The day after I had exposure sex with Elise, I was visiting The Ideal Home of the Legendary Gods.
Actually, I've been here once.
I dived into this labyrinth unprepared and, naturally, tore to death in Kobolt.
But when I was supposed to die, I woke up again in a room I had no idea of, and there I learned how to attack this world, Arcadia in the Labyrinth.
I mean, this is where I started.
The starting point where I started now..................
"Kane, huh?
Elise looked at me worryingly when she realized.
"Oh, I'm fine. I was just thinking."
When I said that and smiled back, I stepped into the labyrinth.
This labyrinth is all 100 hierarchies, but there is a medium boss who is the main boss of that hierarchy for each hierarchy, a little stronger than the small boss for every 10 hierarchies. In addition, there is a story boss in a particular hierarchy who will be the boss of that chapter, and Oriole, whom we are about to defeat this time, is also the story boss.
Oriole will appear at the same time as defeating the 10-tier boss, so first-sight players will be forced into a painful streak.
Additionally, if you are obsessed with slave custom after watching the Oriole Awakening Event and leave the attack unattended, it is no longer a strength that you can defeat in the end, and if you are bad, it can mean starting over from the beginning. Around here, I can hear something like the meanness of production, which has opened up Yakikomi elements since the beginning.
Once you know how to communicate, it's not that difficult if only at the beginning and it's supposed to be, because all you have to do is step on it at once in the next sun of the awakening event to defeat the Oriole in a helo state after boosting it with a title.
Honestly, Oriole is able to defeat you even if you haven't had a title boost, so now that you've had a title boost, you should be able to defeat him with a cross nose.
The only thing we need to be aware of is that demons have the skill❞ of special attack on❝ humanity. This is a demon's Special Attack that deals huge damage to the Defense Ignore. Moreover, a demon warfare limited state anomaly called Souldrain is added, which absorbs HP at every turn. This will not heal until you defeat the Demon Man.
When a character who hasn't raised this eats it poorly, he dies instantly, even if he doesn't, he dies scraping his HP at every turn.
In this world, death is absolute. Dead characters bought slaves, as well as fixed characters like Elise, lost and never went back. Immediate game over if the protagonist dies.
It's a very tough game for the character's death. Well, I can tell you that the world itself is an anomaly to come back to life even if you die.
"I'm going to go up to three levels at once today"
"Huh? At once?
Elise with a slightly surprised face.
Naturally, the labyrinth is usually hung for one more week, even if it goes smoothly, and it is common to hang for two days even on the lower tier up to the fifth floor where the map is sold.
That's insane up to three levels in a day.
I guess Elise, who was the innkeeper's daughter, knows that.
But that's a tale of merit.
Our enemies now have armored sleeves. You just have to be wary of crits by accident.
Plus if you're up to five levels, there's a map, and it shouldn't be impossible to tower up to three levels in a day.
Of course, there's a reason you can't make it this far.
That's because I really want to check where Oriol was asleep.
In the game, after the protagonist passes through a point on three levels, an event occurs in which Oriole wakes up.
Whenever the protagonist then explores the labyrinth, or by the passage of days, an event is inserted in which rumors of a novice hunt are told in the city.
And when the protagonist defeats ten tiers of enemies, he encounters Oriol. The Devil's Sword awakens and the main character defeats the Devil.
What I'd like to see is where that Oriole was asleep.
Where it was just a main road when the first protagonist passed by, after the Oriole revival, there was a crack in it, and a small room existed ahead of it. It's only like a fragment of a crushed crystal inside, but this is the crystal that was on Oriole's sleep, and if there is one, then Oriole's resurrection is certain.
"I really need to check something out in a hurry."
"Ugh, yeah. Okay."
Elise nods in confusion.
Confirm that and check the map and proceed at the shortest distance.
Coming out on one level is Cobolt Only, with no special arming. "The Ideal Home of the Legendary Gods" is not pushed in numbers because it also has four to five enemies and a party unit.
When the enemy came out, I decided to let Elise take him down and let her gain experience.
"Elise, there's a team of cobolts ahead"
I whispered quietly to Elise, sensing the enemy lurking ahead due to the enhanced sensation.
"Ugh, yeah."
"This time, Elise, you're gonna try and knock it down in the main."
"What!? Me?"
"Yes, of course. As a wall actor, don't worry, I'll protect Elise. But you do what you have to do to take him down."
Elise succeeded in getting significantly stronger with the title boost, but that doesn't lead to equals she's strong.
It takes getting used to attacking enemies moving around in action and never hitting your people.
Still, it will be manageable at lower levels because of its high ability status, but it is also possible that the unfamiliarity will be exploited when it suddenly hits an enemy with high difficulty.
This is how they will get used to it from the lower layers.
"Shall we go then?"
Proceed with the confused Elise as it is.
You don't have to convince me. Elise would be anxious right now, but the spiritual upset of it is still part of her accustom.
After a few dozen meters, the Kobolts noticed us and threatened us.
I stood in a position where I could protect her from Elise's rays while standing up against it.
"Elise!"
"Ugh, yeah!
Elise's wand, a fireball, was fired from beyond when she wondered if the firewand emitted red for a moment.
The fireball, made highly powerful by high magic and will, blew one arm of the cobolt that stood forward, hitting the cobolt that was further behind. I blew up my whole body.
If you only look at the results, you're good. But I found out that Elise was supposed to hit the cobolt that blew her arm off, and that she missed her aim and accidentally hit the cobolt that was behind her.
