The Unwanted Undead Adventurer: Volume 13 [Parts 1 to 3] by Yu Okano

Author:Yu Okano
Language: eng
Format: epub

“Looks like this is as deep as the cavern goes.”

How long had it taken to get to this point? I wasn’t exactly sure, but it must have been a decent chunk of time. All the regular skeletons we’d encountered periodically along the way hadn’t helped us get there any faster either. Their presence, along with the lesser skeleton mage and skeleton soldier we’d run into earlier, was mounting evidence that this cave was the source of all these skeletons. And now that we had reached the deepest part, I was certain of it.

“Is...this where they’re all coming from?” Rivul asked. He was standing a short distance behind me, like I’d instructed him to. We didn’t know what was waiting for us in here, so it paid to be careful.

“There’s no doubt about it,” I said. “I don’t know if you can sense it, Rivul, but the air here’s laced with malice.”

The term “malice” had a number of meanings, but in this case, I was talking about stagnant mana. It was widely known that if mana continued to congeal and gather in a single location, it would become a source of monsters. We adventurers frequently encountered this phenomenon, so it was usually our first suspect in cases like this. It appeared that my suspicions had been proven correct.

“Malice...” Rivul said. “I knew this place felt unpleasant. I had just chalked it up to how claustrophobic it is, though.”

“You need to be able to sense mana to tell,” I explained. “You’ve got a little bit of mana yourself, though, so you might be able to pick up the knack with some training.”

“I didn’t know I had any at all... I guess there might’ve been more to that unpleasant feeling I had after all.”

“Probably,” I agreed. “Whatever the case, though, once I disperse the malice, you shouldn’t get any more skele—”

Suddenly, a potent amount of mana began to converge in the center of the area.

“What’s happening?!” It appeared that even Rivul had sensed the change.

“Get back, Rivul!” I ordered. “A monster’s forming!”

Although the way monsters formed from malice resembled the way they were constructed by dungeons, they were distinct phenomena. After all, in the dungeon, a monster could truly pop into existence out of nowhere. Both were the kind of thing that only adventurers tended to see, though, so in a sense Rivul was getting tickets to a rare show—even if it was hard to say whether seeing a monster form was really something to be happy about.

Rivul nodded at my command and retreated far back. He’d probably be fine. The cave was mostly a single path, so the chance of any skeletons coming up from behind us was low. I’d also made sure Rivul knew to keep an eye on our rear, so he’d at least be able to buy some time if one did show up.

That aside, I wondered what monster was going to form. It’d be somewhat anticlimactic if it was just a regular skeleton—but since it would be easy to defeat, that was one case where I’d be grateful about being let down.

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