CH 19

“Transfer, 15th-floor entrance.” (Kei)

As I say this, I walk over to the magic circle in between to move between levels, and after a sensation of floating, my surroundings change.

“Hey, let’s go.” (Haru)

Haru quickly climbs the stairs and goes to the 14th level. Of course, I can’t leave Haru alone in the dungeon, so I follow her. I wondered how long it would take for the enemies to show up. Such concerns seemed to be unfounded.

“Hey, we’re here. Let me do it, just give me [Speed].” (Haru)

“Leave me half. [Speed].” (Kei)

Ten shadows can be seen from the other side of the corridor.

“Wolves, sounds good. By the way, what is the result of [Analysis]?” (Kei)

“Lesser Wolf. I don’t think there are many of its kind in the dungeon.” (Haru)

Haru kicks the ground and leaps with a shout. In no time she’s standing in the center of the pack of wolves. She blew off a wolf’s neck as soon as she came in.

“Hiyaa! Oh, I have overdone it.” (Haru)

The weapon is swayed parallel to the ground as if she was conserving momentum or about she’s about to start spinning. Attacking in less than a second. That alone killed six wolves.

“Hey, leave half of them.” (Kei)

While complaining to Haru, I used stealth to go behind the enemy. If I pick up the ax, the game will be over in an instant. Instead of attacking the whole pack like Haru, I quickly defeated them one head one by one.

“Blank or not, they’re weak.” (Haru)

“Well. Yeah, they’re too weak. Would you like to try casually fighting a Minotaur?” (Kei)

“Let’s do that.” (Haru)

When she decided to do so, we quickly went down to the 15th floor and opened the gate. There was the Minotaur sitting on a rock like last time.

“Then, let’s clear it at the fastest time. [Power][Speed][Bind].” (Kei)

A magic circle appeared, strengthening us, and thorny vines bind the Minotaur for a few seconds.

“The fastest. [Impact] and [Decaple].” (Haru)

“Gugaaah!” (Minotaur)

The Minotaur tries to pick up its weapon, but its hands are tied by the thorny vines and cannot be used. And as it happens, a magical explosion burned its whole body and blew the weapon far away.

“”Ready, go!”” (Haru & Kei)

Suddenly, with voices heard from its front and back, the Minotaur raises its face searching through the smoke from the explosion. Then a protruding metal appeared in front of it. Needless to say, it’s Haru’s shovel. The shovel can’t be avoided or parried hit its neck, cutting through the hard outer shin but still not deep enough to pierce anything vital. And then,

“It’s over.” (Kei)

A machete that came from behind enters the gap in the skin cut by the shovel. In the next moment, the Minotaur’s body and head are separated.

“Oh, it’s over. Minotaurs aren’t that strong if you prevent them from picking up their weapons. It was completely done in.” (Haru)

“Well, are the drops the ax and meat?” (Kei)

“Unfortunately we can’t bring such a big ax home.” (Haru)

Haru says it’s an ax with a total length of 1 meter. It looks nothing like the axes we use.

“We can’t bring it home, so we’ll throw it away here. Instead, we’ll bring the meat home. The boss’s meat looks delicious. Then, let’s move to the 16th floor.” (Kei)

“Yeah, I want an enemy that gives a little more challenge. Hmm? Well, brother. You might want to take this ax home. How about we leave this ax at the 15th-floor exit and take it back if it’s not gone when we leave? ” (Haru)

“Well, but why?” (Kei)

“I tried to analyze this ax since I was curious.” (Haru)

Haru said and explained what she got from the analysis.

“Steel Battle Ax… Steel Battle Ax [Skill: Strong Slash].” (Haru)

“What’s this? It has a skill. Do weapons learn skills?” (Kei)

“Maybe you can use it while using this ax. Based on the name, it’s a skill I’ve never seen before.” (Haru)

“Well, we’re only looking at the Minotaur’s skills, but it’s true that we should take it home.” (Kei)

The ax was easily lifted contrary to my expectations. It’s probably just that my status has improved.

When we get on the magic circle and moved to the 15th-floor exit, I placed the ax down somewhere safe.

“So, are you ready to go?” (Kei)

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“Yup.” (Haru)

We go down the stairs to the 16th floor. Going down. Down.

“Why is it long?” (Haru)

At this point, we’ve been walking five times longer than the stairs that go up the other floors.

