Legend

"I'd like to see Bosque about an anomalous species, but are you okay now?

Having completed their buy-in at the guild, the Rays had come in front of the Silva family in a carriage they had ridden many times before.

It's not a place that should come that often, if it's supposed to be, that three of them are ruling Exil, except in terms of the Silva family, which has a large number of adventurers, many adventurers go and go.

Either way, the usual gatekeeper sees Ray and lowers his head small and opens his mouth.

"Yes, I'll let you know soon, so please wait a little longer"

Then one of the two gatekeepers goes inside to inform him, and when he returns with permission in a few minutes or so, Ray and Elaine go straight into the mansion and Seto and Yello head into the garden.

Sanctions, who welcomed Ray and Elaine in the form of naturally, led us not to the Bosc's office...... but to a warehouse we had been to before.

"You're just reading our behavior."

Ray groans as he is impressed, but Elaine opens her mouth to what is natural.

"That would be so. In fact, I met the Silva adventurers on the 15th floor of the basement, and the day after that, they asked me, and even told me I needed help with an anomalous species."

"Right. Besides, in Ray's case, I have an item box. Given that, it's not so surprising. I can honestly tell why Ray and the others encounter abnormal species."

To the tiny, sighing Sanctions, Ray just flaunts his shoulder and then returns his words when he has trouble telling himself to.

"It's not like I like it and I'm suffering from an anomaly. Let me be honest with you, I don't want to be associated with abnormal species."

A monster with more powerful powers than a regular monster and a demonic stone that cannot be absorbed by Death Size even if it is defeated at a corner.

Although Ceto can absorb Demon Stone once, it's definitely dangerous to have it absorbed there, beyond not knowing what indeterminate elements are beyond being able to absorb it in a death size.

And most troublesome of all, there is no clear way to see if the target is an anomalous species.

(If you think about it, you don't know if it's really an anomaly even for that giant skeleton we defeated. The standard of judgment is only information from the adventurers of the Silva family I met the day before)

Walking around thinking that way, I see a warehouse I've been in before.

"Yes, Master Bosque is waiting for you in the warehouse, please come in."

Encouraged by Sanctions, it was a monster like a giant dog that came into the sight of the Rays who went inside the warehouse. Its dog-like monsters, about the same size as Ceto, have a head divided into two parts, and the tail being cut is also divided into two parts from the root.

Such a monster, as if you were forced to wrap two giant beasts together in one.

"This is..."

"Oh, you're here."

When Ray is blinded by the monster in front of him, he can call from behind the warehouse.

When I turned my gaze to your familiar voice, there was, as a matter of course, the figure of Bosque, who was also the lord of this mansion.

I'm usually either a strong face, but the smile I'm floating right now is such a vicious grin that if a child sees it, he's going to cry out immediately.

But Ray just says he's already used to such a vicious face of Bosque, and he opens his mouth without looking concerned.

"Is this monster... an anomalous species?

"Oh. It's the monster that showed up on the 21st floor underground. Fortunately, he attacked a place where there were several groups of parties, and this is how he was able to secure the body."

"You've been brought here a lot. Do you have an item box, just like Ray?

Hearing that explanation, as I was half impressed, and Elaine shrugging in a half-shouldered voice, what I came back from Bosc was to smile bitterly and shake my neck sideways.

"I don't know if you guys know, but the 21 underground tier is the forest. See, the hierarchy you guys were diving in was the desert hierarchy, right? It's not the desert, it's the forest."

"Oh, I see"

That explanation is easy for Ray and Elaine to understand. Anyway, I've been in a dungeon with an altar of inheritance, and I've been in exactly the same place that Bosque just talked about.

"What, you're not surprised?"

"In the first place, next to the 16th basement we're attacking, the 17th basement is also the forest hierarchy."

"Is information-gathering solid? Whatever. A couple of pairs there joined forces to defeat a monster named Grand Trent, which is also Trent's top species... he was attacked by this guy along the way. So, I managed to take him down, and I brought him in a luggage truck that would have carried Grand Trent's body."

Ray, who heard that word of Bosque, opens his mouth remembering the material available in the dungeon, which he had heard since he came to Exil.

"Trent's body?... Oh, so they can buy it at a high price as a fancy building material."

"That's right. Not just as building materials, of course. The Grand Trent branch is useful as a cane for wizards and as an alchemy material. It's a struggle to bring it back just to a pretty big monster, but that's all it's worth.... What do you say, you guys go right down to the 21st floor? If we can defeat Grand Trent, we'll buy it for a high price, right?

Bosque's words included the meaning because you have an item box, which, in a mild tone, was telling Ray quite seriously.

"Oh, if I remember."

But Ray gently returns just that and once again turns his gaze toward the body of the monster rolling in front of him.

If you put in a tail that is 2m long, cut and arranged next to your body, you would be close to 3m long. There are also slaughter wounds, stab wounds that appear to have been stabbed with a spear, or wounds that appear to have been stabbed by an arrow.

And burnt marks on the head.

(Magic, I guess)

Sharp nails are stretched from the limbs, making them feel sharp enough to make you think that it would not be difficult to slash and tear them if they were cheap weapons or protective equipment.

"As far as this goes, you look like a pretty high rank monster"

"Oh. As I said earlier, it's a monster that we managed to defeat with more than one party, 13 people in number. They also had two wizards in the party. If you think about it, is it at least rank B equivalent? Shadow Wolf, who seems to have formed the basis of this anomalous species, is rank D."

"... Shadow Wolf?

Ray once again turns his gaze to the monster's body to the words that came out of Bosque's words.

