Legend

A small room on the seventh basement of the dungeon with a magic formation for the transfer and a staircase leading to the sixth basement. When the magic formation there emitted light, the next moment there were two figures and two others, Ray, Elaine, Seto and Yellow, above the magic formation.

"... I'm not used to it"

"What?

To Elaine, who grumbled with potpourri, Ray returns his voice.

Next to such a ray, Seto is alerting his surroundings only quickly.

The day before, there was a bandit named Büne, so I didn't have to be so vigilant, but today it's only Ray and Elaine, Seto and Yellow. Naturally, vigilance against traps and the act of preparing for enemy attacks were necessary, and the sharpest of five senses of this was to assume nature and its role.

"No, it's called cave-style. Until the basement 5th floor of this dungeon, it was a normal dungeon, though, to say this. But I really don't like this vibe."

I look around with a slight frown.

The ground is solidified with soil, and stones fall by the way. Sometimes the walls are glowing like dungeons up to the 5th floor of the basement, and the difference above all is the cave, which is different from the outside. Something like limp and cool?

Summer is also served only, with temperatures superior to 30°C during the day in Exil. It was only in the morning that Ray and Elaine headed for the dungeon, so the temperature wasn't that high and it was somewhat easy to spend, but it could also be said that spending time in the dungeon is an adventurer's privilege if you think it's going to get acceleratingly hot in the future.

In fact, there are quite a few adventurers who come this season in search of some money and coolness in the hierarchy, which is caved from the 6th to the 10th basement.

Although only today, there are fewer people in the dungeon than usual because of the flow of information on abnormal species.

"Anyway, it doesn't start no matter what you say here. Besides, I'm talking about the desert after the 11th basement, and I think it's a lot better than that. Here we go."

"Oh. And a magic item that allows you to have a conversation at a distance.... I wonder how long I can get it if I dive down there"

"You don't know that area until you actually dive in. In the first place, it's possible that a powerful monster might have a weapon or something, but when it's a magic item for communication, it's pretty much a lower tier, isn't it?

We go outside the small room, exchanging words with each other.

Naturally or still, it is a cave-style dungeon similar to the sixth basement floor that is in sight…

"Grr!"

1 Step As soon as you go outside the small room, you sharply ring to see if Seto notices an approaching presence.

Hearing that voice, Ray and Elaine also set up their weapons immediately.

Elaine pulled the connecting sword out of the sheath of her hips, and Ray took the death size out of Mystering.

Eventually, from the end of the aisle, I hear guts, guts, etc.

Ray immediately understands what kind of person the existence making that sound is. That was the same for Elaine again. Because somehow we just saw both the anomalous species and our normal enemies the day before.

"Stone Papette, huh? As far as yesterday's battle is concerned, the speed of travel is slow, so we have the option of avoiding the battle."

Elaine asked just in case, but she had already decided the battle would be inevitable based on how Ray was grinning belligerently. Anyway, I'm in a cave right now, and the only way to say I'm going to run away from my enemies is to go outside in a magic formation or head back to the sixth basement.

Or some means of hiding inside a small room where monsters can't come in due to the effects of the magic formation, but I don't even think Ray would act passively like that, and even more so, if there were to be a stone papet sitting at the entrance, he would end up wasting his time fighting for it,

"It's useless to ask,"

"I'm sorry.... and I need to give it a try. Attract me a little closer."

Elaine turns her astonishing gaze to Ray, who returns her words as she pokes a death-size stone poke to the ground.

"What are you going to do?

"I figured it out last night. So did Mad Papette, but Stone Papette was basically a dull move too, right?

"Well, you are. It seemed like a pretty powerful blow for that matter."

"I mean, it is. I thought you might be able to use it for a long time..."

Tell him that much, Ray stops the words.

Because at the end of our gaze, we got a visual on the Stone Papette coming towards us.

There was no mistake in the fact that the enemy was a stone papet, as we expected from the footsteps. However, what would have been different from what I expected was that the number of stone puppets was three.

"... I thought so. Surely you don't have to bother to move around one at a time"

"Has the calculation gone mad? What are we gonna do, take him down normally?

"No, I was just surprised because I expected only one. I think I can handle a certain number of them this way.... Ready? From now on, I'll mess with their footsteps. If we go well, we might fall on the spot. Don't miss that gap, attack all at once."

Although it was an explanation that did not get the guidelines, Elaine had absolute confidence in Ray's ability to fight by fighting with him many times, and was thus able to nod back without hesitation to his instructions.

"Okay. Stonepappet's footsteps are messed up."

Nodding at Elaine's words, she activates her skills with a death-size stone poke on the ground.

"Terrain manipulation!

Along with the words, the ground sinks about 10 cm in the same place where Ray and Elaine are located, but in other places with a radius of about 10 m.

Where the ground dropped by about 10 cm if it were a normal conscious person or animal or a monster, it would have been immediately balanced and not particularly problematic. But a golem-based monster, but therefore a dull judge, the stone papet cuts the sky and breaks the balance without his stepped foot stepping on the earth, and three of them sum it up and fall to the ground.

"Now!

I scream at that moment when the stone papet is out of balance, pulling through the stone poke that was piercing the ground myself, and out front.

It's Seto who goes next to such a ray. And it was the body of a jointed sword that was transformed into a whip.

"Grrrrrrrr!"

