"...you're here,"

　It was about two hours after he had finished his breakfast that Ray muttered.
　I am convinced to see Seto monitoring the surroundings with his occasional grunting.

"What's coming, Mr. Ray?"

　From the beginning of the party, he asks, looking around the surroundings surrounded by trees, and then speaking.

"Perhaps a flock of water monkeys who fought yesterday.As far as the state of Seto is concerned, he seems to be surrounding the whole area..."
"But isn't it the same as yesterday, though I don't think we'll take the same approach that a group led by a supposedly rare monster failed once?"
"Dear Elena, I don't think it's good to buy too many monsters even though they're rare."

　Custe tells a questionable Elena.
　Watching it, Ray secretly thinks about it while checking the feel of a death-size handle so that he can be attacked at any time by a group of water monkeys.

(Surely, what Custe says is not wrong.However, it is not a rare case to be leading.k.a. rare species.I saw that rare species for a few seconds yesterday, but it was definitely a highly intelligent creature.Then...)

"Or perhaps there's a trap,"
"Is it a trap? Is it like a monster?"

　Custet turns to Ray, who is walking behind him in a bad mood, but Ray continues to explain to Elena, apparently unconcerned, whether he's already used to dealing with Custet for a few days.

"What if by acting the same way as yesterday, I could do whatever I wanted... to make you think so?"
"Well, it's to draw our attention.That's what I'm going to do, and I'm going to take an unexpected step."
"Yes, when you think about it, you should be very vigilant."If you don't hide in the trees, there are any means of attack, so that you can keep them in check, but you can't touch them because they make good use of the terrain like monsters who use them as territory."
"What? Is there any other means of long-range attack besides magic?"

　He took a spear out of Mistling, as Elena looked at him with some interest.
　and though it may be called a one-word spear, it is neither a magic item nor a work of art like the one used by Custe.It was a very ordinary spear which was used by ordinary guards patrolling the streets.
　In fact, this spear is Ray's share of the thief's treasure that he defeated during the rank-up exam.

"What are you going to do with a spear like that? I'll compliment you if you're cynical about me."
"I don't mean it at all.It's just simple..."

　Answer Custe, lean your death-size against a nearby tree and turn it in the direction you think there's a water monkey ... throw it!
　Although the spear thrown by Ray's own extraordinary muscle strength was not a throwing spear, it disappeared instantly from the view of those present and a dull thud echoed around him a few seconds later.

"... out of the way?""Oh, what's the speed now? I mean, if you can use it, you don't have to go out of your way to do magic?"

　Ver muttered dumbly, but Ray shook his head silently.

"It's just disposable in the first place, and it's not easy to use, even if you say you still have plenty of spare time for your spear.If it is a one-time attack that is not known whether it can be recovered or not, it is overwhelmingly more cost effective to use magic that can only consume magic.for magic will recover itself."
"Oh, I see. Is that the case?"

　Ver, who breathes as if he were dumbfounded by Ray's answer.

"And unlike magic, you can't use magic to guide you.As a result, the attack is off as it is now."

　Ray determined that the dull sound he had just heard was probably the sound of hitting the tree trunk.that it would not be such a deep wound if it had hit the water monkey.

"Oh, I see.I understand most of it. It certainly isn't easy to use."
"Think it's good to use it when it comes to time. ... Well, I'm sorry I took up the time.Let's get back to looking for the stairs."
"All right,"

　Ver nodded, and we all started looking for stairs to go down to the fifth basement.

"But it's strange,"

　muttered Ver, cutting ivy with a dagger, which had grown thick and blocked the passage.

"What is strange about?"

　Next to him, he asked, cutting a branch of a tree that sticks out in the same way with a sword.

"You know, it's been two hours since we left the night camp, and we haven't even seen one monster yet. It's in the dungeon, let alone in the forest."
"Well, was the auger that Ray had knocked down at the top here?"
"Stupid, did you forget what happened upstairs? Some other monsters in this dungeon would have cooperated for somehow.
"...but what does that auger live on?Is it only the nuts in this forest?"
「……」

　Arra's remarks may have been unexpected.Ver stops cutting ivy with a look of surprise.
　No one could answer Arra's question.You can't eat other monsters as long as you're working with them.Then, omnivorous monsters can eat plants, but what do carnivorous monsters like augers eat?

"Well, if you think about it normally, there are normal animals in the dungeon that are not monsters."
"Is there a possibility?"

　Elena nodded convincingly and pulled the connected sword out of the sheath.At the same time, Custe is silent and takes on a demon spear, while Ray takes on a size.

"Roll-rolling.

　Seto is also wary of the surroundings by chirping in his throat.And...

'Kikikikikikikiki!'

　and the water-monkeys came in unison from the trees, echoing their cries.`Is this because of the blow?'

　A flash of water monkey, which had sprung up in the air with its sharp tusks, was cut to death.The body is divided into two parts, and at the same time, the head of another attacking from the other side is struck with the handle and blown away.Ray quickly flips around, chasing a momentary glance at Water Monkey, who is hit to the ground with his head scattered around him.The next moment, a water polo flying from above the trees passes where Ray's body was just a moment before.

