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[Hey, isn’t there anything in this…..?]
[What ! !]
[This is just a regular bag !?]
[What is this ! There’s nothing in it ! ! I’ve been tricked ! !]
After leaving Ryu behind for some time, Big and the others tried to remove their belongings from the bag they had taken, only to find that it was not a magic bag.
Big and the others had left almost all of their belongings with Ryu. They had been able to attack the dungeon with plenty of time to spare because of the large amount of supplies they had prepared.
What would happen if that suddenly left them empty-handed……
By now, they must have noticed that the bag was just a plain, ordinary bag. Ryu can’t help but grin at the thought.
Ryu stretched, then slowly got up and started walking. The incense for collecting demons was stored in subspace. There would be times when it would come in handy. Even incense that is still lit can be kept intact in the subspace storage where time is suspended.
Now let’s see what they’ll do…..
[Well, they’ll come back, of course.]
Ryu knows everything about the structure of the dungeon and what and where they are, thanks to his divine eye. He knows where the demons are and where Big and the others are.
Ryu caught sight of Big running back to the dungeon, but then he had a nasty thought.
He gathered demons from the area around him by shifting them to the place where he had been left behind, and moved himself to another passage.
Big and the others rushed back and encountered a large number of demons, and a battle ensued. Big and the others must be desperate, because if Ryu is not alive to retrieve the supplies, all the supplies will be lost if Ryu is attacked by the demons and dies.
Big [Where’s Ryu?! …..He’s not here?!]
As expected of an A-rank party, the monsters that had gathered were quickly eradicated.
Jojo [Maybe the monsters ate him up and left no trace?]
Cha Cha […………]
Amira [……Ryu was paralyzed, that may be a strong possibility,……but it’s strange that there are no weapons, armor, or any other relics, didn’t Ryu escape safely? ]
At that moment, a voice was heard from the far end of the passageway.
[Hey guys, where the hell did you go?]
It was Ryu, of course, shouting the deliberate line in a faintly audible voice.
Big [….Did you hear that?!]
Jojo [Over here !]
Big and the others rush off in the direction of the voice.
But when Ryu and the others get some distance closer, he moves back again with teleportation, and the voice sounds as if he is looking for Big and the others again.
On the way, the monsters that were around will be teleported near Big and the others to harass them.
In this way, he led them deeper and deeper, and finally they passed through the stairs and descended to the lower level.
They continued to move deeper and deeper into the lower level. It would have been easy for them to notice something was wrong, but perhaps it was because they were having the monsters move around and fight, but they didn’t notice and continued to follow him.
Finally, he succeeded in leading them to the place where the earth dragon was.
[Ryu ! What the hell are you doing with my stuff?!]
At the perfect moment when Big and the others were running towards him, Ryu stepped into the area where the dragon was, searching for Big and the others.
As Big and the others entered the room, the door installed in the passageway closed. This is the passage where Liu was left behind. Last time, there was no door here.
It seems that this area has been changed to a specification where once you step in, the door closes and you cannot retreat. This was not the case before, but the dungeon had evolved in response to Jorma and the others’ escape during the last raid.
Ryu turns around and waits for Big and the others.
Ryu [Can I have my bag back? It’s my favorite bag.]
Big [Ryu ! Where’s the real magic bag, you bastard?!]
Ryu [Magic bag? What are you talking about? I just carried that bag around with me because I liked it so much.]
Liu smirks.
Jojo [Where do you store your stuff? You got a pouch or something hidden in there? A ring? A bracelet?]
There are many forms of magical storage devices. Pouches and bags are the most common, but high-performance artifacts can also take the form of rings or bracelets.
However, looking again, there is no indication that Ryu is wearing such a thing.
Ryu [Don’t you have other things to think about than worrying about your luggage?]
As soon as Ryu said that, an earth dragon was approaching from behind Ryu.
The dragon glared at Big and the others, threatening them.
Big and the others hurriedly prepared their swords, but the dragon did not attack them, although it was threatening. Ryu also remained calm with his back to the dragon.
The dragon also threatens Amira and the others, but does not seem to be paying attention to Ryu.
Big [……What?! Ryu is such a small fry that only us A-ranks are recognized as enemies…?]
Ryu [Let’s have a little chat before we fight the dragon.]
Ryu signaled the dragon to get down with his hand, and the dragon stopped threatening and became quiet, laying its head down on the floor.
Amira [What the hell……?]
Ryu [Rest assured, the dragon won’t attack until I give the signal.]
Jojo [What’s going on? Are you a tamer?]
Amira [‘ve never heard of a tamer who can tame a dragon…]
Big [Aren’t there dragon knights in King’s Landing?]
Jojo [They steal dragon eggs, raise them from chicks, and train them, not taming dungeon monsters.]
Ryu [Before we talk about dragons. What were you guys going to do with my stolen bag?]
Big [Don’t be silly ! That was just an empty bag, where’s the magic bag?!]
