????Floor – Abyss (5)
Day 16.
The nature of [Abyss] sometimes comes back as an advantage.
The reason why this place is called the Sorcerer’s Tomb is not simply because it is impossible to recover magical power.
As Shakma and her subordinate fairies suffered, the living darkness of the abyss blocks many things.
It is a sight or a sense, but it is also many more.
The lighting here does not extend farther than the normal environment.
And the veil of darkness remains.
The darkness of the abyss blocks the flow of magic itself, in other words, blocks the flow of energy.
The heat was very intense, but it did not completely break through the thick darkness that enveloped the fragments of the planet.
Thus, even in the burning environment of this class, the places far from the center were warm enough to live in.
It seems that the abominations that were originally here foolishly rushed towards the flames.
Inside the veil of darkness, it was surprisingly clean.
Arcana evaluated the current situation positively.
[I can write. I’m rather fortunate.]
“Yeah, I was a little embarrassed, but that’s very useful.”
High energy also means enormous magical power. Because it’s the same thing in the first place.
* * *
Day 18.
I got pretty good results.
With the improvisation of some engineers and the mobilization of the magical knowledge of wizards, a source of magical power similar to that of a solar panel was created.
Both the battery and the wizards were able to seek recovery.
However, it is very risky for a living person to recover mana in this way, so only the three undead use it.
Many problems were solved just by using magic freely.
I was able to brighten the whole abyss by the line that the darkness blocking the heat couldn’t lift.
But it’s not without problems. Food is slowly running low.
The Federation’s combat food is manufactured with extremely high calorific value, but there is a limit when it has been three weeks since they have been drifting.
There were too many people.
And there is no way to get food from the abyss.
* * *
Day 20.
The colonel has suggested
“The soldiers are starving. If that’s the case, I think it’s better to die once and be resurrected as an undead.”
I had some doubts about my sanity. However, the colonel’s breathing, gaze, and pulse were perfectly normal.
This commander is conveying to me the conclusions drawn after a very reasonable thought.
Looking to the side, Arkanah nodded her head in disbelief.
[It doesn’t happen very often to become undead in case of non-combat losses. Because there are few capable necromancers and the Empire has many troops. Just in time, me and Master are here.]
Is it because of the existence of vampires? There is no objection to the undead, so it is at a friendly level.
I couldn’t resist, and the goblins collected the last remaining food for the party members and committed suicide.
And he rose up again as a skeleton.
The hunter grinned.
[I say this, but now those goblins feel so unfamiliar. A creature capable of abandoning its will to live in such a way. I can’t believe it.]
fanaticism.
It seemed that a sense of incongruity, which we had not felt before because we were fanatics, was coming all at once.
However, the hunter who spoke those words was satisfied with the life of the undead in his own way.
[There is no other advantage that there is no fatigue. It’s still a bit awkward to move.]
In the training process of the goblins, there was even becoming an undead soldier. They adapted to the skeleton goblin body faster than the hunter.
Hee-woo trembles.
“This is a bit…”
The little wizard was also looking at him with an uncomfortable expression. The young man also had a very bad expression on his face.
The little boy is paying close attention to the working principle of necromancy.
The youngest just prayed.
The goblins really didn’t hesitate at all.
* * *
Day 25.
Made more magic charging devices.
Soldiers who became undead had much greater resistance to heat and were easier to work with.
I didn’t even need a break.
When it was enough to wield a large amount of magical power, it was still possible to get close to the fragments of the hot planet.
It was simply to search the stairs.
I found something strange.
“…is this what it is?”
Glittering cards are floating in the air. It is obscured by light and its shape cannot be confirmed.
After thinking for a moment, I realized what had happened.
The hidden dungeon of the 15th floor boss battle… … was inside the planet. very deep.
This may not have been really found.
Being here is truly a lucky guide.
In a way, it is also a predestination harmonization.
Hee-woo had to become an angel, then an angel card had to come out somewhere.
I mean it was here.
Heewoo was summoned.
Hee-woo, who moves with magic in a burning hell, clings to him with a smile.
Do you think of this as a date?
We didn’t have much time to spend together.
Mainly, Hee-woo was idle, but I was burdened with heavy work.
He saved the time he slept and worked hard on mana management.
They made more wild batteries and more lights.
At first glance, soldiers who became undead might think that they are immune to the darkness of the abyss.
not.
Being a being of darkness, we need more and more light to maintain our minds.
In addition to that, there was also the point that the magic power was many wings.
Can I call Sylphid?
Anyway, it seems a bit difficult.
Hee-woo reached out to the card. The light is peeled off from the golden card that has been forged in the flames.
