Slime that emerged from the core of a dungeon that was found in the repository was somehow destroyed. and the purple mist that remains when the slime is spat out or knocked down. When Ray stepped out of the vault to signal the danger of the fog, he saw two guards falling to the ground.

"Is that fog a deadly poison after all?"

　Ray ran to the two fallen men, throwing them up.

「……！？」

　I notice the security guard nearby looking desperately at me.

"This is not poison," Paralysed!?"

　You must have heard the voice. a guard who barely moves, but manages to nod.

(d*mn it, does this purple fog have a paralytic effect? Why wasn't it working for me or Seto? Is it magical power when you think about the magic fever? No, now it's more about action than thinking about it.)

　When we looked at the storage where we had come out, purple smoke was pouring out of the open doors and all over the building.

"Set!"
"Grunt!"

　Understanding what he wants to say to Ray, he shrieks sharply and turns his back to Ray.
　Upon confirming this, Ray also placed the guard he was carrying on Sett's back and the other guard on Sett's back as well.
　Normally, only one person can fly in the sky, but fortunately, there is no need to fly in this case. If I was going to run on the ground, it didn't have much effect on me even if I tried to put two people on my back.

"Here we go. Join Sazanas anyway!"
"Ringling!"

　One and one of them nodded to the voice and left the cellar.
　Fortunately for the inhabitants of the city of Barr, the core of the dungeon appeared in a repository with few houses around it. The damage from the purple fog was therefore much less than it would have been in the middle of the city. however

"Run away! If you touch that fog, you'll be paralyzed and stuck!"

　To say that there are few houses, on the contrary, is to say that there are a few. Ray therefore runs towards the center of the city where the guilds and lords' houses are located, shouting around him.
　Whether it's a purple fog or a will of some kind, it starts to move slowly and very slowly, unlike ordinary fogs.
　As a result, residents around Ray's voice sensed the change and managed to escape from the purple fog.

"What is that mist! Purple mist!? I've never seen or heard of it before!"
"Father, my father is still home with a fever!"
"Where are you, Rigles?"

　A man who screams frantically, a woman who couldn't help her family because she was desperate to escape from the fog, and a mother who desperately searched for her child because she couldn't see him.
　While watching such a resident, he bites his lips slightly and screams again.

"Go to the center of the city! If you stay here, you'll be stuck in that fog!"

　Screaming, Ray also heads to the center as the people around him begin to move.
　In the midst of this, a few inhabitants stood there, perhaps broken by the phenomenon following the magic fever, and were just staring at the fog approaching them in amazement.





"Hey!"

　Arriving near the center of the city, he suddenly calls out for a breather. It goes without saying who the voice is, for I've been working with it since this morning.

"Sasanas!"
"What's going on? What's that purple fog?"

　Sazanas, perhaps confused again, grabs Dragon Robes by the chest and yells at them.
　Fortunately, the fog is so slow that it hasn't eroded the city so much from its eastern repository. Most of the people who lived in the east side of the city had already gathered in this central area, with nearly a few hundred people. In the midst of all this, Sazanas could easily find Ray because Seto, the glyphon, stood out.

"Calm down! The people living in the city are worried about you, the captain of the security force. I'll explain... But the first thing to do is to report to Ms. Deerlogo and the guildmaster. Show me around."
"... All right,"

　Sasanas nods a little, gives quick instructions to the guards around him, drops the guards on the back of Seto, and guides him to the lord's residence. Sett had descended on the roof of a nearby building at Ray's request, watching for any changes in the fog's movement.
　The guards have opened the lord's residence to accommodate the elderly, women and children, or the sick. Ray is led to Deerlog's office while staring sideways at him.
　In addition to Deerlogo and Seith, the office features several elderly and middle-aged men and women. Just as some of them try to speak to Ray, who comes into the room and says what he's done, Seith opens her mouth as if to keep the others in check.

"Oh, are you here?" Can you explain what is going on?"
"...yes. To put it simply, I think the cause of the fever is probably the core of the dungeon found by me and Sasanas."

　the nucleus of a dungeon As for the story, Dierlogo told me while Sazanas was looking outside. Still, when Ray's words came out of his mouth, which he had confirmed with his own eyes, the movement of his mouth stopped to prompt him to continue.

"And can we assume that the purple fog that is making a fuss outside is the core work of that dungeon?"

　Rey nods to Seith's words. He continues his explanation with the eyes of those around him as well as the eyes of Sasanas.

