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"----?!"
When Lefiya's voice rang out clearly amid the Black Rhinoceroses' roars filling the entire dungeon, the Loki Familia's first-class adventurers all stiffened and abruptly looked up toward the front.
Noah likewise cast his gaze past the charging herd of Black Rhinoceroses, and then he saw it.
He saw a monster whose entire body was yellowish-green, like plant skin. It resembled some kind of larva, with an upper body bulging like a small mountain and a lower body like a snail's soft flesh, covered in countless short legs. It looked utterly disgusting.
The monster's swollen yellowish-green skin was covered in colorful patterns.
Flat, thicknessless arms extended from either side of its body, each tipped with four slits that looked like fingers.
The first thing Noah thought of when he saw that monster was a slime.
However, slimes were creatures made of mucus, whereas the monster before him possessed real flesh and skin, along with countless larva-like short legs and flat, stingray-like tentacles.
Even through Noah's eyes, having traveled through many worlds, such a monster could only be described as disgusting.
In fact, Lefiya, the only one present who could be considered to possess a normal maiden's heart, had long since turned pale.
What made Lefiya's face turn even paler was that there was more than one such monster.
A swarm of these new monsters of varying sizes poured out from a corner ahead in the maze, like squirming lumps of yellowish-green flesh. They filled the entire passageway, packed tightly together in the corridor ahead.
The next second, everyone saw it.
The fronts of those lumps of flesh split open, revealing gashes like mouths, filled with disgusting slime.
At that sight, Noah's