Read Novel Full Vol 16 Chapter 12
Vol 16 Chapter 12
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Chapter 12 – Disembarkation
Finally, we found land. We tried to sneak up on it in the darkness of the night to check out the situation there, but before we could reach the land, we were blocked by the barriers. We could have run away, but we decided to wait there to see how they would react. There was no response even after all the lights on the land went out.
“What do we do now?”
After contacting the barriers, we waited until almost noon to be sure, but the result was the same.
To be honest, I was very sad to feel neglected.
“Well, I guess we’ll have to do something about the barrier or move along the land and find a place to land.”
Alessia-san answered my question, but even she seemed at a loss as to what to do with so little information.
“Ilma. Can you do anything about the barriers? Or rather, even if we can do something about it, is it really okay?”
If there are barriers, they want to prevent anyone from coming in, right? I feel that it would be inconvenient for us to go in.
“At this point, it’s difficult to interfere with the barrier at all.”
Ilma-san gave us an unexpected answer. Even Ilma-san, who can analyze the barriers of the dungeon itself, can’t deal with the barriers that are set up.
Isn’t that a bit unfashionable?
“Ilma. Can you explain this?”
Alessia-san, perhaps not expecting such an answer, asked Ilma-san for an explanation.
“Well, to put it simply, it’s a different system of magic, and the magic power it contains is so different that I can’t handle it.”
“Is it like the Ship Summoning barrier?”
If so, it is the power of Creator God-sama.
“No, it’s not as confusing as the ship barrier. It is different, but I have a feeling that if we continue to analyze it, we will eventually understand it, and it may be that the technology on this side of the continent is quite advanced or that the old technology is still highly advanced.”
It seems that Creator God-sama had nothing to do with it. I was a little relieved but also bothered by the fact that the matter of his hidden smile remained a mystery.
That’s the difference in technology, right? Is it like a feature phone on this side and a smartphone on that side?
I don’t know if that’s the right word, but there seems to be a significant difference in technology. It seems like we have to be very careful.
“I see, so we can’t do anything about the barrier right now, can we?”
“Yes, it would be difficult to do anything about it even if we had ten or twenty days, let alone right now.”
From the conversation between Alessia-san and Ilma-san, it was clear that there was nothing that could be done about the barrier.
I guess the only option left is to move and find a place to land. If we move, will we wait until night again?
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No matter how much we moved, the barrier was unbroken.
We were so neglected that we decided to look for a place to land without hiding, but no matter how much we moved, the barrier never stopped.
The land we saw during the day was so rich in nature that if we had not seen the lights last night, we might have doubted that anyone was there.
Even though we began our search in the late afternoon, it was unexpected that we could drive the Lutto until nightfall, and the barrier would remain unbroken.
How big are these barriers? Or rather, is it possible for humans to build such a large barrier?
So far, we have only learned that the land is rich in nature, that the barrier is unusually large, and that this land is an island or a peninsula.
If it is an island, it must be much larger than Dark Elf Island because we finally reached the back side of the island after half a day of running around.
It’s completely dark, so I guess it’s time to eat, and after eating, maybe explore by light?
I’m used to living on a ship, but it’s sad that I can’t take a single step ashore, even though there’s land right in front of me.
“Wataru, Wataru, over there!”
As the boat coasted along, I was thinking about what I was going to have for dinner tonight when Carla-san, looking very excited, started making a commotion and pointed in a direction directly opposite to land.
When I looked in the direction Carla-san was pointing, I could see a strong shining light, although it seemed quite far away. It looks like we have more options now.
“Carla. It’s almost time for dinner, so let’s go downstairs for a report and have dinner.”
“Dinner!”
Carla-san nodded her head in delight and hurriedly climbed down from the flight deck. It was quite a discovery, but it seems the only thing on Carla-san’s mind now is food.
“…Wataru, dinner…”
As I smile at Carla-san, whose eyes sparkle at the thought of food even though she is a beautiful woman of a certain age, Rimu, who was on top of my head, also begins to twitch intensely at the word dinner.
There are a lot of gluttons around me, aren’t there?
Today’s dinner is cup noodles.
It’s a quick meal because of the progress we’ve made, but it’s a comforting item when you’re short on time.
It also feels like an adventure, so it tastes even better when I eat it at a time like this.
My current mood is seafood cup noodles.
After waiting two and a half minutes for the noodles to reach the desired texture, I slurp them down in one gulp, then bite into the onigiri with a mouthful of the cheap but delicious seafood broth.
