Re:Zero - Jobless Reincarnation: Succubus Sword God? I don't recognize it!

Chapter 325 Alan Misses Loki's Feet
Flashing lightning! Dark forest!
Dense rain curtain! Wet mud puddles!
Tree next to tree!
Shadows are coming towards you!

I can't tell the direction at all!
There is no time to figure out the direction!
Someone is running wildly in the dense forest!

Bang! ! Loew stepped into a mud pit that looked shallow, but the soil was very soft due to the heavy rain. His feet were empty and he hit the tree in front of him.

"Eh!! Holy shit!!"

Under the reaction force, he fell headfirst into a mud pit beside him with his head tilted back. Clem turned around suddenly and bent down to pull him up.

Swish! !

The sharp wind pressure suddenly pierced through their original position, sweeping across! It cut the rain curtain and the dense forest in front of them in half!
Boom, the sound of thunder mixed with the sound of trees falling to the ground rang out. Clem even forgot to reach out to pull up Love's hand. The latter slammed the puddle hard, and another onion pulled out of the puddle like a dry onion.

Before my eyes, a ghostly monster descended from the sky and emerged from the dense forest.

Turning around, I saw dense shadows approaching quickly from behind.

He slapped Climb, who was still in shock, in the face.

"What are you standing there for? Run!!"

"what!!"

"Damn it!!! Why would these ghosts throw their companions out to attack people?!!!"

“They just can!!”

"Ah? Can those who besieged the hilltop also do that?"

"Why else!! Why else would you place so much importance on barrier techniques!!"

"Fuck! Which dog basket did you learn this from?!"

"Stop talking, run!"

"The terrain over there is more open, go and find out the direction! Quickly lead them to the top of the mountain!"

"Not so good!"

Love grabbed Clem and dodged another falling object. His Water God Style talent was stretched to its limit under the rapid secretion of adrenaline between life and death.

Roar! "Say it again?"

"Ma'am, you're fine!"

Then, his figures kept moving while he was speaking.

After a sudden rush forward, the two men ran out of the dense forest.

But his feet were hanging in the air.

——The open area in front of us in the rain is quite empty, because there are no trees when you look straight ahead, it is just a hillside.

As soon as expressions of surprise and astonishment appeared on their faces, their bodies suddenly fell down due to inertia, the yellow mud rolled, the gravel splashed, and the wheels rolled down the hillside in front of them!

Fortunately, the slope was not steep. Strictly speaking, it was just a long gentle slope of 30 degrees. Halfway through rolling, Love had already pulled out his knife and stabbed it into the ground to restrain his body. At the same time, he used the arch of his foot to pick up Clem who was standing beside him.

As soon as he steadied himself, he turned around and looked back and up.

In sight, in the rain.

The edge of the hillside.

Gray shadows popped up one by one, emerging on the slope. Dozens of ghosts two meters tall looked extremely oppressive from this position.

They gathered in a circle, all with their heads lowered 'leisurely', as if they were watching a ridiculous rat running away.

Enjoy the game of cat and mouse.

Gurgle! Lev swallowed his saliva, his teeth chattering, his eyes burning with anger. He wiped the mud off his face, grabbed Clem and continued to run away.

Cat and mouse?

捉！
Do you think we can run away?
But he felt resistance in his hand. He pulled again, but still couldn't move it. He turned to look at Climb beside him in surprise.

Swish! Lightning pierced the sky, illuminating the opponent's face palely.

“What are you doing? Are you scared? Hey! Wake up! Clem! Are you waiting to die?!”

Clem didn’t respond. He stared at him blankly, the rain pouring down his face. He pointed in front of him, behind Loew.

Love was stunned and turned his head.

But his pupils shrank to the size of a needle tip.

He saw the whole picture of the hillside:

This is not a mountainside that is commonly seen on the island, which is cut off in the middle. Rather than being a mountainside, it is more like a deep pit covering a huge area.

The rainwater flowed down the slope of the pit, carrying with it the mud, and poured all the way to the bottom of the pit.

In the center of the pit, bright and burning red, with dancing flames and shadows, licked the surface of Love's eyeballs.

It was scorching hot and boiling, completely out of tune with the cold rain surrounding it.

The roasting makes people feel uneasy.

It was a magical vortex connecting the seabed of the "Islands" maze group, about ten feet in radius. If Rudy saw it, it was like a volcanic crater that had been shrunk countless times.

Something was poking its body out from the hot magical lava.

It is faceless, two meters tall, spindle-shaped, and has a bone knife more than one meter long in its hand that is rapidly taking shape in the dark rain.

then
Crack! ! The blade, like a sea crab, brought its two giant claws together, rubbing them together, igniting sparks with a crackling sound, as if announcing its arrival.

then.

The bone knife was held in the palm of a hand.

