The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed - Chapter 323



324 – Emerald Tablet

As soon as the bronze gloves we ordered arrived at the club room early in the morning, we finished preparing for the trip and headed straight to the portal station near the brown mountain range.

The Telos Portal Station we arrived at was the smallest among all the portal stations I’ve seen, perhaps because there were few users. For example, it feels like looking at an old local express bus terminal.

Thanks to putting everything we needed for camping in the storage space, our outfit was relatively light for travelers.

As soon as we left the portal station, Kane seemed to be unable to control his curiosity any longer and asked me with a coy expression.

“So, what is the purpose of this trip?”

I deliberately pretended not to know because the voice sounded like it was asking me questions.

“You explained the purpose last time, right? It’s a trip to keep the promise to help you grow. Of course, the purpose of this trip will be your growth, right?”

“Don’t act like you don’t know! “I’m asking you to explain at least a little bit what kind of growth it is!”

I got into the carriage I had reserved, ignoring Kane, who was swinging something like an invisible hammer at me. Kane, frowning, got into the carriage and sat next to me, not across from me.

When he narrowed his eyebrows and glared at Kane, asking what kind of nonsense he was doing, he pressed his shoulders even closer and raised his fist as if he was okay.

“Won’t it turn off?”

“No~ So, please explain! “You’ll find out soon anyway!”

“okay. “You will find out soon, so don’t whine and just look forward to it.”

“okay! “I’ll have high expectations, so watch closely when I’m disappointed!”

I smiled as I watched Kane grumble and move to the seat on the other side. When Kane saw it in front of her eyes, I was sure her reaction would not be disappointment.

*

The carriage stopped in front of the brown mountain range. After promising to meet at this location at this time tomorrow, the carriage returned the way it came. I opened the storage compartment and took out my camping gear.

Although we still had to walk a long way to our destination, we wanted to respect Kane’s opinion that we would climb the mountain with heavy camping equipment on our backs to give the feeling of real camping. Of course, I had drawn a line in advance that I would not do anything like that.

Perhaps because it was a moment of enjoying a dream trip, Kane surprisingly followed along without falling behind despite his thin body. She even went so far as to chatter non-stop on the way to her destination about things she was interested in lately.

Thanks to taking breaks and checking the map, we arrived at our destination without getting lost. When I stopped and said, “Arrived,” Kane looked around with a puzzled face.

“This is the destination? I can’t see anything around me? There are only trees here, and there are no rivers nearby, so it might be difficult to catch fish. “It’s inconvenient to set up a tent because of the slope.”

“We need to clear the trees that have grown here and use magic to remove the slope and make it flat. Doesn’t camping have to be that uncomfortable?”

When I made a plausible excuse that it was too inconvenient to go to the river, which is 30 minutes away from here, Kane nodded, saying it made sense. Kane asked as he relaxed his body after putting down his heavy camping equipment on the ground.

“But what kind of growth can you do here?”

Instead of answering, I gestured for him to follow me and headed a little higher.

“Hey, look between the cracks in the rocks. “That’s the entrance to the dungeon.”

Kane moved his gaze to where I pointed, found the entrance to the dungeon, and nodded.

“The purpose of your trip was to explore dungeons?”

Kane smiled joyfully, as if his dormant sense of adventure was stirring.

“Unless you need a break, let’s go right in.”

“Okay, then take out my reagent bag.”

After taking Kane’s reagent bag out of the space warehouse, we went straight into the dungeon entrance between the rocks.

Because the adventurer had already cleared the dungeon once, traces of battle remained from the entrance.

Kane, who was carefully avoiding stepping on the rotting spider corpse, turned on the cave lamp that he had kept at his side as the interior of the cave was getting increasingly dark.

Since it was a naturally created cave, it was a winding passageway with uneven stones on the floor.

Kane said as he held up a lamp and observed old blood stains on the cave wall.

“I guess there are guests who came before us? “Looking at the rotting corpse at the entrance and the old blood stains here.”

“It’s a dungeon that a B-class adventurer party discovered a while ago.”

“What, then the exploration is not over?”

Perhaps because he was looking forward to a real fight, Kane looked a little helpless. I tapped Kane on the shoulder to tell him not to worry.

“There’s no way I would have come this far just to look at a dungeon organized by someone else. Our goal remains the same. don’t worry.”

“… Well then, good luck!”

Kane, who gained strength, started walking again. After entering the dungeon for a while, the stuffy passageway grew in size and a huge cavity appeared.

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“Isn’t there another way?”

