Chapter 155 – Kobolds and Catacombs

Kaleidoscope.

“This.”

Body was falling.

Looking around, the corpses of already dead kobolds are also falling together. It feels similar to a huge accident that cannot be rectified at the space station and all the crew members crashing and fluttering here and there with their lives lost in a space where gravity is reversed. A surreal scene unfolded.

“Death.”

In that sense of floating, I recite death.

Having lived in another world for so long, I couldn’t recall anything except for a few strong memories. I didn’t remember much except for the memory of my father, but the problem was that my father had a lot of eccentricities.

All of them have been recalled to the point where they are extremely clear in ultra HD quality. So I felt like it wouldn’t matter if I died. Like I said, my father was a bizarre man. He was a man who could not resist his inexhaustible urges his.

“Ah.”

Birdman Kim Katt can’t fly.
Of course. Because it has no wings.

Birds are born with a beak and wings to fly after breaking the eggshell from the beginning of their lives, but I, a mere human, did not have such a transcendental organ.

“I have no regrets.”

But there were no regrets. I didn’t have wings, but like wings, I had two women on either side of me. So no regrets.

“Guraya. Actually, there is.”

…I want to eat the ramen my mother cooked.

Before death.

There is no one who has no regrets.

“To die.”

Like a mother who suffers from mysophobia, the taste of the ramen she cooked was really clean. Eating that ramen, to the point where I wondered if it was okay to have mysophobia in its own way.

“I don’t like it.”

Not eating it is my last little regret.

“Does our cut say a lot of nonsense today?”
“Yes?”
“Is there something troubling you?”

When I came to my senses, I found myself in the arms of Cloudy. Seeing that even her Winia her was clinging to her side of her, it seemed that she had accepted us as we fell.

Oh, long live Cloudy.

“Thank you for saving me… Cloudy.”
“Don’t cry.”

Tears were flowing from my eyes because I had experienced half-death. When I looked at the sky while holding him, it was quite high… If it wasn’t for Cloudy, I would have gone to the goal. It would be unreasonable to go up again.

“…Let me down. Sister.”

Winia said softly. We cried and cried and thanked Claudy for letting us go, and looked at the condition of the body. There seemed to be nothing wrong. Rather, I was worried that Cloudy might have been hurt.

“I’m fine. But did I spend too much mana?”

It seemed that he had consumed a large amount of mana trying to catch the falling me and Winia. I clung to her ankles, half-crying.

“Uh?”

But what about Elise?
I couldn’t believe it… Just when I was about to fall into anxiety, I heard a voice from behind.

“…Unbelievable.”

As the dust settled, what appeared was Elise, a low-ranking nun belonging to our Church of the Light and Star Cross, who was in a wonderful landing position. Looking at her, she was fortunate that she was not seriously injured or dead.

“Elise? Are you okay?”
“…Yes. I’m fine, but I can’t move because of the guilt.”

A wonderful landing posture, it was the posture of a paratrooper wearing a reinforced suit enjoying the afterglow after landing, which can only be seen in a near-future sci-fi movie. Elise said the same.

“Because of my foolish behavior…”

Come to think of it, the moment the corpses were piled up and the impact was applied to the pattern on the tombstone, light emanated from the pattern. It was right after that that the ground caved in.

I think that the corpse serving as a sacrifice and shocking the pattern became a kind of starting word.

Elise seemed to think so too, but her expression was very gloomy.

Well, of course, I would have said something if I died here, but it’s okay because I lived. Right now, it was urgent to gather strength and get out of here rather than criticize.

“I’m so sorry, Winia. My stubbornness put our lives in jeopardy.”
“…Don’t do anything stupid.”
“All right.”

Elise stood up and apologized politely.

“Claudy-sama. I will formally apologize. I’m really sorry. It was all my negligence.”
“It’s okay. There’s no problem? Katt isn’t dead either.”
“Thank you for saying so…”

The expressionless face that had always brandished her mace with firm faith was now stained with gloom. She’s really sorry, so I can’t say anything. Knowing how to admit her own mistakes was the last conscience of her age.

“Even to the saints…”
“No. Come to think of it, I also encouraged it, but what. Who would have known that this would happen.”

I was also excited and trembled.

She looked around anyway. This place was not the dungeon as before. The floors and walls were all made of stone. The ceiling was very high, so I don’t know what it was like up there, but anyway, it was a scale that could be called a large underground joint.

It’s like a huge ruin of something.

Above all, the tombstone that ruined ours. It wasn’t a tombstone.

“Dust sucks… More than that, this is a little more interesting.”

It was a large obelisk.

This large pillar went up through the ceiling and only the tip was exposed from above, making it look like a tombstone. Some incomprehensible promiscuous language was engraved on it, but I couldn’t read it. Winia also seemed unable to read.

“It looks like an ancient ruin. It smells like money.”
“Hmm, it’s amazing. Just seeing this makes me feel good about coming here. Why is it in a basement like this?”

Is it because he’s a wizard? Winia unexpectedly began to take a closer look, and Claudy, who likes new things, also looked around the obelisk.

More than that, I was worried that the kobold corpses lying around might cause something else. I thought about it as I pushed the corpses away. I guess I’ll have to find a way out of here.

“I’m fed up now. Bastard lead. Now let’s go.”
“Okay.”

Anyway, it’s a start.

