I was accidentally injured by God and I just want to be an ordinary person

Just like a rope tied to a heavy object cannot bear the weight of the suspended object, the hit carnivorous plant made a crisp sound, and the flower, the largest and most important part of the whole plant, was shot down by the armor-piercing bullet. After a second of silence, the carnivorous plant fell to the ground and twisted in a crazy posture. The flower with terrifying teeth kept opening and closing, and with the sound of roaring, it bit the ground and stones into pieces, and even bit its companion not far away while wriggling. Then, with the help of its companion, the struggling carnivorous plant ushered in the end of its life.

"It seems like it's a little off, but I think I'll make the same mistake next time."

"Hey, stop him! He's the one who stole our magic core!"

"Um?"

Just as Lotte was about to officially begin, a discordant sound came from nearby, and judging from the footsteps, the distance between her and the other party was gradually shortening.

"Tsk."

Lotte smacked her lips lightly and changed her posture from lying on the ground to kneeling on one knee. Then, she took out the Explosion Fruit and sprinkled hallucinogenic powder around her that could have a confusing effect. Her spirits were raised to the extreme and she entered a state of readiness for battle.

Carefully poking her head out of the bushes, she looked towards the source of the commotion and discovered that the noisy group was surrounding an adventurer wearing a black combat uniform and holding a giant sword. Except for the purple pupils that symbolized the demons, the rest of the adventurer's body was wrapped in black. If Loti had to use one word to describe this adventurer, it would be danger. This was an instinctive warning.

Even when facing many other adventurers surrounding him, the demon in black did not show any panic. He simply used one hand to stick the sword on the ground and looked at the people around him calmly.

"Asshole, facing so many of us whose magic cores have been stolen, you're still pretending to be so indifferent?"

It seemed that he was very dissatisfied with the performance of the black-clothed demon. The surrounding adventurers questioned him in an angry tone. However, the black-clothed adventurer still looked at everyone with the same expression.

"Tsk, then we'll have to use the adventurer's method to get you to talk."

Like a battle horn, this group of at least ten adventurers swung their swords or axes at the black-clad adventurer. Lotte was sure that with such momentum, even an orichalcum-level adventurer would need some time to cope. However, unlike what she had imagined, the black-clad demon merely swung his sword horizontally once.

""lonely"."

As if some kind of magic spell was chanted, all the adventurers, without exception, were sent flying backwards as if hit by a high-speed object, and fell to the ground, losing consciousness.

——This is someone I absolutely cannot get close to. If nothing unexpected happens, this will be the biggest obstacle I encounter in this maze activity.

Having reached a conclusion in her mind, Lotte held her breath and squatted motionless on the ground, trying to minimize any actions that might reveal her position. Then, the black-clad adventurer glanced around and quickly left the place.

Only after confirming that the other party had indeed left did Luti breathe a sigh of relief.

"If it wasn't an illusion, I should have been discovered just now—that look in his eyes, as if he was confirming something."

After thinking for a moment, Luti stood up and carried Hela on her back again.

"It's safer to move somewhere else. Let's just give up here..."

Chapter 48 Unexpected Help

After packing up her equipment, Lotte left the territory of the Piranha Plant and continued searching for monsters in the forest.

As time went on, more and more adventurers began to enter the third floor. The evidence was that the originally quiet forest began to become restless, like the omen before an earthquake, and countless creatures began to run.

Such an environment is a test for Lotte, because she excels at long-range attacks. So if she encounters an agile monster like the Silver Wolf, if she cannot gain the upper hand at the beginning, it will be difficult for her to perform her moves later because of the shortened distance. So if it is a real battle, the only people suitable to be her partners are shield warriors or sword warriors who can act as the front line, attract enemy firepower, and stick to the opponent's actions.

When they were in college, Yajie, the teacher in charge of practical classes, once organized a team combat course. Naturally, Lotte and Ella formed a team of two, so the scene during the battle became that Ella, who was originally a healer, was responsible for using barrier magic to act as a shield warrior, while Lotte used Hela to attack from the rear. Although this fighting method also achieved good results, watching Ella passively taking the beating - even if it was only hitting the defensive barrier - made Lotte feel very guilty.

