After the battle with that queen spider (Queen Spider), Stephanie returned to the guild and immediately tried to discuss it with the PT members. However, the attacker left, saying he had some business to attend to. Tsutomu made eye contact with Stephanie and then left the guild after the attacker.

　The two tanks had nothing to do, so Stephanie gathered in the guild's cafeteria and began a review of the earlier battle.


'At first I (I) will prevent the surprise attack with my Airblaze like that, so after that, please let go of the Combat Cry. As for the rest........
You've got to get your shit together...
..........


　When Rigas said this in a subdued tone, Drusilla lowered her gaze as well. Stephanie was a little at a loss for words, but managed to raise her voice in a brighter tone to encourage them both.


'It's probably the first time for both of you to be a queen spider, and it can't be helped. You have three days to go. ........I'd like to devote tomorrow to training and try to capture it in the remaining two days.
Training?
For now, it's just a matter of training to avoid getting hit in the soft spots.


　As long as they didn't get hit by a critical attack, the two tanks could withstand enough attacks if they were given protection. But both of them were taking too many attacks to their heads and faces, Stephanie thought, so she should fix that first.


'Let's start by getting used to the attacks with those long legs. It's foolish to use hand shields to block the strings, but keep the leg attacks at bay.
Yes, sir.


　The two tanks, who had only taken Stephanie's word that they should avoid attacks, had hardly used their hand shields during the battle. Stephanie noticed this and while pointing out the actions of the two tanks, she also came up with a number of other suggestions.


'And since the Queen Spider is quite soft, especially Rigas-san, you can attack her more. As I recall, there's a skill of the Dark Knight called.......Enchanted Blood. I heard that if you grant this to your sword and attack it, it will also heal your wounds, so try attacking with this skill.
'Yes!　I understand.
'And Mr. Dorcia was pretty stiff, wasn't he?　You need to relax your shoulders more.
'I'm ... sorry. I just got excited.
I'd better not touch it.


　Stephanie didn't listen to Dorsia's slightly stammering words. After a few more discussions, the three of them broke up as it was too late today.


(I ... what am I supposed to do?)


　Stephanie, who had remained in her seat in the mess hall instead of returning to the clan house with the two tanks, looked down at the materials lined up on her desk and let out a sigh.

　Looking back, when Stephanie was in the PT below the second army, she worked under the direction of the intelligence officer and the PT leader, and from the first army, she was directed by Luke. It was unfamiliar to her that Stephanie would be the PT leader and decide the policy of the attack, and she was tired of it.

　And so far, she was able to break through the swamp hierarchy by focusing on improving her own skills and directing the two of them to make the tank function.

　But with the swamp hierarchy master, the strategy stopped clearly for the first time. So something had to be done to improve it, but Stephanie wasn't confident that this was the right thing to do. She wasn't able to give the two tanks much specific advice, and she didn't know where to improve her own movement.


(I'll ask Master Tsutomu tomorrow. I'm sure Master Tsutomu will be able to tell me.)


　Stephanie concluded, and after rubbing her eyes tiredly, she returned to the Clan House.

　The next day. When Stephanie wakes up in the Clan's private quarters, she washes her face, wraps her hair around a stick-shaped magic tool and begins to set her hairstyle. Since her hair is habitual to begin with, after fifteen minutes or so, Stephanie's hairstyle became her usual vertical roll.

　After putting on a spare yellow dress by herself, Stephanie checked her entire body in one go, and then left the quarters while twirling her horizontal vertical roll with her fingertips.


'Heel, protector,'


　Even as she walked down the hallway, Stephanie activated the two skills and made her way to the cafeteria, holding it still on both shoulders. She was able to do this training in her daily life, and she had become much better at the speed and control of its flight. She hadn't clearly mastered the skills of placing and shooting, but she was better at controlling her skills than Eunice, now a golden research healer.

　In the buffet-style dining room, Stephanie takes a seat, taking a variety of fruit and pastries, and begins to twirl her heels around under the chair. She's not perfect yet, but she doesn't lose skill control when she takes her gaze off the table to some extent.

　While waking up from the sour fruit, Stephanie is still staring into the void and thinking. The scene was like a young lady somewhere in the twilight, but her thoughts were on dungeon exploration.

