Is this really just an RPG? !

"Is it really this way?"

"Even if it's not this way, there's no other way to go. We can't go back to the ground and think of a way."

"Also...according to the situation of the ice sheet, a blizzard may happen at any time."

"Compared to being hindered by the weather on the ground, why not try it underground, the lady's words are quite reliable, especially with Miss Sen by her side...By the way, Miss Sen, why do you have such a strong ability to suppress ghosts? "

Lilith, who had been chatting with Emily, suddenly turned her attention to the nun on her right. The other party did not answer immediately, but turned after she released a ball of light to detect the road ahead. Turning to face Lilith, she raised her eyebrows in a rather temperamental way.

"This is the natural oppressive power of believers on non-believers. Special ghosts like Xuenv belong to non-believers. After all, the important condition for believing in Lindsay is 'a living life created'. Xuenv obviously does not meet the requirements." this condition."

"You don't even believe in Grace?"

"Although most of the undead species believe in Grace, the god of death, there are a few exceptions. After all, Grace doesn't accept believers at random, otherwise it would be very troublesome to make a mess in the underworld."

"Messy?"

"An existence like Xuenv going to the underworld will only make the streets that were barely passable become completely unsightly."

"It's understandable, the aesthetics of the gods."

I feel like I'm a little out of touch.

I can probably understand what the two of them said, not to mention that Qiuqiu beside me kept explaining to me. Although God is in a place quite far away from the human world, no matter what kind of guy it is, it is impossible for him not to be in the endless library. Leaving traces that belong to them is certain.

—that is, the content may be so scarce that there is only one name or one sentence for description.

"What's the relationship between Grace and Octavia?"

"As far as the relationship between the gods is concerned, the two guys are relatively close because their duties do not conflict with each other. Grace has repeatedly hoped that Octavia can shine his divine power to the underworld, because he always feels that' This bleak and dark underworld is really boring, so I hope to have a light source that can illuminate the underworld, but since only the dead can enter the underworld, probably only Octavia can enter the whole world. Complete the task of filling the underworld with light."

"What a pair of good sisters."

"Yeah yeah, good sisters who are not fake bubble sisters... Ahem, no! Even if Grace and Octavia's manifested bodies are human females, they can't be called sisters!"

"Otherwise, what should I call it?"

I looked at Qiuqiu helplessly.

After a moment of distress, she bowed her head to me, as a tacit consent to my statement.

God has no gender, but when negotiating with believers, he always chooses the appearance of the believer’s race and undergoes certain trimmings as the manifest body, so as to facilitate the negotiation. However, most of these gods have unique personalities. They will always make some gender deviation for themselves according to their hobbies.

There is also the kind of deliberate choice of appearance that is inconsistent with one's own personality, in order to exercise the nerves and three views of believers.

I think they probably came up with these bad ideas because they stayed in the sky every day and looked panicky and moldy!

Luckily I believed Lindsay.

"and after?"

Prompted by curiosity, I couldn't help but want to continue to learn anecdotes about gods from Qiuqiu. Even though these stories will always ravage my three views again and again, I have to admit that they are really interesting. interesting. People in the world always have admiration for gods. Even people who are not religious will subconsciously ask Lindsay for help when they encounter troublesome things. I don’t know how other races treat the existence of their beliefs. I only know that few people will Tell stories about God.

It may be that these stories somewhat slander the image of God in their minds, so they are hidden.

It is more likely that these stories were not circulated in the world in the first place.

I am more inclined to the latter.

"Grace's believers tend to have an affinity with the dark attribute, while Octavia's believers tend to have an affinity with the light attribute. You know this master, right?"

"Um."

"Although these two attributes are in a mutual relationship, it is difficult to coexist. You understand this master."

"Um."

"It's not a big deal for the priests, but it's very uncomfortable for the believers of the priests. After confirming that there is no way to deal with the problem of 'Octavia's power will cause Grace's followers to be burned' , Grace never asked Octavia to go to the underworld, but she would occasionally visit Octavia's house."

"..."

It sounds like a small village.

The neighbors and my children are not compatible, so for the sake of my neighbors and children, I choose to go out by myself.

"They have a really good relationship..."

I ended this somewhat delicate conversation with this answer.

