V4C90 (2/2)

She closed their mouths,

(I believe … those are agents from Korat … I can imagine they’ve received special training.)

The looks in the 4 other people’s eyes changed with those words.

Even if it’s Jofre and Elise, they still know that Dakyat and Korat have a cat and dog relationship.

And they seemed to have noticed that the squad have an extraordinary reason to be here.

“What do we do? Jofre?”

“It’s obvious what we have to do! What they’re doing here is that, sabotage work. They’ll likely destroy the Goddess statue and break the labyrinth’s function.”

“For what reason?”

“What reason … hn — … for what reason?”

As the 2 people continued to talk in whispers, Milky pondered with a serious look.

Without the labyrinth, the opportunity to steadily level up is not the only benefit that is lost.

Without the function of gathering miasma, the surrounding monsters will go berserk and it’s plausible that the miasma will instead gather in the labyrinth at Korat’s side and make it easier for Korat troops to level up.

The strength of troops doesn’t only rely on the performance of their weapons and their numbers, levels are also an important factor.

That’s why there is a reason to destroy the labyrinth and Jofre was not altogether wrong.

Milky thought to herself.

(But, how did they destroy it? I don’t think it’s possible to destroy the boss room door using regular methods.)

If they have such technology, wouldn’t there be more efficient methods to use it instead of making use of it in such a roundabout manner like coming all the way here for sabotage works? Milky thought.

“What do we do Julio. With those people there, we won’t be able to place this.”

Sutchino released a weak sigh as he took out a sphere from his breast pocket.

“Why don’t we roll it over there? It’ll be good if they think that it was blown over from when they destroyed the boss door.”

“That’s it! You’re a genius!”

Even though there’s no reason for a sphere to fly out from nowhere even if the boss door has been destroyed, Sutchino who wants the group the leave that place whispered to Julio in an excited voice and he rolled the transparent sphere that looks just like a bowling ball to the room in front of the boss room.

“Don’t!”

Milky tried to stop him but Sutchino peaked out of the corner with only his face and the sphere that he threw out rolled straight ahead, that sphere passed through the presence eliminating barrier Milky set up and hit the boss door that had turned into rubble.

The people at the back of the boss room all looked in their direction altogether upon hearing the sound.

Milky immediately prepared for their counterattack.

The talisman that eliminates presence is an item that prevents others from focusing on an area.

Once attention is focused towards the area and the talisman is seen, they would not be able to escape given that their opponents are agents.

Milky had seen through from the very start that Jofre and Elise’s strengths were not a big deal.

“Everyone, please escape from here … don’t worry, with my delusion power, even if they are men with faces covered by masks, I can still sufficiently spin a story.”

“Alright, I leave it to you!”

Julio grabbed Sutchino’s arm who was about to escape.

“Sutchino, that won’t be needed. Don’t worry, we have Jofre-danna here! There’s no way we will lose.”

“That … that might not be the case! Even if that’s true, we would only hold them back if we are here.”

Because Julio who has blind faith in Jofre stopped Sutchino as he was about to flee, Sutchino who could not move now crumbled on the spot.

“Oo, leave it to me! Since I’m a hero!”

“I’m also a Monster Master so I’ll be fine too!”

The 2 of them dashed out ―

“Leader, there are 2 idiots rushing over.”

Perhaps it was a coincidence he called them that, to be accurate, Jofre and Elise appeared but the man that was called leader said,

“Leave them be, it’s time ― Glory to the motherland.”

The same time that was exclaimed, the darkness swallowed the figure of the man as well as the other 5 people there.

When they realized that the darkness was an infinite number of monsters, as expected, everyone began to flee.

Author’s note:

Originally I planned to post the side story as a post-script but I felt that it was better to compile it together so I ended up posting it as a complete post.

The next chapter will be a side story too.