Jayr POV - Tortus, Sunken Ruins of Melusine - 2013

  The sacred air surrounding us disappears, and quickly everyoarts tain their bearing, fastest among them is Hajime, who starts looking around warily, I even see his gaze stop for a few seds on the floating corpse of the monster we had killed before that ued event happehat have the shape of starfish, then he looks at me with his crimson eye and asks, "What the hell was that!?, but sensing that even the mohat were attag us before are rec from their stuate, I simply reply, "We don't have time for an expnation! Just trust me, it isn't something bad...", then sensing many sea snake-like monsters approag us from uer, I yell, "Everyone! On guard!!".

  But, once again, Yue is the fastest to react, and she skewers them using spears of ice, followed by Shizuku, Eri, and Kouki assault that quickly takes care of them all, and seeing how easily we are dealing with these monsters, Hajime starts to mutters, "… Aren't they too weak?", to which Freid, Eri, Yue, Shea, and Tio who have a lot more experiehahers all nod to show their agreement, and at the same time, they raise their guard, even more, expeg some kind of surprise t out at any moment while we tio advance.

  And I too find this level of threat somewhat curious, 'Enemies inside a Great Labyrinth are theoretically strong individually and bee troublesome if more than one appears. However, the starfishes and sea snakes are simir to the mohat attacked us in the sea when searg for this pce, or at least that weak. Truly uing of a Great Labyrinth's monsters, something fishy is going on here... No pun intended... Maybe...'.

  In fact, everyone here has experie least one Great Labyrinth and is tilting their heads in fusion, but we find the ao our doubts ihe huge spa the other end of the passage.

  As soon as our party ehe space, a translut jelly-like body blocks the entrao the passage, making Hajime excims, "…The heck?", and immediately after, Shea, who is c the rear and is the , swings her hammer named Dru to break the wall while yelling, "Let me do it! Uryaaah!!", hitting it with all her strength.

  However, the surface is only scattered a little, but the jelly-like wall didn't break, and following that, the scattered remains stick to Shea's breasts making her raise her voi fusion and shock, "Hyaa! What's with this thing!?", and I notice that the clothes c Shea's breasts are starting to melt, and at the same time, the jelly thing s around her clothing and undergarment, and Shea's voluptuous twin hills begin to beore and more exposed.

  Immediately, Tio makes her move, she yells, "Shea, don't move!", and uses her fmes to perfectly burn off the sprayed jelly thingy without harming Shea, but I notice that a little part of Shea's breasts where the jelly was attached to is swollen red, and seeing that I mutter, "It looked like the jelly blog the entrance has a rather strong acidity", then I prepare for the wave of enemies as we move away from the wall.

  At the same time, Hajime warns the others, "Kh! There's more ing!", and right after, numerous tentacles attack from above, they look sharp like spears, but their appearance is simir to the jelly that is blog the entrance, but once again Yue and Suzu's barriers easily block the enemy assault while Tio, Freid, and Kouki use their magics to vaporize the tentacles, and seeing this spectacle Hajime mutters, "Holy, the bination of Yue and Suzu as defense and Tio, Freid, and Kouki as offense feels like a foul py".

  Indeed our current bination is quite strong, in fact, I holy say that almost all the stro people in this world are gathered here, leaving me o nothing to do if not ae kind of radar and warn them of the dangers, well, I see that Hajime is in the same position, then I notice that Shea took this ce to get closer to him, she sloroaches Hajime's side while empathizing her exposed cleavage.

  Then she makes a truly sly move, as she begins to plead with an upward gnce while blushing, "Excuse me, Hajime-san. It's burnt, so Hajime-san rub it with medie?", Hajime let out a sigh and says, "… Sigh, don't you see our situation?", but Shea doesn't give up and says, "Well, I think it'll be okay because Yue-san, Suzu-, Tio-san, Freid-san, and Kouki are uable, moreover there is Jayr-san watg over everything… Also, if I don't do some appeal in this situation, I will be overshadowed by Kaori-san too…", at the same time, she tio show off the burn on her cleavage.

