When the darkness surrounding Maple disappears and you can see the neighborhood without any problems, you'll see that the plains continue to be the same as they were before you came here.

However, there is only a flat ground that goes all the way to the horizon, and the forests and towns that were seen before the transfer are no longer clean. I didn't think it was necessary to think of a terrain-based battle for the time being.

While doing so, the black stain that had spread to Maple's body gradually became smaller, and instead, the black stain took on the shape of a human in front of her. It was a man with long white hair and a black sword on his waist who caught my eye.

Maple stroked her chest relieved that a strong anomaly didn't appear.

"Thank you for collecting enough cocoons for the resurrection."

Yes!

"After that, let's take your soul and finally resurrect it." It has good magic power..... "

Yes?

Maple looks at the man who changed his attitude by 180 degrees right after she thought she could understand the story.

In the first place, the Quest has instructed the Boss to be destroyed. There is no path of reconciliation from the beginning.

I hope you die quietly!

Oh! Poisonous Dragon !

As he pulled out his sword and walked toward us, the HP bar appeared above his head, and Maple stood with her shield and tried to activate her skill.

However, it ends unexpectedly without producing a mass of poison.

"Ehh! You left!"

"There's no way I'm going to unshackle you."

The man swung his black sword as he quickly approached the inflated maple cheek.

Maple tried to match the velocity close to Sulley, but she was turned to the side and slashed, blowing away with a shock unimaginable from her skin.

"Whoa!?"

If you believe what the man says, that flesh can't be weak because it has a rare item, Izz's powerful weapon, and the soul of the defeated monster. With the help of Mai and Yui, I've beaten all my bosses just a few moments ago, so I don't think they're stronger than this.

Fortunately, I didn't lose my defense. Maple's armor cannot be penetrated by attacks that do not have Penetrating Effects on Rock. Maple was given more or less time to regroup her strategy.

"Alright, I'll do my best...!"

With the support of everyone in the guild, I tried my best to win, and I stood up with my legs and looked toward the man to clear the gap. The man seemed unwilling to let go of his assault. When he suddenly approached the blown maple again, he slashed with the pitch-black sword and jumped the maple again.

”Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!”

Maple rolls on the ground and once again has a big shield in her inventory. The [Bad Food] was the most powerful attack and a defensive means. We can't use even one shot in vain now.

Then, after being slashed and blown away for a while, Maple got used to it and began to make room to think.

"I want to keep my distance... but it's fast... and it's muffled"

Considering that Maple is getting closer by the time she gets up after bouncing, it's impossible to keep a distance by standing and moving normally.

"Something good... oh, this is it!"

The Maple blows away, but now it quickly pushes its back as it removes an item from its inventory. However, nothing in particular happens, and Maple lies on her back on the ground without getting up while the next attack is imminent.

That was just before the sword arrived. A flashy explosion explodes just below the Maple, blowing the Maple a few meters upwards.

Alright!

However, there was nothing more I could do, and the maple fell and was slashed to the ground, flying by the man who was waiting. But Maple seemed satisfied enough.

Maple used a sticky bomb made just for Izzy. Unlike the usual bomb that explodes when hit, it's a good one that doesn't explode until time comes after pasting. You can't deal with enemies directly, it's basically on the field, but you can deal with enemies without any problems. The basics don't matter, because you don't have to do that in the first place, but it's a valuable way to get around for Maple right now.

If it is affixed to the body in advance, after a certain amount of time, it can move fast in the opposite direction.

Alright! One more time!

Maple falls asleep and waits for the explosion in the same way. Little by little, the Maple blows up in the sky, and in less time, a second or third explosion in the air blows up the Maple.

The sticky bomb won't explode until time comes. In other words, the chain will not explode, so if you open it up before installation, you can blow it up even further with the two-stage jump procedure.

I didn't have to worry about the explosion damage or the fall damage, but I managed to keep my distance.

"Hurry up... I can do it!"

Maple opens her inventory and changes her gear. Maple still has some gear with some useful passive abilities. It was an admirable ornament even in the [Maple Tree].

