Is this really just an RPG? !

Dababin, the northernmost city of the Principality of Atuqiu.

The person who manages this city is Julie Owen, who has titles such as "Princess Immortal" and "Vampire Queen". However, it is precisely because of the loss of the crown that symbolizes the identity of the manager that I came to this city.

It's more or less a good thing, right?

"So, let's disband here?"

"The brave ones should go to the Adventurer's Association to report! Lilith and I are going to make some props to prepare for this adventure."

Emily said so and pushed me into the Adventurer's Association, and made a farewell gesture, and before I could react, she pulled Lilith out of my sight. Sometimes I have to sigh that Emily's speed is faster than those fact-finders in the south of the mainland. I don't know how she practiced it.

"Master! Don't be in a daze!"

"Eh?"

Qiuqiu's voice prolongs my daze for several seconds.

"Eh what ah!"

"No, according to the previous situation, didn't you follow Lilith and the others?"

"Because it was making props, I couldn't help much in the past."

"That's right..."

I didn't feel any surprise when I got such an answer.

Maybe it's because I'm used to it? After all, it is super, super useless, Qiuqiu who can only explore the way and do science popularization!

"Ah Qiu! I always feel that Master, you are secretly speaking ill of me."

"..."

Although I was very surprised why Qiuqiu's intuition was so sharp suddenly, I felt that continuing this topic would not lead to any good results, so I tried to ask Long for information to divert her attention.

"By the way, Qiuqiu, does the Endless Library have any information about dragons? Or the information about the 'blue dragons living in the permafrost'?"

"It should be, I'll go check it out."

Qiuqiu stopped immediately, and a large number of runes with faint light appeared around him.

Although I don't quite understand how this magic works, based on what I know about Qiuqiu, this kind of situation probably means that her investigation work is very large: it may be because the recorded text is not a common language, and Qiuqiu must first translate It may also be that there are too many discarded materials and it takes a lot of time to sort out the information.

"Let me see... Hey, hey! Why is this! Master, master, do you have a pen and paper? I need to take some notes."

"How is it possible to carry those things with you!"

I complained to Qiuqiu.

I have quite a lot of paper, all of which are the special paper that Emily and Lilith stuffed into it to make magic scrolls. Although it would be extremely luxurious to use that high-end product to take notes, judging by Qiuqiu's size , the words she writes are not too big, so even a piece of paper is enough.

But I don't have a pen!

There are only props such as paper in my backpack, and there are no pens that can write, whether it is a quill, a carbon pen, or an ink pen!

If the reason...

——"Eh? Do you want to put so much?"

——"Of course! Brave, you idiot can't release magic normally. In order to ensure that your combat power will not fluctuate, you need to keep the number and types of magic scrolls in your backpack sufficient."

——"Oh! That's right, after all, senior sisters and princesses can make magic scrolls! But... I didn't see a pen? How would you write runes without a pen?"

——"When you want that kind of thing, just make one at random, and bring something specially."

That's it, after getting Emily's reply, I no longer have the intention of "find some suitable and easy-to-use pens to throw in the backpack".

"Ah, ah, master, you are really useless! You don't even have a pen!"

"I'm so sorry, I'm just a useless hero...Eh? Wait a minute."

In the middle of talking, I suddenly remembered one thing. If it is "useless", I do have a prop that can replace a pen for writing work. I got it and threw it into my backpack. I haven't used it until now. .

"I remember something that could be used as a pen."

"Huh? Why don't I know."

"...Inexplicable things often appear in my backpack, and I don't even know about this kind of thing."

"That's right, it's as inexplicable as the events that the master will encounter when traveling."

"I don't want to borrow from you!"

I stopped what I was doing and looked at Qiuqiu with resentment on my face. I didn't let out a breath until she apologized, and continued to look for the prop.

"Well, where is where is where... oh oh oh! Clang, clang, clang! This is it! 'Rule Burning Stone'!"

"..."

"What, what's wrong?"

I obviously took out the props that can be used, but I didn't get any thank you, so I quickly shifted my attention from the small stone in my hand to Qiuqiu. She didn't know why she folded her hands and looked at me with "what are you thinking" in her eyes, as if she wanted to see through my thoughts.

After about ten seconds, she lowered her head and let out a deep breath.

"Master."

"Um?"

"Do you have a relative named Doraemon, or are you a robot from the future?"

"Ehhh? What are you talking about!"

"...No, I just feel that this sense of sight is too high."

While talking about something I didn't understand, Qiuqiu took the "Rule Burning Stone" from my hand before I could react.

"So, how do you use this?"

"ah!"

It was only when I heard Qiuqiu's question that I realized that I hadn't introduced this item to her, and quietly released a [Appraisal Technique] before giving her an answer.

"Ahem, the 'Magic Text Recording Stone' can write on any non-living object, and because the stone itself has considerable magical energy, it is difficult to erase what is written."

"Just write it down?"

"Uh-huh!"

I nodded vigorously, and took out a piece of paper from my backpack and handed it to Qiuqiu... Well, maybe I should find a seat to sit down, the communication with Qiuqiu before this was not too conspicuous, the Adventurers Association There are already so many people and noisy people, it is rare for someone to pay too much attention to a stranger, but not anymore.

