BLADE & BASTARD: Dungeon Chronicle Volume 4 [Parts 1 to 5] by Kumo Kagyu

Author:Kumo Kagyu
Language: eng
Format: epub

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“Oww... It’s hooot...!” Shadowwind whined.

Her youthful features were twisted and burnt. Her breathing was shallow—ragged—and she struggled to draw in breath. Had the fire scorched her lungs?

Schumacher had always thought that this girl was fairly young. Perhaps it was fair to say that she was still a child.

I was right to stick her in the back row.

In that burial chamber, which was littered with corpses and spattered with blood, the smell of death hung in the air. Schumacher sighed. So long as she was still alive, he couldn’t let her die just yet. There was still work for her to do.

He signaled Coretas with his eyes. They crouched down next to Shadow and held out a palm covered in sinister armor.

“Darui arifla (O life, well forth)...”

With the blessing of DIAL, Shadow finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Schumacher left her to Coretas and walked over to Rahm...or Sahm. Although the gnome girl had gotten off more lightly than Shadowwind, she was still scorched all over. The only thing that separated the two was that one had previous experience delving into the dungeon, and the other didn’t. Nothing more than that. It was due to a difference in their degree of ability (level)—or so some might say.

Red and blue horns shot up as the gnome girl noticed Schumacher’s approach.

“Sorry...” she said, her throat raw. “I was useless.”

“If that’s how you feel, then try to be useful next time.”

He pulled a potion of DIAL out of his pack and tossed it to her. Her little hands hesitated, then rushed to catch the tiny vial. Somehow, she managed.

Red and blue eyes stared blankly at him. “Okay.” She gave a vacuous nod, uncorked the little bottle, and gulped down the potion inside.

That will do it for now.

The front row wasn’t unharmed either. If any of them had died, it was going to cost even more money. In that sense, Schumacher’s first priority was to—

“What, are you scared? I know just the spell for times like this.” The rhea girl erupted in a cackle that seemed designed to annoy. “It goes ‘mapiro mahama dilomat.’”

He had no idea what that sequence of syllables was supposed to mean. However, he did understand what she was trying to say. It was something like, “Turn tail and get out of here already.”

Regnar smirked as she looked up at him. Schumacher simply replied, “All right. Let’s finish up quickly and use the elevator to pull out.”

Regnar was silent—she seemed caught off guard by this.

“I told you from the start we’d be doing that, right?”

“Yeah, you did.” She nodded, seemingly pleased. “And to do that, we’ll first need our thief to get up and get to work.” She put her bare foot on the bloody treasure chest.

That was right. Their job here wasn’t to clear the Monster Allocation Center. The item they were after—the ring—was in this chest. Or...somewhere else.

“Wahhh...hhh...hhh...”

As the thief—able to move now, if only barely—dragged herself over to the chest, Regnar pointed at her and said, “Come on! Get to it.

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