Chapter 322 – Interrogation
Christina’s cheeks were swollen with displeasure.
Of course I didn’t need it, so she just disabled the raid message function.
It wasn’t just the little Christina who blocked the message function. It was the same with the rookie raid members like Liliana and Verna, who were with me.
“I just thought it wasn’t necessary. And if you could write a raid message, what would you do?”
“That, that’s…”
When I ask, Cristina hesitates.
It seemed he hadn’t even thought about that.
I just felt like I was being coveted because other people were using it.
Then Liliana intervened.
“Unho, you also have a purpose, so you put us in what is called a raid. Then, wouldn’t it be possible to make it possible to use at least the message function?
“That, that’s it! Liliana is right!!”
He was a kid who quickly became complacent with Liliana’s careless support fire.
“And…I’m also curious about the raid message.”
I peeked at the faces of the others who couldn’t write raid messages.
Neither Flora nor Verna said a word, but it was felt that she expected her with quiet eyes.
Giving them the ability to write raid messages is not that difficult, as Liliana said.
But why do I feel like I don’t want to do it?
Especially for little ones…
“It’s because it’s narrow inside.”
“…”
Liliana said with a sinister smile as if she knew my troubles.
…It can’t be
I’m narrow-minded…
I am not narrow-minded.
I want to say that it was an efficient raid operation without waste.
If you refuse to the end here… Hmmm…
As a real man, I didn’t think he would look very good.
Liliana… Take one.
I won’t see you then
Squeeze it very well.
“…Okay. I’ll allow it.”
In the end, I decided to open the message function to the kid… No, to the entire raid.
〈All raid members have been allowed to send messages.〉
“Hurray!”
Only then did the little boy get down from the chair with a mean expression on his face and sit down quietly.
「Liliana: Ohh…This is amazing. There is no flow of magical power. In a way, it is similar to the telepathic ability that is sometimes said to be innate.”
「Verna: I see… Sending text messages quickly just by thinking… Is there a distance limit?」
The master and the disciple who had cut ties had a normal conversation for the first time in a long time.
“Christina: Rebecca, how are you? Can you see my message?”
“Rebecca: Yes, Princess. It looks good.」
Cristina was excited in a different way, exchanging messages with her darling and her exclusive maids.
It was like getting a new toy.
「Christina: With this, you can talk about secrets to your heart’s content!」
It’s a stupid idea.
If I put my mind to it, I could see all the messages the raid members were exchanging.
I just didn’t do it out of manners and to protect privacy.
I wonder if the other members of the raid, except for the kid, roughly expected that I would have such an ability.
‘If I knew that I could even use my inventory, I’d be in a frenzy.’
There were only a handful of people who could use the inventory… But I have to tell them to be careful not to be noticed by the little ones.
“…Then let’s move on to another agenda.”
Because of the little boy, I wasted time with useless stories.
The reason they gathered here in the first place was to discuss how the subjugation party would find the warlock on the vast 11th floor.
The problem on the 11th floor of the labyrinth is its scale.
It means that there is less basic information than other layers.
It was a place that had not yet been completely attacked, and the entrance to the 12th floor of the labyrinth had not yet been discovered.
The 11th floor of the Labyrinth is a place where intermediate and advanced dimensional rifts are mixed.
Although the proportion of mid-level cracks is slightly higher, the presence of high-level cracks in itself slowed down the adventurers’ search.
If it’s high-grade, should it be called a B-class crack in terms of Earth?
Class B cracks were officially counted as the highest level cracks in existence on Earth.
Of course, higher level erosion bodies are created in higher level rifts. And that high-level corroding body was a monster that was difficult for adventurers to deal with.
A sword master should be able to handle it easily.
A simple adventurer’s party couldn’t handle such a monster. I think I heard that a large party would gather and attack if discovered.
In other words, the 11th floor of the labyrinth was not easy to navigate smoothly unless you were a sword master.
There was no reason for a human on the level of a sword master to roll around and explore here, so progress was bound to be sluggish.
We talked about this and that with each other… But there was no opinion that I liked.
How about magic
“So you mean that the scale of this 11th floor is about the size of the kingdom… It takes a lot of magic stones and time to explore that extent at once with magic.”
