The strength of Ilias-Ratzel is real. Quick to catch up with sword speed, rigidity that can withstand sword pressure, technology to cope with irregular sword muscles. I can assure you that they are very first-class and at least better than any other opponent I've defeated in the past.

"Oh, that's not bad. It's not bad, you. But that's not exciting, is it? You can't be satisfied with a battle that ends on the other side of the battle, can you?

I can't just keep up with my moves, but this guy hasn't slashed in once, he just keeps getting my sword foolishly. I guess it's more appropriate to say that from breathing and gaze, it's not that it's a limit at the current rate, but that it's quietly well protected.

Is that why? To see through my movements? No. Is it swordsmanship, originally dominated by counterattacks? No. This way of fighting itself must be far from this woman's way of doing it in the first place. The reason for this is simple, it's the man watching this battle right there, the star people of Yugra.

"(- Ha, that's a creepy gaze)"

It's as if I'm trying to see through everything about me, and I'm also convinced to say it's the same kind of reality... but it's not exactly the same thing I said. That's right, I'm talking about Real's eyes being talented as droppers, and this guy's eyes being polished himself. Whatever the advantages and disadvantages, there is a difference.

I don't think Ilias can win with one of my opponents. So I'm not going to bind you to a one-on-one duel or this kind of thing. If this man understands me and sees through the movement, he admits it's the strength of the enemy in this battle. I'm rather looking forward to that.

At any rate, I am grasping the upper limit of the knight who says Ilias. No matter how skilled moves pop out of here, I can finish with a blow. It's no exaggeration to say that if this is just one hit, we've already decided to win or lose.

Still, this man would do something that would betray my expectations. If you look me in the eye, when you push me in, those expectations come up with two things.

"(You're expecting such a nice offering to surprise me with precision?

But only once, yes, once. Even I'm protected from this place by real life telling me. I can't afford to enjoy these two opponents that much more than they tell me to stop them whenever possible. We have to catch up with the guys who dived into the ruins and put an end to it. There is no guarantee that Serrayes or Larheit will never lose.

So I'm not going to loosen the attack on Ilias. I'll show this man my movements and let him read his personalities, habits, and thoughts so he can set up his meals as soon as possible.

"(Don't let me be disillusioned, do you? It really shrivels to just slaughter and throw away the miscellaneous fish)"

"Ekdoyk, aren't you in the middle already?

"You're certainly losing sight of the trap. Send a signal."

Interference with chains that have been passed to other teams at a time when they are plugged into the middle tier through the upper tier full of traps. Even if you can't afford to communicate long enough within the enemy's home base, you can pass on the information to other teams by signaling by the means you said.

Each team uses a similar means, Wolfe's team has already arrived at the middle tier, and Harkdock's team still looks like it.

"Hino, Hino..."

Even though it was just a monotonous task to track my tracks, I have to turn my consciousness to you every time a Laity believer shows up to interfere. This ruin trap, where unspecified attacks are repeated for Lachra, seems less compatible than imagined, and his breath is lifted by mental fatigue. I'd like to pinch a little break, but I can't even afford to slow my legs down any longer than I don't know how long the time limit will be.

"Lachra, there won't be a trap for a while. Don't worry, I'll be on my guard."

"Ha, ha..."

Continue along the middle tier path while expanding the chain's expansion range. Again, signs such as traps and ambushes don't even feel fine dust. Then I'll say it's nothing but REAL waiting ahead.

According to his compatriots, Ritial will use many traps even at the middle level and will wait in cooperation with Tsudhari. Others, on the other hand, should be ready for interception in their own way. It is also conceivable then that Harkdock's team is delayed because they cannot afford to communicate on the route that Real is waiting for.

A short walk down the corridor led us to a place like a large space. Though the dark and lonely spaces are similar to the nests of Beglagud, which grew up in childhood, the tranquillity creates more creepy than that.

"This sounds like a space reserved as a catacombs, a place to be a temple. Before it was finished, the demon kings were defeated by Yugra and the construction was not carried out until the end..."

"That's wider than I thought. And it's creepy..."

"The priest, the church and the cemetery will be your place of work."

"Because I specialize in exorcising demons!

