Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka - Volume 03

by Fujino Omori

  When Bell faced the incoming Large Sword, he would aim at the side and deflect it away.

  Causing the path of the attack, that nearly corners him, to pass by and allow his body to escape through the tiniest gaps. It was an iron-like defense that did not allow even the slightest carelessness.

  The method of receiving an attack that he stole from Aizu. Coupled with the constantly honed technique and his ability to respond instantly.

  He had already etched deeply the teachings of the girl into his very bones, giving Bell and Minotaur an equal balance of power.

  From the secret meeting with the golden hair girl, everything that Bell learned bear fruit in this battle.

  “His speed is indeed superior to the Minotaur. But……”

  “His attacks do not work.”

  In the gaze of Tione, who slightly narrowed her eyes, and Tiona, whose entire body was trembling, after the in his right hand repelled the sword strike, Bell attempted to use the in his left hand to counterattack, but it easily bounced off.

  The Short Sword could only slightly pass through the Minotaur’s body, it was apparent that the extent of the injury could not be called as Damage yet. Allowing it to cause a scratch was already considered to be thankful.

  Minotaur was breathing heavily, then he caused Bell to escape from within his arms.

  “……The Minotaur’s meat is difficult to cut.”

  This was the impartial evaluation of the , who had once cut through numerous Monsters.

  The rumbling meat was by no means a decoration. While the muscle bundles had already a strength that was to be reckoned, in addition of excessive layers being accumulated, this causes the opponent to feel like it was cutting rubber.

  On top of this, its durability was high. The Monster’s skin that was highly valued as a Drop loot. The Minotaur’s defense had already becoming a structure that any half-assed attacks could not hurt. Its skin also had the effect of resisting against heat and cold, and was regarded as a treasure by people.

  This is also why among the Monsters in the Middle Floors, it stands out due to its immense strength and durability. It was often treated as a representative for many Adventurers and they deeply engrave it into their hearts.

  “VOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

  “Tch!”

  Facing against Minotaur, who demonstrated attack and defense, Bell’s situation was becoming worse and worse.

  Originally, there was already an unreachable gap between the Lv. 2 Minotaur and the Lv. 1 Bell.

  This was where the Minotaur’s unshakable advantage was.

  To Bell, it was a gap in terms of basic abilities that causes people to despair.

  The Monster’s innate abilities (Status) were overwhelmingly pressuring the techniques that were honed.

  “Bell-sama……”

  Due to Lili showing some degree of recovery, she was placed down by Riveria. Lili struggled to call out Bell’s name.

  Under her gaze, Bell fell to the ground shortly and rolled away in order to dodge the sword.

  The Minotaur immediately followed up by preparing to squash Bell with its hooves, Bell used his naturally quick speed to make an emergency escape while slashing the across.

  Which was blocked by the Large Sword again. The sharp metallic sound rang out.

  “……!”

  “OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

  Towards the Minotaur that had its alertness to , Bell’s anxiety was revealed.

  There was no doubt that the Monster had already realized that the was the only weapon Bell had that could effectively damage it.

  At the same time, Bell also noticed it.

  The enemy, the Minotaur, was preparing itself to unleash its true strength the moment the dagger initiates an attack. It was planning to abandon defense and enter an attack mode.

  Cutting apart the meat, breaking apart the bones. The enemy was extremely good at it.

  From the light inside the depth of its eyes and the abnormal horn that was cut apart, this was what Bell’s intuition told himself.

  “Y…You bastard!”

  He opened some distance and regained his posture.

  Bell used a skilled approach and stretched out his right hand in momentum.

  The Minotaur’s eyes widened.

  “ !”

  The roar from the lightning flare exploded outwards.

  Following the sound of the explosion, the huge body was forced to retreat.

  Even the ceiling of the Dungeon could hear the roars of the Minotaur coming from the opposite side of the flames.

  “……Did he chant? That Magic?”

  “No……It did not seem like he whispered a Chant.”

  The reason why the battle between a Lv. 1 Bell and the Lv. 2 Minotaur was able to established was mainly due to the result of the Magic.

  While his physical abilities were already at a disadvantage, and he was even forced into a corner numerous times, but by relying on this , he lived through the desperate times.

  However,

  “VOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

  “……!”

  There was no effect.

  “It is too light.”

  “Ahah, it is still far from being a decisive blow.”

  “Although the casting speed was indeed surprising, but it picked the wrong opponent. If it was against humans, it will be useful……”

  The drawbacks of was demonstrated here.

  Its power was low.

  There were indeed scars on the Minotaur’s over 2 meters tall body. His entire body was covered with burn marks due to the lightning flame, but that was it. It was still far from a serious injury.

  Whether or not an average Magic could do it, at least it was impossible for to kill it in one hit.

  The firepower was still way too immature.

  “There’s nothing he can do.”

  “It is still too early to make a decision……Although I want to say that.”

  Facing the menacing Minotaur who rushed over, Bell was once again caught in a defensive battle.

