"Oops!"

　When leaves are flown from rocky plants, Ray immediately plays them with his twilight spear.
　The spear of twilight was wielded without any magical powers, but its performance is very high, even when viewed as a pure ordinary spear, not as a magic item.
　I couldn't help but prevent a blow from being blown off a rocky leaf.
　The leaves of a rock bounced by the handle of a spear fall to the ground and shatter.

"Ray, not yet!"
"I know!"

　At Vihela's words, Ray wields the spear of twilight again.
　The fruit that has been flown from rocky plants after the leaves.
　It's a nail-sized fruit, but given that it's been flown in this situation, it's not hard to judge that it's clearly harmful to you.
　Naturally playing the fruit of the rock, Ray narrows the distance between the rock and the plants.

(Isn't the fruit of a rock more like a pebble?)

　Thinking like that in a corner of his head, Ray quickly wields his twilight spear between attacks.
　There is a sharp sound of the blade cutting through the wind, and the next moment the rock plants stop moving... and fall to the ground as the base is cut off.

"Isn't that not the case?"

　Ray muttered as he looked at the rocky plants that had fallen on the floor and had already stopped moving.
　It seems more appropriate to describe what is now lying on the floor as a stone statue of a plant.
　If it were a monster, it would have had a magical stone, as would Trent and other plant-shaped monsters.
　But as far as rock plants are concerned, there is no magic stone anywhere.

"If there were any magical stones, it would be roots... how would you dig? No, if you wanted to, you could dig, but honestly, you don't want to spend any effort here."

　In Reilly's words, Rey looks where the roots of the rock plants were.
　It was definitely a stem cut close to the rocky floor, but as long as it is a plant, its roots are buried on the dungeon floor......yeah, on the rocky floor.
　If you're going to dig out roots, that's what you need to break the rocky ground.
　It's also to try not to hurt the roots as much as possible.
　If you want to do it, it's not that you can't do it.
　But when it comes to digging rocks, it's no mistake to use your strength accordingly... when asked if you need to do so, Lerieu says he wants to avoid it if possible.
　Ray was a little worried about what he said, but for the time being, he put the rock plants in the mistling and opened his mouth with a twilight spear in his hand.

"This is the first time I've seen this rock plant, and I'd like to bring it home if possible. I'll dig it here, so please keep an eye on the people around you."
"Aye,"

　Since this is a dead end, it will be very troubling if the enemy emerges again from the way the Reys came.
　Knowing that, Rellie took on the lookout.
　For now, however, the monsters that come out are goblin, covolt, or oak.
　Such monsters can be easily repelled by adventurers of a certain rank.
　...in a way, using a notorious high-ranking adventurer as a guard against such monsters was a luxury story.
　cast magic on the spear of twilight and release the spear of twilight against the rocky ground.
　The blow explodes the ground as if it had exploded.
　The explosion would not have affected the plant's roots, as it was a short distance from the rocky vegetation.
　Slowly approach where the plants are growing, making sure there are no roots on the ground.
　Of course, other people were not just watching, but Marina was digging up the ground with the magic of earth spirits.
　Then, after about ten minutes, they succeed in digging out the roots of rocky plants.
　Because it was necessary to dig out the roots as little as possible, the detailed work was not done by Ray, but by Marina, who could use spirit magic, and in the end it was almost up to Marina.

"It's like a rocky root. I can't break it with this."

　The rock roots appear to be not much different from the roots of ordinary plants in terms of shape alone.
　However, its roots are naturally made of rock, which is so thin that it seems that if you put a little effort into it, it will break easily.

"Ray, put it away before you touch it carelessly."

　Vihela's words make Ray acceptable and store it.
　That's because I understood that if we continue to move around with the roots of the rock, we'll definitely break it.
　Although weak, the decision was only natural given the fight against monsters.

"And what was this rock plant after all? I'm sure it meant something, given that it grew like this at the dead end."

　Ray muttered as he returned to the Y-shaped road.
　Even Marina said she had never seen it, so it was certain that it was an unusual thing.

"I think the guild needs to look into it, though it could be a dungeon-specific plant."
"Oh, yeah. It's a dungeon on the wall of a cliff, and the surroundings are made of rock... I think there might be rock plants. It's a little bit more similar... if there were rock flowers in bloom, I'd take them back to Shuminine as a souvenir."

　Lerieu mutters, turning her eyes to Ray.
　It's not just once, but over and again and again
　Even Ray could easily understand what Reilly meant.

"Oh, yes. Next time I find a similar rock plant, I'll give it to Lerieu."
"Oh, really? I'm sorry that I'm pushing you too hard."
"I'll tell you, if there are any other similar rock flowers, or I can't give them away."
"I know. As far as I can tell, there are probably similar rock plants in bloom elsewhere."

