The one who stood between Ray and Ver.It was Custe, who had obstructed Ver when he was about to launch an attack on Ver.
　But there was no willful light in his eyes, and he stood before Ray without feeling his own will.

"Well, that's the end of the wall,"

　Behind him, Ver turns to Ray with the same insane smile.But...

"It could certainly be used as a wall-worker.But, after all, it was Custe.As you know, there is an overwhelming difference between me and Custe in terms of pure ability.But do you want to leave the wall to one Custe?"

　Ray concentrates on the other two who are faint, telling her to provoke him on purpose.

(If Elena and Arra had been manipulated by any means, they would be proud to cut the cards here...)

　Ray was trying to capture everything around him, muttering inside, but Ver's reaction to it was unexpected.

"Custe certainly wouldn't be as good as Ray under normal conditions... but what if it wasn't normal?"
"...what?"
"In the first place, is it almost impossible to imagine that if you use magic to manipulate people's consciousness, you won't be able to fully demonstrate that object's ability, for example, if you use motion that is ingrained in the body, you won't be able to fully demonstrate your thoughts about combat or that area as long as you're manipulated?... well, there are more advanced magic drugs in the world than I used, and some of them seem to be able to manipulate them regardless of whatsoever.Unfortunately, the magic I've used this time is not that high-performance... ...I think the Westian Empire is too particular about the technology being reported to the outside world.Those mantis were rather amazing."
"... a mantis?"

　The mantis. The word comes to mind a huge monster that came into contact on the way from the city of Gilm to this dungeon.This monster, using something like an optical camouflage, is waiting for us to blend in with the surrounding scenery, and as soon as it was knocked down, it melted away as evidence was destroyed.

"Well, that was your preparation, wasn't it?"and you were surprised, too."
"Huh? Oh, no, no.It is certain that the monster was the work of an alchemist in the Vestian Empire, but I am not involved in it, for even if I were to betray the kingdom of Mileana, I don't think it would be necessary to think which would be the first to take precedence if I had the chance to kill General Elena."
"In other words, you were no better than a throwaway stone,"

　Ray says something that is particularly provocative, but Ver doesn't seem to be able to stand it at all and ignores it like a wind.

"Well, I suppose so.That's all right.If I were to die after being treated as a mere waste of stone, that's what I meant after all.Of course I don't mean to be quiet.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . It's about time."

　Smiling, he proudly showed the flute from his pocket.
　The moment I saw the whistle, I felt a chill coming up Ray's spine...

"Set!"
"Roll-rolling.

　Seto releases a window at the same time as Ray's call.He ran past Custe, who was playing the arrow of the wind with a water spear, and shook his death-size down at Ver, who had taken his whistle to his mouth....no, just as he tried to shake it down, several egg-like objects of several centimeters were released from the tentacles that covered Ver's whole body.

"Phew!"

　Ray almost reflexively avoided the egg or cut it to death, but Ver leaped backward and kept his distance from Ray.Then he took a deep breath and breathed it into the flute he held in his hand.

　Just as a high-pitched sound echoed around him, Seto, who was continuously shooting at the window, leaped away from where he had been.And the next moment...
　Something about the size of a human being had descended on the place where Seto had been until just a moment ago, with a roar.If Sett had hesitated for a moment to leave the window, it would have been Sett's spine, not the cobbled ground, that had been crushed by now.

"...is that also the benefit of alchemy?"

　With Seto, Ray retreated once and opened his mouth, looking at something that had fallen away from Ver and Custe.

"That's right. This is a product lent to me by the Empire of Bestia.That's what we call a Golem.Well, as you can see, it's much better than a normal Golem.for he was following me without even sensing Ray."

　Golem, an artificial organism created by alchemy using a variety of objects such as stones, soil, wood or bones.However, even though they are artificial life forms, they basically have no emotion or will, and they simply follow orders given to them by their master, which gives them the impression that they are a kind of robot.
　And indeed, the Golem in front of Ray was very different from what Ray had learned from his knowledge or what he saw in the library.First of all, the size is different.Ordinary golems are usually about 3 meters tall, but the golem is not that tall as Ray.In other words, it is about half the size of a normal Golem.

(Golem... or rather automata.No, there is no such concept in this world, so I think it's okay to call it Golem.)

　With Seto, he sits in front of Golem and thinks inside.

(Esta Noor, an alchemist of the Zepail family, could have made this level of Golem... but according to Zepail's knowledge, he was enthusiastic about developing magic items but was not interested in Golem.)

"I don't think this Golem will change my advantage after all.I'll run Sett into Golem, and I'll play with Custe."
"Well, if you think about it normally... if you think about it normally."

　As he spoke, he took it out of his pocket again, like a triangular pyramid of a few centimeters.Ray thought it was a magical stone for a moment, but it is clear from its shape that it is not a magical stone.

"Are you curious about this? This is how you use it..."

　Shake down the hand holding the triangular pyramid jewels....to Custe's neck, and...

"Ah, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,"Ahhhhhhhh!

　As soon as the jewel's tip is pierced, it enters Custe's body through its neck as if it were a living creature, and at the same time, Custe screams like a beast.

"Oh? Was it more shocking than I thought? Did you regain consciousness?"

