Shinka no Mi

The next day, I came to the dungeon where the Gustlers taught me.

For once, I stopped by the guild to tell them I was going to try the dungeon, but the guild was flooded with perverts like exposed maniacs and saboteurs, as usual, and Gustle eventually sent me off with a smile.

The dungeon that came this way would be in the mountains near Terveil and would not be visited by ordinary people.

Is that why there was no one like to receive or inspect before the special dungeon, and there were just pompous holes in the large, exuberant ground.

Before such a dungeon, I spoke brightly to everyone who was following me.

"Well, then let's attack crisply -"

"Ooh!

"Nori is light!

Salia was the only one who answered my voice, and Helen had a head.

"I'm going into a hell of a dungeon now, right? What is it? This looseness. Isn't that strange?"

Nothing strange. This is normal.

Anyway, this is a dungeon, but we don't all explore it.

Routier went there once to join Mr. Lucius and the Demon King's army, and Lune, Origa, and Zola were to accompany him as escorts.

... Lurne insisted on following me, but Oliga caught me and agreed to grab me a meal and accompany me easily. He's sworn allegiance to food, not me, right?

So the only three people following Helen's level this time were me and Salia, and Al, who is also a senior as an adventurer.

"If it's true, two more... I just want the recoverer and the shield to be the party..."

Al looks at me with such a grunt.

"... ha..."

"What that sigh!?"

I wanted to complain about Al's obvious sigh. Damn, I can't believe I'm sighing at people's faces!

"You've decided to take a sigh, too, haven't you? As the adventurers of the world party together and attack, you're the only one in the whole party."

"That's not true!?"

Regardless of whether I can really play all the roles in a party, it seems that in general, a thing called a dungeon is an attack in pairs of six.

They're never supposed to destroy the dungeon itself and clear it or anything like that like me. Yes, you are.

"Well, whatever. Let's go in anyway. That's where the story starts."

Helen squeezed her face tight as she quickly stepped into the dungeon, feeling subtly unconvinced.

"What are you so nervous about?

"You're nervous!?"

Weird. No matter how much I look back at the past, I don't remember Helen being as nervous. Even when I was lost in the [endless forest of sad love], I don't think I've ever had a nervous face. Well, I was just desperate to live before I got nervous, and I just went around and got high.

"So? What am I supposed to do from here? Wake up about fighting normally and getting a level?

"What, that doesn't work?

"Of course, if you increase the level, your status will rise, and if you become a 'transcendent', that's the only threat... but sometimes drilling for combat experience and technology even overshadows the difference in that status? Of course I want to level up, but I'm also looking to improve those technologies, Wake. That may not be enough to deal with the Kaisel Empire..."

Whoa, seriously... as far as I'm concerned, that's what I'd say if I got to the level easily, but apparently Helen isn't enough.

"Well, why don't we do this?

"Huh?"

When I was wondering what was going on, I smiled just saying that Salia had come up with a name proposal.

"Makichi, will you walk that far for a moment?

"What? Oh............ Yikes!?"

As soon as Salia prompted her to walk to that position, a large number of spears came from the ceiling, the ground fell into a pit, and poison arrows struck the side walls in unison.

I felt sick enough to pull all that off myself.

"How can you jump from yourself into a trap like this!

"Are you an asshole?

Helen told him that with a true face. Excuse me, Salia. I don't know about that either.

"I mean, you shouldn't go and take it from yourself to the trap!? What's the trap for?!

"Huh? For training?

"Dungeons pity......!

Salia said so with a strange face when Al, the common sense man, was suddenly stuck. No, it's going to be training, but it's pathetic considering how you feel about the dungeon side with the trap ready!

"Mm-hmm... I thought it was a pretty good idea. Even when Zola was in the dungeon, Makichi was headed from me to most traps, and I thought it was that kind of training..."

"... for one thing, I found out that Makichi Sensei was bullshit no matter how far she went. And I knew I could level up normally. I'm not that bullshit."

"The reputation damage is too bad."

That's crazy. You're not my point, but you're gonna cry bullshit on your own.

Ignoring me like that, Helen and the others head to the back of the dungeon.

"... What, me, left in this state?

Still in a disgusting position, avoiding the trap, I went after the three of them, crying unwittingly.