The pattern is winged… … .
“Wait a minute, isn’t it?”
Is the future wrong?
A fairy silhouette with pointed ears is drawn. There are no animal ears and no petals.
This is a stump fairy.
He was a little perplexed, but when he saw Hee-woo’s face that was equally bewildered, his mind came back.
Right. It’s on the 10th floor. It was on the 10th floor that the angel card came out.
Damn I had to eat there.
It would have been dozens of times easier.
I sighed once.
Whether it’s a rogue-like or a rogue-lite, it’s a genre that’s attractive when things don’t go the way you want them to.
Even this kind of happening is boring because I’m not used to it.
* * *
Day 26.
moved to the next floor. The card, of course, yielded to the hunter.
The hunter was ready to weep with his empty eye sockets.
This little card, in a different sense, may be something he’d been longing for all his life as an exile.
I whispered softly.
“Are you done?”
[Yes?]
“You’re not an exile anymore.”
Because the hunter was a skeleton, he would have been able to hide his expression. Because my jaw joint was shaking.
“I skipped it, but it caught on well. Don’t do that to your wife.”
The hunter gritted his teeth bitterly.
[A good fairy. I don’t doubt that.]
“That’s the charm of a fairy.”
Before the hunter left with the precious card, I expressed my small gratitude.
“Thank you for not telling me.”
[I was just shy. This is the only thing that has been achieved in 100 years.]
“Yeah. Then what?”
There are things in common even if we don’t talk to each other.
The hunter did not say that he had stopped in front of Hee-woo with his true death as collateral.
In any case, even if you die, the existence of the next is the last stronghold of your mind.
Hee-woo, who is still only in the first round, knows that a hunter could die as it is.
But we do not know that it could have been eternal death.
I don’t know what kind of change of heart it might bring about being known, but it wouldn’t be a good thing.
A small thorn sticks in the corner of your heart.
You may be unaware of its existence, but it’s a nuisance that’s ready to stab you in pain at any time.
It is not as easy as you might think to keep your devotion quietly without telling others.
This man did that.
The hunter suspended the use of the card.
He considered himself as an undead skeleton more useful than himself as a fairy in the abyss environment.
* * *
Day 32.
Two more tiers passed.
The abominations that fortified and hunted in the first class provided sufficient quality equipment.
Therefore, the hunting of this army was accelerated.
Even now, the soldiers are not injured or feel fatigued.
Therefore, the speed of removing the aversive has also increased.
Of course, the already awakened abominations flocked from all directions, but they could not easily break through our firepower, which was able to mobilize magic.
In situations where I was at risk a few times, Mjolnir and I lured the abominations.
It cannot be said that there was no crisis, but it was stable enough.
In the very last episode, Abyss attacked in this way.
Quantity is the correct answer in quite a few situations.
Is there anything wrong with the word overweight?
And when we moved on to the next layer, we encountered an unexpected survivor.
“No? Daejeon sir?”
Some of the other soldiers with a haggard appearance, tattered equipment, and equally exhausted.
Arcana reacted before me.
[He was alive!]
The Sword Master first bowed to me, and then bowed his head to Arcana as well.
Even though his energy was weakened, his posture did not waver.
The action was decided without any time for me to say anything.
Arcana worked much harder than a simple undead, and was reborn as a death knight to fit the rank of a sword master.
In fact, I don’t think I could have dried it anyway. There is still no food.
* * *
Day 35.
It advanced seven more tiers.
After the Death Knight joined, it became easier to move forward.
Heewoo and other party members stopped entering the battlefield.
You have to conserve food. You also need to save calories.
Death Knight took the place of Hee-woo.
The sword masters of this era could not lack shooting skills, and they did a great job of attracting abominations as needed.
It is said that the sword master tried to rescue as many goblin troops as possible by crossing the various layers.
It seems that most of the troops that the Goddess could not afford to take care of were scattered around very many places.
Federal equipment began to be discovered in the stomach of the abomination that had been killed.
Very briefly and simply I bless you.
Because of my actions and their faith, the goblins truly believe that the fallen will be happy with the goddess.
Even though this happens often, it’s annoying.
Except for the youngest, the party members became a little estranged from the goblins.
However, the attitude of the goblins remains the same.
And the colonel was finally freed from duty.
It was thanks to the addition of a few more generals.
They retired from the front line, but at one time they rolled harder than anyone else in the field, recalling their memories and holding the baton.
The organization of the goblins has improved. The Federation has the concept of a shit star, no, shit candy?
ok, let’s get it Anyway, it seems that such a concept does not exist.
Working according to one’s ability is a devotion to the goddess, and what is received as a result is communist equality, so there is no room for politics in the military.
