Chapter 436 – The Holy Sword and the Arena (8)

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“Can you feel it? A mockery of all living creatures!”

“What else is that… “

This guy is talking nonsense again.

As I was about to ignore it, something suddenly popped into my head.

I don’t remember exactly, but I remember hearing an expression similar to what he said.

“!”

I looked through the system logs and was able to find the source of the déjà vu.

[Blessing of 「Across ┣-┫]: Decreased physical strength, cursed with reduced vitality. ]

The subject of Niel’s curse. The exact name was obscured as if unknown.

….No, it feels a little different from being covered. I’ve seen cases like this from time to time even in modern times. It was a similar feeling as if the program was broken after an error. The feeling that something is not right and cannot be converted.

My system was created by the authority of the goddess.

The shape of the UI, including the mini-map, is familiar to me, being able to use skills as if playing a game.

It appeared in a form so familiar to me that I suspected that this world might be some kind of virtual world. But the goddess said that it wasn’t like that, and that it was just showing me a form familiar to me with her own authority over her.

Okay. The goddess said the system was an inverter.

To think that such a goddess’ inverter wouldn’t work. Until now, access to information in this way has not been blocked. The kids’ traits and quirks were hidden, but with a little guesswork, the system quickly gave you the right answer.

But Niniel’s curse… No matter how I tried to roll her head her, nothing came out, so I gave up.

However, there is an expression that cannot be overlooked among the words of the second grader. Does this guy know anything?

Come to think of it, I ignored what he said on a regular basis because it was close to nonsense, but looking at his ability his alone, he is a guy full of doubts in many ways.

There is a Gaeko similar to my detector, or teleporting into a dungeon. Even the communicator this guy gave me doesn’t show any information on the system.

There is something.

“…A mockery. What does that mean?”

I asked carefully.

“Heh, heh heh heh.”

This guy Look at her smug smile her. She’s so focused on herself that it really lifts her nose her. It’s such a nasty laugh that I really want to let go of the honey night.

“Hehe, you really don’t know anything. Do you know where the monsters in the dungeon originated?”

Ariel stepped out at the guy’s sudden words.

“What are you talking about? Of course it’s not a dungeon.”

Dungeon monsters are born in dungeons. An attempt by a person to bring in livestock from outside and raise them in the dungeon, and an attempt to grow grain using the vast land in the dungeon. All failed

A dungeon is a place where animals from the outside cannot live. Therefore, creatures in dungeons can only be born in dungeons.

At Ariel’s words, the second grader shook his head.

“No no, that’s not what I meant. I’m talking about something more essential.”

“What is essential?”

“Heh, heh heh…”

This guy really enjoys the attention. The atmosphere here is serious. The guy enjoyed our gaze like that for a while and said.

“In a dungeon, there are no unique creatures unique to the dungeon. The monsters in the dungeon are all copies of the creatures outside. Is it not?”

I turned to Ariel, and Ariel fingered her chin as if lost in her thoughts of her.

The 2nd grader who saw it continued to speak.

“But it cannot be seen as mere imitation. Rats attack cats, and deer hunt tigers. Creatures that should lay eggs sometimes lay babies, and creatures that should lay eggs sometimes lay eggs.”

“Hmm…”

I remember. Shortly after entering the dungeon, there was a time when Yuri was hunting rabbits and giggling. The rabbit was carnivorous, so he had said with pride that he would eat snakes.

However…

“What does that have to do with what you said?”

“Heh. Don’t you know What do all of these things have in common?”

“What do you have in common?”

“Okay. It means that all of the characteristics that living creatures should have are twisted. There is a will to all of this. Okay! Dungeon has a will. A single will! The will to mock life!”

“…”

After those words, silence passed.

Well. Honestly, I don’t know what to say about this guy’s sudden rash.

Why are the creatures in the dungeon so ferocious? Why do monsters appear in dungeons? I’ve never thought about it. For me, it was common sense for monsters to appear in dungeons.

Ariel, who had been quietly listening to the second grader, spoke.

“Does the dungeon have a will?”

“Okay!”

“Then whose will? A being capable of such a thing would have abilities comparable to that of a god. Goddess? Or did you drink that you were sealed in the moon? But no story is told about him. Who do you mean?”

“That’s right…”

The second grader blinked and whispered.

“A bunch of evil.”

“What?”

The 2nd grader shouted with the momentum of almost spitting fire.

“Isn’t it natural that they are a group of evil invading the world!!!!”

“…”

-Kong!

“Ouch!”

I was just listening seriously.

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It’s been a while since I’ve been on the road again after feeding the second grader with honey chestnuts.

The jungle was endless. As the grass kept catching my footsteps, I wondered if there was some kind of malice in the dungeon, as the 2nd grader said.

“It’s malicious. If you see me interfering like this, it must be true that it’s malicious.”

“Hmm…”

Ariel said to my grumbling.

“It is difficult for me to accept. To say that the dungeon has a will… Isn’t it like saying that a tool has a will?”

“A tool?”

“Okay. Dungeons are a type of subspace magic. Although it would be more appropriate to say that it is an origin rather than a kind… Anyway, that’s not what’s important, after all, magic is a tool with no will in itself It would be more correct to see it as the will of the person who created the dungeon rather than the will of the dungeon.”

Ariel glanced at the middle 2 bottle and continued talking.

“If someone else had said this, I’d have dismissed it as a madman’s nonsense… But considering the ability that person showed, I can’t believe it.”

Said Ariel, breaking the grass that grew almost to her height.

“But now, other things matter more.”

“Something else?”

“This jungle itself.”

Ariel turned his head slightly and looked at Lenny’s eyes, lowering his voice in her.