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"- Haaah!"

In conclusion, since Helen's leveling was the aim, he has been on the road without any help in combat until he is in a dangerous situation, even on a level. Instead, basically, I and Salia are dealing with the other demons so that Helen and the demons are in a one-on-one situation.

Though he was one-on-one, he didn't know how far he could go, but when he actually let him fight, Helen flirted with the demons with what looked like martial arts he was mastering, surely, carefully knocking them down.

They are still using two daggers and crossing each other against a giant, all-body iron kamakiri called 'Armour Mantis LV: 2011'.

And finally, when he bounced back Armor Mantis' sickle, he slashed Armor Mantis' head off with that stream, and Armor Mantis disappeared as a particle of light.

"Phew... Looks like we're up to level again"

"Oh! Congratulations"

I grabbed the leg of "Killer Hopper LV: 411," a super giant bat that Helen attacked me while I was fighting, and I worked so hard as I lifted it upside down to hang.

But for some reason, Helen looks at me like that with a cold eye.

"... even though I'm taking the time to fight, I can't stop the insanity just in the meantime?

"Where is the insanity element!?"

Isn't that just unreasonable? I kind of attacked him. I just caught him because the bat was too big and he accidentally tickled the kid's heart. When you were a kid, didn't you get tense when you found the big bug? I'm up.

- - This is more or less how we go about the dungeon, Al stops inadvertently.

"Hey, stop for a second"

"Hmm? What's wrong?

"... it's a footprint"

"Huh?"

When Al crouches on the spot, he checks the ground.

I saw there the same way, but I couldn't confirm the footprints like Al said.

"Oh, it's true!

"Right, and not a demon, like a human being..."

Whoa? I don't get it. Just me? Instead, how do we all know? I don't care what you think. It's just stone ground?

Then Al, who noticed how I was, asked me in a frightened manner.

"… Makoto. You don't get it, do you?

"Oh that's so nay yo!? Colledesho!?"

When I appropriately touched the ground so as not to be desperately understood, the unpleasant sound of 'Gacco' sounded and my feet suddenly disappeared.

"Is it another trap ahhhhhhhhh!?"

He also avoided the trap by scaffolding the universe while twisting his body in a dong-pulling motion himself.

"Phew... thanks for the help"

"No, I don't know the footprint. How can you avoid such an instant death trap?

"Instead, from me, how do you know what footprints are?

Not only the footprints, but so are the traps now, but it's just the ground, no matter how you look at it.

"Ha... should I say I'm relieved that there's something you can't do, or should I mourn the fact that you can't even do such a preliminary thing to your adventurer..."

"Instead, I think Makoto-sensei is too much of a chisel..."

"I used to refer to footprints and stuff when looking for prey in the woods, so I'm just used to it!

Whatever you think of Salia's habit is wildlife instincts and wisdom, I also feel a little different, but apparently it's the adventurer's essential skill to check for these traps and find footprints.

Well, some adventurers specialize in traps, and of course they have better knowledge and discernment skills that way, but they still need minimal knowledge.

... On second thought, I've spent my entire life without acquiring the knowledge to be a decent adventurer. I don't know what to say about footprints.

Although it's a fleeting body, I still don't have enough technology to gain from that experience.

I just found out one new challenge, and I asked Al again.

"So, what do you care about the footprints there? The Gustles would be in there once, and it's not surprising, is it?

"That's what makes this footprint relatively new. Besides, this dungeon should have been investigated by the Gustlers once, as Makoto said, to determine it was dangerous. There was no special watch or anything near the entrance, but naturally that information would be conveyed to the adventurers in Terveil, and it's hard to imagine those guys liking it and visiting it"

"Huh? But... that's always destruction! Isn't it going to be a challenge if you're the one screaming?

"Well...... it's possible in character, but you saw it in the guild before you got here, right?

"Speaking of which..."

Once I stopped by the guild, I'm pretty sure I saw him laughing high while destroying his desk.

"And there's no sign of this footprint turning back. So, inevitably, there will still be a Lord of footprints within this dungeon"

"Does that... mean the average person might have gotten lost, and other adventurers might be trying?

