Chapter 89: 85 Some things appear when you set a goal
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Tanaka Jiro, 28 years old, with a girlfriend
Her Suela Hendelberg
Memory Tris
Occupation Dungeon Tester (full-time)
Magical aptitude 8 (general class)
Post Warriors
Yesterday's mock battle with Suela gave me an idea of where I'm headed.
Then I decided that I had to do it.
So I decided to pick up what I needed to do right away.
Senpai.
"Huh? What, huh?
You're usually a very serious person, but sometimes you're an idiot, right?
A junior colleague called me an idiot when I brought him in because he said he was free.
"OK, you want a fight?
"Hey! I mean, who wouldn't when they see you dressed like that! It's a good idea to train with such a large weight. ...... It's funny to think about training with such a large weight. It's not just a matter of how much you can do, it's how you can do it.
"It's not a weight, it's an anchor. Can you or can't you try and do it. That's all.
"Wow, it really is a lot of fantasy.
Instead of lowering the anchor directly to the ground to catch your breath, you hold it on your shoulder while creating a gurgling, dull wind pressure.
You're going to be able to find out how many people on the planet think about training with this kind of thing as per Kaido's suggestion.
I'm lacking in everything.
There's no shortage of things I lack, from strength to skill to knowledge.
I've been thinking about how to make up for that lack.
But I realized that the idea of making up for it was passive.
You change your mind to think that you should master it, not supplement it.
Then, the next question is what to master.
Master everything.
If I was talented enough to talk like that, I wouldn't have been bothered in the first place.
I can't wear a sleeve that isn't there.
Henceforth I'll be a specialist.
There is a tathagata of the teaching style called Unyo's sword.
It teaches you to swing first, even if it's only by a hair's breadth.
Follow this.
You have been swinging with the anchor of a ship that weighs a ton, which a human being could not normally carry, just for the sake of swinging down.
You will be able to find the best way to get the most out of the situation.
It's a good thing that you're not going to have to worry about the fact that you're not going to have to worry about the fact that you're not going to have to worry about the fact that you're not going to have to worry about it.
"No problem,
Of course, it's not something that can be learned overnight, and you have to learn other skills such as footwork and how to use the sword.
The path of a thousand miles starts with a single step.
In fact, if you can see the final product, there is no reason not to aim for it.
In addition to this, I believe that if I can make a contract with a spirit that strengthens my body, this configuration will become much more vicious.
Stepping in at an imperceptible speed out of time, you'll be able to split the bamboo with a well-honed blow.
Finally, this is my goal.
Shouldn't you work out a little?
Wielding a weight greater than that of the mineral tree means that you have to be mindful of your overall balance.
It's easy to say that you should swing down and up as if you were tracing the midline, but it was much harder than I imagined.
You can take on the afternoon dungeon with no problem in terms of physical distribution.
I don't know if you can call it proof of that, but there's plenty of room to talk while wielding a ton of stuff.
Well, in other words, I can't do much more than that.
No, you can't ask me for that.
From what I've heard, succubus prefers a well-developed body, though.
"Senpai, I'll do it too. Do you have something a little lighter?
"That's a cash fellow.
However, it is difficult to concentrate on the monotonous training of just repeating the gestures neatly like this.
I know that if you ask me to take it seriously, that's the end of it, but even so, if I can continue to be more efficient than necessary, I'll be bored.
If I was doing this alone, I would just give up and do it quietly, but fortunately I'm not alone, so I'll just let you pass the boredom by.
So, if you play along with what Memoria told you, there will be one more idiot who will take off his jacket and start pretending to be with you, just as you expected.
After spending the morning and eating lunch as planned, we were already in a dungeon for the unknown number of times.
"Hey, you overdid it and your sword is very light. It feels really strange.
Get used to it.
I can't hate this kind of honesty.
There is a saying that even a pig will climb a tree if it is cajoled, but Kaido, who was swinging at a good pace while humming the phrase "irresistible and irresistible," felt uncomfortable with the sword he had pulled from its scabbard.
It's no use.
I'm sure you'll be happy to know that I'm not the only one who's been wielding a sword five times heavier than that one.
