World Strongest Rearguard – Labyrinth Country and Dungeon Seekers

Mr. Serafina came out of the rental workshop and joined us there - what she is equipped with continues to be "The Great Shield of the Mirror Armor". "Shivering Tower Shield +3" is returning it to her, but now she's in her warehouse.

Ms Serafina told me that when using 'trap cubes' to transfer to 'treasure palaces', the guild recommends using a dedicated room.

On our way to the transfer post near the 'Green Hall' to get to that room, we saw four of the 'Four Seasons' - we lost sight of them right away because of the distance, but it looks like we're on our way to the labyrinth.

"Mr. Serafina, do you know what lies ahead?

"Yes, there is the entrance to the 'primitive plateau'. It's a labyrinth with habits in the demons that emerge in the seventh district, but I think the first layer will allow us to hunt steadily."

"I see... you don't seem to have to worry about that"

"I don't think Mr. Lyoko and the others would be impotent, but if you're worried, why don't you come with me?

"If you reschedule and follow, won't you be shy the other way around?

Especially Mr. Fifty Arashi's opinion and that of Misaki - more than that, it would be rude for them to worry too much. Because they are also explorers who have built up their track record.

"Lyoko and the others are working hard... we have to work hard too"

"Oh, right. Let's not get distracted."

In response to Elitia's words, we walk out. While we were on the move, I decided to talk about Melissa's skills.

"Melissa, I'd like to consider new skills right now..."

"... ok. Anytime, never mind."

Melissa takes out the license that was in her apron pocket, manipulates it and shows it to me.

◆ Skills acquired ◆

Helmet Chopped Off Cat Stroke Ambush

Knife Dismantling Techniques 1 Cuisine 1 Eye 1

Demon Prop Creation 2

◆ Acquirable skills ◆

Skill Level 2

Thousands: Ignore target's defense and attack. Use of weapons only

-Moonsalt: Launches easy-to-hit attacks on enemies in the air.

· Scale peeling: When attacking a target, it may reduce the enemy's defense. Skill Required: Chopped

· Hanging off: Attack by suspending the target. Site destruction is likely to occur. Skills Required: Demolition Technique1

· Disturbance Scratch: Perform up to eight combat attacks in a row, granting 'Bleed'. Skill Required: Scratch

-Bone Crushing: Attack with the addition of Strike Attributes, regardless of weapon. It's usually more damaging than an attack.

-Loud Voice: Speak out and restrain your opponent, damaging them to magic.

· Demolition technique 2: demolition technique improves, increasing the variety of materials obtained.

Skill Level 1

· Silent Mu: Decrease hostility to the target self.

-Throughing: Destroy the 'thorns' that have occurred on the terrain.

· Cat Language Understanding: You will be able to understand the language of cats, cat-based demons.

-Hitch: Two combat attacks in a row, granting 'Bleed'.

-Rotating landing: jumping from height does not cause injury.

· Hair drying: Restores abnormal conditions in the system that adheres to the body.

-Catwalk: Can be crossed even in extremely narrow scaffolding.

· Nail grinding: Increases attack power by nails. The state abnormality of the elevation system is restored.

Remaining Skill Points 5

Melissa has a wide range of options, either because she remembers her professional origins as a 'demolisher' and her pedigree-derived skills as a 'warcat'.

"We were talking about taking 'hairy', so shall we take that first?"

"Okay. And I'm a demolisher, so I need Demolition Techniques 2."

Melissa's hope is that there is nothing else, so the remaining skill points are two - "Thousands of them" seems to need sharp pointed weapons, so I can't take them now and use them.

"Cat Language Understanding" is likely to be extremely effective in some cases, but "Moonsart," "Silent Mu," "Torpedo," and attack-based skills are also likely to be useful occasions.

◆ Melissa's new skills ◆

- Demolition technique 2

- Hairy

"Let's keep these two and then we'll take them when we need them. None of the skills in the combat system are easy to acquire."

"... I wish I could take them all, but I would be in trouble if I didn't take them and use them, so I think that would be a good idea"

It's not easy to judge and acquire skills in the earthen pit, but it gives you options in distress. But it can be advantageous to keep it in advance, so it's difficult.

After examining his skills, he arrives at the transfer point, where Mr. Serafina manipulates the door's destination. And we went into a big room with no light but bright, just like the room we use to open the box.