Ryu soon got tired of playing games and decided to speak up.
Ryu [Big, you were planning to kill me and steal the magic bag from the beginning, right? That’s why you invited me here.]
Big [Nah, no [You don’t have to hide it].]
Ryu [I heard everything you guys said when you left me.]
Big [The sleeping pills [I only pretended to eat the food and threw it away. The magic was stored in subspace].]
Cha Cha [Stored?!]
Ryu [I’ll take back my magic bag.]
The magic he had absorbed into subspace at that time was still smoldering in subspace. Ryu opened the subspace to release it. The exit is, of course, right in front of Cha Cha, the person who released the magic. Cha Cha, who had been exposed to the sleep and paralyze magic that he had released, collapsed and was unable to move.
[So what about you?]
Ryu turned to Amira and said.
Ryu [I can’t forgive you for leaving me behind and trying to kill me, but……,you might just be following orders because you can’t disobey him, you know? If you turn yourself in and confess, I’ll let you live, okay?]
[You too?] Ryu looked at Jojo as well.
Big [Are you planning on letting the dragon attack us?! But we’re A-rank adventurers, so we’ll get back at the dragon !]
Ryu [No, you’re B rank.]
Ryu, who had been ignoring the situation for a long time, finally butted in.
Big [Shut up, I’m going to get to A rank soon too ! Besides, after defeating the dragon, I won’t let you escape. Do you understand?]
Ryu [I’m also interested to see if you guys can beat the dragon…….don’t worry, I’ll deal with you guys, I’ve always wanted to fight an A-rank adventurer.]
Jojo [A mere F-rank adventurer fighting us? Do you think it’s fair?]
Ryu [Rank doesn’t always indicate strength.]
Jojo [I see, that’s true. But……]
Jojo uses his appraisal skill to check Liu’s strength (level).
Jojo [……Level 1? Don’t look down on us !]
Liu [You might be in for a world of pain if you take the level of appraisal for granted, eh?]
The next moment, Ryu was standing in front of Jojo.
Jojo [Wha?!]
Jojo rushes to pull out his sword, but Ryu grabs him by the wrist holding the sword.
[Ugh !]
Jojo is unable to move due to the pain caused by the strong grip.
Ryu grabs Jojo by the chest with his remaining hand, lifts him up, and throws him into the air.
Jojo flew through the air and crashed into Big on the way, rolling together to the wall.
Jojo [Ugh, no way……[
Amira [I see, you apparently have a bit of skill.]
Ryu [I’m going to ask you one more time. If you turn against me, I won’t give you any mercy. You will die. Are you sure about that?]
Amira [I’m sorry, but I can’t let you live. If I turn myself in and confess to the murder, even if I didn’t attempt it, I could be executed.]
Amira readied his sword.
Ryu pWell, come on then, let’s have a little fun. You can both go at the same time.]
At first, Ryu had no hard feelings toward Amira and the others except for Big, so he had the idea of abducting Big and re-educating him.
However, they were all guilty when they tried to kill Ryu together with Big’s plan.
Even if it was Big’s order, he was not going to let them go scot-free without any punishment. In the end, the only difference was that they would be charged with attempted murder and sentenced to death or be killed by Ryu. Knowing this, Amira and the others are willing to kill Liu, and they probably think it’s possible…….
Before Ryu could finish saying so, Amira slashed at Liu. It was a terrifyingly fast step, as if she had moved at a moment’s notice. This high-speed strike, which no one could react to, was Amira’s weapon.
He was indeed an A-rank adventurer. Ryu took the high-speed slash as it came.
But Amira’s expression stiffened. The sword should have hit Ryu, but was blocked by an invisible wall a few millimeters in front of his body.
Ryu had already put up a dimensional barrier around his body.
No matter how sharp a sword is, it can only move within the dimension in which it exists. The “dimensional barrier,” which is a thin plate of space in different dimensions, is a perfect defensive wall that cannot be crossed by anything that does not have the ability to transcend dimensions.
Ryu [Speed is your selling point? Let’s compare.]
Ryu slashed at Amira while increasing his own speed of action. In his hand was a steel longsword that appeared out of nowhere.
Amira barely caught Ryu’s high-speed slash.
Ryu continued to release high-speed slashes without rest.
Amira also catches all of them, and while parrying them, he looks for an opportunity to counterattack.
Amira and Ryu cutting each other off violently.
At first, the two seemed evenly matched.
But soon Amira began to be pushed, and finally they were on the defensive.
Ryu matched Amira’s speed at first, but gradually increased his speed further.
Eventually, Amira began to lag behind Ryu’s sword speed. Finally, Ryu’s sword pierced through his stomach.
Amira [Guh……what kind of speed…….]
Amira slowly gets to his knees.
Ryu let go of the sword that was piercing Amira’s body without pulling it out. The mere steel sword had been battered by the violent clash with Amira’s sword. It would not hold any longer.
But the moment Ryu let go of the sword, a slash attacked him from behind. It was Jojo’s attack, aiming at Ryu’s gap.
