Legend

Flying from the place where the iron rust and rot were, Ray was turning his gaze to the ground again on Seto's back.

I left the place earlier, but the smell still seems to be staining my body, and Seto seems a little spicy.

Still, I don't have time to imitate the smell off here for a long time, I just have to wait for the smell to naturally fall off.

"Sorry, Seto. You'll lose the smell over time, so be patient now."

"Gru......"

Seto can understand Ray's words better than he saw the sight earlier.

That's why I'm flying patiently through it, even with the stench stained on Ray.

"Can I use that incense furnace first?... No, you can't."

The incense furnace Ray got earlier does not have the effect of doing something about the stench, even though it is in the form of a incense furnace.

From what I saw, it seemed to have the effect of keeping the odor within a certain range. Besides, the rays that were flying in the sky were able to sniff it out, so it wasn't complete either.

If you think about how things called incense furnaces are used, you can call it irony.

"Besides, I didn't even find out how to use it yet or what it would do properly. I don't think so, but if I tried to use it, it would explode... what a possibility."

The suicide bomber is a man's romance. There's no way you have that idea, but it's not surprising that you're simply being set up for secrecy.

(I guess he's the one who created all those sights, and it's not weird to think of a way to hide evidence. Given that I'm an alchemist in the Bestian Empire and can make all those magic items, there's never going to be a lack of skill)

As for the incense furnace, Seto rattles his throat at at Ray, who had decided to have it examined after he returned to the gilm.

"What's up?

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

As Seto throats, he turns his gaze to the ground.

Could it be the same sight as earlier? I thought so too, Ray, but it doesn't smell like rot or iron rust at all.

"Uh... yeah? Oh, there!

Ray, who turned his gaze to those to whom Seto's face was pointed, shouts a joyous voice when he finds there a cave and what he thinks is there.

"Guru"

To Ray's words, yes, and a throaty ceto.

"Okay, then, get off. Be careful. If they're waiting, that's a pain in the ass."

"Grrrrrrrr"

Seto wings and descends to the ground.

Fortunately Seto doesn't need that much distance when he gets down on the ground.

Second, Ray remembers the word vertical take-off and landing gear, the so-called VTOL aircraft, that he saw in something when he was in Japan.

I don't have the most detailed knowledge, so I don't know exactly.

(To land or fly to that, I guess it's different from a lot of things because I end up on the run or something)

While I was thinking about that, Seto was finishing landing on the ground.

Down from Seto's back, Ray tilts his neck as he looks at the cave at the end of his gaze.

If this cave was the home of the alchemist, you naturally understood that Ray and Seto had come down here.

Even so, I have to lean my neck that I have no reaction at all.

(What's happening? You have confidence to intercept inside?... I see, there might be that)

Whether you know Ray is coming or not, ambush is an overwhelmingly advantageous means of attack for the defensive side, and it's not strange to choose it.

(And...)

Ray frowns slightly as he turns his gaze to his right hand.

I've been inside once before, but I can't say the interior of the cave is very spacious, and I just can't afford to wield the Death Size, the weapon Ray specializes in most.

"I think I've been using this weapon lately."

Removed from the mistering was the spear of the tsu, a demon spear with everything from the tip of the ear to the stone-piercing part.

As Ray put it, it was the most popular weapon here lately.

"I really hope it's a dagger or something, but it's better this way than a weapon I'm unfamiliar with"

Attacks such as paying are difficult to use in caves, but the most common method of attacking spears, poking, can be used without problems.

On the contrary, there was no doubt that if the cave was narrow, the opponent could not afford to avoid it either, which would be a favourable development for Ray.

"Seto... I'm sorry, but wait at the entrance to the cave. Whatever it is, it's not big enough to attack alongside Seto."

"Gru......"

Seto sounded just a little sorry for Ray's words, but I know best how wide inside this cave is Seto, who has once transferred to this cave.

So Seto follows Ray's words to the perimeter.

"I got you behind me. Seto, that's why you can leave me behind."

"Grrrrrrrr!"

Unlike the unfortunate squeal a few seconds ago, it makes a happy squeal.

I'm sorry I couldn't go inside the cave with Ray, but I guess it's because I still have the feeling that I'm the one protecting Ray's back.

Leaving Seto in the mood for himself on the spot, Ray enters the cave.

The cave itself is not that large, nor is it long.

It was a very short cave, but from Ray's eyes, I can still find traces of people thinking there was someone there.

Even Ray, who isn't a bandit, doesn't miss things like people's footprints or metal fragments.

(This is where the spies we captured at that time were designated as destinations for transfer, so it's possible that they set up a magic formation. Or a trail from around Langa when he came to check it out?

Proceeding through the cave with Tsu's spear in his hand, he arrives in the back without hanging for a few minutes. But...

"Off, huh? No. Is it right that the hit came off?

Squeeze in sight of the sight that spreads in front of you.

At the end of Ray's gaze, there's no such thing as a person.

Until recently, however, traces of people remain intense.

That's enough to show that even Ray, who's not a bandit, seems solid.

"The question is, when did you dump this place? It would be interesting if it wasn't the alchemist who used it unexpectedly here, but as far as I can tell, he would definitely be an alchemist."

The reason I assure you so was in the middle of this space behind the cave.

There exists a familiar magic formation there, emitting dull light.

