Entering the password incorrectly 5 or more times consecutively.
What is this, an iPhone?
‘I’ve only pressed it once. Did you forget the password?’
“Absolutely not. I couldn’t have been confused.”
Though it seemed to take some time to recall it.
“Besides, that message came before we even finished entering it properly.”
Come to think of it, that was true.
Before pressing the 8 in 0918, the warning sound and orange warning light had appeared.
‘You said it’s linked with the dungeon interior, right?’
“Yes, and in that case, surely…”
Pelerian sighed as if dumbfounded.
“Did rats sneak in during the commotion?”
The dungeon I visited last time had already been completely cleaned out.
The important core items were stolen, and even that place had become an experiential exhibition hall beloved by children.
Surely this dungeon hidden deep in the magic realm…
‘It hasn’t been raided yet, right? They probably got stuck at the password?’
When I tried to comfort him like that, Pelerian nodded.
“Right, they must be in there right now!”
‘I saw something earlier…’
I told him about seeing what looked like dwarves heading toward the dungeon.
Pelerian exploded with anger.
“Why are you only telling me such important information now!”
‘There wasn’t a chance to tell you.’
“…That’s true.”
A three-headed wyvern, a triple-combined golem.
Pelerian had a front-row seat watching me struggle between them.
He would understand there was no time to talk.
‘What do we do? How do we unlock this?’
“We have to control it directly from the control room. By inputting my voice and magic wavelength…”
The dungeon control room wouldn’t be outside.
He’s saying we need to go inside the dungeon that this golem is guarding.
That’s nonsense.
Opening this control panel was to survive against the golem in the first place.
‘Maybe we should run away and come back later.’
“We can’t do that.”
Though Pelerian was little more than a spirit now.
I noticed his complexion had turned pale.
“The defense level has risen to 4. The dungeon’s internal security system must have started operating.”
Is that so.
From far away, the stone tower looked unchanged, but who knows what was happening inside.
“It wouldn’t matter if the rats inside get cleaned up, but if they hold out, we’re in big trouble.”
‘What happens…?’
“It moves to defense level 5. The name of that sequence is…”
Somehow I felt I knew without hearing it.
It happened at the magic stone storage too.
That dungeon storing countless precious magic stones.
If someone tried to forcibly break into the dungeon, it was designed to explode.
Given Pelerian’s mindset that created such a thing, this dungeon probably had a similar mechanism.
“Incineration. Everything inside will be burned to ashes by intense flames so nothing can be identified.”
‘There must be something important in there.’
“Probably…”
Though Pelerian didn’t know what was inside.
Then we need to hurry in and disable that defense system.
The dungeon might burn down right before our eyes if we’re not careful.
Kigik-
The Heavenly Thunder Spirit’s electric shock only stopped the golem for a very brief moment.
I thought about using Heavenly Thunder Spirit consecutively to buy more time, but stopped.
I would be fine, but I wasn’t sure about Isil.
Moreover, I couldn’t use up all my magic power just to gain a few seconds.
Teong-
The golem’s armor opened, revealing heat sinks inside.
Hot air was released from there.
The sound of coolant rushing through its body could be heard: gurgle, gurgle.
“This one is preparing for super acceleration.”
The earlier dodge was actually closer to luck.
I couldn’t expect the same this time.
But beside me were people, no, wyverns who could help me.
Wyvern Mom spewed a destruction beam at maximum output.
Kwakwakwakwa-!
The golem’s durability was definitely impressive.
It protected its face by raising its hands like shielding from bright sunlight, blocking the destruction beam as if it were just a stream of water.
Though it was pushed back and heated up, that was about it.
But it was sufficiently effective.
Heat discharge is important for super acceleration.
That’s why it exposed its heat sinks and circulated coolant.
The destruction beam could reheat those heat sinks and prevent the golem’s acceleration.
“Saak!”
So there was such an ingenious method.
I should breathe fire too.
Usually, Pelerian nagged that my magic was terrible.
But actually, that wasn’t entirely true.
I had a means to amplify the power of basic elemental magic.
Leaping Horn.
No, now it’s…
「Using Crown of Overcome lv1.」
With this more advanced skill, I increase the power of elemental magic.
「Temporarily ‘Basic Elemental Magic: Fire lv7’ becomes Intermediate Elemental Magic: Fire lv1.」
「Using Intermediate Elemental Magic: Fire lv1.」
Fire spewed from my mouth.
Though not as hot and fierce as Isil’s hellfire, it was much bigger flames than usual.
Isil, please recover your magic power quickly.
Whooosh-
The flames poured onto the golem’s exposed heat sinks.
Good, like this it should overheat and break…
Teong!
But the golem launched a rocket punch at me.
Just because it can’t use super acceleration when hot doesn’t mean it can’t move.
While I was being knocked back through the air with a “Kwaaak”.
Wyvern Mom, who had been using destruction beam until just now, flew to save me.
But Chugota, who had been recovering strength, was faster.
“Shihite!”
She bit me.
Not painfully, but carefully like a tiger carrying its cub.
Though visually it probably looked more like a stork trying to eat a worm.
‘No-!’
Chugota seemed focused only on taking me away.
Unable to fly properly yet, she crawled across the ground relentlessly.
“Saaak!”
Even if I shouted to stop, it was useless.
Well, there’s no way words would get through.
“Try speaking in Oboe!”
‘What?’
“You can understand it, can’t you!”
Oboe language.
Come to think of it, it was certainly surprising.
‘Shihite’ in Oboe language meant ‘my child’.
I don’t know how old of a monster Chugota is, but she doesn’t seem very intelligent.
If she were intelligent enough to naturally learn language, she would use the common tongue like Silverback Akims or the Human-faced Spider, why use Oboe language?
“She might have learned it from Oboe people in the past. A language created so humans could communicate with monsters!”
I see.
Then… but I’m a snake so I can’t speak.
