In order to save my favorite prostitute.
Heading to the labyrinth to hunt bee-type monsters.
Yerubaru suggests forming a temporary party to his juniors.
Others are hunting monsters they saw during practical training.
Forming temporary parties with close friends.
It’s scary and troublesome to achieve the daily quota alone.
Therefore, some form temporary parties to hunt monsters as a party.
Inside the grounds, people disappear one after another, flowing from recruitment to temporary party formation and then to the labyrinth.
One of the Guild executives watches this from a window.
“The money in the vault… but it’s more problematic if people die in the labyrinth…”
He looks at the Black Pillar to the west.
There is a demon god within that malevolent interior.
The records left by the founders of Labyrinth City also mention demon gods, or enemies connected to them.
By continuously defeating monsters in the labyrinth, they prevent the resurrection and weaken the demon gods.
“Oh, what brings you here?”
“Ah, no. I was just wondering how things would go on the first day of changing the Guild’s policy. I couldn’t help but feel anxious.”
“Please don’t retire from your executive position just yet♪?”
He is told this, with pats on the shoulder.
“We’re short-handed, you see.”
“Also… *whispers* Will we get paid the same…?”
“That’s the biggest problem, isn’t it?”
“Indeed, the dead have done something terrible.”
***
Guild [Unchanging Knowledge].
Emergency meeting.
Irritated by the change in schedule from the morning, curious, and listlessly wondering if the lost time has value.
Various managers attend the sudden summons.
Tardy individuals will be reprimanded once the meeting is over…
“You’ve all gathered, haven’t you.”
“……………………”
The agenda, of course, is the issue of conflict between guilds established within Labyrinth City.
“Is the labyrinth going to be disturbed again?”
“Which guilds are in conflict?”
“Will we crush them? Or assist them? What’s the return?”
Should we interfere?
Or should we remain observant and assess the situation?
The conference room debates two opposing opinions.
“Then, we will intervene while observing the situation.”
“Agreed.”
The emergency meeting concluded safely, and it was dismissed.
“Guild Master.”
“Yes?”
Only the Guild Master and the person in charge of labyrinth攻略 remained in the conference room.
They have a rather sinister discussion.
They leave the conference room with mutually satisfied expressions.
***
Inside the labyrinth, in the shallow area.
Temporary parties are continuously trying to achieve their daily quotas.
They spread out fan-like from the entrance in search of their respective prey.
“Found one♪!”
“Damn, don’t fall behind!”
It’s a competition for monsters that fall into the “fodder” category.
Monsters that are attacked by a group, if they have no chance of winning, they flee for a moment.
The direction of escape is towards an area where other monsters are lurking.
In other words, they use a human-like “train” to pull monsters to other monsters and join the battle in the ensuing chaos.
Wicked. Cunning.
Still, the advantage of numbers prevails.
“Alright♪ Let’s go back, everyone♪”
“Go back to the Guild quickly♪♪”
“Damn, damn. Next. We’ll definitely hunt one next time.”
“Ooh.”
Both kinds of monsters were hunted.
Yerubaru’s party, heading towards the middle layer, is urged by their juniors, who look enviously at the bustling temporary parties.
They aim for the forest where the swarm of their target, the bee-like monsters, nests.
There are bees on rocky terrain, but the forest was chosen because there are more places to hide from each other, so they decided on the forest even for the same distance.
Buzzzzzz
As soon as they enter the forest, the sound of vibrating wings echoes everywhere.
The juniors repeatedly look behind them, wondering if there are any on the path they came from.
“It’s okay. They act in large groups. There are no separate detachments. Just be careful of the front and sides.”
Even if other monsters appear, I can go around while you buy time.
Yerubaru, in order to obtain the venom sacs of bee monsters, which are raw materials for a medicine to help his favorite prostitute give birth, advances without hesitation towards the source of the sound.
He pushes through the pathless wilderness.
He discovers scouting bees flying in a steady route.
He quickly hides behind a tree and estimates the distance to the target swarm of bees.
~~~🐝🐝🐝~~~
~~~🐝Beehive🐝~~~
~~~🐝🐝🐝~~~
~~~🐝🐝🐝~~~
～～～🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲～
～～～🌲🌲🐝🌲🌲～
～～～🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲～
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■■■■■■■■■■■■
■■■■■■■■■■■■
■■■■■Forest■■■■■
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It’s in three layers.
