Legend

Having enjoyed enough skinning with Seto, Ray and Elaine were proceeding through the desert on the 13th basement floor.

Every time you walk, the tip of your foot sinks into the sand to take your foot, or temperatures above 50°C take your strength, and intense direct sunlight falls from the sun as if to accelerate it.

However, we are already used to walking on the sand on the 11th basement floor, which is considerably mitigated by the effects of dragon robes and coats, also with regard to direct sunlight in temperatures.

Although it would still be with Ray and Elaine's strength and endurance that they are walking straight for the staircase to the basement, which is also their destination, rather than walking on the peaks of the distant sand dunes.

Also, Seto, thanks to eating sandwiches, is vigilant around him while flying well in the sky.

As I kept walking in the desert that way, I eventually saw countless cactuses growing.

"Cactus...... Ray, remember what the Preades told you?

"Oh. We're talking about some of the cactus from the 13th basement, some of the monsters that are fictional."

"Uhm. Based on that...... what do we do?

Ray also frowned and twisted his neck at Elaine as she looked at the countless cactus at the end of her gaze, which was so densely grown that it should be described as a cactus forest.

"When cactus grows so densely, it's obviously suspicious. First of all, I'm pretty sure a monster called Cactus Modki is making a mock out of it."

"The easiest thing would be to fly through the sky and fly over here... but whatever Ray is, it's hard for me."

It's not in a normal griffon, is it just a trait of Ceto created by Warcraft, Ceto can basically only put about one Ray on his back.

More than that, I did something about the child.

Now, I'd say it's all kinds of unreasonable because a blow to the forefoot has the power to blow even a monster in 100kg.

Either way, there weren't as many means that Seto could take than he could travel with Elaine on board.

That is...

"Go a long way, or you can't get into it"

"Going far is... I'd avoid it if I could"

Elaine shrieks so as she sighs when she sees the cactus forest spread over a considerable area.

Even for Ray, I want to get at least two Demon Stones because they are unknown monsters.

This is how the two interests coincide, and the next thing you know, you're going to haunt your head over how to defeat the cactus modoki that's simulating on the cactus.

"If you think about it without difficulty, I think it would be quick to clean it up with Ray's magic or mine."

"If possible. The Preades told me that cactus modoki reacts hypersensitively to magic."

"Oh, and you only react to magic without distinction, like attack magic or healing magic, so it's no trouble."

To Ray's words, Elaine returns the words in sigh.

Cactus Modki is basically invisible only to monsters who, as its name suggests, are pseudo-cactus. But if it feels magical, it evokes a defensive instinct, or simply has such a nature, it exposes itself and launches an attack.

Asked how countless lizards growing from cactus were released, Ray was reminded of machine guns.

Moreover, the tortoise released is instantly replaced from the cactus modoki body and never runs out of ammo.

Such an attack is extremely troublesome because all cactus monsters and cactus modokies detect magic.

It is obvious that it is not powerful enough to penetrate the dragon robe, but it was not possible to prevent all attacks hitting the gap in the hood or the place not covered in the robe with an attack that could also be described as face shooting.

Furthermore, Elaine wears only a coat that lowers the temperature, and she can hardly expect defenses.

And the only material that can be removed from the cactus modoki is the Demon Stone, which also has a crusade proof site, and you can't take any other material, which is exactly a monster that struggles to defeat but gets very little, as if it embodies a crease of bone breakage.

(Most of all, I guess that's why I bred it so far)

If Cactus Modki were a monster who moves around on his own like Trent, or maybe he would have defeated the opponent he attacked. But basically, the cactus modoki stands still without movement, as it is in front of the Rays, and is also a monster thoroughly specialized in ambushes.

I guess that's why we've grown so far that it exists here, another place away from desert peaks.

"Anyway, the magic is dismissed. Then we'll have to kill the cactus Modoki who gets in the way with his skills and physical attacks."

"... troublesome but I can't help it, can I? Maybe it would have been quicker to move around the peak like the other adventurers would have."

"I don't deny it. But..."

Ray returns that to Elaine's words and sets up the death size she took out of Mystering.

"Sure, you'll react hypersensitively when it comes to magic, but what about the skills you've acquired with Warcraft?... Elaine, I know you're okay, but just be prepared to deal with whatever happens once. Seto!"

"Grrrrrrrr!"

I guess I heard the conversation even if I didn't instruct you to go into details or just stay above that call, and I generally understood what Ray was trying to say.

Copy that, and it just rings, and it comes down to the ground with its wings flapping.

Keep moving next to Ray, what am I supposed to use for Ray? and Seto inquiring with a gaze.

"Fire whirlwinds are the best, because they're tornado heights and can be seen by other adventurers. I don't want to expose it as much as possible because it's my wife's hand. Then the king's intimidation... I wonder. Cactus modoki is a monster with little movement itself in the first place. Then I figured it would be a firebrace because of the range of attack."

"Grr!"

I'll take care of it! I'll just ring it short, breathe loudly and be ready to spit out my firebraces at any time.

(In my case... I hardly have the skills to be able to attack in the first place)

Seeing how Seto is like that, he whines inside.

Of the skills Ray can use… more precisely Death Size, only three attack skills are available: Flying Slash, Power Slash, and Corrosion.

