The Terra Travel Diary of Neither Sacred, Rhea, nor Terra

Miku said that his guess about General Christen's thoughts was quite accurate.

This outfit is indeed not a disguise. After all, there is no need to disguise myself.

35: Welcome Ceremony at the Castle

After walking along a not very long and rugged mountain road, Miku and his party arrived at the outermost part of the castle.

A circle of city walls that undulate according to the terrain and a moat more than ten meters wide outside the wall indicate that this castle was used as a military fortress when it was built.

As if sensing the arrival of Miku and his party, the drawbridge at the city wall gate slammed onto the moat with a sharp creaking sound.

The loud noise of the suspension bridge falling startled the earth spirit who was following Miku and didn't dare to move more than two meters away. She subconsciously looked back at the mountain road she came from.

Although it was still eerie, I could see the foot of the mountain at a glance, but the camping hut I had come from was nowhere to be seen, as if it had never existed.

"It's best not to look back. That place is already outside the map." Miku deliberately made a faint voice similar to the blood demon's, which rang in the ears of the earth spirit, allowing the little goat to once again close the distance between itself and Christen.

Kristen, who also noticed that the way back was gone, asked:

"How do we get out?"

"Why do you want to go out just when you get to the door?" Miku said to Christen with a smile.

"Oh." Seeing Miku's look, Kristen knew that Miku was confident and didn't ask any more questions.

Miku seemed a little disappointed that Christen didn't ask any more questions and said:

"It's easy to get out. Just tear down the castle."

After entering this secondary space, Miku knew that the supporting anchor of this space was the castle in front of him.

If you demolish the castle, the space it supports will naturally collapse.

"...Aren't you here to look for the Queen of Gaul's pocket watch?" Christen said after a moment's pause.

"There is no conflict between finding things and demolishing the castle. What if the other party hides too deeply? It's better to just demolish it then." Miku said with a smile.

After saying this, he raised the gentleman's stick in his hand and walked towards the castle which was already in front of him with an equally gentlemanly pace.

Before he had gone far, even before he reached the gate of the inner fortress, in the residential area between the castle and the city wall, Miku found two interesting things.

A crown with a gold border, a red lining, and stained as if it had just been stained with blood.

And a very small lantern, no bigger than a fist.

Miku turned the switch of the lantern, and the lantern powered by Originium immediately lit up.

I don’t know if it’s because of the passage of time or because of its size, but the light of this lantern is not bright and can only illuminate a certain distance.

This brightness actually makes the surrounding environment seem even more gloomy.

After Miku hung the lantern around his waist with skillful movements, he focused his attention on the crown that was picked up along with the lantern.

"This should be the Victoria Crown. The last Emperor Aslan was wearing this crown when he was pushed to the guillotine."

Kristen, who was curious about how Miku could pick up things from anywhere, said after taking a closer look at the crown.

The question is about the Ramkawood movie. After all, the Londinium coup, the public execution of the emperor, and the fact that the throne has been vacant until now can be considered a timeless script.

"Can you still wear a crown after being guillotined?" Miku asked with some doubt.

Kristen didn't know the answer to Miku's question.

There are different speculations about why the last Emperor Aslan in Victoria was still wearing the crown when he was sent to the guillotine.

Something like this proves that the last Emperor Aslan died as an emperor, something like no other race except Aslan is qualified to wear this crown, and something like the murderous thugs made the emperor wear the crown when he died to prove that the imperial power had fallen.

These arguments are full of the romanticism that is unique to artists, but Christen, who does not like this kind of romance, knows that these conclusions are basically nonsense.

Apart from those who experienced the coup or even participated in it, no one knew why the emperor still wore the crown when he died.

"So what happened to the crown in real life?" Miku asked Kristen.

"It disappeared in the chaos." Kristen said as she "glanced" at the crown in Miku's hand.

She heard Miku specifically mention "the real one" when he was questioning. In other words, the one in Miku's hand might just be a replica.

"Is that so?" Miku nodded, and after sighing for a moment about Charles I of the Terra world, he put the crown in his hand into his backpack.

