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"Ha, ha."
The adventurers, in their pathetic state, were panting on the ground, mindlessly chatting after their near-death experience.
This was an instinctive reaction after facing death. People needed this moment of relaxation to ease their fear of death.
"What kind of monster was that?"
"I don't know, f***, I've never seen anything like it."
"The alluring aroma... It reminds me of the succubus monsters of Begaritt."
"Ah, you mean the monsters that release a charming gas to lure men?"
"Yeah, their figures are so good you can't get enough. Their bodies are better than a lot of women I've seen. F***, it's a shame, though. They look like cute human women before they reveal their true monster forms with fangs when they catch their prey."
"You seem to know a lot. Have you met one before?"
"I've been in there before. F***, the taste of a succubus is quite good."
"Hmm, so you've been in there... been... what??"
"That's terrifying..."
"It's not that bad. I think the sea demons are more terrifying. The succubus is very weak and can only release aphrodisiac gas. But these sea demons, damn it, Boss Os said that their alluring aroma arouses your present desires..."
"Desire? Um... what were you desiring just now?"
After the adventurer asked that unconsciously gossipy question, everyone froze and looked at Allen in the rain.
What were they desiring?
They were all hoping that someone would be able to hold Allen in check and give them a way out.
—First of all, no one here had ever thought of holding Allen in check. They just wanted to use his power to get through the dungeon. But all of that came to nothing. First, they realized Allen was deliberately hiding the fact that the eye of the storm had expanded. Then, they saw that Allen's Divine Strike was not as powerful as they had imagined. No, it was more like the dungeon was more powerful than they had imagined.
No one here doubted that Allen would use them as stepping stones.
That's why they had this mass hysteria.
Merna, who had jumped into Allen's arms just now, glanced at Allen and awkwardly dug her toes into the ground.
She had felt, in her 'senses,' that her surroundings were filled with Allen's faces.
Her brain had shut down, so she kept looking at all the 'Allens,' waiting for a 'command' to figure out who the real one was.
The result was, well...
The moment the illusion disappeared, she was so startled that she instinctively jumped into Allen's arms.
At that time, they had looked at each other. Allen looked at her with a blank expression, and Merna's expression changed. Sure enough, the next moment, the hand that had subconsciously held her released her, and Merna fell on the deck.
Allen just quietly looked at the volcano on the "Main Island."
"Os, what do you think? If there are people alive on this island, is there any reason for us to save them?"
The adventurers, who had just calmed down, became tense again. Allen's words had pulled them back to reality. They all stood up, staring at the "Main Island," their faces pale.
—Excluding the distant, towering volcano that was flashing with a red light, the other dark hills in the rain. From where they were on the beach, they couldn't see any light.
There were no people?
With that, all their hopes were completely shattered. Looking at the situation, it was not that there was someone who could hold Allen in check. It was that the dungeon had expanded to the sea. Now it seemed that the "Main Island" was as dangerous as Allen had said it was.
In that instant, everyone felt the "night rain" chilling their hearts.
Os, who was standing behind Allen, looked around anxiously. He clenched his fist, and his hands trembled violently. After confirming that there were no signs of life, he showed a look of despair.
"...I... I don't know," his voice was trembling.
"Oh." Allen nodded. "Let's change the subject. Did you say that the dungeon has expanded, and we are already in the dungeon?"
"...Based on the current situation, yes. Because there were no monsters in the sea before."
Allen was silent for a moment. He nodded, but did not commit. He continued.
"But we did not enter through a teleportation circle. The same thing happened on the other island. I went deep into the composite dungeon, but I couldn't get out. Every time I was about to leave, I would lose my sense of direction and find myself back where I started. Is this a rule of the composite dungeon?"
"The composite dungeon is different from a normal dungeon, which has a specific teleportation circle for each level. The levels above the bottom of the dungeon are, as you said, hard to distinguish. The separation between the levels is not so clear. But on the other hand, even though adventurers can get lost, they can also leave the dungeon if they get lost."
"Oh? Then how do you explain my situation? I couldn't get out."
"Your situation is only at the very bottom. The bottom of the dungeon is the domain of the 'Lord' monster. Their existence locks the bottom level of the dungeon. Even if you defeat the Lord, you still have to find a teleportation circle to get out."
Allen nodded and pointed at the volcano.
"Then how did you get to the bottom level of the dungeon to fight the 'Ghostly Secret Sword' in the past? By luck?"
The adventurers all had looks of "don't go, please don't go. Can't we just stay on this safe beach and wait for the storm to pass?" on their faces. But they did not dare to say anything.
Os swallowed. He saw Allen's eyes, which were piercing through the rain.
He had no choice but to take a deep breath and answer, word by word.
