Jujutsushi Wa Yuusha Ni Narenai

Episode 73: Poisonous Marshes

"- Well, that's quite a harvest."

I stabbed Todome around the dying Goma, and then decided to fish from their belongings first. Of course, let the lem stand behind you, and you won't fail to be on rear alert.

So, what's this loot?

"Missing Knife": A knife that is not rusty but has a noticeable blade spill. Because it was duplicitous, I have two bottles.

"Goma Spears": Short, handcrafted Goma spears with large demonic claws bracketed on wooden sticks.

"Rusty Sword": A sword with a rusty blade. It's lame.

"Pine Ming": Pine Ming with a longer pattern. The fire is already out.

"Bone Sticks": I thought I had processed demonic bones, hard bone sticks.

"Stone Axe": A hand axe with a grinding stone blade, as the primitive used it.

For now, this stuff as a weapon. From me watching Mr. Little Bird Play's weapon smell, they're all crap level fucking weapons. But it's better than not even being this obsolete.

"Um, it looks like you could use a knife, a sword and... for once, a spear, I wonder"

Pine lights, sticks, and hand axes are poiy. There's nothing unusable about it, but it's not commensurate with the effort you carry.

Personally, other items would be more appreciated from Goma than weapons.

"Oil of pine lights": oil for burning pine lights. Put this oil on a borough cloth, it looks like it's burning.

"Narcotics in Goma": A nasty kusri for an example. I'm prepared to use it if I have to.

"Goma's Liquor": A very alcoholic liquid, placed in a hyotan. Probably booze. I can't believe it's ethanol for disinfection. Knife Goma artifacts.

"Rock salt": rich in minerals, I want to think, rock salt from dungeons. Sprinkle it on the snake. Okay, sprinkle it on the shrimp potato worm. Okay, all-purpose seasoning.

"Akamushroom": The benefactor mushroom who saved my life from the armored bear. I didn't know the Goma guys were picking it up, too.

"Murasa mushrooms": first time to see, purple mushrooms. Contrary to what looks super nasty, this doesn't seem to be toxic on its own...

"Goma's Leather Backpack": The knife Goma was carrying, a leather backpack. Dirty, but the best quality of them.

"Goma's Leather Bag": A leather bag that Goma had when he was hit by an ant. Pretty dirty, but the second best quality of them all.

or more lineup.

What seems useful right now is the presence of a backpack and a bag that lets Rem carry his luggage as well. From now on, I want to invest more in collecting materials than ever before, such as rhinoceros mushrooms and mushrooms like the first murasa mushrooms and toxic purple maytakes that can only be named. My school designated bag alone is also very short of capacity.

"It's a corner, and let's strengthen the lem"

There are three bodies of Pawn Ant in here, aren't there? All that remains is the honorable spoils of war that Goma and the others have won over the sacrifice. Ant material would be worth less than kamakiri material, but I don't have enough for lems right now, so I think it would be a little positive if I took it in. That's why I'm not even going to try to take in Goma. I can tell by instinct now. Taking in Goma doesn't add up to anything.

"Out of chaos, tied to abominable blood, and stood in the filthy earth -" The Muddy Doll of Dirt ""

Now, the result of letting the anthropomorphic material intact...

"Oh, that sounds pretty good!

Once he sank with the ant material into a swamp-like magic formation of chaos, and when he returned again, Rem's appearance changed visibly.

The armor of the main kamakiri crust remained intact, and the black crust of the ants was newly formed so as to fill the vacant gaps everywhere. Only the head can now see the skeleton of the black skeleton on which it is based. My body looks like it was wrapped up in fine full-body armor.

"Gaga!"

Rem himself seems satisfied.

All right, now everything we can do on this occasion is done. Let's just move on, and if we could just keep going, it would have been perfect.

"- Baugh!

Dog-like ringing echoed from across the aisle.

"This voice, could it be..."

Sounds familiar. Faster than a clear reminder of who it was, they showed up.

"Bau!"

"Baubau!"

It's not a four-legged dog that makes a shitty squeal, but a bi-legged, big lizard.

"It's Gore!?