Leaving the obelisk behind, we proceeded to this underground ruin-like place. All there is is the floor. And it was just a wall. Since I didn’t know anything, I decided to go straight ahead.

“Cloudy. Are you really in good shape?”
“It’s okay. Whooping. Are you that worried?”
“I’m so damn worried I’m going crazy. I fell from that height and you say you’re okay? You’re not yelling at me because you’re worried about me, are you?”
“No problem. Although I used a lot of mana.”

I was so anxious that I was about to turn around. Even if it’s my body, I hope it doesn’t hurt like Cloudy.

“Why bastard don’t you worry about me?”
“You were well saved by Cloudy.”
“Aren’t you supposed to tell me if you’re okay?”
“More than anything else, say thank you to Cloudy.”

Winia, who raised her eyebrows at that, said to Cloudy, “… Thank you, sister.”

Hearing that, Cloudy grabbed Winia from behind and began stroking her bare shoulder her. Normally, he would have screamed, but now he was obedient, knowing his situation of her.

Legal harassment…

“It’s very wide. It’s completely unexpected… The ordeal that happened because of my stubbornness. I just want to do penance.”
“It’s okay. Well, things like this happen in life.”

Did you go straight for about 10 minutes?

ㅡ Jerking and bucking.

I heard the footsteps of things that weren’t ours. Are you an adventurer? Or a kobold? Whichever of the two it was, this one was in the same state as having turned on the LED lights with Winia’s light magic.

The location has already been exposed.

…What. It must have been a monster since no light source was visible except for the sound of footsteps in this dark place. Humans would have lit a fire like us.

“It’s coming. It’s like a monster.”

She raised her arm her, protected her face her with her gauntlet, and pointed her sword at her. Footsteps came closer. Finally, the sound approached the boundary line illuminated by the light magic.

The identities of the pedestrians were revealed.

ㅡ…
ㅡ…

“What, what is that!”

I felt a little embarrassed.

Two kobold warriors, wearing hoods covering their faces, were walking towards us with calm posture. The hood split in two, bordering her nose, exuding something sinister. It was revealed that the nose and mouth looked ravenous.

“Saints, do you remember that? The day we first met.”
“At that time, too. Ah. That bastard then.”

Was in memory

When I first met Elise and went to destroy the kobold’s sanctuary, I remember that she probably caught a kobold that was wearing a hood that looked like that and cut it off. What the guys in front of me were wearing were hoods that felt similar to that.

“In that case, I guess I have no choice but to kill him once.”
“You are right.”

The hooded warriors who were walking did not show any aggression, but once they encountered a monster in the dungeon, they had to kill it first. This was common sense enough to be in line with the fact that if you capture an alien, of course you have to dissect it.

Elise and I stepped forward.
I’m going to kill you while pretending to blow the whistle like this…

ㅡKurururrrr!!!
ㅡKyureureureus!!!

“Saints!”

Suddenly, the roaring guys kicked the ground and ran towards us. Surprised, I braced myself and prepared for an attack.

ㅡKyurushaat!

The kobold warrior flexed his torso and raised his arms, showing off his muscles.

Like a monster without any intellect, it knows how to work if it attacks in that way. Those who didn’t even wear armor, exposing their upper bodies like that, was no different from advertising ‘Please kill me’.

ㅡPay!

I also kicked the ground.

Closing the gap in an instant, I stabbed the sword into his exposed chest. Fu-wook! As we collided at the speed at which we were running, my blade deeply penetrated his chest.

—-Kyusasak…!

I immediately pulled my leg back, pulled out the sword, and kicked the guy backwards. It’s a hood, it’s a barefoot, and the physical is just the same as a kobold warrior. It is a very easy opponent for me now that my skills have improved dramatically.

Elise, a cruel prankster, also broke the earthenware pot and was carrying a hood. I forgot to take one of his ears her off her.

“Is the kobold wearing a hood?”

Said Winia, who stabbed the corpse with the tip of her cane.

“Never heard of it. Bastard know this?”
“Uh… I heard some kobolds built a sanctuary in the past, so I went to destroy it with Elise? I’ve seen a kobold wearing a hood like that.”
“Kobold sanctuary? What bullshit is that?”

Where should I begin to explain this?

I briefly explained to Winia what this pattern meant and what I had done so far. I just listened to it roughly, but now I’m starting to listen properly to see if I’m interested.

“Then the necromancer has something to do with this pattern, and these suspicious bastards were just found here? Bastard. Don’t you think this is dangerous?”
“I’m doing it. That’s why I need to get out of here quickly.”

I was starting to get a bit anxious.
What’s going on, is this?

“Are they being used by those cultists then? Like zombies or gargoyles.”

Oh cultist.
Cloudy, who was drawing a picture on the chest of the corpse with the tip of a curved sword, said.

“Ah, in the canal? Surely they used to work gargoyles.”
“What are you talking about again? Bastard keep talking about stuff I don’t know?”
“Look at me. I did this while you were gone, so I can’t help it.”

Anyway, the booty is the hood and fangs. Then he took her nails her, put them in his bag her, and set off again. We occasionally encountered hooded kobolds. Killed them all, and moved on.

I became afraid at the same time as I wondered what would be at the end of this. Could it be that there is a group of cultists in here? No, I’m not sure. Dozens of adventurers were pouring in like water from above.

Maybe we had the best chance?
Because risk accompanies returns.