Umberto, with a bolt stuck in his side, screamed and bent over.
At the same time, the adventurers rushed in.
“Uwaaah!”
“Ya, yaa!”
Umberto showed the fighting spirit befitting an S-rank adventurer.
As if trying not to let the egg be taken away until the end, he raised his hand high.
Because of that, the egg fell from his hand.
“No!”
Someone screamed.
A hand reached out to catch the egg, but.
Due to the blood on the hand, the egg slipped instead.
I quickly ran to the path where the egg was flying.
We can’t let the poor egg break.
I was cautious about grabbing it with my Invisible Hand, so I jumped up myself.
I’ll cushion it with my body in mid-air…
Slip!
Gosh, why is it so slippery.
The egg was covered with a slick, oily substance.
Well, I guess it was my mistake to think it would feel similar to a clean, washed chicken egg.
However, fortunately.
The unfortunate event of the egg falling to the ground and shattering into pieces didn’t occur.
‘Isil!’
Isil stepped up.
Just like earlier when it extended its vines to grasp the sword handle.
It stretched out its vines long and grasped the wyvern egg in mid-air.
The wyvern egg was not just ordinarily big.
It was quite impressive, several times larger than an ostrich egg.
It seemed stronger than I thought.
‘Well done, very well do…’
But the praise might have been too early.
Or maybe Isil misunderstood that this was a ball game.
Whoosh-
Because it threw the wyvern egg back to where it had come from.
“Ah, no!”
‘You fool-!’
This isn’t a ball game!
The wyvern egg flew through the air, spinning.
It seemed Jakob tried to catch it.
With a hand pierced by a rapier, he tried to catch the heavy wyvern egg.
“Ouch!”
It’s not surprising that he dropped it with a scream.
Crack!
Perhaps due to its heavy weight, the egg broke immediately.
A hole was punctured, and white and yolk poured out from inside.
If only we had a frying pan, we could have made a fried egg right away.
“Aaaaah!”
Jakob screamed.
It was like a signal flare that set the wyverns in motion.
They finally descended.
One wyvern pounced on Jakob, who was screaming while holding his head.
Thud!
It pinned Jakob down with its claws.
Then it started tearing at him with its snake-like head.
“Uwaaah!”
The other adventurers screamed.
Wyverns came down one by one.
Jerico resisted with his sword.
He succeeded in leaving a long wound on the face of one wyvern.
“Huk, heuk.”
Jerico breathed roughly.
But at that moment, a large wyvern crushed him from the head down.
Thud!
Jerico was instantly squashed.
The wyverns fought over Jerico’s terribly mangled body, trying to eat it.
It was a chaotic mess.
In this hellish scene, being an S-rank adventurer or an A-rank adventurer seemed to make no difference.
In fact, I was in danger too.
‘Should I use Gigantification, should I use it!’
“Are you thinking of deliberately drawing attention?”
First, is there anywhere to hide?
If I hide under a dead human’s corpse… no, the wyverns seem intent on eating humans without leaving anything.
Should I secretly cling to a wyvern’s foot and escape?
It would be dangerous if I accidentally get caught by the claws, but that might be the only way.
“Mr. Snake.”
At that moment, Pandan, who was terrified, approached me and said.
“I’m going to use a special potion! It’s a scent that repels monsters… if you’re okay with it, hide near me!”
There’s such a thing!
As expected, Pandan seemed to be the most quick-witted among the adventurers.
He suddenly put his hand into his waistband.
And from some unknown place, he took out something like a brown ampule.
Without hesitation, he broke the mouth of the ampule and poured it over himself.
I tried to cling to Pandan.
“Saaah!”
But that terrible smell that stung my nose.
It was a smell that stimulated a deep, instinctive disgust in me.
I couldn’t get close at all. I felt like I was going to vomit.
Pandan, emitting that disgusting smell, jumped into a pool of blood.
And he displayed amazing acting skills, pretending to be dead.
Ah, I definitely can’t go there.
That’s when it happened.
The huge wyvern that had been clinging to that stone pillar, Queen Celeta, started to move.
It’s an opponent I could never defeat even in a one-on-one fight.
What should I do, what should I do, what can I do?
While I was pondering like that.
“…The egg.”
Pelerian came up with an idea.
“For now, hide inside the egg!”
In this hellish scene, there seemed to be nowhere to hide.
Even if the darkest place is under the lamp, telling me to hide inside the egg.
Wouldn’t I be discovered immediately?
But trying something was better than doing nothing.
Although it was a bit cramped, the wyvern egg was more than enough for me to fit inside.
As if it had been a fresh egg, once the white and yolk flowed out, the inside was completely empty.
It’s a bit sticky, but I can endure this much.
However, there was a problem.
I hid in the egg without difficulty, but wasn’t there a hole gaping open?
No matter how bad a wyvern’s eyesight is, they couldn’t fail to notice the hole.
‘How can I use Invisible Hand to…’
Although the egg broke because of Isil.
It was because the egg broke that I could hide.
‘…Ah, Isil!’
And it helped once again.
It attached its vines to the broken eggshell and seamlessly patched it.
It used the adhesive roots on its vines.
The broken part became perfectly smooth.
Oh.
Is it done now?
Is it really resolved this simply!
From inside, I couldn’t tell what was happening outside.
‘Old man!’
But Pelerian could pass through the eggshell.
‘Please go out and check!’
Pelerian went outside the egg with a dry laugh.
But he didn’t return immediately.
Instead, I heard a sorrowful cry from outside.
“Kugegegegegek!”
It was after that when Pelerian returned.
He had a very strange expression.
‘What happened?’
“What do you mean what happened…”
Pelerian told me as if it were an obvious result.
“All the humans are dead. And the wyvern is rejoicing at recovering its egg.”
That’s a relief!
Then if I find an opportunity later to break the egg and escape again…
While I was thinking that.
My body floated up.
“Now they’ll return to the nest.”
To the nest?
…Oh no!
Flick flick.
Unaware of my complicated feelings, Isil flapped its leaves.