Take out the trap cube and put it on the floor, make sure everyone surrounds it and stand. And I activate the trap cube - just to remember, the crystal sphere placed in the frame of the metal of the cube begins to shine, and something similar to what it always feels like when transferring.

(... no, no... what, this feeling...)

When I always metastasized, I felt like 'flowing in one direction'. That's the odd floating feeling that doesn't set the direction now.

"- The destination is fluctuating. Causal interference…… reacting to escort against the contractor… '

'Master, the future ahead is out of the ordinary. Use my power when you should come.'

Ariadne and the murky spider talk - my people haven't noticed yet. That the other end of the 'trap cube' reacted to our contract with Ariadne, not the usual treasure palace, and 'rewritten' somewhere else.

◆ ◇ ◆

"... this is the treasure palace...?

"Wait... are you sure? Because here..."

There was Ariadne, similar to that hierarchy - not a labyrinth made of nature, but a place made of some kind of hand, but never likely to be made by a man's hand.

Structures such as walls and floors were similar, but the difference was that they were much brighter than that place. Looking up, there is no roof - is the blue on one side you see there, empty? I feel something fictional about the landscape.

"Oh, brother... I have some very rusty money, but this..."

In what process did you get here? Like us, you used the 'trap cube' - there was a completely weathered white bone left on the edge of the large room we were in.

I don't see any gear or anything. As was the case before, is it in a 'box' with beings that can also be the Lord of this hierarchy - the wreckage was not one, but showed that at least one party had been wiped out in the past?

"This space… seems to weather faster than the outside"

"I wonder if time travels at different speeds... the longer we spend here, the more time outside, or..."

If the time outside flows as much as the time flowed in this space, it can be that if you don't get out of here in a hurry, a few hours will pass. I'd like to hope not, but I knew from the beginning that time flowed differently inside and outside the labyrinth.

"Anyway, if you don't try to move on, it won't start..."

"Yeah, right. Let's proceed with caution."

…………

If anything, I'd like to think she'll be caught up in either Teresian foe and trap detection - she's in the middle guard, but she should have a wider range to sense than Mr. Serafina in the avant-garde.

"Brother, what do you see across the wall... clouds, is it?

There are wide spaced, slit-like gaps on the side walls of the aisle where the air from the outside doesn't seem to come in, but you can see the view over there.

"Sounds like a cloud... Now I can't help but light it up with common sense... a huge maze of box-shaped maze is floating in the sky. Is it such a place or is the view beyond illusory..."

"But... it's very similar to where Mr. Ariadne was. And just like that place, so does the wandering soul..."

"Eh... I knew it was something to stay on the spot"

Fifty Storms, who has a scary spot, trembles when he hears about Suzuna. Not that I'm ever good at it either, but when I think of the carelessness of the Explorer who lost his life here, I feel like joining hands and praying just like Suzuna.

In time, we reach an even bigger room than where we transferred - after the inorganic landscape continued, the room was clearly heterogeneous.

"This... is all over the room, is it tense...?

Mr. Fifty Storms questioned it because the surface of its "bamboo" and sawdust was dry and hard as a stone.

The twisted twist spreads from the center of the room and onto both the floor and the wall - only in this room is there a ceiling, and the twisted twisted twisted twisted twisted twisted twisted twisted twisted twisted, intertwined and netted. The slit on the wall was also blocked by a tsu, and the leaking light plugged a few muscles into the room.

"... is that... gear... no, wheels...?

"It's all tangled up and like a stone..."

"To move on, we need to do something about the bamboo blocking the other aisle. With Alicht's help, we'll have to kill him."

"Elitia, give me a minute. There's something in this room..."

When I speak - Elitia's shoe steps on the dry side of the floor.

"Huh...!?

Moments, breathtaking light fills my sight. The color is different from what I've seen before, but this light...

- | Intelligence Awakening, which activates the self-defense mechanism,

(- Mysterious' Parts'... Is that what happened...!

Ariadne's warning heard when transferring. It was like we had a covenant with a mystery, so the destination was changed.

- Where people who are under contract with the mystery may be invited when they use 'trap cubes'. It is not hard to imagine that what is there is associated with mystery.

"Guys, get off my feet! He's... Huh!

The dry surface of the shavings is scattered, and the staring greens appear.

