Living as an Unemployed in Another World

76 – 3. Two Adventurers (29)

29.

All wizards are psychopaths.

A famous saying. If you simply think about it, it is truly an insult, and in fact, the most common use of this word is when you have a fight with a wizard at a drinking party.

However, just by looking at the widespread use of such insults, it is easy to see that there is some basis for the statement. In fact, even the same wizards jokingly discuss their eccentricity.

Simple story. Adventurers also have a lot of eccentrics, but their eccentricity is usually more of a ‘made-up’ thing. If eccentricity stems from the fear of losing one’s life in a dungeon and excessive courage for the unknown, that of a wizard stems solely from the quest for magic.

To put it a little more extreme, mages above a certain level, that is, mages who have achieved some level of achievement with their spells, are particularly obsessed with research. If it wasn’t for that, how could they have achieved it? For them, the well-being of society or the prosperity of the group has long been out of their interest. In a word, the purity is different.

There is a Zenith who is extremely reticent and somewhat reluctant to interact with others when it comes to wizards, but if you talk to her, she is rather friendly compared to the ‘real’ geeks. Of course, there are those who strongly oppose the trend of treating them as lunatics——but there are existences that even such people cannot deny that madness.

Lich 【Resurrected Mage】.

A monster that was reborn as a skeletal corpse by putting all its life into a reliquary, deciding that it could not continue its ‘research’ with the lifespan of a human, no, a life that would come to an end someday. . In other words, beings who were originally human were reborn with free will.

[Create Undead] Or [Create Greater Undead] Could never create something like that, and only those wizards who reached the stage could transform themselves. Its lifespan is said to be almost eternity if there is no intervention from the outside, and most of them have terrifyingly evil tendencies…… He is a more powerful magician than ever before as a human.

“Uh, why?”

Chloe opened her mouth. She looked like someone who had forgotten how to move her jaw joint.

“Richie, here… ….”

A natural question. No, maybe I was guessing. If powerful monsters appeared in the order of zombies and ghouls, there would of course be higher level undead below them. However…… Even so, I would have expected at least ghasts, or their upward compatibility. Without ever paying attention to a single possibility.

I agree. Everyone was just ignoring it. Adding a bit of exaggeration, I never thought I would meet a guy like him who couldn’t even be dismissed as a monster.

“Chuck! It’s a woomun, living child. Descendants of the moon, dregs of the fairies! Yes, this is my home. Aren’t you guys the intruders?”

“Sending ghouls and zombies…….”

“Ah, I was watching. If you burn it like that, you have to put in some effort to bring it back to life. I wish I could just quietly pay for my sins there. Wait… ….”

For some reason, the voice was clear, as if it was claiming to have been alive. As Richie rubbed her chin and chose her words, Chloe’s rapier slowly cut through the air. Knowing that it was not even a threat to the lich, she held onto her sword. It was a courage that I couldn’t even imitate.

“Jin.”

It was Mira who started talking. She was just as nervous, but unlike Chloe, she managed to keep her cool.

“Is there a way?”

I shook my head weakly at the question with multiple implications. As long as that skeleton is a lich, as long as he is the owner of this fort, it is impossible to defeat ‘that’ with our own strength, at least.

It is often said that the strength of a warrior is the strength of the body and experience. The strength of a thief is said to be the strength of skill and tenacity. So, who is the wizard? ──Talent and the strength of the years he has lived.

A lich, no, a high wizard, who has probably survived from the time of the fall of the empire and devoted himself to research for at least 300 years. You can’t deal with something like that. Even if I prepared in advance and came down, I don’t know if there will be a way to escape, but to encounter something like that on the third floor. Mira, who heard my answer, stared straight ahead in silence and crossed a pair of daggers.

“Get out of the way.”

“…… Orc face?”

“It’s impossible for you.”

Alphonse muttered plainly. Oh, while Chloe bit her lip in anger, he stepped forward, showing off his great back. And muttered in a small, unresponsive voice.

