Re:Zero - Jobless Reincarnation: Succubus Sword God? I don't recognize it!

Chapter 281: Altier River Dam, is it the wind that is moving in the lock chamber?

"Her Royal Highness the Princess is back!!"

"your Highness!!"

Even though it was early in the morning, there weren't many people on the dock, but when Ariel's boat appeared, there were still faint cheers floating down from overhead.

Why do we say it is floating down from the top of the head?
Because the pier is right above everyone's heads.

In a physical sense.

The royal capital of Ars, the city with the longest history in human history, stands majestically on the highest mountain in the west of the Central Continent.

The war between humans and demons witnessed its glory and splendor, and similarly, as the last bridgehead of the human race in the Central Continent, the city as a whole is a huge fortress.

The time was now 7:32 in the morning. The boat they were on had passed through the somewhat deserted outskirts of the royal capital and arrived outside the fifth city wall of Ars, as well as the end of the Altier River outside the city wall of the royal capital.

Here, the Altier River is blocked by a majestic, towering "shadow" that stretches across the end of the river and whose top is almost completely invisible.

——The Altier River Dam is 380 meters long and 97 meters high. The gate is mainly made of steel structure with heavy rust on it, while the bricks and stones of the dam on both sides of the gate are covered with moss and densely packed mottled water patterns in the sky.

This ancient man-made structure straddles the Altier River, sitting atop shorter city walls on either side of the river.

It formed a man-made natural barrier.

It is said that it was built under the leadership of the human hero of that year, the Golden Knight Aldebaran - the main purpose of which was to prevent the demons from attacking upstream along the Altier River with sea beasts funded by some sea allies.

Ariel raised her head and waved to the people on the dock on both sides of the city walls. Beside her, Alice looked up at the dock on the north side that was dozens of meters above her head, and the heads that were vaguely visible on the fence above, which had turned into black dots and were still waving their arms.

His eyes were widened.

Rudy and Sylphy had similar expressions, but the former had a look of amazement and realization, while the latter had pure admiration.

"Is this... a water storage dam similar to an elevator?" Rudy asked in astonishment.

Alan understood what Rudy meant, but ignored him. He was looking up at the Altier River Dam with a look of nostalgia in his eyes.

I was impressed by the generosity of the Demon Dragon King Laplace and his tragic but dramatic life.

This guy really wholeheartedly followed the orders of the first Dragon God, preparing for the birth of Orsted and the overthrow of the Human God. He has been doing crazy scientific research for so many years and has been against the Human God everywhere. When he saw that the Human God was helping the demons to attack the human race, he couldn't sit still and helped the human race in various ways.

Unexpectedly, the goal of the Human God was to lure him into the game. He designed to steal his scientific research results - the Fighting God Armor during the Second Human-Demon War, and bewitched the Undead Demon King to wear it. He fought a desperate battle with the disguised "Golden Knight" and finally succeeded in splitting him into "God of Skills - Laplace" and "Demon God - Laplace".

That’s right, the top four of the seven great powers are all ‘our own people’.

The God of Skill and the God of Demon are each half of the Demon Dragon King Laplace. The Dragon God is the prince of the dragon clan. The God of Fighting is the top scientific research achievement of the Demon Dragon King over the past thousands of years.

Thus, Orsted's tormenting dragon life began - the Demon Dragon King's single-minded desire to defeat the "Human God" was also split along with the split of his body and consciousness. The split God of Skills became a scientific research freak who only wanted to overthrow the "God", and he wandered around the world without a trace.

Boss Long lost his nanny in the early days of reincarnation, and became a miserable player who could only practice on his own from the pay-to-win game account that directly inherited all knowledge, skills, and equipment from the beginning of reincarnation. He was even hacked to death by robbers and poisoned by puffer fish in his early days as a demigod.

The process of redevelopment after each reincarnation greatly hindered Boss Long's growth rate.

This was still good. For this reason alone, Orsted could be considered to be thanking Laplace, whom he should call uncle.

The problem is that the Dragon King split into another demon god, Laplace, who is a hard-core fool.

A piece of the broken divine jade of the first dragon is in this guy's body. This divine jade that was supposed to be given to Boss Dragon by the magic dragon king Laplace was used by this guy to grab the divine power and go to war with humans crazily. Because he inherited the part of consciousness that hates "people".

