Chapter 13 – Secret of Wall Paintings (1/2)

This chapter is finally a good chapter in other words not much of the tense crap…and this chapter is made possible thanks to the donation by ‘On Thai Ann’. He alone gave me $50….the leechers rejoice with this extra chapter. Dayyum you guys get 4 chapters in just 2 days. Holy crap!

Chapter 13 – Secret of Wall Paintings

“—Seiino!!” [ET: Sorry, but there is no proper english word for this.]

The fist strikes a monster while making a dull *Bakii* sound. Eventually, the monster dies with just one punch.

The demon is not the monkey from before, but a wolfy-bear……how should I put it, it’s appearance is that of a small bear with the head of a wolf. It has red eyes and brown hair. It looks like the mane of a horse.

It’s not fast like those monkeys but it does has quite an amount of power. According to Elk this is called as ‘Little Beast’.

“……It’s really strange”

Elk murmurs while seeing me killing the ‘Little Beast’ just now.

“Strange?……by any chance, this guy also doesn’t appear here?”

“Yeah. They live in deepest parts of lower floors. And they are on this first floor……”

That’s right.

Right after kicking the asses of those Mad Monkeys (by alone), I heard from Elk that the dungeon is going through an abnormal phenomenon.

This dungeon, ‘Labyrinth of Naga’ is an ancient ruin starting from ground floor to 6 floors underground. In total it is of 7 floors.

And either the floor itself or somewhere inside the floor are the demons territories. And it naturally distributes weaker demons from stronger demons, which is convenient for adventurers.

There is a food chain made up inside, and due to that there is rarely any change in the ‘distribution’.

According to Elk, right now that ‘Distribution’ is strange.

For example, on the first floor and near entrance only low-levelled ‘Goblin’, ‘Rabbit’ and ‘Wolf’ appear which rookie adventurer can kill for training.

If they are unfortunate, they will meet up with the ‘Spider’ which I fought against yesterday or a ‘Black Wolf’ nothing else.

The more floors you descend you’ll meet up with more powerful demons or so is the distribution system.

Like, a ‘Scorpion’ about the size of a dog.

or giant cockroaches called as ‘Roach’ which prefer darkness and crawl super fast.

or flame throwing lizards called as ‘Red Lizard’

The ‘Little Beast’ I just defeated is the most dangerous of them all. Normally, they only appear in the lowest floor. Many say that a rookie can’t do anything in front of it.

And that right now……attacked us on the first floor.

This is obviously abnormal. I can’t help but think that something is occurring here.

Though I’m curious to know the reason for this abnormal situation, but as they say it’s foolish to deliberately poke a sleeping snake. And so the principle that says ‘Let the sleeping dog lie’ is important here!

And just like Elk said, I decide to leave here as soon as possible.

I tried to……but due to the demons appearing here and there we can’t move as we want.

Well, I can kick their asses if I was alone but right now there is Elk with me.

I have to fight while protecting her.

And so we are roaming here and there to find the route with monsters that are not much fast.

Even so, there are still monsters like the previous one.

While I’m thinking that, Elk is tearing off the useful parts of the ‘Little Beast’,

“This guys is a rank C? I had only saw it in documents before……if guys like this are loitering here then all the rookie adventurers will be killed.”

“Hmm, now this is an abnormal situation.”

C, huh. This is great.

A goblin is E, the monkeys from before are D and this one even one rank above it.

From what I’ve heard, Elk’s rank is E and her friends are also E and D. Even if they all work together, it will be difficult to survive……this is something even I can understand.

……By the way, this demon……

“Hey Elk, I found it strange when fighting the monkey from before too”

“? What happened?”

“Most of these guys are thin?”

Let it be the monkeys or this bear-ish (tearing off completed) thing.

It’s like their bodily fluids have been sucked out. It seems like they have too less amount of meat according to their body size……yeah, as if it’s due to malnutrition.

Elk says that she hasn’t see them so she doesn’t know about their physique. But if it’s like what I’m feeling……

“They lost to some other demon in a fight and came here after losing their place to live, maybe?”

“No……that can’t be. In the first place, this guy is the most strong demon in this dungeon. Others are ‘Mad Monkeys’ and ‘Statue’ only……”

So it’s impossible to imagine a demon who can defeat them, present in this dungeon, eh

Ah, the ‘Statue’ is a demon with a body of stone statue and it moves. Itmostly appears in historic ruins. It’s rank is D.

But, it’s only logical if I think about it……Nh?

“I just heard something……‘

“? What? Scream of demons?”

“No, this is coming from before.”

I already had good ear and after enhancing my hearing ability along with other senses, I can hear things that Elk can’t. So it’s only natural for Elk have a ‘?’ float above her head.

The scream of demons are pretty far right now.

But just for one second I did hear it……

The sound of something really big crawling.

☆☆☆

I walk while worrying about it and reach a place which is really spacious.

It’s area is about the gymnasium of an elementary school, no, a little small?

This labyrinth is pretty big and there a lot of places which are spacious but this one just somehow seems too much spacious.

And in front of us are numerous corridors. Well this is the so called corridor junction place. Pretty cliche.

This place is underground so it’s cool and refreshing. Air is flowing here from somewhere. This is spacious so there is no locked-up feeling here. If you just be careful from demons then this place quite a pleasant place.

“Only you’re the one who says……that it’s pleasant in a dungeon where demons are roaming in crowds.”

Oh, I see.

But, this really is more pleasant that I expected. It’s spacious, it’s not much humid so there is no need to worry about moss accumulating here and this place doesn’t has any weird smell.

When I once again think about, it’s does pique my interest. This dungeon is dark and underground then why doesn’t this place has any humidity? Is there any drainage system here?

I casually ask about it to Elk,

“Yeah, that is because the rock walls here are made of volcanic ash.”

“Volcanic ash?”

“Yeah. There is a volcano near this dungeon. Right now there is no danger of it erupting, but……long ago it was an active volcano. And when the volcanic ash piled up after it erupting, it was used to make rocks and it is the ingredient used in making this dungeon. That’s why the drainage is good.”

While hearing Elk’s story, I surveyed this spacious room.

I see, so this all is made of volcanic ash.

In my previous world, volcanic ash was white, I think, well this is another world with magic and swords. It won’t help me thinking about these things.

Well, now that volcano has also stopped its activities so, there is nothing to worry……

……Just wait!?

(A volcano near this place?)

My mind grasped something inside the words spoken by Elk in a nonchalant manner.

The things that are coming to my mind are……various sorts of information that I’ve gotten a hold of, after coming here.

There is a dormant volcano near here which used to erupt long ago.

Recently, there have been earthquakes and a part of dungeon collapsed.

The monsters who should be on lower floor are on upper floor and are thin.

And……the wall painting of snake.

“……Er, Elk, I need to ask about something?”

“Eh, what is it?”

“Do demons, hibernate?”