Chapter 138 - Volume 7 (2/2)

“……T-shirt?”

Hey, I guess there were T-shirts in this world.

[It’s my casual wear.]

“……………”

Apparently, those villain-like black robes were his work clothes.

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“Hmm……!”

In the middle of the dungeon, at a dead end, Kanzo pushed her magic power into the stone, and the wall opened, revealing a passage.

Because it required a certain amount of magic power and strength, it couldn’t be opened by a normal scout, and would be difficult to discover without a considerable magic power in the first place.

Behind that dark passage was the “corpse storage warehouse” for sending in undead monsters to this dungeon.

It was linked to several pits and managed the humanoid corpses that dropped down from those holes. Small animals and others were used as food for the ghouls.

Sometimes, strong adventurers would survive, but they would end up being brought down by the monsters roaming the dungeon, and their equipment auctioned off to the dwarves.

Competent adventurers were listed in the guild, so sometimes they would be returned as-is.

As a dungeon, it was the locked-off type, which didn’t attract many adventurers, since they didn’t need too many bodies, but for the sake of making a [Magic Stone] from transforming corpses into monsters, a large number of corpses were needed.

“…… How did you find this place? Did you have a strong informant within the scout corps? Oh, I guess it doesn’t matter.”

Kanzo thought about the what the [Saint] could possibly have had up her sleeve to crawl in here, but abandoned the thought before heading for the corpse storage quickly.

She didn’t know if the girl had lost her way or discovered it, but either way, given that she was the [Saint], this would be trouble.

She was going to watch the Saint get attacked by the moving corpses…… so she had said to the Elder Lich, but internally, Kanzo was getting impatient.

Recently, due to Kanzo producing too many zombies, the number of corpses has decreased.

If the Saint used her rumored [Saint Magic], everything might be purified and turned to ash even before the dead bodies could begin to move.

Those corpses were the “seedbeds” for the [Magic Stones] that Kanzo wished for. Although she expressly said that it had been a *coincidence* that that product had been made, it wouldn’t do to have a decrease in the number of seedbeds.

Kanzo had never been prudent about her actions, and hated being patient more than anything.

“[Magic, defend my body…… Shield]”

As Kanzo walked along the tunnel quickly, she prepared herself for battle, strengthening her body and protecting it with magic, and reinforcing her weapons by applying enchantments.

Kanzo didn’t make light of the [Saint] despite her comments about their foolishness.

Just being a young woman who looked pretty and was attractive to men made her an enemy to Kanzo, but to disrupt her hobbies, this could not be allowed.

*bang*…… As she opened the door of the corpse warehouse, she could smell a slight odor, and feel the frost magic that was used to keep the dead bodies from decaying.

Hundreds of human and monster corpses were neatly arranged as the passage opened up. There were also some fairly large corpses, but because of the cold haze, it was hard to see.

In that place that looked like the chiller of a meat processing plant, Kanzo felt something move in the corner of her vision.

“Haa!”

As Kanzo struck out with her sword gracefully, her target snapped off and bounced away.

“……Huh?”

One of the skeletons that managed the warehouse was shattered, rolling about on the floor, and Kanzo frowned.

The skeletons, which were just bones animated by low-grade spirits, were the weakest existences in this dungeon, moving only by magic power. Even though their muscles had rotted, the zombies still had greater power, and their defenses were better, too.

In addition, even among the undead, the bloodless skeletons would take a long time to create magic stones, but even after that amount of time, they would only make an extremely tiny garbage-like magic stone.

“……Where is she?”

Since there were a certain number of skeletons working, there were signs of movement.

There might be some corpses that might have started moving after feeling out Kanzo’s magic power, but she felt that there was “something” there before all that.

Because of that, Kanzo attacked that moving thing without thinking.

“[Let there be Light!]”

“!”

When Kanzo turned around to face that faint voice, she saw a light far from him, and several corpses collapsed.

“Tsch,”

Kanzo clicked her tongue and began to run in that direction silently.

It wasn’t the same as the [Holy Magic] that she heard about, but it was a spell aria that had similar meanings to that of [All Light].

Rumors said that the [Saint] didn’t learn her magic in this world like Kanzo did, but rather used the magic of her own original world.

“[Let there be Light!]”

“Wha-”

Once again, the voice sounded out faintly and the light shone from far away, and several corpses fell.

“……Little girl.”

As the “seedbeds” were crushed, Kanzo stepped up her pace even as her face distorted with anger.

In that moment, faintly…… as Kanzo wielded her sword, feeling a slightly different movement from skeletons, the kobold zombies fell to the floor.

“……Shit.”

Zombies that had just started moving didn’t have magic stones within their bodies.

Moreover, the power of a hero seemed to have some force of purification, and the zombies that Kanzo defeated could not be resurrected as a zombie any more.

“Where are you! Come out!”

Kanzo, who had reached the limit of her patience, barked out. At first, she pretended to be a hero that had just incidentally passed by, and was thinking of attacking her under the pretense of carelessness, but even knowing that she would be on the alert, she shouted out.

“……Oh my, this is quite the strange place. Kan-chan.”

“!?”

Turning around to face the voice, there was a beautiful golden girl standing there smirking at him, the one she’d met at the underground weapons shop.

Author’s Notes:

Next time, will the petty hero ever make her way out after being exposed to the malice of a Demon?

App’s Notes:

Hi Folks! Fun chapter to work on, with a little more world building and the start of the big conflict coming up. Let’s have some fun together!

Arm’s still broken but getting better all the time. I’m starting to be able to spend time out of the splint.