The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed

460 – Forced Breakthrough

“The race that dominates the fourth floor is the Lizardmen.”

There was something that came to mind in Mormot’s words. A Lizardman who has reached the realm of transcendence that he fought on the fourth floor of the labyrinth. If it was simply the same species, I would have been relieved, but I had a feeling that the lizardman was probably from here.

Sure enough, Mormot warned us.

“The 4th floor is completely different from the 3rd floor. Would you say it feels like the difficulty level has increased sharply? The lizardmen on the 4th floor are smarter and stronger than the orcs. “There are several Lizardmen who belong to the great warriors who have reached the realm of transcendence.”

“Still, we won’t be able to escape the limitations of being a monster.”

Mormot twitched the corners of his mouth at Raelan’s words.

“Yeah, I guess that’s it for now. But from the 7th floor, it’s completely different. Because there are many beings who have overcome human limitations with the power of their innate species. Anyway, these lizardmen are still intelligent, so they built a fortress around the stairs.”

“Is there a safe way to pass like the third floor?”

“Even one such fluke is good luck.”

I nodded at Mormot’s firm words. That is correct. Finding easy paths in a labyrinth one after another would be a trap or lack of probability.

“There are two ways to go up to the fifth floor. One is to fight the lizardman guarding the pillar, clear the path, and go up the stairs. Of course, even if you clear the path like that, the stairs inside the pillar are full of Lizardmen. From what I remember, there were traps and even annoying cover that restricted movement.”

“What about the other one?”

Mormot scratched his chin in response to my question.

“Daejangjeon.”

It seems that grand battles are a tradition of the Lizardmen.

*

Fortunately, Mormot remembered how to fight in the past. Mormot, who was watching the lizardmen guarding the fortress spot us and talk among themselves, took a step forward.

“You disgusting b*stards who look like they were born out of love between a lizard and a goblin! I can’t get out! “We came here to teach you what honor is!”

“… .”

Was this the method of the battle? But the effect was clear. Immediately the gates of the fortress opened and angry lizardmen came rushing out, armed with weapons.

“If there is someone who can represent the ugly Lizardmen, come forward! “We want a great battle for honor!”

Several Lizardmen were seen stepping forward due to Mormot’s provocation. Among them, the only Lizardman wearing yellow armor introduced himself to us.

“Insolent mortal, I am Tuhulakpu, ruler of this paradise. “Is it really the battle of war that you guys want?”

“okay!”

Tuhulakpu smiled bitterly at Mormot’s answer.

“You idiots! Do you think we will give you the battle you want? “Everyone hit!”

When Tuhulakpu waved his hand, the lizardmen started running towards us, shouting with angry faces.

Mormot looked back at us with an awkward expression and smiled.

“… “Wow, are they learning too?”

“You idiot.”

Mormot furrowed his eyebrows at Ellie’s cold swearing, but he could not argue with Ellie while ignoring the Lizardman approaching fiercely from behind.

“Kwaaak―――!”

Using space magic, I pierced through the head of the Lizardman who was screaming and swinging his sword at Mormot, and changed Mormot’s place.

“thank you! “I will support you hard from behind.”

Ignoring the words coming from behind me, I started swinging the spear as I felt something boiling over me.

“aaah!”

“evil-!”

Although he was wearing armor and a helmet, he could not block the reinforced spear blade. In an instant, the number of Lizardmen rolling around on the floor with their heads pierced and their limbs and tails cut off began to increase.

The Lizardman in front, who realized that everyone who came within the range of my spear would become a corpse or a half-dead body, hesitated and tried to widen the distance, but the Lizardman shouting from behind tried to keep moving forward because he did not know the situation in front of him.

“Push, don’t push!”

“Stop, stop… !”

The Lizardman, who was trying to hold on with his heels, was eventually pushed away and his head was split in two by my spear. The guy who only had one leg over lost his leg and fell to the ground, then was stepped on by another Lizardman and vomited blood to death.

“You idiots! Just attack them all at once!”

Realizing that a bottleneck was occurring, Tuhulakpu tried to resolve the situation by swinging his huge sword in the air, but I was not the type of person to sit still after hearing that.

As if I were Jo Ja-ryong, I charged at numerous lizardmen with a single spear. The Lizardman who came to his senses stabbed me with his sword and spear, but instead, as I was waiting for it, I used space distortion to distort what was attacking me to the surroundings, causing it to attack other Lizardmen.

