Chapter 21 - Sudden Burst of Power
Wiene suddenly become the key to figure out how powerful the enemy may have become. Since Wiene trusted Bell the most, her baseline ability would be determine as she battled Bell. After a little sparring, everyone agreed that Wiene is roughly fighting at mid level 3. At that point, she confirmed sheepishly that she had been busy since returning to the dungeon. What happened after was one for the history books.
After consuming a magic stone of a level 6 and a little more sparring, they determined that Wiene was then a late level 3. With another magic stone of a level 6, she reached early level 4. Yet another magic stone of a level 6, she was at early-mid level 4. Yet another magic stone of a level 6, she was at mid-level 4. Having used up the level 6 enemy magic stones, she consumed the magic stone of a level 7. That took her to a high level late-level 4. The final magic stone of a level 7 took her to an early-mid level 5 power level. In a span of 30 minutes, she gained almost 2 levels of power.
With these results, the think tank went off to analyze. Within 2 hours, the statistics-based results were presented.
Since level 6 and level 7 are roughly the same or higher level than most dungeon monsters, it gives a good idea of the boost energy available to the enemy. One has to figure that there could be hundreds of virga and tens of thousands of viola as their basic energy supply. In comparison, monsters like the dragons and the balor would take too long to respawn in the last 2 months.
Based on these results, it would be straight-forward for the enemy to reach level 5 or 6, but could reach the point of diminishing returns after level 6. Furthermore, Revis had lots of time and probably cheated by taking Olivias' magic stone to reach level 7. However, it is quite possible that Revis did take the magic stones of a few more enemy fighters to reach her current level 9 or 10 of power unless she extracted magic stones from unknown monsters in the level 7-9 range.
With all this analytics, it appears that the core enemy force would have ~20 level 6-7 fighters remaining. Furthermore, most probably do not use much magic. Thankfully, there were no elf magic users in the missing/killed group - reducing the chance of an enemy Riveria.
Finally, the think tank also provided a suggested fighting strategy: Follow the battle plan used by teams 1 and 2, use magic strikes to weed out the level 6-7 fighter. Then use large numbers of fighters to overwhelm the few level 8-10 fighters with strong magic resistance. Utilize as much invisibility and communications as possible, though the enemy would anticipate such moves after the first battle. The idea of mixing invisible combatants next to visible combatants was a brilliant move by Finn. Similar type of thinking would be encouraged. Finally, if the enemy does have strong magic users like Riveria, then the battle would be extremely close.
After the long day, the meeting was adjourned. A buffet dinner was arranged, and Wiene was again the center of attention. She has just gone from mid-3rd level to early-mid-5th level in hours. Indeed, it is a brave new world. With all the attention on Wiene, Ais and Bell got some quality time eating outside the cafeteria.
Afterwards, they relaxed as well as they could under the stars, Ais was getting her nightly lap pillow and Bell is also petting her hair. While enjoying the lap pillow, Ais' thoughts drifted to how she used to pet Bell like a rabbit, but now the hero has become the pet while pet has become the hero...