247 - - The Beast of the Empire

The boss of the 40th basement floor of the Labyrinth Illusion Route has been defeated by [Retsubi].

"Oh?"

After defeating Mr. Wyvern, I was heading for the room where Kulurkan was, when an announcement was made. The party leader can choose whether to play the name of the individual or the name of the party. The default name of a party consisting of all members of the same clan is the clan name.

"What?"

"No, I just got word that a friend of mine has conquered Fer Farsi."

Since the game announcements seem to be inaudible to the residents, I will briefly explain. It seems that the Flame Kings beat Roy and the others more quickly than they did. The announcement was also made during the party defeat of the 25th to 35th layers of the [Ardent Fire], and since the starting point of the party this time is different from that of the [Cronos], it seems to be in order.

"Ah, the guys at the entrance..."

There were two groups.

The one with the long red hair.

Somehow the torches are still burning red-hot in the corridor. You're not going to run out of oxygen, are you?

"You must be the one who was with Sir Tristan."

The eagle's words reminded me of , the story of the knight Tristan who flirted with two Isoldes and died of jealousy. Was he a knight of the round table by any chance?　Well, I guess they gathered knights from stories here and there to create Knights of the Round Table: .......

"Roy - who was the one with the other pair?"

I'm not sure I can tell, but I'm going to ask him if he might know.

"You must be Lord Lamorack. They're both friends of the old man.

Galahad told me, but I still didn't recognize him. They say there are 300 or so knights of the Round Table, not 13. A friend of Kal's must be strong.

"But still, I think Homura was right to call us here."

"This place looks like it could be the big one up ahead."

"Hmm, I'm glad I can help."

Hmm?

You know I'm not home beyond this point, right?

"No one's home?"

I mean, Kulkarukan was there.

"Boom!"

Galahad, who was walking next to him, suddenly kicked and tripped.

"Homura, shall we take a raid on that?　Let's go back and check on Master Lancelot and Reno's schedule."

Eagle stops dead in his tracks and smiles. Don't worry, it was me, White plus the ten raiders of the gods. Krulkan is in my right hand right now, something like that.

Wait. You're not home, does that mean you've already cleared ......?"

Camilla looks up at us from a short distance. I don't know whether to look at her face or her cleavage.

"Yes, this is Mr. Krulkan. He's a little shy right now, so please don't startle him.

The staff in his hand suddenly seems to thin and his wings move as he raises it prominently. It seems to have turned into a snake, just to say hello.

"......"

"......"

"......"

The three of them stare at Kulurkan in silence.

Kulkarukan freezes as the three of them look at him, and after a few moments of silence, Kulkarukan runs away into the sleeve. He did his best.

"I'm really shy like this."

"......"

"......"

"......"

"No?　No, no?"

Galahad repeats the words without moving, staring at the spot where Kulurkan had just been.

"Let's wait a minute, Mr. Homura."

Eagle rubbing his brow.

"Is it my imagination that I somehow remember this trend?　How many of them do you keep in your clothes?"

White, black, krulkan. Three max?"

Answers Camilla's question. The white one is only able to fit inside a hooded robe and rests half of its body on my shoulder.

"That's not what I'm talking about!

Galahad shouts.

"I don't know where to begin. There's probably a Bahamut in there too."

"Bahamut isn't in your clothes, is he?"

Bahamut dwells in the blue gem that I wear on my chest.

"Two sealed beasts in my clothes, plus an extra one hanging on the wall, and one in the house. Wait a minute, I listed them all myself, but four out of eight!"

Galahad says with a disappointed look on his face.

"No, I recently added one to my house. ......"

What?

Kuznoha.

"......"

The three quiet people slowly sit down in the aisle.

"I don't know what's going on, but I'm starting to feel something."

"I'm crying. ......"

"After Homura returned from Fuso, Master Lancelot was worried about the demons. ......"

"I heard that he brought back something that wasn't even that important."

The three of them are whispering something.

Asha's beast, the thundering beast, the mythical creature, the mythical creature, the mythical creature.

The Beast of Dru, the mad puppet Hamel.

Phal's beast of concealment, the poisonous bird Sirene.

"So that leaves Spider, Hamel, and Sirene. The Spider may be in the empire, but we have no information on where the others are."

I name the remaining sealed beasts as I recall them.

"Are you going to conquer ......?"

"You're going to conquer it, aren't you?"

"It looks like you're going to conquer it, huh?"

He deliberately speaks privately so that the three of them can hear him.

"Well, I'm inclined to complete it when I get this far."

"I knew it. ......"

"Ah!　Yada yada yada this guy!　I'm on the level of a country-wide selection to form a raid!"

"Especially when we knights of the empire are being sent right and left by the < without even knowing that they exist."

As we talked, we arrived at the spot where the wall used to be. Every now and then there is a small sound like the crumbling of a stone, and when you look closely, you can see that the collapsed wall is coming back with a rattling sound (...). The small stones on the floor, which have crumbled back against gravity, become a part of the crumbled wall when they touch it, as if it had never been broken in the first place. The wall will probably be towering when another player with a key arrives.

"I heard that if you leave Krulkan here, you can fight the new winged serpent that will be born, but he's not here this time.

