It swore to kill that kid in the cruelest way possible!
Rumble!
Behemoth charged like a heavy tank, then leaped from a great distance away from Hiyama, plunging its superheated head downwards, falling rapidly like a meteorite!
Devastating Blow! *
Chapter 14: Fall!
If this devastating blow landed, not only Hiyama, but probably everyone present would not be spared!
"Run! Don't worry about Hiyama-kun!"
"If this continues, we'll all be buried with him!"
Everyone screamed, watching in despair as Behemoth fell like a meteorite.
At this moment!
A white light, even more dazzling than a holy sword, seized everyone's vision!
Hiyama's palm floated with a dazzling white sphere condensed to its limit, and anyone could see that this white sphere contained terrifying power.
The atmosphere trembled, and faint cracks appeared in the air.
This was a Vibration Sphere, formed by Hiyama using the power of Vibration Magic!
"You're finished!"
Facing Behemoth's world-destroying blow, Hiyama simply tossed the small sphere upwards.
The small white sphere collided with the rapidly falling Behemoth, seemingly a futile resistance, but in reality, it caused a huge reaction like the collision of the sun and moon!
Boom!!!
Countless fine cracks immediately appeared in the air, and terrifying gales spread out. Everyone felt the bridge deck shake violently.
The atmosphere vibrated, and a noise loud enough to rupture eardrums filled everyone's ears!
Under the action of two powerful forces, the entire bridge vibrated, and at the same time, cracks rapidly appeared centered around Behemoth's landing point!
Finally... the bridge could no longer bear it.
It collapsed!
"Roar!!!"
Behemoth desperately clawed at the stone bricks collapsing amidst the huge roar, but even the places its claws hooked onto disintegrated. Finally, Behemoth futilely disappeared into the abyss, leaving only its dying wails echoing.
Hiyama, who was also standing on the bridge, naturally could not escape the same fate. The rapid collapse of the bridge gave him no time to react.
He fell into the endless abyss with Behemoth.
Taking advantage of the gap Hiyama created by stopping Behemoth, the classmates who had escaped to the stairs successfully avoided disaster.
Behemoth's dying wail echoed around and then slowly faded. The stone bridge continuously collapsed with a thunderous roar. Then... Hiyama, as if sucked into the abyss, gradually disappeared with the rubble.
In time that seemed to slow down like slow motion, Kaori could only watch this scene with her own eyes, feeling despair for herself.
"No!"
"I have to save him, I must save him!"
Kaori was in tears, and if Shizuku hadn't held her back desperately, Kaori would have gone down with Hiyama-kun.
"Kaori, no! Kaori!"
Not understanding why Kaori was so agitated, Shizuku didn't know what to say and could only desperately call out her name.
"It's all my fault, I was the one who asked him to..." Kaori cried, holding Shizuku's shoulder.
"Hiyama-kun is very tough, maybe he won't die," Shizuku said nervously.
Although everyone knew this was impossible.
Hiyama was surely dead.
After all, he had fallen into a cliff like the eighteenth layer of hell.
But everyone tacitly kept silent, worried about causing another emotional fluctuation in Kaori.
"Kaori-chan..."
Nagumo Hajime, standing among the crowd, was pale and at a loss, not knowing what to say.
Comfort her that Hiyama wasn't dead?
Or praise Hiyama's self-sacrifice?
He couldn't say any of those words, because the person who should have fallen into the abyss was him.
"Everyone! Now just think about surviving!"
"Only then can we live up to Hiyama-kun's sacrifice!"
Among everyone present, Meld was the only one who could remain calm.
After hearing this, the classmates slowly began to move. The magic circle was still intact, and the number of Nightmare Warriors was still increasing. Fighting in their current mental state was ill-advised, and there was no need to fight anyway.
The stairs leading to the upper floor were very long. The front was pitch black, as if it had no end, extending upwards. It felt like they had already climbed more than thirty floors.
Even though their bodies were enhanced by magic, they should be feeling tired by now, and they had also sustained injuries in the previous battle.
Just the dim, long staircase was enough to discourage anyone.
Just as Meld was starting to consider whether they should rest for a moment, a high wall with a magic circle drawn on it finally appeared above.
Meld was overjoyed and rushed to the door to investigate, then chanted a spell according to the ritual on the magic circle and poured magic into it.
The secret door rotated, opening a path to the inner room.
After passing through the door, it was the room on what was originally the twentieth floor.
"Are we back?"
"We're back!"
"We're back... we're back..."
The classmates all sighed in relief. Some students cried, or collapsed to the ground, completely exhausted.
