Loud sounds and tremors could be felt inside the Great Orcus Dungeon. Traces of swords and projectiles could be seen. It was a battlefield.

...Rising breach!"

Kouki, the hero recited a chant and his sword let out several flashes of light. The flashes went towards the magical Beast that looked like a giant bat. The magical Beast was already bruised and could not resist.

PLAFT

Its body fell to the ground.

The place that Kouki and his group were at the moment was the 89th floor. The group was doing very well in conquering the Dungeon and was close to the 100th floor, which they thought was the last floor. What they didn't know was that the Dungeon had over 300 floors.

The bat that Kouki had just killed was the last of a large group. Kouki's group scanned the surroundings and saw nothing. So they stopped to rest.

"Haha. We are very strong. We are almost at the end of the Dungeon. No matter who it is, we won't be defeated. Even if it's the demon race!"

Kouki spoke excitedly. Shizuku tried to warn him not to be careless, but his words were received lightly.

"Ayako-chan. Will you heal the rest for me?"

Kaori asked the secondary healer and the healer agreed. The 'rest' meant Hyama and his group for whom Kaori had no positive feelings and therefore did not even heal them.

Hyama's group had realized this a while ago, but when they asked their colleagues they just replied that there was no way that the beautiful and gentle goddess Kaori could hold a grudge against them.

Kaori was staring into nothingness with a thoughtful expression.

"Are you okay?"

Shizuku approached and asked worriedly.

"Could I protect him now?"

She asked worried about whether she would be strong enough to protect Hajime.

"Yes. All of us have become super strong and few can fight us."

Shizuku spoke confidently, but Kaori also knew she was worried. Yesterday Shizuku told Kaori her concerns and Kaori agreed with them. The concerns were about the size of the Dungeon. This was because her colleague Rimuru had gone to the Dungeon long before them and had not yet appeared. If the 100th floor really was the last floor, Rimuru would have returned to them by now.

So many of the students thought that Rimuru was dead, but Kaori and Shizuku had a different opinion. They had experienced first hand Rimuru's devastating power and knew that even now that they had grown stronger they could not beat him. So they were wondering how he could die if they were alive. The conclusion they came to was that either they had more floors or there was a super powerful monster that would have killed Rimuru. They hoped it wasn't the second part because if a monster could kill Rimuru they wouldn't stand a chance.

Kaori smiled at Shizuku and said she was fine. Shizuku was still worried, but before she could say anything

"Kaorin!"

The cheerful Suzu arrived and jumped on Kaori.

"I won't let Kaorin be sad. Just heal me. There's no reason to heal others heal only me! Gehehe"

"Suzu, but you're not even hurt. Where are you playing!?"

"My heart is wounded. Then heal me. More specifically pamper me with your breasts."

"Breasts!?"

Suzu groped Kaori like an old pervert and Kaori cringed in shame. At this moment Shizuku spoke up...

"Suzu. I know you don't care, but the boys are watching."

The boys had blood coming out of their noses and were staring. They must have been thinking something rude. Suzu didn't stop, so Shizuku smacked her on the head.

"... Thank you Shizuku-chan. That was awkward..."

"It's okay. I exterminated the pervert."

Hero's current group statuses:

Name:Amanogawa Kouki

Age: 17 years old

Gender: Male

Class:Hero

Level:72 (26)

Strength:880

Vitality:880

Endurance:880

Agility:880

Magic Power:880

Magic Resistance:880

⌈Abilities⌉

‖Ability with All Elements‖ [ Increase in Light Element Effectiveness] [ Increase in Activation Speed] ‖Resistance against All Elements‖ [ Increase in Light Element Effectiveness] ‖Physical Resistance‖ [ Increase in Recovery Rate] [ Mitigation of Impact] ‖Composite Magic‖ ‖ Fencing‖ ‖ Herculean Strength‖ ‖Teleportation‖ ‖Predição‖ ‖Recovery from High Speed Magic‖ ‖Presence Detection‖ ‖Magic Detection‖ ‖Overcome Boundary‖ ‖Language Comprehension‖

