Day 301-310/Day 303

Day 303
After their [Rank Up], Auro and Argento became representatives of the race [Half-Human Lord (Mixblood) ・ Subspecies (Variant)]. We can see the big changes from the growth of their bodies. What I had found out was that they each gained a Demon Orb on their chest and still retained the other 2 located on each of their hands. The magic emanating from the Orbs made it easy to understand that their power had increased.
I recall that the main condition for the evolution (subspecies) seemed to be divine protections. In this case, Auro received [Divine Protection of the God of Gold] and [Divine Protection of the Demigod of Magic Guns], and Argento received [Divine Protection of the God of Silver] and the [Divine Protection of the Demigod of Magic Spears].
The [Divine Blessings] of the [God of Silver] and the [God of Gold] are very similar. The blessings manifest when the owners use magic items made of gold / silver; The [Divine Blessing] also allows you to temporarily turn your mana into gold / silver.
【Divine Protection of the Demigod of Magic Guns】is effective when using magic guns.
【Divine Protection of the Demigod of the Spear】is effective when using a spear.
They both said that they wanted to try their combat capability immediately, which greatly improved, but I placed breakfast as a higher priority. The unexpected can happen at any time, and I cannot fight with an empty stomach.
While eating breakfast, It seems that the body of the two demons rapidly increased in size. Now Auro is now a little bit beyond 180 centimeters tall and Argento is close to 2 meters in size - his clothes became too small to fit because of his growth. So, just in case this happened, the Sisters, whom are their mothers, already prepared things that I could pass on to them. Previously, it was the thing that was passed to me when we stopped at the bases.
When I changed their clothes after we finished eating breakfast, the size seemed perfect, and it doesn't inhibit the evolved children's movement. Such things like this give me an impression of what it's like to have the affection of a mother who gave birth through a painful cesarean section. After small adjustments to the weapons and checking our equipment again, we began to fight with the dungeon monsters around.
After watching the first battle, their improved abilities were visible. They easily defeated the monsters that they had been struggling fighting just one of before. The guns and spears that are summoned when they release the Demon Orbs could also become a hidden trump card that had even more power. The power of tactics had greatly improved one by one.
After that, I let the kids, which included Opushii, fight as much as they want with our aim being to reach the boss of the dungeon after eating lunch. Because we were close, we quickly got into position in front of the boss room without getting lost up there. In the place closest to the stern, the last level was the ship's bridge. According to the size of the【Ship Ambrasm Pontus】, the inside of the bridge stretched out in a pretty vast space.
All the sides offer an extraordinary view of the sea and the interior had tables laid out with maps, ship rudders and other things necessary for navigation. Due to that fact, there were so many obstacles in this room compared with the previous boss room. It cannot be said this would ever be an easy fight. Despite its large space, there were places that felt painfully narrow.
In this room there's a dungeon boss called [Grand Admiral of the Black Sea], wearing a black military uniform that covers his muscular Beastman body while his head has the look of a killer whale. With a size just under 3 meters, it also has a tail; in addition, here and there are visible characteristic features of a killer whale. In particular, the real eyes underneath the killer whale's distinctive white pattern are glowing with the will to fight, which is unimaginably belligerent from its appearance.
It is equipped with a saber-type long sword, which is a living sword. I can feel magical power in that sword which means that that sword would be problematic. Among the beastmen of the ocean, the Killer Whales are known as a tribe that has spread its power alongside the shark-based beastmen. Somewhere in the ocean, their country exists. Its combat ability underwater can't be taken for granted, and it seems high enough to the point where we wouldn't be able to guard against him in the sea.
But, in spite of this information, it's not something to worry about, because I crushed it from the beginning with full force as soon as I met it. First, setting the motion to trigger the activation of【3 Steps of Annihilation】, I leapt forward in the blink of an eye, while jumping over obstacles, and closed the distance between us.