Logically, it should not have been even a day since they entered the labyrinth, but many must have felt that passing through here was a long time ago.
This time, the students truly showed relieved expressions as they walked outside, some even lying flat on the main gate plaza. Everyone was equally happy to have survived.
However, some students had dark expressions—including Shizuku and Kouki, who were carrying the unconscious Kaori, Nagumo Hajime, and the female student Hiyama had saved.
...
[Quest 3 complete, acquired Equip Magic: Knight!]
Hiyama, falling rapidly, heard this cold voice in his ears and rejoiced in his heart.
Mobilizing the little magic left in his body, Hiyama activated his magic.
"Equip Magic: Heavenly Garb!"
The silver-white armor shone brightly, with a pair of silver feathered steel wings on its back. This armor, truly a work of art, instantly attached itself to Hiyama's body.
Hiyama, clad in the Heavenly Garb, glided down into the abyss like an old owl.
In fact, he could have flown back up using the Heavenly Garb's abilities.
But Hiyama knew that going to the lower levels was the best option now.
He glided for a while until he heard the sound of flowing water in his ears.
"This undercurrent saved the protagonist's life back then, right?"
Using the few green glowstones he had, Hiyama could barely make out a small waterfall hidden in a cave in the wall. It was such a small waterfall that saved the protagonist's life.
If Hiyama couldn't fly, as long as he was lucky, he would fall onto this small waterfall, which was like a slide, just like the protagonist.
He wouldn't be in danger of losing his life.
But Hiyama didn't want to entrust his life to vague luck.
He only believed in strength.
Following the water flow, Hiyama found a cave. Nagumo Hajime's landing spot should have been here.
PS: Some readers say there are already many Ghost Blade novels next door, but there's only one Ordinary Job for now, and the author feels deeply about this.
Actually, the author originally wanted to write Ghost Blade, but ultimately decided to write Ordinary Job first.
Why?
Of course, it's for you!
If readers come to Feilu looking for Ordinary Job fanfiction and find none!
How upsetting would that be, right?
(All this talk is really just to trick some flowers and ratings~)*
Chapter 15: divine crystal!
PS: One image attached. Personally, I think the Eternal Garb looks the best.
The cave here was not as rectangular as the lower level passages; there were protruding rocks and walls everywhere inside, and the passage itself twisted and turned complexly.
"Equip: Eternal Garb"
Hiyama activated his magic, taking off the Heavenly Garb, which was inconvenient for movement in this terrain, and put on the Eternal Garb, which was relatively more convenient for movement.
The Eternal Garb was not armor; its appearance was more like an oriental kimono. Its special feature was that its fabric had excellent elasticity and could return to its original shape no matter how it was twisted.
His weapon was a guandao.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, when he felt tired, he finally reached the first fork in the road, which was a huge crossroad.
Hiyama stopped, hesitating which path to take.
Because he didn't know which exit Nagumo Hajime took back then.
At this moment, a white furball was bouncing and hopping ahead of the passage where Hiyama was.
It had long ears and looked like a rabbit.
However, its size was about that of a medium-sized dog, and its hind legs were thick and abnormally developed. The most obvious feature was that its body was covered with numerous dark red lines resembling blood vessels, pulsating like a heart, which was very strange.
Another white-furred wolf-like monster darted out from the shadow of a rock and pounced on the rabbit.
That white wolf was the size of a large dog. It had two tails, and dark red lines like those on the rabbit covered its entire body, pulsating continuously. The wolf appeared from an unknown place. The moment the first one pounced, two more two-tailed wolves rushed out from behind other rocks.
Normally, this should be a scene of wolves preying on a small rabbit.
However,
"Chuu!"
After the rabbit let out a cute cry, it leaped up on the spot, spun around in the air, and used its long, thick rabbit leg to deliver a spinning kick to the first two-tailed wolf.
Crack!
The two-tailed wolf had its head crushed by this little rabbit's kick and died on the spot.
And the remaining two-tailed wolf naturally could not escape the fate of being kicked to death by the rabbit.
"As expected of the lower levels of the labyrinth, the creatures here cannot be judged by common sense."
Just arriving, this rabbit taught Hiyama a lesson.
After killing two two-tailed wolves, the kicking rabbit's dark red pupils saw Hiyama.
"What are you looking at? Look again and I'll cut you down!"
Hiyama raised his guandao towards the rabbit and smiled disdainfully.
Whether it understood his words or not, the kicking rabbit, which had only been looking back at Hiyama, now turned its body to face him, bent its legs, and prepared to strike.