Book 2: Chapter 51

Book 2: Chapter 51

Chapter 51.

"Ah!"

Once again, the Rusted Knight kicked the ground hard as he held up his great sword.

This time, instead of a straight trajectory, he leaps upwards, as the saying goes, and tries to attack Mizue from above.

Mizue huffed and took half a step backwards.

"Aahhhh!"

The Rusted Knight seemed to think that was a way out, and he sounded as if he had done it.

However, Mizue immediately leapt on the spot.

"Fukuyama-san!"

"Rashomon!"

As he called out Fukuyama's name when he leapt, Rashomon's defensive wall appeared to block the trajectory of the Great Sword and Mizue.

Mizue changed his grip on the Renkou Sword to his non-dominant left hand and grabbed one of the Rusted Knight's legs with his right.

As if on a swing, he swung his sword to the side to enter behind the rusty Knight with a circular pendulum motion and slash at both joints.

"Hey!"

Mizue's sophisticated sword slashed the rusty Knight's knee joints from the backside, and the boss lost all strength.

He lands on the ground nearby, knocking off the Knight on his stance from the momentum of the sideways slice.

"Gashaaaan"

The Rusted Knight landed with a tremendous sound, but his legs were slashed, and he fell on the spot.

"Yah!"

Then Rikka approached and swung her spear through the joint of her left elbow.

The Rusted Knight whose limbs had been cut off and fell to the ground without effort as black blood splashed out.

With the two of them working together. All of the Rusted Knight's limbs were cut off.

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Mizue was on his feet as soon as he could spare a second from landing, and he was running over to the Rusted Knight.

His hot eyes looked down at the Rusted Knight, falling helplessly in front of him. Mizue then readied his continuous strike sword.

Then, as if to drop the sword's tip, he thrust the Renkou Sword into the slight gap between the helmet and the neck.

"What the--?"

At that moment, the Rusted Knight's inaudible whine was heard in the boss area.

The rusty silver full plate glued together by an unknown force crumpled apart, and something black and sludgy like blood poured out of his entire body through the gaps.

There was a pool of black liquid which came out of his body.

A brief moment of silence fell over the boss area.

Not long after that, the boss's corpse began to disintegrate from the edges.

A small, black cross, less than an inch in size, dusted up and was sucked into the ceiling of the dungeon.

"Yes!"

"You did it!"

Mizue and Rikka were feeling the joy of defeating the boss for the first time.

They were splashing sweat from the battle and high-fiving each other with all the joy they could muster without worrying about their gender.

Fukuyama and Kusatsu approached them.

"Good work. Well, you beat it easier than I thought you would. Congratulations on defeating your first boss, you two."

"You're really great! Both of you." Kusatsu said.

Perhaps the transition location was set in that tent at the entrance.

"I forgot to return Kusatsu-kun's Iron Sword to him. Well, I can return it later! So, everyone from Group 26! Good work so far!"

Fukuyama said in a cheerful voice when Kusatsu was gone.

"So far?"

Mizue was a little caught up in the way he said that.

He could have just said "Good work" without daring to use the word "so far," but it sounded as if Fukuyama was strangely emphasizing the word "so far".

Suddenly, Fukuyama's handsome smile starts to look eerie.

"Yeah, just a little further and we'll be at the end of this sub-dungeon. It's about 50 meters ahead. That's where the end gate to the sub-dungeon is. So, I know you're tired, but we're almost there! Let's get this over with!"

As Rikka heard the word "It's over." she was glad from the bottom of her heart.

Rikka thought that this sub-dungeon could still go on with Kusatsu being sent back.

The basic structure of the sub-dungeon is said to exist from the first boss area to the fourth boss area. So, she expected there to be at most two more boss battles.

But Fukuyama said they were almost at the finish line.

That means the current boss area was the last in this sub-dungeon.

"Let's go! Mizue! We're almost there."

"Yeah... Let's go!"

Mizue's reply was somewhat unsure.

With the cheerful and slightly natural Rikka. They headed for the exit that appeared before they knew it in the second boss area.

The exit to the boss area appears as soon as the battle ends.

A door appears when you find yourself in a different dungeon. You have to go through it to get to the next dungeon.

Until now, no one had ever seen the scene where the exit of the boss room appeared.

Researchers sometimes describe this as "intentionally imperceptible".

They then go under the exit of the boss room.

After walking about fifty meters, they found an end gate that led to the surface.

Sub-dungeons usually open an end gate at the far end of the dungeon, and the collapse phase of the sub-dungeon begins when any one person passes through it.

The sub-dungeon gate gradually narrows over the course of about a week, and eventually, it disappears.

After the attack, it is customary for the guild to use the one-week grace period to take the lead in collecting the demon ore and materials from the monster carcasses.

"That's the end gate, isn't it? I've seen it in pictures several times, but there's a certain atmosphere or horror that I feel when I see it in person..."

Rikka looked at the jet-black gate and couldn't help but let out a thought.

The entrance gate to the sub-dungeon is "white", no matter what grade it is.

And the exit is always "black", no matter what grade.

Conversely, the entrance to the main dungeon is "black", and the exit is "white.

Researchers speculate that this makes sense, but they still don't know why.

"I'm used to looking at it, as you'd expect, but it does look that way at first. But once you get used to it, the 'black' gate starts to give you a sense of security."

"A sense of security?"

"Yes, yes. The black gate is the image that signals the end of the exploration. The sub-dungeons have exits in this color, and the main dungeons are usually entered through a black gate and exited through a white gate, right? Every time I go back, I pass through this black gate, so it feels like the end to me."

"I see. I didn't know that."

Mizue is satisfied with Fukuyama's words and turns his head to that black end gate.

Tenji also gazed at the end gate that he hadn't seen in a long time.

"Well, it's finally over." Tenji said from the bottom of his heart.

[I knew there was no room for Goblins. I had Fukuyama-san next to me the whole time, and somehow Mizue-kun beat most of the monsters alone. It was painful that I didn't get to do anything, but it was a good experience.]

Thus, the 26th group arrived in front of the end gate.