The pedestal in the middle of the magic formation is the same structure as the incense furnace that Ray saw earlier.

The difference is that it's the kettle, not the incense furnace, that's on the pedestal?

"... what's a pot? I know it's true that there's more to this than magic formation."

The moment Ray mutters, the magic formation inadvertently turns from dull to dazzling light.

Reacting as if Ray's words had been cut off, Ray retreats a few steps later and sets up Tsu's spear.

I didn't know what was going on or what was going to happen, but I understood that it wasn't something.

A small stone falls from the ceiling near such a ray.

"Collapse!?

Past the back of Ray's brain that screamed was the sight of a movie I saw when I was in Japan.

The movie also set a trap that the cave would collapse the moment it got its last treasure, even as it headed behind the cave in search of treasure.

He decides it's dangerous to stay here like this, turns himself over and runs out for the entrance to the cave.

Tsu's spear was stored in Mystering when he flipped himself and will not be disturbed to run.

With an overwhelmingly higher physical ability than a normal human being, Ray runs as he feels the cave walls flowing through his sight.

While doing so, stones and rocks were descending from the cave ceiling one after the other, and it was clear that the cave would soon collapse as it stood.

In the meantime, Ray keeps running as he dodges rocks and stones falling from the ceiling, sometimes the cave itself isn't that long, and the light outside is in his eyes.

It was almost simultaneous with jumping into the light and the collapse of the cave behind it becoming complete.

"Phew... did you manage to make it,"

"Grr!?

Seto, who was alert outside to what was going on around him, approached Ray as he rushed through the cave, sounding worried.

Are you okay? And Ray reaches out gently to Seto, who's turning his circular eyes.

If you look behind you as you stroke Seto, what's spreading there is a cave that has completely collapsed.

It would take a lot of effort to pull this stone or rock over to dig out where the earlier magic formation was.

Besides, if you ask me if I need to go out of my way to get that far, Ray has to worry too.

In the first place, because the other side was set up so that when someone came to this cave, the magic formation would activate and the cave would collapse.

(I think it's possible that animals and monsters might come in, not people... oh so magic formation, huh)

I think that maybe that magic team was making a decision around there, and I'm unwittingly convinced.

Anyway, I didn't think the enemies who were so close to getting ready were bothering to leave clues to connect to themselves.

For example, it would be pointless to imitate like digging back into a cave here.

I made that decision and while I'm sorry I couldn't find a clue in the end, I'm thinking about going back to Gilm...

"Grr!"

At that moment, Seto, stroked by Ray and rejoicing in his throat like a cat, even though he was a griffon, squeaks sharply to alert him with his gaze toward the collapsed cave.

A sharp gaze as if he had maximized his abilities as a griffon, unlike his circular eyes when he was being stroked.

Because such a gaze is being directed, there's no way Ray would have been alert to that either.

Remove your weapon from the mysteries and turn back towards the cave.

What is in that hand is not the tsu spear I had when I was in the cave, but the Death Size, which is Ray's original weapon as well.

There is some breadth in front of the cave and at the same time nothing but rays around it, like when we fought Kobolt.

There is Seto, so to speak, but Seto was a perfectly fine opponent even if Ray was wielding his death size in full.

Seto is also slightly sinking his body so that he can attack at any time, and Ray also sets up Death Size.

At the tip of such one and one gaze, the mountains of stones and rocks that the cave could accidentally collapse into are slightly but shaky.

"... what? There was no such thing as a monster or a creature."

We can confirm that there are no creatures of any kind just proceeding to the end of the cave.

However, the fact that stones and rocks are shaking like this now means that there is some kind of moving presence...

Eventually, in front of Ray and Seto watching, stones and rocks blow up into the air like they did when the volcano erupted.

The stones and rocks that blow up into the sky naturally fall to the ground, and they attack Ray and Seto.

"Shit, Seto, be careful!

"Gru!"

Seto rings in Ray's words.

Only Seto, who originally has high physical abilities as a griffon, avoids all of the falling stones and rocks.

Watching it, Ray activated his skills all at once.

"Magic Shield!

Death size skills form a shield of light that only once prevents any attack.

In case of trouble, Ray also keeps dodging the falling stones and rocks.

Stones and rocks that are really likely to hit cut, bounce, and crush off the Death Size.

After more than a dozen seconds of such an act, the falling stones and rocks are finally gone......

"Gaaaaaaaaaa!"

Such a roar echoes around me.

"Hmm. So you don't have to worry about someone coming into that cave? I've erased all the evidence that we were based there, but I didn't mean to cover it up completely."

"Yep. If there's anything like going into that cave in the middle of nowhere... I'm sure that person will be buried alive in the cave. If it's normal, you won't be able to escape the cave collapse. And..."

Zuboz stops the words once and smiles in his thin mouth.

The grin was cold, momentarily but cold on Adria's back... then a sweet paralysis ran.

"And... what?

"If we manage to survive the cave collapse, there's a good chance it won't be intact. The next thing you need is a golem that I've worked so hard to create."

I will not forgive those who stand in the way of my revenge, a man who says so even makes me feel obsessed with a grin.

... but the man doesn't know.

That it was Ray, also his greatest vendetta, who entered that cave.

And that Ray has a presence called Seto who will be his partner.

That would have been a long way off the man's mind.