A labyrinth with hundreds of floors. Filled with magical beasts and the further you go down, the stronger the magical beasts get. The second floors of the dungeon were very famous and attracted many mercenaries who loved to collect magic nuclei from weak monsters. But the lower floors were very dangerous and were never fully explored.
At the moment the students were in an inn near this dungeon. They were going to sleep in order to be well rested when they went to train in the labyrinth tomorrow.
A labyrinth with hundreds of floors. Filled with magical beasts and the further you go down, the stronger the magical beasts get. The second floors of the dungeon were very famous and attracted many mercenaries who loved to collect magic nuclei from weak monsters. But the lower floors were very dangerous and were never fully explored.
The Orcus Dungeon
Magic stones or magic nuclei were stones found in various sizes that were used to make magic circles and healing or mana wells.
Hajime was the only one who was alone in his room. The other classmates were in rooms for two.
"Well at least this way I can rest."
Hajime spoke and threw himself on the bed. He was about to go to sleep when...
Knock, Knock[
"Hajime-kun can I come in?"
Kaori knocked on his door.
"What does she want at this hour? "Hajime thought as he opened the door and when it opened.
"Eh?"
There was Kaori with a negligee. A very explicit sleepwear that was not open in many places, but was transparent on several parts of her body.
Hajime did his best not to stare and spoke in a somewhat timid voice.
"O...hi Shirasaki-san... why are you here?"
Kaori tilted her head in confusion at his reaction.
"What? I just want to talk Nagumo-kun."
"No nothing. You can come in."
She came in and sat down while Hajime prepared some tea. When he finished preparing the tea he poured it for Kaori and him. Kaori thanked him
as she spoke.
"About the trip to the dungeon tomorrow... I want you to stay here I will persuade the instructors is our colleagues so please..."
She pleaded with Hajime who was perplexed even though he was a nuisance wasn't that too much? That was her thought.
"Unn... maybe you are right. I know I'm a burden... maybe I really should stay here..."
"You're wrong! It's not because you are a burden!
Kaori tried to undo the misunderstanding. She thought she was being too harsh, but Hajime didn't think so. Kaori took a deep breath, put her hand on her chest and said.
"That was very sudden sorry... It's just that when I slept I had a dream... it was about Nagumo-kun, I was calling you and you didn't realize I couldn't reach you and in the end you... disappeared."
"I see."
If Hajime stayed for traffic the situation with his colleagues would definitely get worse. He would certainly not be welcome. He would have no choice but to go to the Dungeon and even if Kaori having a bad dream, even Hajime didn't think that was a good excuse, so imagine his colleagues.
"A dream is just a dream Shirasaki-san. This time we have the knights to protect us and we also have many strong people like my brother and Kouki. Besides our room is amazing even I feel bad for our enemies. Only I am very weak, I wonder if you didn't have this dream because of that?"
While listening to him Kaori looked down with a worried expression.
"If you are worried then..."
"So?"
Hajime looked Kaori in the eye as he spoke embarrassed.
"Are you going to protect me?"
"Eh?"
"Shurasaki-sa is a healer Isn't she? If I get hurt you heal me. As long as you're around you can protect me with your power can't you?"
Hajime spoke half embarrassed. He was embarrassed to ask a girl to protect him, but he said it to reassure her. They looked into each other's eyes in silence. Some time passed, and Kaori said
"You never change."
Hajime got a confused expression and Kaori laughed at his expression.
"Nagumo-kun. You probably think we've known each other since middle school, but I actually saw you for the first time back in elementary school."
Hajime was surprised and confused at the same time. No matter how hard he searched his memories he couldn't remember this encounter.
"When I saw you you were protesting in the middle of the street, I really couldn't believe what I was seeing.
You were surrounded by suspicious people. Even when they hit you, you didn't stop kneeling. After that they walked away perplexed."
"I... I showed you such an unpleasant scene."
An embarrassed smile appeared on his face. It was the same smile as when he discovered that his mother had organized his collection of erotic Light novels. His mother worked with manga, so she certainly knew what kind of books those were.