  But before her plot could succeed, Kaori ts, "Bring the holy ground and healing unto this pce Heaven's Blessing!", then after healing her injury, she smiles nicely, and Shea grieves, "Ahh~, even though it was a ce to get my breasts touched!".

  But this funny interlude is interrupted by Yue who says, "Hm? …Hajime, these jelly seems to melt magic, too", and I look closely ahat what she said is true, I clearly see that parts of Yue and Suzu's barriers are melting, and soon after Tio adds, "Mhm, this ohought so. This o it was strahat the previous fme lost its force. It seems it eves the magic power ihe fme", and Freid o her firm it, "What Tio said is right, then these jelly are capable of melting magic power. It is a strong and troublesome ability. Suitable freat Labyrinth monster. Now this is a dive in a Great Labyrinth!!".

  Then after a few sed, finally, the figure of the mohat is maniputing the jelly shows itself, the thing appears as it is permeating through the small cracks in the ceiling, halts in mid-air, and begin to reshape, into a translut humanoid with fin-like limbs, and its whole body carried innumerable specks sparkling in red with two feelers-like things growing on its head, the figure that is swimming in mid-air with its fin-like limbs, it looks just like a e, well, a teers tall e.

  Without any preliminary movement, tentacles are shot out from the e's huge body, and at the same time, jelly is spraying from its head just like a shower, and without waiting for our instrus Kaori quickly makes her move while yelling, "Yue, attack it, too! Leave the defeo me! Divierruption!", and cast her magic that she ted beforehand using the skill Spell Retention so that she take Yue's p defending the group, allowio go on the offense.

  Nodding at Kaori, Yue moves o Tio and Freaid, and together they fire fme magics towards the huge e, at the same time, Shea also ged Dru t mode and shot at it, while I, Hajime, Eri, and the ohat specialize in close bat of the Hero Party, remain still waiting for the right moment to act.

  The e is hit by all of their attacks, and its body explodes and is scattered in all dires, making Yue and the others raise 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 monster's presence is all over the room…", like my senses, Hajime's perception abilities caught the presence of the monster all over the room, moreover, it is probable that with his Demon Eye, he see that the whole room is impregnated of the monster's magic power, as if the monster is the room itself, as I notice him looking around with a sharp gaze.

  Right after, as if to sense his ay, the e that was scattered in all dires regees in no time, moreover, on its belly there are the starfish-lookalike and sea snakes we entered aed before, they are quickly melting while raising a sizzling sound, at the same time Tio says with a thoughtful expression, "Hmm, it seems the mohis ohought as weak were truly ordinary monsters, and they seem to be this guy's meal… Master. It doesn't matter if it keeps regeing. But where is its magic stone?".

  Hearing Tio's question, Shea adds, "Now that Tio-saio, why 't I see the magic stohough it is transparent?", then she looks at Hajime who has a troubled expression on his face, seeing him standing in sileh that expression, Yue calls him, "… Hajime?", hearing Yue calling him, Hajime scratches his head as what he saw, "… hat guy doesn't have a magic stone."

  His words made everyone else dumbfounded, and Shizuku asks, "N-Nagumo-kun? For it to not have magic stohen, does it mean it isn't a monster?", but Hajime only replies with, "I don't know. However, if I must say, that jelly's body, all of them are magic stones. My Demon Eye saw that thing's whole body is dyed in reddish-bck color. Also, be careful sihis whole room is also dyed in the same color. Or maybe we are already ihat thing's stomach".

  At the same time, Hajime told them about the shog fact, the huge e begin to attack us again, this time, not only did the tentacles attack while the jelly rained down, but its feet ehe sea water and some parts of its body are shoot like a torpedo.

  Hajime quickly takes out a bck, rge rifle from the Treasure Box, the rge rifle has a gas der thing installed where the magazine should be loaded, and also an unbelievably rge caliber, it is a fmethrower, and without hesitation he aims it at the wall and pulls the trigger, spraying a fme of 3,000 °C, burning and peeling of the yer of jelly that was c the wall like aper.

