Having defeated the demon and the chimera that housed the shards of the white disaster, we were returning to the camp in the cave with the undead, an associate of the ruins.
"So this undead is the survival of ancient civilization......?
"Shouldn't I say I'm technically going to stay dead because I'm undead?
Mr. Roddy jokes about Wanda's inquiry, an executive of the Adventurers Guild, to tease.
"We're talking serious now. Roddy the Clear Storm."
"Oh, I'm so sorry."
By the way, Wanda, who is supposed to be waiting outside the cave, is here because Liseau, who was acting director in the cave, insisted that this should not be just a monster crusade anymore, once he heard from the guild director.
"... but the director of the Chimera Institute, Gun Ai Torsokpin."
You didn't think the conversation would go on if it stayed like this, named after him as the undead shrugged his shoulders.
Heh, that was the name.
"This is rude, my name is Wanda and I am a supervisor seconded by the Adventurer Guild"
At the end of the greeting, Ms. Wanda explains the beginning of the incident and the fact that we were sent to investigate the site.
"So our purpose is to investigate the ruins and the demons that continue to overflow from this cave."
"Well, if that's what you're talking about, all the kids there said the same thing."
"I will ask you, who lived in that ruin. Do you have any idea?
"... okay, let me explain"
With that said, Mr. Gunnye first began to tell us what that ruin was made for.
"When Non was still a man, men and demons fought hard. To protect the world from invaders, to protect the country, to make this world our new heavens and earth."
Mr. Gunnye takes a small metal stick from his nose.
"The battle grew more intense, and both factions dawned on the study of magic and magic items to defeat their opponents."
And when you point the stick at the ceiling, several small fireballs pop out of the tip of the stick and strike down the bats that were in the ceiling.
"Like this."
"" "" Oh... ""
The gaze of the adventurers pours on the metal stick, the magic item, in Mr. Gunnye's hand.
"The battle intensified, and not only did we study technology and tools, but we also began to study demons. The result was a study of chimeras."
Next, Mr. Gunnye points to the chimeras sorted by the adventurers with a stick of magic items.
That's from the chimera we brought home as a souvenir.
"Studies in various fields intensified, and in the aftermath of the battle, the sky continent left only small islands behind and collapsed, with giant holes and rifts created in the continent, where seawater poured into it and became a new bay"
"Duh, what kind of battle..."
"It's like the gods are fighting..."
The adventurers, who were listening to Mr. Gun-ei beside the work, whine half-heartedly.
Well, even in previous generations, the study of magic and magic items to fight demons was flourishing.
"That's when it happened. A white warcraft appeared on the battlefield where men and demons were fighting."
The moment I uttered the word warcraft, I held onto the magic item strongly in Mr. Gunnye's hand.
"That warcraft that broke into the battlefield attacked regardless of man or demon. The two factions were confused by the sudden events, but immediately returned fire. Return the unknown beast... but the unknown."
With a distressed look on his face, Mr. Gunnye snaps the magic item in his hand into two pieces.
"It's all gone. The army of men and the army of demons have all been killed by only one warcraft..."
"" ""...... Huh!? ""
It was heard that the army of ancient civilizations and the army of demons had been wiped out by only one warcraft, and the noise disappeared from the noisy camp.
"The warcraft that ravaged the battlefield ran all over the world. It wasn't just the battlefield, the town, the base, even the little village. He showed up and attacked us. Many people sacrificed and even the demons fled into the original world. The leftovers were desperate to escape and fled underground. Having gained their first safe place of abode, Nong and others built a research facility there, and began research to defeat the Warcraft, the White Disaster. That's the Chimera Institute where you were... the identity of the ruins you came to investigate."
……
To an overly shocking confession, we all get the look of confusion as to what to say.
"... so what happened to the warcraft called its white calamity? Did your Ancients take you down?
To Mr. Wanda's question, Mr. Ganye shakes his neck sideways.
"I don't know, because Non and others have been caged in the basement until today to continue their research. I don't know what happened to that abominable warcraft. Ning Ronon is the one who wants to ask. Do you guys know anything about the White Disaster?
"No, I've never heard of such demons, and at least in the Guild records I've read, there hasn't been any damage on a global scale from demons or warcraft in the last few hundred years"
"Then where did that demon disappear?
There was no one who could answer that question, although Mr. Roddy spoke of a potpourri.
"Well, I don't know why, but the damage caused by the white disaster doesn't seem to be happening in the world today. I'm relieved..."
