Legend

as famous as the General Princess, while she wouldn’t shudder at the sight of Zombies, she was still grateful from the bottom of her heart that Rei and Set were in the party.

Even if Kuust’s relationship with Rei had rapidly deteriorated, it was the same for him.
If he the event occurred that he had to fight Zombies himself, it would be a very unpleasant battle.

「……Hey, Kuust.」

Ara, who was next to Kuust, tapped his armour as he was imagine the worst outcome.

Pulling himself together at the kon~, kon~ sound, Kuust looked at Ara.

「What’s wrong?」
「How to say it, this deployment is as expected of Elena-sama but……what do you think?」
「……What?」
「Here, listen carefully.」

Following Ara’s words, he focused his concentration on listening.
Then, becha~, the sound of Zombies walking was heard.
But, listening to the sounds……

「Tch!」

Kuust turned around while holding his magic spear and clicking his tongue.

Yes.
They could here the footsteps of Zombies approaching.
There were also the footsteps of another existence coming closer to them with a different timing in step.
However, it was not from in front, but from behind.

「Elena-sama, the enemy is attack from behind as expected.
I think from the footsteps, it’s probably also Zombies.」
「Someone we don’t know seems to be giving us a grand welcome.
Ara, Kuust, keep yourselves to defense until Rei and Set have their hands free!」

Listening to Elena’s instructions, the two of them readied their weapons as the approaching Zombies came into view, walking with a becha~, becha~ sound.

「Using an axe to attack a Zombie seems miserable in a variety of ways……」
「That’s the same for me.」
「But, Kuust’s weapon is a spear.
If you think in terms of distance, it’s absolutely more advantageous for you.」
「Still, this magic spear was handed down my family, I’m very unwilling to have to defile it on the rotten flesh and blood of undeads like Zombies.」
「Then we can only buy time until Rei or Set does something.」
「……Hmph.」

He didn’t want to rely on Rei so much.
Answering with a snort, he looked at the approaching Zombies without arguing if it was better to leave it to Rei or to fight directly.
He started chanting an incantation while touching the ear ring that was pierced in his right ear.

『Great spirit of water, reveal five fierce fangs.』

The world was changed through the ear ring, which was a magic casting tool, and 5 conical spikes made of water were formed.
They were about 10cm in diameter, and actually, was the strongest magical attack available to Kuust.
Either way, though he was good at water magic, he basically focused on healing magic and wasn’t so good at offensive magic.

『Water Fang!』

The water spikes were released with the activation of the magic, piercing the face, body and limbs of the silent, walking Zombies.

However, because Zombies didn’t have a sense of pain in the first place, after stopping for a few seconds at the impact of the water spikes, it started moving again.

「It’s useless!」

Although he had expectations, Ara unintentionally crushed any hope that he had.

Meanwhile, something suddenly passed above Kuust and Ara and landed in front of them.

「Guru~!」

Needless to say, it was Set the Griffon.

For an instant, Ara turned to look at the vanguard.
There were Zombies that had already been charred black and had fallen to the ground.
The Zombies that were still moving had their false lives taken by fireballs Rei shot out.

「Ara, Kuust.
The vanguard has managed somehow with Set.
Leave the attack on the Zombies at the back to Set, focus on defense!」
「Yes!」

Ara replied to Elena and was wary of the remaining approaching Zombies as she held the Power Axe.

To attack, Set took a deep breath as a Zombie approached him with its arms raised in silence.

「Gururururururu~!」

Fire Breath was released from his beak, wrapping the approaching Zombie in flames.

「Uwa~,wai-!」

Although Fire Breath was used, it couldn’t char a Zombie in an instant as it was only level 2.
The Zombies neared Set.
And as the distance between Set and where Ara and Kuust were standing became zero……

「Gurururururu~!」

Set unleashed Fire Breath while raising a roar that echoed through the dungeon.

Although it was truly only level 2, the putrid flesh of the Zombie was carbonized without any resistance after being wrapped in flames twice.
It wasn’t able to swing its hands that it had thrown up and fell down on the spot.

After seeing such a sight two times, then three times in a row, Ara noticed that all the Zombies that had been attacking them from behind had all burned up and fallen to the ground.

「Gururururu~!」

In front of the Zombies, that had been burned and carbonized, Set raised a cry of victory and approached Rei, who had cleaned up the remaining Zombies in the vanguard, who patted his head.

「Well then, you did your best.
We were able to overwhelm the Zombies thanks to Set.」
「Gururu~」

While complimenting Set and taking out some dried meat from the Misty Ring to give to him, Rei turned to look at Elena.

「Elena-sama, let’s get away from here for now.
We don’t know who the enemy is and there is a possibility of reinforcements being sent if we stay here.」
「……That’s right.
We should certainly avoid a battle here as Rei and Set are our only effective means of attack against the undead.
Let’s go, I want to find a way to the 6th floor by today if possible.」

Everyone nodded at Elena’s words and formed into a row before advancing through the dungeon.

By the way, the Zombies that were burnt up also had their magic stones destroyed as a matter of course.
They were unable to obtain any sort of material.

Actually Rei had expectations over whether any skills could be learned from the magic stones of Skeletons and Zombies.
However, he felt that it would be too awkward right now if he tried to see if Set or the Death Scythe could acquire new skills.