Kaori was looking at Hajime with kind eyes.
"No, it wasn't unpleasant, when I saw you I thought you were very strong is kind."
"Huh?"
"Does she have a fetish or something? "Hajime thought confused.
"It's because you did it for a grandmother is your grandson."
Hajime remembered an incident that happened when he was coming home from school. He saw a bunch of delinquents bullying a little boy and a grandmother because the little boy spilled ice cream on her shirt. Then and
Orcus Dungeon
At the moment the students Were on the 20th floor of the Dungeon.
Kouki, Rimuru,Meld and the knights were standing guard in case of monster attacks.
On the way here the students fought against magical beasts that attacked them, with Kouki, Rimuru, Kaori, Shizuku and Ryutaro with Meld in front and the students behind while the knights were around them.
The knights were letting the students do most of the work. While watching to make sure they didn't let them get hurt, they also weakened some monsters for Hajime to kill.
They were impressed by Hajime's determination. He used his ability to transmute on the ground to trap the monsters' feet and killed them with his dagger.
But of course the most impressive was Rimuru who killed the monsters as if they were nothing.
By the way, the students received several sacred Artifacts that improved their skills. Kouki got a special sword that could only be wielded by the "Hero" that was called the Sacred Sword. He also received the best armor the kingdom had. The other students also received high level equipment and even Hajime received a glove that made him spend less mana on Synergist skills.
Rimuru was also offered high level equipment but he denied it and demonstrated his 'Mana Materialization' skill.
Immediately a black outfit covered him, he also had a straight katana on his back and a well detailed white mask. Everyone was surprised by his super convenient ability, especially after he said they all had high resistance.
Kaori was given a staff to increase the effectiveness of her healing magic. Shizuku was a samurai so she was expecting a katana but ended up getting a normal thin sword.
Ryytaru received gloves of a super hard material for his fighter class.
The other students also received items for their respective classes.
Kaori always kept checking to see if Hajime was okay and when their gazes met she gave him a smile that made him look away in embarrassment, but he didn't look away just out of embarrassment.
He had a strange feeling when his and Kaori's gazes met, it was a chill down his spine as if a psychotic killer were staring at him from behind, but when he looked around he didn't see anyone looking at him.
At the moment the students were resting and drinking water Hajime took some water and saw Kaori looking at him and she smiled gently at him. Shizuku who noticed this spoke in a playful tone.
"Hey Kaori why do you keep looking at Nagumo-kun? Are you thinking of making a real life romantic comedy? The title could be 'Safadeza in a Dungeon' what do you think?"
"Mouuu! Shizuku-chan! Don't talk nonsense! I was just wondering if Nagumo-kun was okay. That's all!"
Kaori blushed at Shizuku's teasing. The romantic comedy was already in full swing with this comment, Shizuku noticed that Kaori got annoyed and kept her mouth shut, but her expression showed that she was enjoying herself. Kaori who noticed this stewed her still red cheeks and said "It's serious!"
Hajime continued looking at them but stopped when he felt that look that gave him a chill down his spine again.
"Who is that rascal?"-Sigh-
He muttered softly.
The students finished their barefooting and continued on their way until they reached the last room on the 20th floor.
This room had a complicated feature, the walls were filled with stones that looked like stalactites.
When they arrived in the room they didn't see any monsters, which made them relax a little. But they raised their guard at Meld's words.
"They are cloaked be careful!"
After that the wall deformed and out of it came a creature that seemed to be made of earth in the shape of a gorilla that jumped to attack them.
"Be careful with your arms!"
The earth monster attacked Kouki, but was stopped by Ryutaro's fist. At the same time Shizuku and Kouki attacked the Golem from the sides the monster shattered with the double attack. Meanwhile Meld defeated two Golems with his great sword.
Rimuru also drew his Katana which ignited in black flames and cut in half 3 Golens, he also secretly used his supreme ability "King of Gluttony Belzebuth" to consume another Golem for Ciel to analyze his abilities.
