High School Hack and Slash Chapter 108 Part 1
Metabolic Monster
―― labyrinth of Perforation Realm 『YGGDRASILL』, attached branch realm 『Yomotsu Hirasaka』 ――
――The『twenty first』 stratum, 『uncharted』 domain――
「Say. Could it be that we went and picked a fight with an upper-ranked club?」
「What are you saying, at this point?」
Seiichi, who has been showing the look of someone in trouble for a while, seems to have been thinking about useless things.
After all the trouble, we have gone beyond the New World and come to be able to reach the door to a new realm.
If he has the time to worry about something so trivial, he should just use it to raise his level at least by one.
However, it would probably be impossible to reach the fourth step class change by the time of the tournament.
Even as I look at the Interfaces of the combat class group, they have only reached the halfway point of the third step class.
「Well, speaking of the first year students of the regular department who have reached the third step class, given things, I think there are only us, though….」
「But most of the seniors at Qilin-sou were at the fourth step class.」
In order to win through the interclub tournament, I guess we would have to reach that realm as well, otherwise it’d be out of question.
There is that much gap in combat power that separates each step of class change.
It’s just that, the ones that deviate from such a framework seem to be those with out of standard classes.
There are three GR class holders in our party, so we may be able to put up a good fight against the higher-ranked opponents.
「Hey, put a little more spirit into it and fuck me!」
Mai, with her hands pressed against the wall, puffs out her cheeks and spits out complaints.
Shizuka, who is standing next to her with her back to me, is panting and throwing her head back, as if my enthusiasm is perfectly transmitted to her.
「My bad, my bad. I’m also overflowing with energy, you see. I haven’t felt this sensation in a long time, or rather….」
「Ah, ahn! That, you can’t… Putting, strange power into that is cheating.」
「Haahn, haahn, cumming… Touma-sa… Ahh!」
Twitching with her ass jerking, Shizuka ends up becoming weak on the knees.
Well, even if she does, I shall pick her up and continue.
「Shizu-nee-sama. She looks feeling very good.」
「Shizu-nee-sama. She’s showing an ahegao.」
「We have to endure it until the next break time!」
「But. Looking at Shizuka-chan’s state, I have a feeling that if we were to get gone like her, we would immediately go ahe, fall and be drained of strength….」
「…T, that’s, err, I’ve been trained a lot by Danna-sama, so I think I’ve come to be able to endure it for a bit.」
Saki-san, who is of the hypersensitive type from the start, sports a style that the more she develops her body, the more her endurance decreases.
I think she is a good match for Otoha-senpai.
Still holding Shizuka’s lower body in my arms, I nail my hips against it as if I’m devouring her.
「… !… Ha, ahn.」
Her tongue is sticking out and her moaning is also interrupted, but shaking her springy ass flesh, Shizuka’s sucking me deep into her.
It’s a rutting act as if we had returned to our Novice days when we first went into the dungeon.
Upon taking in that much EXP, we’re experiencing the invigoration of our body.
I’m not sure how I should describe it, but the sensation of EXP, which had ceased to be absorbed as your level increased, suddenly comes to flow into you after crossing the New World, or something.
It feels as if a fetter has been removed, I guess.
The pressure felt from the stratum floor has also grown heavier and deeper, as if it were a different thing altogether.
I can feel a resistance to proceed ahead.
「Rururuoooruru!!」
A monster that has climbed over the geometrically shaped blocks invades our provisional base area.
The『Nightmare Bull (Gug)』 moves through the partition wall like a lizard, flapping its six limbs.
Its head is split open vertically to form a mouth, which has layers upon layers of fangs.
The form of the creature, which makes one feel a sense of repulsion just by looking at it, is far removed from that of a normal creature that was born and evolved on the above ground.
Many of the monsters that appear on the 21st stratum are ones that look as if they have emerged from a nightmarish world as such.
To put it bluntly, like creatures from the deep sea, they’re monsters that make you think like: Huh, what significance is there in assuming such a form?
「Shaaaaaah!」
「Peperon, tail punch!」
「Blizzard breath.
「Rawr!」
「Shake.」
「Aroo.」
Saki flashes her Water Tiger King Katana to cut off the legs, Peperon swings his tail and knock the huge body flying, Ice Moon Wolf’s (Hati) breath attack envelops the half-dead monster slammed against the partition wall, and Black Sun Wolf (Skol) makes a shake gesture with his front paw.
Skol-kun, who is being hugged, is the soothing personnel.
