Legend

"If you walk like this, it's pretty easy to walk compared to the 11th basement floor"

Mumble, lay down your legs again and again to see how the ground feels.

It is a solid ground, unlike the desert on the 11th basement floor.

There is no sand involved in your feet, or your feet sink in the sand.

"Sure. It would be overwhelming to say just the ease of walking."

"Grrrrrrrr"

Elaine also makes sure she feels the ground with her coat on again, and Seto rings just short when she agrees.

I finished my lunch a little early and started exploring the basement 12th floor just as quickly and for about 10 minutes.

At first I just wondered if the ground would be stiffened and walkable just around the small room, but walking through the rocky desert like this would surprise me at the difference from the sandy desert on the 11th basement floor.

"I guess the easiest way to walk means easier for monsters to get around"

"You'll certainly need to pay attention to that area. Seto, please remember the enemy."

"Gru!"

Ringing sharply at Ray's words, he moves on as he looks around.

Ray and Elaine go ahead with such a scouting role Ceto leading and then continuing.

Keep going for about an hour...

"Nothing so far... isn't that strange?

"Oh. Is this normal in this hierarchy, or is there some anomaly?... Well, I guess which one"

You can't even see the shadow of a monster on the ground, at that moment you looked around.

"Grrrrrrrr!"

A sharp squeal that prompts Seto's vigilance echoes around him.

Dauntingly, Ray draws the Death Size from Mystering, and Elaine pulls the Jointed Sword from her sheath, but there is no enemy anywhere.

But there was no way for Seto to de-alert, and Ray and Elaine had noticed something approaching them again.

"Up!

Feeling a killing temper that could even be described as fierce directed at himself, Ray waves a death size toward the top.

It was a blow like slashing and ripping the air itself, but I guess I perceived the danger of that weapon. Coming down like thunder from directly above Ray, that monster flips on the spot with a voice of intimidation. Rising up into the sky again.

"Shaaaaaaaa!"

It was then that the Rays were finally able to confirm the appearance of the monster they had attacked.

Snakes with torso lengths exceeding 2 m long. However, there are three wings growing from the torso, one on the left and one on the right.

Wings like the bat has, not the wings the bird has.

Information I hear from Preades floats behind Ray's brain.

"Sure...... Skyfang!

An unexpectedly convincing look appears on a monster who flips herself in the air as if to respond to the words, stripping out some fangs as much as 30 cm and giving a shout of intimidation.

Because Preades told me that the ferocity was definitely top notch, regardless of strength, among the monsters on the basement 12th floor.

No matter how much you eat, you are always hungry, and therefore the ferocity of eating up to everything you see is that the danger ranks high among the monsters that come out on all the desert hierarchies up to the 15th floor underground.

"With a guy like this, it would certainly be natural not to have any other monsters around here"

It's a monster with a ferocity that can even devour a giant enemy over itself. I can easily imagine that the other monsters would have escaped this area at the time they saw Skyfang.

But the sky-dancing serpent, or Skyfang's fatal mistake, would have struck the Rays without withstanding their own hunger... or more precisely the Griffon Seto, who is also said to be a flying reaper.

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

Seto rises to the sky with wings winged with a few steps of help as he roars.

As if intercepting such a ceto, Skyfang strips out his huge fangs and targets him to ceto.

You can't stop your body already, even though your head understands that they are more monsters than you are because of hunger. No, Ning Lo decides it will be more edible than being a monster bigger than himself, and strikes towards Seto as he wings six wings and twists himself in the air.... No, I tried to attack him.

"Flying slaughter!

"Ahhh!

Until a flying slash emanating from the ground and a magical and whipped jointed sword strike, as if to control its advance.

Make it Ray, make it Elaine, basically avant-garde, but with magic, jointed swords, or any other weapon. There are also a number of means of attack at a distance.

When it comes to the means of ranged attacks, the opponents that Skyfang has attacked and eaten so far, the precision is about the throwing of bows and arrows and daggers, then it is not difficult to prevent them on a proud scale.

Naturally, this hierarchy included wizards, warriors with arms, archers, and other face-to-face parties, but these Skyfangs never fought them.

Most of all, you wouldn't have survived if you had fought such an opponent.

"Shh, shh, shh, shh!

The slash, released with a flying slash through the tip of his eyes and nose as if to control the tip of the plane he tried to strike, is going to use his feathers reflexively to fall back. But a lashing sword that changed so as to interfere with it slashes and rips the space behind Skyfang to take the escape.

That's how he was a Skyfang who couldn't escape before or behind him... but suddenly he gets slapped from the air to the ground, as if he was hit by something, and he hits that body intensely.

I didn't know what happened to the sudden event, I was a skyfang groaning with shock and pain, but at the next moment I would take another blow that would beat me from something I couldn't see, and I would be crushed in the head as it was, and I would be desperate.

The viciousness said he was a top-notch Skyfang in the desert hierarchy, but he lost his life without the art of exchange.

Whatever did it soon becomes apparent. A few seconds later, Seto appeared with his right forefoot swinging down to Skyfang's head.

It was an ambush by Seto's skill, optical camouflage.

Surprised by Ray's flying slash, he used optical camouflage at that moment when he accidentally retreated away from Seto, moving to higher altitudes than his opponent. Lost his escape with a successive sword blow, instantly but with the confused head of Skyfang, Seto's blow was swung down and slammed to the ground... and the forefoot blow with the power of descending speed was unleashed again.

"It's amazing how invisible the enemy is."

