Chapter 86 (1/2)

Kill, kill, kill.

「Gyarrah?!」「Boguh?!」「GueEE?!」

「tch, Manifest, Verdant Green 「Healing Green」」

While cutting through the flock of monsters with the spirit sword, I am healing wounds that are becoming too numerous to ignore with the 「Verdant Green Crystal Sword」 that is hanging on my hip.

This is too slow……not enough……need to be even faster.

*pant, pant, pant*

Tearing, piercing and decapitating monsters over and over again.

This is the same as the game, the simple repetitive process of killing enemies for experience.

This is no different from the games I played with my friends after school.

You just have to grind levels and this hero’s body will turn monstrously strong.

Therefore, even if it’s just one point of experience, I have to acquire them as much as possible.

Because my sword is too slow, because my strength is too weak, because my movements are too dull, I still cannot return to my wo…

「Garuu!」

「Ghaa?!　Guh,　RaAh!!!」

…I’m thinking about unnecessary things too much.

With the pain from the bitten left shoulder knocking unnecessary thoughts aside, I once again get myself into concentrating on the battle.

I swing my hand behind and tear off a beogarm clinging to me. After freeing my shoulder from its jaws, I send it flying with a kick.

「Garuuuuu!」「Gyaurah!」「Gargaah!!!」

「Ha~, not enough. If I don’t get stronger, I won’t be able to return. With the blessings of the forest, I summon thee, Verdant Green Light 「Healing Verdure」」

The group of monsters is glaring at me while trying to complete their encirclement.

While suppressing consumption of magical power with the long chant, I healed the wound from the bite to some extent with the 「Verdant Green Crystal Sword」

「Dad, Mom, Mai. I definitely will come back, just you wait.」

I drink up a MP potion that I took from Storage Pouch and sprinkle some of my HP potion over smaller injuries, recovering them along with my stamina.

I throw away the empty bottle and dive into the horde of monsters in front of me once again.

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After annihilating pack of beogarms and cleaning my robe from their blood with the 「Clean」 spell, I’m confirming my status.

「Still level 125, huh?」

After raising my level, attacks of a certain degree can no longer injure me.

On top of that, my maximum HP and rate at which lost health are recovered have also increased. So, even though I am carrying out a monster hunt almost every night, my body can keep up.

Those HP numbers appear to be more complicated than I initially thought. Apart from decreasing from attacks or poison, it also decreases if you overextend yourself or fall ill.

Most likely, it is not a number that shows 「it’s okay to take around this much damage」 but a somewhat simplified representation of something like vitality or overall life force.

「The amount that recovers per rest have increased again, so guess I can raise my hunting pace a bit more.」

While drinking fuzzy grass tea, I check my status and notice that its recovery amount has increased a bit.

Recovery from potions is slow and gradual. Just because you drank a large amount of it, the recovery effect won’t get stronger. Therefore, from time to time, it becomes necessary to take a break and wait for natural recovery, but if things are like this then it might be okay to cut a bit on the breaks.

Recovery from potions will continue even during the battle.

After acquiring storage pouch, I am also stockpiling potions in large amounts, though taking care not to affect market too much.

(I’m a bit tired)

My level is top-class even for this world. However, in this world, there are other people of my strength but since it proved impossible to defeat Demon Lord with just that much, they called for me.

I rose up and after sighing once, shook off those thoughts that seemed like they could go on forever.

I do not have time to think about meaningless things. Becoming stronger is the only thing that matters to me now.

「I have to hurry up and find another monster… Whoa?!」

At that moment…The earth opened its jaws.

Truly fitting for such a description, a huge hole suddenly opened on the ground underneath my feet.

I extend my hand to keep myself from falling but the hole is too wide, I can’t even scrape its edges with my fingertips.

「Whoa, AAAAAAAAA!!!」

It felt like time has stopped for a moment and then that moment stretched out indefinitely. I had no way to oppose the sensation of my stomach floating up as I was sucked into the pitch black abyss.

(DAMN! DAMN! DAMN!)

I hear a whistling sound in my ears.

With my confused brain, I realize that I have to fall feet first so I adjust my position in mid-air.

Far away in direction of my fall, I see the ground. However, my mind, going in rounds, was unable to produce more beneficial ideas, so I ended up contacting with the ground with incredible speed.

「GUAAAAAAAA」

BODOOM!!!　 As if such letters were about to appear, my whole body gets numb from the shock of impact.

When I reflectively looked up the hole that I fell from, I saw the entrance far, far away.

The distance was quite far that it reminded me about the height of some skyscrapers from my world.

Moreover, the hole slowly gets smaller as if it were alive…Until it finally disappeared without a trace as if it never existed.

「Whoooa, what I’m going to do with this.」

The unexpected chain of events left me so dumbfounded that I wasn’t able to move but the situation did not allow such a thing.

「GyaRRR!!!」「Muoooo」

「What?!」

Roars of monsters have reached my ears.

After cutting down monsters that had lunged at me right away, I put some distance between the scene and I, and confirmed my surroundings.

The place where I fell to was a cube surrounded by concrete-like walls.

It seemed like those walls were emitting light, so the whole place looked as bright as it would be under the sun’s shine.

In addition, monsters consisting of only Garms and Orcs crowded its perimeter. All of which were directing their hostility only towards me.

「No way, a dungeon?」