However, the surprise attack does not work on Ryu, who has the ability to foresee dangers in the near future. When Ryu turned around, Jojo’s arm had already been slashed off. In Ryu’s hand was the magic sword Fragarach.
The magic sword Fragarach appears in the owner’s hand at the moment the owner desires it. Even if he let go of it, it has the ability to instantly return to its owner’s hand at any time.
Although Jojo had his arm slashed off, he was not intimidated and immediately unleashed a magical attack. As one would expect from an A-rank adventurer.
Jojo was a magic swordsman, a swordsman who could also use magic. (He was not the type to use a magic sword, but rather a swordsman who could use both magic and swordsmanship.)
A series of fireballs hit Ryu one after another. Each one is a high-powered fireball that can reduce Ryu to ashes in an instant. Magic swordsmen tend to be half-hearted in both magic and swordsmanship, but Jojo’s magic seems to be first-rate.
However, all the fireballs Jojo released disappeared as if they were sucked into Ryu’s body.
Ryu opened a subspace in front of his own body and stored all the fireballs.
Jojo is surprised to see Liu standing there with a cool face.
[Is it over?]
Ryu swung his sword away from Jojo. Jojo is not sure what he’s going to do, and he braces himself.
But the next moment, Ryu was standing behind Jojo, and his magic sword was cutting him body in two.
Ryu had shifted behind Jojo while swinging his sword. A good swordsman might have been able to duck, but Jojo’s sword skills were not as good as they could have been. Judging from the power of his magic, he was probably better at magic.
When Ryu defeated Jojo, he suddenly noticed that Cha Cha was chanting a spell. Although she must have been knocked down by the Sleep and Paralyze spells, she recovered quickly, perhaps wearing a magical tool that reduces abnormalities.
Cha Cha released an attack spell. Fifty high-powered flaming arrows hit Ryu. It was like a storm of flaming arrows. However, Ryu opens the entrance of the subspace in front of himself again.
All the flaming arrows were absorbed into the subspace.
After confirming that all the arrows entered the subspace, Ryu opens the exit of the subspace in front of Cha Cha. All the arrows that had been flying in the subspace flew out of the exit and pierced through Cha Cha.
After being hit by 50 high-powered arrows of flame, Cha Cha was shredded into small pieces and burned up and disappeared.
Ryu slowly walks toward Big, who is stunned in the corner.
Big [Eek ! I’m sorry, I apologize ! Please forgive me
!]
Ryu [What are you apologizing about?]
Ryu, who never stopped walking, was right in front of Big.
Big [For trying to steal the bag, for trying to kill you…….hey, I’ll turn myself in like you said, I’ll plead guilty !]
Ryu [You did worse than that, a long time ago…….]
Ryu has not forgotten that when he was a child, he bought Ryu, who had fallen into slavery, and enjoyed torturing him every day.
Big [Oh, about that ! That was……my bad ! I apologize ! That was when we were kids, I didn’t mean to offend you, now I’m sorry, I’m sorry !”
Ryu [Sorry? You were thinking that when you became a lord you would build a torture chamber in your basement and have fun torturing people again, weren’t you?]
Big [How did you know that……?!]
Big admits unintentionally.
Ryu [I can read minds, you know.]
Liu’s eyes glowed gold.
Big [!!!]
Ryu [If I let you live, I can see a future in which many people will eventually become victims of your addiction. It would be better not to let you live.]
Big [Please, forgive me.]
But Big, while apologizing with his mouth, held out the knife he had hidden from Ryu’s view.
However, Big’s knife was cut off with his whole arm by a flash of Ryu’s sword.
Big [Whoa !
Ryu [I told you I can read your mind. I know what you’re trying to do, and that you’re all talk and no real apology.]
Ryu swung his sword three more times. All of Big’s limbs were cut off.
With Fragarach’s sharpness, he would have felt little pain, but Big, who had lost both arms and legs, looked shocked and stunned.
Ryu [Wounds cut by this sword will not heal even if you use potions or healing magic. In other words, the lost limbs would never come back even if they were healed.]
There was no point in mentioning the treatment, but he said it on purpose to make it more shocking.
Ryu piled the bodies of Big, Amira, and Jojo, who could no longer move, in front of the dragon.
At Ryu’s signal, the dragon lifted its head and opened its mouth.
Inside the dragon’s mouth, Big sees the breath being released. That was the last thing Big saw in this world.
The bodies of Big and the others were soaked in the dragon’s breath that they were completely reduced to ashes, not a bone left in their body.
Thinking back on the torture he had been subjected to, Ryu regretted a little that he had made it so easy for Big, but what had been done could not be helped.
He knew from reading his mind that Big would never have been sorry even if he had been allowed to live, so he had no choice but to kill him.
The prediction of the future that Ryu’s golden eyes had seen the future in which many people would be tormented by Big was gone, so it was a good thing.
That’s how Ryu felt about it.
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