"With that said, was Elaine the first to see it? Optical camo is a skill. However, it has the disadvantage of being gone for a short time."

"But... Still, if you're so proud of your power, it's definitely going to be a trump card when you have to"

When bandits attacked me on my way to Egzil, I used optical camo to kill many bandits, but that was when I acted away from Ray and Elaine and the others, so this was the first time Elaine actually saw a fight using optical camo.

"Well, disappearing would be so threatening because Seto uses it"

"Indeed."

Ray snorts at Elaine's words as she squeaks.

Even if you become transparent, that skill is a threat because Ceto is capable of dealing even lethal damage to enemies with one blow. If this turns out to be transparent around the goblin, you'll remember the threat somewhat, but that's only somewhat of a range.

"Gru!"

You must have found yourself praised for such Elaine's words. Isn't that amazing! Seto pounding his chest and throat all the time.

However, the right forefoot had blood, flesh pieces, and parts of the brain that were caused by the crushing of Skyfang's head, and although not very much, it seemed impossible to say that normal people were cute looking at Ceto now...

"Oh, Seto is amazing. Yellow is what I want you to grow up like Seto."

It doesn't even look particularly surprising to the extent that there is blood on it for Elaine, who has dived through many battlefields, gently stroking Seto's head.

Ray was grinning at that, but before any other monsters gather around the smell of blood drifting around him, and he touches Skyfang's body, who lost his head, and stores it in the misting.

Then he looked around and found the characteristic fangs that were falling on the ground, but because Seto's forefoot had been directly hit or broken in half, it was not in such a condition that it could be sold as a material.

(For being slapped to the ground, there were barely any scratches on the feathers or snake skin, okay?)

Skyfang feathers are used in alchemy and medicine materials, and snake skins are also used in leather armor, capes, or ornaments.

The gut has a poison bag that sends through the fangs to the enemy, and the meat isn't very tasty, but there's a lot of demand for it as an ingredient in the medicine.

Now that the lack of demon stones is getting serious, demon stones can naturally be sold high... Ray was willing to use them himself to use them as warcraft.

Regarding the tip of the tail at the crusade proof site, it would be possible to redeem the money because there is no particular appearance of scratching.

All in all, Skyfang, which has a lot of material removed and has a crusade proof site that is slightly more expensive than other monsters because of its demonic stones and ferocity, was also a pretty tasty monster in monetary terms if it can be defeated.

Speaking of difficulty, a monster ranked lower than the surrounding Skyfangs would escape and disappear because of its ferocity.

"So, the road's good this way, right?

There are many places in the map that are rocky deserts but thus become landmarks.

If you're just thinking about the way you look at the map, I'd say it's considerably easier to understand than the basement 11th floor.

"Um, there's a rocky mountain here that's shaped like a Trident over there, so I'm not wrong because I'm going straight ahead like this. That way, we'll hit the rock called Dragon Rock, so if you turn right there and go straight, there's a staircase down to the 13th basement."

He nods at Elaine, who tells her as she looks at the map he took out of the magic porch, and starts walking again before a new monster comes out.

The ground was easy to walk for a stiff minute, but still it was raising the temperature on the ground by emitting so much heat that I didn't think it was a real sun when it came to intense sunlight.

With dragon robes and coats, Ray and Elaine are able to keep going normally, but if someone who doesn't prepare anything in advance challenges this hierarchy, they won't even be able to move properly due to dehydration and sunburn.

(Well, any adventurers who come to this hierarchy are naturally clearing the desert on the 11th basement floor than they can transfer with an armed adventurer and fly the hierarchy along the way... or something, so who doesn't come prepared for anything?... if there is, he has broken through without any preparation in the desert above)

While I think about it that way, or I also think it might be possible for a species like Dwarves and Beastmen whose bodies are sturdy and have high health.

"The rock... can't you see it yet"

Ray returns to me and looks around to Elaine's words as she walks in the rocky desert.

Continue walking for about 30 minutes from where the Skyfang raid was.

The landmark dragon rock on the map is still nowhere to be seen, and if you look up there is only Seto, who is on perimeter alert over the sky to counteract Skyfang.

Other than that, I just keep walking in the rocky desert spreading.

"Looking at it this way, that Skyfang territory seemed pretty wide"

Elaine snorts again at Ray's words whining like that.

"Seto knocked it down with dismay, but Skyfang is such a powerful monster in Rank D, and above all, its viciousness can be compared to or distinct from other monsters. It's easy not to be raided by other monsters just in an area where such monsters were territorial.... if you try Ray looking for Demon Stone, it won't be a very welcome thing."

"Grrrrrrrr!"

As if that word of Elaine had been a signal, I can hear the sound of vigilance coming from Seto flying over.

"From the side I told you about."

Ray shook his neck sideways to Elaine, who said his words had invited his enemies.

"Never mind, you simply got out of Skyfang territory"

Ray tells me while removing the Death Size from the Mystering... but there is no way the enemy will attack.

"Ray! There!

The first person to find that sight was Elaine. At the end of that gaze is the figure of several adventurers fighting giant spiders over 4 m long.

Other than that, there were a few adventurers lying on the ground, who looked struggling to see.

Damage is accumulating because those who are fighting will also see it, and if left alone, it will undoubtedly be wiped out.

See how it goes and make a decision in an instant.

Sometimes it's about helping adventurers, but on the grounds that it's a shame to miss the demon stone of an unknown monster.

"You want to go?

"Oh."

Elaine nods at Ray's inquiry and the two run straight to the scene of the battle.

Seto also feathered his wings in the air, and followed him.