479 Episode 0479



Four adventurers look stunned when they see more than 30 skeletons that have followed them in an instant turned into charcoal or cut off by the blade of the wind.
 Towards these four, Ray and Elena approach and call out.

"Are you all right?"
"Oh, no! We must run away rather than stay still here! I appreciate your help, but you had better get away from here! He... he's coming!"

 The man finally comes back to Ray's words and looks at the aisle where they have escaped in a different color and screams.
 Fear and despair are on his face.
 Arriving to the 16th basement, he looks so desperate that he doesn't think he's a more powerful adventurer.
 look at one's companions with fear and despair
 A woman warrior who lost her right arm above her shoulder and a man taking a portion out of her waist pouch to follow her.
 A man with a spear, who told him to run away to Ray, hurriedly opens his mouth to see the man taking out his part.

"Goth, how is Teabia!"
"Gut, gut, I'm all right? Anyway, now I'm just a little further away from him..."
"No, it's all I can do to stop bleeding in my own parts. Get out of the dungeon as soon as possible and treat it in a firm place. If you had at least a backpack containing a high-grade part...

 A man called Goth shook his head pale.
 the last person to see it A bandit-like man with a long sword opens his mouth, wary of the passage in which they fled.

"I'm sure, but if you, the porter, hadn't dropped your stuff and stopped them for a moment, we'd be the spooky one by now."

 Screeching, screeching, screeching, screeching, and the monster appears.
 Seeing the bones of the body, it's definitely a skeleton monster among the undead.
 But Ray, Elena and Sett understood that the skeleton was different from other skeletons the moment they saw it.
 No matter what, a normal skeleton doesn't have four arms, two pairs on each side. He is not nearly three meters in size. Moreover, green flames sway over the eyes of the skull, not exuding hatred.
 Furthermore, the deformed skeleton had a curved sword on all four arms, a sword called the Simiter.

"...what a rare skeleton again." Is this the kind of guy who comes out here?"

 The man with the spear screams as if he were not joking, perhaps because he was at fault for Ray's muttering.

"You can't be there! I've fought for a while, but he's definitely as powerful as a Rank B monster. And..."
"And?"

 In the middle of the conversation, the eyes of the man with the spear, who hesitated to speak, were directed at the place where the deformed skeleton stood. More precisely, it's the remains of a former skeleton lying underneath.
 the remains of a charred bone by Ray's magic, or a bone cut by Elena's magic.
 What's wrong with that? That's what Ray thought.

"Oh my gosh!"

 The moment the deformed skeleton raised a cry that sounded like from the bottom of the earth, something like a white mist was spewing out of its body, and then the mist gathered in dozens of human figures, dozens of skeletons appeared as if they were just there.

"...hey, as I expected, this is..."
"That's the skeleton that you knocked down earlier. What's worse is that a skeleton made like that won't knock you down, but you won't lose a stone. The only salvation is that they are much weaker than ordinary skeletons, but with that many, the difference in strength is not an issue."
"I don't think I can produce a skeleton indefinitely, but it's still the greatest trouble. I see."

 muttering, Simitar's sword in the deformed Skeleton's upper right arm turned to Rey, and at the same time Skeleton's army took a step towards him.

"Anyway, can you fight against such a monster?" We must run away now! What are you guys going to do?"

 The spearman screams as he takes a step down the aisle to the chamber where the magic is already located.
 Naturally, the Rays will run away with them. With that in mind, I spoke, but the words that came back were completely unexpected.

"Do you want to run away? Here? Well, I'm sure you'd normally do that... unfortunately, I know too much about that monster."

 As Ray says so while holding his death size, Elena also holds a connecting sword with a small smile.
 Yes, Ray knew the identity of the deformed skeleton in front of him. The day before, an adventurer of the Silwa family told me that he had seen a monster near here on the 15th basement level, and that there had been eyewitness accounts from those who believed to be creating the monster.
 I mean...

"Skeleton's anomaly?"

 Ray's words stop the party from leaving as soon as possible.
 Apparently, he didn't realize the possibility.
 Or perhaps one of the reasons why I didn't notice the existence of an abnormal species was that the party member, Tevia, was suddenly cut off from her right shoulder by Simiter.

"Is that a strange species...?"
"Well, it's natural to think that way, since he's a monster that shouldn't be in this hierarchy."

 The man holding the spear mutters in amazement, and the thief nods in agreement.
 Elena opens her mouth, looking at them and at Goth, who is giving a portion to Teavia, who has lost one arm.

