The Traveling Hero Won’t Let the Innkeeper’s Son Escape

Leaving the room like an elevator was like a passageway. The ceiling was narrower in height and breadth than the dungeon, but the floor was polished without any steps, and there was a footlight-like light beneath the walls on both sides. There was something close to a lab or hospital hallway in a previous life. Compared to earlier days, things are scattered all over it, so I still feel like there are signs of people. I had a faint expectation that I might meet someone who could show me the way. It's for my heart's insurance.

But after walking around for a while, I never met anyone.

Sometimes there were doors in the hallway that were like entering a room, but they often didn't open, and even if I did, it didn't look like people were going in and out until it was terrible. Strangely, there was no mold or anything, but I felt that a long time ago, a place where a lot of people had escaped and no one was gone.

Ruth keeps going along an unblocked path, especially as he can't even find the stairs, etc. But as soon as I turned my consciousness first to go ahead for a while and bend the next corner, my ears picked up a strange sound.

"... what, this one..."

I can see the dull things dragging heavy baggage and the small things moving in a group, the two sounds approaching the one with the loose step by step. The movement is dull, but I can see the size there from the way it looks. Maybe bigger than Ruth.

Ruth, wary, placed his back on the wall and asked softly at the end of the bend.

"Wha......!?

Ruth slowly pulled her body into the shadow of the wall and held her mouth down.

(- What is that?

I was at the end of the bend, not knowing for a moment, but when I remember, it seemed like a creepy creature with a head about the size of a human torso on an adult leg. The head on board was out of normal balance as it was melting, his eyes dropping down and his nose was enlarged. The eyes that seemed unwilling were cloudy and devoid of light. There was no hair all over the body, and the skin appeared to be pulsating as if there were blood vessels passing near the skin, which was a little clear due to the color that could not be red or black.

(Also, check again……)

More carefully than earlier, Ruth peered into the other side. I prayed slightly that it was a mistake to see, but it ended only in prayer. Naturally stretched his body to the way an unchanging organism was walking.

(Ugh... what the...)

Zowari and bottom-cold chills crawl up just looking at him as he has to be described as a malformation that has forced him to crush other humans. Goosebumps appeared on their own after the dim background that the light source was only the footlight from below.

That creature, I feel classified as close to a demon because it feels strong magic, but its shape mimicked too many humans. Some guys imitate humans like Killshades with heads like females, but basically demons are often indescribable shapes or similar to animals like Bal. Because of this, I felt different from demons when it came to being that close to people.

(Yes, the melting demon. I look like the melting demon I met then... then too?

Three months ago, we met in five days of disconnection, a creature and melting demon that changed from subhuman. He had tremendous magic, but almost all of them had no thought abilities, and he looked like an organism that seemed to have been wielded by power, which had also been forced to crush humans. Alec was able to kill him, but Ruth couldn't fight him.

I don't know why the melting demon is here, but Ruth sat back to get away from the scene, remembering that he had no power at all.

But at that moment, there was a noise from the melting demon that was neither 'piggy' nor ruptured nor a voice. As Ruth looked at you reflexively, his eyes, which fell to the position of his mouth, turned this way, his enlarged nose moved heavily, and his center of gravity tilted.

"Ugh, wow!

The melting demon ran straight for Ruth. It is completely separate from the relaxed movement just now, using human legs well and at normal speeds.

Ruth, surprised by the unexpected speed of her legs, rushed out of the wall and threw something toward her.

"Arms!? The one that was dragging, is that you!

Something that was thrown where Ruth was until earlier. It was a bundle of nearly ten human arms. Somewhat stretchy. That apparently grew from behind the molten demon, and he couldn't see it because he was dragging it when he was walking. The arm that flew toward Ruth explored while standing and destroying his fingernails on the wall and on the floor. When he understood that he was not there, he now used his hand to pull toward his body. The recoil makes a big head fly round like a bullet.

(Th, this is bad!

Avoiding it, Ruth broke into the place where he was just now. It's a disastrous power. I don't think it's just an arm force.

Ruth hurried away as he was. But the melting demon doesn't give up tracking, he comes after him making noises with his fingers and legs. I tried to repel him by releasing an arrow on the way down, but even with the obvious magic, there was no appearance that the damage had been inflicted, and the speed did not even weaken. The last time a bow attack worked, it came out of a pendant borrowed from Wonok. Again, at Ruth's level, it seems difficult to scratch the molten demon's body.

(As it is, I'm going to go back to being like that elevator... does that work?

This Ruth's anxiety hit brilliantly. It came in front of a room like an elevator, but it didn't even open the door, as expected. I knocked on the door and tried to plug my finger in to open it, but it was so ruthlessly closed that it didn't even come true.

"Oh I knew............ duh, what do we do............!?

The option of fighting turned out to be futile at a time when the only weapon didn't work. But the hallway is mostly the main road, although there are some bends. There were several rooms on the way in, but they all came through, and there was no place nearby to hide. Of course, looking at that melting demon, I don't really think he's the one to whom the discussion makes sense.

(Wow, here I come!

But while I was thinking about it, the melting demon turned the corner where I could see Ruth. Although there was distance, in a situation where there was no place to hide, it was a prey state driven to the end of the line.

"Huh…………!

My body felt the heat and the cold at the same time from fear and rush. "Shit, shit, shit, shit," it made a scene in my head, but I couldn't help it. My body kept my back in the door and it was stiff - but then I noticed a thin red light flashing in the corner of my vision.

"Hey, what, by now......!

I wish he'd just opened the door in front of me, but when Ruth turned his gaze slightly, the light in thin red was glowing over the slightly larger covered box that was placed in the corner of the hallway. "Was there a box in there? 'And while I wonder, slowly approaching the light so as not to stimulate the melting demon, whose movement has slowed down, while suddenly putting the melting demon in sight that rolls in front of each room in the hallway.

