Chapter 16 – Wizard’s Worries
The enhanced human’s head rolled down on the floor, but that did not mean complete death.
Opening her eyes, the enhanced human hurriedly sent her wave at her own body, which had lost her head.
“Come back!!!”
Receiving her signal, the reinforced human body wriggled and started to run towards her head, holding her neck with one hand, where her blood was spurting out.
Roden, who followed her side by side, looked at the human body and her head alternately and muttered to him as if to listen.
“I wonder what kind of technology can be used to make it have much more vitality than cockroaches…”
Roden, who had been chasing the side of her body, straightened his sword just as it was about to pick up her head.
The enhanced human, who was sending waves to her own body, shouted in an urgent voice when she saw the figure of Roden.
“Ah… Oh, no! My beautiful body!! What are you trying to do to my perfect body!!!”
“What is it, exterminator?”
Roden ignored the reinforced human screaming to stop and swung his sword several times at a speed that was invisible to the naked eye.
ㅡChallararak-!
The high-speed slash, which instantly increased to five, combined with superhuman physical abilities and swordsmanship, tore the body of the fortified human in all directions.
The blood and flesh of the strengthened human, cut into pieces like diced diced diced radish, were scattered in front of the guy’s head with a muddy sound.
The enhanced human has tenacious vitality enough to be able to regenerate her head even if it is cut off, but if her body is damaged to that extent, she can no longer recover on her own.
Simply put, she is irresistible.
“Aaaaa!!!!!”
So the boy screamed.
“Hmm.”
‘I can’t use this anymore.’
Roden threw away the sword, which was broken and split in several places with just a couple of swings, and turned her head to Merim, who had been watching him, and motioned her to come this way.
Merim hesitated for a moment as she looked at Marill still lying next to her, but she got up and put her foot down.
Her legs were still wobbly from the fear of her death and the despair of losing her brother, and she fell several times while walking… She somehow reached her destination and raised her head in front of Roden.
Roden, looking through her old helmet into her merim’s straight eyes, held her in high esteem in her heart.
‘Even right after he went through that, his eyes are alive and clear. If it were him, he’d be able to stand up again in the future.’
As an adventurer, the moment of falling into a crisis of death inevitably occurs, and the person who escapes that moment is later divided into one of the two.
An ordinary weak person who returns to his hometown saying he does not want to go through such a dangerous thing again, or seeks only safe work.
A person who has the conviction and will to overcome the fear of death and reach a higher level based on that experience.
Merim, who was looking straight at herself right in front of her eyes, was undoubtedly her latter.
Roden took a step back from her seat in her wonder and pointed at the reinforced human with only its head remaining, still alive.
Cook it the way you want it.
“…”
Recognizing her intentions, Merim nodded her head to Roden, then she stood in front of the enhanced human’s nose and concentrated her magical energy.
“To Marill… ，I dare to tell my brother… ! How dare you do that?!”
ㅡFire-!
She created a ball of fire the size of a baseball, and Merim recalled the moment her brother was hit and glared at her enhanced human with an expression full of venom ―
The fire, ice, and electricity fired sequentially from her fingertips burned, froze, and fried the boy’s head.
The power is much lower than if you cast a spell with your bare hands without a medium, but it is not so weak that you can attack in a row with only your head remaining defenseless.
“Kuaaaaa!!!!”
The strengthened human screamed desperately and died slowly and surely, and soon after, the head of the guy became a lump of porridge with no original shape remaining.
“Ha… Haaa…!”
Merim, engulfed in passion and consuming a considerable amount of mana, was catching her breath while sitting down.
Roden approached Merim and held out her hand without saying a word to her, and she grabbed the other’s hand and rose from her seat.
“Hey, there…”
Who are you—Merim wanted to say the word, but… ．
With her face covered, the very fact that she was extremely fond of her words meant that she did not want to reveal her identity, so she couldn’t bear to ask her question and blurted out her words.