How could the ghost monster protest? It was just that the only materialized bone knife was engulfed by the fighting spirit stirred up in the wind and rain, and was pressed hard and stacked together.

Swish! Lightning streaked across the sky.

The figure at the entrance of the lava cave sat on the edge of the lava, stretched out his hand to pick up a freshly-cooked crab that was a head taller than himself out of the lava, threw it on the "trophy" beside him, and quickly raised his foot to step on the crab claw.

At his feet, bone knives were neatly stacked half a meter high.

The tattered hem of the pants and the overlapping shadows twisted their bodies like fish at the dock.

This movement was very familiar, as natural as if it had been rehearsed thousands of times.

It actually reminded the dazed Lev of the farmers catching leeches in the fields and the fishermen killing eels on the dock.

Even the tired yet skilled posture of the fishermen was imitated perfectly.

Everyone was stunned.

Weird, absurd, and undreamy scenes suddenly appeared in his eyes, making Löw wonder if he was really dreaming.

Or maybe he had already died in the S-level maze - "Crater" on the main island five months ago, and these five months were just a moment before his death or his fantasy?
This bottom-level maze actually has this kind of magic vortex that is said to only appear on the bottom level of the main island and has never been seen before? Ghosts actually crawled out of the magic vortex?
What about that 'figure'?

A lord-level humanoid monster?
How. How could this be?

A-level ghosts are so weak in front of it? They are like fish waiting to be slaughtered, piled on the chopping board? ?
For some reason, Löw thought of the gray cats playing "cat and mouse" behind him.

He turned his head stiffly and looked up the hillside.

The ghosts turned their heads in unison.

He actually left.

? ? Gone? ?
Love turned his head again, and the 'lord-level humanoid monster' at the bottom of the pit just stared at the 'mouth of the fishing net', and after confirming that no fresh crabs crawled out of the lava lake, he shrugged his shoulders.

Very tired, and reluctantly took a step forward.

With the right leg as the axis and the arm, it assumed a preparatory posture for parabolic throwing. Crabs piled up on the ground and struggled hard. The half-meter-wide "merged claws" were dragged and left a deep rut on the ground.

Chi. Slap.
The action freezes, the energy is accumulated, and there is a slight pause.

The next moment!
The huge collapsed hole appeared before his eyes again, and the shock wave suddenly exploded with the bottom of the pit as the center! !
The wind and rain created ripples in circles, plowing the soil and heading towards Love and Clem.

Love was still in a daze, but this time it was Clem who pressed his head into the dirt.

!!!!!! Boom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The sonic boom they had just heard was so close that it hurt their eardrums.

Buzz.
Buzz.
Buzz.
My hearing gradually returned, the wind gradually howled, and the sound of rain never stopped.

Pa, footsteps sounded right in front of him, and Lev raised his head blankly.

Barefoot, but without any wounds.

The 'lord-level humanoid monster' squatted in front of him, his cheeks sunken like a devil, and his white hair stuck to his cheeks.

The dark eyes broke through the rain curtain between the two people.

He said. "Hello"

"Finally, we've caught someone. You guys are really slow in tracing the source. Where exactly is this place?"

". "Demon Cave"? "

"Dragon's Roaring Hole?"

"Or "Hell"? "

"Forget it. We'll talk about it later."

With a bang, a figure sat down in front of Love's face, supporting himself on the ground with his hands.

He moved closer to Love's face and stared directly at Love and Climb.

The gaze was as if looking at two pieces of walking pork belly.

"Bros"

".Is there anything to eat?"

Love stared at Allen's face for a long time before he realized something.

That is.
Every day, a wave of ghostly demons emerges from the top of the mountain after an inexplicable "earthquake".

What kind of bullshit natural disaster is this?!

This is clearly a man-made disaster!

-

mountain top.

In the violent storm, people were walking away in a disorderly manner, some were crying and some were roaring.

Melna slumped on the ground, looking palely at the gray shadows emerging one by one in the rain outside the barrier magic.

"The Fifth Time"

"There were five earthquakes today, and two of them in just over half an hour."

"How could this happen? How could this happen?"

The new ghost was filled with anger, and he led the ghosts that had fled before today, the ghosts that remained yesterday, and all the remaining ghosts on the entire island to launch a fierce attack on the top of the mountain.

The total number has arrived.

1243.

The monster tide is densely packed.

There is no end in sight.

-

Down the slope.

Not a single monster, not even the blazing vortex of magic, would have been there if it hadn't been for the heavy rain.
It looked like a harmless campfire.

Two figures were sitting around a fire, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

The harmony was so great that Climb felt like he was back in the village.

Thinking of this, he glanced sideways at his side, and after confirming that there was no food, he began to sit on the ground again to conserve his energy.
young people.