Nevertheless, the cobolts, who did not know that, were stunned by the power of the fireball, and watched the cobolts go around losing their arms with the eyes of fear.
"Elise, next!
"F, fireball!
I found out about Elise, who was stunned, and made her attack more and more. So Elise, who returned to me, let the fireball go one after the other.
Fireball repeatedly hits and detaches the Cobolts. The Kobolts were desperate to avoid fireballs and never even came this way.
Eventually I turned to Elise to confirm that I had defeated all the cobolts.
"Hmm, 13 fireballs against five cobolts"
…………
Ugly Elise.
Her title-boosted sensation shouldn't be weird even in the hundreds.
"Wouldn't that be a good first?
For now I praised you. [M]
"Huh?"
"Ya, because it's practically a first line. I don't think it was a bad fight. Better calm down next time. I guess we'll hit it more, huh?
"Ugh, yeah!
Elise brightens her face with a puff.
There's nothing more to scold here than the MP I consumed, and I don't scold here because I don't know the difficulty of ranged attacks.
Basically, I am the type to praise and stretch.
Even then, Elise was left to attack every time she encountered Kobolt.
Elise was also getting better and better at grasping the feeling of high status, and by the time she came before a smaller boss, a bigger Kobolt opponent would almost be accurate.
The smaller boss was the opponent of Kobolt Leader and four of his surroundings, and the leader had backup skills to replenish the surroundings up to four once every two turns.
Naturally aimed first, the leader died without ever calling for reinforcements. I broke through the confusing surroundings.
The next two layers were also dominated by cobolts, but from here a ratbad emerges that messes this one up with a quick move.
Ratbad is a monster with bat feathers in the rat that grants him low attack but sick Bad status.
When you hang on a sick bad status, it's easier to hang than other conditions, and your status also decreases by %, so it's pretty good.
This Bad Status is mainly cured by potions, but it's pretty troublesome because serious Bad Status can't go back to the city and be treated in a healing home.
Moreover, the potion is high, and at the beginning the player will proceed frustrated.
Well, if it's our endurance this time. We won't get sick unless we attract such a low probability, and we've brought potions, so there's nothing to worry about.
Rather, Elise's training was convenient for these hard-to-hit enemies to appear at the beginning.
"Ah, already! Ugly!"
During the battle, Elise raises her frustrating voice.
The flickering, occasional biting rat bat had become a better substitute in the game than in real life.
It's unusual for Elise to put frustration on the table like this. Isn't that the first time you've been a slave? I guess that's all the rat bats are happy about.
Giving her one Advice with such a bitter smile.
"Focus more on your senses. Focus on your opponent's movements, not on hitting them."
"Yeah!"
Elise, who nodded back hard, stops hitting the Dark Cloud Fireball and observes the rat bat.
Eventually, releasing the fireball quickly, it captured the rat bat beautifully.
"Yay!
"Like! How's it going!"
"Yeah!"
The figure of Elise, who laughs naively, was from before she became my slave, and somehow I remembered a strange delight in it.
Even then, Elise grabbed the trick of magic shooting at her rat-bat opponent, reaching the bottom of the two-tier when she started hitting 80% of the way.
The little boss here is called a big bat, a dog-sized rat bat, but that's the other way around. Rather than a surrounding rat bat, there's a lot more to it.
Plus the Big Bat dropped the bat ear decorations that increase the hit rate, which equipped it to Elise.
And we reached the third level of our goal.
The main road I wanted to check was right at the entrance of the three levels. Probably to make sure the players get through there.
And more than the aisle caught my eye at a glance.
(Again, was there)
I stood in front of an empty hole on the main road. [M]
The end of the hole is a trail, and the space can be blurred beyond.
This also meant that the revival of Oriole was confirmed.
... To be honest, I had some expectations.
I was wondering if Oriole's resurrection was early on in my life, and I just thought it was linked to the work of the one who happened to do the stupid thing called novice hunting.
But now it's clear.
The Resurrection of Oriole is certain, and there is another Devil's Sword that revived it. And the owner of the Devil's Sword also knows the same tactics of this world as I do - I guess it's the same.
"Kane, huh?
Elise looked at me worried staring at the hole with a rugged face.
"I'm gonna take a peek in the hole, so wait."
"Ugh, yeah."
"I'll be right back."
That's how I get into the hole,
There was a strange cold air in the hole, which turned into a chill and ran through the spine.
Just a few meters down the trail. What was there was a small room about 2 meters on one side and fragments of crushed crystal.
I guess the fragments were brought back by the ancestors who noticed here, few big ones, but the small ones were still scattered on the ground.
Pinch up one of those grains. I feel like my fingertips are slightly numb even though I just have them.
This crystal looks like it's just a crystal at first glance, but it's actually something that the blood of a spilled demon has crystallized. The name is Devil Crystal.
Devil crystals have the power to amplify the evil of their owners, and the Devil crystals taken away from here will be the fabric stones that will cause disturbances around the world in the future.
Because I know it, I never intended to dive into this "ideal home of the legendary gods," and when I dived, I was going to collect all this crystal and destroy it or submit it to my country.
But it is unlikely that the same kind that opened up here would have discarded the crystals...
... I consider myself a crumby kind of person, and I don't mean to be on the side of justice or anything like that.
But now I'm the only one who knows that the world is about to be destroyed by one selfish human being.
I felt a hot sense of duty gushing out of my chest with wonder when I thought about it.
"I will defeat Oriole and the others who did this."
I murmured quietly in a room where no one was present, determined. [M]