“What is your name?”
“Rain.”
“Hey, I said that he made people feel bad from the beginning, but he was a guy who deserved his name! Like this little boy like a shower.”
“Actually, my name is Sun.”
“What, what? Do not lie! If you take out the dog tag, everything comes out?”
As I entered the inner depths of the Red Mountains while bickering with Archer Rem, people gradually became less and less and I began to hear horrifying cries.
The two potions I bought in advance jingled on the belt of my belt, and I was holding a staff in my hand.
Bart told him not to be scared because he would protect him, but Lane was silent not because of tension, but because of a terrible sense of déjà vu.
“… … .”
The sweltering heat of the Red Mountains and the presence of party members chatting nonstop… … Suddenly, the back of the warriors party passed by in front of my eyes, and a corner of my heart ached.
“Aren’t you on your first adventure today, brother?”
“huh.”
“Are you familiar with the habits of the Rat-Spider?”
didn’t understand
It is the body that once held the ‘old ones’ that served the Lords of the Abyss. I didn’t feel the need to know information about monsters left on the continent.
“You just need to know that they are divided into the ruling class and the ruled class.”
said Bart.
According to their explanation, the Rat-Spiders are divided into queens, troops, and workers.
“Workers are harmful assistants that eat trees, but when they see humans, they are busy running away. Only military ranks attack humans.”
“What about the queen?”
“They form a colony and give orders to their rat-spiders. They say that catching the queen is like catching a thousand rat-spiders.”
Then Rem, who skillfully walked ahead, tracking the trail of the Rat-Spider hidden in the bushes, sneered.
“Don’t even think about getting caught. It’s something that can only be caught by expert adventurers like Bart and me in a party. Although it does not come out to the ground in the first place.”
Yeah, I don’t intend to catch it.
Of course, that was until I learned about the reward for defeating Queen Rat-Spider.
* * *
The Rat-Spider is a creature of great size and terrifying appearance.
As its name suggests, it is understood to have the head of a mouse and the body of a spider.
But there was something more cunning than a mouse, and something that fostered a primal loathing in man more than a spider.
“Uhhhhh!”
The blade of the ax cutting through the air severed the flesh of the monster and caused a bloody blast.
Wedge liquid… … !
Wedge liquid… … !
Then, the sound of the pongong flew away, dragging its long tail, and when the sound ended, the arrow was precisely inserted between the mouse’s eyebrows, causing death convulsions.
“Oops, this is the 12th!”
As soon as they arrived at the hunting ground Rem knew, Bart and Rem slaughter the Rat-Spider with ferocious momentum, and even by Rin’s standards, their skills were unusual.
“Bart, lots of other adventurers! Don’t even think about taking a break!”
“Know!”
Adventurers were originally a group that shared information, and the hunting grounds were crowded with other adventurers’ parties at a distance of about 50 meters.
─Wow, how much is all this?
─The money is being copied?!
Sitting under the shade of a tree, yawning and watching the scene, it was really boring.
“Can I really not fight? Let’s divide the profits into 1/4.”
Sammy, the acolyte, was reading the Bible while leaning against a tree, and smiled.
“yes. You can light a fire when you camp out later. Please make me drinking water.”
“Is that the end?”
“In the first place, when you two recruited the brothers into the party, they had no intention of having them fight.”
“What do you mean, that?”
Lane replied nonchalantly, and lay flat on the grass with a pod on the back of her head. I feel like dying from the heat, really.
“Like I said at the beginning, you two just wanted to help. You did that to me before.”
Sammy needs to earn money to take the priesthood exam, but the two of them heard about the situation at the bar and reluctantly let it into the party.
“I have already earned money to take the exam, but I am still doing this. If you spend time with the two of them, you can feel the love of the gods.”
Yo is that
Are you talking about people who help others? Are you a good person Just like Lisa did.
– Let’s go, Lin.
Come to think of it, the smile he had when he came to believe in Bart earlier seemed to be similar to that of Lista… … wait for a sec.
