Lazy Dungeon Master

aimed at Redra’s mouth.
Using the height of the inhalation that was followed by a breath, the egg was splendidly thrown into the large opening.

“Ogu—!?”

Redra unintentionally swallowed the egg.
However, the egg suddenly stopped while going down her throat.

“Mugu—!? …!”

As if it grew hands and feet, the egg stopped in the red dragon’s throat.

(W-what is this!?)

It didn’t completely block her respiratory tract.
Even though it was big for an egg, it was still too small to block a red dragon’s throat.
However, she choked a little.
The egg moved about in her throat while she thought about that.
Following the stream of air inhaled, it entered the esophagus… then, the organ that shot her breath.
It arrived at her lungs.

“Uuu, geh, this feels, bad—… o-ow, what… igii—!?”

Kashiiin—a blade grew from the egg, sticking into her lung.

“Gah–, aaah—, gaha!?”

Feeling them for the first time in more than a century, Redra writhed in [Pain] and [Suffering].
Even though dragons had strong bodies, without their scales inside their body, it wasn’t worth talking about how much damage would be dealt.
Only the stomach was special.
Nothing’s supposed to get into your lungs to begin with.
Coughing up blood while breathing desperately, she forcefully ejected the egg from her body.

“Gu—, gefu… w-what the heck… was that…”

She had swallowed adventurers and attacked from inside her body before.
At those times… it was no where near this painful.
To begin with, dragons are generally able to digest even swords and armor that they swallow.
Just getting stabbed by a sword wouldn’t affect a dragon’s stomach in the least.

“So that’s was Ontentoo meant… gu, pe—!”

She vomited out the blood that had collected in her lungs.
The wound was already blocked up.
This task was accomplished by the vitality of a dragon.

“There probably aren’t anymore…!?”

But when Redra looked, many golems had circled around her, each one carrying an egg… … As expected, even Redra paled at the memory.

“U-uwah——!?”

She immediately destroyed each golem’s egg.
She kept herself from using her breath so that they wouldn’t be thrown into her mouth, going so far as to close her mouth and stop breathing entirely.
When all of the golems and the eggs were destroyed, she inhaled deeply.

“Ha, haha, what… the heck, that’s all of them…”

When she thought it was over, Redra lost strength in her wings.
When she looked at the ground for some reason, one of the eggs had fallen there.
(… Missed breaking that one?)

“—!”

Bam! She crushed it under her tail.
With this, it’s do—
—Right in front of Redra, beads of light gathered, and the egg revived.

“Wha—!? What is this…!?”

Bang! She destroyed it with her claw.
However, it revived once again after several seconds.

“Hiiii—!?”

She once again crushed it in the same way.
Revived.
Crushed.
Revived.
Cruched.
Revived.
Crushed…

“What the!? Whyyyyyy!? Uwaaaaaah!”

In a half-crazed frenzy, Redra continued to attack the reviving egg.

*

“Alright, now’s our chance.”

Since Redra was completely the egg’s prisoner (in a deep meaning), I activated the crystal golem to try and look for the dungeon core.
I don’t know how much time we’ll have until the hostile reaction appears though.

“Hey, Kehma.
Isn’t that my [Phoenix Egg]…?”
“It’s alright, as you can see it’ll just keep reviving.”

By the way, the eggshell golem was made from collecting the phoenix’s eggshell, but it obviously didn’t get its revival feature.
However, the phoenix egg is raised in fire, so I experimented.
What I found was that it could withstand even thermite reactions (a chemical reaction that reaches 3,000 degrees Celsius by igniting metallic oxide and aluminium).
It didn’t even leave a burn.

Well, I made a fully automatic egg-breaking golem.
Even so, there isn’t much left over after extracting the insides, so the amount of egg-type golems were limited.

The strategy this time was… egging her.
I thought about using the issun boshi strategy at first, but I didn’t think we’d be able to damage the stomach at all.
So, my goal was shifted from her stomach to her lungs. [1]
Each and every egg type golem was equipped with hands and feet, as well as having a magic sword golem inside them that I ordered to attack lungs.
I also ordered them to hide their hands and feet when they were outside the body.

However, the egg golem is light.
If a dragon seriously breathed out, they would quickly be blown away.
Accordingly, I gave her a bit of a trauma.
I decided to have her endlessly attack the reviving phoenix egg.
After her lungs were attacked, I surrounded her with golems that each held an egg where one was the real phoenix egg.
They would throw the egg golems into her mouth if she wasn’t panicking.
My plan was to give her a trauma… The results are obvious.

“Vulgar.”
“Quite a thing~”

I heard Rokuko’s impressions before I asked her for them.
But in truth, it would’ve been awkward if she was killed by accidentally exploding her lung.
It’d be horribly bad if they sought revenge, I wouldn’t be able to sleep quietly if we weren’t on good terms with our next door neighbor.
I can’t sleep if they bang loudly on our wall after all.
Because of that, I made it so that they wouldn’t go to the point of her dying.

“Ah, the dungeon core is here somewhere…”

Manipulating the crystal golem, I looked around outside the treasure warehouse.
To say nothing about other room, the stairs leading up to the boss room on the fiftieth floor was open.
Come to think of it, Haku-san also put the core on the other sid of the boss room in the [White Trial] huh.
It went up the stairs step by step.

Then, with the room from the boss room still firmly closed, there was the white and shining dungeon core.
I see, so after the boss room was the dungeon core, and after the dungeon core was the treasure warehouse even further inside.
… That’s a splendid pedestal.
However, if it’s just that tall even the crystal golem can climb it.
Thrusting its small sword into the pedestal like an ice pick, it climbed upward.
And then—

[Oi Redra, pull yourself together! Oi, o—… ooiiii!? What is this guy!?]
“Touch~”

Using our trump card (crystal golem), we succeeded in touching their dungeon core.