There was no reason or need to steal Isil’s flame immunity with Crown of Steal.
‘Sharing…!’
Isil can share skills with me.
Its ‘Flame Immunity’.
With just that, I could survive during the incineration procedure.
Then the question is how to restart the halted incineration procedure.
Dr. Pelerian had methods.
“Damage detected in test flesh tan-”
“Failed to recover test fle-”
“Closing life support system for test fle-”
The Pelerian by my side, just a part of his soul, had lost some memories but.
He is still clearly the creator of this massive system and dungeon.
Just manipulating as he instructed, the magic spirit’s voice flowed continuously.
If the incineration procedure stopped due to ‘incomplete experiment’, we just need to complete it.
“Transmitting experiment data.”
Something done repeatedly in other dungeons too.
Transmitting experiment data.
To where Pelerian is.
Then where would the data transmitted from this ‘tombstone’ in the mountains go?
The crystal panel’s lights flickered complexly.
Pelerian seemed to understand its meaning.
“Ah, below.”
‘What?’
“Below here, dungeon, underground…? Was there underground?”
Though I’ve seen the crystal panel map dozens of times, there was no underground.
“Must have been hidden. The signal is heading down now. Either my corpse is buried underground or there’s an underground space, one of the two.”
Then…
At that moment, the magic spirit announced.
“Resuming incineration and explosion procedures.”
“Incineration will commence shortly.”
“10…”
Huh, wasn’t it 30 seconds before?
The pounding sounds are getting closer too.
The Failed Creation has finally tracked me.
The sound is so scary!
Well for now…
“Get in the vent! Let’s go down!”
That would be best.
Just as I was about to slither into the vent.
Kwang!
The Failed Creation finally appeared.
Its fairy-like long ears twitched as they moved toward me.
The way it moves its ears so well is definitely beast-like.
Our eyes met briefly.
I immediately stuffed myself into the vent.
No matter how fast and agile it was, it couldn’t squeeze into the narrow vent.
I crawled in like a loach.
“9… 8…”
The countdown continued.
Pelerian directed me with Right! Left! Left!
I wondered if he knew something.
Clang!
The vent suddenly widened.
And started dropping at an almost vertical angle.
‘This doesn’t seem like a vent!’
There was a reason for that judgment.
Not just dust, but lots of dirty soot-like stuff was stuck everywhere.
The passage also widened so much, too large just for ventilation.
Looking at how it opens downward like a slide, it seems more like a passage for disposing of things.
“According to my memory, the very bottom of the dungeon is where waste is incinerated and disposed of.”
‘Then there’s a secret room below?’
“Well…”
Then this must be a passage for throwing away trash.
“7… 6…”
A thunderous voice echoed from above.
Looking up, the Failed Creation was also sliding down.
It followed all the way here.
We just met but why go this far?
Is it because of Pelerian’s ring I’m wearing?
“Shameful, monsteeer…!”
‘Happiness is a burning heretic side kick!’
No matter how fast it was, it couldn’t fall faster.
Whether wooden ball or iron ball, falling speed is almost the same.
The distance between us didn’t narrow until the passage ended and we fell.
I landed with a thud.
Kwaang!
The much heavier chimera crashed down much more loudly.
Ash dust rose tremendously.
“4…3…”
Time kept flowing meanwhile.
I quickly got up and took position.
I couldn’t share Isil’s skill forever either.
「Used Demon Hunter’s Vine Grass Isil Sync lv2」
「Sharing Flame Immunity lv-」
Oh.
I can feel magic power draining at an incredible rate.
Must be the same for Isil.
‘Isil, we need to hold tight.’
If it’s fire that burns this entire dungeon, tremendous heat waves will blow through too.
The incineration will proceed without exception to this waste disposal facility.
“2…1…”
When the ash settled, the Failed Creation was visible.
Its grotesque body was covered in pitch-black ash, looking like a demon risen from hell.
It looks painful.
That thought occurred to me.
Maybe it really is. It is a chimera after all.
For some reason, though it wants to kill me, I felt sympathy.
‘Why did you make something like this?’
“Yeah, really makes me want to kill the bastard who made it.”
Seems Pelerian has come to hate Pelerian too.
“Failure-, Snake-, Fairy-, Selena-!”
‘I’ll punish Pelerian for you.’
Farewell.
“Beginning incineration.”
Then a chiii- sound was heard.
It was the sound of something being sprayed from nozzles protruding from some ceiling.
Tick-
That was the sound of ignition.
The flames spread at a speed comparable to a gas explosion.
In the blink of an eye, this vast space was filled with flames.
A destructive shockwave spread from the rapid pressure increase.
Peoong!
I had already coiled my body into a poop shape.
With Black Scales skill activated too.
After spinning several times in the air, I managed something like a landing.
Everything around was bright red.
It felt like descending from the peak of a dwarf mine to below a lava lake.
Unknown liquid kept spraying from the ceiling nozzles.
It became a rain of flames falling down.
Flames rage.
Fire floods.
Hell on earth was realized.
But those terrible flames couldn’t harm me.
This is the effect of flame immunity…!
Twitch twitch.
Rather, Isil swayed its leaves as if feeling good.
What a hardboiled vine grass.
I also felt not bad except for having trouble breathing.
Then the enemy?
Test Flesh No.9 Failed Creation was wrapped in flames.
It’s burning whoosh.
But it’s not dead yet.
Though suffering from the fire on its body, it stood enduring.
It moved its mouth to say something.
The sound couldn’t be heard due to the raging heat wave but.
I could read its lips.
‘Failed creation.’
Is that all you can say?
Yes, I’ll free you from the pain of being born.
The burning chimera approached me.
I also approached to meet it.
The space here was plenty wide.
「Using Gigantification lv2」
Enough for me to freely increase my size.
I’ll end it in one shot.
「Using Acceleration lv7」
「Using Heart-eating Leap lv4」
Since my mouth became larger than the chimera.
I bit it whole.
Crunch!
The burning one couldn’t resist.
Therefore, it was one strike.
「You have killed Test Flesh No.9 Failed Creation lv120」