Name:Sakagami Ryutaro

Age: 17 years old

Gender: Male

Class:Fist Fighter

Level:72

Strength:820

Vitality:820

Endurance:680

Agility:550

Magic Power:280

Magic Resistance:280

Skills

‖Body-to-Body Combat Techniques‖ [Body Strengthening] [Partial Strengthening] [Concentrated Strengthening] [Penetrate and Destroy] ‖Teleportation‖ ‖Physical Resistance‖ [ Vajra] ‖Resistance against All Elements‖ ‖Language Comprehension‖

Name: Yaegashi Shizuku

Age: 17 years old

Gender: Female

Class:Swordsman

Level:72

Strength:450

Vitality:560

Endurance:320

Agility:1,110

Magic Power:380

Magic Resistance:380

⌈Habilities⌉

‖Fencing‖ [ Increase in Cutting Speed] [ Increase in Sword Drawing Speed] ‖Teleportation‖ [ Superior Teleportation] [ Legs Vertigo] [ No Hit] ‖Prediction‖ ‖Presence Detection‖ ‖Furtivity‖ [ Ghost Attack] ‖Language Comprehension‖

Name: Shirasaki Kaori

Age: 17 years old

Gender: Female

Class: Healer

Level: 72

Strength:280

Vitality:460

Endurance:360

Agility:380

Magic Power:1,380

Magic Resistance:1,380

⌈Abilities⌉

‖Magic Healing‖ [ Increased Effectiveness] [ Increased Healing Rate] [ Increased Imagination Ability] [ Permeation Detection[ Effective Increase in Range] [ Increased Distant Healing Efficiency] [ Increased Recovery Efficiency from Abnormal States] [ Decreased Magic Consumption] [ Increased Magic Power Efficiency] [ Continuous Increase] [ Simultaneous Activation] [ Delayed Activation] [ Additional Activation] ‖ Light Element Awareness‖ [ Increase in Activation Speed] [ Increase in Efficiency] [ Increase in Duration] [ Continuous in Duration] [ Continuous Increase] [ Simultaneous Activation] [ Delayed Activation] ‖Recovery of High Speed Magic‖ [ Meditation] ‖Understanding of Language‖

"What's going on?"

Kouki spoke confused. The students went down to the 90th floor and were totally dumbfounded. There was no magical beast on this floor. They explored 70% of the floor and still found nothing.

"Why can't we find any magical Beasts?"

Everyone looked thoughtful. Even if it was Rimuru who had killed the magical beasts. There was still no explanation for where the bodies were.

Shizuku tried to encourage the group to retreat from the abnormal situation and report to Captain Meld and the knights who were protecting a teleportation circle that connected floors 70 and 30.

Nagayama agreed with Shizuku and tried to convince Kouki, but Kouki didn't want to and said that the others were worrying too much.

Kouki's reason for not backing down was arrogance

Kouki thought that nothing could hurt him with his current power and wanted to prove his worth. He thought that with his current strength he could beat even the grim reaper. The truth was that being saved by Chloe hurt his pride and he would not back down because he thought that could be considered cowardice.

The group found a large room with monster blood all over the walls and floor. The students were thoughtful and Shizuku spoke up.

"I wonder why there are only traces in this room? Maybe whoever killed the other monsters didn't have time to clean up the tracks here or..."

"It's a trap."

A voice interrupted Shizuku.

It was a somewhat thick female voice that spoke in an arrogant tone. Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and there was a woman with red hair, pointed ears and very vulgar clothes. This appearance reminded them of a description the Church gave them.

"Race of demons..."

One of the students muttered and the woman revealed a cold smile. All the students widened their eyes in surprise.

"You in the ridiculously shiny armor are the Hero, right?"

She pointed at Kouki and asked in A mocking tone.

"Shut up! Did I just get called ridiculous by a demon!? By the way, what are you doing down here!?"

Kouki used his anger to recover from his surprise and shouted a totally racist phrase at the woman. The woman just kept smiling and said...

"-Sigh- I am following orders after all. You there, 'Hero' don't you want to come over to our side?"

"What do you mean!?"