Are you watching Marx? Your ideal may well be embodied here.
I do not know if the concept of God was assumed.
* * *
Day 47.
Twenty more tiers advanced.
The food he had been cherishing and cherished was finally running out.
The party members were already in a situation where they could not eat properly.
Humans and Orc members were so weakened that it was difficult for me and the little boy to do the act of consuming blood.
It’s been quite some time since even Hee-woo couldn’t put it on the front line.
Presumably, there are still many layers to pass.
I’ll get a Heewooya card, so there’s no problem making it undead.
A tingling sensation rises from deep in the stomach. I agreed without any hesitation.
Even the little wizard and the twiddt looked clumsy, but knew there was no way, so they agreed.
The youngest says he will follow the will of the Goddess.
He’s a nice guy too, but he seems to be starting to feel a bit strange after hanging out with the goblins.
Then, the devil appeared.
“It’s rare to see humans and undead in a place like this.”
He was a gentleman with red skin, dark hair, goat-like horns, a mustache, and a suit with one-piece glasses.
I was dazzled.
“We request a deal in the name of our god Chaos! No contract!”
“What? Daejeon? Wait a minute. Was the god of chaos alive?”
The calm demon’s pupils tremble.
There are usually three sub-categories of playable races that appear as cards.
Even in the subcategories within the devil, demons, pure wizards, and battle mages, demons specializing in physical and magic hybrids.
And the race with a characteristic appearance that looks like a devil in front of anyone is Evil, a race specialized in utility magic rather than combat.
They are often like wandering merchants who appear as they wander around fragments of all dimensions, such as servers and abyss, and are characteristically compatible with moss dwarfs.
In short, a guy who can sell us rice has appeared.
“Damn, then there’s nothing I can do about it. It’s against morals to neglect the Great Warrior of Chaos.”
There were no absurd contracts or transactions peculiar to the devil. He honestly valued and traded things.
There was a lot of food.
“It wasn’t a good deal. But the next time we see you, it’ll be even better. Please don’t die.”
The devil groaned and left. Honest commerce doesn’t pay off or anything.
Hee-woo, who had been full for a long time, fell asleep as his waist shape changed slightly.
Next to him, a little boy who now fully follows her as a mother bites his arm and drinks blood.
At the same time, he is practicing to increase the precision of mana manipulation.
They both look really cute though.
Hmm, now I’m not sure.
* * *
Day 66.
Almost sixty strata advanced further.
There was a tease that the three-digit hierarchy was getting closer.
The abomination was noticeably reduced.
Instead, between the 2nd and 3rd floors, the tentacle-filled monsters and terrifying slimes we saw in the abyss began to appear.
In general, even when attracting abominations, Hee-woo, who tried not to face him as much as possible, could no longer just participate in the battle.
Much weaker than the aversive, but outnumbered.
six months. Hmm. You said three months? Could you finish it sooner?
* * *
Day 79.
When the end was near, everyone moved forward much harder.
Skeleton goblins that can move around non-stop now have a knack for finding stairs.
In the first place, there is nothing to be afraid of because only weakly weak monsters are appearing compared to the abomination.
After advancing a whopping one hundred layers, a giant golem finally appeared. Guys pounding the temple on their backs and hovering around a fixed location.
The temple of the abyss always appears at the boundary between the three-digit and four-digit floors.
prayed to the goddess
“I thought you were dead!”
First of all, he is angry and angry, but there is a strange feeling of crying.
“Wow. If this party was all dead, I was going to die again! Why didn’t you come sooner!”
‘No, why didn’t you know that something was going to happen in those three months or so?’
“Three months for you! The passage of time in the depths of the abyss is beyond my grasp! I’m waiting for God to get thirsty like this! aa!”
An escape from the abyss has been opened.
The universe appeared.
It was a location far enough away from the scars that the god of war would leave in space.
There were fleets rushing to meet them.
I asked it first.
“Is the war over?”
The captain who raised a salute vigorously replied.
“Yes! However, I did not declare victory until the return of Daejeon. Eight years have passed here!”
“Um…? Allies?”
“The Fairy King has led a coup and has won the lottery!”
Oh, the yangban was imprisoned.
The god of nature laughed. This voice has been around for a long time.
“It was not easy to gather the powers of the fairies.”
Alright, the Fairy King is friendly to me, so let’s say it’s a good thing.
Once I came out of the sticky darkness of the abyss for a long time, the dull and empty darkness of the universe felt refreshing.
All party members went into our dedicated transport, which had been waiting here for 8 years, and lay down.
It was a difficult time both physically and mentally.