Chapter 70 (1/2)

Ch. 70: Being Summoned After Revival

“I guess it’s all settled now?”

Seeing that Al and Feim had no will to fight anymore, Klaus asked Loren, but Loren didn’t say anything and just shrugged.

He was able to subdue them with only coercion, but he felt that it was mostly due to Shayna, who was puffing out her chest proudly in the corner of his eye.

It was hard to think that they, as future adventurers, even though they were currently students, would lose the will to fight at one glance.

“Tie them up with rope or something for now. It’ll be troublesome if they start acting up again.”

“You mean all of them, right?”

Klaus sent a pitiful glance towards Ain and Cloud, who were on the floor.

The two were in a bad state, as they seemed unrelated to this matter, but they were used by Ain and ended up being knocked out by Loren.

Klaus wondered if they really needed to tie them up, but since they weren’t sure if they were still under the influence of > or not, there was a need to neutralize them.

Klaus knew that, but he couldn’t help but feel bad for them.

“All of them. Unfortunate for them, but let’s just put it as mismanagement of their companions.”

“Okay.”

Klaus nodded and started tying Feim and Al with the rope that Ange had brought out of her bag.

“What should we do now?”

Lapis, looking at the process, asked Loren.

“Well…I guess we go back to the surface using the transport gate, right?”

“What should we do about that?”

Loren turned to where Lapis was pointed, and his face hardened as he saw what was there.

In his sight was the box that Al had dropped, which supposedly sealed an evil G.o.d inside.

The box, which had been an ordinary metal box when Al had been holding it, was lying on the floor, but some of the designs on its surface started emitting an eerie purple light.

“Oh, come on…Don’t tell me…”

“For some reason, I agree with what you’re thinking.”

It was already proved that the abnormality of the dungeon, which was supposedly caused by the near revival of the evil G.o.d, and what Al had been planning were unrelated.

In that case, Al already being apprehended, with no more will to fight, was a separate problem than the evil G.o.d’s revival.

“Don’t tell me it’s going to revive right now!?”

“Such bad timing.”

Loren started to panic, but on the other hand, Lapis was very calm.

Of course, it wasn’t because she had a way to deal with what was happening before them.

“W-what’s going to happen!?”

As Parme, who had been watching everything quietly, cried out in dismay, the box on the floor slowly started glowing brighter and started emitting flashes of purple light, and anyone could see that it wasn’t normal.

“Ah, the evil G.o.d is reviving to save me in my time of trouble!”

“Klaus, smack him and shut him up, will you?”

When Loren told him, seeing Al crying out, becoming all emotional and wiggling on the ground like a worm, Klaus sighed and struck him on the back of the head.

Al lost focus for a second, but he quickly recovered and pushed Klaus away, and started crawling towards the box, glowing with intense light.

“Now, lend me your power!”

“Shut up and stay asleep.”

Loren said with a frown and dropped his heel onto the back of Al’s head.

Along with a very blunt sound, the blow seemed to have knocked him out, as Al’s body gave one last shudder before he stopped moving.

Everyone else thought he was dead, but Loren didn’t seem like he cared, as he kicked him back and turned to the box.

“What do we do about this?”

“I don’t think there’s much we can do at this point.”

As Lapis said in a give up tone, Loren thought for a moment and said to her like the thought just popped up in his head.

“How about we pretend we didn’t see anything and return to the surface?”

“I think it’s a bit too late for that.”

Klaus and the others gave a bored look at Loren’s heartless proposal.

Lapis said out loud as she continued looking at the box with a great deal of interest.

“I think something is coming out.”

“I was afraid it would be something like that.”

Nothing had gone right for Loren ever since he quit being a mercenary.

He had started acknowledging his bad luck, so he already had a vague feeling that he wasn’t going to be able to just walk away from it like throwing away rotten food.

“It’s coming. Brace yourselves, everyone.”

If they were to trust what they had been hearing about what was in the box, it meant that whatever was coming out was an evil G.o.d.

If they witnessed something like that manifest in the current world, who knew what else could happen.

As they prepared themselves at Lapis’ warning, the box on the floor started emitting the brightest light yet.

Loren kept his eyes on the box, and within the blinding light, he saw the shape of the box crumble and increase in area, reshaping itself.

Eventually the light died, and a young-looking man stood in front of them.

He had sleepy eyes and unkempt hair.