Legend

"Cuh!? Cuckoo!"

The moment he transfers to the staircase on the 16th basement floor or to a small room with a magic formation, the yellow on Seto's back screams small.

The reason for this is probably because it's spread all over the basement on the 16th floor, full of rotten smells of meat.

If you're a normal person, you just need to frown slightly, but it was a powerful blow for a keen member of the olfactory sense.

Still, two and one of Ray, Elaine and Seto, who were experiencing equally undead hierarchies in a dungeon where there was an altar of inheritance, still managed to withstand, but for the first time this rotten yellow is half confused by its intense smell and manages to escape the rotten odor by pressing his nose against Seto's back.

"... Yellow, I also know how you feel about this rotten smell. But more than attacking a dungeon, it's an inevitable path. I don't know what to say to you when you're little, but you get used to it."

Ray alerts his surroundings as he hears what Elaine is saying to Yellow.

(You're right to get used to it, or your nose is paralyzed and you don't feel the smell)

While thinking inside like that.

Fortunately, the 16th basement floor, where the Rays are now, is an ordinary dungeon with stone floors lined up to create passages and walls glowing brightly, some of which I'm used to hitting and changing from the desert hierarchy.

There is no expanse of the earth as vast as the desert hierarchy, so it is easy to notice if anyone approaches us.

... yes, like right now.

"Grrrrrrrr"

With the yellow on his back, Seto sounds his throat when he hears it.

"Oh, I know. Elaine, we have a quick customer. Get ready for a welcome."

While returning words to Seto, Ray retrieves the death size from the mistering.

Fortunately, the aisle continues straight from where you left off the small room, so Ray urges Elaine to keep an eye on just the front.

Hearing that word, Elaine also pulls out the connecting sword again so that she can deal with it at any time.

Cuts, cuts, cuts, cuts.

Such, the sound of something hard tapping the cobblestone gradually approached, and eventually it turned out what its identity was in the light of the glowing wall.

"That's exactly what I expected when I said it.... Seto, please"

"Gru!"

Three skeletons showed up. In its hands are swords and spears floating with rust.

As for the skeletons, I guess they tried to strike at the same time. Trying to set up a weapon the moment I see the Rays...

"Grrrrrrrrrrrr!"

With such a voice, a flame that burned bright red out of Seto's couché is exhaled.

Firebrace, who reached level 3, showed Skeleton an overwhelming offensive power against his opponent.

Even if the three skeletons move forward, the flames emanating from Seto's mouth will not allow it. No, I'm pushed backwards as if losing one, two steps and the pressure of the flame.

It burns itself by flames, too.

In the end, the three skeletons don't even make some kind of attack, they just show up and are burned to the core of the bone by Seto's firebrace, which collapses over the cobblestone.

It was an event about 30 seconds after I sensed Skeleton's proximity, and it was instantaneous killing in the literal sense.

"Seto's Firebrace, it's a lot more powerful when you look at it like this"

"Cu!"

When Elaine squeaks as impressed, the yellow that was moving over Elaine's left shoulder to stay out of Seto's way as if she agreed with it.

It's bitter to hear one and one such praise floating around Ray's mouth.

"It does have a lot of power, and it's useful for sweeping away clutterfish. But because it burns everything down, it has the disadvantage of not being able to recover materials and demon stones.... Well, as weak a monster as a goblin or something when it comes to skeletons, you probably won't be able to master your skills"

"With that said, couldn't you get Skeleton's Demon Stone in the dungeon of the inheritance altar you dived before?"

"Oh, the stones were burning up just like they are now."

Chirali, and Ray groans with his gaze at the burning of the bones visible on the cobblestone.

The ambient temperature has risen slightly due to the effect of Seto's firebraces, but Ray, Elaine, there is nothing like it.

"Gru?"

You couldn't? And to Seto, who tilts his little neck and asks, Ray shakes his head and strokes his head that he has no problem.

"Let's go further than that. Luckily this is not such a complicated road, so if you go straight without stopping by, you should arrive at the stairs to the basement without taking that long.... Well, the enemy seems to be dense for that matter"

The desert hierarchy did not often encounter monsters because of its environment, of course, but also because of the influence of its breadth.

Most importantly, we talked differently about the basement 15th floor, which was an oasis on one side.

However, this underground 16th floor is determined by cobblestones, walls, and ceilings, and is not comparable to the desert hierarchy in terms of size.

As a result, the density of the monsters was higher.

"Well, this hierarchy is where you want to attack early and go next. Surely the undead hierarchy wasn't as continuous as the desert hierarchy, was it?

Yes, when Ray asks, Elaine nods as she uncomfortably frowns at the rotten smell drifting around her.

"Mm-hmm. There's a hierarchy with a few undead appearances in the hierarchy ahead, but at least the next hierarchy on the 16th basement we're in is the forest.... It's not hard to spend as much time in the desert as it is in this hierarchy, it's a pretty good place environmentally. … but we're talking about a wide variety of monsters that are just environmentally superior."

"Still better than here."

Keep walking away from where you defeated Skeleton, about 10 minutes. It was one main road that was stretching out of the small room, but the divide finally shows up.

There are no shadows of men around, no shadows of monsters. The walls are just glowing, and at the same time the rotten odors drifting from the zombie-like undead are staining the surrounding area.

Exactly if I were in this environment for a while, would the yellow have gotten used to the smell, too, and I haven't had a sad squeal like the first one.

"So, which way is it?

To Ray, who asks looking at the path divided between left and right, Elaine takes out the map and spreads it.

Fortunately, because the walls, ceilings and floors were shining brightly, it was not particularly difficult to see the map, and I knew immediately the way forward.

"On the left is where there are a few small rooms, but ultimately it's a dead end. It's to the right that's going on in the back."

