Chapter 174 (2/2)
The reason Vandalieu had been interested in the place where the challengers’ corpses were kept was because he wanted to make use of the corpse of Martina, the female Elf spirit-user who had once been a member of the Five-colored Blades And there were about a thousand stone statues that had once presumably been corpses here
“… This is my personal opinion, but it seems unlikely that ill find her,” said Zadiris “There are many statues with no heads, after all”
As she said, there were many statues of corpses that could be either hue to their heads
Elf women who became adventurers were relatively uncouishable frouished from humans without a detailed autopsy, even if their bodies fro
Human, Dwarf and Beast-person men were the most common adventurers in the stone statues here, in that order It wouldn’t be difficult to narrow the search down to less than twenty corpses
“Yes, it see her body here,” said Vandalieu
There would still be a proble the search down to less than twenty corpses There were almost no other criteria to narron their search
“If I recall, Your-Majesty-kun, you’ve heard her voice but not seen her face, right?” said Zandia
Indeed, Vandalieu had heard the feh an Undead insect once, but he had never seen her face!
“That’s right,” said Vandalieu “I have heard descriptions of her appearance, but… they were things like ‘hair like flowing gold,’ ‘blue eyes like gemstones,’ ‘skin like porcelain,’ ‘slender limbs’ and ‘voluptuous body’”
“Descriptions, especially ones written by royals and nobles, are pretty useless She’d be pretty scary if she really did have slender limbs and a voluptuous body,” said Zandia
Indeed, such descriptions were of no use as a reference The only useful detail in the descriptions was the color of her hair and eyes
“And even the color of her hair and eyes isn’t of any use They’re all stone-colored now,” Basdia sighed
“It’s is, too The Guild cards hanging from their necks have been petrified as well and are stuck to their skin,” said Orbia in disappointment as she looked at a petrified, almost half-naked Elf woman
… It was clear from the supply area above that contained the equipment of the dead adventurers; the stone statues had had all of their equips stripped froht clothing and underwear beneath their ararn had disliked the idea of stripping theers’ undergaric Items, on display in the supply area The possibility that he had found it too bothersome couldn’t be denied, either
But unless Martina had her name embroidered on her underwear, it was probably impossible to tell her apart froaze towards Luciliano, who had once worked as an adventurer in the Mirg shi+eld-nation, but he frowned and shook his head He had apparently never seen Martina in person, either
“Well then, I suppose I’ll try one final test,” said Vandalieu
He extended a hand towards one of the statues at randoic to undo the petrification and return the statue to its original corpse forradually turned from cold, hard stone into as still cold, but undeniably soft flesh
His coreide and they let out noises of surprise, but after a certain point, the reversal of the petrification stopped and the flesh turned back into stone oncetheuarantee that the curse will be undone even if I turn the whole corpse back to its original forive up on this,” said Vandalieu
“I see Should we load soested
Even if there were a few dozen candidate corpses, it was possible to carry thee
“Let’s not do that,” said Vandalieu “They’re heavy, bulky and it’s a pain Let’s take them with us on the way back if we can”
It would take a considerable aainst it, opened the door and proceeded onwards
And on this floor, there was a trial of having to fight against Phobia Demons, ere constantly shrouded in an aura of fear, inside thick fog, but… the Phobia Demons were annihilated by Vandalieu and his companions in no time
The aura of fear had almost no effect on Vandalieu, whose mental structure was unlike those of ordinary people, and his Undead In fact, the Aura of Fear Skill being active justthe De, “I’m over here!”
