248 - - escape from prison

"Okay, let's go. --

With a gentle call, a terrifyingly heightened magical power was released into the bottom of the hole.

A silver light that freezes everything fills the room below.

Flesh and bone, the lizards stopped moving and froze like statues.

Yuril said that they were probably crocodiles, judging from the shape of their long jaws.

Soon the deafening footsteps scrabbling on the floor gradually fade away and the room downstairs is completely silent.

Thor quickly jumps into the hole, amazed once again at the power of the Kamieda magic.

He has done this many times before, so there is no hesitation at all.

This time, however, he had Sola in his arms and Mu attached to his back.

As soon as he landed on the ground, he set the girl on the floor and held out his hand directly above her.

The silver-haired beauty sees the signal and leaps into the air.

Thor, who had brilliantly taken Yuril in his arms, ran toward the southeast corner.

The time window until the skeletons begin to move again after the freeze has melted is the first key point of this operation.

He speeds up at once and runs through the skeletons.

Thor reaches a corner of the room in mere seconds, lowers Yuril into his arms, and hands him the mu he has been carrying on his back.

"Take care of him, Moe."

"Rai!"

Leaving the child to reply cheerfully, Thor draws his sword and quickly turns back.

The skeleton had been stopped by Yuril's magic, but it had no effect on the incorporeal evil spirit.

Fortunately, only one of the prisoners seemed to have gotten involved with Thora, who was acting as a guardian.

The girl deftly stopped the incoming dark technique and turned the tip of her staff.

Instantly, the large skull of the evil spirit vanishes as if gouged out.

Sola, who had defeated the monster single-handedly, nodded encouragingly to Thor, who had rushed to the scene.

The two of them return to Yuril and Mu, still clinging to each other.

They make a slight detour along the wall.

The reason is that the electric current shield has already been deployed toward the center of the room.

Thor, who has safely rejoined his companions, quietly regains his breath.　

"Well, shall we begin?"

"Yes."

"Wait for me!"

"I'll do my best, Moe!"

Here comes the second phase of the operation.

The location of the hole from which Thor and the others fell is roughly in the center of the large room.

Heading south from there, we could see the doorway to the room, but the bars were down, as was to be expected.

There was no mechanism to open or close the bars.

So, we had to check the room from one end to the other.

However, as I wandered around the center of the room, the evil spirits, sensing the heat emitted by the living, gathered one after another.

If we stopped even for a moment, we would be bombarded from all directions with a concentrated barrage of dark techniques, and we would dry up in an instant.

Therefore, Thor and his team chose to investigate the relatively safe wall.

Here, there is no danger of being surrounded, and any monsters that approach can be stopped with the .

The only two inhabitants of the large room were a crocodile bone and an evil spirit using dark techniques, both of which were capable of lightning-type magic.

The evil spirits often attack from a long distance, at which time Thor moves forward and cuts them down with his sword.

Skeletons, which regenerate eternally, cannot be completely defeated, so the only way is to slow them down by putting them in ice or breaking their bones and scattering them far away.

Thor and Sora are the deadly spirits' counterparts.

Moo uses lightning spells to slow them down and strengthen everyone.

Yuril is in charge of using his good hearing to investigate the walls and deal with the monsters if there are more than the three of them can handle.

It seems like a neat plan, but it took more than two hours to put it all together.

During that time, Thor jumped into the hole alone and used and many times to investigate.

The reason why we were able to start the operation without too much trouble was because Thor went out of his way to gather monsters on the other side of the hole.

The investigation of the east wall took about 30 minutes.

All the demons near the wall have been exterminated and the skeletons have been crushed and moved to the south end of the wall.

It seems that the bony crocodiles are not very smart and once their heads are destroyed they forget that they had a prey.

Once they are revived, they just roam around the place, so it was an easy opponent once we got used to them.

However, it would be quite difficult for an ordinary adventurer to defeat them.

After a short rest at the northeast corner, we next check the north wall.

The number of spirits of the dead decreases a little from this point on, and the battle becomes easier.

Perhaps they had become accustomed to investigating the wall, and their speed was increasing rapidly.

The group is making good progress, but the labyrinth filled with malice is not so easy to navigate.

Just when it seemed that the northwest corner was in sight...

"Ah!"

Suddenly, Sola raised her sharp voice.

Thor turns around instantly and his eyes catch a glimpse of his companions.

The girl standing a little behind Thor, near the wall, opens her eyes and stares at her feet in surprise.

Her toes had sunk slightly into the floor, along with the cobblestones.

And the feet of Yuril and Mu, who were standing by the wall.

The floor that was supposed to support them has disappeared.

It was the same trap, the same pitfall, as the one on the floor above.

The two of them fall into the trap without uttering a sound.

Just as they seemed to disappear out of sight, the child utters a loud cry.

"Lai!"

Moe seems to have remembered Thor's words.

A space filled with electricity instantly appears, enveloping the two of them.

However, the fall itself did not stop.

Sola rushes to the two who are slipping and sliding down the wall.

However, the power of the electricity that sucked them in did not make an exception to the girl's body.

With her hand still outstretched, Sola, too, is pinned to the floor.

A shadow passes by her side like the wind.

--

Thor's arm reaches out and just barely grabs their hands as they fall into the hole.

He kicks the wall and runs to safety.

Moe is lowered to the floor, his eyes fluttering, and he claps his hands in delight at Thor's quick action.

He does not seem to be aware that his life was saved in the nick of time.

Thor, making eye contact with Yuril, smiles a puzzled smile.　

"There it is after all, the pit!"

"Yes, I expected that. ......"

Thor and the others, who had thought of this possibility in advance, had told Moe to immediately set up an electric grid around him if anything should happen to him.

Thor's chest heaves with relief, but this time, the girl's impatient voice jumps into his ears.

Wow, the room downstairs is full of monsters too!　Thor-chan."