"You'd better treat his wound as soon as possible. Leave this to us."
"...no, I'll stay and help you."
"Oh, Nacto!? What the hell are you thinking! If we stay here now, we'll just drag our feet!"
"Think cool, Esetus. Even if we were the only ones to escape from here, do you think we would be able to reach the magic room safely? As long as Tivia is injured and unable to fight, Goth is a porter, and I am a thief in the end. If you think about it, you are the only one who has pure fighting power. If there were more than one undead in that state... you know what I mean?"

 be undoubtedly wiped out At Nact's remark, Esetus bites his lips reflexively to retort something.
 I know. As long as Tiabia, who is said to be the strongest force in our party, loses one arm and is not able to fight, we have to become the main force, and we have to fight under the protection of Tiabia. If that happens, fighting multiple undeads along the way is highly likely to wipe out.
 But Esetus still thought he had a better chance of surviving than fighting the strangest species of skeletons heading towards him.

"Calm down, don't be confused. -- look at them."

 Nact, who calmly tells Esetus to calm down, turns his eyes to a group of skeletons.
 What was going on there was a one‐sided trampling.
 The flames spread in an instant, turning multiple skeletons into charcoal, and the next moment a whip-like connecting sword runs through the sky and cuts multiple skeletons. and the blow on the Gryphon's forefoot, which, though seemingly lightly struck, blows away several skeletons, smashes into walls, floors, or fellow skeletons.
 Against Skeleton, who is attacking us in numbers we've struggled with, as if we were walking in a field... no, we're going to get rid of him as if we're cutting off a disturbing branch on a mountain path.
 Ray, who had originally set fire from a long distance, is now cutting, breaking and destroying with a huge sickle like Esetus had never seen before.

"Oh, that's a lie...""It's a reality. And with them, it's highly likely that we'll be able to escape from the dungeon safely."
"But it's not easy to drag my feet..."

 Nacto's words make Esetus even more eager.
 But Nact grabs him by the shoulder as he turns to Esetus.

"That's enough. I know you're afraid of that strange species. But are you willing to put everyone at risk with your own will, including Tivia, who has lost her right arm?"
"Slip..."

 Esetus stops moving as if he were penetrated by Nact's gaze. But after a few seconds of silence, he nods reluctantly.

"All right. ... It will be difficult for us to get out of the dungeon on our own." But will they act with us? Why don't you say you're going to go ahead, not back to the wizards?"
"...I'll try to persuade you then." I have very little to give you as a reward, but if I could give you my body -- well, if only I could give you a woman without one arm like this."

 Tivia interrupts after first aid by tying the wound with a cloth held by the potion and the goth.
 It is true that today's teabias are stained with sweat, blood and mud, but everyone in the room knew they could still be described as beautiful in their own way if they were properly groomed.
 In fact, after a one-sided crush on Tevia, some seemed to challenge Esetus to a duel for what he misunderstood.
 It was because he knew from those experiences that he was well-featured enough to see himself.
 But...

"You'd better stop it. That would be quite the opposite effect."

 The muttering gaze of Nact was on Elena, who had gathered several skeletons and cut them with a whip-like connecting sword.
 Following Nact's gaze, Tivia understands the meaning of Nact's words with her instinct as a woman.

"Well, then what are you going to do? If you ask me to come back to the wizardry, I don't know if I'll accept it if I don't get paid."
"... I see. Even if it's your arm, you'll have to take care of it as soon as possible. Is it true that we should do it as soon as possible?"

 Tivia was not expressive, but she still had one arm amputated. I can't help but feel pain.
 The evidence is that there is a lot of sweat on my forehead, and it's obvious that I'm thin and patient with the pain.
 Understanding this makes the three feel frustrated about their lack of power.
 It was especially regrettable that Goth dropped his rucksack, the seed of his business as a porter, when he ran away.

(Some of them were advanced...)

 And even though they said they would stay here and cooperate with Ray and Elena, there is not much difference between Esetus and Nact, who can't find a chance to show their differences in ability in front of them.

"Fly off!"

 I hear such a voice, and Ray's huge sickle cuts the bodies of several skeletons in half and flies in the wrong direction.

"Can you use the magic of the wind other than fire?"

 In Esetus' stunned words and gaze, the enemy blocking the way between Ray and the strangest skeleton had disappeared, and Ray had kicked the cobble to make room for it.





 Denying Skelton in front of him -- a person he could call Skelton's Momentum because he doesn't have a magical stone -- Ray continues to shake his death size and close his gap with the strange species.
 Seeing that his shield, Skeleton's, had disappeared, the aberrant tried to create Skeleton's, burning his green eyes hatefully in his skull, once again out of his body.
 To prevent it, the abnormal species leaps backward with a swift movement that makes it almost impossible to believe it is a skeleton, and turns the tips of the four simitars held in the four arms to Ray.

"... well, I knew it, but for a skeleton he is a very accomplished artist."

 Smiling at his lips, he just looked around him for a moment.
 Most of the skeletons produced by the anomalies by Elena and Sett had already disappeared, and it was only a matter of time before many leaned toward Ray.
 But...

"Oh my gosh!"

 It barks unacknowledged, and the abnormal species, burning their green shining eyes with hatred for the living, wielding Simitars and attacking Ray.