Chapter 193: Fifth Day of Quest; Between Rocks and the Ancient Human Nation

After coming out of the hole in the mountain rock, I stood up with Magen’s help who gave me a hand and started shaking off the nonexistent dust on my pants and clothes by patting the fabric with my hands.

"Why is your face red Vremya?" Magen asked, thanks to the light from Magen’s sacred shield the cave seems to be illuminated by an LED spotlight from my previous world.

"Ahem, nothing..." the space in this part of the cavern is wide, although it is only two meters high and wide enough for two people to be side by side.

For now it seems that none of us has claustrophobia problems...

I advanced a little when I heard noise behind me, after a few seconds Dianeira came out crawling from the hole and stood up as if nothing had happened.

"What happened? Why do you have a mark on your face?" Magen asked again upon seeing that Dianeira has something on her face.

"It looks like a shoe sole print..."

"A print?"

"hahahaha" Upon hearing everyone I could not help turning to look at Dianeira and I could not hold back the laughter.

This girl, the moment I started crawling in the hole she dared to grab my plump bottom and massaged it boldly!

Thinking about if I had worn a skirt this girl would have gained much more!

Then I gave a kick backward stretching my right leg to push her away. Although it was not very strong the kick hit her fully in the face.

Now looking at her I could not help laughing upon seeing the print of my boots on her face and her angry look.

"Forget about this pervert. Let us keep moving, there is still a long way to go"

"Eh? Pervert? Wait, Vremya. I am going in front!!!" Magen first seemed confused but upon seeing me advance she left all thought behind and ran to position herself in front of me.

"What did you do?" Xifia approached Dianeira and asked in a low voice.

"Pervert" Kara only gave Dianeira a look and advanced calmly. The dark sphere at the tip of her twisted staff continued emanating with a light that softly illuminated the cave.

Tikshna and Destan seemed confused. But after a few minutes everyone had taken a combat position.

Magen continued in front advancing with her Sacred Shield and with an attitude that she could withstand anything that came from the front, even withstanding the mountain.

Immediately after Dianeira had to be after Magen to explore the front according to her explorer senses and behind her Xifia and Destan the main close-combat attackers.

After that, magical attack and support me with Kara by my side and behind us Tikshna protecting our backs.

After a long time acting together and training it is already a position that everyone takes without thinking.

"It is narrow!" Magen pressed herself in a section of the cavern where it had become so narrow that one had to pass sideways.

Advancing for several kilometers the air started to feel heavy and humid. At least an air current remained stable which told us that we should not worry about oxygen.

There are sections where one can walk side by side without problems but others where only one can advance with each side brushing against the cavern rock.

And sections where one has to crouch and this section where one has to pass sideways. Definitely this is not the entrance to the ancient ruins we are looking for.

The mission description asks us to search for a shield source to replace the one in the city that has been stolen by the aliens in a very silly way in my opinion. Leaving aside how easily the aliens stole the city’s shield source the mission asks us to go to some ancient human ruins.

How ancient? Well according to my knowledge of human history in this world, the Human Kingdom has existed at least since the sacrifice of the Hero Queen two hundred thirty years ago.

But the ancient nation, the one that caused the spatial fissure that invited these giant insects to invade this world had at least two thousand years of antiquity. Maybe much less. But according to the previous calendar called Ancient Calendar of the Kingdoms, the Hero Queen sealing the spatial fissure occurred around the year two thousand nine hundred eighty.

That means humans arrived in this world almost three thousand years ago or they took the calendar from some other race as their own calendar. The problem is that all those answers are in the central continent, in the already destroyed first human nation.

Any technology, knowledge, record or even map is no longer accessible. The people who escaped at the moment of the fall of the ancient human nation did not take more than possibly what they were wearing at that moment.

The opening of the spatial fissure not only swallowed the center of that country instantly but its gravitational waves surely destroyed everything around. The people farthest from the center were naturally people with a low social level.

All the political, cultural, military, technological center, etc. lived in the center of the country. People at lower levels in the social pyramid lived on the periphery. It can be said that they were saved for being the lowest socioeconomic level of society.

These survivors obviously were not going to have files, maps, or any object that kept important information. All the data in this mission is pure speculation of knowledge that has been transmitted by word of mouth in the past.

It is definitely a good idea to record everything the survivors knew at that time, but one cannot expect to acquire very important and exact information either.

Besides, it is normal for a nation to have settlements in strategic places outside the national territory, and of course there can be people who have knowledge about the location of these -bases-.

So what is being searched for in this mission is something like a castle, a bunker, a settlement and I do not see how the access can be as difficult as this crack. But one cannot ask for more, the information is very general as if I said that I know the location of a military camp in the desert and it is where there are two large hills and the entrance is from the east of the second hill...

No one is going to find that military camp just with this data!!

"ains ~ " I can only sigh...

I hope I am not going down to the caldera of a volcano and not to the ancient ruins following this crack and network of caverns...

"ahh...

Vrem...

Vremya..."

"Uhnm? Tikshna?" Tikshna’s low and soft voice pulled me out of my thoughts.

"He.. lp.. me.." turning backward, I could see Tikshna trapped in the narrow part with one hand stretched forward, her face flushed and her two huge snow mountains squashed against the rock.

"Wait!" I shook my head to get rid of that vision of squashed cotton mountains and took Tikshna’s hand with both of mine.

The good thing is that this narrow part is very short, one meter fifty or two meters long just like the hole before.

My mana of a earthy yellow color passed through Tikshna’s body, my three small illusory fairies shining yellow flew around Tikshna and penetrated the rock. After a soft vibration the rock around Tikshna was reshaped leaving enough space for Tikshna to be freed.

"Ah!!

Tha.. Thanks..." Tikshna after being freed and while pushing herself outward with her legs, fell forward and collided with me.

I could feel Tikshna’s warm body through the denim clothes and her voluptuous flesh.

Now the huge teddy bears were pressed against my chest. Tikshna’s strength is very strong and the impact almost made me fall backward, but while channeling earth magic my body was supported by the earth under my feet making me able to withstand Tikshna’s impact.

Even though it is a strong impact it did not hurt at all. Rather it feels as if I had been hit by a big and heavy pillow.

"hahahahaha Tikshna got stuck in the crack because she is fat" Magen in front noticed what happened in the back and turned around and started laughing.

"Are you okay?" I said while my hands held Tikshna’s side and helped her stabilize properly on her feet.

"Yes... Yes, sorry. I did not want to bump into you" Tikshna had her face flushed and it seemed steam was about to come out of her ears. I could see the sweat on her forehead.

"No problem..."

"Tikshna, did you try to pass with that big and heavy war hammer of yours?"

Xifia in front seemed to realize something and spoke.

"Eh?" Tikshna seemed to have been hit by lightning. Then she raised her left hand and there was her big war hammer.

Being so close to Tikshna, I could see how her already flushed face seemed to turn like lava shining with an intense red-orange color.

In an instant later, Tikshna fainted falling into my arms.