"Whew-Whew-Whew-"

I didn't slow down my pace in the dark ground and gravel aisle, and by holding the "mangoshi" that was constantly emitting bright light with my left hand, I could see the original dark aisle in front of me with interlaced paths.

So what's next... Where do I go, and where do I go in this labyrinthine underground cavern?

(Sure enough, now I have to decide my destination based on the white light that appeared on the tip of the Lost Black Talisman for some unknown reason?)

As I ran through the fairly wide passage, I looked at the white light on the tip of the Lost Black Rune, and thought that this small cloud of soft white light suddenly appeared during the battle with the Underground Guardian for some reason.

At this moment, the white light hovering on the tip of the sword is forming an icon similar to an arrow, pointing in the direction it is pointing, seeing this scene, I can't help but hook the corners of my mouth and make a very distressed smile.

"Take a gamble! Dead horses should be live horse doctors!!"

As I ran, I said as if to cheer myself on, and after I finished speaking, I ran faster in the passage.

Step-step-step-step-step!【The sound of running on the gravel】

Knock-knock!【The dull sound of the giant stepping on the ground】

（......？！）

When I heard a distant voice behind me, I subconsciously glanced back at the owner who was making a sound in the distance behind me, and when I looked back, I didn't expect to see something that made me feel extremely afraid.

The 'Underground Guardian' who had fought with me earlier had already chased after me at this time, and at this moment it was running with a layer of burning orange flames attached to its body, and the appearance on its body at this time could be said to be very similar to the 'Demon Clan' in ancient books.

Looking at the 'Underground Guardian' who was chasing after me, I subconsciously swallowed the saliva in my mouth, and after a few glances at the 'Underground Guardian' running behind me, I looked back at the forward, and a temporary thought flashed through my mind......

[Hey, what are you running from?!Accept your fate!!Die like a man!!] Behind me kept coming the provocative words of the 'Guardian of the Underground'.

It looks like this 'Guardian of the Underground'... It was trying to provoke me to stop and fight it to the death, but I apparently ignored it and sprinted towards the path of the sword's light without looking back.

"Damn, this guy has a lot of perseverance!! "As I ran through the straight aisle, I seemed to feel the heat coming from behind me, and I cursed.

At this moment, an earthy yellow glow appeared on the skin of my left hand holding the manite, which was the light emitted by the magic of the earth element. As the earth elemental magic gathered in my left hand, I began to chant a spell to cast the next spell as I ran on my legs.

"Refactoring!"

When I chanted the last spell, the earth-colored earth elemental magic on my left hand instantly became more dazzling, and then in the next second, the rock walls on both sides of the passage behind me seemed to come to life, and in an instant, the rock walls on both sides seemed to be like a squirming slime, and the wall was instantly closed, and in this way, the 'Underground Guardian' who had been chasing me closely was blocked by me on the other side of the passage.

Glancing back at the blocked road, I strode ahead without looking back......

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The other side of the sealed passage.

The Underground Guardian, who was standing next to the rock wall, tapped with his left hand as if to confirm the thickness of the rock wall, and after a few taps, he showed an intriguing smile.

[Really, there are so many tricks!]

As soon as the words of the "Underground Guardian" fell, he slammed his right fist on the rock wall in front of him, and when his fist touched the rock wall, a series of web-like cracks instantly appeared on the rock wall, and when the "Underground Guardian" removed his right fist, the rock wall full of cracks instantly shattered open......

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Following the guidance of the light on the tip of the sword of the Lost Black Talisman, I ran through several straight passages and several curves, and as I continued to run along the light on the tip of the sword, the small ball of light hovering on the tip of the sword became brighter, and the unstable change in my heart became more confident when I witnessed this phenomenon.

"There's a bend going through next......" I muttered subconsciously as I watched the arrows formed by the light on the tip of my sword run.

