Jujutsushi Wa Yuusha Ni Narenai
Episode 112: The ancient tower of the dense forest
After being unluckily involved in a dispute between Salamander and Black Tirano, I recognised once again the dangers of this other world and proceeded early in the jungle.
"... you're getting more goma"
For the third time already, I look at the bodies of the exterminated Goma troops. When it's him and the others who attack me, I'm a little relieved that it's now. Again, it's good to know who you're dealing with.
Anyway, the monkeys completely stopped showing up when they said they were walking in the same dense woods. It is Goma who has increased in its stead. That's also the ones who included a medium-sized Goma that looked closer to a human being, like the Goma hunting unit that attacked him in this face a while ago.
I've fought three times, but I've already discovered this one before, and it's been through well. It can be seen that, to a considerable extent, a significant number of troops are deployed.
"No, this is rather close to where they live..."
It's not an impossible story. Goma, who is a man-made monster, has a cheap imagination that he may be living in a cave or something, forming a settlement. It is unclear to what extent the habitat is, but anyway, Goma, who would be more than a monkey but less than a human intelligence, would be animal minded and sure to be building a living base somewhere.
Whatever Skeleton seems to be created by the magical function of the ancient ruin-style buildings that form this dungeon, Goma is undoubtedly the first type of demon that lives naturally. So instead of having summoning magic formations that repop gamely, there should be a settlement somewhere with women and children.
So I don't think the speculation that it's getting closer to their nest that boasts this goma and an unusual rate of encounting is an unfortunate delusion.
"Honestly, I don't want to go any further."
Not yet. Worst of all, even in battle, it's not the kind of force that would take a back with about Goma's platoon.
But suppose they also have squadrons, battalion sizes, strongholds like a fenced fort to hold their hands off going to Omake... no matter how much, it won't be possible for just three of them to fight a siege.
I don't know how powerful they are at maximum. But it's not strange to think of the large swarm of zeelas that showed up in the underground lake, even Goma breeds as much as Aitsura.
"But the compass is pointing straight at us..."
The trouble is that my only compass of signs remains pointing straight ahead, not going back, not going around. Believe in the future and push forward, boy, but as I say, it does not waver in its arrows.
Damn, I only have a bad feeling about the future you're showing, so I'm on two feet.
"Ha, but do we have to go"
There's nothing else on the compass that shows the way. This means that you will be completely lost in this vast dense forest. When that happens, we're not talking about getting out of the dungeon anymore.
After all, I have nothing better to do than keep going. [M]
"... Gaga"
As you continue to walk through the dense woods, troubled, the leading lem informs you of enemy shadow discoveries.
"Goma again?
"Gaga, G, Ggoga"
It usually makes me snort, but apparently things are just a little different. Rem's words are as indecipherable as ever, but nuancedly, "I found Goma, but that number and how it's going is different than usual, sir," I translated on my own.
In the meantime, as soon as I confirm myself with Rem's guidance, I'll get right to it. To avoid making footsteps, he kills his breath and slows down, and I peek through the shade of the tree in the direction Goma troops appear to be deploying.
"Wow, there was a ruin in that tower"
The first thing I noticed was a big tower. It is a shaped tower very similar to the one caged against the Zillah Legion in that underground lake. But what we have here is more than double its thickness and larger, although it's not nearly as tall as the Underground Lake Tower like a lighthouse.
Such a remarkable giant artifact, but I didn't realize its existence at all until I got so close because of this depressed and thriving dense forest. The perimeter of the tower was a flat area opened without wonder and trees growing, which is why we also saw well the Zorozolo and the Gomas gathering there.
"What, someone's already fighting"
Apparently, we are not visiting this densely forested tower for tourist purposes. They are clearly in a fierce battle with someone.
Well, someone... I don't care what that looks like, nothing but a classmate.
"Fuck, yeah!
"Hey, you're too many!?
"I can't do this anymore, Becore!
Even if it doesn't reach a hundred, three men are fools who are deliberately challenging a battle in an open flat against a Goma squadron of dozens. I guess it's pretty chopped up. A scream-stained pitiful cry reached my ear just a little bit on the breeze.
"Upper middle and lower trio? I can't believe we're still together. He's really close."
Ueda, Nakai, Shimogawa, the men's threesome. Common name, upper middle and lower trio. Also known as Mouth and Pleasant Companions. They're like his surrounding position.
Their story, oh yes, was heard in the incident that caused Aoshi Yudo to temporarily leave that Harlem member. It was attacked just before the transfer, and Aoshin, who jumped out, helped and left where he tried to capture the little bird game bird with the water magic of the lower river... helping the girl and leaving her, which is why it's so cool that she can't compare to me.