"Either we climb the volcano and enter through the crater, or we have to..."
He glanced at Allen and said through clenched teeth. "...by luck."
"Are you sure?"
Os avoided Allen's gaze. His mind was in a turmoil.
"I'm sure."
Allen looked at him and smiled. He looked at Leuf, who was not far away. The latter, ignoring Klem, who was secretly pulling on his sleeve, said to Allen.
"We just stumbled in. But I can't confirm whether Os and his team entered by 'luck'."
Allen tilted his head to look at Os again.
Os remained silent.
The lightning illuminated their faces. Allen suddenly laughed, revealing his pale teeth. The adventurers all thought of the sea monsters from a moment ago.
He spoke.
"Then, I'll have to see if your luck is good or bad." He turned and gestured at the "Main Island" in front of them. "Let's go."
Allen took two steps, then stopped and looked back.
Only Merna, Leuf, and Klem, who was tugging at Leuf's sleeve, followed him.
The others did not move.
Allen raised an eyebrow.
"What? Are you scared? Are you afraid that I'll ignore you when the monsters attack, just like I did a moment ago? That I'll let you die?"
The chattering of teeth came from beside him.
Allen turned and casually put his arm around an adventurer's shoulder and laughed.
"Are you afraid of monsters?"
"Then I want to ask you a question."
"If you're afraid of monsters, why aren't you afraid of me?"
Everyone lowered their heads. No one answered. Allen, however, looked enlightened. He patted the adventurer's shoulder. "Oh, I see. It's because I saved you, so you subconsciously think I won't kill you."
Slash, the adventurer's head was twisted and fell to the ground.
Before it could even roll twice, it was crushed by Allen's foot!
His cheerful voice drifted into everyone's ears.
"You're the ones who wanted to come here to get the sword."
"And you're the ones who don't want to go in."
"You're the ones who wanted the magic stones."
"And you're the ones who are afraid of being eaten by monsters."
"What the hell is wrong with you guys? How did you manage to get all the good things?"
"Say something?"
No one answered.
Allen looked at the adventurers, who were clearly large, but were all shaking. He stepped on the bloody corpse that was clinging to a head and walked towards Os. He slowly patted the back of his neck.
He leaned in close to his face.
"Os, you tell me."
"Is this reasonable?"
Os's face twitched. He bit his lip and spoke in a low voice. "I heard that you're a Holy Son of the Milis Church! Your Divine Strike Art is indeed very powerful, and I want to ask you if you know any water magic?! It would be best if you know how to freeze water!"
Allen looked at him with interest.
"No, I don't. I only know how to make a slightly larger water ball. Does that count?"
Os took a deep breath and said to Allen earnestly.
"Mr. Allen, please stop joking. I know you're very strong, and you're very skilled in the Divine Strike Art and swordsmanship. But that's not enough. I thought there might be a lot of adventurers who survived on the island, and I could gather some mages to serve you. That's why I've been so conflicted, thinking there might be a chance to kill the 'Ghostly Secret Sword'."
"But now that the range of the dungeon is expanding, all the adventurers who survived on the island might be dead. In this situation, we have absolutely no chance of winning."
Allen tilted his head. "Oh? A water mage? Is it because of the volcano?"
Os felt the chill on the back of his neck. "That's a necessary part of the adventurer team to fight the 'Ghostly Secret Sword'."
"The bottom of the dungeon, the 'Inferno Volcano,' is a live volcano. Let's not even talk about the monsters that are climbing on the walls. The location of the 'Ghostly Secret Sword' itself makes it so that you can't just fight it with a few people."
"The 'Ghostly Secret Sword' is at the center of a hundred-meter-wide volcanic magma lake! Because it has some of the characteristics of a ghost, it can stand on the volcanic magma! But the temperature is extremely high, and the volcano is filled with toxic gas. This harsh dungeon environment means that we have to do our best just to get a chance to face the 'Ghostly Secret Sword'."
"First, we need water magic. A water mage can create a heavy rain to freeze the surface of the magma, so we can stand on it!"
"Second, we need a barrier spell. The barrier spell can protect the adventurer team from being poisoned by the volcanic gas before we get close to the 'Ghostly Secret Sword'!"
"This is just the prerequisite for fighting it!"
The adventurers were all stunned. They were all looking at Os in a state of shock, thinking, Boss, why didn't you ever tell us this? If it's so dangerous, why didn't you stop Leuf from doing what he did?! Os wiped the rainwater from his face, which was as white as paper.
And he wasn't even finished.
"If we meet all these prerequisites and get a chance to face the 'Ghostly Secret Sword,' that's when the nightmare begins! Its swordsmanship is terrifyingly powerful. In the area of its bottom-level dungeon, if someone draws a sword, even if they are far away, they will still be attacked by it."
