Chapter 271 - Episode Eighteen - The One That Shoulder's The Scale (3) (Side: Rupel)
The sorcerers of “Balancers of the Scale of Time”, Rupel and Darras, fled to a room at the end of a corridor to escape the swarm of Din Eaters.
Rupel carved a hardened stone pillar to block the entrance, and had Darras and the “Wreckage of the Magia Tool Golem” hold the Din Eaters back from entering the room.
For a while, they could hear the Din Eaters banging on the walls in a haphazard manner.
But soon they realized that it was useless and got bored, and the magic of the Din Eaters that Rupel had sensed through the wall disappeared.
After the last one disappeared, Rupel reclined against the wall, his shoulders rising and falling.
“The first ordeal is over, huh …… It seems that the priest doesn’t know the words “holdback” and “extent”. No matter how you think about it, I could only them coming to take our lives.”
Rupel muttered, clutching his head.
We managed to shake off the hordes of Din Eaters and advance, with Darras hard fighting, who lost one arm, and the decoy strategy of the “Wreckage of the Magic Tool Golem”.
The “Magia Tool Golem” can have a wide variety of properties.
One of them is the ability to mimic the appearance of others.
Rupel used this to create a decoy for himself and Darras.
Rupel shuddered as he thought back of the end of the decoys that had imitated him.
It was naturally not very pleasant to see a golem that looked just like him, with its arms torn off and its body squeezed.
Because I didn’t have enough time, I couldn’t even retrieve the pages of the grimoire that was the source of the “Wreckage of the Magia Tool Golem”.
Normally, I’d use the pages of the grimoire as materials to create a “Wreckage of the Magia Tool Golem”, and I would have put them back in the grimoire when I was done, but because we ran away, I wasted the pages of two golems.
“…… There are two more trials to go. Should we retreat for now ……? No, in the meantime, another organization will retrieve the god Kudor. We don’t have much time. We must retrieve it, even if it costs us our lives.”
With the power of the god Kudor in our hands, the world would be at our mercy.
However, the god Kudor riot was both an opportunity and a predicament for Rupel and the others.
What would happen if they missed out and another organization obtained the power of the god Kudor? It was frightening to even imagine.
At the back of the room, there was a door with a large amount of magic applied to it.
Surrounding the door were five huge disks, stacked in five layers, lined up and fixed to the wall like a wall clock.
Rupel could sense the powerful magic of the wards from the door at the back.
“Apparently, there is some kind of procedure to do for it to open” …… is what he thought, and it crossed his mind that this might be the second test.
As if to confirm Rupel’s prediction, phosphorescent light came and went in front of the door, forming a shape, and a man appeared.
The familiar brown-skinned beauty was a vision of the priest who was said to have summoned Kudor.
The priest had been sitting down, but he quickly stood up and made a gesture to brush the dust from his robe with his hand.
Rupel and Darras both had distorted expressions at the priest’s appearance.
The appearance of the priest meant that the second ordeal, like the Din Eater’s, was about to begin.
Even someone as skilled as Rupel was horrified at the thought of another Din-Eater-like creature being brought to him.
Even in the “Balancer of the Scale of Time”, which gathers the best sorcerers from around the world, Rupel is one of the top five in the organization.
He has always been able to meet the unreasonable demands of his boss, the head of the “Balancer of the Scale of Time”, and he never expected to struggle with the trials that were set up for him to breakthrough.
And yet, in the first trial, he suddenly found himself in several deadly places.
If he had made one decision too late, he and his subordinate Darras would have ended up as the Din Eater’s twisted toys by now.
“I will begin the second test. Before the image of the raging god reaches you, offer the sun and moon din to the heavens at the same time.”
The priest spoke in the ancient spirit language.
Darras, who could not understand ancient spirit language as a language, turned to Rupel and asked for an explanation.
Rupel’s face paled.
