In a Different World with a Smartphone Chapter 351: Intrude, and the Magicraft King.

And well, like that I managed to make them go back.

I erased the projected video, which was taken by one of the Valkyries who was holding a smartphone, and ended the explanation. (Note: this is a minor point, but he didnt specify whether its his smartphone or not, so Ill just use a.)

Well, theres a good chance theyll try again, so itd be best to station more troops at the ruins, Id say.

A, aah. Got it. Ill do that

The emperor of Garudio Empire nodded with an absentminded expression. We were in the courtyard which was somewhat damaged after the owl-type golem, Graux, had rampaged here earlier, where I was explaining about what happened in the old Lowe territories.

Still, that was pretty You have no mercy, do you

This is still lenient, you know. I cant be that forgiving towards opponents who came with the intent to kill. If I dont break their hearts, it will just become repetitions of the same thing.

When I have to hit them down, I will without hesitation. Unfortunately, Im no saint, and I cant do things like sharing a drink with an opponent who punched me just now.

There are no guarantees that I would win the next time as well. Nobody knows what would happen in the future, and I dont want to taste regret from something uncertain. Thats why, Ill make sure they never want to pick a fight with me again on the first time. If they dont hit me, I wont be hitting them back, after all.

Still, while I did break the soldiers hearts, their leader is still perfectly well. What to do from here

Guess Ill have to break the heart of the top as well? Grandpa taught me in the past that when you fight against a numerical disadvantage, you try to target the other sides leader as much as you can; Ive had times back during middle school when some delinquent groups picked a fight with me, and I put that to use then.

In any case, just crush their leader. Make the other side understand completely that picking a fight with me again is not worth their trouble. My opponents are people as well, and surely they dont like pain as much as me. If I deal with them that way, they wont mess with me again.

Then again, in the first place, I dont understand the reason why Eisengard is so fixated on ruins. Judging from the situation, it seems that they couldnt find whatever they were looking for in the [Azure Ruins], and as such set their sights on the [Emerald Ruins] which was discovered later.

Theyre looking for something in the ruins A golem? But, a golem that the Magicraft King of Eisengard would go to such lengths to look for, what exactly could it

In this kind of situation, I guess it would be the fastest to just go and ask the person in question directly.

Directly Dont tell me

Sergeant who was listening to me on the side widened his eyes.

Ill invade Eisengard by myself and meet with that Magicraft King of theirs directly. If I know what the other side wants, theres a chance I can make them pull their hands back, after all.

Impossible, are you saying youll willingly jump into the enemys bosom!?

The Garudio emperor raised his voice; however, I believe that to be the best method. If I dont do something soon, another army might invade the Lowe territories again.

To speak further, if Im not here and the small owls bombardment corps assault the capital again, it would sink into a sea of flames without a doubt. Its best for me to move as soon as possible.

Its quite likely that, if a full-scale war erupts between the two countries, Garudio Empire would lose. Although I dont think Garudio would lose without a struggle.

For Eisengard, from its aggressive researching of golems excavated from ancient ruins and utilizing of those results to produce new golems and/or weapons, one can glimpse something almost like an obsession.

Theres even a trace of madness in their methodology towards the development of new weapons at any cost. Although, I cant tell if thats the national character of Eisengard as a whole, or if thats simply the kind of man the Magicraft King was.

Thats the kind of country Eisengard is. One can never know what kind of dangerous weapons it might be hiding. Its possible that whatever they were trying to search for within the [Emerald Ruins] was some kind of unimaginable ancient weapon.

With all that consideration, its best if I go and directly talk with them.

Well then, Im off.

Its a very late question, but just who are you? Why are you helping us?

The emperor of Garudio looked towards me with a complicated expression. Umu, to this person, Im like an incarnation of mysteries, arent I.

I dont think youll believe me, but Im a king too, actually. In a world different from this one. And, well, Ive been travelling around this world and looking for friendly countries to form ties with, or something like that.