The other students and the knights also easily defeated the other golens showing how cheated they were.
Then they hear a loud shout from the back of the room.
"Grwaaaaah!"
There was a Golem three times bigger than the others. It was made of a material that looked like black metal and it cast the 'intimidating' ability that caused the students to cringe.
It ran at the students with overwhelming speed at the students.
Kaori, Eri and Suzu cringed and stopped their spells while giving frightened screams at the hideous appearance of the creature. Meld noticed this and shouted.
"Heyyy what are you guys doing this is a fight!"
The girls came back to their senses and spoke ashamedly "un-sorry".
There was one young man who was furious about this situation was our hero, Amanogawa Kouki.
"How dare you frighten them...I will not forgive you!"
Kouki seemed to have mistaken the girls' repulsion for fear. And he was angry at that misunderstanding.
"Reach for the skies , Rising Lightning!"
"You idiot stop now!"
Completely ignoring Meld, Kouki's incantation made his sword glow and threw a blade of light at the crystal Golem. The light easily shattered him and hit the wall behind him. Debris fell from the wall, making it almost collapse.
Kouki looked at the girls with a bright smile and stewed his chest as if to say 'I saved you guys, it's okay now!' Meld approached and slapped him.
"Hugh!"
"You idiot don't use a Skill like that in a place like this and if the room collapses what are you going to do?"
Kouki apologized and the girls approached him with dull smiles trying to comfort him.
At that moment the wall that had been hit collapsed revealing a light making everyone look in their direction.
"Meld-san what is that?"
Kaori pointed to the glowing Crystal and asked.
The other girls were also delighted with the Beautiful Crystal that looked like a diamond sparkling.
"Hooo that is a Frantz Crystal and one of that size is rare. Its beautiful appearance makes it very popular with women making it very expensive.
"It's beautiful."
Kaori blushed as she secretly looked at Hajime. Shizuku was one of the only ones who noticed that.
"If it's like that we should get one."
The one who said that and quickly moved towards the crystal was Hyama. He climbed up the rubble to reach the crystal.
"Heyyy! Don't do what you want like that! We haven't confirmed if it's safe!"
Meld shouted in panic but Hyama pretended he didn't hear and reached out his hand for the crystal.
At this moment knight who was holding a trap detector device shouted in panic.
"Commander it's a trap!"
But it was already too late. Hyama touched the Crystal and the next moment the students found themselves on a wide old looking but sturdy bridge.
Then at the bottom of the bridge appeared a large magic circle. And from the magic circle appeared a bull with blue skin and yellow horns, he was so big if he went to the side he would fall off the bridge.
"Ruahhhhhhhhhh"
He gave a deafening roar.
"Be-behemoth."
Commander Meld muttered as he looked at the light coming from the other side of the bridge there several skeletons appeared.
"Shit! Rimuru, Kouki help me hold this thing! knights...Huh!?"
Then Meld realized that neither Rimuru nor the knights were there. It was just Meld and the rest of the students.
Rimuru was in a dark room. But that didn't mean anything to him, not least because the method he used to visualize things, was his ability of 360 vision magical perception that didn't need light to work. He saw the bodies of the knights beside him, but what surprised him most was Ciel's analysis.
[The cause of death was high concentration of magículas].
What? Rimuru was surprised because this world had no magick concentration and used a different magic than Rimuru's world. There was not supposed to be any magick in this world so how was he detecting a high concentration of magick?
Another surprise was that Ciel told him that the original place the trap would transport them was not this one and that the spell had received some powerful interference that brought them to this room.
Then the magical perception detected someone.
A man in green and black clothes. He had white hair, totally red eyes and a skeletal face, he was holding a double-edged dagger in his hand. Rimuru realized that this man was the source of the high concentration of magic who killed the knights.
The man took the Body of one of the knights, ripped off its head and burned it soon after he sat on a rock and began to sharpen his dagger on its skull as he spoke.
"So you are Lord-Demon Rimuru huh?"
He declared in an arrogant voice.