237 – 227.New Journey-5
Following René, I went into the pit where there was a corpse of the boss and a secret passage.
As expected of the pit where the boss lives, the area is wide and the depth is approximately the height of the 5th floor of the apartment.
As soon as I went inside, what greeted me was the corpse of a spider so large that it was incomparable to a petty creature.
“I’m sure you’ll know he’s the boss as soon as you see him.”
“Right?”
“But regardless of the size, he looks skinny.”
Pass-!
As soon as I put my hand on the spider’s corpse, the contacted area crumbled like powder and scattered.
The moisture was completely drained out, and it was in a state no different from that of a mummy.
‘It’s usually said that in this state, it’s a corpse that has been dead for a very long time… ….’
[But didn’t you say that it wasn’t long before the spider came to Bamboo Grove?]
‘Someone must have made the leader spider like this.’
Convinced that it was an obvious kill, I looked around the inside of the pit some more.
There might be traces of the man who killed the chief spider somewhere.
But no matter how much I looked, there was no plausible sign.
It seemed that after the murder, the cleanup was done and left.
[Contractor, take a close look at the webs on the spider’s spinnerets.]
“A spider web?”
As Prach said, there was a part of the spider’s web that was cut off and left over on the protrusion coming out of the spider’s web.
However, unlike other spiders, the color of the spider web was not white. Upon closer inspection, it was found that a piece of blue cloth was attached to the spider web.
“I must go to the secret passage. Renee, where is the entrance?”
“It was hidden behind a rock pressed against the wall here!”
In simple terms, it was highly likely that it was a piece of clothing belonging to a villager who had been eaten by a spider.
However, apart from pieces of clothing, there were no human remains or remnants of belongings.
[Couldn’t there be no remains by opening the baby inside the secret passage and feeding it there?]
‘But there’s no way we can feed the pups even the belongings that humans carry around. And there’s one more strange thing.’
Most spiders are known to wind their prey with a web more than dozens of times and turn it into a cocoon.
Since the structure was such that the spider web was wrapped around the spider web again, the piece of clothing could not come out at the end.
In fact, I remember that the man we rescued was tied up in a spider’s web below his crotch.
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‘The only way to answer my questions is to go inside.’
As Renee pushed the boulder aside, a path appeared that the two of them could pass together.
It was reminiscent of a crawling secret passageway, but considering the size of the leader spider, the size is understandable.
After manifesting a magic circle that creates a sphere of light, I sent it forward and proceeded slowly.
I could see some spider webs blocking the road here and there, but judging from the clean cuts, it seemed that Rin had already cut them all.
“Let’s go.”
“Yes!”
We slowly made our way through the secret passage, following the path Lin had made easier.
Clean inside except for the spider web. There must have been a corpse of a baby spider, but strangely, there was nothing.
Even if Rin is a proven master of the sword, he does not cut the target into molecules.
It’s such an elaborate job that even a grand sword master would be bothered by it.
“This is a very unique place.”
“Huh? Is there anything unique?”
“Right now there is nothing in front of you, but as you go inside, the air gets hotter.”
Because of Freehardt’s protection, I was in a state of insensitivity to heat.
In other words, unless you jump into a fire pit, you always feel cool.
As a result, I could not detect the change in the environment that René felt.
I didn’t know that God’s Protection had such a downside.
“Maybe something is burning in the depths.”
“But if there is a fire, shouldn’t there be black smoke rising?”
“Yes. But there are fires that don’t smoke, right?”
“Ah… !”
Renee frowned as he realized at once what I was talking about..
The wound healed without a single scar, but the pain I felt in the past couldn’t be erased.
I gently touched her and put her hand on her shoulder.
“Renee, you can wait at the entrance if you don’t want to think about it.”
“…… Are you okay. If I go back here, do you think I’ll become a coward who can’t even look at fire from now on?”
“If that’s what you mean, I won’t stop you. Instead, don’t push yourself too hard.”
“Okay, thank you for your concern.”
We moved forward again.
After walking for about 5 minutes, I began to feel the heat even though I had the divine protection.
Sweet sweat dripped down Renee’s forehead.
Fortunately, it wasn’t sweat caused by trauma, it was simply sweat from the heat.
Looking at the fact that there is not a single wave in her eyes, it seems that she has already overcome.
“Vern-sama, I can hear the sound of a fight in the distance.”
“Yeah, I just heard that too.”
Chaeeng-! Chaeeng-!
The noise generated when hard steel collides with each other.
From the sound of Rin’s unique swordsmanship, it seems that she is fighting someone.
“Let’s hurry up!”
“No, you don’t have to rush.”
“Yes?”
“Rin is cautious and very rational. If she were a dangerous enemy, she would have run away long ago. The fact that she didn’t do that means she’s a worthy opponent to try alone.”
