Yea, thinking of something, nice catch you imbecile! Oh, I need somewhere to take her... I had like 14 EP left. Let's check if I can make a camp as a guise.
Open Building Menu with a Camping Filter. Never tried this but since it’s a system, filters must work right?
< Dungeon Building >
< >
< Camping Accessories >
< Clear Filters >
Oh nice... wait what the fuck is that on the map?
Huh, I got another goblin... They must respawn...
Shit, I need to make a safe place for her to be in...
Open Dungeon Building at Dungeon Areas.
< Dungeon Building >
< >
< Dungeon Management >
< Dungeon Expansion >
< Dungeon Assignment >
< Dungeon Placement >
< Others >
Do I really need to use this menu like this? It gets tiring real fast...
<< Since its though processed you just need to think what you want, it will show you the page and price and you can then confirm. There's no need to go through the menu itself, that is only to make things easier when you have no assistant. >>
Oh, so you are useful.
<< STOP BEING MEAN TO ME!!!!!>>
Broke her business tone. Now I'll have someone to talk to properly if this girl goes away...
Make the area after the next turn a Safe Zone.
<Do you confirm dividing the sector "Corridor" in two by adding a safe zone? Having it over the entire cave will hinder monster movement. The zoning only taking a part of the cave would allow for better monster mobility.>
Then make the zoning smaller, a 2m circle should suffice. Put it near the corner close to a wall.
<Confirm Making a 2m diameter circular safe zone? This will cost 2 EP (0.5 EP/xπ Area)>
Yeah.
<Safe Zone Created>
Oh nice, it shows up in the map in a different color. Ok, now let’s put some stuff in it, shall we? How much is it for a small fireplace with a stone circle?
< The Small Firepit costs 1EP, Wood is replenished after 8h manually or if no invaders are present in the area.>
Put one down near the end of the area towards the cave.
< Small Firepit acquired and used >
Oh, also give me a pot with stand to go over the fireplace for food and cooking utensils. While at it get me a simple camping tent. Put the pot over the firepit and the utensils in a small canvas bag close enough. Put the tent in the opposite side of the circle near the wall with the entrance pointing to the fire.
< Camping Utensils 3EP - Includes 1 small cast iron skillet, 1 large knife, 1 skinning knife, 1 long iron rod, 1 wooden mallet and 1 flint and metal starter.>
< Individual Camping Tent 1EP - Only the tent and wooden stakes. >
< Iron Cooking Pot 3EP - with lid and wooden crane >
< Small canvas bag is already included as part of the camping utensils. >
Yeah, just do it.
"Come with me, I have a fireplace deeper inside." I reached my hand out to for the invader girl in front of me.
"Hm? Ah, yeah, thank you." She blushed from head to toe as she reached for my hand... Oh, yeah, this is another world, maybe people are not as kind here... meh, what's done is done.
'Why is he treating me like this, does he know who I am?' The thought floated in Mihara's head. But she couldn’t resist being treated so nicely after the rough weeks she'd gone through.
I take her by the hand deeper into the cave with a smile on my face. Having her here means more EP, which makes me stronger and makes it harder for me to die.
Hey Gloria, you said something about Spirit Magic before, right? Does that mean there's actual magic in this world? Like, throwing fireballs off of wands magic?
<< Geez, ask your other woman that you seem to be so keen of... But yeah, there's magic here. Spirit Magic is a rare attribute, the most common ones are Fire, Water, Air and Earth, but there are many attributes and even Non-attribute magic. >>
Hmmm... Since I have mana it must mean I can use magic... Need to figure out how to learn it though.
"Hey, H..." Shit, I haven't asked her name yet... That was close. "Err... What's your name?" As I ask, I look back towards her
'I was right! He must have recognized me! Oh my god, what do I do... If he sends me back to my uncle, he'll kill me for sure...'
"Ah... it's... Mihara... Kaimondake no Mihara..."
Her name sounds Japanese... she doesn’t look like it though... her eyes are very pretty and round... she looks rather French to me... welp, nothing I can do...
"Should I call you your name or family name?"
"You can call me Mihara if you want..." As she said this, she blushed again from head to toes and looked downward...
Does she like me? What the heck, I wasn't this successful with women before... Must have something to do with the God's thing. There’re more pressing matters to be discussed.
"Mihara, can you use any magic?" My question woke her up from her thoughts and she looked back at me.
"Eh, why do you ask? Oh, sorry, yeah, I can, but I don't have much mana left..."
"Nothing much really, just wondering... You are very dirty..."
"Uh..." Hew mood immediately turned gloomy...
"Ah, sorry, I didn't mean it like that, it's just that I haven't learn any magic yet and there’s no water in this cave as far as I know..."
