Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou (WN)

Escape Path

"Damn, why not..."

Three days after killing the claw bear, Hajime kept searching for a path leading to the upper floor.

Eighty percent of this hierarchy has already finished exploring. After eating the claw bear, the status jumped again, and now there is no threat to Hajime in this hierarchy, and the search for what is vast was underway on a steep pitch. Nonetheless, no matter how much you look for, you won't find anything.

No, there is an argument that nothing can be found. It is precisely the path to the "upper floors", which we discovered two days ago if the path to the "lower floors". If this is a labyrinth and it's hierarchical, there must be a way to the upper floors, but I can't find it.

It should be noted that we have already tried the method of gently ignoring what the dungeon is that we should not create a path directly to the upper floors with smelting.

As a result, it was found that whether up or down, the wall would somehow cease to react to smelting if it proceeded within a certain range. I can smell as much as I want within that hierarchy, but maybe it hangs with some kind of protection when it comes to up and down. This [Orcs Great Labyrinth] is a mysterious labyrinth created in the Divine Age. No matter what happens, no wonder.

That's why I'm searching the tunnel for my way up to the top floor, but if I can't find it, I'm going to need to make a decision. Diving deeper into this great labyrinth.

"... Is it a dead end? Now we've checked all the branches. What the hell is going on?"

Huh - and Hajime giving up his path to the upper floor, which he ended up not finding with a deep sigh of sigh. Then we go to a room with a staircase downstairs that we discovered two days ago.

What a mess the stairs were made of.

You might be right to say a bumpy ramp rather than a staircase. And beyond that, it was closed to dark darkness in the absence of green stones, creating an eerie atmosphere. It's like the mouth of a giant monster. You can't come out again once you let it in, that feeling floats naturally.

"Ha! Premium, whatever it is, don't kill him and eat him."

Hajime laughed invincibly at Ni and his mouth as he laughed at his thoughts like that with his nose. And I walked into the dark without hesitation.

The hierarchy was dark anyway.

That's more common than being an underground labyrinth, but all the hierarchies I've dived before were green stone existent and not so dim that I couldn't see ahead.

But apparently there are no green stones in this hierarchy. Hajime stopped on the spot for a while and hoped his eyes would get used to it and become somewhat visible, but it didn't make as much difference after how long.

I had no choice but to take the green stone out of the impromptu backpack created with the fur of the nail bear and the smelted wire and use it as a light.

To be clear, if there were demons, such as having a light source in the dark, it would be tantamount to suicide, but Hajime broke it off that he could not proceed without doing so. However, you can't block your right hand, so brace it from your elbow to your left arm without a tip.

Moving on for a while, I felt something gleaming behind the aisle, and Hajime maximized his vigilance.

As far as possible, as he was proceeding in hiding behind things, he accidentally felt an unpleasant sign on his left. Turning to the green stone as he jumped away, there was a grey lizard about two metres long, stuck on the wall, staring at the hazy with golden eyes.

And, at that time, its golden eyes lit up for a moment.

The next moment,

"Huh!?

Hajime's left arm starts petrifying as he makes a crisp noise. The petrification was immediately petrified by the bracketed green stone in seconds, which made a barbed noise and scattered. The light source is lost and the darkness covers the area. The petrification of the arm was progressing and had already eroded to the shoulder.

As Hajime struck his tongue, he took the divine water out of the holster of the pocket made of demonic hide and wire and swallowed it all at once. Then, as expected, the petrification stopped, and when I saw it, I returned the petrified part to normal.

"You did it!" He threw up a bad state on the inside, and when he took the "flashing grenade" out of his hip pouch, he threw it into the area where the gold-eyed lizard was. At the same time, the golden eye sparkled again across the darkness. I don't mind not seeing the hajime. "Use the shrinkage and leave the scene in an instant.

Then the color of the rock that was behind the place where the hazy thing was changed slightly, and then collapsed as it weathered. I guess he has a fairly powerful evil eye for petrification. Something like basilisk if you say it in RPG?

With that in mind, Hajime closed his eyes gleefully as he pulled out the donner and shielded the barrel in front of him.

At that moment, kah! and intense flashes fill the perimeter, filling the vision with light.

"Kua!?

A basilisk figure emerges in darkness confused by the amount of light that you probably have never felt before.

Hajime just fired. A magnificently powerful bullet sucks into the basilisk's head aimlessly, crushing the skull and ravaging the contents. The bullet penetrated deep into the back wall as it was, making the sound of burning shoe and rock skin. Electromagnetic acceleration is causing high temperatures to occur where they hit. It would be powerful because it is heat resistant and a hard taur ore.

Hajime quickly cut off the meat and left the scene as he approached the basilisk while alerting his surroundings. You can't even relax and eat on a boulder in a situation where you can barely see anything. Hajime decided to proceed with his exploration first.