It would be more surprising if all three of them were safe in hostility to that brave Aoshi than that. Aoshi on the boulder, you mean there was a great deal of resistance to murder? Otherwise, with the strength of having all three and forcing this number of Goma opponents to struggle, you can't possibly escape Aemon.
In the meantime, it had already been found from the story that the lower river was a 'water magician'. And as far as observing their decisive battle, Ueda seems to be a 'swordsman' and Nakai a 'warrior'.
"Hey, Temera! Be more in the mood, Kola!
There was a man, yelling at me loudly enough to reach my ears clearly, a threesome that began to get heckled by the numbers.
"I'm, uh, sure... Yamada, right?"
Feeling like catcher shape, the boy's head's potato-like face reminds me of some stereotype baseball player. In fact, in the baseball club, the position is catcher.
Takashima, who I first found, was a baseball club as well, but apart from Yamada, he wasn't a wacko, and he's not a wacko who batters with pitchers and catchers.
Well, you're a classmate in the same club, but it's common that there's no particular tangle. I also had a thin relationship with Mr. Yangtze River in the same Ministry of Literature and Arts other than administrative contact. [M] Our Literature and Arts Department, you're a little distance from boys and girls, aren't you?
More than that, I'm talking about Yamada, who is single and resolutely responding to Goma, exciting the three of them.
It's reminiscent of Mae one day, fightin 'a huge axe in her hand seems like a' warrior 'vocation... but compared to the same' warrior 'Nakai, it feels like there's a lot of difference in strength. rather than fighting, standing around differently.
That seems different from Fangsaki, the 'warrior' who saw the battle right next door, although for a short time. What, what's so different...
"Oh, well, we're under all attack."
Warriors are an excellent vocation with axes as their main focus and the power to gently wield heavy weapons. The blow easily cracks the head, such as goma, and turns the body into two straight pieces. But even with great arm strength, stabbing with a blade can hurt you. So enemy attacks are usually a choice between avoiding them or accepting them with weapons.
But, Yamada, you even took off your school run, said you look a little dirty in a white tank top, and you're flat out under Goma's attack with it, as if you were wearing steel full-body armor.
Rusty knives and spears blur your body and you can't cut it. Even if he gets slapped with a stick, he doesn't shake it at all, and he plays it without stabbing it even if he gets an arrow.
"It's like Aoshi Cherry Blossom's" Holy Heaven Conclave (Oracle Field), "no, I guess this one feels like pure physical strengthening"
Whatever it is, Yamada means you have the ability to host a hard enough defense to nullify Goma's attack. If the attack doesn't make sense, there's no need to dodge it. And it doesn't hurt to hit me, so I'm not even scared.
Well, you're a wacko who can more resolutely ram into a herd of goma than the three of us.
"Ola! Ullah! Oh, shit, there's no kiri!
Yamada, who boasts an invincible defense, but something like a normal 'warrior' line when it comes to attacks? Though not damaging, momentum is starting to push ahead of one another's pushing goma after another.
The upper middle and lower trio also saw a rush on Yamada, as morale dropped before the enemy's onslaught, and his allies sometimes didn't rely on him. This defense would also be a rare stab the moment it is lifted, if it were not a passive skill that will last forever, but an ability to have conditions such as time limits or damage caps.
"Come on, seriously, you can't!
"Die, die!
"We have to get away with this now!
"Idiot! We're not gonna get away with this!
The battle between the four classmates and the Goma Squadron is a one-off offense. No matter how disadvantageous, there should be as many as four battle vocation holders and no total defeat for the Goma opponent. But if we keep fighting like this, one or so of the upper middle and lower trios is going to be sacrificed, a critical battle situation.
"What to do..."
Am I the worst scumbag ever to pop up on a scumbag without one or two? If anyone yells at such a thing with great seriousness, then Soytz is a peace boggling manuke who has been stained and cut off by warm modern Japanese society.
When you meet a classmate in this dungeon, it's natural to be utmost vigilant. Two years and seven groups of students have no idea whether they will be enemies or allies in this situation. Well, I'm not powerful enough to cut through any pinch, like Aoshi or Heavenly Way. In the unlikely event that I was infested with dangerous thoughts like mouth, I would be fighting a life-threatening death battle between human beings (classmates) again.
"Honestly, I don't want to get involved with that face..."
The upper-middle-down trio of fellow DQNs, which surrounds the mouth, is a race you don't want to be near even in your normal school life. Some priors have already tried to abduct little bird play birds, as have sex offenders.
