Sultry.

Aya curled her hands tightly in front of her chest, leaning against the wall and not moving, for fear of hindering the others.

The dripping sweat caused her dark blue half-length hair to cling to the nape of her neck and cheeks, and she was itching all over her breath - but all the tension was suppressed.

The heat waves emitted by the torches came in waves, and the men holding the spears in front and back widened their eyes and did not dare to look away for a moment. People were crowded, and the temperature of the body temperature and the temperature of the lighting equipment mixed together to further make the narrow aisle breathless.

The two men in the front row with spears were Lao Qiao and Yajiro, because the passage was only half a meter wide, and even with their relatively small physique, they could only hold their spears sideways. The ceiling was only two meters high, and it was difficult for people like Henry and Galeva to turn around in it - they were behind the spear-bearers on either side, holding torches for light.

The greatsword can't be used in this kind of place, and even a short sword or a one-handed sword can only use more small slashes and rush attacks.

This is the world of spear guns, but the use of spears is not for the pursuit of killing.

— because the results of previous attempts to do so were a bit painful.

Narumi, who was clutching his forearm, clenched his teeth against the wall, and the blood vessels in his face burst out because of the pain. The samurai leader's strong left arm was tightly bandaged, but the blood continued to spill out, and he had to press it with his hand as Henry instructed to avoid fainting from losing too much blood.

The Japanese-style metal arm guards, made of cloth and long, slender lacquered iron bars, are pulled down from the elbow of his left arm, with a straight incision that the sage used to cut his wounds with a knife, but what makes it even more difficult to take your eyes off is the huge cut in the chain mail ring and the iron plate that resembles a powerful blunt object.

Two rows of four, for a total of eight, are composed of trapezoids with slightly varying widths—apparently the result of the bite of some kind of creature with a long snout.

Less than 10 minutes after stepping into the stone gate, Narumi, who was in the lead, was not lightly injured.

And the sage immediately asked the group to exit the passage immediately, and when they fought in the wider environment outside, there was a roar from outside the stone gate behind him that was exactly the same as from inside.

Where did it come from?

There's only one road outside, so could it be that you climb up the waterfall?

If you spend your time thinking about these questions in a daze, you won't have to think about them again. The adventurer's immediate decision was matched with a high-quality Japanese elite samurai, and at Henry's request, the next group immediately shrank their formation and put on a protective posture with their spears.

The narrow passage does not allow for the use of strike weapons or outflanking techniques, but it is not entirely flawed in the eyes of those who are familiar with the characteristics of the terrain.

There is no complicated terrain, which means that they can see each other as long as they are in the range of the firelight. There is no need for intricate and ornate techniques, no need for elaborate formations, just shrink the formation, hold your weapons tightly, and stab forward the moment the enemy appears.

Yajiro and Old Joe stood as if carved out of a mold:

Bend your left foot forward to lower your center of gravity, and stretch out your right leg while leaning forward, and turn your right foot around at 90 degrees.

The standard combat stance is more stable than when there is a force impact from the front side, and it will not fall down. The two of them clenched their spears, the tips of which were about a meter high—for according to Narumi, the only sighted of him, was the physique of the beast that had attacked him.

That's a wolf.

But the roar was like that of a bear. But bears basically do not act in groups, and a beast of this physique alone has to occupy a considerable territory, and the only possible one is a mother bear with cubs, but the roar that appears before and after is equally loud and powerful without any childishness.

- In the end.

Behind the stone gate, which had been closed for so many years that the dust was enough to choke people's coughs, how did a beast with a strong physique grow through iron armor in one bite-

Is the old pharmacist okay.

The thought only lasted for a moment, and she had to focus on the situation at hand.

Joshua closed his eyes, lest the last remaining sights interfere with his sharper auditory judgments.

The sound of people's heartbeats around him was "banging", and Torotaro, who was huddled in the middle of a group of people, was itching all over his body because of the stuffiness, scratching his ears and cheeks, sometimes gritting his teeth, and sometimes making a "babbling" grunt sound without arguing, which was amplified by the silence of the others a hundred times.