Although the structure of the catacombs is somewhat intertwined according to the memories I saw the map, I shouldn't have had to worry about getting lost in an easy way in the direction I was headed. But it's definitely in this place that enemies set up more than this is the middle ground. We're using detective magic on a wide area.

"Be quiet, both of you. There are a lot of people around. No, but this..."

There are many magical reactions in the catacombs, the majority of which are coming this way. The amount of individual magic is not a big deal, but the number is unusual. Until now, it has been sporadically an ambush by around one to three people, whereas more than five hundred could be observed in this catacombs.

Turn your gaze toward the nearest and most responsive magician. The corner of the catacombs, beyond which it is. But I've felt this magic before, and it's from the Kuama demon world.

"Tu, a, a..."

"Undead!?

It was the undead once served by "Ether" who showed himself from the corner, but unlike when he broke through the Quama fence, nothing seems armed, and he gets the impression of the ordinary man's accomplishment.

"Surprised, thus undead to my stepping stone with the power of 'extermination'? I don't know what to say. Ekdoyk, we're going to break through."

"Wait, 'Pale'. Stay away from the detours."

The undead are beings created by necromancy. Unlike creatures in the demonic realm who are born demons, they are heterogeneous monsters built on human souls.

"I know. You don't have to do that. If you just skip a little magic and disarm him of the Necromancer- Huh!?

"Dangerous!

That was the moment when 'Ethereal' made an interference against the undead in front of him. Undead flesh swelled up in distortion, exploding with dead flesh and bones scattered. We'll get out before we shelter the 'Pale', but Lachra's junction protected us from the explosion sooner than that.

"If there's any kind of interference, it looks like you're being suicidally bombed immediately."

"Yes... you mean the measures taken against me are adequate... Lar, hi, Todd! Not good temperament! Come out!

There is only one Larheit, a talented dropper with a talent for interfering with the soul, in the minds of those who seem to be able to use necromancy among Necthar collaborators.

It's only the undead that show up in response to the 'pale' voice yelling out loud, and I don't see Larheit anywhere. Larheit's prowess isn't that high in the first place, and he wouldn't do anything that would challenge me from the front if I or Lachra were his opponents.

"You're being ignored"

"Not superior! Ekdoyk, I'm gonna kick your ass with these mutton fish! It's not even a threat or anything, undead!

"Calm down. You just found out you're going to blow yourself up with magic interference. Then they could intentionally blow themselves up."

Rather, I guess that's what Larheit is after. As soon as they get countless undead in close proximity to us, they interfere and blow themselves up. Necromanced undead plays quickly in the normal way of destruction. An attack by purifying magic can nullify the Necromancer itself... but can it nullify it if it instantly blows itself up?

Fly one chain and pierce the head of another undead with a purifying magic wedge at the tip. A purifying magic-specific reaction was seen, but the undead immediately self-destructed. The splashed corpses are slowly starting to regenerate.

"Um, can this be... defeated?

"It would be possible to surround it with a great deal of junction and so on, so as not to detonate it. But we won't have enough magic to disable all of this."

"Damn, that's a bad personality attack! What are you gonna do, Ekdoyk!?

"You should refrain from any means of interference system, starting with attacks with purifying magic. Let's try to keep them away from each other while stealing movement with ranged attacks."

Fortunately, we are made up of members who are good at ranged attacks. If you only took a distance, even if you were suicide bombed, you wouldn't have to worry about this one taking damage in Lachra's junction.

Expand the chain and attack the undead in front of you. Attacks usually carried out while granting curses, poisons, etc., but destroy the undead only with physical shocks without using them all.

"Again, you don't seem to self-destruct just by physical shock. Lachra, prepare for a sudden suicide bombing. Me and" Pale "blowing up the undead..."

"- Stop the attack, Brother Ekdoyk!

Sudden lackluster shouts inadvertently stop the chain. Lachra's gaze is directed at the herd of undead, but what the hell...!?

"That's what I say... you scum..."

There are individuals whose movements are similar to those of the undead who have delayed noticing but whose flesh has not corroded, unlike the surrounding undead. My skin is beautiful too...... no I should say I have blood. It's obviously a mix of living humans.

