Day 421-430/Day 425

Day 425
Starting in the early morning, before the sun had even risen yet, I left the kids with Blacksmith-san in the kingdom of the Giant «Colossus · Titan», Kanami, Redhead, the Sisters, and I left their kingdom.
Today's aim is to reach the most dangerous to those within the Giants' dominated area, instead we are going to the «Ancient Capital Titan Magia» that is full of rare materials.
According to the information gathered in the past few days, the «Ancient Capital Titan Magia» is an ancient ruins type area almost completely covered by nature, it seems that there are only super-large monsters that can even challenge the giants living there.
Apparently a long time ago, when the [Mysterious Dark Continent] was just created, the city built by giants was settled by refugees from outside devastated by war with other enemy settlers. It seems that once the Dungeon monsters joined and the city was destroyed, it became an environment like the present over a long stretch of days.
Because there was such a circumstance, in the «Ancient Capital Titan Magia» there was some information mixed in about the early days when the [Mysterious Dark Continent] was born, sometimes information on obtaining precious magic items was also included.
There are many people who dream of getting rich quick and challenging the area, and in proportion to the number of challengers there are as many demons that never returned.
Anyway, the various routes to reach the historical «Ancient Capital Titan Magia» have already been surveyed by other divisions.
There is a map that has been created in my mind created to some extent, so we will not get lost, but the road there was overflowing with temptation.
First of all, there are a number of labyrinth ingredients that I have never seen before. An ancient golden apple, "Liohar · Dorotto" which is incredibly delicious to humans and gives long life to those who eat it.
Having a scarlet color deep enough that the mind and body will think its full of vitality, the "Avocado Beni King" will even heal deadly diseases if you take a bite of its nutritional skin.
Able to becomes a raw material of some very powerful magical medicine, even a single item is very popular sweet fruit called "Pure Love Berry".
Boasting tremendous popularity among certain types of dungeon divers, "Gigapower Bananas" will temporarily strengthen a person's mind and body temporarily.
A "Battle King Acorn" falls onto the heads of any creatures that unknowingly under the branch, killing them and creating nutrients for trees.
If you inhale its spores, you will be instantly knocked out, but the delicious "White Heavenly Mushroom" is supposed to take you to heaven above with a single bite. And so on.
In the forest that makes you feel like a dwarf, there are various discoveries that work to push you forward. Since all of them are ancient ingredients and medicinal herbs that do not already existing outside these borders, I summoned several Black Fomor and human tactics are used to move from one end of the forest to another.
Although there is wear and tear, with the rotting corpses being used as nursery beds and other wear-out items all bodies give off enough magical power to work out into an endless cycle.
Originally it would be better to leave a little, it will benefit the dungeon's uniqueness if you leave enough for it to comfortably grow again from the original piece, instead of forcing a new organism to take the time to grow.
As I threw items in with a "Poi Poi" sound, adding a large amount of materials to the item box, they suddenly started to come back out at some point.
I thought something was wrong but, apparently, the entire item box was filled to the brim. Item boxes can contain large quantities of things. Even if they are stacked together to some extent by the same type, they are treated as one stack.
However, there is still a limit. Currently there are a thousand, or even more, items in the item box lightly collected, but there are many magic items etc. that have been made smaller after they were inserted.
Even though the contents of various treasure boxes obtained by defeating the field bosses etc in every【Age of the Gods Dungeon】 were also taken out so that they can be handed out as members' rewards, there are still quite a few of them, and they are adding to topping up the item box even though there are only a few of them.
I need to hand them out to our members, for example, to clear up some space, but we still need to organize everything later, for now we dealt with the issue by eating a large amount of the foodstuffs that were buried in the storage system.
Although it is not as filled up as before, enough capacity has been freed up to add more, and so I continue my collection.
If you take your time to gather, the dungeon monsters will of course also attack, but that's what you want.
The huge angular rabbit [Halbadora · Aluminum Large] which attacks at high speed by jumping with heavy sharp turns and has an ax-like horn growing from its head. There must have been one hundred in the flock, all pouncing forward at high speed to pierce, but I turned the tables with my Violet Spear and my Cursed Spear, not missing even one of them.
