133 Chapter 8-9 Raiders

"When you get this far to the boulder, don't lose your sight"

I started looking for the bottom of the lake from where it was going to last yesterday, but I was struggling with poor vision. Originally a dim dungeon, but even closer to the bottom of a lake twenty meters from the water, it was almost no different than being in the dark. Moreover, it is not uncommon to not see the end of the junction at all, as the mud accumulating at the bottom of the lake rises. It's dark enough to be visible if you manage to be in the junction, so if you're illuminating your feet with a weak light, there's no problem finding misrills, but some demons are invited by that weak light to approach you, so you had to be more vigilant... A few demons on the boulder chilled your liver when they came together and hit the junction.

"There's not a lot of shrimp around here... instead, there's a new face"

Fewer shrimps were taken deeper, and instead more shellfish and creatures resembling turnip shrimps and seamonkeys were caught up in oyster-like rocks. I tried opening only one shellfish to try, but the idea to make it edible disappeared immediately because I was doth black and smelled so bad. It may be unexpected if I tried it... but I decided it seemed bad to check in the dungeon with the boulder.

The turnip shrimp and seamonkey are roughly around 10 cm in size and may be edible because they have a soft body (shell), but I didn't catch them because they didn't look particularly delicious. Had it not been for the handsome shrimp or swamp shrimp, I might have tried it once or so.

"Lots of things are falling... instead, the quality isn't bad though"

Even though it was only a few meters deeper than the place I was looking for yesterday, there were fewer weapons and weapons falling. However, the occasional objects found were less rust and scratches than those found in the shallow areas because the mud was clustered together to protect them from impact.

"Go back once"

To see where he was now, he floated to the surface of the water with his boundaries tied and flew straight back into the universe to the slurrins. I've been diving for quite a while, but the range I looked into was narrower than usual and not too far from where I started looking. I guess it was only for bad vision that I traveled slowly.

Thinking of it that way, I noticed that the slurrins were defeating an unusual demon.

"Oak on a goblin...... you have a mix of hob goblins too"

Hobgoblins are the top species of goblins, but they feel a little more like handsome demons than regular goblins. It looks like a grown goblin, which is about 150 cm in size while the goblin is about 120 cm, making it closer to a human being. Well, from the slurins, I don't think there's a big difference between goblins and hobgoblins.

"They buy Hob out in guild just like regular Gob, so wouldn't it be in vain to have just this? But why are you here?

Ask Slalin, the goblins first came down from upstairs and they started drinking water. After that, I found the slurrins and they attacked me, so I was paying them back, and they said the oak came too. Of course, the oak was returned, so they split the goblin and the oak into piles for easy processing later. By the way, it seems the oak is also in the midst of a blood drain.

"I see. If there is indeed a lake on the nearby floor, isn't it strange to come for a drink of water? I guess what you're not making this place a place to live is a matter of food and a place to live?

On this floor, where the lake is located, there is no shield so that the flock can hide itself on land, so it can be seen whole from the adventurer, and from the lake it is attacked by crocodiles and so on, so there is no safe place on land or on the lake. Moreover, only shrimp and small fish are likely to feed on this floor in the demons of the aquatic habitat. Since capture is also a life-threatening issue, I guess you can understand that no matter how little intelligent goblins or orcs it is, it is impossible to set up a residence here. However, it is unclear how much sacrifice it took to understand it as such...

"Well, even rice...... and before that"

With goblins and oak in his bag, he felt signs of sneaking behind him, so he waited until he was on the verge of jumping before jumping off the spot.

"Mmm!"

Where I was on the verge, a familiar adventurer dressed in tiger gear remained solidified with his hands wide open.

"I know you're hiding out there, other than Amur."

With that said, Bishi pointed his finger at the entrance to this floor, Zorozoro and the people he knew showed up in a group. That number, six. To Grandpa and Blanca, the face of The Sword of Dawn. When I add Amur, the seven of us are going to be having a shitty time.

"After all, it would have been impossible to hide in the tenma and shit"

"You have a better nose than a beast man, don't you?