In an instant, as I was about to complete the bend and reach the rest of the world, a muscular arm almost the size of my skull suddenly stretched out from the passage in front of me, and this gray arm with many bumps on its skin grabbed the leather armor on my chest and jerked me forward.

"What...?!Wow!!!"

Firmly grasped by this arm and flung violently, I felt like I was thrown into a very large place in the next moment, and then fell heavily to the ground, I fell to the ground, I didn't care about feeling the pain from my body, so I got up from the ground, and I stood up, I carefully looked at the surrounding environment.

(Here's ...... Underground cavities?)

Through the light on the stone and the tip of the sword, I looked at this cave that seemed very vast in all directions, and there were many stalactites growing on the ground and high places not far away, and little by little drops of water continued to fall from the tips of the stalactites in the high places, falling on the ground and making a slight splashing sound.

Knock - [The sound of swallowing saliva]

"Hey, hey. Really?"

Holding the light from the miscanthus in my hand, I could see the ten "creatures" around me, and I asked myself as if laughing at myself.

These creatures are 'Underground Guardians', and while some of them don't look like the 'Underground Guardians' chasing me, their grey skin, goat-like hair, hoof-like feet, and the iconic horns that grow above their heads illustrate it... They are in league with the previous Underground Guardians.

My current situation is surrounded in a circle by these ten 'Underground Guardians' standing in the distance, and they are staring at my goblin as they treat their prey with the eyes of their prey.

(I think they must be trying to rush over and dismember me now, but apparently there is more meat and less wolves...) After all, my goblin can't feed everyone and have to live a mouthful of it...... ）

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but laugh to myself, I don't have any thoughts of fighting these 'Underground Guardians' now, but judging by the current situation, I can only be forced to fight with them, these 'Underground Guardians', and then escape!

There were several passages leading to nowhere around this underground cavern, and I narrowed my eyes slightly as I looked at the passages in different locations around me and the 'Underground Guardians' who surrounded me in a circle.

The arrow-shaped cursor hovering over the tip of the sword pointed straight ahead at the entrance of the passage in the distance, and the path it was pointing to seemed to be there...... In other words, all I had to do was break through the encirclement of these 'Underground Guardians' and enter the inside of the passage.

So......

"'Wind Protection'!"

I lowered my body slightly, trying to think of my legs as 'springs' that would eject when I was pressed by pressure, and when I chanted the spell of magic, a layer of wind elemental magic that I couldn't detect without looking closely covered my body.

The silence in the entire underground cavern was terrifying, and the only sounds there were the sound of my small breathing and the wheezing of the ten Underground Guardians that had surrounded me, and it was only about a second before I jerked my feet slightly forward and kicked the ground on which I was stepping.

Suddenly, my figure that was standing in place disappeared without a trace in an instant, and there were many cracks on the ground where I was originally standing that could only crack when subjected to a huge external force, and the "Underground Guardian" standing in the distance seemed to feel something passing by him, and looked at the passage in front of him, and then in the next second, they rushed towards the passage without any hesitation......

Strengthened by the "Wind Protection", I ran forward without gasping, and I could clearly hear the sound of several hooves behind me stepping on the ground.

Run straight ahead!

After running for about a few tens of meters......, turn left or so!

Eh?!!!!

Another dead end?!

I subconsciously frowned when I could see the end of the passage in front of me through the light source, which was blocked by countless rock layers......

(So!)

Looking at the rocky passage in front of me, I slowly aimed my left hand holding the stone in front of me.

"Refactoring!"

As the spell was chanted again, an earthy glow came back to my left hand, and although I succeeded in casting the magic of 'reconstruction', I was amazed... The unknown thickness of the rock in front of him did not change in the slightest.

(Not enough mana?!no...... This is magic neutralization?!)

"Shh

As I ran, I gritted my teeth and held the hilt of the "Lost Black Talisman", and the demon's right hand subconsciously made a charged slashing action, slashing forward, and at the same time, a sword qi emitting a pale white light instantly galloped out of the sword, and slashed at the rock layer not far ahead.

