The Dungeon Struggle of an Earth Dragon!

That started with one of these earthly words.

If you say so, where is Ann's hometown?

'Yes?'

I don't know what the question means for a moment, and Ann puts her neck up.

'No, that's why it's home. Unlike Plump and Tsumugi, Anne and Elibel are from outside the dungeon. So I was wondering where you were born.

It would feel like I said it as really casual, just a conversation story.

After a little thought, Ann answered.

'Well... anyway, Mr. Elibel, we at Killer Ant don't have the concept of "home". A termite who becomes a soldier ant ends his life in a nest of queen species. The next generation of queen species, too, once they have grown to some extent, will leave their nest, build a new community and never return to their original place again...'

That's why when Ann was forced out by her mother, too, she didn't take the option of returning to her original nest, even as she looked for a place that was likely to be another.

This may be called Killer Ant's instinct.

Well, the detailed history of the area around leaving the nest (also said to have been expelled) was Anne, who was a little embarrassed to tell Earth, so I wouldn't say it by mistake.

'It's just a community I was in before... I do remember it was a small forest in the northeast of the Eldo Wilderness'

In a memory transmission, Ann tells Earth where it is.

It was a few dozen kilometers from the Erdo wilderness at a distance.

"Heh, you're quite a distance away."

But why would you do that?

"No, the dungeon's getting a lot wider, 'cause it's stabilizing, and I was hoping if I wanted to see my family,

"I never thought about it."

“Hometown” for Anne is this dungeon, next to Earth.

Sometimes I remember my mother, but I never wanted to go back.

In the first place, family for Ann is about earth and family, and interest in the community she was in before is already weak.

Either that or I don't really want to remember the past.

Previously, Anne lived an incredibly self-depraved life.

I didn't go outside at the right age, because I lived a life that was just right and very crushing, spending time in a ragged nest and consuming food brought to me by other soldier ants.

At last, he was left alone from the nest to be beaten out of his mother who could not rest on his stomach, and he reached Earth with the thought of dying. To this day, he has never even told Earth about it.

But Earth told me, and Anne thought it was a fluke.

- What would my mother think if she saw herself now?

Evolved, extraordinary power than before - or myself who evolved into Imperial Ant, followed tens of thousands of termites, and above all became the family of that legendary dragon king species dragon.

Seeing him like that, my mother wondered what the hell the reaction would be to their former compatriots laughing at themselves very crushing.

... To be honest, I just wanted to take a look.

I wanted to do it in return for my mother and my former compatriots, who had thrown me out of the cage because they had crushed me so much.

But soon I'll change my mind such a lowlife.

"Master Earth. I am a member of Lord Earth's family. It's my job to protect you and use it against you. You can't leave here. '

'Um, well. Well, then keep up the good work, okay?

'Yes! Of course!

Ann thus declined Earth's offer.

But a few days later, things change dramatically.

From an unexpected direction, Ann's return was to come true.

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"Negotiating the local demons...?

"That."

Katakata and, shaking his skull, Elibel nods.

Staring at Anne as the flame under her eyes swayed.

"In the meantime, I want you to see this"

Elibel remains seated, manipulating a terminal extending from a polar-colored sphere, and projecting footage into the air.

There, caves large enough to allow each person in were shown.

"The location is a cave in the forest northeast of the Erdo wilderness. I was setting up a transfer gate in the back, and apparently there's a local demon living in it."

Underground cavities and caves used in the middle of the dungeon are places that Elibel had marked as her own candidate for the dungeon during her lifetime.

They say this is one of them.

But that was over 200 years ago.

Naturally, it's not surprising that over time there were local demons living there.

Elibel's story is that a metastatic gate is in place. underground cavity beneath this cave.

If we were to use this place for mid-level dungeons, clashes with local demons would be inevitable.

Cheng Cheng and Ann nod.

'Okay. You want me to take control of the local demons, like I did in the Yugur Forest?

"With Soyuko. The dungeon hasn't been completed yet, so be as calm and discreet as you can. Can you ask for it?"

'Of course. Because the middle dungeon is essential for the peace of mind of Master Earth. Plus, with the help of the local demons, we'll have two more birds a stone. "

"Please. Just in case, I'll lend you my Necromancer Squad as well. Use it as you like."

The moment Elibel said that, I felt like the skeletons and Reyes who were holding back behind her looked "er" sad, but I guess it's because of her.

The skeletons are supposed to get tired.

Besides, Anne thinks.

It coincidentally happened that Anne's hometown - was closer to the nest where she once lived.

Just the right opportunity.

I remember what Earths told me.

Because of this, let's also visit the nest where I was.

Let me show you who I am now.

To my mother, to my former compatriots.

And I'm going to look back on you as much as I can.

