Well done."

　When I praise Bhagwan, he snorts and tries to go without collecting the magic stone.

"You don't collect the magic stone?"

I don't need it." Besides, the fire smolders.

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I don't want to walk through a place that's busted."

　When I asked if I should put out the fire, I was told that the dungeon grasslands have some sort of force working in them that prevents them from catching fire in a big way. But I was told it would be foolish to use fire magic in a place surrounded by combustibles.

　I activated my "Magic Stone" and collected the magic stone. Bhagwan saw it,

I'm not sure how to describe it," he said. Seems like you've added some new magic recently, but the current one seems useful too."

　I handed the magic stone to Bhagwan who said so. He accepted it, even though he said he didn't need it.

'I'll thank you. But in a competition like this, you should be concerned about consuming magic."

I have the means to recover my magic. I see that Bhagwan has used a great deal of magic, but is he all right?"

　Bhagwan took a bottle of medicine from his magic pouch.

It's GGZ, the magic restorative.

　I've only heard rumors about it. It was a medicine developed in India to restore magical powers. It is said to be effective, but the rumor is that it tastes extremely bad. I heard that once you take it, you won't get your appetite back for three days.

I hear that once you take it, you never think of taking it again." And yet, you have a great mentality to keep it with you at all times. You are indeed a wise man."

　I genuinely thought it was awesome, but Bhagwan seemed to think I was being sarcastic. He looked at me sharply and then went down the stairs.

　I turned and looked around at the vast meadow before descending the stairs. When I emerged onto the third level, Bhagwan was gone. I looked around at the desolate wilderness ahead, but there was no sign of the wise man.

I hear the wise man has a fast way of getting around. I was hoping we could talk some more."

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It's competition.

　He nodded to Metis' words.

Now, should I use the combat wing here or go with a hover vehicle?"

'Are you worried about hippogriffs?'

　The hippogriff, born between a winged gryphon and a horse, is said to attack anything flying in the sky.

If I could avoid fighting, I would. I would if I could avoid a fight, because the goal is the fruit of my talents."

　So I decided to go with a hover vehicle. I pulled Elmore out of the shadows and let him steer. As I kept my eyes ahead, I thought about the magic Bhagwan was using.

　It seemed to be a magic similar to "Sword Force," but its power was completely different. The fact that it could cut the Vermilion Steel Golem in half meant that it was as powerful as "Descrescent.

'Dr. Grimm, we have a hippogriff fighting a hippogriff.

　Looking in the direction Elmore points, we see an unknown attack wizard fighting a hippogriff in the air.

That attack wizard chose to fly and was caught by a hippogriff?"

　The attack wizard flying with the magic of "Fly" wanted to go to the stairs in a straight line, but he must have unluckily encountered a hippogriff.

　We were the top 100 adventurers in the ranking, so there was no way we could lose. We weaved our way through the rocky hills ahead of us. Suddenly, a rock with a diameter of one meter fell from the top of a rocky hill.

Look out!"

　Elmore hit the brakes and turned left to avoid it. According to the Adventurers' Guild's data, there was a warning about falling rocks from the rock pile here, but it didn't feel like a rock fall.

　After stopping my hover vehicle, I looked at the rocky hillside to see if there were any demons there. But there was nothing there.

That's weird. I felt like someone just threw that."

　A normal falling rock would rattle and roll off the rock pile, but the current rock fell suddenly without any sound.

　I tilted my head and was about to advance when the D-particle sensor detected the demon's movement. Another large rock is falling. I activate my quintuple activation "Titan Push" and release the Titan Plate toward the rock.

　When the titan plate hit the rock, the titan plate absorbed the kinetic energy of the rock and sent back its own kinetic energy in combination. As a result, the rock was repelled with great force.

　The rocks make a noisy noise as they hit near the summit. Then something like the cry of a beast rises and something rolls down the boulder.

What is it?"

　It was a black ogre. There are demons called "black ogre," but it is an ogre with black horns, not black all over. However, the black ogre has a somewhat darker overall appearance.

　It was about three meters tall, and looking at its face and horns, it still looked like an ogre.

'This is rare. It's a shadow ogre.

I'll have to finish off the Shadow kind of ogre ......."

　I jumped down from the hover vehicle and readied my sacred sword, Gram. Then, I poured magic power into the "Ring of Vikaten. Elmore also came down and readied his Trishula .

　Elmore rushes forward and tries to thrust the tip of his spear into Shadow Ogre's chest. Shadow Ogre twists and ducks and slams his burly fist into Elmore's shoulder.

　Elmore rolled on the ground after being hit by the blow. Shadow Ogre seems to have the upper hand in power. With my increased speed, I rushed at the Shadow Ogre and reaped the divine sword Gram to the side.

　The shadow ogre jumped back, but the tip of the sacred sword Gram snatched the huge black body and wounded it in the side. I felt that the shadow ogre was as fast as the blue ogre.

　A second blow in pursuit slashed through the shadow ogre's chest. Then Elmore got up and stabbed it with a Trishula . This time, the shadow animal did not lose its aim, but was skewered in the heart and collapsed and vanished.

　About 80 kilograms of shadow magic stone and shadow clay were left where they disappeared.

'It really was a shadow species, wasn't it?'

　He looked at Shadow Clay and said.

Did you have any doubts?"

　Elmore does not appear to be injured.

I didn't, but you never said anything about a shadow ogre being here."

"We didn't have any information about shadow ogres in Japan.

　As for the tree dungeon that had been sealed off, it was no use, as we had not received any information about it. Besides, the adventurers so far did not seem to have noticed the shadow ogre.

Now we can make a complete humanoid shadow puppet."