"You don't seem to understand things well. This is an invitation for you to come to the side of the demons. What do you think?"

"I refuse! Are you asking me to betray my companions and this Kingdom!? Just as I heard the demon race is evil! How foolish to come here alone! We have numbers so surrender now!"

Kouki replied without thinking or asking his companions for their opinion. It was foolish to think they had the advantage just because they had numbers. But Kouki was blind with rage that an evil demon had asked him to become a traitor, and he didn't care about the facts.

The woman gave a smile.

"You say interesting things. Saying that I am here alone. Milo-sama, don't you think he is an idiot?"

"Yes, I agree Cattleya."

The woman named Cattleya spoke a name they had never heard before and a voice answered them. The students broke into a cold sweat as this voice was frighteningly close to them. They looked in the direction of the voice and there was a young man leaning on the wall 5 meters away from them. Even Kouki who had the 'Detect Presence' skill had not noticed him there.

The young man the demon woman called Milo had pale skin and white hair. His clothes were strangely earth-like and he had two black horns on his head.

"Who...who are you?"

Shizuku asked a little startled and put herself on guard. Milo looked disinterested. He averted his eyes and spoke.

"I'm just an observer. You can fight I won't interfere."

He snapped his fingers and disappeared leaving the students even more dumbfounded

"Kouki, we have to be careful with him."

"It doesn't matter. If he is an enemy of humanity, we will win!"

Kouki spoke a catchphrase and went up to Cattleya. Shizuku knew that Kouki was being a fool to ignore Milo who was clearly dangerous, but since Kouki had already attacked, it was too late to argue.

Cattleya smiled.

"Lutos, Havell, Enki. Time to eat!"

"Guh!?"

Nagayama and Shizuku were thrown far away and gave confused groans. Even though Shizuku was the most skilled of the group, she couldn't dodge and Nagayama who was super tough was still thrown backwards.

Kaori healed them and they looked at the creatures that attacked them. The creatures that were now invisible were similar to Chimeras.

The Chimeras attacked again, but were stopped by Suzu's barrier. The Chimeras looked angry at the barrier and the students took advantage of it. Kouki approached and shouted.

"Get away from Shizuku!!!"

"So it's okay to attack Nagayama?" No one asked that question, but several thought about it. Kouki used teleportation to get closer and attacked the chimera in the neck. At the same time Ryutaru moved with the other Chimera with a karate chop.

At this moment...

"Roaaaaaaaar!!!"

"Guuuraawwwwr!"

Three shadows appeared behind Kouki and Ryutaru.

"Hmmm!?"

The shadows shot toward them with clubs in their hands. Kouki was thrown far away and Ryutaru defended from a club attack, but was thrown far away by a punch. The creatures that attacked them were the Brutals. They resembled Ogors seen in video games. The group had encountered them before, but these were much stronger than the ones they encountered.

The vanguard tried to attack with a powerful fire spell, but the spell was absorbed by a magical turtle-shaped Beast that was the size of a car.

"Very good, Absod."

Cattleya spoke and Absod charged a shot. Its hoof glowed and a red light appeared in its open mouth. The light shot toward the students.

"Come succession of the protective light and be revived as long as I have the will, Interruption from the sky!"

Suzu made a barrier and defended. She looked struggling so Kaori also made another barrier to ease her burden. The students began to fight with the magical beasts and the Chimeras and the Brutals were almost dead when...

"Cawwwwww!"

A red light filled the room. The light was coming from a white bird on Cattleya's shoulder and it healed all the magical Beasts' injuries.

"Im...impossible..."

"A healer..."

All students were with bitter faces. They would have to deliver fatal blows or they would not be able to win. The woman seeing them like that gave a smug smile.

"So, you will come over to our side?"

"Don't play games with me! We will not surrender! Here I come, Overcome limit!"

Kouki replied angrily and set off.

"Ohhh. It's really a shame."

Speaking This the woman began to chant a spell. A Brutal stood between Kouki and Cattleya.

"Sword of light!"

He launched a blade of light that cut the Brutal in half. Kouki saw the empty space between him and the demon woman and increased the strength of his step.