A large [Milmcotig] came over with an appearance like a hippopotamus, with the upper body of a bronze tiger mixed with the lower body of a poisonous ant, a thousand bodies are stuck in its middle, all dug into a large nest coming out of the torso. That torso rotates with an ability to kill off its enemies, throwing out attacks from the queen and her larva.
A Floating Medusa like head that has the appearance of a big rock made of myriads of snakes can hit the prey with random attacks, the [Floating Stone Eye] when its rounded eyes are aligned it becomes the [Demon of Petrifying].
An variant on the goat, the [Yael Ae Arre] is covered with black hair and is the same size as a two story house. It can look around corners by twisting its neck, and can even rotates at a high speed like a drill when attacking.
With a height of 10 meters and skin like steel, when the [Half-Giant - Big Horse · Starrig · Giga Taurus] attacks with a 12 body formation, Kanami shoots several arrows in succession, all aiming at the heart.
When 6 bodies of the attacking "Metalliocar · Barbarian" of about 3 meters tall attack they can even kill giants when they are alone, with a black-green torso like a Minotaur and a big ax in hand, Redhead cut them right away from the front.
It would take too long to reach «Ancient Capital Titan Magia» so we decided to look for lodging but this is seems to be a good place to camp outdoors. While remembering that just about a year ago, we camped in the hollow of a big tree. In the camp, Meal Hero used labyrinth goods to create the food, so we got a delicious meal out of it.
Oh, it's delicious. Not only was the sweetness of the golden apple "Pure Love Berry" used, but a powerful taste that was secretly hidden was brought out and shook us to our core.
The fresh rabbit meat from the "Halvadora - Aluminum Large" is firm and has a good texture, it is great success when used in a boiling pot with wine, roasting or sautéing. The angular horn also has a crisp crunch and a slight fragrance. Which of these is delicious enough to make us shout from the soul? It is difficult to make it figure out an answer.
Well, the small things do not matter. Delicious food and alcohol. If it is there, we will manage anywhere.
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“四百二十五日目”
　まだ太陽も昇らぬ早朝から、巨人王都≪クロニュソス・ティタン≫に子供達や鍛冶師さん達を残し、俺とカナ美ちゃん、それから赤髪ショートと飯勇パーティで王都の外に出る。
