"Wow, oh, oh, "Oh, my God!"

　Ver, whose left arm was cut off from his shoulder, was holding his ugly, melting face with his right hand, bleeding incessantly.
　Ray was surprised by his ugly face and stopped moving for a moment, but he tried to shake down his death size as if he had made it.

"Gruly!"

　I heard Sett's urgent cry from behind me, and at the same time I realized something was coming towards me, and I immediately shook my death-size down.

「……」

　But he was the one who came to me.In other words, Golem, who was supposed to have been fighting Seto, did not even take evasive action, but exposed himself to the blade as if he had hit Death Size, and was cut into two by the blade of Death Size, which had been penetrated by magic.

(Oh my gosh!)

　Ray leaps backward with almost a reflex, but earlier than that, the Golem, cut in half by a death-size blade, glows...

　It's roaring!

　Then, it explodes, scattering blasts around it.
　Ray, who received the blow at close range, appears completely unhurt after the explosion was over, and, instead, the Magic Shield floating around Ray disappears like a haze.

(No way it's a suicide bombing.The Magic Shield is not damaging, but...! What about Ver?!)

　Shake his death size and persistently blow away the remaining smoke to look for Ver.
　He had lost his left shoulder, and though he did not think that he could escape with his face melted uglyly, he quickly looked around him saying that he was alert until he stopped breathing, but his voice was heard from a place where smoke still remained.

"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

　he declares, distorting his face with a sharp pain in his left shoulder... and making his already melted face even uglier.
　and the only thing left was a jewel in his right hand, and he tried to strike it to the ground.

"Let me go!"

　Quickly develop a list of mistrings into your mind.He takes out the needle displayed at the top of the list and throws it quickly at Ver, who was about to hit the ground with the jewel.
　The needle, released with sharpness and rapidity as if cutting through the air, pierced Ver's right thigh like a bird of prey, dripping poison.
　Strangely enough, the needle Ray threw was released as a trap on the fifth basement floor of the dungeon, and Ver released it and Ray received it.

"d*mn, you'll do it to the very end.But I'll win this game!"

　The poison needle, thrown by Ray's power, penetrated Ver's leather armour and pierced his right thigh, but, irrespective of this, he struck the ground with the jewel he had held, scattering the same or more dazzling flashes around him than the one Golem had just fired.

"Phew, set!"
"Grunt!"

　I don't know what's going on, but I tell Seto that I can't let her go.
　Responding to his voice, Seto releases Wind Arrow and Rei also releases a flying sword.
　But...

"...disappeared?"A dazzling flash that illuminates the surroundings.After the flash had disappeared, Ver was nowhere to be seen, and as if it were proof that he had been there until a short time ago, the blood that flowed when his left arm was cut off on the ground, and the amputated left arm of Ver was lying a little further away.
　and in the back of the room, on the wall at the end of which Ver was standing, there were some great scars which seemed to have been cut by a flying sword, and some of the scars which Wind Arrow had hollowed out.
　Ray had reached the answer to what Ver had used.Perhaps spatial magic was contained in the jewel that hit the ground.It's also a kind of space movement, so-called transition magic.It is very difficult to give spatial magic to magic items, not to mention the scarcity value of item boxes.However, it could have been done with the technology of the Bestian Empire if it was only one-time disposable.

(but only if we had the same level of alchemy as the Magical City of Ozos...)

　With a sigh, he hurried down to Elena, judging that there was no more danger by repelling Ver, who was also a bug in the lion's body.
　Put your finger on the back of your neck, make sure you have a pulse, and breathe out a sigh of relief.and his gaze turned to Custe, who lay next to Elena.

"... Custe,"

　It was evident from his open eyes that Custe, who lay by Elena's side, was cut short.However, from the satisfactory smile on his face, it was conceivable that he had probably passed away after confirming that Ray had repelled Ver.

"He didn't like it....that's for sure.But you passed away acting as a bodyguard to Elena.That's the only thing I'll admit."

　Arms are folded on the chest, and the helmet is removed to close the eyes.
　Most of the full-plate mail that covered the body was crushed by Ray's death-size blow, leaving only the insteps and insteps of the hands and feet, and the helmet that he just removed.

"Glu".

　Ray ignored Custe like air, but Seto was plainly hostile.Nevertheless, he must have had some thoughts after seeing the conversation.The sound of a small cry in the back of his throat seemed to Ray as if he were praying for his soul.

"The question is... what happened to the succession ceremony?"

　muttering his gaze to the altar of succession.
　The magical stones of the Ensent Dragon, which should have been there, are scattered around in pieces due to Ver's blow.
　What is fortunate is that 70% of the misfortunes have already been absorbed by Elena.But...

(The ritual of succession should be to absorb everything.I could only absorb it up to 70% of the time.How will this turn out?)

　Elena was still faint at the end of her eyes.The sight of her unconscious and her eyes closed nevertheless highlights Elena's beauty.

"I can't do anything about it without Arla and Elena waking up.I don't know if I can carry it as it is."

　Ray had no choice but to wait for the two of them to wake up because he did not know how the fainting in the magic camp would affect the ceremony.
　and took a clean cloth out of the mistling and hung it on the cusp for a few hours.

"Well... "

　It was not Elena who awoke first, but Arla,

"...are you up, Arra?"
"Ray... my lord?"

