Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka - Volume 04
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(Too slow, is it……No)
Every time, it was me who made the first move. The Imps could not even counterattack even once in the face of my attacks.
It was not that their actions were slow.
But it was because my actions were so fast that they completely could not react to it ——
(——I… I became faster!)
It was not the same. It was completely different. This is already another dimension!
Whether it is the attack, speed or even reactions, all of them were reborn!
This is the
Goddess’s Grace!
“AHHHHHHH!!”
“Heeh!?”
I used the roundhouse kick that I was personally taught by Aizu-san and kicked the Imp in the chest. The small-sized devil-type monster flew towards the opposite side with incredible speed. After constantly rolling on the floor, it powerlessly fell down onto the grassland.
Far more than 10 Imps were defeated by me in an instant.
“OHHHHHHHH!”
“!”
With a roar, new monsters were approaching.
Their sizes were similar to mine. They stood up with their two short legs, the front limbs had large, tough claws growing out of it. On their back, a carapace with stripes was being carried like armor. The scaly skin extended all the way to the head and formed a helmet-like structure along with their horns.
Two of these armored mouse-like monsters waddled and charged towards me.
This is a monster that only begins to appear on the 11th floor.
Facing this enemy that appeared for the very first time, I immediately flipped through the thick monster information dictionary that Eina-san had crammed into me inside my mind and found its information.
Hard Armored is similar to the Killer Ants in nature. Although it has a hard carapace, there is nothing protecting its chest so it is incredibly soft. And compared to the Killer Ant that is covered with a hard shell throughout its body, this weakness is far more easy to take advantage of……but at the same time, its shell is far harder than the Killer Ants.
Its shell leaves all the 11- 12th floor monsters behind in dust. In other words, its defense is second to none on the Upper Floors.
Even a dwarf’s attack would be easily rebounded. The shell is just like a layer of iron. It is said that a Lv. 1 Adventurer will not be able to defeat this kind of monster in a blade fight.
To the Adventurers, who were suited for 11- 12th floor with their basic abilities being B – S, the difficulty of defeating Hard Armored is completely different than other monsters.
“——Take this!”
Just when we were facing each other, the instant our gaze met, both sides moved.
My feet suddenly accelerated.
And one of the Hard Armored rolled its body and rolled towards me.
The carapace on its back is not only a sturdy shield, but it is also its weapon. With a high-speed rotation, it can break apart an Adventurer party’s power. An half-assed counterattack would never work.
The huge meat bullet was approaching me while spinning. And I dodged it to the side when the distance was nearly zero.
First cut apart the subsequent fear.
I turned to the Hard Armored that did not change its shape.
“OOOOOOO!”
Its claws were already brought out and rushed over towards me.
This time, it was the same. When the two of us approached to a extremely close distance ——I jumped away significantly.
“!?”
In front of its eyes, I depicted a right-angled movement trajectory.
Instantly disappearing outside of its vision, I made it so that it lost sight of me.
After passing through, I flew past its dead angle and immediately reached behind it.
Then I suddenly stopped the force coming from my knees and matched it with my entire body’s strength as I swung the
“——Ga!?”
The sturdy shell body was cut apart by me in one slash.
——Amazing!
Even the sturdiest Upper Floor defense was broken down.
Recognizing that my attack could already cut through the enemy’s carapace and onto its body, I could not help but hold the dagger in my hands with a bit more strength.
“Ooooooo!”
The remaining Hard Armored once again turned into a ball shape and rushed over.
I extended my right hand towards the Monster who curled up together and was rolling over at high speed.
“
The lightning flames erupted.
After an enormous roar, the scarlet flames that was faster and thicker than before pierced through the ball shape that was spinning.
An explosion.
At the center of the explosion, I could see completely charred charcoal. That is a ball of armor, whose carapace was blown apart. Its body was completely shattered and it fell onto the ground.
Then the body, which was surrounded with smoke, dropped down from the air and was not able to move again.
(Even the Magic was strengthened…….)
I looked at the brilliant scene and slowly retracted my right hand back towards my chest.
Not only was the power different, even the size and scale had changed.
Not just magic, it feels that my entire body had endless stamina……
(The distance must have shortened!)
Within my mind, a figure of a female swordsman appeared.
Although it is still a distant scene, I had went further onto the path of chasing that golden figure.
My heart was rapidly jumping, I desperately restrained this excitement.
“————OOOO!”
At this time, a loud roar came from the Orc and attracted my attention.
I was reminded of Lili’s words and headed towards the source of the sound. Welf-san and the Orc’s battle was about to occur.
× × ×
“Fast……”
Welf muttered.