Hajime keeps walking in the dark. Already, my physical senses have kept me searching for dozens of hours, but I have yet to find a staircase downstairs. On the road, Hajime decided to create a base as many demons he defeated and ore he collected were inconvenient to carry.

Start smelting with your hands on the wall in the right place. There was no particular problem with the hole in the wall and a passage to the back. Hajime smelted continuously, creating about six tatami spaces. Then, don't forget to remove the blue and white ore the size of the basketball from the backpack and install it at the edge of the wall. It's a god crystal I brought up. Underneath it is also set a container that receives a solid drop of water.

By the way, Hajime calls the Divine Crystal "Potion Stone" and the Divine Water "Potion". Sure, it's a typical healing pill for the game, but the sense of appropriateness seeps around where the effects are out of step but just potion calling.

"Well, then, do you want to mesh quickly"

Hajime removes the meat (created by smelting) placed in a container from the backpack. And he began to burn with lightning. Today's menu is a round roasted basilisk and a round roasted owl that flies its feathers like a shotgun and a round roasted six-legged cat. There are no seasonings.

"I'll have it."

As I was eating muggles, the pain gradually began to run on my body. That means your body is fortified. So I guess the demons here are more powerful than nail bears. Indeed, the combination of the environment of darkness and inherent magic was troublesome. Most importantly, if the shooting by the donner hit, they would all be fine wood dust, so Hajime didn't really feel it.

Hajime continues to ignore the pain while drinking divine water. Hajime, who started with phantom limb pain and continued to suffer, was completely more resistant to pain.

"Mugu, hoo, welcome. Now, the status..."

That's what I say. Hajime taking out the status plate. The current state of Hajime......

Nagumo Hajime, 17. Man Level: 23

Occupation: Smelter

Muscle strength: 450

Health: 550

Resistance: 350

Agility: 550

Magic Power: 500

Magic: 500

Skills: smelting [+ mineral-based appraisal] [+ precision smelting] [+ mineral-based exploration] [+ mineral separation] [+ mineral fusion] - magic manipulation - gastric acid enhancement - wrapped thunder - Tianbu [+ aerodynamic] [+ shrinkage] - wind claws - night vision - sign sensing - petrochemical resistance - language understanding

It had risen significantly as expected. There appear to be three more skill fields. If you look closely, you do see much more around you than earlier.

Apparently, this is the effect of "night vision". I also feel shoboyish for a Natsuo demon, but it's a hell of an advantage in this hierarchy.

Later, it would be literal skill. What is spared is why the intrinsic ability of basilisk is "resistant" and not "petrified". "The Evil Eye of Petrification! or something cool......" and it was a slightly dismaying hazy.

Hajime then began to smelt to replenish the consumables.

Bullets use concentration without interruption to make a single shot. Anyway, it is a super precision product. We need to fit the size perfectly so that the rifling engraved on the donner doesn't become meaningless. The amount of explosives compressed is also unacceptable for mistakes. It takes nearly half an hour to make a single shot. I think it was well made myself. Humans, I admired myself that when life and death took place, it was something that exerted tremendous power.

Most importantly, there is no complaining about the power for the effort involved, and there is no dissatisfaction because the proficiency of smelting increases sharply.

In the shade, it became easier to remove impurities from the minerals and divide them by ingredient, and vice versa. In fact, Hajime's smelting techniques are now at the leading level compared to those of the kingdom's direct blacksmiths.

Hajime continues to smell silently. There's only one level down yet. I have no idea how far this Nara continues. I intend to embark on exploration as soon as I finish smelling. I can't guzzle to get back to my hometown any sooner. Hajime gave a resolute expression to the labyrinth attack that had just begun while illuminated by the blue and white light of the divine crystal at the bottom of the lonely Naruto.

Sometimes Hajime kept moving except to smelt at the base to replenish consumables. I don't know how long it will take to explore while resting in the vast labyrinth. "In the shadow of the night, the darkness is no longer worried." If the signal is detected, the demon can be detected within a 10-meter radius. Hajime's quest proceeded on a steep pitch.

And finally find a staircase downstairs. Hajime stepped in without hesitation.

That hierarchy was a muddy place where the ground would stick like tar everywhere. It is very difficult to move because it takes my legs off. Hajime starts exploring as he scaffolds the rocks that came out of his face and uses "aerodynamics".

While examining the surrounding minerals with "mineral-based sensing skills," I discovered an interesting ore along the way.

Flam Ore

Glossy black ore. When heat is applied, it melts and becomes tar-like. The melting temperature is about 50 degrees Celsius and ignites at 100 degrees Celsius when tarred. The fever reaches 3000 degrees Celsius. The combustion time depends on the tar amount.