——As a servant, you should defend your master from attacks.

Such thoughts kept circling in her mind. Sometimes Loti even considered whether to give up Hela and switch to a warrior profession, but this idea was vetoed by Ella. "Shield warriors and the like? I can just ask those boys to do it when I have the chance in the future. Besides, isn't my defensive magic much stronger than a shield warrior's? Didn't Loti say that she wanted to become the strongest offensive magician? If we become shield warriors, won't we have no offensive ability?" Such words made Loti give up the idea of ​​switching to a shield warrior.

However, in this kind of environment, we really need a warrior... Then we can go to the Holy Academy and recruit a shield warrior.

Making plans for the future, Lotte continued to explore carefully, the fragrance of the earth still filling the air.

Click.

He stepped on something and his body sank a little unnaturally.

"trap?!"

She jumped back reflexively, but to her surprise, there was no continuous attack as she had imagined. After calming down her nervous heart caused by the sudden change in the environment, Lotte took a deep breath, squatted down, and began to check her surroundings.

"Is this... a burrow spider's nest? No, if it were a burrow spider, it would have been noticed before it was stepped on. And since they're not being pursued, it's just an empty nest... But, without maintenance, it should have collapsed long ago. And the plants on top don't look like they just grew there."

Wary of this strange phenomenon, Luti walked around the cave and then grabbed some nearby soil and crushed it.

"There's no smell at all, and the soil isn't loose at all like normal soil... a monster?"

He pointed Hela at the entrance to the crypt and searched his mind for possible monsters.

Mountain crabs? They should be attacked by now, and the same goes for snake monsters. Wait, could it be soldier ants? Hmm—definitely soldier ants. If they're soldier ants, and they can destroy the nest and get the magic core, maybe they'll qualify for this competition.

"He hasn't come out yet. He's probably trying to figure out if I'm just a passing creature. In that case..."

Having thought of a countermeasure, Lotte slowly retreated with the lightest steps she could manage, and then began to sprinkle fog powder around the nest to keep people away.

Although the levels of most soldier ants are only in the single digits, and even the winged soldier ants are only around level 10-13, as for the highest-ranking ant king, although it can reach level 25, it is too difficult to grow to this level, and the ant king will not easily leave the nest. In addition, ordinary soldier ants and winged soldier ants only have two simple skills: charging and gnawing, so hunting will not be difficult. Of course, all this is based on the premise that the soldier ants have not discovered the hunters. Otherwise, in the face of the violence of the number of soldier ants, even a mithril-level adventurer team will be terrified.

"Flint, flint, wind stone, citrine..."

Various minerals emitting gorgeous luster are inlaid in order around the nest. Because the lines between the gems will cause the ground to vibrate and alert the soldier ants, the barrier can only be arranged in the simplest way.

After confirming the location of the ore again, Luti breathed a sigh of relief, then walked to a seemingly safe place in the distance and hid there. She lay prone on the ground and set up Hela.

"Now, the preparations are complete—[Explosive Bomb]."

The slight vibration from Hela made Lotte blink, and then a dull explosion sounded. Because it was a magic used to detonate the barrier, the explosive bomb contained not much magic power and was slightly lacking in power. However, the effect was very obvious - a firestorm as high as five meters blew up above the entire nest.

Then, as expected, countless soldier ants crawled out of the nest with a chirping sound like anger - and then exploded in the storm of fire.

"Next is the second shot, the Explosive Bomb."

The orange-red projectile flew out, and although it deviated slightly, it still managed to hit the outermost yellow crystal of the magic circle. As if being held down by a giant, the upward fire storm poured into the nest like liquid.

Feeling the heat coming from afar, Lotte felt a little relieved.

I had expected more resistance, but I didn't expect it to be so easy to resolve. Not even a single soldier ant escaped.

However, just as Lotte was about to get up and clean up the mess, an unexpected development occurred.

