Chapter 154: To the Underpass (1/2)

”No! Ah! Lute-sama’s and my airship Nest of love it's burning!!!!!”

Nest of love…? Is Meiya thinking like that?

For the time being, I put her screams aside. The airship was wrecked by six magicians with no-chanting magic. This had crushed the option of escape flying.

The magicians were illuminated by the fire of the airship burning brightly, and I was able to observe them in detail.

Their bodies were completely covered with white armor. They didn’t give a rugged feeling. There were no carvings designs on the armor, it had simplicity at the level of cutting down so much the waste that it was conspicuous. There were only two holes to secure visibility in the full-face helmet.

Gimmick blades popped out from the left and right arms like fish fins. Depending on how you look at it, it looked like a half-fish-man who came to land.

(What are we going to do? Will we fight them here?)

There were only 6 opponents, even if they were magicians.

Taking out two General Purpose Machine Guns and shooting them at random, I don't think they can be avoided no matter how much the vision is strengthened. Or you can throw grenades and anti-tank mines as much as you can to annihilate them.

But is that really good?

The enemies are not limited to the six in front of me. It is more likely that they are still hiding in the snowfield as a reserve force. Reinforcements may arrive while stranded here.

Moreover, these magicians are more unusual than any magician I have ever met.

If you know how firearms attack, you can avoid them by assisting your body with physical strengthening techniques and strengthening your eyesight.

However, when using magic, he could sense the magical power. The magician reacts to magical power. Therefore, it is difficult to attack a magician with magic and surprise him enough to kill him. This is because the flow of magical power will be noticed before the attack.

When the airship was destroyed, I didn't notice it until just before the attack magic was activated, albeit without chanting. This is very unusual.

The common sense grown so far was shaken.

In addition, they passed through Shia's warning network, who is good at detecting signs, and approached the airship side. I was just lucky to notice their approach.

There must be some kind of gimmick or trick, whether it was magic or a sign. It is not a good idea to stand up without knowing the inside of the opponent's hand.

But if you could hold down here, it would be possible to get their background. This was a unique opportunity to get important information.

Battle or escape … which was right?

”You guys!”

When I was at a loss, a person wearing a hood called out. Everyone’s eyes were turned to that person.

During the day, after leaving the Adventurer’s Guild, it was the person who was watching us. Because I knew how dirty the hood looks, there was no doubt.

Perhaps he felt that we were wary of the newcomer, thus the other party took off the hood. There were animal ears and silver hair that appeared from below.

The girl exposed the characteristics that can be recognized as a white wolf immediately.

You're not living in the hinterland!? I never imagined that there was a white wolf in such a place.

”Come here soon! We'll run away from this place!”

”Okay! Everyone, let's go!”

She turned her back and ran into the city. We followed her words.

The white armors change their aim from us to the white wolf girl and start running like the wind. Of course, I'm not going to let them follow her.

I fired the AK47 at the white armors.

Dan! Dada, Dada, Dada!

They stopped to avoid the AK47 bullet by lowering themselves or retreating.

To stop them further…

”Liz! Explosive grenade!”

”Yes, explosive grenade!”

Liz took out the explosive grenade from the infinite storage and handed it over to me with the protection of the spirits.

When I received it, I pulled out the pin with my mouth and assisted my body with physical strengthening. I threw it at the white enemy with all my might.

Explosion! Snow soared like a curtain.

”Follow her now!”

Everyone followed with Shia at the front, and me at the very end, I threw an explosive grenade backward again.

Again, the snow curtain soared.

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She, the white wolf girl rushed into a back alley as she entered the city. She open a round metal lid like a manhole and slid her body into the darkness. We also followed. In the end, I closed the lid again.

The tip of the lid was a staircase. There was no light source and so, just in case, the night vision was strengthened with the little magical power left.

At first, I thought it was an underground sewer, but it was rather an underpass like a loophole or a mining tunnel. There was not much height or width in that hole. If I stretched my arms, they reached the ceiling, and if I spread my arms sideways, my fingertips touched both walls.

The underpass continues endlessly so that the end could not be seen, and as we went further, it split in two, then in a three-pronged road, or in a road that only turns left or right.

The white wolf-girl who led such a path went on without hesitation.

After entering the underpass and walking for about 30 minutes, we reached a square. It was about the size of an elementary school classroom. Of course, there was no light source.

”Is there anyone who can use magic? If there is, give me a fire.”

With a slightly blunt tone, the White Wolf girl pulled out a lantern from under the hood.

Snow lit the lantern on her behalf.

The area became brighter, and we could distinguish each other's faces without strengthening our night vision with magical power.

”Don't worry, if you come this far, that white guys will not follow you anymore. Because they do not know this underpass at all, they cannot follow this far.”

Certainly… There are underpasses all over Norte city.

This underpass must have been a remnant of measures against giants. In the days of small villages and towns, ordinary citizens fled to this basement and evacuated. As the city grew larger, and because of repeated expansion work, it seems that it became a huge maze where no one could grasp the whole picture.

Apparently, this White Wolf girl knew the directions in this huge underground maze.

”Do you know those white magicians?”