That said, when Mr. Gunnye had a soft grin, his body began to glow softly.
"Now I can die in peace..."
"Ko, is this...!?"
All of a sudden, everyone shouts surprise.
"The untrained are gone, so my soul is about to ascend."
A monk, Mr. Foca, explains what is happening to Mr. Ganye.
"Ascension? I mean, will this undead vanish?
"Yeah, I'm trying to travel to God. A soul that is untrained enough to be undead is saved without being purified. This is a miracle! Come on, let's drop you all off!
In response to Mr. Foca's words, everyone who was surprised by the sight stares at Mr. Ganye with a strange look.
Everyone will think a lot of things. Still sounds like he has feelings for his soul when he hears that his wandering soul will be saved.
But wait a minute. They've all forgotten what's important.
"So wait!
When I grabbed Mr. Gun-ei's soul, which I was about to pull out of the flesh, I slammed him into the flesh again.
"Bugah!?"
"" "" Ha!? ""
Everyone raises their voices as if they were surprised to see the sight of Mr. Gunnye's soul returning to the flesh.
"Hey, what are you doing, Mr. Rex!? Even though my wandering soul was about to ascend!?"
Mr. Foca speaks out in protest, but we haven't solved the case yet, so we have no choice.
"No, I haven't explained what caused the mass outbreak of demons yet, this guy."
"" "... ah" "
He seems to have completely forgotten to ask about the conversation and the fact that his soul was about to ascend.
"... that's why I'm sorry, but can't I wear it after I finish the explanation?
Wanda looks sorry to ask Mr. Ganye to continue explaining.
"Ugh, I went beneath my people again. He said he could have taken my buddy's hand in a little while."
Danger. Danger.
"No, I'm really sorry"
"Well good. There's been a massive outbreak of demons. Originally, there was a facility in the laboratory to raise demons that would serve as materials for chimeras. Not only did the demons raised there become chimeric materials, but they were also used as food for chimeras. Perhaps the demons escaped."
Oh, you even talked about that before and after the battle with the demons.
"Perhaps the demon man who was turning to Nong and carrying out the research revealed something? Didn't they accidentally break even the breeding facility walls and get away with it? Well, Non has no more untrained work to do with the research. When it comes to the facility, don't break it. Do as you like."
and Mr. Gun-ei answers the throw as he just wants to ascend.
"Is it only demons that were raised in the facility? What happened to the chimera you were studying?
"Chimera?"
After taking Mr. Wanda's question, Mr. Ganye does his hand on his chin to think about it.
"I think you might not be alive because you dumped the failed chimeras and research in the scrap hole."
"Waste hole?
"Um, it's dobon from a disposal pit to the lowest underground waters. The shock of the fall and the turbulence of the water veins make most of them die."
What was that, a very cluttered disposition?
"... any chance of survival?
"Well then. Chimeras with winged chimeras and aquatic life properties may survive. And the cameras that made it up to shore safely may survive at the bottom."
"" "" 'Cause it absolutely survives!! "" "
Everyone in the camp gets one scratch.
Yeah, I don't care what you think. There's survival.
"By the way, from dropping dobons in underground waters and disposing of them, Noun et al called this disposal hole a dobon toilet."
I didn't hear that.
I mean, I found a hell of a lot of leftovers at the end!
"Are you sure you want to ascend?
"" "" "No!!" ""
Of course you do!
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The night dawned from Mr. Gunnye's statement of shock.
We S-rank adventurers were ordered to rest to heal the fatigue of the battle inside the ruins, during which time A-rank adventurers reexamined the ruins that no longer threatened the demon and the giant chimera.
They also swept up the demons that inhabited them.
"It's a demonic breeding facility that was in the testimony, but as expected, there was a hole in the wall that was drilled by a large claw trail. The holes went around the ruins and continued on this side, so the demons that came out in this commotion seem to be everything with demons crusaded in earlier struggles and demons that would remain in the cave"
"Well, thank you"
Wanda sighs loudly after receiving a report from the adventurers who surveyed the site.
"There doesn't seem to be any more demons in the meantime. And then there's the whole cave investigation and the deepest part of the cave that seems to lead to the underground waters."
"But when this happens, the occasional discovery of a chimera on the ground may have been a descendant of a chimera dumped from a disposal hole in a similar research facility."
Mr. Roddy, who was escorting the camp, whines to follow what Mr. Wanda said.
