Day 561-570/Day 566

Day 566 / 96th day
　Today's breakfast is the Winged Clock of Time and Sand, which gave me the windfall yesterday.
　I won a fierce battle with it, but because of that, I couldn't kill it cleanly.
　Since it was shaped like a winged hourglass, I didn't bake or cut it, but took it raw into my mouth.
　First, I chewed the glassy body and drank the golden sand.
　It seemed that the sand was not gold, but a lump of magical power or something. It melted in my mouth like snow, and the delicious taste of the magic power spread through my body.
　Next, I ate the wings, and found that the flesh here flowed with blood. But for a living organism, it had the texture and taste of artificial meat. It tasted good, and the flavor came out with every bite, but the artificial feeling remained.
　After eating the entire body, I took a bite of the red sphere that was floating in the orifice, which must have been the core.
　Immediately, a dense magical power spread.
　It was almost like the feeling you get when you eat fine red meat.
　There was no fat, but it tasted like pure meat.
　In fact, it is not meat, but something like meat, but it is a gem of concentrated life force.
　The feeling that every cell in your body is activated by the magic power that fills it is not an illusion.
　In fact, although the surface of the body has healed, the wounds in the heart that still hurt are completely healed.
　【Ability 【One Second Void】learned】
　【Ability 【Time Resistance】learned】
　In addition, I was able to learn it as well.
　And during the battle with the "Winged Clock of Time and Sand", there were several times when I was fatally wounded due to a mysterious phenomenon that occurred only once every hour, but after learning the 【One Second Void】, the mystery was solved.
　The reason why I received the first blow without being able to evade or defend myself was because my consciousness was unprotected for one second due to the 【One Second Void】.
　A second of non-response is all it takes to unleash a deadly attack.
　It only works on one person within a certain range. There are some conditions, such as a reuse time and recast time, so you can't use it repeatedly, but it's still a powerful ability.
　Satisfied that I had acquired a good ability, I continued to explore the 【Time Change Capital】 today.
　After exploring for a while, I entered another skyscraper and encountered a new "Winged Clock of Time and Sand".
　Apparently, the skyscraper is the point of appearance, but that's beside the point.
　The opponent, full of murderous intent, used the 【One Second Void】 immediately after the encounter, but thanks to the 【Time Resistance】, I was able to recognize the attack.
　The method of attack was a flash of light emitted from the light ball on the tip of the wing.
　The powerful flash was a laser itself, so powerful that it could damage my body if I were to receive it in the flesh.
　The speed of the attack was also very fast, and if I missed the initial movement of the attack, there was no way I could deal with it.
　But if I could recognize it, I could deal with it.
　I stuck out my red spear and slashed out a flash aimed at his heart, and this time I activated the 【One Second Void】.
　Just as I have acquired 【Time Resistance】, he also has 【Time Resistance】, so the passage will be bad.
　But he didn't expect me to do that, so he didn't move as quickly as he could have.
　I took advantage of the opportunity and charged my lance on the silver gray wolf.
　The lance, which was powered by the speed of the silver wolf running at full speed, accurately pierced the red core floating in the orifice and dragged the whole body of the "Winged Clock of Time and Sand" several dozen meters with its momentum.
　After I had finished the job by piercing the nucleus, I ate the clean, undamaged wreckage with relish, and began to search for other skyscrapers.
　Let's just say that it was efficient to search in places where we had a high probability of encountering strong enemies.
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“九十六日目　／　五■六■六目”
　今日の朝食は、昨日俺に風穴を開けてくれた“時砂の翼時計”だ。
　激戦の果てに勝利したが、そのせいで綺麗に仕留める事はできなかった。
　それに翼の生えた砂時計みたいな造形なので焼いたり切ったりといった調理らしい調理もせず、生のまま口に運んだ。
　最初にバリバリとガラスのような胴体を噛み砕き、中身の金に輝く砂を飲む。
　砂は砂金ではないらしく、どうも魔力の塊か何かなのようだ。雪のように口に入れただけで溶け、すっと染み込むような上質な魔力の旨味が広がった。
　次に翼を喰ったが、こちらには血が流れる肉があった。ただ生体にしては人口肉のような食感と味がする。味は美味しいし、噛む毎に旨味がでるものの、人工物感は残る。
　そうして全身を喰った後は、核に違いない、オリフィスに浮かんでいた赤い球体を口にした。
　途端、広がるのは濃密な魔力。
　上等な赤身肉を食した時のような感覚が近いだろうか。
　脂身などはないが、純粋な肉の味がするとでも言えばいいのか。
　実際には肉ではなく、肉のような何かなのだが、凝縮された生命力のような物が感じられる逸品である。
　満ちる魔力によって、全身の細胞が活性化するような感覚は錯覚ではないだろう。
　実際に表面上は癒えたが、まだ痛む心臓の傷などが完全に癒えていく。
　　 　【能力名【一秒の空隙】のラーニング完了】
　【能力名【時間耐性】のラーニング完了】
　ついでにラーニングもできた。
　そして“時砂の翼時計”との戦闘中、一時間に一度だけ起こる謎現象によって何度か致命傷を喰らう事があったが、【一秒の空隙】をラーニングした事で謎が解けた。
　最初の一撃を回避も防御もできずに受けた原因は、【一秒の空隙】によって俺の意識が一秒だけ無防備になっていたからだ。
　反応しない時間が一秒もあれば、致命的な攻撃を繰り出すなど簡単な事だ。
　一定範囲内にいて、一名にだけ効果が発揮する。があるので連発はできないなど色々と条件はあるが、強力な能力である事には変わりない。
　いいアビリティを手に入れた事に満足しつつ、今日も【時転の機都】の探索を行った。
　そしてしばらくの探索の後、別の摩天楼に入った時に新しい“時砂の翼時計”と遭遇する事ができた。
　どうやら摩天楼が出現ポイントらしいが、それはさて置き。
　殺意に満ちる相手は遭遇直後に【一秒の空隙】を使用してきたが、【時間耐性】のお陰か、攻撃は認識できた。
　攻撃法は翼の先端に宿した光球から放たれた閃光だ。
　強力な閃光はレーザーそのもので、生身で受ければ俺の肉体を損傷する程に強力な攻撃である。
　攻撃速度も非常に速く、攻撃の初動を見逃せば対処できる筈もない。
　しかし認識できれば対処もできる。
　朱槍を付き出して心臓を狙った閃光を切り裂き散らし、今度はこちらが【一秒の空隙】を発動。
　俺が【時間耐性】を得たように、彼方も【時間耐性】があるので通りは悪いだろう。
　ただ彼方は俺がそんな事をしてくるとは思っているはずもなく、咄嗟に動けはしなかった。
　その隙を逃さず、灰銀狼に乗った俺のランスチャージ。
　全速力で駆け抜ける灰銀狼の速度が乗った朱槍の一撃はオリフィスに浮かぶ赤い核を正確に貫き、その勢いのまま“時砂の翼時計”の全身を数十メートルほど引きずった。
　核を貫いて仕留めた事で、損傷らしい損傷のない綺麗な残骸もバリバリと美味しく喰った後は、他の摩天楼を中心に探索を開始した。
　強敵と高確率で遭遇できる場所を探索するのは、効率がよかったとだけ言っておこう。
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