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When he rolled his eyes to the left, the 'Y' for acceptance lit up.
Event accepted.
Just then, Ariel's voice was heard.
"Alright, now we're going to break the dungeon core. Everyone knows, right? The monster wave time is random. It could be 30 minutes, it could be 3 hours. Nobody knows. Anyway, we're going to withstand it here."
Ariel looked at the members once more.
"Once the dungeon core is broken, the entrance will disappear. If there's anyone who wants to go outside the dungeon, now is your last chance. Those who stay, I definitely won't resent you, so don't hesitate to leave."
The members turned their heads and checked each other's faces.
But no one raised their hand or turned back.
"Hurry up and break the core, seniors. When it's all over, let's go back and have a party among ourselves. Today will be the day we smash a C-grade dungeon for the first time."
A cheesy, cringeworthy line.
But no one pointed out this member's comment.
Safely blocking the C-grade monster wave and escaping this dungeon.
It wouldn't be easy, but it was what all the members desperately wanted more than anything.
Another member opened their mouth.
"When I first joined this club, I thought I might not be able to graduate from the academy. What we do is honestly too dangerous. But if we ignore the virtuous citizens whose lives are in danger even though we can help, what's the point of graduating from the best academy on the continent? That's why I joined here. And that thought hasn't changed today."
Freddy, a sophomore, also stepped forward.
Davian, looking at his appearance and expression, thought.
'I was wondering why he wasn't stepping up...'
As Davian expected, Freddy shouted with a determined expression.
"I'm newbie member Freddy! I'm honored to be able to participate in today's great work! As the president always says! Mana affinity is not something I earned through effort, but a blessed ability! I will gladly use this ability for ordinary and virtuous people!"
Now even the word 'great work' came out.
At this point, shouldn't someone really stop them?
Fortunately, Ariel stepped forward.
"Thank you, everyone. Really. I'm glad to have members who share the same goal. Alright, let's go break the core!"
"Let's go!"
"Yay!"
The members shouted more vigorously than ever on purpose.
Opening the huge iron door and entering, the core, which had just finished core amplification, was floating in the center of the core room.
The core, vibrating and rotating finely, didn't seem to be fully stabilized yet.
Without hesitation, Ariel approached and thrust her sword deep into the center of the core.
Crack! Crack!
A large crack formed in the core, and it began to shake violently.
Crackle. Bang!
The core burst, and at the same time, the walls of the core room began to slide back.
The ceiling covering the members' heads was the same.
The core room instantly transformed into an infinite space surrounded by endless darkness.
"We don't know what's coming from which side! Everyone be tense. The first wave is about to begin!"
Ariel focused all her nerves and prepared to rush forward first as usual.
Thump, thump, thump.
Dozens of huge bears emerged from the darkness.
The bears were running on all fours, furious.
But their heads were owls.
"Owlbears!"
"We're doomed! Owlbears from the first wave?"
Ariel shouted as she ran out.
"Support!"
Two other knights followed and ran out.
At that time.
Swoosh.
A sharp sound cutting through the air.
Davian's wind elemental magic was fired.
Slash!
The head of the owlbear at the very front was cut off in one go.
Freddy and Emma stared at Davian with their mouths open.
"He took down an owlbear's neck in one shot? With wind elemental magic?"
Swoosh. Swoosh. Swoosh.
Wind elemental magic was fired continuously after that.
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[C-grade Monster Wave Start]
―Owlbear defeated: +32 Mana Points (x2)
―Owlbear defeated: +32 Mana Points (x2)
―Owlbear defeated: +32 Mana Points (x2)
―Owlbear defeated: +32 Mana Points (x2)
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"……How long has it been?"
"An hour? An hour and a half? About that much time has passed."
"It really doesn't end. This monster wave."
"It feels that way even more because C-grade monsters are swarming."
"I guess so. Because they're incomparable to the E and D-grade dungeon monsters."
"That Davian, the freshman. We might not have been able to block this far without him."
The 5th-year member's head turned directly forward at the junior's words.
"That's true. Just what is that guy's identity……."
In the 5th-year member's eyes, the freshman was seen jumping into the center of a giant rat swarm, committing indiscriminate slaughter.
Slash!
Cutting with a sword.
Bang!
Firing magic.
Crack!
When an attack came from behind, he created a wall of ice to block it.
His whole body was stained with the blood of various monsters.
But the freshman was still rampaging without any signs of exhaustion.
"Senior…… that freshman, you know. Doesn't it seem like he's trying not to let others take the monsters away from him?"
"Not let them take them away?"
"It's like he's hurriedly taking down the monsters because he's afraid someone else will kill them first. He's doing that even now. He's purposely going into the middle of the monster and doing that so that our rear troops can't do anything, right?"
The senior chuckled.
"Why would he purposely do that? He doesn't get anything for killing one more monster."
There is.
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―Giant Rat defeated: +29 Mana Points (x2)
―Giant Rat defeated: +29 Mana Points (x2)
―Giant Rat defeated: +29 Mana Points (x2)
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But the members had no way of knowing Davian's circumstances.
"Isn't he trying to protect us? Look at that look in his eyes as he massacres the giant rats all alone."