“If you can survive, survive.”

“What?”

“That is the role of the vanguard. …… Is not it?”

When he raised the final note as if to say something obvious, I inadvertently smiled even in this situation. Yes, I guess. Even though humans easily overturn that obvious thing…… Are you trying to keep your honor to the end?

Soon, the huge body was shot straight ahead like an artillery shell. Weighing over 150 kilograms, and an ax weighing dozens of kilograms more. A total of 200 masses were swung against the lich’s bony skeletal body.

Kaang——!! Alphonse’s assault struck the lich’s bones. If it was a normal skeleton, it would have been a shock that would have turned it into powder. However, unlike the ghouls he dealt with earlier, the lich stood on his own two feet, only being pushed back due to the weight difference.

“It’s virtual, warrior.”

“Wooooo!!!!!”

Kaang!! Goof!! Goo!! Kang, Kaang!! Alphonse continued to wield an onslaught, and the lich defended his crown with his scrawny body without much difficulty.

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No, that wasn’t all. Blocking Alphonse’s attacks, Alphonse’s movement slows down each time Rich reaches for that muscle. Negative contact! The basis itself is different from the paralysis ability of ghouls. Dangerous!

“Back off.”

It was Mira’s words. The moment we looked at her, she was already running into the darkness. Two are left. Only me and Chloe were left beyond the battlefield.

Should I run away? Leave them?

Wouldn’t it be more profitable in terms of calculations for even two people to survive than all four to die?

I managed to calm my trembling limbs. Inhaling the acrid air, I saw straight ahead what I could do——get it, sh*t like that.

“Chloe, listen to me.”

“Ji, Jin.”

“Listen carefully. Your role is the most important. Whether all four of us survive or die by that lich, it all depends on your sword.”

──.

The onslaught has subsided. Finally Alphonse got down on one knee. Chloe sighed.

It must be a shock. Alphonse, the most skilled fighter among us, couldn’t overwhelm a bone like that. Besides, he didn’t even use magic at all. Would play with him completely.

“Oops, did you run out of energy already? Then stop paying for killing my ghouls—”

At that very moment, blue-white lightning erupted from Richie’s bony fingers. A pink silhouette appeared behind Richie’s back. Awesome!!

“——Ah.”

Rich muttered in vain. The mummy appeared from behind her, crossed her daggers in reverse, and pierced the joints of her neck bones like scissors, cutting them open. Her surprise was perfect. But… ….

“Oh, I almost got hit.”

Even if his head fell off, he did not die. As the skull fell to the ground chanted, the lightning gathered in his fingers shot straight at Alphonse.

“Chain Lightning [Lightning, go on the road].”

Don’t fall!!!!!!

Blue-white lightning pierced Alphonse’s body, and the lightning that escaped from behind struck Mira again. Two people roll on the ground. Alphonse blew smoke out of her mouth and Mira fell to her knees.

I grabbed Chloe’s shoulder as she was about to run away. Had my feeble power been transmitted? She chewed on her lips until the two collapsed, blood staining the corners of her mouth.

And. The very moment Richie thought he had a complete victory. I finally passed Chloe and took a few steps forward.

“——Whoa.”

Richie still giggled in displeasure and spread her arms. He gives a signal, and his head, which has fallen to the floor, rises into the air again and clings to his neck.

“Now that the two of us are down…… Are you even a necromancer?”

“f*ck you.”

I closed my eyes after answering the sneering Richie. The only memorized spell in my slot right now is Grease. It takes at least half a day to recast this spell. But I focused my consciousness nonetheless.

I can’t beat a lich with my power right now, no, not only me, but most of the items in my bag are effective against humans. To the lich, who is called the king of lions, curses do not work at all. The same goes for Chloe. There was no way Alphonse or Mira could handle a lich that she, a low-class warrior, could handle.

So, rather than attacking, I threw prey at the moment when the lich was at its peak. Again this sense. The energy of the curse tightens my heart. The empty slots craved my energy and scattered it in all directions.