“D-Don’t tell me, that board is the “Sun and Moon Din’s Game” ……”
The Sun and Moon Din’s Game is a puzzle created by the earth god Garuja when he had too much time on his hands and had a sorcerer who worshipped him create it.
The five pairs of five-tiered disks are designed in such a way that the range of angles in which the disks can be turned changes depending on the combination of the disks as a whole, and the outermost disk can be removed.
In this way, the disks are repeatedly removed, rotated, and reassembled, and the final goal is to bring the two disks, called the “Sun Disk” and the “Moon Din Disk,” to the correct angle at the same time.
Rupel knew immediately that the words “Offer the sun and moon din to the heavens at the same time” uttered by the priestly apparition meant the condition for clearing the “Sun and Moon Din’s Game”.
However, there was nothing he could do about it even if he knew.
The angle of each disk can be tilted by 30 degrees, and the number of states and angles of the total of 25 disks is more than ten to the fiftieth power.
If we were to hit all of the patterns, we would not have enough time even if we continued from the beginning of the mythical era to the present day.
It is impossible to break through by brute force, but the names of the disks and the patterns engraved on them are supposed to be the clues.
By the way, it is said that Garuja, the god of the earth, was very satisfied with the Sun and Moon Din’s game, but was later blackmailed by Silfheim, the god of the sky, who was interested in it.
In modern times, it is considered to be a fairy tale that does not exist, and the term “Sun and Moon Din’s Game” is even used to make fun of a difficult problem that has no answer.
However, the fact that this temple, which seems to have been built by a priest, contains the “Sun and Moon Din’s Game” is certainly consistent with mythology.
It is a divine treasure of tremendous value that has enthralled the gods of all time.
“And you want me to break through that thing before that monster statue comes ……?”
The priest’s words about the “image of the raging god” were also used in the first trial.
It was obvious that it was referring to the statue of Kudor, which had started moving as soon as the trials began.
It meant that even after the Din Eaters, the guardians of the first trials, had retreated, the statue of Kudor was still steadily closing in on Rupel and the others.
At least the entrance was sealed with a stone pillar.
But Rupel didn’t think that would work against the statue of Kudor.
The second challenge was to break through the Sun and Moon Din’s Game before the statue of Kudor’s time limit.
“D-Don’t be silly. …… If the myth is correct, isn’t this the puzzle that took the earth god Garuja a hundred days to solve?”
The time limit for the statue of Kudor is less than an hour.
In addition, if the statue of Kudor is still chasing you, you can’t take any steps to get out of the temple.
“It took me ten days to offer the sun and moon din to the heavens, and it took me even longer …… to find the perfect solution, and I do not ask you for it now. Therefore, I will inscribe on the wall the method I have learned.”
The priest raised his staff.
A blinding light spreads across the area, and when it clears, the priest has disappeared, and a large number of ancient spirit words are carved randomly on the surrounding walls.
“Y-You want me to look for answers now ……?”
Rupel walked over to the wall, traced the inscriptions with his hand, and fell to his knees.
He realized that the answer was not written directly on the wall.
It seemed to be only a hint.
In addition, the order of the clues was all over the place, the important parts were skipped over, and the use of spirit language itself was highly peculiar, making it difficult to even decipher.
It was clearly impossible to get through it in the hour before the statue of Kudor arrived.
The only thing left to do was to put our faith in a miracle.
Rupel pointed his staff at the Sun and Moon Din’s Game.
The five layers of disks began to rattle and turn.
The “Sun and Moon Din’s Game” is a famous myth that the disk is designed to rotate, detach, and move according to the magic it receives from the outside.
“I’ll definitely never, ever give up …… It is we who will have the power of Kudor. We, the “Balancers of the Scale of Time”, will be the center of the world…”
Rupel stared at the clues carved all over the wall and the Sun and Moon Din’s Game, and muttered to himself as if to say to himself.
As Rupel continued to spin the disk, mumbling to himself, Darras looked at him somewhat anxiously.
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