The Water Magician

While Ryo was on an errand in the Mafalda Republic, what were the six people in Room 10 and Room 11 doing?

After finishing the task requested by Hugh, they were challenging the West Dungeon of the Holy Capital.

Let's take another look at the composition of the six members.

Room 10 consists of two swordsmen and one priest.

Room 11 consists of one swordsman, one dual-wielder, and one priest.

With four in the front line and two in the back line, the balance doesn't seem too bad at first glance.

However... in truth, there were no mages or scouts.

This is not a balanced setup for a dungeon conquest party at all.

Normally, they would have quite a hard time.

Yes, normally.

Room 11 aside, Room 10 was definitely not normal.

This might be because they had been witnessing a "very abnormal" water attribute mage for the past three years...

Or perhaps they originally had such potential...

The dungeon conquests resumed from the eightieth layer and had finally reached the one hundredth layer.

The West Dungeon has a "boss layer" every fifty layers, at the fiftieth, one hundredth, and one hundred fifties layers.

In the boss layer, only powerful monsters known as bosses and their minions appear.

However, what appears as the boss seems to be random, so there is no point in preparing for it in advance...

If the party isn’t capable of handling whatever comes out, they can’t progress beyond that point…

And this time, the boss that appeared was...

“A wyvern...”

Nils' mutter captured everything perfectly.

A wyvern... that is the nightmare of the skies.

A wyvern is not a monster that adventurers can never hunt...

However, there are minimum conditions to hunt a wyvern.

Gather at least twenty adventurers of c-rank and above.

Gather as many mages as possible. Ideally, high-damage fire attribute mages are preferred.

Continuously attack with magic until the wyvern's "wind barrier" dissipates.

Then, drop it to the ground and deliver the finishing blow.

When considering this, Rooms 10 and 11 were lacking in a major aspect.

Indeed, all were c-rank adventurers and above... but the number was only six.

And above all... there wasn't a single mage.

“The hundredth layer... we can retreat, right?”

Nils quietly checked with Priest Eto by his side.

“Yes. The boss of the hundredth layer can be retreated from at any time. There are no disadvantages.”

Eto nodded in response.

It was different from the fiftieth layer.

The fiftieth layer was, in a way, questioning whether they truly intended to progress further and conquer the dungeon.

If not serious, they should stop here.

Therefore, retreating was not an option.

It was either breakthrough or death.

However, the hundredth layer was different.

It could be considered a trial layer.

Even if it was a trial layer, both Nils and Eto understood that the situation was desperate.

Even if retreating was always an option, the possibility of death was, of course, present.

Looking around, both Harold and Gowan were shaking their heads slightly.

Everyone thought about retreating... until they noticed someone who appeared visibly excited...

“Uh... Amon looks really excited though.”

“Could it be that Ryo's bad habit rubbed off on him?”

Eto pointed out, and Nils sighed softly in agreement.

It's unfortunate for the water attribute mage who isn't even here but is being blamed...

“Um... our Zeek is also filled with motivation...”

With Harold's report, Nils and Eto turned to look at Zeek.

Indeed, there was a slight smile on his face...

“Zeek is an excellent priest... but perhaps at heart, he might be a front-line fighter.”

Priest Eto murmured, shaking his head again.

“However... realistically speaking, six people cannot take down a wyvern, right?”

“I heard that you once hunted a wyvern with nine people, Nils-san.”

Harold questioned Nils.

“Yeah... that’s true... But we had someone extraordinarily powerful like Goriki from 'Rokka', and the wyvern was in a relatively low position, which made it possible…”

“But, the ceiling here isn’t exceptionally high either.”