Mob, if I were a high school student, could I be an adventurer, too, Leah?
Episode 11: The Most Vigilant Enemy
The first thing I felt when I went down to the bottom was discomfort.
Normally, I can't feel the killing that strikes me the moment I step in.
It's like we're the only ones on this floor... and to that illusion, I got more vigilant.
"... Yuki, any sign perception?
"I haven't had a reaction so far. But I do smell Lycanslope."
... Again. So this time the boss is single reinforced... is that also an assassin type with sign blocking?
I smashed my tongue that the most annoying type had appeared.
The Assassin type Lord is one of the enemies that adventurers should be most alert to.
Sneaks in without sound, eats an intense blow and leaves. Its concealment is not even noticeable to close range due to field correction, and is uniquely enhanced, but therefore highly aggressive.
Among other things, it was a direct attack on the master that should be vigilant, and there was a possibility of total annihilation if the response was incorrect.
I've only engaged Assassin type here in the labyrinth once, too, but honestly, I might have dropped a couple of D-rank sets if it weren't for Lotus Hua's spiritual regression. So much, he was a strong enemy.
"The flight crew stands by in the air, and Yuki follows me in a blockade of signs. Suzuka and Eliza are my escorts."
I walked out of the safety area when I told him the instructions at the link and was sure he'd returned the willingness to understand.
The Night Forest, which should have passed, had changed its appearance only because the enemy had become an assassin.
Every time I went step by step, I was alert to any enemy raids, and even making myself nervous about the sound of the branches I stepped on gave me the illusion that I had become a character in a horror film.
After a few minutes of carefully looking around and beginning to have some doubts about the fact that there had always been no enemy raids, I was finally able to find where I was looking for you.
It was by a small lake that popped up in the woods.
We put the lake behind us as we stroked our hearts down to get to where we wanted to be before the enemy attacked.
In the fight against the Assassin type, it is suicide to be surrounded by forest trees.
Even it is no longer possible to find Assassin hiding himself in a shield in the woods at night with poor prospects. Besides adding up to 3D manoeuvres using trees there, the situation is more desperate.
But by this lake, the sight is somewhat open, and the direction of the raid can be narrowed left, right and forward.
Even if you go around to the back, you can't turn off just the sign blocking or even the water noise.
That said, within minutes of arrival, the lake also needed to be alerted.
Because we could be diving into the lake on the verge of our arrival and watching the desk.
So while we were on guard at the lake for a few minutes, we made sure not one of the bubbles came up, and we started preparing to intercept the Lycan slope.
Wire and small bells around the trees as they surround the square, wrapping a bead-sized paintball around the foot uncrafted. Lianhua was also asked to regress the spiritual character and buff his companions.
With the giant Lycanslope, it's impossible to get around the gap in the wire first. Even if we tried to use the trees to jump over the wire forcefully, things would really make some noise, and above all, if we stepped on countless paintballs, it would leave a footprint.
This was my assassin-type measure that I came up with in my last encounter.
That's how everything was ready and all we had to do was wait for the enemy to raid...
'... you're hard to come, Master'
'Oh... any reaction to smells or signs perception?
"So far, nothing..."
"Hmmm......"
It's already been twenty minutes since we got into the bottom tier.
I have challenged this labyrinth so many times now, but this has never been the first time I have had so much time to fight the Lord.
If this is the type of thing that feels dull like a golem, I can think of cases where they haven't found us, or haven't moved a single step from the point of appearance, but Lycanslope is different.
The habit is the elimination of intruders who have entered the territory. He also has more sense of smell than a dog, and never lets his prey escape.
It has always been the case that if we set foot in the bottom level, we would immediately attack each other...
So Suzuka told me to whine about the potpourri.
"Hey... maybe, you know, the other adventurers already knocked you down one foot?
"Ugh!?
Was it possible...
It wasn't impossible that the guy who came one step ahead of us had already defeated the Lord...
Though I thought so, I was half-hearted somewhere.
This labyrinth is an unpopular type of forest. I was just surprised to see you with that adventurer yesterday, but I didn't know there were other guys diving besides that, and they were defeating the Lord before us...
My consciousness was torn apart into thought more than vigilance - at that moment.
"Master!"
"Huh!?
A sharp voice of yuki echoed, slightly quicker than the water noise of Bashari did behind it.
Before looking back, it was the black shadow that popped momentously out of the lake that jumped into my eyes, seeing behind me through the sensory sharing of the link.
Naturally, it's me who's at the end of that rigid arm that even breaks the tree.
Stupid! Why!? Impossible! You're kidding me!
- A moment earlier than such thought, there was a moving shadow.
"As per the predetermined maneuver," Eliza, using her sheltering skills, appeared before me at a speed that could be described as instantaneous travel, taking the blow of the werewolf.
The blow of the werewolf's body strayed from its original goal and wore the ground, but at the price of it, Eliza's arms broke like twigs, and his body blew behind me like a rubber ball.
It won't be possible for her to come back before the reunited werewolf sifts a second blow.
