Legend

"You were able to get out of that space?

Elaine squeaks with her gaze toward the small room in front of her.

Ray nods at that Elaine's words, but sights to the door in the same way.

"Perhaps this little room, the object, is triggering the lure of the adventurers into the space loop."

"Then the bone dog that was lurking in the chest is a dummy for not being seen through."

It was Elaine looking at the door bitterly, but when she exhaled loudly to regain her mood, she pointed her gaze towards the end of the aisle.

"I can't help being in a hooked trap once. Now we're gonna take this aisle forward anyway. Ver, there are traps like this, so be vigilant."

"Rikai, Rikai. Expect me to be hooked up to exactly the same trap over and over again because it involves pride."

It was Ver returning it to Elaine in a mild tone, but there was a humiliation in her eyes that she was hooked to a nagging trap.

Custe bites his lips as he sees how it was humiliating to hang him in the trap again in the same way.

"Look, Ver doesn't have to be so sorry because Custe isn't trained in that hand anyway. We're both ahead of that, so they're gonna leave us."

Earla follows Elaine and Ray, who began to move on with a gentle tap on Custe's shoulder with a demon spear.

The two people who notice how it goes also rush after it.

"... Honestly, it hurts pride to hook up to a trap so easily"

"Well, you've got as much pride left as you have."

"Hey Custe, isn't that a little terrible? More than that, I wonder why you regret it."

"Being a nobleman, I was hooked into a monster-inspired trap, so I guess it's natural to feel humiliated"

Hearing Custe throw up abominably, Ver takes the water bottle out of his hip porch and moisturizes his throat with a bitter smile.

"See, you drink, too. You can't help being angry here. We'll be careful from now on."

"... hmm"

While laughing with his nose, the water bottle receives and moisturizes one, two bites and throat before returning to Ver.

When we interact that way, we catch up with Elaine and the others who were moving forward and start moving forward again as we rearrange ourselves to the avant-garde, middle guard and rear guard to keep our perimeter alert.

"Given the earlier trap, you should consider that there are still other traps. Take care of yourself. And Ver needs you to focus more on finding the trap than on your perimeter alert. The perimeter's safe as long as there's nothing to worry about."

"Gru!"

Seto, who rings all the time to leave it to me, and Ray, who is next to him, to lead the way forward.

And it's been about 10 minutes since I started going straight...

"Grrrrrrrr"

Seto starts roaring low as he looks at the end of the aisle.

"A quick enemy? I didn't think we could break through that infinite loop, so I rushed out to intercept... what place?

"Well, that's likely, but you can't be alarmed."

Elaine sets up a jointed sword while returning words to Ver. Other faces are similarly armed and ready to fight at any time.

"Ara, Custe. You two should be on guard behind your back. If the undead in this hierarchy are being driven by someone else's instructions, they could be targeting them from the front and back."

"Okay. I'll take care of the back!

"I won't expose you to such unusual imitations as I did earlier."

As Ray hears him answer like that from behind, he eventually hears footsteps from the end of the aisle.

Becha, becha, becha, becha, becha.

The sound of something watery hitting the floor. That's quite a few I've heard.

And at the same time...

"Gru."

Seto raising an unpleasant voice somewhere. At the same time, the nose of Ray, who has a sharper five senses than a regular person, also has an intense smell of rot.

"Ugh!"

It was Elaine and Ver, who accidentally had a strange eye on Ray holding her nose with her left hand, who did not have a death size, but then held her nose down with groans by Ver, who was not as good as Ray for a few seconds but had five senses sharper than a regular person, and then Elaine also silently frowned and held her nose down again.

Eventually the footsteps of Becha, Becha, and reveal their wet footsteps and the identity of the rotten odor.

Some individuals have half-rotted bodies and exposed ribs, while others have eyeballs popping out of their orbits with drooling fluid.

Countless shadows come towards the Rays as they zero out the rotten meat and liquid to the ground as they make the sound of bechat every time they take a step. Ray naturally knew what a monster that was.

"Zombies, huh?"

Abominably grumbling Ray. With only sharp physical abilities and five senses, my sense of smell is already half paralyzed by the direct blow of rot. That's the same with Seto, who has five senses that are sharper than Ray's, and he looks at nearly 20 zombies approaching him as he roars in the back of his throat in a bad mood.

In the meantime, Ver opens his mouth reluctantly noticing certain facts as he watches the zombies.

"Dude, there's some guy in the zombies equipped with some armor... maybe that one"

"... I guess. Probably the result of the adventurers who lost their lives in this hierarchy."

"Ugh, I knew it.... I don't want to be like that."

Elaine affirms Ver's predictions and turns her gaze toward the zombies who seem to be closing in on us in a heartfelt disgust.

You naturally want to avoid dying there more than the adventurer challenged the dungeon, but diving into the dungeon always entails the risk of death. But if he died, it would have been absolutely unforgivable for Ver to make that body a rich toy.... No, it's not just Ver, it's the opinion of everyone on the spot.

Effective means of attack against zombies are as effective as ordinary undead: sacred magic and fire magic. Or if you don't hesitate to touch a rotten corpse, you have the means to target the demonic stones buried in its rotten flesh.

And fortunately for Elaine and the others, there were fiery wizards and monsters at this party.

