The Dungeon Struggle of an Earth Dragon!

- The stage moves to another place than the dungeon.

Mineral veins located northeast of the Earth dungeon.

Bolhelic kingdom eld mine.

It was once the largest demonic stone production site on the continent, with no stranger.

The demonic stones produced here were of high purity, high quality, all over the continent...... no, they were exported all over the world. On top of that, the cycle by which demon stones could be made was also very short, producing a large number of demon stones.

The tremendous wealth it brings has made the Bolhelic kingdom one of the leading nations on the continent.

But that's no longer a story of the past.

From now on, about three years ago, its output began to decline extremely, and while unexplained, the Erdo mine was gradually changing its appearance to abandoned.

The sudden death of Chancellor Eccreus, who had further partitioned the mine, also applauded it. As a result, the Erdo mine is now almost closed.

Three men step in there slightly.

The three walk freely through the mines, touching the walls and the ground from time to time to ascertain something.

"Yeah...... again, definitely. Rias was right."

That being said, touching the ground is a man who looks like one of the three little boys at a time - the Imperial Beast Azil.

"... the star vein is being rewritten. This place was supposed to serve as a" kobu "to drain the magic accumulated in the stars, but now it seems to be back to normal."

"Do you know where the new Kobu is?

It is a man with sharp blonde eyes who asks that - Tenryu Yamu.

"You can't go as far as the details. It's just, well, it's definitely my son's place first. To give birth to him and to raise him, Gibble altered the star pulse - the magic of the star."

The stellar vein, it's literally like a magic stream through this star.

A dungeon of star veins inhabited by Gibble and his family began with a dragon made to manage this magic flow.

"... Damn, that bastard... altered the star pulse at Temehe's convenience"

Yamu throws up abominably.

"Well, I guess Gibble couldn't have had a baby without the help of a stellar vein.... Not to mention the kid I made with“ him ”. It would have taken a lot of energy. I'd like to tell you not to be ridiculous..."

So Azil stops his hand and looks at the other man - Aoba.

"What's the matter, don't look floating"

"... no, it's nothing"

"Please don't look like that. This fight is for us, it's for you. When it's all over, your wishes come true. I can encounter people from my hometown. … it's, let's promise"

"... oh, I know"

Aoba's voice was trembling.

By the back of his brain are his dead companions.

Lau Lanfan, Swillen...... Guys, he's dead.

At their own convenience, the self-blame that has left them dead is causing Aoba to suffer.

Azil turns a chilling glance at Aoba like that.

(… is the spiritual and physical divergence progressing faster than expected? Well, it can't be original, so I can't help it...)

More than that, it's this way now.

Azil takes what he was carrying.

The weapon Howlotto stole from the Empire - the Devil's Sword Glam.

"Anyway, let's get started. Soon the dungeons will be settled."

"Are you all right? What about Temé's men?

"No problem. And..."

So, Azil separates words.

"- Apparently, Morda has successfully accomplished his mission"

Laughing at him, his gaze was staring somewhere not here.

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Deep in the earth dungeon -.

"Apparently, most of the neighborhoods are settled."

"Right."

Me and Elibel were looking at the situation in each area shown on the monitor.

Looking at the results, almost every area, while struggling, succeeded in defending itself with far less damage than expected.

"Is it just Elja's area after that?"

"Right... Oh, wait, it's Elja."

Elibel takes the communication demon stone.

From Elja? What is it?

"... yeah, I get it. Don't hesitate to use it this time."

That said, Elja cuts off the communications demon stone.

"What's up?

"Elja asked me to use the new technique."

Example new technique......?

With that said, Elja was in and out of Elibel's lab for a little while.

Was it a "dragon costume change"?

Elja's ability to compress her power as a Holy Dragon into a human form. That's the "dragon costume change”.

It seems to be a technique that we have developed so that we can do everything we can in the dungeon.

"Yes, I remember you well."

'Well, I've been in and out of the lab too many times. But didn't you ban me from using it? See, during the battle on the surface.'

"It was only at the beginning then. I didn't want the enemy to know. It wasn't the occasion to use it. … but it's no problem now."

Turning his eyes to the monitor, Elja's appearance was changing.

Awesome magic enough to feel even over the screen.

Looks like reinforcements will be fine with this.

The other Saint Dragons seem to be struggling with their Demon King army opponents...

…………

Good. The war is changing extremely well.

But what is it? What's this unwiped discomfort?

Something... seems to be missing something serious...

"Hey, Elibel. Confirmed, but within the dungeon, the enemy can't use the metastatic formula, can they?

