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Episode Four: Infiltration of the Mauria Volcano

"Uwaaaa..."

Right now, we stand at the top of a volcano, looking out over the crater.

Sweat seems to flow out infinitely in the hot air, but I can't complain about it in the first stage.

Inside the fire pit, magma with a red creepy glow streamed down.

"Don't ever fall."

Everyone nods at my words.

Even if the volcanic magma inside the labyrinth falls, the labyrinth lords and labyrinth vassals can stay calm thanks to their ability to prepare for emergencies. But if we're going to fall into the magma outside, we're going to be melted to death in an instant.

The principle is unknown, but the magma is flowing from top to bottom, and we need to follow the path beside the river to the back.

It looks like we can divide them into eight levels.

Iris has a brochure for adventurers.

The Mauria volcano includes a first layer to a third layer that is an upper layer, a fourth layer to a fifth layer that is an intermediate layer, and a sixth layer to a seventh layer that is a lower layer. And the eighth layer, which no one had ever reached, was called the bottom layer.

The upper level is thick and stable, so although it is necessary to withstand the heat emitted from the Magma River, it can proceed relatively safely.

When I entered the middle layer, the path narrowed, and the flowing magma attacked the person as if they were alive.

And even at the lower level, the islands float above the sea of magma.

This is a place like this, but it's not without the adventurers of Mauria. There were monsters that were immune to magma, and the magic power of the magic stones in their bodies was compressed to a high level. There are adventurers who travel in search of it.

"We aim for the lower level."

However, adventurers can only travel to the upper floors.

Even from there, the fire dragon has been seen building a nest and sleeping in a place that seems to be the lower level, so if you are looking for the fire dragon trail, you need to aim for the lower level where the nest appears to be located.



As long as you endure the heat, you will go smoothly along the path without problems.

"Oh, ore found"

As I walked, I saw a wall that had been scraped by a pitfall or something, and I found an iron ore in the back.

This is also a valuable source of income for adventurers visiting the Maui Volcano. Volcanoes store a huge amount of energy in the central part of the volcano, so it can change into ore by accumulating power deep in the ground.

I could mine it safely on the upper floors.

However, it is not completely unobstructed.

You're here, aren't you?

A pig-shaped magma appears from the back of the aisle.

Two sharply curved horns are growing from the tip of the nose, and a rough sniffle of fire powder is exhaled. It wasn't a level of immunity to magma, it was a monster from the magma itself.

It was a monster created by the magic of the Mauria volcano using magma, and it sometimes took the form of animals in nature. However, the monster's abilities were not compared to those of the pigs in nature.

Magma Boar patrolled the inside of the volcano, looking for us as intruders and increasing our vigilance.

I stepped forward to crusade.

"Wait a minute."

What's the matter?

“I want to know more about the monsters on Mauria Volcano, so I'll take care of them.”

Melissa will go forward instead of me.

Magic is cast on the wand in your hand, and magic is built.

"Hey, is that okay?"

I could see what kind of magic Melissa was trying to use from the signs of magic power.

Melissa used a basic Fire Bullet (Fire Bullet) in her fire magic.

A bullet of fire floating in the air flew to the magma pig. However, the bullet that should have hit the body of the magma pig hits the rock wall behind the magma pig as if nothing had happened.

"After all, it seems that fire monsters don't work with monsters here." It might blow you up, but it doesn't make much sense. ”

Next, a gust of wind blew out of Melissa's hand, blowing away a part of the magma that made up the magma boar.

Melissa looked around her to see how powerful the magic was.

And then the magical power is affected by the attributes.

The most affected are the magic of the water system. By activating it, it drains more magic power than usual, and its power is significantly reduced.

The Wind and Earth Attributes are kept to a minimum the moment they are activated, but can be reduced by a certain distance. The only way to deal with it is to activate it with enough power to attenuate it from the beginning. It was only the wind that activated it, but Melissa judged it by the magic tone.

It was a fire attribute in the sense that it was in good shape. The degree of influence is not as good as the water attribute, but I felt that it is better than when I usually use it. However, the monsters made from magma were getting a little better with their opponents, and there was only water on the baked stone.

Overall, the magic of the Earth attribute seems to be the most suitable here.

The magma boar, which was lunging like a pig, disappeared part of its head and fell.

In front of the fallen magma pig, there was an earth wall, and the magma pig, who only knew to go straight, crashed into the hard wall.

"Please do the same."

Sylvia turned her face diagonally upward.

It was still far away, but I could see five bats made of magma flying in.

Yes.

Without worrying that the target was a magma, Melissa turned her hand and fired a dirt bullet towards the magma bat.

Five magma bats crushed by accurate fire fell deep into the volcano.

"Don't show up from anywhere."

I kicked the dirt wall on the side.

Then, magma flows out from beyond the earth wall, and when it rises up, it changes to a figure with people's hands on the cylinder. At first it seems like a humanoid, but it only looks like a dirty doll.

... oh, by the way, kids used to make such mud dolls for me.

Crush the clumps of soil while you think about it.

"Be careful." Anyway, even the magma everywhere seems to be able to turn it into a monster. "

“The 'Mauria Volcano' is alive, and we know what it means.”

A river of flowing magma, a monster by magma.

From that, I thought it was described as "living".

"The moment the magma pig found us, he attacked us with hostility." Obviously, there's something going on. "

In the labyrinth, it was like there was a ruler over the hierarchy.

You must also be cautious as you go deeper.

"Melissa, don't worry about draining some magic power." You and I wouldn't be exhausted in a place like this. "

“Yes, safety is our top priority.”

I use my magic against the ground and Melissa against the wall.

It was a sturdy bedrock that had withstood the heat, but by making it stronger than ever, magma could be prevented from flowing out of the wall like before.