'Hah, hah, hah ...... dammit ......'

　The effects of the paralise were released and I fell to my knees on the stone floor.

　All the food and adventure equipment were taken by the heroes.
　The only thing I have to rely on is my [Restoration] skill and a ragged sword full of blade spills.

　It's too hopeless.
　The fact that he wasn't killed by a demonic beast before the paralization was lifted is nothing but a miracle in itself.

''And anyway, how could I die here ......!

　I definitely don't want to die, and I don't want to spend the rest of my life in a dungeon scared of demonic beasts.

''(First of all, I have to [repair] the sword ...... It's really a blessing that you didn't take the iron powder bag with you. ......)''

　He picked up the sachet he was carrying from his belt and held it against the spilled blade. The contents of the bag are an assortment of iron powder and pieces of iron.

''Activate the skill, begin 【Restoration】!

　Magic flowed into the iron powder bag and sword, and the blade spill was gradually blocked in exchange for a decrease in the bag's contents.

　The 'skill' in adventurer's terms is not a so-called technique or skill.
　It's a type of special ability that is activated by consuming magic power.

　For example, my 【Restoration】, as long as you have a sufficient amount of materials and time, even a sword full of blade spills will be back to normal.

''That's it for the sword ...... and then we have to make sure that the strong demonic beasts can't find it. ......

　Thus began my desperate dungeon escape drama.










　The internal structure of a dungeon is very different.
　It is said that if there are a hundred dungeons, there will be a hundred different classifications.

　This "Thousand Year Corridor of the Abyss" that the heroic party was challenging is a vast underground labyrinth that is built on top of each other.
　It's a dungeon generally known as a labyrinth-type dungeon.

　To be honest, it's dark, narrow and stifling.
　It's the type of dungeon I hate the most.

　However, when I say dark, it's not completely dark.
　I'm sure you'll be able to find some light emitting moss growing wildly, so it's just as bright as if you lit a lamp indoors in the middle of the night.

'I'm hungry ...... even though there's food all over the place in a tree sea type dungeon. ......

　I kept walking on my wobbly legs, aiming for the ground.

　It had been about half a month since the brave men had abandoned me.
　During that time, I hadn't been able to eat any food.
　That's because all of the preserved food was confiscated along with the equipment.

　The demonic beasts that appear are mainly inorganic or ghost-based, such as skeletons and mad golems, so they can't be used as food.

　Or rather, if you run into a skeleton, but if you run into a golem or ghost, you'll be killed for sure.
　It's probably impossible to even escape.

　Of course, if it's a living organism, there are also demonic beasts that resemble rats and bats.
　They are the ones who devoured the food of the brave party.

　However, those kinds of monsters carry toxins in their bodies, so you can't eat them just by themselves.

　If you want to eat them, you need to purify them with white magic-type skills.
　Yes, like the one Bran had mastered.

　This is one of the reasons why "The Thousand Year Corridor of the Abyss" is given an A rating.
　The mere fact that you can't replenish your food supply along the way is enough to make the difficulty of the attack explode.

...... As I recall, this dungeon is because half of the deaths are due to eating poisonous luminescent moss because they couldn't stand the hunger. Haha ...... that's no laughing matter. ......

　I looked down at the white-boned corpse lying in front of me, my cheeks tugging at my cheeks.

　Only the wall near the corpse had less luminescent moss.
　Perhaps this guy was so hungry that he ate a lot of luminescent moss and died of poisoning.

　The corpse must have been decomposed by a magical action to feed the luminescent moss.

It's a good thing that we've passed the ...... turnaround time that humans can endure a month of fasting. ...... No, that's just wishful thinking.

　A month is the upper limit if I didn't move my body much.
　As much as I'm walking around to escape, my time limit is short.

　However, that doesn't mean I have to walk around all day long.
　I have to hide my breath and take long breaks many times to avoid being seen by the demons.

　Otherwise, I would have run out of power days ago and would have collapsed.

　What was even more fortunate was that the underground water was oozing out of various parts of the labyrinth.

　I'm thankful that I don't have any hydration problems, but the underground water here is infused with magical power.

　According to what I've heard, there are hermits and wise men who live in the frontier who have lived for decades on water that is rich in magical power alone.

　I don't know the principle of it, and I don't know if it makes sense to just drink it, but if you drink this water, it might 'last' a little longer.

　It is possible that the fact that I am able to move like this is a boon in itself.

"But it only took me three days to get off ...... when I got off, so it's no wonder I'm so lost .......

　Unlike me, the brave man had many skills, and one of them was the 【Mapping】 skill.

　【Mapping】 is a labyrinth-killing skill that projects the surrounding terrain on paper.
　A labyrinth whose strength was its difficulty as a maze could easily be neutralized.

　It's precisely because he's a brave man with such skills that he was ordered to capture the 'Thousand Year Corridor of the Abyss'.

''Let's ...... hurry onward. Maybe another adventuring party will find us: ......

　I've been mumbling to myself for a while now because I was going to go crazy if I didn't.

　As soon as I tried to move on, straddling the white bone corpse--




　---- clatter.




'd*mn it ......!'

　He turned around and swung his sword with all his might.
　The white bone corpse was just about to turn into a skeleton and stand up.

　The skull was crushed by the first attack, which stopped its skeletonization and turned it back into a speechless white bone again.

　Skeletons become a threat if they appear as a group.
　If it was a single person, even the current me could deal with it consistently.

　However, because I swung too vigorously, my sword hit the wall of the labyrinth and the tip broke off with a high-pitched sound.

''...... d*mn it. You were too brittle from [repairing] it without the material ...... It's like a starving Kraken eating its own leg.

　Due to the fact that I've fixed the blade spills that occur every day, the iron powder bag is already empty long ago.

　I can do [repair] even without iron powder or iron pieces, but in that case, I would have to use other parts of the material.

　The more you do this, the more fragile and thin the blade becomes, and eventually it becomes useless, as you can see here.

'How did I get myself into this ...... d*mn, d*mn it!

　With an explosion of frustration, he slammed his full strength 【Restoration】 skill into the broken sword.

　The next moment, the sword blade shattered into a fine piece of iron.

''...... Eh?''

　You didn't mean to fail!
　I hurriedly applied [Restoration] again.
　Then the fine lump of iron returned to the shape of a sword as if nothing had happened.

''Surprised ...... what was that, what was that?

　As my surprise subsided, I was able to afford to calmly analyze the phenomenon I had just witnessed.

'Come to think of it, I've heard somewhere before that the ......[Restoration] skill instantly breaks down the repair point and materials, mixing them together before returning them to their original form. ......

　Maybe.
　A thought occurred to me and I turned my gaze to the maze wall.

　I thrust my hands into the maze wall and tapped the magic power of the 【Restoration】 skill the same way as before.

　---- gogogog!

　The walls of the maze crumbled down with a roaring sound.
　And a gaping hole that a human could get through with room to spare.

'...... hahaha.'

　I burst out laughing.

'It's broken!　The walls of the labyrinth that not even a brave man could break!