The Dungeon Struggle of an Earth Dragon!

"Go on!!

Skeleton, attack the bandits with a mixed unit of termites.

Is the number of bandits about twenty just in sight?

I also feel signs in the cave.

The number is high. But less skilled.

The orphans are individually intermediate, and even Skeleton boasts advanced strength with some of the weapons given to them by Elibel.

They alone will be able to control it enough.

"Hey, what are these guys!?" "Where the hell did you come from?" "" Hey! Somebody tell your head! "" This one's full of hands! You do it!

To the demons that suddenly appeared, the upset bandits.

It's easy to watch. I know the bottom of the force.

But don't be alarmed.

More importantly, we can't take the time to reduce the damage to the local demons.

A former compatriot in that cave - all the more so if my mother were here.

Skeleton Squad is here to rescue the demons and destroy the humans! The termites are going to the cave with me!

Ann gives instructions to the termites and Skeleton troops, while slashing and abandoning both humans on the road.

Skeleton troops also attack weapons received from Elibel and Earth.

"Hey, what!?" "Where are these guys from? - Oh!" "What? These skeletons are impossible. They're strong!?" "Guh! Why is Killer Ant so strong? Ooh!?

The Annes, who suddenly appeared, would have been nothing but a nightmare for the bandits.

Crying, running away, getting killed one after the other.

All the skeletons flock to us and to the bandits.

It works as if it exudes daily depression.

Is it fairly stressful?

No, that can't be right.

Again and again, Skeleton is a demon with no emotions.

So it's just “it looks like it” and I'm actually just giving my life away... Maybe. I'm sure.

So...

"Do outlaws like you see how we suffer working under such super de perverted black bosses!? Ahhh!? Die here. Die. Yes!! Your shitty boss wii!!" or "Why is our boss so anne-like!! I'll see you under him when I get back from this assignment...... I don't like it. Awwwwww!!" or "I'll kill you, I'll kill you... I'll smash it all down, I'll kill you, I'll kill you, I'll kill you, I'll kill you"

- or something like that. I feel like I can hear my heart scream, but it's only because of my mind.

Because it's a skeleton.

I don't have any emotions.

"G., gua?" "Giggy......?" "xy?

Meanwhile, the demons of the cave were blind.

You're upset by the Annes who suddenly show up, obviously moving dull.

Shut up.... what are you doing, at all.

Suddenly Ann breathed.

"- Battle eh!!

A word.

Shout at the demons.

"What are you scared of! Show me your fangs! Get your nails up! Fight the enemy in front of you! Don't forgive the unsuccessful people who invaded your territory!! Fight!!!

"" "- Eh!" "

Demons who are hacked by the word.

He returned to me immediately and began to fight back against the humans.

Several men are frightened and rush into the cave.

Anne and the termites also entered the cave, as they chased it.

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Around that time, behind the cave, the queen ants of Killer Ant and several soldier ants were fighting the bandits.

No, that expression is not correct.

To be exact, they were hunting.

Originally Killer Ant is the lowest demon you can fight properly without relying on numbers.

There was no way he could compete with a human opponent he was used to fighting.

Killer Ant (Murder Ant) and other names are good places to lose.

One, one falls down again.

In the deepest part of the dense Killer Ant, Queen Ali kept seeing how it was.

And enlighten.

- That's it.

Queen Ali understood her destiny.

The beginning of the matter ends a few days ago when these bandits raided their former nest.

At that time, all the food and stockpiles available to humans were looted, and all other things were destroyed and burned.

It can be described as a miracle that I was survived with a few termites.

He escaped using a hidden passage and managed to survive.

And I found this place and tried to set up a new nest.

But the humans didn't allow it.

This raid on the arrow tip where we found demons who wanted symbiosis and tried to set up a nest again.

Bad luck - no, all I could say was that I was left out of luck.

What the hell did we do?

He said he just lived quietly in the woods.

Peace, just relax...

"- Oh, no, Mother! Get off me! I don't want to go outside! I want to relax with your mother! Why!? Why, Mother!?

―――

Unexpectedly, the queen ant remembered a daughter.

About the "unusual daughter” we used to have.

She was a strange daughter.