Headed by Grandpa and Blanca, the six came out of the rock shade without any evil. Doubts arose that the Shilowmals did not respond, but if you look closely at the Shilowmals and Solomons, they probably bought them because they are dirty around their mouths. Well, I think it's probably Grandpa who bought it, so I don't have a problem... but I need to keep the amount of meals down.

You felt disturbing signs, and the two were trembling. Leaving those two aside, I asked why my grandparents were here, and I got a concise answer: "Because I was free". So, he asked the jinns who knew where I was to show him the way.

"Well, when I said directions, I just brought them upstairs using warp zones."

Jin says that Grandpa and I have never been upstairs, so in this case we have to go through the warp zone at the entrance, in direct contact with someone who has used the warp zone of the desired hierarchy (...).

"I mean, you came holding hands with your grandfathers... didn't you stand out?

Most of those diving into this dungeon use the warp zone at the entrance, so naturally there are many people near the warp zone at the entrance.

"Remarkable, but it's not uncommon... it's just that they were celebrities holding hands..."

The women didn't seem to be, but the men seemed a little embarrassed to have been noticed. By the way, the combination I held hands with was Gin and Grandpa, Garratt and Blanca, Leena and Amur, and Menace said she was alone. Sure, there would be something embarrassing about men of good years joining hands with each other. There's something suspicious about how it looks... and if this was between women, and one of them was around the age of a girl, they might look smiling the other way than men.

"You can't just have fun with tenma"

Amur, I guess I seem to be playing. Well, it's never a mistake, and Amur's probably bored to be with Grandpa and Blanca.

"And I missed Amy, too."

I didn't bring Amy to the boulder this time, but maybe if it's a safe shallow hierarchy, I can take her. If we take them to a place where the eels are going to feed them, they will have easier access to the bait in the future. Most of all, you will need someone to be your escort, but there you will be happy to follow if you ask a member of the Tamers Guild. Anyway, Amy has become the idol of the Tamers Guild.

"I'll make something up to Amy next time. So, I was planning on making it dinner now, you guys want some too?

I asked him once, but this seemed like a stupid question, and he sat in front of me making sure everyone was in a circle. In that circle, Shiloumal and Solomon were also well added.

The menu of meals went all the way out the aquatic demons we hunted here. Because I want to hear your opinions. In particular, I thought that the opinion of Dawn Sword, which has a long experience working in this dungeon, might find a better use for it.

"This is the one I baked, and this is the one I fried. Seasoning is salt only, but if you don't have enough, try some fish soy sauce."

When I tried it, it was just salt, but this time I also tried serving fish soy. There were some spices to get rid of the smell, but I still wanted them to eat the simple ones at first. As a result…

"Doesn't everyone care about this much smell?"

"Well, that's about all I care about. It doesn't smell like rot or anything."

"Right. Because some things you eat in a dungeon are more habitual."

"It's a better category than this, and the stuff Jin made before smelled worse... compared to that, it's nothing like this."

"Don't use me for a prick!... Well, I wondered if I could do that myself..."

Jin seems to be a terrible cook as you can imagine... I have trouble comparing him to that, but he doesn't seem to have any problems with the taste. My grandfather doesn't seem to care about the smell, and he seems to enjoy eating it while the Shiloumals treat him. Blanca and Amur say...

"What are you two putting on?

I was eating some powder in a vial over fried crocodiles.

"Oh, this is it? It's our hometown seasoning."

"Yes, this"

When I put the contents of the vial given to Amur in the palm of my hand and licked it, it was curry powder unexpectedly.

"Curry powder, this!

"At our place, I'd say Cali or Cali."

"Taste of home. Depending on the house, it tastes different. That's the one my mother made."

They often cook dishes made with curry flour in the villages of Amur and others, but they don't have anything like 'curry rice' as they say in previous life. They say there is something like soup curry in the closest thing, but it is flavored and flavored with curry powder in the soup, and even if you eat it with bread, you don't often put it on rice.

Curry powder tastes better than what I used to make, and it seems like there are many different spices I use, but the spiciness wasn't that strong.

"Amur, can I use a little?

"Mmm."

Seeing Amur shake her head vertically, I decided to try the new menu that I just came up with. Well, even when I say new menu, I just add one hassle to the dish I just made.

"Oops! We're done! It's a crocodile tempura curry flavor."

