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Approaching between the gatekeepers, which would be used as the home of the thief "Cat Willow (Cat Yanagi)" on the labyrinth basement 10th floor of the pit, the sound collecting sensors were picking up combat sounds that seemed one-sided -.

What you hear is a magical attack on the sword trident noise, and a scream -, a rage - and a heavy footstep following the escaping footsteps.

The map in sight begins to show between the gatekeepers. Is it because of the opening of a white labyrinth gate that is likely to be mistaken for the gates of hell, or the movement inside was also floating as a light point on the map?

I don't know what's going on, but if you look at the sound you hear and the movement of the light point, you're pretty sure something bad is happening.

Who that is to......

Moving ahead early enough, hiding his body behind the labyrinth gate and peering inside, the tragedy among the gatekeepers was coming to an end and control was about to be completed.

There are no pillars or anything between the gatekeepers. The space, which was just large, was lined with so many cluttered tents and tables that I thought it was a refugee camp, most of which had been destroyed and burned.

There were a number of bodies rolling around the destroyed camp. The size isn't just for adults, even the smaller ones...... all they wear are poor phase piercing clothes.

And in the most devastating places, there were many armed bodies rolling around that seemed to be explorers.

There appear to be many who survive and are being held captive. They are all tied with ropes, lined up in a row in the corner between the gatekeepers and kneeling.

Apparently the loser is on the “cat willow” side of the thief......

A transfer magic is installed in the center between the gatekeepers. Standing to surround it, he shifted his gaze to the figure of the winners.

"Is this all of us?

"It seems so. There are ten fugitive slaves left, and five cat willow remnants surrendered."

"Great. Plus one princess, it's funny... Really funny, don't you think?

"Ha-ha-ha."

Standing near the Forwarding Magic Formation are knight-style men dressed in uniform brown light armor, an atmosphere closer to a warrior than to say knight.

Nine people - and just the same number... what is that, a dinosaur?

By the knight-style warriors are small carnivorous dinosaurs - black stripes on brown skins that resemble Velociraptor as seen in the old Dinosaur Park movies.

Maybe it's a small subdragon that the kingdom of Drake keeps - is it Al Earth?

Eight subdragons, plus one large individual more than once... would be a commander-like man's dragon rider.

A total of nine subdragons would have just procured, resting on fresh meat.

Definitely, the winner is the Dragon Knight of the Kingdom of Drake......

"So, princess. What the hell were you doing in this labyrinth?

"It's none of your business! Besides, Atashi is no longer a princess!

"Oh, you did. Were you the cat willow now? Princess Cortine."

"I call you by that name!

"Wherever you flee, you are Princess Cortine, the seventeenth princess of the Kingdom of Drake. No, you were a dirty beast slave by the name of a princess, to be exact."

That's what I'm talking about is a commander-like man and a woman of the cat beast race kneeling beside him - tied with rope.

Is that Cotty? It doesn't look like the kind of outfit they call a princess or anything. It's not a common race falling around...... it's just a beast race if you look closely. A man supposedly a dragon knight says, he was wearing the same crude piercing jacket as a fugitive slave.

But you don't understand the situation. This is definitely like the home of the thief Cat Willow, but why are so many fugitive slaves hidden there?

Besides, he called me Princess Cortine about Coty, and he called me a beast slave.

I knew the Kingdom of Drake was pursuing a slavery policy, but isn't this situation unpleasant?

Suppose that Camellia and Ophelia came here and fought the Thief Willow or the Dragon Knights.

Part of the cat willow has the princess of the kingdom of Drake, who captivates it in the Devil's Mountains, a buffer zone, and takes it back to her country... now it's a royal kidnapping.

Entering into battle with the Dragon Knights is also unsavory, and if you are with adventurers and explorers on the side of the Kingdom of Drake, fighting with troops that should also be called regular armies can still trigger war.

"No, no, not at all - I didn't think I could discover you here. And this labyrinth! Wonderful! Really wonderful!

Laughing invincibly with both hands open while saying so is a skinny, universal commanding man in his late thirties or so.

"Not only did I discover the seventeenth princess who was making me go away. If I manage this labyrinth and raise funds for the mined Demon Ore in hand, I can enter the centre without ending up with such a division leader on the border."