"Groaaaaww!"

"Uh!?"

6 Chimeras appeared around him. They all attacked at the same time and he defended the attack of two, but was thrown far away with the other attacks.

"Ack!!!"

He hit the wall and let out a cry of pain.

"Heavenly splendor! Coercive Celo!"

Kaori used individual healing magic on Kouki and also formed a barrier around him. The chimeras were attacked from the rear and that gave Kouki time to get up.

"Four-winged crescent blade!"

He launched several blades of light and the Chimeras would dodge, but Kaori used 'Counter' AND restricted their movements. The chimeras were killed and Kouki spoke.

"How pitiful. You have lost your last resort. Now there is nothing left to protect you!"

Cattleya hearing his words could only think "Why do you need to declare that out loud?" she then spoke

"That was not my last resort."

"It's a bluff!"

"Then what am I holding?"

"What?"

Cattleya had a gray orb that was a result of the magic she chanted earlier. The gray orb let out a smoke that went towards Kouki's group.

"Gyaaaaa!"

"Gruaaaaaaaw!"

Kouki heard roars at his back and there were 5 Brutals, 2 Chimeras, several small 60 centimeter black cats and a 4-eyed wolf.

"Kuh!?"

Kouki was attacked by two black cats that had high agility. A Brutal also attacked him along with a Chimera. Kouki withstood the pressure of the attack, but was attacked by the 4-eyed wolf that had great strength and was thrown towards his group with several injuries.

Kaori was healing Kouki and meanwhile

Nomura Kentaru warned Suzu that the gray smoke was dangerous and Suzu put up a barrier, however the barrier did not hold long and the smoke reached Suzu. She was petrified from the waist down and gave a cry of pain. The smoke was heading towards the rest of the students.

"Wind Bomb!"

Kouki used a wind magic to blow the smoke away and Shizuku said they had to retreat. Kouki didn't want to, but gave in after seeing Suzu's condition.

"Fall back!"

He shouted and everyone followed his orders. Two students carried Suzu and Nomura Kentaru the earth mage began to prepare a spell. Kouki attacked the ceiling with blades of light causing several pieces of rubble to fall.

"Do you think I will let you escape?"

Cattleya spoke and sent the monsters after the group, but

"Gruawwr!"

The bodies of the Chimeras began to rise and attacked the monsters. Cattleya was surprised as she had not heard of a necromancer in the Hero's group.

Nomura finished her spell and the ceiling began to fall even further. Separating Cattleya's group.

"Shit!"

Cattleya cursed and heard a voice behind her.

"What are you going to do now?"

"Milo-sama! I'll... I'll go after the fugitive first."

"I see. Don't forget that this is also a test. If I have to interfere, you won't be approved."

"Yes!"

The truth was that Cattleya was being tested to become a demon lord. In this world demon Lord are the high-ranking members of the demon race. Milo was one of them and he was very revered because he was sent by the gods themselves. That is why Cattleya called him 'Sama'.

Currently the Hero's Group was in a makeshift hideout in the Orcus Dungeon. This hideout was made in a ready-made room in which they had to just block the entrance with earth magic.

Kaori was healing Suzu from her partial petrification and Ayako was healing the others. Kouki was recovering from the Overcome limit and the other students were resting while thinking about how to escape the current situation.

A gloomy atmosphere filled the room. This was because all the students were thinking about the possibility of death.

There was one member of the group who was not here.

"I hope Endo is okay."

Nomura muttered. Endo Kosuke was a good friend of Nomura's and was known to have a thin shadow. He was the kind of person who forgets easily. Like "Huh? Were you there?" Or "Huh? Where is he?" And he was right next to him.

This natural gift (for Kosuke it was more of a curse) intensified after the students arrived at Tortus. This was because Kosuke's class was assassin which was focused on sneak attacks. After training he became so forgettable that even the Magical Beasts ignored him. For that reason the students asked him to run away and warn Captain Meld and the knights about the demon woman.

