Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer

Chapter 159 Outside And The One

"Ok, so let's start~!" I shouted in excitement, and she chuckled like a little girl.

"It will be ok big brother, so let's start~!" Zoe cheerfully answered.

We were on the first floor, and it was a really magical place.

Many things were hidden here, but I can see most of the things with my blue eyes.

It was a spectacular view, so it was even more fun than I thought.

Magic arrays covering the whole floor, the colorful magic circles, those awesome rune spells that were impossible to engrave there by any normal means, and the most amazing structure in this place: the enormous gate.

Covered with the runes of ancient times that even I had never learned, we stood before it and I placed the four energy cores I had on the altar.

The process was somewhat easy, according to Lucy.

After placing the required energy crystals, cores, or anything with the required amount of energy, we have to select the location and set coordinates on the other side of this place.

Then come back, and confirm the coordinates written with precise Mana engravement.

The processes of these things were hard and even with both of us working together, it took almost what we had to pull this one on our first try.

There were some fifty processes with significant details to finish in a short time of five minutes, but we achieved the goal.

Thankfully, Zoe was good to follow instructions, so we were able to finish the thing pretty quickly.

"That was hard, big brother..." she said, passing out on the ground while panting.

I was in the same position because this thing was actually tiring without a nigh perfect control and knowledge about these things.

She was at her weakest, but she can still control some environmental fire element mana like a (tier-3) mage.

Her Solnova was restricted until her first awakening, so that was it, but unlike me, she will have the third blockage cleared when she awakens.

That was a pretty absurd power-up because she will be only relying on her high physical strength and some 'small' Mana she could control directly from nature.

Well, it will be ok as she can grow at a speed that would be comparable to those two geniuses at home, so it was ok.

"Good work, Zoe. You did well, too, Celes." I thanked both of them and though Celes's main body was with me, her cloned bodies were flying around the room, pushing the buttons that appeared after we did our part.

Despite her looks, Celes was a crystal butterfly, and she was damn strong.

So strong that if she wanted, she can create many clones of her and lift a giant boulder.

Well... that would be too hard for her right now, but even now, she was as strong as a normal human.

I nodded at them and stood up from the ground.

The preparations were complete and the only thing left for me to do here was to press this button it will throw us inside the gate that will open just for a split second.

It was going to be dangerous now, so I wanted to prepare myself and them, so we stood up before the gate with hands joined.

Looking at her, I nodded with a smile and she nodded back with an even happier one.

She was going to be outside for the first time and it would be her first experience of this world.

Well, it was going to be fun for both of us.

Taking a deep breath and confirming all of Celes's clones were back in the mark, I pressed the button.

'Here goes nothing...'

*

-Oooooooong!

-Sweeeeeeeeeeeesh!!!

-Booom~.

With a quiet explosion that happened for just a split second, both of them were thrown inside the [Gate] after it glowed in pure white and a spatial tunnel took its place inside it.

Everything on it, all the syllabus, arrays of magic formulas, and countless magic circles drowned around it glowed and a special magic circle had also appeared before them that protected them.

This was the end of their lives in this place and now... this tower, I, will be alone for a long time.

***

In a dense forest, many large noises were ringing with fiery sparks and clanks of metal clashing.

Though there were clear, natural roads, this fight was happening in the clear area just across the road.

It was a tough fight and, from the looks of things; it was a close one.

The opponent was a (Green) ranked creature [Heavy armor bear], a six-meter tall silver bear whose body was as if covered by thick armor.

Its claws were like sword blades while the red eyes that saw nothing but its opponent were the sign that this creature had gone berserk.

Even after having a giant body, this silver creature reflecting the light of the sun was as swift as an actual sword.

It was fast, but its opponent wasn't anything to look down upon.

A figure wearing a dark gray hood and holding a special-looking scythe stood against him.

This weapon... looked fantastic.

A full metallic pink and black body, and the special enchantments glowing on its body, looked precious.

A gray hood covered this figure, but it was easy to figure out she was a female from the outline of the body.

Her head was covered in her clothes too but, the eyes that looked at everything from under the hood glowed in bright pink.

They were glowing, looking at the creature before her with a pleased smile.

The creature had just gone berserk, meaning this was a natural berserk state that few powerful creatures could enter and maintain.

From those crescent eyes that would send chills down one's spine, we could tell this person was confident in winning this fight even while the opponent was far stronger than any normal being.

Holding the scythe that had devastated the surrounding area and most definitely had unthinkable weight with just one hand, she created a water element arrow in her other hand.

Though this was just a water arrow, this water was nothing normal if looked closely.

-Sweeeeeeesh.

Shooting the arrow without hesitation, she vanished from his view.

This confused the bear with the thick metallic body that water could not affect in any way. It just ignored it and looked around with angry eyes for the one that just did this unnecessary thing.

"Foolish teddy..." a female voice said from the shadows behind the bear and at the same time, the arrow of water collided with its red eyes.

Those in that voice were mature, as well as alluring. But... the thing that happened with the bear was more surprising than it could have ever expected.

"Khooooooo!" the silver bear screamed as its left eye that the arrow collided with, burned every tissue inside of it.

It almost pierced a hole in the place of its eye while she came out of the shadows with an unsatisfied expression.

"It's amazing you actually felt it, teddy. Well, you aren't an area ruler for nothing," she said in that same alluring voice that though mature was still young.

"Well... just wait for a minute, teddy. I have to talk to this new guest spectators," she said and looked at the butterfly sitting on a distant tree with a crow.

The butterfly had crystal wings that looked normal but still precious.

The crow beside the butterfly was pure black, as if the night itself with the eyes same as hers, shining in perfect pink.

"[Chains of the fallen night]." She said in an audible voice and some chains as dark as the night came out of the ground and wrapped around this berserk (Green) ranked creature.

"Hey, little butterfly~! I can see all the corpses around me, so it's meaningless to hide.

Come out, let me see the great person who saved me from these 12 (Yellow) ranked creatures I would have been annoyed to handle~."

She was surprisingly happy and the dark chains that restricted even the slight movement of this powerful creature were unmoving.

The crow in the distance was smiling, and it looked like the butterfly was happy from the way she said it.

The butterfly flew towards her and set on her head.

"Oh...?" the female in the hood smiled at this cheerful butterfly and a voice entered her mind.

[ "You must be someone special, my lady. I apologize but it will take a bit to reach there. I used too much energy in those baby bears.

We can do the introductions later but from the looks of it, you were far stronger than I thought.

I apologize for disturbing your fun." ]

She smiled at this respectful act and replied with the same smile she had.

"You are amazing yourself, sir. I don't think I know about an archer with that lever of archery in this part of the empire.

I'm quite shocked right now, you see.

Hurry up, I'm only interested in a face-to-face talk.

In the meantime, I should- oh wait..."

She took out her white glove and tapped on a blue ring in her hand.

A small complex magic circle appeared in the air upon the ring and she put the scythe in the dark place that appeared in the magic circle.

The voice on the other hand was silently waiting for her reply with a strange silence that seemed surprised by something.

Putting on the glove, she asked in a cheerful tone, "So sir... it would be rude but, can I know your luck stat~?"