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Recently, there has been an increase in the number of adventurers in the town of Mimru who have recently disappeared. These were mainly adventurers who had participated in raids.
Daniel suspected that the adventurers who had disappeared had been killed by Ryuujin, but there was no evidence of this.
To begin with, adventurers are free to move. Many adventurers move to some other town and never return. The fact that they had not been seen for some time was not enough to prove anything.
The truth is, many of the adventurers who had disappeared were punished by Ryu, made to reflect on their actions, and sent off to apologize to the bereaved families of adventurers they had left behind.
Those who were honest enough to change their minds were fine, but there were some who did not.
Some of them pretended to be sorry at first, but later on, they tried to attack the Ryu’s with their friends or to take revenge at night.
In the end, however, all of them were turned back together.
Those who have been punished once and still do not reflect on their actions cannot be corrected. And Ryu was not about to let them live, especially after they had tried to kill him twice.
Of course, he would not make it easy for them. They were going to be punished severely, and after they regretted it, they were going to be terminated.
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On this day, after the purchase, Ryu was going to head to the dungeon as usual, but as he left the Commercial Guild, he was surrounded by several adventurers.
Ryu [What?]
Ryu said with one eyebrow raised in displeasure.
Adventurer [Would you like some company?]
One of the adventurers said.
Ryu [No. I’m busy.]
Adventurer A [You have no right to refuse.]
Ryu [Well, what are you going to do about it?]
Adventurer B [We don’t want to be rough with you either.]
Ryu walks away. The adventurers also start walking.
Adventurer B [This way…..hey, where are you going?]
The adventurers tried to turn into an alley, but Ryu, who was walking behind them, just kept walking straight.
The adventurers rush to get around in front of Ryu.
Ryu [I told you, didn’t I? I’m busy. Besides, I hate the attitude of forcibly taking people along without regard to their convenience the most.]
Adventurer A [Looks like we’ll have to take you by force, huh?]
Ryu [That is, if you can.]
The adventurers and Ryu are in a frenzy.
However, onlookers were beginning to gather around them.
Adventurer A [What are we going to do?]
Adventurer B [Retreat !]
And so the adventurers pulled out of the situation……
However, two hours later, upon returning from a hunt in the dungeon, Ryu was once again surrounded in an alley near his home.
More than a dozen adventurers surrounded Ryu.
Ryu [So, now that you surround me, what are you going to do?]
[You scared?]
[You can’t do anything with this number of people.]
[You’re pathetic, aren’t you?]
The adventurers laugh while saying that.
Ryu [I just thought I’d check, just in case. It would be a pity if I killed you all when you didn’t want o fight……]
Adventurer A [Bastard, don’t underestimate me……!]
Jorma [With this many people, even you can’t do anything about it, can you?]
Jorma came out from behind the fence and said that. If you look closely, you can see Arthur, Bill, and Ban, a member of Jorma’s party, among the people surrounding him.
Ryu [From the looks of it, you all seem to be adventurers who participated in that raid, right?]
There were only about three more parties of high-ranked adventurers who had not yet been punished by Ryu, and all of them seemed to be present.
Jorma [I know you’re attacking the adventurers who joined the raid out of spite.]
Cole [I’m sure you were trying to catch them by surprise anyway, but now you can’t use your cowardly tactics anymore.]
Ryu [Do you want to do it in the city? Why don’t we go to a secluded place and give it your best shot?]
For a moment, the adventurers who surrounded him felt a sensation similar to vertigo. The scenery around them changed as it blended with another view.
……They realized that they were all in a cave.
Cole [……? Is this……?]
Ryu [We’ve teleported into a dungeon. We can go all out here, can’t we?]
Adventurers look around, upset.
Jorma [Nonsense, you call this teleportation magic?]
Ryu [In the dungeon, even if you kill someone, you won’t be charged with a crime because there is no evidence. Isn’t that right, Jorma?]
Jorma […Hmph, you fool. You went to the trouble of coming yourself t] a place where no evidence is left behind. You’ve got guts, Ryuujin !]
At Jorma’s words, all the adventurers pull their swords from their waists at once.
But Ryu does not move.
Jorma [What’s the matter, you don’t even have a sword?]
