Distracted by the boy, Lion stopped the surprise move.
"Lyon? What are you doing? The Raiders are in front of us."
I scolded Lion and threw a spider's thread at the raider who was coming at the defenseless Lion.
The yarn of a successfully hit spider begins to tangle in the body on the spot, interfering with the movement of the raider.
"You were the other day!? I can't believe we're meeting in a place like this."
A man protecting the boy has spoken to Lion.
Just looking at the forged body made me understand that this man is quite hand-worked.
"I know you, but we can't afford to talk right now, hurry upstairs to safety"
I speak to the Lions.
"You're absolutely right. Now make Master Adriano a safe place!!
The man beside the boy agreed with me.
When I heard the name, I was sure. This boy is the seventh prince.
If the purpose of the [Black Market] is to protect this prince, it means we win.
"Lion, you follow the prince, too."
"What prince!? Shh!!
"Maybe, definitely. We don't have time right now. Come on!!
"So, what's Mr. Label gonna do?
"I turn to Alice and Dan's support. Your skills will definitely help the prince! Please!"
Lion turns his gaze to the boy.
And when he turned his face back to me, he was giving me an answer.
"Ok, I will defend Addo at all costs!!
Lion made up his mind too.
"Follow me, because if it's the structure of the arena, it's in my head."
"I will continue to take care of you the other day. Best regards,"
After the man in the escort lowered his head, Lion took the princes to the stairs leading upstairs.
I throw a large number of flame bottles as a jam, slowing down the raider's pursuit, one by one, and rendezvous with Dan and Alice.
We would do our best to obstruct the pursuit to ensure the safety of the evacuated prince.
I'll tell Dan and Alice about the operation.
"Dan, in this kind of turmoil, whoever gets the pace wins."
"Grab the pace?
"That's right. You'd have a bow, wouldn't you? Snipe while you don't understand your position. If you don't enlighten your enemies, they will be confused and unable to move as they wish. I flirt with enemies with items, too. And for that, can we ask Alice to buy us some time before we're ready?
"Okay. I'll try."
"I just need to buy some time. Three minutes... I think I can handle three minutes."
"That's enough. After three minutes, Alice needs to run back to the stairs upstairs."
"Yep."
"Let's start the operation."
We've decided on each other's roles, and we're on the move.
First, Alice storms the enemy line.
Alice confronted three raiders by herself as she rammed into the enemy formation.
I felt that the exceptional swordsmanship and quick moves were superior to the B-Class Adventurer.
The Raiders are also desperately attacking, but Alice masterfully avoids that attack while unleashing a counter-attack.
The attack Alice released with a gap was deeply tearing the opponent's chest apart.
I don't have time to be happy because I knocked one down.
The other two were slashed at the same time, left and right, and Alice pulled herself back once.
Soon a new raider will rendezvous and Alice will be dealing with the three again.
The opponent then successfully used the collaboration to attack Alice.
"It's been three minutes. Back off!"
After the promised time has passed, Alice leaves the front line following the raider's gap and runs toward the stairs.
The raiders began to chase after Alice, but arrows released from nowhere pierced the chest of the lead raider.
"Hey!? They're shooting at us from somewhere!
Subsequent raiders will step on two legs, letting Alice escape as she is.
The arrow strikes the raider again and shoots off with one, and another.
"Damn, if we were in a group, they'd shoot us. Everybody, fall apart!
Thanks to Dan, the group rose me.
It's convenient for us.
Dan knocked down the prep table and kept himself hidden behind it, distancing and directing himself with voices and other sounds against the invisible enemy, putting an arrow around him.
It feels like he was lucky enough to hit me this time because the raiders were a bunch.
"Mr. Label, the arrow's broken, so I'll pull it too."
"Dan, well done. I'll be two or three less, and then I'll head upstairs."
I noticed my opponent was knee-high, stretching spider threads.
After Alice and Dan head for the stairs, they also trap around the stairs, going up just a few steps.
Only two arrows that Dan had unleashed had fallen along the way, so I finally picked them up.
"What is this? Without realizing it, the thread is wrapped around it, right?
An unnoticed raider on the spider's thread was about to cut the thread tangled in his leg with a sword.
"You're not supposed to cut it easy, are you? This is how spider threads can be used."
I lit the thread at hand.
The fire moves vigorously toward the raiders as they burn the spider threads, and they begin to burn their clothes.
"Wow, the fire, the fire."
In front of me were several raiders dancing crazy, caught in spider threads and set fire to them.
"It'll burn well, won't it? I'll tell you what, if you roll it properly, it'll wrap more thread around your body."