"Maybe. According to that undead story, most of the chimeras that have fallen underground are attacked and destroyed by live demons living near the underground waters, but there is no doubt that they will survive."
"Hey, maybe the anthraptor that attacked you..."
"That seems to have been bred by demons brought from outside for chimera processing"
"Isn't that too annoying, that grandpa!?"
Uh, there is. It was also in my time that if I tried to solve environmental problems using demons, I would have another problem.
So it's one set until the Knights make an emergency mission, isn't it?
"But that anthraptor was massively crusaded in the struggle the other day. If there was still a chimera survivor..."
"No doubt the surviving chimeras will be activated."
Exhales loudly as the two drop their shoulders.
"I don't know how much time and money it would take to investigate an unexplored cave with A-rank exclusives and chimeras as well. We can't be involved for long, either."
"Mmm, I'd at least like to investigate the situation at the bottom..."
"No, no, that would be the last place I'd get there. It's the bottom of the dungeon, so to speak."
Uh, speaking of caves, you might call them a kind of dungeon.
Well, when it comes to the lowest level of investigation, yes.
"Um, then why don't we just fly magically down the disposal hole?
"... what?
See this one in the face where Mr. Wanda was with Kyoton.
"No, if the disposal hole leads to the lowest level, I think if you go down slowly with flying magic, you can do the fastest, lowest level investigation."
"That's it -!!"
Mr. Wanda gives a strong voice to my suggestion.
"Well, you could use flying magic! Please!"
"Yeah, I'll take care of it"
Mr. Wanda is very pleased with my suggestion.
Yeah, yeah, I'm glad I suggested it.
"No, that's the boy! Nevertheless, it's convenient to call this book flying magic!
"All right, now we can make the material to report to the top at the very least!
"By the way, boy, that flying magic, can you carry us together?
And Mr. Roddy came to visit.
"Right, there's a limit to the number of people you can carry at once, but if you go back and forth, you can carry it fine.
"Then carry us, too. If there's a survivor of a chimera encountered in a ruin underground, it's time for us to rank S."
As far as it goes, that's Mr. Roddy.
Even if the purpose is just to investigate, you don't know how many chimeras there are in the bottom tier of the unknown scale, so I guess you're saying the least amount of combat power should be secured.
"Then we'll accompany you. I've never been outnumbered."
"Then you need a healer, too."
And there comes Mr. Liseau and Mr. Foca, too.
"All right, then we'll organize personnel to conduct the lowest level of investigation. Wait a minute."
That said, when Wanda gathered her people, she immediately began to organize people to the bottom.
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Then I'll open it.
In front of us, Mr. Gunnye opens a disposal hole for discarding the chimera.
The disposal hole is huge, and even a large chimera would likely drop this.
When a disposal hole opens with a gagging, heavy sound, a giant black hole appears there that leads to the bottom of Naruto.
But there was something there that I didn't expect.
"" "" Whew!? ""
The deep vertical hole that leads to the back of the waste hole… because there were massive demons snapping at the sides of its walls.
And we knew the demon.
"" "" It's an anthraptor. Ah!? "" "
Yes, Anthraptor.
That bunch of demons attacked us when we were building a second camp in the cave.
The same thing was stunning across the disposal hole.
"Apparently, I didn't have to crash the chimera for a while, so I climbed into the bait."
"I wish I was relaxing!!"
Someone scratches on Mr. Ganye, who explained calmly.
"" "" "Guishaaaaaa" ""
and the anthraptors moved out at the same time.
"How about it! Welcome all...... Huh!?"
"Lightning Burst!!"
The magic I unleash bursts before Mr. Liseau finishes his words.
The magic of a widespread lightning strike spreads throughout the disposal hole, intercepting the anthraptors who are about to come out of it.
There was no escape or hiding place for the anthraptors who were coming up the wall, and they were magically swallowed up and disappeared without the art of exchange.
"Anthraptor repellence complete!
Yeah, it's like this mon if you don't have to worry about involving your allies in a riot.
"... uh, oh, thank you"
When Mr. Liseau lowered his sword, who was about to set up a weapon, he twisted me with a subtle look.
"We had such a hard time..."
"Well, look, it's me. Because they're S-ranked."
"Right. It's an S-rank."
From the adventurers around me, I get the satisfaction that it's S-rank.
All right, maybe I'm getting a little S-ranked, too!
"No, wait a minute. Don't keep us together..."