Legend

Four adventurers with a flashing look when they see more than 30 skeletons following them in an instant turned into charcoal or cut with a blade of wind.

Heading to those four, Ray and Elaine approach and call out.

"Are you all right?

"Ah, oh.... not! I need to run more than just stand still here! I appreciate you guys helping us out, but you better get the hell out of here! He's... he's coming!

The man who finally returned to me to Ray's words screams when he changes his blood phase and sees them in the aisle where they have escaped.

What's on that look is fear and despair.

Arriving up to the 16th basement floor, this look is so stuffed with feathers that you don't think you're any more than some powerful adventurer.

Keep your fear and despair afloat and turn your gaze to your own people.

A woman warrior who lost her right arm ahead of her shoulder and a man taking the potion out of her hip pouch to follow it.

I said I should run for Ray, see how the man with the spear is taking out the potion and hurry to open his mouth.

"Gort, how's Teevia?!?

"Gu, gu... it's okay. I'm a little far from him now anyway..."

"No. I stop the bleeding in the potion in hand, so it's the best I can do. We need to leave the dungeon as soon as possible and treat it in a solid place. At least if you have a backpack with advanced potions..."

A man called Gort shakes his neck sideways with a blue face.

I was watching that, the last one. A bandit-style man with a long sword opens his mouth vigilantly in the aisle where they fled.

"Sure. But if Porter's you hadn't dumped his stuff over there and stopped them at all, we'd be in that monster's... chip, here we are!

With the screams of the bandit man, the sounds of Kasha, Kasha, Kasha, echo around him, and the monster reveals himself.

If you see the body composed of bones, it's definitely a monster of the skeleton lineage among the undead.

But Ray, Elaine, and Seto also understood that the skeleton was different from the other skeletons the moment they saw it.

Anyway, normal skeletons have two pairs of left and right arms, not even a total of four. The size of the body is not even close to 3 m. What's more, there's a green flame shaking in the eye area of the skull, and it doesn't even seep hatred.

What's more, that alien skeleton had a curved sword on all four arms, a sword called a simiter.

"... again, that's a very rare skeleton. There's gonna be guys like this out here?

You blamed Ray for whining, and the guy with the spear just screams that he's not kidding.

"You can't be here! I've fought for a bit, but no doubt the guy has as much power as a Rank B monster. And..."

"And?"

The gaze of a spear man who cuts words and says down along the way is pointed at the place where the alien skeleton stands. More precisely, the remains of a former skeleton rolling beneath its feet.

There are substitutes such as the remains of bones that have been magically turned into charcoal by Ray, or bones cut by Elaine's magic.

What's wrong with that? That's what I thought, Ray...

"Go-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o!"

The moment the alien skeleton raised the roar that could be heard from the bottom of the earth, something like a white mist was spewed out of its body, and eventually the mist appeared the next moment gathered in dozens or so of human shapes, dozens of skeletons as if it were natural to be there.

"... hey, this is just..."

"That's who Skeleton was just defeated by you guys. And worst of all, yeah. The skeletons that were made are opponents who don't knock down or drop any demon stones or anything. The only salvation is that it's much weaker than a normal skeleton, but with all that number, the difference in strength won't be a problem."

"I don't think we can generate an infinite number of skeletons, but that's not too much trouble.... I see."

Mumbling that far, the army of skeletons takes one step toward Rays, pointing the tip of the spotter that the alien skeleton's right upper arm had at them.

"Anyway, can you fight such a monster? Now we have to run anyway! What are you guys gonna do?

The man with the spear shouts as he takes one step into the aisle that leads to the small room where there is already a magic formation.

Naturally, the Rays will run away with themselves. It was a word I uttered from that thought, but the word I returned was completely unexpected.

"Run away? Here? Well, I'm sure you would if you were normal... but you know too much about that monster."

Elaine also sets up a jointed sword with a small grin on Ray, who tells him so while setting up the death size.

Yes, Ray had an idea of who the alien skeleton existed in front of him. Because the day before yesterday, on the 15th basement floor, he said he saw a monster from the Silva family adventurers that seemed to be an anomalous species near here, as well as eyewitness testimony from those who thought they were creating an anomalous species.

I mean...

"Abnormal species of skeleton, or"

The word out of Ray's mouth stops the party movement that was about to leave the scene a little sooner.

Apparently, he wasn't aware of the possibility.

Alternatively, one reason I didn't realize the existence of an anomalous species would be that when I encountered it all of a sudden my party member, Teevia, was severed first off his right shoulder by a simulator.

"Is that the anomalous species...?

"Well, surely it's more natural to think so than it is to be a monster who can't possibly be in this hierarchy."

A man with a spear shrugs and nods as the bandit man was convinced.

Elaine opens her mouth as she gazes at those two and Gort, who is potioning Teevia for losing one arm.

"The wound on the person should be handled quickly. Leave this place to us."

"... no, I'll stay and help you guys"

"Whoa, Nact!? What the hell are you thinking! You're just gonna pull our legs now that we're here!

"Think calmly that way, Esetus. Even if we're the only ones who got out of here, you think we can make it to the little room with the magic team? Gort is a porter, and even though I'm going to be somewhat of a fighter, I'm a bandit in the end, more than Teevia getting hurt and not being a fighter. Think of it, you're the only one with pure combat power. In that state, if more than one undead shows up... you know what I mean?

