189 188. Savepoint "Labyrinth Island".txt (1/2)

Oh, wait, wait. Today, I'm going to have to go with you.

Lord stops them both from going outside.

Surprisingly, he gobbled up all the food on the table in the short time he had been talking to Ryner.

'You're coming with me Lord?'

Because that's where we're going to fight.　You're a wind wizard, aren't you, because then you might die.

A very light appearance announces my death. Is the sixty-sixth layer of the example such a dangerous place?

Ryner replies with a disgusted look as he accompanies Lord.

I'll fly Christ. You don't have to come with me.

And fly ......?

The words are flying around, so I throw a look at them, questioning the meaning of it.

'The sixty-six layers are 'empty'. No walls, no mazes, no nothing but 'sky'.

That dragon in the 'sky' is a tricky one. I've fought it many times, but I have no hope of capturing it. That's why I've been waiting for Christ.

You're ”Elfenries the Wind Dragon”, aren't you? Hmm, that's nostalgic.

It is said that there is a dragon in the sky at the 66th layer.

It's also a dragon that makes even the current liner say that there's no prospect of an attack at all.

”Let's go, Christ. We'll hunt the dragon together.

'The dragon or ....... I've got it. I've heard this is still called 'dragon slayer'.

Ryner held out his hand for me to shake. I squeezed it back tightly.

[Party]

Rainer Helvirshine has joined the club.

And the 'display' appears in view.

I suddenly feel embarrassed to think that I was the one who thought up and created this system. I can see him silently developing the magic of the ”display” with a smirk on his face.

I really like the game-like production of ”The Original Kanami (Me)” .......

However, this 'display' is also reasonable. There are a lot of situations where this has helped me.

And while I'm joining, I check Ryner's status.

[Status]

Name: Rainer Helvirshine HP369/369 MP102/246 Class: Knight

Level 25.

Strength 12.24 Strength 9.21 Skill 10.56 Speed 15.34 Wisdom 12.00 Magic 9.89 Elemental 3.87

[Skill]

Inherent skill: wind magic 2.01

Acquired Skill: Sacred Magic 1.25 Sword Art 2.34 Blood Art 1.00 Optimal Action 1.22 Fortitude 1.02

After a true leveling up, Ryner had evolved into a talent that was no less than Lastiara and the others. Thanks to the absorption of Hailey's magic and soul, his stats have increased significantly.

He is blessed with talent and has a decent personality (compared to the rest of his peers). Best of all, he's a dependable homos*xual. Finally, I feel like I have a decent companion in my life.

Behind me, he said, ”A child (straw man) is a friend, a child (straw man) is a friend! I walk out of the restaurant, leaving my guardian, who is making a lot of noise, unnoticed and impressed.

The labyrinth seems to be headed from the edge of the city, so we cross the city.

On the way, I check my status.

【Status】

Name: Aikawa Uzumi HP293/293 MP945/945 Class: explorer

Level 22.

Strength 12.55 Strength 14.11 Skill 18.57 Speed 22.96 Cleverness 18.67 Magic 38.34 Element 6.21

[Skill]

Inherent skill: swordsmanship 3.79

Acquired skills: body arts 1.56 Dimensional magic 5.27+0.10 Sensory perception 3.56

Knitting 1.07 Deception 1.34 Magical Combat 0.73 Blacksmithing 0.69

When he was fighting Palinkron, his garbled status was back to normal. Now that the battle was over and things had calmed down, it looked like the 'display' had finally caught up.

And I reaffirmed the impact of the magic stone out of Yangtaki. His skills haven't changed since he last checked. However, there are fluctuations in the other numbers.

First of all, I can see that the qualities that should never change have been cut down a bit. Along with that, the value of magic power has also decreased. However, if this was the effect of the Yangtze waterfall's magic stone missing, I felt it was too little.

I tried to think of a reason, but I couldn't find an idea. It's not a bad thing, so it's not something to be pessimistic about, but I can't be honestly happy about it either.

Finally, I also see that the level is up. When I asked Ryner about it, he said that while he was asleep, he also finished leveling up as part of his treatment. It seems that Lord advised him that it is dangerous to leave it in a state where it can level up.

Thus, while confirming the current situation, we arrive at our destination.

And we are stunned by the extreme unreality of the landscape.

