Danma: Danganronpa, but Monster Hunter!

The next instant,

Suddenly, countless bursts of blood-red light erupted from the densely packed horde of monsters.

The silver saber swung mercilessly, instantly slicing through numerous monsters. The monsters' screams barely uttered a single syllable before they lost the strength to continue howling.

Ais moved with a dance-like grace, elegantly dodging the heavy, fallen monster corpses while simultaneously unleashing a series of devastating slashes in coordination with her body's rotation.

It was as if an impenetrable sword aura domain had been created; all monsters that came into contact with the edge of the domain were instantly struck, with huge wounds appearing on their vital parts of their bodies and heads.

As Ais moved forward, the passage filled with monsters almost instantly cleared out a 'vacuum zone,' replaced by a large amount of dust and corpses piled up on the ground.

It wasn't an elegant and precise waltz of blades, but rather a swordsmanship driven by sheer force, whereby the blade would haphazardly shred and dismember any monsters within its reach.

"Fine, what else is there to say now that things have come to this?"

As the golden light flickered among the monsters, causing screams and wails, Flame, standing at the back, raised his hand and rubbed his nose, somewhat helplessly filling in the empty space.

The massive, long-handled hammer whistled as it smashed away several stragglers that were surging towards the passage, while simultaneously playing strange notes. The effect of the melody was applied to Ais as the flames moved.

This time, Flame used the Bird Scratcher, a hunting horn specifically designed for taking damage. The melody effect provided by this hunting horn allows those surrounded by the melody to ignore stun, increasing defense and stamina recovery speed.

Although it lacks the stamina recovery melody compared to his previous hunting horn, considering that the previous horn also granted an attack power buff to the person training him while recovering stamina, Flame felt it would be better to focus on improving his survivability...

This is also the latest preparation that Blaze has made to deal with Ais's Spartan training.

I never expected that the first time I applied it in real combat would be in such a scenario.

Lie Yan sighed inwardly and quickened his pace.

The main issue is that we have no choice but to speed things up now.

Regular dungeon adventures are not very efficient at improving his stats. If he doesn't speed things up, Ais, who is already on a killing spree, will probably wipe out all the monsters in front of him.

Judging from the current situation, the Spartan training session, which usually takes place in the afternoon, is unlikely to happen today.

Although Flame predicted that Ais's Spartan training would be less effective for him after leveling up, it is still the fastest way for him to improve his stats in the dungeon world, bar none, compared to regular dungeon adventures.

Not being able to do this training today is a bit of a blow, but there's nothing he can do about it. He agreed to Eina's request to ease the guilt he felt for not taking Ais on the hunt earlier.

This is what they call reaping what you sow.

This is what it looks like when a boomerang hits you on the head.

Ais, who was already surrounded by monsters, felt the melody falling on her and a slight smile appeared on her lips.

Since meeting Bell and resolving her previous inner conflict, the heavy, strange feeling that had been weighing on her heart has completely disappeared. Freed from the oppression of this feeling, Ais feels more relaxed both physically and mentally than ever before.

Her meticulous thinking penetrated every corner of her body, and her greatly enhanced abilities, reaching Lv.6, were quickly brought under her control in the exhilarating, pure combat.

Before anyone knew it, she had also taken up her hunting knife.

As if she had entered a state of enlightenment, Ais held two weapons of completely different weights, sizes and lengths in her hands, assuming a seemingly dual-sword stance.

With dual swords in hand, Ais's attack speed increased dramatically. She leaped into the air, slashing at the flying monster with her silver military sword. The speed-proud monster, the Deadly Wasp, was cut in two without any chance to fight back. At the same time as the wasp died, the hunting knife in Ais's other hand also plunged deep into the chest of the large-class monster, the Giant Goblin, and twisted it gently.

The crisp sound of the magic stone being destroyed rang out, and the giant goblin's movement of raising its club seemed to freeze in time.