"I couldn't do anything about it at my own discretion if something the size of a Dungeon's core came out, so I asked Mr. Deerlogo and Mr. Seith to go to Sasanas for instructions."
"Well, this mess happened while you were listening to Sazanas."
"Yes, after Sasanas ran to report, I was watching for any abnormalities in the dungeon's core. Fortunately, I had settled down for a while on the subject of witch fever, so I thought there was nothing in particular."
"Did something happen?"
"Yes. I thought the nucleus of the dungeon started to pulsate, and suddenly it released countless amorphous slime."
"... slime?"

　mutter a middle‐aged man in his office as if he had been surprised.
　That's probably the case. I can't believe that slime was the cause of an event that even had to worry about the destruction of the city. It was the first word that seemed like a joke for a man. It was the same for others, but only three. Deerlogo, Sace, and Sazanas were the only differences. Sayce knows how magical Ray is, and Deerlogo is an adventurer sent by Marina, a former party member, and Sayce, a close friend of hers, is impressing on her ability. And above all, as a former adventurer, Ray had a sense of his ability. Sasanas also had the ability to see how good Ray was.

"It wasn't just slime, was it?"

　Sayce opens his mouth, covering a middle-aged man who was about to open his mouth like a slime.
　We don't have time to argue and rub our responsibilities.
　Ray nods at such a scene and continues to explain."Yes, I was blowing purple mist out of my body. I thought it was dangerous and attacked him, but when he was fatally damaged, he turned his whole body into a purple fog and disappeared."
"Purple fog... I see. Is that the main source of fog that now exists in the east? By the way, do you know the effect of the fog?"

　When Seith asked, Ray's mind was filled with two guards guarding the East vault.
　I didn't examine the symptoms in detail, but it was clear that I was paralyzed and unable to move. And even though Ray and Seto were breathing in the purple fog, they were able to act normally.

"What we know now is that if you inhale or touch that fog, you'll be paralyzed. That's what the two guards in front of the eastern cellar looked like. However, it's only an effect that you can see right away, so there's a possibility that there's still some other effect. And..."
"And?"
"Me and Seto could move normally in that fog. In particular, I'm knocking down quite a lot of fog-generating slime. However, I don't feel paralyzed at all. and perhaps it can be automatically invalidated if it has some magical powers, just like the magic fever."

　If you have magic, you can invalidate the effect of fog. Those in the office who have heard the words breathe a sigh of relief when they find that they can manage to settle the matter.
　But there was a man who put a stop to it. I'm Sazanas listening to Ray in this room.

"Wait a minute, Ray," Once again, the soldier in front of the eastern cellar was paralyzed, was he the one we spoke of when we entered the cellar?"
"Huh? Oh, that's for sure."

　When Ray sees him nod, he frowns slightly, breathes a sigh and opens his mouth.

"Then... Mr. Deerlogo, Mr. Seith." And everyone else, too. This might be a little dangerous."
"... I see,"

　You must have understood what Sazanas meant. Seith also had a bitter expression on her face.
　Next to it, the Deer logo frowns as well.

"What's wrong with you? If you can work in that fog, can't you deal with it?"

　Sasanas shakes his head again and opens his mouth to the question of the city's powerful man in his office.

"East storage... or rather, all the guards who were active today had such magical powers as not to catch the epidemic." In other words, it would take someone with even more magical powers to nullify that fog than not to be infected with the disease."
"Well, what exactly do you know?"
"Unfortunately, Ray, who is there, seems to have a lot of magical powers, and since he has actually disabled the fog, I think there is no problem."
"So we have to trust the fate of this city to have Ray destroy the Dungeon's nuclear weapons?"

　Should Ray, who is still safe to call him a boy, have his life put in the hands of an adventurer in another city, not in this city? Ray interrupts the middle-aged man, who clapped his fist into his lap in such indignation.

"Sazanas. I forgot to tell you, but the nucleus of the dungeon has already been destroyed. Because they kept spewing out a lot of fog‐producing slime. I've been there to ask you what to do with the dungeon's core, but I want you to understand that it's an emergency measure."
『……』

　Rey's words silence people around him.
　Of course it's not silence by despair. It was simply a silence that left me dumbfounded me.
　I thought I had to worry about how to destroy the Dungeon's nucleus, which is the cause of the purple fog that causes paralysis, but I was told that the main cause had already been destroyed.

"...was it going to be a labyrinthine city?"

　Ray asks, with a slight bad feeling about the silence around him, but that worry ends in vain.
　for the next moment the faces of those in the office shone with hope.
　And the master of this room, Dierlogo, approaches Ray with an excited look and repeatedly taps him on the shoulder.
　The power was undoubtedly damaged if Ray was wearing a normal robe instead of a dragon robe.

"You did a great job. It's true that the core of the dungeon is too good to say, but it's not that bad when asked if they want it to damage the city. What I am entrusted with is the safety of the inhabitants of this city. No, you did a great job. "Sace!"

　Praise Ray and then call Seith.
　His gaze was not full of joy until a few seconds ago, but he was already acting as a deputy lord of the city. The quickness of switching around here may be the reason why Deerlogo is excellent.
　And Seith also nodded immediately because of her long-standing relationship with Deerlogo.