Volume 1 - CH 58

Chapter 58-Sludge and Slender Swords

(TL:By Rafael)

Relying on Nene's scouting, we proceeded through the "colorless darkness".

We were making progress, but it was hard to tell if we were making any progress at all.

"Silk, how are things on your end?"(Yuki)

"There are too many deviations from last time. ......"(Silk)

Silk's face clouded over as she mapped out the mapping process with her magic map.

I hoped that the stairs leading down from the entrance to the first level would allow me to jump-skip to Jamie's place, but my hopes were dashed as I found myself on the first level of the overlapping mosaic areas I had seen before..

...... It's just too big.

In addition to the fact that there are collapse marks everywhere, the "wind priming" doesn't work properly, and the floor itself seems to have been expanded to a considerable size.

The demons we encountered were miscellaneous, including a Borgul and a Crocodile Wolf.

And some of them even fell from the ceiling.

They might have been caught in a collapse on one of the floors and skipped a leap to this mosaic first level, which is still stable.

"I'll secure the path. I can't use the wind priming, but the danger isn't that great."(Nene)

Nene, who had returned from her scouting, called out to us.

"How were the collapses?"(Yuki)

"A few places, I guess. The passage is not much collapsed, but the room at the end of the door was entirely turned into a pit shooter. ......"(Nene)

There may be some sort of law to the collapse.

No, we shouldn't be too optimistic since the stairway area, the place with the most solid rules, is collapsing.

The conclusion of Benwood, Mamaru and the Royal Academy of Sciences is that there is an anomaly in the colorless darkness.

And it seems to be an anomaly that can be seen everywhere in the kingdom.

However, this is the only place where the collapse phenomenon is occurring.

I'm interested in what's going on, but ...... now is not the time to be thinking about that.

The first thing we need to do is to rescue Jamie from this crazy labyrinth.

"There's a demon that lives in a room down the hall."(Nene)

"What kind?"(Yuki)

"It looks like a magical creature, but I don't know what it is. It's like a horrible black jelly with lots of eyeballs."(Nene)

Maybe.

...... I've seen that before.

I prepare my resistance magic, Resist Magic, as I make my way through a passage that has somehow become an ivy-covered mud wall.

If my prediction was correct, it would be a demon that specializes in magic.

"There it is: ......"(Nene)

Nene points to the room from her blind spot in her  quite voice.

I glanced over and saw that it was a demon monster, just as I had expected.

If you only look at its black, sticky, sludge-like body, it looks like a viscous biological slime, but its body is covered with a large number of bare eyeballs that are moving around.

(TL: imagine reading this while eating jelly and.....I am sorry)

There are three of them.

"It's a demon ...... hundred-eyed sludge , hecto-eyes. "(Yuki)

Hundred-eyed sludge hecto-eyes is a low-grade demon.

The most common type of demon is the incarnation demon, which is the remnant of the incarnation demon that manifested in this world, the summoning demon, or the end of the foolishness of those who made a contract with the demon .......

It has no intelligence, and its ecology is as it appears to be, that of a primitive creature, but perhaps it has the instincts of something connected to the magical world, or perhaps it uses magic.

The demon monster rank is equivalent to C rank. It uses magic, and it moves pretty fast."(Yuki)

"Is that a slime?"(Nen

"Oh, if you think it's a viscous creature slime, you're in for a world of hurt."(Yuki)

While handing out resistance magic <resist magic,> I give Marina a look.

"That type of demon is resistant to magic. Marina, please."(Yuki)

"Leave it to me!"(Marina)

Marina nodded broadly as she drew from her scabbard the rather short bastard sword that she had been using when we met after I left Thunderpike.

"I'll do it too."(Nene)

"I'll go with you. I'll at least try to stop them."(Yuki)

I pulled out mu newly acquired fine sword alongside Nene and Marina.

A magical sword made of sterling silver mithril that emits a faint blue light.

It's a waste of money for me, but if it can only be used by red mages, I'll have to wear it.

"Silk, you use the ice arrow. Rain, cover me with the Stone Bullet."(Yuki)

"I understand."(Silk)

"Yes. Okay."(Rain)

I can't be too careful, but I can't be too slow either.

"I'll leave the timing to you, Marina."(Yuki)

"Let's go .....!"(Marina)

After a short pause, Marina took off.

Nene and I followed her.

Marina's bastard sword, clad in the aura of a magic sword, caught the 100-eyed sludge Hekto Eyes and tore the whole thing in half!

A hundred sludge hecto-eyes start spinning magic at Marina as she jumps into the monster ......, but Nene and I stop her.

" it is stalled, keep going!"(Yuki)

A ice arrow by Silk arced loosely over our heads and stabbed one of the 100-eyed sludge hectoeyes. That's the one I've been stalling.

"Yuki-san, finish him!"(Silk)

A hundred-eyed sludge hecto-eyes, shot by ultra-cold arrowheads, slows its movement.

It's not a slime that is viscous, but it is liquid, so the low temperature is effective in stopping it.

I stepped into the half-frozen sludge hecto-eyes and swung my thin sword, and as if cutting butter, the sludge hecto-eyes broke into several pieces.

As you would expect from a famous sword, the sharpness is different.

"The rest is ......!"(Yuki)

When I turned around, the last one had already been taken care of by Marina and Nene.

Both of them are fast worker.

"It's all right."

After a quick check to make sure there were no reinforcements, Nene nodded at me.

"What's the drain?"(Yuki)

"A single attribute arrow. No problem."(Silk)

"No problem for me either!"(Marina)

"I'm good."(Nene)

"Magic power is fine."(Rain)

It looks like our quick attack was successful and no damage was done.

"All right, let's go. Nene, take care of the road."(Yuki)

"Yes, sir."(Nene)

Nene nodded and ran quickly to the passage extending from the room.

But soon after, she peeked out from around the corner.

"Yuki-san, It's the stairs that go down! I've found it!."(Nene)

TL Note- Evil Avalon will come tomorrow as my health is not good these days but leaving my health aside what do you guys think will happen next? I can for say that the dungeon will collapse for sure.