Like the other kids, there's no reason to go out and stand on your own, just relax and pull into the nest, that weirdo who didn't leave his place.

That girl, who had impeccable talent and magic as a queen species, had a weak heart.

Depending on herself, and not staying like this, that girl who ghosted her heart and threw her out of the nest.

What the hell are you doing now?

"There he is! That's the queen, Ali!" "Let me take care of this! But that's it!" "Kill him. Yeah, yeah!

The bandits approach themselves.

Soldier ants around you come forward, but they don't deal with you.

Weak.

Oh, what a weakness we are.

Will that girl be alive?

Would it have been possible to set up a nest as a new queen?

... Why do you think that now?

Maybe there's no big reason.

Just somehow, I guess it's because that kid was the most impressive.

Because he was just like me and the weirdest of my daughters.

So if that weak little girl could have changed.

If you were aware of your mission and able to stand on your own feet.

- Because I'm sure she would have reigned as a great queen without interruption.

"Die, yeah, yeah, yeah!!

- The blade is imminent.

Kill me.

Done.

I thought so.

- But “death” didn't come.

Kickin!! and.

I heard a blade being bounced.

"Ha... ha... ma, I made it. In time............! Good...... really good......!

Someone was standing in front of me.

Don't let the bandits in front of you get ahead of you.

- Who is it?

Queen Ali sees the demon.

It was the first demon I saw.

Looks like a merger of people and ants.

In addition, he has two swords in his hand.

I feel awesome magic.

We are so powerful that we cannot compare ourselves to Killer Ant.

Yet...... why not?

I... feel like I know this demon.

This terribly nostalgic magic...

Yes, this magic.

Even if your figure changes, your instincts, your soul tells you.

That's right. This demon... this “daughter”, I was born...

"Mother... Long time no see"

With a blurry, somewhere uneasy voice.

That once weak girl stared at herself.

I abandoned my daughter.

I had to.

But.

My daughter didn't abandon me.

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"Mother... Long time no see..."

It's been a few years.

What am I going to say, what am I going to tell you, so you can realize it's you in the first place?

Various emotions folded and the result - it was a very common word that came out of Ann's mouth.

But I was right about that.

The reaction was dramatic.

My mother noticed.

Years later, by now, he had changed his appearance and realized he was his former daughter.

That alone filled Ann's heart.

I felt like I could face my "past self” that I had never been able to face properly.

It's not like I want to do it in return, or make you admit it.

I just wanted you to look at yourself properly.

That's all it was.

That's why

"Well......"

Ann stares at all the idiots in front of her.

outlaws who have freely stepped into their territory.

Fifteen in all? There's only one person who seems troublesome.

"How dare you kill my former compatriots?

Kick the ground.

Wave the sword.

"Ah!? Oh, my God, Temehe..."

One neck flies.

"? Hey, what's up? - Huh?

The other body rips in two.

Thirteen more now.

"- Kill him."

Ants are attacked by all the people around them.

The hell they have intermediate power.

You can fight well enough against your human opponents.

In the meantime, I drive away the enemies that I consider to be the most troublesome.

"Shit! Who is it, Temee?

A big human axes and stares at Ann

Probably the leader of these bandits.

Ann can magic the sword.

"Ha! Fine, I'll deal with him! Look, don't listen to me, you fucking demon! I'm the leader of this bandit gang, the Great Axe."

"Shut up."

The words did not last until the end.

Before I raise my name, Gotri, and the man's neck fall.

―――

Lightly, the man was slashed to death by Ann.

The expression was, to the end, a dumb look that didn't realize what had happened.

'... out of the way'

With all those gaps, it's like saying kill me to raise my name.

He instantly kills the leader of an unknown bandit group, and Anne stares at the "enemy”.

The man - a skinny man on his thin cheek who had refrained from hiding behind the leader.

"Hih... Hih, that's awesome. He. Come on. He was a pretty well-named adventurer originally... hiccup."

With a creepy laugh, the man sets up a dagger.

... strong.

Don't let your appearance fool you. This man is definitely hand-worked.

In the evidence, the leader is killed, and even though his companions around him are dead one after the other, there is no slight agitation in the wrapped magic of the man.

Definitely. The sign of hand work I've been feeling since before I caved in is this guy.

