Chapter 439 – The Holy Sword and the Arena (11)

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“Dangerous!”

I grabbed Ariel by the nape of her neck, threw it back, and drew my sword.

The minimap icon, which I had been paying attention to since before, has changed. The bee’s yellow color began to flash red.

Since it has been changed to a first-class mob, it is necessary to quickly organize it before they come to their senses.

But I couldn’t help but stop moving at the sight that followed.

– Awesome.

Shocking sight.

A wasp came out of the bee.

No, it’s a little different. What I saw was far more heinous and grotesque than that.

With a crackling sound, the bee’s body swayed back and forth, and its mouth split into two.

It resembled a terrible scene in a movie where a person’s jaw was split in two. Moreover, the tongue flicked between them, wriggling like tentacles.

A kind of visceral revulsion came over me. I’ve never seen such a terrible insect since Mr. Bar!

– Kwajik.

I hit them with my sword before they came to their senses.

“Be careful! Left!”

After Yuri’s cry, an arrow pings through my side.

-Kwajik, kwajik.

Yuri’s arrow went right between the foreheads of the other bees. Judging from the lack of special light on the arrow, it seems that mana was not applied.

Even so, the head was smashed like a fruit being crushed. Aside from their hideous appearance, their durability was nothing special.

The battle was soon over.

In the first place, the number of bees itself was small, and they were beaten before they came to their senses. However, judging from the movement of the wasp earlier, I think it might have been dangerous if either of the two conditions were missed.

“For a moment!”

As I was about to catch the last one, Ariel grabbed me.

“Wait! You can’t kill them all!”

“Yes?”

Saying that, Ariel quickly stepped forward. Come to think of it, the way I talk is also normal for some reason. Was it that urgent?

“What’s the matter?”

“Later. Be vigilant of your surroundings for now.”

Ariel launched small ice arrows around her and faced the bee with a serious face.

Something between a bee wriggling and metamorphosing and a tentacle wasp. It snaps its jaws menacingly as it looks at us, and hideous tentacles flutter between its jaws.

It was an appearance that seemed to weaken the spirit just by looking at it, but Ariel seemed to be trying to do something to the bee.

I decided to check my surroundings first.

“Yuri, look at the view from above. Lenny, take care of the shield.”

“Ah yes!” “Okay.”

Yuri quickly climbed a nearby tree and began a quick scan of the surroundings, followed by a bluish shield around him.

I checked the minimap while wading through the surrounding bushes.

Fortunately, there were no hostile monsters within my perceptible range. The wasps that attacked this place have long since vanished out of sight.

Yuri, who had been up on the tree, looked around her for a while and shook her head.

Great. There doesn’t seem to be anything more threatening around here. If it wasn’t for that bee that he deliberately saved.

I returned to Ariel with Yuri. Of course, in case you didn’t know, Lenny’s protection was still around.

“The surroundings are clean. But for what? Why did you hold it like that?”

“… Look.”

Ariel said with a serious face.

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“Look.”

Ariel pointed at the bee with a frown between her brows.

The bee’s wings were already clipped. The shape that was treated first to remove the mobility.

But other than that, the overall appearance was intact. Judging by the white frost all over her body, it seemed that she had been frozen with magic.

“Uh? That…!”

“Okay. He is still alive.”

As Ariel said, the bee was still alive. Although it was very slow, it was clearly moving and continuing to metamorphose.

Yuri looked at him and said.

“For a moment. Why are you still alive? Isn’t it dangerous?”

“Okay. I have prepared for it.”

As Ariel said, she pointed at the bee’s legs her with the ice arrows that had been floating around her.

Indeed, the joints of the legs were covered with ice rather than frost, and it looked as if they would break if they moved a little too drastically.

By the way, using ice arrows as if they were pointers, and freezing monsters as if they were doing such a microscopic operation, something great.

The only magic I’ve experienced is large-scale destructive magic that can be seen from a distance, or divine magic with high output from Lenny.

Come to think of it, Ariel said she could only use a very small amount of mana during her mana oring days. So, is this trick possible?

Ariel looked at me and said.

“Can’t you feel anything?”

“No matter how much a monster is, even if it’s an insect type, it’s only half alive like this. What a skill.”

“…Ah, no, that’s it, hmm.”

Ariel was a little flustered. She had a puzzled look on her face. Is this your first compliment? Ariel sighed and continued.

“Hmm, hmm, hmm. Thank you for the compliment. But that’s not what I mean.”

“Then what is it?”

Ariel said with a serious face.

“Have you ever seen a monster that changes its appearance like this before? Wherever we’ve been or where the guild’s disbanding grounds are.”

I tried to recall Ariel’s words for her for a while, but there was no monster that changed into a completely different appearance as he said. Even though I don’t have much experience with dungeons.

Yuri, who was next to him, raised his hand to her. It’s a face that seems to remember something.

“Oh, I know. Earlier, those bees used saliva. I’ve heard of that before.”

“Something like that?”

“Yeah that. Uhm, so…”

Yuri rolled her eyes as if trying to organize her thoughts of her, then opened her mouth.

