An earth spirit gnome with the appearance of a generic little girl, wearing earth-colored clothing designed by Amy. As such, she was pumping her fists up like a boxer who had won a match.

　The eighty-two levels of the eighty-one levels were a drastic change from the evil atmosphere of the eighty-one levels, with a heavenly landscape that looked like the heavenly world above the clouds. A large number of light-attribute monsters appeared in that place, and they were perceived by the searchers as extremely formidable enemies.

　Attacks other than the weakest attribute are halved by light waves, and there are also monsters that have difficulty passing physical attacks as well. Therefore, it is necessary to exploit the weaknesses of the light attribute, but the only attributes that exist are the dark and earth attributes.

　You will be able to use the dark attribute most effectively, but the number of jobs that can use that skill is limited, and they are not enrolled in the infinite circle. Among them, Leleia, a spiritist, and a gnome, an earth spirit, are the only ones who can use the earth attribute.

　You'll be able to use all of the spirit magic in good harmony with the gnomes, so you can deliver an effective blow. And because the gnome fights with an entity when it contracts with Tsutomu, it was able to strike a relatively high DPS against light-attribute monsters.

　The gnome rushes over to him to praise him and tell him to praise her. Tsutomu looked at the haniwa doll looking body on her shoulder and then pointed at Daryl, who was taller and stockier than him.


''Wouldn't it be better to get bigger like that, so you could have more striking power or something?
..........


　Then the little girl and the haniwa made a thoughtful motion at the same time. Then, after looking as if they had thought of something, they stretched out their right hand gingerly towards the sky. The right hand then crumpled into a limp and transformed into a hammer-like appearance. The white robe Tsutomu is wearing flutters as she waves it around.


''Well I see, that certainly looks like it will go up.''
..........


　As he said this while pulling a little on his deformed hand, the gnome opened his mouth in a nudging manner. The inside of her mouth is a structure that is indistinguishable from a human's, and it's hard to believe it's made of clay. When I gave such a gnome a colorless little demon stone, she chewed it up with a crunching, happy face.

　In front of Salamander, who was looking at such a scene with his mouth open in envy, Diniel held out a small magic stone of fire from his magic bag.


''Beep.''


　Diniel is observing Salamander, who is gagging and trying to swallow the magic stone in his mouth after a short purr as if to thank him, with the same droopy eyes as usual.


''Diniel, how much magic stone are you going to give Salamander?　I've already had over a dozen.
I'd like to give you a magic stone or something.
Please don't do that. I don't care how much I give you, you won't be liked by the salamander and it will only be a waste of time.


　The affinity with spirits can be increased to some extent by communicating with them, such as by giving them magic stones, but not enough to explicitly change their affinity value. In order to increase the affinity value, you need the rare spirit magician's item that comes out of the silver treasure chest, but it rarely comes out here.

　So no matter how many magic stones Diniel, whose chemistry with spirits is not all that good, will not change its value. But without listening to the words of Lee Leia to stop him, Diniel took the magic stone in his hand again.


It's fine. It's fine, just to see this.


　Diniel couldn't sign a contract with the Salamander due to the lack of chemistry, but she seemed to be satisfied with just seeing him eating the magic stones. Leleia sighed heavily at her way of saying that she had given him nearly ten thousand Gs of magic stones today alone.


''Combat Cry!''
Non!　More beautiful spirals!　Not to be mixed up with mine!
Woo, Combat Cry!


　Daryl has been instructed by Xeno to release his Combat Cry beautifully, and his expression is a bit of fun. He's at an age where he's a sucker for cool things, so he's recently been practicing how to fly Shield Throw in a mesmerizing way.

　That and Garum's rigorous training in parallel, so he seemed to be able to successfully take over the good points of the two of them. And unlike Zeno, who stood around with a clear awareness of the God's Eye, Daryl was becoming more popular as a natural-like character. Therefore, they weren't competing for each other's popularity and had settled into a co-existing form.

　And after a light break after collecting the magic stone of light, Tsutomu and the other five PTs proceeded onward, aiming for the black gate that they had already found!


Diniel, are we going south?
"Hm.
Roger that. Zeno, you take the lead.
I can do it!


　As a holy knight, Xeno's attacks using his skills won't be able to penetrate the light-attribute monsters very well, but on the other hand, his opponent's magic attacks won't be able to penetrate as well. For this reason, Zeno will basically be the first to advance on the 82nd level. However, he is vulnerable to the attacks of the dark attribute, so when the hierarchy changes, he changes to Daryl as the leader.


'Ah, Xeno. About changing the color of your skills.
Huh?　And if Tsutomu wants to join my troupe, too?
'What!　Are you going to do it too, Mr. Tsutomu?!
No. I was just wondering if you could show me how to do the color change. I tried to do it on my own, but I couldn't get it right.


　Tsutomu floated a heel that was a little lighter in color than usual, while returning it to an annoyed Xeno and Daryl. Tsutomu hadn't figured out how to change the colors when he was doing skill drawing in the royal capital, and he had tried several times after that, but he hadn't really gotten the hang of it. Then Xeno flapped the cloak on his armor with his hand.