A white hand appears in the air holding a large shield, waiting under a falling maple to catch it.

[Hand of Salvation] is a passive skill. [Bad Food] was one of the skills left in Maple as well.

Maple, who succeeded in staying in the air, looks down to see how it goes. Then the man swung his sword wide and swung it out all at once.

"Wahh!?"

Maple retracts her head in a hurry as she sees a glowing effect flying along a swinging trajectory. It hit the shield on the scaffold and didn't reach Maple, but if it hit, it would blow.

"Before I do anything...!"

Maple retrieves more items. What came out was another full of gunpowder. Of course, the bomb wasn't meant to be attacked, it was meant to be moved.

It is rocket-shaped, and the fuse is stretched and ignited to shoot up into the sky. In the end, it can attack monsters in the sky, but Maple puts a rope around her body like a belt when she takes it out in large quantities.

Ignition!

Ignite them all at once in a flaming crystal and wait for them to go straight up.

A little later, Maple flies further up, emitting a lot of smoke.

Maple sits on a large shield at a height that is no longer able to reach even a flying slash. Whether reaching this height without skill was out of consideration, or whether it was unnecessary, anyway, the attack from the man stopped coming.

It's time to fight back!

Maple finally removes the item from her inventory.

It was a rock. Yes, it's a boulder that doesn't have any particular flaws. The rocks that Yui and Mai were carrying at the time of the creation of the base at the Eighth Event did not naturally have the ability to fly, and when they were suddenly thrown into the air, they fell according to gravity.

C 'mon!

The sudden boulder, but the man avoided it in a nimble motion, and the boulder that crashed into the ground remained there in a way that pierced the ground. I didn't hit it, but I still have a lot of ammo left. It was not only rocks, but also iron balls and ice blocks that could only pack large and heavy items that were in Izz's inventory.

I'll drop it more and more!

The weather today is rocky, and the iron ball is more icy. As the ground was buried and the terrain changed, Maple couldn't stop dropping it.

No matter how quick a man may be, he will attempt to evade while aiming at the Maple, and will take damage as he is slowly hit by the endless attacks. It was a small thing, but it certainly showed that death was approaching one step at a time.

Maple's tenacity has been alive since she fought the Poison Dragon. After dropping objects on the ground for more than an hour, she managed to cut her HP by about 20%.

”Fu... but it's getting easier to hit!”

The ground no longer has the appearance of an original flat surface, the foot is unstable, the height difference is possible, and travel is subject to considerable restrictions. As proof of that, the men's bullet rate was gradually rising, and it would take less than four hours to beat them.

But I thought so for a while. A black light enveloped the man's body, and when the light bounced like a burst from the inside, a demonic black wing grew on his back.

Once his wings fluttered wide, the man jumped into the air at once and turned around and flew toward Maple.

"Huh!?"

Maple can't keep up with the movement of an opponent with flying abilities with just a good use of the item to secure this position.

"Oh, no! Ah!?"

Lightly slashed from above, the maple fell upside down toward the ground.

Sand and smoke soar with the loud sound of it crashing into the ground, but I know from experience that it doesn't take any damage from falling, so I get up and run out suddenly.

I'm not getting ready for the next one!

If you can now fly, you can't say that a stone throwing attack is effective anymore. I needed a new plan to cut the remaining 80% of my HP.

To deal damage to a fast opponent, Maple, who doesn't have the ability to do so, has an advantageous position that allows her to repeat the attack unobstructed until she hits the target.

And the other way was to wait for the monsters to get close enough to be effective.

The man naturally lowers his altitude at a reasonable speed without landing on the ground, so he has a little time to get nearest.

If you enter the blowout loop again, it will be very difficult to escape again, so you can't miss this moment.

"Come on... yes!"

Maple stuck her back to the rock she'd dropped, pulling more rocks out of the inventory and surrounding her. Finally, blocking the entrance with a rock, Maple waits still. If you're a player, you can jump in if you're a monster.

This difference is Maple's absolute advantage.