Two water balloons measuring about 30 cm in diameter are produced along with a stone papet hanging falling into the ground and Seto's roar. The water polo, which flew off momentously as it was, bursts as it smashed the stone around the moment it hit the falling stone puppet.

(I also thought yesterday that this is usually what it is!

Ray, who watches as he looks sideways, swings his death-size and activates his skills on the body of a falling stone papet.

"Power slash!

A blow because the enemy's body is made of stone. Instead of slashing and tearing the body of a stone papet, crush it so that it can do more damage. The death-size blow unleashed with that judgment is truly twofold as Ray crushes the torso of the stone puppet as he sees it.

The strain on the wrist was not that great because it missed the shock well, unlike when I used it before.

Still, I felt a little pain because the shock wasn't perfect yet.

The only stone papet that was intact, too, the tip of the jointed sword slashes and rips the body of that stone. On the back of what Ray destroyed with the power of a single blow, many times a whipped jointed sword runs through the sky, cutting off its limbs, torso, and neck.

"Grrrrrrrr!"

Seto also smashed his entire body in one blow by swinging his forefoot down to the stone papet, which was blown away from all parts of his body by two water balloons.

It would be its strength to fear. Griffon's natural strength and rigid bracelet, which is also a magic item. Because these two synergies made Ray more powerful than the power slash he unleashed.

It was a one-sided battle if it was over, and Ray and Elaine, who finished their normal battle with stone puppets, smile face-to-face at each other and laugh small.

If you try it on the lay, by the fact that the terrain manipulation worked better than expected. And Elaine was kind of freaking out, because when Ray and I got into battle, we could breathe in an instant.

"And terrain manipulation? You've got a lot of convenient abilities."

To Elaine, who groans with admiration, Ray shakes her neck left and right with a bitter smile.

"It's certainly an ability that's going to be tremendous if we can keep it growing. However, in the present situation we can only sink or protrude the ground about 10 cm. … terrain manipulation"

Poke a death-size stone poke at the ground while answering Elaine and activate her terrain manipulation skills again. Then, the ground that was sinking due to the earlier skill activation rises back to its original height.

"... I see. Sure, it doesn't seem to work very well at about 10cm, but if you fight someone who doesn't know this skill exists, it seems like it will perform well enough to target a one-shot reversal. Anyway, humans are about 10 centimeters tall, but if you don't know it's there, it's definitely out of balance."

To that word, Ray recalls the earlier battle with Stone Papette.

Maybe I can. That's how I tried it, but it actually fitted so beautifully from now on. If you think about it, it could certainly be used as a trump card in times of need, as Elaine says.

"As far as I'm concerned, if I could suddenly burst a spear of dirt or something out of the enemy's feet and ambush him... or something like that, you'd have given up first that you couldn't do it as it is now"

In the first place, I learned my skills in terrain manipulation when I destroyed the nucleus and thoughts of the dungeon in Death Size. In other words, it is obvious that it is such a rare skill, and even if it absorbs the same demonic stone, only the first one makes sense. Given that, it would be difficult to level up without using equally scarce demonic stones outside the nucleus of the dungeon, and I would have given up half of them.

But hearing Elaine's words showed that it could be a trump card for a one-shot reversal, even if the level remained low.

While satisfied with that, it quickly and exclusively stores the body parts that can be sold as Stone Papette demon stones and materials into the mistering.

Thanks to Ray, Elaine, Seto and all the more overwhelming members than usual, the storage is complete in minutes…

(Later)

I also thought for a moment I'd go back to a room with a magic formation and finish absorbing the demon stone, Ray, but now I decide it's important to move on and give up.

Or maybe if this were a normal day, it would have been different. Today, however, more adventurers remained on the ground than usual because of the appearance of information on abnormal species. Not all of that will ever go into the dungeon, and some number will definitely come in.

That is also the adventurer whose aim is to capture abnormal species.

Because being an abnormal species is naturally of rare value. Because if you take it to the Alliance even if it's a demonic stone or part of your body, you can definitely buy it at a high price.

If you can capture it, you'll be rewarded enough to call it a grand grab.

Those who seek luxury, those who want to have fun and make money, and those who need immediate money for some reason, like debt, are definitely there.

(Some people, like Vihera, may be looking to fight)

Given the likelihood that such people will be transferred, it was decided that we should still stop absorbing demon stones in the dungeon today.

"... shall we begin our exploration? We don't have a Bühne today, so we need to proceed with particular caution. Anyway, traps have become quite dangerous since they became caves."

"Right. I was surprised when I saw the stalactites coming down. There were no more dangerous traps down to the fifth basement."

Elaine nods to agree with Ray's words and takes the form of proceeding inside the dungeon.

With Seto and the yellow on his back in front, Ray and Elaine in the back.

Everyone on the spot said nothing in particular, silently forming a formation and stepping out into the cave.

"Straight down this aisle, we eventually go out to the T-shaped road. Right there first."

"Gru."

Seto rings short and replies to Elaine's voice telling her as she retrieves the map.

Keep going straight and discover some traps and thoughts and beings, but do as Bühne taught you and manage to avoid them.

That said, all you can do is dodge it. It feels like, for example, trying to hide in the soil and not tread on the switches that are present, or crossing threads a few centimeters above the ground.

Exactly like Bühne, I couldn't emulate the trap or anything like that.

Still, slowly, but keep going for about 4 hours. Strangely enough, he succeeds in finding a staircase to the eighth basement floor without encountering any monster other than the first stone papet he fought.