I said curry flavored tempura, but I really feel closer to saying chicken nanbarian curry flavored. Well, I think it's easier to understand than to say chicken Nambu, so tempura would be fine. You can make the real one again next time.

"Ashinaga, Hagu... Yum"

"I've eaten the one I baked covered in curry powder, but the one I fried tastes better."

I tried to feed Amur and Blanca the most, but the ratings were good. I served the fried crocodiles one after the other to everyone else, but they were still rated higher than just fried ones.

"This doesn't bother me about the smell of crocodiles."

Jin, who first laid his hands on Tempura, raised his voice to share his thoughts, and everyone was in agreement with it. I tried it too, but thanks to the spices I use for the curry, the smell of crocodile disappeared and it felt good. However, Shiloumal seems to be concerned about the aroma of spices, and usually prefers fried ones. Looks like Solomon could use both.

"Well... I'm done eating, and I dive into the lake again, but what do we all do?

The first person to react to my words was Amur, who began to say he would dive with me. When I heard that word, Blanca tried to make me quit, mistakenly thinking I was going to stay vegan diving, but I was convinced I was going to demonstrate a junction for underwater, but...

"I can't let the boulders accompany me because my vision is so bad."

So Amur stumbled, and began to pull Shiloumal's cheek as if he would even hit eight. However, Shiloumal wasn't very resistant because he's used to being pulled on the cheek.

"Hmm, if it's that line, I think I can do it, too. Let's try a little practice."

Something like that, Grandpa started practicing quickly.

Blanca and Jin said that while I was diving, I would take a break and kill time appropriately, so I decided to ask them to sort out the weapons, weapons, etc. they got at the bottom of the lake. The reward was easy for me to take on when I said I would give anything I liked other than misrills and rare metals being used. Well, other than Mithrills, it's all rusty or broken, but many can be used just to get a little hands on it, so I thought you'd take it on because it's a good part-time job to spare.

"Well, then, I'm coming"

I took the sorting stuff out of my bag and headed to the lake. The Jins seemed to solidify for a little while when they saw the piled mountains, but they were moving quickly. Amur came all the way to the water and watched Grandpa practice. Apparently, we'll see if we can tie the line ourselves.

"That was roughly around here...... ok"

It flew to near the place where it had been interrupted earlier, putting up boundaries and then landing in the lake. When it landed, the water came in just over my ankle, but as usual, the water never went up from there, and I reached the bottom of the lake safely.

After I reached the bottom of the lake, I became immersed in familiar work every time. This lake was complicated by deep terrain, and from time to time a few meters of rock held me back. However, the more weapons and protective equipment could be found around such rocks, which was in a sense a guide to extreme athletics.

"Sort of got together...... hmm? What is this?

After diving, it was about time for a few hours, and I felt uncomfortable when I picked up the protective gear that was rolling at my feet. So after a closer look, I noticed that the protective equipment I picked up was heavily deformed.

What I picked up was originally a Great Helm-like protective gear to protect my head, and something the size of which I think was probably equipped by a big adventurer snapped and dwarfed as if it had been tightened to something on the side. Until I picked it up and saw it, I was as petty as I thought it was on my chest or part of my armor.

"I don't know what hit you...... if you were a crocodile, you'd have teeth marks on you, and you wouldn't have enough power to snap this far in the first place"

I've been exploring the area for a while, but I can't find any other protective equipment that is undergoing the same changes, so I decided to go back to land and ask everyone for their opinions.

The killer who deformed the Great Helm suddenly attacked me when I tried to move him to land with the Great Helm in my bag. The attack was a complete surprise, but I noticed it instantly and was able to avoid it thanks to several coincidences.

The first is that the junction we're using now has balloon-like elasticity. That gave the enemy little time between touching the junction and breaking it.

The second thing was that even if the wind line was broken, the water wouldn't leak. This junction can change the shape of the junction itself along the lines of what has been invaded, thus avoiding the possibility of inability to move with the water that has been invaded within the junction.

The third is that the enemy moved itself slowly. I don't know if the original movement is dull or on land, but the speed of the foot (...) entering was no big deal for the surprise attack.

However, the rest of my legs came toward me simultaneously (...) about how much it came to me to cut off the tip of my leg that was stretching when I dodged it.

