"Really... that's what happened."

"Yes, sometimes I come back to the [Vain Wilderness], but I want to stay next to Teto...."

It is our maid team that will fulfill your master's wishes. Please stay beside Master Teto. "

Once I returned to the [Vain Wilderness] at the [Transfer Gate], I informed Beretta and the others about the situation in Teto and the outcome of the meeting with the Eltar Forest Country, and returned to the rooms of the Eltar Forest Country.

"Good morning, Teto. ― Charge

I don't know what's right, but I feel the magic beat of Teto emanating from the mud dumpling cocoon, and when I pour my magic into it, my heartbeat will accelerate happily.

The magical exchange feels like Teto has no problems.

And while I read the books of El Tar Forest Country, I prepared countermeasures for the intruders of the [Vain Wilderness] and waited for the resurrection of Tete.

Tell Beretta what you learned from Ernie and the others, refine it, and then install it.

"If we leave it to the Berettas, they'll be able to arrange it efficiently."

With advanced computational capabilities, Beletta should be able to create intruder countermeasures without gaps.

Also, if you send me a sample of the magic equipment for countermeasures and the necessary materials, the mecanoids will create it for you as a hobby.

And if it's not good for mental health just to carry a drawstring, Ernie will sew me between administrations and take me out into the capital, villages, and forests of Ertal Forest.

I also occasionally talk to Serene and Lord Günton with communication magic equipment, but I continue to stay in the Eltar Forest country.

About a year after those days, when I was at a tea party with Ernie, Altia, and Lorna,

I hope Mr. Teto wakes up soon.

"I see. It's been a year since evolution began....."

When Beletta and the others evolved into the top mecanoids, they asked how they were done, but most of the time they were resting, so they didn't seem to have such clear signs of evolution.

Now, just watching Teto come out of the mud dumpling cocoon safely, Lorna, a blind elf witch, opened her eyes and turned into a leopard.

─ Shit! They did it in my space!

"Mr. Lorna!?

An elf woman who usually smiles gently suddenly uses rough words and looks away from the northwest.

I suspect that even Lorna's first-person name has changed and her voice has doubled, making her go crazy.

Wow, is that the state of the goddess Re = L?

"Re = L... no way, God?

"Yes, Lorna's mythology takes the form of possession that lowers the Goddess's consciousness and speaks for her."

A deity is sometimes a vision of a goddess, listening to her voice, or possessing and representing her consciousness in this way. Or, like me, the state of the receiver, such as an encounter in a dream, makes a myth in a variety of ways.

Lorna herself has no power to solve the mystery of blindness.

That's why Ernie and her powerful elves are acting through Lorna's body.

The Queen of the High Elves, the messenger of Riel's sister. I need your help. "

"Why did you suddenly come out and tell me why?"

Against possessed Re = L, who shouted impatiently, Ernie calmly tried to hear the story.

The westerners forced a dungeon stampede for plotting against another country! More than hundreds of thousands of monsters will come out of the dungeon eventually!

"Are you insane to cause a dungeon stampede?

In the world, there are certain irregularities called forbidden hands.

One of them is the stampede of the dungeon.

Typically, a dungeon born on the ground vein slowly spreads magic to the ground by transforming the magic that blows from the ground vein into dungeon materials and magic stones.

However, depending on the state and period of the magic accumulation in the local veins, a phenomenon called stampede occurs that produces a large number of monsters and forcibly spreads magic.

"You're totally stupid. There's no way people can control tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of units of monsters."

"I thought I was going to invade another country in the name of suppressing a stampede the size of which the town couldn't handle, but now there's more dungeon monsters everywhere than they thought."

When the carefree Artie retrieves the map of the northwest of the continent, Re = L, who took the pen, writes down the movement of the monster on the map.

This dungeon city artificially triggered a stampede. And some monsters return to the wild away from the power of the dungeon, while others attack people in the flow. "

Stampede took place in a free city at the intersection of the western continent and the northern border of the Mbad Empire, where disputes continued over the land.

And at this stampede, monsters flooded the free city dungeon.

"The Western countries around here have been fighting each other over territory for a long time, but this is....."

--The Western enemy, the Principality of Drug, which caused the stampede.

-Palmanian country with the Church of the Five Gods in the southwest as the national religion and the Pope as the apex.

