Chapter 180: The people of this world should try to act with a better understanding of the flow.
Day 54 Morning, Fake Dungeon.
The orders given to me were to kill the dungeon blocking the way to the frontier and to deliver the ultimatum to the count of the frontier, who is hiding there. The Kingdom has no time left to spare anymore.
However, the Kingdom is taking the frontier and its count way too lightly. If this won't be enough to bring them to the negotiation table, the Kingdom will be ruined.
That's why I will first kill this dungeon.
Leading a group of dungeon experts with A rank adventurers forming the core I step into the dungeon, with numerous B rank adventurers filling supporting roles. It's quite a grand expedition.
However, what awaited there was neither fierce fighting nor desperate life or death struggle. To be frank, one had to do their best to avoid laughing there.
At the Kingdom's request, free high-ranking adventurers were gathered. Promising a large reward, the Kingdom gathered everyone it could.
That's how pressing an issue it is to take down this dungeon. This is an exceedingly serious matter that can decide the fate of the Kingdom. The kingdom is holding back on nothing, be it adventurers, military personnel, or the war force.
And yet, those crme de la crme elites are No! I mustn't laugh! They are doing the best they can to fulfill the Kingdom's mission Bhahaha!
A narrow path hanging over a seemingly bottomless hole, a steep mountain path bending and twisting at many points.
A large army cannot pass here, they'd be simply knocked down by the boulders shot from the walls on both sides. That's why stopping all of the traps and devices by killing the dungeon is the duty of the vanguard.
There, gracefully dodging the incoming rocks, an adventurer nimbly made his way forward slipping and falling into the chasm.
Another one grasped a boulder on the ceiling to avoid the slippery pathway And fell down along with the boulder.
Another one, trying to save his comrades, halted in place, extending his hand to them, and was shot down by a boulder, and if one isn't paying attention, they can also be caught by stones that at some rare occasions fall from above as well.
Regardless of their skill with the sword or their magic prowess, the adventurers keep slipping, falling, and tumbling away. Another one, almost making it, buffed himself to take a long leap to the rock on the other side and Got caught by an invisible wire and fell down as well.
Sounds of water can be heard from the hole, so there must be no danger to their lives, but the splashes are also accompanied by the shouts The gear, the clothes, they are melting!!, and agonized cries.
And now, only I remain.
But my luck has run out. I'm already unable to move, on all fours, with both hands and legs glued to the floor, groveling on the ground like some sort of a beast, not only can't I advance, fight, or retreat, I can't even stand, left to await my fate in such an unsightly state.
It's impossible for me to wield a sword now, and my armor was completely destroyed by corrosion.
Then, all at once, the stone walls began to move, one after another, puppets of stone Stone Golems tore themselves off the solid rock!
To meet my end in such a miserable state, unable to put up any resistance at all, is humiliating, but dying here, I at least won't have to see the downfall of the Kingdom, so that might be a blessing of its own.
Completely unaware of my turmoil, the stone golems lifted the floor, to which I was stuck over their heads along with myself?
I thought that they were going to slam me into the ground, but they only kept lifting me up and down, not dropping me, nor making any attempts to attack?
They simply marched on, continuously swinging the floor with me up and down, are they perhaps going to sacrifice me to the dungeon master? Unable to put up a fight, I'm going to be devoured alive by a monster? But regardless of what I think, there is nothing I can do to resist at this point.
Endlessly swung up and down, slowly spun around, I'm being carried onwards. Is this some sort of a ritual? I've never met a dungeon master, nor have I any experience of being caught and eaten by monsters, so there is no way for me to guess.
A glimpse of light. Is that the destination?
Stone golems continued walking, and as if to show off, raised me higher, exposing the sight of me cowering on the floor on all fours.
The light blinded me for a moment, but even if I'm to be devoured, unable to give them a single cut with my sword, I at least will give them the best death stare I can.
The outside?
At a distance stood a rampart, surrounding the area, and in front of it the frontier's army was deployed, the one feared as the strongest in the Kingdom. Leading it was the current head of the House Omui, which through the numerous legends it created came to be hailed as the clan of heroes.
Called the King of the frontier by the people of the Kingdom, universally feared as a god of war by the foreign armies, known as the undefeated swordsman in the capital, the legendary hero, Mellotosam Shim Omui.Th. most uptod/at nvels a/re published on n(0)velbj)n(.)c/o/m
Everyone's stares fell on me, eh? I'm half-naked right now Or rather, the scraps of clothes are barely hanging on me, and I'm being lifted up for everyone to see as I stand on all fours?
Ku, ka, KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!