"What, this stupid big octopus (...) is!

I scrambled the octopus trying to hug me and hurried up to the surface of the water. Octopus is coming after me with that long arm stretched out.

"Fuck! Perseverance!

In an attempt to catch me jumping out of the water, Octopus stretched his legs out of the water with the momentum gained, but I also cut off those legs. My legs were quite elastic, but I was able to slash them without any problems with my favorite little squid.

And I tried to stab a stop with thunder magic, but I could see Grandpa and Amur in the shallow waters of the lake, not a hundred meters from where I was. Plus, they're in the water, so if I used just the magic of knocking this octopus out, they both threatened to be electrocuted together.

Me and my grandfather noticed the octopus, grabbing the root of Amur and trying to jump out of the water with flying sky magic, but before my grandfathers evacuated into the air, the octopus' other legs tangled in my legs.

"Gu, you broke it!

The moment octopus feet were tangled, severe pain ran along with the sound of cockroaches. Octopus is trying to get me into the water as it is.

"I guess so, Yikes!

I cut my octopus leg off with a little squid on my right hand, took my big spear out of my bag with my left hand, and stabbed it between my octopus eyes. The large spear pierced the roots, but the octopus movement had not yet stopped.

"Really persistent!

The movement was rather dull, but the octopus was still alive, so I moved my large spear up and down to cut and spread the wound to stab the stop. That's it, the octopus's body color finally changed from black to white, so now it seems to be desperate.

"If I had done it properly, I could have seriously died..."

If the junction had been broken and entangled and drawn into the water before fleeing into the air, it would have been difficult to resist properly. The countermeasure would be to use lightning magic ready for suicide bombing or "Tempest," which is the biggest magic I can use, although there is a danger of dungeon collapse.

With that in mind, I put the starting sinking octopus in my magic bag and headed to everyone who was flabbergasted.

"Tenma, are you all right!

Grandpa tried to fly to me after he took Amur to Jin and the others, but before that, he was waiting with Jin and the others because I defeated the octopus, and he called me first when he came back.

"Well, I think I broke my leg bone, otherwise I'm safe."

Grandpa, who heard my words, took charge of me silently and let me sit on a nearby rock. And he raised the hem of the broken trousers and looked at the affected area and was frightened.

"What's the matter? Not only is it broken, but it is also causing severe internal bleeding..."

Grandpa told me to look at it, and the skin around the broken bone was reddish and black. At the same time as I looked at the affected area, I began to feel the pain that I had not felt much until then. Soon my grandfather treated me with magic, but I decided to heal magic again myself and stay at rest today.

"Hang on, you've never seen a guy like this here before"

"We can definitely be divided into veterans in this dungeon, but I've never even heard of him."

Jin and Garratt looked at the octopus that I had taken out for the test, curiously wrapped around her neck. If these two don't know, ask the other Seigen adventurers and they won't know. If it's possible to know, it would be about Grandpa or Agri.

You noticed that thought of me, after Grandpa approached the octopus to find out.

"I'm not the first creature to see it either. Probably classified as a demon, but I've never seen or heard of it before. I know a creature that looks exactly like this (...), but it shouldn't be this big."

Because I said so, there is a good chance of a new species. Later I checked that the similar creature my grandfather said was the octopus I knew (the same as in my previous life), which seems to be at most about two to three meters in size.

I snuck up on the 'appraisal' at once, and this octopus is classified as a demon, but for some reason it was blank by the name.

"Well, the rest of the problem is if this guy can eat (...) please"

He looked at me with a surprised face, except for Grandpa, in this statement. When I asked them why they looked like that, they said Jin and the others didn't know they could eat octopus. Well, regardless of the grandfather who traveled in various parts of the country, Jin and the others grew up inland, so the sea creatures were unfamiliar.

"Octopus is delicious. Baked, fried or boiled."

Even the raw (...) on the boulder didn't tell me because I thought the hurdles were high, but if it was a light water scratch there wouldn't be as much resistance as the raw.