  Towards Bell, who was slowly forced to defend longer, Riveria and Finn simply and calmly observed.

  No matter how desperate Bell fights against the Minotaur, if he could not attack, the chance of victory would never come. Even if he aims at the enemy’s chest and gamble once on a one hit kill, it would still be blocked by the excess muscles. The short range of the dagger would not be able to directly hit the Magic Stone and could not let out an effective blow.

  As the things are right now, the only remaining method was to hold a resolve of being shattered and let out a special attack.

  The instant that the Minotaur had decided to adopt this tactic, its chances of victory was 99%.

  An attack that is inefficient. In any battle situations, that is fatal.

  The Minotaur roared.

  It instilled all its strength and fiercely swung the Large Sword down and caused the ’s blade, which was not able to avoid it, to break into two pieces.

  Bell’s face immediately stiffens.

  “He already no longer has a weapon.”

  Finn’s words floated through the winds.

  The overwhelming brute force strike split the ground and created a small crater.

  Covering his face with his left hand, which was holding the broken Short Sword, Bell was blown into the air due to the shockwave.

  After a short period of time floating in the air, he fell onto the ground, in the next instant.

  (??If it is a Weapon, then isn’t there one here!)

  He widened his eyes and aimed for the Minotaur’s Large Sword. He threw the wreckage of the Short Sword, which was above his head, with all his strength.

  “VOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!?”

  The Short Sword headed in a straight line suddenly attacked the Minotaur.

&nb
sp; The that had already lost half its blade shone brightly in its eyes, the curved sword let out sharp and flashing light.

  Towards the silver arrow that suddenly headed towards its face, the Minotaur could only lower his head and turn it around.

  One of the horns on top of its head easily knocked away the Short Sword.

  On the other side, Bell, he.

  Did not even look until the end of that scene and immediately took action.

  “??!?”

  “WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”

  The Minotaur, who was distracted due to engaging the Short Sword, had its reaction slowed by a beat.

  From a low-posture, what prepared to stab was his right hand, it was the .

  The Monster that was trained, had his eyes changed drastically. It attempted to defend against the attack of Bell’s right hand, which was still hidden under Bell’s lower body.

  Forcibly lifting the Large Sword up from the ground, it used the Sword as a shield and placed it in front of its body.

  (It worked!)

  Minotaur’s fear was shown through the eyes that were opening to its limits.

  Hidden behind Bell’s body, the color of the blade that was about to reposition itself was not pitch-black.

  It was a white blade. It was only the

  After throwing the , the Goddess’s Dagger was secretly held in his left hand.

  The purplish-blue light overflowed from the shadows in his arms.

  The direction that the crimson eyes, what Bell was aiming for, was the Large Sword.

  “Fu!!”

  “VOOOOO!?”

  The he held in reverse grip in his left hand headed towards the Minotaur’s right hand that was holding the Large Sword.

  Maintaining the unstable posture was in order to alert the opponent of his stab and causing it to raise the Large Sword, making it overly unprepared.

  Guzuri, the pitch black dagger completely buried itself into the enemy’s right wrist. Whether it was the bones or the muscle fibers, all of them were cut apart.

  While the Minotaur issued out an anguished cry, Bell did not hesitate to twist the blade and used all his strength to cause the Large Sword in his right hand to fly into the air.

  Blood splashed everywhere. From afar, Finn and the others widened their eyes in surprise.

  “VOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!?”

  The Minotaur raised his face towards the ceiling.

  Ignoring the explosive screams, Bell only kneeled down and jumped up from that spot.

  As if he wished to use that giant body as a ladder, he used his legs to trample over the Minotaur and headed to the shoulders. Then, he jumped up into the sky.

  He stretched out his slim hands forward with all his strength, the Large Sword that was coated with blood was flying in the air.

  The fingertips and the long and wide Large Sword’s handle, that was rattling in the air in a circular trajectory passed by each other. The next moment??It was firmly clasped upon.

  Then with a smooth movement, he fell onto the ground.

  “VO…VOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!?”

  The Minotaur, that was still in pain due to his wrist being cut apart, turned around and sprang over to Bell, who landed behind him.

  As if he was declaring “Give it back” the muscular left arm attempted to take back the Large Sword.

  With his back towards the Minotaur, Bell maintained a posture where his left hand was holding the Sword and slowly turned around.

  He quietly extended his right arm and shouted.

  “”

  An explosion.

  “~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~VO…VOOOOO!?”

  Due to the shot from an extremely close distance, the Minotaur’s body floated from the ground.

  The lightning flames’ speed and explosions suppressed the marching footsteps and forced it to retreat.

  The skin was charred, bits and pieces fell down from his body where it was directly hit by the flame spears. Following, the explosion has devastated the atmosphere. Along with the billowing smoke, even the grassy areas were scorched and being eroded by the scarlet flames.

  The situation was extremely critical.

