This adventurer is overly righteous.

"What exactly happened?"

Logan's mind was in complete disarray; he had been struggling to process things from the very beginning.

First, Kroya rushed over, threw him on his back, and started running. Logan's head was facing Kroya's back, and when he looked up, he could see behind him—the Steel Swamp Dragon appeared at the exit. It stretched out its head, and its dense scales were terrifying. An extremely foul odor gushed from its mouth, almost knocking Logan unconscious.

"We're finished!"

Logan cried out in his heart.

"It knows where the exit is, and as long as it blocks the way, we'll never get out!"

That's not the exit.

"What?!" Logan exclaimed sharply. He should remember the way, and more importantly, Kroya had said he had forgotten the contents of the map.

"You said you didn't remember the way..."

"Sorry!" Kroya interrupted Logan, and ran in the correct direction he remembered. The Steel Swamp Dragon followed behind. The narrow terrain limited its speed, but it was still able to crush all obstacles with brute force and close the distance between itself and Kroya.

Logan felt a violent jolt, his body swaying as if he were in a storm. But what was worse was that he was watching the Steel Swamp Dragon approach them. He met its gaze; its deep brown, cold-blooded eyes stared straight at him. As it drew closer, it opened its mouth, and Logan could see three rows of teeth, each with sharp barbs...

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"We caught up!"

Logan shouted, and Kroya immediately turned around, channeling the remaining magic power into his only remaining short sword. With a sideways slash, he sliced ​​off Logan's eyeball. Both of them were sent flying. Even though Kroya used a protective spell to slow the impact, he was still severely injured.

The immense impact caused Kroya to feel a churning sensation inside her, her vision to blur and become unsteady, while Logan coughed up a pool of dark blood, a sign of internal organ damage.

"exit..."

The two of them simultaneously saw the light that represented the exit, a small opening leading to the outside world. It was daytime outside, and the light shone in, casting patches of light.

The behemoth, its eyes severed, stood in the light, blocking the passage to the outside world. It roared with its blood-red maw wide open. The wounds that Kroya had inflicted on its torso were still there, exposing the purplish-red muscles. The bleeding from the wounds had stopped, but Kroya's longsword was still stuck in its body.

Kroya stood up, maintaining a fighting stance, staring at the Steel Swamp Dragon, while lifting Logan up. The previous sword strike had caused it considerable damage, and it couldn't help but feel somewhat wary of Kroya, because although the other party's condition didn't seem good, its aura was quite astonishing.

【Unyielding】is providing power to Kroya. The blessing from the gods allows Kroya's body, which should have been exhausted, to temporarily maintain its peak condition, and even become stronger. At the same time, its aura has become more intense and magnificent.

During a lull in the standoff, Kroya used magic. With his magic power nearly depleted, he employed healing spells to repair his internal injuries and prevent them from affecting his physical activity.

The second spell was one he had recently learned, a spell that could soften rocks.

For the Steel Swamp Dragon, the concept of magic did not exist in its mind. Based on its past hunting experience, it judged that prey of this size would not be able to move for long after being hit by it, because their internal organs had been damaged by the impact and they would die soon. It could wait patiently. The white creature was somewhat dangerous to it. Even if it could not kill it completely, it did not want to cause further injury.

Therefore, it gave Kroya the opportunity to complete the preparation of the magic.

"Logan, get ready."

Kroa stared at the Steel Swamp Dragon, not turning his back to it, and slowly retreated, pulling Logan up.

"Preparing for what?" Logan's mouth tasted blood. "Preparing to be eaten by it?"

"You'll be rushing backwards in a bit."

"There's a rock face behind us, no path!"

"Rush!"

Steel Swamp Dragon's patience has its limits. It began to approach Kroya and Logan, shrinking their range of movement. This was its test to see if Kroya still had the strength to fight back. When the opponent got close enough, Kroya swung his sword at it. Without any magic, the sword only barely grazed the opponent's scales, causing a minor, harmless wound.

Kroya's Strength attribute is now definitely above E-, but swords are not suitable for armor penetration, so even a full-force attack is unlikely to truly harm the opponent.

This allowed Steelix to confirm that Kroa was at its last gasp and it charged at the two of them again.

"bump!"

.......

"Magic, isn't it amazing?"

Kroya and Logan squeezed together into a small hole that could only fit two people. The hole hadn't existed before; Kroya had used his rock-softening magic to create it, and together they had broken it open.

The rock, softened by magic, was as fragile as jelly. The two crashed into it, and then the rock was hardened in time. The Steel Swamp Dragon crashed directly into the thick rock wall, and many cracks continued to spread.

The Steel Swamp Dragon's eyes were fixed on the cave. Kroya stabbed at it with his short sword, but the dragon dodged in time, leaving only a small scratch on its face.

Then, it began to dig at the entrance of the hole with its front paws, widening it and gradually moving closer to the positions of Kroya and Logan. Every now and then, it would stick its head into the hole and open its mouth. Perhaps because it was missing an eye, it misjudged the distance, which gave Kroya the opportunity to stab its throat with a sword. The unprotected parts of its body were very soft, and a lot of blood spurted out. However, this also caused it to bite Kroya's short sword, which was bitten off by the opponent.

"You want this, right?!"

"Kroya shouted, taking out the beating heart as he did so. At the same time, magical flames ignited in his hand, and he placed the heart above the flames.

"I will destroy it."

Even though Steel Swamp Dragon probably couldn't understand, Kroya said, while bringing the heart closer to the flames.

The Steel Swamp Dragon seemed to have gone mad, frantically digging into the cave. As a result, Kroya continued to move the heart closer to the flames. Sparks almost reached the heart, so the Steel Swamp Dragon retreated in fear, and Kroya separated the heart from the flames.

As soon as the Steel Swamp Dragon approached, Kroya would set fire to its heart. When the dragon retreated, Kroya would remove the heart from the fire. This process was repeated until the Steel Swamp Dragon stopped digging its burrow and instead waited in front of it.

Even though it was a wild beast, it knew that the fire would eventually go out. The Steel Swamp Dragon closed its eyes and began to wait.