The Dungeon Struggle of an Earth Dragon!

Inside the dungeon, it was more complicated than expected.

The road is crooked with gnagna, and every single one of the dividing roads hits a bumpy rock.

Exactly what you said about an ant nest.

But there was enough room for a few people to walk side by side.

I can walk at my leisure.

It was relatively bright in the dungeon.

When I see it, I see light demon stones everywhere.

I'm guessing Killer Ants are using it instead of a light source.

"Quite a bit, but the ants won't come out."

Bassack squeaks at the front.

Pardee agrees.

I feel Killer Ant's magic coming from somewhere earlier.

Probably lurking somewhere, but I didn't know you wouldn't show up like this.

"... that's creepy"

"Oh, I went pretty deep in the first place, but there's no assault at all on Killer Ants. What's going on?

Killer Ant is a demon of numbers.

Demons who fight not by united fighting power, but by a number of violence.

Usually the nest is flooded with killer ants.

The fact is that the Killer Ant nest they have crusaded so far was flooded with Killer Ants from the entrance to the dwellings of the deep queen species.

Nonetheless, there hasn't even been a single killer ant since I got in.

Despite the nest, the anomaly that not a single killer ant would be encountered was instead stimulating their vigilance.

Thereafter, the five men explored the dungeon while guarding their surroundings.

But Killer Ant never came out.

Only the black wall is subjected to the reflection of the Light Demon Stone, which is suspiciously glowing.

And after a while, the five of them reached a large room.

"This is... a lot bigger - it's a room"

"Oh, and the brightness is completely different. It's like noon."

A room of about ten mails laid on one side with a black tile-like pattern.

At its center, a stone statue was placed just to say there was something.

A stone statue imitating a lion was placed on a black pedestal.

"... Pardee, you know what that is?

Rayle asks as he wanders inside from before entering the hall.

"Maybe... but I don't know if that's a golem"

"Right - right. I feel magical numbness from that stone statue."

Lele seems to agree.

"When you get into this room, aren't you going to make a move? It's a common trap in dungeons."

"Right."

Bassack and Bordroy snort too.

"Hmm, the magic I feel from that stone statue. Then I think it's an elementary class golem at best. Well, I've never seen a golem in Killer Ant's nest either."

Rayle snorts at Lele's opinion as if it were prolonged.

"Oh, let's go in then"

That's what I say. The members of 'Silver Wu' try to get on the floor.

Pardee tries to follow suit.

At that moment,

".................. Huh!!??"

He said.

There was some kind of inexperienceable scare running all over Pardee's body.

I got fatty sweat.

Oh, shit! Something's coming!

"Wind! Wings to free us from the chains of gravity!

That was no longer close to reflection.

Pardee did not have to ascertain the identity of the scare she felt, but put a fly, or aerial floating, on everyone.

And I realize that the hunch was right.

Shit, I heard a noise.

The effect of the fly made an odd noise from the foot of the bassack, just before the body rose.

If you say so, it sounded like something had been bitten off.

"- What?"

Bassack stared at his feet.

There wasn't.

There was no bottom from my left ankle.

Fluffy, my body floated.

The body of a floating bassack.

And fluids fall off my ankle when I blur.

So Bassac finally swallowed up what had happened to him.

"Uhhhhhh!

The scream wooded inside the dungeon.

"What!? What happened!?

Rail tries to grasp the situation while controlling his floating body.

And now I know why.

There were ants.

Until earlier, at the foot where Bassac was, there was the face of an ant.

That sharp fang is the thing that was Bassac's foot.

And the hell, the whole thing and Killer Ant show up again.

From the ground, from the wall, from the ceiling.

Ants crawled out of everywhere.

whilst sounding the fangs chirp, chirp, chip.

So Pardee finally realized.

"... No way these guys, erase the magic and the signs... Huh!?

Yes, Killer Ants were there from the beginning.

I just didn't see that.

Yes, the walls, the ceilings, the floors, they were all simulated killer ants.

"Lying... right...?

It was Bordroy who murmured so.

The large hall where I went in to be flushed by Killer Ants.

The walls, floors, and ceilings were all filled with killer ants.

No longer had the passage we had walked into turned into Killer Ant, and the Great Hall into Killer Ant, surrounded by hundreds of Killer Ants to say at once.

The golem of the lion placed on the pedestal also moves.

Impossible anomaly.

I'm not talking about the number of killer ants or the golem.

Just before that, I had never heard of demons disappearing into waves of magic.

Not to mention, I can't believe Killer Ant, the lowest rank, does that.

"... Shit!

But that's the A-rank party, Silver Wu.

The response was quick.

By fly they densify each other the floating bodies and move to the center of the hall.

"Great flame! Burn everything down!

Lele spins the chant and burns down the killer ants falling from the top.

Intermediate Sorcery "Aurora Flame". There is no way to avoid Killer Ants falling.

Nearly ten killer ants ashed at once.

But there are more killer ants falling than that.

"Wind! Be a sword and tear my enemies apart!

Then Pardee's attack.

Extensive attack technique "Dance Wind Blade".

It is an intermediate technique that generates countless blades of wind extensively.

The power of a single blow is inferior to 'Aurora Flame', but its attack range is five times greater than 'Aurora Flame'.

One killer ant after another is mutilated.

If we were to deal with numbers, Pardee's windy maneuvers were better suited.