There was no particular disagreement that it was a monster of the werewolf lineage, not a dog, but its fur color is blue. It is not the color of the black lineage that is likely to be attached as a shadow at least.

To such Ray's words, Elaine, who was listening, clasped her shoulders small and opened her mouth.

"Ray, the anomalous species change their appearance and shape to a greater extent than the underlying species. Wouldn't that be surprising to us that we've fought or seen so many unusual species before?

"... if you put it that way, you did"

At that moment, it was an anomalous species of skeleton that I defeated today that floated behind Ray's brain.

Ray's known skeleton is that without 3m tall, he doesn't have four arms, or he doesn't have a magic item spotter in all of his arms.

"So, Bosque. I brought you the body of an anomalous species we defeated... should I put it next to this monster?

"No, I'll be ready in a minute, so wait a minute. When Shadow Wolf is on his side, he interrupts his investigation."

Saying so, Bosque gives instructions to those who were nearby.

Then a pedestal built to move quickly is transported in front of the ray.

"On this, please"

Nodding at Bosc's words, he displays a list of mysteries in the back of his brain to select abnormal species of skeleton.

In the next moment, a giant skeleton about 3 m tall appeared on the pedestal.

As a skeleton, a small, eye-opening boss looks at the alien figure.

The surprise is small, probably because there are still more powerful abnormal species appearances in front of us.

"Heh, can I think of this as... an anomalous species of skeleton,

"Oh, probably not. Yesterday, on the basement 15th floor of the dungeon, I met the adventurer of the Silva family... you know, I met the adventurer I ran into when I was Sword Bee, and he said at the time, maybe this was the anomalous species seen around there."

"... I guess. Even so, do you have 4 arms? I don't think it's easy to move when fighting."

Mumble and do the trick of wielding a huge Great Sword, which is also your own weapon.

Exactly. They don't imitate the kind of weapons they actually wield inside this warehouse.

"In Bosque's case, it's because you have the Great Sword. The anomalous species had four simulators. This one, by the way."

Simiter emerges from a place where there is nothing again.

Regardless of Bosque, the other researchers in the warehouse will not react particularly when they see Ray's mistering already.

I've seen mysteries used several times before, and at the same time I guess it's because I know that Ray is close to Bosque.

"Is this a magic item?

Of the spotters placed next to the abnormal species, Bosque takes one and squeals.

"Oh. It's not that powerful, but it's definitely a magic item"

"Wait. So, what? Using a monster called the seed of chaos that creates an abnormal species also makes it possible to create a magic item?

Asked Ray, Bosque looks at Ray with a sharp, piercing gaze.

But Ray, who took that gaze head-on, opened his mouth by shaking his neck to the side without looking particularly concerned.

"I don't care if you ask me. When it comes to the seeds of chaos in the first place, it's not like I'm giving the monster anything. You're looking for the ones who are creating the abnormal species to know that, aren't you?

"Ah, oh. You did."

"... just so you know, you don't imitate asking for chaos seeds to mass produce magic items, do you?

Ray points his sharp gaze at Bosc as if he were returning the gaze he was pointing at earlier.

Ray is working with Bosc only because he wants to solve the problem against the anomalous species, and it's not in any way in the interest of the Silva family.

If Bosc decides it's possible that he can mass-produce magic items and imitate them so that he can dye his hands into research on anomalous species, use any means to stop it. Bosque nods after a few seconds of silence in an inquiry directed at him with that thought.

"Oh. It would be a lie to say you didn't think about it for a moment, but my aim is only to thrive Exil. I'm not going to do anything to break it."

"... Ray, you can believe it. This man is not lying. No, Ning Ro, if that's what you're really going to tell me, you're going to tell me so with dignity."

To Elaine's words, Ray nods and opens his mouth small after a small sigh.

"Doesn't it look like I can hide everything?... but okay? If you want to create an anomalous species intentionally, then you'll know why I'm called Deep Red."

For a moment, only for a few moments, but the killing spirit released from Ray pierces the boss.

It was only a brief moment, and nothing else, including the researchers in the warehouse, noticed.

But surely the slaughter released from Ray was directed towards Bosc.

"Huh, right. Let's remember the neighborhood."

But even if he was a killer boss, he didn't look particularly comfortable with anything, even smiling at his mouth and returning the words.

In contrast to such a boss, Ray, who had his gaze on him for about a few seconds, sighs small and clasps his shoulders.

What will you see if you go the wrong way? Because I understood it was an attitude in understanding it.

Most of all, that is tantamount to saying that we will use any means in some cases.

"Well, fine.... So how soon can you buy this abnormal corpse?

Ray suddenly changed the subject, but Bosque also nodded flatly at the word, opening his mouth after thinking for a few seconds or so.

"... a piece of white gold coin."

The amount that came out of that mouth can never be said to be cheap. No, if you think of it as an adventurer, you can say it's broken as the amount you earn a day.

Because the time the Rays were practically diving in the dungeon was only a few hours away.

But still, Ray frowns lightly.

"Pretty cheap. You were four white gold coins when you were a cactus modo, weren't you?

"At that time, the majority of the amount was for three people who were creating more abnormal species than abnormal species."

"Four magic item swords?

"That's right. In fact, as far as that double-headed wolf is concerned, it's six gold coins. At a price that includes magic items. Besides, that magic item's demon sword itself isn't that powerful, is it?

If you say so, you can only be convinced as Ray, and the deal will be concluded with a small sigh of breath and a piece of white gold coin.

"By the way, what's the information about those threesomes?

"I know a lot of things... but you can't divulge this."

While interacting like that.