Adventurers

Tsuburaya Ginshi awoke to the warmth of sunlight streaming through a hole in the ceiling.

As he hurriedly sat halfway up, dizziness made his vision sway. He swore, then resigned himself to leaning against the rubble and looked up at the sky.

A sigh escaped him. Apparently, he would not be able to move until he rested for a while. Passing out from running out of mana on the job was a disgrace to any adventurer.

The moss- and ivy-covered theater hall where Ginshi found himself was a relic of the previous era, crumbling into ruin.

A great hole in the ceiling revealed the sky, while lush green plants grew thickly among the rubble directly beneath it.

Though useless as a dwelling, the building still retained enough function to block out sound. He could hear neither the rustling of the forest, the sound of the waves, nor the cries of magic beasts. In days gone by, all sorts of events must have taken place amid this secretive silence.

In the first place, the reason Ginshi had come to Tsushima was that he had been hired for a job by Yamagami Tech.

Yamagami Tech――――the Yamagami Institute of Magic Technology――――was a rising unicorn company that had gathered enormous loans equivalent to the national budgets of small countries and continued to expand rapidly despite having been founded only a year and a half ago.

The scientific civilization of the previous era had crumbled as soon as electricity vanished, fragile as it was, but its blueprints remained.

Humanity currently had no advanced communications network...