Legend

"Phew, I managed to get out..."

Ray turns his gaze behind him exhaling in relief.

Elaine and Seto also look behind them, as if to match that trick.

What you see ahead of you turning is the green on one side.

It's a sight to be called a cactus grove in the desert that rehydrates and sometimes even feeds.

Cactus modoki that exists in such a way that it is disputed by its cactus.

There are places where the green strips that are formed of them are interrupted and the sand, which is the ground, is stripped out.

The cactus and cactus modoki that were originally present there were slashed or burned to expose their bodies to the ground.

"It took longer than I thought because I slowly went one step at a time"

"Grrrrrrrr"

Seto leaks the squeal as if she agrees with Elaine's voice.

But I can't do that either. Somehow Ray was attacking Cactus Modki with the Flying Slash and Elaine with the Jointed Sword, whereas Seto's method of attacking is Firebrace.

I mean, it's like I kept breathing out all the time. If you throw up the firebrace with all your might, even the demonic stones in the cactus modoki will become charcoal and become useless, so you have to pay attention to adjusting the power. Naturally, your health drains more intensely than the other two. No, I guess there was no problem with Ceto being a griffon if only purely physical strength, but I was quite concerned about mental fatigue.

"Anyway, I got a ton of demon stones. That would solve a little of Eggzil's lack of demon stones."

"Right.... That said, Schaffner, the cause that was buying and collecting the Demon Stone, has already escaped. I don't think there's going to be as serious a lack of demon stones as before."

Ray snorts for that word of Elaine, for sure.

There was no doubt that more demon stones would flow to the market than one of us who was buying and collecting demon stones had already done so.

"But that doesn't mean we're going to all the places we're missing soon either. It's not useless to think about it.... than that, what about absorption of demon stones? Because of the cactus modoki...... no, should I say thanks in this case? Anyway, there's no sign of any other adventurers coming around here."

That's what Ray said when he went down to the 13th basement, wouldn't it just be a hard place to find it from around here? Elaine asked that way, but Ray thought for a few seconds and shook his head to the side.

"Let's stop it. Sure, the adventurers won't come, but they have cactus moddies that react to magic. Even if you poorly absorb demon stones here and acquire new skills, cactus modoki could overreact to that. I want to avoid imitating people who get hurt by pranks here because they cut through here without any particular damage in the corner."

"So what do we do? Maybe this is the most invisible place in this hierarchy."

"Oh. So not here, just a little further away from here, okay?"

"... I see. Surely it's better that way. Besides, there's a lot of bad surroundings here."

With a slightly unpleasant frown, Elaine turns her gaze to where the cactus and cactus were growing.

Seto's firebrace fills the surrounding area with a burning smell.

The wind blowing in the desert is diminishing considerably, but there is still a strong scorching odor around. It's not that there's anything in particular, but it wasn't very preferable to stay in this environment for a long time.

"So you're going away for a little while.... I'd be glad to see another one coming out around Skyfang or Rock Spider if I could, but is that a bit of a luxury?

"Probably. Mostly, if you're a normal adventurer, don't come out to monsters... No, you still need to make money from materials, crusade proof sites, demon stones."

"Grrrrrrrr?"

Talking to you two, haven't you gotten a little bit further Seto yet? and just turn back.

Proceed out of the desert to follow it with a smile unexpectedly at the look of it.

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

Seeing Ray and Elaine like that, Seto sounds good.

There was a lot of tiredness in spitting out firebraces in a row, but I guess it worked so well that there was nothing more in the sense of exhaling Seto's stress.

(In the first place, it's subtle whether Seto is stressed or not)

Even though he is a griffon with a lion's lower body next to himself, Ray grins bitterly and whines inside as he watches Seto waving his tail like a dog in a good mood.

Basically, it would be nice if people were familiar and the inhabitants of Egzil could take care of it. Even more recently, people have come out to feed Seto, such as dried meat and sandwiches, and are steadily doing the same itinerary that Seto has become treated like a mascot character in the Guild.

With that in mind, it still didn't look stressful on Ceto.

Ning Lo, I guess I was glad I got rammed up with Ray more than stressed. Seto was in a good mood to the extent that he could make that decision.

Walking in the desert as it is, two and one are already no longer concerned about them, even as the same direct sunlight falls.

The smell of burning that was present in the cactus and cactus modoki places would also be a major reason why it has already faded to such an extent that it doesn't bother us if we get this far.

Or maybe that was the cause. The sound echoed from the bottom of the earth.

"Huh!?

Elaine, who reflexively determines it to be a monster raid, pulls out the connecting sword and takes an immediate interception stand.

But waiting for a few seconds doesn't make enemies attack, only time flies by.

Among other things...

"Bad. It's not about the enemy right now, it's purely my belly sound"

"... that's the sound of your belly now, is it?

I nod somewhere shy away from my gaze at Elaine, who looks at me from under her coat to Ray in an unexpected way.

The smell of roasted cactus was never like stimulating appetite. But for some reason, Ray's stomach insisted.

Elaine sighs with a small grin as she watched Ray like that.