A discomfort or two will come up.
And I wonder if you noticed the other discomfort as well.
"Kaido, are you aware of this?
"...... isn't here.
"Oh, it's too quiet.
Normally, we would be in a position where we would be able to make close contact and fight two or three times, but we haven't been able to find a single insect since a while ago.
Just the thick forest creates an eerie silence.
""......"
"Hey, Kaido.
"What is it, seniors?
"I have a really bad feeling about ......
"Me too.
The unusual atmosphere gives you a strange sense of déjà vu, and you look around to make your way out.
If you listen carefully, you can hear what sounds like something fighting in the distance.
Are you fighting ......?
"Is it another tester?
It's no surprise that there are other testers in the dungeon besides us.
It's just that it was my job, and my schedule just happened to coincide with it.
It's not hard to understand why it's so quiet when you consider that those testers attracted the entire enemy.
But my gut tells me otherwise.
"Sir, is the sound getting closer and closer?
Maybe so, but with such poor visibility, I can't even see.
I tried to climb up the tree to check on it, but it was impossible to do so due to the similar height of the trees.
I had no choice but to keep an eye out for the direction of the sound.
After a few hundred meters, you arrive at a high point where you can look down at the scene and see
""......"
We were forced to silence.
A black shadow took shape.
It was preying on the monsters in the dungeon.
It would swallow army ants by the head and devour them, and when it was in the middle of eating, it would decide on its next prey, and then it would attack another ant with its body, preying again.
Naturally, other dungeon monsters are attacking, but the attacker's attack is too weak to do any physical damage, so it goes forward, and this time the dangling mantis is devoured by its predator's vanguard.
And its shadow is increasing in volume.
I wondered if there was such a thing in the dungeon, but I came to the conclusion that there was an abnormal situation.
It's nothing short of extraordinary that the monsters in the dungeon you're defending have started eating each other.
......!
I slapped Kaido on the shoulder, urging him to withdraw.
Kaido was so shocked by the scene that he almost screamed in surprise, but he held his mouth to keep from screaming.
Show your intention to withdraw with a glance and a hand sign and Kaido nods silently.
Before retreating, I take out my camera to take a picture as a briefing material.
But as if in response to my gesture, the shadow stops moving for a moment and turns its direction firmly and distinctly toward you as if it could tell where you are.
It probably preyed on various creatures.
The ominous and shapeless shadow forms a body with such predators.
I knew it the moment I saw it face to face.
And I knew what this shadow's main food was.
I don't have eyes, but we're eye level.
No, this one is sensing
"Run Kaido!
!
I don't know if my voice was a signal or if he was originally going to jump on me or not, but at the same time we turned and started running, the shadow also grew multiple legs and started running.
What the hell is that?
"I don't know! All I know is that that guy is not an official monster in this dungeon. The other thing is that if you get caught, you're not going to get away with it!
Hi!
I was right to avoid the battle at a moment's notice.
The ability of the opponent was unknown, and the geography was not conducive to fighting there.
Just playing tag like this gives you a small amount of information.
It's a good thing the forest is familiar to me, as I've been trying for a while now.
You can avoid the trees and fly around to gain speed so you won't get caught right away.
But the fact is that they are also very capable and difficult to escape from.
If you glance behind you, you'll see that the distance between you and the enemy hasn't changed and they're still running behind us.
The shadow was chasing us through the obstacle by using the softness of its body to take advantage of its irregular shape.
And worst of all, they perceive us with something other than their five senses.
The proof is that even when for a moment we thought we were completely obscured by the trees, the shadow didn't hesitate to chase us.
At first we thought it was scent, but downwind here our foothold is not only on the ground.
They're moving through the trees as well, so their scent is dispersed. They won't be able to follow us easily by smell.
Above all, there are no eyes to see, no ears to hear, no nose to sniff.
I wonder what it would feel like to be in the shadows with their flickering, sludgy, coal-tar mass.
...... chasing our magic.
The answer comes easily to me.
That would be pretty bad.
If I'm right, this magical body might be completely useless.
Preying on it means it has something to feed on.