She said, “Isn’t it possible that she was an enemy so strong that she couldn’t even escape?”
“That said, I don’t feel any nervousness in her swordsmanship.”
Judging by the fact that the regular and calm sound continued like a stream, it was possible to know that he was fighting the opponent while adjusting his pace.
In this case, the opponent is not one, but many.
If there was only one enemy, Rin would have cut her down with all her might from the start, without hesitation.
Dpub-!
Contrary to Renée’s concerns, I walked out comfortably.
Around the time I came into sight of Erchu Lin’s back.
Clap-!
Just in time, Rin was putting her sword back.
At the same time, the giant bipedal lizard in front of her was cut diagonally and split in two.
“Welcome. I just took care of all the risks.”
“Good job.”
Except for Rin, everything around her was scorched.
The corpses of the red lizards that Rin was fighting just before turned into a handful of ashes and then scattered away.
This is because it was a Salamander, one of the spirits that are living beings but have no substance.
“Teacher, I think you must have noticed since you saw it yourself, but… ….”
“You were just trying to say it was Ignit’s trickery, right?”
“Yes.”
Ignit was the only being capable of handling a fire spirit like Salamander.
There was a setting that the God of Fire was on indefinite probation as numerous protests from the Gods broke out because of his fiery personality and causing various accidents.
As the god to manage them disappeared, the fire spirits scattered all over the world.
Among them, in the case of Salamander, they were being entrusted to Ignit, who had a similar appearance to them.
“Even if it’s not the case, I was suspicious that it might be like that even before I came here.”
“As expected, he is a teacher.”
“Thank you for the compliment. More than that, I can’t move forward because of the pillar of fire blocking the middle.”
“I tried to turn it off by raising a sword wind, but it didn’t work. I can’t see any sign of it going away.”
“Because it is a fire with special properties. Even if you pour all the water in the lake, it won’t go out.”
“Then what should I do?”
“Leave it to me. Even if it wasn’t, there was something I wanted to try before.”
I looked into the pillar of fire that reached from the floor to the ceiling.
A heat that will devour and burn everything.
It was similar to the heinous flames that hurt Renée in Breeze’s nest.
‘At that time, I had no choice but to let go until Ignit collected the fire himself… ….’
It’s different now.
Don’t you have the strength you gained to fight Ignit?
My heart started beating like crazy, and at the same time, the token of blessing engraved on the back of my hand shone.
Dragon Heart produced mana endlessly, and the token processed mana.
A manaro with the properties of cold and pure ice.
“A filthy troublemaker should be immobilized.”
I stretched out my hand toward the pillar of fire and manifested a pure white magic circle.
The moment when the huge magic circle covering the entire pillar of fire began to glow.
Bad-!
As soon as I closed my eyes and opened them, the shimmering pillar of fire was frozen in the ice.
This is not a poetic expression. The pillar of fire was trapped in the ice barrier.
Ignit’s flame that never goes out.
“Lin.”
“Yes.”
Without further instruction, Rin took out her sword.
As he swung his sword-holding arm at the ice barrier dozens of times, the ice began to crack and fell cleanly to the ground.
Even in the severed condition, the flame was still trapped in the ice.
Looking at that scene, I thought it was good to receive Freehardt’s protection.
“Bern-sama, there is a person tied up!”
As the pillar of fire that was guarding something disappeared, the scene beyond was finally revealed.
A woman whose limbs are tied with spider webs.
As if she was unconscious, her eyes were closed and her head hung down.
“Sir, that is… ….”
“Yeah, it looks like a living golem, not a human.”
Renee said she was a person, but Rin and I immediately recognized her as soon as we saw her.
That person is something else that only looks like a human.
Still, it was certain that it was a secret that Ignit had been trying to keep hidden.
The blue cloth that covered the woman’s main body was proof of that.
‘It must have exploited the spider’s web to keep her tied up, and deployed salamanders and pillars of fire to guard the secret passage.’
I thought it might be a hostage to appease the green dragon.
Then what if I return that woman safely to the green dragon’s arms?
Ignit’s situation must be embarrassing.
Just imagining it already made the corners of my mouth go up.
“Um… ….”
Just in time, the woman who had been tied up regained her consciousness and opened her eyes.
I smiled at her and waved her hand at her.
“Hello!”
“… ….”
The red-haired woman was staring blankly at me.
You must be very embarrassed because you don’t know what the situation is.
I was sure that he would be delighted if I explained the situation step by step and offered to send him back home.
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But one word from the woman’s mouth made me doubt my ears.
“A female dragon’s scissors, then a male human’s seed feeder…….”
………..
is there any better introduction rather than specifying subject for golem?