Legend

"What a surprise."

Elaine's voice echoes into a small room that is narrow to the sight played out in front of her.

A dog made of bone that was suddenly attacked from a chest that was in the room. Regardless of Ray, who prevented a blow due to that ambush, the next moment was a blow that was wielded at his discretion by trying to pop out and slap a tough forefoot, and the series of actions that literally smashed the bone dog into pieces was how fast it reacted to make Elaine look only stunning.

"Grrrrrrrrrr"

I guess I found myself praised. Shake the lion's tail with joy as he rings in an upbeat mood, Seto ringing in the back of his throat.

Elaine quickly checks how the room is, even though she leaks a smile for a moment without thinking about how it looks.

Fortunately, there was no other trap in this room than that crate, or a monster hiding.

"I mean, a room to completely fit adventurers."

"... but I don't even think a normal adventurer would hang in such an obvious trap, hey"

Ver grunts as he turns his gaze to the crate where the bone dog was lurking.

"Well, that's true,"

"But look, we're actually hooked, right?

All I can do is accidentally smile bitterly at the words out of Ara's mouth, Ver.

Custe speaks up as he smiles bitterly in his mouth at those two.

"That said, we didn't open the chest. Perhaps it's a kind of trap where you don't have to open a crate to set up an ambush at the time someone comes nearby.... No, Ara could have opened the chest and hooked it up to an ambush."

While listening to such an exchange on his back, Ray was checking on the bone dog that had been smashed in the literal sense by Seto.

"Can't the Demon Stone...? As for the bone, it's shattered, so I can't use it as a material."

"Gru......"

Because Seto was crushed by force, not only the bones that make up his body, but the demonic stones that are protected by them were crushed as well.

Ray shakes his head slightly to Seto, who comes near him somewhere sounding sorry.

"Never mind, Seto could have gotten wasted flying away."

I stand up scratching the dust and its head, shaking my head to Elaine looking at me.

"You can't. There's nothing else in this room for now, and I was wondering if we should move on."

"I guess.... All right, we'll resume our exploration. Ver, Ara, Custe"

To Elaine's call, the three of them who were having a conversation with a grin immediately nodded in place of a serious look.

Ray and Seto are avant-garde as are entering the room, Elaine and Ver are medium guards, and Ara and Custe leave the small room in the form of rear guards to continue down the aisle.

"... that?

Ray noticed that after he left the small room for about 20 minutes.

"Gru?"

Seto is also tilting his neck if he felt something was wrong.

Having questioned the condition of one and one of those, Elaine also looks around again, but she can't particularly feel any strangeness like this.

"Ray, is something wrong?

"Uh... no, somehow I feel like this aisle is the same place I went through earlier..."

"What? But there was no such thing as a division, was there? It's not your fault?

"Well, maybe... maybe you should even mark it just in case. Seto."

"Grr!"

I guess I figured out what I was being asked for. Seto scratches a few strips against the dungeon wall with his hook claws.

"This will mark the mark once and for all. Keep going..."

"If there's a ceto wound on the wall, it's definitely hanging in some kind of trap."

"Yes."

Nodding to Elaine, the line again walks out along the aisle of the dungeon. Ray calls behind him as only footsteps and rubbing sounds of equipment echo around him.

"... Ver, what do you think of me as a bandit?

Ver opens his mouth in silence to remind him of something only for a few seconds to ask that question.

"I do remember seeing that there are traps like letting space loop in a book I read before I came to this dungeon. But if that's true, the core of this dungeon has a pretty good potential.... No, or is it possible that there is an undead who uses spatial magic"

Spatial magic is a high level of magic that is difficult to acquire. The first thing that comes to mind when people say it's an undead that uses its spatial magic...

"Rich."

"You should also consider that possibility. Honestly, give me a break."