Puff, puff, puff.

There was a strange sound, as if something was breaking through the ground. With the naked eye, white ants, about half a meter in size, appeared on the ground that was not affected by the firestorm. After breaking through the ground, these ants rushed towards the grass where Ruthie was hiding.

Oh no.

This thought emerged in my mind. Although I don’t know how these soldier ants avoided the encirclement of the fire storm, this is not the most important thing at the moment. What I have to deal with now is the threat from these soldier ants.

Even with Hela's help, he couldn't eliminate these monsters by using the most powerful wide-area annihilation magic he could cast so far, "Explosive Bomb". The most critical issue was his lack of magic power. Even with the magic potion given by Miss Camisia, in order to maintain the power of the explosive bomb, a single launch would consume at least half of his magic power.

She stood up very quickly and threw all the explosive fruits at the soldier ants that were gathering towards her. Lotte picked up Hela and the dimensional backpack and immediately turned around and ran to the back.

bang——

The power of the Explosion Fruit will bounce away the affected soldier ants - as for the reason why they are simply bounced away, although the soldier ants have no special attack capabilities, the toughness of their bodies is something that ordinary monsters cannot match, and the power of the Explosion Fruit is not enough to end the lives of the soldier ants.

Keep running forward. If you cannot create enough distance between you and the soldier ants in a short period of time, the soldier ants will follow the scent and keep following you. Even if you are rescued in time, you will definitely lose the qualification for the competition.

However, the running process only lasted for a few breaths before Loti had to stop - she was surrounded by countless soldier ants.

"A miscalculation, huh?... I didn't expect it to spread throughout the entire forest..."

Wherever the sight extended, it was all densely packed. Ordinary soldier ants crawling on the ground and winged soldier ants flying in the air rushed towards him with an unstoppable force. It seemed that even the ground was shaking because of such a large number of soldier ants.

With no way to escape, Luti smacked her lips softly.

"In that case, we have no choice but to fight—this is the only place where failure is not allowed."

He picked up Hela and attacked the soldier ants closest to him.

Explosive Bomb, Explosive Bomb

The two consecutive hits stopped the soldier ants running in the front, and the air waves generated by the explosion also made the soldier ants flying in the air fall to the ground. Countless plants were broken in half, making crackling groans.

However, this could only slow down the soldier ants' forward speed a little, and more soldier ants crawled over the bodies of their stopped companions and began to rush towards themselves.

——That was enough. His real purpose was just to buy time for Hela to switch to physical mode.

"If I use these words now, Miss Ella probably won't blame me, right? Well... even if she does, it's probably my fault for not thinking things through. Having said that... I still don't want to be blamed."

Take out the magical consumables equivalent to fifth-level magic.

Although I said I couldn't use it when I entered the maze, the enemy is a monster now, so it should be okay even if I use it, right?

After a final confirmation, Luti loaded a magic consumable into Hela in physical mode, aimed it at the center of the ant colony, and pulled the trigger with her right hand.

""lonely"."

The moment Lotte prepared to launch, a black beam of light, like a meteor, slammed into the ground. Countless soldier ants then flew out in all directions, centered around the meteor. The black adventurer she had seen before appeared there, like a garbage collector. Every swing of the black adventurer's sword sent countless soldier ants flying. Though the movements seemed slow, it took only a moment to clear out all the soldier ants.

Then, the black-clad adventurer holding a greatsword appeared in front of Lotte, and a voice that was indistinguishable between male and female was heard.

"fine?"

Although she was very suspicious of the other party's intentions, judging from the current situation, the other party should not want to snatch her magic core like they did to those adventurers before. Not making any rude moves because the situation changed too quickly, Loti put Hela down and temporarily put on a friendly expression.

"Nothing, may I ask who you are?"

"I'm glad you're okay. See you next time."

As if afraid of having too much conversation, after hearing Lotte's answer, the black-clad demon adventurer waved his hand with his back to Lotte, pulled out the black greatsword that was stuck in the ground, and left the place with a reckless pace that was completely unlike that of a warrior. He left here in just a few leaps, leaving behind a pile of motionless soldier ants.

