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Chapter 87 – Let’s Ask Him
Honoka-chan puts the cube in her hand, half-closes her eyes, and focuses her nerves.
“The soul… It doesn’t move like it’s frozen.”
“Can you tell?”
“The human heart always vibrates. There are good vibrations and bad vibrations, but the vibrations are almost gone.”
“Clovis’ Human Objectification is a skill that turns people into objects. I guess it means denying the person’s personality and treating them as a soulless object.”
“It’s a terrible skill. But it seems that they are not completely turned into objects. They’re just frozen, but they haven’t lost their souls.”
“Thank goodness.
If it’s really turned into just an object, it shouldn’t be able to be sacrificed to cause a dungeon Flood or even to create the dungeon itself.
Because if it’s just an object, without a life, without a soul, it can’t be called a sacrifice.
Clovis insists that all but the elves are inferior beings.
But if he really believes that humans are inferior beings, there’s no need to stress the point.
And to humans, who are supposed to be the inferior creatures.
Clovis needs something to look down on to satisfy his twisted sense of superiority.
He has to constantly look down on something to believe that he is superior.
In a sense, no one is more pathetic than he is.
Such is the self-contradiction of Clovis, who also has the Human Objectification skill.
It is strange that he can use such objects through Subordinate Magic, etc. when he has decided that humans are mere objects, and it is also strange that he can create dungeons in exchange for objects that are supposed to be nothing more than objects.
Really, people who, deep down, see others only as useful tools don’t have half-baked feelings like Clovis.
For example―yes, that’s it…
“Yuto-san, do you know the name of this person?”
Honoka-chan asked, staring intently at the cube in her palm.
“Wait a second… Oh, it’s Minazawa-san, isn’t it? Kazuki Minazawa-san.”
I used Appraisal on the cube and replied.
There were eight people who had been turned into cubes by Human Objectification.
The one with the highest level among them was Minazawa-san.
This means that Clovis gave up the best card in his hand at this stage.
Was it too much to give up to “create” the dungeon?
Or did the acquisition of Haruka-san make the objectified humans unnecessary?
Either way, we need to find Clovis quickly for the sake of the remaining seven.
“Minazawa-san! Can you hear me? Kazuki Minazawa-san!”
The cube began to tremble slightly at Honoka-chan’s call.
Something is being transferred from Honoka-chan to the cube, and at the same time, something is being transferred from the cube to Honoka-chan.
It’s different from magic…
It’s like a tuning fork and a tuning fork vibrating together, but there’s nothing physically shaking.
I followed Honoka-chan’s example as well,
“Minazawa-san! Can you hear me? It’s Kurashiki! You are human, remember!”
The cube shook even more,
“Kyaaa!”
Honoka-chan was surprised when the cube suddenly got bigger.
No, it didn’t get bigger.
It became human again.
“Oops!”
I catch Minazawa-san, who almost collapses in an unnatural position.
Minazawa-san is a muscular explorer, like a rugged man, but I can easily support him with my stats.
“Uh… kuh, t-this is…?”
“Thank goodness…”
And Honoka-chan.
“Minazawa-san, it’s me. It’s Kurashiki. Do you understand?”
“Y-yeah. It’s been a while. I heard you joined the Paladin Knights. Why are you here? No, where am I anyway?”
“Do you remember what happened before you lost consciousness?”
“Y-yes! I went to the Kishimojin Temple dungeon… to subdue the Flood! I was in the middle of a boss battle when a gryphon broke into the dungeon! I was immobilized by a powerful electroshock, and then that guy came…!”
“What about your Electroshock Resistance?”
“I don’t have a resistance skill. There are no monsters in that dungeon that use electroshock attacks. I didn’t have any items to disable electroshock.”
Now that I think about it, normal explorers use their equipment, not their skills, to counter the abnormalities.
It is a waste (in the normal sense) to spend precious SP on anomaly resistance skills.
Clovis must have chosen a dungeon with no monsters that used electroshock attacks to Flood the dungeon and then unleashed the Thunder Gryphon on the explorers who did not have electroshock countermeasures.