“How much?”
If it were to be a gold coin, I was willing to bear it to some extent.
Of course, it would be the gold coins of the religion of Terra.
“Preparation time will go in yearly. I don’t think you’ll be here that much.”
Liliana shrugged her shoulders.
I glanced at Verna.
She nodded her head quietly, as if affirming her Liliana’s words.
If the two archmages are like that, that’s it.
If there’s no magic…
‘…No answer?’
Of course, I had no intention of wandering around in the labyrinth for several years.
Even if it does, it doesn’t seem like it will happen in a year or two.
‘Hmm…It takes a long time to prepare, but it’s supposed to be done with magic…’
A feeling of wanting to be at ease surged up.
Prepare Liliana for magic detection…
I pretended to be looking for a black magician, turning the raid into a labyrinth and dealing with dimensional rifts to earn skill points.
Then Terra will have something to say.
In short, it was a story of pretending to be moderate until magic detection was ready.
If only Liliana suffered, everyone would feel at ease.
Come to think of it, it doesn’t seem too bad.
For now, my mind is leaning this way.
I would find it myself anyway, but it seemed like it was time to prepare magic.
“Unho-sama, how about asking the Guild Alliance?”
Flora commented.
“Guild union?”
“Yes, I guess you’ve been ruling this place for the longest time, so you probably know the 11th floor the best?”
Flora’s words made sense.
Well, it’s probably the guys who have the most information on the 11th floor. However, it didn’t seem like they would have fully explored this place at their level.
I don’t know if I’ve gotten help from a black magician…
It’s not that difficult to ask.
“Then, let’s call the guild union masters.”
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A seat with the master of the guild union was quickly prepared.
However, only two guild masters came.
One was said to have gone missing during the siege.
At that time, he seemed to be the one who climbed the wall.
It rushed without any countermeasures…
Could he possibly be dead?
At that time, the humans inside the fortress were all sucked into the barrier, so they couldn’t even retrieve their corpses.
It may have been sucked in at the same time.
One of the two was the master of the tri guild, a familiar guy named Conrad.
The other was a human he had never seen before.
Gold Hands is the master of the guild.
He introduced himself as Benjamin.
He’s put on some weight… And he doesn’t seem to know how to handle magic.
He didn’t look like an adventurer by any means.
If not power…A lot of money?
Either that or…
“…Are you the pants boss?”
“Yes? What about the pants boss…”
Perhaps it was an unfamiliar word, the pig made a puzzled expression.
From what I saw, this pig didn’t have enough stamina to withstand the Guild Alliance’s forced march. He raises a reasonable suspicion that it might be the reason they haven’t met before.
Enough of useless reasoning…
“I want all the information on the 11th floor of the Labyrinth.”
“That’s our secret… Just asking for it…”
Benjamin looked up and answered.
These guys were still out of their minds.
“Following the Dark Blood Clan… Guild Alliances also came out with warlocks and sticklers. What should we think of this?”
“That, they are traitors!!”
“That’s something we need to investigate from now on…”
Judith was waiting for the Guild Union bastards.
It was just left there because there were not enough people to investigate.
Even now, the Paladins were watching the adventurers coming and going from the fortress gate with lights on in their eyes in three shifts.
I didn’t.
Apparently, it was a place where even the Great Devil was summoned, so it was impossible to stay still.
Unfortunately, no one has caught it yet.
“Ah…Come to think of it, I heard that a Terrac cult heretic inquisitor is coming.”
I think Judith said something like that.
“This, the Heretic Inquisitor?!”
When the story of the Heretic Inquisitor came out, the guys were visibly anxious.
To be honest, I don’t know what kind of person the Heretic Inquisitor is.
Heretic Inquisitor.
Doesn’t it seem like you’re notorious for something from your rank?
Looking at the two guys’ expressions, it seems so.
“Do you understand your situation now? If your guild is robbed and even one suspicious person emerges… You know?”
Do these guys really know their guild members in detail?
What if even one of the many guild members had something to do with the warlock?
-Gulp…
They swallow dry saliva and break out in a cold sweat.