He had a strange head of messy white hair dyed with dirt, his eyebrows were as sharp as knives, the same color as his hair, twisted on his eyebrows, his pupils were different from Asura's common light-colored pupils, and were as black as the night, and his jaw was as sharp as a rocky reef on the seashore.

His facial features are so tough that he looks ferocious, so he probably has a bad temper.
His cheeks, sunken due to hunger, combined with his rugged facial features, gave him an inexplicable wildness, like that of a ferocious beast.

This appearance would definitely be unpopular among the nobility.

But if he were to be placed among the adventurers who hang out in the maze all year round, he would definitely be a pretty boy who would attract women.
The skin on her face was as delicate and tender as Melna's.

The corners of Climb's mouth twitched as he looked at Alan's face. The rain fell on his face and flowed down smoothly without being blocked by the sweat hair on his cheeks.

——Unlike the skin condition in Sword and Magic Continent, which is closer to that of Europeans and Americans in Allen's world, his original body merged with the body in this world, and his skin returned to the genetic expression state of the yellow race.

Smoke that Climb couldn’t see was floating in the air.

[Investigation magic is activated, using one's own magic power to determine the host's physical condition]

【Allan Boreas Graylat】

[Magic: Remaining, 60%]

[Fighting Spirit: Remaining, 78%]

【Physical Strength: Remaining】

[0.5%]

[Investigation results: You are really dying, just eat anything. ]

Allen glanced feebly at the cowhide boots on Clem's feet, which frightened the latter so much that he kept kicking his size 34 feet on the spot, stirring up puddles of mud and water.

"."

Alan shook his head, and couldn't help but think of Luo Qixi, and then continued the previous topic.

".Are you saying that the place we are in now is the "Archipelago"? The border between Bellalite Continent and Central Continent?"

"Is there a maze of this level here?"

Climb hugged his knees, and his eye patch, which looked ferocious, actually looked handsome compared to Alan's face.

"Mr. Allen, this is absolutely true. As for the maze, some changes have occurred."

He glanced at Alan, swallowed, and added.

"It should be caused by the disorder of magic power."

Alan looked at the vortex of magic in front of him, was silent for a moment, and then continued.

"I see. This rainstorm is not caused by the harsh environment of the maze itself, but by the storm outside the island. And the maze has undergone a change in the chaotic magic power? It has produced this magic vortex under the S-level maze "main island" in the center of the archipelago, so it shows this abnormal situation?"

Climb’s eyes twitched as he listened. He looked at the source of the ghost riots and changes in the past two months, and nodded after a long while.

"Well, at present, the main manifestation of the change is that the original "progressive maze" was affected by this magic vortex and turned into a "chimeric maze". As for the riots of the ghost monsters in the camp... um... this..."

Alan had a blank expression on his face. "I misjudged. I thought that this kind of maze that constantly refreshes ghost monsters was at least one of those famous mazes. I didn't expect it to be just a big turn. It was just a disorder of magic power that caused the maze to change."

"Then why did you throw the monster out?"

“Because they can’t kill him.”

".It works, Mr. Allen."

"One more thing." Alan looked at Lev, who was sticking his butt out in the rain at the edge of the pit, trying to figure out how to get out of this "mosaic maze", pointed his finger over there, and continued.

"After I discovered that monsters can enter and exit the maze freely, and that I would be transported back to where I was when I stepped out of that range, I thought that throwing as many monsters as possible would attract some adventurers to 'trace their way' and help me escape."

"After all, when monsters keep appearing, there will always be people who will come to investigate and deal with them. After all, only by finding out the cause can we solve the problem once and for all."

"But I didn't expect that you would have such a hard time killing this one. It's probably because you misjudged the strength of the maze. Sorry, it happened suddenly and I wasn't prepared."

Climb stared at Alan blankly.

Trace the source? Deal with the source of the monster tide riot? Once and for all?
Good chicken and donkey eggs are unfamiliar words?

Is this something a human can say?

Are you tracing the origins of monsters in the maze?

Do you think this is killing a chicken?

And once and for all?
Alan noticed the way Climb was looking at the dog, and after a moment of silence, he mustered up the strength to speak.

".I am not really familiar with the maze mechanism. When I read the book, I always skip this part because it is too boring. My attention is all on the girl I like."

"Ms. Lils, the front desk lady of the Adventurer's Association, is indeed a beautiful person. No, wait."

Climb looked a little bewildered. “Even if you didn’t read the Adventurer’s Handbook, there should be an introduction to the corresponding maze when you accept a mission at the Adventurer’s Guild. How did you get here?”

"From heaven."

".Are you sure you're not kidding?"

Alan raised his head and saw that Love in the distance seemed to have confirmed something and was running towards him quickly.

He turned to look at Climb and said seriously.

"It's true."

(End of this chapter)