Chapter 239 - Battle for Control of the First Basement Floor

Tauro unbuckled everyone's restraints and locked salk In the prison, where he remained unconscious.

“Then I'll give you all your weapons,"

As Tauro said so, he took out his own weapon from his magic storage and handed it over.

“…Is it okay to leave this piece of trash alone?”

Ankh points to the fainted salk.

"I heard that this man has the ability ‘ escape,' so I think it would be better to put him in jail and bring him in later, rather than take him around. But for now, we need to stop the 'range instant death spell' first."

Tauro answers Ankh.

“…That’s right. I guess that comes first now."

Tauro and his party immediately rushed to the stairs that went up.

As they approached the stairs, they heard voices from above.

“It's a surprise attack! Everyone who can fight, get up and take up arms!”

“What? How did they find out about this place?!”

“Perhaps information leaked out by the sorcerer captured in the assassination attempt on Count Daradar.”

"Nonsense! That sorcerer was a top-notch magician. If he had tried to leak the information, he would have used a spell formula that would have resulted in his own death, wouldn’t he?”

“I don't know, but I heard that that sorcerer had been cursed back, and that curse may have made him unable to commit suicide.”

"...If that were true, wouldn't this place already be surrounded?"

"I don't know! Anyway, we have to stand up and resist now. I also told the sorcerer to come to the treasure room. We may have to use that thing, so be prepared!”

"What about the prisoners downstairs?"

“That's not the point now, leave them alone!”

The sound of footsteps faded away as the exchange was heard.

“…As expected, it looks like it’s in the treasure room. It’s also located on the first basement floor above here.”

Tauro gulped down a potion to restore his magic power and said so that everyone could hear.

“If we can seize the treasure room, then I guess I don't have much work to do.”

Aeris, who had been nervous, breathed a sigh of relief.

“We can't rest until we seize the treasure room. I'll take the lead. It's hard to use a big sword in an indoor battle, but I have a lot of experience with swords.”

Ankh lightly tapped the throwing knives and daggers in the pocket of his armor as he said this.

That's right, Ankh was a mercenary before he became an adventurer.

He knows how to kill people in a different way than the assassins in the Assassin's Guild.

“Ankh, I'll take the lead. My resistance gives me an advantage here."

Ragune, probably wary of the enemy's poison and paralysis, stepped forward with her shield in one hand and her spear outstretched.

“Then, Ragune will take the lead, followed by Ankh and Aeris, and I'll take the rear.”

Tauro, acting as the leader, decided so, and everyone nodded as he led the way up the stairs.

On the basement floor, Ragune and Ankh dominated.

No matter how skilled the assassins were, fighting these two head-on in a narrow space was fatal.

While Ragune, with her shield held out, was knocking down enemies with sharp thrusts, Ankh was covering Ragune's gap with a throwing knife from the side and knocking them down as well.

Aeris followed  them both with magic, while Tauro gave precise instructions from the rear with his "presence detection" and true eyes to see the whole area, and warned of the enemies approaching from the rear.

Then, in no time at all, Tauro and his team reached the treasure room at the back of the building, wiped out the enemies, and conquered it.

Tauro used "spatial transfer" to enter the locked treasure room in an instant and retrieved all the items using magic storage.

Among the collected were two large magic stones that would be very valuable and a lot of curse stones.

“This is...bigger than the magic stones we saw in the village. What would have happened if they had used the ‘range death spell' with such stones?”

Tauro was breaking into a cold sweat.

As someone who had experienced that spell, he never wanted to experience that kind of terror again.

“Someone's here, leader!”

While Tauro was relieved, Ankh called out to him.

Tauro rushed out from inside the treasure room to the surface by "spatial transfer," where five enemies were preparing to take back the treasure room.

Tauro was about to leave when he heard a voice saying,

"You guys get away from here for a while. I'll take care of them with this magic stone and curse stone. Don't get caught up.”

One man, who looked like a sorcerer, pulled a magic stone the size of a child's fist out of his pocket and stepped forward, forcing his companions to back away.

“Aeris!"

Tauro immediately senses this and calls out.

The sorcerer was deadly for giving his companions time to leave the place.

In the meantime, Aeris was quick to cover the conjurer's surroundings with her warding magic.

When a black mist erupted from the sorcerer, the ward suppressed and confined the mist from spreading.

The sorcerer said, "A barrier!" and by the time he realized it, it was already too late, and he collapsed on the spot and died due to the cost of his art.

"Do they personally have it too... Aeris, I think it's okay because I collected all the large magic stones, but if there is a sorcerer, this kind of thing may happen again, so be careful."

Tauro warns Aeris and drinks a magic recovery potion himself.

“…I got it. I'll be ready to ward the place at any time.”

Aeris nodded and clutched her staff nervously.

“Then, let's go to the ground. I'm sure our allies are fighting up there!"

Tauro said, and everyone nodded and headed for the stairs to the ground level.

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