64 - The King of Fire

The Flame King thanked me with a fierce, pouting face, saying, "It was delicious.

I wonder if curry udon makes him so conflicted. I don't know.

"Don't worry about it. The Flame King is so serious.

"<>"

"I'm sorry, sir."

The members of the Flame King's party are always following him around, and he loves them.

Although the first impression of the party was not so good, they did enough to turn around the impression by following and receiving the attack of the rear guard who slipped through the shield of the earth, while they were taking a lot of damage during the battle. It would have been painful to take without the shield.

"<>. Don't you have a chip on your shoulder? I don't think there's any conflict there."

"Well, before coming to the labyrinth city. I'm leaning more and more toward doing it as seriously as I can."

"I'm in a bad mood because I'm in a party with a strong resident.

"The first time I did it, I went into it too much and it didn't work out, so that's why I'm depressed about it."

When I think of strong inhabitants I can only think of Galahad, Galahad and his friends, and Shibainu (Percival) and his friends.

"You're so serious."

Ochazuke, finish your curry udon first.

I'll follow up on the recovery, putting oatmeal and earth first, okay?"

"Oh, I'll manage. I'm able to move now as long as I don't do more than half damage, and I have medicine, that's all right."

"I'm grateful for the title, it motivates me to move even when it hurts."

"By the time we get here, I can move better than we did the first time, so it should be easy, the only problem is me."

When it began, it was just as Ochazuke had said.

The boss battle with [pain release], H! The team had already experienced a battle in which the H! They have been able to heal themselves and hide behind stone pillars from the very beginning. Of course, they sometimes stop moving depending on the amount of damage, but it is a far cry from our first time.

Ochazuke said that the problem is only me, but this is more of a test for me. There was no way I could do it right the first time. My first time, Ochazuke did a good job of recovery, so I guess it was my turn this time.

This time it will be my turn. I think so, but it is difficult to time my recovery while attacking. If I recovered too often, I would deprive her of the chance to get used to the pain, and if I recovered too late and Ochazuke got stuck, the whole recovery would be delayed, which would be bad.

Ochazuke, how did you manage to adjust to this?

"Aaah!"

Daichi takes down the shield.

What?

"It's in a state of [part destruction]!"

For a moment, I thought I had done something wrong, but Daichi's H! has a little time to spare. Does the player have a [part breakage] too?　Ochazuke's hasty recovery coincided with my throwing a recovery potion. He recovers, but he can't pick up the shield in time.

No, H!? I can't move my arm even if it's full?

"d*mn it!"

The Flame King intervenes.

The Flame King, who does not have a shield, supports his great sword with both hands and takes the orc's axe, but he cannot catch it and falls to his knees. He falls to his knees, and his H!

"Oops!

Ochazuke's recovery.

"I've had enough of this guy!"

Gil's barrage.　

My two light eagles.

Mr. Gilweitzer, is that the real you?

I've got five enraged orc skins.

I've got four pork chops from the wrath of the orcs.

I have the boots of the enraged orc.

I got the magic stone of the enraged orc.

I got the black iron x10.

I got the ring of strength +3.

"Clear!!!!!!!"

"Yay!"

"We did it!"

"It was hard!!!!!!!"

H!? I was surprised at the Flame King's reduction of H!

I am feeling that I can reveal my title and skills to this group of people as I listen to the announcement that we are clear. I lend a hand to the Flame King, who is sitting down while watching the four of us in high spirits.

"Hmph, thank you!

The Flame King looks away, perhaps embarrassed, but he grabs my hand and thanks me.

The Flame King's mood is softer than before we entered the labyrinth, and the members are happy to have cleared the labyrinth. No, I'm lying about the "Kyakkyaufufu". Gil's presence and Kyakkyauufufu are scary.

We are the first members who met and fought together for the first time today, but I feel a strong affinity with them because we have felt the pain together and helped each other. I don't know what they think and what they do yet, but I feel that they will help each other and intend to help each other when the time comes. It's a strange feeling.

We returned to the inn, thinking that we can't open sake for the celebration with three parties.

The other parties had not returned yet, and we took a rest until they returned. We would have to go to the repair shop later. But in the meantime, we'd better take a bath this time!

