Chapter 50

Pata pata.

“Aa~ I feel so relieved~”

Keena was slumped over the table with a completely relaxed expression. Part of the reason was that one of her worries had been successfully resolved. Thanks to the effect of the "All Status Increase" wearing off, her abilities were halved for a day, and she was being fanned by the maid Siren, who was Opus's personal maid. From the outside, she just looked like a completely limp Keena.

For some reason, Opus, who had been chased around by the person he was looking for using a close-range attack that unleashed the maximum power of magic, was in perfect health. Immediately after turning the 30th and 29th floors into rubble, the effect of "All Status Increase" wore off, and due to the constant consumption of enormous amounts of magic from the "Legacy of the Ancient Gods," Keena's MP was drained, making her useless. They returned to the dungeon village with Crof and Crophia using a "direct passage to the surface" that had been set up on the 28th floor. The adventurers who had seen Crof and the others off on the first day they were on the surface were looking at the party, which had increased by two people, with quite peculiar gazes. One was an out-of-place beautiful maid, and the other was a demon with an aura that made people want to stay away (area intimidation).

Now, everyone was staying at an inn, letting Keena rest while Crof and the others were explaining the situation to Opus. During the game, the status reduction only required enduring weakened magic power and physical defense, but what Keena was currently experiencing was full-body relaxation and a decrease in thinking ability, making her feel lazy, sleepy, and unable to move, leading to a state of giving up on everything.

“Is that so, it seems I pushed Keena too hard. I'm sorry for involving you all in danger.”

Keena wanted to say, "It was all because of your traps that we were in danger," but she was too lazy to bother and just fell asleep. Siren gently covered the sleeping Keena with a blanket, and Opus, looking at her, relaxed his lips. Then he looked at Crophia, who was standing behind Crof with a guilty expression.

“Don’t be so apologetic. I am just a friend of that person and have no connection to the Outarokues royal family. From what I heard, your actions were nothing more than suicidal. Without Keena, you would have ended up in the stomachs of the lizardmen. It would be better to consider the situation around you before acting. Well, I don’t particularly blame you.”

“S-S-Sorry!”

Crophia, tense and rigid, bowed her head. Crof was in a similar state, so he understood his sister's tension well. For some reason, this demon named Opus constantly emitted a domineering aura that intimidated those around him.

The two cat people, who were sensitive to auras, felt like they would collapse if they let their guard down, so their bodies had been tense the whole time. Despite this, the maid and the sleeping Keena in the midst of the domineering aura were completely at ease. In fact, the source of the domineering aura (【Intimidation】) was Opus's inner frustration at having "an unnecessary bonus" come along. Crof and the others had a completely wrong idea, thinking that "Keena-sama was actually always emitting this domineering aura but suppressed it for our sake."

That day, they stayed in the village, and the next day, Keena returned to her original state. The three of them planned to head north through the outer trade route and return to the border village. They were going to part ways with Crof and the others.

“By the way… you two just followed me, didn’t you? It was a waste of effort, right?”

“Well, I can’t say that, but I did ask you to come along.”

Hearing this conversation, Opus nodded and took a bag from his item box, handing it to Crof.

“Huh?”

“Since I caused you trouble, take this as compensation.”

“Ah, thank you very much…?”

Crof, looking bewildered, took the heavy bag. After parting ways, when they checked the contents of the bag, they found 20,000 silver coins, which made them feel dizzy.

Opus and Keena walked side by side, with Siren following behind. She didn’t speak unless spoken to and didn’t take any action. Compared to the two under Keena’s command, she was unusually quiet, and sometimes Keena was worried if she was still there. When she looked back, Siren smiled as if to say, “Please don’t worry.”

“Anyway, I’ll summon a Green Dragon and fly back a bit.”

“To the village? That will cause a panic. Can’t you think about common sense a little?”

“You’re the one to talk about common sense. I’ve summoned one on the spot before.”

“You’re quite a bold one, aren’t you?”

Opus reached into his pocket and took out a scroll, handing it to Keena.

“What’s this?”

“It’s the latest update. The changes include resistance changing from percentage to nullification, the removal of racial restrictions on skills, the elimination of time limits on summoning magic, and other things…”

Keena, receiving the scroll, listened while using it on the spot. The scroll disappeared, and a sky-green noise appeared at Keena’s feet, forming a magic circle that moved from the bottom up, passing through her body. Before Opus finished speaking, a deformed character with a trumpet and white wings appeared above Keena’s head.

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