Living as an Unemployed in Another World

80 – 3. Two Adventurers (33)

33.

Empire.

That country is said to be the most prosperous country in all recorded history.

Just a few years before the capital city was destroyed by the dragon’s breath, a court mage was immersed in the study of curses without complying with the imperial edict.

It was not a study in humans. It wouldn’t be strange if a magician in the imperial family, where humans reign as emperors, would be decapitated for openly conducting such research. What he was researching was how to put a curse on the dragon.

Since there was no law to invade first without invading the territory, the empire took away even the dragon’s home unintentionally and expanded its territory. A sorceress was infinitely jealous of the natural talent for magic that dragons are born with, and lived every day indulging in the imagination of kneeling at his feet.

When the dragon’s wrath against the empire rises to the surface, everyone ignores their advance. Ironically, he was the one who understood their fear better than anyone else…… He was not interested in the welfare of the country. When the capital burned down and people died, he continued to fight the dragon alone…… For the continuation of the research, he made himself a lich and imprisoned himself in the collapsed fortress.

Before he was reborn as a lich, that is, before confining himself to a long and long solitude, the only royal treasure he took was the ‘crown of the legitimate’. A magic item enchanted by the emperor at the request of the greatest wizard of the time. Although it was 1/4, it was enough to replace the ‘reliquary’ that confined the souls essential to becoming a lich.

Soon he confined himself with the crown and devoted himself to research. One step forward, one step forward, and the curse is complete. A curse of obedience through a complex spell that dragons can never avoid! As soon as this curse is complete, he will rise to the surface and bring all dragons and lesser races to their knees, usurping their abilities.

True magic that does not depend on spells and chanting! That was exactly what Richie wanted to achieve. After opening a new era like that, the crown he stole will be proof of a good ruler.

“——Hmm.”

The lich suddenly turned his head to look at the humans kneeling in the corner of his room. Adventurers with rags stuck in their mouths with their weapons stolen. These are the people who came straight to the labyrinth as if they were chasing them after being beaten by a party of adventurers three days ago.

Unlike them, the skills of those who came later were poor——they planted some cysts on their bodies and carved fear into them, so they naturally got wet in the crotch of their pants. Even so, the reason why I cut off all of my tongue was simply because I didn’t want to hear the cries for help.

Originally, they were made of high-quality ghouls, but the reason they are still alive is purely because of the presence or absence of priests. In order to complete the curse, the divine power mediated by living creatures is still worth studying. If anything, I had the heart to cut off a few more fingers and watch the process of recovery.

Looking at the adventurers who had fainted just by meeting the lich’s gaze, he looked around the room with a disinterested gaze before picking up the ring on the table. Since he had already completed Haeju, even touching it would have no harmful effect, but he could not take his eyes off the ring that had bothered him for a moment.

Litch floated the ring he had placed on the table into the air. A ring hangs on the tip of his grotesquely bony finger, where only his fingernails have grown.

“【Ring of Foolishness】. The effect itself isn’t that complicated, but it’s a curse…….”

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Nevertheless, it is quite, quite sophisticated. It’s such a perfect composition that even with his 300 years of knowledge, it’s hard to imagine weaving a better curse into such a cheap medium. Otherwise, how could he be so rude to a single item?

Who the hell made a magic item with this level of perfection? Lich recalled the human wizards who tried to defeat him only by debauering. Maybe he If so, it is as if he has gone out to the surface and found the first candidate to serve as a servant. If he had that much courage and knowledge, it wouldn’t be bad to make him a lich like himself and use him as an assistant.

“——Oh.”

While he was lost in thought, admiration escaped from his gaping mouth. He didn’t mind controlling the zombies underground, so he didn’t care if they were killed by the adventurers or not. However, this reaction to the body meant that the ghouls’ rule had ended. Rich laughed evilly.

“Looks like another intruder. Chuckle…….”

Befitting his skeletal appearance, he was a 300-year-old man. Even though no one answered, he muttered a pleasant muttering to himself, and he had expectations in his heart. How nice it would be if they came here again, other than those insignificant adventurers.

Leaving the moaning adventurers behind, the lich left the room at a slow pace. And, without disappointing his expectations, the young man appeared before his eyes again. Except for the fact that a small flame in the form of an arrow was suddenly pierced into the side of the lich’s head.

“…… What is this? Low order…… No, it’s just a joke (small magic trick). You are urging the order.”

Of course, it was blocked by the force field and didn’t work at all. Despite his expressionless, white-bones face, he expressed a sincere expression of disappointment. A Fire Bolt [Fire Arrow] That has no effect against you as a Lich? Did he even consume all his slots to come here? Then I’m no longer interested.

It would have been much more embarrassing for the thief woman to surprise her from behind like before. Richie reached out a bony hand toward the three of them gathered in the hallway. Wait, three?

Richie hurriedly looked behind him. The woman was making her presence known from inside her room, not behind her on her own back. How? The sound of the trapped adventurers coughing and coughing up bloodstained rags reverberates.

“Jin, everyone is safe! It looks like you got your tongue cut out, but it will work out somehow.”

The woman shouted in a loud voice. Rich muttered, dropping his jaw.

