'I'd love to hunt shadow ogres, but it's not what I'm here for.'

Yes, let's move on."

　We set off in hover vehicles. On the way, we encountered a devil scorpion, but we hit it with the "smash button" and proceeded on our way.

　I saw a car ahead of me. Not wanting to hide my knowledge of hover vehicles, as I use them frequently in the dungeon, I caught up with it and lined up beside it. It was Takase's car. Takase looked at me.

'You're on something fancy,' he said. Where did you get it?"

This isn't something they sell," he said. I made it from something I found in a dungeon."

'Oh yeah, not for sale. I was going to buy it if it was for sale. Oh well, good luck with that one too."

Yes, be careful, Takase-san. Good bye."

　I waved at him, then passed him and hurried on. Arriving at the stairs, I put away my hover vehicle and descended to the fourth level. The air on the fourth level had a strange smell. It smelled like sulfur.

　The fourth layer was a volcanic area with rivers of lava on the surface, and steam was billowing up in places. To pass through here, one has to pass through an underground passage, and it seems that somewhere in there is a subspecies of dragonet.

　There are four entrances to the underground passageway, and your fate depends on which one you choose.

'Can't we just fly overhead instead of through the underpass?'

　Metis asks a question. The sky above is filled with gas from the volcano. A gas mask is not enough, you may need an air cylinder.

　I decided to take the underground passage to the other side. The question is which entrance to choose. Since it is left to chance at this point, I follow my intuition and enter through the second entrance from the left.

　Descending into the underground passageway, we could see a spacious passageway. The area near the ceiling is illuminated, so night-vision goggles are not necessary. It was about eight meters wide and ten meters high.

　When you touch the wall, it is a rough rock. It feels a little warm, but that is probably because the surface is flowing lava.

Be careful, there are poisonous demons here."

Yeah, it's Sebek Mambo."

'Close, but not quite. It's not exactly Sebek Mamba. If it is Sobek Mambo, it sounds like Sobek, the ancient Egyptian crocodile god, is going to start dancing.

You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.

　Sebekmamba is a demon whose head is a crocodile and its body to tail is a serpent. Its teeth are poisonous and it is said to be a dangerous demon.

　After walking through the underground passageway for about 15 minutes, we encountered Sebekmamba. It was about five meters long, and the teeth that lined its large mouth were poisonous.

　Sevek Mamba lifted his sickle head and attacked me. Its movement was quick, and I intercepted it with a palm strike push. What was triggered by the palm strike action was the "Thunderbird Push," a fivefold activation.

　A lightning bolt plate shoots out from the tip of his palm, electrocuting Sebekmamba and sending him flying. It was prepared for quick enemies, but it seemed to be too powerful for Sebekmamba.

　He is not dead, but his whole body is jerking. I topped him off with my sacred sword, Gram.

I guess Bhagwan is ahead of you?"

Would it have been faster to fly to the third level?　But I was able to hunt the shadow ogre thanks to the hover vehicle.

　We moved through the underground passage and found a treasure chest about halfway down. However, in front of the treasure chest stood a subspecies of dragonet.

"Tsk, I must have run into this guy."

But if you beat it, it's a treasure chest."

　I observed a subspecies of dragonet. It was about four meters tall and seemed to be one size larger than a dragonute. Its humanoid body was covered with reddish silver scales, and it was said that only mythological-class magic weapons would work on it.

　The place where the treasure chest was located was a large room about 20 meters on each side. A subspecies of dragonet standing in the center of the room stared at me.

　In his hand he holds a crossed spear, which appears to be familiar to his body. He must be a demon who specializes in spearmanship.

'It seems you can't move on unless you beat them.'

　Behind the dragonute subspecies is the continuation of the underground passage. I poured magic power into the "Weiten ring", increased my speed and took out the sacred sword Gram.

　Activating the Seventh Cold Shot, the D-particle cooling pile is released toward the chest of the Dragonute subspecies. At that moment, the Dragonute subspecies quickly dodged to the side.

　Elmore jumps in and thrusts a trishula . The Dragonute subspecies catches it with a spear and kicks Elmore in the stomach. Elmore catches it with his elbow, but is bounced off.

　The speed of the Dragonute subspecies was the same as the Dragonute we had fought before. However, its power seemed to be considerably greater.

　I activated the "Crash Ball" in succession and released it piecemeal to the Dragonute subspecies. The D-particle vibration ball was dispelled by the spear, changed its trajectory and radiated a spatial vibration wave, but did not hit the target.

　The dragonute subspecies kicks the floor with a dang and instantly closes the gap between us, and throws a front kick toward me. I just barely avoided it and swung down to cut the kicking leg with my sacred sword, Gram.

　The kicking foot is quickly returned and the divine sword Gram is struck out. The spear of the dragonute subspecies was thrust out, and I, who had avoided the spear by twisting my upper body, raised the sacred sword Gram.

　Seeing this, the dragonute subspecies raised its outstretched spear diagonally upward. The sound of metal clashing echoed as the divine sword Gram was swung down toward the spear.

　I was outmatched in power and was sent flying backwards, trying my best not to let go of the divine sword Gram. When the Dragonute subspecies tried to close the gap, Elmore intervened and poked it with the Trishula .

　As the dragonute subspecies passed it off with the hilt of its spear, Elmore jumped into its pocket forcefully and launched a quintuple-activated "cold shot" at close range. The dragonute subspecies, which was hit in the stomach, bent its body into a crouch with the impact.

　I did not miss the first opening the dragonute subspecies showed. Using my legs strengthened by the power of the "Weiten ring," I jumped in and sent the blade of my sacred sword, Gram, into its neck, which was protected by sturdy scales.

　The blade of the sacred sword Gram slices through the scales and beheads it. With that blow, the dragonute subspecies fell.

"Well, that was tough."

'I lost the power. It would have been better if Elmore had been able to use the 'Ring of Hercules.'

The Ring of Hercules is a magical piece of equipment that strengthens human muscles. It probably didn't match the muscles of the Shadow Puppets."

　We check the drop of the dragonute subspecies. A black magic stone and a spear were left behind.