The moment the crown disappeared from Miku's hand, Christen and Di Ling, who were following Miku closely, both raised their heads and looked towards the castle fortress not far away.

At this moment, Christen and Di Ling both felt a shock in their hearts, and the gloomy castle not far away became even more gloomy and dangerous.

Miku, who also noticed this, said with a look of understanding:

"Oh, so it's a tool to activate the high difficulty mode."

After saying that, Miku turned around.

He held the gentleman's stick in his hand, adjusted his collar and walked towards the inner castle.

The earth spirit, who didn't understand what Miku meant by this, hurriedly followed. Christen, who was standing beside him, thought carefully about Miku's words.

High difficulty mode? Is Miku treating the act of going deep into this castle as a game?

"If you view it as a game, then it is a game. If you view it as a horror story..." Miku, who was leading the way, laughed, "Then it is a horror story."

"What game?" asked the Earth Spirit belatedly.

It was not Miku who answered her, but a quick warning from the BT beside her.

"Be careful!" Hearing the whistling sound gradually approaching in the air, Christen, the general manager of Rhine Life who often cooperates with the Colombian military, immediately recognized where the sound came from.

"Bombardment?" The earth spirit realized what this was almost at the same time as Christen, and immediately picked up the staff in his hand and erected a wall of earth and stones in front of him.

"Boom" a series of explosions sounded nearby, and a bungalow near the place where Miku picked up the crown just now collapsed in half in the explosion.

"My aim isn't that good." Compared to Kristen and Di Ling, who were both showing off their skills and taking defensive postures, Miku remained calm and walked forward at a leisurely pace.

As if irritated by Miku's ridicule, more shells whizzed over and landed around Miku and his group.

Noticing that the shells were landing closer and closer, Christen, who was manipulating the transmitter to form a barrier around her body, waved her arms and controlled a portion of the transmitter to fly towards Miku.

"It's just a small scene." Miku waved his hand without looking back, and the separated neurotransmitter returned to Christen at a faster speed.

Just as these transmitters had just been integrated into the transmitter shield on Kristen's side, a shell finally hit the target after several corrections and hit Miku directly.

"Be careful"

Although she knew that this shell was just a small matter for someone like Miku who could travel in space without wearing protective clothing, Kristen still gave a reminder.

Facing the whistling shells, Miku neither dodged nor evaded, and didn't even slow down at all.

He simply raised the gentleman's stick in his hand and swung it above his head.

As Miku swung the stick, the gentleman's stick in his hand broke into long whips made up of metal blades.

The swung whip hit the falling shell in mid-air with great accuracy.

The shell that was hit exploded in mid-air with a loud bang, and the fragments hit Kristen's carrier shield, splashing ripples, and also smashed a lot of tiny dents on the earth wall in front of the earth spirit.

Miku, who should have received the most fragments, looked like he was walking through a field of flowers without getting a single leaf on him.

Even though the broken pieces were all over the ground next to Miku, his clothes were not scratched at all.

"Don't worry, it's a small scene."

The tone sounded very casual, and combined with the scene just now, Miku's words were quite credible.

Under Miku's open ridicule, these shells that came from nowhere became more and more accurate, and more and more numerous, and most of them flew towards Miku.

But no matter how many or how few, they were in an unbreakable state when facing Miku and his group.

The earth wall erected by the earth spirit was a little shaky at first, but after being mixed with the transmitter provided by Kristen, it became indestructible.

Then at some point, the shells disappeared as suddenly as they had appeared.

Although the earth spirit did not suffer any harm thanks to Kristen's help, its own defense mode still made it look dirty and the earth spirit cautiously poked its head out from behind the earth wall.

Just then I saw BT's round body sliding out from the dark corner and sliding all the way to Miku's side.

"Did he just disappear?" Miku repeated the report of the BT who had just completed the continuous kills in a tone that seemed to have been expected.

"Beep" bt said while shaking his body as if nodding.

Watching BT communicating with Miku in a completely incomprehensible electronic language, Kristen couldn't help but feel a little strange.

Obviously, BT can talk, but for some reason, the other party doesn't want to talk? Is it the unique arrogance of AI robots?