Killer Ants and Lion Golems on floors and walls try to bite themselves into the scaffolding to the Rails.

but Bordroy, who is a shield, plays it.

The Rail cuts into the gap that I was able to play.

The bodies of the approaching Killer Ants turned into two straight pieces.

And Rayle jumps the instructions quickly.

"Lele is alert to enemies coming from above, while covering for Bassac!

"Yeah!"

"Bassack, how long does it take to stop the bleeding?

"... give me a minute, no, thirty seconds!

"Okay. Pardee, how long will the fries last?

"It must be three minutes. After that, if you don't put the interval down for a minute, you won't be able to use the next fly!

"Okay. Then we'll manage to secure the scaffolding in less than three minutes! I was surprised, but it doesn't change what I do! Let's go, guys!

Then for a while, it was a fierce battle with Killer Ant.

Pardee and members of "Silver Wu" judged Killer Ant's attack with skillful association, securing a ground that would be scaffolded one by one.

And then three minutes passed and the effect of the fry expired.

The five of them landed on the scaffold, making sure it wasn't Killer Ant this time.

And look at the killer ants leaning around to surround themselves.

"After all, that's a lot of numbers, what are we gonna do?

All I asked was to stop the bleeding and a bassack with a dagger in both hands.

It creates something like a prosthetic leg with instant earthwork “alchemy”.

Apparently, there's nothing wrong with the fight.

"... Lele, Pardee"

Rayle looks at the two of them.

"We're gonna make a living out of a mixed magic trick between the two of us." Wind "and" fire "go well together. Can you do that?"

"Yeah, sure."

"No problem ~"

Even if it's the first technique I've done in six months, the two faces say it's perfectly fine.

All right, and Rayle re-grips the sword.

"The other members need backup until the two chants are over!

And Rayle cuts into the lion's golem.

The lion made of stone was cut in two.

"After all, this golem is not that strong in itself! All right, next!

And the moment Rail set up, something strange happened.

Killer Ants began to retreat.

We approached earlier, and now we started retreating all at once.

"... what?

Rail squeaks.

But even more unlikely things struck them.

Gari! Gari! Gari! Gari!

The sound of Killer Ants shattering something.

Gally Gally Gally Gally Gally Gally!!

That sounded pretty clear in the sound of the retreating killer ants.

What the hell happened?

That's the next moment I thought so.

Gogogogogogogogogogogogogogo!!

There was a roar.

"- Up!?

Pardee noticed.

The ceiling.

The ceiling is falling.

It's like falling rocks in pieces.

"Become!?

And even more surprising.

And the floor.

Are the floors that we are now passing also cracked and crumbled?

Collapse, so intuitive.

"I'll tie the line! Guys, come here!

Pardee brings everyone together and quickly builds wind junctions.

The wind pressure causes the impending rock formation to lose its momentum.

The damage caused by the falling stone managed to be prevented, but they followed gravity as it was and fell away.

"While it hurts............ What, here?

What lay ahead of us fell was a large hall that was even more than double the size of the floor we had earlier.

They're all here. They're safe.

The impact of the fall has caused some injuries, but it should still be fine for you to move.

Pardee also made sure everyone was safe before checking herself out.

All the equipment is safe. I can still use enough.

"... the bracelet Ecclesiaste gave me and the magic stone are safe."

Pardee puts a bracelet on his left hand.

"With that said, what's that bracelet?

Rayle asked.

"This was also given to Master Ecclesius with the Demon Stone. Because it helps."

"Hmm, looks like a regular bracelet from what I've seen."

"But the magic works. Maybe it's some kind of magic item..."

"Oh, you didn't ask me what it would do?

"Yeah, and..."

"It's good for both of us to flirt, but we need to know what's going on first."

Bordroy told me that you two returned it to me.

Or Pardee denied that he wasn't flirting in the first place.

I saw the floor again.

The number of light demon stones is lower than earlier.

but the light demon stone that fell with me at the same time as the floor collapsed was illuminating everywhere.

"... this room is also made of ants...?

You remember your earlier fears, Bassac looks at the floor.

"... No, this floor looks real. But what do you mean? What happened?

Whatever you think of the earlier collapse, it doesn't seem like a coincidence.

Besides, I heard it just before that, it sounds like it would crush something.

"Are you telling me Killer Ants deliberately set up a" floor collapse ”?

Rayle says.

Impossible, Pardee mutters.

But too, the timing was too good.

The array was such a move, as if it had been set up in anticipation of the expiration of the effect of the Pardees' fries.

"No way... but no..."

In the first place, I've never heard of demons deliberately collapsing parts of a dungeon to punish intruders.

That kind of intelligence can't be in the lowest killer ant.

Not to mention erasing signs and even simulating them on floors, walls and rooms.

Moreover, with such precision that we deceive ourselves, the advanced adventurers.

But that's the fact that's happening to us.

This dungeon, everything's wrong.

Too abnormal.

Rayle calls out to Pardee crushing bumps and talking to herself.

"Pardee, I'm sorry to bother you, but it looks like your enemy has appeared."

That's what they say. Pardee is drawn back to reality.

Direction of the Rail's finger pointing.

There, there was no killer ant.

But there was something there that couldn't be more.

"... what, are you?

Pardee doubted her own eyes.

What was there was a huge human-shaped golem with over a hundred arms.