Darenidemo Dekiru Kage Kara Tasukeru Maō Tōbatsu

There are many places where demons live, but artificial facility-type fields, beginning with underground graves, fall into the dangerous category among them.

For example, abandoned ruins.

For example, an old castle where people no longer live.

For example, a destroyed city with traces of prosperity.

Compared to exploring places made up of nature, such as forests and caves, you should be aware of traps designed to repel external enemies when exploring them. Even if the inhabitants hadn't trapped before, there are many patterns of wise demons inhabiting the smelly land of such people, and it is possible that they are trapping.

The Euthis tomb is a crypt, but it does not leak into the example.

Extremely lethal traps targeting grave vandalism are likely to be planted, especially in grave-based locations, and several dangerous traps exist if they are not also known to the Euthis Grand Tomb.

That said, the land was originally the land of formal survey teams dispatched by the kingdom many times, and it was the land of treasure hunters who sought other treasures that would have been buried, as well as parties dispatched by the church for training, and so on.

Most of the traps in the shallow layer have been disarmed, and the type of trap that cannot be disarmed by nature is also written as a caveat on the map, so the risk is low unless you try to get to a place where there is no map.

The statue of the Horseman on the face defeated by Gregorio would also be one of the traps, but that trap, which retained its shape despite being in a shallow layer, can be described as a very rare example.

Only me and Amelia's footsteps echoed in the corridor made of gray stone.

Prior to Fujido and the others, we were entering the Euthis tomb.

As a matter of fact, I have never visited this land in the past, so this is the third time. I'm in the lead, Amelia follows me from behind.

In front my floating 'light of purification' filled my surroundings as a pseudo light, and my vision was assured enough.

Explore the signs around you as you check the map you tapped into your head and your current location. In the unlikely event a powerful undead emerges, to reduce the likelihood of being attacked by Fujido and the others.

Basically, the demons in that hand tend to become powerful enough to go deep, but there is never a pattern that the powerful undead has embarked on above ground from deep underground. It's not as likely as it should be to be concerned, but you should do everything you can when it comes to getting involved with Fujido.

"Aren't you overprotective?

"Maybe so."

Return exactly to Amelia's words.

I don't deny it. Hunting demons is basically self-inflicted. Brave men. That's the same thing. Demon thinning will increase safety but at the same time hinder his ability to adapt.

But still.

"But I'm going with the current policy until I get the average level of the party to 30"

"Why?

'Cause it changes what you can do at level 30.

Mercenaries and demon hunters have significantly different mortality rates when they are below level 30.

That's why I wanted him to raise the level within a month if I could.

Entired passage. A human bone with a sword from a corner, 'Walking Skeleton (Walking Bone)', strikes.

He flies around avoiding the light sphere floating in front of him, kicking it unconstitutionally.

When the bones were slammed against the wall, making a tall noise on the floor and scattered, they faded away, trying to dissolve in the air. The blurry sword that had it, and the decaying armor that had covered it, disappear in the same way.

The only crystals left on the floor were the disastrous red lotus crystals the size of the pinky fingers earlier. The root of the power of the undead, a mass of magic in materialized thought. It's the Demonic Crystal, one of the few items the undead will die and leave behind.

It's very small, and even if you sell it, it's only a tiny amount of forehead. Step on it and crush it.

Leaving it as it is, the undead will be resurrected again, breathing full of graves. Resurrection takes time on a weekly basis, so it cannot be used either.

I brought Amelia here to keep in touch with Spica from time to time. I also wanted to explore Gregorian trends, but I still don't have enough people.

What has happened to Stefan's dispatch, which I previously asked Craio to do?

Ask Amelia as she decides to confirm later.

Despite being a dim cemetery, Amelia's condition remains more the same than usual. No, he also looks slightly more upbeat than usual. I don't have a look on my face.

"Where are the spikas?

"You're not in the grave yet"

I remember talking to Spica yesterday.

There is only one challenge put to Spica.

Crusade a thousand undead in the cemetery in three days. Think normally, it's not the kind of challenge you would give to an unusable monk apprentice of sacrament yet.

"Looks like there's only a few of them...... are you okay?

"Normally, you can't."

I can't. I definitely can't.