If he caused a Flood, he could pull out high-level explorers of a higher rank than that dungeon.
When they’re in the middle of trying to quell a Flood, it’s easy to surprise them.
…But isn’t that a little too much maneuvering?
I think it would be hard for the Explorers’ Association to figure out which explorers to send to which dungeons and when.
First of all, it seems to me that it would be difficult for Clovis alone to Flood more than one dungeon at a time.
“You don’t remember what happened after that?”
“Sorry. I found myself in this situation.”
No information from Minazawa-san, huh?
The Human Objectification process puts the objectified person in a state of suspended animation in the Item Box, so there was little hope for that.
“Honoka-chan, can you use Divine Response to locate Haruka-san?”
“They’re moving at a great speed. They seem to be heading in the opposite direction of the city center.”
“What is the distance?”
“I’m sorry… I think I’ll have to get a little closer to find out. Oh, Mother…”
Honoka-chan hangs her shoulders.
“Kudave.”
I spoke to the dragon, who was looking at the temple grounds with interest.
The Daidara that came out of the dungeon were in the area a while ago, but they disappeared as soon as I summoned Kudave.
I know that they fled into the dungeon by using Presence Detection.
“What is it?”
Kudave looked down at me with his golden eyes.
They didn’t seem particularly intimidating, but the mere fact that his gaze turned in this direction made Honoka-chan and even Minazawa-san stiffen.
“Would you take me and Honoka-chan and track down that elf from earlier?”
“Mm-hmm. I don’t mind, but the girl would have a hard time with it.”
“I can handle it…”
“The problem is not just that. If they can catch the high energy that flows out of me, there is a risk that the fast Thunder Gryphon will run away.”
“That’s true…”
Besides, I would like to avoid flying this huge body over Japan, which is covered by a radar network.
If it became known that I had summoned a beast that was like a monster from a movie like this, they wouldn’t let me live a normal life anymore.
Haruka-san and Honoka-chan’s identities would be exposed as well. It would be more than enough to cause trouble for Serika as well.
“But there was no other way to fly… No, there was another way…”
It would be an exaggeration to say that there was.
It’s only on the level of what might be possible…
But it is worth a try.
“Summon Secret Monster―Karakuri Doctor!”
A magic circle spread out in front of me, and light flooded the place like a rare draw in a Gacha game.
What appeared was the secret dungeon boss, Karakuri Doctor, whom I had fought in the Kururi Castle Dungeon.
“Whoa!”
Minazawa-san was surprised.
“T-that fearsome dragon, too, Kurashiki-kun. Did you have some kind of summoning skill?”
“I’m sorry, but please don’t pry now.”
“T-That’s right. I’m sorry.”
“Yuto-san can do something like that…?”
Honoka-chan seemed impressed, but I didn’t have time to react now.
“Okay, your name is Gennai.”
A bit of a simple name, don’t you think?
I don’t have much time to think about it, so there’s nothing I can do.
But the Karakuri Doctor nodded his head in satisfaction.
‘Gennai has gained new power through naming!’
Status──────────────────
Gennai
Karakuri Doctor
Level 2941
HP 235280/235280
MP 360320/360320
Attack Power 26469
Defense 23528
Magic Power 104653
Mental Strength 109017
Agility 112315
Luck 29410
・Unique Skill
Skill Grant 1
・Acquired Skills
Karakuri Creation, Command, Datalink, Maneuvering 5, Item Box 5, Interference Magic 3
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Skill─────────────────
Skill Grant 1
Can grant any skill to their own possessions.
It takes the same amount of SP to grant a skill as it did to learn it.
The skills that can be granted are limited to those that the user has already acquired.
The maximum skill level of a granted skill is the skill level of that skill or the skill level of the Skill Grant, whichever is lower.
The number of skills that can be granted to a single possession is limited to S.Lv units.
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‘You have acquired the Skill Grant 1 skill through your bond with the monster you summoned.’
Sounds like a good skill, but it can wait for now.
“Gennai, can you make this for me quickly?”
I took out the Karakuri UFO blueprint from my Item Box.