　After finishing breakfast, Stephanie headed to the guild while thinking about various things. And when she headed to the training grounds as usual, Tsutomu had already arrived and was doing his preparatory exercises.

　After the greetings, the training to grasp the number of seconds begins. When Tsutomu was doing his preparatory exercises, Stephanie told him that the time for the effect of the support skill was about ten seconds before it expired, and this is the training to give the support skill to him as a guide.

　Before this training, Stephanie used to measure the number of seconds in rhythm with her hands and feet, but now she measured the number of seconds in her mind and in her physical body. In that PT, in addition to the support and recovery skills, he also needed to direct and attack. Because of that, there was no time to get into a rhythm with his limbs at leisure, so this method was the only option.


''Protection.''


　Counting the seconds in her mind, Stephanie flies the protection ten seconds before the effect wears off. As soon as it is granted, Tsutomu speaks up.


'You're a second early.'
I understand.


　Stephanie nodded at Tsutomu's exact seconds, followed by counting the seconds of the heist. After about an hour of such steady, motionless training, they moved on to skill control training after a short break.

　Stephanie's accuracy in skill manipulation has improved a lot through this training, so if Tsutomu's AGI (agility) is not that high, she can already hit him stably. However, Tsutomu was good at grasping the habits of Stephanie's skill manipulation, and thanks to that, he was able to train well enough even against Tsutomu with a low AGI.

　Nevertheless, if she was in a PT with a high AGI attacker, she would have to get used to their fast speed, so sometimes she would bring in a high ranking attacker from Aldoret Crow and ask him to be her training partner to avoid the support skills. However, Stephanie was less good at hitting Tsutomu's support skills than that attacker.


''Hmph. Let's do it around here.


　When Tsutomu, who was sweating reasonably well, said that, Stephanie lowered the tip of her wand and dissipated the taut chi. It's a good idea to be able to have a good idea of what you're looking for.

　This training looks easy for Stephanie from the side because only Tsutomu is moving, but it is quite nerve-wracking to manipulate the support skills to apply them before the effect time is up. Therefore, this training is much harder on Stephanie's side.


''Thanks for your help. Now let's go have lunch.
Yes!


　But once this training was over, it was a break, and they could go out and have lunch at a pretty good restaurant. It was a reward for Stephanie after her training and she looked forward to this time every day.

　In a bit of a good mood, Stephanie walked side by side with Tsutomu through the city and headed to her usual shop. By now the waiter at the restaurant had gotten to know them, and they were ushered to their seats, where they quickly opened the menu and told the waiter by their side to order.

　Tsutomu, who was drinking cold water mixed with fruit juice, took a breath, and Stephanie opened her mouth.


'Tsutomu-sama. I'd like to ask you a few questions about the recent battle with the Queen Spider (Queen Spider).
'What?　Oh, what is it?
I would like to know if there is anything I (I) can do to improve my (my) movements.
...hmmm...


　For the first time in nearly three weeks of training, Tsutomu crossed his arms in annoyance when Stephanie asked him about the afternoon's training. Then after a few moments of snarling he looked up.


'Well no, once you've made it this far, you can figure out the rest on your own. If you've made it this far on your own, Stephanie, I'm sure you can do it.
Oh, I see...


　Stephanie, who had been expecting to get some good pointers from Tsutomu, looked down, dreading the reply. Tsutomu looked at Stephanie and followed her with a slightly bitter look on his face. And when Tsutomu started chatting with her to change her mood, Stephanie responded with an awkward smile.

　After enjoying the appetizers, soups, main dishes and desserts that were brought to us, Tsutomu paid the bill and headed to the guild with Stephanie.

　The three PT members gathered at the guild at the usual time. After greeting them, Stephanie completed her PT application at the reception desk and immediately moved to the 29th level.

　First of all, in order to get used to the movement of the twenty-nine levels, we beat the monsters while looking for the black gate. Then Stephanie made the two tanks practice what we talked about yesterday. Rigas used Enchanted Blood for the use of the hand shield. Dorsia's challenge is to eliminate the awkwardness of their movements. However, seeing her grinning against the poisonous-faced spider (Poison Spider), Stephanie had some idea of what she was doing.

