episode_0095

The reliable card [Lightning] that always helped me in times of hardship.

In a way, it’s one of the indicators that divides the strong and the weak.

Could you truly withstand this?

The answer was simple.

“Kueuuuuugh!!!”

At least, it hit properly.

Black smoke puffed out from his mouth, and his skin momentarily lost elasticity as if all the moisture in his body had evaporated.

But that was it.

“How dare you pull a strange trick!!!”

The wound quickly healed as if nothing had happened.

In other words, it wasn’t that his defense was high, but proof that his regeneration was high.

Furthermore, a werewolf.

The flow of thought connected quickly.

The bizarre mist I saw in the hidden dungeon. And a werewolf.

No matter how I think about it, Gallius of Wrath comes to mind, and

He said that the subordinates of the evil god currently exist under the name of the Seven Sinners, and that he knows Urie, one of the Seven Sinners, well.

The answer is one.

This guy is one of the Seven Sinners. And one associated with Gallius of Wrath.

“…Heart Eater, Kaiga.”

“You know me?”

I had already obtained superficial information about the Seven Sinners.

The fact that he was a werewolf hadn’t been revealed.

Whoosh!!

Kaiga’s attack once again cleaving the empty air.

I immediately evade with Blink.

This time, instead of evading at close range, I open up a considerable distance.

Without time to wipe away the flowing sweat, I quickly roll only my eyes to find Noah.

Noah slowly rising from the dust.

His body is certainly sturdy, it seems.

However, my condition is not good.

“Whew….”

Sweat streams down, and pain arrives late.

Moving my body is impossible.

However, the power of the Power Cards already applied to my body remains.

Kaiga immediately unleashes a sharp slash towards me.

Evading that strike with Blink, I simultaneously reach Noah’s side.

But there, I stumble.

I felt mana draining away in chunks from my body.

It wasn’t this bad when I used Blink at close range earlier.

Could it be, that mana is consumed proportional to the distance moved?

“Ivan!”

“Ru… n.”

“Understood!!”

Noah immediately lifts me up.

A slash flies towards that spot.

Quickly Blink just before being hit.

The distance was just enough to evade.

“…Run.”

“Okay!”

A cool breeze began to slightly cool the sweat.

*

Everything in the surroundings chases us.

Starting from the monsters to the necromancers.

Their numbers are gradually increasing, and the encirclement around us is becoming tighter.

Nevertheless, we must press forward as much as possible.

『Next switch available time 0:03:00』

3 minutes remaining.

If we use stealth, we might be able to get in safely.

But if we use it where visible, it’s meaningless.

Because they can just bombard the area.

It’s not that necromancers can’t do such things.

But is that possible?

The outskirts, as well as almost every area in Sector 11, are filled with monsters.

Furthermore, they are continuously increasing.

Even when we first encountered the Guildmaster, it wasn’t this densely filled.

Therefore.

We had to make a choice.

“We can’t use stealth.”

“Then what will you do? Use this teleportation to get in? Your expression isn’t good every time you use it.”

“…I have no choice.”

“That’s weirder than that. The Magic Tower Lord couldn’t use space magic either. How can you use it?”

“……I don’t know.”

Putting various questions aside.

My extended senses detect incoming projectiles.

I immediately evade the massive spear flying towards me with Zero-range Blink.

“Even so, it’s not easy to get used to.”

Having one’s position change instantaneously doesn’t seem good.

“But I think I roughly know what you want. If you’re saying we just teleport inside. We just need to get as close as possible, right?”

“Please.”

Having no strength left to use more cards, and pouring all my strength into just using Blink.

I can’t provide any more help than this.

At that moment.

A powerful slash once again grazed our side.

This time, since we could evade it from the start, I didn’t bother using Blink.

Huge scars were left on the floor and the ruins.

With this attack, which looks like a simple basic attack, the world is cleaved and torn.

No matter how I think about it, facing this opponent head-on shows no chance of victory at all.

“They’ve already chased us down?”

This is not good news.

My condition isn’t that good already from overusing Blink excessively in the beginning to escape from Kaiga.

Gulp, gulp.

After quickly inhaling the potion I was drinking slowly.

Pain arrived.

But thanks to the potion, the strength to move came.