The distance of about a few tens of meters disappeared in an instant. Reacting to my movement, [Grand Admiral of the Black Sea], in order to seize the initiative, began to pull out the saber from his waist. But faster than he could do so, I activated [Silent Pierce] and [One Sting Bee], hitting him with the augmented Vermillion Spear.
Against a conventional enemy, my Vermillion Spear, enhanced with activated abilities, can pierce through without much resistance, but as expected from the dungeon [God] class, it is not so simple.
His uniform already had a high defensive force contrary to the appearance of what it was made of: his skin is really hard to cut through. Being equipped with a strong skeletal structure and thick, supple muscles, the overall hefty body is not inferior to [Dragons] or [Giants]; it has an unexpectedly higher density than those.
Due to that fact, at the time of hitting the [Grand Admiral of the Black Sea], it felt like the response you get from stabbing some kind of huge mass of metal. Surely, the majority of attacks would not even hurt his skin. But still it was not enough to stop the Vermilion Spear.
After piercing his real skin, coming from the end of the spear tip, I could feel the pulsing of his heart. If possible, I would like to finish him off, damaging him as little as possible. But as expected, this one was not that weak.
Just tearing his heart was not enough to kill him. Without even grimacing, [Grand Admiral of the Black Sea] came towards me, and unsheathed his weapon.
He did it with such speed that it created a shock wave. But before his weapon cut my body, I closed the distance on a step, and using 2 of my 4 hands, completely stopping its motion. His sword froze, barely touching my side, but it had not been able to cut.
While immobilizing the enemy, restraining his hands, and releasing the Vermilion Spear that was stuck deep in his body, my other two hands went to work; I started to squeeze him from both sides, using concentrated power in my legs and activating my strongest abilities【Irresistible Destruction of the Black Demon King】and【Overwhelming Tyranny of the Black Demon King】.
After this, all resistance by the [Black Sea Admiral] was completely pointless. Palms entered his violently writhing body, and I felt under them the torn muscles and breaking bones wrinkling inside. Like a squashed frog in a machine or cloth wrung after washing.
Having been pierced and squeezed by two silver arms, the body of [Black Sea Admiral], was ragged, being crushed into a poor state.
Flattened on both sides, his insides turned to mush, and then they started to come out the mouth, eyes bulging, blood gushing from his nose, and underneath him, a pool has begun to accumulate. From the state of his condition, just a glance and one would know that it was enough to be a fatal wound.
But, he is still not dead, barely clinging to life. Normally, this damage is enough to make one die dozens of times, being so injured in his condition, he is still trying to regenerate at a visible rate. Either way, it would be nice if I can observe an image of such a scene as going in reverse, like a playback of the destroyed object.
Frankly, I had not thought that any kind of organisms would be able to do something from this destroyed state. It tried moving its head, which was still safe, to do a last counterattack. The [Grand Admiral of the Black Sea] was trying to bite.
His huge mouth, studded with sparkling white teeth, was large enough to swallow my entire head. However, I take the last step and head-butt him at the same time. In addition to the [Head-Butting] and [Hard Head], which were activated at the time the attack, as well as the [Devastating Thunderhorn Blades] and [Frantic Dance Pair of Horns], one blow blasted out lightning while ripping the body of [Black Sea Admiral] in half.
It seems that it died without being able to regenerate. The blood becomes a spray of blood and evaporated, meat spreading the fragrance of something lightning-burnt. I took a bite at once. Unexpectedly, shockwaves ran all over my body. While it has the feel of a wild taste full of meat, rich, and delicious. I wonder if the flavor it has comes from the flexible and powerful muscles that were needed to swim in the ocean.
The quality of the meat is strongly reminiscent of the Dragon Empress. Unexpectedly, I took another bite, but then I came to myself, and the rest was recovered for the item box.
I'm afraid to think about the reaction of others if I'd eaten a demon whole.