“Yes, I heard there are such bees. Some bees are said to lay eggs on other insects. And from the inside, the cub eats it up and comes out.”

“Ugh…”

Listening to Yuri’s story, Lenny’s face turned pale in horror.

“Okay. Now I get it I’m going to take those bees that were kidnapping earlier and plant eggs…”

Seeing Lenny’s frightened appearance, Yuri continued talking with a somewhat excited face.

Lenny had been trying to hold back her moans with each breath against her red face before, but she was now fully focused. It’s urgent, so it looks like you’ve turned off your mind for a while about my stuff inside.

Well, it’s only now that I’m starting to become conscious again.

Oh, that’s dangerous When I regain consciousness that my stuff is inside Lenny’s, I unknowingly start to flinch.

If you think about it, it is quite a cumulative stimulus. It’s not strange when it’s cheap, but it’s a state where it’s barely blocked by ejaculation ban.

“Ugh…?”

Feeling the movement of my object, Lenny stiffened her body for the moment with her bewildered face and looked down at her stomach her.

“… !”

Red blood soon returned to his pale face. As soon as I realized what was going on, my body stiffened. At the same time, my stuff is under strong pressure…!

“Eww, yup…!”

Lenny let out a moan involuntarily and covered his mouth in surprise.

“Perhaps by now, there are a lot of eggs inside its body… Huh?”

Yuri, who had been talking all over the place, looked back at Lenny as if asking what was going on.

Gee, no. If it’s like this, will I get caught?!

“Great, hmmm. Well. Wait, wait.”

“Yes?”

Everyone looked at me at my restraint.

Great. At first, the gaze was drawn in this direction. But what was I trying to say?

Yeah, I was going to talk about bees.

I talked about the discomfort I felt earlier.

“No, I don’t think it’s… Parasitic.”

“Yes? Why?”

“Look at this guy.”

I pointed to the bee that was still hardened and said.

“This is the bee itself changing. It’s not that the baby gnaws from the inside and pops out.”

“Um… “

Yuri frowned and looked at the bee as if to take a closer look at my words. What is the difference between a guy with good eyes? But Ariel nodded his head as if I was right, and I opened up that I was a little more convinced.

“And parasitic bees behave differently than anything else. I know they don’t hunt in groups like they did before. It’s just the name bee, but in fact, there’s probably very little overlap.”

I didn’t know that the short common sense that I encountered on YouTube in modern times would be so subtly helpful.

Of course, I wasn’t particularly interested in the ecology of bees. But honestly, ‘Shock, why did the dwarf bee kidnap the cockroach? #Breeding #Zombies’ written on it, you have no choice but to click it.

At my words, Ariel nodded.

“Yes, that is the problem.”

“Is that a problem?”

Ariel said while fingering his chin.

“I have heard of parasitic creatures. If this guy was a monster based on a parasitic creature like that, I wouldn’t have caught him like this. Why did I freeze it in its present form?”

Ariel said with a dark face.

“It’s because the way they change like this is similar to how they appear in the depths.”

“Your heart?”

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Was it Rize, the receptionist before, or Yuri? I had just heard a story.

The depths of the dungeon.

The dungeon is located inside the mountain range, and it is described as deep because it goes deeper into the dungeon, but in fact, considering the way the dungeon manifests, it would be more appropriate to say the frontline rather than the deep.

Anyway, whether it’s on the front line or deep inside, there are other things that are more important than names. There are very strange things appearing there.

Monsters so far have been based on creatures outside the dungeon. Although, as the 2nd grader said, it has a distorted tendency, but in other words, it means that it has a lot in common with the creatures outside.

Carnivorous rabbits look like rabbits anyway, and bees suck honey anyway, regardless of their size.

But the heart is different.

Ariel followed the explanation with her troubled face.

“Monsters appearing from the depths… In a word, there are no rules.”

“No rules?”

“Okay. She was told everything was mixed up with no rules. For example… A monster that is half undead and half creature appears, or a combination of creatures with the upper half of a humanoid but the lower half of a centipede. ..” “Wow.”

Yuri let out a disgusted moan, but Ariel continued quietly.

“Actually, the combination of humanoid and centipede is good. It’s not like there aren’t mages experimenting with making that kind of chimera. However, there are even monsters that transcend species, such as the combination of animals and plants.”

It is a bond between animals and plants. I couldn’t imagine it well, but Ariel’s words that followed were telling a story that went further than that.

“It is not just the bond between living things. Even time is an issue. I’ve seen creatures reversing their age and reverting to eggs. Of course, it was added that there was only one eyewitness, so I couldn’t believe it.”

“Hmm… So, these bees look like the ones that come out of there?”

“I don’t know what happened to them. Haven’t I seen it myself? I’m talking about the method. And I am concerned that this way is manifested here.”

Ariel looked around and said.

“Even though we’ve come a long way, objectively, this place is close to the beginning of the dungeon. But why is there a phenomenon similar to what is happening in the deep? It’s hard for me to predict what will happen in the future.”

I thought I knew roughly what Ariel wanted to say.

“Yeah…So, maybe in front of this tree suddenly turns into a monster, or something like that?”

