The Porter Is Not Interested in the Hero Party

84 – good friends (10)

“Well?”

When the hero realized the abnormality, the hero also moved to an empty lot. The path the hero followed separated him from other party members. The hero put his hand on the hilt of his sword and looked around. I moved cautiously, trying to catch movement in the dark.

“Warrior!”

The hero was startled by the sudden voice from behind and jumped up, then managed to catch his breath and lower his stance. When I turned my head, I couldn’t see Millet’s figure, but I could feel her voice and presence.

The warrior let out a sigh of relief and smiled.

“Mi, Millet? thank god. I thought everything was gone.”

Millet said in the dark.

“This cave is strange. I’m following the hero, but there’s a strange twist on the road, right? It seemed like the hero was going through the wall, so I hurriedly followed him. It was here.”

“Mille, can you see in the dark?”

“I can’t see very well, but I can see the hero in front of me.”

The elf’s superhuman senses performed well even in the dark. The hero felt relieved just by having Millet by his side. The warrior looked around and asked.

“millet. Are there any enemies around?”

“Well… … . I don’t know? I don’t feel anything at once.”

“yes? Then wait… … .”

The warrior drew his sword and took a stance. He closed his eyes and steadied his breath, giving strength to his whole body.

“Wow!”

The black air rose with the flashing light. The dazzling golden sword became a torch to illuminate the cave, revealing the clearing. The hero looked around with his eyes narrowed to see if anyone was there. A few odds and ends were rolling around, and I saw stalactites growing at regular intervals.

The warrior held the sword in one hand and swung it around lightly, examining the surroundings. Millet moved to the opposite side of the hand holding the sword in case he was caught in the sword. The hero said to Millet.

“Because I can’t keep it that long. Could you quickly take a look around? Something must be a clue to get out of here.”

“…there’s a seam here.”

As soon as the hero finished speaking, Millet stretched out her finger. The hero turned in the direction Millet pointed. A straight seam was visible between the stalactites that surrounded the clearing like a fence and the clearing. A structure overflowing with a sense of incongruity that could not be seen because it was in the dark, the warrior stretched out his hand toward the stalactite. The crumbling stones were real stalactites.

“Can you step away for a moment?”

“yes!”

I heard Millet stepping back. The hero took a deep breath, and struck down the direction where the stalactite was with all his strength with his sword.

With the hero’s strength and swordsmanship, the stalactite was easily cut like a sponge.

kang!

The shock was transmitted to the wrist with a sound like an iron plate being struck. Sparks lightly bounced, illuminating the thin grooves between the stalactites. Millet said to the warrior.

“what? What did you do?”

The warrior shook his wrists and raised his head. There must be a ceiling in the dark.

“This cave. It is an artificially created place. wait for a sec.”

The warrior’s sword emitted a golden sword again. As if this time it wasn’t meant to be used for lighting, the hero immediately raised his sword and cut it. A radiant energy shot toward the ceiling like backward-flowing lightning, and an explosion rang out.

bang!

Millet was startled and leaned down, and the hero knocked the stones off the floor with only his intuition, and then showed his sword skills again. By the time the golden sword reached the ceiling, it was only a feeble light, but this much light was enough for the elf.

the warrior asked.

“millet. Could you look at the ceiling?”

“yes? uh? There’s a hole! By the way, is there a strange passage in the ceiling?”

“Can you go up?”

“wait a minute… … .”

Millet took a rope from her waistband and tied it to the tail of her arrow. The warrior wiped the sweat from his forehead and swept the ground with his feet. After confirming that it was firmly tied, Miele tied another piece of rope around her waist.

The hero was staring blankly at Millet, wondering what he was doing.

Millet tilted his head as the hero looked at him, then lowered his posture after an arrow was bitten by the string. The warrior frowned and asked.

“No, I fly like that… … .”

“Goes!”

As Millet fired the arrow, Millet’s body was blown away by the arrow. When Millet suddenly disappeared in front of his eyes, the hero blinked and shook his head. Then he rubbed his eyes and looked around again.

