Chapter 88
Chapter 88 - Preparing for the Dragon Extermination
Kazane and the others barely survived the Monster House, so they rested in a hidden room on the 29th layer until noon the next day . They were truly tired from the day before . And Kazane's group immediately took the shortest path to the stairway and set foot on the 30th layer .
◎ Rock Hold Cave 30th Layer
「Today's plan is to explore this layer without encountering enemies as much as possible . We'll only aim at a few monsters . 」
Kazane said while her muscles throbbed with pain from moving .
「Hmm . As it's right on the heels of yesterday my fatigue isn't gone . 」
Zinray also replied as he loosened his arms . Immediately after rejuvenating he was acting like an old man .
「That's tough . 」
Yumika said with a nonchalant face, since the Wolf God Transformation's fatigue recovery had prevented her from becoming too tired yesterday . Although less fatigue after battle was one of the advantages of the Bangle of the Wolf God, Yumika said「uu」and broke into a cold sweat at the irritated glares from Kazane and Zinray .
「Well, today I'm completely recovered since my body was barely fatigued yesterday . 」
「My shoulder injury was removed by Kazane's thorough Heal . Today you can entrust me with various things, so we'll be safe . 」
Tiara and Louise respectively replied . By the way, Sieg was down due to muscular pain caused by carrying stones to Tatsuyoshi-kun .
「So we reached layer 30, but aren't the monsters around here the same as above?」
「Let's see . It seems that way, but there's one new monster . There's a sword-like monster called Bloody Sword . 」
Yumika looked at the monster list on the dungeon map and answered .
「If I'm not mistaken it's that guy that drains stamina with its attacks?」
Zinray nodded at Kazane's request for confirmation .
「That is considerably tough . It takes a fairly long time to destroy it with attacks from a weapon like a spear or a sword, so concentrating on the core point is fastest . Well, magic can easily defeat it, particularly lightning magic . 」
「So you're saying it's my turn, right?」
「We'll be relying on you, Louise onee-san . 」
Zinray replied to Louise's remark . 「Leave it to me」Louise returned . It seemed that a bit of frustration had accumulated from having to preserve mana in normal battles until now .
One hour later Kazane and the others encountered Bloody Swords . Three were destroyed by Louise's Grimoire Chapter 4: Volt Burn, and Kazane killed two with Killing Leg . She obtained the skill『Bloodsucking Blade . 』When she tried using it her favorite sword Black Fang began to glow red . Since it disappeared after a while it seemed the effect lasted for a fixed time .
「If I attack with this I will probably recover stamina . 」
Kazane said .
「But in the first place you do hardly any damage with that and just kick things . 」
Yumika pointed out, and Kazane replied「that's true, isn't it」with a sigh .
Although it smelled of being a dead skill, she fought using it and unexpectedly found her fatigue was gone just past noon, and she became full of energy . It was thanks to『Warrior's Memory』that her swordsmanship was at a level where she could make that discovery . But after becoming energetic she returned to mainly kicking . Well, switching to the main weapon after complete recovery was something like the fate of the bloodsucking equipment, so it couldn't be helped .
After that she searched with dowsing for a while and discovered a hidden room . They obtained a mana potion there . It was a rare item that they had only encountered once in the battle against the Ogres, but since White Fang used a lot of Magic Power they gave it to Sieg .
Kazane and the others descended into layer 31 and decided to spend the night in a hidden room just beside the descent . Kazane's group encountered a rank A party there .
◎ Rock Hold Cave 31st Layer - Night
「Kukuku, I never thought the world famous Fang Spear Soldier would be in a party with so many girls . 」
「Shut up Zack . I never expected this to happen either . 」
Zinray was having a friendly conversation with Zack Bastalt, a rank A adventurer in his forties . He was an experienced adventurer that had partied with Zinray several times .
By the way, Zinray was rank B . Zinray was eligible for promotion to rank A since a long time ago, but it was troublesome, so he never advanced .
「Hmph . I've been hearing about your activities . I've heard that those young girls are considerably capable . 」
「Oh dear, young girl, is it?」
Louise made an embarrassed smile, and Zack was about to say「I wasn't talking about you」but he thought better of it .
「That lad looks quite young, does he have some kind of special skill?」
Even if he looked young Zack didn't look down on him . Zack recognized that if he was able to make it down to this layer his competency『clearly existed . 』Zinray couldn't reveal Sieg's lineage, so he spoke the prepared story .
「No, this is my grandchild . He's quite excellent, so I am training him here . 」
At Zinray's words Sieg nodded and said「good evening . 」
「Grandchild, huh . So that means Cindy . . . . . . no, no way, that person . 」
Zack pointed at Louise and she said「I will leave it to your imagination . 」The consequence of leaving things that way would come another day .
「However, you seem to have very severely suffered damage . 」
Zinray examined Zack's party . Some had burns, while others had received significant damage, and Kazane was healing them along with the healer from Zack's party .
「I suppose . It's only a little, as we were meddling with a dragon . He was enraged and kept yelling『where is the wing sword man?』」
「That must be the person who defeated the dragon when he was alive . 」
Reincarnated bodies could reincarnate with grudges against those who defeated them when they were alive .
「Yeah . However, I'm guessing from the fact that you all descended to this layer that you are going to fight it?」
Zack's remark made Zinray nod .
「I won't tell you to stop . We are adventurers . But don't make a mistake . You will abruptly die . It is that kind of foe . 」
「I will keep that in mind . But I would like you to tell me any features you know about that guy . 」
Zack said「I see」and started answering .
「The size is about 10 meters or so . Its skin is hard like a rock, so it's probably a Black Rock Dragon from a rocky mountain . 」
A dragon's characteristics varied greatly depending on the surrounding living environment . Hard skin tended to be seen more often in dragons that lived in rocky mountains . Conversely, dragons that lived in the ocean had sheer and slimy skin and scales . The color often revealed the dragon's element .
「So the fire breath isn't wide, but it's correspondingly powerful . It seems to have a wild personality, and its defense is centered on protecting its abdomen . We could not cut into the soft abdomen, but it was relatively easy to scratch it . 」
「I see . 」
「I don't think it happened very often, but some rock-like scales were blown off a few times from arrows . So shoot it . 」
He mimed like an arrow had pierced him and raised his arm .
「Be careful . 」
「Hmm . That is a good way to deal with muscles . 」
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