June 14, Dark Continent, Ancient Labyrinth, top floor of the castle tower.
Purple patterns lit up, and a Lantern appeared, followed by four figures and four little imps emerging from the shifting light.
After the Messenger Imp vanished, Gelman put away the Lantern and checked what he had picked up on this round trip to the Treacherous Mountains.
"Negative Trait: Frail": Disease Resistance decreased; more susceptible to illness
"Disease: Languor": The chance of gaining a virtue decreased drastically
As before, Gelman first jabbed himself with an All-Curing Herb Injection, clearing the "Disease: Languor."
As for the "Negative Trait: Frail," he would have to wait until they returned to Greed Island before figuring out how to deal with it.
Compared to the others, "Frail" would probably rank pretty high on his list of negative traits to remove.
Just then, Biscuit, who had accompanied him, stretched, her joints cracking.
Shizuku crouched nearby, watching him with concern like a cat.
Morel struck the copper bell at the top of the tower.
Dong, dong, dong—
This time, they had successfully hunted down the two Champion-level Abnormal Demons deep in a cave in the Treacherous Mountains.
Before that, they had waited patiently in the mountains for a long time.
The cave-in had been cleared out by the Human-Raising Beast Papu, working day and night, restoring the cavern to its former spaciousness.
They willingly poured all the electricity they had accumulated into the ground, gradually awakening Tongue of Theft and Rift of Joy.
The Human-Raising Beast Papu that did this inevitably ended up as a collection of dried-out corpses.
Tongue of Theft was the first to revive. Taking advantage of its weakness, all four of them rushed it at once and killed it again.
A quarter of an hour later, Rift of Joy revived too.
That