"A sword aura! A massive sword aura, just like the one you unleashed on the ship, but faster! This means we need a powerful swordsman to hold it back!"
"And finally, we need a mage with a powerful Divine Strike Art. We can't do without any of these four!" As he said this, Os was trembling and touching his face.
"Now we're missing a mage. We don't have a place to stand. How do we fight? How do we fight?"
Allen squinted. "What happened when you fought that monstrous thing in the past?"
Os was stunned. He was trembling. He tried to speak several times before he finally squeezed the words out of his throat.
"There was no fight..."
"Huh?"
"Just one strike. It was only one strike, and eighty percent of our adventurer team was dead. The remaining twenty percent could only flee. My companions... they pushed me away, they pushed me away..."
Os's fingernails dug into his flesh.
"We were cut in half at the waist with one strike. With just one strike, it was all over."
Allen immediately turned to look at Leuf. "What about you?"
Leuf was stunned. He was about to say something, but in the end, he only nodded silently. "He's right. It's pretty much what I saw..."
Klem suddenly shouted. "No! Wait! It can also cut through the Divine Strike Art!! The Divine Strike Art is supposed to be a special magic that can be used on ghosts. But it can cut through it!!"
This made even Os freeze. Leuf looked down, his expression grim.
Allen shook his head and leaned in close to Os's ear.
"Os, Os. It seems you're a gambler who is completely consumed by revenge. The fire of revenge is so beautiful that you dared to pretend to be a quail in the cabin when there was only a slim chance."
"You have some nerve."
"But you're not as crazy as Leuf. He's still trying to hide information from me, even now, so we can get to the 'Inferno Volcano' smoothly."
Os was unconsciously rubbing the lump of iron in his hand, and Klem's body stiffened. He shook his head at Allen, looking desperate.
Allen did not draw his sword.
He just stood up and pointed at the dark mountain ridge in the distance.
"There's a light over there. It might be hard for you to see."
Everyone looked in the direction Allen was pointing. As the lightning flashed, they saw a faint light flickering on the mountain ridge. But in the blink of an eye, it was gone, as if it were just a hallucination.
The next thing Allen said made their faces turn pale.
"It seems someone is fighting with monsters. Let's go over there and see if we can find a water mage who is still alive."
"Let's go."
"And, let's see if your luck is good or bad."
The adventurers hesitated for a moment. But then, Battle Aura erupted, and Os rushed out.
They could only follow him. Merna looked at Allen's face, then also moved to follow him.
Allen was the last one.
He was not in a hurry.
But after a few steps, he turned and looked behind him.
Behind him, in the rain, there was no one.
The waves from a dozen meters away were crashing on the beach.
Black, round heads were bobbing up and down in the water. They were not shaped like the sea monsters.
They looked like skulls.
Something between human and non-human.
Their pupils were completely black, without any whites. They were staring at Allen through the rain.
The latter only looked at them for a moment, then continued walking towards the island.
If the dungeon had truly expanded to the coastline, why were there no monsters on the beach?
But there were sea monsters in the sea a moment ago, weren't there?
They were not monsters.
They were 'sea beasts.'
The slaves of the Sea Folk, who should not exist in this archipelago.
Allen did not have time to delve into the details of the "Main Island" anymore.
At this point, many things were very clear to Allen.
The omen from his dream was verified on the ship.
Then...
What about the beautiful sunrise?
It was clear that Allen had been deceived by his own subconscious.
The beautiful sunrise in the dream was not the 'future' of sailing away from the storm.
It was the 'future' of the storm clearing up after the dungeon was defeated.
Now, he had to end this farce as soon as possible.
And make the sky clear.
After Allen's figure disappeared, creatures that were two meters long, with round heads, webbed four-fingered hands, round bodies, and covered in mucus climbed onto the island from the sea.
They all supported themselves with their half-meter-long limbs, their stomachs pressed against the sand.
But their comical bodies had incredibly sharp claws.
One of them stood up straight, like a human.
Her long, black, algae-like hair was dripping with water, hanging at her waist. Her body, with a fish tail and a human torso, looked like the silhouette of a graceful human woman in the rain.
But the dense black scales on her face and her all-black eyes showed her inhuman nature.
Her fellow sea monsters let out a strange, teeth-grinding sound from their gills.
The former only stared blankly at the now-gone Allen.
"I know. No need to remind me again. I know he's a powerful human. He had a killing intent on the sea that was fixed on us..."
"Idazlidd will kill him."
"A monster of that strength, if it were a human, would be called a lower-ranking member of the Seven Great Powers."
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