Maybe my tone of voice is a bit strange, it sounds like I am complaining or sighing, this is probably because the story happened far away from what I can touch, so far away that it seems that I am just listening to an article. A short story written by someone to amuse the reader.

"arrive."

The reminder from Lilith, who was walking in the front, interrupted my thoughts, and I had to throw all the series of conjectures left in my brain after talking with Qiuqiu to the corner, and focus on Place it right in front of the tunnel. The tunnel, which was so narrow that only two adults could pass side by side, suddenly widened, as if entering another very strange space comparable to that ice palace.

A large, empty cavern that stretches out to make it seem like a hidden place.

Where to hide?

Secret base?

Treasure collection?

Or it's just something that a guy dug to play with.

Miss Xue Nu did not leave the palace, she stayed there according to her wish during her lifetime.

——No one knew what her wish was before she was alive, no one asked, and she didn't mean to say it herself.

The only one who could know our current location was that the magic waves used for distress detection could not be released, and after finally being released, she was disturbed by the extremely active Mana, making her unable to confirm the surrounding situation. Could it be another snowstorm on the ground interfering with her work? It is also possible that there is some kind of special existence in this tunnel that does not know where it leads to, enough to interfere with her power?

Although I have been complaining that Qiuqiu has no sense of existence, I must admit one thing: the partner elf, like the supporting familiar, is always the life in this world that is best at sensing mana and using magic besides gods. I considered asking Luo Jie to help explore the surroundings, but I gave up the plan when I saw the lazy white cat on Lilith's head.

Overactive mana not only affects the use of magic, but also makes those beings who are extremely sensitive to mana become overly depressed or overly excited.

"Qiuqiu? Are you okay?"

"Me? No, no, no, I'm a good master! Qiuqiu is so good, so good, so good that he can eat a dragon!"

See, that's the sign of overexcitement.

Fortunately, no matter how excited Qiuqiu was, it was only a verbal expression. As the most special partner elf in history, she didn't have any spellcasting ability, so she didn't have to worry about some unexpected situation caused by the magic she threw out suddenly while walking on the road. Ron was still very tired, and Lilith finally chose to take the white cat back. Even though the white cat could confirm whether there was any danger around her, it was some kind of abuse to keep her in this environment.

"Brave!"

"Eh?"

Emily, who was walking beside Lilith with her hands behind her back, slowed down and came to me in an instant.

I couldn't help but shiver when I saw her face full of laughter. Emily rarely smiles like this, and she usually only shows this kind of presence when she is "ready to prank" and "done the prank". She has a very rare expression on her body. I can tell that this woman with a girlish appearance is planning to torment me.

The purpose is probably to pass the boring travel.

——It is indeed tedious to fumble and slowly move forward in this kind of tunnel without bright spots.

——Especially after all the work was contracted by the ball of light released by Sen, and the only remaining fun of exploration disappeared, this lack became particularly obvious.

There are no props, no magic fluctuations, and a distance of an adult's size.

So what is she going to say?

"Brave, are you curious why Shirley chose to capture you?"

"Shirley?"

I thought about it for a while, and there was no one called Shirley in my memory, and there was no magic related to Shirley.

"The snow girl I met in the ice palace, her name is Shirley, I saw it on an ice brick."

"Ice bricks...those ice bricks? Are they constant magic ice bricks?"

"To be specific, it's similar to a lich, except that Shirley doesn't have a suitable body or skeleton."

"Hey, if she wants, I can give her a set."

"You have?"

"I have bones and bone meal. We can consider making one for her that is more in line with her expectations."

I don’t know why, but after I finished speaking, I found that Emily was looking at me, her eyes were filled with the message “Are you stupid”, and the changes in her facial expressions also expressed her mood at this time very straightforwardly .

"The mud is scattered all over the place?"

"..."

Emily's accent is a bit weird, and I can barely make out what she's saying.

Just as I guessed.

"No matter how much a skeleton frame meets expectations for women, it is just a skeleton frame."

"But the skeleton frame looks thinner."

"Would you fall in love with a skeleton frame?"

"Won't."

"Then that's it."

Speaking of this, Emily let out a laugh, I don’t know why she wanted to laugh so much, but I also laughed when I saw her like this, knowing that Emily poked my waist with her hands, it’s hard to describe After the pain and itching of my face made me frown, I said what she was going to tell me in the first place.