Therefore, not only did this guy have no effect, he also became the last BOSS before the Boss Renshenweilong met him.

The human god's magic of rebirth against the dragon clan was timed so that the time of the demon Laplace's resurrection happened to be the end of Orsted's reincarnation.

If Orsted wants to retrieve the fragment of the divine jade, he has to kill him. The demon god will definitely not surrender himself after losing his memory, so the two will definitely have to fight.

Usually after a battle of this level, Boss Long's limited magic power would be exhausted in order to maintain the reincarnation secret technique, resulting in Orsted being unable to fully gather the divine jades and break through the material world to fight against the human god.

It was clear that he was being plotted against.

awful.

“Open the gate!!!”

Alan was awakened by the distant shouting above his head. He turned to look at the steel gate in front of him that stood in front of everyone like a smooth cliff.

Rumble.

Amid the deafening sound of the gates being pulled, the dam gates were slowly raised, and the river water inside was still quietly surging.

Beyond the river.

It's still a gate.

Rudy opened his mouth with a look of shock. He turned his head to look at the gate, then turned to look at the empty control rooms on both sides. Finally, he set his eyes on the huge, densely packed patterns carved on the gate and the dams on both sides.

Then he took out the broken wrist of the doll in his arms.

The nested magic circle at the broken wrist is extremely similar to the patterns on the gate and dam wall.

"It's not human power! This is a magic circle?! Using water magic as the power source to stir the chains and raise the gate???"

"Yes, are you shocked?" Alan replied with a smile, "It can't be done by manpower. Such a large steel gate cannot be lifted by manpower at all."

"Weigh anchor!" The boatmen's enthusiasm for going home was reflected in the shouts. The sailboat slowly sailed into the gate. When it reached a certain position, the magic circles on both sides suddenly released waves of light, and the blowing magic constructed under the water fixed the hull in the gate.

Click! ! !
The boat shook and then stopped steadily.

Rumble, the gate behind the crowd slowly dropped, covering the endless Altier River that was crawling on the ground, and then sank into the water.

Amid the roaring river waves, the gates were closed and the wide lock chamber was shrouded in darkness.

The sudden darkness permeated everyone's side, and Alan suddenly felt someone holding his arm tightly.

The feeling flowed through her - it was Sylphy.

He secretly laughed at the child's cowardice and grabbed Sylphy's hand.

At this time, the short period of darkness adaptation has passed, and a faint light is projected down from above the head.

Everyone raised their heads and looked upwards.

Patio.

Because the sky above the lock chamber is in darkness, it looks like a square white scarf, but it is light, light coming from the sky.

Sitting well and watching the sky.

Sylphy breathed a sigh of relief. The child had never seen such a grand scene before. In just two years, under Alan's "leadership", she jumped from Buena Village to Roya City in Fitoya Territory, and then from Roya to the current royal capital.

Everything she saw and heard constantly refreshed her understanding of the world.

At this moment, she felt that someone was not looking up at the sky, but turned his head and looked down at her.

Turning her eyes away, Alan had a teasing look on his face, secretly scratching the palm of her hand and blinking.

Sylphy's face suddenly turned red.

Suddenly.

The wind blew in front of their faces, and then it lit up.

The faint blue light sprinkled on everyone's cheeks.

This faint light came from the huge magic array nested in layers on the gate. "Use blowing magic to strengthen the airtightness of the gate? Great. Great."

Rudy kept turning his head to look at the gates on both sides with a very surprised expression.

Dilic, who was standing by, explained to him with pride in his tone.

"This is the Altier River Dam. After the first Human-Demon War, all the magicians and construction workers in the capital were mobilized, and it took two years to build. Although it is very old, the magic circle has hardly had any problems so far, because the magic circle itself is equipped with a blowing magic for self-cleaning. In addition, it is used every day, so the magic stones consumed every year are not a small number. However, even so, the tax increase should make up for this part of the consumption."

"Raise taxes?" Even though she could see the surroundings at this time, Sylphy did not let go of Alan's hand. She was just shy and still hid Alan's hand behind her using their bodies.

"Yes, as long as you use this dam, you have to pay for the lift."

Halfway through his words, Dilic suddenly realized that the subject of Sylphy's question was the word "increase", not the word "tax" at the end. He shook his head and pointed his finger at the top of his head.