【Dungeon boss [Great Admiral of the Black Sea] successfully eliminated.】
【Yatendouji awarded the treasure box [Killer Whale Meat of Orca King] as a bonus for the first elimination of the boss.】
【As a privilege for conquest, use of the Warp Gate will be enabled.】
【Since the Warp Gate will apply only to people that conquered it, please take caution.】
【For those who have awakened the Psalms／The key figures of God’s Lost Psalms, a part of the【God of Ships】divine power will be granted.】
【As the collector is an important figure of a Greater God, the quality of the Divine Power collected will be inferior.】
【Portions of the Divine Power rejected by this rule will be turned into an object.】
【Yatendouji has obtained [Steering Wheel of the God of Ships (Polaidras · Hydra)]] !!!】
【Activating the unique ability [Dungeon Plunder], it is possible to seize dominion of the labyrinth.】
【Due to conditions being fulfilled, you can now plunder the【Ship Ambrasm Pontus】.】
【Do you want to plunder?】
【≪Yes≫ ≪No≫】
Naturally, I chose ≪Yes≫.
While I was trying to understand the ability of the [Steering Wheel of the God of Ships], which can only be seen as a golden steering wheel of a general design with 3 straight lines superposed on a circle, I did some miscellaneous stuffs such as adjusting the newly acquired Labyrinth inside out.
Unexpectedly, I took a lot of time and when we went outside, it was evening already. The view of the sunset that dyed the ocean in a mad red color was unexpectedly wonderful.
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RAWS
“三百三日目”
昨日【存在進化】したオーロとアルジェントは、共に【半人武鬼ロード・ミックスブラッド・亜種バリアント】という種族になったそうだ。
外見的に大きな変化は身体を成長させた事と、片手だけだったのが両手と胸の中心と鬼珠オーブの数が三つに増えた事くらいだろうか。
だが、確実にその強さを増しているのは漏れ出る魔力から容易く分かった。
以前との差異は何処かと話を聞く事で判明した事だが、まず【亜種】になる条件の一つであり二鬼が得た【加護】は、オーロが【金の神の加護】と【魔砲の亜神の加護】、アルジェントが【銀の神の加護】と【魔槍の亜神の加護】らしい。
