Disciple of Immortal

Act 4: Chapter 23: The Threat of The 2nd Trial

We walk into the 《Dragon's Jaw》.

Honestly speaking, I wasn't too keen to participate in the 2nd trial.

I mean, with 1000 points in my hand, I've met the minimum standard to meet the Dragon King.

In short, there was no need for me to take the 2nd trial too.

Though I intended to go back immediately and report to Raigan, he might start yapping some nonsense again if we're back way too fast.

「… You're worrying about that person's mood right?」

Said Pomera while gripping on her cane with a wry smile on her face after seeing me heaved a sigh.

「H-How about we try our best for the time being? I mean, Raigan-san insisted that we try the 《Dragon's Jaw》 after all.」

That makes sense.

If Raigan ended up sulking because we did too poorly in this trial, we might have had a hard time taking the 3rd trial, which would have disturbed our plan to meet the Dragon King.

Then our only choice was to take the trial and come out with a fairly good result.

「Pomera, Kanata, shall we do our best? We can't tease Uncle Raigan too much after all. Philia can feel that Uncle isn't really a bad person.」

Said Philia with an upturned gaze while tugging my sleeve.

Naturally, it's not like I wanted to tease Raigan too.

It is just that this 《Dragon's Jaw》 was away from public gaze and we had no idea what the pawn of 《Ruler of The Sky》 would do in this kind of place.

According to Raigan, this trial would at least take a few days.

If the pawn made their move during our absence, we might be labeled as villains by the time we came out from the 2nd trial.

「And Philia, wants to become Dragon Saint too!」

Said Philia with bright, glowing eyes.

Both Philia and Pomera had only lifted 500-point rock in the previous trial.

They still need another 500 points to become Dragon Saint.

Since I would become the center of attention after Mitsuru crushed himself under the rock, I left the location of the 1st trial in a hurry.

Naturally, I felt that both of them didn't need to gather more than 500 points either but…

「Philia-chan, I don't think you need to become Dragon Saint since you already accepted one as your disciple…」

She just couldn't meet the Dragon King without the Dragon Saint title.

But since both of them accompanied me so far, it would be better if they got 500 points in this 2d trial.

And we still had no information about the 3rd trial either.

『A naturally formed giant killer trap called dungeon… Will show you hell on earth with a crowd of murderous monsters. Not to mention that the structure inside the dungeon will become more and more complicated as time goes on! No one managed to clear it on their first try. It's a test to see how much you can endure constant fear and hunger while traversing inside the 《Dragon's Jaw》! Behold human, this is the essence of the 《Dragon's Trial》!』

… I felt sorry for Raigan since despite his feverish explanation, any dungeon on a lower level than the 《Cocytus》 was child's play for me.

Rather, I felt troubled now since it might be too easy.

Then there was the sound of footsteps approaching us.

When I turned around, the first thing I saw was a goblin with ten eyeballs on its' face, they came at us from the corner of the passage.

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Race: Scout Goblin

Ｌｖ：33

ＨＰ：99/99

ＭＰ：82/82

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This kind of monster popped out right near the entrance huh…

The end seems to be quite long too.

Their eerie face combined with their name made it clear that they were goblins whose job scouting the area.

Maybe they shared the information they saw with those eyes with their comrades using some sort of skill.

Still, I don't think they're a threat to us, even with their special traits.

I looked at the 《Dragon Eye Crystal》 which I got from Raigan.

It was still white.

Raigan said that the color would become closer and closer to red the deeper we went into the dungeon but, I guess we need to go even further than this.

「… Can't we just simply drill a hole into the floor to go deeper?」

In that situation, we could go back immediately once the crystal turned from white to red.

Pomera looked at me with a startled face when I muttered those words.

「K-Kanata-san, are you by chance… Mad at Raigan-san?」

「Nope, I mean, Raigan-san said himself that we should go all out. And if we take our time, I don't think it'll count as going all out. It's not like there's a law that prohibits us from doing that either. Since the real goal of the trial is to go down to the lower floor, restricting our actions is equal to looking down on the spirit of the trial, right?」

I struck at the wall with my hand.

This texture, it seems belongs to an easier type to destroy.

The problem was the thickness.

「Kanata-san, are you by chance just… Making an excuse to go back as fast as possible?」

「I've a promise with Ramiel-san after all, I don't want us to end up in a situation in which we can't confirm the situation in Peach Dragon Village.」

Naturally, even if I didn't want to do that, it didn't mean that I wanted to spend my time leisurely inside the dungeon.

This place wasn't 《Cocytus》 after all, there was no Lunaire and Noble in this place.

And it's not like someone would pissed off if I punched a hole in the floor to do some little experiment either.

If my experiment failed, I could just retake the dungeon earnestly.

「But, Pomera, really doesn't think that breaking things are the correct choice…」

「Okay! Leave it to Philia! Philia doesn't want to get point just by tagging along! Philia will do it!」

Philia then clenched her fists and made a gesture as if she wanted to punch the ground before her.

「Ha~!」

When Philia raised her arms, two huge white arms appeared from the floor.

The additional eye on the hand made it look like an eerie piece of art.

The goblin scout who scouted us from afar had only stood on their place, trembling like a newborn fawn with their mouth gaped.

「Uhm, Philia-chan, stop for a moment. Maybe we have to use a more gentle method, like making it face the other dire—」

「ORAORAORAORA~!」

Said Philia as she swung her little arms.

At that moment, the two objects de art moved together, clenching their fists, and started bashing on the floor.

Each strike was powerful enough to shake the entire dungeon.

The cracks on the floor quickly spread to the wall and ceiling.

「H-HIIII! S-S-Sorry Kanata-san! Sorry for being so rude!」

Pomera who couldn't support her body anymore then leaned on me.

A huge rock fell from the ceiling and hit the floor.

In addition to the shaking of the floor, I also saw the corpse of the goblin scout roll on the floor.

And the shell of another monster right after that.

This alone quake alone might be enough to annihilate all monsters in the dungeon.

「Calm down! Calm down now, Philia-chan! We can't just go and demolish the 《Dragon's Jaw》 that already become an integral part of Raigan-san's peach dragon village.」

In desperation, I grabbed Philia's shoulder and told her to stop.

「Eh, he says that not giving our all is akin to blasphemy to the trial…」

「Sorry Philia-chan, it was my mistake! Please stop for now!」

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