Perhaps this is a challenge I gave in view of the fact that the Fujido and the others are there, but I can't tell you just to give them a challenge in the first place, and it's still difficult to even sense the signs of undead in an apprenticeship spica.

Thousands of bodies must continue to hunt at a rate of just over 300 a day. No matter how many graves, it is difficult to meet the undead at that pace without going to the back, and the haunted land gradually erodes people's bodies.

The challenge was one that could not be accomplished without miracles. And perhaps Gregorio wants it.

"What are you thinking?

"There's no way I can understand Gregorian thinking. But..."

Spread the evil spirit (Reis) from the sky with mace.

I can kill even if I'm asleep right now, like the lower undead.

But that didn't happen back in the day.

Gregorio's challenges are insane, but at the same time, it's also unmistakable not to grow without suffering.

"- If Spica were able to accomplish this Gregorian challenge, she would be able to grow a lot"

"... what if I can't achieve it?

"We'll make it happen."

I don't even want to think about what Gregorio would react to when he couldn't achieve it.

Especially without a stronger undead than expected, things went well on the road.

The Euthis tomb has too many enemies of God. The feeling of the monk (Priest) does not miss the signs of the dark family, but in the tomb it overreacts.

Even I have a high level of nerve concentration, so that I can't detect the location of the undead in detail. But you'll know if there's any big signs approaching.

For example, assuming a demon tribe like Zalpan's under the Demon King has broken in for a brave man, he should be able to handle it adequately.

As I walk, Amelia talks to me with a same look as usual.

I also want Fujido and the others to apprentice Amelia.

"But what is buried in this grave... though I feel a strong evil"

"I don't know. I don't even want to know."

The age at which it was made is also unknown. It's the grave the kingdom gave up figuring out. From that scale of the labyrinth that spreads underground, it's not the cemetery of the king of a small country or anything like that.

It's not strange that the forgotten evil gods and demons are sealed up, not people.

While I was doing that, I followed it to the front between the target point, the Horseman on the Face.

All you need to do when hunting demons for long periods of time, such as in graves, is to ensure their safety.

In this case, Fujido and the others were going to stay among the Horsemen. Of course, I intend to change the location if something goes wrong because of the last time, but this room, which is easy to follow the sacred art, is dressed.

The black rusty door makes a murmuring sound and opens. I frowned at the sight inside.

There was nothing different between the knights than when they came in before.

Spacious space taken. On a stone altar, above it - a statue of a knight on the face.

"Amelia, back off."

"Huh?"

Stop Amelia who tried to come in after me. Regrip the Battlemace strongly and approach the statue.

There is nothing unnatural about the statue. As I've seen before, a machete lowered to her waist for a vicious look resembling an Oriental ghost. I even know that it's a sophisticated craftsmanship that seems to fly by now, and that there are some patterns that actually fly by.

But the fundamental point is strange. Frowning and observing the statue one more step closer.

Confirm, but there is no scratch on the statue of the Horseman.

"... why are you fixing it?

The statue of the Horseman must have been split apart by Gregorio. I'm actually checking the wreckage after they left.

His head was ripped off, his arms smashed, and he left no sign of movement. It was so crushed that it was hard to fix, and even if someone loved fixing it, I couldn't get it back to its original condition perfectly. It's a stone statue, so healing magic won't work either.

I know that some of the traps are automatically reinstalled, but this... here we go.

"What's up?

Amelia stands next to me and looks up at the statue of the Horseman.

Great. There are many patterns in which the makers of the ruins of this hand have their own civilization.

This gimmick would be like that hand too. It was a resurrection trap.

"Oh, my God... I can't disarm you."

"Oh... Mr. Gregorio said he broke it... is that it"

A sensible Amelia reaches out carefully and touches the surface of the statue.

This hand trap is not compatible with me. Sometimes a physical gimmick can work things out, but I'm originally just a high level person. If you are not knowledgeable, you are not highly skilled. If the trap is caused by magical powers, there is no longer a way to disarm it. And when it comes to restoring it to this point, it will definitely come to magical power.

Ask Amelia with the thought of grabbing straw to examine something with no expression.

"You know what I mean?

"It's just a stone statue...... it doesn't look like a golem or anything"

"Right."