Beside the man who seems to be the commander and Coty, the Dragon Knight warriors carry crates stacked with demonic ore one after the other. He grabbed one of them up, put it in the light between the gatekeepers who didn't even know where the light source was, and watched the attributed light lighting the demon ore glimpsely.

"You stay here and let the slaves continue mining. As soon as we get back to the fort, we'll send reinforcements. I'll leave the troops that are blocking the entrance, you guys need to locate this place and... ask them about the mining route."

Copy that, sir.

It is the captive who are kneeling in a row in the corner that the man who said he was the division leader turns his eyes.

And with the word "transfer," of the nine dragon knights, including the division chief, Coty tied to the rope with the division chief and two of his supposedly deputy, plus three Arearths, transferred together.

Now you've lost three and three... but now that we're talking, it looks like there are still a few dragon knights outside the labyrinth of the pit, what do we do -?

We can't let them meet the dragon knights of the Kingdom of Drake with the faces of the camellias heading this way, and it's hard for them to manage this labyrinth. Then you won't get the transfer magic team that's rewarding me... and...

I don't think anything of this tragedy, I'm not going to be undead to my heart.

Even if we were to contend with the Kingdom of Drake, that would only be me - one undead who says Yona - relative, and there would be no annoyance for the Kingdom of Kurtomerga, nor for the Borderline Belgian realm of Dragrange.

Plus, if you want to set it up, do it now. In the words of that division chief, I suppose you intend to keep this labyrinth secret and manage it privately, but the more time passes, the more you will know about the existence and location of this labyrinth.

Before that happens......

Check the situation inside again between the gatekeepers - six Al Earth legs resting in the left corner towards them. Next to it are two dragon knights.

There are also two near the central transfer magic formation, and two dragon knights in the back right watching over the remnants of the captive thief "Cat Willow” and the fugitive slaves.

The first thing to crush...... after all, you're a subdragon named Al Earth, your abilities are unknown and your movements if the Dragon Knight rides are too unknown. Let's get you out of here as soon as possible.

Two M84 flashbangs were removed from the hip porch, pulled out the pins and thrown into the center where Al Earth gathered to rest and into the front of two dragon knights standing beside him.

"Guruu?"

"What the..."

Alearth and the dragon knight's gaze turned to the M84 rolling in front of them - at the next moment, a dazzling flash and explosion rang between the gatekeepers.

"Guh!"

"Gyaaa!"

Crosshaired spreading that the M84 hit - convinced by the spread, he makes his way around the white pillar where he was hiding himself and enters between the gatekeepers.

Sudden explosions and intruder appearances gather the eyes of other dragon knights who were in a remote position and the remnants of escaped slaves and cat willows who were captive to me.

But my aim is six and two people gasping for the effects of a flashvan...

Downsight PhaseRifle, peek into the dedicated optical site and fall to the ground Cross cross cross cross cross of the optical site on the head of Al Earth - match the reticle and pull the trigger.

As soon as he saw the red rays flying with a slight vibrating sound, he wiped out as Al Earth's head evaporated, shooting out even one belly behind him.

"What the hell is that!

"What's that?

"There's an undead in there!

The dragon knights who stand somewhere else than where I attacked start making noise, but now they ignore it.

Without waiting seconds for PhaseRifle's energy to charge, he swings a sling and turns his back, pulling the Grenade Axe out of his hips to take the firing position of a bullet.

The next target is two dragon knights who fell by the side of Al Earth who shot them out. The two men, who looked directly at the flash of M84, were gasping as they held both eyes.

A parabola emerged in sight after the bullet was ejected, laying its landing point onto the Dragon Knight -.

"Prepare for battle! We're gonna get the system in place while the undead are distracted by Al Earth! Miller and Al put up a magic barrier, look like dark knights, but watch out for red magic."

"Hey, we're starting something again!

Let go of the Grenade Axe on the spot while pulling the trigger and keeping the projectiles fired in sight to draw the parabola, switching to PhaseRifle again for a full-charge shot from the downsite.

Two dragon knights were blown away by an explosion of bullets, and at the same time a red ray pierced the two al earth.