I haven't seen it in a while, it's a dinosaur-shaped demon.

Big head with horns, big mouths lined with sharp fangs and intimidated. Three, four, five... Oh, my God, there are seven of them all.

"Spread out, 'Rotten Swamp'!

If they jump in at the same time, it's the end of a roll. Almost reflexively, I spread a wall replacement poison swamp all over my eyes.

"Baugh, goah!

That was the case before, but Gore doesn't get nosy or immediately perceive the danger of poisonous marshes and step into the detour. Something stinks, Conoyalo, and he's just raising his frustrated voice on the water.

It's a pre-emptive strike before those guys make a move to jump over the swamp.

"-" Red Hair Brackets "!

Call out the red-haired tentacles that rot and melt straight out of the swamp and slap the barking gore nearby.

"Ugo, gawk!

The entangled tentacles seem to melt the juju and stone-like gray crusts... but when Gore turned himself hard with a scream of pain, the 'red-haired bracket' was suddenly pulled apart.

"Oh, no. This, retreat!

"Gah!

I can't win. I make an instant stop, flip myself and run out at full speed.

"Red Hair Brackets" can't do a lot of damage to Gore. Inhibited by the stone crust, the Red Inife will do the same, and the effect will be thin.

To defeat Gore with the power of your hand, you must have dragged him into the swamp and tied him up hard to stay awhile. Previously, that's how I managed to break through May's avant-garde and defeat the whole thing that approached me. Yes, we just have to take it down and concentrate that much.

Instead of seven bodies, it is impossible to deal with two at the same time.

"Baubau!"

He was starting to move to jump over the swamp, targeting me about two more, headed by a red-haired guy. The other four bodies have not turned their attention to this one, starting with Goma's cadaver fishing that is falling there. Actually, the other three?

"Fall!" Dark Hair Tied "!

As before, he drags into the swamp with his brunette tentacles towards Gore, who jumps across the swamp with momentum. Bashan and his shitty sound and poisonous blisters are raised, and the whole gore is slammed into the middle of the swamp.

But I can't afford to catch him with my tentacles until the next two.

"" Spider Nest Involvement "!

Aim for the moment you land and throw two spider nests at the same time. Of course, it emerged from the shadow of the pillars, just as it did in Goma.

"Let's go, Rem! Run!

That's all I can do. If I had enough firepower to go through Gore's crust, I'd be able to use my chances of sealing my actions successfully to tailor all three of them, but it's impossible for me to lack the decision-maker.

Gore, who dropped it in the swamp, would come undoing and taking off the dark-haired commandments if he was a little more fluffy, and the two bodies of "Spider Nest Involvement" would shake off the net even faster to start tracking.

As far as I'm concerned, we'll have to open up the distance to Gore in a few moments and find a perfect escape somewhere.

"Oh, Chisho, I knew the power of a magician was something like this."

Shortly after the glorious triumph, I pity myself for starting an unparalleled escape play. But now, anyway, to survive, let's run hard!

"Ha... ha... thank goodness..."

Luckily, I succeeded in finding cracked running stone walls in sizes that each person could pass through at critical intervals and shaking off an angry gore chase by rolling in there.

I feel like I've gained my whole life for nine deaths, but it's also more obvious than seeing fire that I'll be in a similar situation ahead of me. Should I have honed my escape skills more than my combat skills?

"Nevertheless, I'm a little off the route."

I run selflessly when I run away, so naturally, I can't confirm the magic team's compass. It's best to go back the way you came, but if you go back to the crack in the wall, Gore might be waiting for you, and in the first place, I don't even remember what directions you followed.

"Even from here, I hope we can make it back..."

In the meantime, I guess I'll just have to move on.

Wide or narrow, unchanging stone passages continue as ever.

"Oh, it's Skeleton."

On the road, I also encounted a few times. But not a big demon, such as a skeleton, a zombie, a red dog, etc. Most importantly, I was fortunate that there were always two or three of them, many of them four.

With no problems like this, I survived a spell attack centered on "red-haired brackets" and the power of Lem. Yeah, well, here's the thing, so it's okay.

