Chapter 142

Chapter 142 – Bear-san Dives Into The Mine, Part 3

After I destroyed the Stone Golems with one punch each, I noticed that the party was looking at me differently .

「Where does all that strength come from when you have such a small body?」

The tall Toya-san said while patting my head .

「I can’t think of her in the same way as before . 」

Senya-san said and touched my arm .

「Hmm, so soft!」

What was soft? The Bear-san? Or my arm?

I shook the two of them off and moved forward .

Thanks to my recent demonstration of skill, our formation had changed; for some reason, I, a frail girl, was walking in front with Jade-san .

Mel-san said she would cover us and that I didn’t have to worry, then went to the back of the group .

While walking at the front of the group, I silently wondered if it was a good idea to change the layout of the party this suddenly .

Well, since I could defeat the golems with a single punch, I didn’t really need others to watch my back anyway .

I decided to deal with any Stone Golems that appeared from now, but when we got to the Iron Golems, I would first see how Jade-san’s party fought them .

Since I could basically defeat the Stone Golems with a single Bear Punch, I decided just to keep going with it and not try other attacks .

Well, I wanted to try using magic, but I was worried about the tunnel’s stability . It would be bad if the tunnel collapsed because I used magic poorly .

「The tunnels were strengthened with magic, so they won’t crumble from just a bit of magic, you know . 」

Jade-san told me, but how much was just a bit of magic? Would a light Bear Punch or weaker magic be fine? I really had no idea when he told me like that .

If I tested it and the tunnel collapsed, we would end up being buried alive…

Since I didn’t know how much strength I could use, I decided to just keep Bear Punching the Stone Golems .

「Our roles have completely reversed now, huh . 」

Jade-san said after I defeated another Stone Golem with a single Bear Punch .

「Yuna-chan, you’re too strong . 」

「Defeating Stone Golems with a single punch each is just unbelievable . 」

「It’s a good thing I didn’t make fun of you earlier . 」

「Yeah, because if you did, you would have become like those Stone Golems, you know . 」

「Yeah, and I would properly engrave your gravestone with, 『Here lies Toya . He was mauled by a bear . 』」

「Don’t just kill me off!」

Everyone laughed at his retort .

We kept moving forward without a problem and arrived at the next floor, where Iron Golems would start to appear .

Based on how the strength of the golems changed based on the floors, this kind of felt like a dungeon . There had been dungeons in the game, but were they in this world too?

If they were, I would like to dive into one at least once .

However, before considering a dungeon raid, I first had to deal with the Iron Golems in front of me .

I could melt iron with Fire Bears, but doing that in a tunnel would be suicidal .

It would be great if I could wrap their heads with water and drown them, but they wouldn’t suffocate, right? Hmm, they might rust and be unable to move if I doused them in salt water, but I probably wouldn’t be able to sell their materials afterwards .

Would I be able to cut them up with Bear Wind Magic? No, I would probably destroy the tunnel faster than I could defeat them .

I could try using Earth Magic to make a Bear Golem and pin the Iron Golems down, but I didn’t really want to use that in front of Jade-san’s party .

I could also make a pit to bury the golems inside, but if I dug up the floor like that everywhere, it might cause the tunnel to sink . Also, I wouldn’t be able to get the iron that way .

I wanted to give some of the Iron Golem bodies as souvenirs to Gold-san and Gazar-san, but I would also love to take some for myself and turn them into pieces of art .

I decided to just try using a random attack for now, while also watching how Jade-san’s party defeated them .

Since the floor had changed, I could now detect several Iron Golems, including five of them far away from us .

So, those were the five Iron Golems they had been talking about .

Huh? From what they told me, the golem that started this all should be behind the five golems, but my detection magic didn’t pick it up .

Was it not there, or was it among those five?

Overthinking wouldn’t help, so I decided to just defeat any Iron Golems that came our way for now .

When the first Iron Golem came into view, the party immediately moved into battle formation .

The Iron Golem looked just like an Earth Golem, but made of iron . Its thick arms looked like giant hammers; getting hit by those would surely mean death . If the golem could understand me, I would have definitely recommended that it become a carpenter…

「By the way, how do you defeat an Iron Golem?」

「Normally, there is no other way than to just keep damaging it until it stops moving . 」

「Though if we weren’t in a tunnel, we could defeat it with strong magic . 」

Mel-san muttered with a sigh .