Yamada from the baseball club doesn't have a very good reputation in the class either. Takashima, the same baseball club but tall and futsumen, was so obviously annoyed that he felt it from me that he wasn't particularly involved.
At least you're not the type to get along with me.
"-But if you're going to make contact anyway, you'd better come in here and help."
The fact that we ran into each other in this vast dungeon should lead them in the same direction as my compass. I mean, from here on out, unless they even stop by, the road ahead is the same.
The maneuver of sneaking behind them and getting them exposed is quite fascinating... but troublesome in case they find out and hostile. Besides, I'm not a bandit, and I'm not sure I can track it down perfectly.
Rather than imitating my wits and buying objections, it would be better to go into dignified help here, appealing to my goodness, while at the same time selling grace.
Though they don't seem to be able to fight very well, the fighting abilities that a vocation brings are real in themselves. I'm pretty sure partying with them is more militarily enriching than I am solo.
Besides, the fact that they're already a quartet shouldn't be too shackled by the three-man limit on escape either. If I join and become five, there are two people who will be cut off. [M] It's harder to dump two people than to dump one. Naturally, the two are determined because they form an inmate party to resist the decision.
"All right, let's go, Rem"
After thinking about it, I decided to take a bayonet.
If you decide so, you act fast. The opponent is already used to fighting Goma. It's a slightly larger number, but it's a situation where you can focus on the enemy in front of you and easily poke behind your back. Actually, there's a mix of super powerful boss gomas, or a big army showing up with reinforcements, which I can deal with without the irregular.
"Spread out, 'Rotten Swamp'"
First, deploy 'Rotten Swamp' behind the herd Goma Squadron. It will flatten out, so spread it out more than usual.
All the stupid gomas were focused on four men fighting a decisive response, and not one of them noticed the appearance of a drooling poisonous marsh right behind them. Well, it doesn't make any particular noise or smell when a swamp occurs. Spell activation is always quiet.
"Let's go in order from the guy nearby -" Dark Hair Tied ""
"Shaaaaaaaa!"
Me and Arakune, we grab it with thread and drag it into the swamp from the guy who's urrowing behind the troops.
"Bugeye!? Gyaaaaaaaa!"
A goma that dissolves its entire body with acid and screams, but its sad screams do not reach its companions immediately, either, because of the sound of intense battles and the excitement it is swallowed by.
In the end, around the sacrifice of the poisonous swamp, we finally realized we were being attacked from behind.
"I just noticed, it doesn't make sense -" Spider Nest Involvement ""
To restrain larger numbers, we switch to a web knitted with adhesive spider yarn, a 'spider nest entanglement' closer to the real thing in shape and quality. Arakune is also flying a web of real spider threads to capture the guy who notices this one as a priority.
"Ggaaaaaa!"
So, dignified through the poisonous swamp, Rem storms out. Captured by a spider's nest, he quickly, sharply, shakes a blade and carves a fatal wound into those who fall and jitter like a dumb fool.
Me and Arakune's Spider Thread Combination jamming and rumbling around in front of me. Rem. From Goma's point of view, I have to aim at Rem first.
However, it is not so easy to beat Lem, who is backed by me and Arakune, without breaking his standing still from the poisonous marsh, like a Goma soldier. There are only a few of them, but the poison swamp is too painful to break through and attack Lem, only one enemy.
If you kept taking full advantage of the number of squadrons and attacking them, you might have been able to mask and crush this poisonous swamp and spider yarn disadvantage... we're not the only enemies you've got, are we?
"Whoa, something, weakened momentum?
"Hey, it sounds like someone's fighting behind them!
"This is your chance, isn't it?
"Come on, you guys, push back at once! Get in the stream!
The ambush behind me apparently turned me into a sandwich in good shape.
The Goma Legion visibly lost its first momentum as a result of the chaos behind it to the front line offense. I can't decide if they should attack the enemy in front or the one in the way behind them and they're a little urry.
Has Goma already been taken over as their commander? If a group that continued to attack with momentum alone loses its momentum, it reverts back to the UAE crowd.
And Goma is weak if he is in a position to be attacked on the contrary.
"Ngi! Veaaaaa!
Losing so much, Goma lost to the scatter with such a regrettable scream.
"Oh, I won"
"Oh, seriously, I thought I was gonna die."
"I'm tired... no more magic."
"Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on! Damn you, you goma bastard of miscellaneous fish!
Yamada, the ambition of your victory sounds loud all the time, but for me, this is where it comes from.
Now, against this face, whether you can successfully get in...