A dungeon near Rottern, the Tomb of the Magician.
It was a dungeon where lower-level undead such as skeletons were formed endlessly. So, it was also a dungeon to avoid.
This was because the undead was an extremely difficult enemy for beginners to deal with. Because it is made of bones, it does not work well with swords, and it does not run away with fear of death like a creature type enemy.
However, the difficulty that overcomes all the difficulties was that it was difficult to determine whether the undead was really dead.
‘I thought I had already neutralized the skeleton soldier by cutting off the chest and arms, but there is a party that was annihilated by being hit in the ankle by an arrow that was shot down.’
These myths were so widespread among novices in Rottern. The undead was such a difficult enemy.
However, it was different for one job, ‘Saints’.
This was because the healing power of the saint acted as a devastating attack on the undead. It worked better than spraying insecticides on the bugs.
The female swordsman and the female thief, Jain thought that this was the reason why they believed in Jain and Elaine who were unfamiliar and joined the party.
In this dungeon where only the undead appeared, it was because the saint was close to invincible.
But now the saint,
“Hey, you have to take the lead. Why do you keep standing behind me?”
Clinging to Jain’s back, he stubbornly refused to enter the magician’s grave dungeon.
“But… Power, it’s hard. Can’t I stand in the back row?”
“no. It’s your test.”
“However, this dungeon is a dungeon created by an old bachelor magician who tried to become a rich man and then died.”
“It is just a rumor. No high-ranking monsters like Lich have ever been reported.”
The female swordsman tried to appease him, but Elaine was still trembling with a pale face.
“But, what do I do if that guy appears as a ghost after the cute me?”
“Are you afraid of ghosts? Being a virgin?”
At those words, Elaine said with her chest wide open, as if on a whim.
“under! What nonsense! As a saint who was formally educated in a convent, I am not a demon… Whoa!”
And while he screamed in trouble, he hugged Jain. It was because he felt something rubbing his back. Zain said while pulling the sparrow out of Elaine’s stuck back.
“ghost! The ghost just took my spine! Help me!”
“It was just a sparrow crawling into his clothes. Calm down.”
and sighed. The sparrow flew away with a snarling sound. Zain grabbed Elaine’s shoulder and began to persuade him.
“Trust me. The output of your Holy Power is pretty good, so you can purify lesser skeletons from here in one shot. There will be no danger whatsoever.”
“really?”
“Because you believe in me.”
Elaine nodded at that. Anyway, the red mage in front of me was an annoying but very strong person. However, the people around him seemed to have a different understanding of it.
“Hey there, can’t you stop flirting and start working?”
The female thief said in a loud voice. At those words, Elaine looked back at the female thief with a puzzled expression on her face.
“Yes?”
“Don’t hug your boyfriend while pretending to be afraid of ghosts, stop and let’s go. You need to get the concept right, would you believe it if a saint was afraid of ghosts?”
“Men, you’re a boyfriend, uh, what?”
“what? Wasn’t it?”
“Absolutely not!”
Elaine, who was strongly unclean, boldly took the lead and started walking. It was to hide his embarrassment. The rest of the party laughed and followed after them.
*
As Zain assured, the dungeon raid was pleasant.
When the female thief, Jain, and female swordsman caught the skeleton, Elaine casted low healing and hit the last hit.
Without stopping even once, the party quickly reached the middle of the dungeon.
“Come on, let’s rest here.”
Said Jain, who stopped in front of the stone chamber with the wall collapsed. There was a resting place called ‘pocket’. It was a proven safe space where no monsters appeared. Carefully crossing the crumbling wall and entering the stone chamber, I saw a worn-out sofa and furniture such as candlesticks. Apparently, this place was originally a resting place for magicians.
“De, finally, is it a break? Ah, vertigo… ”
Elaine staggered and lay down on the broken sofa. It was because he drew his magic power until he reached the limit.
“it’s okay?”
A thief crouched next to him and fanned him. Elaine only panted with a pale face, but couldn’t even answer. The female prosecutor went around the stone chamber and inspected the objects.
“Let’s wait until Elaine fully recovers her magic power here.”
“Gold, it will recover soon. I took the medicine I gave you earlier… It is filling up quickly.”
In the midst of that, Elaine stammered as if she didn’t want to cause trouble. Reassured by that answer, Jain grinned and started walking out of the stone room. The female thief asked with round eyes.
“Where are you going?”
“I go to the bathroom.”
The thief made an absurd expression on his face, but the one who gave a short answer quickly fell out of sight. Of course, I didn’t really mean to go to the bathroom.
‘We have to start arranging for that guy to get the highest grade.’
Jain muttered to himself. From now on, so that Elaine could receive the highest grade, I was planning to draw a sketch by making full use of the elements hidden in this dungeon.
“Haste.”
It was body acceleration magic. As small vortices flowed through both hands and ankles, vitality began to boil over his entire body.
“Sword of Annihilation.”
In his hand, he was holding a sword of emptiness, woven with magical power. It was a choice not to leave evidence. The monster that lost its life to this sword was erased from its existence, leaving no remains.
