Volume 2 - CH 233

The smell of rotting crap wafted around me.

I hear the sound of the lid opening with a pop and it falls to the ground.

After making sure that all the liquid that was inside was dropped into my stomach, I smashed the bottle on the ground and broke it.

“Gahhaa ………… bleeeeergh!”

“A-a-a, are you okay ……?”

“I’m dying…… seriously dying……”

I kept drinking the mana potion that came in the box.

It tasted bad.

This shit is down bad disgusting.

How in the world can such a drink be allowed in this world?

I can feel my consciousness about to jump out of my body. 

What is this slight sour taste?

It’s not necessary.

I hold my breath while I drink it, but when I finish it and take a breath, the aftertaste is absolutely horrible.

It really makes me want to vomit every time.

But if I don’t drink it, I will pass out!

I just don’t want to get immobilized!

That skill still won’t stop!

What’s going on with this Demolition!

There are no more enemies!

Everything’s clear as far as my eyes can see!

There was a lot of vacant land around the kingdom of Salettana, but that definitely went to the forest.

I mean, I can’t hear any sound anymore.

I can’t hear the sound of that groundslide.

I mean, where the hell is it moving!

Are they moving even in the underground!

How can I make it stoooop!

“H- here you go.”

“Ugh……!”

My MP is below 200.

It’s still consuming 3 MP per second, so it’s getting more and more depleted.

If I don’t keep drinking, I’ll …… pass out!

I absolutely refuse to do that!

The total amount of MP itself is so high that it’ll take me two whole days to recover!

I can’t have it happen that many times!

I received another mana potion and drank it all at once.

If I repeat that four times, my MP will increase by 200.

This will kill me.

“…… Ah! Would you drink it in a big container?”

“Are you nuts!!!! Because it’s in a small bottle, the smell won’t hit me until I’ve finished it! And quit holding your breath!”

“Hueeh-“

Stop, seriously, don’t ask me to do anything unnecessary or I’ll blow you away. ……

I drank it carefully so it wouldn’t get on my clothes.

Even though Mana Potion is a liquid, it doesn’t make your stomach feel full.

What a mystery.

I wonder if the heal potion is the same.

I feel like something breaks down immediately after drinking it and then goes somewhere else.

I suppose it’s returned as magical power, though.

What a strange drink, and it stinks like crap.

“Hmmbh…. Blergh….. Haaa.”

……?

“It stopped. ……”

It stopped!

Finally, finally, it’s stopped. ……

I feel so free that I don’t have to drink anymore.

What’s this? I’m so happy.

I sit on the ground with a thud and take a break.

It really was hell …….

How many bottles did I drink? ……

“Thanks for your help ……”

“””I brought them!”””

“HELL NO! Bring them back!””

“””Eeeehh?”””

Don’t give me Eeehhh.

I don’t even want to see mana potions for a while now.

I mean, why do they all bring them in boxes!

They want to kill me or something!

Huh. …….

Ah, it’s pretty quiet when things calm down.

It’s kind of quiet.

Oh?

Could it be that the situation inside has been resolved?

The adventurers over here did nothing more than ask a few people to carry mana potions, and they didn’t do anything else.

What happened to the other adventurers?

“The others went back inside. I think they’re taking down Centipede right now.”

“Oh, come on. Is that alright? There are some low-rank adventurers in there, aren’t there?

There are quite a few low-rank adventurers left around here. Fortunately, there were some high ranking adventurers who just came back. They take care of the centipedes. The low-rank adventurers have been divided into groups for evacuation assistance, supplies, medical care, and so on. The medicinal herbs that Ouren-san delivered earlier turned out to be very useful.

“I-I see. ……”

They say that if you do good deeds, they will come back to you, but just reports like this can make me feel pretty good.

Well, I’m glad to hear that you’ve been helpful…….

You can repay me with a nice meal.

“I’m tired. ……”

「「「「 SO STINKY! 」」」」

Shut up.

It can’t be helped!

Do you know how many mana potions I drank?

Do you guys know who drank this much?

You gotta be kidding me.

Sigh, but at least I recovered a lot of MP. ……

Without it, I would have collapsed halfway through.

I have to be thankful for this mana potion even though it was disgusting.

Uhmm, my MP is …… around 348 …….

There’s no way I’ll ever drain out my MP again. …….

I mean, I won this ……, right?

Thank goodness. …….

“You guys should be a little happy… I did my best, you know…?”

“Well, now that you mention it, there’s no cheering even though you’ve beaten the monsters. But…”

“I- it is what it is, I guess”

“Perhaps.”

The adventurers looked at each other and then said in unison.

[[[[Its hard to believe someone who only drank mana potion to anihilate these monsters]]]]

“ITS ALL WAS ME! MY F-ING SKILLS!!! DAMN IT!!”

How cruel.

I guess it’s because I feel more relaxed to be able to say this.

This time I’m going to tolerate it. ……

I wasn’t seeking cheers or anything, but it’s normal for people to cheer when they win, isn’t it?

I just felt a little uncomfortable.

“Well, let’s go back …….”

“That’ s right! There could still be centipedes inside.”

“I’m going ahead!”

“Let me show Ouren-san the way.”

“Roger that!”

They’re making decisions on their own, but I’m too tired to do anything else, so I’ll just leave it to them.

I’ve done my best, so they’ll let me off the hook for that, right?

Boom.

A red beam of light passed right next to me for a moment.

The light hit the adventurer who had said he would go ahead and ran, leaving a large hole in his abdomen.

We all froze, not knowing what had happened.

The adventurer, with a large hole in his abdomen, collapsed without strength.

I heard a thud, and finally realized what had happened.

We were attacked.

“Kyaaaaaah!!”

“W-who is it? ……Eh?”

The foot of the adventurer next to me was blown off.

He lost his footing and fell to the side.

“Gaaaahhhh! My leg! My leg!”

“Damn it! Pneumatic Barrier!”

I figured out that the attack was coming from behind (Outside), so I set up a larger pneumatic barrier right behind me.

Since I used 100 MP for the barrier, it should be strong.

It should somehow prevent the attack.

And the barrier is transparent.

Through the barrier, I see the enemy.

There was one …… familiar figure floating there, and a man with horns, who looked listless.

I recognize one of them.

I don’t know where he’s been all this time, but the fact that he shows up here under these circumstances suggests that ……

“So, you are the main culprit this time. Lequam….!!”

Lequam Saulmaldt looked at me with a grim smile on his face.