And that shadow preyed on a magical soul.
When you kill them, they are just magic.
Their magic may fill you, but your belly will not grow.
From this fact, it follows that the opponent's goal is not to fill your belly, but to gain magic power.
And this body is currently replenished with a considerable density of magic power.
Wow, we must be pretty tasty prey.
What do you mean?
The idea that I ended up with was one that drove me to the conclusion that it was like releasing a well-farmed, high-grade piece of meat in front of a beast that was eating cheap meat, even if it was unintentional.
No matter how well equipped this body is with an emergency escape function, there is no escape if the whole thing is preyed upon in the first place.
The last thing you want is for it to be chewed up in your mouth.
And the digested contents will contain the data of my soul.
You are the worst opponent you've ever had, without redemption.
"Its staple food is probably magic. She tends to go for high-purity magic. If you ask me, who has the most magic among these monsters?
"You mean we?
You're right.
Maybe that's why we didn't see the monster, because we preyed on it all over the place.
Now we've run into a nasty one that jumped out of the bushes before we could poke the bushes.
But we can't keep running away.
Kaido, can you use your magic to keep him in check?
I'll give it a try, but I don't have much hope if you're right.
It's a no-brainer.
"Yes, sir.
With that said, Kaido took advantage of the momentary dwell time to fire a fireball into the shadows, but as expected, the fireball was swallowed up by the shadows.
"Ugh, I knew it!
"Eaten.
Magic, the lump of magic, seems to be nothing more than a meal for her.
Then we're talking about physical damage.
I jokingly wanted the anchor I'd been using all morning, but unfortunately I didn't have it with me.
As it is.
"Humph! Ha!
I slice through one of the trees in front of me with the mineral tree and then send it flying in front of me with a kick.
I then quickly tuck the mineral tree behind my back and, with my free hands, grab a tree the size of my waist, a grown man in the air, and throw it at my opponent.
"d*mn it!
My body, which had been wielding a ton of chunks earlier, took full advantage of its performance and gave me the speed of a professional baseball player's straightaway.
I won't ever say "Did you do it here?
After I finish throwing, I don't kill the momentum and just go for a run.
How's this?
"You're being eaten! It just seems to take a while for it to stick and be swallowed.
Better than magic, I suppose.
If you listen to Kaido's report, it means that a physical attack that isn't a lump of magic power can do some damage.
If that's the case, there's a chance for some damage.
Shall we kill it?
"Really?
We don't have all the information, but at least we have it.
As if to say this is the end of our escape, we're going to stay put and face each other.
Teary-eyed at my actions, Kaido stands ready, too.
Now, shall I challenge you?
Tanaka Jiro, twenty-eight years old, with a girlfriend.
Her Suela Hendelberg
Memory Tris
Occupation Dungeon Tester (full-time)
Magical aptitude 8 (general class)
Post Warriors
Word of the Day
There is a difference in efficiency between setting and not setting goals.
Please report us if you find any errors so we can fix it asap!
Tanaka Jiro, 28 years old, with a girlfriend
Her Suela Hendelberg
Memory Tris
Occupation Dungeon Tester (full-time)
Magical aptitude 8 (general class)
Post Warriors
Yesterday's mock battle with Suela gave me an idea of where I'm headed.
Then I decided that I had to do it.
So I decided to pick up what I needed to do right away.
Senpai.
"Huh? What, huh?
You're usually a very serious person, but sometimes you're an idiot, right?
A junior colleague called me an idiot when I brought him in because he said he was free.
"OK, you want a fight?
"Hey! I mean, who wouldn't when they see you dressed like that! It's a good idea to train with such a large weight. ...... It's funny to think about training with such a large weight. It's not just a matter of how much you can do, it's how you can do it.
"It's not a weight, it's an anchor. Can you or can't you try and do it. That's all.
"Wow, it really is a lot of fantasy.
Instead of lowering the anchor directly to the ground to catch your breath, you hold it on your shoulder while creating a gurgling, dull wind pressure.
You're going to be able to find out how many people on the planet think about training with this kind of thing as per Kaido's suggestion.