I know that. Rimis said it, and Gregorio said it.

The fact that it's not a magic puppet is probably the product of a lost civilization, Lost Technology. Maybe the statue remained intact, not because the hunter who came here before didn't break it, but because it was automatically repaired.

… so we have to avoid this room? I'm glad you came first.

Amelia looks at me and tilts her neck.

"Does it work when you attack?

"I don't know. Well, last time, it looked like Gregorio's attack was on the switch."

Maybe it's not an attack. Hatred of paganism may be switched on, as well as the number of people and the ratio of men to women. I'm not even very interested.

If you could use this room, it would have been the best, but if you can't use it, don't use it. Just think of an alternative.

"... can I try and attack you?

"No."

It doesn't matter. Why do we have to step on the trap that we know we have on purpose?

Amelia gets stuck in words. And when I opened my mouth again...

"... uh... sorry, you weren't. The attack is not a switch. I was on the move before the attack. Switch the will to attack, if I may be exact?

Sigh and hang auxiliary magic on yourself.

A murky sound. A vibration similar to a grunt, in fine fragments falling from the sky.

Amelia opens her eyes and leaves after a few steps.

The stone statue of the Horseman, who moved as if it were a joke, moves that gaze between Amelia and me and stops at me.

"Is that a switch of attacking will? That's a pretty vague switch among a few traps. I don't even think Gregorio got it up and running for the first time. And I didn't have any information."

Are they all dead? The level of fitness that can be raised efficiently in this field is around 50, even higher, and even lower for the shallow layers around here. The possibilities are well...... there won't be.

"Mr. Ares, I'm coming."

"Oh."

The hand can be hung on the knife at the waist. He was pulled out and attacked from the top of his head, and he took it with Mace's head.

Sound and impact. I am not a meter away from him. The struck down slaughter from the top of the pedestal also has my height difference and I haven't been able to put much effort into it.

Including the height of the pedestal, it's like trying to kill a human about his own knee height, whose posture is terribly unstable.

Take the slaughter that comes down from overhead twice or three times as it is. The blade flicks at that moment when he receives his fourth slaughter. He quickly took a few steps back as he stopped the lateral gibberish released from his right aiming at his neck.

A surface-knight jumps off a pedestal and becomes a Jen royal before him. There are also differences in figures, and the pressure from overhead is considerable.

However, I don't know my own theory or anything, but my quality as a magic puppet is not that high.

Exorcism doesn't work because it's not undead. That's all. That's all.

"Stay back."

Give short instructions to Amelia, who was holding back.

After fighting for a long time, just a few machetes can tell different things. Especially when the other person is a magic puppet. That's easy to understand. Because movement is established by function.

There is no intention or anything, and the Horseman storms as if it were natural.

The weight of the step, the speed of the blade, the feint and nothing unleashed, it's very easy for me not to have so much experience fighting swordsmen. Aria said 'magical guide doll' with moves, but that's not true. This is the only kind of structure.

I don't even need a rush. I estimated the Golem Crusade Suitability Level of the Horseman to be around 40 based on its behavior and basic performance.

Play the blade released from above the right with a mace and step in and avoid the blade swirling from the left with the momentum intact.

I don't need odd measures if I'm winning with basic performance. As I was, I slammed Mace into that torso with the intention of smashing the statue to pieces.

Stone statues slap against walls. A large crack entered the wall and the stone statue lay on the ground.

Amelia applauds her pussy and says untouched.

"Mr. Ares' attack. Kaishin's blow. 150 damage to the Horseman. I killed the Horseman."

"... That's just stiff"

"The Horseman rises up and looks at this one like he still fought"

As Amelia's narration suggests, the Horseman on his arm was up. As Amelia's narration suggests, she seems motivated. As narrated by Amelia.

You didn't kill him, did you?

"Attack of the Horseman. The Horseman used the Goddess Slash."

What the hell is that? Shortly after he penetrated, the Horseman stepped in with explosive momentum, releasing the blade in a position close to his residence. Unlike the original cohabitation, it would be where you are slipping the blade in the flat of your own hand, not the sheath. If you are a person, you can call it unique because your fingers fall off.

Weigh that reach, jump big behind it, and dodge it.

