Another week had passed. Nothing yet on the dimensional probe. I also decided to make something like a dimensional radar. There was no point in sending a probe if there was no method of locating anything or if I don’t know where the probe is located if it finds something.

  My magic use had improved more. Nausea related to magic use might be something from the past. My magic was efficient enough to prevent that and with extreme use, I will receive mana from Nilah. Pure mana doesn’t make me nauseous so It might not take long before I can let mana enter and freely move in my body.

  All the tailed beasts are creatures that are proficient in magic. Having my body be relatively devoid of mana is unnatural. I also feel stronger when I have mana coursing through me. it has only taken 11 years to get to this point. I wondered what Azu was up to. She said she would be done after 10 years. Did she run into problems?

  A wave of nausea came over me but it was the kind that indicates that something is amiss with the dimensional fabric. I activated my Elgards eyes and located it. It was over a large empty plain.

  Nilah, let’s go it’s time to do 9t stuff!

  We headed out the hole was quite big. I also heard strange noises.

  More fairies…

  This dimension doesn’t need more fairies so I first created a [Firewall] but then remembered that the fairies don’t care about 9t related skills so it got replaced with an [Ice Wall]. I then slowly replaced strips of the ice wall with dimensional bridges and blasted it with foxfire to make it into healthy dimensional fabric. It didn’t take long to close it.

  I thought back to the first time I fixed a dimensional hole. What I did back then was way more complicated than what I’m doing now. What is the difference? It would make me unable to do 9t stuff for a day though. It’s not something I should do but what about that [Illusionary Dagger]?

  An illusion layer got shattered and I grabbed a shard which turned into the [Illusionary Dagger]. I remember that it could create illusions that could rival [Elgard Overload]. What did I do again? Think about everything that surrounds that thought and stab myself with it? What do I want to make an illusion of currently?

  Thoughts and memories of my friends gathered and I stabbed myself with the [Illusionary Dagger]. It was as if an illusion layer broke on me and light came out of the cracks and created illusions of Greg, Raishin and Elliana.

  They didn’t seem to have the ability to talk. Maybe it’s still inferior to [Elgard Overload]. Seeing their faces put my mind at ease. That is cool and all but it doesn’t tell me much about this ability only that its illusions are surreal… can I use these to trick opponents that can deal with illusions? These illusions are more like memories. I thought of Raishin’s Raijin mode and the memory used it. I fixed the rest of the dimensional hole and timed how long they would stick around for.

  Several minutes passed and they were still here. I moved to other dimensional holes and tears and fixed them up too while the memories followed. They were active for way longer than 8 minutes. I felt a bit uncomfortable and dispelled them. The biggest challenge was to not forget that I can do this.

  I fixed a tear by rewinding time on it. I could fix it properly but I remembered that this would create those crystal rocks Noelle likes to eat. I know now that they’re fruits and not just rocks so I stored them in the dimensional pocket with other fruits.

  The reason why I was patching up holes and tears was to get a better feel of how this dimensional fabric works. It surely would be useful to know if I want to get them back. Some holes had been festering and the maggots and centipedes were everywhere and dealt with them with my [Illusionary Dagger].

  I had returned home. My tails were doing some more complex tasks while I was sitting on my first tail. This one has no problems with anything physical related so it can act as my couch. I was getting bored. I had looked through the dimensional map countless times. It had become easier for me to read but it was a bit pointless because my buddies aren’t in our dimension anymore. My tails were still working on the probe and radar. Waiting was all I could do.

  I decided to give my tails something else to do and went to do some blacksmithing. This time without my hands.

  More hammering hot metal. It felt good even if my tails did it. It was therapeutic and I felt almost completely destressed. All my doubts and worries were completely gone. Finding my buddies was just a matter of time.

  I went through my tablet and looked through the news. A team had finally destroyed the 5th root in my ‘Nightmare Dungeon’. The popular strategy was to kill Molerock. This is bullshit! I know what to do now! I will go back and make killing Molerock extremely punishing.

  It was time for [Paradox Teleport]. I stepped outside and appeared next to the dungeon the moment a villager saw me. But I couldn’t be there because I always was next to the dungeon.

  I entered my dungeon and formed some illusions on Molerock. Anyone attempting to kill him will be forced to breakdance for a week. If they’re not prepared, they will die from exhaustion.

  Molerock also has insane defense now, so it will take a week if they want to kill him. I also put an enrage on him. With that fixed I went and collected recording crystals and replaced them. I would have something to watch at home. There was still a party inside but they weren’t doing so great as the magma chamber was a great obstacle for them.

  I also put more hints in the first floor. These guys are still stuck on the first floor after so long, this is ridiculous. The next party would get some help in crossing the magma chambers. They also would get moved to an isolated space in groups of 2 instead of alone. I also tuned down the pink clones on the last timeline. I’m sure they will get owned by those too. I wonder if I need to talk with the new vice president. How are adventurers supposed to investigate or solve difficult problems if they can't even solve this?

  The world is getting more dangerous by the day. More people need to be saved, more resources need to be found, more strange creatures need to be killed and they are getting walled by a magma chamber. Maybe I am overestimating the threats the world can throw at the continent but that doesn’t make the performance of these adventurers any less disappointing.

