Only My Magic Levels Up - Chapter 191



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Episode 191 The King’s Tomb (2)

Although it was broken, it wasn’t so pulverized that it was unrecognizable, so Lilia crouched down to examine the bone fragments and was able to recognize them right away.

“I think it’s human bone.”

“Is there anything particularly unusual?”

“Maybe?”

Every time Lilia snapped her fingers, the bone fragments she picked up cracked. She wasn’t playing with them, she was testing their strength.

“It’s not particularly weak or strong. It’s just like a normal bone.”

“It’s definitely a bit suspicious.”

“Huh? Is it suspicious?”

Lilia tilted her head at Galen’s words.

Of course, it was a joke that bones were found in a grave.

Even if this was really the king’s tomb as the legend says, why would his remains be in the passage instead of in the coffin? She was a pure-hearted beggar, not a pure-minded person.

She was just curious why Galen was bothered by the fact that human traces were found in the ruins, even though it wasn’t particularly unusual.

Everyone involved knows that even if you’re not very good at it, you need at least one person with gold to even attempt to explore the ruins, but there were many cases where people were blinded by greed despite knowing this.

There have been many adventurers who overestimated their skills or relied too much on luck and entered the ruins excitedly only to never come out. The skeletons were mostly their traces.

Galen wasn’t unaware of that either.

“If it were a normal relic, then Lilia is right. There’s nothing strange about it.”

But the problem was that this was not a ‘normal’ site.

“The entrance here was completely buried underground.”

“That’s… Oh, now that I think about it, that’s true.”

Lilia clapped her hands.

“Because of the expression ‘opening the entrance,’ I inadvertently assumed that Sister Davia had hidden the entrance with magic. But given the location, that wouldn’t be possible, right?”

“That’s right. Unlike the usual ruins that are located in the middle of nowhere, this one is only a day’s journey from Chiselin. The desert doesn’t have as limited visibility as the mountains.”

If it was a relic that was so easily noticeable that it would entice even sloppy adventurers who might die at the entrance, then it was impossible for the nearby Alaba family to not know about its existence.

In other words, this relic was originally a place that was kept hidden.

Of course, there shouldn’t be any corpses of adventurers.

“There’s no reason for Sister Davia to have brought it… So, are these bones that have been in the ruins for a very long time? No matter how dry the desert is, how can bones remain intact for so long?”

“Originally, it would be impossible… but there is one possible case. What if the skeleton is part of the relics?”

Galen asked softly. Lilia’s expression became serious.

It was a question that others might not have fully understood, but she alone could sense the hidden meaning.

“First, let’s look around a little more!”

Lilia, who had been thinking for a moment, spoke in a voice no different from usual.

“It’s not even confirmed yet, right?”

“That’s true. I might have just gotten excited.”

Galen nodded obediently.

But the two of them had already guessed which answer was most likely to come out.

But first, I decided to figure out exactly where I was.

This wasn’t difficult. The spiral gyre, which reads the flow of air, and the dark fairy tale, which detects the presence of darkness around them, gave them senses that were particularly optimized for finding their way underground.

Anyway, in the current passage, there are only two directions you can go: forward or backward. You just need to figure out which way is the exit and which way is the entrance.

Galen opened his eyes, which had been closed for a while, and said.

“This is the entrance. It’s a staircase, and you go down quite a bit… Other than that, there’s nothing special about it. I think you can consider our current location as the actual beginning of the ruins.”

“So the expedition team moved in that direction? They shouldn’t have encountered each other along the way.”

“I should take it out before then. I hope we don’t meet too soon.”

Galen, who had tasted something, tapped his chest. Tenebrae jumped out of his arms.

The pitch-black spirit that had gently landed on the ground soon melted into the surrounding darkness.

In this environment, they sent a nearly perfect and capable scout first, and the two walked inward.

Lilia, who had been walking around for a while, whispered her thoughts.

“It doesn’t look like a ruin under the desert. It actually feels more sturdy than the Oklanne ruins.”

“There were a lot of rocks outside too. Did they choose this area on purpose to build the ruins? One thing that is certain is that it was no ordinary construction project.”

Galen nodded in agreement.

I don’t know if they dug out the entire bedrock or if they just used a huge amount of stone.

For a ruin buried in sand, there was not a single image of sand, and it was filled only with images of rocks. The ceiling, the walls, and the floor.

It was nothing compared to the ruins of Oklanne, which were almost like a tunnel for cars, but the passage was wide enough for a few people to pass and did not look at all worn-out despite its age.

I’m not sure if this is a ‘tomb’, but it was carved with such care that it could be described as a ‘king’.

And bone fragments, bone fragments, bone fragments, bone fragments that don’t fit into that passage at all.

I hadn’t even walked for a few minutes when I saw so many that I could trip over them. It was definitely not possible to count them as one or two, but they must have been broken into at least dozens.

The probability that these are the remains of adventurers has become even slimmer. How could so many of them be lying around in such a shattered state?

“It seems like the expedition team broke it as they advanced. If it were just ordinary remains, there would have been no need to break them into pieces like this.”

“If they are skeletons belonging to the relic defense system, then that makes sense.”

It was as expected, Galen muttered with a bitter smile.

“I think the ancient magic of the ruins is a type of magic that controls corpses.”

Necromancer. Necromancer or Necromancer. In modern Earth, it is a profession that is quite common in fantasy works and is quite popular.

In this world where those fantasy elements exist in reality, they couldn’t have been handled well. After all, the part where he plays with corpses is villainous no matter how you look at it.

“There was no need for the tomb of a king to have any magic related to the real dead… … .”

Lilia asked Galen, who was groaning, cautiously.

“Are you going to cook it?”

“What do you think it would be like if I learned it?”

“hmm…….”

