Life in Another World With Narration

48 – Underground of the Demon World

The cave room we arrived at after following Shari was a little bigger than the other rooms.

A hideous-looking monster called a worm dragon was waiting there.

“Yaaat-!”

As soon as he spotted the guy, Benos grabbed his spear and rushed at him.

I thought I had to secure Kiki first, so I left the worm dragon to Benos and ran to the back of the cave room.

Kiki, who heard Benos’ voice, peeked out from behind the stalagmites.

“Kiki! Come this way!”

I grabbed her hand and led her around the outskirts towards her exit.

And after asking Shari to stay with Kiki, they decided to fight the worm dragon together with Benos.

The moment I raised my sword and headed towards Benos─

Wow!

“Ugh!”

The worm dragon quickly swung its long neck, hitting Benos and sending him flying backwards.

“Oppa-!”

Kiki was surprised when she saw that, put her hands on her cheeks and shouted.

I quickly rushed forward with my sword and blocked Benos, who flew backwards.

“Keee-!”

The worm dragon howled, making a strange sound.

Are they attacking by swinging that long neck like a weapon?

Just like its appearance, its movements and attack methods were absolutely repulsive.

Howling!

I gathered magical energy into the sword and ignited it like I had done before when dealing with the Arachne Queen variant.

There is almost no loss by using fire when dealing with animals.

Benos, who had been blown away by the worm dragon’s blow, gathered his body and stood up with his spear in hand, preparing to attack.

The one that attacked first this time was the Worm Dragon.

The guy stomped towards me and swung his neck in all directions like a whip.

The sharp teeth on its large circular mouth open and close repeatedly every time it swings its neck, drooling.

Is it this way? Or over there?

It was not easy to predict the direction of the neck, which moves flexibly like a snake.

If I get hit by that guy’s neck, I’ll fly like Benos.

If I was unlucky, I could get bitten by that ugly mouth and get fatally injured.

At that time, Venos came forward, lowered his posture, and thrust his spear hard into the worm dragon’s neck before me.

However, the momentum of the worm dragon swinging its neck did not stop at all, and in fact, Benos’ spear suddenly broke.

“What… What… ….”

Benos, whose weapon was broken, panicked and kicked the ground to retreat.

But the worm dragon’s neck had already changed direction and flew out to bite Benos from the front.

It was at that moment that I struck down the flaming sword.

When the Worm Dragon was running straight towards me, it was difficult to predict the direction of its neck, but when it changed direction to bite Benos, I had the right timing to cut off its head.

I put all the power I could into my magically burning sword and cut off the worm dragon’s head.

The neck of the guy whose leather was strong enough to break Benos’ spear in one fell swoop was cut off with a cheerful sound.

Shhh! Shhh!

The decapitated worm dragon radiated blood as it shook its half-severed head, spurting blood from the cut surface.

It tried to howl, but it made a escaping sound, perhaps because the organ that could produce sound had been cut off.

I stepped on the head of the guy I had cut off, jumped forward, and plunged my sword into the center of the guy’s back.

Phew!

Flames erupted from where the sword was deeply inserted.

The smell of burning meat wafted through the cave room.

Perhaps the sword had been inserted precisely into the spine, but the movements of the man whose head had been severed, which had been glowing, stopped for an instant.

“Ha… ha… ….”

I defeated the worm dragon and looked at Benos and Kiki in turn, out of breath.

Benos was staring at me blankly with startled eyes.

Now we can go back to the village.

This should have paid for the meal.

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“Really! Thanks! “If it weren’t for you, I would have been in big trouble!”

After returning to the village, Benos bowed his head and thanked me.

Actually, it was Shari who found Kiki, and Benos served as bait, so she was able to easily kill the worm dragon.

Benos had already repeatedly thanked me more than ten times.

Anyway, Kiki was able to return to the village safely without any injuries.

When I asked him why he went into the abyss without permission, he said that he saw a pretty cave butterfly and followed it.

