Day 421-430/Day 426

Day 426
Early in the morning, we ate the dungeon monsters that attacked us during the campaign and started walking in the forest again. Today as well, we made our way back and forth in our search, and around noon the ruins that spoke of the remnants of the former civilization began to spread out in front of us.
Although it was rough, a huge flat rocky road was arranged beneath our feet. It was assumed that a giant would have passed over it, but now it is eroded by plants and distorted, or broken by the big beasts or bugs, even with that we know the direction we are traveling is not wrong.
As I went down that distorted path, a certain landmark started to increase in number, stone pillars and rocks that were beautifully carved began to show up more often. The strength of the dungeon monsters that attack also gradually rises, and there are more numbers in each group compared to the first.
After taking my time to put all the drops into the item box, we came to a cliff wall with a height of 5 kilometers, we arrived at the destination to find a basin that spread out as far as the eye can see.
The «Ancient Capital Titan Magia». An ancient city where the entirety seems to be settling into a large underground cavern after its final war. It seems farther away, the once wonder-like building was the King's Castle, and seemed to be eroded by vigorous plants, even the castle town that spread around it have been transformed into ruins that leave their forms tilting from the force of nature.
As the developed civilization can not overcome the majesty of nature, or the flow of time passing by, the retiring atmosphere will make the viewer feel different emotions. In addition, it seems to be a multilayered city, gradually increasing in height towards the center with the royal castle, but that tallest royal castle seems to even be higher than the cliff.
In other words, it would have been a building with a height of more than 5 kilometers if it had not settled down. Fossil ancient giants. If it comes to that tribe with individuals that exceed 100 meters, it would make sense.
But, in that case, the building should have the appropriate stability, so it seems that something still remains, some sort of "Magic". It may be due to disrepair of the Age of the Gods Dungeon or some lost technology, but it is interesting anyway. I was impressed various things, I even saw a huge dungeon monster that was large enough to be seen from that distance.
At first glance it looked like a wall surrounding the royal castle, but it was something different. Although it wraps around the royal castle, making it look like a huge head, but the extraordinary magical power and presence you feel from that body can not be completely hidden.
It seems to be a kind of "Marine Disaster Dragon Revyatan" that is typically seen in the ocean, that is the only comparison to the overwhelming giant. With huge green scales that are likely to draw you in, large mosses and plants grown on the surface of the body with a thickness of about 100 meters, or even longer than that. It is likely to be tens of kilometers in the worse places.
The head which is just as big comes with 18 snake eyes with a unique ability, and the body has plenty of poisonous thorns in some places.
It seems to be the ruler of the «Ancient Capital Titan Magia» that reigns daringly without even bothering to hide, the [Ancient Absolute World Snake · Dragon Overlord · Giant Eater] "Milgarum".
It is one of the seven [Field Raid Boss] in the 【Mystery Abundant Dark Continent】 that swallowed the majority of the past giants who built the «Ancient Capital Titan Magia».
In the past it seems that there was a case that they were once being suppressed, but not only was the surrounding area temporarily desolated due to the aftermath of that time, it seems that an earthquake also hit the whole earth as a result, even the 【Mystery Abundant Dark Continent】was affected.
Even when it was defeated only once, the army of over a million giants was devoured and disappeared, and a lot of the [Tyrants] and [Emperors] that were stronger than modern day examples were scattered.
Although it seems that it was possible to recover somehow afterwards to honor their fallen, it is told that if had not existed and collapsed, the Giant Kingdom «Colossus · Titan» and other cities would not exist in the first place.
In a sense, that boss will have an existence of a【World Enemy】like me. By the way [Area Raid Boss] is the top enhanced version of【Field Raid Boss】.
Although it may be thought that an [Area Boss] is equal to a [Field Boss], since the [Area Raid Boss] becomes equal to, or greater than, a [Labyrinth God], basically a small number of challengers would be useless against it.
That is, for those mighty existences at least, the premise for challenging them would be to start with gathering many people. Even among the powerful dungeon monsters from the Age of the Gods Dungeon their number is limited, and it is already confirmed that only the strongest from the [God] class are comparable to the [Great God] class.
One of those Bosses became the leader of monsters in the [Mysterious Abundant Dark Continent], but all of them were cooperatively created by the powerful 7 pillars of [Gods]:
*【God of the Continent】
*【God of Illusion】
*【God of the Environment】
*【God of History】
*【God of Harmony】
*【God of Heritage】
*【God of Oblivion】
Each created an Area Raid Boss and they all worked together to create the 【Labyrinth Dungeon Boss】by unifying the power of the 7 pillars. It is clearly stated that the 【Labyrinth Dungeon Boss】 will appear when all 7 [Area Raid Bosses] are defeated, but up to now the identity of that final boss is unknown.
However, there is no doubt that it is quite powerful. Especially, with the 7 pillars of God power being condensed in one creature. From now on I am pretty curious as to what kind of paradise will be revealed when I eat it.
By the way, it seems that "Milgarum" is under the charge of the [God of the Continent]. That is only as much as the God of the Continent chose, just making sure that it has a tremendously huge body.
Anyway, that powerful [Area Raid Boss] can be caught as a kind of [God of Disaster], but it is still not enough to let me freely reach out to it, but I wonder if it is conscious enough to let me than me keep moving around?
Anyway, let's turn our hand towards 'Milgarum' later. Because we have finally reached «Ancient Capital Titan Magia», we have to collect the drop items from the suppression treasure chests and the dungeon monster corpses.
It is too wasteful, especially because we can not harvest them before being broken, so that they can be added to our collection.