He had inadvertedly caught a glimpse of Bell’s series of actions as he entered his view.
Whether it was movement, attacking first or the magic activation speed. Without an exception, all of it was just like a rabbit.
Although he did not know where the source was, but Welf finally understood why Bell had a nickname of a
“Fufu, please do not be stunned and get flattened okay? Bell-sama will be sad.”
“Follower Lili, I seem to understand your temper.”
Lili’s voice came from behind, he then calmly nodded.
The reason why he did not even turn back was because a few seconds later, he would start a battle against a huge monsters who had issued a piercing cry.
After noticing Bell’s gaze, Welf smiled triumphantly and set up his posture.
“Okay, time for the second one.”
Behind him was a Orc’s corpse lying next to Lili. He placed his long sword onto his shoulder.
“OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
Don! Don! Don! The Orc was slowly approaching here.
Welf raised his lips and fearlessly rushed towards the opponent.
“OOOHHH!!”
Noticing that its prey took the initiative to rush over, the unarmed Orc used its arm to do a sweep.
Facing the sweep that was heading towards him, Welf swiftly ducked in order to evade.
The long sword at his right hand was still placed on his shoulder and at the same time using his left hand as support, he tried to lower his body as much as possible and rush over like a wild beast.
The instant the enemy’s huge arm swept past the top of his head, he suddenly got up and swung the giant blade.
“——WA!”
With the sound of flesh tearing apart, the Orc’s unsteady stomach was cut by the large blade and its belly jittered.
Green blood splashed everywhere. After the monster was subjected to a large-sized weapon’s
impact, it was thrown back substantially and the back of the head hit the ground.
“I’ll send you to hell!”
Welf then jumped and landed next to the head of the Orc.
His hands that was holding the long sword was lifted high above his head. He looked at the Orc’s eyes, which wouldnot close even in death, and slashed downwards.
Don!! A loud sound occurred.
“Follower Lili, next!”
“It has already come!”
He left the monster, who had its head cut apart, and turned to the position that Lili pointed out.
Then he saw the waving of a natural weapon——An Orc with dead wood. Facing the sudden onrush from the monster, he smiled slightly and licked his lips.
“This might be troublesome!”
“I——know!”
Lili ran around it in a circle and rotated to the rear of the Orc.
She lifted the hem of her robe and shot an arrow with a hand crossbow that was tied onto her slender arm.
The metal arrow hit the shoulder of the Orc.
“!”
The pain from the shoulder made the Orc stop its movement. Then, the pig headed-monster revealed an ugly expression and changed its target from Welf to Lili.
Then at this moment.
When the Orc was not prepared, Welf stepped forward with his left leg and entered its reach.
His black battle robe was dancing like fire and his boots sunk deeply into the ground.
“Go to hell!”
He raised the long sword high above his shoulder and fiercely swung downwards.
Following his right hand going down, this slashing attack that strained the body depicted a trail that slashed towards the Orc.
It was as if this movement was used to cut apart a Monster with a sturdy frame. The Orc did not have any time to make a sound and sprayed fresh blood as it stared at the crimson eyes. The entire body became stiff and after fading into ash color, it shattered.
This attack beautifully cut apart the
“Crosso-sama, the precious Magic Stone was destroyed just like this by you, it is too outrageous! Bell-sama and Lili’s income will be reduced!”
“What can I do, I also did not intend to do that. Also, don’t call me by my surname.”
Lili chased after Welf’s mistake in hot pursuit. It made him annoyed after listening to it and he powerlessly replied back to the chattering Hobbit :
“Speaking of when we are splitting the money, why is there no portion for me?”
However, only the purplish powder was flashing as it descended at the grassland.
“……Crosso-sama!”
“So I said, don’t call me by my surname……Geh!”
Although he was currently arguing with Lili, he was also alert and noticed it.
There were two distinctly different monsters than the Orc that quietly snuck over and were planning to do a pincer attack on Welf.
This white furry monster had muscles intertwining within its body. It causes one to think of apes. However, what was different than apes was that a tail-like, silver braid was dangling from the back of its head.
In the past, Bell had once fought against this kind of Monster at the
Welf’s cheeks could not help but twitch. After hearing a sound coming from the deadwood behind him, another Silverback jumped to the ground.
“……”
“Geh……”
Welf shouted to himself that this was bad.
At the dungeon, the situation of being outnumbered and surrounded had to be absolutely avoided.
(I messed up……Isn’t this the same as fighting alone)
Cold sweat was oozing down from his forehead. He carefully looked at the three opponents.
He could not help but recall the past when he was excluded by his comrades and had angrily took a large amount of recovery potions and challenged the 10th floor by himself……It was a memory of barely surviving.
