Chapter 98

"Grand Cross!"

Suzuki slashed rapidly in a cross pattern with a single sword.

The impact shot forward, clearing out the monsters that filled the corridor.

The power of this move was incomparable to the slashes from dual-wielding.

"That's the skill of a paladin? It's incredibly powerful."

"Yeah, but it also consumes MP at a rate that can't be compared to a slash. Without this amulet from Shreil, I would collapse after just one use. Paladins don't have that much MP."

Saying that, Suzuki took out a purple amulet with a hexagram, the kind you might find at a shrine.

"...An amulet?"

"What does it do?"

"Having this amulet allows me to share MP with Shreil."

Sharing MP. That does sound convenient.

If Haru and I could share MP, Haru could use more slashes.

"So, if you use it too much, it would be a burden on that little girl, right?"

"Little girl... Well, I can't deny it. But, wasn't Carol with you? She got along well with Shreil, but she's still young, right?"

"...Yeah, she looks young, but she's actually 17."

"17!? Maybe she's a dwarf? No, dwarves are even smaller."

"She's half-dwarf, half-human."

"I see. That makes sense given her appearance."

Suzuki seemed to be deep in thought.

...I looked into his eyes,

"Are you thinking about something legal but questionable? I'll be mad if you lay a hand on Haru or Carol."

"I won't. I have three important friends."

"Even important friends are off-limits, right?"

"...Don't say that."

Suzuki hung his head.

He's pitiful.

Sorry, but I've already reserved Carol's first time.

It's not the same as a DT, it's not.

"Both of you, stop fooling around and move forward! The enemies are coming from behind too!"

Sutchno screamed.

Looking back, enemies were approaching from behind.

Haru was barely holding them off.

"Master, I'm fine. I can still go."

"Sorry, Haru! Milky, I need you to cast the barrier again!"

"Understood..."

Milky, for some reason, looked satisfied as she took out a barrier card.

However, she said she didn't have many left. The cards made by a magic scribe can last about a year once made, but the problem is that they take a long time to create, so you can't carry many.

Still, for some reason, Milky's nosebleed seemed worse than before.

Did something happen?

I was so engrossed in chatting with Suzuki that I didn't notice the situation behind us.

"Alright, it's done! Let's go, Centaur!"

"Let's go, Centaur!"

Jofre hung a carrot from the sword's scabbard with a string, completing an impromptu centaur guidance device—then, as soon as he mounted the centaur, he set off. In other words, the centaur started running towards the carrot hanging in front of it.

There's nothing more terrifying than a car with broken brakes.

Why can they ride such a dangerous thing?

"Everyone, follow my lead!"

Frio hurriedly followed Jofre and Elise.

Despite the fact that more monsters were pouring in, even after Suzuki had just defeated them, they were now approaching us.

The centaur was knocking the monsters away.

Hey, the monsters here are quite strong, not much different from those in the intermediate dungeon, and some are even stronger.

I heard that Jofre fed the centaur a rare medal, but how much has it been enhanced?

And... Jofre is too skilled. He avoided the enemies every time the sword was about to hit them and chose the route that would knock them away as much as possible.

After running for twenty minutes, Milky, Sutchno, and Frio, who were getting tired, were controlling the carrot to keep the centaur moving in circles, which made it look cute, but it was animal abuse, so I gave it one of the carrots.

But... that was a mistake.

"Trouble! That was the last carrot, Elise!"

"What? So there are no more carrots left?"

"Can't believe the carrots would run out here."

"Bro, what do we do without carrots?"

Jofre, Elise, Frio, and Sutchno started to panic.

Relying on carrots for survival is pretty pathetic.

"Ah, I don't know if it will work, but I have tomatoes..."

As I said that and took out a tomato from my item bag, the centaur started running towards me,

"Wait, uh, ahhh!"

With that momentum, I didn't have time to throw the tomato and had to run away.

The centaur's eyes were bloodshot.

I ended up running into the enemies.