Tsutomu and the other four headed to the guild with their coldproof equipment, and after forming a PT, they transferred to the seventy-one level with a magic circle. Tsutomu left the search for the enemy to Amira, who wanted to move her body, and gave five of the two potions to Leleia each.


''Is this enough for the blue potions?''
Enough.


　Leleia took it and put it away in her pocket and immediately used the skill.


'Contract 《Contract》--Salamander.


　Flames swirled on the ground as Leleia chanted the skill in a dignified voice, and a small lizard-like looking salamander was called out. It bellowed and rode on her shoulder with a high-pitched voice.

　A spiritist can make a contract with any of the four major spirits, salamanders, undines, sylphs, and gnomes, to borrow and exercise their powers. A spirit can only contract one attribute at a time, but it can be contracted by others.

　It's not a bad idea to have someone else sign a contract with them, as one of their statuses will increase by half a level depending on the spirit they sign. However, the maximum number of spirits you can spend is two. If you want them to contract more than that, it's more efficient to put in a buffer such as a granting magician honestly.

　Then the salamander on Leleia's shoulder looked at Tsutomu as if he was more concerned about him. When Tsutomu noticed this and tilted his head, the lizard-like looking salamander raised and lowered his head while opening his mouth angrily.


''What is this? What's going on?
I feel like I'm dancing.


　When the two of them were drawn back by Salamander's sudden spike in tension, Leleia's eyes widened in surprise as well.


''This is the first time I've seen this, too. But apparently, Salamander seems to have taken a liking to Tsutomu.


　When Leleia noticed this, she made Tsutomu a test subject and made him sign a contract with Salamander. Then the salamander quickly dove into Tsutomu's clothes and revealed only his face from inside his chest. Seeing the expression on his face as if he was in a hot spring, Leleia put her hand to her chin.


'Tsutomu doesn't have any unique skills, does he?
'Yeah. I'm not supposed to have one, but...
''Those with unique skills are very compatible with spirits. Rarely do some of them have an affinity for spirits even if they don't... but I've never seen a salamander be so friendly to people before.


　Leleia looks at Salamander, who is licking Tsutomu's proffered finger with his long, slender tongue, and looks at him with exultation.


(Maybe it's because the gods called her out on it?)


　Tsutomu removes his finger from the salamander that bites him sweetly with a huff and a puff while thinking about that. Since skills are also only available in God's dungeon without creating a status card in God's dungeon, it can be said that spirits are also created by God. If they were the ones invited by their own parents, they would not be rude.


''Then it's not a bad option to have a spirit contracted against Tutom. Because if it's someone with a unique skill, their status will increase by one level, so it's a very good match.''
Heh.


　So, if you are a salamander, your STR (Attack Strength) will increase by one level. Other increases include MND (Mental Strength) for Undine, AGI (Agility) for Sylphs, and VIT (Sturdy) for Gnomes. A one-step increase would be quite practical in terms of mental power consumption due to the contract.

　After discussing it with Leleia afterwards, we decided to sign up with Undine, which basically increases MND, and then we'll be able to use it in different ways depending on the situation.

　Undine is basically a humanoid spirit, but apparently if they're incompatible, they'll curl up like a mere slime and won't lend their strength to you. And when Tsutomu signed up to try it out, water rolled backwards in front of him, and an Undine with a humanoid shape and life-size good looks appeared in front of him.



''Well yes. I've never seen one this big before.
It's cold.


　Even Leleia's green eyes trembled with agitation as she was surprised by the size of the thing. And Tsutomu, who was touched on the cheek by the humanoid Undine with his hand, involuntarily pulled his face away.

　The spirit unravels human language, but it cannot speak. And the light blue face with the scenery behind it showing through was quite sad.


'Can you be small?'


　The Undine nodded sadly with a chuckle and shrank to the same size as the salamander from earlier and settled into the palm of Tsutomu's hand as he took on the appearance of a slime.


''........Should I just put it in my pocket?''
You know...?


　Leleia was so upset by the first time it happened that she didn't seem to know what to say. Tsutomu struggled to pocket the slime that was so badly entangled in his fingers and clapped his hands to regain his composure.


'For now, let's go as soon as Amira comes back. We'll practice around the Snow Wolf.
Hey.
Oh, yes.


　Hanna, who was fearfully touching the salamander with her fingertips, returned the words, and Leleia replied with a stunned look on her face. Then, with Amira returning from the search for the enemy, the four of them began to explore the seventy-one levels.


　--▽▽▽--


Haste, Airblaze.


　While providing support to Hannah, Tsutomu flew his attack skills to the Snow Wolf 《Snow Wolf》. Floating in the air with the fly, he was able to see the distance between the Snow Wolf giving up on his attack and tank at the same time as the healer.

　As the hierarchy progressed, more and more monsters were equipped with long-range attacks to counter the fly. Snow Wolves could unleash icy air cannons, and snow slimes and snow golems could also fly ice conglomerates 《Mushite》.

　However, Tsutomu has crawled a barrier on himself to disable long-range attacks, and at the same time, he has calculated to earn hate. On top of that, Hanna, an evasive tank, needs assistance, so he must also hit her on the ground with his Haste.

　In addition, she must also attack to earn hate, which requires a different approach than the usual support recovery. When you are a tank, you need to be careful with your hate management, as you need to make sure that you are able to get the monster's hate right.