【金の神】と【銀の神】の【加護能力】は非常に酷似しており、金または銀を使用したマジックアイテムなどの効果向上や、【宝石の神の加護】のように魔力を変換して一時的に金や銀にする事が可能になる、などだ。
【魔砲の亜神の加護】は魔砲を使用した時に効果を発揮し。
【魔槍の亜神の加護】は槍を使用した時に効果を発揮する。
全体的に見て大幅に向上した戦闘能力を早速試したいと言っていたが、とりあえず朝食を優先した。
腹が減っては戦はできぬというし、何よりまだ準備が整っていない。
朝食を食べている間、まず二鬼の身体が急激に大きくなった――オーロは百八十センチを少し超えたくらいで、アルジェントは二メートル近い大きさだ――影響で服が小さくなってしまったので、母親である姉妹さん達がもしもの事があればこれを渡して、と以前拠点に立ち寄った時に渡してくれたものをそのまま渡す事にした。
喰べ終えた後で着替えてみると、サイズはピッタリだったらしく、進化したオーロ達の動きを阻害していないようだ。
これが腹を痛めて生んだ母の愛情なのかと感心しつつ、武装のサイズ調整など用意を済ませ、少し確認の意味も兼ねてその辺りのダンジョンモンスターと戦闘を開始した。
そして初戦から進化し、向上した実力が発揮された。
あれほど苦戦していた“怒りの荒くれ者”をオーロ達は単鬼で討伐できるようになっていたし、鬼珠を解放した時に出現する弓や槍はより強力な能力を秘めたモノになっていたり、戦技の一つ一つの威力が大幅に向上していたのである。
午前中はオプシーも加えた子供達に好きなように戦わせた後、昼飯を食べてからダンジョンボスを目指す。
そしてそもそも近くまで来ていた事もあり、そこまで迷う事なくボス部屋の前にまで到着した。
場所は船首に最も近く、最上階から一つ下にある船橋ブリッジだ。
巨大な【アンブラッセム・ポントス号】のブリッジだけあって、非常に大きな空間が広がっていた。前方や左右はもちろん、後方まで見えるような開放感のある構造をし、海図を広げるのに良さそうな大きさの机や操舵輪ハンドルなど航海する為に必要な数々の器具も揃えられている。
　そのためこれまでのボス部屋と比べて障害物が非常に多く、決して戦いやすいとは言えない、広い空間でありながら狭苦しさも感じられる場所でもあった。
　そんなボス部屋に居たダンジョンボス“黒き海の大提督ポントス・メガロナヴァルホス”は、黒い軍服を纏う筋骨隆々な体型をした鯱頭の獣人だ。
　体格は三メートルをやや超える程度で、尻尾があるなど各部位に鯱シャチの特徴が見受けられる。
　特にシャチ特有の目のような白い模様の下にある本当の目は爛々と戦意に輝き、どこか愛らしさが感じられる姿からは想像できないほど好戦的だ。
　生体剣だろうサーベル型の長剣からは相応の魔力が感じられ、業物なのだろうと推察できる。
　シャチ系の獣人は大海において、鮫系の魚人と並んで勢力を広めている種族として知られている。
　大海のどこかに彼・彼女等の国もあるらしいのだが、その戦闘能力は海中は当然として、海上でも油断はできない程高いらしい。
　だがそんな情報は気にせず、最初から全力で叩き潰す為、対面したと同時に動いた。
　まず【撃滅の三歩】を発動させ、一歩目で前方に跳躍し、障害物を跳び越えながら間合いを詰める。
　数十メートル程の距離は一瞬で消失し、それに反応した“黒き海の大提督”が迎撃するため腰にあるサーベル型長剣へ手を伸ばすが、抜剣するよりも速く【無音の破突サイレント・ピアース】や【蜂の一刺し】などを発動させた朱槍を突き出した。
　普通の相手ならば朱槍の性能とアビリティの重複発動による威力向上によって手応えらしい手応えもなく貫通するのだが、流石【神】級のダンジョンボスと言うべきか。
　軍服は見かけに反して高い防御力を有していたし、外皮は分厚くしなやかで斬れ難く、屈強な肉体が備えた強靭な筋肉や骨格は【知恵ある蛇／竜・龍】や【巨人】にも劣らぬ程密度が高い。
　それ故に、“黒き海の大提督”の肉体はまるで巨大な金属塊を突き刺すような重い手応えがあった。
　大半の攻撃では外皮すら傷つけられないに違いないだろう。
　だが、それでも朱槍を止めるには足りなかった。
　真正面から突き刺さり、背面から突き出た朱槍の穂先にはまだ脈打つ心臓があった。
　できる限り綺麗なまま仕留めたかったのでそのまま死んでくれれば最良だったのだが、流石にその程度で死ぬ存在ではないらしく。
　心臓を抉られただけでは絶命せず、痛がるどころか間合いに入った俺に対して“黒き海の大提督”は穿かれながら柄を握ったサーベルを抜き放った。