When I came nearby, the light repeated a short flash of intervals to make me hurry, but I don't know what I want to say because I don't speak the language.

"So what are you going to do with me...... hmm?

I could tell when I approached it, but it was cylindrical, unlike a normal box, and there was a demonic formation painted on the part of the lid where the light was flashing in light red. The size was there and the lid opened on its own as it approached. It's like a trash can with a sensory sensor that was in a previous life. But when I peeked, there was nothing inside. I wondered if there was anything that was going to be a weapon, but they didn't.

Until now, however, the light flashing on the lid shines deep inside the box.

"............... you mean let me in here?

As Ruth's question was answered, the light repeatedly flashed. Apparently, this box - it's like putting it in a garbage can.

"No, no, I'm coming from right in front of you!? And you don't go in big enough!?

The melting demon is slowing down, but it is almost a frontal situation. When I get in the box here, I'm determined to find it. Besides, it's obvious that the box isn't the size that Ruth would enter, even though it's bigger. At best, it will be to the extent that the flatulence is buried.

But ignoring Ruth's confusion, light increases the flashing speed. He looked as if he was pissed off 'cause it's good to get in'.

(Uh, okay!

Ruth stuck one foot in the box thoughtfully. Keep up the momentum and put in the opposite leg as well. I gave in thinking I was definitely set to get stuck on the way - but the entrance, which was narrow as far as I could, grew larger.

"Wow!

He grabbed the abyss of the box and stopped his body from falling. He seems to have spared falling because of it.

(duh... what's going on, this?

When Ruth looked around, it was as if he were in a manhole-sized cavity. The foot is about the same length as one arm. I don't think it's the size of a box that I thought I would never even get into my lower body until earlier.

But I was convinced when I remembered the bag with the piece in it earlier. Almost everything in this place is likely an anachronistic relic. Naturally, the common sense that Ruth knows doesn't apply. I'm sure that light knows that too, which is why I told you to go into Ruth.

"Key…… key, key"

With the sound of his fingers crawling through the earth and the sound of his voice and breathing, Ruth returns the consciousness he was turning to elsewhere to the melting demon. I whisper my breath, erase as many signs as I can, and quietly alert the approaching melting demon.

(Spread... right...)

Because I know I can't, or whenever the melting demon sounds closer, tension increases and the pulsating sound of the heart increases. My ears hurt so much. Sweat erupted from all over his body and he even felt breathless.

Zuri, the screaming noise comes next to the box containing Ruth. And - it passed without a thing as it was.

(Liar, you really ignored me!?

I don't know why, but the molten demon must have seen Ruth come in and passed the box. I was half relieved, half surprised, and slowly opened the lid after losing the urge to make sure it was safe.

"-!"

- It's a scream. I didn't. I want to compliment myself, I never thought as much as I did at the time.

What was ahead, seen from the gap in the lid, was an eyeball dripping down to the mouth of the molten demon.

Apparently, after passing by, he used his arm to move here all at once.

"Keys, Kis, Keys...... Keys"

The odd eyeballs moving here and there were formerly in the shape of people, and therefore had the toughness to crawl through the skin. The demon is basically creepy shaped, but this melting demon is not its ratio. There was also zero salivating liquid from the half-open mouth, and behind it I could see something like hair tangled in my teeth.

But the moving eyeballs were supposed to hold Ruth in sight, but he kept moving as if he was invisible. And when Ruth was holding his breath because he was dying, he eventually left saying he had finished confirming.

Ruth held her breath even as the lid dropped and her vision darkened.

Eventually I heard something beating me from a slightly further away position, and eventually I felt the sign of the melting demon disappear as I made a noise after sounding like I could bake with Joo.

When Ruth remained jiggy even though the molten demon was gone, the light flashed on the back of the lid to encourage the light to go outside.

"... I know, I know."

Growling Ruth crawled out of the box as she put her strength into her arms. And I sat down on the spot, seeing the misery like the floor in front of me had melted. A cold sweat stroked his spine as he pulled strength out of his stretched body.

(Shit, that, shit...)

I have feared the desperate strength of demons and melting demons. It's not once or twice that I thought I was afraid.

But now the melting demon made Ruth feel a new fear in a different direction. It's like you've been too close to something you don't know about common sense, like you're scared of something lurking in the dark. My fingertips trembled slightly when I remembered the moment when my eyes met.

(Plus... it's definitely not a good idea if we confront each other properly)

Ruth looked at the end of the hallway, which had become so bumpy as to melt, in front of what looked like an elevator she had tried to enter.

There, while the door, which was sturdy, was pulled, it was about half as if it had melted with acid, and the hot air still stood. More than half of the walls are melted and have big holes in them. And he climbed from that place up with one of his own bodies, and there were countless marks on the wall that the molten demon grabbed with his hand. Inside the elevator was a tear away with holes, hot air and hand grasp marks. If Ruth had been there, he probably wouldn't even have known his original form that way.

"The floor here, my bow didn't scratch one..."

When he attacked the melting demon, he lost a few bottles and hit floors and walls. I was going to hit you enough to crush your head, to use when hunting boroughs. Even the B-rank Bal was frightened.

However, the attack could not damage the floor or the wall, as opposed to scratching the molten demon body. The opponent is drilling a hole in it with acid - probably coveted -. Even from the fact that the wall is pulled by the normal grasping motion, the difference in force is historical.

"... I wonder if I can safely go back to where I was..."

Ruth sighed heavily when he saw the dim hallway, which had escaped from the molten demon and had become a doomed mess.