Worthless Skill Escape (WN)

Chapter 234

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Chapter 234 – Conquering the Underground Station Part 2

A huge swarm of Adamantite Ants with their dull white metallic exoskeletons were overrun by a lightning magical attack of unprecedented intensity, and Yuto-san quickly reached the boss room on the first floor.

The process was so fast that even words like “with unstoppable momentum” would be an understatement.

He instantly killed a group of Adamantite Ants, which are monsters above level 6000 in S-rank dungeons and are notorious for their high Defense and Mental Strength (magic defense).

Thanks to this, I gained some experience points as a party member, and the Voice of Heaven told me that my level had increased many times over.

Yuto-san is a hero in my eyes.

If I were to compare him to a role-playing game, he would be like a hero.

However, when I saw Yuto-san move through the Shinjuku Station Underground Dungeon with such ease, the opposite word came to mind.

“…The Demon King.”

His appearance, with his immense magical power that scattered the enemies without even a fight, was exactly the image of a Demon King.

“Wait for me here.”

After saying this, Yuto-san enters the room where the floor boss is waiting.

Unlike on the way here, he must have left me at the sanctuary as a precaution.

Before entering, Yuto-san pulls what looks like a card out of the air and throws it next to me.

The card glows, and a girl appears.

She is a girl with a baggy red cape and braided blonde hair.

She was carrying a basket of apples, and she looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

“Alice, please protect Honoka-chan. I don’t think there’s anything to worry about.”

The pretty young girl nodded.

Yuto-san compared the lovely young girl named Alice to me, and then he muttered,

“…Seeing that, you two look like sisters.”

Indeed.

It’s true that we both (?) have blonde hair and blue eyes, and our atmospheres might be a bit similar.

“No, I think Alice is a fake lure.”

Yuto-san looked a little creepy at Alice’s big red hood.

“Fake lure…?”

“…It’s nothing. There are some things you’d better not know.”

When he says something so meaningful, it makes me even more curious!

“Well, don’t worry, as long as you listen to me. As far as levels are concerned, there’s nothing to worry about in this dungeon. …First of all, it’s very unlikely that any monsters will enter the sanctuary.”

Yuto-san mumbles to himself in a low voice, “Unless there is a flood.”

I think he thought he said it so I wouldn’t hear, but I have good hearing, so I can hear him just fine. …Isn’t that what you call a ‘flag’…?

I’m breaking out in a cold sweat inside, but I’m not really worried at all.

Because I think that Yuto-san, the way he is now, would be able to handle anything, even if there was a flood.

Yuto-san went into the floor boss’s room, leaving Alice and me alone.

“Your name is Alice, right? I’m Honoka.”

I tried to introduce myself, but Alice just tilted her head cutely.

It wasn’t that she ignored me, but I don’t think she can speak at all.

The emotions she was able to convey through Empathy were surprisingly flat.

It’s not that she lacks a heart, but like her face, which always has a smile on it, there’s almost no range of change.

If we were to compare it to an electrocardiogram, it would be almost like a straight line with almost no waveform, except for the noise.

If an electrocardiogram was like that, it would mean that the person’s heart wasn’t beating, but the electrocardiogram of Alice’s heart was also in a state of dead stillness that would be impossible for a human to achieve.

“It’s hard to believe that we’re sisters.”

While I was thinking about these things, Yuto-san had already begun his battle with the floor boss.

Or rather, it was already over.

A monster that looked like a queen ant, about ten times the size of an Adamantite Ant, was drowning in the huge mass of water that Yuto-san had created.

Well, it only looked like it was drowning at first.

As the mass of water was compressed into a smaller form, a muffled sound of something being crushed could be heard from the floor boss room.

The water pressure broke and crushed the Queen Ant’s body, and the water pressure that entered through the cracks crushed the soft body tissues inside the shell.

Then, within a few seconds, the body of the queen ant disappeared as black particles.

Normally, these black particles would simply vanish into thin air, but they remained in the water mass in the form of black dots, as if they were unable to escape the water mass that Yuto-san had created.

“Wow, so this is what happens. So if you trap them in the high-pressure water created by magic, you can catch them directly? Or is it okay to just use magic instead of water? If Kandori-san heard about this, I think she’d be really interested in researching it.”

Yuto-san’s question was not directed at me, of course, but was just a monologue.

It is my observation that Yuto-san often talks to himself.

I didn’t have any close friends either, so I got used to playing by myself.

I would name my dolls, create relationships between them, and have them play different roles and talk to each other…

It might be a little different from Yuto-san’s monologue, but in the sense that we both reveal our loneliness, we might be similar.

Instead of struggling with the first floor, Yuto-san finished it without even a real fight.

When it’s so overwhelming, all I can do is laugh dryly.

“I really think he’s going to conquer Ekichika…”

No, I didn’t doubt him because he actually said that he would do it.

But I thought there was something more to it, a sense of tragic determination or a sense of being unable to resist the challenge of the difficulty.

But it wasn’t like that.

Yuto-san really has the ability to clear this Ekichika as if it were a B-rank dungeon.

I felt dizzy.

“Honoka-chan? I’ve already beaten it.”

Yuto-san’s voice brought me back to my senses.

“Yes, I’m fine!”

I replied in a strange way.