Instead of her pointless question, Merim decided to express her thanks by bowing her head while holding Roden’s hand tightly.
“Thanks… Thank you. Thank you very much… Prosecutor.”
I sincerely thanked this man for not only saving her brother from a situation where he could not do anything while he was dying, but also giving him a chance to avenge his wounded brother and his dead colleague.
If the other person asks for money, he will give up everything he owns, and if he licks his shoes, he will gladly lick them.
Feelings of relief that he had escaped from the crisis, relief that he had taken revenge, and gratitude for his benefactor were mixed together.
“Too… Hehe… ! Thank you.”
When she came to her senses, Merim’s eyes were filled with tears.
“…”
Roden wordlessly tousled her merim’s hair and slowly distanced herself from her before standing in front of the human wreckage.
To receive something that will soon appear.
As if the timing was just right, a red-framed box appeared as if to fill the spot as the remains of the fortified man evaporated.
It is a treasure chest containing artifacts that appear when you defeat a boss due to the laws of another space called a dungeon.
‘… I still feel my heart pounding the moment I open this box, probably because of the poor directing and design that could have come out of a classic game.’
Feeling like a child unwrapping a gift, Roden opened the treasure chest.
The artifact in the box is a glass sphere engraved with pictures representing the sun, water, and wind in three directions.
“Prosecutor… ，Is that an artifact?”
After wiping away her tears, Merim approached Roden and carefully asked a question.
Roden nodded her head, picked up her glass orb, and examined it closely.
An arrow-shaped needle was floating in the air inside the glass sphere, but even when I tried to spin it around, the needle didn’t even move.
Just looking at it, you can’t clearly see its purpose.
As a test, when a little mana was blown into the glass sphere, the needle started to move by itself and pointed in the direction of the sun, water, and wind in sequence.
“Hmm.”
‘I’ll have to slowly find out what function this has.’
“Wow…”
On the other hand, Merim, who exclaimed exclamation next to Roden, did not know what the meaning of that movement was, but the appearance of the artifact itself, which moved mana as a raw material, was just amazing.
ㅡFaji Jik-!
By the time the needle stopped moving inside the glass sphere, Roden and Merim felt a tingling sensation all over their bodies.
The two know very well what this phenomenon means. It is a sign when the body is about to move to another dimension.
In other words, it means to get out of here and return to the original place.
Merim looked at her sister and Finn with a curious mind.
Fortunately, the two people who were lying down were also getting blurry like them.
The bodies of the four surviving people completely disappeared from the lowest floor, leaving behind documents containing knowledge of another world, unknown mechanical devices, and adventurers who died here.
* * *
Outside, there was a sky dyed in red, as if it had been smeared with pastel.
-This is a forest… ．
-Uh… It hasn’t even been a few hours since we went in.
-What happened all of a sudden… ?
The place in front of the entrance of the dungeon became quite noisy.
Not only the four people on the lowest floor, but all the people in the dungeon came out.
“Find the rusty helmet!!”
Not only that, but the number of adventurers who were guarding the front of the dungeon a little while ago had doubled. They were added urgently because of the commotion that Roden caused when he went inside.
“… Prosecutor. As I said many times before, thank you very much. If only the prosecutor wants something in return… Prosecutor?”
As Merim brought up her story, she turned her head to where Roden was, but… , His figure was not visible.
She looked for him, wondering if he might be among the people, but he had already hidden himself in the woods.
“Look at that! The twin sisters and Mr. Fin are back!!”
Among the people who escaped from the dungeon, the adventurers who found Merim’s party approached them.
“Oh my god… Finn’s legs are both broken…”
“Maryl is also fainting, Merim! What the hell happened?”
“That’s it… “
While Merim explained to the adventurers of the same guild what she had experienced at the lowest level, she kept thinking of the swordsman she didn’t know her name or face in her heart.
Then, suddenly, she recalls the feeling of holding her swordsman’s hand just before, and she brings her hand close to her face.
… The scent of herbs was wafting from Merim’s hand.