“I see, I didn’t come here to fight, but to save them. An adventurer is more loyal than I thought——”

“—Isn’t it?”

At first, the young man threw a word at Richie, who seemed disappointed. He deliberately squinted his eyes and teased his tongue.

“I’m here to play with you, God X.”

“…… Chuck, I wanted that too. ──Chain Lightning [Chain Lightning].”

The lich cast the spell without hesitation. Again, blue-white lightning flashed from that finger. In everyone’s mind, the fear of that day was revived. However, this time it doesn’t. In an instant, an incontinence was drawn on Richie’s finger, and his index finger, which was about to fire his lightning, fell off.

“Oh?”

It was a mummy. She thought she was freeing the adventurers, but when she suddenly appeared in front of her and cut off her finger, even a rich woman couldn’t help but panic. Again, as expected.

──If I catch your attention, you should quickly go and check their condition. He’ll probably use a spell from the start to neutralize us all. Then cut the point where the spell occurs.

──Is it okay? With that…….

──It’s okay. The more powerful the spell, the longer it takes to cast. You can do it at your speed.

“Jin, a man like you——!”

The moment the lich immediately tried to counterattack, Mira disappeared again through the dimensional rift.

“…… That’s right, there’s no way I’ll miss a move. Is it [Blink]’S ring?”

As expected. Blink’s ring, the very item that brought me to Alicia in the manor house. It’s the best compatibility with a thief who prioritizes ambush over melee.

With this, she will appear at any time and interrupt her casting, so the spell that takes her time to cast is half-sealed. At the same time, I saw Richie’s fingers regenerate in the same spot where they broke like smoke. As expected, doesn’t it work to cleanly cut with a sword? Then you have to make it into powder. Alphonse snorted as he had promised beforehand.

“Come, half-seat warrior.”

Alphonse did not answer. He raised an ax instead. As he ran, the floor rumbling, Richie stretched out his palm without hesitation. Come.

“Power word, stun [Command. Stop].”

I thought that if I didn’t give it a chance to activate, it would try to control the mind using the spirit. However, Alphonse’s footsteps did not stop and accelerated even more.

“!?”

You can see at a glance that he looks flustered. I thought so. From Rich’s point of view, they must be adventurers, but even among them, the ‘class’ is divided. Although there are countermeasures, I thought that among us, Alphonse was the only one who could chew the tongue with his physical ability. Thanks to you, I ended up not writing an order.

The lich instinctively stepped back. Wow wow! Alphonse roars. A powerful series of attacks cut through the lich’s bony body little by little. Just then, Mira returned from the dimensional rift. In an instant, she decapitated Richie and took his head with my crown.

“Good work! Come right here!”

“Oops——!”

A lich who doesn’t care about his own hair, but values the crown on his head. I was sure when I saw it. The reason he cherishes that crown is not because it is an imperial relic and magic item, but because it is the ‘reliquary’ itself containing the soul of the lich!

If she holds her head and uses her Blink to cross over to the wizard, it will be the end. Because of this, the lich tried to cast a spell directed at him that did not require coordinates to be specified.

“Force field, emission [Force field release]——!”

Maybe it’s the idea of pushing her entirely out of her spell range. However, don’t leave it like that. Chloe ran out in an instant, grabbed the rapier and stretched it vigorously toward the lich’s skull.

Quick!! The sound of cracks in the lich’s force field. Chloe smiled in repentance.

──Your role is the most important. Chloe.

──Me, me?

──I can improvise anything else. It’s just that you have to break the force field in the end. Can you do it

──…… I’ll try.

──Your rapier has the narrowest hit area. And that also means that you can focus all your energy on one point. The Station Master is not a universal spell. Instead of blocking all damage equally, there is a cap on its capacity. And the easiest way to break it is to pour all your energy into one point.

Kwajangchang!! The intangible force field was shattered by Chloe’s double attack. Soon, Mira took the crown from the resisting lich and disappeared beyond the dimension. Enraged, the lich’s skull floats in the air. Soon after, Richie radiated green light from his widened chin toward me, who gave me a fishy smile.

“Stupid living, dare to…… ! Disintegrate 【Decomposition】──!”

If everyone has made it this far, the last role to play is me.

Even though there were three people nearby who had harassed her to the fullest, seeing as I was standing still, she seemed to have decided that if she killed me, she would be able to turn the situation around. That’s why it’s going to disintegrate anything it touches, piercing through everything that gets in its way.

My level 1 spell slot is only one. There was only one spell that could be memorized before entering the dungeon.

And, there is no way that shy attacks and protection spells would work against that vicious lich.

Then, isn’t there only one spell that needs to be remembered?

“Who says you are stupid?”

“What…… !?”

Minor Illusion【Low Welcome】. I’ve been talking on the other side from the beginning, and on the side the lich was aiming for, instead of my image made of illusions…… The Lich’s crown, which Mira had left behind, existed.

“Dispel…… No——!”

What can’t you do?

I closed my eyes from the retina-burning light and heat.

“…… Did you do it?”

At that time, someone inadvertently muttered that. Ah. Who is this. X feet.

“How dare you——!”

At last, smoke rose from the wreckage, and angry voices were heard. I sighed.

I didn’t even think it would end this easily anyway.

Come. Let’s see the end