"Miss. It doesn't hit Mr. Ares"

Once again, the Horseman takes the position of the front eye in front of the pedestal. High hardness. If it was just a stone, it would have been crushed.

Compared to the Lucif junction Zarpan had, the response is cloudy, but it appears that some sort of treatment has been made that increases the robustness similar to the junction. I mean, it's just a clutterfish with a lot of defense.

Amelia continues to whine.

"Mr. Ares' attack -"

"I'm sorry, can you stop that for a second?

"I was there for Mr. Ares because I had nothing to do."

Stop it. Stop it because it's distracting.

§

"I've figured it out"

"I've figured it out too"

Hip over the pedestal with a split, deactivated face knight beside him.

He is not an enemy, such as a golem that is just stiff. This is not confidence, it is a pure performance comparison. Gresha is still stronger as long as she has troublesome special abilities.

Amelia, a scattered and weird narrator, is now looking up at me with a serious look.

No... you had a serious look during the narration... I didn't think emotions were this annoying to read. Are you kidding me, or is it natural......

I decided to ask for clarification before complaining.

"Say it."

"The Box Garden."

What are you talking about?

Amelia keeps paling at me frowning.

"It's the magic of 'Box Garden (World Heart)'. It would be a kind of space manipulative magic."

"... is that who this trap is?

"Yes."

Amelia snorts like it's nothing.

So you're telling me you've figured out who the trap is in this short time? No, I did hear you could use witchcraft, but even if you say witchcraft and a bite, its kind is really diverse. Different styles and theories make it still difficult to analyze magic in other fields if you are in your field.

But I'm not lost in the words that come out of Amelia's mouth.

"It's one of the lost secrets (Lost Technology). It is the art of cutting space and creating a world of miniatures endowed with their own laws. Very advanced… very powerful magic."

How did Amelia know that?

It was strange, but I decided to keep asking. Originally I didn't hear from Craio about Amelia's origins, and most importantly, if it's useful, I'd rather use it as it is.

Amelia keeps explaining to me.

"I'll skip the details, but the range will be inside this room. The effect is probably to move the statue and repel the foreign enemy who took specific action. There was no sign of the Golem, because the object of the magic was this room itself."

"Gregorio knocked it down. What was that back to normal?

"The world is being preserved. In a period of time the world will be 'reset' to its original state, which can be said to be the magical essence of the 'Box Garden (World Heart)'. Crushed stone statues... and signs of destruction of walls, floors, etc."

Amelia's gaze is directed against the running wall of cracks. Speaking of which, surely, the walls that were supposed to have been destroyed during the Gregorian battle had also been undone.

Reset. Reset, huh? If that is the truth, it is a terrible technique. It can be hit and followed as a trap and, above all, create infinite power. Should I say I'm glad it's been lost?

"The downside is the intensity of the consuming magic. The magic magic power consumption of the boxyard is proportional to the complexity of the laws it grants and the reset interval. In this case, the laws granted, the movement of a single statue, the interval between preserving the world... don't seem so fast."

There is no sign that the destroyed stone statue will be undone. In the first place, even when Gregorio destroyed it... it still remained destroyed when I went to see it.

And I remembered fu just thinking that far.

Turn your face to Amelia. Amelia's eyes, overlooking the stone statue in the dark, are astonishingly colorless.

"Can you also shorten the reset interval?"

"Yes, this time...... it seems to be considerably narrowed down in spacing because it is installed. The operator who did the trick is probably already dead. There must be a source of magic that activates magic somewhere..."

"With an operator, can the reset interval be shorter?

"Yes, the intervals can be shorter, and the law itself can be complicated. For example -"

Amelia looks up at the idea.

"Yes, for example, simply increase the number of moving stone statues with… two or three"

"... I see"

I was finally convinced by the word.

I know this magic. To be exact, I defeated him on a mission a long time ago.

The opponent is a famous man of deep historical sorcery, a sorcerer who studied sorcery deeply to the detriment of others and was expelled from his home. There was something in the magic used by the man that produced "Infinite Soldiers" in a limited section.

It wasn't a stone statue at that time, but I remember cooling my liver when soldiers with abilities there appeared indefinitely, even alone.

The results of the study were recovered by the Church, so Amelia probably knows because she confirmed that too.

