251 - - The Meat

"Forgive the garlic and wine.

No garlic or wine is allowed to enter the temple. <> means and refers to pungent vegetables with a strong smell such as leeks, chives, garlic, and pungent taste, not to mention sake. If you eat them to keep your mind away from troubles as they have a tonic effect to increase lust, you will not be allowed to enter the temple!　A rule. --You know what they say about ascetic garlic, right?　It is said that garlic was indispensable for the severe ascetic practices. I wonder if it's the difference between indoor and outdoor ...... smell-wise.

"Can we expect meat? ......"

I have garlic, then crustaceans (crabs, shrimps) and cephalopods (octopus), let me hope for the best.

"No, no?"

Galahad's cryptic reply was followed by a whisper, and he was heard muttering ...... if he was right about gathering ingredients.

"This place is a level stronger than the other routes on the same level, and if we follow the traditional labyrinthine nature, the enemies along the way will be tricky from this level onward. Let's be on our toes."

"Yes, sir."

Eagle's words change his attitude. We have the ingredients and the name of the ingredients, but the enemy is a demon. We exit the transfer room and open the door to the next level. Labyrinths are often described as because the boundary to the next level is often in the form of a descending staircase. In some cases, such as in this case, you simply pass through a door to the next area, and it is not clear whether the labyrinth really extends downwards or not.

The new area is a brown cave with sparse grass here and there, and a stone monument.

"What is it?"

"<?"

I followed Eagle's reading and silently read the words inscribed on the stone monument. The "Here are the ones" is illegible because it has been cut off.

What is it?

"I don't know, but I don't think you should touch the red one."

Thinking in front of the stone monument does not seem to give us any answers, so we stop to memorize it and move on.

"Good, it's meat!

Just as we were advancing, a large pig-like creature with fangs and horns rushed toward us at breakneck speed. Galahad shrugs it off and slightly diverts its course. The horns of the monster slid across the surface of the greatsword with a loud cracking sound, and the flaked off pieces of fine iron created sparks.

I am not sure if Galahad's great sword was made of iron or not, or if it was stronger than iron, but I wondered how hard the horns would be to sharpen it. It turned around dexterously for its size and scratched the ground with its paws. The pig is supposed to be a domesticated boar, but it is quite ferocious, well, it is a demon.

"Is it red meat?　Stall for now."

Heavy Magic] level 40<>, magic with a restraining effect is useful against rushing enemies.

"Fire will not miss the enemy, burn within the enclosure!　<>"

Camilla uses a magic to cover the enemy on all sides with a wall of flame. This is a magic I can't use yet, but I wonder how many levels it is.　Camilla used to use <, which I learned at level 40, but <> is not on the list.

This time, I am getting help from M! We can use recovery medicine and food as much as we want, and we can see the skills that Galahad and his friends usually don't use because we encourage them to raise their skill level. We are glad to be able to observe them on the road while making light conversation with them, since it is often difficult to see them slowly during boss battles. The enemies are getting much stronger, but we are able to push our way with our skills. While being thanked, I was warned by Eagle that it is not good to get used to this.

"You're roasting the whole thing. ......"

"Don't burn Camilla, too!"

"I'm a fire magician by nature!"

I was thinking about my skills and Eagle's tweet took me in an unexpected direction.

"I just ate and I'm already hungry."

"Whose fault is it, whose!"

"Oh, my God, whose fault is it?"

Galahad grinds his index finger on my cheek and Camilla on my chest.

"Even I have been poisoned ......."

And Eagle grilling his own temples .

The pig demon is <, its original name is <>. Is this a good idea if you make pork cutlets before an examination or a game? Besides meat, horns are also dropped, but I'm not sure if I can sell them in the market or not. Would it be OK if the drop is around the level that the Flame King and Roy and his friends have reached?　I have accumulated quite a few items that I don't use.

"Same square footage all the way around?　It's weird."

After entering the fifty-third layer, the path was basically a round cave with occasional small rooms. In the cave, one encounters a few demons such as pigs, sheep, and cows, but the number of demons is small compared to the previous areas. They seem to be herded together in small rooms rather than in caves, which are the basic passageways.

I wonder what they are?　There are no noticeable obstacles, so it's not like it's a replacement at all."

Galahad is right, it is indeed strange. There is no sign of human intervention, yet it continues in a constant expanse, and there is no sign of water, yet there are smooth areas on the walls and ceilings.

"This looks like it has been scrubbed ...... many times in the same position."

Eagle makes a guess as he touches the slippery area.