  However, the transparent jelly tio appear from the cracks on the wall no matter how much he burns it off, and finally, it even appears from under his feet., as I hear his shoe soles gee a sizzling sound.

  Meanwhile, the atta the real body by Tio and the others is also increasing in iy, and even the huge e seems to have finally gotten serious as jelly springs up from the entire wall with tremendous momentum, moreover, the water level has also raised without any of us notig, 'At first, it was around the thigh level, but now it has risen to around the waist... Now... Should I make my move ahis or just let them deal with this on their own... Oh well, let me be zy for once, if they are in danger I will make a move...'.

  While I'm zying around, Tio and the others had defeated the huge any times, but the surrounding jelly immediately gathers once again, and the end of the fight is nowhere in sight, the endless regeing jelly is pushing the party to its limit, they still didn't find a way to defeat it, at the same time, their fighting power is getting weaker as more time pass.

  Then I notice that Hajime starts to once more look around, he probably decided to withdraw making me shake my head, 'He totally fot about me... I uand being focused but hell not even asking if I have a solution... Oh well, with his plot armor he will probably find a shortcut so let him do his thing...', and I see that his gaze stops on a cra the ground that gees a whirl, then he yells, "I will at least recover us from this situation. There's also a pder the ground. Well, I don't know where it is ected to, so brace yourselves!", and his harem quickly replies "Nh", "Yes~", "Okay!", while the Hero Party quickly decides to trust their cssmate, meanwhile Tio, Eri, and Freid are looking at me to ask further instru, to which I simply reply with a shrug of my shoulders, making then uand, and reply that they are ready.

  Receiving everyone's answer, Hajime, while turning the fmethrower around to burn the ining jelly, uses Transmutation Magic towards the crack, f it to expand, and gradually, a deep hole is in its pce.

  At the same time, Hajime takes out a set of ders with a length of 15 d a diameter of 3 d gives one each to everyone, while quickly expining what is it and how it works.

  Just like Hajime expins it is a small oxygen der, created using the ore imbued with Spatial Magic using Creation Magic, however, the spaside where the oxygen is stored, only hold enough oxygen to st for around 30 minutes.

  Then Hajime takes out the pile bunker from Treasure Box and shoots the anchors uer to keep it fixed and starts charging it, and following that, without hesitation, he pulls the trigger to break the floor.

  Ihe water, a muffled thundering sound gees and spreads with vibration, and in the moment, the water flows into the hole with tremendous momentum.

  The seawater that had reached around my waist began to flow mightily all of a sudden, but this causes Suzu, Yue, Kaori, Shea, and the often-fotten Endo Kosuke to be swept in by the strong current, then after signaling Tio and Freaid to do the same, I hold Eri, and jump into the hole, a my body be carried by the currents.

  Then after a few seds, I hear a muffled r sound ing from behind me and realize, 'Hajime must have blown something up to slow down that huge e...', then I focus on our current situation.

  The pce we fell into is a gigantic, spherical space with tens of tunnels, that are spoutier with tremendous foraybe it be said that they are flowing from there, a pce with storm-like and messy currents.

  I quickly notice that the strong and swift currents were able to divide us into several smaller groups, Yue tried to trol the current with magic, but it didn't work well because the current is too random, Shea is trying to trol the weight of Dru in cooperation with Tio, meanwhile, Suzu is using her barriers to keep Ryutarou, Shizuku and Kosuke safe and close together, at the same time, I notice that Freid is calmly riding a Shark-like monster with several fins aacles, moreover, those tentacles are holding on Kouki's body in a strangely promising position.

  Then I see that everyone is quickly heading toward different tunnels, and some of their figures couldn't even be seen anymore, those are Shea and Tio, and Suzu's group, meanwhile, I notice that Hajime is struggliween choosiween moving closer to Yue that is lucky being swept in his dire thanks to the currents so that they would be separated o toward Kaori, who is being pulled in another dire all alone.

