Volume 12 Chapter 5 Part 8
Relax man, I am not going to be forcing you to make mayonnaise.
When I looked around me, the ruins were spreading in every direction. In other words, we are probably at the abandoned stopover and the abandoned city. Since he sighed, then perhaps this Adventurer is familiar with this place? Maybe it is even his hometown or something along those lines?
If so, then it must be pretty painful for him to see it in ruins like that. Is that why he said that he didn’t want to come here?
「This is Tarikau? 」
Sherry asked the Adventurer in order to do something about the heavy atmosphere that was lingering in the air.
How considerate of her.
「That’s right. 」
「It looks like a fairly large city. The traces of prosperity that it must have been enjoying in the past can still be clearly seen here. 」
「Can be seen indeed. 」
Sherry was reading the room and comforting the Adventurer in order to not make him feel bad after coming back.
Who knows, maybe he is going to be willing to not demand any payment from us because we made it possible for him to return to his hometown?
However, as amazing as this place must have been way back in the day, it doesn’t change the fact that a Labyrinth has appeared right in the middle of the city.
Normally, if a Labyrinth sprung up in such a location, it would probably get subjugated immediately, but if it’s still here, then the reason that this city was abandoned was probably because the people living here were unable to deal with it properly until it was too late.
Well, if this has become such a place, then it is pretty understandable why would no one want to go back here. Because there is nothing waiting for them here anymore.
「But you know, the Labyrinth here has been created at a really amazing place. 」
Oh come on, you can’t just say something like that!
Rutina fired a straight that gouged out the heart of the Adventurer without reading the atmosphere at all.
You can call it a Fireball Straight.
「Has the city been abandoned because it was build around the Labyrinth that was already here? 」
At the very least, Sherry tried to perform a follow-up that would soften the impact of Rutina’s blow.
「No. The Labyrinth has only appeared near the end here, when the evacuation of the residents had progressed considerably. I wondered about how it was here after I was evacuated together with my parents. If it was different, then maybe I would not be associating it with so many bad memories now. Heh, who would have thought that I would ever get the chance to go back to my hometown after such a long time? 」
「Hou hou? 」
「The Labyrinth of South Tarikau that we passed earlier and the Hawk Forest Labyrinth we are heading towards were the first to appear, and ever since they appeared there were other Labyrinths that have been successfully subdued now, so it seems that the situation was really quite severe. Without that, it is entirely possible that Tarikau would have been abandoned even earlier. 」
「Hou? 」
「Besides, the Labyrinth being in the middle of the city has forced many of the residents to perform suicide attacks if they wanted to reclaim that which they had lost, which caused a considerable amount of damage to the populace, including my father, who has returned to Tarikau for that very reason. 」
「Hou… hou? 」
Does that not make you completely useless then?
「Even so, many people came to support us, even after that disaster happened and Tarikau was finally abandoned. Among al the people who came t help us then, the one who did not give up right until the bitter end was the person whom I learned the sign I showed you back at Tare from. When it comes to Tarikau’s Labyrinth’s, the highest floor that should have been broken through should be the 55th floor. In the end, even though that person eventually had to retreat along with everyone else, he told me that if there ever appeared someone who would want to come here and continue where they left off, he wanted me to help them as much as possible. 」
I see.
The person who helped him so much must have been a member of the Empire Liberation Society, but it is also strange that he was also someone who was aiming to liberate this abandoned land.
But I guess that this is how it was with him: he received help from that parson, and as a result, he should be fine with helping anyone who would express willingness to come here and liberate the land where his hometown is.
Even if you manage to subjugate a Labyrinth located in the territory that hasn’t been abandoned, if someone is already ruling over that territory, then you won’t be able to obtain a noble title for yourself and become the ruler of the territory where that Labyrinth was located.
But on the other hand, if you manage to subjugate the Labyrinth located in the land that has long since been abandoned, then you should be able to become a lord of such a land without any issues.
It seems that if you are a member of the Imperial Liberation Society, it will be recognized smoothly, and that is probably the reason why members of the Imperial Liberation Society came to the abandoned Labyrinth of Tarikau.
Because this land was abandoned, the members of the Empire Liberation Society came here with the hopes of subjugating the Labyrinths so that they could obtain the titles for themselves, but when this area was still a stopover point, they should not have paid any attention to it.
Well, I guess that is just how it was, and it would probably be better if I didn’t go out of my way in order to tell him that.
「Is that so? 」
「This one is the newest Labyrinth that has appeared in the Tarikau area, so it has not been subjugated yet. If you came here in hopes of subjugating the Labyrinth yourselves, then I think that this place is going to be your best bet to do so. 」
So back then, fifty five floors of this Labyrinth have already been broken through?
Don’t go asking for the impossible now.
Our main reason for coming here was not to subjugate the Labyrinths here. Has this guy already forgotten that our destination is not Tarikau, but Grineer? Or is it that he has become so blinded by hope that he found someone else willing o come here that he has already forgotten about that?
Well, since Roxanne looks like she’s still not satisfied, then I guess I can have him take us to the 55th floor of this Labyrinth. Since he’s going to take us there, it is all the more convenient for us anyway.
「Well, let us move on for the time being. 」
「Understood. 」
「The Hawk Forest Labyrinth is going to be next, huh? 」
「That’s right. 」
The Adventurer then has taken us to the Hawk Forest Labyrinth, where we have learned from him that this particular Labyrinth has grown even further than fifty five floors. If it has grown like that, then that would probably mean that its subjugation would most likely be a very, very serious ordeal.
It was located in the forest that was originally deserted.
Just like its name implies, maybe hawks used to live in here before it was deserted?
Who knows? Maybe some of them are still here despite everything that has happened?
Well, even if they were still here, they probably would not go out of their way just to show themselves before us.
「We would like to go to Grineer as soon as possible. 」
At this point, Rutina reminded the Adventurer of what our original purpose in coming here was. After all, from the very beginning we were saying that we wanted to be taken to Grineer. Tarikau is nothing but a stop along the way for us.
Is everything really okay with this Adventurer?
「In order to reach Grineer, you have to go west from this Hawk Forest Labyrinth here. It is said that if you continue going west from here until you reach the coastline, you will eventually see an island, and if you go alongside that island, then you will eventually reach the new stopover point. That being said, none of the Adventurers who were to Grineer and have established a stopover point there are alive anymore. I have never been there myself either. I guess that has to mean that the stopover point itself must have existed there long after Tarikau was abandoned. I don’t know if it is still there, but I have to go either way. 」
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