Kosuke was reluctant, but the students encouraged him by saying "Don't worry, no one notices you." Or "I almost forgot you were here two seconds ago, so the Magical Beasts will definitely notice you" or "You are the most forgettable person in the world. That's why you're perfect for the job." These incentives made him accept and he ran away with tears streaming from his face. These tears were as much for abandoning his friends as for his words.

"Don't worry, Nomura, no one will notice him. He's the most forgettable guy in the world."

"Yes. I agree, although if Endo heard that he would be crying."

"That's true. Haha."

At this moment Kaori finished healing Suzu who woke up and said...

"Uooooow. I wonder if I'm in heaven. I must be to see a beauty like Kaorin and those breasts. Gehehehe..."

"Suzu, I know you like to joke, but it's scary to hear you say that with a pale face."

Suzu laughed like an old pervert at seeing Kaori and her friend Eri scolded her for it. This relaxed conversation improved the mood of the room a bit, but one of the students seemed to want to vent.

"Hey, what are you guys laughing at? Huh? We're about to die and you guys are going!?"

Nomura Kondo. One of Hyama's best friends and one of the students who tormented Hajime spoke up angrily. Kouki seeing him like that said.

"Kondo, calm down."

"Calm down!? We wouldn't be in this situation to begin with if you had defeated that demon! What a fine hero you are!"

"Hey. That's pretty irrational. We can't blame Kouki."

Shizuku defended him and that only angered Kondo even more.

"Shut up! Shut up all of you! We're about to die and you say I'm being unreasonable! You..."

"Gruawww..."

A grunt interrupted Kondo. That grunt came from the other side of the wall and caused everyone to shut up and stand still.

"We have to keep it down or we will be found."

Shizuku spoke low, but it was late.

BAM

The wall was broken.

Endo Kosuke was running as fast as he could. He was doing it to save six colleagues and had to warn Captain Meld as soon as possible, so he wasn't saving his breath and was running desperately.

He finally reached the 70th floor where Captain Meld and the knights were.

"Captain!"

He shouted, but no one paid any attention. That was normal for Kosuke. So he approached Meld and shouted once more.

"Captain!!!"

"Huh!? Who's there!" "Ahhh. It's only you Endo."

Meld was used to being surprised by Kosuke and it enhanced upon seeing him. Meld asked what had happened and Kosuke gave him a summary of events and Meld was about to give him orders when...

"You are really hard to find."

A voice came from the back of the room. They looked in the direction of the voice and there was Cattleya. Meld put himself on guard and spoke...

"Kosuke! Go get help! Use the teleportation circle and destroy it later! Now!"

"But Meld-san..."

"Go!"

Kosuke obeyed and started running towards the teleportation circle. As he ran he could hear the death cries of the knights.

The magic circle glowed brightly and Kosuke was on the 30th floor.

He destroyed the magic circle to avoid being chased and started running. He once again ran as fast as he could for help. On the way to the surface no monster attacked him because of his gift and he quickly reached his destination.

After arriving on the surface Kosuke still didn't rest and headed towards the inn where his salvation would be. He arrived at the inn panting and several stares were directed at him.

Kosukue went towards the receptionist and spoke...

"Chloe albert. I need to talk to her. Tell me her room, quick!"

That was the students' salvation. Kosuke knew that even though the demon woman's power was gigantic, she couldn't beat Chloe. Kosuke was also in the fight against the reaper.(Although he was so forgettable that even the author forgot to narrate his actions). When Kosuke saw the devastating force of the Reaper he thought there was no more salvation, but Chloe Albert saved him and his friends. That was the salvation of Kosuke and his colleagues. He thought Chloe could defeat Cattleya, but...

"I'm sorry. She's not here anymore."

The receptionist was a little startled by the desperate Kosuke and answered him in a low voice.

"What!? Where is she!?"

"I don't really know, but for all I know she seems to have left town."

Kosuke's hopes were shattered. He was sinking into thoughts about how to save his friends. He decided that his last hope was the high-level adventurers. So he went toward the adventurers' guild and abruptly opened the door.

"Please someone help! Demons! Demons have appeared in the Labyrinth!"

He shouted in desperation and got everyone's attention. At this moment...

""Endo?"

Kosuke heard voices of people he thought were dead.