The Rising of the Shield Hero Vol 07 by Aneko Yusagi

Author:Aneko Yusagi [Yusagi, Aneko]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ficion, Fantasy
Publisher: One Peace Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten: Strangers

“Hya!” Raphtalia shouted, slicing a monster that leapt at her in half.

“They just keep on coming! There weren’t so many of them outside, so I guess I got careless.”

We were working our way through the tunnels to get to the temple ruins, but we were running into so many familiars that our progress was slowing down. The cave system must have been a nest for the familiars. That was the only way to explain it.

Even worse, the map was proving mostly useless. My patience was starting to wear thin.

It was fun to explore dungeons in an RPG, but we didn’t have the time to waste on exploration. We only had the time we did because Fitoria was still locked in battle with the Spirit Tortoise. And it even had more heads than it had when I’d fought it. She was out there fighting for us, in a hailstorm of exploding missiles. It was no time to go exploring.

We had to rely on intuition and luck as we trudged through the tunnels on our way to the temple. And then we came to a fork in the road.

I turned to the queen and asked, “Which way do we go?”

“The tunnels themselves may have changed, but I believe we are still moving in the right direction.”

“I believe it may lie . . . over there,” Ost said. She pointed in the opposite direction of where we thought the town ruins were.

“That’s the opposite direction. Are you sure?”

“Somehow . . . I feel like I can see the way through, very faint, there . . . sorry.”

Do we trust Ost’s intuition, or do we trust in the direction we knew the town to be in?

It was a tough choice, but Ost was actually one of the Spirit Tortoise familiars. She had to be connected to it some way. If so, then it made sense to put our faith in her. Besides, she’d proven herself trustworthy by now. If she betrayed us now, I’d personally see to it that her punishment was severe.

“Alright. Let’s follow Ost for now.”

“Very well. Let us go,” Ost said, and we followed her down the path she chose.

It didn’t take very long to realize that I’d made the right decision. Within a couple of minutes, the tunnel turned sharply and we were once again walking in the direction of the ruined city. Had we taken the other tunnel, it probably would have turned sharply too, but that would have dropped us out on the other side of the mountain.

So I was feeling confident about the choice I’d made, but then we came to another intersection . . . and it was filled with skulking familiars.

“Hey!”

“Icicle Frozen!”

Before the monsters could even notice us, Raphtalia was on them with her sword, and the queen cast a spell. Ost used her magic to slow the monster’s movements, and Rishia plunged her sword into a stunned monster.

“Let’s see . . . . where is this tunnel going to take us.”

Ost finished

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