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.