"Tsk, what a strange person."

After smacking her lips lightly and replenishing her magic power, Lotte began to quickly clean up the battlefield.

These are only a part of the soldier ants. The remaining second wave should be coming soon. However, this number is enough for me to pass.

Her gaze drifted towards the direction where the strange black-clad adventurer had left. Lotte shook her head and began to finish her work.

Chapter 49: Who should I give the gift to?

* August 8, 6186, 8:13.03 PM, Demon King's Capital, Mistydin, VIP Seat

Coming out of the maze, Lotte opened the curtain of the VIP seats and walked into the room that Camisia had prepared for Ella.

"Ms. Ella, I'm back."

"Welcome back, but, it's not time yet, why did you come back early?"

Standing up from the sofa, Ella walked over to Lotte and put down the dimensional backpack she was carrying.

Feeling a little embarrassed by Ella's attentiveness, Lotte hesitated for a moment before answering.

"Well... I returned early because I collected the amount Miss Camisia mentioned. If I had stayed in the maze for the last few hours, I would have easily run into trouble with the other adventurers."

The thought of the demon adventurer clad in black came to her mind. Although he had helped her before, the deep sense of alarm still made her realize once again the inadequacy of her own strength. After all, even the origins of this adventurer remained a mystery. Before entering the maze, all adventurers were placed in a square. During this brief period, the adventurers could get to know each other and even discuss team formation. Loti considered her memory to be above average, but she definitely didn't recall this demon adventurer in black.

Did he disguise himself after entering the maze? But a greatsword taller than a human should have already attracted him. A dimensional backpack... no, that person didn't have anything as convenient as a dimensional backpack. Could it be storage magic? To store a greatsword of that size, one would need to be at least a high-level magic caster. But the very act of swinging the greatsword proved he was a warrior, not a magic caster. The melee, non-chanting magic used by warriors and the magic used by magic casters are two completely different systems. Someone who could wield it at that level wouldn't even need to participate in this competition.

While Lotte was thinking, Ella began to examine Lotte from head to toe.

"Eh? Miss Ella?"

It wasn't until Lotte reminded her that Ella stood in front of Lotte again, showing a relieved expression.

"Yeah, luckily, no scars left. Lotte was really cool when hunting the Piranha Plant."

"Really? I think destroying the soldier ant nest after that would be even better."

Following Ella's words, Camisia's voice came from the other side of the door curtain. A hand lifted the door curtain, and Camisia, still wearing a dress, walked into the room.

"Princess, I'm late."

"It's okay, huh? If you have something to deal with, it's more important to deal with it first. I have Nina with me, so it's okay. But by the way, was Camisia watching the event while she was dealing with it?"

As if thinking about something, Camisia's purple eyes turned and then nodded.

"Yeah, there was a long wait while we were dealing with that matter, and I was watching Lotte-chan's game during that time."

"Really? Really? Did Camisia see that black adventurer? He hadn't been on the screen before, but he suddenly appeared. And he even helped Lotte for no apparent reason. Does Camisia know his origins?"

Hearing the question she wanted to know, Lotte raised her head and looked at Camisia like Ella did.

Her expression became a little strange, and Camisia hesitated for a second again.

"Hmm—this black-clad adventurer should also be one of the demons who suddenly signed up last night."

"Is that so? Although there may be others in the next few rounds, the biggest obstacle right now is probably this black-clad adventurer. Well, for now, let's sit down and continue watching the next round."

“Um… Miss Ella, I’d like to adjust Hela. It seemed like she was a little off track when we were in the maze earlier…”

As she spoke, as if a man were taking off a woman's clothes on the bed, Lotte skillfully took out Hela and placed it on the empty space on the table. With a soft thud, Hela's pitch-black gun was exposed to the light.

As if she was deeply impressed by this magical technology, Camisia looked at the prop that reflected the metallic luster in the sunlight.