Episode 43.4 (1/2)
The room's exist led them into a small room covered in rocks, the other four were already waiting.
Once you get to this point, any one member of the group can warp out of the dungeon. You can also warp to the next floor if all five shafts have been conquered.
”You're late.”
Ui looks at Lecan with her usual chilly and sharp gaze.
”Yea, sorry for the wait.”
”Julius hasn't been hurt or anything, has he.”
”Yes. I'm fine Ui-oneesan.”
”Oneesan?”
”Ah, I'm sorry. That's impolite of me.”
”No. You're not being impolite. How could you be. There is nothing wrong at all with that calling.”
”I'd like to get to the next floor.”
”Oho. I see you're full of motivation. Well, shallow floors are well suited for swords after all, so swordsmen would have an easier time taking on chain battles compared to mages here.”
The seven joined hands and warped to floor 2.
Afterward, they got through three floors, up to floor 4.
The magic beasts were all ashen-colored <Magic Wolf>, spawning one in each room, but they've been gradually getting bigger and faster.
Julius's movements are still as awkward as ever. Aiming at a wolf's neck proves to be quite a tall order to him.
(Now this is curios.)
(And he moved so well in Dungeon Tsubolt.)
Though when you think about it, the boy had been fighting nothing but <Black Body> even up to Dungeon Tsubolt's depths. Humanoid magic beasts carrying weapons. Julius could afford to unleash his full power against such foes.
But not so against wolf-type. Their biting fangs look frightening up close. Fighting against that fearsome attacks while trying to slash at their necks with your sword is a whole different level of difficult than fighting humans.
Lecan himself majorly dealt with animal-type magic beasts when he first started out dungeon diving. He had a hard time against insect and plant types as well. It's not until he began diving in large scale dungeons that he faced his first humans and humanoid magic beasts. Hence he doesn't think much of wolf-type beasts as tough opponents.
”<Recovery>.”
”Thank you very much, master.”
”Splendidly done.”
”Thank you.”
”How you parried the <Magic Wolf>'s right leg attack with your sword to then proceed to slashing at its neck was especially well done.”
”Yes.”
”However, the way you swing your sword when you went for the neck lacked sharpness.”
”Ah.”
”Your father never lets up with the sharpness of his slashes no matter what enemy he's facing. It's one thing if your fighting style is like me, brute forcing sword swings akin to striking, but if you aim to cut your foes with skills, you must not forget to focus on your slashes.”
Due to the shallowness of Julius's slash, he failed to kill off the beast with that hit and suffered a counterattack.
”Y-yes.”
”Hm. How you did not falter even after the claw cut your right cheek and proceeded to finish it off was splendid.”
”Yes.”
Lecan ended up showing his <Recovery> to the elderly mage, Jiza, but he had already anticipated this would happen beforehand. Showing off that much of his ability is no big deal.
”In a fight, don't forget to fear against the weak, don't falter against the strong.”
”Don't forget to fear against the weak, don't falter against the strong.”
”Indeed.”
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”I understand master.”
Jiza watched over the two while being all smiles.
Afterward they met up with other members and had lunch together.