance.”
“If you just look at the shape, yes. “With skin shedding off every ti you walk, doesn’t that make you genetically closer to a sli than a human?”
“Anyway, what do you want to say?”
“It’s nothing special, but I suddenly started having doubts about the ‘magic stone’ itself. “You saw a monster turn into a magic stone, and then a magic stone turn into a monster again, right?”
“But what does that an?”
“It just suddenly occurred to . If the ‘Philosopher’s Stone’ from the legend is real, it might actually have very similar properties to the magic stone…” I
thought about it and realized it was just a wizard’s fantasy.
Isn’t it a bit much to just dismiss it as a fantasy?
‘It’s a magic stone…’
That was when I had that tickling feeling that feathers were fluttering in my head and I felt like I couldn’t catch them.
“uh…?”
Raven opens her eyes wide and stares at one place.
I wanted to know sothing, so I quickly checked the direction and saw a colleague coming in on the rails.
A loyal knight who accompanied the Ice Rock expedition.
“It’s Sir land Kaislan!”
As soon as I saw him, I quickly approached him and got off the rail.
And the car was in a hurry to hit in the face.
“Wait!”
Raven stopped and took out an object from subspace.
So, that’s the na…
“Wreath of Agony?”
“Yes. I think if I put this on, I might co back to my senses.”
Well, there is certainly a possibility…
“But isn’t there a proven thod?”
“That’s right, but I can still taste blood in my mouth right now?”
“Ah…”
For so reason, my cheeks were swollen than usual.
When I nodded to tell her to take care of it, Raven carefully put the wreath on.
And how long has it been?
“Ugh….”
Kaislan regained consciousness.
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