00160 #7 – Admit me, evil spirit
#7 – Admit me to evil spirits (10)
The adventurers hurriedly ran towards the ground as if being chased by a demon. Then, after discovering an unfamiliar party, I breathed a sigh of relief.
“What? Are the monsters even chasing them?”
“It’s not like that, but I’ve seen something worse.”
“Worse?”
The adventurers were the raiders who ran into Wilhelm Meyer’s party. The raid leader spoke while shaking his hands.
“Your Majesty, the Black Mountain Boss, is leading the absurd monster to the underworld.”
The complexions of those who heard the story hardened seriously.
They were a desert bandit from the great desert.
He also received a secret order to assassinate the king from the Adventurers Guild.
“What kind of monster were you carrying?”
“It has a huge cylindrical body that stretches out countless tentacle-like hands, and it is said that each tentacle cannot even be scratched with the sword strike of the supreme master.”
“Did you overhear the story of the Black Mountain Society Party?”
“I overheard and I witnessed it. I haven’t seen it in person, but seeing it covered with a cloth, I think it must have held the curse of petrification. I’ve even heard the sounds of a real-time engagement, so I’m sure it’s true.”
“Huh. It’s amazing that he saved his life.”
The raid commander’s mouth was opened with a sense of relief at the thought of being alive.
“The problem is that there are some great masters who have managed to subdue that absurd monster alone by playing with it like a toy.”
“A monster like that? Like a toy?”
“He was the possessor of tremendous power. A person who uses martial arts with more power than the ultimate swordsman. There is no doubt that it is the secret weapon that Heuksanhoe has cultivated over the past two years.”
The members of the Desert Bandits quickly lost their motivation.
Such a monstrous person with the boss.
On their own, they were not confident enough to carry out the assassination.
But their worries quickly dissipated.
It was because the raid had leaked the same information to all the parties it encountered while running towards the ground.
The parties following Wilhelm Meyer were all elite parties sent by the Adventurers’ Guild for the purpose of killing him, and they were able to quickly reconcile their interests.
“The Priest of the Evil God Wanted and an Unidentified Monster. In addition, the appearance of a mysterious secret weapon that can subdue monsters in an instant. I can’t stand it without holding hands.”
“We have to work together to make a group raid here. Even if the payoff for success is 1/N, can we still win?”
“No matter how you think of monsters related to the priests of the evil spirits, they have no choice but to be summoned creatures with the power of the evil spirits. Only those who are in the upper ranks of the best masters can inflict the least amount of damage.”
Bandit Leader, Chief Hunter, Lightning Bishop, Giant Golem Master, Ancient Yeti.
The top performers from each party took a step forward.
“Eradicating the Priests of the Evil God was given as a side quest, but I do not want to face such a powerful monster.”
“It’s enough to buy time.”
“Let the other three execute the assassination while one binds the monster’s feet and the other holds the secret weapon against the monster.”
The five talented people soon ran into difficulties.
“So who keeps the monster and the secret weapon in bondage?”
“… … .”
“There will be no applicants.”
The bandit leader pointed to the giant golem magician.
“A golemman does not lose his life when a golem dies. It won’t be cursed by petrification, so I think it’s appropriate for a golemman to take on the monster.”
“Umm… that’s Jeongron. I don’t like it, but I’ll accept it. Instead, I’ll choose the one to bind the secret weapon’s feet.”
“If only I could give a good reason.”
The giant golem master didn’t like the bandit leader.
He thought hard about the reason and said.
“The secret weapon is strong enough to subdue monsters alive. It’s impossible to fight with force. In that case, you should avoid the attack with the agility of the thief and bind your feet with various abnormalities.”
“Shit. Are you going to leave the most troublesome guy over?”
“It is self-sufficient. Because you were the one who suggested making a rational and efficient choice. I can’t accept the words that I can’t come now. Will the rest agree?”
The leader of the bandits and the giant golem master set out to take charge of the robbers among themselves, but there was no reason to say no to them again. After the elite parties divided their roles, they resumed the pursuit of the Black Mountain Society.
And faced a mysterious hole.
The hole drilled in the middle of the passage was endlessly open. A minute passed after the bandit leader threw a stone down, and the sound of the stone falling was not heard.
“I can’t even detect the sound of falling stones with my hearing. It has far exceeded the detection limit.”
“What is the detection limit?”
“250 m. Considering that the height of each floor of the labyrinth is about 20m, it must have penetrated the entire upper floor vertically.”
The raid leader didn’t say that this hole was a hole that the liquid spilled over the monster’s body. Naturally, the pursuers assumed the reason for the hole in their own imagination.
“Is it a sign of the power of a monster?”
“It may be the power of the secret weapon that subdued the monster.”
“Either way, one or the other will be incredibly powerful.”
The bandit leader and the giant golem master frowned.
“I’m worried about being chased from behind. I’m going to use this hole.”
“What are you going to do?”
“Can we continue our pursuit without our desert robbers? We’ll go downstairs first through the hole and bury the trap ahead. Then we can create a gap.”
“What if they go the other way?”
“I have to dismantle the trap and go down further and install it again.”
The chief hunter shook his head at the cool reply of the bandit leader.
“When you go hunting, the most important thing is to lure your prey to the desired location. If we go out with our skills, we will all get hit and die, so we have to lure them into traps from the front.”
“how?”
“Shout out or ask for help. Use monsters to block the road and induce movement in a specific direction. You are free to choose any method.”
Bishop Lightning handed him a shiny yellow bead.
