The dungeon has been parasitized

Chapter 27 Tentacle Rain

boom!

The impact shook the ground, but only the flowers and plants on the ground suffered.

As Yanami had foreseen, the leaping flesh monsters had no effect on them, but the forest was already in ruins.

While leading Yanami, Lorna dodged and weaved, she pondered a plan.

I have no ranged attacks or wide-area attacks that can threaten it, and ordinary attacks can't kill it completely...

Do you need that?

No... We must conserve our strength until we know its weakness, and ensure that nothing goes wrong, otherwise Yanami will be in danger later.

After another smash, the flesh monster stopped in its tracks and ceased its frenzied attack on them.

"What's wrong?"

"Watch out, it looks like it's about to use another move!"

Seemingly realizing that these methods were useless against them, the flesh monster began to plot something.

Its entire body glowed, and the flesh on its surface suddenly began to writhe rapidly.

"It's coming!"

Lorna focused intently on its every move, while secretly channeling her magic...

Puff puff puff puff puff...!

Suddenly, countless fleshy tentacles extended from its body and rained down on Yanami and Rorna.

There's no escaping it!

Lorna quickly shielded Yanami in front of her, parrying with her sword.

"Magic, transform the rocks into a shield! Rock!"

Lorna chanted a spell, and centered on her sword, the soil from the ground climbed up, solidified into rock, and formed a shield strong enough to block the two of them.

clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap...

Within a radius of twenty meters, countless crimson tentacles pierced the ground like strands of hair, and several holes were punctured in the rock shields of Rorna and Yanami, but they still managed to protect them.

Just as Lorna breathed a sigh of relief, Yanami's anxious voice rang out from behind her.

"Wait, there's another attack!"

Instead of retracting into the flesh monster's body, the fleshy tentacles suddenly turned around and attacked them!

The fleshy tentacles were originally just indiscriminate, covering attacks, but now they were precisely targeted by Rolna's magic.

Tentacles stabbed at them from all directions, both in front and behind.

Oh no! There's no time to use magic again!

Cut off?

No! There are too many!

In an instant, Lorna made a decision. She turned her back to protect Yanami while using her rock shield to block the parts of her body that she could not protect Yanami from.

Swish swish swish swish...!

The tentacles were in front of them in an instant. Rolna had already gritted her teeth, but the pain she had imagined did not occur.

Thump thump thump thump...

There came a dull thud as something solid was pierced from all around. Rolna looked up and found that they had been blocked by a thick wooden shield without her noticing.

These protective shields appear to be made up of vines, and they originated from Yanami's pocket.

Yanami's magic...

"Klein!"

Klein?

Yanami's voice was full of surprise; this wasn't the first time Rolna had heard this name.

We finally made it.

Klein breathed a sigh of relief, even though he had no mouth.

………………

Before the bone-stealing badger was swallowed, Klein threw out a seed from his belly pouch and then immediately transferred his soul to that seed.

After catching Klein's bone-stealing badger, the flesh monster rolled toward Yanami.

Klein had only pulled away by a hundred meters... Yanami was in a dangerous situation.

We must catch up with Yanami!

Klein wanted to use the seeds Yanami had left behind as a springboard to catch up with her quickly, but he couldn't sense any seeds in that direction.

He should be able to sense this range.

Did Yanami forget she lost it? Or did something happen?

wrong.

Klein watched the trails left by the rolling flesh monster, along which were debris that had been swallowed and spat out from who-knows-where.

Yanami certainly wouldn't forget to drop the seed, apparently because Klein didn't lure them away much, and the path the flesh monster rolled along partially overlapped with Yanami's escape route.

In other words, some of the seeds were swallowed and taken away by the flesh-and-blood monster.

Miscalculation...

The only option is to regenerate seeds and then drop them along the way.

When he caught up with Yanami, he was met with a scene of countless tentacles launching a carpet attack on a fully armored man and Yanami.

With no other option, Klein quickly transferred his soul to the seed inside Yanami and used his skill to create hardened vines, forming a super-thick shield.

The original intention was to defend against the initial carpet bombing attack, but the tentacles were too fast. Before Klein could even grow tentacles, they had already stabbed over, which just happened to block the second round of precise stabs.

It was a very difficult job; the shield was almost pierced, and Klein could see light leaking through it.

There's not much magic left... We used too much to build this shield. Without the plantation's nutrients, relying entirely on magic to grow it consumed too much energy.

"Klein, I'm so glad you're alright..."

Yanami's voice echoed in my mind, carrying a sense of reassurance and a slight tremor.

"Sorry, something unexpected happened, that's why I'm so late."

If it had been any later, I might never have seen Yanami again.

"It's alright, we arrived just in time. Thanks to Klein, we're safe!"

"No, it's too early to be happy."

Klein peered through the gap created by the stab into the fleshy monster not far away, where his own Bone-Stealing Badger was even half-exposed.

It is now retracting its tentacles.

"What's going on here? Who is this armored greatsword warrior?"

"It was Lorna who saved me. She's a good person, don't worry."

"Um."

Yanami sensed hostility, and at least for now, Rorna wouldn't do anything to her.

"Also, this monster tried to jump at us several times, but it didn't work. Then it stopped and attacked us with the same move we just saw."

In other words, it will consider countermeasures based on the situation?

Klein had thought that the cat only knew how to use the "Mount Tai Press" move, since it had only used that move before. It seems there was no target that could make it use other moves.

"And attacks are useless against it. Lorna sliced ​​off a large chunk of its flesh, but it just swallowed the pieces back up itself."

So... only high-powered attacks can be used? To turn it into dust in one go?

Isn't that asking too much of people?

We must know its weaknesses...

Use Probe... but the probability is only five percent, and I don't have much magic left, so I can't waste it...

No, we were exploring when it was huge. Now that it has split into two, the probability might increase!

Let's take a gamble while we still have the shield!

"Yanami, I need to use magic. Could you ask Rorna to cover for me?"

"good!"

Yanami nodded, then looked at Rorna, who was panting; she seemed very tired.

"Aunt Lorna, could you cover me? I need to use magic."

"Use magic?"

She paused for a moment, then nodded.

"it is good."

Klein moved the vines that formed the wooden shield toward the flesh-and-blood monster, no longer blocking it from all directions.

Activate skill: Detect

Success rate: 30%

The exploration failed.

boom!

A tentacle pierced the shield, causing a violent tremor.

There's a 30% chance; there's an opportunity. Keep going!

Activate skill: Detect

failure.

Restart.

It worked!