Oh, dungeon bosses can come back.

Yes but not with Hurt-sama's attack. I can't revive him.

　We had heard the reason for our surrender from a white haired girl who called herself Hakua. She said that this girl was the dungeon master here.

　Hakua was young in appearance, but the amount of magical power she contained within was ridiculous. The fact that she was a dragon must also be true.

　Apparently she rarely had the opportunity to speak human language, which made her words a bit awkward.

　The reason why she surrendered was because Chalkia and the Ogre, the boss of this layer, saw the destruction of the eighth layer of demons by my magical knights and were terrified.

　The boss of the dungeon can be revived as many times as he wants as long as he doesn't give up life. However, the eradication of the demons in the eighth layer by my knights had instilled enough fear in the Chalkas to make them give up life.

　Incidentally, the bosses up to the seventh layer were defeated before they were terrified by my attack - they were able to revive because they were defeated before they even knew what I had done to them.


'I was surrendered, but can't I defeat a demon or something?　I need to level up my friends...

I hope I'm not the boss of each layer.

　The bosses are demons that Chalkia brought from outside the dungeon and can communicate with her. So she asked me not to defeat them because she feels sorry for them.

　Instead, she told me that except for the bosses, they are naturally occurring demons, so it's okay to defeat them.

　I was relieved to be told that by Hakua. Especially after the ninth layer, I really wanted to hunt down all the demons for the sake of leveling Luna and Luca.



"Anywhere.

'Can you get the door to the ninth level boss's room to open up after this?　Also, I want my knights to be able to move through the layers.

Okay.

　Saying that, Hakua made a translucent board like a status board appear and was manipulating something.

　A little while later──.


That's it. The ninth level boss has been evacuated from the boss's room. The door to the boss's room is open. Touch the transference stone and you can move through the layers with magic.

　We can now go through the ninth level boss room. Now the knights can get to the tenth level before we move on.

''Thanks. Well then........go ahead!''

　I gave orders to the knights of ice and wind. With that command, the knights rushed out.

　There was a transition stone at the back of the boss room on the eighth level. The knights swarmed around it and disappeared from the knights who touched the transition stone. They must have moved to the ninth level.

　I'm going to explore the position of the knights, considering the possibility that Hakua is trying to trick me and reduce my strength.

　........it seems to be okay.

　They're moving to what looks like the ninth layer.

　And Hakua looked really frightened when she appeared in front of us a while ago. Maybe she won't do anything poorly.


　And ten or so seconds after the knights disappeared──.

　Just like at the eighth layer, Luna and Luca's bodies began to glow pale and white. The level of the two of them has risen.

　As expected, the ninth layer seems to have a higher level of demons than the eighth layer we are at now, and the interval between Luna and Luca's bodies glowing is short.

"The demons of the ninth layer, how could they be defeated at such a speed.......

　Hakua muttered about that while looking at the translucent board.

　She has a board that manages dungeons, apparently it can check the number of demons and information about the humans challenging the dungeon.

　It seems that when she surrendered to us, she already knew our identities, and Hakua knew my name.

　I heard that he could also know my level, but Hakua didn't mention that I was level 1.

　I haven't told Luke, Ryushin and the others that I'm level 1 yet, so I'm grateful.


　A few minutes later──.

　It seems that the eradication of the demons has been completed.
　The flashing of Luna and Luca's bodies has also ended.

　As expected from the ninth layer onwards, the demons were strong, and some of the knights seemed to have been killed as well. Even so, there were still about eighty knights left that could fight.

''What's the level of both of you?''

That makes it 92, sir.
I'm level 95!

　It seems we both managed to break through level 90 successfully.

Oh no I got passed over.

　Rifa looks a little sad.

　It's not unreasonable. Even though Rifa was able to level up efficiently in the dungeons held by the royal family, she had mostly leveled herself.

　Well, don't worry.

　My goal is for my entire family to be tertiary - in other words, over level 150.

　Of course, I'll help you raise the level of your Refa, too.


I'm sure you're right.

　Chalk looked at the control board and was aghast.

　Sorry. Thankfully, I received it as experience.

　For now, one of the purposes of coming to this dungeon, raising the level of my friends, was completed.


　The other objective, to obtain information about Tina's memories, is yet to come. Maybe there's a clue in the final layer.

"When you clear a dungeon, the name is recorded on the stone tablet at the final layer, right?

Yeah.

　There is a stone monument in the dungeon that bears the name of the one who defeated the boss of the final layer - that's what I read in a book I read a long time ago.

　Tina has lost her memory regarding the name of the brave man she used to venture with, but the name of the brave man should be written on the stone monument in this dungeon.

　She needed to know the name of that brave man. I'm not sure why I don't know why I'm doing this. But I had a premonition that this would be the beginning of recovering Tina's memory - that's why I came here.