'Fine!　Everyone is welcome in my theatre company!　Yes, how about Mr. Leleia and Mr. Diniel, too!　Especially Mr. Leleia!　I think if you could release your skills beautifully with the spirits, it would look good in the delivery!
No, thank you.
Shut up.


　Even though the green dragonman and the elf gave him a terrifyingly cold look, Xeno only lightly slumped his shoulders. Xeno asked Tsutomu for guidance on the fly while he was at it. At the moment, the person with the best control of the fly in the infinite circle is Hannah, but she can't teach it to others. So Xeno, who was close to Tsutomu and his senses, was the right person for the job.

　Then Diniel looked at Tsutomu, who was looking for guidance from Zeno, who was not as good at flying as he was. However, if you say something here, it would be a hassle to have to instruct Tsutomu on his fly, so he didn't have anything to say.


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That's great....


　After finishing wiping out the flock of fallen angels at the eighty-fourth level, Aldoret Crow's first army PT, a young man named Harto, Aldoret Crow's first army attacker, who was holding the black and white twin swords named "Heaven and Earth Opening", muttered involuntarily.

　Hurt, a bird-man from the same village as Hannah, looked at Stephanie, who was fluttering her peach-colored vertical rolls, with a respectful gaze.


'Halt, move as you please. We'll match it here.


　I've had experience working with other white mages, but at that time I couldn't show as much of my original abilities because I had to limit my movements. Therefore, I was surprised when Stephanie told me that, but I didn't expect that she, as a white mage, would be able to perfectly match her support skills to my full strength.

　Stephanie is now the most famous in Aldoret Crow, and is famous for her ice commanding skills. The first time he worked with her, Hurt was scared when he saw how different she was, and the red wings sprouting from her back were trembling.


''That guy is bad. As expected of Bitt-san, he's just scared!　And you've got some serious eye power!　I'm definitely scarier than a monster!
..........


　Bittman, one of the three major tanks, chuckled in front of the young man, who seemed to have more of a habit than Sauva. And the departure of Sauva, who was Stephanie's childhood friend and served as a stopper of sorts, was not good news for him.


'I thought it was great that Tsutomu matched that Hannah, too, but Ste-san is unusual, too.
"...Halt, don't say a word about Tsutomu.
Oh, I'm sorry.


　Hurt lightly apologized to Bittman, who cautioned him with a gloomy face, and then pointed repeatedly at the little fat Polk.


It's a good thing that you have a good reputation," he said, "because honestly, I was wondering if Poe's reputation is good, but he's not. It's true that he has some skill among the granting artists.


　Although Hurt didn't have that much experience working with a granting magician either, even to a layman's eye, he could see that Polk's skill manipulation had reached the level of art. Polk, who was originally an artist who used his skills to draw pictures, is the most skilled in the Maze City when it comes to skill manipulation. It's not only that, but it's also the keystone of the PT, as it strengthens allies by weakening monsters more and more without causing any misfires, and it faithfully performs the mental force manipulation that Tsutomu taught it to do.

　However, Polk spat out phlegm on the ground and looked at the red-haired hart with unpleasant eyes.


You are not capable of being an army, though. I'm sure you'll be able to find out more about this. You move too selfishly.


　Polk had said that Sauva was backwards compatible with Weiss, but he had changed his perception after Tsutomu had pointed that out to him. And he had actually found out when Sova was removed from the army, but he was working with his support skills.

　But the newly arrived twin swordsman, Hurt, while certainly strong, didn't know how to adapt to people at all. So Polk was having a hard time matching his support skills.


'But Ste-san can match it over there, though?
'Don't put me with that woman who is selling her soul to the dungeon. It's obviously not right that you can suddenly match up with someone you've never worked with before in the first place. If you don't make an effort to match up with me, I won't send you any support. I'll just cut it down and assign it to someone else. You understand.


　Polk turns a sour look at Stephanie, who is still spinning her skills while saying that. She's used to assisting against the bird people because she's been diving into dungeons with a PT outside of one army, so she's used to helping them. But Polk didn't have that experience, so even though he had the skills, he wasn't able to match up with Hurt, who moved in a complex trajectory.


''Hehe. What about you, Luke?
No, I don't see any problem with that. Keep it up, Halt.
Weeeeeee!


　Luke, who was judged to bring out the potential of Polk and Stephanie this time and became a last-minute resident of the first army, returned the smile while keeping several gargoyles behind him. A summoner who could increase Polk's support targets for Stephanie's recovery and who could slickly handle attackers and tanks was a good match for the two of them.

　And the newly joined to the army, Hurt, was the one who had originally been the most notable of the twin swordsmen. And since he had obtained the twin swords called Heaven and Earth Opening from the eighty-fourth level treasure chest, he had been able to hit an immense DPS combined with the speed of a bird person's unique speed to stand.


''I can't wait to get to the ninety levels!
Oh, shut up, brat.
"Shut up, buh-buh-buh.
..........


　The one-armed PT, which had been doing relatively well up until now, was clearly crumbling with the new Halt's arrival, but even so, they were currently one step ahead of the Silver Beast. And Polk, whose eyes are physically narrowed by fat, sniffed as if he was choked up, and walked sluggishly and sullenly, ignoring Hurt.