Narumi controls her breathing to overcome the pain.

The water droplets on the roof of the cave "tick" and fall into the small long puddles.

At the same time, Joshua caught the slight "click" of something hard against the stony floor.

"It's coming!!!

"Woo-" "When ——!" The tip of the knife made a metallic sound that everyone had not expected when it came into contact with the fur-covered beast's skull—it failed to penetrate, but it was still strong enough to make the wolf-like beast slightly dizzy and instinctively close its eyelids to protect its fragile eyeballs, while shaking its head in pain and vertigo.

Its dash is crooked.

"Up!" the sage shouted, and Yajiro and Old Joe rushed forward together.

"Drink—ah!" Old Joe, who was older and therefore more experienced, stabbed the opponent in the chest with a spear, and then Yajiro, who had a good heart, pressed down on the tail of the barrel of the gun with his right hand in the process of thrusting forward, controlling the direction of the tip of the gun.

The tip of the "Roaring ——!" triangular section of the Luna Country spear pierced the thick fur and the neck full of blood vessels without hindrance, and stabbed out from the other side, but the inexperienced young samurai only knew how to stab and forgot to twist the spear to expand the wound, and the wolf-like creature with mutilated claws immediately flung its front paws and tried to attack him, but fortunately, Old Joe noticed this and immediately pulled out the spear and faced the beast with the unique spear throwing method of the Moon Country.

The "pop ——!" hardwood spear let out a scream and snapped when it met the muscular claws of the beast, and Yajiro, who came back to his senses and was still in shock, drew the short spear that pierced his neck and intended to attack again, but the beast let out a hoarse roar, and immediately crawled backwards and frantically with limbs that did not look like normal cats and dogs, and disappeared into the darkness again.

"Why, it's not dead—" The little young master was covered in a cold sweat, and the short spear pierced the beast's neck, and before that old Joe had stabbed it in the chest, but it was still alive.

"Blood. Henry stretched out his torch as Mira took another short gun from Caleva and handed it to Old Joe.

The elder villager thanked him as he picked up the severed gun and stuffed it into his belt, and tossed the shaft of the gun that was in the way to the side.

And that's when our Luoan girl saw the black liquid on the ground.

Her face darkened, and so many things resurfaced in a split second that Mira was speechless. Noticing this, Henry rubbed her hair and asked her disciple to continue to guard the other side.

"It's the same thing as the weirdness before. Yajiro had also experienced the battle with the ghouls, and the name he used was pronounced "Ayakasi"—weird—a generic term for the incomprehensible, and the ghoul clearly fit that name.

There are monsters with names and surnames, and they are neutral beings in Crescent Continent, where there are eight million gods and spirits. They seem to be gods but not gods, and they have their own society and rules in the legends of the people, and there are joys, sorrows, and sorrows. Unlike Rigal's gods, who are supremely good, and unlike Rigal's demons, who are supremely evil.

The "spirits" in the mythology of the Land of the Moon are not black and white, they are more like emotions or the embodiment of - but the weird is not among the youkai, they have no emotions, and are only born to deprive life and trample on happiness.

Black blood.

Will Narumi be infected- The girl looked back at the samurai leader, his left arm, which he was pressing hard, was wrapped under the bandage and could not see the color of the blood vessels, and even the blood vessels on his forehead that appeared because of the sore spot on his forehead were not visible because the fire could not reach him under the tall back of the sage.

- Should I bring it up? But checking this question now will disturb the already restless mentality of the players.

The teacher must have thought of the same problem, but he was not necessarily able to care about a backyard fire as he was responsible for coordinating and directing others and keeping watch for lighting.

You can't be unvigilant.

The stress turned into anxiety and her attention was a little distracted, and this strange beast that looked like a patchwork of multiple carnivorous mammals was extremely fast and unusually strong, and if it weren't for Joshua's reminder, they were afraid that their already weak position would be easily overwhelmed. And if they are close enough distance, they can break the claws of hardwood and bite through the teeth of iron armor to cause them a lot of damage.

