【SS】呪われた古代鉱山【SS】Cursed Ancient Mine (Pixiv Fanbox)

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・Since I was not able to update much last month, I will be making this month open to the public as a whole for a while. We will return to regular posting around the middle of this month.

大砂漠と追放者の荒野近郊にある城塞都市ミラモスタが保有する金鉱山。

ここには、現在の六王国体制が敷かれるよりもさらに一万年以上前の先史時代(創世の神々と古の邪神が争っていた時代)に、古の邪神を崇拝する邪教の民が暮らす街があった。

その街は、邪神の眷属である三つ目の黒魔術師によって統治されていた。

しかし、創世の神々の怒りに触れ、噴火と大地震による火山流と土砂崩れで街は壊滅。かろうじて生き残った邪教の民も、謎の疫病で死に絶えたとの伝承が残る呪われた地であった。

現在、その跡地からは金と先史時代の遺物が出土され、その採掘事業は、城塞都市ミラモスタの財政を支える基盤であり最大の利権となっていた。

採掘にあたるのは捕らえられた砂漠の蛮族や、元盗賊などの犯罪者の奴隷達が千人以上と、彼女らを監督する出稼ぎの下級民で構成される監督官達だ。

原始の生命力に漲る彼女達は、文明人には到底かなわない強く頑健な肉体と腕力を持っていた。しかし、それを文明の力(鞭、鉄の武器、心理的な調教術、戦略的マネジメント)で支配すれば、文明人にとっての脅威から、都合のいい労働力に変わった。

そうして掘り出される金だが、実は自然発生した普通の金ではない。

何万年もの間、成仏できずにこの地に縛られ続けるかつての街の住人である邪教徒達の怨霊の欲望が現世に染み出して具現化して金となったもので、いわば呪われた黄金である。

他にも、奴隷女達が石ころだと思っているのは、怨霊達の生者に対する強烈な嫉妬が具現化した硫砒鉄鋼(ヒ素)である。また、怨霊達の殺意は水銀となって、金鉱山で働く奴隷や監督官達の体を蝕み続けているのだが、無知無学な彼女らにそんなことがわかるはずもなかった。

さらに、ミラモスタ貴族達の狙いは採掘される金だけでなかった。採掘の真の目的は、この邪教の街の最深部にあると伝わる古代兵器と、そのエネルギー源となる魔石の採取だ。

この古代兵器はかつて街を統治していた三つ目の黒魔術師が対創世の神々用に作ったとされる決戦兵器で、もし手に入れることができれば、六王国のパワーバランスが崩壊し、世界を支配する事も可能になる。

なお、現代の科学知識をもってすれば、魔石の正体はウラン鉱石、古代兵器は核爆弾、邪神の街が滅んだのも、その核爆弾の実験による事故であることが推察されるのだが、当然そんな事に奴隷達も監督官も貴族ですら気付いていない。それどころか、自らの意志でしていると思っているこの採掘も、先史時代の邪教徒の怨霊達による邪念に導かれているということにすら思い至る事は無いだろう。

そんな邪念に誘われた貴族達の呪われた野心と陰謀のために、今日も鉱山では奴隷達の苦痛の呻きと、監督官の罵声、そして自ら破滅に向かって掘り続ける彼女達を嘲る怨霊達の嘲笑が木霊していた。

STORY

Gold mines owned by the fortified city of Miramosta, located near the Great Desert and the Wilderness of the Outcasts.

Here, in the prehistoric age (when the gods of creation and the ancient evil gods were at war), more than 10,000 years before the current six kingdoms were established, there was a city where the pagan people who worshipped the ancient evil gods lived.

The city was ruled by a three-eyed black magician who was a household member of the evil god.

However, the gods of creation were angered, and the city was destroyed by volcanic eruptions and a massive earthquake that triggered a volcanic flow and landslide. Even the pagans who barely survived were cursed by a mysterious plague.

Today, gold and prehistoric artifacts have been excavated from the site, and the mining business was the foundation and largest concession supporting the finances of the fortified city of Miramosta.

The miners are more than a thousand slaves of captured desert barbarians, former bandits, and other criminals, and the overseers who supervise them are made up of migrant lowlifes.

Full of primitive vitality, these women possessed strong and robust bodies and arm strength that civilized man could never match. However, if they were controlled by the forces of civilization (whips, iron weapons, psychological training techniques, and strategic management), they were transformed from a threat to civilized man into a convenient labor force.

The gold that is dug up in this way is not, in fact, naturally occurring ordinary gold.

The desire of the evil spirits of the former inhabitants of the city, who have been bound to this land for tens of thousands of years without attaining Buddhahood, has seeped into the present world and materialized into gold, so to speak, the cursed gold.

What the slave women consider to be pebbles is arsenic sulfide (arsenic), which is the embodiment of the vindictive spirits' intense jealousy of the living. The murderous intent of the spirits is also turning into mercury, which is poisoning the bodies of the slaves and supervisors working in the gold mines, but the ignorant and uneducated women could not possibly understand such things.

Moreover, the Miramosta nobles were not only after the gold to be mined. The true purpose of mining is to extract the ancient weapon that is said to be located in the deepest part of this pagan city, and the magical stone that is the source of its energy.

This ancient weapon is a decisive battle weapon said to have been created by the three-eyed black magician who once ruled the city for use against the gods of creation, and if it could be obtained, it would disrupt the balance of power among the six kingdoms and allow them to rule the world.

With modern scientific knowledge, it can be inferred that the magic stone is uranium ore, the ancient weapon is a nuclear bomb, and the destruction of the city of the evil god was an accident caused by the testing of the nuclear bomb, but of course, slaves, supervisors, and even nobles are unaware of such things. In fact, even this mining, which they think they are doing of their own will, is being guided by the evil spirits of the prehistoric pagans.

The cursed ambition and scheming of the nobles, lured by such evil thoughts, today the mine is still filled with the moans of pain of the slaves, the curses of the foreman, and the sneers of the ghosts who ridicule them as they continue digging toward their own destruction.

I would like to ask my overseas followers, is translation necessary like this one?　If it is necessary, I will continue to do so. If it is not particularly necessary, I will quit translating.