The grin in its mouth meant 'I can't help it' one way or the other.

I guess I can't do a lot without myself, that I shouldn't keep my eyes open.

I guess I'm thinly aware that they're looking at me like that. Ray looks around, wrapped in an atmosphere of restlessness somewhat.

But unlike upstairs, this is a desert made of sand. There is no shade of rock that blocks the light of day, only cactus present everywhere.

It was Ray's honest feeling that if he had an oasis, as he did on the 11th basement floor... an oasis would be scarcer than a rock shade.

"In the meantime...... right, you want to build a magic tent to eat even where it's a shadow of a dune so you can't find it around you?

"That would be reasonable. I'm thirsty, too, and that would help."

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

I'm hungry myself! and a throat-beating ceto.

Or maybe he was thirsty, not hungry, but anyway he goes for a big dune a few kilometers from where he is now.

Sometimes he was going on defeating the cactus modoki, and it would also be true that he was somewhat out of his mind. It may therefore have been helpless to delay somewhat in finding its existence.

Still, I could have discovered it before I could find it over there, so it was never all bad.

I mean...

"Adventurer, huh?

Three figures at the end of their gaze. I don't even know the gender because I'm wearing a coat similar to Elaine's, but it's definitely human, or a subhuman kind close to it.

You're on the 13th floor of this basement, so you're definitely an adventurer. But the biggest reason Ray and Elaine were suspicious was underneath it.

I don't know how I got him out alive, but he's definitely falling under the feet of three shadows, which is definitely the cactus moddle the Rays were ravaging until earlier.

……

What do we do? Ray also thinks about it for a few seconds to Elaine, who asks with a gaze.

If this is a normal adventurer, you can usually just come closer and talk to him.

Because even though other adventurers are in places where they don't come, if they say they're after a hole, they're convinced.

But the three adventurers now at the end of Ray's gaze are so vigilant that they can see it. Besides, it was obviously odd that we were deliberately bringing cactus moddies that should have been buried on the ground to such a remote location.

Fortunately, the signs and senses didn't seem sharp enough to find the alarmed Rays, but the tensions that are unleashed around them are still not much in line.

(Obviously suspicious... Now, what's the matter)

He is certainly a suspicious opponent. Or maybe he's trying to commit some kind of criminal act. But it's not like Ray is on the side of justice.... If viewed objectively, it would be closer to evil in either righteousness or evil.

Elaine had something to think about as a nobleman, but still doesn't know anything. Not stupid enough to imitate that she jumps out into a detour in this situation.

In Seto's case, if Ray moved, would he have just moved?

Together, the two and one were first gazing at the three surrounding the cactus modoki just to see how things were going.

Until earlier, Ray had a belly bug ringing, but just in a pressing atmosphere, the belly doesn't seem to ring.

"Hey, hurry up. You know this guy's gonna be a pain in the ass if he moves, right?

"It's okay, he said he can't move anymore. Half dead, nine dead, one alive."

"Fool, don't be alarmed. If you rot, they're monsters. In fact, you forgot you've been in danger several times before"

"That's why. You've had a lot of experience so you can afford it."

"... Enough, we'll try it early. We'll get out of here as soon as we make sure, okay?

Two others nod at the last man's words and one of the men takes something out of his nostalgia.

Something like a 5cm diameter gem that emits a slight but definitely cloudy light.

The moment it was taken out with a hand wrapped in leather gloves, there was no doubt that the signs of the men were strong.

"You're the same. I've seen it so many times, I feel cold."

"Not surprising considering the effort used to make one of these.... Let's go. Use Chaos Seeds 3-2-7"

With that word, let something like a black, cloudy gem called the seed of chaos touch the cactus modoki that is not strange when it is already breathless on the ground.

Then the seeds of chaos placed on the cactus modoki are sucked straight into the body.

And...

Dokung!

Cactus Modki cramped to the point that the Rays could tell what was going on from a remote location.

Several degrees of cramps continued as they were, and eventually a cactus moddle ambushed its enemies, barely moving like a plant, bouncing over the desert like a fish fried ashore.

(You're back...?

Cactus Modki, who was now dying, came back to life - not exactly dead, so it's not exactly an expression that he came back to life - but that's not the only change that's happened.

The cactus and cactus modoki that had grown in earlier areas were about 1 m in size. That doesn't change the cactus moddle that's jumping in front of the guys.... No, it shouldn't have changed.

But the cactus, which absorbs what the men call the seeds of chaos, jumps over the desert, increasing in size and transforming itself to the point where it can be seen from Ray's eyes.

The tortoise growing from the body is sharper and longer. Rather than a cactus needle already, it's like a metal needle that Bühne uses in combat.

If it was meant to be, it would be okay to ambush prey while burying them on the ground and say that none of them have the ability to walk, but the lower body is developing enough to see it.

(Dude, this is no way...)

Monsters of the same kind as those living on that floor, but with distinctly different looks and abilities. The Rays knew that.

No, I'm not talking about where I knew. That monster with demonic stones that are not even lethal to the warcraft Ray uses, but can still only be harmful. That is...

(Abnormal species...... you say?