'Mace for cracking crab shells!
'Scissors scroll!

What I got was a mace - a club. Apparently, the warrior's skill in identifying this prey can do a lot of damage against crustacean monsters.

What about 'Prine's? A scroll is a magic that can only be used once, right?''
'n......'

Prine, the mage, stared at the scroll and nodded.

It looks like those big crab-like scissors come out and can be used at will. They can pinch, cut, and swing them!
'Oh, that sounds convenient.

I heard that there is a job called "Summoner" as a higher level job of Mage, and it may be similar to that.

There's another one in there.
Me too!

He took out a bag at the back of the treasure chest.

''Golden crab miso!

In a beautiful white bag, there was a shiny liquid object. It was the same for both of us. According to the list, it was crab miso.

'Oh, it's golden crab miso. ......!
'That ultra-premium ......!
'Sell it and you'll live for a year, that ......!

The adventurers around us are in an uproar.
Hmm. I guess I don't have to worry about money much anymore.

The faerie I mentioned earlier has arrived. She bows politely.

'Miss Rana, Miss Prine. And to all the adventurers who helped us to defeat King Crabbe. Thanks to all of you, the monster has been vanquished. Thank you very much.

The faerie continues.

The treasure chest I gave you is my thanks. Please take it.

'Thank you, I will use it.
Thank you very much!
No, thank you.

As I was thanking him for his hospitality, the leader of the provisional party, a warrior, approached me.

'Hey, are you Rana and Prine? Are you in any of the clans?
'No, but I'm not going to join anywhere for a while.
'Is that so? You can come with us if you want.

He had no idea about the commotion at the guild yesterday morning.
He has also been invited to join the clan.
Hmm. I think I have my answer. .......

I glance at Prine.
She looks confused.
That means I must be right.

'I appreciate your offer, ...... but I'm sorry.

He bows his head and declines.

'I see. ....... I'm sorry, but it can't be helped. If I see you in the raid again, I'll be happy to see you.
'Yes. Good day.

We bow and move on.
A short walk away from the castle, and there we were on the plain.
Prine still looks annoyed, so I follow her.

'I can't give away my skills, and ...... they're kind of slowing me down,' she says.
'Um, ......'
'I know you're too nice to say it outright, but that's how I feel too, and you don't have to worry about it.'
'Yeah ......'

I'm not trying to be nice, I'm just being wishy-washy. ....... Prine talking to herself.
Don't worry about it.

I'll help you if we meet again in a raid boss battle. We'll move on as fast as we can.
Yes!

He squeezes Prine's hand.
She squeezes my hand back, and when I tickle the back of her hand, she tickles me back.
Silently, but grinning and tickling each other, we proceeded through the eleventh layer.



The wide plains continued on and on.
Referring to the map in our brains, we are heading for the building that must be ahead of us. There should be a staircase there.

--I have mapping skills, but if I didn't have a Thief or an expensive map sold in a guild, I'd be lost for sure. .......

I guess that adventurers who go down to the 11th level are not beginners by any means, but the difficulty level seems to be getting higher and higher.

Well, that being said...

'--Say!

--Gee whiz!

I have raised my job level even higher in the fight against the king crab, and no monster can hurt me.

There seem to be a lot of bird monsters around here. One of them swooped down from the birds circling overhead and attacked me with its toenails. I easily avoided it and gave it a counterattack with a right elbow strike, which easily turned it into mist.

It was a balbalucha, a monster the size of a Steller's sea eagle.

I shouted.

'Hey, you birds! Stop moping around and get your ass down here!
'Hmm? Rah-kun's tone is getting rougher again ......?
'Hey Prine. I thought you said I hadn't changed? Ra-kun is Ra-kun! You said that, didn't you?''
'Ra-kun is Ra-kun, but that's that, and this is this! Like the roots are the same but the leaves and flowers change with the seasons?''
'Heh, I'm going to bloom all kinds of flowers!
I'm in a groove!

We were fighting off the birds that were attacking us.
While we were talking, I took out the bulbulcher with one punch, and when they started to be alert, I quickly equipped my bow and started shooting the birds, and Prine also started to cast a spell.

I raise my owl staff to the sky.



'--Exploding light!

A small white light, born from the tip of the wand, quickly scuttled away, born in the middle of the circling birds...

--Boom!

It exploded. It was the rudimentary magic of the explosion magic that had blown up the entire building at the upper level.

Exploding light! Exploding light! Exploding light!

--Boo-boo-boo-boo-boo-boo!

Prine-san sends an explosion of about 5 meltors in diameter into the sky and mercilessly blasts away at the birds.
It's hard to imagine how much she has grown since just a week ago, when she was terrified of slime.

--Aaaaahhh!

The few remaining bulbulchers that escaped the explosion rush toward us. He looks to Prine and tells her he will take care of it.
He kills one of them with his bow, and the other two..,

'Yes!

He jumps with his chi in his legs, and delivers the whirlwind leg shot that knocked down a bat one day. He stung with his toes instead of the tops of his feet, and felt a sharp crunch at the tip of his toes. I knew that my aim had succeeded when I saw that my shoe had pierced through the bird's body. I landed with the bird attached to both feet.

Shuaaaa.......

Monsters misting under my shoes. Victory.

''Yeah!

High five.
I recover my HP and Prine's MP with an impromptu Dance, and continue onward. It is a huge church.

However, when I entered the building, I found only a single staircase in a small room.
Is this another fake? Is it a fake?

'Gods of dungeons are ......'...
'That's funny!

I sigh in relief, pat Prine's cheery head, and descend the stairs.


Raid bosses and a huge area. Avian monsters.

I would look back on this pattern for a while later, as if it symbolized and foretold the dungeon structure from the 11th layer.

Well, it doesn't really matter, though.

And so we reached the twelfth layer.