“I see. I think we can do the rest of the floors like this, but we don’t know how many there are. If you get tired, don’t hesitate to say so.”

“I feel like I’m already mentally exhausted…”

“Huh? Yeah, after what happened. It’s an S-rank dungeon, after all, so you must be nervous.”

“No, it’s okay! If we go too slow, it’ll be more trouble, so please go at your own pace!”

“Really? If you say so, I’ll just keep going. Serika and the others will be worried.”

I won’t get angry if you mention the name of another woman when it’s just the two of us, and I don’t really have the right, but it bothers me when you say it so naturally.

I had been saved by Yuto-san and was intoxicated with the feeling of being like a princess, and it felt like I had been hit with a bucket of cold water.

“Ugh~!”

I couldn’t help but look at Yuto-san with resentful eyes, “What’s wrong? Are you tired?”

“It’s nothing! If you’re leaving, let’s go quickly! Yuto-san can handle it, right?”

“O-okay.”

I don’t even have the energy to talk about what happened after that.

Yuto-san kills all the monsters that appear along the way, and he almost always defeats the floor bosses easily, so it doesn’t take long for us to finish a floor.

In the sanctuaries on the 7th and 13th floors, I was literally just being carried around as “luggage” by Yuto-san, except for the time when we took a meal and a nap using the camper that Yuto-san pulled out of the Item Box.

By the way, the dungeon boss at the very end of the 19th level, the final boss of the Shinjuku Station Underground Dungeon, was a giant humanoid robot that looked like a futuristic-looking bullet train that had morphed and joined together, reminiscent of an old robot anime.

When the robot, which was about the size of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, appeared in the boss room, which was so huge you couldn’t see the ceiling, I thought it was all over, but,

“It’s the secret dungeon boss! We’re so lucky!”

Yuto-san shouted with joy, and one by one, he summoned monsters from his cards.

There were Hobbit Sumo Wrestlers, chubby Hobbit-like Hotei-sama, and multi-headed dragons made of shadows.

I remember Gennai, who looked like a doctor with a mechanical body because he had helped me before (?).

Alice, as usual, was in charge of guarding me.

What surprised me the most was the multi-headed dragon that split into several copies, but even that was no match for Yuto-san in terms of firepower.

I said earlier that it was like a bullet train, but the robot uses a system like an electromagnetic catapult to launch the cars, so it might be more like a linear motor car.

Yuto-san jumps on top of the giant car as it flies toward him, runs along the top of it, and sometimes jumps on top of another car while unleashing a furious magic attack.

…My eyes couldn’t see any more detail than that.

The Hobbit Sumo Wrestler grabbed the flying Linear Train car with both hands and, after applying centrifugal force like a professional wrestler, threw it back at the robot’s head like a hammer throw.

“Nice, Hobijinkai!” said Yuto-san, and then he began to chant.

Of all the things Yuto-san did, that chant was the only thing I could understand.

Thanks to my mother’s teachings, I have Magic Language skills.

Although I had never heard Yuto-san chant before, it was clear that it was a Magic Language.

However, the content of the chant was nothing short of spectacular.

My mother said that chanting was a curse on the world.

She said that it was a curse on the world and that it distorted natural phenomena.

Just as there is a saying in this world, “Cursing others will only make two holes,” my mother says that magic chants are essentially a double-edged sword.

Even though they have become easier to use in the form of skills, my mother has warned me many times not to forget their true nature.

Yuto-san’s chanting is no longer a curse but an oppression.

It is a thing that rewrites the world directly, using the magic that flows from it.

It skips the tedious step of deceiving the world with a spell and directly rewrites the rules that make up the world to suit itself.

If it weren’t for Yuto-san, it would be a chant that couldn’t escape the charge of pretentiousness.

If someone without the ability to do so were to chant such a spell, it would either fail to work or, worse, result in the world being wiped out.

Then it suddenly hit me.

Yuto-san, who had vanquished most of the monsters he encountered along the way with magic that didn’t require chanting, would have to chant a long spell for what kind of magic?

Before I could suppress a shudder, Yuto-san had finished chanting.

“Electron Deprivation.”

I thought the mighty hammer of God was about to strike the boss, but the effect of the magic was silent.

Could it be… a failure?

No, it wasn’t.

Every part of the boss turned black in an instant and then disappeared.

“…Huh?!” said Yuto-san.

“I was only supposed to take away the electrons from all the atoms that make up the boss… So, as a result of taking away the electrons, all the atoms have been disintegrated…? Hmm, in that case, what happens to the remaining protons and neutrons? Oh, they disappear when the boss is defeated. Is it because the boss’s body was disintegrated to a size smaller than an atom that I couldn’t see the usual black particles…? Hmm, I shouldn’t have done this with my half-baked knowledge, even though I’m not a scientific person.”

And he muttered something rather frightening.

Then, a calm Voice of Heaven was heard.

‘You have conquered the Shinjuku Station Underground Dungeon!’

“Ahaha… you’re joking, right?”

The Voice of Heaven, announcing the achievement of a feat that no human had ever achieved before―the conquest of an S-rank dungeon―was, as usual, a matter-of-fact one with no sense of reality at all.

In this way, Yuto-san became the first human to conquer an S-rank dungeon.

I was carried around in his arms most of the time…

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