Corrosion, among other things, is the corrosion of enemy metal equipment, as the skill name suggests, and there is no point in using it in this situation, and the power slash can take a powerful blow, but only against one of the enemies.

Then nature and the skills used by Ray become the most versatile and accustomed to flying slaughter.

(Unlike a power slash, it can be used continuously.)

I have been able to successfully escape the recoil I receive with a power slash using it several times, or by training, but still not with the kind of skills I can use continuously.

Breathe small, puke, suck, puke, suck...

"Seto, let's go!

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

Firebraces are thrown out all the time as Seto rings loudly at Ray's words and burns everything out of that couch.

Flying slaughter! Flying slaughter! Flying slaughter! "

Next to such a ceto, Ray also shakes the death size more than once just wondering if he will ever lose again, and if he skips the slash, he slashes and rips the cactus modoki on its path.

The cactus modoki touching the firebrace is tormented and burned to the ground without doing anything.

Some cactus moddles tried to detect the crisis and release the lizard the moment it touched the flame, but it did not resist Seto's flaming momentum, but turned it into charcoal as it was.

Ray's Flying Slash stops the roots of his breath with a single blow by severing the cactus modoki in two when released.

Fortunately, the power of the Flying Slash was just right to defeat the Cactus Modki? If this were too powerful, you would have knocked one down and halfway damaged the cactus modoki growing behind you and eaten the needle like a machine gun.

Conversely, if the power is too weak, it can't be defeated against the first one, causing halfway damage and releasing the needle as well.

Next to Ray and Seto, who are repeatedly attacking in that state, this one also magically passes through the junction sword that Elaine pulled out of her hips sheath, whipping and manipulating to cut her torso from the critical position of the cactus modoki's range of attack.

(... you react to magic magic magic, but not to magic items?

Ray, who was watching Elaine attack as she unleashed a chillari and a flying slash, thinks inside, but is immediately convinced.

(Then you're responding to a surgical ceremony when using magic...? Because magic items let magic flow through the magic items themselves, not outside......)

With that in mind, I find it pointless in the end even if I enchanted and attacked Death Size.

Nothing. I don't think the Death Size is inferior to the Jointed Sword. It's purely a matter of weapons in between.

Death size is about 2m long, but even considering the length of the blade, it is possible to attack precisely at medium range.

However, the attackable range of the whipped concatenated sword can be quite extensive compared to the death size.

It doesn't extend to a shooting weapon like a bow, but it still allows for ranged attacks.

(Then throw the spear... No, don't you allow the remaining numbers? I'll have to collect them for real later. A labyrinth city where adventurers gather, so there are many weapons stores and blacksmiths)

Even while I think about it that way, swinging the death size keeps letting off the flying slaughter, and the two and one unleashed attack casually takes the life of a cactus modoki as if even the weed were to be mowed.

The only difficulty would be that Seto's firebraces are too powerful? Its flames are not only turned into charcoal by the cactus modoki's body, but even by demonic stones.

"Seto, adjust the power of the flames a little more. I've never been able to get more than a small amount of Demon Stone."

There was nothing in Ray's words that sounded particularly agreeable because he was spitting out firebraces, but still the flaming power being spit out of Ceto's couch definitely drops.

The less powerful firebraces envelop the cactus modoki with flames to make it charcoal is no different, but the longer it takes to make it charcoal and consequently move to the next target before the demon stone becomes charcoal, the demon stone will no longer become charcoal.

The two and one knock down all the cactus modkies that can be knocked out of the place and start moving forward one by one.

If you take one step forward, just that one step away. A new cactus modoki loses its life, and if you take two steps, more. With three, four, and five steps in that state, the number of cactus modokies is gradually decreasing.

Of course, they don't take everything down because they live around them. Only where the Rays are passing through and not being attacked by cactus moddies at that time.

Other adventurers, or Alliance officials, would want to tell you to sweep it away if you could if you saw it, but it was no bother to deal with monsters like the Rays who had no material, nothing, and could only get demon stones.

(Still, at the very least, you can get Demon Stone, so as an alliance lacking Demon Stone, you can't even say it's a delicious prey...? Most importantly, you can safely attack a cactus modoki from a distance, and then fire it in a row, on condition that you get the demon stone of the cactus modoki you defeated.... No, it's that simple at that point)

Think inside, Ray, as you take your steps one by one.

In the bow, which is the most popular ranged attack, it is difficult to end a cactus modoki with a single blow, while at the same time the number of arrows is limited. In the case of magic, the cactus modoki would react and be shot in countless needles at the time they tried to use it in the first place.

(Or if it's something like a stone thrower...... no, you can't. It's hard to get this far in the desert in the first place, and will there be more problems with run-off bullets than arrows? I guess I can't use my hands without having an item box like me at least)

While thinking that way, eventually the gradual but forward-looking Rays finally arrived mid-way to the area where the cactus modoki was growing.

It's the cactus that's spreading in front of you, countless corpses. Or an ordinary cactus that is burnt, cut.

And cactus Modki, who has not yet been attacked around such cactus Modki's body or cactus, remains on the spot without moving.

"All right, let's get the demon stone out of Cactus Modki's body first, and then we'll keep going at this rate."

To Ray's words, Elaine nodded and Seto leaked the roar of consent.