Except Kaori, all of the party members agreed with Hajime's mutter.
Enemies inside a Great Dungeon were theoretically strong individually and became troublesome if more than one appeared. However, the starfishes and sea snakes were similar to the demonic beasts who attacked them in the sea once they got out of the sea volcano, or at least that weak. Truly unbefitting of a Great Dungeon's demonic beast.
Excluding Kaori who didn't know much about Great Dungeon, everyone was tilting their heads, but their answer would be shown inside the huge space on the other end of the passage.
"...The heck?"
As soon as Hajime's party entered the space, translucent jelly-like body blocked the entrance to the passage.
"Let me do it! Uryaaah!!"
Immediately, Shia, who was at the rear, swung Doryukken to break the wall. However, the surface only scattered, but the jelly-like wall didn't break. Following that, the scattered remains stuck on Shia's breasts.
"Hyaa! What's with this thing!?"
Shia raised a voice of confusion and shock. When Hajime's party turned around, the clothing around Shia's breasts was melting. The jelly thing wrapped around her clothing and undergarment, and Shia's voluptuous twin hills began to become more and more exposed.
"Shia, don't move!"
Immediately, Tio perfectly burnt the sprayed jelly-thingy. A little part of Shia's breasts where the jelly was attached to was swollen red. It looked like the jelly blocking the entrance had a rather strong acidity.
"Kh! There's more coming!"
Hajime warned, and right after they moved away from the wall of jelly, numerous tentacles attacked from above. They looked sharp like spears, but their appearance was similar to the jelly that was blocking the entrance.
"Honestly, the combination of Yue as defense and Tio as offence feels like a foul play."
An impregnable defense and at the same time a one-sided offense. That's why Hajime could do nothing but mutter so. Seeing it as a chance, Shia was slowly approaching Hajime's side while empathizing her exposed cleavage. Truly sly, as she began to pleading with upward glance while blushing.
"Excuse me, Hajime-san. It's burnt, so can Hajime-san rub it with medicine?"
"... Sigh, don't you see our situation?"
"Well, I think it'll be okay because Yue-san and Tio-san are unbeatable... Also, if I don't do some appeal in this situation, I will be overshadowed by Kaori-san too..."
Shia said while approaching Hajime to show off the burn on her cleavage.
Then,
"Bring the holy ground and healing unto this place 'Heaven's Blessing.'"
Kaori healed Shia's injury while smiling nicely. "Ahh~, even though it was a chance to get my breasts touched!," Shia grieved while everyone was looked at her coldly.
"Hm? ...Hajime, these jelly seems to melt magic, too."
While he was giving the grieving Shia a cold look, Yue said to him. When he looked at it, he could see parts of Yue's barrier melting.
"Mhm, this one thought so. This one felt it was strange that the previous flame lost its force. It seems it even melt the magic power inside the flame."
If what Tio said was right, then these jelly was capable of melting magic power. It was a strong and troublesome ability. Suitable for a Great Dungeon's demonic beast.
Though it must haven't heard what Hajime thought of it in his mind, finally, a figure of a demonic beast that was manipulating the jelly had appeared.
The thing appeared as it was permeating through the small cracks in the ceiling, halted in mid-air, and began to reshape. A translucent humanoid with fin-like limbs, and its whole body carried innumerable specks sparkling in red with two feelers-like thing growing on its head. The figure that was swimming mid-air with its fin-like limbs was just like a Clione. Well, a ten meters tall Clione was nothing but a monster, after all.
Without any preliminary movement, tentacles were shot out from the Clione's huge body. At the same time, jelly was spraying from its head just like a shower.
"Yue, attack it, too! Leave the defense to me! "Divine Interruption"!"
Using the derived skill, "Delayed Activation", Kaori activated the "Divine Interruption" she chanted beforehand. Nodding at Kaori, Yue went to Tio, and together they fired flame towards the huge Clione. Shia also changed Doryukken to firing mode and shot it.
The Clione was hit by all of their attacks, and its body exploded and scattered in all directions. One hit kill!, Yue and the other two raised a satisfied expression, but Hajime let out a warning to them.
"Not yet! Its presence is still here. Kaori, maintain the barrier... What's with this, the demonic beast's presence is all over the room..."
Hajime's perception abilities caught the presence of the demonic beast all over the room. Moreover, everywhere his Magic Eye see was dyed in reddish black color, as if the demonic beast was the room itself. It was a situation he had never encountered before, so naturally Hajime's eyes sharpened.
