They were on their way to the end gate of the sub-dungeon.
So far, only four people remained: Katsunori Mizue, Kayo Tachihua, Noriji Tenjo, and Yoshio Fukuyama. Kusatsu left after the second boss area and was a team with no one left.
"Hee ~, the end gate is smaller than I thought."
Tachibana murmured as she gazed at the end gate nearby.
"Well, I guess I often go through them one by one. Now, let's get this route open. Who wants to do this?
Fukuyama asked who would open the door while answering appropriately.
While looking at the river, Tachihua agonized about the appeal she wanted to open. Even though he was supposed to be older, he lost his pretty eyes and Mizue shook his neck vertically.
Nice. I've opened the door to the boss area over and over again.
"Gotcha! Now, open it up."
When the cheerful voice of Tachibana echoes through the cave, he puts his hand against the indentation of the bill that was momentum at the end gate.
Then the end gate began to push open with a loud bang, and the two watched the situation interestingly.
When the end gate was fully opened, Fukuyama coughed and said.
"As a precaution, I am here to see if the monsters will attack from behind, so please return first. I think I'll be back in the tent at the entrance again, so take instructions from Godai-san there. Ready?"
"" "Yes!
Fukuyama gave a refreshing smile to the three people who replied energetically.
The two men, who were mainly engaged in combat, entered the end gate to bite the attack. There was a black ink-like oil film between the doors, and I stepped into it.
Finally, Tenge dives through the end gate.
Kayo Lihua, Katsunori Mizue, Noriji Tenjo.
The three of them in the 26th group dived through the end gate without placing between them.
(What is that?)
The moment he passed through the end gate, Tenge shouted in his heart.
Usually through the gate, the visibility is dark and the warm liquid is wrapped around the body for a few steps. If we go further, the light will come back in front of the ground gates.
However, I felt a little different this time.
Tenge had been walking more than fifteen steps, but there was still no light in his sight.
Wait a minute! This is....)
The body of Tenji was stiff and the skin of the bird was raised.
There is still a raw warm liquid wrapped around my body, but somehow my body feels cold.
Step by step, but I can't see the light on the ground.
Tenge, who has never walked so long in the black space between the gates, feels a rush from the bottom of his heart.
What's wrong?
I wanted to get out of this creepy space early, thinking it was weird.
Tenge goes fast through the darkness.
For now, I feel like I'm stepping on something as hard as the floor, but I can't see the exit at all.
Naturally, he held the iron sword in his hand tightly.
(Liar!? Is this... a sign of a shift?
I remember this phenomenon a little bit.
Among those involved in random metastases, those who survived and returned have left the same words.
--I wandered all the way through the dark space.
The phenomenon Tenji felt was very similar to that.
Inevitably, the pace of tenge walking gradually increased, and when I noticed it, I was running.
I just kept running through a dark world with no sound or vision.
His breath was rising, but he didn't even hear the sound of a rough breath. However, I only know how big my lungs are exercising, and my senses are so dull.
For five minutes, I wandered in search of the light named the exit.
And then there was light shining through Tenge's eyes.
"Wow!?
As if it had fallen into a pit, the tenge was sticking its buttocks to the ground.
When I noticed, I passed through that dark world, and the dungeon light was visible in Tenge's eyes.
Cobblestone floors on the pillars of an old temple you are familiar with.
Looking at it, Tenji exhaled a sigh of relief.
"Hah, I was scared. What the hell is going on?"
"Good, you were with Tenge."
When I muttered to myself with peace of mind, I heard a thick voice from the river that I was accustomed to hearing from behind.
Tenge turned back in surprise in that direction.
"Ah! Mizue!
"Oh, it's Mizue. And yet... what the hell happened? It doesn't look like it's outside, and it's obviously still in the dungeon."
Mizue analyzed the surroundings surprisingly calmly.
When I saw a calm person, I somehow stopped feeling the fast beat and slowly started checking my surroundings.
"Well, it's still a dungeon. Here."
I knew it. Probably... a random metastasis. I've been running in the dark. Tenge?
"Yeah, me too. I've been running in the dark. And when I realized it, I was right here on my ass."
"Looks like you're still caught up in the same phenomenon. When I realized it, I was wearing my ass here."
Tenge takes the hand offered while exchanging information with Mizue River and stands up slowly.
I was checking the surroundings again as I slapped the dirt that had landed on my buttocks.
But it didn't seem to change in the dungeon no matter how many times I saw it.
However, the scenery was slightly different from the previous sub-dungeon.
"The dungeon was a warm pine light, right?
That's right. But it looks like white light bulbs are floating around here. You were transferred to a different dungeon. After all, the experiencers were sharp and didn't notice until they told me. "
Two unexpectedly calm people were talking face-to-face - at that time.
"Nooooooooo!?
All of a sudden, a woman's voice rang from the sky.
Suddenly they looked up reflectively at the scream.
The ceiling of the dungeon is filled with black hole-like vortexes, from which a woman's pretty buttocks approached as if she had gazed at the machine.
Seeing their buttocks falling straight from above, they retreated aggressively from the scene.
The woman rushed to the ground and burst into tears exaggerating, "Ouch!" The eyes were about to break with tears.