The movement of the inner bees is clearly slow.
The bees in the nest are stationary, hovering around the periphery.
“Will the outer scout bees take the bait? Please wait for me, ○○-chan! I’ll definitely bring you the medicine (unprocessed venom sacs)!”
*Whispers, whispers*
It was difficult to persuade the juniors in a low voice to lure out the outer bees.
Don’t be scared by seeing such a swarm of bees.
You agreed to form a party, didn’t you?
Yerubaru orders the juniors to do it, sure that he had them confirm it thoroughly before entering the labyrinth.
Buzzzzzzzz Buzzzzzzzz!!
“Th-this way…! Sting me if you can? Waaah. Here they come. Help me!”
Alright.
Lots of bait♪
“Let’s go, everyone♪”
“Understood. (Are they okay… We lost quite a few too. Are we really going to dive into that swarm…).”
The diversionary unit and the strike unit.
Which was more dangerous?
We won’t know until we survive.
The extreme logic is that more people means safer.
The juniors, holding up their shields, fend off the fierce onslaught of soldier bees.
Clang clang, clank clank.
“Huddle together. Take each other’s weaknesses, break them. As trained. As trained!”
The battle with the swarm of bees was difficult to sustain for less than an hour.
The juniors’ spirit and cooperation were both immature.
In practical training, they attack a large group with a small number, so…
Conversely, combat training with a large group was just for show, and the opponents were fellow Guild members.
The fear is different.
The bees swarmed, trying to bite off their own necks with their large jaws.
The intent to kill is different.
Immature minds not accustomed to killing intent.
In the form of standing back-to-back, shields raised in a defensive posture.
If one person collapses, the rest of the members are exposed, and they are subjected to attacks from blind spots.
“Ugyaaaaaaa!”
“D-damn it!”
“No! No, noooooo!”
Screams and death throes are quickly drowned out by the noise of humming wings and clashing mandibles.
“I won’t die! Because ○○-chan is waiting for me to returneeeeeeeee!”
Yerubaru makes every effort to escape this death trap.
Ignoring the desperate calls for help from the juniors who are still alive.
“Damn it!” *Gulp, gulp*
“—Kuuh!” “Take cover! Damn bugs!”
Was he cursing the bees from behind, or was he speaking to Yerubaru, who had abandoned them after inviting them to form a party?
The strike unit was wiped out, leaving only one survivor.
Rustle! Rumble!
He sprints back the way he came.
The sounds of monsters and their cries are heard from the bushes, but he ignores them.
If he changed direction, he would be caught by the bees behind him.
Hoping that the bees and the approaching monsters would fight each other, he narrowly dodged a flank attack from a monster♪
“○○-chan, please wait for me♪!”
Clutching the bee’s tail, Yerubaru, who had abandoned even the diversionary unit, returned to the surface at dusk.
However, it was dusk after one day had passed.
“Zehaaah, zeee~…”
○○-chan. Me. The child in my belly.
The fantasy of a happy family of three disguised Yerubaru’s fatigue as he returned to the surface.
What kind of willpower. Or rather, desire?
The entrance to the brothel.
Without reporting his return to the Guild [Black Sun], he came straight here.
As usual, a man bangs on the entrance, Don, and opens the lock.
As the entrance opens, he slides his body in.
He shows his tail and says, “Please use this for ○○-chan’s treatment,” and then loses consciousness.
“Oh, hey? Damn…”
The man, to process the tail – the raw material for the medicine – before it spoils, goes upstairs to report.
The collapsed Yerubaru’s affiliated guild is contacted to pick him up.
“We apologize for the trouble.”
“It’s fine, you brought back the medicine.”
Yerubaru (unconscious) is taken to the Guild [Black Sun].
To thoroughly investigate what he had done with the juniors who entered the labyrinth with him, they force-feed him a red gummy (stamina recovery potion) to awaken him.
And conduct an interrogation.
The executives learn that he used the juniors as disposable assets to obtain the raw material for the medicine.
“He should be expelled!”
“No, he should be made to work off his debt as a slave!”
The manpower, which is a resource for the guild.
It was used up for a woman he fancied, and a child whose blood relation was questionable.
The people who died could have brought so much benefit to this guild in the future…
“Ah, Guild Master. We must be strict.”
“I agree. Expulsion would have been too lenient.”
Squawk, squawk.
A trivial matter leads to a major problem.
This is indeed the butterfly effect.