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　“四百二十六日目”
　野営中に襲いかかってくるダンジョンモンスターを逆に食料とした早朝、再び森の中を歩いていく。
　今日もあちらこちら寄り道していたが、昼頃にはかつての文明の名残が伺える遺物が散見し始める。
　荒れてはいるが、整えられていたのだろう巨大な平たい岩の道。巨人が通る事を想定していただろうそれは、植物に侵食されて歪み、あるいは巨獣や巨蟲の類に壊されてはいるが、進行方向が間違っていないと知る事は出来る。
　その歪な道を進んでいくと、石柱やら綺麗に削られた岩でできた何かが増え始めた。
　襲いかかってくるダンジョンモンスターの強さも次第に上がり、最初よりも数が多い。
　それを有難く仕留め、アイテムボックスに入れながら進めば、高さ五キロはあるだろう断崖絶壁に直面し、その先に見渡す限り何処までも広がる盆地の中に存在する目的地へと到着した。
　≪樹栄古都ティタンマギア≫。
　かつてあった戦争時、大地下空洞の崩壊によって都市全体がそのまま沈下した古代都市。
　遥か彼方に見える、かつて王城だったのだろう超巨大建造物は生命力旺盛な植物に侵食されるように融合し、その周囲に広がる城下町などは自然に飲まれながらもかつての形を残す廃墟と化している。
　発達した文明も雄大な自然と過ぎ去る時の流れには勝てないのだと、廃退的な雰囲気は見る者に様々な感覚を抱かせるだろう。
　また積層都市らしく、段々と王城のある中央に向かって高さを増しているのだが、最も高い王城は断崖絶壁よりも高いように見える。
　つまり沈下していなければ五キロ以上の高さがある建築物だったのだろう。流石古代の巨人。巨大な種族になれば百メートルを超える個体も多数存在するだけはある。
　しかしそうなると、建物には相応の強度が必要になるはずだから、今も残っているのは何かしらの【魔法】とかが残っているのかもしれない。
　【神代ダンジョン】による修復や失われた技術によるモノかもしれないが、どれにしろ興味深い。
　そうして遠目でも色々と感心させられていると、遠目から見ても分かるくらい超巨大なダンジョンモンスターを視認した。
　一見では王城を取り巻く壁のように見えたが、違う。
　巨大すぎる頭部を乗せるように王城に巻きつき、それでも余る身体で王城の周囲を何段にも丸く囲って城壁のようにした状態で殆ど動いていないが、その身に宿る桁外れの魔力と存在感は隠しきれない。
　大海で見た“”の類、それに匹敵する程の圧倒的な巨体。
　吸い込まれそうな深緑色の鱗を持ち、大量の苔や植物が表面に生えた巨体は百メートルほどの太さがあり、それ以上に長い。下手すれば十数キロはありそうだ。
　巨大すぎる頭部には十八の特異な能力を秘めた蛇眼が備わり、身体には所々毒々しい棘が無数に生えている。
　≪樹栄古都ティタンマギア≫の支配者とでもいうように堂々と隠れもせずに君臨するそれは、巨人喰いの古代絶界蛇龍覇王“ミルガルオルム”というらしい。
　≪樹栄古都ティタンマギア≫を築いた過去の巨人達の大半を飲み込んだ、【神秘豊潤なる暗黒大陸】が生み出した七体の【エリアレイドボス】内の一体だ。
　過去には一度だけ討伐された事もあるらしいが、その時の余波で周囲一帯が一時荒れ果てたのみならず、【神秘豊潤なる暗黒大陸】全土にまで地震となって影響を及ぼしたそうな。
　しかも一度だけ倒された時も万を超える巨人の軍勢が飲まれて消え、現代よりも強い【英勇】と【帝王】の多くが散った。
　倒した遺骸の恩恵でその後何とか復興する事は出来たらしいが、それがなければ破綻し、巨人王都≪クロニュソス・ティタン≫やその他はそもそも存在しなかっただろうと言われている。
　ある意味、俺のような【世界の宿敵】と同格の存在になるだろうか。
　ちなみに【エリアレイドボス】とは、【エリアボス】の上位強化版だ。
　【エリアボス】は【階層ボス】と同格だと思えば良いが、【エリアレイドボス】は【迷宮主】と同等以上の存在になるので、基本的に少数ではどうにもならない。
　レイド、つまりは多人数で挑む事が前提になる強大な存在だ。
　強力なダンジョンモンスターが跋扈する【神代ダンジョン】の中でも極限られた、それこそ【大神】級やそれに匹敵する最上位の【神】級でしか確認されていない。
　その一つが【神秘豊潤なる暗黒大陸】になるわけだが、ココには協力して創造した力ある七柱の【神々】――【大陸の神】【幻想の神】【環境の神】【調和の神】【歴史の神】【遺産の神】【忘却の神】――がそれぞれ一体の【エリアレイドボス】を創造し、更に七柱の力を一つにして生み出された【】が存在するらしい。
　【迷宮主】は七体の【エリアレイドボス】を全て討伐した時に出現すると明言されているだけで、正体は不明である。
　ただ、相当に強力な存在なのは間違いない。何せ七柱分の【神力】が凝縮されているのだ。
　それを食べた時にどんな楽園を見る事ができるのか、今からかなり気になっている。
　ちなみに、“ミルガルオルム”は【大陸の神】が担当しているそうだ。
　【大陸の神】が選んだだけあって、凄まじい巨体である。
　ともあれ、それほど強力な【エリアレイドボス】はある種の【神災】としても捉えられるが、基本的に手を出さなければいいだけに、動き回る俺よりはまだ良心的な存在なのだろうか。
　とりあえず、“ミルガルオルム”に手を出すのは後日に回そう。
　折角≪樹栄古都ティタンマギア≫まできたのだから、設置されているだろう宝箱やダンジョンモンスター討伐時のドロップアイテムを回収せねば。
　回収前に壊れて採れないなど、もったいなさ過ぎる。
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