Chapter 52 - Mills Ruins raid begins (2/2)

[They have just discovered the new floor, it’s still disadvantageous to those who goes in first.]

[Run away~!]

A small monster that looks like it’s the mixture of a cow and a human chased those mercenaries.

They kind of reminds me of those Minotaurus in the Disposal Ruins.

This one looks like it’s a small version of that Minotaurus.

They have the same golden eye.

However, their intimidating aura was quite thinner.

Compared to those Minotaurus that I had faced before, as expected…

[Guaa— Bumomooooo?]

It seem that this Kogyuuki noticed me.

He turned his body in my direction.

It seems that he switched his target towards me.

[Bururuuuu! Buu— guuuauaahhh!]

Nyorori~

A protrusion came out from the side of my neck.

[Pii!]

“It’s coming!”

Pigimaru cried out as if he’s saying that.

[Yeah, I know.]

Today’s Pigimaru looks fired up as he cried out while he’s acting as my lookout.

Are you trying to make up for your loss at that time when I intruded while I was bathing?

I don’t think that focusing on loss is that good of a goal but…

Well, it’s good that he’s fired up about something.

[Burumoooooohhh!!!]

The Kogyuuki is charging towards me.

I reached out my hand on his direction in response.

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Pishi~

Piki—

[Bubuuooo!? Bu…. moomoooo….?]

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Paralysis and poison successfully invoked.

I pull out the dagger from my waist.

I tried to stab the blade against the skin of the monster.

Gusa~

[Buuumooo!]

I can feel that the blade as it buried through its flesh.

It’s sticking through his flesh.

I pull out the knife.

[As I thought, it’s just that the skin of the monsters in that Disposal Ruins were too tough…]

At least against a monster like this, the sharpness of this dagger is enough to pierce through their skin.

It seems that I can use this to peel off its skin as a material.

No other mercenaries appeared while I’m waiting for this Kogyuuki to die.

After a moment, the Kogyuuki finally dies.

My level still didn’t rise.

Although I had already expected it, the amount of experience that I get here seems to be low.

No, it’s probably just the monsters in the Disposal Ruins give out too many experience points.

I promptly left the place.

A little later, I felt presences from my back as they approached and their voices called out to me.

[O- Over there! That’s where that Kogyuuki went! We’ll leave it to you!]

[Yeah, leave it to me!]

[Damn it! This is why I don’t like raiding a ruin after a new floor were just discovered!]

[We can’t help it! After the discovery of a new floor, new monsters who reside in that floor would come out after a while!]

[Though you said that, only those who get in there first would have higher chance to obtain the treasures! Thank you for your help here, but we’re going in first–!

I turned to a corner without worrying about them.

Those several presences stopped behind the corner, near where I had left the Kogyuuki’s corpse.

[I- It’s already dead…]]

[It looks like other mercenaries has already defeated it.]

[How should I say this… There’s no wound on its body though? Did he defeat it by using a technique? I can’t find anything that had changed from this corpse…]

[Don’t you feel that its skin is subtly discolored?]

[No way… Don’t tell me that’s the rumored sorcery that I heard recently?]

[No, wait. If you look at it closely, there is a wound in here.]

[This wound, I think it’s from a dagger…?]

[Wow!? It’s just one stab from a dagger!? Against a Kogyuuki!? How skillful is he!?]

It didn’t die from the stab of a dagger though.

[……….]

I decided to quickly descend to the next floor.