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"Thank God. They didn't touch this place."
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"Hey, Thanatos. What is this place? I thought we were getting pretty deep in here, but there's a pretty big spirit stone.
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"Ah, this is the great stone where the spirit of the earth dwells that we, the warriors of Atmos, revere.
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"So this is it. I thought the black stones mined by the Bryllian mages were the same. You know, the ones they used in staffs and magic weapons.
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"Oh, that. That would certainly be one of them. But it is much smaller than the great stone in which the spirit of the earth dwells.
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"I see. It's a big one. It's many times the size of the Wall of Atmos, isn't it?"
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After the Atmos village, I was on patrol with Thanatos, after having locked up the surrendered people for the time being.
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I was going to check to see if there were any other people hiding, and to see if there were any strange places.
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But after a while Thanatos said to me
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He said that he wanted to go further into the village to check out some important places.
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I wandered around the canyon and came to the place Thanatos told me to go and saw the symbol of the village of Atmos.
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There was an incredibly large black spirit stone.
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At a quick glance, the rock was so big that it must have been about 300 meters high.
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It was thick and rectangular in shape, standing upright.
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It is a black monolith like a huge building about the height of Tokyo Tower.
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It certainly has a presence that overwhelms the viewer.
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I could understand why the warriors of Atmos revere it as "a great stone in which the spirit of the earth dwells".
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Perhaps the Bryllian mage nation wanted to bring back this huge spirit stone when they occupied the village of Atmos.
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However, it would have been impossible to bring back such a huge rock of this size.
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There are some traces of ladders and other structures that were used for the investigation, but they have been abandoned for now.
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Moreover, the spirit stones used as staffs and magic weapons were much smaller in size than this.
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It would have been more efficient to recover a reasonably sized spirit stone than a large one that cannot be brought back to the site if it is only for practical use.
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"...... something like that. The air in this village resembles a labyrinth.
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"A labyrinth?"
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"Oh, yes. Didn't Thanatos go in there with us once? We rode a Valkyrie and attacked the labyrinthine city, then went into a cave-like area that led underground."
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"...... there. I see. That's right. It's a bit like that. It's not as bad as the village, but the magic there is more intense.
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"Yes. The topography of this large canyon and the underground caverns are completely different, but the concentration of magic is higher than usual, which is similar. Maybe this village of Atmos is a kind of labyrinth.
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It was a sudden thought that occurred to me.
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I had felt it since we entered the village of Atmos, Thanatos' hometown, that the closer we got to this big spirit stone, the more magic power there was in the air.
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It was as if the deeper I went into the labyrinth, the more dense the magical power became.
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This reminds me of a story Gran told me once.
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The east beyond the Daisetsuzan Mountains is full of people and various countries, and demons are seldom seen there.
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When I heard this story, a question occurred to me.
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If there are no demons, then are there no labyrinths in the East?
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As it turns out, there are labyrinths in the East, and there are no labyrinths in the East.
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In the past, there were places called labyrinths, where demons used to live.
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However, almost all labyrinths in the East have been conquered.
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The conquest of the labyrinth.
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It meant the extermination of the demons in the labyrinth.
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This world is not a game world.
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Of course, people and monsters are alive.
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In other words, there were demons living in the labyrinth in the labyrinth town, but they were not monsters that would revive indefinitely after being defeated, but demons that lived and reproduced in the labyrinth.
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Therefore, it is not impossible to exterminate the demons in the labyrinth if people keep entering the labyrinth and keep exterminating the demons.
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And in the East, this has been realized in many labyrinths.
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As a result, the labyrinth remains as a place with a high concentration of magical power.
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This has drastically reduced the opportunities for people living in the East to obtain magical materials, but it has brought something instead.
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It had the effect of making it easier to obtain magic stones.
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In places where the concentration of magical power is high, it is easier to obtain magic stones.
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Therefore, if you exterminate and exterminate many demons that were attracted by the magical power of the labyrinths and other singularities where the concentration of magical power was particularly high, you could obtain magic stones in a stable and risk-free manner.
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In fact, it is said that most of the large countries in the East possess labyrinths that have been conquered.
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And one of them may have been the village of Atmos.
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The "great stone in which the spirit of the earth dwells," revered by the warriors of Atmos, may be the core of the labyrinth.
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The warriors of Atmos, who live near the labyrinthine core and continue to train their bodies from an early age, acquire the magic of transformation into giants through a certain ritual.
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Thanatos told me that after drinking a kind of uplifting spirit water, apprentice warriors of the same age duel with each other.
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The duels are fierce, and some even die in the ritual.
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But if the fiery and brave fights are dedicated in front of the great stone where the spirit of the earth dwells, and if the stone recognizes the fighters, they will be empowered as warriors of Atmos.
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......Don't ask me what kind of drink is called "spirit's hot water", but I will tell you.
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I am sure that the system of inheriting the technology of Titanization must have been established in the long history.
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Well, it is fortuitous that this huge spirit stone still remains.
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Even if they mine a small spirit stone, it will not be impossible to restore the village of Atmos.
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I thought to myself as I looked at Thanatos' happy face.
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