After hearing that, Benos scolded Kiki so severely that she cried.

The villagers went to the slain worm dragon, dismantled it, made it into meat, and brought it back.

It was enough for the entire village to eat.

That night, a small festival took place in the Karia village.

And I was also served a dish made with worm dragon meat.

“Ugh… ….”

I was honestly reluctant to eat it because it reminded me of its horrible appearance when it was alive, but I carefully put it in my mouth along with the mushrooms.

“…… !”

It was high quality meat with plenty of juice and strong flavor without any unpleasant odor.

Well, there are things like monkfish and sea eel, so you can’t judge the taste by its appearance.

The next day after eating and drinking so much, Benos said to me.

“You said you wanted to go back to where you originally lived.”

“That’s right.”

“It’s a blessing for me to find Kiki, and I think Eldeborn will give me some advice.”

“Eldeborn?”

“He is the chief of our village. You lived an incredibly long life. It looks like he heard what you did in our village and would like to meet you sometime. Eldeborn might be able to tell you how to return.”

『Eldeborn is the living history of the Caria people and was a great sage.

He was the first Carian and the longest-living Carian.』

They are the first Caria people, so how are they still alive?

How long have you lived?

A narration once said this.

The Karia people are a race that existed before the concepts of demon kings and heroes even existed in this world.

I followed Benos to meet Endeborn, the chief of the Caria tribe.

“Eldeborn is in here.”

Benos said, pointing to a cave wall full of mushrooms behind the village.

Looking closely, it wasn’t a wall.

Although it was completely covered by small, elongated mushrooms, it was an entrance with a way into the inside.

“These mushrooms… Can I just squeeze in?”

“It doesn’t matter. It grows back in a day anyway. “I’ll wait here, so go see Eldeborn.”

I followed Benos’ words and stepped inside, squeezing through the dense mushrooms.

I felt a little strange because I could feel the strange texture of the mushroom, but I was able to get in surprisingly easily.

And as soon as I stepped inside, I gasped at the sight I saw.

In a large cave room, there was an incredibly large mushroom.

It was bigger than any mushroom I had ever seen in my life, bigger than I could imagine.

It was as if the mushrooms had become one with this place, with parts of the mushroom pillars extending out like stems and sticking to the ceiling and walls of the cave.

Is this what it would feel like to combine mushrooms and an old tree that is thousands of years old?

And around the giant mushroom, small mushrooms similar to those on Kiki’s head were growing like flowers.

“Well, you…” “Is it Yunoa?”

I heard a solemn voice from somewhere and turned my gaze to see a human face almost stuck in the ground at the base of a huge mushroom.

There were small mushrooms growing on his face, and although he had the face of an old man, the bluish skin color made it possible to tell that he was from the Caria tribe.

The identity of the huge mushroom that almost filled this room was the mushroom that grew from the old man’s head.

“Ah… Yes, nice to meet you.”

Overwhelmed by his atmosphere, which was like the living history of a race, I naturally became polite.

There was no need to ask that he was Eldeborn, the chief of the Caria tribe.

“Oh, it’s really someone I haven’t seen in a long time. “It seems that you have not been affected by the flow of history.”

Eldeborn said as he stared at me with his wrinkled eyes that were hollow like knots.

He continued his words slowly.

“Thank you for saving the village’s precious child. “Would you like to come closer?”

I followed his request and walked forward a little.

There was a small, fluffy white lump like a dandelion seed floating in the air.

Is it like a mushroom spore?

“I heard you could tell me how to get out of here.”

I asked cautiously.

“Don’t you already know? “After passing through the passage of the abyss, you can go to the surface.”

“But I don’t know the way.”

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“I can tell you. There is a special way. “But old man, I have a favor to ask.”

“Please?”

I asked back.

Then Eldeborn slowly opened his mouth in a low voice.

“I don’t know what your position is as a human being and what kind of life you have lived.

From now on, I am going to tell you a story.

I hope you listen to this story and answer my questions.”

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