There was also one outside the door, and having seen the mobility and speed of this strange creature in a small passage, it was not necessarily a good idea to go out and fight in the open.

But stuck in this dilemma, the stuffiness makes people irritating, and most importantly-

There is a foul smell in the air here.

It's like the egg shell of summer kitchen waste, emitted by the high temperature, the smell of protein decay.

You can smell it when you first enter the cave, but the deeper you go, the stronger the smell becomes, so much so that the mint paste you carry with you can't completely hide it.

They can only rub the peppermint paste with their fingers and stuff it into their nostrils and inhale deeply to keep their brains awake under a cool enough stimulus.

"Like. After the confusion of thoughts, Miss Doctor spoke softly.

"It's made in the workshop. ”

Her words were a little clueless, and she understood that the others didn't understand, Aya continued.

"The earth spiders are exactly the same, missing a leg, and the same scars. A combination of tiger, wolf, and bear—"

"That thing can take advantage of the characteristics of the creatures it swallows and absorbs, and the purpose of living things is almost always to reproduce and expand. ”

"What would it do if it hadn't been killed, but had managed to find a safe place. ”

Aya took out her notebook and rummaged through it as if she was obsessed.

"Organisms that are absorbed are copied and produced after analysis. The main body hides deep in a safe place, and uses these clones to search for food and supply expansion. ”

"And the way to attract the next object you want to replicate - the dead earth spider, the hundred-legged and the human-faced bird are all of the same gender. ”

"Ahh

"What's wrong?" Mira asked, not fully understanding, turning her head.

"Male animals in heat are attracted to the female's voice, and hunters imitate the female's voice in this way, not knowing that they are heading for death. ”

“...... The old pharmacist said before that the Changshan tiger can imitate human voices. Aya didn't continue, but no one who understood what she meant was asked again.

"You mean Hui has been? This can't be! It's only been that short!" Torotaro, though arrogant and unscrupulous, was smarter than he looked, and he would have realized, roaring loudly to hide his panic with anger.

"Go ahead. As Henry spoke, the others looked at him, and although most of them trusted the man, it was clear that the situation was doing more harm than good at the moment—the money would rather be than the money in such a dangerous situation.

"There will be legends that mean that this thing has been around for a long time. It's probably been a few generations. ”

"Don't you want to study what kind of creature it is when it grows into a complete body. ”

"Teacher—" Mira looked at him, not afraid, just wondering why.

"Cowering in one's own safe zone, identifying only with what one knows, and denying everything outside of it. ”

"Not an adventurer. Henry shrugged.

Most of the adventurers at the bottom are forced by life, but those who have become famous can use their savings to live a stable life, but many of them are still active in this industry for more than half a hundred years.

It is precisely because this profession has qualities that other industries do not have.

The one who knows the sword is not necessarily an adventurer, he may be just an ordinary swordsman, and the person who can use a bow may be called a marksman, but he may not really be an adventurer.

Mercenary is the official name, even the guild is called the mercenary union, and the people and even the nobility, as well as most of the people engaged in this profession, also call themselves so.

Adventurer, on the other hand, is a self-proclaimed one with a more or less romantic and sublime connotation.

Do what others can't do, and see what others can't.

The one who brainlessly rushes into the fire is not an adventurer, it is just a dead volunteer. Assess risk, master and develop skills.

Those who can see the wind and waves and come back to tell the legend are the adventurers.

This kind of longing, the stimulation of new things.

A clear contrast between a heart with a swollen blood and a clear mind in the face of danger and a calm mind and clear thinking.

The magnified senses, although it sounds a little childish when seeing the magnificent scenery, can't help but tear up the natural expression.

Fang is the true meaning of this profession.

"Let's go. ”

Darkness and threats lie ahead, but that's why it's worth going deeper.