Me and the Minotaur General noticed the opponent at the same time. The Minotaur General was the first to move. This is a weakness of living wizards who have not been trained in martial arts in earnest like magic-armored wizards, and they are slow to get into battle stance.

　Besides, most living magic has a short range, so the pattern is often to wait for the opponent to attack and then counter attack once they are in time.

　The minotaur general's weapon was a large sword, equipped with silvery scaled armor. The giant monster moves about four meters with a single step. It is difficult to find the right moment to attack it, because it can strike me with its body if it runs about 10 steps.

　The D-particle cooling pile flew about 15 meters and just as it was about to hit the Minotaur General, the trajectory veered off.

　What do you mean?　Why did the trajectory get bent?

　The Minotaur General raised his great sword and swung it down with tremendous force. I jumped to the side to avoid it and sent a D-particle vibration ball rolling across the floor.

　The great sword swung down and cut through the floor made of stone. At the same time, a D-particle vibration ball flew toward the minotaur general's knees.

　The minotaur general noticed the D-particle vibration ball and paid the great sword from the side. The D-particle vibration ball that was bounced radiated spatial vibration waves, but did not hit the target.

　I fly backwards with my quint catapult and distance myself from the minotaur general. Then I fired another quint cold shot at the Minotaur General's chest.

　Again, just before it hit the target, the trajectory bent awkwardly and missed. Elmore takes out the magic gun I left with him and pulls the trigger, aiming at the Minotaur General's head, torso, and legs.

　The magic compression rounds fired from the magic gun hit the Minotaur General's head and legs, causing light damage, but the magic compression rounds fired at the torso missed, as did the quint cold shot.

It's that silver armor. It's deflecting our trajectory."

　A large sword attacked me as I was thinking, "You've equipped me with something nasty. He unleashes a Seventh Auger push toward that great sword.

　The greatsword and the auger plate collided and the greatsword flew to the corner of the room. The minotaur general, now bare-handed, thrust his fist toward me.

　Elmore leapt in front of me and caught me with the hilt of his trishula , but it blew away as if he had been hit by a truck. While Elmore blocked it, I sent a series of Quint Crash Lances flying toward his head and legs.

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　The Minotaur General avoided the D-particle lance that flew at its head, but it seemed to be unable to avoid the D-particle lance that flew at its leg.

　It distances itself from the damaged Minotaur General. At that moment, he saw Saijo and Nagase walking up the stairs. I thought they were ahead of me, but I changed my mind, thinking that I must surely defeat the Minotaur General here.

　The wound on the Minotaur General's leg seems to have been cut down to the bone. The Minotaur General approaches, limping on a barely moving leg.

　I activated "Protect Shield" to generate a D-particle robust shield between me and the Minotaur General. Immediately after that, I activated "Crash Ball" and fired a D-particle vibration ball toward the D-particle robust shield.

　The D-particle vibration ball hit the D-particle robust shield and radiated a spatial vibration wave. The spatial vibration wave extended toward the minotaur general and penetrated its thick breastplate.

　The Minotaur General's scale armor could not bend its trajectory to the spatial vibration wave. A D-particle vibration ball was shot as a tome into the head of the Minotaur General, which collapsed to the floor. The next instant, there was a thumping sound inside the body. It seemed that his magic level had increased to "19.

　It is a relief when the Minotaur General disappears. The battle might have lasted longer if the idea of hitting the D-particle robust shield and radiating spatial oscillation waves had not sparked before the trajectory was bent by that scale armor.

　I check on Elmore. He was motionless in the corner of the room.

Metis, is Elmore okay?"

'The magic core has been impacted and is out of my control. Let's keep him in the shadows until he recovers.

　When my shadow moves so that it overlaps with Elmore's fallen body, Elmore's body automatically dives into the shadow. I don't know how it works, but it seems that when a shadow puppet is damaged, it has some sort of instinct to dive into the shadows.

　I searched for dropped items. He found a black magic stone and a shield. When I confirmed it with the appraisal monocle, I found it was a "Shield of Dereliction". It seemed to be a shield with the same function as the Scale Armor worn by the Minotaur General.

　It is about ninety centimeters long and fifty centimeters wide, and weighs about twenty kilograms. It is too heavy for me to use, so Elmore should use it.

It seems that Saijo-san and Nagase-san beat me to it."

Well, it is what it is," he said. It was just bad luck."

　I went up to the third floor to check the result. On the third floor, there were three large doors.

What do you mean?"

I think that means there is still a chance. There are three choices, and one of them is correct. Saijo-san and Nagase-san seem to have chosen the left door and the middle door.

　Those two doors are closed, but the door on the right side is open. This must mean that the door is not in use. I enter through the open door and the door closes behind me.

　A long passageway led to a room larger than a gymnasium awaited me at the end of it. Upon entering the room, I encountered a higher species of minotaur, which was no bigger than an ordinary minotaur.

　Its higher species wore the same scaled armor as the minotaur general. Moreover, it also equipped its head and legs with the same kind of armor.

　The weapon is a snake spear used by Zhang Fei in the Three Kingdoms Yanyi

serpentine snake

It looks like a Is this guy the Minotaur Lord?

　The higher minotaur species looked at me and laughed. I activated my quintuple parallel activation "Crash Ball" and released D-particle vibration balls in a vertical line at 30 centimeter intervals.

　The D-particle vibration ball veered off course as it approached the higher minotaur species.

I knew it was the same as the general. It's a full body, so it's a bad idea."

　The enemy is waiting with plenty of time to spare and doesn't seem to be trying to counter. I activate "Descrescent" and send a D-particle boomerang flying.

　The flying D-particle boomerang bent its trajectory just before the upper minotaur species and collided with the wall behind it. There it began to rotate while radiating spatial vibration waves. A large hole opened in the wall, and the tip of the spatial vibration wave snatched the back of the Minotaur super species.

　For the first time, his smiling face is distorted with pain. The Minotaur howled, and from a considerable distance away, it raised its serpentine spear and swung it down toward me. I was not close enough to reach the tip of the snake spear, but I felt the magic power from the tip of the snake spear and jumped back.

　Something passed nearby and hit the wall behind me, carving a two-meter gash. It seemed that the snake-spike-like weapon was also equipped with magic. A cold sweat was pouring down my back.