Rich. It is the presence of the wizard resurrected as undead. Sometimes the wizard himself performs rituals and is reborn into Rich, or, rarely, resurrected as Rich when the wizard leaves behind things like resentment, hatred, or strong untrained.

The degree of danger is a thousand different depending on the wizard's abilities during his lifetime, and some of them say a wizard of rank G or so has resurrected as rich.

For this reason, the monster rank has not been clearly determined for the rich, some of which are equivalent to rank A, while others are as rich as rank G, as in the previous example. Basically, it's normal to have a consciousness as a human being, but some of them are rich enough to barge into their instincts without even having that consciousness.

"I guess. It's a magical monster, and it's so annoying. Let's hope that's not possible."

Everyone - including Custe - nods at Ray's words and begins to move on, noting Seto's scratched right wall. Then proceed inside the dungeon for about 20 minutes and you will eventually reach a place with a scratch on the wall.

"That's settled, huh?

Ray's words are spouted with sigh. However, the words are somewhere more of a mixture of strange colors than assertive.

What's in front of you is a wall that Ceto scratched about 20 minutes ago. You can't go wrong. But...

"Ray, is this really an earlier wound?

That's what I've been asking was Ver, who was behind Ray. That tone is mixed with something unbelievable.

"Oh. There's no mistake in this scar on Seto's blow. I don't..."

Chirali, and Ray gazing at the wall.

Certainly there are claw marks on the wall. But still, I guess the reason Ver can't be sure is because the depth of the wound on the wall is different. The claw marks placed by Seto reached a depth of about 5 cm, but the scars currently in front of Ver are only about 1 cm deep.

"Perhaps, but there is some magic hanging on the wall itself that naturally heals the wound. It's a combination of an infinite loop that's so unpleasant."

"Wow, that sure sucks"

The earliest way to find out for ourselves if it fits into an infinite loop is naturally to mark it somewhere. And most more than adventurers have weapons, and that would mark them with scratches. But if the wound were to gradually heal like this wall, it would be very difficult in itself to leave a mark. A means of leaving some tool as a landmark other than a scratch is possible, but that cannot be said to be certain given the possibility of being taken by the monsters roaming in the dungeon either.

"It's troublesome indeed, but thanks to Seto I noticed it early, so let's try to be good"

That's what Elaine says and speaks to the two of us.

In fact, it is true that Seto had an extraordinary power compared to humans in Griffon, and only realized once because he had a magic item called a rigid bracelet that amplified the power. If I had walked around the same place extensively over and over again, my strength would have drained again along with my strength. You can just say you were lucky you didn't.

"But Master Elaine, how do you get out of this infinite loop after all?

"I can't think of anything right now. I'm sorry, but let me think for a second. Everyone else would rather keep their health warm than move around in vain than this place is in an infinite loop. And if anything comes to mind, tell me."

"But I don't think we can think of anything that Elaine can't think of..."

"Ara, it's not like I'm omnipotent. You might come up with something I can't think of, so don't despise yourself."

"... ok. I'll think about it."

That said, close your eyes and start thinking about something Ara sideways. Each of the other faces begins to look for a way to open up this situation.

Elaine looks at the end of the aisle so that she can put her arms together and observe, and Ver is gradually examining the walls where Seto's scars are being repaired. Custe looks around with his hands on his chin, and Ray immerses himself in his thoughts as he strokes Seto's back. And Seto, who decided not to stand in everyone's way, fell asleep on the floor and was alert to the raids of the undead.

(Spatial loop. I mean, somewhere we jumped into that trap. So do I know where that is?... No, you can't. The quickest way to do this is to defeat the monster who set this trap... but isn't it the monster who set this trap in the first place? Besides, if it's a monster, it's possible he's not in this space.)

Ray looks at the wall and searches for a way out. But the scratches on the wall that Seto had put on had almost been repaired, and only thin traces of it could be seen.

