The Rising of the Shield Hero Volume 20 by Aneko Yusagi

Author:Aneko Yusagi [Aneko Yusagi]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: One Peace Ebooks

Chapter Nine: Ancient Siltran

I looked around to see plenty of human activity, but the building itself looked older than Melromarc and seemed to be under repair due to battle damage.

“Where are we?” I asked.

“Siltran. This is the nation that summoned me,” Mamoru said.

“Ancient Siltran, right?” commented Melty, providing some useful additional information. “I’ve read about this in ancient texts. The country that came before ancient Siltvelt.” I wasn’t sure how to express it, but the castle seemed smaller . . . more cozy when compared to Melromarc and Siltvelt. It probably meant that Siltvelt had become more flashy and bigger as history continued. “So this is what it looked like. From what I can see here, it looks like Vanira construction . . . but hold on, something is a little different,” Melty continued, tilting her head. I wondered what she was thinking—and to be honest, I didn’t know what Vanira construction was.

“This castle isn’t here in the future?” Mamoru asked.

“Much has been lost to conflict,” Melty reported.

“I’m sorry to hear that,” he eventually said. This was probably just the vanguards of the waves again, working behind the scenes to ensure such assets didn’t remain for future generations. I was getting sick of hearing such stories myself, but I also thought that maybe we shouldn’t be sharing such tales of a dark and gloomy future with these people. They were going to have trouble getting out of bed in the morning if they knew the nation they currently lived in wasn’t going to make it into the future.

“Still, there’s something about all this . . .” Even I wanted to pick my words carefully, which was a rare occurrence. It was just that the castle looked so bleak, and—for all the people—the town did too. There was a lot of rubble and destruction, likely from the waves. It all felt like something out of the Middle Ages, old and dated. But it was almost taking it too far. It felt old in a way that was different to L’Arc’s nation over in Kizuna’s world.

I had been to Siltvelt, and I also wasn’t seeing the same mix of Western and Chinese styles that I had experienced there. The town here was comprised of simple houses that mixed rough stone and wood.

“Do you have a dragon hourglass?” Melty asked.

“Yes, in that building over there,” Mamoru replied, pointing to a building in front of the castle. Placing the dragon hourglass in the vicinity of the castle was definitely a theme in this world. That would at least let me line this location up with the future.

“Naofumi, I think I know what you’re thinking, so let me tell you something. Just like how a river can change its course over a long period of time, a dragon hourglass can shift positions too. I don’t think its location will be much help as a reference point,” Melty explained. It was the first I was hearing of this—another arbitrary annoyance.

“Okay then, let’s see what else we’ve got,” I said and looked around.

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