I'm lacking in everything.
There's no shortage of things I lack, from strength to skill to knowledge.
I've been thinking about how to make up for that lack.
But I realized that the idea of making up for it was passive.
You change your mind to think that you should master it, not supplement it.
Then, the next question is what to master.
Master everything.
If I was talented enough to talk like that, I wouldn't have been bothered in the first place.
I can't wear a sleeve that isn't there.
Henceforth I'll be a specialist.
There is a tathagata of the teaching style called Unyo's sword.
It teaches you to swing first, even if it's only by a hair's breadth.
Follow this.
You have been swinging with the anchor of a ship that weighs a ton, which a human being could not normally carry, just for the sake of swinging down.
You will be able to find the best way to get the most out of the situation.
It's a good thing that you're not going to have to worry about the fact that you're not going to have to worry about the fact that you're not going to have to worry about the fact that you're not going to have to worry about it.
"No problem,
Of course, it's not something that can be learned overnight, and you have to learn other skills such as footwork and how to use the sword.
The path of a thousand miles starts with a single step.
In fact, if you can see the final product, there is no reason not to aim for it.
In addition to this, I believe that if I can make a contract with a spirit that strengthens my body, this configuration will become much more vicious.
Stepping in at an imperceptible speed out of time, you'll be able to split the bamboo with a well-honed blow.
Finally, this is my goal.
Shouldn't you work out a little?
Wielding a weight greater than that of the mineral tree means that you have to be mindful of your overall balance.
It's easy to say that you should swing down and up as if you were tracing the midline, but it was much harder than I imagined.
You can take on the afternoon dungeon with no problem in terms of physical distribution.
I don't know if you can call it proof of that, but there's plenty of room to talk while wielding a ton of stuff.
Well, in other words, I can't do much more than that.
No, you can't ask me for that.
From what I've heard, succubus prefers a well-developed body, though.
"Senpai, I'll do it too. Do you have something a little lighter?
"That's a cash fellow.
However, it is difficult to concentrate on the monotonous training of just repeating the gestures neatly like this.
I know that if you ask me to take it seriously, that's the end of it, but even so, if I can continue to be more efficient than necessary, I'll be bored.
If I was doing this alone, I would just give up and do it quietly, but fortunately I'm not alone, so I'll just let you pass the boredom by.
So, if you play along with what Memoria told you, there will be one more idiot who will take off his jacket and start pretending to be with you, just as you expected.
After spending the morning and eating lunch as planned, we were already in a dungeon for the unknown number of times.
"Hey, you overdid it and your sword is very light. It feels really strange.
Get used to it.
I can't hate this kind of honesty.
There is a saying that even a pig will climb a tree if it is cajoled, but Kaido, who was swinging at a good pace while humming the phrase "irresistible and irresistible," felt uncomfortable with the sword he had pulled from its scabbard.
It's no use.
I'm sure you'll be happy to know that I'm not the only one who's been wielding a sword five times heavier than that one.
A discomfort or two will come up.
And I wonder if you noticed the other discomfort as well.
"Kaido, are you aware of this?
"...... isn't here.
"Oh, it's too quiet.
Normally, we would be in a position where we would be able to make close contact and fight two or three times, but we haven't been able to find a single insect since a while ago.
Just the thick forest creates an eerie silence.
""......"
"Hey, Kaido.
"What is it, seniors?
"I have a really bad feeling about ......
"Me too.
The unusual atmosphere gives you a strange sense of déjà vu, and you look around to make your way out.
If you listen carefully, you can hear what sounds like something fighting in the distance.
Are you fighting ......?
"Is it another tester?
It's no surprise that there are other testers in the dungeon besides us.
It's just that it was my job, and my schedule just happened to coincide with it.
It's not hard to understand why it's so quiet when you consider that those testers attracted the entire enemy.
But my gut tells me otherwise.
"Sir, is the sound getting closer and closer?
Maybe so, but with such poor visibility, I can't even see.
I tried to climb up the tree to check on it, but it was impossible to do so due to the similar height of the trees.
I had no choice but to keep an eye out for the direction of the sound.