I fill the bathtub with hot water and when it's half full, I'm already soaked. I'll just have to re-fill it one by one anyway, so it doesn't matter. As I get into the water, I feel a numbing sensation in my toes and realize that I am colder than I thought. The culture of the bath is wonderful.

Roy and the others returned next, and they too seemed to have made it through.

But Kikuhime and the others...

"We failed.

Kikuhime's answer to Ochazuke's question.

She told us that Kikuhime had also suffered from [part destruction] and had lost her shield.

"Ah, that happened to me too. But, well, it was safe because it was cut off before the next [roar] came.

Roy said.

The cause of the defeat was the lack of firepower, Leo and Shin were throwing recovery pills so hard that even when the shield was dropped, the orcs' H! The reason for the defeat was the lack of firepower. Even so, he persisted by having the orcs destroy the shields, but he was not able to cut them down before the stone pillars were gone for all of them.

"I made him take a lot of medicines to recover, but...

I've been overzealous in my recovery!

I'm sorry.

"But I think we have achieved our goal of getting used to the pain, so I think we can clear it next time.

Says the man who is a canonist. I'll ask Princess Kikuhime to tell me her name later.

"And we kept getting hit in the same position.

Breaking] is caused by taking heavy damage in one place or continuously taking damage in the same place.

"I didn't think that taking damage with a shield also counts as continuous damage. Next time I'll try to put a parry in the middle or change my posture. Also, I found a [resistance to damage] when using a shield called [Shield of Shield].

Only Kikuhime showed the resistance, probably because she had been fighting for a while after being destroyed. It seems that Roy and Daichi will have it next.

"This one also gets its parts destroyed, but it might be a practice boss where you have to actively destroy two knees or other parts of the body.

"I see, that may be so."

I was so preoccupied with the pain."

Kikuhime and her friends are going to take revenge again when they finish their desperation.

We heard about it in the cafeteria and were free to go on our own.

We could not launch the clear-up because it would be a one-sided failure since Kikuhime and the others had not completed it yet, and it was a somewhat awkward breakup.

I had to work the late shift from noon, so I wondered for a moment whether I should go to bed and wake up early to work until noon, or stay up late and go to bed at dawn, but I decided to go to bed early because it was nighttime outside and I had to pay for lodging.

I told everyone that I was going to go to my room, and as I was about to go to my room, the Flame King spoke to me.

I wondered what was going on, but he asked me if I still had some curry udon. You like curry?

I asked him if he wanted curry and naan or curry udon, and told him that I had also ordered curry buns on consignment, and gave him five free portions to commemorate my defeat.

The alleged orc pig was a pure favor and I could not refuse. If I get a chance to ...... later, I'll curry it up and give it back!

By the way, the inhabitants of the labyrinth are aware of the distortion of time and space, and it is said that a day in the labyrinth may be less than an hour on our side, or on the contrary, several days may have passed.

According to Ochazuke, "This is a countermeasure for players. Five minutes in the labyrinth is no longer 40 minutes, but four hours. But I thought that if you don't go outside for a certain period of time, the time becomes closer to the real elapsed time, because you don't want to stay cooped up in the labyrinth.　It's like we're out of sync with the outside time.

The labyrinth itself is not so wide or complicated in the shallow area as in this case, but the deeper the labyrinth, the more complicated it becomes and the longer it will take to conquer it. The deeper the labyrinth, the more complicated it becomes and the longer it will take to conquer it.

The level of [thread] has improved a lot because I have been holding the staff in my dominant hand and manipulating the thread with the other hand. The length of threads I can handle has increased, and at level 20, I can make the threads disappear. I released the thread into the passage at the end of the labyrinth and tried to guess what kind of enemies they might be by picking up the sound and using [Presence Detection], but since only High Goblins appeared, the sounds were similar to each other. It might have been different if the warrior High Goblins had been wearing full-face armor, but they were basically half-naked, wearing only some armor that seemed to have been picked up at random.

I crawl into bed, thinking that no magic has been left untouched.

The bunks in the old inn are quite comfortable, and the sheets are soft to the touch. The pitcher of water on the side table is a magical device, but the water I sipped before going to bed was cold.

When the lamp was turned on, the other lights in the room dimmed and went out.

No electricity and no machine, but it is very convenient.