Legend

Successfully captured Jewel Sniper alive, about an hour after breaking up with Vihera and Bühne.

The Rays had gone straight to the exit line between the rocks that were a natural maze.

Needless to say, Seto is the one who made it possible.

Proceed as Ray rides on Seto's back, confirming the path of the maze in such a way as to follow the opposite direction where there is an exit from the air to teach Elaine the way, or reinforce the information on the map with that information.

Of course there are more raids than two people and one party acting apart in two like that, just hoping it's just right to aim if you try to be a monster.

But an unlucky monster with such an idea had been deprived of his life by the connecting swords of the house-lined Elaine and the magic of the wind.

Note that all that was attacked was Elaine, simply because Ray was one and one, flying in the sky, and above all because of the presence of a Griffon ceto.

Now and again, two bandet goblins were slashed and torn apart by Elaine's jointed sword, the last one beaten in the head and beaten to the ground by a blow to Seto's forefoot coming down from above, and he was desperate as he scattered his brain marrow, blood, meat, bones and other things around him.

"At all, there were not so many enemies before entering this maze..."

"Even for a monster, I guess you don't want to fight in a beautiful place. If there's anywhere we can fight in our favor, we'll ambush you."

Returning his words to Elaine, he houses Bandet Goblin's body in Mystering.

"That's true... Seto, it's good to hit the head, but if you crush it, you can't secure the crusade proof site."

"Gru......"

With the shock of being smashed through the head, Seto throats sorry for Elaine's words confirming her half-baked right ear at the edge of her sight.

It was one addition or subtraction of the person in charge to see if the right ear, which is about half way through, could be removed to the guild as a crusade proof site.

Ray smiles bitterly at the look of it, while reaching out to stroke Seto's head to encourage him.

"I'm not so worried about the money. It would have been somewhat of a problem if I had done too much, but for now, I can't help it this time. Be careful what you do next."

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

Ringing vigorously at Ray's words, narrowing eyes that are inherently circular to the comfort of being stroked.

"Well, it's a maze here, but there's a split way forward. Is that area on the map?

"Oh. This is it."

The place Elaine pointed out does depict a division. But there's one thing different from what Ray confirmed.

"The map says the far right is the shortcut, but from above, the road is blocked. Probably a trail of battle. I don't know if that's a monster and an adventurer or a battle between monsters."

Or it could be the trace of the cyclops Vihera was fighting for.

With that in mind, Ray takes a fingertip through the location of the maze depicted on Elaine's sprawling map.

"On this divide, if we go a second place from the left, we'll be a little far away, but we're gonna get out of here somehow."

"I see.... sorry, I just have to move around the ground"

Even as I briefly thank Ray for his advice, I exhale.

Ray quickly shook his neck sideways, even as he was blinded by the grieving trick.

"Never mind. If we could have gotten on Seto's back in the first place, we wouldn't have had any problems at all. It's not Elaine's fault we can't do that."

"Gru......"

To Ray's words, I bow my head as Seto sounds sorry.

Seto doesn't mean he likes it and doesn't put Elaine on his back. It's simply hard to fly with anything but Ray on board. It was Ray and Seto's common conclusion that as a child, it was possible to manage, but not first when it was the second adult, and that the cause was related to Warcraft.

"You said Ray didn't care, either, did you? In the first place, usually only a dragon knight can imitate flying in the sky. If you think about it, you can just teach me the right path from above, and I'm making it easier enough."

I arrive at the divide with a small grin and say so.

The road that the Rays have taken is one main road, but the place where they arrived is like a square, a structure from which there are several divided paths.

(No matter how you look at it, it's not like a maze made naturally. Someone's will is definitely affecting it.... well, I don't even have to think about what that is)

A nucleus figure of a dungeon previously destroyed in death size floats in the back of his brain.

Ray's destruction was something that hasn't created a dungeon yet, even at the core of the dungeon.

(Well, I wonder what the nucleus of the dungeon here is.... Well, Lord, it's subtle if I can get my hands on it right now, considering they're protecting it.)

Unlike the nucleus of the dungeon you destroyed, the nucleus of the dungeon here is still growing the dungeon. The strength of the monster protecting its nucleus, if it does poorly... no, is it at least as strong as a dragon species? While I think that way, I shake my neck sideways and erase from my head what I can't help thinking right now.

"Ray? What's up, let's go"

To such a ray, Elaine speaks as she continues along the only path that still leads, although it is likely to be a long way from the left to the second.

"Hey, bad."

Ray also returned to me to such Elaine's words and followed them with Seto.

Continue on a maze-like path made of rocks for about an hour.

The Rays were going a little faster walking, also because they had spent too much time on the Cyclops and Jewel Sniper thing.

As Ray and Seto continued to travel several times to and from the ground and over the sky to check the safe path, strange objects entered Ray's sight as he walked.

"Is that... a stone statue?

I guess Elaine discovered it again as well as Ray. A fox-eared woman and a stone statue that looks like three elf men, a human man.

Its stone statues, present at the edge of the road, in a position to hide from something, were clearly unfamiliar and uncomfortable with the surrounding scenery.

In the first place, who cares to carve stone statues until they come all the way to a dungeon like this?

Such a question passes behind Ray's brain, and in the next moment he breathes small.

