Some say that the god Bastet is a goddess who protects humans from disease and evil spirits. I tilted my head as I looked at the statue of the god standing in the center of the room. From the pedestal on which the statue stood, a series of grooves had been dug, leading to what looked like twelve stone lanterns by the wall.

'Not the kind of god that would look good in a dungeon. Why Bastet?"

　Elmore went behind the god statue and found something.

Something is engraved on the back."

　I went behind the statue and read the sacramental inscription on the pedestal. There it read, "Pious

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Only the rituals of the worshippers will discover the secret of the shadowy one," was inscribed on it.

　I explained the contents to Metis.

What do you mean?"

Now, I don't understand. What is the secret of the shadowy one?"

　A devout worshipper?　Does it mean that you are a follower of the god Bastet?　Does it mean that you have to be a follower of the god Bastet to get some secret?

'In ancient Egypt, there was a ritual of sacrifice.

You want me to sacrifice to a statue of a god, that's ridiculous."

　I thought it was ridiculous, but when I examined the surroundings of the statue of the god, I found what looked like a cup at its feet. It was a blood-red cup.

　I saw that red cup and thought it looked like something. Oh, I see. It looks like the color of a red magic stone.

How about a magic stone instead of a sacrifice or ...... life?"

　I took out the red magic stone that I had obtained by defeating the blue silver golem from my storage armlet and placed it on top of the sake cup. At that moment, the statue of the god trembled. However, it only lasted for a moment and stopped immediately.

'Isn't something missing?'

　The only thing I could think of to associate with this red cup was blood. I thought it was ridiculous, but I am the type of person who, when an idea comes to mind, has to try it out to be convinced.

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　He takes out a knife, cuts off his fingertips, and pours the blood that comes out into a cup. Then the god statue begins to tremble again, and the red magic stone in the cup dissolves and becomes liquid.

　The red liquid overflowed from the cup and flowed down a groove in the floor into one of the stone lanterns. The stone lantern is lit. Something emerges in the bright red fire.

　Me and Elmore approached the stone lantern and looked into the fire. What floated in the fire was a piece of paper. The paper was floating in the fire.

It's impossible."

　Elmore reached out and tried to take the paper. But I just can't grab the paper. Elmore's eyes turn to me. I let out a sigh and quickly reach into the fire and grab the paper.

'Only the owner of the blood would be able to retrieve it. What does it say?'

　I turned to the paper. At that moment, knowledge poured into my head. It was knowledge about the magic cores used for shadow puppets. After all the knowledge flowed in, the paper caught fire and fell to the floor in ashes.

What happened?

It appears that he has acquired some knowledge of the Shadow Puppet's magical core."

'Congratulations. Is there anything else?'

I now know that this is the tenth layer and I have the map information.

　The stairs are twelve kilometers from the pyramid.

'You're still bleeding.

I cut too deep. Let's fix it."

　I took out my 'healing ring' and patched it up, which stopped the bleeding and sealed the wound. Then he took a hover vehicle to the stairs.

　On the way, we encountered Desert Lizardmen, but we hit them with our hover vehicles and proceeded onward. As we approached the stairs, we saw a blue and silver golem ahead of us.

"Wow, there are five of them!"

　I let out a sigh when I see the Sougin Golem loitering in front of the stairs. Many demons loiter in front of stairs, but it is usually the stairs leading down.

　I can only assume that the blue and silver golems that are gathered here are here for me. Doesn't the dungeon want me back up there?　I'm a little miffed.

　The hover vehicle is put away and the hover cannon is brought out. When the "Projection Barrel" was activated to form a magnetic force generating barrel, it was joined with the hover cannon.

　Elmore sits in the back cockpit and I sit in the gunner's seat in the front.

Isn't it overreacting to use a hover cannon against a Sogin Golem?"

No, I want to make this quick, so I'll use the hover cannon to take care of it."

　I test-fire, adjust the sighting device, and then aim at the Sogin Golem that is coming toward me. The Sogin Golem is heavy, so it comes at me slowly with a thudding sound.

　He takes aim at the lead Sogin Golem and pulls the trigger. The magnetic force accelerates the shell to hypersonic speed, and it is shot out. The impact of the shot was absorbed by a shock-absorbing device that utilized the property, and was not felt at all.

　A cannonball hit the Sogin golem. The shell hit the Sogin Golem in the chest and bit into the Sogin, rapidly heating the water inside and causing a steam explosion. The combined energy of motion, heat, and steam explosion destroys the Sogin Golem.

　The dismembered Sogin Golem disappears, and I set my sights on my next prey. I shot out shell after shell, destroying the Sogin Golem. It was only a matter of seconds.

　It was refreshing to see the blue silver golem explode with a loud bang. After that, collecting the drops, we recovered a magic stone and two golem cores.

　I went up the stairs and peeked in through the entrance on the tenth floor to find myself in the middle boss's room. The middle boss was a demon-like creature with two horns on its head and a dragon from the waist down.

'That could be one of the demon princes mentioned in the book of sorcery.

　Some magic books describe how to invoke angels and demons. Some of them describe demon princes, and it is said that there is a record of a demon prince, which is the lowest of the princes, appearing in a dungeon.

After the evil god, the devil. I have a bad feeling about this. But if we don't defeat it, we won't be able to return to the earth."

We have to have an escape ball, and we have to fight."

That's all I can do."

　I took out my escape ball and my divine sword gram and stepped into the middle boss room.