Yes - it wasn't tangled up in a wheel and spread. This wax and wheel were beings who moved with their own will.

◆ Demons encountered ◆

? WHEEL IN WILL Fight Level 8 Thunder Disabled Drop:????

Some of the bamboo that was spread on one side of the floor peels off and gathers toward the center of the room - the wheels.

And the surface of the wheel cracked, from which it represented itself - a black wheel. Above the axle connecting the two wheels is a part that allows a person to ride.

Representing there was a female figure - driven by the queen who received the crown of Tsu, which was exactly a chariot - similar to the existence that materialized the will of the murky spider.

"I am a heaven-running star car. Give the man who stands before me a trial. '

"- Lord Atobe, I'm coming!

◆ Current situation ◆

· "? Wheels of Will" activates "Royal Thorn" changes to "Physical Absorption" state

Tsubaki covers the perimeter of the enemy - as if it were a fence. A spiritual body standing calmly in it looked like he laughed when he saw this one.

"- Guys, don't get your hands on a normal attack! Now all I can do is magic other than thunder!

"Huh... but then...!

You get caught in a blast with a Masaki card, or a Suzuna storm - they all combine both physics and magic, and if you let them hit you properly, you'll be absorbed.

Perhaps the magic power outweighs the physical attack, so it's possible you could cut your health a little bit. But it won't be sweet enough to knock it down - we have to do something about it and disable it.

"He who hath enemies of the crown of the tsu shall be bored with his pain, and shall dance - wither away"

"- Let me... Huh!

◆ Current situation ◆

· '? Wheels of Will' activates' Dancing Rose '

-Alicht activates Force Shoot Freeze ? Wheels of Will 'interfering with hitting behavior

Sewing between the walls of Tsu, I aim at the main body of the enemy - I was right to employ 'Ice Stone'. If I hadn't, a pure magic attack could only unleash a 'force chute' and would have lacked power.

"- No, ma'am...!

But I didn't realize - that the enemy, who looked frightened, forced him to resume the moves he was about to unleash.

"- Guys, avoid me!

◆ Current situation ◆

· '? Wheels of Will' activates' Crown of Arrogance 'trait Stops Skill Interruption

· "Alicht" activates "Supported Defense 1" Target: All parties

· '? Wheels of Will' activates' Dancing Rose '

· 'Kyoka' activates' Brinkstep '

· 'Elitia' activates' Sonic Raid '

· 'Theresia' activates' Accelerator Dash '

Instead of the tsu used for the walls, the rest of the tsu that had been passed on to the floors and walls move like creatures - and instantly entangle the feet of members who do not possess evasive skills.

"Ku......!!

"Geez..."

"Hey, hey, stop with your legs, your legs are...!

"Huh...!!

◆ Current situation ◆

· "Serafina", "Suzuna", "Misaki" and "Melissa" are "Foot Restraint" and "Blood Sucking"

(Unpreventable in 'Supporting Defense 1', restraint attack......!

Not omnipotent - I was overconfident of my skills, knowing that.

If I get caught here too, the chances of winning are limitless. I can hear Ariadne and the murky spider - but the first thing you should choose.

"- Please... Huh!

◆ Current situation ◆

-Alicht activates Eight Flights

Fly and avoid the late coming tsu - there should have been no way to exchange against the tsu that still chases me in the air.

But "The Tinnitus of the Old Man" overshadows that perception. 'I can fly' consciousness arises and I follow it...

The shin glows and I 'fly again' in the air. You can freely control your posture in the air, as if it were not your own body - like a samurai, the source of the legend of "Eight Flights".

(- Come after me... That's all I can buy time for...!

"Alichto, run! If you use that skill, your magic will run out!

As warned by Elitia, 'Eight Flights' sharpens its magic clearly once it flies.

As long as the enemy absorbs a physical attack, he will be under the threat of 'Dancing Rose' many times. Should we target obstruction with the 'Eye Stone' - but letting it stun won't translate into being used with the ability to force you to complete your skills.

The enemy is a complex demon of plants and wheels - metal parts. Those two weaknesses we...

(... there was... yes, there is' that stone '...!

I take out the demon stone that was in my suit's inner pocket. The Demon Stone I got on "The Island of Fantasy" - the "Tidal Stone" produced by "Coral Peago".