　Arra wakes up and looks around without understanding the situation for a moment.

"What!? Mr. Elena!"

　He seems to have remembered an incident that was about to faint, so he quickly got up and looked around him.
　Then he sees Elena faint by the altar of succession, and Ray grabs her hand as he tries to run up to her."Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
"Lay, please let go, Mr. Elena!"
"Calm down! Elena has been forced to finish her succession ceremony in the middle! It's dangerous to move her body carelessly from the wizards in that state! You never know what's going to happen!"

　Arra glared at Ray with half-killful eyes, but Elena must have reacted to the word "dangerous."Gradually, the bloodshed overflowing from his body was absorbed.

"...I'm sorry,"
"Don't worry, I know how much you love Elena, and it's no wonder."

　Finally, she calmed down and took the bottle out of the mistling.It's wine that I bought in the town of Gilm.
　Ray himself is not that strong at alcohol.But I still drank to the point of taste, and I bought it for a rainy day -- for a rainy day.
　Pull the cork out of the bottle, pour it into the glass, and hold it out toward the arra.

"Drink for now.It will calm you down a little."
"...I'm sorry,"

　Little by little, little by little, and drinking wine. His face was melancholy, and it was easy for Ray to imagine that he was thinking about Ver's betrayal.And...

"...what? Mr. Ray, Ver betrayed him.I understand. ... What about Custe, then? Maybe Custe, too.

　Did you betray Custe?Ray interrupted Arla, who was about to continue, and turned his eyes to the clean cloth near Elena.

"Guru..."

　Seto also lies on the ground and looks at Custe's body while receiving Ray's weight.

"What? ... oh, no way...You're lying, aren't you?

　Putting the cup in his hands on the ground, he nervously approached Couste's corpse and gently shifted the covering cloth.
　where he was, with a smile of satisfaction and blood all over his mouth, the face of the peaceful death of Custe.

"Why... why! Why is Custe dead?"

　Arra hits the stone pavement as if driven by passion, and the strength of the stone pavement causes cracks and shattered fragments to fly around.
　After a few minutes of beatings on the stone pavement, he forcibly wiped away his tears and turned his eyes to Ray.

"Tell me, Mr. Ray,"Is it -- Ver, who did this?""... oh,"
"What was the end of Custe?"

　The skin was ripped from the fist and blood was dripping from the flesh.As if he hadn't noticed it, he clenched his fist... not only from the back of his hand, but also from the back of his hand, his nails ripped the skin off his palm, and blood was dripping from there.

"Do you remember Ver having let Custe drink his own water bottle several times after he went into this dungeon?"
"...yes,"
"There must have been some magic in the water bottle.The effect of the magic made Custe a puppet of Ver."
"Oh! But Ver himself was drinking that water bottle!"
"He seems to have prepared an antidote.Then you can use magic items to improve your physical abilities and fight me..."

　It was when he muttered so.Arra's eyes turn toward Ray in a murderous mood.

"And it was Mr. Ray who killed Custe?"

　He shook his head from side to side, feeling the murderous feeling that he was being hurled all over his body.

"for even then I was superior to Custe.I hit him hard with a death-size handle and destroyed the armour on his torso, and then before Custe came in again, it was a battle between me and Ver... ...and Ver was throwing a little golem under the cover of the battle dossa.It's rolling over there, isn't it?"

　At the end of Ray's gaze was Golem, who had stopped functioning after being stabbed in the torso with a dagger.
　There is still a long sword in Golem's hand.

"I don't know how Custe did it when Golem tried to attack Elena, but he broke the bondage of the magic and sheltered her..."
"If it's Ray's ability!"

　Ahla utters a cry that makes it sound like a blood-spitting cry, but immediately stops the cry of condemnation and turns down.
　He must have held his hand even stronger than before.The amount of blood dripping from that hand to the ground is increasing.

"...no, it's impossible for me to say anything about it after I fainted.and, seeing Custe's face, he passed away contentedly, so it would be meaningless for me to blame him here.If you are going to avenge me, I will avenge Ver."

　With determination, Ray takes the portion out of the mistling while looking at the aura she utters to engrave the word on herself.

"Cure the wound first."
"Yes, I'm sorry,"

　Sprinkle the bottle with the lotion on the right hand of the dominant arm, and within 30 seconds, Arra's right hand recovers without a scratch.

"And what should Mr. Elena do?"

　Arra is determined to kill Ver with her own hands and looks at Elena, who has not woken up yet, in the center of the magic team, perhaps because her hand wound has healed, but Ray just shakes his head from side to side.

"I can't do anything about it unless I know what the ritual of succession is.I've already confirmed that you have a pulse, so I think it's better to wait for you to wake up.Fortunately, there seems to be no monster at the bottom of the ladder."
"But can't we just wait like this for a long time?"
"Well, we still have plenty of room for food, and the monster meat is in the item box, but I don't think sleeping here is good for your health.and if you don't wake up after waiting for the second half of the day, I'll take you out of course.

　Ray takes out an hourglass, which is also a magic item, from the item box.

"This hourglass takes two hours for the sand to fall.If this takes half a day and Elena doesn't notice..."I guess he understood what Ray meant.Arra nods a little.

"All right,"

　Thus, they waited for the time to pass without speaking to each other's words.