After a few hundred meters, you arrive at a high point where you can look down at the scene and see
""......"
We were forced to silence.
A black shadow took shape.
It was preying on the monsters in the dungeon.
It would swallow army ants by the head and devour them, and when it was in the middle of eating, it would decide on its next prey, and then it would attack another ant with its body, preying again.
Naturally, other dungeon monsters are attacking, but the attacker's attack is too weak to do any physical damage, so it goes forward, and this time the dangling mantis is devoured by its predator's vanguard.
And its shadow is increasing in volume.
I wondered if there was such a thing in the dungeon, but I came to the conclusion that there was an abnormal situation.
It's nothing short of extraordinary that the monsters in the dungeon you're defending have started eating each other.
......!
I slapped Kaido on the shoulder, urging him to withdraw.
Kaido was so shocked by the scene that he almost screamed in surprise, but he held his mouth to keep from screaming.
Show your intention to withdraw with a glance and a hand sign and Kaido nods silently.
Before retreating, I take out my camera to take a picture as a briefing material.
But as if in response to my gesture, the shadow stops moving for a moment and turns its direction firmly and distinctly toward you as if it could tell where you are.
It probably preyed on various creatures.
The ominous and shapeless shadow forms a body with such predators.
I knew it the moment I saw it face to face.
And I knew what this shadow's main food was.
I don't have eyes, but we're eye level.
No, this one is sensing
"Run Kaido!
!
I don't know if my voice was a signal or if he was originally going to jump on me or not, but at the same time we turned and started running, the shadow also grew multiple legs and started running.
What the hell is that?
"I don't know! All I know is that that guy is not an official monster in this dungeon. The other thing is that if you get caught, you're not going to get away with it!
Hi!
I was right to avoid the battle at a moment's notice.
The ability of the opponent was unknown, and the geography was not conducive to fighting there.
Just playing tag like this gives you a small amount of information.
It's a good thing the forest is familiar to me, as I've been trying for a while now.
You can avoid the trees and fly around to gain speed so you won't get caught right away.
But the fact is that they are also very capable and difficult to escape from.
If you glance behind you, you'll see that the distance between you and the enemy hasn't changed and they're still running behind us.
The shadow was chasing us through the obstacle by using the softness of its body to take advantage of its irregular shape.
And worst of all, they perceive us with something other than their five senses.
The proof is that even when for a moment we thought we were completely obscured by the trees, the shadow didn't hesitate to chase us.
At first we thought it was scent, but downwind here our foothold is not only on the ground.
They're moving through the trees as well, so their scent is dispersed. They won't be able to follow us easily by smell.
Above all, there are no eyes to see, no ears to hear, no nose to sniff.
I wonder what it would feel like to be in the shadows with their flickering, sludgy, coal-tar mass.
...... chasing our magic.
The answer comes easily to me.
That would be pretty bad.
If I'm right, this magical body might be completely useless.
Preying on it means it has something to feed on.
And that shadow preyed on a magical soul.
When you kill them, they are just magic.
Their magic may fill you, but your belly will not grow.
From this fact, it follows that the opponent's goal is not to fill your belly, but to gain magic power.
And this body is currently replenished with a considerable density of magic power.
Wow, we must be pretty tasty prey.
What do you mean?
The idea that I ended up with was one that drove me to the conclusion that it was like releasing a well-farmed, high-grade piece of meat in front of a beast that was eating cheap meat, even if it was unintentional.
No matter how well equipped this body is with an emergency escape function, there is no escape if the whole thing is preyed upon in the first place.
The last thing you want is for it to be chewed up in your mouth.
And the digested contents will contain the data of my soul.
You are the worst opponent you've ever had, without redemption.
"Its staple food is probably magic. She tends to go for high-purity magic. If you ask me, who has the most magic among these monsters?
"You mean we?
You're right.
Maybe that's why we didn't see the monster, because we preyed on it all over the place.
Now we've run into a nasty one that jumped out of the bushes before we could poke the bushes.
But we can't keep running away.
Kaido, can you use your magic to keep him in check?
I'll give it a try, but I don't have much hope if you're right.
