Chapter 116.2 - Jungle's Materials Gathering

Chapter 116.2 - Jungle's Materials Gathering

「How about we go to the river? It’s less dangerous over there.」

The one who suggested that constructive opinion was Nakai, the 『Warrior』.

Nakai was the tallest and had the best physique amongst the trio. The only factor that Higuchi lost to him was height and muscle mass. I mean, he had those six-packs abs.

As for his other noticeable feature, it's his headband. It might be nothing more than simple fashion back in Japan, but it was a godsent item in the battle since it prevented his hair from covering his field of view. Well, the person himself might've yet to realize that though.

Anyhow, now, after I was told about each of the trio's particular features, I guess I wouldn't have any difficulties in differentiating them as long as I memorized each of their unique features.

「Could it be that you're referring to the river where Ayase-san's sacred beast of water insta-killed that crocodile-like monster?」

「Yea right, I thought we're screwed for sure that time~」

「We're basically done for if not for Reina-chan's summon.」

Hahaha, look at them, to be able to wear such a carefree smile. My life in this damned dungeon wouldn't have been this miserable if only I could be as optimistic as them.

「Is that crocodile powerful?」

「At least more powerful than Goma.」

「Its skin is protected with tough scales. It is agile in spite of its looks.」

「We can defeat it if there's only one of them, but there's no way we can win against dozens of them at once.」

I saw they're classified as small fry monster of Gore's level. I guess I could use them.

And speaking of crocodile, it reminded me of Tendou-kun's solo fight against the boss of Underground lake area which was the only and biggest crocodile I’d ever see.

「Yup, let's hunt those crocodiles. We just need to kill one of them anyway.」

Thus, we were heading toward the river where we could meet those crocodiles.

We encountered two Goma's troops along the way which we avoided by using mist and soon, we arrived safely in our destination.

It was a fairly big river in the middle of thickets with rather muddy water and huge curves like the river Amazon. The water was too murky to the point that we couldn't see what kind of creature was waiting for us inside.

「There's no piranha in it, right?」

「Who knows, It's supposed to be safe, right?」

Ueda’s baseless guarantee was something that I definitely couldn't trust.

「Since there might be another dangerous monster similar to piranha in this river, let's avoid entering this river in case there's a bleeding wound in our body.」

It was said that living beings in this kind of muddy water had evolved their senses to track the smell of blood in place of their limited vision.

Though entering this dirty looking river with an open wound was exposed it to infection.

「Crocodi~le, where are yo~u?」

「This is doesn't seem like their gathering place, right?」

Great, both my 『Blackhair Bind』 and 『Spiderweb Twine』 managed to halt the raptor's leg. Without enough power to tear all of the restrain at once, the bundles of black hair and sticky spiderwebs were proven to be an extremely annoying skill.

「――『Aqua Shield』!」

It seems Shimokawa was also reaching the same conclusion as me, he used defensive magic to disturb the movement of our opponent whose number was superior than us.

「GJ, NOW IT'S MY TURN――『SLASH』!」

「DON'T FORGET ABOUT ME BABE――『SMASH』!」

Our party's warrior and swordsman landed a critical hit with their skill instantly killing two raptors whose movement got sealed.

The rest of the raptors couldn't charge to attack our two vanguards since their path was blocked by Shimokawa's barrier. But, as soon as they tried to circling around the barrier――

「GAGA!」

Their movement was blocked by Rem who wielded her sharp spear.

「 Spread 『Rotten Bog』」

Meanwhile, I made 『Rotten Bog』 and using black hair bind's tentacle to catch the raptor's legs, dragged it toward the acid bog.

「KYOAAA! KUE-KUEEE!」

And there, another warcry with a different rhythm resounded from inside of the forest.

Soon after, the rest of raptors turned around and ran back into the jungle.

It might be an order to withdraw from the leader of the packs seeing that they're at a disadvantage. They executed the order immediately and darted to their pack.

「Tch, they got away huh.」

「And here I was just getting started. Now, I lost the chance to test this awesome axe.」

Our vanguard duo loosened their vigilance since the battle had ended for now.

The axe that was currently being used by Nakai-san was originally a gift from Yoshizaki-san to Rem the 1st who got done in by that shitty bitch summoned beast's breath attack. But Rem threw away both of her axe and spear given by JuriMari so as to not damage it.

Since Rem had returned to her base, the skeleton's form did not have enough power to utilize the axe for warrior. I decided to lend the axe to Nakai. Rem herself was currently using Nonomiya-san's spear.

「That was rather unexpected but, it's also unexpected gift for us.」

Though those raptors had retreated right away, here, we'd two raptors insta-killed by our vanguard's skill.

「What about the crocodile?」

「Uhm, let's make use these raptors first.」

They might not be powerful, but the raptors just showed me that they had incredible mobility despite moving in this jungle. Since it was originally similar to carnivorous dinosaurs equipped with sharp claws and fangs, there's no doubt about its offensive ability. For all you know, it could be even more useful than crocodile in this jungle.

In short, I decided to use raptor as Arachne's replacement.

Great, now I could use this guy for the return journey. I mean, humans won't be able to forget a comfort once they experienced it themself.Fiind updated novels at novelhall.com