"Shit, get a precious dragon rider... Lloyd, get Al Earth!

A dragon knight who survived in a remote place moves out -, he can't tell the difference in roles from his protective gear, but two people standing beside the center and fugitive slaves mutter something, and the air around him shakes.

Have you deployed a magic barrier...... But that won't do any good in front of the VMB firearms.

The other two, apart from deploying the magic barrier, took out the whistle like it was made of some bone, and blew it out - but I can only recognize that some sound is ringing, but I can't hear the sound itself because it sounded like it took.

Are you whistling with magic?

In response to the sound of an inaudible whistle, the two al earths, which were recovering from hearing and visual disturbances caused by M84, fluttered but bounced, trying to bounce from the side of the four I shot out to distance them.

It moves faster than I imagined. PhaseRifle's crosshair followed to suck on the bouncing (soothing) al earth, but the trigger remained to observe the movement without pulling.

It's impossible to keep getting rid of all fights pre-emptively. Allow me to make observations at the moment when I can identify my motor skills.

The two Al Earths jumped around between the gatekeepers and landed beneath the Dragon Knight on each of them. I saw it through until the Dragon Knight rode lightly, but it's enough to see the athletic performance of the Dragon Knight who rode it.

Standing beside a fugitive slave, a dragon knight, known as Lloyd, matched an optical site reticle across Al Earth's neck, shooting out every belly of Lloyd sitting behind it.

"Behold! What happened to the magic barrier?!

"It's unfolding, but it doesn't work at all!

The two dragon knights, who were beside the transfer magic formation, had a stunned look at their fellow shot out in the rear. Of course, the same goes for the dragon knight who was deploying a magic barrier next to it.

"Don't be ridiculous! What the fuck are you!!

The complexion of the three remaining dragon knights, who were inside the magic barrier, was clearly changing. The Dragon Knight, who had been giving instructions since the division chief transferred, turned to me, pulled out his sword and shook his sword tip at this side.

The cry invites me, and the gaze of the escaped slaves who were captive in addition to the other dragon knights gathers to me.

"Warcraft - subrace - undead, you can call it what you want, sa. But my name is Yona."

"You think the undead will name it?! Why do you have a first-level dangerous warcraft-like intelligence in the basement on the 10th floor..."

"Hey! Aren't the gatekeepers here crusaded?!

"And I don't... we don't even know that undead..."

"Then... are you the Lord of the Labyrinth here (Dungeon Master)?

"I don't know what the difference is, Na. But we seem to remember where we are, Na."

Both dragon knights and fugitive slaves were flabbergasted by the appearance of the undead speaking the same words as they did.

Even in the southern seas, Haunted Captain Jonah was certified as a Class I Dangerous Warcraft, but the Warcraft/Subraces assigned to that Class seem to speak the language of a person just as I do.

Maybe...... they are also involved in the 'unjust loose ends' themselves.

Or is it simply a warcraft/subrace positioned at a much higher level...

"If you're not the Lord of the Labyrinth, or the Gatekeeper... oh, what the hell are you, where are you from!

"Omae is in the labyrinth now, Zo. Always watch the gates, ok, because you don't know when beings like me will show up."

"Knock..."

The rest are three dragon knights and one inside rides Al Earth, but they seem to be aware that they are quite disadvantaged by the flow so far.

My gaze was shaking toward the Flirting and Transferring Magic Formation as if my presence was too unknown to continue the fight or withdraw.

"Doh, what do we do?

"... Miller, you move up and rendezvous with the troops outside and report this to the division chief. I'll take care of this with Al."

"Something... can you do it?

"Well, you can't. But I'll buy you about time for the troops up there to retreat. Given his strength, it's not weird to overflow outside the labyrinth."

The dragon knights were discussing it in a whisper, but all of it was lost by sound collecting sensors.

It doesn't taste good to be informed of my - Yona's presence up there, at which stage the existence of the labyrinth is known.

Now, you should still let the division chief drowned in his personal greed manipulate information -.

The Dragon Knights' maneuvers and where my policy was set, each other moved at the same time.

"Go!

A dragon knight, known as Miller, rushes to the Transfer Magic Formation with the hanging of a dragon knight across Al Earth. The one remaining was beginning to chant the devil's words.