When Galen asked again, Lilia thought for a moment and then slowly opened her mouth.

“Wouldn’t it be a little scary?”

“Lilia? Or… … .”

“How could I be afraid of you, brother?”

Lilia smiled at Galen with warm eyes, then soon took on a serious expression again.

“But what about other people? If you just move a skeleton of someone you don’t know, people will say that it’s an insult to the deceased. What about a corpse… ?”

“The picture probably won’t be good, right?”

“You should seal it in front of others. Use it only for personal research.”

“Surprisingly… Lilia isn’t that negative, is she?”

Galen tilted his head. Normally, undead would be powerless in front of a priest. She should be the best, but her reaction was surprisingly mild.

“Well… how you handle a corpse and whether or not you insult the deceased are separate issues.”

Lilia smiled brightly.

“Crushing a corpse with a hammer leaves a more gruesome impression than cutting it with a sword, but no one says anything about that, right?”

“I guess there is.”

“Anyway! No matter what kind of magic you use, I can accept it because I know you don’t use it with bad intentions.”

It was a judgment based on absolute confidence that Galen could not possibly do anything wrong.

“I can never do anything bad in front of Lilia.”

“Were you thinking of doing that?!”

“Of course not.”

Galen scratched his head and exchanged light jokes with Lilia before coming to a neat conclusion.

“I’ll just approach it from a magical perspective. I don’t think it would be a bad thing to learn it.”

“Do whatever you want, brother!”

“For that, we first have to meet the skeletons. Oh, man, all I can see is rubble.”

As I walked, I came across several large room-like spaces on the left and right, as if the passage was some sort of hallway.

Even if you look inside, there are only bone fragments rolling around. It is natural since there are three of them just by looking at the jewels, but the bones seem to be unable to hold back the expedition team at all.

I was seriously worried that I might just end up looking at the ruins until the end of the ruins.

The long road ended abruptly with an unexpected sight.

“wait a minute.”

Galen stopped after receiving a report of a singularity from Tenebrae, who had been scouting ahead.

I gave instructions to conduct a more thorough reconnaissance, and received a report back shortly thereafter.

“Hmm… … .”

“Why are you like that?”

“Let’s go first.”

What emerged as the passage suddenly ended was a huge cavity.

If it hadn’t been so dark, I might have mistakenly thought I had come outside for a moment.

The passageway I had been walking through a moment ago had been made entirely of stone, but the hollow floor that suddenly appeared was made up of a lot of sand.

It was like a kind of mini desert was taking shape. It was very odd, as they were not trying to advertise that it was a desert ruin.

“What is this…?”

Just in case, Lilia whispered, hiding the light she was using as a substitute for a lantern in her hand by reducing its size as much as possible. Galen answered softly.

“It’s okay since no one is listening. Tenebrae has already scouted.”

“Oh, really?”

“Of course, I don’t know why this place exists… but I heard that there is a passageway that goes down on the other end.”

Since the expedition team is still nowhere to be seen, we must assume they have already entered the passage on the other side.

If they could get through without a hitch, then the two of you could get through without a hitch too.

But, apart from that, this wide void that you had to pass through without fail unless you had the talent to fly looked very suspicious. The sandy floor suddenly popped out.

As expected.

It hadn’t even been a minute since the two had entered the sandy beach.

“Watch the floor, Lilia!”

“yes?”

Lilia, who was about to question Galen’s words, was startled.

Suddenly, something burst through the sand and grabbed her ankle. It was a literal, skeletal hand, not a metaphor.

Knock knock!

The eerie sound of solid bones breaking echoed.

To be precise, it was the sound of Lilia, who had already jumped up just before her ankle was grabbed, falling down with a thud, breaking the bone in her hand that had been sticking out of the floor.

“Eww! Eww! Eww!”

Screaming, Lilia stomped the ground. Each time she did, the bones trying to break through the ground crumbled like cookies.

“are you okay?”

“It’s okay! I don’t think it’s okay!”

As if that wasn’t enough, Lilia pulled out her spear and stabbed the ground with it at a terrifying speed. Holes were ripped through the sand and bones.

“But didn’t your brother get caught?!”

“Well, this much is fine for me.”

Galen, who could not possibly show the same agility as Lilia, was caught by the bones up to his legs.

Of course, the Earth’s bindings were protecting the body, so not a single hem of the clothes was torn.

While Lilia quickly swung her lance and swept away the skeletons clinging to Galen like a broom, Galen, who was leisurely extending his territorial advance magic into the ground, stuck out his tongue.

“Wow, this… Is this entire sandy beach a cemetery?”

“Huh? No way?”

“I don’t even know how many skeletons are buried there. I think there are at least thousands.”

“Unika! Help me!”

Hearing Galen’s explanation, Lilia shuddered and called upon the spirit of life.

Whew!

The hastily created temporary spirit lifted the two people’s bodies into the air.

Traces of the dead, who would not allow the living to escape, were spurting out of the sand.

It was incredibly creepy to see them cling together like a tower and climb up, as they could no longer be reached by just stretching out their hands.

“Ugh, I should have brought a hammer!”

Lilia made a sad face.

Of course, the skeletons were being chopped up nicely with the flashlight, but when they were cut cleanly in the usual way, they were stuck together again and reassembled into an even more bizarre shape. I thought I knew why the previous expedition had torn them apart.

“It’s not that bad, is it?”

“It’s weak! But no matter how weak I am, I don’t want to fight against thousands of them!”

“Well, they probably didn’t knock down all the people in front, so there must be a lot left.”

Galen, who had a smile that was the complete opposite of the disgusted Lilia, raised his magic power.

“Thanks to you, I can finally get a taste of it.”

A faint, barely visible fog settled over the waves of skeletons.

[Death Mist Lv.??]

[Progress to next level ???%]

The magic began to stir.