"Wow."

The space beyond the long corridor seems to have attracted Galahad, and he stops to admire it. When I first came here, I had high hopes for this adventurous situation.

"Maybe someday I'll take on the challenge."

Let me help you."

I look at the same dark vast space and answer Eagle's question, and then I <.

"The black stone that you see stuck in the stone is the scales of a krulkan. Be careful, they are poisonous to those who touch them.

Some of them are pretty big.

"Yeah, when we first faced it here, it was big enough to fit in this space."

When I looked down at him, he seemed to realize that I was talking about him, and Krulkan looked at me.

"Looks good for an arrowhead," he said.

"Yeah, that's what I was thinking the last time I mined."

"Well, let's go get some."

"Yes, sir."

Galahad's words were the cue for Camilla to get to work digging. It seems to be possible to collect a small amount of small items. The arrows are made of M! The arrows can be produced temporarily by spending M! The arrow can be temporarily produced by spending M! The former is said to be able to produce arrows with various effects as the level of the arrow increases. In the latter case, the skills that can be added to the arrows vary depending on the rank of the arrow, but many of them are said to be powerful because they cost a lot of money.

"With these scales, it looks like I can make a powerful poison arrow.

Picking up a piece, Camilla says. She is kneeling - a little off the ground because she is - but the slit in her skirt is split and her white thighs are showing.

"Just picking it up would poison me to the hilt," she says. If this doesn't make a poisoned arrow, it's a heron."

"I guess I could do a poison sword or something, but I'd need a lot of it."

Are you two through?　Are you used to this spectacle?　He occasionally recovers, suspiciously.

"Production has stopped, but we need to level up. But I'm not a production worker and I don't think I'll ever be able to handle this material.

Camilla can make her own arrows. Arrows are consumed so much that it seems inevitable that anyone who handles a bow will learn to make arrows. It would be inconvenient if she could not make them on the road.

Today we camped in a hidden room that leads to the food route. It's time for me to log out, and although I can recover and regain my energy, a long battle will wear me out. And the three of us need sleep.

So, the drinking ban is lifted, as long as it doesn't linger the next day. Today's main dish is dumplings made with the that will appear in the next section. The white skin is sticky and the baked side is crispy. Fried shrimp dumplings with mayonnaise. Fried bean sprouts with a lot of black pepper, Bean-curd soup with bean-curd soup and egg soup. Chopstick rest with pickled turnip, rice for me and beer for the three of us.

"Wow!　This is a hit!"

Galahad seemed to like the dumplings, popping them into his mouth and downing them with beer. The fried bean sprouts are spicy and too salty and peppery for my taste, but they seem to be just right for the three of us who are drinking. In the real world of Japan, there is a legal limit to the alcohol content of each type of sake, but there is no such limit here, so the beer they are drinking now is a little high in alcohol content.

"Hey, you better be a little careful, or you'll be left with a lot of beer tomorrow."

"Don't drink too much in the labyrinth just because Homura's food is good, okay?"

"I'm fine, I'm fine!　I'm not going to get drunk on this!"

Eagle and Camilla chide Galahad, but he doesn't drop his pitch. If it's not my imagination, I'm feeling a bit cheerful, but I wonder if I'm OK. Galahad is the strongest drinker among the three, but he is also the one who gets drunk first because of his bold drinking style in contrast to the two who enjoy drinking slowly.

"Homura, if you're going to defeat the White Prince, let's talk a little about the Empire.

Galahad puts down his mug and suddenly becomes serious.

"......If you're going for 鵺, you'd better talk to Homura so that he doesn't get caught up in the affairs of the country."

Eagle sighs and agrees with Galahad.

"To be honest, though, I don't really understand some of it."

After finishing my meal, I decided to listen to the three of them over a cup of tea. Even if we exclude the Spider, I am curious about the story of the empire. I don't want to get involved in political conflicts and factions, but there are a lot of people involved.

"First of all, Homura told me that there is a , and it is confirmed that there is a . But at first we were led to believe that this too was the white beast Hasfarn.

"It is cunning to switch to a sealed beast with subtly similar characteristics to the nine tails that are actually in motion, while keeping the real target, the White White White, under wraps.

"If I had not met Homura, I would not have been able to reach the Nine-Tails, but I would not have been able to reach the Spider."

"Tamamo is also suspicious. It is well-known that Kuzunoha, the nine-tailed kuzunoha, is sealed up in Fuso, and she didn't know that the main body of the kuzunoha had escaped, leaving its outer body behind. Besides, it was he who hid the information about the Spider.

"His side?"

The way Galahad calls them shows both respect and a bit of fear.

"Merlin, the Wise One of the Forest. He is a wizard who has lived longer than the history of the empire."

"And maybe he's obsessed with the jade plant."

"He had a weakness for women, too, I see."

Uh, yeah. I remember Merlin in the story being tricked by a woman and being locked in a tower and all that. No!　All at once, my image has changed from a careful and cunning wizard to a wizard who is easily deceived by a woman!　A comedy in which a woman invites you to a room and locks you in, and you are locked in.

It's hard for me to listen to Galahad and his friends with a mysterious look on their faces as they listen to Merlin's story, which contains an unspoken fear. .......