Year 7444, Month 5, Day 28
The image that was shown in the crystal ball in the end was the single color of black. Even though I say that it's not like something like a pitch black piece of paper is showing but rather something like bristle. It might be closest to say it's something like the black fur from the surface of some kind of animal. What is, this? The image of the camera is too close. Once I thought that it's started to slowly zoom out.
Some kind of soft looking surface of skin like velvet and it feels like thick hairs are growing all over the place? Zoom out some more. Even more. The image being transmitted to the crystal ball from the camera (or something like that) is extremely slowly moving backwards from the target as I try to command it to in my head.
"What is it? This?"
Miduchi is raising her voice in doubt but something like that, I want to know.
It's zooming out at such a slow speed that it's irritating and finally the surface of the body which the hairs were growing has started to take shape. The left and right sides of the image were cut. The hairs seemed to have been growing off of something like a rod? The rod like thing with hairs on it..Is this a leg? This, is the leg of some kind of insect.
"Huh? No matter where you look from it's the same image.."
He~ Is that so?
The number of legs increased. Since I don't have anything to compare it to in the image I can't tell the size of it at all. The range that's being projected is gradually stretching out...What was it again, that's right, I guess you could say it's something like a large black spider a {Tarantula}. It has hair growing after all. The large ones can get up to like 30 cm when they stretch their legs out. In the past I saw them on a nature program with my wife. Yeah, it was just like this.
I've started to get it.
Miduchi is looking at the crystal ball with a strange face.
"What is it?"
"Ah, no~ it's nothing. But..Ah..Aah~!"
"Do you have any idea what it is?"
"It's the symbol of my country."
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The camera has considerably backed away so I can tell quite a bit. This is an insect..rather a spider. It's the legs of a spider. It's showing the lower body starting from the legs of a spider. The image in the crystal ball shows four legs on each side and there's something like long white hairs along the hairline so I can't tell for sure...But, this is strange? If I remember correctly the legs of spiders are supposed to grow from it's chest towards the grown and they stretch out at the joints, but it seems this is different. I feel like something is growing directly out of the surface but can't tell for sure. However, rather than something like that for it to have been a spider...
"Is it this thing? This thing used {Report}..."
I've spent countless years living on Orth and for these past two years I've lived as an adventurer I've seen a number of different monsters. I had confidence I wouldn't be surprised by most things but this surprised me. I mean, it's a spider. Are you saying a spider used magic?
Is what I was thinking but as it gradually continued to zoom out I've started to get it.
This thing, it's a spider but not just a normal spider.
I noticed that I was entranced in looking at that appearance. Neither Miduchi nor could utter a single word. Let alone that, before I noticed it Miduchi was prostrating herself towards the image in the crystal ball. Do-geza-r*. There's someone's back growing from the back of the the spider legs!
Then in that case, there's mistake this person is the one who used {Report} on us. Then in that case, I should use {Telepathy} here. I immediately started kneading the mana. Since it was such a large crystal ball I forgot but this spell {Detect Magic User} is on a time limit. That's why once you use it, until the duration ends it will remain cast, though thanks to that you can use other spells during that time.
Finally I was able to see almost the entire image from the camera. It feels like it's showing the image of a person sitting holding their knees from behind. No, even if I say person it's not a human. That is..a Dark Elf. The long pure white hair growing from their head is covering all over their body because they're facing downwards and the amount of it was enough to cover down to the legs of the tarantula. The length goes down to just above the waist. Since their back is bent over and their posture is facing down right now, if they were to properly stand up and stretch their back out it would probably go down to their butt.
The spider legs are stretching out as if hiding the shape of the body but from the skin that can be seen here and there you can tell there's some curves and you can see the waist line as well. It's easy to tell it's a woman from behind. Since they're hidden by their hair the ears can't be seen but judging from that deep purple skin color close to black there's no way they can't be a Dark Elf. Most likely they're hiding their face in their hands that are crossed in front of their knees, the camera moves irritatingly slow as it moves horizontally but since the face is still hidden I can't see it. Incidentally, since it's not directly showing in my eyes there was no effect from Identify.
Beautiful.
It's become a common expression but I thought they were a beautiful.
I can't tell their face but just those limbs are plenty.
Simultaneously it was like I was hit with an electric currency, it suddenly flashed into my head.