When the sword qi that emitted a pale white light slashed at the rock layer not far ahead, an extremely deep arc-shaped gap instantly appeared on the surface of the rock layer, and the arc-shaped crack that was cut by the sword qi seemed to have penetrated this rock layer...... Through this small breach, I sensed that there might be a hidden cave behind this rock layer.

However, this joy in my heart didn't last long, I ran to the rock layer not far away, and when I arrived at the rock layer, I didn't hesitate, turned around, held the hilt of the Lost Black Talisman tightly in my right hand, and pointed the tip of the sword forward, intending to use earth magic here to close the path of the 'Underground Guardians' behind me......

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But...... The idea I came up with seemed to be reliable, but the reality slapped me in the face!

It was happening so fast that I didn't understand what was going on in those few seconds.

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Just as I turned around and put on a posture of preparing for battle, about to start a battle with the 'Underground Guardians' who were chasing not far away, the rock wall on the right was suddenly shattered by some kind of huge force, and countless stones flew out of it. Before I could recover from my astonishment, an Underground Guardian covered in an orange flame burst out of the massive hole!

In the time between I exhaled through my nose and inhaled again, the Underground Guardian with a burning orange flame on his skin had already come to me, and he couldn't help but smile as he looked at the goblin in front of him with a shocked and surprised expression.

[Surprise!Coward!!]

Almost as soon as the Underground Guardian finished speaking, he struck the goblin in front of him with his right fist at the speed of lightning and flint.

"Quack, a!!!!!!!!a

Before I could come back to my senses, the Underground Guardian struck me in the chest with its right fist with a layer of flames attached to it, and the moment it hit me with its right fist, I felt as if the bones in my chest were broken...... Then I felt like I was "flying...... Then it slammed into the incomparably hard rock layer behind him.

Bang!【The sound of a rock being shattered】

Coughing up a mouthful of bright red blood, I felt the rock formation behind me as if it had been shattered, and before the sharp pain in my chest could subside, I was knocked out like a "confetti" by the force of the Underground Guardian's right fist, and I fell heavily to the ground and rubbed for about a long distance as I was in a trance......

"Uhh......hh Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha......-ha Choked ......"

As I fell to the ground on my back, I gasped as if I was relieving the pain in my chest.

The leather armor I was wearing had burned a large hole in the punch I had just received from the 'Underground Guardian', and the chain mail worn under the leather armor was now firmly embedded in the flesh of my chest......

When I exhaled again with a trembling breath, I took out a bottle of potion from the potion bag tied to my waist with my left hand, and held it to myself, as if I had used all my strength on my left hand... With my left thumb and forefinger, I struggled to unscrew the cap of the glass bottle containing the potion, and as I opened the cap, I poured the bottle of potion into my mouth in the next second.

As the color of the potion poured into my mouth and down my throat, my face instantly improved, and the sharp pain in my chest didn't seem to hurt so much......

(That's right...... I'm going to get out of here, I'm going to have to stand up, stand up, stand up...... ）

Realizing that the danger was not far away from me, I struggled to get up as I fell to the ground, but I couldn't get up from the ground no matter how I moved... It's better that even the simplest breath now causes me a piercing pain......

(Not yet...) Can't ...... yet I can't yet... Over here...... ）

I haven't had a good rest since I first entered the ruins of "Lesa Yaga", and my eyes are kept open as if I am resisting some kind of sleepiness, but my eyelids always slowly droop when I relax a little......

As I lay on the ground in a trance, exhausted, I finally closed my eyes and fell unconscious......

............

[Hey, the goblin over there~ Did you wake me up?]

[Really.] Are you dead or fainted?]

[If you don't die...] Wake up quickly, I don't want to miss out on these hundreds of years of lonely sleep...... Uh, a... An encounter ......]

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