"Trying to protect us?"
"Think about it, if all those giant rats swarmed over here. Could we easily block them?"
"T, that's true."
Ariel, who was resting for a while with the rear troops to recover her exhausted stamina, also raised her head and looked at Davian.
"Just what is that guy……."
Before long, the giant rat wave also ended.
Davian, who had defeated all the giant rats, rejoined the members again.
"This dungeon monster wave is really long."
Davian said nonchalantly, wiping the sweat from his forehead.
The corpses of monsters were already piled up everywhere due to more than ten waves.
And more than three-quarters of those corpses were taken care of by Davian alone.
"Grrr."
The next wave began.
"What? This time it's just kobolds?"
Dwarves with the heads of dogs were rushing in, holding crudely broken clubs.
"Aren't they the ones that live in D-grade dungeons?"
"W, wait a minute! What?"
"They keep coming out endlessly!"
"What's with so many of them! Everyone be tense!"
The number of kobolds coming out of the darkness in the distance quickly approached 100.
But kobolds were still coming out.
Ariel shouted.
"This wave has a lot of numbers! Even if they're kobolds, it's dangerous to be surrounded by that many! Defense formation number 3!"
The members began to take the defense formation they had practiced in advance.
At that time.
Davian murmured lowly.
"Song of Fire."
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[Skill 'Song of Fire Lv.9' activated]
―Duration: 5 minutes
―Fire elemental magic power increased by 26%
―Creates a self-moving flame
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A skill that creates a living flame.
When used on a Lizardman with fire elemental defense attributes, it succeeded in tying their feet with only 3-star magic power.
When 5-star magic power was pushed in, it completely burned them away, making their fire elemental defense attribute scales useless.
Whoosh.
A small flame appeared on Davian's palm.
But Davian did not fire the flame and stared intently at the kobold group.
After a little time passed, the tail of the cobalt group was cut off.
Everyone came out of the darkness.
Ariel shouted.
"We'll clash soon. We can't let them turn back! Focus on not being surrounded!"
As Ariel said, the distance between the vanguard of the kobold group and the club members narrowed.
At that time.
Davian waved his palm and fired the flame.
The size was small, but the magic power contained inside was not.
A flame with all 6-star magic power pushed into it.
Whoosh!
The flame that hit the kobold at the very front began to spread in all directions in an instant.
"W, what is that? Suddenly the fire is getting bigger."
"It's not just getting bigger! The flame is alive!"
The senior's words were correct.
The small flame that Davian fired was alive and growing in size.
While the startled kobolds hesitated.
The flame quickly began to surround them in a circle.
"Krrk!"
"Krck!"
The panicked kobolds began to jump around, but the living flame grew in height and created a wall of fire.
The kobolds couldn't escape from the wall of fire and huddled together more and more to avoid the narrowing flames.
When the kobold group was so close together that they couldn't even swing their weapons.
Whoosh.
The wall of fire completely covered the kobold group.
"Krck!"
"Krrr!"
It didn't take even 10 minutes for the nearly 200 kobolds to turn into black ash.
The 'Song of Fire' skill turned off 5 minutes after activation, but the already blazing fire did not go out until it had burned all the kobolds.
Whoosh.
At that time, a few gusts of wind passed over the club members' heads.
"Wind! It's wind! The monster wave is all over!"
"We can now go outside the dungeon! Thank goodness."
The darkness that had been spreading endlessly gradually faded, and the boundary between the sky and the land began to appear.
Ting.
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[C-grade Monster Wave End]
―Cumulative Reward: 34,580 Mana Points (x2)
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Nearly 70,000 mana points were collected in one monster wave.
'That's why I can't give up this club.'
Ariel approached Davian.
"Davian, just what was that magic……."
Nox, the villain who almost killed most of the club members, also approached.
"Hey, what's that fire elemental magic of yours? How did you do that? The magic power contained was magic power, but the fire seemed to be alive."
"I just have a skill or something."
"Skill? What class did you learn it in? Ah, you're a freshman. Who's your teacher? You must have had a teacher who taught you magic before you entered the academy?"
Ariel blocked Nox.
"Hey, Nox. Stop it. Davian must be confused. Why are you asking so much?"
"It's amazing. How can a freshman be like this……."
"I think you're more amazing, Nox. You almost killed us all, but you're so energetic again?"
"Ah……."
"You're going to show off that you're a 6th grader and use flashy magic that you haven't even completed, right?"
"Th, that's……."
"You're going to withdraw from the club as soon as you get back to the academy. Find another club."
Ariel turned her back and headed towards where the members were.
Nox shouted, flustered.
"Hey! Ariel!"
"You have to take responsibility, right? You amplified the dungeon core while we were in the dungeon boss room."
"B, but it's all been resolved! And it's all because of you……."
"Because of me? To look good to me? Is that why you joined the club? Who doesn't know? If you're trying to stay in our club for that reason, we don't need you even more."
"……."
Before they knew it, the dungeon had completely disappeared.
The place where the club members were standing had turned back into the middle of the western desert of the continent.
Ariel took out a scroll from her chest.
"Dungeon Exploration Club! Let's go back."
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