A, another world?

I unintentionally formed a wry smile on my face while watching His Majesty the Emperor who seemed to have become more confused by my words. Well, at the moment it cant be helped. However, one day, the fact that that isnt a lie will become apparent to him. Whether he wished for it or not.

I opened a [Gate]. Since I can go to the location within Eisengard territory where we fought with the variants last time, Ill fly from there. Ah Right, I should probably get in touch with Yumina and the others as well. Id like to be spared from them getting angry at me doing things by myself again.

Alright, Im off for real this time.

Leaving everyone else whos still standing there with absentminded expressions, I went through and then closed the [Gate].

Y-you guys, who are you!? You who suddenly appeared from the sky!

Eisengards castle was a stronghold-like fortress of steel. The unique design, which looked like junk parts being pieced together, stood out flashily.

Like a steampunk-themed attraction, things like pipes and valves run in messy clusters all over the place, and measuring meters and levers were installed at various locations. It almost makes me feel like Im in the middle of a battleship or a submarine. Although Ive never gotten on either one of them before.

The moment we descended from the sky in an open space in the center of the castle, soldiers wielding spears immediately appeared. And without wasting a breath, we were surrounded by them as well as guard golems.

What should we do, Touya-dono?

With this number, me and Yae-san are enough to deal with them but

The swordswoman combination, Yae and Hilda, who were standing behind me asked while scanning their surroundings. The surface reason why these two came was that fights may occur this time; however, they were, as usual, actually here to restrain me from doing anything too excessive.

Well, although the two of them looks like theyre itching to go, lets go the slow and steady way this time.

[O Ice envelop, an everlasting sarcophagus, Eternal Coffin].

Aiming at only the guard golems, I imprisoned them within ice coffins. The innumerable icicles that grew from the ground up enveloped the golems, and completely froze their movements.

Hii!? T-theyre frozen!?

Seeing that sight, the soldiers surrounding us backed off a little. They must be thinking about whether they would get encased in ice like that as well.

Unfortunately, this magic is a bit too strong in terms of fighting a human opponent. If a person encased in ice were to get hit and shatter while in combat, itll be a bit No, quite dangerous in a lot of ways. Id like to be spared from getting involved in the site of a bizarre murder case.

Excuse me, but do you know where can I meet the Magicraft King?

W-what do you want with His Majesty!?

Just a bit of talk. Itd save me a lot of trouble if you would honestly tell us.

While saying that, I pulled out Brunhild and shot the base of an icicle which didnt contain a golem within.

The small [Explosion] enchanted on the bullet activated, and with a loud bang, the base of the icicle was blown away. Having its balance destroyed, the ice pillar fell onto the ground and shattered into tiny pieces.

Among the soldiers who saw that and turned white, one of them pointed towards the building in the center with a shaking finger.

When I looked up, over there was a sturdy-looking tower that looked like a huge chunk of iron, with absolutely no elegance or majesty whatsoever to speak of.

It stood tall like the command tower of a warship, and possibly in preparation for potential attacks, turrets jutted out of it at various locations. Did they actually bury a warship in the ground to make this place or something?

We turned our feet towards the imposing tower which stood in the center of the castle.

Still, Touya-dono has sure gotten better with his threatening-degozaru na

Th-that makes it sound like Im a villain Call it high-leveled negotiation techniques.

I find it quite hard to call that just now a negotiation

Un, I feel that way too. But well, if we talked with them normally, they probably wouldnt have let us past.

Suddenly, from the backs of us who had started walking towards the tower, several gunshots resounded.

Before the sound had even reached us, however, Yae and Hilda had already turned around and drew their katana and sword, respectively, with lightning-fast motions.

With sword strokes that a normal person would probably not perceive at all (although I could properly see them), the two cut down the several bullets heading this way easily.

The blades wielded by the two, which were made from crystal materials, cut through the bullets as if they were tofu; the split pieces flew off in random directions without being able to harm anyone.