The reason he didn’t look at the ceiling was probably because the hero’s common sense refused to understand the skill he had just shown.

“Warrior! Grab the rope!”

However, to the hero’s suspicion, Millet climbed into the hole in the ceiling and was lowering the rope for the hero. After the hero stopped displaying his sword, he awkwardly nodded and grabbed the rope.

“I’ll pull you!”

“Uh, yes.”

The warrior felt strange.

*****

If the cave is full of mechanical devices, there will be separate passages on the ceiling or underground.

Manipulating the inside with a mechanical device means that there is a demon controlling the situation in the center. Since we do not know what happened to the other colleagues, the hero’s job was not to wait for someone to rescue him here, but to find a way out by attacking the central part.

The hero’s expectations were right, and the place he came out of through the passage in the ceiling was a room with complex mechanical devices and levers. Unlike the pitch-black cave, the light leaked out, and the structure of the room could be grasped with the naked eye. The owner of the room couldn’t see where he had gone, but two guards stood in front of the door holding weapons.

“Who, who… … !”

“Oops… !”

Of course, they were the men who had once guarded this place. Now, in front of the door, a corpse with a blown head and a corpse with arrows pierced were lying in different directions. The hero pushed the arm of the corpse in front of the door with his foot, then opened the door and went inside.

The blueprints of the device inside the cave were hung next to it, and a manual was also placed next to it to help with complicated operations. The warrior scratched his head and said.

“This is weak… … .”

“A hero can do it!”

Hearing Millet’s encouragement, the hero smiled bitterly. But there was no time to hesitate about not being able to do it. I don’t know how the situation inside is going, but it was right to open the way out by manipulating this device for now. No matter how much buildings were built inside, the cave was real. If they went out by breaking the wall at will, the bedrock would collapse and they could all die.

The hero nodded as he picked up the books that fell nearby and read them.

“…Easier to understand than I thought? The person who wrote this must have been very smart.”

Millet reached out to read it, and the hero handed the book to Millet. And carefully pull the lever.

*****

Lena sat down on the floor and was in agony. It was because he succeeded in defeating the enemy once, but he did not know where to go and how to proceed. I couldn’t dig into each stalactite, and I couldn’t move easily because I didn’t know where the real trap might be.

Lena decided to open the wall for Ashuria, who was on the other side.

It was because the lever that Parsus had used was fine because he had not been involved in the battle.

“Well?”

Then Lena heard the sound of the entire cave ringing in her ears. It wasn’t just a hallucination. It was actually because the bottom of the cave was shaking and the scenery was changing. Light leaked in from what I thought was a wall. A white shadow drawn in a straight line filled the cave and then turned red again, revealing the previous view.

I saw the monsters standing there humming, and I saw Ashuria in the middle.

Ashuria wasn’t even in a fighting stance, monsters surrounded her in various poses, either with their mouths open or slumped to the ground.

Lena reflexively tried to throw her weapon, but when she realized she wasn’t in the mood for a fight, she put the dagger back in. Ashuria also realized that the door was open behind her and turned around, then met Lena’s eyes and awkwardly averted her eyes.

“uh… … .”

“Well… … .”

It is awkward.

I thought I’d apologize first when we met, but since we met at such an unexpected timing, I didn’t know how to break my luck.

Lena scratched her head and said.

“That… … . Who are the people behind you?”

What about the demons? I thought I should ask, but because they look complicated even just by looking at them, Rena used honorifics without realizing it. The people who had converted to the demon tribe shuddered at the appearance of a new Hero party member, or were looking at their surroundings with anxious eyes.

Ashuria said.

“Oh, guys, don’t worry. This is Lena. Colleagues.”

And Ashuria spoke to Lena again.

“Lena, let me introduce you. These are the people we will take to the capital.”

Rena, who was awkwardly looking at her opponent, forgot that she and Ashria were awkward now and asked again.

“….yes?”

Then, behind Ashuria’s back, the walls opened one after another and bright light leaked in.

like a halo.

Lena felt embarrassed.