“Whoa! “You crazy people, I am one of your own people!”

“Stop, stop swinging!”

“It hurts, it hurts… !”

Raise your senses and magical power to the extreme. Feeling the world slowing down for a moment with his intangible breathing, he moved his spear without stopping, stabbing, cutting, and piercing the bodies of numerous lizardmen, clearing his path as if nothing was blocking his path.

“You dirty human…!”

A surprise attack aimed at the blind spot of my vision was deflected by space distortion, and I advanced while maintaining a distance from my colleagues who were firing magic behind me to prevent the path I had created from disappearing.

Jangkang-!

For the first time, the window was blocked. He has a slightly darker complexion than other Lizardmen. He could tell at a glance from the seriousness in his eyes that he had reached the realm of transcendence.

The guy who hit the spear swung the ax at my head, aiming to pierce the head of the lizardman who was approaching from the side. Because it was much longer than a human arm, it failed to control distance and was a bit slow to respond. However, due to space distortion, he easily let go of the ax and threw down the spear of shadow.

Card clack—-!

Like a blender, the spear’s blades expanded into dozens and rotated furiously, literally grinding down countless Lizardmen blocking the path.

Kang-!

The spear aimed at the Lizardman holding the ax lost its rotational power due to the magic-filled ax and flew into the air. As if he didn’t care about the deaths of countless Lizardmen, the Lizardman holding the axe grinned belligerently, revealing his yellow teeth.

puck-!

He didn’t notice that a dimensional passage had formed next to his temple. Since we were both lizardmen, it seemed like the method used on the 4th floor would work. Without even paying attention to the corpse with its head exploded, it materialized the spear of shadow again and rushed at the Lizardmen.

Each time the spear was swung, several lives were lost, but the number did not seem to decrease. However, the path to the pillar was clearly clear.

No matter how many there are, not all of them can attack me, so as time went by, I could feel the Lizardmen slowly increasing their distance as they realized that they could not stop my steps.

Tuhulakpu seemed to have realized this as well, and gave an order to keep his pace instead of running towards it.

“Throw the pot of burning oil at him!”

As soon as he finished speaking, the waiting soldiers began throwing flaming pots the size of fists at me. It was a weapon that exploded when it touched the target, scattering oil mixed with impurities into the surrounding area and continuing to burn.

puck-! puck-! puck-!

Oil jars exploded one after another, creating a wall of fire on the road, forcing people to stop. However, the lizardmen were too self-conscious. I was followed by three wizards who could easily control things like flames.

In an instant, the surrounding scenery changed.

“I think I can kill more than Ross this time.”

Ellie, who used magical power to spread flames like smoke and turn the surrounding Lizardmen into brown meat one by one, ran next to me and spoke in a happy voice. I felt a strange sense of discomfort as Ellie spoke as if she was making a light bet with her snacks.

It was strange that Ellie, who was quick-witted, would act like this. Although she does not have the pretense that she is loved by everyone like Roel, she is a clever Ellie who is quick to notice and knows how to use other people’s emotions to her advantage. The reason Ellie shows herself in a negative way is as if she’s deliberately doing something to me.

“Ugh, that’s gross.”

Mormot’s muttering suddenly cut me out of my thoughts. It is not a very pleasant sight to see the Lizardmen, with their skin burning and their respiratory organs melted, unable to bear the pain and rolling around on the hot floor, dying with their flesh melting to the ground as if they had come in contact with glue.

Tuhulakpu, who fled out of the magic’s range, seemed to be very angry that his choice had led to the annihilation of many Lizardmen, and screamed loudly.

“Kill that guy! What kind of lizardman dares to be afraid of death! If you don’t want to die by my hands, move now you idiots!”

But the Lizardmen did not approach us. Ellie’s merciless magic held them back, but Tuhulakpu, who was about to send them to their deaths, was pierced through the back of the head by the Spear of Shadow, so they no longer had to follow orders.

We moved comfortably to the pillar with the stairs and waited outside until Ellie used the flames again to incinerate everything filling the stairs.

“Kaaak-!”

“Karluk-!”

“Ugh, ugh… !”

The screams of countless Lizardmen guarding the stairs died out along with the flames.

“… I think I have sufficient qualifications to be a disciple. Crazy b*tch.”

I tried to pretend not to hear Mormot’s muttering.