“It’s long, but we’re near. A breeze is coming in.” (Kei)

“That’s strange. This is a cave. The wind shouldn’t pass through.” (Haru)

In the dungeon, you can breathe without any problem even if you try burning things, mysteriously there’s no problem. However, I have never felt the wind in the dungeon.

From there, we go down one floor further.

“Ah, it’s a breeze. My [Perception] detected it. I can also tell that the environment has changed significantly, not just the flow of air.” (Kei)

Gradually, I can feel the wind on my skin and I see light.

“This is a dungeon beyond human comprehension. There is wind and the light is a little too bright even for the dungeon. What’s with the 16th floor?” (Kei)

We finish down the stairs and head towards the light.

“”An Outdoor Stage”” (Kei & Haru)

As we stepped out into the light, we could see trees standing tall all around us. It feels like a dungeon, with the trees standing in a row as if they’ve been maintained as if it never gets dark.

“Brother, the ceiling is strange.” (Haru)

Haru tells me, so I look up through the trees and see an off-white rock ceiling far above us. And there were stone-like objects of various sizes that emitted an intense light. The light was so strong that it was hard to directly look at it, so I could only observe them as stone-like.

“Haru, what is the result when using [Analysis] on that stone?” (Kei)

“It’s too far for the skill to reach. The skill only has a five-meter range.” (Haru)

“[Analysis] range is unexpectedly short narrow.” (Kei)

I look around while muttering such thoughts. The first thing I noticed was that it was too quiet. Unlike here, ordinary forests should have insect calls and birds singing, but there are no such sounds. No, I feel like there are a few of those. The numbers are just too small. Probably, because the only creatures here are monsters.

“Brother, come here.” (Haru)

“Oh, it’s been a long time. It’s a hobgoblin.” (Kei)

The first monster that approached us was a goblin. However, the physique is fierce and huge. It was almost identical to the hobgoblin that had been the boss of the fifth layer. The only difference was that there were four of them within their pack.

“[Impact]” (Haru)

When Haru raises her shovel forward and chants, the hobgoblins popped in the blink of an eye.

“They can’t be considered an enemy after all. Is there only weak enemies?” (Kei)

A shadow passes overhead at a tremendous speed while I was talking. At the same time, there was a sign that it was too big to be grasped by my [Perception] skill. Not its size, but the oppressive presence it gives off was different from that of the Minotaur.

“Brother, that looks bad.” (Haru)

“Oh, I don’t feel like I can win.” (Kei)

What we saw was a winged lizard. It was the so-called flying dragon. We don’t know its exact strength because [Analysis] cannot reach it due to the distance. However,

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“That strength is probably…” (Haru)

“If there are about 10 Minotaurs, they’d be killed instantly.” (Kei)

“Hey, I have something I want to try. Use [Power] and [Chain] on me. Full power.” (Haru)

“Hmm? I understand. [Power] and [Chain].” (Kei)

Haru’s body glowed. Then she silently gazed above.

“Hey, let’s cooperate. Buff my skills, and I will buff your skills with chain.” (Haru)

“What do you mean?” (Kei)

“I will try to apply my [Analysis] on brother’s [Perspective] using [Chain]. I want to analyze that dragon.” (Haru)

“I got it.” (Kei)

Thinking about the dangers that followed, we approached the cave where the stairs we came down to are before looking up again. At the moment when the flying dragon was closest to us, we focused and used [Perspective].

And at the same time as we accurately grasped the appearance of the flying dragon, magical power flows through my body.

It was also at that time. The flying dragon saw us.

“[Speed]” (Kei)

In a hurry, I enchanted Haru and myself. Then I took Haru’s hand and leaped into the cave. Still, we don’t stop. We ran to the back of the cave and up the stairs. It’s safe to enter the cave because the body of that flying dragon is too big. We should have been safe.

“[GyaaAAA]!” (Dragon)

The roar overflowing with power echoes from outside the cave. It came will an avalanche of the strong flow of magical power.

[Scythe] [Morning Star] (Kei) & (Haru)

We just take out the treasure without thinking. And shake with all your might. Toward the torrent of magical power that cracks the wall and raises sand smoke and approaches at a tremendous speed.

“Naa~!” (Kei & Haru)

The treasures were repelled very easily. With the torrent of magical power that is neither spell nor substance. As a matter of course, it flicks us from the middle of the stairs against the wall. I couldn’t even make a sound because of the magical power.

That was the my final conscious thought.