『Your turn. Draw 5 cards.』

『White Storage – Preserves 1 card at the end of your turn.』

The card to keep is [Psychokinesis]

[Psychokinesis (0)] + [Chain Hell (3)] [Fireball (1)] [Shield (1)] [Ice Arrow (1)] [Reversal (3)]

While Kaiga had excellent regeneration, his defense itself was ambiguous.

Would Psychokinesis work?

I play a card.

[Psychokinesis]

An unnatural force that grabbed the pursuing Kaiga.

But he severed it in an instant.

‘As expected, it doesn’t work at all.’

Then how about this?

I play one more card.

[Reversal]

Kaiga’s body began to soar into the sky.

“Huh?!!”

This worked properly.

Kaiga, rising endlessly. Before I knew it, he had left my sensory range.

He will probably rise like that and then fall.

Of course he won’t die. But it’s enough to buy time.

Because that guy isn’t the only one here.

“Captain 7!!!”

Simultaneously with Noah shouting, innumerable divided slime armies pour down on Noah.

Even if the Avatar swung its scythe, it couldn’t cut down all those many slimes.

Immediately I concentrate my mind.

On the contrary, we break through head-on.

When my vision brightens and returns, I was suddenly behind Captain 7.

In that state, Noah expertly moved the Avatar to swing the scythe, and Captain 7 pulled out a giant slime from subspace to block it.

But that was it.

Noah retrieves the Avatar and runs again.

[Fireball]

Using the remaining 1 energy, I burn the Ice Golem that was blocking the front.

Noah climbed onto the surprised Ice Golem that caught fire and slid straight down. She then made a big leap towards the ruins.

Monsters swarming densely.

Noah immediately summoned an eagle-like monster from subspace.

She then grabbed its leg with the arm not holding me and flew low.

Of course, attacks flew in to shoot it down quickly.

Ice Golems shot ice shards, Goblin Heroes threw spears, and Orc Archers shot arrows.

Noah, advancing while narrowly avoiding all of them.

In dangerous moments in between, she used Blink briefly to evade.

“The mist is starting to become visible!!”

As we moved like that, the deadly mist started to become visible before I knew it.

Of course, the distance is quite far.

“We just need to reach near the mist, right?!”

“…Yes.”

While advancing, letting out rough breaths.

Thud-

My body was slammed into the ground.

An attack I hadn’t anticipated at all.

Looking at the sky, a subspace opened, and a rotten arm came out from inside and struck us down.

“Are you okay?!”

“Yeah.”

Fortunately, Noah fell first, so I didn’t suffer much damage, but.

“11, 42, and 23. This is trouble.”

Noah, probably referring to the numbers of the Captains.

It’s a matter of course.

As we advanced while causing such a commotion, it’s only natural for forces to gather here.

“…We’re moving.”

Immediately after grabbing Noah’s shoulder. I use Blink to the maximum extent.

When my vision brightened and regained its color, we had already advanced 100 steps.

But subspace opened before my eyes, and rotten arms, skeletal arms, slime arms, etc., were reaching out to grab us.

Grab.

Just as I felt the flesh of the grabbed part rot away.

We move once again.

“Are you okay….”

There’s no time to hear Noah’s voice.

Even if I run out of breath, I have to get inside.

Enemies all around.

Because the moment we stop, it’s death.

Once, twice, thrice.

The more I use it, the more mana disappears.

But even so, I can’t stop.

Because being exhausted to death is better than dying.

Moreover, my life right now isn’t just my own.

Not just Noah, but my clan members, and looking at it more broadly, the lives of everyone in Sector 11 depend on this.

The information I’m delivering now has that much value, and that’s why those necromancer bastards are trying to catch me like mad.

Grab-

My right hand was accurately grabbed.

I moved quickly, but the part that was touched began to rot away rapidly.

“Ivan!”

Noah unleashes dark mana and swings the Avatar’s scythe in all directions, but.

Since there are countless individuals stronger than her here, an Avatar like that is just torn apart.

But it’s not like she can’t do anything either. She has the skill to have escaped from the necromancers’ den.

Noah opens subspace and releases all the monsters that were inside.

A number of monsters that ordinary necromancers couldn’t even imagine.

Thanks to that, we gained a little time.

“You were hiding this much?”