"Then right... ah, wait"

So Ray remembers what happened in the desert hierarchy immediately, having a sense of ready-made vision.

I remember a similar exchange in the maze where Cyclops and Vihella were fighting in the Rock Desert.

And it also means he used demon stones to acquire skills toward the end of the line.

Nothing. I'm not going to end up here. The only absorbable demon stone currently on hand was one demon stone that managed to be removed from the body of Desert Lizardman found in his stomach when material was stripped from the sandworm.

Or maybe you could have waited till then more than doing a material stripping request tomorrow, but you're still diving into the dungeon, so Ray decides you should do everything you can.

(Fortunately, this place is in front of the parting ways, and it's getting quite spacious. The walls and the heavens are bright, but still you won't have to worry about being seen from afar)

"Seto, Elaine, Yellow. I need you to move to the wall for a moment. It's a corner, so let's do the absorption of the Demon Stone."

"... here, huh?

To Ray's sudden words, Elaine asks back unexpectedly, but Ray nods small.

"Fortunately, there's only one Demon Stone in Desert Lizardman. Then it'll only take a few seconds, and if we stop by the end of the aisle, we can find someone here first."

"That's true... but no, if that's what Ray decided, that's fine"

I guess it's because I understand it only takes a few seconds or so to absorb one demon stone. Elaine nods briefly, acknowledging Ray's words.

In fact, if it's ceto to absorb demonic stones, it just swallows them, and if it's in a death size, it just cuts them off.

Most often, the time needed to absorb Demon Stone is to confirm the performance of the acquired skills.

You understand such Elaine's doubts, Ray flaunts her shoulders small and opens her mouth.

"It doesn't matter if you try your skills or just about one. Fortunately, this hierarchy is an unpopular place in many ways."

For a moment, a party floated behind Ray's brain looking for a wizard who could use flaming or purifying magic in the square before the dungeon, but soon it disappears.

Sure, it would be troublesome if that party came, but in the first place, a wizard is a very rare thing. When I'm looking for you, it's only easy to think that you'll come out and say yes.

(Well, suppose you were looking for a wizard with that in mind, maybe you really needed to dive into a hierarchy with undead for that party. If that happens, is there any chance that you'll be forced to come without a wizard? But, like Elaine said, there are other hierarchies besides here with the undead)

I gather my thoughts in my heart and travel to near the wall trying to absorb the demon stone anyway.

"Cu?"

Yellow and Elaine follow after Ray and Seto like that again.

"Now, which one absorbs it... but it is certain that Desert Lizardman's Demon Stone will be available again after tomorrow, and there is no need to think hard about it. Seto."

"Gru?"

Are you okay? And Ray nodding at Seto tilting his little neck.

It was Seto who was lost for a moment in how things were going with Ray like that, but I guess he remembered that some of Ray's mysteries contained the bodies of his own defeated dessert Lizardman. Swallow the demon stone with couchworm from the hand of the offered ray.

[Seto mastered the skills of 'Wind Arrow Lv.2']

And an announcement message that flows behind your brain.

"Wind Arrow Level 2? Well, considering you may not have remembered, you should consider it fortunate that your existing skills have been strengthened"

"Guru...... Guru? Grrrrrrrr!"

It was Seto, who nodded as if he agreed with Ray's words, but eventually looked around and raised the alarm.

The moment the squeal came out. Ray and Elaine also have their own weapons in their hands, and Yellow flies off Elaine's shoulder with wings flapped so as not to disturb two and one like that.

Eventually what came into my ear was the metal noise of Gasha, Gasha, Gasha, heard from the right side of the divide.

I frown slightly at the sound.

It's not the light sound of a skeleton walking, it's not the kind of vecha a zombie walks, it's not the kind of unwittingly disgusting sound either.

"I mean... that's your first enemy"

The undead that Ray has fought so far is dominated by skeletons and zombies and not the kind of monster that makes the kind of metal noise you can hear now.

"If it sounds like metal, is it possible that it is not undead?"

Turn around to the words Elaine shrugged next to Ray, as if she had been poked at the intent.

Because I assumed it was only the undead that showed up in this hierarchy.

In fact, according to information gathered by Ray in advance, I don't hear any stories of non-undead enemies appearing in this basement on the 16th floor.

But the Rays know the existence of an anomalous species that overshadows it, and above all, I recall seeing an adventurer from the Silva family on the 15th basement the day before saying he saw an anomalous species near here.

As I waited with that thought and gazed toward the aisle, the metal sounds eventually approached me... the lights on the walls and ceilings would reveal their appearance.

Full plate mail about 2m tall with Paul Axe in his hand. It was Ray's first impression of what he felt when he saw the presence it appeared to be.

"Adventurer, huh?

He also looks like an adventurer at first glance, such an opponent. But I immediately notice the discomfort I get from the person in front of me.

I can't feel the creature at all.

When I look at it, I notice the identity of the full plate mails in front of me almost chain-wise.

"Is that a living armor!?

Living Armor. It is a monster with a Necromancer in its armor. Its rank varies depending on the Necromancer it has stayed in and the armor it has stayed in, but in general there are many rank D monster equivalents.

The crusade proof site is the Demon Stone in the body of its armor. Unlike normal monsters, they are not embedded in the heart, but in the body like skeletons… more precisely inside armor.

At the same time, that is also the weakness of living armor.

Although the objects obtained as materials are to the extent of demonic stones, which are also crusade proof sites, the living armor and the weapons used themselves are of such high value as magic items in which magic resides.

However, some living armors may be cursed, so it is common for knowledgeable blacksmiths and alchemists to look into them before using them.

It can also be used as a cursed magic item, or it can be used as a material when decursing, diluting, and making other magic items.

One such living armor showed up in front of the Rays.