　その抜剣速度は音が後から聞こえてくる程だったが、その凶刃が俺を切り裂く前にあえて二歩目を踏み出す事で身体が密着するほど近づき、四本ある銀腕のうちの二本で“黒き海の大提督”の両腕を完全に拘束する。
　俺の脇腹にはサーベルが触れているが、最早切り裂く事は出来ない状態だ。
　そうして動けなくした後、深々と突き刺さったままの朱槍から手を離す事で自由になった残りの二本を両脇腹に添え、両側から圧縮するように力を込める。
　その際には特殊な身体の動きで脚部から発生させた力をねじ込むと共に、【黒覇鬼王の金剛撃滅】や【黒覇鬼王の蹂躙暴虐】など手持ちで最も強力なアビリティも発動させた。
　すると“黒き海の大提督”の肉体強度など意味がないかのように掌はめり込み、激しい雷撃が全身を駆け巡り、内部から筋肉や骨や血管や内臓などあらゆる一切が潰れていく感触が伝わってくる。
　まるで車に引かれたカエルか、あるいは絞った雑巾、とでも言えばいいのだろうか。
　二本の銀腕で両腕を拘束して動けなくしていた事と、“黒き海の大提督”の肉体が頑丈だった事により、何だか可哀想なくらい圧壊されていく。
　左右からの力が加えられた事で上下に伸びる肉体。内部はグチャグチャになり、内容物が上下に分かれて歪に膨らんでいく。
　目は充血し、耳鼻から血が漏れ出し、下には血溜まりが出来ていた。
　致命傷であると一目で分かってしまうほどの損壊具合。
　だが、それでもまだギリギリ死んでいない。
　普通ら何十回も死んでいるのではないだろうか、と思ってしまう悲惨な状態だが、それでも目に見える速度で再生しようとしているのだから恐ろしい。
　破壊された物体が逆再生していくような光景をイメージしてもらえればいいだろうか。
　正直ここまで破壊された状態から再生するのは生物としてどうだろうか、と自分を棚上げして思っていると、最後の反撃とばかりにまだ無事だった頭部を懸命に動かし、“黒く海の大提督”が噛み付いてきた。
　白く輝く牙が整然と並び、大きく開かれた口は俺の頭部を容易に丸呑みできるほど巨大だ。
　が、それに合わせて、最後の三歩目を踏み出すと同時に頭突きを食らわせる。
　頭部攻撃時に効果を発揮する【頭突き】や【石頭】に加え、【雷滅の斬角】や【双角乱舞】など五本角による斬撃も強化された一撃は、雷電を迸らせながら“黒き海の大提督”の身体を縦に切り裂いた。
　流石にそこから再生する事はなく絶命したようだが、雷電によって血は蒸発して血煙となり、肉は焼けて香ばしい匂いを発している。
　思わず一齧りしてしまったのだが、噛んだ途端、衝撃が身体を突き抜ける。
野性味溢れる肉の味ながら、濃厚で味わい深い。大海を泳ぐのに必要な柔軟かつ力強い肉だからこそ引き出せる旨味というのだろうか。
竜女帝を彷彿とさせるそれに思わず次の肉片に手を出し咀嚼してから我に帰り、残りの部分はアイテムボックスに回収する。
一鬼で食い尽くしてしまっては、他の皆の反応が怖かったのだ。
［ダンジョンボス“黒き海の大提督”の討伐に成功しました］
［達成者一行には初回討伐ボーナスとして宝箱【鯱肉林シャチニクリン】が贈られました］
［攻略後特典として、ワープゲートの使用が解禁されます］
［ワープゲートは攻略者のみ適用となりますので、ご注意ください］
［詩篇覚醒者／主要人物による神迷詩篇攻略の為、【船舶の神】の神力の一部が徴収されました］
［神力徴収は徴収主が大神だった為、質の劣る神の神力は弾かれました］
［弾かれた神力の一部が規定により、物質化します］
［夜天童子一行は【船舶神之操舵輪ポライドラス・ハルドラ】を手に入れた！！］
［特殊能力【迷宮略奪・鬼哭異界】の効果により、制覇済み迷宮を手に入れる事が出来る様になりました］
条件適合により、［アンブラッセム・ポントス号］を略奪可能です。略奪しますか？
［≪ＹＥＳ≫　≪ＮＯ≫］
当然≪ＹＥＳ≫を選択した。
そして円に三本の直線を重ねた一般的なデザインの黄金製操舵輪にしか見えない【船舶神之操舵輪】がどのような能力を秘めているのかや、新たに入手した迷宮内部の調節などの色々雑務をこなしてから外に出る。
思いの外時間を使ってしまったようで、外は丁度夕暮れ時だった。
茜色に染まる大海は、思わず見惚れる程の絶景だった。
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