"... lying"

Hajime has a convulsed grin and slowly raises her legs. Then, having stepped on it many times since earlier, a tar-like semi-liquid spreading throughout the hierarchy made a crisp noise and dripped off Hajime's shoes.

"Or strictly forbid the fire..."

I don't expect it to fire so easily if the firing temperature is 100 degrees, but assuming it does, this whole hierarchy will be wrapped in a high heat of 3,000 degrees Celsius in a chain reaction. On boulders, I'm not sure I'll survive stockpiling divine water.

"You can't use a rail gun or a thunderbolt..."

Donner is a powerful weapon. Even without electromagnetic acceleration, explosives by combustion stones alone exert twelve minutes of power.

But that's only the case with normal demons. For example, traum-soldiers can be destroyed at leisure without electromagnetic acceleration. Even Behemoth would expect a lot of damage. But this Natsuo demon is unusual. It is a level where the demons on the upper floors seem just beasts. Therefore, you can destroy the demons of this hierarchy only by fulfilling the power of explosives...

With such an element of anxiety at the margin, Hajime's mouth angle is connected.

"Fine, it doesn't change what you do either way. Just kill and eat."

Hajime resumes his exploration with "rail guns" and "wrapped thunder" sealed.

Moving on for a while, I went out on a trident. I checked the nearby wall and stepped out to explore through the left aisle on Theory Avenue.

At that moment,

Gatin '!

"Huh!?

A sharp tooth opened a huge jaw gate lined with countless lines, and a shark-like demon popped out of the tar. Jaw gates aimed at Hajime's head are closed with teeth and teeth pounding. Although he bowed himself to his knees, Hajime fell into battle.

("Respond to signs sensing")

Yes, Hajime has acquired "Sign Sensing" skills and continues to use them at all times. Any creature within a ten meter radius should be able to feel it. Nevertheless, the earlier shark attack was completely imperceptible until just before.

The shark, who missed eating the hazy shark, becomes invisible to sink into the tar again, making noises with the dobon.

(Damn, I knew I couldn't get a sign!

Hajime bites into an incomprehensible situation, but when he stops anyway and gets hit, he resumes his journey using "aerodynamics".

Then the shark popped up again, as if to have predicted its timing.

"Nah!

Hajime fired at a shark passing overhead in his sight that turned upside down as he turned in the air. From the donner, a bullet fired will rip through the sky if it doesn't eat through the enemy. And at an exquisite time, he hit the back of a shark without aiming.

However,

"Shit! You play this!

The bullet was instantly bounced back, as if it had hit the rubber as well, denting the shark's skin. Apparently, shark epidermis have properties that mitigate physical shock.

"Guh!"

As the momentum leaps into the passing tar, the shark flips with an amazing figure of its own, and again, flies for the hajime of the moment it lands from the retreat.

Hajime managed to twist it, but it was lightly flanked. Hajime falls into the tar due to impact. He hurries up as he dyes his whole body black and jumps into the air again. Shortly afterwards, the shark's jaw gate emerged from directly beneath where the hazy shark was. Bakung! and was closed.

"Hajime sweats cold as he leaps through the air with air power. But despite being cornered, there is an invincible grin in its mouth, as usual.

"Superior!"

Hajime waits for the moment of the raid as he jumps through the air with even more "aerodynamic force" to keep him from staying one place.

He unfortunately (but not exclusively) exerted the concentration forged by the smelting, and gradually the surrounding scenery became faded and visible.

(... it's not a question of not being able to grasp the signs. It's a skill that wasn't there. Even if you don't know the signs, the moment of the raid, he's definitely there)

As Hajime was leaping as he concentrated, his feet accidentally broke the grassy balance. Sharks don't miss that gap. It jumps all at once from behind the blind spot.

"Simple and helpful!

Hajime instantly rebalanced what he thought had collapsed, sending a shark raid as he sided the universe in the air, swinging through his right hand with a donner as he passed through.

Moment after moment, the shark falls to the tar as he is brutally torn up his lateral abdomen and raises a blood splash. Sharks grinding to suffer as they raise a splash of bashabasha and tar.

Hajime deliberately lost his balance and exposed his back to guide the timing and location of the attack. And it was cleaved with the unique magic of the nail bear "wind claws" that the donner had wrapped around it.

Hajime shook the donner down his head as he approached the shark. "The wind claw breaks the shark's head. I don't get three like a claw bear, but its sharpness far outweighs the famous knife around it. It's an inherent magic you can really rely on in close proximity.

"Now, why didn't you feel any signs, let me see for sure?

That's what Hajime said and licked his tongue.

He then cut and stored the shark meat before continuing his exploration and finally discovered the staircase downstairs.

Nagumo Hajime, 17. Man Level: 24