“The goddess does not pay attention to each and every creature. If that happens, there will be various side effects.”

There was a bit of cynicalness in Ariel’s calm tone of her. It has to be. The goddess wouldn’t have responded to Niel’s problem.

Ariel continued.

“Dungeons are the same. Whether it’s the dungeon itself, or the god who created it, whatever. If there was any intention, it would not have ended with such a localized change.”

“Well…”

Ariel tends to use difficult words, so it took me a little time to interpret.

The dungeon’s overall environmental change ‘Distortion’ that happened a while ago. However, this jungle appeared after the Distortion happened. So…

“A small scale for something great to happen? As if a man could not control a single strand of hair?”

“Okay. So that’s a problem.”

Ariel said with a serious face.

“If there is a result, there is a cause. No matter how varied the dungeon was, I had never heard of such a localized change taking place right after the Distortion took place. If that’s the case, then this should be regarded as an accident caused by the outside world.”

“Out…?”

“Okay.”

Ariel nodded his head.

“It seems that there is something that can control the dungeon ahead of me. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the self-proclaimed dragon smelled bad. You better be nervous.”

“…”

A person who can control dungeons.

Suddenly, the witch comes to mind. She had something similar in her words that the woman spilled under her guise her. Did she say that the environment around the mansion was safe, that she made it so?

How could such a person be in front of me? Maybe this quest is more dangerous than I thought.

“Pet, look at this!”

“…”

The tense atmosphere dissipated in an instant.

Looking back, he was holding something in his hand her and giggling.

“What else is that?”

“It’s a baby dragon!”

The second grader proudly held out a lizard the size of a finger. The lizard had vestigial organs that I would be embarrassed to call wings.

Okay. Now you can say that a lizard is a dragon just by looking at it. Aren’t the standards for dragons too trivial?

Yuri, who saw that, said to me as if she was uneasy.

“Wait, is that okay?”

“… There won’t be any problems.”

The marker on the minimap is yellow. This means that unless you attack from this side, you will not hit the first attacker.

Well, in the first place, these finger-sized creatures don’t even appear on the minimap. It’s a level where you have to zoom in a lot to see the icon. Not a threat, just a bite and a sting is enough to surprise me.

“How are you going to do that?”

“Are you going to take him and raise him?”

“…..”

I’m at a loss for words. This guy really feels like he’s out on a picnic.

Yuri must have been stunned, too, as she opened her mouth and barely said a word.

“Didn’t I say that dungeon monsters are hard to raise outside? Do you have to procure food from the dungeon and also use magic stones?”

“Heh, that doesn’t matter to me.”

The second grader’s answer raised his head. Yuri, who saw that, came up to me and secretly whispered.

“Does he have a lot of money?”

I nodded. Rize said that the reason he was able to come in and out of the guild despite all sorts of accidents was because he poured out the settlement money.

“Hehe…”

Yuri stopped tackling him and shut his mouth. Judging by the light in her eyes, it seems that another useless idea came to her mind her.

I wasn’t very happy with it.

“You want to take it? I don’t like it.”

I don’t think a lizard like that could do anything. The only problem is the guy who carries it.

“…Kuh! My head hurts. The place I was hit earlier must be… In order to forget this pain, I need a pet after all. So, have you ever heard of pet therapy?! A must for me right now…”

The second grader looked at me and started talking nonsense again.

“Don’t be rude. You got heels too.”

“Chit.”

“Mr. Eugene… “

Lenny called me. The corners of her eyes drooped her drooping, and it was a very sad-looking face. Do you want to say that this much is okay?

Awesome. Can’t help it

I reluctantly nodded his head, and the second soldier happily placed his lizard on his shoulder.

“Okay. Your name is Kwying from now on.”

“…”

Walking with our new pet, it wasn’t long before we found a clearing to rest on.

After making a suitable seat, Ariel spread the ice and went straight into meditation. He restores mana or whatever.

Yuri took the lizard and approached the second grader who was flirting with him.

“Huh…. What’s in the dungeon? You have a malicious will?”

“Yes!”

“For that matter, you seem to like monsters.”

“…”

Oh, this guy. Look at the other smoke. Pretending to be wary of the surroundings to see if he has anything to say. Shake your head around.

“Whoop, whoop whoop.”

“…?”

“Even if his birth his is an evil that must be eradicated, even if his temper his is ferocious! There is nothing wrong with appearance!”

“…”

This guy was an idiot. As long as his appearance his is plausible, then he is probably good.

The two of them were busy playing with their new pet. Ariel sat quietly with her eyes closed as if not to disturb.

“Yu-Mr. Yujin… “

As I was about to open the mini-map and check the distance and schedule again, Lenny called me.

“Lenny? What’s the matter?”

Lenny’s face was somehow restless as she glanced at her other children with the corners of her eyes drooping.

Why did you look like this from before? Wasn’t he asking to see the lizard in Middle School 2?

Lenny hesitated, then suddenly she called me plaintively.

“Yu, Mr. Eugene… !”

“Lenny? Why is that… Heh.”

-Titling!

The system message came out almost simultaneously with Lenny’s call.

[ Until entering heat 00:00:05 ]

Once a day, if you don’t have sex, you’ll get an abnormal condition called estrus!

I completely forgot. After all, there was no night without sex.

Then what about Lenny?

– Rumbling.

Lenny was shaking her body like she had a chill. Considering the time, she was probably out of the buff around morning.

Miss Lenny, she said she was fine last night, so I really thought it would be fine. It can’t be either!

Should I? Do you really have to do it in broad daylight, outdoors, in front of other kids watching with their eyes wide open?!