Even if the miscellaneous fish is against them, I won't insult them. I don't know how many times there will be a weaker, smaller opponent than I can defeat. As a combat practice opponent, let me be thankful to knock you down.

In that way, besides a small field experience, dungeon exploration continues without much harvest.

No matter how weak you fight your opponents, fatigue builds up every time you fight them. No, you don't have to fight, you're walking, that's all I get tired of.

I hope it's time to get to Fairy Square, but what do you think? Unexpectedly, a change came.

"... what, the walls look purple here"

Second, I notice that a grey stone wall, like concrete, has a violet color. Perhaps it gradually developed a purple colour flavour for a while now, and it went so far as to finally notice the colour change, etc.

It's this way, isn't it?

When did the compass start pointing the arrow in a different direction than the route I had escaped from Gore so as to indicate a new direction of travel? Now it shows straight ahead of this aisle.

Honestly, I have a bad feeling. The fact that change happens in the dungeons will also change the demons that live there. I'm sure the demons will never be weaker than Skeleton.

It's not hard to imagine that new monsters, like bug caves, including powerful Kamakili enemies, have become a terrible area to jump in.

"But you have to go..."

The only way to make the rendezvous with May is to move on to the back. Because the option of turning back doesn't exist.

Prepared, I push through the passageway, which became a purple stone wall full of suspicion.

It wasn't until right through there that further change would occur.

"Wow, this sucks, absolutely sucks, right here"

The color of the walls was purple, rather than completely dyed and cut by de purple. That alone creates a rather toxic, but even more poisonous, atmosphere, which is somewhat like the root of a purple tree, which is eroding stone walls while pulsating with gnegne.

"Purple Tree Roots": Roots containing some toxicity. Formerly a regular tree.

Staring at the roots of the wall, 'Intuitive Pharmacy' taught Sarah.

Although the original is a normal tree, having poison would mean that the very soil from which this tree was rooted is contaminated with some sort of poison.

"It's a poisonous area... go on living, are you okay?

It won't be okay, no matter what you think. But now I'm turning back and trying to find another route too... um, we've come this far, let's go a little further.

But if you detect any strange odors or anomalies at all, give up being impassable to humans and let's turn back.

"... unexpectedly okay, is it"

As we move on, more and more of the roots of the walls go, and it becomes more like a wooden passage than a stone wall passage anymore. There are almost no flat floors at my feet anymore, and I walk solo through the roots of the twisted trees.

Come on, it's time to get harder to walk, so my vision finally opened.

"I see, this is..."

It's a big place like a forest dome. But green leaves do not grow, all white dead trees stand in line. More like a forest than a forest. The ground is like mud, with a little weed swarming.

It's a dead woodland, but here's a more, deserving name.

"- Poisonous swamp, is it?"

Yes, the poisonous swamp, the only one that can be said to be poisonous, is the dark purple, cloudy, watery swamp that spreads right in front of you. Colors aren't the only ones that suck. I don't know what kind of chemical reaction is going on under the water, but it's gushing and surfacing like a magma.

I had no idea you were going to see a scene like this that made the stage of RPG a reality. Previous dungeons are probably fantastic, but you won't have to bother to reproduce them all the way to the poisonous swamp stage.

I can see it. When the purple markings are lit, there is a phantom where the jirri and HP gauges are shredded.

No, for now, I don't feel like I'm taking continuous damage to the poison. It doesn't hurt anywhere, and I don't get a single cough. I can't feel any abnormality in my body, so for one thing, it doesn't seem as problematic as a stroll around here.

Honestly, when I'm in this poisonous area, even if there's no harm, I feel like I'm going to perish, and I know there's going to be some harm, and I feel like turning back now.

But after a short walk, I found it.

"Wow, it's Fairy Square. Is this even the place?"

It was transformed into a single building divided by square stone walls, as if it were a hut built in the woods. There are no doors. But looking inside, it was certainly a fairy square, a beautiful, clean safe zone as usual.

"Um, for starters, let's explore based here"

From what I've felt so far, this area is probably not just a crossing point. Yeah, I'm sure there's a boss here.