In front of the two, several soldiers who were aiming at us with guns solidified with shock on their faces.

I, impossible!

Since you shot at us, you must be prepared to be shot as well, right?

I proceeded to aim Brunhild at the soldiers who had tried shooting at us from the back. As I drove one bullet into the ground below their feet, the enchanted [Cyclone Storm] blew the ten-odd soldiers high up into the sky.

It really is troublesome to have to deal with them one after another-degozaru na.

As expected, if they shot several hundred rounds at us simultaneously, we wouldnt be able to handle them.

Hilda was saying something like how she can probably deal with it if its several dozens instead, but I honestly think they might be able to manage a higher number.

These two have already become existences close to dependants of god, and are also disciples of the Sword God. Without a doubt, they should be in the top five in terms of swordsmanship even if you consider both the Surface and Reverse worlds.

The two of them had their foundations in their sword schools, namely [Kokonoe Shinmei-ryuu] and [Lestia-style swordsmanship]; however, through the guidance of Moroha nee-san, they had already turned that foundation into completely different things.

In general, Moroha nee-sans swordplay has no definite form. One of the teachings in the Hokushin Itto-ryuu, founded by Chiba Shusaku, was Let your mind be fast, your heart be still, your body be low, your eyes be clear, and your actions be fierce; compared to that, nee-sans teaching is probably a lot closer to dont think, feel, if anything.

For everything it was instinct, a style which used reflex and natural sense to swing the sword over actual techniques Well, she herself was someone whom logical ways of fighting wont work against, so I guess its natural.

Still, it really does look like a crows nest on a ship. If that area around there is the bridge, then is that place there the throne room, I wonder?

As I was looking up at the crows nest and trying to figure out its dimensions, Yae spoke up.

Are we going to climb up from the inside-degozaru ka?

Its troublesome, so might as well go from the outside. I have something nice here anyway.

I took out a Chinese wok-like disc from [Storage]. This was the one Gian used when he attacked the Garudio emperor. Ive already inspected it with [Analyze], and rewritten its commands with [Cracking]. Im glad its just a simple artifact.

(Note: so back in the original TL for 348, I thought Gian was using some kind of small discs, one on each of his foot. Well, as you can see, that was a wrong interpretation and it was actually one large disc. Soz.)

Here, get on.

The disc wasnt that big, but its enough for three people if they squeeze themselves a bit.

I couldve just used [Levitation] and [Fly], but the two of them seemed to hate the floating sensation of [Levitation] very much.

On that note, since this disc doesnt wobble around while floating, it should be better for the two. This one actually feels safer due to that reason, really.

We got onto the disc with the three of us leaning on each other, and I made it slowly ascend. Its like an elevator, except one without walls; its quite scary, actually. I would never get onto something like this without flying magic.

To be honest, I couldve made the two of them ride the disc while I flew alone Well, its fine, I guess.

When we flew up to a height somewhere around where the bridge would be, Yae drew her katana and sliced a square hole in the thick steel wall. As the cut-off part of the wall fell into the building, we followed it and jumped inside. Of course, I properly retrieved the disc.

In front of us, who had ended up in some kind of wide passageway, were again guard golems.

[Shield]!

I manifested a shield that covered up the entire passage. From there

[Power Raise]!

I used my increased physical strength to push the golems away altogether using the [Shield] I just made. The golems which were being pushed by the [Shield] fell down and started rolling from the pushing force.

Touya-dono, there are stairs over there!

Yae, who had found stairs ahead of the passage to our right, headed towards that direction. I left the [Shield] as is and chased after Yae together with Hilda.

Although I dont know whether those stairs would lead us to the Magicraft King, common theory dictates the leader would always be at the highest place.

The end of the stairs was blocked by a pair of heavy metal doors, but once again, Yae slashed through them easily. Thats cheating, isnt it

Together with the *dotsun!* sound of the thick metal plates falling