The Branded Female Fencer
In Beginner's Labyrinth (Dungeon), Part 12 - Escape
"Haa, haa..."
"Was this staircase this long?
"If you're talking! He's already climbing up here, huh?
Alphilis and the others rush up the stairs at full speed. Behind it looms the slime that came out of Maneater's body. The body just can't seem to climb quickly from that giant. However, even though the movement of the slime is relatively slow, it is an organism that, unlike humans, probably does not know that it is tiring. Either way, it was decisive to be able to catch up. Rhine is desperately thinking of countermeasures as well, but it was his first experience encountering such a monster, so he had too few handbills. Instead, I'd say you did a good job just escaping earlier.
"Haa, haa... Miranda"
"Zei... what? Alfi."
"If he gets out on the ground and he comes after me... hu... I'll use it!
"Zei... okay, I..."
Miranda can't help but nod to Alphilis' suggestion. I couldn't possibly run through the woods all day to escape, so I thought the confrontation was unavoidable if I could still chase him at the stage of leaving the ruins. I just have absolutely no guarantee that I can win. If you use as much Fenna magic as you did earlier, the blade will pass, but it's out of hand for such a slime to come out of the slashed end. Besides, I didn't suffer a single scratch in the magic that went hand in hand. Although a beginner, he couldn't do the elf magic that was in his mercenary company earlier. Perhaps it can only do effective damage with the magic of the sacred system. It was Miranda who would think that if Alphilis had the magic of being out of the kettle, maybe, but there's no guarantee there.
Intuition is important on the battlefield. I'm sure you were right to go stab nobody in the stomach at the stage where you sealed Maneater's movements earlier. Sometimes there were no gaps or locks through the weapon because it was most closely intertwined with Fenna's magic. But if it had been closer, it would have been taken in by that slime that erupted from the wound.
Moreover, Miranda knew from numerous experiences that those who hit a beating on the battlefield would die prematurely. Though there are some elements of coincidence, closer thought and calculation are important to guide victory. Because the help of urbanism doesn't come like a story.
"(Yes, when Atashi was raped at the beginning of his journey, when immortality was found out and evicted from the village, and when that man died... no one could help him. So Atashi despairs of life...)"
Put your thoughts in the past and Miranda shakes them off.
"(Not if you're thinking about that! Now I need to do a little of what I can)"
"Alfi!"
"What?"
"You, how many sorcery systems can you use?
"Er, everything but the sacred system!
"Well, if it's anything other than sacred systems... yes!?
"If you subdivide another unattributed sorcery and count it as maybe one summoning sorcery, 10 should exceed"
"Ten..."
Miranda and Fenna are circling their eyes. I guess so, even using more than two sorceries is generally unusual. Besides, as confirmed by historical facts, the highest number of pedigrees available to individuals is 6. The number of alphilis usage lineages will repaint history.
"Is that right, Ali?
"Oh, I'm surprised..."
What nature would it be if it were born? I accidentally feel Miranda for a moment, but the words of the line immediately pull back.
"But you can't do a lot of damage except the sacred system at heart, can you?
"Lisa agrees with that. To deduce from the words uttered exploring who that is, it would be an evil spirit that only exists a simple 'appetite'. Maybe I don't even care if I'm alive or dead. As you may all know, as even Fenna's sorcery was not heavily damaged, it becomes extremely difficult for the spirit body to work with any sorcery other than physical attacks and sacred systems. Instead, the attack magic of the sacred system has tremendous effect, though. Again, because of the evil spirit, that body doesn't seem to be the main body."
"What do you mean?
"This is also Lisa's guess, but perhaps if you thoroughly destroy your body, the movement will stop. But the main body, the spiritual part, has no damage whatsoever. Perhaps evil spirits are possessed by organisms with such bodies. In other words, while possessed by a very solid organism, it is also a spiritual body, but is therefore even more difficult for the attack to work?
"And when that slime comes out of the damaged part... that's nasty"
"Doesn't it make any difference what you do, though?
"That's right..."
"It's okay, Lisa"
Alphilis pounds Lisa's head, he strokes.
"'Cause I'm gonna kill you."
"(What Lisa's worried about is not whether she can defeat that demon, it's your body, Alfi)"
Lisa swallowed the word all the time. Either way, it's because we have to leave it to Alphilis. You shouldn't say anything extra then - Lisa decided to think so because she wouldn't blunt Alphilis' resolve at all. Because Alphilis himself should know best. Such a worry about Lisa, Nia running at the head of the Alphilis screams.
