Three years after D Genesis Dungeon

§040 Hound of Hecate 11/22 (thu)

After a short rest after eating rice, we aimed for five layers at a stretch. You can always come to a shallow level and you won't have to look seriously right now.

The enemy ran through the shortest distance with a water lance where the eyes were barely visible and an iron ball where it was unlikely.

Then we descended into the fifth tier and noticed ourselves who were more noticed than expected. From the 5th floor, boa and oak also begin to appear. For this reason, the Explorer with bare equipment for beginners was not here.

Around the stairs, there are usually explorers based there. He said that he was squinting.

"Uh. Senpai, it stands out surprisingly, we." "I wish we had a cloak to hide the equipment."

Five to eight layers are forest-based. There are forests on the second to fourth layers, but this is a deeper forest. There are caves scattered here and there, and it seems to be the base for humanoid monsters.

"Oaks, forest wolf, and wild boars are coming. It seems like night wolf and church grim are coming out at night."

Miyoshi explained while looking at the tablet.

It seems that teams aiming deeper often spend nights in eight layers. The tenth layer is an undead floor, and the stairs to the eleventh layer are far. The eleventh layer has a bad environment on the lava floor, and it is too far in a day to go further. And there are augers and colonial worms in the previous nine layers, which can be unexpectedly attacked. Eight layers are selected by the elimination method.

Another reason was that during the past three years, the equipment brought by the expedition-style team was gathered there, creating something extraordinary.

Still, the night is coming. It was difficult to get back and go from this layer. Near the stairs, several teams were preparing to spend the night.

The purpose of the group waiting for the night at this level is a dog-shaped monster called Church Grimm, a black body with red eyes that only appears during the night on layers 5-9. Initially misunderstood as a Hellhound, this monster drops a red liquid, called a potion-like anabolic drug, with a fairly high probability. This liquid, which was only displayed as "potion" when touched, of course, did not heal any injuries, and was initially ridiculed as a false heel potion.

It was a coincidence that the effect was realized.

The ten generations of Dan are undead with vast cemeteries. It was very troublesome and the stairs to the 11th floor were not easily found at first. At that time, a member of a team used a fake heel potion in a hurry to cure the arm attached to the zombie. Of course, the wound on the arm does not heal. The member who noticed the mistake rushed to use a real heel potion, but that wasn't the problem. Lesser undead, such as zombies and skeletons, ignored him as if he were a companion. It was confirmed that the effect diminished at night.

Since then, this hellhound-like monster has been called Church Grimm in the sense of a ten-layer tombkeeper. Thanks to this, the tenth floor has become a mere passage from the hell floor as before. It was able to pass through intact.

Investigators who go to the 11th floor and beyond are theories who first hunt church grim on the 5th and 9th floors to get anabolic drugs. Of course, the entrance with five layers was the safest, and the exit with eight layers was the easiest position. For that reason, it seemed that they were usually hunted on either side.

We gently left the stairs and moved toward the depopulated area so as to escape the eyes of the investigator preparing for the camp near the stairs.

After a while, a stream was flowing. The river is about 4m wide and not too deep. I jumped over the river with Miyoshi.

"Senior. I thought even with two layers, but the effect of increasing the status is not a hump." "Well. That heavy Miyoshi, Gefu ..."

Miyoshi, who knocked the right hook into the lever from behind, muttered, "If the pheasant does not sound, it will not be hit." Oh, it's probably different. There was an open space that looked just right before I crouched, so Miyoshi took out the base car after confirming that there were no people around.

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"Hah, you're tired"

After entering the room and turning on the monitoring device, Miyoshi checked the surroundings on the monitor, and quickly entered the shower room. Since the outer periphery of the dolly is entirely covered with a titanium plate, the outside cannot be seen from inside. It was supplemented by surveillance cameras installed here and there.

While drinking the tea I took and looking at the monitor without seeing it, I heard a rattling noise and Miyoshi came out of the shower room.

"Senior, please take a shower. Oh, and give me some food!"

I put a few lunch boxes, sweets, and drinks on the table, walked towards the shower room ... and stopped my feet to go.