"Well, those people who were killed by BT just now and bombed us with mortars disappeared after they died."

Because it was too complicated to explain, Miku ignored Kristen's doubts and spoke to the two of them.

"Disappeared? Is this place fake? Or is it just an illusion?" The Earth Spirit asked in surprise with his eyes wide open.

As a Leitanian wizard who was not that powerful but at least a professional, Di Ling instantly thought of many possibilities.

"What does this mean?" Christen asked directly. No matter whether those gunners were real or imaginary, at least the shells just now were real.

"It means it's fun here." Miku gave an answer that left the two ladies at a loss for how to respond.

However, thanks to this rather nonsensical answer, coupled with Miku's ease in dealing with the mortar shells, the Earth Spirit, who was a little dazed by the explosion, relaxed a little.

After leaving the bombarded area, Miku and his party finally arrived at the real castle gate.

The stone gate, which is more than ten meters high, has a crack that is only wide enough for one person to walk through. The gate is littered with dilapidated and collapsed stone pillars, and flags that are either hanging on the walls or have fallen to the ground. Their original colors can no longer be seen because of the stains.

As Miku and Kristen carefully examined the appearance of the dilapidated castle, the earth spirit's goat ears moved slightly:

"somebody is coming."

"The four-channel is so sensitive." Miku praised, but from the flat tone of his voice, it seemed that Miku had known someone was coming.

In fact, the Earth Spirit was the last to know.

Just as Miku finished his words, a stumbling sound came out from the castle gate which was only slightly open.

Seeing Miku and his group, the half-naked figure rushed over even faster as if he had seen a savior.

Rushing to a position less than two meters in front of Miku, this person dressed like a beggar, with a pair of cat ears, who should be a member of the Filin tribe in the Terra world, said in a breathless tone:

"Finally someone is here. This castle is really weird."

"Don't be anxious, speak slowly." As Miku said this, he raised his hand and snapped his fingers. A feather of Yu Duchen slowly fell on Filin, who called himself an adventurer.

In a world where magic exists, it is normal for the profession of adventurer to exist.

When the feather of the fake Yu Duchen fell on the film adventurer, Miku showed a playful expression on his face.

Under the influence of the power of consciousness possessed by this feather, the adventurer Filin, who had calmed down a little, talked about some incredible things he encountered in this castle.

A grand theater performance is being planned, but the actors seem to be ghosts.

The ghosts were partying on the stage all night long. He wanted to use the adventurer's qualities of never leaving empty-handed, but to no avail.

And he was almost attacked by a group of crazy people shouting weird lines,

Having gained nothing and being beaten up, the Filin adventurer said he was going to leave.

He said so much to Miku because he wanted to exchange this information for something from Miku, so that his adventure would not be completely in vain.

Miku did not refuse the request of the Filin adventurer, but bent down, picked up a stone from the ground and put it in the other's hand.

The Filin adventurer holding the stone showed a delighted expression as if he was holding a treasure. After bowing and expressing his gratitude several times, the Filin adventurer holding the precious stone trotted towards the road Miku came from.

When the Filin adventurer was recounting the strange experiences he had in the castle, Christen did not interrupt.

After the other party left, she asked Miku:

"what have you done?"

Miku did not answer Kristen's question immediately, but looked at the back of the film adventurer.

Christen followed Miku's gaze and saw the figure of the Filin adventurer quickly disappear outside the gloomy city wall.

It was like really leaving the castle...but Christen already knew that the space where the castle was located was a separate space, and simply running out of the castle would not really leave this world.

After the adventurer's figure completely disappeared, Miku turned around and said:

"What are you asking about, the stone or the adventurer?"

"Both." Christen was straightforward.

"That stone is just a decoy. In his eyes, it is a stack of currency or a piece of gold. In short, it is something very valuable. As for the adventurer."

Before Miku could finish his words, Di Ling and Kristen once again turned their gazes towards the castle gate at the same time.

There were the same stumbling sounds and the same half-naked figures, but this time it was not Filin but Luper, or what the Terrans called the Wolf Tribe... quite separate from Pello.