That's all I said, I tried to get upstairs.
"Totally depressing, get out of the way!!
The moment I heard a voice from the back, a flameball was released towards the stairs.
The flame ball hits the stairs directly as it burns down my trap.
"Is that the magic of fire attributes!? Isn't the size of the flame sphere normal? That's pretty hands-on."
I succeed in avoiding a flameball attack by climbing a few steps up the stairs.
And it meets the person who unleashed the magic.
"Chip."
The other guy looked at me and pounded his tongue.
I don't know why I tongued him, but I'm not thinking of dealing with him alone.
If you stray from your opponent immediately, you run upstairs.
The battle on the ground floor allowed the three of us to push nearly ten raiders into inaction.
The rest will be around forty.
I'll follow the two of you and move the battlefield upstairs.
I went upstairs to rendezvous with Alice and the others first.
The arrow's cut. Dan is pulling out his dagger.
Up the stairs is a hallway, with rooms lined up at regular intervals.
This room is equipped with a wooden door, which is now closed, so it is not possible to check inside just from the hallway side.
"The guests' escorts also said they were going to hide in some rooms and ambush them from behind. I said it was better to gather my strength because it's not good to disperse, but you don't listen."
Alice pointed to several rooms as she said so.
I guess he's hiding in that room.
"Alice is certainly right. But I can't help it. Anyway, let's hide ourselves. If we work well with the lurkers, we can still deal with them."
As soon as we hid ourselves in the empty room, a large flameball was fired from the ground to the second staircase.
The flame ball hit the ceiling upstairs and scattered a spark around it.
"I'm afraid they may have trapped me up the stairs, but let me burn all the tricks."
Several raiders were seen coming up the stairs with the masked woman.
The remaining raiders are also coming up sequentially after her.
And the masked woman stops the raider from moving ahead of us.
"You mustn't move in a detour. The other porter is a pain in the ass. I don't know what you're up to."
Apparently, the masked woman is on guard of my trap.
You must have seen the catastrophe on the ground floor, but now you can buy me more time to be on my guard.
"So what do we do?
"This is what you have to do."
Saying so, the masked woman chanted a short chant, releasing a flaming ball towards the door of a nearby room.
The room was one of those where Alice held her finger.
The flame ball breaks through the door and hits the wall of the room wrapping the whole room in flames.
"Wow!! Fire."
Three adventurers jumped out of the room under fire.
"You see. You were hiding, weren't you? In front of my magic, no small worker works."
"Dear Margaret, it's a boulder."
There are many opponents, and this one is a few.
There is no chance of winning if you rush in without help, and I've noticed something before, but that doesn't mean I can crack this desperate situation.
"Anyway, you guys wrap this cloth around your necks. Helps reduce fire damage"
I took three mufflers out of my backpack and gave them to both of them.
This is a muffler that has the effect of fire resistance of cheap goods.
It was left at the bottom of the backpack for the party.
It is not effective only for cheap goods, but it is not effective.
As I was thinking of opening the door, I heard some screaming from the ground floor.
"What!? What the hell is going on?
The woman in the mask was also surprised and her voice was absurd.
Then one raider ran from the ground floor.
"Dear Margaret, the junction has been broken!! The adventurers are slipping in. Especially when the big man is a monster, he can't get around the rampage and get his hands on it. Soldiers have turned, but they may catch up soon."
"Shit, so you took too much trouble on the ground floor. Now I know we don't have time."
Looks like Cain and the others are coming.
If that's the case, there's a way.
"Both of us, apparently, have backup coming. If we can buy some time here, we might be able to pinch him."
"Sounds like it. But not just these three. There's no way to cope with that powerful magic."
Alice, the swordsman, is strong in melee, but the magic is bad for his opponent.
"I'll stop that magic. Alice needs to respond in the melee. I'll give this to Dan."
"Arrows or two?
"Oh, that's all I was able to retrieve earlier. Leave the timing to Dan. Use these two effectively."
"I'll take care of it, Mr. Label"
"I have a lot of enemies, so it's hard to stop and slash each other. Feel like flirting, okay?
"That's enough. Begin action."
"But Mr. Label, how do you stop that powerful magic?
"That masked woman. I don't know why he's here, but he's the one I know. If you know someone, there's plenty you can do."
I don't have to hide.
"Hmm, you noticed? Cleanliness. I don't have time for this, so I'm gonna kill you."
"What are you talking about? I'm just a bad guy for giving up. You know that, don't you, Remilia!!
I knew who the masked woman was.
The woman in the mask standing in front of you is definitely in Remilia.