Three hours had passed since the White Party was suddenly trapped in a mysterious space, and they had continuously opposed hordes of Ghouls during that time.
During that time, they understood that this road looped endlessly. Also, while it looked like a large number of Ghouls were appearing, as a matter of fact, only a fixed number would appear at a time.
When Louise used her summoned spirit to check the state of the Ghouls that were distant from the carriage, it seemed that after the Indestructible Carriage passed by, the Ghouls crumbled into pieces and disappeared like they were clay dolls. Ghouls appeared to assault Yumika and the others, while those that got too far away disappeared; that continued over and over again.
However, there had been no change in that behavior up to the present point. Yumika and Jinrai had gradually become accustomed to the Ghoul assaults. Currently, the other members were also taking turns battling and resting.
Even though such measures were being taken, fatigue was certainly accumulating, but at least for now, they were still enduring.
The problem was that they couldn't break out of this place. Their only means of contact was Window Email. However, they didn't know their current position. Some kind of impetus to break that situation was necessary.
「Here. Fruit-flavored water.」
「Ah, thank you.」
Yumika was dead tired on her white stone horse, which was running alongside the carriage, and from inside, Emily handed her a canteen. Currently, Jinrai and Tiara's Flame Power were routing the Ghouls. As they thought, their numbers didn't increase above a certain level, nor did they seem to decrease. In that case, it was clear that they themselves would eventually become exhausted.
「Those Ghouls are probably summoned beings. Moreover, a type that circulates and activates magical power within the barrier. The Magic Power consumption may be almost nonexistent for the caster. Troublesome.」
While grinding her teeth, Louise said that.
「I still have my Wolf God Transformation, so I can manage my fatigue, but...」
While saying that, Yumika looked at Jinrai. All his movements had changed to become more compact than before. In order to reduce energy loss, his movements had been whittled down to the minimum. That was the same for Shippuu, who continued optimizing his movements with Jinrai. But even still, they surely had a limit. Without a solution, Yumika and the others would meet their end.
(Rather, shouldn't we have Louise-san hit the ground with her powerful technique?)
She had heard that Kazane broke through the Berserk Ogre's barrier with brute force. Setting aside the sky that seemed to continue forever, if that was fired at the ground before their eyes... the moment that Yumika thought that,
Fissures suddenly appeared.
「Wha!?」
Yumika's eyes widened. A fissure was widening just below Yumika.
Then, the ground where Yumika was located cracked, and the carriage started rising... no, Yumika started falling. She heard Emily's voice, but she felt that even that was becoming distant as she continued falling, and falling even more.
「What is this!?」
Yumika shouted. The white stone horse was useless in this situation. Yumika jumped off the white stone horse Hippo-kun High, opened a Window while watching the collapsing rock walls, then quickly selected and activated the Skill『Zone』.
(My horizons have broadened!?)
Then Yumika started feeling like her surroundings had stopped. With her powers of concentration heightened, Yumika grasped everything in that place. Yumika skillfully jumped over the rocks from the crumbling rock walls, and when she crashed into the ground, she used the Barnes style spear technique『Reflect』to offset the impact, then jumped to the side while using her spear to repel the rocks that continued falling towards her.
All of that occurred inside a mere moment.
Rocks crashed into the ground, and dust rose. The white horse Hippo-kun High was swallowed up and pulverized, but Yumika managed to escape. However, Yumika's gaze was pointed in a different direction than the rocks that crashed into the ground.
(Just now, surely...?)
During the fall, Yumika felt like she saw someone peeping at herself for a moment. The powers of concentration sharpened by the Skill『Zone』had reacted to a slight sense of discomfort in an invisible space.
It was only intuition. But it made sense inside Yumika. Therefore, she took an Adamantium spear out of her Item Box,
「There!」
And with that intuition, she threw the spear into a space that should have been empty. Then, the spear disappeared into that space that should have been empty, and immediately after she saw magical power sparks scatter from that place, a noise ran through the world.
「I did it... guess not, huh?」
Yumika murmured. It seemed that hadn't returned her to her original location. And when she looked around, it looked like she was at the bottom of a cliff.
She looked up, but it seemed completely impossible to climb. All the rock walls seemed to reach to infinite height, with only darkness beyond.
However, the red moon wasn't there either. She didn't feel any signs of being seen or any kind of will. Only the controlled world was there.
「Master and the others... are fine, aren't they?」
Yumika thought. Since she was fine, she had unconditional trust that Jinrai was also fine. She didn't know about Emily and the others, but at the very least, they hadn't fallen at the same time that she had, so they should have stayed in that place.
Then Yumika summoned Kuromaru, and after checking the surroundings once, she sat down.
Ghouls weren't appearing either. Yumika saw that at least at this point in time, the enemy's assault had stopped. Yumika concluded that the spear she had fired had produced some kind of effect.
After that, Yumika changed her『Metamorphosis Divine Protection』Skill from『Dog's Sense of Smell』to『Intuition』.『Intuition』was more useful for reacting when something suddenly happened.
Then Yumika made Kuromaru stand watch, messaged Kazane and Ao, and started resting to recover her stamina.
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