If this were the followers of Laitis, we wouldn't have had to give them a break. But the human outfit belongs to the average villager. That's not necromancy, it's puppetization by spiritual domination.

"You seem to be mixing up the villagers you grabbed somewhere."

Why doesn't the surrounding undead attack? The undead should attack the living indiscriminately. Because we didn't know the difference with the earlier detective magic, do we use magic that is perceived by the living in the same way as the dead, besides the magic of mental domination?

The power of the undead is quite strong, and blowing it requires the right amount of power. But if you make that attack on a living person who is just being manipulated, if you have a bad beating, you will die just like that. Then the body will remain undead under the influence of necromancy......

Looking at the two of you, they both look complicated. Even if they were human beings, if they were enemies, they would have been prepared to take that life, but those in front of them are the innocent who are just caught up in it.

"Oh, well, the atmosphere has changed a lot, demon king of the ether"

One of the human beings in the undead turned a straight gaze towards us as if he had suddenly returned to sanity.

"If you say so, changing your body doesn't change that arrogant attitude, Larkheit."

"I still think you're being modest, right? Because I don't have an arc-real kind of arm or a real kind of observational eye. It's very, very hard to fight you from the front..."

He said he was proud of himself for using someone else.

"Aren't you assuming that the people of Yugra's stars will also use others? I don't think there's much difference, though, do you?

Unlike you, I almost hit my anger, but I was calmed down by the anger I felt right from the side. Not very powerful, but Lachra can get angry like this, too.

"Master Kanji is not like you!

"You wouldn't, because they think we're the same, and we don't feel better. And I didn't know that the people I had to buy time with were the ones I used to use... it's causal."

"I didn't just return what you've done to me. Make enemies, cause and effect, not fate."

I targeted the lives of my compatriots in the hired position, but I guess some people think that Lachra and "Ether" were involved by Larkheit, on the inside. Larheit leans over to the undead beside him, grinning in dismay.

"Ekdoik, wouldn't you be able to get to the lower level without looking at the hostages here? It doesn't matter, does it? I don't care if it's the end of the line or not."

"I'm not going to jump into a clear trap. I'm not gonna let you get away with this."

"That's too bad. It would have been easier if it had only been for the mindless clergyman and demon king."

It's a cheap provocation, but it would be enough to offend the 'pale'. Reality is told to prioritize powerlessness, but Larheit is a priority to capture. It makes no sense for a soul to move to another flesh where it has killed the flesh. Leaving you alone is no better than being someone you can freely change your appearance to.

"Larheit, you could have used your necromancy."

"You can't just scold your own soul, either. You've acquired this talent naturally. Although I refrained from using it to hide my identity."

Judaism carries out strict surveillance of magic called contraindications all over the world. So Larheit didn't use necromancy just to make sure it wasn't noticeable? No, I feel like there's another reason to think about this guy because of his personality... No way -

"Are you the Necromancer who destroyed Spine, Larheit?"

"Oh, you've come up with a name I miss a lot"

Spine, it is the name of a small country that existed near the border between Mejs and Serende, supposedly destroyed about twenty years ago by one necromancer. The Necromancer had told the people that Marya, the archbishop of Judaism, had defeated him... but if Larheit could have gotten on to the flesh of others after his death, he would have been able to escape.

"Were you refraining from using necromancy because you didn't understand that you were alive in Yugra?"

"Because even if you're not a dropper, the compounds are something you're bound to be in the times. Mary and Philia of Judaism had a terrible time."

Phyllia is the name of Ilias' mother, a combination that used to work with Marya to even defeat the Great Devil. Speaking of droppers, Larheit is a human category. So you're saying that the two people who were called the strongest of the clergy at the time needed to keep their qualities hidden in their opponents.

"Ekdoyk, if we don't do something about this, it's not safe to move on."

"I agree."

If someone stops like an arc real on the ground, I guess we can move on with those who remain. But I don't want to take the means to keep this opponent safe. I want to avoid challenging even one of these missing Necthar opponents who may be waiting ahead in the first place.

I guess Larheit still has the trump card, but that's the same here. Even if this were to fit in during his surgery, it's just breaking it from the front.