　Ver looks at Custe as if he were watching an interesting play, but the next moment he sees joy in his eyes.

"What have I been doing? The pain running to this body..."

　Yes, Custe, who should have fainted, awoke.
　Then he noticed Ver looking into his face with amusing eyes, and at the same time he remembered what had happened before he fainted.

"Ver, my dear fellow! ... What!?"

　Custe tried to thrust the magic spear in his hand at Ver with almost a reflex movement, but the next moment he realized that his body had no movement from the neck down.

"Ver, what have you done to me?"

　Custe glares at Ver with a deadly murderous gaze, with a murderous gaze that would have made him think he would have died at this point.

"Don't you remember? You know, you've drunk water in my water bottle a few times before, right? There was magic in it.Oh, I'll tell you before you ask me, but I'm fine because I'm taking an antidote myself.""... for what purpose, my dear fellow,"
"No, that's fixed, isn't it?If you have the head of a princess general who has suffered so much from her, you will be given preferential treatment to surrender to the Empire of Bestia.Well, you really had a hard time, first of all, Elena was sharp in the ordinary times, because Custe and Arra, or the other knights, were on the guard, and I couldn't touch them....and that's where the information of the succession altar came in.Because of the characteristics of this ceremony, I expected the three of us to have one person from the Larkus frontier because of the dungeon's location, but it was a slap in the face.The only and biggest miscalculation is that I put it into my father's head and limited him to be a Rank D adventurer, but the bottom line is that the Rank D adventurer was an unconventional existence like Ray."

　The sound of biting his back teeth echoes around him.The source of the sound is naturally Custe.

"You're not proud of yourself as a nobleman!"
"Proud? For my part, that's less than dust, let alone pride. That pride prevented me from killing anyone I liked outside of war."
"d*mn!"
"Well, enough explanation? Then let's wrap up this performance.

　A snap of his finger, Custe's body moves on its own and holds the magic spear in his hand towards Ray.

"What!"
"That's the effect of the magic that Custe has been taking.And then...."

　Again with a snap of his finger, Custe was kicking the ground and poking his evil spear at Ray the next moment.

"Come on, avoid it!"

　Custe, forced to move by a body that won't be free, screams, avoids Custe's attack and drives a death-size into Ver.That's what I meant, but...

'What!'

　At the same time, Ray and Custe cry out in surprise.
　For Ray, it was because he saw a spear thrust out faster than he had ever seen to capture the dungeon, and for Custe, his body was moving faster, sharper, and more forcefully than usual.
　Ray plays the magic spear projected by the sharp movement with almost a reflective movement.

"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!You see, this is the reason why I was so relaxed."

　While listening to Ver's euphoric cry, he avoids, prevents, or quits the successive spears of Custe.
　A short distance from there, the Battle of Golem and Seto began, and it was repeated that Golem avoided the blow of his long sword, and fought back with sharp eagle claws to shave the surface of his shield.

"Ver, my dear fellow! You have no control over my body... I'll never forgive you!"

　Custe screams as if he were under the control of a feeling of rage, but Ver watches the battle between Custe and Ray as if it had nothing to do with his anger.

"Look, can I look at you, though Custe's body is going to Ray on its own?"
"d*mn!"Three consecutive thrusts of Custe in the belly, chest, and throat.Ray plays all of them with a death-size handle.The color of impatience I had felt until a few seconds ago is gone.No matter how much Custe increases his physical ability and manipulates it freely, he still manipulates it forcefully and forcefully.He could not master all the art of spearmanship he had mastered.

(or, to be exact, is it correct to use the force of that jewel to make up for the inept use of Custe's physical abilities?)

　He thought so, however, that he would strike a death-size handle on the ground and use it as a shield to play the magic spear that came to brush his right foot.

"Gosh!"

　No matter how much you strengthen your physical abilities, the death size itself weighs more than 100 kg, and at the same time it is Ray, who has extraordinary physical abilities.Originally planned to mow off his legs, Custe's blow causes numbness in his hands due to the strength of his strength, which was strengthened by his death-size handle.
　But it won't stop.Using the force of the blow, he rotates on the spot and tries to strike a blow by wielding a magic spear from Ray's left side.
　He dodged the blow quickly backward, saw a demon spear pass before him, and then kicked the ground quickly to kill Custe.

"Don't die,"

　muttering, hammering a death-size pattern at Custe's pigeon-tail!
　It was a blow to re-establish Custe's consciousness.

"But what!"

　For some reason Custe remained conscious when he was struck by the dove.
　Certainly, Custe is equipped with a full-plate full-body armor, so it is highly defensive.but this was a blow which had broken even his armour and delivered it to the dove.But while he was struck by the blow, which would have almost certainly fainted, Custe remained conscious, with his expression distorted in agony.

"HahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahToday's Custes hardly imitate losing consciousness... No, they can't.That's how much it has been strengthened.But in return, the whole body must be in terrible pain.Hey, Custe, how do you feel? Isn't it a great humiliation to Custe, who is so proud that he can't lose his consciousness?"

　Ver, who laughs as if it's really interesting.

"...let's see,"
"What? Did you say? I don't want to hear you complain about killing me anymore."
"Kill me... avenge him, Ray!"