It's a no-brainer.
"Yes, sir.
With that said, Kaido took advantage of the momentary dwell time to fire a fireball into the shadows, but as expected, the fireball was swallowed up by the shadows.
"Ugh, I knew it!
"Eaten.
Magic, the lump of magic, seems to be nothing more than a meal for her.
Then we're talking about physical damage.
I jokingly wanted the anchor I'd been using all morning, but unfortunately I didn't have it with me.
As it is.
"Humph! Ha!
I slice through one of the trees in front of me with the mineral tree and then send it flying in front of me with a kick.
I then quickly tuck the mineral tree behind my back and, with my free hands, grab a tree the size of my waist, a grown man in the air, and throw it at my opponent.
"d*mn it!
My body, which had been wielding a ton of chunks earlier, took full advantage of its performance and gave me the speed of a professional baseball player's straightaway.
I won't ever say "Did you do it here?
After I finish throwing, I don't kill the momentum and just go for a run.
How's this?
"You're being eaten! It just seems to take a while for it to stick and be swallowed.
Better than magic, I suppose.
If you listen to Kaido's report, it means that a physical attack that isn't a lump of magic power can do some damage.
If that's the case, there's a chance for some damage.
Shall we kill it?
"Really?
We don't have all the information, but at least we have it.
As if to say this is the end of our escape, we're going to stay put and face each other.
Teary-eyed at my actions, Kaido stands ready, too.
Now, shall I challenge you?
Tanaka Jiro, twenty-eight years old, with a girlfriend.
Her Suela Hendelberg
Memory Tris
Occupation Dungeon Tester (full-time)
Magical aptitude 8 (general class)
Post Warriors
Word of the Day
There is a difference in efficiency between setting and not setting goals.
Tanaka Jiro, 28 years old, with a girlfriendHer Suela HendelbergMemory TrisOccupation Dungeon Tester full-timeMagical aptitude 8 general classPost WarriorsYesterday's mock battle with Suela gave me an idea of where I'm headed.Then I decided that I had to do it.So I decided to pick up what I needed to do right away.Senpai."Huh?What, huh?You're usually a very serious person, but sometimes you're an idiot, right?A junior colleague called me an idiot when I brought him in because he said he was free."OK, you want a fight?"Hey!I mean, who wouldn't when they see you dressed like that!It's a good idea to train with such a large weight. ...... It's funny to think about training with such a large weight. It's not just a matter of how much you can do, it's how you can do it."It's not a weight, it's an anchor. Can you or can't you try and do it. That's all."Wow, it really is a lot of fantasy.Instead of lowering the anchor directly to the ground to catch your breath, you hold it on your shoulder while creating a gurgling, dull wind pressure.You're going to be able to find out how many people on the planet think about training with this kind of thing as per Kaido's suggestion.I'm lacking in everything.There's no shortage of things I lack, from strength to skill to knowledge.I've been thinking about how to make up for that lack.But I realized that the idea of making up for it was passive.You change your mind to think that you should master it, not supplement it.Then, the next question is what to master.Master everything.If I was talented enough to talk like that, I wouldn't have been bothered in the first place.I can't wear a sleeve that isn't there.Henceforth I'll be a specialist.There is a tathagata of the teaching style called Unyo's sword.It teaches you to swing first, even if it's only by a hair's breadth.Follow this.You have been swinging with the anchor of a ship that weighs a ton, which a human being could not normally carry, just for the sake of swinging down.You will be able to find the best way to get the most out of the situation.It's a good thing that you're not going to have to worry about the fact that you're not going to have to worry about the fact that you're not going to have to worry about the fact that you're not going to have to worry about it."No problem,Of course, it's not something that can be learned overnight, and you have to learn other skills such as footwork and how to use the sword.The path of a thousand miles starts with a single step.In fact, if you can see the final product, there is no reason not to aim for it.In addition to this, I believe that if I can make a contract with a spirit that strengthens my body, this configuration will become much more vicious.Stepping in at an imperceptible speed out of time, you'll be able to split the bamboo with a well-honed blow.Finally, this is my goal.Shouldn't you work out a little?Wielding a weight greater than that of the mineral tree means that you have to be mindful of your overall balance.It's easy to say that you