"Normal people's lines aren't first. There's no way you can get here without encountering demons, and most importantly, if you encounter demons on a level, it's over. Even for other adventurers, if you're going to try, it's about the S-level guys..."

Al stared in the footsteps of the ground with a difficult face.

"... well, what can I do to think about it? Like I said, there's no sign of turning back, and maybe I'll see you in the dungeon."

"Hmmm...... but do you see quite a lot of other people in the dungeon?

Dungeons are the first thing that comes to mind about Earth's games. So somehow I have the image of it being difficult to meet other members in the dungeons on my own......

"Well, if you go to a popular dungeon or something, there's a prey match. Well, there are implicit rules and so much lawlessness..."

"Then I have to say hello when I see you!

Thalia says that innocently, but Al gave him a difficult look somewhere.

"Well, I'm just wondering if the guy ahead is a good guy to fulfill..."

"Huh?"

"... it's nothing. It's more of a dungeon than that. Not only does Helen level up, but maybe she'll find something just right from the chest, huh?

"Yes! Gear is important as well as level. Purely asking for too much power, such a simple thing was out of my mind..."

"Well, it doesn't matter how powerful the weapon is. Well, at this rate, let's take it to the next level and look for items."

"Yes!"

Helen nodded happily at Al's words, continuing after Al.

"... it was me, wasn't it?

"Cheer up!

To Salia's kindness, I couldn't stop crying.

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"Huh... I'm sleepy"

When Makoto and the others were successfully attacking the dungeon, Destra of "Extiny Death," [Demon Order] 's "Gods," was walking relaxed through the dungeon.

The figure did not look very human attacking the dungeon and was defenseless everywhere despite the spread of super powerful demons.

"Oh, the crate's open."

And even though the trap might be set, Destra did not hesitate to open that chest.

Then a purple smoke erupts from the chest and falls on Destra's face.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa."

But Destra just looked lightly and nothing changed.

"Also! You don't have to bother to plant lethal (...) poison smoke ~"

Destra was right, the trap that was set on the crate was such a powerful poison smoke that if you smoke it for a moment, it would die from it alone, and even if you were holding your breath, it was a dangerous thing that entered from your skin and resulted in death.

"Damn, I'm busy with the dungeons - let's kill them (...)?

The whole dungeon trembled suddenly as Destra narrowed her eyes just a little bit and said so.

But when Destra realizes that something is inside the crate, the atmosphere just now spreads like a lie, checking the contents of the crate in a waxy way.

"Oh, lucky! It's not a showy item, it's a proper weapon."

Inside was a legendary weapon called the Sword of the Blood River.

The red muscle stretched as if it were a blood vessel on a pitch-black sword body, pulsating spookily.

"Eh?... hey, will the scratch on the person you slashed stop blocking it -? It can also be freely changed at the will of the owner…"

Destra, who read the weapon's abilities in her 'appraisal' skills, had an evil grin with Nymmali.

"Yeah, yeah! Fine, fine! I really like it! Oh, my God, you keep a pretty good item!

Destra's upbeat mood also subsided the tremor throughout the dungeon.

Then, when "Assassin Spider LV: 789" went down behind Destra without a sound, erasing the signs until now, sticking to the ceiling and wanting to see how it was...

"Gi, gi!? gi, gi..."

- - Assassin Spider was desperate.

"Hmm?"

And as I now say I've noticed Assassin Spider, Destra turns her back.

"Ooh, looks like you were after something. I mean, there was no luck."

Destra says so, as if she knew that everything that struck her very naturally would die without any emotion.

Destra inadvertently stopped, even as she tried to move on ignoring the dead Assassin Spider's body without knowing why.

"Hmm?"

And I stared at the end of the road that I had followed myself, and realized something.

"... heh. I didn't expect people to come to places like this. It would be a hassle if they saw me, and I could cut it up here, but that would piss Utice off. Then there's only one thing left."

That's how Destra claps her hands at the end of the road and tries to do something -.

"- Yay. You can kill me from here, but I want to see the face of death anyway."

That said, Destras starting to move on again.

"Well, what kind of people are coming? Looking forward to it."

- Thus, the encounter between Destra and Makoto was steadily approaching.

And the fact that I didn't cut up and leave on this occasion... was the end of it all for Destra.