Even Elaine, who is famous as a princess general, thanked Ray and Seto for their presence from the bottom of her heart because deliberately dealing with zombies was an unsettling event.

That's the same for Custe, who is rapidly getting along with Ray, and frowns that it would have been a very unpleasant fight if it had happened to him to fight a zombie.

"... Hey, Custe"

Arla, who was next door to Custe's armor, imagining such a worst future, taps lightly.

Custe returns to me with the sound of a concon and turns his gaze to Ara.

"What's up?

"Something, I feel like Elaine's unfolding as expected... what do you think?

"... what?

"Look, try to clear your ears."

Follow Ara's words and focus your consciousness on hearing. Then I hear the zombie walking sounds of Becha, Becha, as usual. But listen to the sound...

"Chi!

Custe turns his back with a demon spear as he punches his tongue.

Yes. The footsteps we hear belong to the zombies, but there are also footsteps that we hear at a time difference from the footsteps of the existence in front of us that are approaching us. That's not from before, either, but from behind.

"Dear Elaine, as expected, it's also an enemy attack from behind. I thought from the footsteps, maybe a zombie!

"I don't know who it is, but you seem to be welcoming us in a grand way. Earla, Custe, hold on tight until Ray and Seto's hands are free for now!

Listening to that order from Elaine, Bechah, Bechah, and the two sighted the approaching zombies in dirty footsteps set up their respective weapons.

"Attacking a zombie with an axe is going to be a lot of misery..."

"That's the same for me"

"But Custe's weapon is not a spear. If you think about it in time, it's definitely better that way."

"Still, I'm very uncomfortable having to pollute this demon spear that's passed on to my house with the rotten flesh of the undead named Zombies, etc."

"Then I figured I'd have to buy time until Ray or Seto did something about it."

"... hmm"

I guess I don't like relying on Ray for much longer. Even as he replies with a grumpy nose, he looks at the zombies approaching him without complaining in particular about whether he thought he should leave it to the Rays rather than fight directly, and cast a spell with magic as he touches the piercing on his right ear.

"Spirit of great water, let the fierce five fangs dew"

The world is altered through its piercings, which are also magical activators, and conical thorns made of five pieces of water are shaped. It's about 10 cm in diameter, but this was actually the strongest offensive magic I could use for Custe. I'm good at water magic anyway, but basically I'm not that good at attack magic because I've been using healing magic as my main focus.

"Water Fang!"

The thorns of water released with the magical activation pierce the face, torso, hands and feet of zombies walking silently without a word.

But pain doesn't exist in zombies in the first place, so as soon as the water spine stops on its feet for just a few seconds due to the impact of the landing, it starts moving forward again.

"I can't!

I wasn't expecting it, or Ara letting the penetration in just in case she had a glimmer of hope.

In the meantime, suddenly something passes over Custe or Ara and lands in front of him.

"Gru!"

I didn't have to say anything about it. It was a griffon ceto.

When Chilari and Ara turned their gaze toward the avant-garde, the zombie-like presence had already burned black there and fell to the ground. Still, a few zombies were still in motion, but those zombies are wiped out their false lives by the fireballs released by Ray.

"Ara, Custe. The avant-garde managed thanks to Seto. Let Seto take care of the zombies that attacked you from behind, and you'll be defensive!

"Yes!"

Ara responds to Elaine and remains alert to zombie proximity while holding the Power Axe.

I guess we'll hit him, Seto breathes heavily at the zombie approaching him with his hands up silently.

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

And a firebrace is released from that couch, and the approaching zombie is engulfed in flames.

"Whoa, whoa!

Even if you can use a firebrace, it doesn't translate to burning a zombie black in an instant more than just LV.2 yet, a zombie that comes close to Ara and Custe and Seto with his body surrounded by flames. The distance between Ara and Seto, who is stuck in front of Custe, is close to zero...

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

Release the firebrace from its couch with a roar that echoes inside the dungeon again.

Even though it is just LV.2, twice in flames, the zombie can't resist carburizing its rot, and falls to the spot without being able to wave down his shaken hand.

Such sights continued twice or three times, and the zombie, who had attacked from behind if Ahra noticed, had all of them burned down to the ground.

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

Before such a burnt and carburized zombie, Ray approaches and strokes his head, cleaning up all the rest of the zombie as well as Ceto, who has been attacking the avant-garde to the roaring Ceto of victory.

"All right, well done. Thanks to Seto, we've overwhelmed the zombies."

"Grrrrrrrr"

Turn your gaze toward Elaine as you give Ceto the dried meat removed from the mistering with praise.

"Dear Elaine, let's just get away from here. I don't know who it is, but if we stay here, there's a risk that some undead will be sent back as reinforcements again."

"... right. Surely a streak should be avoided beyond the fact that Ray and Seto are the only ones with effective means of attacking the undead. Let's go, if we can find our way to the sixth basement by the end of the day."

Everyone nods at Elaine's words and goes straight in line and into the dungeon.

By the way, the black-burned zombies had naturally destroyed the demonic stones they had in their bodies, and nothing of the kind of material could be obtained.

Actually, as for Ray, I was also hoping to remember some skill with skeletons and zombie demon stones, but I also felt like feeding Seto that, so if I had gotten it, I would have tried to see if I could acquire skill at Death Size.