Before the giant goblin's body could turn to ashes, Ais kicked its corpse away, slamming it onto the lizardman behind her who was wielding natural weapons—a large flower shield and a petal-shaped short sword.

The lizardman, who was considered quite troublesome by adventurers of LV·2 level, was knocked to the ground without a sound. His body was crushed beyond recognition by the giant goblin's massive body, as if he had been attacked by a dump truck.

Ais calmly adjusted her posture, as if she were performing a sword dance in mid-air. The Sword of Despair and the Hunting Knife were swung lightly, and the rain of silver light and golden hair intertwined to create a space of death, extinguishing the monsters' idea of ​​swarming her before she landed.

Ais, who had just landed on the ground, spun around slightly before charging back towards the monsters.

The sword of despair and the hunting knife flashed and shone, each strike taking the life of at least one monster.

As if terrified, the Dark Poison Mushroom, which had been placed in the front row as a shield by the monster horde, let out a piercing scream, and then several Dark Poison Mushrooms simultaneously sprayed highly poisonous spores from their heads.

In an instant, a large number of highly poisonous spores formed a purple poison cloud, enveloping Ais and the other monsters indiscriminately.

As a mushroom-type monster that is considered one of the representative monsters of the Great Tree Labyrinth, alongside the insect monster represented by the Deadly Wasp that Ais just slew, the Dark Poison Mushroom's extremely wide-range, indiscriminate poison attacks are a very difficult challenge for adventurers venturing into this level.

The spores, which act as carriers of toxins, are not only difficult to eliminate, but their toxins are also extremely potent. Even LV2 adventurers with exceptional resistance would need to drink an antidote to be safe if they were accidentally poisoned.

And that's not all.

The poisonous spores of the Dark Poison Mushroom can also remain on the adventurer's equipment and weapons.

This means that even if the Dark Poison Mushroom doesn't actively release spores, anyone who attacks it is likely to become infected. In other words, even after the battle with this monster is over, one cannot let their guard down. If the weapons and equipment used in the battle are not properly cleaned, then it is normal to get poisoned at any time.

Unfortunately, despite being such a formidable monster, the Dark Poison Mushroom chose the wrong opponent.

Its prized wide-area lethal spores are completely ineffective against Ais, who has already acquired high-level abnormal resistance and has reached LV·6 herself.

Without hesitation, Ai charged into the vast cloud of spores. As the monsters around her gasped in agony from the deadly poison attacks and collapsed in disarray, she had already broken free of the spores' reach. Her sword, piercing through the poisonous mist, pierced the instigator's body, and the ensuing saber strikes cleaved the Dark Poison Mushroom into pieces.

Next came the other dark poison mushrooms.

Amidst the whistling of blades, the swarm of dark poison mushrooms was violently dispersed. A small portion of the mushrooms, witnessing the tragic state of their kin, dared not face the golden-haired figure any longer and, like the Minotaur before them, turned and fled.

"Fire flames!"

Ais called out, but continued to relentlessly slay a series of monsters.

She didn't pay much attention to these fleeing monsters. Compared to the monsters that were still in front of her, the number of monsters that chose to flee was not large, only about one-tenth.

Moreover, this one-tenth is after the monster count has already been reduced.

Her previous cleanup had eliminated a significant portion of the monsters, and the current number of one-tenth is more than three times less than the initial number.

"Excellent, excellent, superb!"

Seeing the few monsters fleeing towards him, Flame suddenly pulled down his mask, then brandished his long-handled hammer, smashing the Dark Poison Mushroom into a compressed file. Three melodies alternated, followed by a three-note performance and the Flame Melody.

Blood splattered, and the fleeing monsters' momentum came to an abrupt halt, as if their fate had been seized. They were utterly crushed by the flames, and neither the poisonous spores of the dark mushrooms nor the slashes of the lizardmen's flower-shaped short swords could have any effect on the inferno.

The highlight of Toxic Resistance 3 was...

