Comprehensive Manga: The Master is not here today

On the way to the operation, Itsuzumi's participation quickly achieved initial results. He noticed the shapeshifter ambushing in front of the road in advance, avoiding a troublesome battle, and he also did not encounter too many monsters.

Due to the encounter with Julang's team and the actions in Golden Township, there was not much time left today. After advancing for a while, everyone chose a relatively safe place to camp. It was expected that they would be able to reach Leo the next day. The place where Si and others were wiped out before.

But when she woke up the next morning, Fujimaru Ritsuka suddenly felt that the pillow was a little uncomfortable, as if something hard had been stuffed into it. After groping around for a while, she reached into the pillow and found a pile of shells.

"Isn't this a dream demon?"

Seeing this, Laos looked a little surprised, while Faline looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka with concern and said:

"Ritsuka, did you have a nightmare last night?"

"No."

Fujimaru Ritsuka shook his head, and his energy seemed as full as ever. Laos scratched his head in confusion and said:

"Did they just invade and not have time to act?"

Although the Dream Demon itself does not have any offensive capabilities, it is a relatively dangerous monster.

The Dream Demon, also known as Mirage, belongs to the dragon species. It swallows people's emotions by giving people constant nightmares, and eventually makes the adventurer haggard and die of heart failure.

At the same time, Fujimaru Ritsuka thought about it and felt that the reason might be that there were too many people in her dream, so the dream demon had no chance to attack. Of course, it's possible that the dream demon was behind it, but a certain cave king had already taken care of it for her.

...Well, thank you anyway.

All in all, these dream monsters became breakfast delivered to the door. Sensi stewed them with butter and red wine. They were delicious, but Itsumi, as a new member, was very resistant to this.

"I don't want to eat monsters!"

Izumi frowned and resisted resolutely. Fortunately, they had just obtained supplies from the villagers of Golden Township and still had a lot of food reserves in hand. Therefore, Sensi didn't say anything and made a normal meal for her alone. breakfast.

However, Leos reminded:

"Although it doesn't matter now, after all the supplies in our hands are used up, we will eventually have to eat monsters to survive. You'd better be mentally prepared in advance."

"don't want!"

Even if he said this, Itsuzumi still refused resolutely:

"If you eat monsters, you will get strange diseases and eventually turn into monsters. I don't want that!"

"Hey, really?"

Matthew's movements paused, and his expression suddenly became a little panicked. Fortunately, Leos immediately explained:

"Of course not."

"In the final analysis, monsters are just a kind of creature, no different from cows, sheep, and pigs. People will not become cows just because they eat beef, and of course they will not become monsters just because they eat monsters."

"Mandrake is a commonly used material for making potions, and treasure insects often appear as embellishments in the dishes of high-class banquets... Human consumption of monsters is actually quite widespread, but many people are not aware of it yet."

"That's it."

Fujimaru Ritsuka nodded suddenly. At this time, Maluciel asked curiously:

"Speaking of which, Ritsuka, why do you want to eat monsters?"

In fact, Itsuzumi's reaction is normal in their opinion. If they were not forced to do so, they would not try to get used to eating monsters. Leos and Sensi are the weird types in their opinion.

Therefore, the performance of Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mashu seemed somewhat abnormal to them.

"Um……"

Regarding this question, Fujimaru Ritsuka thought for a while and said:

"To put it bluntly, people in our hometown will eat anything that is not poisonous. If it is delicious, even if it is poisonous, people will find ways to poison it."

"Is this like this?"

The corners of Maluciel's eyes twitched slightly, and she always felt that the folk customs in their hometown were a bit tough. Is this why they are so strong?

Chilchak thought about the location of Fujimaru Ritsuka's hometown: It sounds like eating habits that are forced to form in places with limited resources. Is it the Western continent? Or speaking of the northernmost region... something doesn’t seem right.

Let’s get back to the point.

After breakfast, everyone continued to set off, and after another half-day of hard work, they finally arrived at the location where Laos and his party were originally destroyed, and successfully found their luggage.

Most of the supplies in their luggage were intact, and only the remaining food was missing. Chilchak guessed that the monsters might have rummaged through it and eaten all the food in their luggage.

At the same time, they also encountered an ice golem, but there was nothing to say about the battle. Fujimaru Ritsuka was killed with a stick.

The only thing worthy of praise was that they found a lot of frozen blade fish in the body of the ice golem and solved another lunch. It was rare for Itsumi to accept this type of monster.

Maybe this is the attraction of fish to cats.

Malucile also used Namari's clothes to change a thick coat for Izatsumi. It looked very suitable. Izumi looked a little disgusted on the surface, but she actually put it on honestly.

After lunch, everyone continued on their way, but the next step was an unknown road that Leos and others had not explored, so the speed of movement obviously slowed down a little.

After another half day, everyone finally left the long waterway and suddenly entered a very open, dark space without any light.

Maluciel and Faline used illumination to illuminate the surroundings. Only then did everyone see clearly the numerous huge and towering stone pillars standing in front of them, supporting the open space in front of them, while the depths were still pitch black, as if there was no end.

Leos guessed:

"This area should be the reservoir built by the ancient dwarves, right?"

From the perspective of the building structure, walking here means that they are not far from the entrance to the seventh underground floor.

"But I don't know how to go."

Qilchak looked at the magnets swinging around in his hand and said speechlessly:

"The magnet has failed. It's really troublesome. Dwarves love to do such disgusting things!"

"Maybe it's because this place used to be a defensive stronghold? But as for the dwarves..."

Laos seemed to have thought of something and tried to ask Sensi:

"Sensi, do you know of any way to get through here?"

What he didn't expect was that Senxi actually nodded and said:

"If nothing else, there will be some special marks on the surrounding pillars, and we should be able to get the general direction from those marks."

"Eh?"

Chirchak was a little surprised and said:

"How do you know?"

Sensi said firmly:

"There must be a place like this. After all, not every dwarf has an excellent sense of direction, so there will be special codes to point out the direction for companions."

Everyone looked at each other and decided to follow Sensi's instructions and start exploring the surrounding pillars. Sure enough, they soon found some special marks as the other party said.

At the same time, Malucile made an unexpected discovery during her exploration——

"Everyone, come and take a look! There seem to be footprints of a large monster here!"

After hearing this, everyone immediately came to Malucile and found a series of large footprints on the snow, about one meter in length, which looked like the claw marks of some large bird monster. In addition, there were Some scattered feathers.

"Um……"

After pondering for a while, Laos judged:

"Looks a bit like a gryphon's paw prints."

"!"

As soon as these words came out, Senxi's expression suddenly stiffened for some reason.