"They're upstairs in the basement!
"From there Lisa will lead the way. Because in case you go the wrong way, it's Oshimai!
"Okay... is that it?
Kazas and the mercenaries are doing something up the stairs. Looks like he's pulling the pull out that came out when he opened the door.
"Doctor, what are you doing? If you don't run, he'll come after you.
"I just flickered when I saw the stone door come down."
Kazas answers the line question as he muddles the sweat on his forehead.
"Dungeons are a lot of traps for intruder control, aren't they? That's if you don't want me to go into the dungeon. So on the contrary, what if you seal something in the dungeon and you don't want it out there?
"I don't need a riddle. Just say it."
"It's because of you. There's something in the dungeon that you don't want to be brought out. If it moves, the room collapses, or worse, every dungeon collapses. I was wondering if this is the switch when this whole thing came out on purpose. I've also made a hypothesis that the basement 3rd floor was deliberately installed for this reason. I've seen a time when these tricks became popular in ancient documents, and if we pull through all of this, it seems that less than three floors underground will collapse. Well, hypothetically."
"I see. So I'm trying to pull it out, but I can't," he said.
"Right. I have to be stupid like that, because I couldn't do it because of three big men. Perhaps there were some people who mistakenly took it out for a treasure, even though there was a trick to pull this out. Because it's too big for a size that only humans can hold alone."
Kazas slapped Concon. There's definitely a part on it that snags something. I don't know what it is now. But if it is not frightening because of the three big men, is it not possible either way? The moment everyone thought that, Miranda stepped forward a long time ago.
"Atashi will do it"
"Yeah?"
"Whoa. I've been buzzing. Looking at the weapon, it does seem more powerful than a normal human being, but whatever this is,"
"That's how it turns out. Alfi, if you do this, you may not be able to move, so say hello then"
"? I don't know, okay!
"Okay... can we go with two?
Miranda takes something out of the leather bag on her hips and puts it in her mouth. Then Miranda's whole body gradually stained red to light, and the hot air began to come out. Although temperatures are somewhat low because they are underground, they are now, despite pre-summer temperatures.
"Miranda, what's that?
"When Atashi used to be a mercenary, his nickname was' The Red Ghost '. I think he was saying how he was when he fought with this. Force your body to increase its metabolism and blood flow to activate the idiotic power of the constant fire by forcing it to secrete more brain drugs such as exciting substances (adrenaline).
Except for the fact that exciting substances in the brain are usually highly toxic to the body, and if normal humans do, they can also break muscles, so I can't use them except for Atashi. Well, you're not sure, so let's leave a detailed explanation. Anyway, this is why I can show my idiotic powers compared to Atashi's physique. To a certain extent, I learned the trick of adjusting with my own body even without medication. "
"Um, because I'm not that familiar with pharmacy either"
"Hehe, even if it looks like this, it's because you're a researcher. Atashi is also partially intelligent. So this is how it turns out!
When Miranda pulled her hand on the stone, the stone she had never been scared of was easily dragged off. When you pull the stone, something moves and you cackle! There is a sound. Miranda dragging the stones out one after the other as it is. Then he showed signs of a gradual collapse of the stairs. Kazas' reasoning seemed to have hit it.
"This is the last one!
"It's an immediate escape. Follow Lisa."
Alphilis and the others running out in case. Follow Lisa's instructions to escape.
"Left."
"Okay."
"Right next"
"Aye."
"Up, down, down, right, left, right, left"
"What a command!
"Now you're invincible!
"Because I might blow myself up!
"What if I'm kidding!?
At the same time as Nia's scratch, you can hear the downstairs collapse from behind. But there weren't many signs that the dungeon was making better than I thought, though the impact would be transmitted over the second basement floor, that it was going to collapse. You wouldn't even be able to follow that man-eater if this were you.
Lisa joked that her escape was dizzy and soothing, while less than once the tension was too high, it would cut off. In that sense, Lisa's poisonous tongue was part of what she was doing for her. It would have been a convincing fact if she had acted as a loving sister in front of the little ones and the children miss her too. Most of all, I don't deny that there was simply another desire to bully Alphilis into making things worse. Half of them may have felt sweet about my sister.
And then nothing happened and the Alphilis came back safely to the ground. The time had already been when the sun was about to tilt.
Continued