Reunion in the Ruins

I have recently got another eye looking at my back.

Is it so different than just me looking behind me?

Its just the same caution towards the thing that might happen behind my back.

Back in the Disposal Ruins, my nerves were intensely sensitive to whats happening behind me.

[Pii, pii, pii!]

Ill make sure that were completely safe!

Its as if Pigimaru was saying something like that.

The protrusion peeking out from the side of my neck is repeatedly flashing green.

It seems to be a signal that theres no abnormality at all.

Thanks to Pigimaru, I can concentrate on the front and to my sides.

The raid in the ruins is going well.

I was secretly given the map of Mills Ruins by the officer that I had met earlier.

It seems that this was originally bought with money.

Thanks to this, it has become easier for me to navigate through the floors that had already been mapped out before.

It seems that I would face no particular trouble until I get to that new floor.

He also gave me a pen and some ink together with the map.

When I have finally entered the new floor, I would just have to fill in the blank area.

If I could map out the new floor well enough, the map could be sold.

I should be grateful to that officer.

The monsters that I had encountered were no obstacles either.

Its just the first monster that I had encountered were different from the rest.

Its just that there is a wide difference between monsters here and those monsters from the Disposal Ruins.

To put it shortly, theyre weak.

I could even defeat some of them with just the dagger in my hand.

It seems that I still received some benefits from my status correction.

All the monsters that Im fighting now have golden eyes.

Are those golden eyes just found on the monsters in the ruins?

Now that were talking about monsters, Ive encountered two types of monsters in this ruins.

Monsters that would never move from the floor they were on.

And monsters that would ascend the ruins.

Of course, not all of the monsters that were climbing up the ruins were just weak monsters.

There were also some strong monsters that climb up.

If we were to put it differently, there would be a great difference if the monster was unable to move up the stairs or not.

However, the Mills Ruins are different.

Now that I think about it, there were some strong monsters that had resided in the upper floors of the Disposal Ruins.

Therefore, the exploration cant proceed if such a strong monster stays in the upper floors.

Thats why, those strong monsters would usually be destroyed by well-known mercenaries.

There seems to be some cases where they were only recruited to defeat those monsters that resided in the upper floors.

Exploring through the ruins is troublesome, but they can still do a trip for a day if its just for a battle.

This is how some mercenaries earn their money.

Besides, weak monsters would usually have a strong ability to reproduce.

In addition, these weak monsters may have been ignored when the mercenaries were exploring.

Because the materials that you could get from them were dirt-cheap.

As a result, the weak monsters that were in the upper floors have been increasing.

However, these are just what the people on the Marquis side thinks.

I dont know how far from the truth they were.

I avoided contact with the other mercenaries as much as possible.

I sill dont know how the magic system of this world works yet.

It would be troublesome if they see my abnormal state skills and annoyingly pursue what they think would be rare magic.

I also have Pigimaru with me.

If Pigimaru would be found by them, it will be really troublesome.

[Well then]

I descend down a set of stairs.

[This should be the 6th floor, huh]

The newly discovered floor was said to be the 15th floor.

I still have a long way to go, so I continued walking further.

[..]

This is no good.

I cant help but compare this place to the Disposal Ruins.

Is it because I feel that the difficulty level of this place is too low?

I feel like the only troublesome thing I found was the progress of descending through this place.

No its not that its a bad thing but

I just cant make sense of this place.

I cant understand at what level this ruins is.

[Shhiggyyaaahhhh!]

A monster has attacked.

[<Paralyze>]

[ogguueeeeehh?]

[<Poison>]

I picked up the poisoned monster and left it somewhere hidden.

This is to avoid contact with the other mercenaries.

I chewed on some dried meat as I look after the poisoned monster.

I also drank some water from my canteen.

[Fuuu.]

[Guugiiieeee]

The poisoned monster finally died.

The monsters back in the Disposal Ruins.

The Soul Eater.

The four-person group, White Walker.

I immediately understood that those four-person group were strong immediately after I had met them.

They were strong enough that I have to act just to make them drop their guard.

However, I cant feel any sense of crisis from the monsters in here.

[Hmmm?]

The presence of people.

I lean back against a wall.

I strained my ears at their direction

and tried to listen in their conversation.

[Huh? Arent you that guy who tried to make a ruckus in the plaza before?]

[The cause of that ruckus was isnt me. Its that rude womans fault.]

I peek a little and watched over them.

One of them was the man who have tried to make trouble with Mist in the plaza.

If I remember it right, he called himself Monk before.

I listen in to the low voice of the large man hes talking to.

[And? Do you need something from us?]

[In fact, I have something to tell you.]

Hes talking to a duo of a baldy and a beardy.

Those duo looked at each other.

The baldy grinned and turned towards the slender macho.

[Youve seen what happened earlier, right? You your strength isnt normal, huh? Those three Ghoul Wolves were done by you without even a scratch on you. I didnt notice it at that time when youre making a ruckus in the plaza, are you some powerful warrior from somewhere?]

[Thats obvious. Im the Flash, Monk Dorogetti!]

The beardy looked at him like hes appraising him.

[I think Ive heard of that name before. That names unheard of in Urza, but youre fairly famous around Bakuos. I dont think the others who gathered here would know you, especially since youre in a rural city just like this.]

Those people that had gathered in a rural city just like this, youre one of them, you know?

[Heee? Youve heard of me, huh? Funnn you two were just as I expected. Youre different compared to those ignorant mercenaries.]

[Of course. Those people could only see things from their side. Dont group those idiots together with us. So? What do you want to talk to us about?]

[Yeah. Actually, I have a request for you two after seeing that you both were such a talented people. Ive prepared sufficient remuneration for this request.]

[Well, were going to be paid so we would be interested. So, what are we going to do?]

Kishishi~!

Monk widely smiled that you could even see all of his teeth.

[I want that woman who had insulted me earlier in that plaza to regret that she was born in this world.]