I thought of some octopus dishes and wondered if I could eat this octopus. The method is simple. First, 'appraise' to see if the octopus is poisonous, then just include it in your mouth yourself to make sure. 'Appraisal' seems sufficient, but not many ingredients have ingredients that are not poisonous but harmful to the body. For example, there are no problems with small amounts of oil in certain fish, but eating more can cause symptoms such as diarrhoea.

I have never eaten oil of that nature, but I have eaten octopus many times in my previous life, and I have eaten it in this world, although it is dry. So if it tastes the same as my memory, there shouldn't be a problem... even in the worst case scenario, there will be no death because of the magic of detoxification and disinfection.

I cut off the octopus foot I had just cut off, about 20 cm long, and once magically froze it. The octopus itself is large, even if it is only twenty cm, so it has a diameter of nearly fifteen cm.

The octopus peeled off his leg where it was half-frozen, sliced into a few mm thin pieces and divided into two parts. The skin was salted because it was stuffed, washed lightly and then water scratched with half of the octopus cut into thin slices. The octopus is thin, so I can pull it up in a short time, cut it into bites, and then serve it on a plate. It doesn't look the size of an octopus I know, but the smell was exactly what I remember

The raw ones are cut to the appropriate size and then cooked on an iron plate. The seasoning is only salt, but it looks like BBQ, so this one might be easier for the gins. Incidentally, at the time the octopus was cooked up, the skin was finished with water, but it was so elastic that it could not be chewed even if cut into small pieces, I decided to throw it away. It should be noted that Shiloumal and the others did not seem to like the elasticity of the octopus either, and they threw up after a few bites.

"Done... what are you so wary of?"

I was getting the table out of the bag and arranging the octopus prototype dishes, but unlike usual, Jin and the others were just a little distance from me and watching me (the arrayed dishes). Amur and Blanca seem to be reluctant. All I had besides me at the table were Slalins and their families and grandpa.

"No, it... can you eat it?

"I can't, it doesn't look delicious"

Blanca and Amur don't seem to recognize octopus as decent food in the first place, and they treat it like a complete ghetto.

"Look, Tenma says it's okay, Gin, give it a try"

"Our representative is Jin, so he said," Come on. "

"Mr. Jin, fight!

"That's not entirely the job of a poison watcher, sweetheart!

Garratt and the others, rudely, seem to judge octopus dishes as poisonous. A little bit on my mind, so I decided to take responsibility for Jin, the leader of "The Sword of Dawn".

"Jin...... eat!

"Ha? Ha!

He snuck up to Jin, who was turning his back on me, and stuck a little octopus salt grill in his mouth that was stuck to his finger. Jin chewed the octopus into his mouth a few times reflexively before swallowing it, seemingly not knowing what had happened.

"What the hell!... is that the one you just swallowed (...)?

"Oh, that (...)"

I pointed to the octopus dish at the end of Jin's gaze and then went back to the table.

"Even if it's gone, don't complain. If you're not going to eat, I'm not going to make any extras."

That's all I said, I mouthed octopus. Unlike the skin, the octopus was full of good elasticity and flavor. Clearly, it tastes better than the octopus I had in my previous life. Jin looked like he said something, but he stopped with his mouth half-opened because I started eating octopus looking delicious before opening his mouth.

Seeing what I said, my grandfather and Shiloumaru talk one after the other. There is no repentance in that face. Probably...

"Grandpa, you used me as a poison watcher..."

"About what? I was just waiting for the person who made it to eat it first."

Grandpa goes with one octopus after another, saying it with a face that doesn't eat anything. Shiloumal and the others looked as delicious as Grandpa.

"Mmm, delicious"

Soon Amur, who had come by my side, had stabbed a fork with octopus salt and carried it to his mouth. Next to it, Blanca likewise eats octopus water drawers.

Amur trusted me or kept the octopus in her mouth, but Blanca seemed half-hearted, and at first she snapped the octopus a little bit like it was horrible, but within it she was about to eat normally.

With the two of them participating, the octopus disappeared as they saw it. The face of the Dawn Sword, watching how it was, seemed that curiosity prevailed over fear, and he managed to cut the water drawer one by one and mouth.

Then he was prompted to add octopus dishes, feathers that made a pile of hot water drawers and salt grills. It should also be noted that if I serve it as it is, I may not be able to secure my portion, so I succeeded in securing only my portion during cooking.