“…It’s roughly the same.”

The specs of the monster itself that attack us are not important. He was saying that the way the monster manifested was the problem.

The appearance of unpredictable monsters is definitely a problem. As before, if a non-first mover suddenly goes crazy and turns into a first mover before I know it, it will be quite dangerous.

Yuri, who was listening carefully to the story, spoke.

“Um…Then what do you do? Return here?”

At that, Ariel looked at me. Everyone focuses their attention on me as if the decision is mine.

Certainly not out of the ordinary. Should I go back here?

I took another look at the frozen bee.

Bees metamorphosing into wasps. The appearance of being forced to change. What happens in the heart.

A concept seemed to be stuck in my head. It seems that something similar to this has happened.

No, it’s not that it was similar, it’s that I had a similar impression. But the thoughts don’t connect, as if some important link is missing.

“…”

I shook my head.

“For now, let’s move on. I can’t come all the way here and go back without any income.”

And the smell that the middle school sophomore smelled was also bothering me. It was necessary to ascertain the source of the smell.

At my words, everyone nodded heavily. Ariel is reluctant to bring up a serious story, but it can’t be helped.

I said cheerfully.

“Well, nothing to worry about. If it looks like a heavy widow, then you can just run away.”

This is the truth without a single lie. No matter how much it was the goddess quest or whatever, I had no intention of taking the risk of ruining my life, not just me, but my daily life with my kids.

At my words, Ariel lightly nodded his head.

“Then the day is still early, so you may go on.”

“Okay, let’s rest for a bit and then we’ll start. But what are you going to do with that punishment?”

Ariel still hasn’t killed the bee. The stars were still moving, albeit at a very slow pace.

Ariel replied in a tone that said it was not a big deal.

“I want to take it like this.”

“What? Why?”

“I want to show it to the guild. It will be proof of what’s going on here. And if possible…”

In the words spoken in a low voice behind him, there was a story about the experiment.

This guy, did you design this from the beginning?!

Ariel looked up at me with her bright eyes whether I was shocked or not.

“This must be a new species. If you report it to the guild, you will receive a decent reward. Can’t you keep it as it is? Just as they metamorphose into bees and wasps.”

Storage refers to my inventory. I’ve had most of my gear since the fact that I have an infinite inventory tells me.

“…”

I honestly hate it. Put this guy in your inventory?

That means Sonn, I have to touch it myself, and when I take it out, I have to take it out myself.

Feel bad. It’s terrifying to think that I might get bitten, and above all, that tentacle tongue might touch it!

No, did monsters enter the inventory in the first place?

“Ahem. Leave that to me.”

Suddenly, the second grader stepped forward and made an incomprehensible hand gesture into the air.

“!”

“Are they gone?!”

The bee just disappeared. Only a small piece of ice remains next to it,

The middle 2 bottle said with his nose raised.

“Nothing to worry about. I’ll take it out again when I return to the guild. Just as it is now, perfectly preserved.”

“A subspace pouch?! But the creatures in the subspace pouch…”

The second grader only snorted at Ariel’s astonishment.

“Don’t compare yourself to something of such a low standard. Because it is greater.”

Somehow, even though he was wearing a helmet, I felt like I could understand his expression. This guy is making a very bittersweet expression!

But on the other hand, I felt the expression of a dog asking to be petted.

I pretended not to know and scratched my head.

“… Well, okay. Then shall we set off at once? This location is dangerous, so let’s move to another location. Lenny, turn off the protection.”

“Ah yes!”

Then the blue shield that surrounded us disappeared. Seeing that, Ariel said.

“Hmm…The output is like this even though the buff should have been cut off. Actually, I don’t know if Miss Lenny is at a level where she doesn’t need a buff.”

“Oh.”

In fact, Lenny reacted almost conditionedly to the question of not needing a buff.

“Oh, no, I need it! I always needed it, and I still need it…!”

“But wouldn’t it be okay if it was this much without any buffs?”

“That, that… !”

“Oh no, I’m going to get caught doing this!”

I quickly interjected.

“Uh, um. Even if the buff is cut off, this level of output can come out. Haven’t you said that before? Some of the buffs are permanently cumulative. It’s a very small amount and not always.”

“Hmm… “

“And I need a buff, so no one else can tell me what to do. You know well, right?”

“…Right.”

At my words, Ariel meekly bowed her head.

“I’m sorry. Excuse me. Be careful in the future.”

“Ah, yes, yes… Sorry… I yelled… “

The two of them exchanged apologies lightly, and Yuri looked at them with a very strange face. A face that seemed suspicious, as if he couldn’t understand something.

I didn’t know the meaning of that face until after I left.

Yuri, who had been walking silently, suddenly stood in front of me and blocked me.

“Yes? What’s the matter?”

“…”

“Ugh?!”

I couldn’t react to Yuri’s quick movements with his.

Yuri suddenly grabs my pants, and he puts his hand between the pants! No, who would have thought that I would suddenly reach out here!

Yuri groped my crotch and he said.

“…Where did this go?”

Well.

In the end it turns out like this.