As the flames wiped out the monsters, Ais's battle also came to an end.

As the last giant goblin collapsed like a mountain collapsing and quickly turned into a pile of ashes due to the shattering of the magic stone, Ais slowly exhaled a breath of stale air and sheathed both the Sword of Despair and the Hunting Knife.

Thanks to Cheng Aisi's enlightenment-like state during the battle, her dual-sword fighting technique, and the fact that some of the monsters were taken care of by Lieyan, it only took less than ten minutes to annihilate the hundreds and thousands of monsters at present.

In every sense, this moment was absolutely explosive.

As Lieyan watched Ais walk towards him from the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood, her body spotless and showing no signs of fatigue, he was momentarily filled with emotion.

This is Fiora... She can wield dual swords without warning, and there's absolutely no awkwardness in her movements. It's as if she was born with the ability to use both weapons without any instruction.

They took care of such a large group of monsters in less than ten minutes...

............

Wait a minute.

Looking around at the mountains of monster corpses, Blaze suddenly realized something.

I'm not going to have to collect all those monsters' magic stones, am I?!

Flame was dumbfounded as he looked around at the mountain of monster corpses.

Holy crap, this joke isn't funny at all!

That number of hundreds or thousands is no exaggeration; there are indeed hundreds or thousands of monsters right now! Even if Ais has destroyed the magic stones in some of them, the task of extracting magic stones from the remaining monster corpses is still enormous, not to mention searching for dropped items from the dust that covers the ground.

Just thinking about the workload made Lieyan feel a bit overwhelmed.

"What's wrong? Why do you look so worried?" Ais asked curiously as she approached, noticing Lieyan's expression.

Blazing Flame covered her face and sighed sadly:

"Ais, have you ever thought about how long it will take for just the two of us to process all the monster materials after you've killed so many monsters?"

Judging from the current workload, even if the two of them work together, it will take at least one or two hours to finish the final cleanup of this battlefield.

What? A ten-minute battle, two hours to wrap things up...

Ais: "!!!"

This is something...it seems she really hasn't considered...

Turning her head, looking at the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood she had created, Ais's eyes glazed over, and her tone became weak.

"Then... what should we do? Should we aim at the magic stones and fight?"

"That won't work. We still have many battles to go through. It would be a waste to focus all of them on magic stones. Besides, we still need to collect the dropped items eventually."

Flame shook his head. Looking at the map in his hand, from the entrance to the twenty-eighth floor—the place they were currently at—to the location of the grain depot Eina had entrusted to them, they would have to pass through at least four intersections if they traveled by the proper roads.

In other words, there are four more battles of this intensity, or even more intense ones, to come.

If all attacks in these battles were aimed at the magic stones, the resulting losses would be too great.

The amount could be so large that just hearing about it would be suffocating.

Therefore, Ais can fight by targeting magic stones, but she can't do that with every monster.

In that case............

"It seems we'll have to call in outside help!"

Chapter 127: The Wall of Green Flesh

"It seems we'll have to call in outside help!"

Flame's gaze was resolute, and his tone was solemn.

The mountain of monster corpses must be dealt with as soon as possible.

Putting aside the monster spawn mechanism in the dungeon, the two of them intentionally damaged the ground and walls while fighting the monsters, so monsters should not spawn here for a while.

The problem is that the smell of blood can also attract monsters.

Whether it's killing monsters or adventurers getting injured or dying, it's all the same.

The stench of blood emanating from the mountain of corpses is like a giant, tempting cake to the monsters, continuously drawing them there.

An endless stream.

Moreover, the endless stream of monsters may also ingest the magic stones that cannot be collected in time, thus becoming enhanced species. Enhanced species monsters have greater growth potential and intelligence than ordinary monsters of the same species, making them extremely dangerous.

This possibility must be nipped in the bud.

"Flame, are you going to use magic?" Ais's eyes lit up.