Did you finally notice that you were able to escape the dark world? The girl sat down and stared around.
In her sight, Tenji and Mizue appeared.
"Ah! Mizue and Tenji!
Tachihua buried her face in the belly of the river and began to cry scared.
Did you really hate being stuck in this situation? Mizue pushes back Tachibana's shoulder to throw him out and coldly says, "Look at the situation, not if you're crying."
"Ah, that? Isn't this the dungeon?"
With tears floating in her eyes, Tachibana began to observe her surroundings as she was told.
"Yes, this is a dungeon. Stand up as soon as you know, and don't shout. The monsters might stop by."
"Ha, yes!
Tachihua, who felt uncomfortable being angry with her younger self, leaned her neck.
However, I decided it was best to follow the river and got up immediately.
The river was a little relieved by the fact that the spear was firmly held in his hand. I'm glad I'm not the kind to let go of my spear in this situation.
Is it lucky or intentional?
None of the three had let go of their weapons.
"Even so, this place....."
"Has Tachihua been wandering the dark world all this time?
"Huh? How do you know?
"Because I and Tenji were in exactly the same situation. Which means... we got caught up in a random metastasis at the same time. What's the odds, three at once? I've never heard of it."
Mizue finally grasped the situation and exhaled.
First of all, no one has ever heard of three people being wrapped up in random metastases at the same time. It is reported that random cases of metastasis, which are featured in the news once a year, involved one person at a time.
Oh, my God, they've never heard of each other before. There is no precedent for three of them.
"This could be... different from Fukuyama-san."
"Exactly. I can't say that Fukuyama-san can be transferred here either, but we should think that we have to cut through here alone."
In Mizue's words, Tachihua swallowed his mouth and spit, raising his tension.
(What should I do with this? No matter what you think, you don't have enough power. And there's no food at all. Exactly.)
Tenji, who thought that Kusatsu and Fukuyama's holes were too painful, bothered his head about what to do afterwards.
Tong and Mizue's hands were placed on the shoulders of Tenji who was thinking like that.
"Tenji, your power is essential from here on out. But I have no idea how much you can fight. Somehow, can you put it in words?
In this situation, it was natural to rely on unknown tendencies.
(Hmm, what should I do? Well, we'll have to wait and see first. Is this part of the exam, or is it something outside the exam? I can't help it until I can tell.)
Tenji decided to be honest about what he could talk about.
"I've already woken up to the Swordsman's vocation, but unfortunately, it's now sealed by Godais-san. They're not shields, they're attackers."
Tenge was lucky to have defense, intellect, and strength in his original status.
However, now that the demon has an added value of 50, it has the highest Attack stat configuration. If I only took the Attack, it was a level that could be considered suspicious.
Though lying, Tenji tries to put the truth into words by mixing it with exquisite truth.
"Well, I guess so. I also had an iron sword and I felt that way. But there's a bad balance, three attackers. At least one shield will stabilize me... but Kusatsu is a waste of time."
"What should I do? Proceed. Wait here for rescue?
"Chu, let's wait for rescue!
"No, wait, Tachihua. Can you say that this is not part of the exam?
"Well, what do you mean?
Apparently, Mizue was on the same guesswork as Tenji.
If this is incorporated as part of the test, it will be synonymous with rejection when you choose to wait for rescue here.
Conversely, there was an option to wait here and wait for rescue if you were really involved in the incident, rather than a test.
However, none of the three had ever heard of intentional random metastases in the first place. That's why I was wondering what to think about this situation.
Is it Chariot's intention or is it just a coincidence?
"If we don't proceed with the exam, we'll fail. Otherwise, it would be right to wait here for rescue. However, it is obviously the dungeon that makes it easier for the situation to change."
"Yeah, I thought the same thing. Waiting for a rescue is not a very complimentary act as an Explorer. Statistically, in the dungeon, it's better to keep going and look for an exit."
"That's the Explorer High School student. You seem to know something unusual."
Well...
It's actually a five-country sale, but I'll add the tenge to my mind.
Tenge was secretly planning that maybe now would be the best place to verify the demon.
Without Fukuyama, I would be able to deceive you even if I could. It is also easy to deliberately detach by one person.
To be honest, this was a great opportunity for Tenge.
"Yes, that's right! Let's move on!
In addition to their thoughts, the three of them decided to move on even though they were stunned by Tachihua, who was persuaded to do so lightly.
However, Mizue didn't try to move a step from the scene.
"Well, before we do that, let's see what happens here."
"What do you mean?
"You should try the possibility that Fukuyama will come. Probably close to zero, but without Mr. Fukuyama, the way we fight will change."
That's right.
That's how their policy was decided.
The three of them waited for Fukuyama to get caught up in a random transition and come here, as they wished.
But...
No matter how long I waited, Fukuyama never showed up here.
So the three stood up as if they had consolidated their resolve.
"I can't help it.... let's move on, the three of us are going to attack. Ready?"
"Yeah."
Yes!
The three decided to move on to the dungeon.
Three people with no talent, but barely all of them have weapons in their hands.
However, Mizue and Tachibana had already been fighting for more than six hours, and they were in a state of severe physical and mental exhaustion.
Of that, the only one with little wear and tear is tenge.
I think about how I should behave here.