"Yeah, that's right. In the dungeon, anti-metastatic formulas are always working against enemies. Evidence suggests that during the earlier battle, they tried to escape by fire, not by transfer."

'Right...'

An old haunted man who used to show up during the battle with Vared.

That ceremony that suddenly appeared and suddenly disappeared.

Vigilant of such a procedure, we have always put measures in place for anti-metastatic ceremonies in dungeons and for dungeon disruptive ceremonies.

But I don't know, this anxiety...

"- There are many procedures specific to ghosts. It's this“ eye ”, the divination that sets the direction, the metastatic formula of the individual. And I'm good at spells and curses.... Well, the last one will die if I use it '

Second, the words of the earlier ghost tribe blur the back of my brain.

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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!

Shit!! Shit!

If it's what I think...

"Elja! Stop the attack now! Retreat!

"Hey, what's the matter all of a sudden, Earth!?

I'm sending Elja a call of thought to confuse Elibel.

... No! It won't arrive! That ghost tribe! The moment Elja rolled out the "dragon costume change," there was something wrong with her!

And the communications demon stone. - No. Damn it!

"Elibel, you need to transfer Elja now! Otherwise, it will be irrevocable!

"Huh?"

'Come on, come on! Open the portal.'

"Yeah, yeah, okay!

You realize I'm not being interrogated, and Elibel immediately manipulates the terminal to open the portal.

But Elja had already moved on to the attack.

No, don't make it...

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In the Dungeon Middle Sixth Area of Earth -.

Elja, who carried out a "dragon costume change”, launches an attack on Molda.

That speed is not comparable to earlier.

At speeds beyond the speed of sound, she shoots a rapier in her hand.

And - the battle was decided in an instant.

"Become!?

As a result, Elja raises her voice of surprise.

"... what's going on? So... surprised... haha"

Blood overflows from Morda's mouth.

That conveyed Elja's cheek.

Lightly - Elja's fine sword pierced Morda's chest.

"Hey what... what are you really thinking!?

I no longer really knew what it meant.

I can't believe they provoke themselves scattered, let them do their best, and pierce their hearts without any resistance to that quote.

It's not very, but it doesn't seem sane.

"Of course... it's about the Demons. For that reason, I will complete my mission..."

but Morda grabbed Elja's arm.

"This is... what I need to do."

"What...?

At that moment, the light of the metastasis gate appears at Elja's feet.

"Is this... a transfer gate!?

"Ho... did anyone notice... but it's too late!

Just before Elja metastasized, a black aura engulfed her body.

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"Elja! Are you all right!?

I've been forced to transfer to the surveillance room. I'll be right with Elja.

"Oh, Master Earth? What the hell is this... GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!?

Elja, who looked confused, suddenly seized her chest and suffered.

The black aura is seeping out of its body.

"Is this... is this a curse?

Elibel immediately realizes it.

"Ha... ha... can you hear me...? Everyone in the back of the dungeon."

A voice echoes in the surveillance room.

That's Morda's voice being sent over the monitor.

"Perhaps you have... el... ja... will be there...?

It shows Morda holding his chest down and looking painful.

'I gave her a curse. It is the secret "fire/resentment chain” passed down to the ghost tribe. Black magic will never disappear and will gradually erode her...'

If you look, the black aura wraps around Elja like a creature.

And where it touched, it gradually became like a black stain.

"Gu... this is such a curse, purify it immediately -"

Elja immediately activates the purification.

The intense light envelops Elja - but the black aura never disappears, wrapped around her body.

"Become... why... ghhhhhhh!?

Elja suffers from severe severe pain.

'If you're trying to purify it, it's useless. Assuming I'm a captain...... a disastrous demon. There is no way that the curse you unleash in exchange for that life can be sanctified by the purification of the Holy Dragon... Ha!

Morda's face keeps getting bluer and whiter as she continues to explain.

Chest wound or curse recoil? That life is running out.

"This is... what you wanted? In exchange for my own life, killing me...... Grr!

Elja groans so painfully.

No, you're not, Elja.

That's not what he's after.

"... Huh! No way, what's the aim over there..."

Apparently, Elibel noticed.

'Let me tell you something good... the only thing that can break this curse... is Saint Dragon Harsha Rudd...'

In, Morda laughs over the monitor.

I knew it...

Awakened Dragon King species.

Divine Disaster Demon. The purifying power of the Holy Dragon Harsha Rudd can erase it, even if it is a catastrophic curse.

But there are prerequisites for that.

"... your father has already activated the 'Sanctuary Boundary'. You can't disarm it until you've run out of magic..."

