Legend

The body of two men falling in front of Ray and Elaine.

Another man's body also exists a little further away.

Before that body, Elaine gives a bitter look.

Ray protrudes a death-size stone poke over the sand in frustration, staring at the sun, which is illuminating intense direct sunlight.

Damn, I didn't expect you to kill yourself to keep a secret.

"Oh. And I don't even have any hesitation. That's all I belonged to. I guess I have a lot of loyalty to..."

To Elaine's words whining over the corpse, Leaning her neck, Ray.

"Seeing as I was experimenting with creating an abnormal species, I'm pretty sure I'm an official of the Levisole family... do you think I would turn my life to my Schaffner opponent with endless loyalty?

Natural question in a way.

A person named Schaffner, whom Ray or Elaine saw, is modestly arrogant and not of such a character as to be liked by his men or others.

The answer would be no if they asked me if I would deal with such a person and stay loyal until I took the poison for self-determination.

But the men who are actually falling in front of Ray and Elaine take the poison that was planted in their back teeth without any hesitation the moment they find out that their own escape is impossible, and they have lost their lives.

It is that contradiction that creates confusion.

"Gru......"

Towards those two, Seto rings his throat and rubs his head alternately.

Cheer up, return to me with that attitude that tells me, Ray turning his gaze to the corpse again.

Two bodies that are dead in front of themselves and another that is falling a little further away. And finally, cactus modoki's body.

I look at those bodies and reach out softly with a sigh of sigh.

"You're taking it?

"Oh. If you try it on us, it's just a corpse, but if you try it on the boss, there's a chance you'll get some clue. Especially if these three really belong to the Levisole family, there might be someone who looks familiar"

"It's unlikely..."

"Even so, it would be better than doing nothing"

The kind of researchers and staff who served in the Levisole family laboratory have all been found in the state in which they were killed. Why were only these three people safe when they said so?

(Normally, I guess that means these three got away with killing the researchers... but my arm wasn't as good for that. Something like good and about Rank D. Still, it's strange that you're coming all the way to this hierarchy... well, if you came down the dungeon with a strong opponent or something, that's possible)

Think that far, decide that you should leave it to Bosc, who is more familiar with the existence of this labyrinth city than anyone else, than you think that you are not familiar with Exil, and store it inside the mysteries.

"... hmm?

When you store cactus modoki's body and the bodies of two men into the mistering, you notice one dungeon card dropping nearby.

I pick it up, deciding that it probably fell on a clap that fell to the ground, but naturally I don't recognize the name it says there.

(I'm doing a lot of work, so I can think of enough to sign up under a pseudonym.)

He shrugged inside and decided that it would still be a clue to the men's information and also stored it in mystering about the dungeon cards.

Continue to store the body of a man who is falling and lying on the ground a little further away, and finish storing everything that is likely to be a clue.

Ray finishing those tasks and making a big stretch.

Towards such a ray, Elaine waves a jointed sword and holds it in her sheath, calling out.

"Well, what do we do? If you want to hurry, you have the means to take the original path back to the small room."

"What's it like in distance?

"Hmm, I don't know. Considering that a section of the cactus earlier wasn't on the map, I guess it's just a place I've been able to do it recently. In that case, we only know roughly where we are now. I think it's about half way down the stairs to the 14th basement."

Hear Elaine's words, gaze in the direction we came, and eventually gather our thoughts.

"All right, let's keep going"

"Are you sure? For Ray, the problem with the anomalous species is one that he wants to solve a little faster, right?

"It does matter that way, but we've come this far, so I want to keep the basement 13th floor attacked early. If we keep going back, the next time we try, we'll start again on the 13th basement, and then we'll have to walk this desert again. Then we've come this far already, so I want to be able to get to the next floor by the end of the day."

I guess Elaine had no objection to Ray's words either. Show a small nod in favor.

Having confirmed that, Ray next tries to speak to Seto, who is also his own partner...

"Guru... Guru... Guru"

There was no way I noticed such a ray, and for some reason I was wandering around right in the vicinity of where the cactus Modki was dead.

There are several traces of Seto left in the desert, which is a testament to how long Ray and Elaine were walking around there while they were talking.

"Seto? What's going on?

"Grrrrrrrr, grrr......"

Though he would also reply to Ray's call, he was following in his footsteps by going and going on the sand.

I remember Ray watching in surprise, but eventually the men who were trying to create an anomalous species were trying to transport the cactus modoki that had failed to do so and turned into a corpse to those in Ceto.

(There is no reason to leave a cactus moddle of abnormal species behind. There was no such thing as having an item box or a magic pouch, and most importantly, I was trying to carry a cactus moddle. Then naturally there is a reason to do something about it... I see)

"Ray?"

Did you find out what caused Seto's strange behavior? That's what I'm going to ask Elaine, and I'm going to nod small and take out some of the firewood I kept for camping out of the mysteries.

Throw one straight ahead where Seto is walking, but it just falls on the sand and nothing happens.

Next, I take out one more bottle and throw it away for further ahead of where I just threw it.

Nothing happens there either, but they throw firewood one by one, one by one.

At first it was Elaine, who looked intrigued to see what Ray was doing, but eventually set up a connecting sword pulled out of her sheath so that she could attack whenever she found out why.

And that moment when the number of firewood thrown exceeded 10 and the firewood released from Ray's hand fell to the ground. Suddenly the sand blows up into the air.