Gaaaahhhhhhhhhh!

"Uh-oh!"

"Aah!"

"What?

"Oh?"

Suddenly, there was a cry of something, and the earth shook so much that my body shook. He hurriedly summons his [kuroyoh], raises his defenses, and gets into a fighting stance. The sound of thudding and shaking approached, and what appeared was something rounded and packed in the shape of a cave, with only a dragon-like face. No, it is only its huge body and the wings that wrap around it that make it look round, but it is running on stout legs. It is quite fast, or rather, very fast.

Before I can think, Galahad pulls me by the collar and takes me into a small room nearby. A dragon-like creature passes in front of the room without slowing down, and a sheep shows its willingness to f*ck with the intruder. I thank Galahad and reflect on the need to strengthen my reflexes in such situations, and for the time being, I slaughter the sheep that is my immediate enemy.

"I thought it was coming at me, but it looks like it just passed me by.

"It's almost as big as a cave, so you can't turn, can you?"

While Eagle and I were killing the sheep, Galahad and Camilla peeked out from a small room into a passageway where a dragon-like creature had passed.

"The blue horn on its forehead, isn't that the blue of the monument?"

Eagle's words came as he finished defeating the sheep, and then, "Gakko! Then the earth rumbles again.

"Ugh!"

The two of them hurriedly withdraw their bodies into a small room.

"That one had yellow horns!"

"Or maybe there are several of them, and even if they don't fight, they bump into each other somewhere on their own, and if they all turn red, the whole area explodes or some such gimmick."

The clattering sound is probably the sound of dragon-like creatures colliding with each other.

"Whoo!"

Galahad makes a funny noise at my prediction.

"I don't like it, but I think Homura's prediction is right. We'd better get on with it."

Eagle urges me to leave the room and proceed.

"I wonder if we can beat that thing."

"If I beat it, will the last explosion be loose?"

"I'll give it one try to see if I can beat them once I get to the exit, but I don't want the whole area blown to hell."

As Galahad said, it is too risky to try it for a while, so we head for the exit while avoiding the dragon. On the way to the exit, we encountered a blue horn that prevented us from escaping into a small room. We stopped to avoid being run over and engaged it, but after inflicting a certain amount of damage, the horn turned yellow and went back in the direction we had come from as if nothing had happened.

"It didn't run over me, but it also disabled the stall.

"That's just part of the labyrinth that can't be beaten."

It's some kind of trap.

Labyrinths and dungeons have explosive floors, beds of spears, and other traps that could not have been created naturally, even in places that are supposed to be untouched by human hands. The logic behind these traps is a mystery, but they are accepted by the inhabitants as something that occurs in the dungeon, just like treasure chests. There have been many studies on the mechanism, but it is said that the mechanism has not been clarified yet. Yeah, sorry, it's a game.

But still, it's quite terrible that they don't allow us to secure the meat slowly in the real time attack area. There may be a certain pattern, but to study it, I feel that I have to dive several times and die several times. From the description of the monument, it seems to me that it is a forced return to death. The yellow explosion also took a uniform amount of damage to everyone, regardless of their defenses.

For now, let's secure meat in the 52nd layer and run through the 3rd and 4th layers. I'll leave it to those who like to examine the patterns!

"Ugh. Homura's magic at full blast is terrible.

"It's funny, it's not the same magic."

"I was surprised at Frostflower, but it seems to be getting worse."

Don't call it bad!

And we arrived at the boss's room without incident.

"I don't like not knowing when the bomb is going to explode because I'm in a hurry.

Galahad looks restless as he takes a bite of the deli bread. There are two kinds of bread: one with bacon and eggs and the other with yakisoba noodles. Galahad and I drink milk, Camilla drinks orange juice, and Eagle drinks coffee. E! It's a recovery, but it's a little uncomfortable.

"The yolk is cooked perfectly.

Eagle seems to like the bacon and egg buns, and is the only one who seems calm despite the fidgeting, including myself.

"Why are you so calm?"

"Somehow I always seem to hear a bump, and didn't we pass a blue one before we got here?　Unless I hear that thing turn yellow one more time, it won't explode."

Eagle answers Galahad's question with a cool face.

"I see."

If we knew how many of them there were, we could count the sounds of their collisions and make a more accurate prediction, but for now this is good enough. Galahad and Camilla seem satisfied with the results and seem to have calmed down.

Then, in the boss's room, a reddish-bronze minotaur with a huge axe was waiting for us.

"Flesh ......?"

"Don't turn your head in wonder when you see the boss!"