If so, my only defense is two D-rank cards: Yuki and Suzuka. Before a single reinforced lord, it's an unreliable note.
But no problem.
Already, the chain is activated.
"Huh!?
The moment the werewolf pulled his arm off the ground and now it's that moment that he tried to tear my body apart. I slipped my foot into something with Zuluri.
I wasn't taken by the mud. It's due to the magic of Meir's slip.
It was a werewolf who also seemed slightly upset, but if it were also C-ranked, it would react just as quickly, keeping it cleverly balanced even on the ground with zero friction.
"- Haha."
There, Suzuka's foot payment was decided to flow. That wasn't enough to damage a werewolf, but enough to roll a werewolf who had managed to keep his balance on the ground without friction.
In that gap, Yuki carries my body back safely.
The werewolf, whose body was muddy, turns himself over whether he immediately switched his mind even though he hated and cared for me only for a moment.
If the assassination fails, retreat immediately and re-compartmentalize. The level of judgment was also a troublesome part of the Assassin type.
But once tangled 'chains' do not miss the enemy so easily. A white, radiant, magical thread released from the sky tangles into the body of a werewolf trying to jump into a lake.
The thread wrapped in double triplicate around the torso also strained the surrounding trees and the ground, tying the werewolf like an anchor.
When Yuki's arm went down to the ground, there was the figure of a werewolf who was completely bound and unable to move one thing.
A relentlessly pouring state of abnormality and attack magic rain there. Weakness (debilitation), Lightning, Paralysis (paralysis), Sleep (sleep), Earthpiercing......
He is shredded, paralyzed, burned with electric shock, and pierced with rock spears through his body that fell asleep for only a moment.
I wiped the cold sweat flowing down my chin as I watched Lycanslope, which was rarely beaten.
"Oh, it was dangerous... I didn't know you were coming from the lake"
I couldn't imagine Lycanslope having the skills to work underwater and it totally devoured the unintended. Did you even have aquatic skills?
Whatever...... glad you decided on a 'chain combo' well.
- - The third stage of the link, the chain. Techniques that connect and activate skills like chains through links.
Normally, the skill is activated after determining the situation, whereas the chain interlocks the skill with the level of reflection on the trigger of the other card's skill activation.
In this case, it will take the form of a chain combo of Meir's slip and Suzuka martial arts and Lianhua's magic web, triggering Eliza's "shelter".
A chain that saves thoughts and activates skills at the level of reflection is also a sword of blades that, once fitted, will not get out until the end of the combo, but will create a large gap if even one gear is uneven.
It was a tricky technique to use, but just preventing an attack with Eliza's shelter would escape being ambushed in the form of a hit-and-away, which would be a painful battle. That's why he placed a bet to hold his enemies for the first time knowing the risks.
The result of the bet, as you can see. Although Eliza was the only one who had suffered some injuries as a result of sheltering her first blow, her wounds are now completely healed, and Lycanslope is overlaid with many state anomalies and unable to move a single step.
You could win like this... I had such pale expectations, then.
"Master!?
……
Suddenly Yuki holds me and flies.
What the hell happened? Faster than I thought, her senses flowed through the link.
A black shadow is waving its arms down to where I was earlier.
On the other side of the earth giveaway in slow motion, eyes matched those of an unlikely beast.
"Stupid......!
Turning with astonishment, there is still the figure of Lycanslope restrained and the Lianhuas who still see this one with a stunned look.
Second body!? Weren't you single reinforced......!?
No, it's not!!
It's weird at a time when there are multiple Lycanslopes that are C-ranked in the first place!
It's the water tiger that used to be over my head, but this time it's not the same story.
Because there is no such thing as a monster that can call more than one Lycanslope.
I mean, this is...
"Mustard."
Turning hackingly to Yuki's voice, there was the figure of a third (...) werewolf waving his arm up this way.
"Elizahhhhhh!"
There was no time to pinch extra thoughts, and it was our party shield that shouted.
She was already on the move when the second raid turned out, and stood in front of me at critical times.
"... Gaha!
"Eliza......!
A werewolf's arm penetrates Eliza's torso.
Even though that's just her, I guess it wasn't possible to deviate or prevent an attack at this time. Still, he managed to keep his body up and only prevent a direct attack on me.
There, the barrage of Lianhua pours down.
I was transported to Lianhua with Yuki's hand, unlike the werewolves who gave themselves up in a quick move.
Now I took off my dead place first......
"Are you all right, Eliza...!
"Jesus, Master.... but I'm sorry. I took an unconsciousness. The wound... can't heal '
'Huh...!
Eliza's body, which should be close to immortality if it's on the field at night... will not recover.
It meant she was attacked with holy weapons.
Seeing, the newly emerged werewolves' arms are equipped with silver shining hook claws.
Holy weapons are made from the processing of silver weapons and are commercially available as anti-undead monster measures like Eliza.
The monsters are equipped with over-the-counter weapons… that meant one fact.
- That this is the raid of other adventurers.