　今日の目的は巨人達の支配地域内で最も危険で、その代わりに希少な素材が溢れた≪樹栄古都ティタンマギア≫に向かう為だ。
　ここ数日の間に集めた情報によれば、≪樹栄古都ティタンマギア≫は自然に飲まれた古代遺跡型のエリアで、そこに生息するのは巨人を主食にする超大型モンスターばかりだそうだ。
　どうやら【神秘豊潤なる暗黒大陸】が出来たばかりの遥か昔、外から入植した巨人達が築いた都市が、他の敵性入植者との戦争によって荒廃。そこにダンジョンモンスターが加わって一度滅び、膨大な月日の中で現在のような環境になっていったらしい。
　そんな経緯があるので、≪樹栄古都ティタンマギア≫には【神秘豊潤なる暗黒大陸】が生まれた初期の頃の情報を得る事もあったり、貴重なマジックアイテムを入手する事もあるという。
　一攫千金を夢見て挑む者は多く、それに比例して未帰還者も多い魔境だ。
　ともあれ、色々と歴史ある≪樹栄古都ティタンマギア≫までのルートは既に分体で調査済みだ。
　ある程度脳内の地図も作成されているので迷う事は無いのだが、道中は誘惑で溢れていた。
　まずは、やはりというべきか、見た事も無い迷宮食材の数々だろう。
　ヒトよりも大きく美味で、食べた者には長命を授けるとされる古代の黄金林檎“リオハール・ドラオット”
　栄養満点で一口食べれば死病も癒え、心身の活力が漲る緋色の“アボガドベニキング”
　非常に強力なある種の魔法薬の原材料にもなるが、単品でもとても甘い果実が人気の“ピュアラブベリー”
　ある種のダンジョンモンスターに絶大な人気を誇り、一時的に心身を大幅に強化してくれる“ギガパワーバナーナ”
　知らずに枝の下に来た生物の頭上から落下し、樹の栄養にしてしまう“爆撃王ドングリ”
　胞子を吸い込めば即座に苗床にされてしまうが、一口で天上世界に至れるとされる美味なる“白天界茸”
　等々。
　自身が小人になったような感覚になる森の中は、進めば進むほど様々な発見がある。
　全て外では既に現存していない過去の食材や薬草の類ばかりなので、数体ほどブラックフォモールを生成し、人海戦術で片っ端から手に入れる。
　その過程で逆に殺されたり、苗床になったりと損耗はありつつも魔力の数だけ用意できる生成体は尽きる事なく働いて結果を出した。
　本来なら少しは残した方がいいのだが、暫く放置すれば元に戻るのだから気楽に取り尽くしても大丈夫なのはダンジョンならではの恩恵だろう。
　ひたすらポイポイと大量の素材をアイテムボックスに放り込んでいると、ある時点で急に入らなくなった。
　何事かと思ったが、どうやらアイテムボックスの枠が全て埋まってしまったらしい。
　アイテムボックスは大量に物が入れられる。同じ種類ならある程度纏めて入れても一枠扱いになる。
　だが、それでも限界がある。
　現在アイテムボックスには数千種類以上の品々が軽く入るのだが、入れたままで死蔵されてしまったマジックアイテムなどは多い。
　【神代ダンジョン】で階層ボスなどを倒して得た宝箱の中身も団員の報酬として渡せるように取り出して入れていたので、数は少ないのに枠を埋めているのが結構ある。
　団員に与えるなどして後で整理する必要もあるが、今は新しく収納系マジックアイテムを大量に喰う事で対処した。
　以前ほど拡張はされないが、これで十分すぎるほどの容量になったので、回収を続行する。
　採取していれば、当然ダンジョンモンスターも襲いかかってくるが、それは望むところだ。
　頭部に生えた斧のように重く鋭利な角で斬り殺そうと高速で飛び跳ね襲いかかってくる巨斧角兎“ハルバドラ・アルミラージ”は朱槍や呪槍で逆に突き刺し、百は居ただろう群れを逃さず一掃した。
　青銅虎の上半身に大毒蟻の下半身が混ざり合ったような外見のカバのように大きな“ミルメコティグ”は、数千体は中に居るだろう大きな巣穴も纏めて水没させて、アビリティで回転圧殺し、女王や幼虫など全て回収する。
　原理不明ながら浮遊しては【石化の魔眼】で手当たり次第に獲物を襲う、頭髪が無数の蛇で出来た大岩のような生首“フライヘッド・メデューサ”は眼を合わせた状態で丸齧り。
　まるでドリルのように高速回転する角を持つ、二階立ての家屋ほどの大きさの黒い体毛で覆われた異形の山羊“ヤエルエアレー”は回転する角を掴んで首を捻じり折る。
　鋼鉄のような皮膚を持つ身の丈十メートルはあるだろう半巨人半巨馬の“スターリグ・ギガタウロス”が十二体編成で襲いかかって来た時は、カナ美ちゃんが連続で矢を放って心臓を射抜いた。
　黒緑色の腰ミノと手に持つ大斧だけで巨人すら襲って殺す三メートル程の大きさの“メタリオカル・バーバリアン”が六体襲いかかって来た時は、赤髪ショートが真正面から切り殺した。
　寄り道しすぎて≪樹栄古都ティタンマギア≫までは到着できず、野宿する事になってしまったが、これはこれでいいものだ。
　一年ちょっと前の生まれたばかりの頃を思い出しながら、大樹の洞にて野営を行う。
　野営地では飯勇達が迷宮食材を使って豪勢な品々を作ってくれたので、それを美味しくいただいた。
　あー、美味い。
　黄金林檎“リオハール・ドラオット”の甘いだけでなく、奥底に秘められた力が身体中に漲るような味が脳を震わせる。
　“ハルバドラ・アルミラージ”の新鮮なは引き締まっていて食感がよく、鍋やらワイン煮やらローストやらソテーやらに大活躍だ。
　それにパリッとした歯ごたえのある斧角もちょっとしたアクセントになる。
　どれこれも魂が叫ぶほどの美味しく、甲乙つけがたいのが難点だろうか。
　まあ、小難しい事はどうでもいいか。
　美味い料理と酒。それがあれば、どこでだって何とかなるものだ。
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