Even though they are『Realized』 in a palm size, the power of their skill attack seems to remain the same.
The『Nightmare Bull (Gug)』, which is readily reduced to miasma and turns into a crystal, is to be frank a small fry, unlike its creepy appearance.
We’re able to obtain tons of EXP like this, so it feels like a bonus stage.
「Hnn… chu.」
Shizuka, who is sucking the thing in her mouth to clean it up, doesn’t have her attention distracted by the monster that has come to surprise attack us either.
It doesn’t get any smaller even as she licks it, so I hope she’ll release it anytime soon.
「Ah~…u~, somehow, I feel like my womb is warm and fluffy.」
「Yes… You’re, right. It feels as if I’m being dyed even more deeply by Touma-san’s thing… Ah.」
Looks like it’s going to take a bit more time for the two, who are in a trance, to wake up.
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Now then, once again, I try to look around at the 21st stratum of the dungeon.
Shizuka, who seems to be still in a somewhat dreamy state, is snuggled up to me closely, but I don’t think there is any problem.
The other party members also seem to be directing feverish glances at me, but, well, I won’t pay it undue attention.
The purpose of the dungeon dive this time is to raise the level of the main rosters participating in the tournament.
I, Seiichi, Mai, Saki, and then Otoha-senpai from the second-year students are the main entries.
Shizuka, Miharu, and Natsumi are the support personnel of the party.
Incidentally, the substitute members who serve as the reserve have yet to be decided.
「How should I put it, looking closely at it, it’s a scenery that seems to gradually shave off your SAN value, isn’t it?」
「Be it the monster that appear or the floor, to be frank, they’re all creepy.」
「It’s a surrealism structure, or maybe even a mixture of cubism, no…?」
Somehow or another, it reminded me of a painting of a limp and melted clock.
But, well, it is actually that kind of structure.
The maze-like complicated corridors of the partition walls are of the same type as that of the surface level of the dungeon.
There is no separation between the corridor and the chamber, and the space that’s large enough for a dozen large-type dragons (Peperon) to dance is stretching endlessly.
And then, the atrium extending directly above as well as the dead end such as a pitfall must be part of the corridor.
It feels like a 3D maze, not a 2D one.
The dungeon partition walls also have this vivid, strange organic matter feel to them, with geometric crystalline bodies stacked on top of each other.
Even without such surrealistic visuals, there are elements that are different from the stratums up until now.
The structure of the stratum changes with each dungeon dive.
Through the three-dimensional map displayed by Natsumi’s exploration skill, 『Atlas』, we can also tell that the structure is changing in real time.
This makes ordinary mapping meaningless.
The location of the realm gates connecting the different stratum seems to be fixed, but without someone with an『Officer』 type class that has exploration skills, I guess the conquest wouldn’t go the way you want it to.
「Let alone not going the way you want it to, they are said to be indispensable. However, it seems that there are almost no Officer who can go beyond the『New World』, so you see… Haru-chan and Natsu-chan, make sure to be careful not to get kidnapped, okay.」
「Rawr」 「Woof」
On the shoulders of the two, who jump with a start at the warning from Otoha-senpai, the mascot doggies bark heroically, as if to say: Leave the escorting to us.
Their eco-mode manifestation lasts for about half a day, so they are also excellent as bodyguards.
They are monsters where the two’s pockets have become their usual place these days.
If they could freely activate their skills even outside the dungeon, their safety level would rise even higher, but Miharu, Natsumi, and while we’re at it, Otoha-senpai have not yet recovered their SP bars.
Since Asagi-sou has turned into a mysterious dungeon space, I don’t pay it much attention usually.
Considering the timing of when the SP bar sprung back up on Mikan-senpai, as expected, I get the feeling that it has something to do with raid quest conquest.
Looks like it’s not enough to just continue conquering the normal dungeon like this.
It’s just right, so double serving as a training camp for the tournament, how about challenging a raid quest, I wonder?
If it’s a raid quest with a high degree of difficulty, it will even turn into a time compressed training due to the extended time difference.
In the case of an advanced difficulty level with the time difference of six times, in other words, a day there should amount to six days here.
Although you can’t earn EXP through defeating monsters in the raid domain, bonus EXP would be distributed to all participants if you succeeded in destroying the raid domain.
It’s upon encountering a monster I have seen before that I come up with such an idea.
It’s a youkai monster the size of a light truck, with eight knobby jointed legs, and the evil face of a pseudo-deteriorated apparition.
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