Along with its two enormous tusks, the entire head slowly and smoothly slid off its neck!
With a dull thud, it rolled onto the ground.
The massive headless corpse dissolved into swirling black ashes at the same moment.
Only a Magic Stone the size of an adult's fist and a huge mammoth tusk remained, clattering to the ground.
From contact to kill, not even three breaths had passed.
"The monsters on this floor still aren't enough of a fight."
Sasamori Aya stood at the rear with her arms folded and clicked her tongue in dissatisfaction. They had not even stirred her desire to warm up.
Yet.
As though it had heard Sasamori Aya's arrogant provocation-or perhaps the Dungeon's own profound malice had finally been fully triggered at that moment.
Rumble-!!
The entire wooden passage, and even the surrounding rock walls and overhead ceiling, began to shake and tremble violently.
The tremors were a hundred times more violent than those caused by the Mammoth's footsteps earlier. It was as though a magnitude-twelve earthquake had struck the entire world.
Crack! Crack!
The piercing sound of splintering wood erupted wildly from every direction. Along the walls, the floor, and the ceiling.
Countless enormous cracks spread and tore open. Immediately afterward.
Spine-chilling roars came from deep within those fissures, growing louder and more chaotic.
"This commotion..." Onigawara Rin tightened her grip on her Tachi, her gaze darting over the surrounding cracks.
As a swordswoman who had undergone strict training since childhood, she instinctively sensed the danger.
"A large number of monsters are spawning."
Kikakujō Mary tightened her grip on her Rapier. Tsukuyo Inaba kept her eyes tightly shut, her Mind's Eye fully active. Within the world she perceived.
From every direction, above and below, left and right, densely packed points of light surged toward