Worthless Skill Escape (WN)

Chapter 225

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Chapter 225 – The Corridor of Fixation Part 1

After leaving the hospital with a bad taste in my mouth, I came to the Okutama Lake Dungeon with the insufferable Royal Hero.

“This is so easy, it makes me yawn!”

For a hero ranked number one in the national rankings, the Okutama Lake Dungeon, which is now only an A-ranked dungeon, is probably no threat at all.

Even as an impromptu two-person party of just Hayato Harukawamiya and myself, the monsters were nothing more than an annoying obstacle.

…I guess it would be the same even if I wasn’t there.

Even if it was just Hayato, it wouldn’t be a problem.

In fact, I didn’t get involved in any of the fights along the way.

Even if it was just me here, the result would probably not have been much different.

However, this member of the royal family is far superior when it comes to being used to fighting.

There is no point in me fighting monsters when I can automatically level up in the dungeon I created inside my own body.

I have no interest in exploring dungeons or fighting monsters.

The system of the world that dungeons have created seems to be primarily focused on fulfilling the childish heroic fantasies of savage men.

Even before the beginning of human history, humans have repeatedly committed acts of aggression and plunder.

In the modern age, we can’t just go around committing such barbaric acts, but in dungeons, we can fully satisfy these primitive pleasures.

It is a system that runs through certain types of video games, designed as a substitute outlet for the self-actualization desires of men who have “failed” in life, and needless to say, it is something to be despised.

I have no interest in being manipulated by such a system and fighting monsters to the death.

However, it seems that the royal hero in front of me is not like that.

He rages, rages, rages.

His fighting style, which deliberately exposes his weaknesses to an opponent who is clearly far below him in rank, seems to have nothing to do with rationality at first glance.

However, even in a fighting style that seems to be nothing more than the release of irrational energy, there are times when you can glimpse a cold, calculated rationality that is designed to win the fight.

On such occasions, he will swear, “Damn, this is so boring,” and throw himself into a suicidal attack.

However, the monsters in the A-rank dungeon do not have the power to cause Hayato’s destruction.

With a disappointed look on his face, Hayato swings his sword and cuts the Sahagin’s body in half, along with the harpoon it was holding.

“Oh, we have finally arrived.”

Hayato, who runs through the dungeon with overwhelming agility, has also followed me with his agility.

To my surprise, Hayato’s Agility seems to be higher than mine. It’s higher than mine, which is over 220,000.

However, Hayato stops every time he fights, so it wasn’t to the extent that I couldn’t catch up.

“I’m surprised you could keep up. If you weren’t such a liberal, I would have invited you to the party.”

“I would have refused.”

“Heh, that’s right.”

Although he received a refusal that even showed my hostility, Hayato didn’t seem to mind.

“Was the boss Mizuchi? …Hey, isn’t that the boss of the secret dungeon? Appraisal―it’s a Yamata no Orochi puppy! This is interesting!”

The boss in the boss room wasn’t the Mizuchi I’d heard about.

Instead, it was a multi-headed dragon the size of a building with five long necks.

It seems to be called a pup, but it already has a lot of power.

Seeing it, Hayato spoke to the void around his shoulder.

“Yo, Susanoo! Wasn’t that your mortal enemy?”

“Don’t compare it with that impostor. I defeated a huge adult with a body the size of a mountain.”

Along with the voice, a figure appeared in the void.

It was a young man with long hair tied up in an ancient horned hairstyle, wearing a simple loincloth.

He was about the same height as Hayato, but unlike Hayato, who had the body of a lean carnivore, his entire body was covered in bulging muscles.

The way his muscles are built is clearly abnormal.

He must have some kind of genetic predisposition that causes his muscles to develop abnormally.

With his angular face, square jaw with prominent stubble, and thick eyebrows, he looks like a rugged warrior with a high testosterone level.

If I had to describe him in one word, it would be “heroic man.

Even just the characteristics I’ve listed would be enough to make him look strange, but there’s another element that makes him look decidedly strange.

The man was floating in the air.

He hovered behind Hayato’s shoulders like a ghost.

His body was translucent, and in the distance, the young form of Yamata no Orochi could be seen, waiting in the boss room.

“After all, it’s only an A-rank dungeon. As expected, the ‘real one’ doesn’t appear, does it?”

“If the real Yamata no Orochi were to appear in this world right now, it would be terrible, wouldn’t it? In this day and age, there aren’t many people who could defeat it…”

“But I’m here, aren’t I?”

“You are an exception, Hayato. Ah, there’s another exception. The man who is the favorite of the ‘Vague God’. Or rather, the phantom dragon that that man has summoned…”

“So that’s the rumored summoner, Yuto Kurashiki. Are you saying that he’s reached a level where he can even eat gods?”

“Well, I don’t know. Why don’t you get rid of that thing quickly? To be honest, it’s really annoying. Having my mythological nemesis imitated by a dungeon-like thing…”

“Then why don’t you do it?”

“Hmph, it’s not worth it.”

And with that, the man disappeared.

If the man’s self-proclaimed identity, or the name given to him by Hayato, is correct, it would mean that he is Susano-no-Mikoto from Japanese mythology.

Is he just a fraud, a dungeon imitation, or is he the real thing?

…As long as that person believes in him, he must be the real one.

I have heard that the division of speech he created in this country was meant to divide the hearts of the people and thereby weaken the power of the “vague god” that had manifested in this country.

The “vague god” is apparently the deity enshrined in a mysterious shrine that occasionally appears in the dungeon.

According to his explanation, the god of this country, who was losing followers and on the verge of extinction, regained his form when a foreign object, the dungeon, appeared.

That person has the ability to be a spiritualist.

It seems that that person had already sensed the existence of the god who had appeared in this land.

However, the existence of the “vague god” was inconvenient for that person.

If the faith was centered on a half-baked existence with limited powers, there was only so much that could be done.

However, when the object of faith appeared, people’s hearts would be calmed to a certain extent.

And once people’s minds have calmed down, their desire for the “solution” he has prepared will fade.

For someone who wants to fulfill all the people’s hidden desires, the “Vague God” is nothing more than a compromise solution.

Therefore, he decided to weaken the power of the god.

Of course, it wasn’t as easy as it sounds, but he achieved a certain result.

One of the results was the appearance of the individual gods, such as the one Yuto just summoned.

Unlike the vague god that was based on people’s vague imaginations and expectations, the individual gods are gods with personalities that can be identified by name.

It seems that the myths that have existed in this country since ancient times played a leading role in the formation of these personalities.

The emergence of “individual gods” is said to have weakened the power of the “vague god” as a god of this country.

At the same time, the “individual gods” have taken root in (what he calls) “this crazy modern age” as beings that are more like summoned beasts to be used by explorers than objects of faith.

…Yuto Kurashiki also used an “individual god”.

Does this mean that Yuto Kurashiki also has the same power that Hayato used to summon Susanoo?

It was said that the power Hayato used to manifest Susanoo is not a skill of this world…

Does that mean that that obnoxious Black Tengu, the summoner who summoned a dragon and had it intercept the missiles, has a power that rivals that of this royal family member who advocates traveling to other worlds?

“Well, I’ll go clean up.”

Hayato enters the boss room without any pretense, his hands on his shoulders and his arms around his body.

I follow him.

I have no intention of fighting alongside Hayato, and I don’t think there is any need to prepare for anything.

I just moved because there was no point in standing in front of the boss’s room.

Almost at the same time that I entered the boss room, the five heads of the young Yamata no Orochi were torn off at once.

Of course, this was Hayato’s doing.

Hayato dismantled the dungeon boss at a speed that even my Agility couldn’t keep up with.

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