It was a falling out once. What did you say? That I've become so splendid.

At the end of the day, even though Ann said something, she said she was interested in seeing her former compatriots.

With just a little bit of that black sentiment and anticipation, Anne started getting ready to visit her hometown forest.

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The next day.

"So will you come?"

Ann packs her bags - even so, she only has a sword and a cape, and a demon stone position in case - but sees Skeleton, Reis with the termites who refrain behind her.

Everyone seems to be ready.

The numbers are not that high.

Acting in the Great Army, there is no ex-girlfriend or child in the noise.

Regardless, several Reis, termites, are already lurking on the ground as scouts.

By the way, Earth is still sleeping.

Once yesterday, I have told them that I will leave.

Or you wake me up and you hate me.

At your feet, the light of the transfer formation floats.

Anne and the others dived through the transfer gate and left the dungeon behind.

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The light at the transfer gate will subside.

The place where Anne and the others left was a meadow a little far from the woods.

This is also a place that Elibel had previously marked.

Anne and the others didn't suddenly move into the cave.

Because it seems that the caves with the transfer gates are largely brittle in the ground after two hundred years.

If you poorly stimulate and confuse the demons living in the cave, it can be a battle and the worst cave itself can collapse.

When that happens, there are no ex-girlfriends.

For this reason, it would be a good idea to go to the area a little further away, negotiate with the demons, and, well, destroy them.

'Yeah, that's a good meadow. The herbs are native, and will you pick some samples for Mr. Elibel on your way home? "

"Kiss, kick, kick"

"Whoa, right, we have to be quiet"

One of the termites speaks up.

Don't, don't.

The distance is far away, but there are also human villages around here.

We have to act cautiously.

This is why the journey begins.

Kill and move signs so that adventurers and other demons don't find them.

When it's been a few minutes since I moved?

It was when I came to the entrance to the forest of purpose.

"- Gishhhhhhhh!"

I heard demonic screams from somewhere.

"What is it?

Ann immediately instructed Reyce.

Sooner or later, Reis heads for reconnaissance.

- I immediately got a report on a thought call.

“Nearby, goblins, humans, attacked."

That's what happened.

Human......

With that said, Anne recalls that there was a human village a little further away.

Have you come to exorcise demons, or have you come to pick even medicinal herbs?

Well, whatever the purpose is.

Well, what do we do?

Much reticence, Anne concludes.

'... let's abandon'

Better not get involved poorly.

In the first place, the goblins that have come out in such an eye-catching place have nothing to do with it.

Crisis management capabilities are too weak.

You deserve it as a demon living in the wild.

That's what I decided.

The termites and skeletons also nod and begin to travel unbridled.

Then...

"Heh, the goblins are delirious!

"You don't lick humans! Demonic!

"Ola, die, die!

"Gah!? Giggy...... ugh!

I heard the humans.

Mixed with that and the screaming of goblins.

In the long run, it was not an adventurer, but villager-style men who seemed to be everywhere.

He holds a shovel or a shovel in his hand and wears a scratchy goblin.

Apparently, he's not hunting, he's just enjoying walking out of the woods and wearing goblins.

There was a distorted grin on that face.

Just a crazy grin drunk with that pleasure, where the strong have the weak.

... How ugly.

Ann couldn't help but be disgusted by the way the humans looked.

Overwhelm the opponent by number.

Ann is not going to deny the act itself.

Because she is also a demon who acts in herds, and she understands very well that "number” is a kind of “force” in itself.

But only because it is a means to life and a strategy to win in battle.

Definitely like all humans, it's not a good way to use it as a means of getting the weak.

And that goblin is a goblin too.

Why are you so busy being good over there?

If you run away, just shut up and nod at what you need to fight back, even withstand the violence.

'What a pity you look......'

That reminds Anne of her once weak self.

I was physically and mentally weak before I met Earth.

To say that if you don't get up yourself from there, there's nothing to gain.

There is no point in reaching out to those who do not have the strength to get up alone.

That's what I thought, and I tried to divert my gaze - it was that moment.

The thing in Ann's eyes reflected.

- It's a child.

Goblins squatting.

It's not a mistake to see.

I saw a goblin child in his arm.

That goblin wasn't just squatting and enduring.

I was protecting it.

A life smaller than my own.

They were surrounded, they didn't get away with it, but they were still desperate to protect only their children.

How foolish at all.

If you just abandon him and run away, you'll help yourself.

And yet I can't believe I didn't try to and just endure it.

And there will be more ways to do it.

There must be other ways to get help from a buddy or to turn yourself away and let the kid go.

And yet I can't even shield myself to protect my child.

Small, stupid, pathetic.

Damn, really.

- When I realized, Anne was running out with her sword in her hand.