I know I can't beat most bosses, but I think I can handle that big frog right now. If you're a boss who seems to be able to defeat you, I'd like to defeat you if possible. For once, if you don't defeat and transfer the boss somewhere, it's probably a structure that can't get close to the depths.

If that's how the whole dungeon is structured, the compass isn't showing the way, it's probably detecting the bosses in each hierarchy, or the metamagic formations that are protected by them.

Well, I can't help thinking about something I can't verify. Let's start by taking a break in Fairy Square, which we found around the corner, and then explore this poisonous swamp area.

"... Okay, I think it's time to go"

Sleep one night, then carefully collect the detoxifying blue flowers, dazzle them for even a little while before finally deciding to set off on a poisonous marsh exploration. Lem something stands upright and immovable like a gatekeeper at the entrance, and I'm jealous.

Leaving the square, there was a thin mist. Poison fog that coughs up hard when inhaled, not that it's thick enough to lose sight of the direction it's going, so I'm going to keep going. I know it's okay, but it had a performative effect to the extent that it made the poisonous marsh atmosphere even more suspicious.

As usual, walking by surprise, the first thing I found was a new monster living in a poisonous swamp, not one.

"Ah, this is Mandragola!

It is a human-shaped plant that seems to be a raw material for secret medicines, which I haven't discovered in a while. For me, so far, Mandragola has no use for anything other than sticking to lemme ingredients, not knowing anything about recipes for medicines that use him. When it comes to making medicines, you don't just have to mix them up. Compared to wound drug A and antidote, 'Intuitive Pharmacy' still won't do any good with the addition of Mandragola to these, I guess.

"So, what do you say?

"Gaga?"

In the meantime, I gave Rem a freshly taken fresh mandragola on the spot. There is no change in appearance. Remains Kamakiri and Ant composite armor.

"Um, the movement's a little better, maybe?

For some reason. But being able to take it in this way means that it has some positive effect. No trivial thing has ever crossed one.

"Oh, he's a mushroom."

The next thing I discovered was a purple mushroom, the same one Goma had. At the root of the dead tree, there was a chance I could find this growing there.

"I also have a rhinoceros mushroom... did he collect it here"

Murasa mushrooms and rhesus mushrooms, both equally seem to be swarming to the point of being found as soon as you look a little bit. As far as being based here, mushroom replenishment is essential, but so far there is no effective use.

As far as I'm concerned, I'd like to make a poison that takes advantage of the toxicity of rhinoceros mushrooms that can even kill armored bears, but I still can't find a good way. If you don't take it orally, it won't work. In the first place, if you're going to do damage just by touching it, there's already "Rotten Marsh" and its derivation, "Redhead Brackets".

"Um, it'd be easier if I could absorb anything like a lem -"

I envy the skill eater on the sidewalk, what a shame. That's when my eyes found something strange.

"What, a big murasa mushroom?

If I were to put it in a nutshell, I would just say yes. Big mushrooms. Specifically, he's as tall as I am. Mushrooms get so clarity big?

"Ku, Qué..."

Finally, did you also make a creepy squeal or something?

"Whoa, are you a monster!?

A giant murasa mushroom rises gently, as it was leaning against a dead tree, at the same time rushing a step back. While Queer, Queer, and Birds emitted something like a tall groan that could not be worms, Soitz did, stand on two legs.

Rather than being human, he looks more like a mushroom of bad character. My legs are short, and my hands are kind of finned. Shape I'm not sure about. Only the mushroom part of the torso is slightly thicker and larger.

If you want to name it, Matango, something like that.

Every time I wander around, the powder that seems to suck with the bassa bassa sprinkles from the bright purple maytake-like shaped hida that hits my head. It would be a spore. If I smoke that array, I'm going to blow bubbles and smash it down, or even see it in my happy hallucinations.

"Yeah, if you're a botanical mons, fire's the weak spot anyway!

With a full game brain open, I unmistakably pull out the red knife and wield it with my brunette tentacles.

"Keh, queeeeeeee!

He pierces the blade that blows the fire and squeezes it off to the left and right without getting his hair in between. A red knife blade that wraps a flame around this sharp top, such as a body of soft mycelium, that doesn't have a gore-like crust, rips it without difficulty.

