Al (1)
The size of the last room was as large as all the previous rooms put together.
From the wide open entrance, the things piled up around it were numerous streamlined eggs.
It was even gross to see things the size of human heads piled up here and there.
Especially when you think of the many snakes that will be born inside.
Of course, I didn’t have time to look at them leisurely.
“Shaaagh!”
As the massive body moved, it was like a small mountain collapsing.
Smooth white scales sprouted from the body, which seemed to have filled the passage just passed, and bright yellow eyes that looked like luminous stones from the ceiling were gleaming.
It moved slowly for raising its voice, but it was just a movement as if it had been stiffened for a long time.
When I reported to the guild in the past, I named it Gireatl.
It’s like a monster snake from an old story from the southern region or something.
“Uh, Irvine? Can I stop that?”
“Then it’s not natural. You can do it.”
Astell trembled and asked if he was overwhelmed by the way he moved, and when he roughly encouraged him, someone stepped forward first.
“It’s the first time I see him… … Let’s try cutting it down.”
Douglas, who drew his sword faster than anyone else, had a bloody smile on his face.
It was an expression of excitement at the thought of cutting a new monster.
Still, I wondered if he would be self-respecting because he was in front of his pupil, but it seemed that his personality hadn’t changed.
Without time to say anything, Douglas hit the ground and quickly approached Gireatl and swung his sword with all his might.
Kaaang!
The sword and its body collided with a sharp, ear-piercing sound, and neither of them bounced.
“This is a guy who deserves a bell.”
Douglas said that with a bloody grin, and the giant serpent flicked its tongue again, not liking the man who dared to put a knife on its body.
coo coo… … !
As it moved in earnest, the sound of earthshafts could be heard, and the hard, sharp scales scraped the floor with a harsh sound.
This room, which was spacious and left no trace of what it was for, was a work he had created.
Giratl looked at Douglas, who was about to cut him, and then turned his head to stare at Astell.
“Why is it me again?!”
It made a mighty charge with its massive body, still wagging its tail in the direction of Douglas.
Looking at the golden barrier that spreads in front of Astel, Hudson and I split into left and right sides and widened the distance.
aaang!
What seemed like a simple headbutt shattered the translucent barrier of light that Grace had created through prayer, and Astel’s golden barrier was etched with cracks.
I’m glad I didn’t take a single step.
Meanwhile, Hudson approached and swung his sword at him.
Seeing that the sword that Douglas wielded did not cut properly, he was about to attack the eye immediately.
But as he twisted his head with an agility unmatched for his size, Hudson’s sword only slammed into the poor hide.
Of course, the knife did not give a good scratch.
Part of the cut scale flew in the air with glitter, and the creature stood up again and raised its head stiffly.
It was like looking at an insignificant creature. Unlike other monsters, Giraatl did not harbor any hostility towards us.
It was as if he was just trying to get rid of the annoying bugs that were disturbing his sleep.
“No one is easier to kill than an unwary enemy.”
After I muttered that with a grin, I stepped back and took a seat behind Astel again.
It was only natural that Astel was frightened at seeing me like that.
“Irvine?! You’re not trying to ask me to stop you again, are you?!”
“Hold on one more time. If things go well, it will be over soon.”
“Say that… … Wow! Coming again!”
Along with Astel’s scream, I could see the figure of Giraatl charging towards this direction once again.
Completely ignoring Douglas and Hudson, who were attacking from both sides.
Astell hurriedly erected a golden barrier, and he opened his horizontally flattened mouth as if to swallow the barrier entirely.
It worked out really well.
Watching Grace hurriedly pray, I jumped over the barrier.
Then, in an instant, I threw a large orb I took out of my bag at the giant mouth.
The black orb went right into his throat, and immediately after, his mouth collided violently with the barrier.
“Ughhhhh!”
When I looked sideways at Astell, who was making a sound that I couldn’t tell if it was moaning or cheering, I saw that the barrier was breaking little by little.
I couldn’t leave it as it was, so I landed on the corner of his mouth and thrust my sword into his mouth like I did sometime ago.
Get a card!
Perhaps because it was so large, he didn’t pay attention to the small wounds and focused only on chewing the barrier, but I didn’t remove the sword and tilted it from side to side and deformed the aculium in that state.
It was not a normal sword, but a sword with a lot of thorns sprouting on the left and right, resembling a saw.
In that state, when I pulled it out with all my might, the reaction came back immediately.
“Shaaagh!”
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Gireatl couldn’t overcome the pain, spat out a barrier and opened his mouth to the limit, trying to get me away somehow.
I did not dare to go against that power, transformed the aculium into a sword and took it out and left the place.
In the meantime, I turned my gaze to see Douglas holding his sword high above his head and catching his breath.
I was familiar with that position.
uh, not like that
“Seniors! Aim for the ship!”
I shouted urgently, but I don’t know if I heard it properly.
And, the tip of the sword pointed toward the ground.
Chaaagh!
“Kissyaaagh!”
A fountain of blood exploded as the creature’s screams filled the air, and with it the gigantic torso thumped to and fro in painful gestures.
Seeing that, Douglas clicked his tongue in disapproval.
“Tsk, I tried to break it in two. Irvine! Why did you suddenly say that!”
Douglas really might have cut him in half, but at least he shouldn’t have cut Giiratl.
I took one look at the struggling guy and turned my eyes to Douglas and replied.