"Look, do you think the sky above your head has gotten bigger?"

Sylphy looked up and blinked cutely at the sky, but then she saw Alan's teasing gaze again.

She frowned, grabbed Alan's hand and quietly hit Alan's waist.

"The water level is rising. The water column magic circle is releasing water. This is only the first lock chamber. If this continues, the Altair River will continue to expand in width. Is it okay for the towns downstream?"

Dilic turned around and looked at Rudy in surprise, and was surprised that he could tell the purpose of the dam at a glance.

Izuruti squinted at Sylphy holding Alan's hand, poked Sylphy with a smile, and pointed at the gate beside her.

Sylphy looked in the direction of the finger, and discovered in the dark that the water level had been rising. The mossy area on the sluice gate had disappeared, and the water surface had reached the location of the mottled water pattern that was clearly above her head just now.

Unconsciously, they had already "risen" more than twenty meters.

Dilic explained to Rudy.

"It doesn't matter. The main channel of the Altair River flows through only one city, Liupu City. The docks along the river around Liupu City are built to intercept the flow of water. Didn't you notice that there are some tributaries around the docks along the way? Many of them are man-made estuaries."

"Is that so? It's really amazing that magic circles can be used in this way. This is an application method that is completely unseen in Roya. Are there many public facilities that use magic circles in the capital?"

Upon hearing this, Dilic's face, which had been somewhat proud just now, froze for a moment, and then he was taken over by Ariel, who had been holding the side of the boat and looked a little dazed.

She just fixed her eyes on the gate and spoke slowly.

"Unfortunately, in this huge capital, within the thousands of years of time, the only facility that can be used with the convenience of magic is this one in front of you."

"When I was a child, I was as excited as Mr. Rudy and Ms. Sylphy when I first saw the Altier Dam. I still remember that feeling."

"At that time, I felt deep in my heart that this wonderful application method was very suitable for people's livelihood and the long-term development of Asura. It was a path towards Asura's future. But over the years, as I grew up, I discovered that in the capital of Ars, only the Altyr Dam was accompanied by the legend of heroes. This creation left over from the distant past had this magical application accompanied by magic."

"In the peaceful times, no one in the capital of the Asura Kingdom would spend money on this. Even the Magician Group has gradually lost its reputation in the capital due to the lack of wars, and no one has ever considered such a thing."

After saying this, Dilic looked at Ariel with great emotion. If she wasn't interested in magic, who would go to the Magic University to watch magic shows every year? The Magic University had the lowest status among all the institutions in the capital, and the status of magicians was also low, so it was not worth Ariel's investment of too much social energy.

Allen glanced at Ariel, and the story line that she would ascend the throne and develop magic in Asura finally became real in his mind.

The choices people make in the future have already been sown in the past.

However.
"That includes me."

"Now, I am also part of the 'don't think about this kind of thing' group."

Ariel's voice continued to sound, falling into the lock chamber.

Everyone was stunned and fell silent.

Rudy subconsciously wanted to say something, but after looking at Alan who was just looking at Ariel quietly without any special reaction.

He shut his mouth again.

click!
The boat shook slightly, and everyone felt that it had stopped.

Rumble, the second gate in front opened, and the boat was blown into the second gate by magic.

Although the patio is close.

But after entering the second lock chamber, the light became dimmer.

My vision once again fell into a deeper period of darkness adaptation.

At the same time, Alan felt his arm being tightened again.

He found it a little funny and turned around to comfort Sylphy.

next moment.

A force pulled his arm, and a soft body pressed against his side.

It feels a little cool, slightly moist, and very soft, with a familiar touch.

It was pressed against his neck.

Instantly separate.

The gate dropped and my vision adjusted to the darkness.

Alan turned his head and looked to his side.

He could see the reddish-brown eyes clearly in the darkness.

The white-haired girl was puffing her lips and looking up at him.

It was as if he was taking revenge for his own teasing; it was also as if he was expressing his dissatisfaction with having been looking at Ariel; it was also as if he was regretting that he was too short and could not kiss her cheek even with the strength of his arms.

So, which is the case?

like
unimportant.

Alan thought so.

The blowing magic stirred up the wind, dancing as the two people's eyes were entangled.

beat.

beat.

Obviously.

The wind doesn't beat.

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(End of this chapter)