In no time Matango's body is engulfed in flames and turns into a loud and huge baked mushroom.

If you can unilaterally attack with a powerful fire-attribute weapon from outside the poison and the thought spore, it looks like an easy opponent to defeat.

"Whoa, whoa, don't come! Burn!"

If you insist, you need to be careful not to be approached because you will suffer and move around for a little while after the fire.

"Good, not a big mons..."

Ho takes a breather as he looks at the wreckage of Matango, who has become completely ashed. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any material that can be recovered.

However, there still seems to be a new demon emerging here.

Keep vigilant against unknown demons while further exploring. Basically, the landscape just continues unchanged. There are various poisonous marshes, small and small, with dead trees, mushrooms and mandragolas growing, occasionally encountering fluttering matangos.

Speaking of other things, about catching one snake that looked delicious and being panicked by a giant hill I saw on the Great Frog Lake. Matango is weak, he never swarms, he's blunt. If only you were aware of the poison, you'd be weaker than Skeleton.

Isn't this swamp as dangerous and full as I thought? No, don't be alarmed. The production starts here. Yes, I'm going to go to the center because I think I have a boss.

"Wow, something's turning purple on the ground too"

I see an obvious change. The mud ground is stained purple as if it only inhaled poisonous water. I thought if I stepped in, it would be like a damaged floor, and for now it seems to be okay.

"Oh, my God, there's a lot of mandragolas here."

How suitable this purple ground is for cultivating mandragolas, buried everywhere. It's so dense that I just think someone is intentionally collecting and building a field.

At the end of such a poisonous mandragola field, a large poisonous swamp was seen at one time or another in what I had seen so far.

The purple water surface, which extends to the full view, is shaped like a three-day moon. Sole lay majestically in the heart surrounded by glutinous waters of its fierce poison.

"Definitely, he's the boss"

Big lizard, no, that strangely rounded shape looks just like Oosanshaw. I've never seen that famous natural monument live, but I know what it looks like.

The decisive difference from the real Oosan Shaw is that it boasts a five-metre giant body bigger than Ortolos, and also that it is creepy white in color.

Is it originally that species, or is it albino? I don't see red eyes... or I don't have eyes themselves.

No matter how closely you pay attention to the round head, you can't find your eyes. It doesn't look like he's closing his eyes. Instead, there are only seven holes lined up in a horizontal row, like the bamboo hole in a goose eel.

Somehow, he looks very creepy.

"Siro san shaw ou... no, I dare say 'basilisk'"

You yawned, too, quack! and when he opens his mouth wide, Moya Moya and dark purple smoke rise from it. 'Intuitive Pharmacy' tells me that I reacted for some reason. Array says it is so drastically poisonous that it goes beyond 'Rotten Swamp'.

He definitely has a virulent brace attack first.

"I don't think I can handle it alone..."

I'll just try and fight for it, what a stupid imitation. As such, I peek my face from the trunk of a thick dead tree on a faraway roll and observe the basilisk of falling asleep.

If you get any closer and get noticed, you're done. Maybe he knows I exist. I really don't have eyes, which means that if vision doesn't exist, I recognize my surroundings with another sensory organ.

If, for example, you were the type of person with developed sense of smell, it would be completely pointless to hide yourself in this way.

Then I think we should just retreat to the gap where he doesn't show any movement...

"That's definitely a metamagic formation."

I noticed. To have a circular pattern on the slab-like floor, beneath the basilisk body that falls asleep somewhere. The compass also shows the direction of pitarity and basilisk, as I affirm that Arre is the destination.

If we can move on with that, we can move on.

I've walked quite a distance so far. Gore's territory also came through. When you ask me if I'm going to give up and go back here...

"A little more, let's observe"

The first step is to gather information. Fortunately, this isn't a closed space, like an Ortolos boss room, it's an open field of nature. Like a photographer following a defining moment in a wildlife, it's possible enough to observe his movements from afar.

Let's find out about basilisk, and on top of that, see if there's a hand we can hit. It's not too late to fight, turn back, or decide.