“Sammy, do you know about Turaina?”
“How could you not know him?”
“Did Tureina ever be branded as a heretic in the church?”
Heresy… … It was at that time that Sammy tilted his head and narrowed his brows as if he remembered something.
─Quaaagh!
As the desperate screams echoed, the adventurers who were moving excitedly stopped at the same time.
coo… … The earth’s axis is shaken by the heavy weight. The eyes of the adventurers who glared at the source of the sound were extremely dilated by the tension.
Something large and frightening was approaching, and an adventurer was screaming in pain as his blood-soaked mouth was chewed.
“What, what?!”
“Me, crazy!”
big.
It’s insanely big too.
I knew it was roughly the size of an adult man, but that guy was twice as tall as Bart.
“Hey, the queen? on the ground?”
The adventurers in the battle for childbirth felt cold sweat soaking their limbs. The inexperienced adventurers ran away screaming while stepping back.
“no! Don’t show your back!”
Silver-ranked adventurer Bart urgently shouted.
「Rat Spider is a monster whose danger level changes when it is controlled by the queen and when it is not.」
It is written like that in the 『Adventure Log』 of the great adventurer Lutehim.
“Usually, they are nothing more than ragtags, but as the nickname ‘army’ suggests, when the commander—the queen is nearby, they transform into a slaughter group that moves more precisely than the mechanical devices of Dwarfs.”
The Queen’s crest was engraved in the eyes of the rat-spiders, and they began to emit bloody phosphorescence.
It seems that the chick adventurers didn’t see those eyes or hear Bart’s voice.
Rat-spiders pounced on the fleeing adventurers and drove their teeth deep into their throats.
“This is why chicks… … !”
Rem unstopped the vial he was wearing around his waist and poured every last drop into his mouth.
As Lane stood up and checked the situation, she unknowingly blew a whistle.
‘Alcohol, Keyes’ archery… … ?’
Needless to say, the basis of drunkenness is drunkenness.
Depending on the intensity of the drunkenness, the power of the archery skills that can be used changes, and drinking an entire bottle means that the power is raised to the point of limiting at once.
However, the risk is also certain, and there is a risk of vomiting or passing out in the middle of a battle.
‘It’s fun. Where should I take a look at your skills?’
And in an instant, three arrows caught on the bow.
Wedge liquid… … !
Each of them pierced the head of the Rat-Spider, which fluttered strangely and attacked the adventurers.
“Don’t be stunned, get up and fight! If you don’t want to fall behind!”
Rem shouted loudly, and the adventurers who had peed on the threshold of death grabbed their weapons with trembling fingers.
“Rem, no matter how much you try to catch the little ones, it’s meaningless. We have to catch the queen.”
“I know! Sammy! Heal those chicks! Lane, you protect Sammy!”
“Ah, I see!”
Before Sammy could answer, Lem placed five arrows simultaneously on string, aimed them at the queen, and plucked the strings.
Whee ae ae ae ae… … !
They were arrows flying upwards, rightwards, leftwards, and downwards in a parabolic arc… … Surprisingly, the impact point was the same.
‘Kies’s simultaneous shot… … !’
It was a shooting method that is now widely known as the secret technique of a drunkard. The queen, whose left eye was crushed, screamed in pain.
“Grrr… … !”
“Grrr… … !”
Dozens, no, hundreds of rat-spiders rushed at Lem at the Queen’s command.
“Huh!”
However, there was a giant who crashed head-on into the waves of flesh, and that was Bart. With one blow of the axe, dozens of rat-spiders were chopped into pieces, scattering flesh and blood.
And Rem’s arrow flew through the gap opened between the ax strikes, and pierced the rat-spiders’ heads.
When the road finally opened, Bart took the first big leap off the ground, holding the double-edged ax in both hands.
“Wow, great!”
“As expected, the jet-black bart!”
“Why is that monster still silver?”