It’s the best.
Now that I have a luxury liner, I can easily eat rich food, but I can’t stop eating this kind of food that looks bad for my health forever.
If you keep eating them, you get tired of them, but I think cup noodles have an addictive quality.
“There’s no end in sight for the barrier over here on land, so let’s go to the light that Carla discovered.”
After quickly finishing the cup noodles… Carla-san, Rimu, and the other slimes ate more and more cup noodles like a bowl of noodles, but Alessia-san made a simple decision.
We, who were tired of the endless barrier, accepted her decision without any objection.
Once that was decided, the story went quickly. Leaving the gluttons to continue eating their cup noodles, we moved to the flight deck and launched the Lutto toward the light.
“It was the light from the lighthouse.”
Dorothea-san was right; the light that appeared strong even from a distance was the light of a lighthouse.
The lighthouse was built at the end of a cove, and inside the cove was a harbor with a number of wooden boats anchored.
The stone walls at the end of the harbor were visible, and it seemed to be a rather large port city.
“Do you want to go further into the harbor?”
“No, the same as yesterday. Let’s go ashore from a distance and see what happens.”
Well, that’s right. Even if the place changes, it is still an unknown land, so there is no reason to change our behavior from yesterday.
Would we be able to land without being blocked by the barriers this time?
I changed the course of the Lutto and approached the land while turning around to move away from the harbor.
The land we explored during the day was blocked by barriers in this area, but… there are no barriers.
We arrived at the land without being blocked by the barriers, and Marina-san quickly jumped onto the land. She must have gone out to explore the area.
Felicia, Dorothea-san, and I also get off the flight deck and prepare to land.
Since we had been delayed on the previous landing, we were all excited, and our actions were quick, although we were careful not to make any noise.
After 30 minutes of waiting and getting everything ready. Suddenly, Marina-san appears out of the darkness and waves us over.
There seems to be no security problem.
“Let’s go!”
Alessia-san whispers, and we take turns jumping onto the land.
“Marina, how was it?”
Alessia-san asked Marina-san about the results of the scouting, not at all impressed that we had landed on an unknown continent.
“There are no traces of violent monsters in the area. The harbor is nearby, and there is a road ahead, so even if there were monsters, I think the strong ones would have been hunted down in this area.”
“I see. Have you checked the harbor?”
“Yes. It is a big city. The walls are very impressive, and there are many soldiers guarding them. I also heard them talking, but I couldn’t understand a word.”
There was a lot of information even though only about 30 minutes had passed.
The atmosphere I heard was that it was a large port city like Lucca.
The fact that Marina-san, who studied with Ilma-san, doesn’t understand the language means that the language has probably changed a lot over time.
I am glad that there might be a place for me as an interpreter, but I am getting nervous at the thought of standing in the face of an arrow and negotiating in an unknown place.
“Is it safe to enter the harbor by ship?”
“The guards are on high alert. It is safer to go to a small village to gather information than to enter a large city.”
This is probably the safest thing to do. If you get into trouble in a big city, it’s hard to get through.
In a small village, there is a good chance that there is no one as experienced as Alessia-san and the others, and it will be safer.
“I understand. Wataru, I’d like to go in the opposite direction of the port and look for the village if that’s all right.”
“Right now?”
“Yes. I want to have an idea of where we are going before it gets light.”
Moving in the dark, huh?
If we used the Add or the Ranger, it would be easy to get around on land, but as you can imagine, I know we can’t use them in the current situation.
It would certainly be safer to return to the Lutto and search for a small village by boat, but if there is a path, it would be safer, and we could get more information that way.
“There don’t seem to be any monsters we can’t defeat, do there?”
My mind was made up, but I would check with Marina-san just to be sure.
Well, if Ines, Felicia, Alessia-san, and others are in a place where it is impossible to travel safely, the road and the village will not exist, but it is necessary to confirm just in case.
Because it’s scary.
“I can’t say for sure, but I don’t feel any sign of them.”
Marina-san’s senses are reliable.
“I understand. Then let’s look for a small village.”
“Understood. Marina, please go ahead and scout. We will move around Wataru.”
After seeing Marina-san leave ahead of us, we followed Alessia-san’s instructions and started moving in formation.
It is usually scary to move in total darkness without lights. I wondered if we would make it.
“There’s a village ahead.”
After four hours of moving with breaks in between, Marina-san returns and gives us a pleasant report.
We stumbled in the previous land, but it looks like we are off to a good start in this one. I’ll do my best as an interpreter as well.