Maru nodded and began to check the door, but this time he only saw it once and pushed it open by himself. The door opened easily, without any traps, no poisonous arrows, no poisonous gas, and of course no

explode.

only--

"Wow, wow~~" Maru hugged her head and left the door.

"What's wrong! Maru!"

Bill drew his sword and rushed forward, Redlik and Hillis hurriedly followed Bill.

"Stone, stone statue monster!" Maru almost sat down on the ground.

A magical creature with a weird appearance appeared behind the door opened by Maru. They had wings on their backs, long and sharp tails, two horns on their heads, and their skin was like a stone figure. Even so,

Their movements are so smooth that they cannot be believed.

Bill cut at the first stone monster that appeared, but it flew quickly into the air, as if enjoying the zi you who had not experienced for hundreds of years, flying in a circular trajectory across the wide

Over the hall.

Bill's sword correctly hit the second one that appeared. However, before it was completely defeated, four stone statue monsters flew over one after another.

One of them flew towards Bill, and Bill finally blocked it with his left-hand shield.

"Xillis, protect Srien!"

"I understand!" Xilith covered Slien to the wall and stood in front of him.

Except for the stone monster that was cut by Bill, who rolled to the ground, the other five flew in the air, as if they were looking for a gap.

"Bill, let's go into that room first."

"No, maybe there's something inside!"

Bill asked Maru to retreat, and he stood in the hall like a bait.

"Come on if you want to come!"

Three of the stone monsters descended rapidly as if they had heard what Bill said.

"Bill! Don't force it!"

Tidrit wanted to run to Bill, but was blocked by Hope.

"You'd better take a break now."

Then Hope picked up the hammer and walked forward. While he was moving forward quickly, he blew hard at one of the stone monsters and released the "qi bomb" spell in the sacred magic.

The stone statue monster was hit by this invisible force and bounced away.

One of the remaining two was hit by Bill's sword and made a scream and twitched on the ground. However, the other went around Bill's back and attacked Bill with its sharp claws.

shoulders.

Tidrit screamed involuntarily, just in response to the sound of the magic armor on Bill's body. However, even the stone monster with magic power as the root of life activities could not cut the magic armor on Bill's body.

However, because of the strong force, the claws still left scars on Bill's face.

Bill lowered himself and rolled around the ground, then stood up and prepared to dodge the second attack, and the stone statue monster was about to fly into the air again to wait for an opportunity to attack.

However, a sharp sword broke out a longitudinal wound behind it. When Redlik rushed over to attack it, the stone monster fell to the ground and became stiff, just like

It turned back to a real statue.

The remaining stone monsters were knocked down by Hope and Xilith respectively, and at the beginning the one lying on the ground was solved by Maru.

Later, Hope used a cure to heal the wound on Bill's face. Although it left a trace of white se, Hope promised that it would disappear.

"Don't just break it like that!" Tidlit breathed a sigh of relief and gently stroked Bill's scars.

"Let's go!"

Bill carefully opened the door where the stone monster flew out and walked into the room.

It is a small square room. There are three pedestals in front of the front and the wall on the right. The stone monsters are probably sitting here. Although I don’t know what these magical creatures are thinking, I think of them in these hundreds.

I have been waiting for them all the time over the years, and I feel a little sad about them.

Bill once again felt how wrong it was to give fake life with magic. The room was empty except for a few pedestals, leaving the door on the left.

After Maru sneakily checked the door, she returned to the end of the team.

"I don't want to encounter that thing again."

"Then I will do it!"

Redlik took the torch from Slien's hand and walked forward, slowly opening the door.

The door opened with a sound, and Redlik raised a torch behind the door.

“There is only one staircase going down.”

Redlicker breathed a sigh of relief and turned around.

"Just go down like that."

Redlik cautiously walked down one step at a time. His right hand held the sword, while his left hand still held the torch.

Since the torch was about to be extinguished, Maru took out a new torch and passed it forward through Bill's hand.

Redlik stood halfway and lit a new torch, then accidentally threw the old torch on the platform where the stairs turned below. At this time—

"Then, what is that..." Redlik pointed to the ground and couldn't speak.

There was something like a living creature on the ground squirming. Many tongue-shaped protrusions appeared on the ground, slowly surrounding the fire of the torch, and then the sound of something burning came, and a foul odor that had never been experienced was also thrust into the nose.

.

The torch disappeared by the tongue-shaped protrusion.

The thing made a strange sound and crawled up along the stairs.

"This is a magical creature, a slime-like monster without shape, probably disguised as a floor to attract the hook."

Sliyn bent down to observe the monster and tried to see its true face.

"Can you kill with a sword?"

Redlick asked uneasily.

"This is going to give it a try."

Slien's answer is a bit irresponsible.

At this moment, a lit torch suddenly dropped from above, and just threw it on the monster that had climbed to the second level.

"Don't use a sword to hit it."

Maru was like mocking everyone for panic, and threw out another small bottle of oil. The fire of the torch ignited the oil, and the invisible monster was swallowed by the flames.

"Redlik is really amazing. If you didn't throw the torch out just now, it would be really dangerous."

Maru seemed to know the true face of the monster.

"If I knew there was such a monster from the beginning, I wouldn't be afraid at all."

After that, he threw three more oil bottles.

The monster surrounded by flames still climbed up one level. In order to avoid the flames and this disgusting monster, Redlik and others also walked up one level behind.

The monster crawled about twelve steps and stopped moving. But the stairwell also smelled, so the group had to take out a handkerchief to cover their mouths and noses.

"Is this poisonous gas?"

Tidlit coughed as he said, even tears were soaked.

Before the white smoke dissipated, Bill and others could hardly move. Fortunately, as Maru said, no one had any trouble. He was never so lucky when fighting monsters he had never experienced before.

Bill and others stepped on the monster's wreckage and continued to walk down.

The stairs turned in a direction and extended downwards again, and after walking down another door appeared.

When I opened the door, there was a square room in front of me, with only another door on the left.

“Huh?”

Maru looked around a little off the thread.

"Maru, what's wrong?" Bill asked.

"Well, I think what we want should be here, because the door on the left is the one I checked at the beginning..."

Maru murmured and walked to the door, then suddenly grabbed the handle and opened the door, poked her head out to confirm the situation on the other side.

"Well, it's true. The pedestal that tied the giant is next door."

"So where is the magic sword?"

Redlik's tone was a little sad. For him, this sword controlled Hailan's fate, and the result of this exploration undoubtedly influenced Hailan's future.

“I’m thinking now.”

Maru squatted down and used her fingers to draw something on the ground.

"What are you doing?"
To be continued...