<< You really have no tact to deal with women, haven't you? >>
"No... it's ok... I really do look like a beggar... I am homeless now so there's that..."
Now that she mentioned... that's actually true... She was wearing pretty jagged up clothes. they were brown in color but still they were torn in some places and everything looked disgraceful. I'll try and get her something better later.
"Sorry... I really didn't mean to hurt your feelings or anything... Oh, hey, we arrived. You can sit near the pit, I'm gonna light it up." I let go of her hand as soon as we reached the Safe Zone. I was going to light up the fire, but I was pretty curious so first I went to check the tent... It looked pretty decent and was covered by a canvas-like dark fabric... It actually looked a lot like finely threaded hemp fibers. As I pulled the curtain like door sideways, I realized, crap, the tent has no mattress whatsoever and the floor was only covered by the very fabric that made it up... Beneath it was the cave stone floor so it would be awful...
System get me a small camping mattress for the tent. Nothing too over the top.
<Basic portable mattress 3EP - This mattress is filled with polyester fibers which may not be consistent with this world's timeline. Caution is recommended.>
That's not ideal but it's better than searching for another one, I'm in a hurry, do it, but make the exterior of it match the material of the tent.
<Request granted>
A small camping mattress was now spread on the floor of the tent... now it must be at least somewhat decent.
As I came back towards the firepit I grabbed the flint in the bag to light the fire up. The firepit already had the wood and some kind of dead straw as a starter so lighting the fire up was easy enough and only took me some seconds.
"Thank you..." She said sheepishly
"Don't worry, it's fine. Heat yourself up and rest a bit. I still have some stuff to do before going to bed."
"Ah... Okay." A discrete smile was clear on her face despite the hood covering most of it.
"Do you mind taking off the hood? It feels a little weird."
'I can't refuse it right? like, he is helping me a lot and asking nothing from me... At least for now, that is...
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"Where the fuck did that bitch go?" Screamed a man in heavy armor.
His armor was scratched and scraped in various places; this was proof this man had gone through many battles. Johann was known throughout the whole continent as one of the fiercest mercenaries there is. However there had been no wars for the last couple of years, and although there were some minor skirmishes here and there, he needed the money quite badly since he spent his earning and savings from the last major war he partook in with booze and whores over these years. Both good alcohol and good women can only be gotten as a gift or paid for with lots of money, and that he, like every man in the continent, knew very well.
"Boss! We found a trail through the forest, it seems like someone went though it recently, it might have been her!" Replied from afar a mercenary.
Neither of them nor the men in the group liked the idea of having become slave traders... but tough times required tough measures. And the money the new Kaimon Emperor offered them for getting rid of the former imperial court was very significant, and the money they'd get from selling the female servants and the former princess would fix their financial issues for another couple of years, and hopefully give them enough time until the next war began.
"Send half of the men after her, I'll with half the remaining men go as soon as I finish dealing with this one who helped her escape." A wicked smile that disgusted even his own men formed on the man's face.
And with these words his focus returned to the task at hand. Looking down at the girl laying naked on the ground, full of bruises and whip marks, whom he was stepping on the head while giving his orders. Behind him, a horse-drawn carriage with a metal cage as cargo. In the cage, 4 more female prisoners who had watched in horror as he immolated the other girl now froze in preparation for what awaited the poor soul.
Damn hope he can save them
Agree, it's good addition EP power Bank if he get them(girls) stay in dungeon! Maybe he can use some dungeon master skill to make them into dungeon creature later as his harem member!
Well, Gloria will be mad though haha
thanks for the chapter
Immolated? Did you mean immobilized?
She wasn't immobilized... she was beaten up, whipped and trampled upon.
@DarkGodEM Immolated is being set on fire, which wasn't otherwise mentioned.
@okima Not necessarily, being immolated means being tortured and possibly killed in something that can be defined as a ceremony of sorts or a sacrifice (That's the definition according to all good English dictionaries). Commonly that means being burned, but that's not a requirement to fit the term. Also there is a less rigid usage that refers to any for of gruesome torture/killing as immolation, that can be commonly seen in texts regarding to the treatment Jews received during WW2 or the treatment other tribes received from the mongols during the Genghis Khan uprising.
Again, it's not wrong, just not being used in its most common fashion.
@DarkGodEM Alright, I learned something new today
@DarkGodEM Maybe immolations-tortures were frequently used in past by the Inquisition or something, and most gorgeous tortures-immolations were branding with hot iron and being burned alive on fire. And voila — immolation means not torture, but being set on fire.
Another thing I've thought, but less realistic, is that the damaged places after torture-immolation are hurt like they are on fire.