(I can only escape……No, can I escape?)
The encirclement between him and the monsters was shrinking, he anxiously pondered.
If he considered it for a bit, his strength was slightly above the Silverback. However, even fighting against one of them would use a lot of strength. If he was surrounded, he was definitely a easy target. Lili, who was nearby, had a face filled with fear and could not move. However, it was rather unrealistic to expect a lot of help from her, who was just a Supporter.
It’s over. He could not help but think like this. However, he still concentrated and confronted the Silverback in front of him with his weapon on his shoulder.
Welf planned on breaking through the encirclement through one of them. In his countless experiences in the dungeon, he had also felt this annoying tension created by the cries and anxiety. He felt that his stomach had frozen.
The explosive atmosphere drifted around.
The Silverback’s two eyes, that confronted Welf, flashed.
The monsters where about to move.
The next instant.
“——One, Two!!”
“GUUUU!?”
“!!”
A person suddenly cut in from the side.
It was Bell, who directly charged here with lightning speed. His foot was like a javelin that headed directly to the side of a Silverback’s face and he sent it flying. The Monster’s face was distorted at a weird angle and crashed into the companion that was next to him.
This sudden situation caused Welf and the other Silverback to freeze. Bell then pulled out the
“Welf-san!”
When his eyes met with Bell’s crimson eyes, Welf reflexively woke up.
His upper body moved ferociously to the side.
Bell brought his right hand behind his head and then suddenly threw the
“GUUU!?”
“——!!”
The Silverback behind Welf had the
The wailing Monster trembled and like a top, Welf turned his body and swung the long sword.
A silver colored flash simply went across the enemy’s body and killed it.
“……”
The Monster’s knees curved and it fell down onto the ground. Welf remained in a stance of holding the long sword and slowly turned his head backwards.
Bell had already eliminated the other two Silverbacks.
Welf looked at the scene in a trance, then he smiled and placed the long sword back onto his shoulder.
“As expected, teammates are a good thing.”
He agreed with this from the bottom of his heart and the white-haired boy turned around and let out a blooming smile.
× × ×
“I say, you are still too fast. It isn’t strange for you to fly over here at any time.”
“I…I also am still a bit unclear……”
After the battle with a large group of Monsters had ended, we were temporarily resting.
The location was the beginning room of the 11th floor. Traces of the battle could still be seen everywhere on the grassland. For example, there were traces of the Dungeon Walls being broken down everywhere, even the dead trees were uprooted. In short, it was a mess.
Welf-san placed his long sword back into the sheath behind of him and strapped it to his arm. Then, he began to casually talk with me.
“As expected, having a talented person in battle makes everything easier. Although overly relying on it is also a problem.”
“When I was fighting, I also felt that it was easier than before.”
“These are the benefits of having a team. Because now a margin exists, whether it is physically or mentally, actions will be different than before. Of cours
e, the strategy of facing a Monster also changes.”
Welf-san began talking about the benefits of a team. Because he had entered the Dungeon in a team before, he knew more about this than myself.
“For a temporary team, we did pretty well. Although we have not yet developed any teamwork techniques, we have already done very well breaking in together……This is all thanks to Follower Lili.”
“Lili is it?”
“Yes. Although the things she did may not seem remarkable, it was very important. And after we grouped together, in order to ensure smooth operation, she had always acted as the lubricant oil for us1.”
If it was really like this, then indeed, we were taken care by Lili a lot.
Perhaps we should use an example to describe this. Lili is concerned about the battlefield from the rear, and by applying clever support, she helps the team maintain a rhythm.
Welf-san felt that this is because she understood Adventurers extremely well, I understood why immediately. Whether when she was a Supporter or when she was a thief, Lili had met countless Adventurers.
“Anyways, Follower Lili is really diligent.”
“Whenever, at this time, I always feel sorry for the Supporters……”
Welf-san laughed and agreed. In front of us, Lili was currently working hard on her job to recover Magic Stones.
Because the amount of Monsters we killed was enormous, her burden was not light. Although I wanted to help her out, I was refused. She energetically placed the bag onto her back and expressed that was is fine if we rest well now.
In her words, it was ‘that this is all part of her work.’
“Speaking of which, the amount of people seemed to be increasing, what shall we do? Should we switch to another location?”
“Yes, also……”
Before, there was not even a shadow of a person, but the surroundings now began to reveal the emergence of a few teams.
Because this room connected two floors, many people would pass by. And because there was no annoying mist, many teams would use this place as a base. So if we hunt here, we may run into trouble.
For example, being depressed after our kill was stolen and if the situation became big enough to be a dispute between