should swing down and up as if you were tracing the midline, but it was much harder than I imagined.You can take on the afternoon dungeon with no problem in terms of physical distribution.I don't know if you can call it proof of that, but there's plenty of room to talk while wielding a ton of stuff.Well, in other words, I can't do much more than that.No, you can't ask me for that.From what I've heard, succubus prefers a well-developed body, though."Senpai, I'll do it too. Do you have something a little lighter?"That's a cash fellow.However, it is difficult to concentrate on the monotonous training of just repeating the gestures neatly like this.I know that if you ask me to take it seriously, that's the end of it, but even so, if I can continue to be more efficient than necessary, I'll be bored.If I was doing this alone, I would just give up and do it quietly, but fortunately I'm not alone, so I'll just let you pass the boredom by.So, if you play along with what Memoria told you, there will be one more idiot who will take off his jacket and start pretending to be with you, just as you expected.After spending the morning and eating lunch as planned, we were already in a dungeon for the unknown number of times."Hey, you overdid it and your sword is very light. It feels really strange.Get used to it.I can't hate this kind of honesty.There is a saying that even a pig will climb a tree if it is cajoled, but Kaido, who was swinging at a good pace while humming the phrase "irresistible and irresistible," felt uncomfortable with the sword he had pulled from its scabbard.It's no use.I'm sure you'll be happy to know that I'm not the only one who's been wielding a sword five times heavier than that one.A discomfort or two will come up.And I wonder if you noticed the other discomfort as well."Kaido, are you aware of this?"...... isn't here."Oh, it's too quiet.Normally, we would be in a position where we would be able to make close contact and fight two or three times, but we haven't been able to find a single insect since a while ago.Just the thick forest creates an eerie silence.""......""Hey, Kaido."What is it, seniors?"I have a really bad feeling about ......"Me too.The unusual atmosphere gives you a strange sense of dj vu, and you look around to make your way out.If you listen carefully, you can hear what sounds like something fighting in the distance.Are you fighting ......?"Is it another tester?It's no surprise that there are other testers in the dungeon besides us.It's just that it was my job, and my schedule just happened to coincide with it.It's not hard to understand why it's so quiet when you consider that those testers attracted the entire enemy.But my gut tells me otherwise."Sir, is the sound getting closer and closer?Maybe so, but with such poor visibility, I can't even see.I tried to climb up the tree to check on it, but it was impossible to do so due to the similar height of the trees.I had no choice but to keep an eye out for the direction of the sound.After a few hundred meters, you arrive at a high point where you can look down at the scene and see""......"We were forced to silence.A black shadow took shape.It was preying on the monsters in the dungeon.It would swallow army ants by the head and devour them, and when it was in the middle of eating, it would decide on its next prey, and then it would attack another ant with its body, preying again.Naturally, other dungeon monsters are attacking, but the attacker's attack is too weak to do any physical damage, so it goes forward, and this time the dangling mantis is devoured by its predator's vanguard.And its shadow is increasing in volume.I wondered if there was such a thing in the dungeon, but I came to the conclusion that there was an abnormal situation.It's nothing short of extraordinary that the monsters in the dungeon you're defending have started eating each other.......!I slapped Kaido on the shoulder, urging him to withdraw.Kaido was so shocked by the scene that he almost screamed in surprise, but he held his mouth to keep from screaming.Show your intention to withdraw with a glance and a hand sign and Kaido nods silently.Before retreating, I take out my camera to take a picture as a briefing material.But as if in response to my gesture, the shadow stops moving for a moment and turns its direction firmly and distinctly toward you as if it could tell where you are.It probably preyed on various creatures.The ominous and shapeless shadow forms a body with such predators.I knew it the moment I saw it face to face.And I knew what this shadow's main food was.I don't have eyes, but we're eye level.No, this one is sensing"Run Kaido!!I don't know if my voice was a signal or if he was originally going to jump on me or not, but at the same time we turned and started running, the shadow also grew multiple legs and started running.What the hell is