　Is it because of his long‐standing intuition as an adventurer, or because he is a mistress?
　I couldn't quite understand that area, but I can still predict most of it.
　At any rate, the Rays continue to be vigilant as they speak, and eventually arrive at the Y-road.
　Not surprisingly, the Rays turn right along the Y-road without any further hesitation.
　There was definitely a lot of monster attacks because there were a lot of monster footprints... but that was the only way to go.
　And, of course, less than ten minutes after starting to follow the right path, monsters, including oak, attacked.
　But I knew the monsters were approaching by Seto and Beune, so I didn't get a pre-emptive attack with Oak Archer's arrows...
　It's not difficult to deal with arrows fired at us, given that everyone but Bune has a high fighting power.

"The oak is in the rear, and the avant-garde is in the goblin? You've made a nuisance of yourself!"

　Reilly, who pierce the attacking body of the goblin with a long sword and lift it up as a shield.
　The next moment several arrows from Oak Archer pierce the back of the goblin.

"Gee!"

　At the point of penetration through the torso, it was a fatal wound to the goblin.
　But after being fatally wounded and attacked further from behind, Goblin dies with an unheardly scream.
　Lerieu throws the dead goblin at another... at the goblin who is about to head for Bune, interrupts his action, and invokes his skill with a blade that returns after throwing the goblin away.

"Wind-cutting!"

　The flying attack from the blade cuts through Oak Archer, who was trying to shoot an arrow by standing in the back of the monster.
　Oak Archer's right arm is amputated and screams come out of his mouth.
　The other Oak Archer next door tried to shoot an arrow without regard to the manner of his companions. . . .

"Piggy!"

　The long hand pierced my eyes and screamed.
　Once you've got your eyes pierced, you can't aim at it with a bow... on the contrary, you can't fight with pain.
　...no, some monsters say penetrating the eyeballs can turn the pain into anger and make it worse, but Oak Archer was not that type.
　Another arrow penetrates the head of another Oak Archer, whose right arm was just amputated by Relieu, next to the rampaging Oak Archer, and kills him.
　It was Marina who did it.
　Although a spirit wizard, Marina of Dark Elf is naturally very skillful at archery.
　An arrow shot from such a marina kills one of the most dangerous oak archers here, and then another oak archer's head pierced through the eye by Bune... and the battle is over.
　The goblins, who have come as avant-garde, pose no threat to Ray or Sett.It was such a battle that I should have thought it was a sight.

"For now, if Oak Archer's corpse is to be taken away by the Goblin, where did Oak Archer come from, perhaps before he came here?"
"I suppose... what do you do? Take that bow with you, too.

　Marina asks Ray, who keeps Oak Archer's body in a mistling.
　After seeing the bow, Ray hesitates about what to do... and eventually stores it.
　The quality of the bow itself is by no means good.
　However, as long as it can be used as a bow, I judged that it might be of some use later if I keep it for now.
　If it's just a weapon that might be useful, you don't have to take it.
　Obviously it gets in the way, and there's a good chance of being attacked by monsters because of monsters.
　But in Ray's case, as long as there is a foul magic item called Mistilling, you don't have to worry about it.
　If it will be of any use later, put the bow and arrow barrel of Oak Archer's -- the quality of the arrow is by no means good -- in the mistling, and the task is done and we go back into the cave.

"But there is nothing particularly suspicious about it, let alone that rocky plant."
"There must have been traps,"

　Ray, walking behind the party, replies.
　Reilly nods to Ray's words as if he had said so, but it is not entirely understandable that they are there.
　He looked as if he wanted something more to happen.

"If possible, I'd like to see more of the dungeon's own sights."
"What is it like to be a dungeon?"

　Vihela asks if he was any interested in Lerieu's words.

"Well, for example, in a place like this, there is a huge waterfalls."
"...it's not a waterfall, but there was a dungeon with a forest."

　Listening to their conversation, Ray mutters, recalling the altar of succession with Elena.

"There were many more in the dungeon of Egzil, and as far as the Reys know, there were deserts and things like that."
"Ah... there was a desert, as far as the eye can see. But Egzil's dungeon has been growing, and that's why it became such a dungeon, isn't it? Compared to that, this dungeon has probably just been built, so I don't think there will be such a scene."
"Really? The entrance on the cliff wall isn't necessarily the only entrance to this dungeon. Maybe a dungeon somewhere grew up and eventually built a new entrance there. You can't deny that possibility, can you?"
"Isn't there only one entrance to a dungeon, as far as I know?"
"As far as Elena knows, you know. Elena doesn't know all dungeons, and it's no wonder there are dungeons like that. Dungeons are beyond common sense."

　Marina's words convinced Elena and nodded...

"Yes!"

　The leading Bune cried out, and Ray and his men followed Bune's gaze and found the stairs up there.