Looking down at the collapsed stone statue again for an unexpected resumption. Damn good......

"'Lost Secrets (Lost Technology)', or..."

"... 'ex' to be exact. It was restored a dozen years ago by a sorcerer, but it shouldn't be widespread."

It would be terrible if it were widely abused.

I hope this class of combat capability is still good, but when you have more powerful soldiers available in large numbers, you can't handle it alone.

I decided to get down to business where the mystery was solved.

"Can you disarm it?

"It's hard… you need to do something about that magic source to unlock the magic in the boxyard"

"Can't you?"

"I can't do it for at least a day or two. We need a semi-permanent source of magic to maintain this vast boxyard for a long time."

"Okay, if you can't. Thanks."

Stop Amelia, who started explaining again. If you can't, you can't. I don't care about the principles, and I wouldn't understand.

"... you're welcome"

Amelia, who was stopped from explaining, squeaks a word in a blatant manner.

However, if you can't disarm it even if you know the principle, you won't be able to use this room. I don't know what Fujido is faint... and I just figured it was a trap inside the room only. Is it better?

All right, let's get a suitable place for a separate base. You could just lay it down in the junction, as appropriate.

Exactly in this temper, the impromptu junction won't last long, so I'll have to retighten it a few times...

"Oh, just one more thing"

"Do you still have it"

"... Mr. Ares, you're cold"

Is it cold?...... it could be cold indeed.

But I want you to think it's a good idea because I offset the narrative complaint with useful information.

The gap is too big, you are.

Look at me keeping my mouth shut, Amelia leaks a small sigh. And go on.

"I knew it was boxyard magic, but I didn't know what it was for... it's drained magic for a few minutes, and it shouldn't be a big deal to create a mechanism to keep that magic for a long time..."

Amelia frowns slightly and reports with a slightly anxious look. I see...... excellent. I can clearly see why Craio sent me. I would be very grateful if you would report something I didn't understand.

"... I see"

And it was dangerous. I totally forgot I was listening to you.

Get off the pedestal and walk over to Amelia's side.

Look down at Amelia's clear blue eyes from close range. Amelia makes a rare, upset, seeping voice.

That voice of Amelia, who was speaking plainly until just now, is a little laughable.

"... what is it"

"I forgot to tell you, but I've figured it out too"

"... Huh?

I rotated my body a lot. Strongly step in. Swirl your body and tap into the mace with centrifugal force on the pedestal you have been sitting on.

The head of a thorny mace smashes the stone pedestal. The air in the room sways at the roar.

"Huh!?

Amelia looks at this with a flashing look.

When I brought back the shaken mace, I showed him where the pedestal was earlier.

There are holes in the position where the pedestal was located. No, it's not a hole. It's an artificially made 'entrance'.

"That knight on the face, but he stood around as if to protect the pedestal. I thought there was definitely something there, but apparently it's a hidden room."

"Huh... Huh?

In the first place, assuming the activation switch of the Horseman on the face is the will to destroy the statue, it should be Amelia who pushed that switch that would otherwise be attacked. But in fact, the Horseman was targeting me.

Then you can also somehow see the target of the Horseman. The priority of the Horseman was probably the one closest to the Pedestal. Surely at that time, I was closer to the pedestal than Amelia, who let me back down.

In the first place, there were a number of unnatural points during the battle as well. There's no way you can release a decent blow while you're on the pedestal, but you've fired your first shot from the top of the pedestal. That he stood around to protect the pedestal again after blowing it up on the wall once. The behavioral theory being input is very simple. That probably leads to the story that complicating Amelia's said law earlier would jump consuming magic.

Manipulate the light sphere and slowly put it inside the hole in the floor. The room inside doesn't seem that big.

Focus on exploring the signs, but I don't feel any sign of the Dark Family in particular. No, on the contrary, I don't feel any sense of complacency in the lower room that filled the entire crypt.

"Perhaps its magical purpose is to hide the underground. As a hidden room, it's doodled, but the pedestal was also completely integrated with the floor, and it won't open unless crushed. Well, either way, it's nashi to keep the Fujido guys in this room."

"... Mr. Ares, it's mean"

Amelia said in a small voice to me as I peeked inside and talked.