Heinz and the otherfor the Trial of Zakkart in one of the Devils’ Nests in the Farzon Duchy
They had already finished their preparations
Their Itee of items contained food, daily necessities, spare equipear and Magic Iteeons’ harsh environments
They had about a year’s supply of food and water; they weren’t worried about struggling in that regard like the last tieon
Of course, they had been i their skills in order to be able to clear the Trial of Zakkart, and they had been gathering knowledge and wisdoeon than they had last time
At the time, Heinz’s party had consisted of four members and been reduced to three with the loss of Martina, but it had gained new reliable members, and now there were fivefraght the Pure-breed Vaain, they would likely be able to defeat her They were certain of that
As for their wisdoes’ Guild, the Church of Alda and the archives of the Orbaudom to learn about not only Bellwood and the other heroes who defeated the De, but Solder, Ark, Hill and Zakkart as well
They had learned surprising truths, such as the fact that Farmaun Gold had founded the Adventurers’ Guild and spread theely the achievement of Ark and the other creation-oriented cha the ‘fallen champion’ Zakkart, there were almost none that described his achievements Heinz and his companions still believed that the purpose of the Trial of Zakkart was to defeat Zakkart and become Bellwood’s successor; they simply wanted to know ’s ready… or it’s supposed to be, but who knows,” Heinz sighed, standing beneath a hot suic Item in his hand, the Trial Seeker that detected the next place where the Trial of Zakkart would appear
As usual, it was pointing to the surface of the valley
It hadn’t changed for about twoof summer
“Well, we have no choice but to wait, don’t we?” said the martial artist Jennifer’s voice froet rusty You’re not going to telland want to quit, are you?”
“Of course not,” said Heinz, turning around to see Jennifer’s face and the party’s improvised campsite behind her “You’d probably punchyou around this far”
“I won’t punch you, but I’ll give you a good kick,” said Jennifer “It’s not like that Trial Seeker is broken, right?”
“Yeah, I’ve checked itcorrectly,” said Heinz
“Then we just have to wait until the Trial of Zakkart appears, just like we have done until now,” said the Elf priestess Diana as she joined the conversation, drying her wet hair “Summer baths are quite pleasant Perhaps you should wash off your sweat, Heinz? Delizah and Selen are using the bath at the moment, however, so you would have to wait until they are finished”
“… You even built a bath,” Heinz murmured “If we’re here for another in some real construction work”
At first, the cah for Heinz and his co for the Trial of Zakkart to appear
But during their two-month wait, people had come to stay in the cato keep their connections with the the caer than a serous Devil’s Nest where ood idea It’s not a big Devil’s Nest, and there aren’t any Dungeons,” said Jennifer
“And the monster numbers have been reduced quite a lot because of you and the the others hunting the nothing but waiting, Heinz and his companions had an abundance of spare ti away fro periods of time made theo into other Dungeons in this state
Thus, they had been hunting the monsters of this Devil’s Nest to pass the time The monsters in this Devil’s Nest were Rank 5 atHeinz and his companions, so their number had decreased drastically in no time
Thus, this te inside a Devil’s Nest Even so, unintelligentonce every few days, but these were exterminated by Heinz’s supporters and the criminal slaves that had once been radical followers of Alda
“Duke Farzonthis place It is possible that he is already in the preparation phase,” said Diana
“Once we coht be a fully-built village instead of a Devil’s Nest,” said Heinz
“Heinz, about that…” Jennifer began
“I don’t need you to tell ht now, but there is so it And they’re at least as skilled as hen we survived inside the Dungeon for over a month, or even better,” Heinz muttered
The Trial of Zakkart Teleported to a new location approxiers were inside it
In other words, it would stay in the saer inside it
The next location for the Trial of Zakkart to Teleport to would be the surface of this valley, but the fact that it had not done so for over two ht now
“To think that there are others who are as reckless as us Even though I heard that there are alers after you and the others warned everyone about it,” said Jennifer
“I wonder who it is If they are adventurers who are B-class or higher, they would have started soh They’ve been in there for over a month, so they have to be class or above,” Jennifer pointed out “Isn’t that right, Heinz?”