"scream?"

Miyoshi jumped in front of the console and raised the sensitivity of the microphone. A similar flash was heard when a small flash glowed in the video of the surveillance camera.

"Sure, howls and screams. What do you do, senior?" "I have to be brave to see righteousness."

Miyoshi sighed, guided her as far as she could, and threw her earplugs.

"Take it," "OK"

When I answered, I started running in the direction that Miyoshi would guide. After a while, crossing the river, suddenly a thick fog appeared. It is unnatural just to say that it is another world.

"Miyoshi, can you see the fog?" "I can see, but this is darker than fog.

Are you loading up a drone? There are no flying monsters in this area, so it's okay to step into the fog, thinking about the occasional barking beast's voice, the screams of threats raised by somebody, and the screams.

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"What the hell are they, Church Grims ?!"

A man with a pole arm of about 2.5m shakes his side down. The stupid monster had a large, black body, but in a slightly lowered darkness the body no longer seemed to have blended into the darkness, and only red eyes and a mouth claimed its existence. Was.

"I don't know! Basic Church Grimm should appear alone ... shit!"

The large man answered, striking his sword with both hands against the black monster attacking in tandem.

"Hell, I've heard that Hound will work with you ..."

Behind the men, a screaming woman regained a little calmness while bleeding a small man who seemed stunned and stunned.

"They are coming out of the 8th floor? But if they are really Hellhound ... Is there a bar guest ?!"

The men fighting turned their faces.

Three generations, "Hey, leave Shota." "What?

The woman who was called the third generation was stunned and said so.

"If you're a bar guest, you'll have nine hellhounds. It's suspicious that we can escape rather than defeat."

The Hellhounds wrapped themselves around the attack as if to enjoy the conflict of humans. The red cracked mouth looked as if the darkness was laughing.

"But, you're stupid! Do you want to forsake your brother and run away?" "If you want to sneak together, do it on your own!"

Then the men started running.

"Oh, wait! Wait!"

The woman stood on her knees and shouted, but the men did not look back.

From behind, several low moans can be heard. The woman bitterly bitten her lips, grabbed her triggerless releaser with her right hand, and crossed the compound bow with an arrow. Then he turned around and released it in the eyes of Hellhound. The jaw-gate Hellhound's voice of Cain gave the woman a bit of satisfaction, but the remaining three Hellhounds attacking at the same time could reach this body in seconds.

The woman closed her eyes as if she had given up.

At the next moment, a squealing sound was heard, but the pain did not strike forever. The back of a beginner-equipped man standing right there was reflected in the open eyes of a woman.

"Can you stand and walk?"

The man asked without looking back.

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Why is it totally trouble, come from one to the next? My LUC should be pretty expensive. I want to say I should work a bit.

"Can you stand and walk?"

When I heard that, the woman saw a man stunned with severe injuries to her arm and told him that he would get up.

"Get up quickly. And there is a brook in that direction. Run until you cross it."

With that said, I pointed in the direction I came. Bar guests cannot cross the flowing water. It's a design that's all about the earth, so it must be.

"Who are you?" "Well, we have to do something with these guys" "Help is-" "I'm in the way"

The woman slept for a moment, but nodded immediately after seeing a corpse of a headless Hellhound scattered around. She seems to be a smart woman who can easily judge. But why don't they die?

The man sniffed at something quickly, moaning and regained consciousness. Woman talking to man. The man nodded and rose immediately. Apparently the legs are safe.

"go"

I pointed in that direction. The woman and the man started running towards them.

All four of them tried to pursue them, and they became prey to waterlance. I was calm and conveyed my numbers to Miyoshi, reassuring me that this level would work.

"Senior, you can afford it." "Well, the magic passed." "If you look from the top, there is something big ahead." "Perhaps a bar guest. You can hear the sound of dragging chains."

When Hellhound disappeared, the dragging sound of the chain heard from the front became loud, and the eerie grunt roared out of the darkness immediately there. At the same time, nine magic circles appeared, and nine hellhounds were summoned.

"Oh? Is this lucky?" "Yes?"

I must have seen Miyoshi in it.