The sight was similar to when Sandworm appeared. But the obvious difference is that after the sand that blew up disappeared, there was no monster of any kind, instead of a sandworm.

Above the desert, on condition that

A place not on the desert… that is, under the desert, there are four sharp horn-like projections from the bottom part that is tucked in a rind.

When that protrusion moves around several times to explore its surroundings and decides that nothing prey exists, it dives straight into the desert ground again.

"I see. You were going to use this to dispose of it."

Elaine squeaks like she was impressed next to Ray with firewood in her hand.

"Definitely."

Whimpering, Ray had an insect figure past his brain called Ant Hell, or Usubakagerrow.

Its habit of drawing in ants and feeding them is very similar to the way the monster just looked in front of you.

I guess he's becoming a monster through the desert, or drawing adventurers into his own nest to feed.

"In a way, I guess you could say thanks to the guys who were here,"

"Sure. In fact, it's quite possible that we were dragged into his nest, too, without knowing there were such monsters. Because he was in the sand, Seto didn't even seem to be aware of his exact position."

"Gru......"

I'm sorry, Seto rings his throat to apologize.

However, its eyes are never separated from the four corners that are protruding from the bottom of the bowl-shaped cone.

Ray strokes that head with his left hand to encourage while holding the death size with his right hand.

"I can't help it. If they were in the sand, they could not be discovered by smell or sight, and if they ambushed their prey and stood still, they could not be detected by touch or hearing. Then the rest will be like taste and sixth sense..."

Squirting, tilting his neck inside as he looks at the four horns.

(But... Then why did you show up all of a sudden? If I had stayed hidden, I would have been attacked by accident. Did you cut the paralysis because Seto was urrowing? Caught in a firewood shock?... Wait. Still means he showed up!?

"Back off once!

The moment I get to that idea, I kick the ground and jump backwards screaming reflexively.

I guess Elaine and Seto also understood the danger lurking in Ray's screams. He jumped backwards reflexively without hesitation.

At the same time, the high sound echoes around… the next moment, something is released and passes through the place where Seto was until a moment ago.

And an explosion of sand that happens.

Sand blows up as if a curtain made of sand were to separate the monsters from the rays, as if something released from the center of the four horns had passed by.

"Shit, another nasty attack... Flying slaughter!

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

"Wind Arrow!

Flying slaughter from Ray's death size, but two water polo balloons about 40 cm in diameter from Ceto, and an invisible wind arrow composed of wind are released from Elaine, thrusting through the curtains of the sand.

But something is released again, as if intercepting it, and both disappear in a way that matches two water balloons.

Flying as if to poke that gap, Flying Slash and Wind Arrow hit Ant Hell. That's what I decided, Ray, but I accidentally perceived signs over the sky and turned my gaze towards you.

There he was, a monster who also looked like a giant quack. If you look at the four horns growing on its tip, you'll see who it is.

It has a brown crust whether it is a protective color against the sand, and from its back it grows two to four wings close to transparent like dragonflies, which are severely winged.

(What's going on when you get quackery, not ussilly gelows in the habit of ant hell? Halfway through, the wings look like that... just what a monster is)

Ray was stunned by the existential cod of a monster as he watched the monster that seemed like the child of the quail and usubakagerrow flying over us inside.

(But I don't remember hearing from Preades about the existence of monsters like this. When it comes to it, is it a genuine new breed or something?... Whatever...)

I point my gaze at a monster flying over me just because I have to change what I have to do, and I wave a death size.

"Flying slaughter!

The flying slash unleashed with the word flies straight to the monster. But in the next moment, the monster tilts his body and dodges it from the path of the Flying Slash, shaking his wings sharply at the same time.

"Kick-ass, kick-ass"

Sounds like something I've heard several times before.

What does a monster with wings mean by its sound caused by trembling at high speeds? That was revealed in the next moment.

"Ray, avoid it!

Ray listens to voices from Elaine and jumps backwards reflexively.

At the same time, something invisible is slapped to where Ray existed a moment ago.

Invisible blow. Half-intuitively, Ray understands that the blow was a blow unleashed using wing vibration, and he tongues and waves his death size again, looking at the person who started vibrating his wings again.

"Flying slaughter!

slaughter to be unleashed. It vanishes like a collision in the air with a blow of vibrating waves emitted from a monster.

As a result, Ray felt the atmosphere as the monster in front of him grinned.

Such a grin, as if you decided you would never be killed.

But that grin is not a rational grin held by a high-ranking monster like Ceto. A grin dominated by instincts that floated when we found our target.

"Nah... meh! Flying slaughter!"

Release the Flying Slash again, but it was different from earlier from there. Keep kicking the sand and slightly frowning at its softness, but that's for a moment. Sure, the sand absorbs half the leaping force, but that didn't matter to Ray if he put himself in the air at all.

Activate Slapenil shoes as they are and jump into the air.

Though about a few steps, Slapenil shoes with the ability to walk in the air instantly jump up to the top of the monster, erecting a large, magical death size over the lost monster of Ray...... Flip yourself in the air and activate Slapenil shoes again. When the monster noticed the presence of Ray, who kicked directly above himself and increased his velocity, falling from the sky of the monster like a meteor, and what could be termed death itself approaching him, the death size was already… a sight where the Great Sickle of Reaper was about to be swung down.