After completing the basic preparations, Jain immediately kicked off the floor and ran as if being thrown out. It was starting to run through the dungeon.
Skeletons full of dungeons blocked Jain’s front, but it was cut, torn, pierced, and melted without a trace by the dark gray blade, but no one could stop Jain.
In an instant, Jain smashed hundreds of skeletons and arrived at the end of the dungeon. The path the boss, Skeleton General, was waiting for, was the only place in front of me. However, Jain did not enter the boss room.
He only touched the bizarre magic circle next to the road to the boss room. Hundreds of magicians have been investigating that there may be some hidden secret, but no one has found it, so it is a magic circle that turns out to be just graffiti.
“Let’s see.”
However, to Jain, the rationale that made up the magic circle was clearly visible. It was also clear what was missing. The one who quickly interpreted the magic formula completed the magic circle by inserting a four-letter magic statement. Then, the room was dyed bloody, and something began to rise from the floor with a rumbling sound.
“Who dares awaken the sleep of the Eternal!”
Soon, a pile of flesh that could barely be recognized as a human rose. It held a staff made of skulls in its arms. Seeing this, Jain smiled.
Farrell Rich. In the words of a being who is half successful and half unsuccessful in becoming a lich. In the original, it was a monster that appeared as a boss in this dungeon from episode 5 or more. Although he was the boss at the beginning, he was stronger than the advanced demons of the 1st round.
He had finally completed the magic circle of Richie that failed to complete, and forcibly summoned this guy.
“It’s your guy! The one who awakens this great magician!”
“hi.”
Jain raised his hand and said hello. Ferrell Richie said with a burst of madness.
“Red mage, are you multi-talented? You feel the wall and come to me to teach you! Give me a woman as a tuition fee! Then I will pass on the magic that I accomplished through my life as a virgin!”
But Jain did not listen to him. He immediately waved his hand and said goodbye.
“Then go well.”
“what… .”
He pulled out Bahumet’s Hell Salt and immediately threw it at Feral Lich. There was no time to delay. A fireball imbued with a demon’s seal suddenly engulfed the feral lich.
“─────────────!!!”
Like the highest level magic in the flame world, its power was unparalleled. Ferrul Rich left a long flurry and melted away without a trace. In the place where it disappeared, only a pendant studded with a murky ruby remained.
“There is a pendant contaminated with tableware. Lucky.”
Jain who picked up the pendant and put it in his bosom muttered like that. This was a fairly good piece of equipment that was usable even after the middle part of the original. It was because there was an option to increase the maximum amount of magical power.
‘I have to purify this and give it to Karin in moderation.’
It seemed to be of great help to Karin, who was suffering from a lack of magical power. Jain nodded, opened the open basement door as soon as Ferrell Lich appeared, and walked downstairs. A large lever was placed there. When I pulled the lever, a loud rumble was heard.
‘Now the structure of the dungeon will begin to change. In the same form as the 5th.’
Jain shook his hand and muttered. When I slammed the basement door and climbed up, it was as expected. The road that was originally one has grown into two roads.
Seeing that, Zain muttered with satisfaction.
“done. The arrangement is over.”
Then, after casting Haste again, he ran through the dungeon and returned to the pocket.
It took only 7 minutes to get here.
“What are you doing to come back so late?”
Elaine, who was completely refreshed, asked as if embarrassed to see Jain wandering back. It was a short time compared to what was accomplished, but it was a bit long to go to the bathroom. Zain scratched his head and replied.
“sorry. It was too late to poop.”
“What, you dare say such a low-key thing! Can’t you turn it around a bit?”
“Come on, come on, let’s take a picture of the Comte and move on. From here, a cluster of skeletons appears, and it will take a long time to break through all of them. I have no time to waste.”
Also, when there were signs that their conversation would be lengthy, the female prosecutor stopped them. It was a recommendation citing her experience in this dungeon. The female thief had a disgusted expression on her face. After a while, the party started moving again.
However, contrary to the female swordsman’s concerns, the party reached the end of the dungeon as easily as walking on bare ground. It was because Jain had taken care of everything. The female swordsman, who had a complicated expression because it didn’t go as expected, murmured as if in a frenzy after arriving at the end of the dungeon.
“It’s strange. It’s definitely an out-of-the-way place. Why are there two paths?”
Behind the bewildered party members, Jain folded his arms and tried to put on a serious expression together. I cheated on these guys, but I couldn’t help it.
For Elaine to get the highest grade in the test, she had to enter that new second path.
“In the beginning, wasn’t it a two-way road?”
“yes. Clearly, it is a one-way street, and after defeating the Skeleton General that is waiting there, and then destroying the idol created by the grouping of tables, it would be a successful purification… ”
The female thief opened and read the quest instruction and muttered. Jain, who had been waiting for the time, took a step forward and started making an offer when the confusion subsided.
“Listen. I have a plan.”
Inwardly, in order not to make a mistake, he was repeating the magic formula of the magic he had created after defeating Abel.