The monster summoning them, etc. must be a kind of barguest from the past, but it is highly likely that they are special individuals when they are summoned many times. There is no doubt that the number of monsters defeated since acquiring life detection is 69, so add 7 to help them earlier and add 76. In other words, after defeating the 23 small fishes, if you defeat that special one-

"I'm gonna do this a bit."

He squeezed Tomahawk with his hands and fired water lances one after another at nine hellhounds. It kept wiping out his head before Hellhound reached me. And 14 more!

As the next nine followed the same fate, the barguest snarled and charged. The position of the red eyes floating in the dark is high. Above 3m in height is certainly likely.

"Toka, hey! There are five more! Summon it!"

I wondered if I was walking somewhere in the Night Wolf or the Oak, but this dense fog seemed to be this territory and I couldn't see any monsters.

My strong nails pass by me. It's still good because it looks slow motion, but it was quite thrilling.

I cut my right hind leg with my tomahawk in my right hand. The bar guest who screamed loudly dragged his feet and summoned the companion again.

While praying that the order of the 100 animals is the order in which they were defeated, kill the 5 attacking animals and exchange the remaining light steps. I rolled in front of the bar guest, and threw an 8cm iron ball at my head.

When the third iron ball seemed to penetrate his head from the lower jaw, the giant barguest collapsed with a loud noise.

"Oh, that?"

However, the orb selection window does not open.

"Well, maybe it was the order in which they attacked?"

Four hellhounds approach me as I drop my knees. Damn, I heard a snarl from a fallen bar guest when I was throwing anything at it.

"I'm still alive!"

While evading Hellhound, I hit a couple of water lances with a haste and the fourth list brought up my usual list in front of me. When I saw it, I forgot about the other four and gasped.

-------- Skill Orb Foreign Language Understanding 1 / 1,000 Skill Orb Dark Magic (Ⅵ) 1 / 2,000,000 --------

The moment he tried to defeat the four attacked animals with a water lance in a hurry, the fog instantly cleared and the hellhounds disappeared. Does the summoner disappear when the summoner is defeated?

"Senior? The fog was fine, but is it okay?" "Miyoshi, this is a bar guest orb."

Tamami tried to explain it, and in front of me, a beautiful rainbow color appeared.

"What?"

The making acquisition list is not closed. So this is a pure drop. I was surprised and touched it, and indeed, there was an orb labeled "Underworld Language Understanding". Sorry, my LUC. You are working properly.

"Senior? What is it now?" "Why is the camera alive? The bar guest apparently dropped the orb." "What? What is it?" "Huh?"

Did you really surprise Miyoshi? According to the list, understanding foreign languages is a thousandth. It is highly likely that a special boss monster that is not a normal monster has been stocked with a relatively high probability. It's as if someone who set it asked mankind to read the inscription. Eventually some number will drop.

"Do you want to sell it at a high price or get the dark magic now?" "Senior. Are you on the orb list too? Did you understand foreign languages?" "Your answer. Probability is 1/1000." I don't know what else is there, but please get it. Absolutely. "" Why? Have you already secured one? "" Senior. It will be "

So that's it. Miyoshi is certainly right. Given the barguest's abilities, dark magic (Ⅵ) would be a fog space or a Hellhound summon. Both are magic used by ordinary bar guests, so bar guests who are not rare are likely to have them.

"If you don't take it, tighten it?" "What, that flag?"

I laughed and chose to understand foreign languages. Without slipping my hand, I got the second "Underworld Language Understanding".

At that moment, several items were dropping in front of me. Regardless of where you kill, it's the same as an orb that items always appear around you. It was the same as the Orb that the name could be understood by touching it.

Heal Potion (5) x 2 Cure Potion (7) Tusk: Hellhound x 8 Skin: Hellhound x 3 Tongue: Hellhound Magic Crystal: Hellhound x 8 Skin: Hound of Hecate Angle: Hound of Hecate x 3 Magic Crystal: Hound of Hecate

"Is this a material item? I saw it for the first time, but a monster in a different world is" Hecate "..."

I put them in the vault, feeling incomprehensible.