Qiuqiu can make others unaware of her existence, but she cannot make paper have this ability.

If there is an event such as "a series of words floating on a piece of paper floating in the air", it will cause a lot of unnecessary trouble.

"Wait, wait a minute, Qiuqiu!"

"Huh? I'm busy, master."

Maybe I interrupted Qiuqiu's train of thought, and her brows were all wrinkled.

"No... It's not convenient for you to float in the air and take notes like this. How about we go to that empty table in the corner?"

"Well, it's a good notice, then I'll go there first!"

"go Go."

After Qiuqiu landed on the table in the corner of the Adventurer's Association, I took a deep breath, and then focused on the corner opposite to where she was. There was a man there who, whether he dressed or behaved, conveyed the message "he is not an ordinary person" to those around him.

He looked more like an outsider who came to watch the fun than an adventurer.

If it's just these things that don't attract my attention, what I'm more curious about is the notebook in his hand. I can see that he has been memorizing something since I came in. He would talk to the adventurers sitting nearby, and during the conversation with them, the man did not stop recording the actions in his hands, as if he was recording the experiences of those adventurers during their adventures.

This is the first time I have seen such a special person in the Adventurer's Association who has seen so many places.

"Ah! Master! Don't be alone in a daze!"

"Ah...oh, hi!"

I was still very concerned about what that man did, but I didn't know what excuse to use to strike up a conversation, so I put down my curiosity and focused my attention on Qiuqiu. In less than ten minutes, Qiuqiu wrote densely packed words, which looked like she had sorted out the materials.

"There is only so much information about 'Permanent Frozen Plain' and 'Blue Dragon'... After all, dragons are also a big race." Qiuqiu rolled up the paper and handed it to me, and then grabbed the magic text burning stone in the I swayed in front of me a few times, "Master, do you want to use this thing?"

"I can't use it, so this is the first time I took it out."

"Then let me use this thing."

I hear cheerful voices.

Qiuqiu stared at me with wide-eyed eyes, clutching the burning stone tightly with both hands.

"Yes, yes, but what are you going to do with it?"

The Rune Burning Stone can be said to be a prop that I got when I started traveling. Since its own effect has no overlap with what I am good at, I have never considered how to use this rather strange and somewhat convenient item. Props, if it weren't for Chu Chu suddenly saying to use a pen, I might never remember Burning Stone for the rest of my life.

After all, it is just a stone that can write on any object!

In this world where magic exists, it is not a strange item at all.

The only thing worth mentioning is... eh? What is it?

"It's hard to get a very interesting thing, and the size is just right. I'm going to find out where I can use this prop!"

In other words, Qiuqiu wanted to play, and didn't want to stay in this association full of alcohol.

—Actually, I don’t really want to stay any longer.

Logically speaking, as a good brave man, he should decisively agree to his companion's request at this time, and let Qiuqiu take the burning stone to play casually. But I hesitated, on the one hand, because Qiuqiu’s raised smile made me have a vague premonition, and on the other hand, there is another very important thing about this burning stone that needs special attention, I can’t think of it up.

It would be fine if the 【Appraisal Technique】can be determined.

However, at the bottom of the prop introduction I got, there are only a few words such as "improper use may cause some kind of disaster", "please use with caution", and "consultation phone 8716554327".

So, what is a consultation call?

There are so many incomprehensible things in this world, even with the almost omnipotent [Appraisal Technique], there is no way to know everything.

"Master!"

"Yes, yes, yes, but if this thing is used 'inappropriately', it may cause 'some kind of disaster', so be careful when using it."

Just in case, I read the information fed back to me by [Appraisal Technique] to Qiuqiu.

Even if you don't know what kind of inappropriateness and what kind of disaster it is, it's always good to sound the alarm in advance.

As a semi-wanted man, I really don't want to cause more trouble, even if the administrator of this city is the princess who made a deal with me. He had already owed the other party favors, and if something happened again, it might not be clear whether it was true or not.

"Huh? Disaster?"

Qiuqiu, who was about to leave with the burning stone, stopped in the air and turned to look at me.

I could only shrug my shoulders and sigh helplessly.

"I don't know the specific information given by [Appraisal Technique]."

"Ah... the master is really unreliable."

"Hey! Since this is the case, I'd better take it back!"

Saying this, I was about to snatch back the magic text burning stone from Qiuqiu, but because someone patted my shoulder, I subconsciously stopped, and when I came back to my senses and remembered the burning stone, I realized that Qiuqiu had left Entering the Adventurer's Association, the speed is so fast that I can't help but suspect that this is a fake hill.

——I don’t usually see her actions so crisply.

"Hi!"

A male voice came from behind, it should be the one who patted my shoulder.

"What's the matter...ah, it's you!"

"Huh? Do you know me?"

"No, I just saw you when I came in. It's a little strange why I came to you."

"You can see it as soon as you come in, am I so conspicuous?"

The man pointed at himself with his right hand, with an incomprehensible look on his face.