As Kane said, we looked around the cave here and there, but there was no longer any way. But there was nothing in the cavity.

There is no possibility that the information is wrong. There’s no way anyone could have taken over it. then… .

When I created the Spear of Shadow, Kane seemed surprised and looked around with his hand on the reagent bag.

“What, what? “Are you an enemy?”

“No, I need guidance magic.”

When implementing the window of shadow, a magic circle of guiding magic was created in advance at the bottom of the window. The guide magic, which requires drawing a magic circle on the floor, has been modified so that it can be used in battle, even if its power and efficiency are lower than before.

When I used the guide magic, magical energy was released from the window of shadow, and I was able to sense the inside of the dungeon, centered around the cavity where I was standing, as if I was seeing it with the naked eye. There was a passage behind one wall of the cavity.

“I guess I need to tear down the wall.”

It seems that the adventurer party decided that something unknown was dangerous and blocked the road with magic. Or maybe they decided it was valuable and kept it hidden.

When I removed the window of shadow that had been created, Kane asked me with a puzzled expression.

“Did you know how to use guidance magic?”

“… “I learned it from a book a while ago.”

“What kind of combat department learns guiding magic from books? Mrs. Pension, I didn’t learn either.”

Kane, who was shaking his head as if he couldn’t understand, narrowed his eyes and said doubtfully.

“Actually, didn’t Luna tell you this?”

I answered with a shrug.

“Think whatever you want.”

I took out the Spear of Destruction from the space warehouse and immediately used the power of destruction to destroy the wall. Kane held out the cave lamp in the passageway that appeared after the wall collapsed, with an odd exclamation.

“It’s a straight passage, so I think all you have to do is go straight ahead.”

Kane, holding a lamp, led the way and we slowly moved inside the passage. After walking for a while, I saw a light bright enough at the end of the passage that I didn’t need a cave lamp.

Kane, who had the lamp back on his belt, looked at me over his shoulder and asked.

“What is that?”

At the end of the passage, there was a sculpture floating in the air that illuminated the surroundings with green light. Although this was my first time seeing the strangely glowing sculpture, it was exactly as I had imagined.

“That is the purpose of this trip.”

At those words, I grabbed Kane’s shoulder as he unconsciously tried to approach the sculpture.

“be careful. “It absorbs everything.”

When I picked up a rock that was rolling around and threw it toward the sculpture, the rock was naturally sucked into the sculpture as if it were falling into water.

Kane, who witnessed the strange phenomenon with his own eyes, took a step back and asked in a puzzled voice.

“W-what is that?”

In response to Kane’s question, I was finally able to say what I had been itching to say.

“Fragment of the Emerald Tablet.”

At my short words, Kane turned at a frightening speed and looked at me. Kane asked once again with the same expression on his face as he was concentrating on making the perfect pizza.

“I think I just heard a strange noise… “Say it again.”

“What is in front of you is a piece of the Emerald Tablet, and now you have the opportunity to gain clues to the truth of alchemy.”

It was at the Modest meeting that clues regarding the pieces of the Emerald Tablet first appeared. The information sold by the troll who participated in the meeting was related to the Emerald Tablet.

Longing Ross, who lived in a world where discarded settings were resurrected like me, completed the Emerald Tablet.

However, the act of trying to overcome the setting using the Emerald Tablet violated probability and faced negativity from the world… This isn’t a finished product, it’s just a piece of the tablet.

However, with just one piece of the Emerald Tablet, Kane would be able to achieve great success as an alchemist.

Even if Kane got one piece, it wasn’t enough to change the flow of the story, so I thought of handing the piece over to Kane before it got into someone else’s hands.

Seeing Kane’s shaking eyes looking at me, I smiled and took out a bronze glove from the space storage.

“The only way to remove a piece of the Emerald Tablet, which absorbs everything, is to use special gloves made of bronze and copper.”

When I handed the bronze gloves to Kane, Kane, who was looking at the soft gloves, smiled and asked.

“How did you know that? “I even thought the Emerald Tablet was just an old legend.”

“All the answers are in the book.”

Kane chuckled at my sly answer and put on bronze gloves.

“Be sure to lend me that book later.”

Kane approached the sculpture and stretched out his bronze-gloved hand.

The passage trembled slightly, and the bronze armor began to vibrate violently as it approached the sculpture.

“This is okay, right?”

In response to Kane’s question, I offered words of encouragement.

“… maybe? “Do I really have to die?”

The bronze glove extended slowly, as if pushing something invisible, and finally grabbed the piece. Then, like a lie, the vibration in the passage stopped.