“Oh.”

Coming. I felt Richie’s jaw drop open. No matter how much you wear a skull mask, you’re a wizard. If so, you will definitely be interested. In my ‘slot’!!

“Wizard, you have a very unusual slot… ….”

Pu-wook.

This is the moment. Chloe’s rapier appeared behind me and in an instant ripped the lich’s skull off his neck. That’s right, you can tell from the fact that Alphonse’s ax attack was blocked, and Mira’s surprise attack was not taken seriously. Knowing that most sword strikes cannot work against him, he does not care whether a sword is thrust into his throat or not. You only defend against blows that can destroy you. That’s why he wasn’t wary of the prosecutor Chloe. Sure enough, Rich muttered again with his head rolling on the floor.

“I was going to use both of them for research anyway, but I urged my order first like this, Um!?”

Do your research to your heart’s content. I abruptly opened the bag’s mouth and threw it at the decapitated Richie. The blown bag opened its mouth like a living creature and swallowed Lich’s arm whole.

“!? What is this…… !”

Even a mage who has devoted 300 years of research has never seen such an extraordinary item, right? I smiled desperately.

My ‘cool bag’ isn’t actually a bag.

It is not a sub-space bag that is worth dozens of goals, but it is just a form of a bag that listens to me after taming a certain ‘creature’ with difficulty. Its identity is a dimension without substance.

Bag of Devouring 【Voracious Pouch】.

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Normally, he takes the road well, reads my emotions, delivers the items I need in my stomach, and doesn’t open his mouth to anyone other than myself even if a stranger opens it, but I left almost all the contents in the inn room. It’s a different story now. The usual feeling of satiety is gone and the guy with a full stomach is just a simple dimensional predator.

“aaa!!”

A lich whose vocal cords have melted lets out a human scream. Anyway, it’s an undead body that can be regenerated, but the one in my ‘bag’ wasn’t a simple bite attack. Objects sucked into it will be digested and destroyed within time, no matter how powerful the limbs are.

Even so, the reach is outside the standard.

It’s on a different level from eating a monster like a ghoul. Perhaps when he regains his composure, he will somehow use magic to smash my bag and take my arm out. Before that happens, we need to confuse him even more.

“Chloe, now!”

As the lich’s head tumbled across the floor tried to cling to his body again, Chloe instantly stretched out her rapier and shook off the crown from the lich’s head. In the meantime, I quickly clung to the resister and pulled the bag hard.

There is no way that I, who is weaker than an ordinary adventurer, can compete with the lich who originally defeated Alphonse, but what is pulling the lich now is not me, but the power of the dimension. There is no physical tension occurring. The lich, who lost the crown, struggled between his body being eaten and the crown stolen, and eventually began to gather ominous energy from the inside of his ribs!

Are you going to set us on fire? It can’t be like that. I quickly put a ring on Richie’s hand as he desperately pushed the bag away.

“Oh!?”

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Nothing would happen if Gerald got caught. However, a 300-year-old lich was too afraid to accept——the Ring of Foolishness. It contains a curse that causes the wearer to lose their wisdom to near-zero level.

Soon, the bag that couldn’t overcome Rich’s resistance bounced back. I, who was holding my bag, also rolled on the floor with me. The crown that Chloe was defending also could not overcome the force of gravity and was sucked back into Richie’s head. Mira and Alphonse stagger to their feet. ──I shouted without delay.

“Run, to the entrance!!”

“Ooooo!!”

Leaving behind the screaming Richie who had removed the ring from his hand, we tangled together and ran back the way we came. That one right now is not a lich. He’s just a rookie wizard who took over the body of an undead. However, if he regains his self someday and curses him, that’s it.

On the way, Mira couldn’t keep up with her speed and was about to fall, so instead of Alphonse, who had a bad complexion, I carried her up the stairs.

Run away. From fear.

Survive. That’s all.

On that day, we survived facing the lich. That was all.