What a ignorant guy.

"What's the matter with me?"

I resolutely avoided the previous topic, since he himself did not notice this matter, and no one around him mentioned it to him, so there is no need for me, an outsider, to help remind this matter.

"Conspicuous, conspicuous, why on earth..."

It's a pity that the other party cares far more than I imagined.

It seems that if you don't solve this problem today, you won't think about other things.

"gentlemen?"

I sat down and folded the paper while trying to get the man's attention.

"Ugh! Wait, wait a minute, please wait a moment."

The man finally broke away from his own world, and hastily pressed my right hand.

His attention was on what Qiuqiu wrote?

"Huh, don't rush to take it in, this thing...I...you..."

"Yes, yes, I won't take it in. You can say it slowly."

"Thank you so much!"

The man shouted loudly, took a sip of water down his throat, and then took several deep breaths before he managed to calm down.

"Let me introduce myself first, I'm Black... Well, Black Green, I'm trying to do a great thing right now," the man said when he suddenly became emotional, and he opened his hands, as if using a gesture Come and tell me how great he is going to do, "I have always listened to the stories of those adventurers, and integrated their experiences with the information in the literature, so that I can create an encyclopedia of Lindsay Continent !"

"oh……"

It's really great.

This kind of thing that you know when you hear it will take a lifetime, many people will give up at the beginning.

It is indeed commendable that he can persevere.

"so?"

"This is your first time here."

Ah, found out.

But it's normal, a person who frequents the Adventurer's Association and is good at dealing with them can probably remember most of the local adventurers, so when he suddenly finds a new face, he will naturally think that it is an outsider... Well, as a brave man of the Alexander Empire , My appearance is still somewhat different from that of the residents of Iceland.

In other words, his purpose is to learn about places other than Iceland?

"You are the legendary brave man."

"Eh!"

Do the brave men of old have the same face as me?

It's easy to be recognized this way, I'm afraid it's not impossible to do infiltration tasks!

"Shh, I won't tell. As for being able to recognize it because of a little secret...can you chat with me for a while? That's it."

Black held up the paper filled with information about dragons.

Contrary to what I guessed, what he was interested in was not areas other than Iceland, but the kind of creatures that only exist in legends and almost no one has seen them with their own eyes.

Qiuqiu really left me with a lot of trouble.

"If you don't say anything...do you agree?" Black stood up. He was very emotional and dragged me out of the association. "The association is too noisy to talk about these things. I know a quieter one." place."

Didn't care about my opinion at all.

Didn't pay attention to my expression at all.

Simple, enthusiastic, overly strong person.

…………

Did I forget something very important?

"boom!"

A huge explosion sounded suddenly, and it sounded like it should have come from a long distance away.

This sudden event would make people think of some terrible attack, but I seem to guess the truth of the matter.

Although the burning stone is a very useful thing, the things written on it will not disappear before it takes effect. If you write only ordinary sentences, it’s okay, there won’t be any trouble, but what you write can’t be erased for a lifetime; if you write a sentence that happens to trigger a certain effect, then after the trigger condition is met, the expression of the sentence The effect will activate.

"boom!"

And, the burning stone will explode when it meets water.

I've got the message "The Mageave Inscribed Stone is permanently damaged due to durability dropping to 0" on the screen on the right.

"That, that..."

"I live here, you can consider coming to me at night to continue the previous topic."

"Thank you so much!"

After Black accepted the note I gave, he immediately ran towards the place where the explosion occurred.

Seeing his anxious appearance, the accident point probably has something to do with him.

In other words... the children of nobles?

"Master, why didn't you tell me that thing would explode."

"Ah... I accidentally forgot."

Because it was the closest to the explosion point, Qiuqiu entered a state of death, and because the "immortality" feature was activated, she would immediately "rebirth" beside me, which caused Qiuqiu to appear in front of me immediately after the explosion.

But it wasn't really a "rebirth" after all, so I could see my elf partner's entire head in black.

——As if special effects were added, I have never seen a person who can be blown to such a charred black.

I laughed, scratching my head as I tried to get the topic out of the way.

Fortunately, Qiuqiu didn't care much about it.

"Master's props are really unreliable."

"...In the end, whoever snatched it away directly, I didn't even remember the full effect of the burning stone."

"I'm so sorry."

The elf, who knew he was wrong, lowered his head.

"It's almost time, let's go find Lilith and Emily."

"Hmm... Is the Burning Stone okay?"

"It's okay, I don't need it anyway."

"That's good."

Qiuqiu finally stopped pretending to be aggrieved.

"I can find the location of Lilith and the others..."

I was planning to ask Qiu Qiu in this way.

But it was interrupted by a sudden voice.

"boom!"

"..."

"..."

"Say, how many places have you written?"

"About a dozen or so?"

"..."

Where did she find the sentence! Isn't she useless except for navigation and checking the useless encyclopedia?

"Master, master, master, what should we do!"

"What else can I do! Run!"

It seemed that after I came to Iceland, I couldn't escape the fate of escaping. It is really a blessing in misfortune that no one can notice the existence of such props as the Burning Stone.