5-11. Maze of Trazayuya 2 (2/2)

”You did good to have come this far, explorer-dono.”

It's an easy-to-listen charming voice even in this situation. Though she's speaking in monotone so it breaks the immersion.

”I'm a merchant though.”

”Merchant? ...O explorer!　You did well to come here.”

After looking puzzled while tilting her head, she tilted it back and continue to talk. She's moving like a doll.

You're insisting me to be an explorer huh.

”I'll give the excellent you the right to fight the guardian. If you could beat the guardian, I'll admit that you have the qualification to advance ahead. The winner will be given a reward from the master of the maze.”

She was still speaking in monotone. It feels like in an elementary school festival.

The beautiful woman doesn't mind the unamused me and continues the talk, following the scenario.

”Now, let the fight begin. O iron giant, there is no need to hold back.”

The woman gets to the corner of the room after finishing her long speech. Her face looks satisfied, or rather, proud.

After the woman got to the corner of the room, the iron golem starts moving.

I pierce the character on the golem's forehead with the rapid-fire magic gun. Changing [EMETH] to [METH] by destroying the [E]. The golem stops moving as according to the anecdote. Yes, like the anecdote from our world.

Probably not expecting this to end in an instant, the beautiful woman on the corner falls into confusion.

I ignore the woman and head toward the exit.

”You're careless!”

The beautiful woman attack with a rapier from behind while talking in monotone. It looks like she used some kind of reinforcing magic, her stab is reasonably faster than her level tells.

While being careful as not to break the woman's hand, I stop the rapier.

”Come to think of it, what is the reward for the winner anyway?”

”...Me?”

She tilted her head like before, and said so after hesitated for a bit. Why is it a question.

Apparently she didn't prepare any reward since she didn't think that I would win.

I make the woman faints, and take the rapier as the reward. Since the hilt design is cute, let's give it to Lulu or Zena-san as a present.

I lay the woman on the floor and advance ahead.

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Afterward, I arrived at the master room without any considerable setback. The latter half had traps, but since I avoided all of them with trap discovery skill, I didn't even know what kind of traps there were.

The magician is in the interior of the master room. There's Mia on the throne, but she seems to be still unconscious. Her HP has fully recovered, but her stamina is still only at about 30%.

”I really did not think that you would come this far so fast.”

”Is that so? If possible I'd like to avoid fighting and just get Mia back.”

The magician laughs.

I continue to step forward to the throne while talking. I'd rather not get thrown again into the underground lake if I ignore the magician.

”Impossible, that's impossible. You have shown your qualification by defeating the iron giant.”

The magician's solo performance continues.

”However, your title is insufficient to go against me. I'll have you fight formidable adversaries so you could gain the title 'Hero'. As for your reward, I'll give you this holy sword, Gjallarhorn.”

The magician pull the sword on his hand.

The AR indicates that the sword is a holy sword, Gjallarhorn. Its performance is inferior compared to the holy swords I have, but it's still incomparable to common magic swords.

I don't understand this guy's real intention.

Does he really only want to commit suicide?

”Your opponents are them.”

The magician's shadow expands to the center of the room as he speaks. And then, 3 iron golems appear from the shadow. Moreover, five beautiful women come out from the door beside the throne and line up behind the golems. Their faces are the same as the beautiful woman earlier, but since their hairstyles are different, they're probably not the same person.

”However, you would merely get killed by strong enemies like this, while the title hero is attained by overcoming life-and-death struggles.”

From this guy's viewpoint, my level is 10. It shouldn't be possible to beat 3 level 30 golems.

The magician spreads his hands toward the heaven and continues his words.

”Therefore, I'll give everyone the blessing of my god--- Limit Break.”