Thanks for broadening our vocabulary!
@Xobotun Thats exactly it. Also, the media re-coined the Immolation term for Buddhist Monks who set themselves of fire in the middle-east and Asia around 1940. So, since it's only using for fiery suicides in the media, ppl believe it's about the fire.
@DarkGodEM wow always is good know more about of the words
@DarkGodEM according to Webster's "immolate" means kill or destroy most often with fire, or to offer as a sacrifice. Burnt offerings being the most common form of sacrifice through ancient times would lead to a preconception of fire having to be involved, but the definition says nothing of torture. Conceivably you are getting that from the idea of the death being a type of mutilation, but I hate to assume. Also, the usage in this scene doesn't sound like she is dead or particularly mutilated. It sounds like she is badly beaten and possibly near death's door, thus I think there are better words for this depiction than "immolate".
@C3
to offer as a sacrifice
you said it pretty well...
If you use the "mutilated" part as in "left with a crippling disability" which is the original meaning of it. It is still valid even by English standards.
If Jesus' calvary was an immolation by the word, why would other similar circumstances not apply?
There might be other words that better suit the torture itself, but none that fit the entire picture and the meaning of what is happening in this chapters other than this one.
@DarkGodEM so this girl he is beating is going to be sacrificed to some dark god?
Take your words out of context for a second and picture the events that unfolded in this chapter. What did she do, why did this happen, what did others do?
Remove yourself from the "human" terminology of what is god and who god is, and swap the characters identities for those of a sacrifice by religion. Don't their actions and contributions still remain the same even after that?
Someone who gave herself up for something larger than herself.
Those who willingly watched without doing anything.
The dark entity who rejoiced in her loss of humanity.
Don't all of these still remain?
Don't you think she, as a person, was sacrificed for an unworldly practice just for an Evil Entity's pleasure, in an attempt to placate its wrath and maybe save something else, or someone else, from its wrath?
Don't be as literal. Immolatus is Latin, latin is in on itself poetry. English just borrowed the word and tried to make it something by changing its spelling, but it is still, in essence, still the original.
@C3 Yeah, sacrifices aren't made for gods only, you can sacrifice your holiday(another word with weird historical roots, btw) in exchange for additional pay, or something like that.
@DarkGodEM Sometimes being subscribed to branches for all the comment I made plays out interestingly. Today I was reminded of this rarely used meaning of `immolation`, lol.
@Xobotun Well,mostly my problem with this word being used here is that the usage sense is all off because the one performing the "immolation" is not the one offering the sacrifice. And frankly I don't feel that she was offered as a sacrifice. Nor does your example of a sacrifice exemplify a sacrifice, it exemplifies an exchange. Either way the usage is throwing me off because it is odd and convoluted, but knowing that DarkGodEM is using it in a figurative and poetic sense allows me to make a vague approximation of sense out of this usage of the word. The diction choices generally in this story are frequently confounding.
@C3 I cannot say anything about usage of "immolation" here, it was unexpected for me too. :D
I believe we just have different understanding of what "sacrifice" is. When a hero sacrifices his life to protect humanity, is it an act of exchange? When a general sacrifices a batallion to win a war, is it an act of exchange? When a priest sacrifices a virgin to appease a dark god, is it an act of exchange? I'd say yes to all three questions, because for me a sacrifice is an exchange of a something very valuable for something very valuable too. Well, that's what I think about "sacrifices" in general. What happened in the last paragraph was definitely not a sacrifice, yeah. Just an act of cruelty.
> The diction choices generally in this story are frequently confounding.
I had to google up "diction" and "confounding" to clarify their meanings, so I am by no way a judge to diction choices.
@C3 The dated writing and confounding choices are a signature in my darkest novels, sorry...
I'm a bit too Byronian at times.
But all the word choices, unless they are a typo or autocorrect (happens quite a bit unf.) are technically correct, even if not very common choices.
@DarkGodEM So, basically, the literal definition fits the situation, while ignoring the connotation. Ignoring the average readers expectations like that and using the term anyway is purposely confusing your readers.
@SinfulCyanide I should not be held responsible if some stupid events in asia changed the usual connotation in the last few years. I'm explaining why it is not wrong and why it can be used the way it was. There's no "confusing" part in using this word here, just ignorance.
@DarkGodEM That's like using the word "bit*h" when you mean "vixen." Yeah, technically correct, but if everyone who reads gets the wrong meaning then it's still the wrong word
@SinfulCyanide A "vixen" as in a "fox", right?
Well, sounds exactly like in Russian usage of "cyka" slowly moved from describing a "female dog" to just a simply obscene word.