I knew it, they had it hard because we were in a mine .

This location made it hard to use magic, which reduced the variety of usable attacks .

Well, this didn’t change what I had to do: approach the golem and hit it with a Bear Punch .

Using the mobility of the Bear Shoes, I drew close to the Iron Golem, which swung its giant hammers towards my head .

For an instant, I considered using the White Bear Glove to block it, but I realized that it could turn out badly and decided to avoid it instead, and the hammer-like arms hit the floor with loud bang .

After getting past its arms, I hit its body with a Black Bear Punch .

Normally, hitting iron would hurt, but thanks to the Bear, it didn’t hurt at all .

The golem was pushed back a few meters, but it didn’t collapse .

I knew it; it was different from Stone and Earth Golems .

This one was hard, heavy, and solid .

Yep, it was troublesome .

Just hitting it with enough power to take down Stone Golems wasn’t enough here . I had to hit harder .

Since I had already tested my attack, I decided to leave the rest to Jade-san’s party .

Immediately after I hit the golem with a Bear Punch, Mel-san sent an Earth Golem at it . Magicians could compress the earth to make it harder, so the Earth Golem that Mel-san sent was able to dull the Iron Golem’s movements for a moment, but it didn’t seem to have dealt any damage . Toya-san used the opening to attack and knocked the golem’s arms aside .

It was like attacking an iron pillar . There was no way a sword could cut it .

When the golem turned to face Toya-san, Senya-san prepared to attack it from behind .

She was holding her knives; was she planning on attacking it with knives!?

Senya-san quickly closed the distance and cut its leg . Well, I said cut, but it wasn’t like she actually cut it off . Still, there were visible traces where she cut it . I didn’t see that wrong; she had cut it with a knife .

「Senya is wielding mithril knives, you know . 」

Mel-san explained to me when she saw that I was surprised .

So, she had mithril knives, huh . Well, considering her rank, it wasn’t that strange .

Senya-san continued to slash at the same place until the golems leg finally broke off .

Amazing, she was able to cut that giant leg with just a knife .

She showed a satisfied expression when the leg hit the ground, and Toya-san, who had been keeping the golem’s attention all this time, finally got a chance to catch his breath .

「Jade’s sword is also made of mithril . 」

Toya-san and Senya-san backed away from the golem, which lost its balance after its leg were cut off, and Jade-san came in to strike the golem with his sword .

The golem tried to use one of its arms to protect itself, but Jade-san was able to cut it off in a single strike .

Amazing! A mithril sword was able to cut off an Iron Golem’s arm?

「It isn’t just the mithril sword, you know . It’s also thanks to Jade’s skill . 」

Mel-san explained to me as if she had read my mind .

She was right . If anybody was able to defeat an Iron Golem with a mithril sword, they would just have to loan the swords to rank D and rank E adventurers and resolve this problem in an instant .

It was only thanks to Jade-san’s skill that he was able to cut off a golem’s arm; that was why he was rank C .

In this case, Senya-san being able to cut it with a knife was quite amazing as well .

I wondered what my sword technique was like .

I used a sword in the game, but I didn’t know how good I was in this world .

If I had a mithril sword, would I be able to cut it?

It would be great if the Bear Cheat had an effect on my sword skills as well .

The Iron Golem tried to get up but couldn’t with only one leg left, so Jade-san took his time to deal with the remaining golem’s arm .

He dodged it by taking a few steps back, attacked it, and then dodged again .

「Ah, if only I had a mithril sword myself, I could cut it as well…」

Toya-san watched Jade-san with a frustrated expression .

「Impossible . 」

Senya-san spoke a single word of denial, and when he tried to rebuke,

「Last time Jade lent you his sword, you weren’t able to cut it . 」

Senya-san added, shutting him up .

「Giving you a mithril sword would just be a waste . 」

Senya-san delivered the final blow .

Jade-san continued to carefully cut the golem, making its movements duller and duller, before it finally crumbled down into a mountain of iron .

The remnants looked pitiful; if they couldn’t be defeated more cleanly, the golems couldn’t be made into artwork .

Author’s note:

I bought a new hard drive and had to reinstall the operating system; that’s why the chapter is short .

If this solution won’t work, I will have to consider buying a new PC .

I just connected to the Internet and still have quite a few things to do, so the next chapter will also be short or late .