Yes. Harsha's intrinsic art 'Sanctuary Boundary'.

It is the strongest junction to prevent any intrusion, but once activated, it has the disadvantage that it cannot be disarmed until its own magic is exhausted.

But Morda shook her head as if to see through this idea.

"Heh heh... even if" Sanctuary Boundary "is activated... it is possible to disarm it until it is completely stable.... you won't be able to afford it anymore in time... but we can still lift the bond in time, yes... '

I'm curious how you know that, but I mean, if you tell Harsha about this now and you break the line, Elja will help.

But at the same time, it means throwing away the biggest card that protects the dungeon of the star vein. If we forcibly break the bond and purify Elja's curse further, there will probably be no room left for Harsha to... bond again.

"Mr. Elja... it would have been possible for me to defeat you.”... but beyond. Until deep down... I thought it was impossible... to "see"... '

Pompous, he says.

Perhaps he has too good an observational eye, but he realized it because of it.

Even if we break through this neighborhood, we won't be able to defeat those waiting for us.

Not to mention the fact that the other captainship has been defeated.

Then what is the best thing to do?

That's what I did. But how prepared are you to give up your life and choose such a choice?

If you are not fortified by "…" dragon costume change ", you will soon die without withstanding my curse... Now that it's enhanced...... you'll be able to live for a few more hours or so. Now... my role... wow... holy... '

That drowning in Saint Dragon's daughter is a well-known fact.

Then Harsha must choose.

My daughter's life is better than my mission.

"The rest is better... Lord Azil... will surely fulfill our petition..."

Finally, Morda fixes glasses discrepancies satisfactorily.

Goodbye, son of the Guardian Dragon.... If I may, you will be de-cursed... prayed... '

Kakun, and. Like a thread cut, Morda fell and died.

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And -.

"... Mm"

On a pedestal prepared at the deepest end of the sanctuary, he had concentrated his consciousness only on the maintenance of the junction, wrapped around it like a serpent.

If there is anything to obstruct it, even his fellow countrymen, he will mercilessly cut it off.

So much so that now he was concerned.

but a strange thing happens to that look.

"Is this...?

Him - Saint Dragon Harsha Rudd immediately noticed the anomaly.

The only presence to which he turns consciousness that is supposed to concentrate exclusively on the juncture.

That is, above all, my beloved daughter.

"No way............ Eljah!

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And at the Erdo mine...

"Come on, which one do you choose, Holy Dragon Harsha? Is it your own mission or the life of your daughter... but I'm sure you've come up with some answers. Otherwise, you wouldn't have a daughter."

Yamu stares blatantly at Ajil, who laughs.

"I don't like it. That's a way to do it... how dare you take the kid as a shield"

A tone like throwing up.

Is that an opinion as a parent with children as well?

Azil smiles bitterly.

"Don't say that. I can't even afford it. Use whatever means you can use. That's why... it's my next move."

He pierces the ground with a demon sword gram in his hand.

"Come on, it's a" dungeon destruction ”technique built into the Devil's Sword Glam... activate it"

When Azil groaned so, the Devil's Sword Glam glowed.

An awesome earthquake occurs.

The surrounding walls and ceilings collapse out, shaking with grass.

Bush-too! And things like hot air erupt from the cracked ground.

It's the same intense magic that Rasetz expressed, so much so that it can be visualized.

"Success… successfully rewriting part of the star vein"

A star pulse dungeon is a dungeon created to manage star pulses.

Therefore, the structure is deeply linked to the stellar vein.

Azil intervened in some of them using the “Dungeon Destruction” feature built into the Devil's Sword Glam.

"We were able to intervene less than 10% of the time, but that's enough. Let's take that enormous magic."

Azil opens his mouth and inhales the overflowing magic.

- Dokun and his body pulsed heavily.

Powerful magic pouring in.

That's what's raging in him as Unelli.

"- That's a tremendous power... but without all this magic, I can't activate the technique I'm about to perform"

Azil manages to withstand the pain of being torn apart all over his body.

Because without that much magic, this magic cannot be activated.

"I have to thank you... She... to Elibel Lebenhertz, the wise man."

Put your hands together.

Then several complex sorcery formations unfolded around him.

"This ceremony she brought was just the gospel for us..."

The number increases further, and the light envelops him enough to cover his eyes.

"Come on, let's regain my full strength. With that power, I take the sanctuary... and get a dungeon of star veins. - Put this world... back where it should be!

he tells.

The name of the procedure.

"-" Prohibition/sanctuary tread "activated"

And with the collapse of the Erdo mine, a giant beast appeared.