“It’s a thunderbolt. If you throw it, it will make a thunderous roar, so use it to make a sound. The monsters will think of a sound like a forceful force as the cry of a giant monster and run away in confusion.”
“He’s a wasteful guy to use as a consumable item. If I sell it outside, I think it will sell at a high price… Anyway, I will be grateful.”
The chief hunter handed him a red whistle.
“If you blow this, the nearby monsters will forcibly go into a state of madness. He’s an embarrassing guy who puts the user at the greatest risk when he hears the sound and rushes in.”
“It’s giving you another ominous item.”
“It will be useful when there is no way to escape without the help of a monster, or when you want to cause confusion in the front. Be sure to measure when you use it.”
The bandit leader received the whistle and put it in his arms.
With this, the leader of the bandit and the giant golem master decided their opponents, and the chief hunter and the lightning bishop handed over valuable tools one by one to succeed in lure.
Naturally, everyone saw the Ancient Yeti, and the Ancient Yeti took out a heavy hatchet and handed it to them.
“What do you mean by this?”
“Throw it. break your head get food.”
“I do not need.”
The thief commander asserted sternly.
“Is there anything else? You can’t carry such a heavy hatchet.”
“i get it. give me something else.”
The ancient yeti took out a mini-size hatchet.
“For infants. Not heavy.”
Except for the Ancient Yeti, the powerful people of the four parties were sure.
I think this bastard is terribly useless.
Anyway, the bandit leader led the desert bandits down the hole.
“Near the stairs, travel routes are inevitably limited. We focus on burying traps in the vicinity.”
The desert robbers worked hard to bury their traps.
And I quickly ran into a problem.
“What are these guys! You rush towards the trap!”
“Like stupid zombies!”
“You got the wrong floor. They are following our footsteps.”
This is the B6 floor, and the monsters that appear are undead.
When they feel the vitality of living things, they will unconditionally rush to them.
Originally, fighting with the undead wouldn’t work very well.
Because the B6 floor was quite famous.
The adventurers chose not to procrastinate and stay in one place, but to quickly break through to the B7 floor.
However, the desert robbers did not know this information because they came from a remote area, and they stayed for a considerable amount of time to bury the trap.
As an added bonus, the undead on the B6 floor, where the adventurers had not been able to get rid of them for a while, moved in large numbers, and all the zombies called zombies were gathering.
Thanks to this, the trap was triggered by zombies before even trying it on the Black Mountain Society party, and the zombies that could bother the Black Mountain Society party were caught and slaughtered by the desert bandits.
“Shit! To waste all precious traps in a place like this.”
“This is wrong.”
“The assassination here is absolutely unreasonable. Go down to the next floor!”
The first raid of the Desert Bandits ended in great failure.
* * *
I found the stairs going down to the B6 floor and as soon as I came down, I witnessed an amazing sight.
“Wow, what are these…!”
The surrounding terrain was completely devastated or melted, making it impossible to guess what happened. The only recognizable thing was the corpses of the zombies presumably involved here.
“Oh, wait. There are some metal shards left here.”
Rave pulled something out of the rubble.
“It’s quite a luxury item. It was written in the manual that it is difficult to obtain unless you are a professional rogue… But I do not know why it was used in such a place.”
“What do you mean?”
“It’s expensive. Zombies are monsters that don’t even make money. I don’t think a reasonable adventurer would have used such advanced traps in a place like this…”
Rave’s analysis was quite sharp.
“indeed. A reasonable analysis.”
I asked Rave.
“But now it actually happened. Estimate the circumstances under which these traps were used.”
“Umm… I don’t think it’s ever meant to catch zombies. So, that means they were targeting a different target… According to my research, there are no valuable monsters that appear on the B6 floor.”
“then?”
“Maybe it was aimed at adventurers, not monsters.”
“Oh.”
The party members also nodded their heads.
“Rave’s argument makes sense. There is no way a monster could have installed such a sophisticated trap, so I think the Adventurer Killer set it up for other adventurers.”
“It probably wasn’t aimed at adventurers. This is a trap to kill even the most skilled at the highest level. Maybe…”
A hideous light gleamed in the eyes of Cheongil and Kuro.
“Those who know the identity of the jar may have approached it.”
“It is presumed to be a very dangerous secret organization.”
I couldn’t help but be embarrassed.
“I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say that an organization suddenly appears targeting the pot.”
“Not at all. I have a knack for secrecy, so I can assert this with certainty.”
Kuro said with a serious expression on his face.
“You said that the pots of Ligia are the 7th taboo and appear when you call them by name, but there were no rumors of such a pot until the boss talked about it.”
“Ugh. It should be…”
“Think about it, boss. It is unlikely that the urn has not been found for a long time, and that it has not just been rumored to have been circulated by chance. On the other hand, it is very likely that there is an organization that kept and quarantined the jars.”
It really is.
There’s no way the Empire could have left such a dangerous thing unattended.
It must have been put on the ground and sealed tightly.
“It makes sense to assume that they realized the jar was gone and quickly approached it for retrieval. I guess it’s just bad luck this time that the zombies set the trap.”
“Next time, this is going to be targeted directly.”
“That’s right. So, from now on, the adventurers we encounter should show no mercy and should be eliminated. There is a high probability that it is an assassin sent by the urn protection organization.”
Hearing Kuro’s sincere remarks, I immediately agreed.
“Can’t we just sacrifice what we’re going to kill anyway?”
At Cheongil’s words, he nodded his head. I’ll have to write the names of all the adventurers I encounter on the jars. I don’t really want to see how an adventurer with a name written on it gets eaten by a jar.