Legend

The lunch break, which saw the soothing sight of the minds of those watching, that Yellow would help the squirrels, eventually ended, and the Rays decided to explore the woods again.

Instead of exploring the woods properly, unlike before, there is an opinion in front of us that the river - even on a scale that we should call a creek - should try to go upstream by going back that river anyway.

There was no particular disagreement, sometimes it was easy to use the spiritual magic that Marina is good at if there is a river, especially the water spiritual magic, and it was decided to head upstream of the river.

If we could explore this forest in the dungeon with some clarity, we might have focused on it... but there's no way the Rays have any clearer guidelines than they are challenging this dungeon for the first time.

"The river has grown a lot. I thought if we headed upstream, we'd get to the water soon."

I see a fish shadow swimming down the river, and Vihella squeaks.

Its rivers, which are as wide and as deep as fish can swim freely, are rivers the size of which cannot be called streams anymore.

"I don't know about the way you said tributary...... earlier in the place, but I guess that's how it is anyway. I'm glad the river gets wider because for me there are more options in battle."

"Grr!"

The moment Marina says she has more options in battle, Seto squeaks sharply as if that were a signal.

As soon as we hear Seto squeal, we'll be ready to respond immediately no matter what.

"Because Marina says so"

"Oh, is it my fault? But yeah. Then it's a corner, and with the spiritual magic of water..."

Don't let Marina finish, Ray is in action.

Because I saw the surface of the river that was flowing nearby thriving by the unnatural.

It was the horses who showed up as if they were breaking the water.

(Horses, water, horses...... Kelpies!

Kelpi, a rank C monster, often lives in places like rivers, swamps and lakes.

Ray has never listened or eaten in a dish before, but this is the first time he's actually seen Kelpie.

The Kelpie had her mouth turned toward the marina with only her face out of the water.

It would be more impossible to look at such a kelpy and tell him not to be suspicious.

In fact, the moment Ray stepped out in front of the marina, water spit out of Kelpie's mouth.

Water jets, or water cutters?

Either way, in an instant, Ray waves a magical death-size into that water that was unleashed on the marina.

I'm pretty sure Kelpy's attack on the released water was also quite powerful.

Unexpectedly… it was also ambushed in my territory in a river, ready and so on.

However, there is no way that such an attack could pass on a ray with a death size in its hand, and the water released from the kelpy is lightly prevented by the death size.

You didn't think you'd be prevented from attacking yourself in such an excellent situation, Kelpie stopped moving for a moment with her face out of the water... that would be the worst possible outcome for Kelpie.

A mirage released by Elaine wraps around Kelpie's neck, which is whipped and out of the water... and cuts as it is.

"Hihihihihihihihin!"

At the same time a large amount of blood flows from the severed Kelpie's neck, another Kelpie shows up from the water of the river a little further away.

Is it family, friends, or lovers?

No one on the spot knows what Kelpy has to do with each other.

But there is no doubt that the newly revealed Kelpie remembers his anger toward the Rays, leaving it to that anger to attempt to attack Elaine, who killed another Kelpie...

"Grrrrrrrr!"

The moment Seto's voice is heard, Kelpie's face, which, like the first Kelpie, tried to spit out the water, can unnaturally bounce as if he had been beaten by something, and the water is released to the unawares.

One of Seto's skills, the Devil's Eye of Shock.

The power itself isn't that strong, and it doesn't look like the Kelpies that actually took it are damaged either.

But as a hand in suddenly striking surprises in a situation of nothing, it would be quite effective.

"Hihin '!?

Kelpy, experiencing a blow that should strike him unexpectedly, deviates from those who were not under an unexpected attack, looked at Elaine again as she panicked... No, the moment she tried to see it, she instantly devours the blow of Seto, who was traveling to her front, rupturing her head.

One of Seto's skills is power crashing.

Reaching level five, that blow, which became threatening, could not have been enough to break Kelpy's neck bone...

Besides, Seto is equipped with rigid bracelets.

Kelpie's head bounced and flew in synergy with the Magic Item and Power Crash that increased its power.

(It's dirty fireworks, should I say something?

Ray thinks that way after watching as he pulls up Kelpie's body, which was being flushed into the river by Marina's spiritual magic.

None of us would understand anything like that.

"Two Kelpies, huh? Kelpie's meat is delicious, so it was a delightful enemy attack."

Lelew, too, must have eaten Kelpie's meat. As I said, I was smiling happily.

"You didn't think there were monsters in the river either. No, normally, it's not weird to be here."

"What do we do? Going upstream of the river like this? Maybe there are other monsters waiting in the river, huh?

To Vihera's inquiry, Ray gets a little lost.

In the first place, we don't know where the stairs lead to the third floor.

Beyond that, there was a good chance that even as we continued upstream of the river, we would still be attacked by monsters using the underwater as their area of activity, starting with Kelpy, as we do now.

But with a little thought, Ray decides to head upstream again, knowing it.

"It doesn't matter how you go any further than you don't know where the stairs are. Besides, I know the river monsters are troublesome, but we can handle that without any problems."