You can't let them get away with it -. Fly cross-hair to the torso of a rushing mirror, full charge shot from the downsite at the moment of overlap.

Slip the crosshairs and align them with Al as you see the mirror falling down with a big hole in the abdomen using the transfer magic formation as its current.

The moment you pull the trigger, the energy charge begins and you pull the trigger the moment the amount of charge exceeds thirty as you watch the gauge floating in your sight recover.

Al's head shook during the Devil's Word chant as he watched the vibrations and red rays shot out that were nothing different from the full-charge shot.

The lowest power doesn't know how many rounds you need to kill, so just in case, another charge of 30 shots goes into your chest.

Part of Al's head seemed to have blown up at the stage of eating the headshot, but he took a second shot while falling backwards and completely stopped moving.

"Yo nah!!

A dragon knight riding in Al Earth ran out in anger, whether he was exasperated by the fact that two of his companions were shot dead at the moment he moved out.

Even with people on top, Al Earth moves lightly and fast - are you on guard for PhaseRifle or try to jump left or right and come close.

PhaseRifle is not the kind of gun to use at close range. Holding with one left hand, the right hand turns to his hips and pulls out the PSS special silencing pistol, flies his crosshair to fit the torso of Al Earth, and distance himself with a slide jump as he fires a series of triggers.

The PSS 7.62mmx42mm bullet was never bounced on the Al Earth scale, but its wound was shallow - hardly seemed to lead to any damage.

But PSS indiscriminate shooting is just a time buyer and a distance fix.

The moment the Dragon Knight looks back at Al Earth, who landed where I was on the verge - the head disappeared due to PhaseRifle's full-charge shot, which he carried again.

Al Earth, who lost his head, loses balance and collapses -.

"Whoa."

There's no way the dragon knight riding on top can maintain the posture of Al Earth, who suddenly collapsed, falling horse with his foot pinched in that body - a falling dragon? I did.

But I haven't disabled the Dragon Knight yet. I ran over to the dragon knight with his legs pinched and jittered, kicking that head off.

This guy has a few questions to ask. I kept letting him lose his mind without killing him.

Now Al Earth and the Dragon Knight have all been rendered powerless. The remainder are ten fugitive slaves tied up and staring at this one, and five supposedly remnants of the thief "Cat Willow”.

Ignoring their gaze, they head to retrieve the Grenade Axe they were letting go. I would also replace the PhaseRifle energy pack with a PSS special silenced pistol magazine and also reload the Grenade Axe I picked up with projectiles.

"Sate......"

I started the TSS (Tactical Support System) and took out two gifts BOX first.

The fugitive slaves and the rest of the cat willow only glanced at the pink box that emerged while the light particles concentrated, but kept staring at me without saying anything.

From their point of view, I guess they don't understand why they don't kill themselves right away. And you must not understand what I'm going to do.

Normally, you wouldn't be able to, and here...

With one hand the Grenade Axe that I picked up, I approach the fugitive slaves that were tied up. With each step closer, their eyes were widening wide, trembling, and tears were beginning to float in their eyes.

The fugitive slaves, too, are all beast races - men in five, women in three,

That and two girls who can only be seen as children.

One of them - he went around behind the man who was at the far end and cut that rope.

"What?"

I suppose you thought you'd even be beheaded from behind? The man, who was trembling and leaning over, slowly turned back, making sure his neck was connected again and again.

"You know what I'm saying, Na?

"Ha... yes..."

"Only the five Omae men chill the rope, and before sinking into the labyrinth, put the dead Omaes' companions in that box. Lo. And the Dragon Knight is that box da. Can you eat Al Earth, Ca?

"Yes, if it's only part of it, I can eat it."

"Then Al Earths immediately stores it. Lo, don't use the blade the wrong way, yo?

The understanding of what I'm talking about doesn't seem to be keeping up, but it seems that the understanding is coming up little by little when I see my own people cutting the ropes in turn and releasing them.

"Oh, um..."

"No questions da, get fucked fast. If you run away or use your weapon the wrong way - you know what, Na?

In one word, the five men of the escaped slaves, who had been cut off their ropes, rushed out and began work.