--- Head north and continue on the territory of the Mubad Empire.

― ― It seems to be ravaging the eastern Krista kingdom while heading towards the border of the Ischer kingdom in the middle of the continent.

Altia exhales in the monster's path indicated by Re = L's mythology.

In the meantime, questions arise about the stampede.

"In the first place, how did you cause a stampede?

The stampede of the dungeon is a phenomenon caused by the saturation of magic.

To trigger a stampede, we need to draw a lot of magic from somewhere.

"Unfortunately, in the dungeon, I sacrificed human beings to create magic."

Sacrifice is not such an efficient consideration.

The amount of magic a human can produce in a lifetime can be✕ estimated in days of magic lifetime.

Sacrifice is a huge amount of magic in the short term in order to force magic to spreading and shorten its life, but it is significantly less than the magic obtained from a single person.

Still, they secretly brought a lot of people into the dungeon and sacrificed them.

That's not all. With the voice and magic of sacrifice, the souls of human beings drifting through space and space without being reincarnated became monsters in the dungeon. "

"... the soul of a person who can't be reincarnated?

Tilt your neck without thinking of a word that is too abrupt.

Ernie and the others also seem to have a sense of crisis in Re = L's words, but they are looking at the details of what specifically happened.

Surely I dropped a tower on my sister's messenger before. Space-time drifts

"Ah, yeah... a building that was swallowed up in space and space in a magical experiment 2,000 years ago, right?

That's right. But you know it wasn't just the stuff that got swallowed up. "

"I wonder... is that the soul of someone who has left this world?"

Re = L nodded to convince Ernie that she was right.

I heard that Loriel, the god of the Underworld, fell asleep because of the massive loss of magic all over the world due to the runaway of a magical civilization 2,000 years ago, and a large number of people died because they could not adapt to the environment.

At the same time, however, it is said that a large number of souls were swallowed up and disappeared in space-time at one time.

For me in charge of space-time, the subspace of the dungeon and the outside of the world are close. This time, a large amount of untapped soul entered the dungeon and became an undead monster tied to magic. I need your help with this stampede convergence. "

Originally, the dungeon existed as a training ground for magic measures accumulated in the ground veins and people to raise their level.

Re = L was possessed by Lorna, who seemed to ruin it and regret not being stopped.

"How much time do I have to give you?

We did everything we could, but we still have two weeks left. Future predictions suggest that powerful monsters emerge from the dungeon moving eastward. I need you to help me defeat it. "

Dungeons gradually appear from monsters near the upper levels to strong monsters in deeper hierarchies.

For that reason, there may have been some respite for people to flee, but it was still a stampede that started with no preparations at all.

Moreover, in the situation already depicted on the map, the human survival area has shrunk and turned into a magic.

"What about Chise?

"I...."

Look at the mud dumplings cocoons of Chilari and Teto.

You can't leave Teto alone, but you can't overlook innocent people knowing they're hurt.

"Okay. I will return to the Vain Wilderness and take action immediately."

"I can't help it... In El Tar Forest country, people can't give it away, but I'm going to send magic potions as relief supplies. Besides, my concubine will be on the front line with Chise."

"Thank you... I'm really glad I could count on you."

That said, when the sign of Re = L smiling disappears, Lorna's body collapses, so me and Ernie can support it.

"Well, it's a faggot."

Yeah, I'm on my way to the scene right away.

"For some reason... this is a war against monsters. We need preparations to intercept the monster. Now, the shallow monsters that emerged from the dungeon can be dealt with in forts and town soldiers. My concubines are monsters from the deepest depths of the dungeon! Until then, be sharp and ready!

Tough talk reminds me of the stampede in the dungeon city of Appanemis.

I recall that Alsace, a senior-level adventurer and A-rank adventurer, told me to think about the importance of waiting and the distribution of power.

"... okay. It's okay now."

Besides, it's a chise. You saw Teto's cocoon earlier, and you chose it. Call to the edge and grab both if you have to! Go to the battlefield with Teto!

"Fufu... what are you encouraging me for?

I laughed unexpectedly at Ernie's words, but I smiled at her reaction.

"It's my concubine's guess... if it's Teto, don't be late. I'm not the guardian of Chise, anyway. You can't let Chise stand on the battlefield without a Guardian."

We spent two weeks in a hurry, thinking the same.