Chapter 33 Returning to Edelgard (1/2)

“Huh?”

A e of 25 opened up his eyes He had fallen down fro chair He was in a small apartment that only had one room that connected to a tiny bathroom The whole place looked ?”

He stood up, his eyes felt heavy He felt as if he had been sleeping for days Dazed and confused he glanced around The room around him seemed familiar yet distant at the same time

He looked around, the apartment was badly kept and dirty clothes that were rolled up into a ball were thrown in the corner A half-eatenwith so lost its carbonated properties and noould taste like sugar water

The man rubbed his head as he sat back in his chair He felt like he was forgetting so fro run over by a truck Then he started playing so…?’

He thought to hiame on it, he saw a pitch-black monitor He leaned forward to hismode after he dozed off Theappeared, soae of an ant, it looked awfully realistic and soe on the screen looked at hie ant's head ht was that it was so weren’t new, the strange part was that he wasn’t wearing anything for the program to track his head movement He didn’t even have a webca his VR headset either

While he was thinking an odd occurrence took place He saw that the ants head started pushi+ng through the large flat coh it He instantly juain

After soh the 32-inch screen The thing gave out a massive loud wail that caused all the s in his apartht hand to protect hi, he couldn’t move it at all

The led up It looked as if he put it in a garbage disposal, his fingers were all bent out of shape and the pain was unbearable Before he could register this the iant mandibles opened up in front of his face and they chomped down on his head

“Noooooooooooo!”

A youth in a black robe shot forward, his loud screa the people next to him

“Hey, calm down”

Roland’s eyes ide, he wasn’t sure as happening His first instinct was to look to his right ar the barely tested scroll that he made It was a yet unreliable product that he supersized aftera smaller version He used the whole pelt froular spell scrolls along with soic ink

He created the runic spell by jerry-rigging as ed to connect theical pathways and fixed it all up with his debugging skill What was created was a haphazard runic spell scroll that overloaded when you tried casting it, the backlash fro it was the reason his arht had happened but for soers weren’t disfigured or gone and the burn scars were faint He looked to the side and finally realized that he was in athere and looking at hiit thare laddie”

Dalrak the dwarf laughed out loud while Orson sniggered on the side Helci looked at the twofun of him, he al between the eyebrohile he tilted his head to the side Helci looked to hiht smile on her face as she explained what happened after he had used that spell scroll of his

“After you passed out the Myrmeke Queen…”

Apparently the spell worked and the Queen ant backed away into the ht after the monster retreated Roland had passed out, Orson carried him to safety over his shoulder like a sack of potatoesThe adventurer’s outside were already waiting for them The two explosions that they caused to blow up the wall alerted them to their presence Wells the expedition leader was really surprised to see the injured

He was then healed by the tier 2 priest that had tagged along on this expedition The priest had advanced healing ers to be patched up The reason that they were in a carriage noas that they were heading back to Edelgard

“So the expedition leader ordered a retreat after realizing that there was a tier 3 Myrmeke Queen in the mine?”

“In short, yes”

Helci nodded while relying on the information This made sense as the tier 2 teaainst a tier 3down a monster at that level they would probably need a full party of equally strong tier 3 classes Monsters tended to be stronger than their huher tiers

“Well done back thare laddie, couldnae haveRoland a manly smack to the back, this caused the youth to ale floor He was slowly getting fed up with these people sreat job kid, as up with that spell anyway?”

Orson asked while everyone stared Roland had made quite an impression on the adventurers here, souise

“Ah, it was just a spell scroll I bought It’s not like I can cast those myself”

From the standpoint of these adventurers, this had to mean that Roland was someone rich There was no way a norrade spell scrolls on him of various elemental affinities He had to either have some kind of connections or be the son of a rich uise They would of course not pry into his business but it was so they would remember

“Hey, if you need advice on souild I can introduce you to all the best girls, they’ll take care of ya, just say that big brother Orson sent you”

Roland had a blank look on his face while he was listening to Orson talking about the flower district This was how the city's red-light district was called The warrior was probably thinking that he was giving the youth so boy that was actually a person over thirty wasn’t as appreciative He could only shake his head while Orson talked about his passion The dwarf even started butting in, he tried to sell Roland on the dwarf girls yet again These tere quite the pervy duo apparently and they seeether

“That’s whyfrown on her face as she listened to these idiots talking about the red light district They were even giving the youth soht next to them She did find it odd that Roland wasn’t interested at all, he wasn’t even blushi+ng as a nornored that horny duo and thought back to what transpired today He had gotten himself trapped in a closed ainst hiht have been able to get out of there without a led hand He believed that the queen ant wouldn’t have noticed the up the wall to the closed-off ed to survive still, he had to rely on others to get to safety just like before If he was alone he would have probably died in that passage, if not by the Queen’s hand then by the rubble He had prepared h He underestiain and had almost suffered the consequences

Roland knew that there wasn’t enough data, like the monster type or where they were specifically located Helci’s tea and stayed clear frosan adventurer whatsoever This was a failure in his eyes, with only one good thing co out of it which was his runic mastery skill level

There were so many ants there and he had used up most of his runic spell scrolls He didn’t need to kill h He was looking at a maxed out basic rune mastery He had killed so blow on the Myrmeke Queen with his unconventional scroll This was apparently enough to level this tier 1 class skill up really fast

He wasn’t the only one froained a lot from this expedition Everyone had multiple mana stones in their possessions and they killed a lot of et a lot of experience Helci had the biggest jump in levels, from a measly tier 1 level 10 all the way up to level 23 She would be soon allowed to get another tier 1 class and join the steel adventurer ranks