that?"I don't know!All I know is that that guy is not an official monster in this dungeon. The other thing is that if you get caught, you're not going to get away with it!Hi!I was right to avoid the battle at a moment's notice.The ability of the opponent was unknown, and the geography was not conducive to fighting there.Just playing tag like this gives you a small amount of information.It's a good thing the forest is familiar to me, as I've been trying for a while now.You can avoid the trees and fly around to gain speed so you won't get caught right away.But the fact is that they are also very capable and difficult to escape from.If you glance behind you, you'll see that the distance between you and the enemy hasn't changed and they're still running behind us.The shadow was chasing us through the obstacle by using the softness of its body to take advantage of its irregular shape.And worst of all, they perceive us with something other than their five senses.The proof is that even when for a moment we thought we were completely obscured by the trees, the shadow didn't hesitate to chase us.At first we thought it was scent, but downwind here our foothold is not only on the ground.They're moving through the trees as well, so their scent is dispersed. They won't be able to follow us easily by smell.Above all, there are no eyes to see, no ears to hear, no nose to sniff.I wonder what it would feel like to be in the shadows with their flickering, sludgy, coal-tar mass....... chasing our magic.The answer comes easily to me.That would be pretty bad.If I'm right, this magical body might be completely useless.Preying on it means it has something to feed on.And that shadow preyed on a magical soul.When you kill them, they are just magic.Their magic may fill you, but your belly will not grow.From this fact, it follows that the opponent's goal is not to fill your belly, but to gain magic power.And this body is currently replenished with a considerable density of magic power.Wow, we must be pretty tasty prey.What do you mean?The idea that I ended up with was one that drove me to the conclusion that it was like releasing a well-farmed, high-grade piece of meat in front of a beast that was eating cheap meat, even if it was unintentional.No matter how well equipped this body is with an emergency escape function, there is no escape if the whole thing is preyed upon in the first place.The last thing you want is for it to be chewed up in your mouth.And the digested contents will contain the data of my soul.You are the worst opponent you've ever had, without redemption."Its staple food is probably magic. She tends to go for high-purity magic. If you ask me, who has the most magic among these monsters?"You mean we?You're right.Maybe that's why we didn't see the monster, because we preyed on it all over the place.Now we've run into a nasty one that jumped out of the bushes before we could poke the bushes.But we can't keep running away.Kaido, can you use your magic to keep him in check?I'll give it a try, but I don't have much hope if you're right.It's a no-brainer."Yes, sir.With that said, Kaido took advantage of the momentary dwell time to fire a fireball into the shadows, but as expected, the fireball was swallowed up by the shadows."Ugh, I knew it!"Eaten.Magic, the lump of magic, seems to be nothing more than a meal for her.Then we're talking about physical damage.I jokingly wanted the anchor I'd been using all morning, but unfortunately I didn't have it with me.As it is."Humph!Ha!I slice through one of the trees in front of me with the mineral tree and then send it flying in front of me with a kick.I then quickly tuck the mineral tree behind my back and, with my free hands, grab a tree the size of my waist, a grown man in the air, and throw it at my opponent."d*mn it!My body, which had been wielding a ton of chunks earlier, took full advantage of its performance and gave me the speed of a professional baseball player's straightaway.I won't ever say "Did you do it here?After I finish throwing, I don't kill the momentum and just go for a run.How's this?"You're being eaten!It just seems to take a while for it to stick and be swallowed.Better than magic, I suppose.If you listen to Kaido's report, it means that a physical attack that isn't a lump of magic power can do some damage.If that's the case, there's a chance for some damage.Shall we kill it?"Really?We don't have all the information, but at least we have it.As if to say this is the end of our escape, we're going to stay put and face each other.Teary-eyed at my actions, Kaido stands ready, too.Now, shall I challenge you?Tanaka Jiro, twenty-eight years old, with a girlfriend.Her Suela HendelbergMemory TrisOccupation Dungeon Tester full-timeMagical aptitude 8 general classPost WarriorsWord of the DayThere is a difference in efficiency between setting and not setting goals.