What if this is not a stone statue, but a former beast, an ex-elf, an ex-human?

Desert, petrification. When they tie into one...... I open my mouth to see if Elaine got to that possibility early for a second when I tried to get the derived answer out in my mouth.

"Basilisk"

"... oh. Seto, alert the perimeter. Elaine, are you resistant to petrification?

Ray giving quick instructions.

In that tone, the already laid-back atmosphere is free of fine dust.

Ray himself has a dragon robe effect and a flesh that has strong resistance to that hand attack in the first place. But Seto and Elaine were subtle when it came to whether they were resistant to petrification.

Of course you have more resistance than a low-ranked monster than you are a Griffon, a Rank A monster, and even Elaine inherits the Enchanted Dragon's Demon Stone.

I was sure I would be more resistant to the attack of that hand than an adventurer who was petrified in front of me, but still couldn't say it was absolute.

(No, that's me too)

I don't think my resistance is complete, because it's not like I was attacked once.

"Better than a biological adventurer."

Listening to whining Elaine, the two and one hide in the shadow of a rock near three petrified adventurers.

"I didn't know there was a basilisk in a place like this...... No, I can't even think of a basilisk in Rank B more than there was a Cyclops in Rank C"

"Oh. Worst of all, it may not be basilisk, it may be cocatrice, but it doesn't change how much you have the ability to petrify your opponent"

Basilisk is a giant single-eyed lizard with eight legs that petrifies those who see it with one eye.

Cocatrice is a monster with the upper body of a chicken and the lower body of a snake that throws up a brace that petrifies the touched.

Whatever the difference between gaze and brace, the ability to petrify the subject was the same.

"But if it's any trouble, it's basilisk."

Ray spinning words, while concentrating on not missing any signs around him.

Elaine nods as she similarly detects signs around her.

"Oh. Because if you're a brace for cocatrice, you just don't have to touch it. It's not easy to dodge, but it's never impossible. But basilisks are different. I'm petrified just because I've been gazed at. Unless you have a giant shield that covers your entire body."

As long as you can block your gaze, you don't have to petrify it. Stay close and attack will be possible, but if we get close, we're close. Those eight toenails and fangs are highly poisonous.

There are more ways to deal with it than with the sight of petrification because it has no poison effect if it is not directly wounded, but the poison is so poisonous that it is not enough to say that it is poisonous.

I also bought a set of antidotes from the store where I bought Elaine's coat before diving into the desert hierarchy for once, but I can't say for sure if those antidotes formulated for desert monsters will work. So powerful poison.

Of course, if you can defeat them for that matter, you'll earn a lot.

Claws and eyeballs can also be useful as catalysts in making magic items, or materials like advanced potions, and scales can be quite expensive materials for kale armor.

Claws and fangs can also poison an injured opponent if they can be incorporated into the weapon.

Demon stones are also reasonably expensive.

If I can defeat you, I will definitely use the Demon Stone for Warcraft.

Ray, who keeps his perimeter alert even though he thinks that way on the inside, but after a few minutes as it is, he has absolutely no movement.

"... what do you think?

"Normally, even if those guys got hit by basilisks, they're not around here right now or something?

Although we have found three petrified adventurers, we do not know when it was petrified.

Extreme stories, it could be days or weeks after being petrified.

Somehow it's petrified, so even if someone finds it, it's going to be hard to take them up there. Furthermore, given that this path was one that few people used as a roundabout, it is by no means unlikely that the Rays found the first three petrified.

"Whatever, if Basilisk isn't here right now, let's move on."

"I don't mind that...... Ray, what about these three?

Elaine's gaze was directed at three people who were petrified.

"I don't care what they say. I can take him... No, can I?

While returning the word, I doubt it.

Indeed, Ray's mistering cannot accommodate the living.

But on the contrary, they can be accommodated if they don't even live. And the three stone statues in front of you won't be able to say they're alive.

(... can we?

While I thought of it that way, Ray, who softly touched the stone statue of the man nearest me, thought to store it in mystering... as if it were natural, the figure of the stone statue he was touching disappears.

"Oh."

Unexpectedly, it wasn't Elaine who was watching it...... but Ray himself.

I thought maybe I could, but I was surprised to see that I could actually do it.

"What if the person who did it is surprised..."

Ray smiles lightly at Elaine as she tells her with a bitter smile, touching the fox beast woman and the stone statue of the elf man as if to delude it and retrieve it in the mistering.

Where that work is done, Ray has a subtle look on his face.

Although it would have been nice to recover it, I realized there was no point in taking it to the ground without these three associates.

In the first place, undoing three people in a petrified state will require a fairly advanced class of healing magic and magic drugs.

Of course, based on the amount Ray has in his possession, there is no financial burden...

(Well, why don't you treat him the worst and then work for him and give him back? Although the best part would be that these three officials are on the ground)

I guess I acted half as close to hypocrisy because I still understand that the next hierarchy is a little different than before, even when it comes to the desert hierarchy.

As far as the information I've heard from Preades and the maps that Elaine manages, the next tier is because the desert is a slightly different tier in the desert than before.

While I think of it that way, I hurry through the road making sure there's no basilisk around me.

After that, he discovered the stairway down to the 15th basement, taking more time than usual to get through the maze.