Lysette made a straight line of ice in a screaming direction.
They dashed off to discover a frozen sea of reddish blood.
and see two floating human corpses, as well as four frozen mermen who attempted to retrieve them.
Leonhardt’s sword slashes the heads of four mermen in an instant.
“This wound—It must have been attacked by the water reaper during a surprise attack…”
Leonhardt muttered to himself as he stared at the two dead bodies after the monsters in the area had vanished.
Both of them have had their carotid arteries in their necks severed. Their hearts have been ripped open.
They were probably decapitated by the Reaper’s fin blades, and before they could heal, their hearts were pierced by the mermen’s spear, and they died.
Lysette was shocked.
They are both experienced.
Even seasoned warriors can be killed in the blink of an eye. It is a reminder of the terror of monsters.
“…Leon-san?”
Leonhardt, who is motionless and staring at the two dead bodies, responds.
“…How come they don’t have anything to resurrect or return…”
“… “
Lysette is only aware of [Heart-Substitution], which states that the body returns after death, but surely if they had such an item, it would have been activated. But the body is still dead. There’s no sign of them returning.
They are too unprepared to finish him off if they came here. Either they didn’t think about the retaliation or…
—Did they intend to kill Leon-san and then die themselves? No way.
If this is the case, they were prepared in the wrong direction.
Lysette moves the healer’s body from the ice to the floor. If left unattended, the ice would melt. They will be completely submerged once the surface-walking magic has worn off.
“Lysette, what are you…”
“I’m unable to use revive magic. But if we do this, someone might find them.
She came across a corpse collector in the city. Requests for corpse collection have been made to the Adventurer’s Guild. In other words, there is an entire industry dedicated to collecting and reviving corpses.
If bodies fall into the water, it becomes marine debris or an easy meal for underwater monsters.
If they’re lucky, someone will find and revive them as long as there’s a body left.
“…”
Leonhardt also was about to move the male warrior and place it next to the healer, when….
A disturbing presence stirred deep beneath his feet.
Crack, crack, crack… The sound of cracking ice became increasingly loud. Then, as if a great crack were forming all over the surface, it is broken open by a force from the depths, revealing ice and seawater as well as a piece of a giant creature.
Lysette initially mistook it for a massive snake.
Its surface is covered in round and flat warts. There were several of them writhing and wriggling at the same time, coiling around and sinking the mermen’s corpses.
“Kraken?!”
Leonhardt exclaims in surprise, and a large amount of black liquid spurts forth.
Then Leonhardt raises his shield in front of Lysette.
The shield creates a light wall.
【Holy-Shield】
The magically charged wall of light catches and repels the pouring black liquid.
【Appraisal】Kraken. A giant mollusk that lives in the sea. It uses its eight legs and two arms to catch and submerge its prey.
—A giant squid!
“How did such a large creature end up in such shallow water?! Lysette, I’ll hold it off—Get the hell out of here!”
“No way! I’m not going to abandon my friend and flee!”
Even if it’s a makeshift party, a friend is a friend.