“… I think so And it’s over a ers could have survived inside the Trial of Zakkart… clearing it, for over two months, perhaps al, perhaps they had reached the 42nd floor, the snowy mountain on which Heinz’s own party had turned back Coht occurred to him
“… I want us to be the ones to clear the Trial of Zakkart But I don’t want to wish for the failure… the deaths of the ones who are facing it now,” he said
The Trial of Zakkart appearing before Heinz and his co it noere no longer inside it There was a high chance that this would ers had died
“Don’t worry about it; those guys would have been prepared for that And you guys made it back alive, so it doesn’t ht?” said Jennifer
“That’s true, but… yeah Let’s pray to Alda that they make it back alive,” said Heinz
“Yes I am sure that Alda desires that as well,” said Diana
The three of theers that were out there somewhere, but… they would never have suspected that neither Alda nor Vandalieu’s party would be happy about this prayer
In fact, they would never have iined that Vandalieu and his companions had already passed the ice field floor that was below the snowy mountain one, and had reached the lower floors
Heinz and his co for the Trial of Zakkart that could appear at any e Rank: 9 Race: No Life Patchwork Zoeneration: Level 9 (LEVEL UP!) Deadly Poison Secretion (Tail): Level 9 (LEVEL UP!) Physical Resistance: Level 8 (LEVEL UP!) Magic Resistance: Level 7 (LEVEL UP!) Superhuth: Level 10 (LEVEL UP!) Enhanced Physical Ability: Entire body: Level 3 (NEW!) Increased Attribute Values: Creator: Level 5 (NEW!) Active skills: Electrify: Level 7 (LEVEL UP!) High-speed Flight: Level 5 (LEVEL UP!) Unar Technique: Level 8 (LEVEL UP!) Whip Technique: Level 4 (LEVEL UP!) Surpass Limits: Level 10 (LEVEL UP!) Coordination: Level 3 (LEVEL UP!) Long-distance Control: Level 4 (NEW!) Sewing: Level 1 (NEW!) Armor Technique: Level 1 (NEW!) Unique skills: Dead Encroachment (NEW!) ■ァ■■■■’s Divine Protection (NEW!) TLN: The katakana is ‘a’
Monster explanation (Written by Luciliano):
【No Life Chi a Neo Patchwork Zombie to a Rank 7 Great Patchwork Zombie, then a Rank 8 Absolute Patchwork Zombie and then reached Rank 9
The race title presu e has not sier She has acquired the ‘Enhanced Attribute Values: Creator’ Skill, which increases her Attribute Values when she is around or acting under the command of Master, who is her creator She has also acquired the Unique Skill ‘Dead Encroachment,’ which allows her to encroach upon any dead that she touches and use theets for her Dead Encroachment Skill are corpses that have not been processed (Thus, leather products and food products are not targets) It seems that Undead and equipets, but foes defeated by Rapiéçage can instantly be turned into re-distance Control Skill
However, I cannot deterirl or less like one
She has apparently acquired a divine protection, or a Unique Skill that is like a divine protection But it is unclear as to which God has given it to her; she says that she cannot read it
Name: Yamata Rank: 9 Race: Orochi Level: 0 Passive skills: Dark Vision Superhus): Level 10 (LEVEL UP!) Magic Resistance: Level 4 (LEVEL UP!) Underwater Adaptation Dragon Scales: Level 7 (LEVEL UP!) Rapid Regeneration: Level 10 (LEVEL UP!) Body Extension (Neck): Level 5 (LEVEL UP!) Enhanced Attribute Values: Creator: Level 5 (NEW!) Active skills: Singing: Level 4 (LEVEL UP!) Dancing: Level 4 (LEVEL UP!) Parallel Thought Processing: Level 7 (LEVEL UP!) Screa-distance Control: Level 6 (NEW!) Unar Technique: Level 4 (NEW!) Surpass Limits: Level 7 (NEW!) Aura of Fear: Level 5 (NEW!) Mana Control: Level 1 (NEW!) No-Attribute Magic: Level 2 (NEW!) Multi-Cast: Level 3 (NEW!) Unique skills: ■■ン■■■’s Divine Protection (NEW!) TLN: The katakana is ‘n’
Monster explanation (Written by Luciliano):
【Orochi】
Yamata has increased her Rank and become a race whose title is a part of ‘Yamata no Orochi,’ which is mentioned in the documents left by the champion Hill It is not a Ya to Master, the Yamata no Orochi of Earth’s folklore and Yamata have different shapes and a different nue of Statuses are knowledgeable about the folklore of other worlds, so perhaps the shape and nuligible errors to them
Yamata possesses nine heads that unleash sound wave attacks with the Scream Skill and the Aura of Fear Skill that mentally attacks those who look at her Recently, she has becoic In addition to that, she has acquired the Enhanced Attribute Values: Creator Skill like Rapiéçage… the one who originally created her was the Pure-breed Vampire Ternecia, but she underwent reconstruction after that, so Master is apparently now her creator
It is possible that this is because Yamata simply does not reic, shethose who are using transforirls?
Like Rapiéçage, Yamata has also acquired a Unique Skill that seems to be a divine protection, but… she cannot read it, so it is unclear as to which God gave it to her