Right after, as if to sense his anxiety, the Clione that was scattered in all directions was regenerated in no time. Moreover, on its belly were the starfish-lookalike and sea snakes they encountered and defeated. They melted while raising sizzling sound.
"Hmm, it seems the demonic beasts this one thought as weak were truly ordinary demonic beasts, and they seem to be this guy's meal... Master. It doesn't matter if it keeps regenerating. But where is its magic stone?"
"Now that Tio-san mentioned it, why can't I see the magic stone although it is transparent?"
Agreeing to Tio's assumption, Shia was now looking at Hajime, but Hajime had a troubled expression while he looked for the location of magic stone of the huge Clione.
"... Hajime?" When Yue called him, Hajime scratched his head and reported what he saw.
"... None. That guy doesn't have magic stone."
His words made everyone dumbfounded.
"H-Hajime-kun? For it to not have magic stone... Then, does it mean it isn't a demonic beast?"
"I don't know. However, if I must say, that jelly's body, all of them are magic stone. My Magic Eye saw that guy's whole body is dyed in reddish black color. Also, be careful since this whole room is also dyed in the same color. Or maybe we are already inside that guy's stomach."
The same time Hajime told them about the shocking fact, the huge Clione began to attack them again. This time, not only did the tentacles attack while the jelly rained down, but its feet entered the sea water and some parts of its body were fired like a torpedo.
Hajime took out a black, large rifle from the "Treasure Box." The large rifle had a gas cylinder thing installed where the magazine should be loaded, and also an unbelievably large caliber.
That was natural. After all, it wasn't a rifle...
FWOOOOSH!!
It was a flamethrower. The Flame ore in tar form made the flamethrower sprayed flame of 3,000 °C. It was not aimed at the huge Clione, and neither at the tentacles nor the sprayed jelly. It was aiming at the "wall" that was giving reddish black reaction. The Clione was left to Yue and the other two.
Maybe because the huge Clione had a mimetic ability, the wall seemed to be not out of ordinary, but the flame released by Hajime burnt it and peel it off from the wall just like a wallpaper. Hajime was slightly relieved the one on the wall was not another huge Clione.
However, the transparent jelly kept appearing from the cracks on the wall no matter how much he burnt it, and finally it even appeared from under his feet. His shoe soles generated sizzling sound.
The attack on the real body by Yue and the other two was also increasing in intensity, and even the huge Clione seem to have finally gotten serious as jelly sprung up from the entire wall with a tremendous momentum. Moreover, the water level had raised before the party were aware of it. At first, it was around the thigh level, but now it has risen to around the waist. As for Yue, her chest area was already soaked by the water.
Yue and the other two had defeated the huge Clione so many times, but the surrounding jelly immediately gathered, and the end of the fight was nowhere in sight.
It was a terrible situation if they didn't find a way to defeat it, and they would die by drowning. While their fighting power was being reduced, they wouldn't be able to keep besieging the huge Clione. Even if they cast barrier magic and entered the submarine, it would melt unless they find the way to defeat it.
As such, Hajime decided to withdraw. However, all of the passages had been blocked by the jelly. Hajime frantically looked around. Then, he discovered a crack on the ground which generated a whirl.
"I will at least recover us from this situation. There's also a place under the ground. Well, I don't know where it is connected to, so brace yourselves!"
"Nh."
"Yes~."
"Understood."
"Okay!"
Receiving everyone's answer, Hajime, while turning the flamethrower around to burn the incoming jelly, used "Transmutation" towards the crack. The crack was forced to expand and gradually, a deep hole was opened.
While still underwater, Hajime took out a cylinder with length of 15 cm and diameter of 3 cm. In the middle was the mouthpiece part of a snorkel tube. It was small oxygen cylinder. It was created using the ore imbued with Spatial magic using Creation magic. Thus, the space inside where the oxygen was put into, expanded just like "Treasure Box."
However, while he was making preparation in Elisen, Hajime had prioritized the broken and lost equipment. In addition, it was hard for him to use Spatial magic so the space created was much narrower compared to "Treasure Box." Because of that, these small oxygen cylinder can only hold out for around 30 minutes.
Setting the time limitation in the corner of his mind, Hajime repeatedly "transmuted" the water, and before long, Hajime took out pile bunker from "Treasure Box" once there was no more reaction on the ground. After fixing the anchor under the water, it charged.
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