"... I wouldn't deny that"

The reason Vihera seems slightly dissatisfied is that the monster is still in the river would be huge because he can't fight.

Of course, it's not like you can't fight if you can, but getting in the water and fighting is a considerable burden for Vihella as well.

Not very much, but you won't be able to show your strength as usual.

Not to mention that Vihera specializes in fights that take advantage of her lightness, so a difficult situation to move in the water is not going to be a very, but decent fight.

If you try to be such a vihella, it's not strange that you want to explore the woods where you can move and fight freely.

"Well, going back to the river doesn't mean all the monsters that come out are just in the river. There are a lot of monsters working on the side of the river, and the water field really brings together a lot of monsters, so why don't you hope that way?

Some monsters seem a little incomprehensible to Ray that he doesn't have to drink water, but for the most part water becomes, naturally, a must in relation to being alive.

If you head upstream along the river, it's not hard to talk about encountering monsters who come for water.

Naturally, when we are drinking water, animals and monsters are often cautioned, and if the threat approaches, we often flee immediately.

(I guess what Vihera expects is an angry monster attacking her when she gets in the way of drinking water)

Ray looks at Vihera, who showed how she nodded at her words, and I think so.

In fact, Vihera was showing how convinced she was by Ray's words like that, so Ray's predictions are not wrong at all.

"Anyone else have any objections? I won't ask you if you say anything later."

Ask the others to make sure Vihela is convinced, but no one seems to disagree.

Elaine has the magic of the wind in Mirage and Range where she can attack mid-range, and in the worst case, she can fight her opponents in the river using Slapenil shoes.

The marina specializes in the spiritual magic of wind and water, so it's where Ning Ro wants to go along the river.

Büne is somewhat harder to fight when his opponent is in the river, as he is not originally the type to fight on the front line in battle, but mainly to provide cover from a distance, but still has an effective means of attack.

Relieu is...... that's the rank A adventurer with the alias for disease, sometimes with a similar type of skill to Ray's Flying Slash called Wind Slash, which is fine.

Seto and Yellow can fly through the sky, so there's no problem there again.... Yellow doesn't take part in the fight though.

(Actually, I guess Slapenil shoes are what Vihera needs, not me or Elaine)

I don't think so, but Vihella's shoes and set toenails are also magic items that have the ability to produce a magic blade from the heel, which means a lot to Vihella's style of combat.

For Vihela, who is primarily fighting, the blade on the heel of the toenail is a valuable offensive force.... although the immersion clap has more vicious offensive power than its blade.

Also, the Slapenil shoe is a magic item that you would definitely want, even if it is something other than stepping on the sky.

It's definitely a very rare item, not as good as an item box.

Tell me you want it, it's not something I can get ready for right away.

(I guess that would be best if you could give your toenail the effect of a Slapenil shoe)

Ray expects Slepnil to come out as he heads upstream along the river.

Slapenil, who looks like an eight-legged horse, is a very rare monster sometimes for being able to run through the sky.

But maybe there's Slapenil in this forest, slight...... really slight hope.

Most of all, the reason I had that hope was because I ran into a horse monster named Kelpy in the river, so some of the same horse monster Slapenil? Hope that can't even be called hope.

Still, you wouldn't mind just expecting more than none as a possibility.

"Well, here we go."

With Ray's words, a line goes back to the river again.

I saw some animal deer along the way that weren't monsters, but that didn't imitate like hunting.

Venison doesn't mean it doesn't taste good either, but if you think of it purely as a meat flavor, the meat of a monster with magic is still better.

The Rays didn't have to take the time here to imitate things like hunting deer.

"Cu......"

For some reason, only the Yellow on Seto's head was sorry to not be able to hunt deer.

"A deer. There are other pigs, foxes, raccoons... and in some cases bears, there must be a lot of wildlife in this forest."

"As far as this forest goes, Ray's words don't seem to go wrong. But... why is the dungeon so spacious? As far as these woods are concerned, I don't think they're very, very good, but they've just been made.

To that word of Elaine, Ray... no, the others turn their gaze around.

In fact, the size of this forest is undoubtedly wider than the cliffs where the dungeons existed.

From that staircase, is it connected to another space somewhere... or is the cliff spatially wider or something else?

Ray didn't know why, but it's understandable that this dungeon isn't just a dungeon that we've already done.

"Maybe you're right that the dungeon grew without anyone finding it and accidentally led to that cliff for some reason..."

"I guess. Of course, there are still a lot of mysteries about the dungeons, so maybe it was a dungeon this size from the start."

"... at least it wasn't this wide when I tried a dungeon I'd just done near the guilm before."

"Oh, Gamelion's"

In Ray's words, I guess I immediately remembered the time. Marina smiles funny.

For some reason, Gamelion had gathered in the dungeon, and Gamelion was no longer able to moisturize the adventurer's pocket that year.

Gamelion at that time is still in a ton of Ray's mysteries, entertaining the Rays' tongues.

Lelew also only lives in the Guild, and seems to have a lot of memories of Gamelion, going back upstream down the river talking.