All right, let's go!

Yes!
Nice to meet you!
Oh, I'll do my best not to drag you down.

　Only Lilia, the dog beastman, seemed to be a little unsure of herself.

　Now we're going to challenge the dungeon in the ruins that Hult had modified, and Lilia will be accompanied by Sally the cat-beast man, who won the main tournament in the Martial Arts Competition, Meldy, who made it to the semi-finals of the Martial Arts Competition, and Seira, a former holy woman, so it's no wonder she's feeling uncomfortable.

''Lilia, there's no need to worry so much. We've already completed this dungeon once, but there aren't many monsters in it, so don't worry.

　Halt had said that he had modified the dungeon, but it hadn't been that long since he had been entrusted by the Creator God to manage the dungeon.

　So, Meldi thought, he couldn't change the structure or the demons that appeared there that much.

　She had forgotten.

　The one who remade this dungeon was that sage who could forcefully accomplish most things with his enormous magical power.

　And that it was the man who forced them to train with the devil - Hurt.


　Merdi and the others step into the dungeon.

　At that moment...

''──What?!''

　In an instant, the landscape in front of me changed.

　I should have entered the first layer of the dungeon where the light from the outside world shone in, but it was already the deepest part of the ruins.

　The pattern and atmosphere of the walls resembled the one near the final layer that I saw the last time I attacked this dungeon.

　When Meldi looked back, the entrance they had just passed through had disappeared.

''That's the eleventh layer, an extra dungeon for training beastmen who wanted to become even stronger after completing the dungeons up to the tenth layer. What Merdi and the others are in right now is the place where it all started.''

　Hurt's voice echoed from the bracelet Meldy was wearing on her arm.

　The girls seemed to have been forced to skip the tenth layer from the dungeon's entrance and transferred to this eleventh layer.

　When beastmen with a certain level of ability attempted to challenge this dungeon, Halt had planted a magic circle that would automatically transfer them to the eleventh layer of the dungeon.

''I want everyone to try out the extra dungeon to see how far you can go. If you are in danger, I will help you right away. Do your best not to push yourself too hard.''

　With that, Hurt's communication was cut off.



Yeah, that's true. But there's no way Halt would let us get into trouble.　It's going to be okay...

Oh, look, a demon is coming!

　Merdi was answering Seira's question when Sally sensed the demon's approach.

''Eh, ah, that thing is--''

　Lilia notices the type of demons.

　They were B-ranked demons.

　There are five mahonomes, cow-like demons with an abnormally high magic resistance.

　Five demons with high resistance to slashes and impacts, five Kyrenou.

　A total of ten demons rushed towards Merdi and the others.

''Chi, scatter!

　At Meldy's direction, Sally and Lilia immediately broke away from the Mahonome and Kyrenoux's rushing route.

　Merdi jumped holding Seira, whose physical ability was not that high, with Merdi holding her.

''Eh──Kyaaah!''

　Seira screams in surprise at the suddenness of the situation.

　Merdi jumped towards the mahonomes running at high speed.

　She kicked the backs of several of the demons and overcame the assault of the Mahonomes.

　The Mahonome and Kyrenoux split off one by one, heading towards Sally and Lilia.

'Sally, Lilia!　I just need you to be patient!
I'm all right.

　Sally and Lilia had already begun to fight the demon.

'Sally, I'll take care of Kyrenoux!
'Yes!　I'll leave the Mahonome to you!

　Sally, who excelled in swordsmanship, is the Mahonome.
　Lilia, who can also use magic, was doing well against Killenou.


I think I can handle that one.
But how is it that you're following eight of them over here?

　Of the ten demons that were there, only two headed for Sally and Lilia, while the rest surrounded Meldi and Seira.



''What?!''

　When Meldy called Hurt 'that guy', Seira was surprised because it sounded as if she had a grudge against him.

These demons are probably being brainwashed by Halt. He told me to attack the strongest ones first.''

　Merdi's reading was correct.

　In fact, it wasn't brainwashing, but simply ordering them to 'attack the strongest ones first'.

　These demons were 'tamed' by Hurt and used.

　However, taming a demon requires a large amount of magic power. Moreover, if it was a B-ranked demon, it would be resisted unless it was a high-ranking tamer.

　It was unthinkable in this world that a single person could tame ten B-ranked demons.

　There was a monster who could accomplish that.


　That he(...) had learned alter ego magic.

　That he (or she) was given the best toy of all, a dungeon, by the creator god.

　He has learned the magic of Taim.

　These are the biggest misfortunes for the demons placed after the eleventh layer of this dungeon.

　In fact, it's not just the demons that are attacking Meldi and the others right now, but all the demons that are beyond the eleventh level of this dungeon were under the control of a single human race.

　From yesterday afternoon to today morning, his alter egos had metastasized all over the world, taming all the dazzling demons.


　The highest B-ranked demon, the High Orc, was judged to be a vermin and was defeated as it tried to resist the tames of Hurt's alter ego.

　Seeing the situation, the one who immediately accepted the tame was the clan chief of the clan to which the defeated high orc belonged.

　That clan chief was now in charge of the floor boss of the fourteenth layer.


　The strongest demon of the wolf family, the Infernouf pack boss, had been beaten up by his alter ego and dozens of flame knights, and then tamed to become the floor boss of the sixteenth layer.


　Around the world, there was an overfishing of B- to S-rank demons.

　These were not the kind of demons that would normally be overhunted, but they were forcibly tamed by his alter ego and brought to the dungeon.

　And the main body - Halt - placed those demons in each layer.

　He adjusted them so that if he could clear this dungeon, he could gain enough power to defeat the demons.

　For example, on the eleventh layer, he placed the demons with strong physical and magic resistance together. If both physics and magic weren't strong enough in balance, they would struggle in this layer.

　The thirteenth layer was a floor inhabited by numerous demonic bugs. If you can't use magic that can annihilate a wide area at once, you can't move forward.

　On the sixteenth level, a horde of Infernouls with attack power, movement speed, and the ability to fight in groups will attack you. If you don't have the ability to kill them one by one, paying attention to the enemy's coordination and ensuring that they are killed one by one, you will die here.

　Halt had set up each layer with its own theme to be trained on.


　To begin with, the boss of the final layer was a demon tamed by Halt.

　In order to clear this dungeon, the demon had to be defeated.

　Our original goal was to create a dungeon to gain the power to defeat the demons, but...

　Tame(?) the demon who happened to appear in front of his alter ego. Since I was able to do it, I made it the boss of the final layer.


''I was surprised that it was a B-ranked demon from the start, but I think I can handle it if it's this good!

　She still felt that she could complete this dungeon.

　It was no wonder, since she had no way of knowing that the demons from the twelfth layer onwards had been strengthened by Halt.

　Of course, the demons of the final layer have been strengthened as well.

　Halt thinks that he has adjusted it so that he can defeat the demons if he completes this dungeon, but that's not actually the case.

　The demons strengthened by him had gained the power of the demon class.

　If they could clear this dungeon, it meant that they had gained the power to defeat the demon.