　The thing that tanks are most afraid of is the transfer of hate to other monsters. For this reason, Tsutomu actively uses support skills, attack skills, and barriers to gain hate. Although he can't earn more money than Hannah, who has a hate skill and can also provide firepower, he was able to attract enough monsters as a sub-tank.


'd*mn, that's a pain in the ass.


　Amira is working with Tsutomu like that, but she has only worked with Daryl until now. It's a good idea to be able to have a good idea of what you're looking for when you're looking for it. But Tsutomu, who is currently serving as a tank, doesn't have the time to care about her.

　I'm sure you'll be able to find out more about this in the future. Up until now, Daryl hadn't had that much trouble getting the monsters together at one point, but this time she had to move around a lot. And there was a tough part, as several times the hate would fly to Amira.

　In contrast, Hannah and Leleia didn't seem to have that much of a problem. Leleia, who signed up with Salamander and unleashed her fire system's long-range skills, is shooting carefully to avoid misfiring at Hannah, who is moving around.

　However, Hannah had also not been aware of the attacker's attacks until now, relying on Diniel's shooting skills, so her movements were very dangerous from Leleia's point of view. It sounds good to say that she trusts the attacker's skills, but currently she is just not aware of it.

　When the battle was over, Leleia approached Hannah and told her to devote her attention to the attacker's attacks as well. Hannah honestly didn't understand what Leleia had told her, but she nodded for the moment.


'Amira. I'm sorry, but let me try a lot of things in the morning. After that, you can use your dragonization.''
Yeah, okay.


　Amira nodded, looking more tired than when she dove before, probably because she moved around more than usual. Tsutomu gave her a deceptive smile.


'Harder to do than Daryl, right?　Sorry about that. It's still hard to put together a quintessential monster. And two more hates flew, too.
No problem. I'll be fine with it.
Thank you. That's very helpful. Okay, let's move on.


　Tsutomu raised his white staff and thanked Amira, and then continued to explore the seventy-one levels. Along the way, he battled the basic monsters of the snowfield hierarchy, such as snow wolves, snow slimes, and snow golems.

　And after procuring dozens of ice magic stones, it was getting close to afternoon, so they had to take a break. Tsutomu warmed up some corn soup on the magic stove and spoke to Amira.


Good night. It's starting to fit in. So, let's take the afternoon off as planned and build in some dragonization.
Yeah.


　As Tsutomu continued to fight, he got used to the feeling of doubling as an avoidance tank and the MND increase by Undine. He also became comfortable enough to be able to apply a medic to the dragonizing Amira.

　Amira realized how easy it was for her to work with Daryl, since she had experienced a different kind of tank.

　The fact that a white mage could also serve as a tank was in itself a marvelous thing, but without it, Tsutomu wasn't exactly good at it. Of course, it was lower than Daryl, his main job. That's why Amira had to work harder for it, but this was difficult.

　The monsters that had been grouped together until now were scattered, and there were times when the hate shifted to Amira. I'm sure that as the battle goes on, Tsutomu is getting used to it, and his tank is getting better, but it doesn't change the fact that he has to get his attackers to match him as well.

　It's a good idea to have a good idea of what to do with your own personal computer. Therefore, she had grown up enough to be able to follow Tsutomu a little bit as well.

　On the other hand, Leleia and Hanna are not so good. It's not possible to suddenly be aware of the long-distance attacks that had been left to Diniel until now, and Hanna was forced to struggle because she couldn't adapt to Leleia.


''.........''
..........


　Leleia is pondering how to match the attack, and Hannah is silent as she looks at her silence. Seeing the slightly heavy air, Tsutomu handed them both a mug of corn soup.


'I guess that one still doesn't fit. What does Leleia think?'
''I can't shoot as accurately and incomparably as that Diniel. So I'm sorry Hannah, but I want you to pay attention to our attacks as well. It just seems to be difficult to do that.


　Hanna's face twisted into a giggle as she spoke while looking down at her mug. It's a very good idea to have a good idea of what you're looking for. However, with Diniel out of the picture, this was becoming more difficult.

　Hannah is standing around on the ground against many monsters, attacking them and earning hate. Although she was able to do that in itself, she wasn't able to be aware of Leleia's attacks.

　Magic skills, unlike arrows, are difficult to shoot accurately. That's why Leleia was ahead of the game and called out to Hannah as a signal to her to chant the skill beforehand, but it just didn't work.


'Hannah, maybe if I do the same thing as I did with Stream Arrow, I'll be able to make it work, but is it difficult?
...Oh, is that so?
'Yeah. So why don't we just think of that whistle-like arrow sound as Leleia's voice?　It's going to be less efficient than it has been, but there's no way it's going to work from the start.
'I see!　I see!


　Hannah's eyes widened as if Tsutomu's words had made sense. Tsutomu smiled bitterly at Hannah, who looked up at him as if she were looking up at him as if he were a god, and then turned back to Leleia, who had a serious look on her face.


''Since that's the case, Leleia, try to do the same thing as before. If that doesn't work............................I'll ask Diniel for her opinion.
Master, your voice sounds so scary.
So, Hannah, how did my fly go?


　Through Hannah's plea, Tsutomu asked her opinion about her fly. Then Hannah crossed her arms and tilted her head in a hmmm, and then spoke up.


'Like this, Shubba.'
You too?


　Tsutomu felt the déjà vu and involuntarily held his head down.