Their view was filled by the light

Their view was filled by the light from the magic circle, the air definitely felt different even though nothing could be seen. It’s clearly different compared to the air from the depth of the hell, sensing the fresh air from somewhere, Hajime’s cheeks are loosened.

The sight that came into view after the light settled was…

A cave.

“Say what?”

Without any further thought, Hajime who believed that the other side of the magic circle was the surface unintentionally inserted a tsukkomi at the scene which weren’t any better. Honestly he was extremely disappointed.

Facing Yue who was tugging his shirt with a questioning face Yue told him her opinion in a comforting way.

“… A secret passage… …to be hidden is usual”

“A, ah, is that so? It certainly is. There is no way that the direct way to den of the rebels wouldn’t be hidden right”

To not realize something so simple, Hajime felt considerably ashamed. He pulls himself together while scratching his head. Without aid from the Green Light Stone, Hajime and Yue advanced through the pitch black cave without any problems.

On the way, though there were many doors with seals and traps, the Orcus Ring would react cancelling the activation altogether. The two of them were cautious at first, but soon lost interest as nothing had happened so far and continued to advance, till they finally found light. It’s the light from the surface. The light which Hajime for the past few month, and Yue for the past three hundred years sought for.

Hajime and Yue came to a stop when they saw it, looking at each other exchanging glance the both of them grinning, and simultaneously started to run toward the light that they yearned for.

As they approach the light which was gradually getting bigger, they could feel and breathe the air from the surface. It was different from the stagnant air from hell. The air was cool and fresh. Hajime had never felt as much as now how delicious the air was.

Thus, Hajime and Yue both jumped into the light… … and reached the long awaited surface.

To the humans who live above grounds, this pace was a hell, an execution ground. Below the cliff, magic could hardly be used, even so, a lot of powerful and brutal monster live there. An Average of 1-2 kilometre depth, and 900 meter width, extending 8 kilometre from [Guryuen Great Desert] on the west and [Harzena Sea of Trees] at the east, the great scar dividing the north-south of the continent, was how people call it.

“Raisen Grand Canyon”

Hajime and Yue were currently outside of the cave at the bottom of the Raisen Grand Canyon. Although they were at the bottom of the earth, the sun from above poured down bright and warm light. The fragrant of the surface mixed with the wind were tickling their nose.

Compared to any kind of place it could have been, this place was surely the surface. In a daze while looking at the sun above their head, Hajime and Yue’s facial expression gradually turned into smile. Even Yue, who was expressionless by default, could be seen smiling broadly by anyone who looked.

“…We are back aren’t we…?”

“…nn”

The two finally hit by an overwhelming happy feeling of reality, looked away from the sun, glanced at each other and with all their strength started hugging each other.

“Yeaaaahhhh~~!! We are back, damnit~!”

“Hnn~~!!”

While hugging Yue who had a smaller stature, Hajime spun around. In that short while, an unsuitable laughing voice could be heard from the place that people called hell. On the way, even stumbling on the uneven ground felt excessively funny, both of them are chuckling and laughing.

At last, after the two laughter settled down, they were completely… … surrounded by monsters.

“Haa~ these guys are really dense aren’t they?… … If I remember correctly, we can’t use magic here right?”

Hajime tilt his head while pulling out Donner & Schlag. Hajime who had made an effort while studying knew that if this place really is Raisen Grand Canyon, then magic could not be used.

“… I know. However I will still do it, but using mere sheer strength.”

The reason that magic could not be used inside Raisen Grand Canyon was because the magic power that are loaded into the magic that are invoked are disintegrating and dispersed. Of course Yue’s magic was not an exception. But Yue who was once a Vampire Princess, in addition of the considerable magic power she have, she also possess an external magic tank which is the Magic Crystal Series.

In other word, Yue is saying something like she should just annihilate them before the big power got dispersed.

“By sheer power… How high is the efficiency?”

“…Around 10 percent.”

It seems like, in order to use elementary magic, high class magic power are needed. The range too would be shortened a lot.

“A~ then I will do it, Yue just focus on defending yourself.”

“Uu… …but”

“It’s okay, the right person in the right place. This place is a bad place for magic user right? Just leave it to me.”

“N… …okay.”