  Within that moment, Hajime exge gazes with Yue, and he makes a decision, using the weight from the ultra-heavy pressed ore he took out from Treasure Box, Hajime rushes below, and theches Kaori whose eyes are wide open in surprise, but the two are immediately exposed to aronger swift current and together, the two are thrown into a tunnel, while Yue is thrown into another one alone.

  Then, Eri who is calmly enjoying the ride finally asks, "Why do every time we are together with Hajime we end up in some kind of mess? e on! This is the sed Labyrinth we try to quer with him and again we end up falling into these rapid currents! What is he? A jinx!?", and looking at the tuhat keeps getting closer I only say, "That is the power of plot, my dear... Remember that he is the MC of this world, so everywhere he goes will have some kind of problem... I'm already gd that Erisen didn't start sinking the mome his feet on it... Or that his presence didn't awaken some Eldrich horror... yet...".

  Jayr POV - Tortus, Sunken Ruins of Melusine - 2013

  Oher side of the tunnel, we find ourselves on a pure-white sand beach, there is nothing else around us, but I see densely packed mangrove-like trees in the distance, and the surface of the waving sea high in the sky, the seawater is like a barrier, preventing any intruder from getting in or out, basically we are inside one big uer room.

  Eri is also looking around and she mutters, "It is quite a vast room...", then she looks at me and asks, "What do you think is going to happe?", I quickly check what I remember and reply "If I remember well, noill see mana-based illusions of Tortus' history involvi. The illusions will then turn hostile and attack us and only be destroyed with mana... You know the usual...", then I pull out a dry set of clothing and add, "Let's ge, these wet clothes are unfortable...".

  And so we quickly start to ge, but then as I undress, I sense Eri stop and feel her looking at me with an intense gaze, I turn and look at her and she fixes her gsses and simply says, "Go on, I'm enjoying the show...", and I say, "e on, it is something that you have seen many times...", but at the same time as I say that, I also start to take various poses, then suddenly Eri asks, "Jayr... When will those illusions appear? Do we have time for a little workout?", but I quickly finish dressing then flick Eri on her forehead and say, "No horny... At least not in the Labyrinth...", then I give her chaste kiss on her lips and add, "But after I'll make you beg for mercy... Now ge your clothes a's quickly end this...".

  Eri nods and quickly ges her wet clothes for the dry ohen we calmly walk toward the jungle in the distance, and after advang along the pure-white sandy beach, we ehe jungle.

  The derees and bushes are cut by Eri's Undead Puppets that are opening the way, while I and Eri calmly follow behind while chatting, "This pce is really beautiful, if it wasn't one of the Great Labyrinth, this could be a great pce for a date...", says Eri while holding my arm, and swatting aoisonous spider with my free hand, I reply, "e on, we had some good date in Erisen and Ankaji... both are equally charming cities...", she nods but then she holds me tighter and says, "True... but I also have to worry about that pervert dragon... She still wants to be in her word: "Dominated until even her soul submits"... I lost t of how many sparring sessions you had that ended with her climaxing... Though after that, you e to me to vent your accumuted frustration on me...", and at that moment a silly smile appears on her face while she is lightly blushing.

  Then, Eri stops and looks at me she asks with a genuinely curious expression on her face, "From what I tell, even if she is a pervert, her feelings for yenuine, like me she is always ready to support you and fight by your side, moreover she strongly rejeyone who speaks ill of you and doesn't even throw a g the uys... so why you do not make a move on her?", I let out a sigh and say, "I know that Tio is a wonderful woman, and it is true that I'm attracted to her, after all, after our sparring, I always end up with a massive ere, but I do not want to rush this time. Until now all my retionships started in some kind of spark-to-inferno-like manner, and I was very lucky that nothi wrong... So now that I I want to take my time without rushing and see how it goes...".