“Let’s go for now!”

We’ve roughly overcome the immediate crisis for now. If things continue like this, we will keep allowing attacks.

Extraordinary measures are needed.

…Let’s look at the hand.

『Your turn. Draw 5 cards.』

[Growth (2)] [Ignition (0)] [Mist Rain (0)] [Darkness (1)] [Typhoon (5)]

Found it. The way.

Since my right arm was half rotted away and couldn’t move, I held one card in my mouth.

Just like that, Plop.

The card melted into the world.

[Mist Rain]

White mist covered my surroundings.

And immediately, everything around became filled with white mist.

Here, where you can’t see an inch ahead.

If those guys attack where I move, all I need to do is conceal my presence.

“Catch them!!!”

It’s not that all necromancers have excellent senses.

Even if they can quickly use magic on what they see, compared to guides like Grace, there’s inevitably a delay in areas outside of vision.

Thanks to that, we move without being ambushed.

Of course, that’s only up to a certain point.

Because strong individuals don’t rely on vision.

A familiar face blocked our way.

“Captain 7!!”

“This is as far as you go!!”

Captain 7 unleashing a powerful shockwave with dark mana.

Immediately after blinking past.

I spit out the card I was holding in my mouth.

[Darkness]

Darkness rapidly spread around me, swallowing everything in its surroundings.

“What?! Why can’t I see anything?”

Quickly getting past the flustered Captain 7. Finally, the strange mist is visible up ahead.

However, countless necromancers blocking the front.

As if this were the final line of defense. All sorts of powerful individuals were gathering mana.

“Unfortunately, we just passed the final line of defense.”

Pouring out all the mana I had, I used Blink consecutively.

Flash! Flash! Flash!!

By the time my vision returned, we had entered into the strange mist.

Immediately, Noah pushed back the strange mist.

“I pushed it back!!”

“Cough!!”

Although I held my breath. It touched my skin a little.

My skin is hot.

“I’ll run now.”

“…Please.”

Racehorse Exchange. Carried in Noah’s arms, I was slumped.

But it wasn’t over yet.

That Noah could enter here, meant that other necromancers could enter too.

They started following, dispelling the mist on our side.

And the one at the very front among them was Kaiga.

In this situation, it felt like we would be narrowly caught before we could escape.

“Uh, what do we do?”

“…….”

I raised my trembling left hand and brought a card to my mouth.

And spit.

[Ignition]

Immediately, I raised my left hand towards where the Magic Tower was located far away….

Thwack!!

Just as I was about to.

Kaiga’s slash attacked my and Noah’s bodies.

Splaaat!!!

Blood spurted from Noah’s body, and my right leg was severed.

Just like that, crash onto the floor.

Noah, who had fallen face first, couldn’t get up at all.

“They didn’t say to bring you back with your limbs intact….”

Kaiga looked down at us.

The guy whose body was obscured by the strange mist, so only his red eye glow was visible.

Just like Gallius was immune to the strange mist in the 2nd floor hidden dungeon. It seems this guy isn’t affected either.

“Then….”

Thrust-

Kaiga, who had somehow pierced me and Noah simultaneously with his hand.

Noah and I, having become the green onion and meat of a skewer, could only stiffen on the spot.

“If you had followed earlier…!”

Swish!!

As he pulled out his hand, Noah and I fell onto the floor.

Perhaps Noah’s concentration also dropped, the strange mist didn’t get pushed back and started touching our bodies.

My consciousness was gradually fading.

But even so, there was just one thing I had to do.

Kaiga, grabbing Noah’s leg and trying to drag her away.

Noah was in a state of having lost consciousness and collapsed.

Despair. In a situation that could be described with this single word.

I could form a smile.

The enormous mana being felt.

A being who could truly make my extended domain seem like nothing.

The strange mist was pushed back by something, pushed far away, and Kaiga, who was hidden within it, was revealed.

“……?!!”

Kaiga’s fur instinctively began to stand on end, and he let go of the hand holding Noah’s leg.

And immediately, a combat stance.

He was growling. Threateningly looking towards one place.

Step, step.

Along with light footsteps that were not light at all.

As the voice of an old man was heard.

“…That’s enough.”

Master, the Magic Tower Lord, having received the signal I sent, descended upon this place.