(Can't help it, it's been a long time since I've drawn Zeppyre's knowledge.... It's a little subtle when people ask me if I can trust Zeppyre 100% considering the time that has elapsed since he died)

Yes, whining on the inside, drawing information on space magic from Zeppyre's knowledge... No, space magic.

(How to get out of the space you are looping...... defeating the person you set up is dismissed. Use magic with more than the allowable amount of magic in the space you are looping.... I can do this, but my drain is too intense, so I'm on hold. I destroy that space itself with space magic... I refuse because I can't use space magic itself. The surest and simplest is destroying the place that is, after all, the starting point of the space you are looping in, huh? I know that's the easiest thing to do, but how do you find that starting point... Hmm, I see. Is this worth a shot because my wear and tear isn't that much?

Exploring Zepile's knowledge, Ray turns his gaze toward Elaine, who decides he seems to be able to do something about it.

"Dear Elaine, I have come up with the possibility that maybe it will work"

"Well, that's interesting. Make sure you let me know."

"Even though this space is looping, there must be somewhere more connected to the original space than we were taken in. And if we destroy where it's starting, this looping space will break and we'll be able to go back to our original space."

"But come on, how do you find a place that's starting point? No way we're all gonna break this aisle down one by one or something? No, it stinks like that. How hard it is to break down walls that are largely natural and repairing."

Ray shakes his head small on Ver's words.

"The method itself is not that difficult. My magic sets fire to the whole aisle, so I can find a place to start."

Elaine frowns slightly at its solution, which can only be described as forceful.

"Can you do that? I think it's going to take a lot of magic to flame this whole aisle."

"Probably no problem. And with this bracelet I'm equipped with, you can take magic away from your enemies."

With that said, the left wrist is offered so that everyone can see it, not the right wrist where the mistering fits.

There was certainly a bracelet fitted in there that seemed to be some kind of magic item.

"This magic item is called the Absorber's Bracelet and is an excellent way to absorb magic from enemies that is proportional to the amount of damage they inflict if the equipped person attacks and deals damage to them."

"... Whatever. That's just a coveted magic item for those who use magic. Did you give that away from your master, too?

"It will. Well, as Lady Elaine knows, I rarely have to rely on this because my magic power is the original amount. And basically, wizards often don't have the technology to attack and damage their enemies directly.... So how about the way I presented it?

"It would be best to try Ray's way of presenting it than I can think of any other way. Do it."

Nod at Elaine's words, make sure everyone gathers in one place to avoid being caught in the flaming spread, and then cast a spell with magic.

"Flame, burn as you show the red flame. Turn it into a carpet of my own will."

While casting a spell, a fist-big flame appears at the tip of the Death Size pattern… tapping it to the ground with every pattern!

"Thin!"

At that moment when the magic is activated, the flame of the tip of the pattern that Ray slammed to the ground explodes to the perimeter, covering every part of the ground, ceiling and wall from the death size. And that flame rapidly widened its range, and a few seconds later, everything Ray was looking forward was covered by that flame.

"... hot, no?

Even as she hears Ara's gruesome voice, Ray instills magic into her magic to expand the flame's spread, a low-temperature flame that is about 20 degrees Celsius and unlikely to be considered normal, but the magic drains rapidly from inside the ray just because its range is vast. And stay put for a few minutes. Contrary to the direction Ray was looking at, that is, everything in the space where the flames were also showing up and looping from behind was enveloped by the flames.

"... I just found it!

Ray, who was concentrating on maintaining the flame, screams so or so loudly, waves the death size to extinguish the flame that was full of passages and runs straight out.

Seto instantly follows, and Elaine gets lost for a moment, but then follows.

Eventually, when Elaine and the others caught up, Ray was already swinging his death size up toward one side of the wall.

"Ha!

And a death-sized blade to be swung down. The blade slashed and tore a part of the wall...... at the next moment the sound of glass breaking was echoing around him, and in front of him a door appeared leading to a small room that had become a battle with bone dogs.