“I’m thinking of making clothes out of that skin.”
“… … Aww.”
Douglas, who had been a little annoyed at being interrupted, immediately brightened his eyes with an expression of understanding.
His skin was the goal that led me to this place.
Giratl’s hide is tough and even soft, and the scales densely embedded on the outside serve as armor barbs in themselves.
If you make clothes with that, soft and light yet durable armor will be completed.
Douglas, who perfectly understood my intentions because he had cut through the skin once, looked at the still struggling man and said,
“Then you can cut off your head.”
“I’ll run out of strength sooner or later, so you’ll have to see the game before that.”
“her? What else did you do?”
“I gave you some poison.”
What I had thrown into his throat earlier was a mass of poison extracted from a deadly poisonous slime called ash.
It was an operation planned to avoid damaging the creature’s skin as much as possible.
Gir’atl is also said to have poison… … There was no way that the guy who was lounging around in this place, where there was no strong enemy to compare with himself, would have the ability to withstand the deadly poison created by mixing all kinds of poisons.
“It would be better to make them move vigorously so that the poison spreads throughout the body.”
At my words, Douglas laughed and raised the sword that had been pointing downwards.
“If I cut off the head of the snake before that, it will be my victory. Do you like it.”
Having said that, Douglas slit his throat before the poison ended his life.
* * *
It usually takes a long time to clean up after a battle, but this time it took much longer than before.
It was because of the process of peeling away Giiratl’s skin.
Who among them would have tried to skin a snake? I had no choice but to do everything from start to finish by myself, and in the end it took up a lot of time.
“Dad, why are you doing that?”
Rize, who was sitting behind me and quietly watching while everyone else was taking a break, asked.
I stopped brushing the peeled leather and looked back at Rize and said.
“Dad said what happens to monsters when they die?”
“They say it disintegrates with dark magic. That’s why there won’t even be a body left after that.”
“This is to keep it from breaking down like that. I’m going to make clothes out of this leather.”
“Wow, can I touch it?”
Nodding her head, Rize immediately came over and carefully touched Gireatl’s leather.
As Rize said, the monster’s corpse would normally decompose over time, but it could be processed into equipment by protecting it with a fixative made by mixing magic stone powder and other things.
It took a lot of money and effort, so it was a very rare work that was only done for what was worth it.
Of course, with this, he would make Rize’s clothes first and foremost.
First of all, I’ll make three sets, and I’ll have to make a size bigger so I can wear them as I grow up.
Even if you wear armor, if you wear it inside, you will be strong.
While smiling at that thought, I suddenly remembered the person lying face down on the other side of Rize.
“How long are you going to stay like that?”
“I still want to die… … . I can’t believe I’m alive… … .”
Giiratl was persistent.
After being cut by Douglas, it seemed to be aiming for Douglas for a while, but then it started to cling to Astell tenaciously.
He aimed as if he would take one even if he died, and Astell desperately had no choice but to block it.
The poison spread little by little, making her movements dull, and in the meantime, Douglas cut off his neck. If it wasn’t for that, it was dangerous enough that Astell would have been seriously injured.
At that time, it was as if he had poured all his strength physically and mentally, and Astell was unable to get up.
“You don’t have to find a holy relic. There doesn’t seem to be anything in here, so shouldn’t you step in yourself?”
Inside the room, which was only wide, there was nothing left to see as ruins.
It seemed that Giraatl had completely crushed the surroundings as he moved his body.
Therefore, it was presumed to be a temple, but there is no trace of what kind of religion it was.
I also broke all the eggs of the snakes that were in the vicinity of the entrance, but I couldn’t find anything special.
In the end, Astel has to step in and find it… … I didn’t even think about moving.
As I was about to kick his butt, Astell finally got up and started walking slowly around the room.
Even after I finished the work, Astel looked like it was not doing well, but at some point it just stopped.
“huh? Irvin, can you help me for a second?”
Just as I was finishing tidying up, I approached the sound calling me, and Astell was tapping the floor with his foot, then reached out to me and said,
“Could you lend me a shovel?”
There was no reason to refuse, so I took out a shovel from my bag and handed it over. After Astell told me to stay away, he started pounding the ground with the shovel like a staff.
Then, at a certain point, he stopped, raised his right foot, grabbed the shovel, and drove it into the ground.
Right after that, the ground collapsed as if it had touched the mouth of sand.
Kururureung… … !
“Uh, whoa?!”
Astell let out a short scream, as if he hadn’t expected that, and hit his butt on the stairs that suddenly appeared.
Are there stairs in this place?
A big guy like that moves so loudly, so why the hell didn’t he collapse back then?
Embracing my absurd and surprised mind, I gathered the party and headed down to a place I didn’t even know about.
The stairs were deeper than expected.
It seemed that the further I went down, the strangely warm heat was felt.
Come to think of it, the room where Giratl was was not too cold.
I thought it was simply a desert, but it seemed that the heat was coming from the bottom.
After going down for a long time, the stone gate appeared… … It had the pattern of Digena I saw once engraved on it.
“It seems that Di Gena-sama’s touch has reached a place like this.”
With Grace’s admiring voice, Astell put his hand on the door and prayed for a while, but nothing changed, even when he opened the door inward.
However, we couldn’t help but be surprised when we confirmed that the temple buried in the sand had been carefully hidden.
“uh? It is an egg.”
As Rize said, in the center of the round room, there was a large egg sitting there.