Ryu [No, I do have a sword……]
When Ryu formed his hand as if he was holding a sword, the sword suddenly appeared in his hand. It is the [Magic sword Fragarach] one of the weapons that Ryu received from the goddess when he was reborn.
In fact, for Ryu, who can use time-space magic, there was no need for him to have a sword.
If he wanted to, he could kill all the monsters in the dungeon and the people surrounding him in an instant.
But Ryu dared to play a little with the sword in his hand.
Ryu [This is your graveyard. Come at me.]
Jorma [….Kill him !]
At Jorma’s command, they all attacked Ryu at once.
But at that moment, the opponent’s movement goes into slow motion in Ryu’s eyes.
When Ryu tries to move quickly, the time-manipulating magic is automatically activated, and Ryu’s speed of action is accelerated.
Countless blades attacked. However, Ryu swings his magic sword, dodging the slowly moving blades. He does not inflict a fatal wound with a single blow. He aims mainly at the legs and seals their movements.
A few dozen seconds later, everyone but Jorma was down on the spot, bleeding.
Ryu looks at Jorma, and the next moment, Ryu is behind Jorma, and Jorma’s left leg was cut off.
Jorma [No….way…..]
He could not react at all. Jorma fell down, stunned.
Ryu had maximized his ability to accelerate.
The fact that Ryu’s movements were becoming faster was, on the flip side, actually a phenomenon of slowing down the flow of time for everyone around him. When he activates it at full power, the flow of time of the opponent slows down infinitely, and finally it seems as if time has stopped.
In other words, Ryu can also stop time. Whether time is really stopped or not, though, Ryu does not know.
This is due to the blessing of the goddess who controls time and space, which was given to Ryu in order to realize his request for [the strongest power to defeat the whole world even if he had to face the whole world alone]. In other words, time was truly frozen.
In the stopped time, Ryu moved behind Jorma and slashed his leg. It was different from moving at ultra-high speed, because time had stopped, and there was no way anyone could react to it.
Jorma quickly came to his senses, grabbed the leg that had been sliced off, and, matching it to the cut surface, pulled out a high-ranked potion from his pocket and sprinkled it on the cut surface. If the potion was of the highest quality, even a severed limb could be connected. Apparently, Jorma had prepared such a high-grade potion for his plan to attack Ryu.
But Ryu said.
Ryu [Oh, I forgot to mention that wounds cut by this magic sword cannot be healed.]
[!?]
Those who could use healing-type magic hurriedly began to chant healing magic. Some of them hurriedly took out potions and poured or drank them on the wounds.
However, as Ryu said, the cut wounds did not heal at all. It was the ability of the magic sword Fragalach to block healing.
Jorma and the others turned pale when they saw this.
Jorma [Nonsense, it is impossible that neither healing magic nor potions can heal wounds !]
Ryu [From my point of view, it’s more mysterious that magic and potions can heal wounds…….]
In truth, the magic sword Fragarach is so sharp that it can cut through armor like butter, but Ryu dared to aim at their legs instead of slashing them to death instantly. It was to make them feel despair–just like the adventurers of the past who were left behind.
Ryu [[It’s over. Well then, I’m heading back.]
Jorma [……Wait ! …You’re leaving us?!]
Ryu [You cut off my legs and left me behind, remember? In the first place, you attacked me today with the intention of killing me, didn’t you? Don’t tell me you were going to kill me, but you think I would help you if you were about to die, do you?]
Cole [Wait ! Please, I apologize, don’t……leave me……]
Ryu [How many new adventurers have you left behind so far? You can die with a taste of what it must have been like for those left behind.]
A magic circle floats at Ryu’s feet.
[Wait ! !]
But Ryu disappeared, and soon after, lured by the smell of blood, the demons gathered at the spot where Jorma and the others were.
Although they were cut on the legs and unable to stand, they wielded their swords and defeated several monsters, as one would expect from adventurers of D rank or higher, but the bleeding did not stop, and they gradually lost strength and became faint.
In this world, wounds are treated with magic, so there is little knowledge of surgical treatment methods like on earth. Nor did they know much about how to stop the blood from continuing to flow.
Even if they knew how to stop the bleeding, it would only delay their deaths for a while, as long as they could not escape from the dungeon.
Soon all the adventurers were dead, devoured by the demons….
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