Definitely wipe it out. To Nact's words that make him smell so out of words, Esetus bites his lips trying to reflexively say something back.

I know. More than Teevia losing one arm and not becoming a fighter, which is arguably the strongest force in our party, we have to be the main force, and we have to fight while sheltering Teevia even more. That means if you fight multiple undead along the way, you're likely to be wiped out.

But still, Esetus thought he was more likely to survive than to fight an anomalous species that produced a skeleton population that was coming towards us.

"Calm down, don't get confused.... Look at those guys."

Nact, who quietly told Esetus to calm down, turns his gaze toward a group of skeletons.

What was happening there was unilateral ravages.

If you wonder if the flames burned in an instant and turned multiple skeletons into charcoal, the next moment a whipped jointed sword rushes through the sky to chop up multiple skeletons. And the blow on Griffon's forefoot wraps up and blows up a few skeletons even though he looks like he's lightly hitting them, hitting walls, floors, or his buddy's skeletons and his bones are smashed.

We deal with skeletons that attack us in the numbers we struggle with, as if we were even walking in the field... No, we dispose of skeletons as if we were walking down mountain roads and cutting out disturbing branches.

Ray, who was firing flames from a distance at first, has also now been cut, crushed and destroyed in such a huge sickle as Esetus sees for the first time.

"Ugh, you're lying..."

"Reality. And with them, there's a good chance we can get out of the dungeon safely."

"But pulling my leg..."

To Nact's words, Essethus tries to exhort him.

But heading to Esetus like that, Nact grabs his shoulder forcefully.

"Come on, man. I know you're scared of that abnormal species. But are you willing to risk your life to everyone? Including Tevia, who lost her right arm."

"Gu......"

Esetus stops moving as if his heart had been pierced by Nact's gaze. But after a few seconds of silence, he eventually nodded unacceptably.

"I get it.... it will certainly be difficult for us to get out of the dungeon alone. But will they act with us? What if I told you not to go back to the magic team, but to move on?"

"... then I'll try to convince you somehow. There's hardly anything I can give you as a reward, but it sucks to give me my body... well, if you're a woman without one of these arms,"

Teevia, who tied the wound with the cloth she had on the potion and goat and finished the first aid, pinches her mouth.

Everyone on the spot knew that Teevia was indeed dirty today with sweat, blood and mud, but still would definitely call it quite a beauty if she was properly familiar.

In fact, I gave Tibia a one-sided thought, because some of them have challenged me to a duel to Esetus about what I misunderstood.

Even as a Teevia, it was a word because I knew from those experiences that I was looking good to the extent that I could be seen quite well.

But...

"You should stop. That would be counterproductive."

The gaze of Nact, who squeals so, is directed at Elaine, who is cutting with a whipped jointed sword wrapped around a few skeletons.

Following Nact's gaze, Teevia understands the meaning of Nact's words with her instincts as a woman.

"Right. But what do you do with that? If you ask me to come back to the magic team with you, I don't know if you'll take it if there's no reward for it.

"... right. Even for your arm, you'll have to make good allowance early on. Is it true you should be as quick as you can?"

Teevia didn't put it on her face, but she still had one arm amputated. There is no reason why there is no pain.

There is sweat seeping through his forehead in the evidence, and it is obvious that he is putting up with the pain lean.

As you can see, the three of them have a strong desire to feel powerless.

Even though Gort couldn't help himself in particular, it was the extreme of hate that he had dropped his backpack, also a seed of his own commerce as a porter, when he escaped.

(Some of those were advanced potions...)

And even though we talked about staying here and cooperating with Ray and Elaine, there's no big difference between Esetus and Nact, who can't see the difference in strength in front of us and can't find the gaps in their hands.

"Flying slaughter!

Such a voice is heard, and the slash released from Ray's huge sickle slashes several skeleton torso in two and flies in an unspoiled direction.

"Can you use wind magic besides flames..."

At the tip of Esetus' stunned words and gaze, the appearance of an enemy holding back Ray's path with the skeleton of an anomalous species disappeared, and Ray was kicking his cobblestone to fill that intermission.

With a kick in the skeleton that was in front of him - a being that should also be called skeleton-going because he doesn't exactly have a demonic stone - Ray packs his way in with the anomalous species as he wields his death size.

The anomalous species, who saw that there were no more skeletons to be their shields, tried to create skeletons by once again putting something misty out of their bodies while burning green eyes in their skulls with hatred.

Avoid the death-sized blade waved to prevent it, the anomalous species leaps backwards in such a agile motion that it does not seem to be a skeleton, pointing the tip of the four spotters held with the four arms to the ray.

"... heh. I knew it, but you're a master skeleton."

With a nibbling grin on his mouth, he glances at his surroundings for just a moment.

It was only a matter of time before the majority of the skeletons produced by Elaine and Seto had disappeared, and the majority leaned towards the Rays.

But...

"Gooooooooooooo!"

That barks inadmissibly, and the anomalous species blaze their green glowing eyes with hatred for those who are raw, while swinging a spotter and attacking Ray.