The strength of the legs that shot the whole body clad in plate armor so high was truly staggering.
Bart slammed the ax blade vertically into the queen’s head with a spirited spirit. Gravity from the heavy weight added strength to Bart’s slash.
Everyone expected that slash would cut the queen in two blows, but… … The ax stopped in the air, eager to tear through the tough hide and crush the skull.
‘That’s… … ?’
While Bart sensed with a warrior’s gut that something was wrong, Lane hurriedly shouted, feeling a familiar goose bump running cold down her spine.
“Bart! damage! Throw away the ax! If you get hit by that, you die!”
As soon as Bart heard that, he removed his hand from the ax and at the same time rolled to the side.
It was a breathtaking moment.
Air bubbles bubbled up from the cut surface the ax blade had ripped open, and blue-black poisonous air poured out in front.
gurrr… … !
The jet-black ax that Bart was proud of was liquefied, and black water dripped onto the ground, and the plants that the smoke touched withered away.
On the other hand, the queen’s wounds were healing in an instant.
“What is that? It’s called ultra-fast playback… … ?”
For the first time, instead of nervousness, a light of astonishment flashed in Rem’s eyes as he blankly blinked.
And the queen attacked Bart, who lost his weapons and became defenseless.
Bart grabbed the queen’s mouth with both ironclad hands and avoided being bitten, but the superiority and inferiority of strength was clear.
“Uh, ah, ah… … !”
Bart let out a moan of pain as his ironclad crumpled and his arm bones snapped.
“Bart!”
Rem evaded the rat-spiders’ attacks and fired arrows at the queen, but to no avail.
With only one determination to kill Bart without fail, the queen pushed her mouth towards Bart, ignoring the arrows stuck all over her body.
‘That’s obviously… … .’
At that time, for a more serious reason, Rain’s face was contemplative and his fingertips were freezing.
‘It’s cancer poison… … A disgusting stench from that unpleasant chill.’
I can’t figure it out.
Dark poison is a poison that eats away at the soul, a fearsome old abyss power wielded by masters of black magic.
The reason why Friede, the priestess of the fire dragon, who was the best priest of the time, belonged to the warrior party.
The reason why the Archmage Lin had to go into a dormant state with the magic of the Lord’s Sub-Gyeban.
Wasn’t it all because of the danger of that cancer poison? If so, there is a possibility that there is a master-level black magician nearby who has strengthened the queen… … .
‘Is it black magic at the level of strengthening monsters? There are remnants of the Black Church left in the world?’
Lane hurriedly drew in his breath and asked Sammy, who had been treating an adventurer whose neck had been bitten by memorizing scriptures.
“How much is it… … ?”
“yes?”
“How much is that… … !”
There was no need to intervene in this situation now. There was no one to blame for not intervening.
I just wanted to run away.
I don’t know anything else, but I didn’t want to fight a being that handles dark poison. Intense trauma engulfed his brain, and his breathing quickened.
“Oh, maybe twenty gold coins! As I said before, it has the same effect as saving a thousand, and it’s hard to catch because it’s deep underground… … As long as it is!”
This body is not yet perfect.
If you have to write the main and sub-passages again because of one mistake… … So, if only I could open my eyes again in a different world… … .
When the thought reached that point, I shuddered.
“Twenty coins, okay, twenty coins… … !”
The reason I intervene here and now is only for the money I need. Divide that by a quarter, and you’ll have enough left over to buy a book on the black market.
‘This action is not due to selflessness, nor is it due to loyalty to the party… … .’
Just money, for me.
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The archmage rationalized his actions in that way and moistened his parched mouth with dry saliva.
In fact, it was Bart’s smile and Sammy’s voice that intertwined in my head.
– As I said at the beginning, you two just wanted to help your brother.
It’s not because I’m grateful.
It’s just that if such an idiot dies before me again, I think my dream will be troubled for no reason.
“… … Build a magic square, 4 stars.”