A man rushed in at once with a black sword that flashed even in the dark. Even if I'm not good at dodging, I'm definitely not a beginner at Maple right now because I can't make the right time to stick straight in the front, knowing that I'm definitely coming.

In an attempt to imitate Sally's movements, she swung the man's upper body to the side and avoided them, waving her hands in a backward recoil.

A pitch-black shield that shines even in the dark. It swallows from the shoulder to the neck and over the head, causing a lot of damage. The black light gathered and the man's body was instantly repaired, but the damage couldn't be eliminated.

"Guuu...!"

Maple throws out a bigger shield to chase after a frightened man who takes a lot of damage, but when she takes damage, she takes a backstep and jumps out of Maple's lair to get back on her feet, causing no further damage.

I've been waiting for you!

Maple doesn't have to get out of herself. You just have to wait for the opponent deep inside this hole and make sure to eat where you come from.

Men must also defeat Maple. It's just like that. Maple was the only one holding the option to interrupt the fight. So I had to jump in. Even if that was the hole where the monsters waited.

The man jumps in again. The monster silently opens its mouth and waits. The fang with increased precision this time seized the man's body a thousand times.

But Maple's expression wasn't bright either.

"Seven more times..."

I could see how the HP bar on the man who jumped out of the nest again fell. Even if I hit all the [Bad Food], I wouldn't be able to cut down my HP.

Of course, [Bad Food] can certainly do a lot of damage, but if the opponent is crushed by a rock a hundred times and has a high HP that can only be shredded by 20%, it will not be shredded.

Leave a little more!

If I cut my HP, I could expect the attack pattern to change again. When it suddenly became necessary to bring it into the short-term showdown, [Bad Food] would be necessary. Maple took out oil and crystals for ignition instead of shields.

In an instant, the surrounding area is enveloped by fire, creating a damage zone around the maple. Even though he's a maple looking out of the hole, he's not the man who jumped in.

Huh?

Unlike Bad Food , the flames already created a damage zone on the spot. Apparently, they wouldn't be able to rinse their own feet where they were sure to take the damage.

"The flames are no good..."

Items like bombs that don't cause damage until they're too close, and items that damage each attribute by activating a maple that you often use.

Maple waits for the flame to go out as she holds the crystals in her hands.

As soon as the flame disappeared, the man who sensed it jumped in again. We were able to trigger a piercing attack thanks to a narrowing of the entrance by chance, making it possible for the Maple to stabilize and evade.

Maple jumps forward and sticks her hands out. The crystal shattered, and the electricity and flame emitted from the palm of the Maple shredded HP, but compared to Malicious Food , the damage was lower, and the man resumed attacking as it was.

Ah! Oh, I see!

It was because it was [bad food], and Maple, who had fallen into a big shield, was slashed and hit by the rock behind her.

"Whoa, whoa! Hey!"

Maple is not scratched by the sounds of the little slashed child. However, I can't move my body properly because I keep getting intense knockbacks.

It was difficult to interrupt the large shield that the [Hand of Salvation] had left on while it was so close. In the meantime, the rock behind the maple can't withstand the swordfight and collapses with the flashy sound. The maple that has lost its support is sent straight behind.

Originally, the back wall used the outermost part of the place where the rocks dropped by Maple were lined up. If one is broken and sent there, it will not change into a baggage lane.

In addition, the rock that was on the roof falls with no support, and the man and the maple are surrounded by rocks from all directions, leaving no way out.

……

Although it was originally a pinching situation, for Maple, it was a great opportunity to come by accident because of her injuries.

"Mmm... noo!"

Maple is slashed and pressed against the rock behind her, manipulating her inventory to reveal an iron ball overhead. There was no escape route when a huge iron ball came out from above, blocked by rocks on the top, bottom, left, and right.

It falls as it is and crushes the maple and the man. Maple's next move was to kill. The man was torn to pieces by a heavy iron ball. It's really only a small amount of damage taken or at a suspicious level, but if you stack it up for a few hours, it will surely accumulate enough damage.

However, he can't wait to die in silence, and the man will try to get out of here.