Yue reluctantly withdraws. Even though they had reached the long awaited surface ground, it’s hard to accept that she was excluded from the first battle. Her pride seems to have been a little damaged. Her lip was sulking from the displeasure.

Looking at Yue’s sulking appearance, Hajime abruptly fired Donner while making a wry smile. Without looking at the other party’s side, pointing the gun muzzle to the spontaneously gulping monsters, and spontaneously pulling the trigger.

Without realizing the much too sudden attack, the surrounding monster’s head burst and scattered which resulted in dead without any resistance. There were only a gun’s reverberation sound left in the vicinity, the monsters were frozen in place without understanding what exactly happened. Surely if 10% of magic can be used, even “Lightning Clad” could be used here. Then the rail gun could be launched without any trouble.

To the dumbfounded monsters, Hajime showed a bold smile.

“Now then, the monsters from hell compared with you guys, which one is stronger… …let me try it out.”

Quickly taking Gun Kata stance, killing intent was filling Hajime’s eyes. When the surrounding monsters saw those eyes they unconsciously took one step back. Even if they didn’t notice it, their surely instinct felt it. That they had made, a ‘monster’ which they shouldn’t oppose their enemy.

An ordinary person would have their consciousness gone just from getting into the fierce pressure range, at last one monster which couldn’t hold the tension anymore let out a roar and jump out.

“Graaaaa!!”

Bang!!

But, at the same time resounded a gunshot along with a straight flash line, rather than evading somewhere, that monster weren’t even give any time to respond and got blown off.

The things that happened after that weren’t even a fight anymore but a slaughter. The monsters weren’t allowed to run away even one step farther, it’s as if that it was natural that their head get blown off and their insides are exposed. There the monsters corpses were filling the view for as far as one can see in just five minutes.

Putting Donner and Schlag away in their respective holster beside his thigh, Hajime looked at the mountain of corpse in the surrounding while tilting his head a bit.

From behind, Yue approached with small steps.

“…What wrong?”

“No, it’s just a little disappointing… …The monsters at Raisen Grand Canyon are famous for their brutality I almost thought that this was a whole different place instead.”

“…Hajime is a ‘monster'”

“Cruel aren’t you. Well, it just means that the monsters in hell are just too strong.”

Hajime said that while shrugging his shoulder, and averted his eyes from the monster’s dead body as he had lost interest in it.

“Now then, for this cliff I think we can climb it… …what should we do? If we think of Raisen Grand Canyon, there should be one of the Seven Great Dungeon around here. After all this trouble, how about we head toward the sea of trees and do some search while we are at it?”

“…Why the sea of trees?”

“No, well, after getting out of the canyon, you don’t want to abruptly cross the dessert right? If it’s the sea of trees, there should also a village nearby.”

“…Certainly it is.”

Yue nodded to Hajime proposal. Looking at how weak the monsters were it seems like the Canyon itself can’t be counted as a dungeon. In that case, there should be an entrance to the dungeon somewhere. If they used Hajime’s “Air Walk” or Yue’s Wind Magic, they could easily climb the cliff, but in whichever the case, there was the need to investigate the Raisen Grand Canyon, even more so there was no reason to oppose.

Hajime poured magic into the “Treasure Warehouse” on his middle finger, and took out a Magic Powered 2-Wheeled Drive from it. Straddling dashingly, Yue got on the vehicle horizontally and clung to Hajime’s waist. Different from using Gasoline like on Earth, the vehicle use direct magic operation to directly move the parts that are connected to the wheel, so the engine was quiet like an electric automobile. Hajime thought that the Engine roaring sound would have felt more romantic, but he did not know other structure than using the simple structure, he could not reproduce the sound. By the way, the speed adjustment was dependent on the amount of the magic power poured in. Well, under normal circumstances, the magic power efficiency inside Raisen Grand Canyon was the worst, so it could not be used for a long time.

Raisen Grand Canyon was basically a cliff that extends straight from east to west. There was hardly any bypath therefore just by advancing along the way would lead them to sea of trees without getting lost. Hajime and Yue didn’t have to worry about losing their way, carefully searching for the entrance of the dungeon, while casually traveling with the Magic Powered Two Wheeled Vehicle. Below the vehicle frame was installed a mechanism to lev