Who the hell is that?

No, anyone.

Just kill him.

Ground Dragon Sword, and recharge your cape with magic.

Maximize the slashing extension of the degraded version of the Holy Sword Levertine.

Express all the power you can have.

Anne's instincts had told her otherwise she couldn't win.

……

……

Anne was the first to move.

Wave the Dragon's sword like slashing off a man's neck from the side.

A man wears a dagger to do this.

Using that recoil, the man tries to get into his nostalgia.

Then Ann fires an acid bullet and intercepts it.

Concentrated acid bullets from super close range blur a man's cheek.

But without any hesitation, the man tries to pierce Ann's flank with a dagger.

"- Huh!?

Twist your body and activate Levertine's ability to slash and expand.

Huge swords become impromptu shields, preventing a man's dagger.

In a moment, Anne puts her face closer to the man.

Breathe in.

GIEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

Roar.

An attack of sound waves that mahi the triple tubes we used once also during the fierce struggle against Heleb.

"Ha......!?

About, the man's body shakes.

- Now.

I tried to bite off the man's throat as it was.

Ann is sure of the victory.

But the next moment... I felt the chill.

The man's face was stunned.

Belly, tongue out of your mouth.

There was a small “needle” in that tongue.

Pfft.

needles that are fired with exhalation.

Sole stabs Ann in the shoulder.

A slight pain that can't even be called damage.

And

"-"

Ann fell powerless.

A man who stares at that figure satisfactorily.

"Hih, hih... I don't know, that poison? Your body's numb and you can't move, right? It's a special thing that I've formulated... instant, but also at regular intervals, so that severe paralysis and pain strike and die... Kihihihi."

With a creepy grin, the man sees Ann's condition.

The poison is definitely working.

The man is convinced of victory.

Attach the dagger in your hand to Ann's neck.

"... Kihihi, shall I give my name to the souvenir of the underworld? I'm from the Poisoned Sword."

"One!!

The moment I tried to name him, I got my wrist bitten by a little wolf.

"Hey, Ouch... what a dog! Out of the way...... when it hurts!

"Gallulululu!!

Totally surprised.

With so little magic, so little presence, the man did not notice its proximity.

Even though he tries to shake it off, the wolf doesn't desperately try to eat it away.

"Holy shit!

The man slashes the wolf with a dagger in the other hand.

"Gang!?

Slashed and torn, the wolf left the man's wrist.

Damn, it's blood flowing from me. Fall all around.

"Phew... don't let the dog or animal get in the way, not at all..."

Unexpectedly tries to rub a bitten wrist.

But that's where the man finds himself uncomfortable.

……

A man who floats question marks.

Why.

My wrist - it wasn't there.

Precisely, from the elbow down, it was completely gone.

That's like being slashed and torn with a sharp blade......

"- What?"

Moving his gaze down, his own arm was dropping there.

Slashed? To whom?

That slight question. Thoughts.

That was deadly.

Gotri, and.

The man who lost one arm was also cut off the other.

The man loses both arms, breaks the balance, and steps on the bump.

"... you're alarmed"

I heard a voice from behind.

Looking back.

Earlier, there was a demon who should have collapsed with poison.

"Become -"

How can you move?

Why isn't the poison working?

No, it should have worked.

And why is that?

Why, why, why, why, why painful Itai Itai Itai...

And the man's neck was amputated.

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"Phew..."

Confirming the man's death, Ann takes a sigh of relief.

... It was dangerous.

If I hadn't had the “antidote," they'd have done it.

"... thanks to that parent and child goblin"

That herb.

That herb I got from Goblin saved Ann's predicament.

The poison on the needle from the man was exactly the same poison that the water snake was suffering from.

It must have been this man who fought that water snake.

Thanks to her prior knowledge of the symptoms of the poison, Anne was able to immediately realize and detoxify that she had eaten the same poison.

If it had been a different poison to apply, the results would have been different.

'... it's a small needle, but you have magic through it'

So did you stab Ann in the crust as well?

Make a pecky, creepy noise and break the needle.

"Thank you, wolf."

Ann is the biggest credit man in the bloodshed and falling - approaching the wolf.

I don't know what would have happened to Anne if he hadn't earned me a few seconds for risking my life.