The black blade was unmoved by the magic of the unmoving body and slashed through the iron ball.

However, the moment it breaks, Maple will continue to be crushed by the two of us with the next iron ball.

As long as the enemy is taking damage unilaterally, Maple wins if you continue. It's a long way off, but Maple is on his way to victory.

That way, we can continue the crushing maneuver for an hour and a little. Finally, another problem arises.

Yes, I finally ran out of items to crush.

Even though I got it from Izu, it was not what I had originally used it for this purpose, and it was not expected that it would be needed as much as this. Where else are the players worried about the lack of crushing rocks in the first place?

I wish we could at least get rid of the rocks we dropped, but Maple herself has been crushed, so we won't be able to do that either.

In the meantime, after two hours, the items from your inventory will disappear in order.

We've managed to cut it down by about 20%, but we're still far from destroying it. The time for disappearance will come first, and the rocks you dropped will be gone.

Maple doesn't have a place to run. Let's just scrape it while we still can. I don't stop crushing men and women.

It would have been nice to use a bomb, but if we were to break down the surrounding walls, we would have to leave it to this tunnel sharpening because we have no children.

In the meantime, the most suitable items are finally gone, and Maple throws one bomb after the other as the man tries to destroy the boulder that crushes him. If you don't have any more items to crush, you can't help but be surrounded. Rather, it's the first and last chance to earn damage with a bomb.

Rolling out to fill the gap, the bomb activates in the aftermath of a man's attack to destroy a boulder and explodes in a chain.

Bombs are much more powerful than crushing them with rocks or steel balls that are not meant to be used in attacks, all of which are clean hits and cut 10% more HP.

However, the surrounding walls could not withstand such an attack, and the boulders surrounding the Maples bounced cleanly and disappeared. The first rock to fall from the sky was caught by the time limit and disappeared, so after the explosion subsided, the original flatland returned.

Half of his HP is left. It's another divider, a black light rising from the dust that exploded.

Maple realized that something had changed. She equipped Ize with one of the many unused shields, and she brought two of the shields added by [Salvation Hand] to prepare her defenses.

The man who jumped out of the sand smoke had a sword in his hands, unlike before. It is surrounded by a black light that shakes like a flame, and Maple makes her body stronger when it feels dangerous.

If you've done more damage, added effects, or changed your appearance, there's something there.

It was a maple that was preparing for a rush, but when a man waved his hand, a black magic circle unfolded above him and the situation changed.

A pitch-black laser was emitted in the air, and the Maple's shield was dyed black. With Maple's eyes wide open, the blackened shield explodes flashily, causing Maple to collapse. Because of what [Hand of Salvation] had, he did not remove it, but if he had it in his hand, he would not be able to hold it.

Then, without missing that gap, the sword that was wielded at a distance broke through Maple's collapsed defensive net.

"Uuuu!"

From the slashed part, the black light that caused the explosion later fills the Maple's equipment.

Not only that, but additional damage, irrelevant to the set defenses, will certainly remove Maple's HP. Equipped with a preferential HP stretch among the shields received from Izz, it is dangerous to be struck with three shields, even though they are quite distant from death.

Maple takes a sticky bomb from her inventory and places it on her chest while adjusting the position of her shield.

When I managed to shake off the next sword attack, I adjusted my posture and the explosion made me move backwards faster.

It's not safe to be attacked anywhere near us. Maple leaves the inventory open and sticks the next bomb to her chest every time it explodes.

You can't move dexterously, but you can distance yourself at regular intervals.

Besides, the bombing attack is a good match for Maple. Keep opening your inventory to make it smoother to take out bombs and scatter large quantities as they blow backwards.

The man was also injured by the blast as he approached Maple. We've got enough bombs left. Do not make a mistake in keeping a proper distance after use. Once you make a mistake and take a series of hits, you will not be able to prepare your posture, the bomb will not move well, and you will be able to take it all the way to death.

Alright, focus!

The figure that exhales heavily makes Sally feel the overlap somewhere. When he got here, he couldn't afford to lose, so Maple put the three shields back together.