  People were slowly making the connection that Boshi town was a real place. It’s still a hole in the ground and they are wondering what the relation is between this Boshi town and the real one that had disappeared. It took them this long to notice? Sure, the environment in Boshi town was quite unique, unlike the rest of the Umbra mountain range so it could be relatively hard to place. But still…

  It had revived the investigation to find out what happened to Boshi town. They still didn’t figure it out…

  I left the dungeon after kicking the fumbling party out of the dungeon. I was about to head over to Gittrian to file a complaint when I overheard the adventurers talk.

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  “Whoa, that was rough!”

  “Well, this might work for us, the Sichar tournament will start it’s registration in 2 days, we might have missed it.”

  “Oh right! They had to delay the tournament because of all the disasters that happened but they seem to be ready to host it now.” The Iron Wall and the Toxic Donkey seemed excited. The Golden Angel also joined them in the conversation.

  “I also heard that Tails of Symphony will be there too and do a short performance.”

  “For real!!? I can’t miss it then!” They all ran off without the care in the world. This dungeon could have killed them. I have no idea what is going on with the adventurers nowadays. At least I know now to avoid Sichar. Everyone had gotten their memory wiped, I don’t want to jump in the spotlight and undo that.

  Is what I said but I am in Tania’s office and she is threatening me. “Come on! Be my bodyguard when I go to the tournament else, I will tell everyone the story of the Silver Torrent!”

  This is blackmail! Torture! Murder!

  “So dramatic, what do you have to lose, I’m not asking you to participate, although that would be fine too. I can arrange that if you want.”

  I am not participating and I’m not babysitting you!

  I evaded a couch pillow. It’s always hard to control my habits in these situation as I always send out [Water Blades] or elemental blades out when I evade. “It’s not babysitting! You’re guarding me! And choose! Participating or bodyguarding!”

  So, when do I need to babysit?

  I dodged another couch pillow.

  That is some pillow abuse. But what about what I came to report?

  “I still can’t believe that it’s you who made that insane dungeon… I will see what I can do to organize a quality check. We have been low on adventurers because most had left to stay with their family in these rough times. We need more manpower than ever. We had recently struck deal with the Yttroz Industries, they will help us increase the pay to what it was before the disaster.”

  Oh, did it drop?

  “We had to keep the AA’s running which acted as safety hubs. We had to cut a lot of personnel and the payout for adventurers were the first things that we cut down. The representative mentioned something about expecting a large influx of gold because a second wave of Hourai rubies is coming.” She said as she gave me a suspicious look.

  Hey all I did was selling rubies!

  “So, it was you, either way thank you for helping out improving the state of the continent, both in helping out Yttroz Industries and the AA. I as the vice president thank you.”

  I just sold some rubies though.

  “Yes, yes, either way we will be leaving for Sichar tomorrow.”

  I have a question though, you’re an S-rank adventurer, why do you need a weak B-rank adventurer like me to bodyguard you?

  “Oh, but you’re not a B-rank adventurer anymore. I promoted you to A-rank!”

  What!? That’s abuse of power! Give me my B-rank back! Now I have to do troublesome quests like… babysitting.

  I dodged another couch pillow. How many couch pillows does this chick have? “That is correct. Unfortunately, that’s the extent of the power I can abuse, you need a proper assessment to get into S-rank. I will get you there someday.”

  But that still doesn’t answer my question, why would you need a bodyguard. Not many can be a threat to an S-rank adventurer.

  “Well, a faction has been formed that isn’t happy with how the continent ended up after the disaster, they are convinced that that was supposed to be what they call an ‘Extinction’ event and that we all should have died in that disaster and they took it upon themselves to make sure we all go extinct.”

  Great more lunatics, reminds me of what were they called? The Ouroboros cult or something.

  “Oh, so you are familiar with them?”

  Wait it’s those guys? Ugh, they still aren’t wiped out yet? But wait I thought they wanted immortality; how does extinction play into this?

  “We don’t know, this about immortality is new to us too, see that’s why it’s good to have you around. We could encounter the most random or bizarre event and we can trust you to know something about it or at least be involved with it.”

  This is harassment… I guess I can help out if it’s those lunatics. The situation is probably going to turn out worse than you expect. Do you remember the day you gave me the name Silver Torrent?

  “Of course I don’t! My memory got wiped, but something like that was written in my diary yes.”

  Ah right, anyway, you were caught by those fuckers and I tried to keep it a secret back then but what they were doing there was breaking out a demigod out of an ancient building.

  Tania slammed her hands on the desk. “A demigod?! Wait what? How! This is bad! We can’t fight a demigod!”

  Relax, that was years ago, we would have already noticed what his…its effect on the world would be if it was an issue. But the point I’m trying to make is. We could expect similar fuckery there. I accept the request under one condition.

  “And that is?”

  We will do things your way until shit hits the fan, when shit goes down, we do things my way.

  Tania stepped back. “Ah, right I had also written down that you were from a very rare race.”

  Yup. Let’s just hope I won’t have to do stuff my race does. Mythical problems need mythical solutions, and you don’t want to be anywhere near that solution.

  With that I walked out of the office.

  I had completely forgotten about those lunatics. I can add that to my ever-growing list of problems. I just went to update my dungeon a bit and now I’m stuck in another mess. I need someone to check out if I have a curse on me that causes this but Healerguy is a pain in the ass and Giana wants to ‘talk’ whatever that means but it gives me spinal shivers. Do I know another Golden Angel?

  Whatsherface! Oh, wait she was Healerguy’s daughter and her memory got wiped too. Ugh, it seems that social connections are important after all.