　Then after the battle continued and her body got used to it to some extent, Stephanie entered the thirty level. Then the battle began after she popped the first surprise attack with an airblaze.

　Two of the tanks fired a Combat Cry at the queen spider, and Stephanie put on protection to assess the battle situation.


'Mr. Rigas. Enchanted Blood, please!
"Enchanted Blood.


　When Rigas chanted the skill as instructed by Stephanie, the shortsword began to be clothed with a black evil spirit. It is a skill unique to the dark knight that allows him to give his weapon a blur that can heal his own injuries for the amount of damage dealt to the enemy.

''Live Dungeon!'' The Dark Knight in the Dark Knight has a lower VIT than other tank positions, but has a skill that allows him to recover his HP with each attack. For this reason, the Dark Knight can tank while attacking in addition to the traditional tank role. While tank positions are usually held by large shields and shields, many dark knights use two-handed weapons such as the scythe due to their characteristics.

　They also have other unique skills, such as increasing the criticality rate with Shadow Eye and cutting damage by 20% with Dark Armor. However, since these skills decrease in HP every time they are used as a compensation, if used in the wrong place, they will often result in death.

　Because of this, it is easy for beginners to fall into the pattern of overuse of skills that reduce HP and die before they realize it, and special equipment is mainly dropped in dungeons, making it a job for intermediate players.

　With his Enchanted Blood-clad shortsword, Rigas is trying to figure out the queen spider's leg attack. However, it was not going to work from the beginning, and he was at the mercy of multiple legs with great success.

　Dorsia's breathlessness from the last time had disappeared somewhat, but her movements were still stiff. Her ability was below average, so there was absolutely no way she could be attacked by the queen spider if her movements remained stiff. Sure enough, she was blown away by a side swipe leg, and then carried into the web above and turned into a particle of light.

　The attacker's ones didn't look any different, but unlike before, they were aiming for the legs from the start. Occasionally they would aim for the belly and be restrained by the strings, but they were moving somewhat better than before.

　And since Stephanie didn't know what the problem with her movements was, she did the same movements as last time for the time being and looked for improvements.

　But five times Stephanie's moves couldn't keep up and her support ran out and the PT collapsed, nearly wiping her out. Three times she was caught by the queen spider while all but Stephanie died and raised, and three times she had to defeat the queen spider after being saved by Tsutomu. They repeated the queen spider fight a total of eight times, and today was dismissed.

　The air in the PT had sunk to the bottom after repeating the same ending as last time eight times. However, Stephanie had decided that today was just a training session, and she even had time to encourage the three members of the PT because she had found a way to make use of her skills.


(We're getting better at standing around.)


　Stephanie instructed the tank while trying to keep up with the support and also unleashed her own attack skills on the queen spider. Now she didn't even feel a burden to do it. If she didn't do it, she wouldn't be able to defeat the queen spider with this PT. So I have no choice but to do it. That feeling was sharpening Stephanie's standing more and more.

　Coupled with the fact that she was forced to stand recklessly in the swamp hierarchy so far, Stephanie rarely ran out of support skills by the eighth round against the queen spider. But still, if the tank collapsed and used a raise, Stephanie would suffer a lot more. Especially if you use a raise against a dead tank, the queen spider will target Stephanie for quite some time, so it was all she could do to help.

　And through the repetition, Stephanie came to one answer.


(It's a bookmarked thread.)


　It was Stephanie's job to constantly slash the queen spider's bookmark thread, and the rest of the time she would focus on supporting and recovering.

　Fortunately, the attacker had begun to focus on the queen spider's legs and was able to cut off some of her legs. Therefore, Stephanie decided to focus on cutting the bookmark thread.

　The queen spider's bizarre moves with the queen spider's bookmark thread could confuse even Stephanie. So the other three can't see through it at first. Therefore, Stephanie thought about taking away that mobility first.

　Besides, the two tanks are slowly getting better at dealing with leg attacks. Rigas is slowly learning to attack with his shortsword, and Drusilla is also getting used to it after being taken to the nest and dying a few times, and her movements are improving.

　There were only two days of training left. Stephanie was alone in the conference room of the clan house, imagining tomorrow's moves while wishing that she could defeat them tomorrow with plenty of time to spare.