The edge of the city - the edge of the earth is cut off and has become a cliff. It was terrifying from a distance, but it was even more terrifying up close.

If you look down, you'll see endless blackness. One of the stones fell empty, but it was quickly sucked into the darkness without a sound. Not a single echo sound returned. A chill ran down my spine as I realized that it was a bottomless valley.

Its cliffs stretch around the city. Perhaps, from a distance, the city would appear to float in the black sky.

And I found a purple ”connection” standing in front of the cliff.

I am amazed at the perfection of the Connection. It was so dense, so different from the doors I had made. It's not as fragile as if it would disappear if you touched it, but it felt as secure as a towering mountain.

It's as if a higher level of dimensional magic, the Connection, was superimposed on a higher level of dimensional magic. It must be some kind of magic that fixed the entire space. It is not possible for this doorway to be broken forever, I knew because I am a dimensional magician.

'Let's go, Christ--'

Through the Connection, the three of us break into the 66th level of the example.

We jumped from the back side of the labyrinth to the front side of the dimension and returned to the labyrinth of old.

On the other side of the door was an expansive grassland.

Even though we were in a labyrinth, the wind blew and the short grass swayed. It was a bit dim, but it was still a layer of openness that could almost be mistaken for the ground.

I thought that there was not a single obstruction to my view - but that was not the case. There was a narrow spiral staircase that looked like a tower in the middle of the grassland.

It's an apologetic staircase, as if it were a minimal maze body.

This is the empty hierarchy--

'This is the sixty-sixth layer ....... There's nothing here .......

Yeah, look up. You'll know it when you see it.

At Reiner's urging, I looked up at the sky.

For a moment, I didn't know what to look at.

It was too huge for that. It took me a while to grasp the whole picture.

At first, I thought that the warbler's color was the ceiling of the labyrinth.

But I soon found out that it was not. The warbler-colored ceiling was moving. Like a living thing.

”Eh, could it be ......?

Ah, that's the dragon that stands in the way of the 65th layer. The Elfenries.

The creature, more massive than a cloud, was flying with ease.

Even though it was flying far away, you had to move your head wide to find the creature's wings.

It took my breath away.

Not long ago, I had killed a dragon named Dravdragon.

It was fresh in my mind that I defeated it with a Snow Rowen Reaper, a formation that, in hindsight, was well prepared, even though it was in danger.

However, even compared to that difficult enemy, Dravdragon, this dragon was an order of magnitude different.

[Monster] Elfenries: rank 67.

Its rank was more than twice that of a drav dragon. And its body length is more than ten times as long - or nearly fifty times as long if it's not good enough.

Unlike the Dravdragon, which was realistic to defeat, this Elfenries couldn't even imagine the moment of defeating it. It was like dealing with a natural calamity such as a storm or an earthquake.

''As you can see. Too big a body, too big a magic power. He's a wind dragon, so his aerial combat is one of the best. Moreover, they also use wind magic, so their speed and sensing abilities are also among the highest. He is highly intelligent and understands the tactics of battle. On top of that, he doesn't take pride in anything. Such a monster is guarding the stairs to the sixty-fifth layer.

”Nah, I see. ......

It was just a boss room.

No one is saying that the guardians (guardians) are the only bosses. There must be a layer like this in the long hundred layers.

''Let me gather some information first. --Dimension.

For now, I use dimensional magic to grasp the entire hierarchy.

By filling the space of the sixty-six layers with my magic power, I was able to quickly grasp the full extent of the space.

It was a grassland twenty kilometers in diameter, surrounded by stone walls and ceilings. It was probably about a kilometer high. The length of the spiral staircase would be about one kilometer high. There are holes above and below the spiral staircase in the center that lead to each level. The only entrances to this enclosed space were those two holes and the Connection behind them.

''Is it possible to go to the sixty-seventh level (shita) with this?''

'Yeah, there's no obstacle to going down there. It's just that there are two much bigger dragons down there, right?

Yeah, yeah.

There is no advantage in going down now. Unlike usual, we must aim for the 'ground' instead of the 'deepest'.

Hmm, hmm ....... Well then, let's get closer for now.

You should be careful. They'll attack on the way up.

Reiner is looking at me with expectant eyes. Does he think that I will win that dragon unilaterally?

Of course, it's a challenge to wait and see.