Kuro no Maou

Just like when exploring dark ruins, it illuminates the interior of the dark cave with natural luminescence by Fiona's 'Lightning Fire (Torch)' and Lily's Fairy Connection (Oracle Field).

The walls, blurred and raised with fire and magical brilliance, run endlessly. Sight as info suggests, but still can't wipe a bad feeling.

"Hey, I'm not going to move and attack you, am I?

"I know how you feel, but you don't have that information, do you?"

Yes, it's an improbable tsu wall in this obviously normal cave, but it's a story of wonder and the fact that I didn't see anything unusual in this.

Looks like Jimmy's investigation team also cut some of this tsubo and took it home to look into it, but the result was that it was just a plant. Structurally, it seems impossible to suddenly move and attack like a tentacle.

Well, depending on the magic, it moves what kind of stuff, that's what makes it possible to manipulate like mind with magic additions (enchants) and so on, like my demon sword (Sword Arts).

But when I purposefully moved this tsu, I also came to the conclusion that I don't see how this could happen to us. If it's just a tsu, it doesn't have to be Fiona to bake it off easily.

"Maybe Rust Rose just grows it for his hobby"

"Is it possible that wild monsters are a hobby?

"When you're intelligent, you do things."

I thought you were joking, and it seemed like a surprisingly serious opinion.

Even if it wasn't the most hobby, it's also unlikely that we're cultivating it for any reason. Even ants that grow food mushrooms exist, if they're wise monsters, they'll grow tsubaki, but they'll be fields, but gardening, but even if they're doing it, it's not weird.

I don't think it's dangerous, but you should be careful if Tsu has any movement.

As such, we push to the back with only a glimpse of Tsubasu's writing on the wall.

"But there's nothing else -"

At the moment, I can't feel any signs. Only there is a cave path that is so unusual that it seems suspicious if we are really moving on.

"Ah, Chrono, it's a split."

The first change was reported by Lily, who takes the lead and automatically illuminates the road.

I see you're right.

A branch that separates beautifully to the left and right appears in front of you. Both right and left are on the same path that draws a curve as loosely, and I can't see ahead just a little illuminated.

"All right, this is where it's coming from."

All the adventurers began to go crazy after crossing this branch, feeding on the last rose. Ahead is enemy territory, it's not strange whenever Last Rose strikes, it's a Rank 5 danger zone.

"I'm in the lead, Fiona's in the middle, Lily's in the back."

Copy that, sir.

"Yes!"

I really wanted 'Living Corpse (Living Dead)' to precede me instead of scouts, or to be placed back and forth at a distance, but in view of the risk of being taken over by Last Rose if I was bad, I left it at no turn.

Girl Lily says they're still in the process of developing it too, and it's not the perfect finish. It is forbidden to impose.

"All right, let's go"

So we finally move on to the branch.

What I chose was the right path. There is no particular determinant, it is just a conjecture. In fact, you can't even tell how the left and right roads are different than the adventurers who explored the way ahead didn't return from here. Whether you choose carefully or appropriately, it is the same thing.

"... I don't see anything unusual going on here."

The cave continues exactly the same way, in its width, height and ups and downs. Of course, the same goes for the tsu running on the wall. Finally, I still can't even feel the anomaly.

"Mm-hmm. That's..."

That's when I lit up the 'Light Fire (Torch)' light drifting right beside me and found something gleaming.

Proceeding carefully as he explored the signs, he quickly found out who he was.

Michael the Golden Brave.

What was there was an ice statue wearing glowing golden full body armor (full plate mails). To be precise, it is an ice-soaked state completely trapped inside the ice. Even when the Said of the Devil's Eye appeared in The Curse Gladiator Games (Cars Carnival), it was sealed with ice like this.

But he never moves out cracking ice like Sayid. Because his face peeking from the helmet that Faceguard opened is completely white boned.

Other bodies of magicians in robes and small archers with bows were also found in the immediate vicinity in the form of ice-covered white bone corpses.

As Mr. Jimmy was talking about, they must be the first victims, the 'Golden Age (Golden Age)'.

"... strange, if you just got ice pickled, you shouldn't be boned"

If you ask me, Fiona's question is best. Nothing, even if it's not the sealing magic of the ice attribute, if it's beautifully ice-picked so far, there shouldn't be any progression of corruption and whitening.

"Didn't I drain you?

Toddler Lily gives a light answer.

"So the last rose is ice pickled and then absorbs the precision."

"Are you going to freeze while you're dreaming with illusion"

If you think about it, Tsujitsu fits. This Michael also said something about his mom until the end of the correspondence. If you slowly freeze the person watching the illusion, it is weak and gentle as an external stimulus, dramatically reducing the likelihood of awakening along the way.

Well, it is natural that the Last Rose deliberately lives in Snow Mountain, so it has the inherent magic (extra) of the ice attribute. In the first place, if the attributes of the monsters of other trials are illuminated, they are confirmed by the erasure method.

Exclude flames, soil and thunder because they have already been mastered. According to Alliance materials, 'Pride Gem' was water, 'Gratney Octo' was wind, and 'Envy Ray' was light. It was not specified that only the unidentified 'Last Rose' was an ice attribute, but given the contents of the trial, it is definitely with ice.

