Volume 2 - CH 228

“Reizen-dono! How is it?”

“Not yet! But they are over there!”

“Understood!”

“Alright!”

After searching for the magic crystal in the dungeon for a couple of times, I could somehow figure out where it was.

So I can now find the place where the magic crystal is buried without getting lost!

Is this the skill of the Earth Spirit?

Or is it the blessing of the earth?

Although I don’t know about that, I can greatly shorten the search time with this!

But searching for the magic crystal in the dungeon was really hard work. ……

Thanks to Alena’s map, I was able to get there in the shortest distance.

However, it was really tiring to search through a dungeon of that size in the past three days.

When I lost the feeling in my legs halfway through, I really didn’t know what I was going to do.

The only thing that was a relief was that we didn’t encounter any enemies.

Since nothing really appeared, it was a bit uncanny.

“! Found it!”

“I’ll leave at once!”

Uchikage carried Alena and instantly moved away.

After checking to see if anyone was around, I quickly made a clenched fist and slammed it into the ground.

“[Explossive Fist!]”

At the moment I hit the ground, an explosion occurs and the ground is gouged out.

As the earth was flying in the air, one beautiful round crystal was thrown out with a whoosh.

I catch it and mutter another skill.

“[Magic Absorb]”

This magic crystal contained a centipede, but it shriveled up and died at the same time I used Magic Absorb.

The magic crystal gradually fades from a beautiful light blue color to an ordinary glass ball.

The magic crystal is something that is filled with magic power.

The voice of the earth said so, so it must be true!

Therefore, I thought that I could recover my MP by using it to absorb magic power, but it seems I was right!

Searching with the earth spirit was inefficient because it drained my MP rapidly!

But after I started using this new method, I don’t have to move the ground anymore, and I can recover my MP, so my efficiency has gone up a lot.

Honestly speaking, using the earth spirit was tougher than running, so it really helped me. ……

After confirming that the magic crystal had turned gray, I immediately threw it away and broke it.

This is something that should be destroyed.

Although it’s a little dangerous, it’s better to deal with it as soon as possible.

“Reizen-dono! Where are we going next?”

“It’s somewhere around the right corner…… Uchikage! Behind you!”

“!!!!”

A centipede emerged from the shade of the house.

Its mouth is stained red.

We didn’t notice it at all because it came out of the shadows!

“[Heavy weight].”

*THUD!

The centipede was pushed to the ground with a bang.

Uchikage confirmed this and kicked the head of the centipede with all his might.

The centipede’s head was snapped off without any resistance, and the centipede stopped moving.

At the same time, Alena’s weighting on the centipede seemed to have been cut off.

“Are you okay?”

“I’m sorry, I was careless. ……”

“It’s rare that the Uchikage couldn’t sense it.”

“It is difficult to tell when it is this noisy. …… I’m sorry.”

I was also caught off guard.

Until now, we have been in the dungeon, but no monsters have come out.

I could reconfirm that it’s different here!

But …… something like this is pretty bad, isn’t it?

There were screams and explosions all over the place, and it was no time to rescue people.

Everyone is in confusion, and they are not responding to the shouts of the adventurers. ……

The city is in shambles.

The centipedes vary in size, but they are at least two meters in diameter.

The biggest one is probably over five meters.

They were springing up in the city and were following the people all around them when they spotted them.

I don’t know how many adventurers there are who can stand up against the big monsters, and most of the people here are non-combatants.

And most of them can only manage to get away.

“Uchiakage, please exterminate the centipedes!”

“Got it!”

“And Alena?”

“I want you to follow him! Alena is the only one who can withstand his speed!”

“Ok!”

The two of them should be helping people instead of working with me!

Uchikage is very mobile and should be able to slaughter a lot of centipedes.

Alena’s skills are long-range, so if the two of them work together, they can almost certainly kill the centipedes they come up against!

Alena gets on Uchikage’s shoulder and disappears as soon as they confirm it.

Since they move so fast that one cannot see them, the enemy should die before they know what happened.

Fortunately, the centipede itself is not that strong, so even an adventurer should be able to handle it!

“Uwaaaah!”

“Is that a child? I can’ t leave it alone!”

The magic crystal is in the opposite direction, but saving lives is important too!

I’m afraid I’m not going to be able to sleep well if I leave them behind and give priority to this one!

…… Or maybe I can’t wake up from my sleep….?

The child was close by and I was able to find him quickly.

Apparently, he was running away from two centipedes.

I can easily deal with that much!

I intervened between the child and the centipedes and blew one centipede away with my explosive fist.

The other centipede should have been in the line of fire, so it should have blown away together with the other centipede.

As soon as I released my stance with this thought, I saw the body of the centipede running from the side, which I could not see due to the smoke from the explosive fist.

“Hah!? You evade it!?”

I never heard it move that fast!

I have no idea!

I’m not going to make it …… in time!

The centipede is about to bite the child right now.

The child has given up and shut his eyes in preparation for the coming strike.

He curls up with his head in a cuddle, but the …… next thing that came was not the pain from the bite, but a gust of wind.

“Nnnnnn!? What’s going on!”

“Hm-mm!? What the hell was that!”

That attack wasn’t mine!

Did someone help us with them?

If so, that’s great!

I already to put the [Substitution] on the kid for the moment, just in case.

But who was it?

At least I should thank whoever was that person!

I looked in the direction from which the magic-like object flew and saw a woman standing there with three children in tow.

Her witch-like hat was a little too big for her, and she was holding it up with her hand so that it wouldn’t cover her eyes.

“Ah jeez, what is this ……? I haven’t shot magic in ages. ……”

“Sensei is awesome!”

“Quick, get the kid out of there!”

“Oh, right!”

“Aaaah! At least wait for me! Don’t go there alone you kid! It’s dangerous!”

The woman and her three children ran toward the children, ignoring me.

I wondered what I should do in such a situation.

After a moment’s thought, I came up with these words…….

“Err, am I just….. ignored ……?

That was it.