  Within the vision of the explosion, what suddenly passed through the black smoke was Bell slashing with the Large Sword with both hands.

  “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”

  Swinging from above and downwards, it was a blow with all his strength.

  “VOOOOOO!?”

  Along the iron-like body, a thick red line passed through.

  “It hit!?”

  Blood sprayed out from the wounds, the ground was filled with patterns of spots.

  Tiona leaked out stunned cheers, and the Minotaur staggered unsteadily a few steps back.

  Bell did not miss this opportunity.

  “AHHHH OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!”

  “VOOOOOOOOOOO!?”

  The Minotaur, whose weapon was stolen by the enemy, opened his fangs.

  The heavy blade let out a whirlwind and from Bell’s hand, a destructive flow was released.

  It was an nonstop assault of powerful blows.

  The Large Weapon was continuous raging nonstop.

  “WA, his method is really crude……!?”

  “But, he’s pressuring it.”

  To be honest, Bell’s Large Sword skills definitely did not look like anything good. Instead of saying he was swinging the Large Sword, why not say that it seemed like as if the Large Sword was swinging him. From what the outsiders were seeing, the thin body would definitely lose to that super heavy metal.

  However, the raging momentum definitely overwhelmed the Minotaur.

  As if it was like swirls of wind, the sword endless rushed through, and with Bell’s roars, the silver flash passed by.

  The Bull Monster was currently shaking. It did not recover from the instant where the battle situation was reversed and could not even defend itself properly. The stunned body was violently repressed and suffered consecutive slashes.

  In the scene where blood was flying everywhere, the Minotaur’s body was already filled with injuries.

  Until just earlier, the damage, that could not be given, was slowly accumulating bit by bit.

  “M??OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!?”

  The scared Minotaur issued out a roar.

  As if it was trying to say “Don’t get carried away!”, anger began to surge through its entire body and at the same time, it recovered the wild beast-like instincts.

  It embedded its feet into the ground and did not permit them to retreat, as if he was unwilling to be inferior to Bell and pressured back.

  “ “????????????AH!!””

  The final battle began.

  The entangled momentum and spirit had caused the air to shudder again. The mutual roars that had already lost its meaning resounded across every corner of the Dungeon.

  As if it was to echo the Monster throwing punches and the Human swing a Large Sword. As if it was a contest between a human’s Sword Skills, the Monster’s strength was created out.

  This had thrown what was compromised away to the heavens, it was purely a head-on contest. Numerous repetitions of attacking and retreating. Accelerating and Stopping.

  The Large Sword caused the Monster to knock it away with an ugly kick.

  The punch that hit the Large Sword that was lifted in defense caused the enemy’s forehead to tear apart.

  The slash that intersected with the opponent crushed the bones and split the muscles.

  A hoof shape fell onto the ground, the flowers were cut by the Sword, the fierce violence caused everything to become powder. The stage was slowly collapsing.

  Forcing all its strength or they will not lose, the duel will absolutely not stop. They will never give up.

  Cannot stop, cannot stop, absolutely will not yield.

  The blood coated Silver Sword was filled with
imprints of hoofs, sparks flew and once again they fought.

  The end of the duel was coming, everybody could see it.

  “WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”

  “VOOOOOOOOO!?”

  Bell used his entire body’s strength to release a revolving swing and dug into the side of Minotaur’s abdomen.

  Causing the armored abdomen of muscles to be cut apart, the blade stopped. Following, as if he wanted to pull out the Large Sword in one go, it caused the Minotaur to be blown to the side.

  The Large Sword let out a, biki, small groan, it was cancelled by the screams of the Monster crying out in pain.

  “Fuha?, Fuha?……!? NNNNNNNUOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”

  The distance between them was about 5 meters.

  After covering its bleeding abdomen, the Minotaur’s eyes were dyed red, it placed its hands towards the ground.

  The two hands that were already not like the original appearance tightly touched the ground, its head was lowered in a position where it could immediately head out, its hips were lifted higher. The posture of the four limbs touching the ground. It was as if it was an incarnation of a bull.

  Bate and the others stared.

  This was an assault posture that the Minotaurs, that were cornered, will often show.

  Using the strongest horn, it was its trump card.

  Crushing all the obstacles in its path, it was an incomparable and extremely strong charge.

  Only, this distance wasn’t enough for its approach. The distance of the charge being shorter will cause its power to be halved.

  This was the best evidence of the Minotaur being forced into a desperate attack regarding its life and death.

  “??“

  The final horn that was the final reserve, it constantly widened its eyes anxiously towards Bell.

  A spear of sight that directly looks into the deepest area of its eyes. Wordless communications. What merged together were willpower and willpower.

  It feels the breathing had stopped, in the next instant, the surrounding air seemed to tightened to its very limits.

  Bell’s gaze seems to intersect with the Minotaur’s gaze.

  Immediately,

  “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!”

  “VOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!”

  The two of them stormed forward.

  (??Too naive)