Anyway, where such information is now finalised, it's not a huge gain. If we make the Last Rose crusade, their bodies will be recovered by the Alliance, and let's say we hurry ahead in the sense of condolences.

Dozens to go further in that way.

"That's a lot of bodies."

Decorating the corridor of the tsu are a number of frozen white bone corpses.

I guess they were all excellent adventurers of high rank, just a bunch of armor and magnificent robes that could be seen as superior equipment at a glance. There are no signs of engagement at all, and its appearance is still beautiful when it is dead.

"I think they took a lot of measures, too, but you're doing brilliantly"

"Besides, I hear monsters can be illusioned."

"Uh, it's a pump."

Some of the ice statues also mix non-human silhouettes. As Lily pointed out, a boss with a large, large scar on one eye, a white pump of a ship's eye, was frozen in a pose that was likely to still move as he waved his hands up. It is reminiscent of the stripping of a bear.

"He's not whiteboned, but he doesn't eat monsters?

"It would be just a preserved food. If you look closely at the monsters that have become bones, you can see them."

Indeed, a skeleton resembling a wolf is trapped in the ice, which I could discover just looking over. There are other skeletons that I think are harpy in my eyes. Given the size of the cave on the boulder, I don't see Dorthos huge.

Whatever it is, LastRose seems to be making people and monsters delusional without sight and preying by Drain. The habit of waiting in a trap called a cave is reminiscent of a spider's nest or ant hell.

Will we be able to scratch this invisible trap of fantasy and defeat the monster we don't know... strange anxiety suddenly springs up in our chests?

"... I have a bad feeling"

"Have you detected any signs?

"No, that's not wacky..."

No matter how careful you pay to your surroundings, you don't feel any signs, and you don't see any anomalies. Only here are the walls of the tsu and the bodies of various ice. Nothing moves but us.

"Does Lily feel anything?

"Um, nothing. Okay?

No anomalies. That's for sure, but I can't help but feel the anxiety swirling deep inside my chest.

"Damn... I feel like I'm missing something..."

A muscle of cold sweat conveys the cheeks. Once in doubt, it swells up acceleratively without sunshine.

"But I don't see anything out of the ordinary,"

If you say so, it's also true that you're right.

"For once, shall we turn back?

"... no, let's keep going"

Even if we turn back here, I don't think we can do something new. At least a little more, if you can't grasp the identity of this feeling of anxiety, discomfort, something like that, there's nothing you can do.

"Let's slow down a bit and move on more carefully"

There is no disagreement. Keep exploring.

But as always, there's no change in how the cave looks. Stay quiet here, laughing at my anxiety. Only our footsteps echo, and from time to time, people and monster ice statues greet us. Not a single flower was ever in bloom, even as it ran down the wall without any more or less. In the first place, I don't even know if this plant will blossom.

It wasn't much of a change, but it was the time when I was unnerved.

"Oh, it's a split."

Discover the second branch. It's divided into two parts, one left and the other right, just like the first one, or so it sounds.

Well, this whole cave is flat made, so it looks the same everywhere.

"Which way do we go?

"On the left."

"On what grounds?

"Survey"

Nothing else to rely on. Neither Fiona nor Lily have any particular objections, but decide to take the road to the left.

"All right, let's go"

That way, we move on to the branch road.

It was the road to the left that I chose. There is no particular determinant, it is just a conjecture. In fact, you can't even tell how the left and right roads are different than the adventurers who explored the way ahead didn't return from here. Whether you choose carefully or appropriately, it is the same thing.

"... I don't see anything unusual going on here."

The cave continues exactly the same way, in its width, height and ups and downs. Of course, the same goes for the tsu running on the wall. Finally, I still can't even feel the anomaly.

"Mm-hmm. That's..."

That's when I lit up the 'Light Fire (Torch)' light drifting right beside me and found something gleaming.

Proceeding carefully as he explored the signs, he quickly found out who he was.

Michael the Golden Brave.

The Golden Pickle Armored Warrior is trapped in ice like a Said.

"... strange, if you just got ice pickled, you shouldn't be boned"

"Didn't I drain you?

Convinced immediately of Lily's quick answer.

"Are you going to freeze while you're dreaming with illusion"

Last Rose still seems to use the unique magic (extra) of the ice attribute.

Anyway, where such information is now finalised, it's not a huge gain though. Let's just try to rush ahead.

Dozens to go further in that way.

"That's a lot of bodies."

Decorating the corridor of the tsu are a number of frozen white bone corpses.

"I think they took a lot of measures, too, but you're doing brilliantly"

"Besides, I hear monsters can be illusioned."

"Uh, it's a pump."

It's like stripping a bear. Point to Bospun, and Lily speaks up.

"He's not whiteboned, but he doesn't eat monsters?

"It would be just a preserved food. If you look closely at the monsters that have become bones, you can see them."

"I see, it's like a spider's nest or ant hell. No people, no monsters, no sights."

That's how we keep moving forward.

I don't feel strange and anxious. Maybe there's too little abnormality and the tension is loosening up. We need to keep our heads tight.

"Oh, it's a split."

After a while, we discover a second branch.

"Which way do we go?

"On the left."

"On what grounds?

"Survey"

Nothing else to rely on. Neither Fiona nor Lily have any particular objections, but decide to take the road to the left.

"All right, let's go -"