But because of that, he also succeeded in launching an ambush on a man who was alarmed.

... I still have breath.

Soon Ann takes the demon stone out of her nose and crushes it with her hands.

Because the powder would be easier to swallow.

Let him open his mouth and force him to swallow the demon stone.

The reaction was dramatic.

The scratch heals, and the wolf returns to its original appearance.

"One!"

The wolf runs around Ann.

I don't think he was dying until earlier. It's full of shuddering.

I'm going to lick the pepper and Anne.

"... have you cleaned up all the other humans?"

Seeing, all humans had been cleaned up by the termites.

Skeleton troops are coming this way to see if the others have cleared up.

Is it because they're all strangely neat for some reason?

Well, fine. For now, let's keep the bodies together for a meat dumpling later.

A reward for the termites.

"The bandits are wiped out.... you can finally get back to your original assignment '

Ann turns to her mother.

And I told him what I came here for.

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In conclusion, Anne's request was accepted.

That's amazingly light, too.

The local demons promised to guard Ann's - precisely Earth's shelter - transfer gates, and to spare no effort in creating and defending the dungeons.

In addition to the fact that Ann protected and saved local demons such as wolves and goblins in advance, the demons of the forest pledged allegiance to Ann.

Some of them appeared to be those water snakes and parent and child goblins.

Most of all, if you try to be demons, you will be protected from foreign enemies by going under the protection of powerful demons such as Anne and Earth, but this will be held.

Either way, this is the end of my assignment in Ann's Forest.

All you have to do is leave it to Elibel and the Golems.

It is...

'So, listen, Mother. What do you think Master Earth said then? "I'll take care of it." That's what I said! To me! I'll take care of the top tier! I was so impressed when I lied. "

"Wow!"

'Me, I've never been happier. I really thought I'd do my best! He wants us to follow him! So...'

……………

At this rate.

The mission was over, and then Anne and the others were supposed to wait at the scene until the transfer gate was remotely repaired, but Anne stayed with her mother the whole time.

Even so, Ann almost talks and my mother hammers.

The termites and skeletons said, "Is that it? Was Master Ann such a character?," he looks at the sight with his neck tilted.

They have no reason to know, but Anne was originally born in a cage.

So, in a way, “this way” might be called her “vegan”.

I finish talking all the way through and stroke the wolf sleeping on my lap.

I totally love playing animal posi.

'Ha - we talked. I didn't think you'd talk so much. - Whoa, looks like it's time.'

If you look, a transfer gate installed in an underground cavity emits a pale light.

Apparently, the repair is complete.

"Well, shall we go home?"

……

'Hmm? What's wrong, Mother?

My mother approached Anne with a sense of familiarity

It's Killer Ant's means of communication.

Originally they are not as fluent as Ann to use thought calls.

So it would be a tough, bumpy conversation, but still Ann's mother wanted to be honest with me about her feelings.

"- Ah."

My mother's thoughts can be conveyed to Ann.

- Thank you for your help.

- No way, I'm really surprised you have a name, and that's what you look like, and you serve an amazing demon.

- It's confusing. But I'm so happy.

- That weak kid.

- That kid who depended on me, didn't leave the nest, just stuck in his shell.

- I can't believe you were growing so splendidly.

- I'm satisfied.

- Keep up the good work.

- Go the way you believed.

- Take that action and guide your compatriots.

- There may not be anything I can do anymore.

- Still, I'm your mother.

- If anything happens, you can always talk to me.

Yes, I told him.

……

... Notice, Ann was holding my mother.

I was crying.

Of the termites, not even before the skeletons, were weeping in tears.

Yeah, I'll do my best.

So watch it, Mother.

Because I will continue to work hard as a family member that God deserves.

Slowly, touch my mother's body and confirm its warmth.

I've never felt it before, the edge of a parent or child.

That will never go away.

Never lose it. Will you lose it?

Never let go.

Thus Ann's return closed the curtain.

- An unnamed forest that exists in the northeast of the Erdo wilderness.

The little forest is led by a black ant queen and will be reborn a few years later as a habitat for demons comparable to the Yugur Great Forest.

Into the ideal home for demons of all kinds symbiosis, helping and supporting each other.