"d*mn it! Are you aiming at me intensively?"
"It seems so.It must have been seen as Ray who threw the spear a little while ago."

　When Elena wields a connected sword, the blade extends like a whip and approaches Water Monkey in a complicated orbit in the air, cutting off several throats.
　Near there, Seto kicks a tree and moves three-dimensionally, blowing away the water monkeys that come at him with their front legs, kuchibashi, or hind legs.

"You should know that monsters are dealing with me!"

　Custe's continuous thrust with a magic spear interferes with the water covering the fur of the water monkey and penetrates the body without showing any protective effect.

"You've been persistent since yesterday! Go, Arra!"
"I know, Mr. Elena, I won't interfere!"

　The arrow shot by Ver was killed by most of the water, and although the arrowhead did not strike the body of the water monkey, it was successful to drop it to the ground.Then, the blow that Arra delivered to the fallen water monkey slashes the body as if it had nothing to do with the defense of the water... no, he slashes it with his strength.
　The Rays are overwhelmingly ahead of the battle.The water monkeys attack and fight back and forth and wet their surroundings with their own blood, except for a 20- or 30-minute war of attrition.Regardless of Ray's exceptional physical abilities, the other four are just ordinary people, even though they are trained knights.If you keep fighting for half an hour without losing your mind for a moment, your physical strength will surely be limited.No matter how much they were trained, they were individuals after all.for not many are strong enough to counter the quantity of things.

"What! ... what? What!"

　The first to slow down was Arla.Elena and a man named Custe, who use long-range connected swords, are more exhausted than others because they have to come close to the enemy and swing down the sword directly, compared to Ver, who uses a flying bow.At the same time, it may have been due to the fact that in order to break through the water defenses of the Water Monkey, Arra always had to demonstrate her strength.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

　Water Monkey, whose sword he had shaken down, was covered by water and attacked as if it were revenge, was thrust into it by Custe's magic spear.Since the ground was kicked with force, the water that was covered by the water-manipulating magic spear was pierced by the spear and died.

"Oh, oh, oh, thank you, Custe,"
"Be more respectful! Even if you're a monster, you don't have an infinite number of them.It's going to cut off in time!"
"I know... I know!"

　The blow, re-energized and brandished, forced the water-monkey's fur-covered body from side to side.

"Oh!"

　But the heavy blow was not successful.The bones of the Water Monkey caused Arra's sword to break beautifully in the middle of the blade.
　And Water Monkey attacks again as if he were going to miss the chance.At the beginning of the battle, he was aiming at Ray intensively, but as if he had forgotten it, he attacked Aarra...

"Fly off!"

　Several of them are cut in half by Hida, a death-size skill released by Ray.

"Squeak!"

　Watermonkey glared at Ray in disgust and tried to attack Arla, who still had no armour, but there was a figure of someone who moved faster.`You can't let my company do it!'

　There was only a figure of several water monkeys, in which the connected sword released by Elena ran as if dancing through a complicated trajectory in the air with the blade turned into a whip, and after the blade had passed through, the throat was cut and bloodshed fell to the ground.
　Looking sideways, Ray took a long sword from Mistilling and threw it at him from a member of the Falcon's Nail, the Rank D party.
　Throwed by Ray's power, the sword sticks into the face of Water Monkey, who was about to attack Arra, and stops moving.

"Ara, it's a cheap sword, but it should be more useful than broken.Use it!"
"Excuse me, Mr. Ray!"

　He quickly pulls the sword out of the water monkey, who lost his life and collapsed to the ground with the sword stuck in his head.
　While some individuals were about to attack him, he was interrupted by Ver's uninterrupted arrows, and he was able to get back together safely.

"Hush, persistent!"

　Two water poloes for the three water monkeys who attack again, twisting themselves to avoid the first water polo, and cutting the water polo with a death-size blade.He turned his blade back with a sideways motion of blood splashing and falling to the ground with a water polo, which, in fact, makes Ray feel little weight, divides the torso of Watermonkey, who had just attacked him from behind, into two, and the last one, who leaped high and attacked him right above the blind spot, returns his wrist and thrusts the tip of his handle sharply upward.

"Geez!"

　Desize through magic turns not only the blade but also the handle into a deadly weapon.
　Water Monkey, pierced through his throat by the handle, lost his life in an instant with an unpleasant scream, literally skewered...

"Huh!"

　with a great blow of death-size he struck the corpse from the side of another individual, who was about to attack Elena at any moment, and was blown away with him.

"I'm sorry, Ray! Phew..."

　At last, Ray's blow made it possible for Elena to breathe out, and to get her breath under control.

(Is even Elena out of breath yet?Well, we've already been fighting for almost an hour without a break, so it's no wonder.If you think of it, you should praise Elena, who is still breathing a little hard.)

　He glances around him for a moment as he cuts off the body of the water-clad water monkey who attacks him again.
　Arra's physical strength is close, and she is already holding her sword out of breath, and Custe, who is wielding a spear next to her, is also starting to run out of breath.Even Ver, who was shooting arrows at them from behind as support, was clearly exhausted.
　Ray and Sett are the only ones who already have enough physical strength, and Elena is barely able to fight against Water Monkey.