  While we were chatting, we tio move through the jungle, while still being careful of our surroundings, and soon we are out of the jungle and what we find in front of us is a rocky area ahead of the jungle where several partly rotted sailing ships are lodged.

  The sailing ships are around a hundred meters ih at the lowest, and in the far distahere is an even bigger oh at least three hundred meters ih.

  Looking at this se, Eri asks, "This… isn't this the so-called ship's graveyard? Then will the illusion you talked about finally start?", I nod and reply, "Yup, but I think we have to ehe graveyard to make the illusion start...", and so we prepare, I pull out my on, while Eri summons from her shadow all the Undead Puppet capable of using magic to attack, then we look at each other aer the ship's graveyard.

  We advance by passing through the gaps between rocks, sometimes passing over them, while at other times, we walk on the ships, and as we move Eri ents, "There are only battleships here...", and I nod at that, then I throw a gnce around and think, 'The ships in this graveyard don't have ons located at the starboard side like those battleships oh. Even so, they are battleships because there are marks of a fierce battle on all of the ships. From the appearance of the ships, they seemed to have received magic attacks. Some have their masts ly cut, burnt, carbonized decks, arified ropes as... They didn't have any on, so they used led magic to defeat the enemies which is a battle method imaginable from the marks that remained...'.

  Then, when we reach the halfoint of this ship's graveyard, all of a sudden, we hear the shout of mahe surrounding sery begins to distort and before we are aware of it, we find ourselves already on a ship's deck, above the vast o, seeing this, Eri smiles and says, "Finally I've grown bored of waiting... It's time food old massacre!"

  At the same time, I look at our surroundings, we aren't in the ship's graveyard we were before, but now there are hundreds of sailing ships divided into two groups, fronting each other, above these ships there are people raising their ons while shouting.

  , a big spark rise into the sky, geing firework-like loud voices followed by the hundreds of ships moving out simultaneously, the fleet on the side of the ship we ride on also moves out after the firework rose, and when the ships approach a certain distahey use the momentum to ram the other ships using their bodies, while magic is also fired.

  Fme bullets are fired apanied by r sounds and create holes in the ships' bodies, huge tornadoes advance aiming at the masts, and the sea's surface froze, stopping the ships, and bullets of gray-colored spheres instantly petrifying everything, even the deck we are standing on is hit by the fme bullets and begin to bze up grandly, and soon after, the ship's crews immediately activate magic to draw up the sea water ainguish the fire.

  It is literally a battlefield where innumerable people and ships fight, then I hear Eri o me mutter, "Well if the Liberator wants to show how the people fought for the gods in the past, I have to admit that they ... Even I'm shocked by their obsession and killing i...", while she said this, I sense some fire bullets ing toward us, and without hesitation, I use the Gatling Form to shoot them down with Ice magical bullets made of Sagitta Magica, Series Gcialis, then I say, "Okay let's destroy them... Remember magic attacks only".

  And so, I start to relentlessly shoot everything in sight, mowing down any and all the enemies in my line of fire, while Eri, literally started to unleash hell on this poor mana-illusion, with her Undead Pupped and dark magi fact, she began to go all out once she realized that even some simple debuff magic is still able to destroy the mana-illusion, so she began to unleash a torrent of weak status indug magics, all while the enemies are yelling in frenzy, with bloodshot eyes, while scattering saliva around, "For the God!", "Long live! Ehit-samaa!", "Pagans! Die for od!".

  And soon, I notice that all the soldiers are now fog on us, no matter on what side they were, there is only one enemy here, us, but even with their bined might and hey are no match for us, the firepower of my on is too overwhelming and the cost is negligible, while Eri has a literal army of Undead Puppet dealing with the mana-illusions, but in the end, I got annoyed and decided to end this by releasing a full-power Omnipotens Dis (Almighty Push), creating a repulsive force which pushes away everything in a radius of 500 meter, ships, magics, even the sea below us, everything is blown away by my spell.

  In the end, the big fleets of the two tries are annihited by the two of us in only 25 minutes.

  Odyin