"Yuki Maiden has a very special habit, that is, to freeze the human being she admires, and then bring him to the place where she lives, and use that person as a collection. In exchange, she will also stop the blizzard, which is convenient for that person's companions. Can leave safely."

"Wait? So that's what Sen meant by 'just hand over the brave man'? You planned to take me as an exchange when you were preparing to leave? No, no, maybe this plan is very effective. I can learn more about Xuenv's life and schedule, and I can leave directly when necessary and not give Xuenv a chance, so this is a business that makes no money. Why did I suddenly give up on this decision? It's because...Emmm... "

I seem to be talking a little too much.

I really want to suffer from the same symptoms as Qiuqiu.

"Brave? Are you okay?"

"……not good at all."

At this time, I remembered that it was not only Qiuqiu and Ron who were impressed by Mana, but also me who was a hero. I could guess from Emily's expression that she was right on this point. She came to tease me, after all, she had contact with the previous hero, so it is not surprising to know this characteristic.

The long and winding tunnel should have been dug out by someone, but it is definitely not an ordinary creature that can dig out such an empty space. According to the information in the small encyclopedia Qiuqiu, the creature that can dig out such a tunnel can only be Magical creatures—there are no such large non-magical creatures—there are only two types that like to live in holes and dig soil, namely dragons and snakes.

No matter how thick the snake is, it shouldn't dig so big.

In other words, it is very likely that this place was dug out by a certain dragon.

"Has Xue Nu said where this tunnel leads to?"

"It's just that it leads to the lair where the dragon lives, probably on a certain mountain."

When Lilith answered me, her tone was a little erratic.

The ground under your feet does feel sloping.

"Miss Shirley deliberately concealed something, probably hoping to leave some surprises."

"I have a hunch it's going to be a rather special surprise, with a hero among us."

Emily took Sen's words and stared back at me.

In this regard, I can only look back innocently, looking into her eyes until she turns her head back.

"Wait! What does that 'only' mean?"

"Do you despise the word 'only'!"

"No no no... don't you think it's weird to use 'only' for people or professions?"

"It's not surprising!"

Well, Emily is out of sync with me as usual.

It has been at least an hour since I left the Ice Palace, and I still haven't seen the exit of the tunnel, but I feel like I'm going deeper. Even Sen, who has a certain understanding of the ice field, is not sure where we are on the permafrost ice sheet. Qiuqiu still has a headache about interference, but she can still detect the surrounding situation to some extent.

The blizzard on the ground was so strong that the disturbance was even more severe than in the ice palace.

Does it mean that the current location is closer to the center of the ice sheet?

"Theoretically, it should be on a certain mountain, at least higher than the height maintained on the ground when I came here."

Qiuqiu came to such a conclusion, and soon she revoked the detection magic.

The reason was that the magic made a sizzling sound under the interference, which annoyed her.

"Why don't the heroes try to detect magic?"

"Eh?"

Sen's proposal was too sudden and unprepared, I didn't realize what she meant at all.

However, the other party had no intention of explaining at all.

I couldn't resist the nun, so I had to choose the simplest and most basic detection magic to release. Surprisingly, this detection magic was not disturbed. Those active manas only strengthened the effect of detection magic, and the magic The range of effect abruptly doubled.

Then I saw a huge energy body.

"Eh?"

Suspecting that it was just my illusion, I re-released the detection magic.

It is indeed a huge energy body, ice-type, and its outline looks like a large lizard with wings.

"No, no, no, no."

No matter how you say it, it is impossible for this to happen.

In order to calm my heart, I released detection magic again.

Still the same as before, the huge ice-attributed outline looks like the inner part of a large winged lizard, and there are a lot of small energy bodies under it, with all kinds of light spots flashing in a mess. It was a vast expanse of whiteness, and those should be the mana in the air that was activated by the blizzard.

"Hey, I have bad news."

"Um?"

The two people walking ahead stopped and turned to look at me.

I took a deep breath, sorted out the contents of my brain, and then explained to them.

"If this passage goes all the way down, it will be the dragon's treasure house, and the ice dragon is lying on its accumulated treasures."

"……ha?"