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The dozen or so surviving goblins were wiped out by Loloi and Chris, who rushed to the scene.

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A little later, I ran into the hall.

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The wall there is a trap, don't touch it! ...after it's already been triggered..."

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It will reactivate after some time has passed and the energy is stored up again.

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The kind of trap that makes monsters appear in the labyrinth stops working for a few days after it is triggered.

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What is this?

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The room was a sea of blood.

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The number of goblin corpses is enormous.

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There are more than a hundred of them.

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This.... Did Burgess do all of this in such a short time?

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There may be more goblins coming out.... If you're going to retreat, do it quickly..."

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Chris and I were carrying him up.

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Burgess said that much and passed out again.

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You were going to die alone, weren't you?　You were going to die alone!

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Chris snapped and yelled at him, but Burgess had already passed out.

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Chris yells at Burgess, but Burgess is already out cold.　You've got to be kidding me!

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We carried the dying Ark and Burgess back to the small room where we had rested last night.

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On the way. We encountered some goblins, but Chris and Loloi managed to fight them off.

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It seems that this labyrinth has become a sleeping place for goblins in the short time we were gone.

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We are all settled for the moment.

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The entrance was completely blocked with rubble.

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We were in that small room, treating Ark and Burgess.

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Ark, a swordsman, was dying from severe wounds and poison.

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With the help of Arcana's herbs, a mixed antidote, and a medicine that restored his strength, he managed to get on the mend.

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As for Burgess.

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He had probably unleashed a magic sword on a scale that exceeded the limit.

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His physical injuries were not serious, but he had fallen into a temporary coma due to the severe drain on his physical, magical, and mental strength.

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However, as long as he rested, he would wake up soon.

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The magic sword, which is a combination of magical power and fighting spirit, is a super special technique that unites mind, body, and technique.

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However, the burden on the body is intense, and for that reason there are few users.

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Furthermore, monsters that require attribute attacks are basically of a very high class.

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Therefore, the magic sword is not a technique that should be used in battle against such monsters.

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In fact, I had never seen Burgess use a magic sword properly.

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He used to wield his flaming sword drunkenly in the taverns of Morto Town. I didn't think that in battle it would be a more meaningful attack than a normal attack against a monster such as Ullefest.

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Just an old frontier adventurer.

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A kind of street art that he had acquired just for the sake of making a name for himself.

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That's about all I could think of...

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When Burgess defeated the Minotaur, he unleashed the "Terraflare Sword," a magic sword based on advanced fire magic.

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It is not a skill that a half-hearted person can master.

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The fact that he can handle the Terraflare is enough to make him an advanced black magician.

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And then there is the powerful light-emitting technique that seems to have destroyed a horde of goblins in an instant.

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Burgess's combat power was utterly unfathomable.

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It is terrible!　That is not something a human being would do!

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Loloi, who had been listening to Liora's story, was getting angry.

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Loloi, who had been listening to Liora's story, became angry. I'm going to beat up all of you and your friends!

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It seems.

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It seems that he is angry about the fact that the big merchant Noppoi left Ark and Liora in the goblin's nest.

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But my opinion was somewhat chilling.

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Loloi's anger is reasonable, though.

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It was Ark and Liora who had caused it in the first place.

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It is the hired party that discerns the degree of a party leader to whom they are entrusting their lives, and who will be the judge of their employer. The reason why they took on the most difficult job of exploring the labyrinth was because they were not discerning enough and joined the party of such a person.

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Yes.

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They simply lacked that quality.

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I've been in that situation a lot since I got kicked out of Ryan's party.

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I have not had the strength to fight on my own.

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The most important thing to consider was what kind of party I was going to follow and what kind of leader I was going to be.

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At my words, Liora's eyes went down.

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Albus. Don't bother the girl too much. There's a reason for that."

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Burgess, who had awakened before I knew it, reproached me for saying that.

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Circumstances?"

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I looked over at Liora, but she made no move.

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I can't easily reveal it to you," she said. I need to know if it's okay to reveal it to you.

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With that, she went back to nursing ARC.

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Oh, oh..."

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That was a magnificent boomerang.

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Liora, unlike her quick, soft-spoken demeanor, seems to be surprisingly quite strong-willed.

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The first thing to do is to get the supplies we need from Liora, such as medicinal herbs, medicines to restore magic, food, and water.

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When Liora received supplies from us, she paid for them with mana.

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Originally we were separate parties.

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And we still are.

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Underground in the labyrinth (such as it is), I used to open a fireplace store for Liora and the others.

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However, they used to let me accompany them on quests, bless them with materials, and take on escort quests.

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I have been accompanied on quests, given materials, and taken on escort quests in the past.

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In other words, I am not making such an outrageous offer.

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So this is a normal win-win transaction.

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We can buy food, water, medicinal herbs, and healing medicine deep in the labyrinth. There should be no problem at least to pay a business trip fee.

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So we stayed there for three days and waited for Ark to recover.

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Burgess, by the way.

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The day after the battle at the goblin's nest, he was back to normal.

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He is a tough old man.

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Three days after the rescue of Ark and the others.

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Judging by the amount of time left on the magic clock, it's now evening.

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We had been underground for a week, so our sense of morning, noon, and night had become numb. In case you're wondering, we were on a cycle of acting during daylight hours and resting at night.

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Now that Ark is on the mend, we're leaving here tomorrow morning.

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Burgess said this in front of Ark and Liora.

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Burgess is the leader of our party.

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So, well, if Burgess wanted to take these two with him, I was going to accept that without any problem.

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You guys. . if you can tell my people, including Albus here, about your situation. I'll let you go with my party and we can go to the deepest part of the ruins.

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But Burgess began to make some strange conditions.

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I don't care about anyone else's situation," Burgess said. You are the leader of this party, so it is your decision whether or not you want to take us with you.

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That's what I said.

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Burgess was insistent.

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I said, "Okay. To be honest, I don't know if they're trustworthy.... I want to find my sister at all costs."

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Saying this, Liora clenched her fists tightly.

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I want my sister.... I will find Fina...I will find her. If it is for that reason..., I will tell you everything."

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And the "circumstances" that Liora began to talk about?

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It was quite an unexpected story.

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