Whoa!
Now this is what an adventurer's battle should be!!
In the spacious cavern chamber, both the walls and the ceiling were trembling continuously, giving the sensation that everything was about to collapse.
Every time the extremely massive "Goblin Guard," resembling a mountain of steel, swung the greataxe in its hands, a thundering boom would erupt before everyone's eyes.
Not only that.
Its massive body swayed along with the axe; its movements were completely undisciplined, flailing wildly, even occasionally crashing into walls or falling to the ground.
Yet even so, merely being grazed by that colossal frame would result in fatal injury!
So Isagi kept dodging.
Lefiya and the others watched as the young boy, now wielding a two-handed greatsword, dodged, turned, and leaped continuously under the "Goblin Guard's" storm-like relentless attacks, evading the opponent's strikes.
Only occasionally, finding an opening like threading a needle, would he swing his sword at the opponent, leaving traces upon the thick, filthy armor covering its surface.
The students from the "School District."
It was their first time seeing such an adventurer's battle, and Isagi's current attire was particularly peculiar.
Strapped to the boy's back was a brass greatshield, along with a sharp spear. Behind those was a massive pack, with spoils—likely monster drop items—hanging from its edges.
At his waist hung a longsword and a Far East-style katana.
On the other side hung two symmetrical short swords.
Besides that.
A hand crossbow was clipped to his thigh, along with leather gauntlets fitted with sharp knuckle dusters.
Wait, does an adventurer really need to carry that many types of weapons?!
And do you actually know how to use all of them?!!
Don't forget, right now Isagi was wielding a two-handed greatsword. That heavy blade, resembling a door slab, looked less like it was meant for cutting people and more like it was meant for smashing them!
With the boy's occasional attacks, the heavy armor on the "Goblin Guard" inevitably began to deform and twist, oozing dark blue, foul-smelling blood. As a result, its massive body began to writhe even more frantically.
"!!!"
The trembling sounds from all directions mixed with the monster's roars, threatening to drown out everything within the chamber.
"I'll help you!!"
At this moment, his blood was boiling!
The burly young Bull-person warrior, Badain, took the lead, charging in with his battle axe to join the fray!!
Lefiya wanted to stop him, but it was already too late.
The boys and girls of the [School District] had absolutely no concept of "kill stealing." Many even thought they were going to help! After all, seeing how the other party was spending most of the time dodging in a sorry state, wouldn't one slip-up mean danger?
As for whether they themselves would be in danger...
Most students weren't worried. They were all Level 2 adventurers, and there were twelve of them across three squads, complete with vanguards, mid-guards, mages, and healers.
How could a monster appearing on the 1st Floor possibly pose a threat to them?!
In the Dungeon, monsters generally followed rules and gathered on fixed floors. Although there were cases of lower-floor monsters running up to the upper floors, it was very, very rare.
And even if the guy in front of them really was a monster that had run up from the lower floors.
At most, it would be something from the 12th or 15th Floor, like an Orc or a Minotaur.
With Level 2 strength, they could handle it easily.
After all, the monster in front of them couldn't possibly be stronger than the Monster Rex of the 17th Floor, "Goliath," right?
Even if it were, wasn't "Goliath" regularly defeated by parties of adventurers from Rivira? Most of those guys were Level 2, just like them.
Although they had never actually seen a Monster Rex, these students' "theoretical knowledge" was quite up to par, so they held no reverence or fear towards it.
However.
[Theory is theory, reality is reality.]
The boys and girls who had spent years in the [School District] would one day come to realize this.
And for Badain and the others, that moment was right now.
"Puh!!"
The equally massive Bull-person youth, standing over two meters tall, was blasted away like a cannonball, leaving a large hole in the wall on one side of the chamber in an instant.
What happened?!
The students of the School District hadn't even seen clearly what just occurred.
Only Isagi noticed. The simple-minded Badain had roared as he charged over, and then, amazingly, tried to use his battle axe to block the axe of the "Goblin Guard," which was already swinging in a full, free-spinning arc.
As a result, he was blasted away in the blink of an eye.
Too young. These students didn't understand at all that the monsters he encountered in the Dungeon were all specialized types with "High Attack, Low Defense"!
Traditional adventurer thinking for fighting monsters was useless here.
Thinking the vanguard tanks the damage while the mid-guard waits for an opening to cover the rear-guard mages' damage output—that's not how you play this!
This isn't a Tank-Healer-DPS RPG, it's a Soulslike!!
"Badain!!"
"Save him! Healing magic!! And feed him potions!! Don't just stand there!!"
"Don't panic, Formation Three! Don't run around! Lefiya, you guys prepare magic!"
"Zel, Rock, you buy time! I'll bring Badain back... Damn it... Ahh!!!"
"Nathan!!"
Chaos, utter chaos!
As the reckless Bull-person youth drew the "Goblin Guard's" aggro, the monster's colossal body rolled toward their direction.
In just a few seconds.
Once the dust settled, Lefiya, who had been pulled back several steps by a companion earlier, could see the friends who were laughing and talking beside her just moments ago now lying on both sides of the passage, covered in blood.
Most of them were screaming in agony; their Level 2 bodies allowed them to survive the hit.
But that was just one hit.
At this moment, the giant "Goblin Guard," which had just rolled to the ground, was slowly getting up, raising the greataxe in its hand, poised to smash down on a few of them.
[Cast the magic, quickly!]
Lefiya screamed internally, but the Elf girl, witnessing such a tragic scene for the first time, found her hands trembling uncontrollably as she gripped her staff.
She opened her mouth slightly, but not a single sound came out.
The magic power that should have gathered was completely uncontrollable; just standing there seemed to require all her effort.
[No way... No way... No way...]
"Run... run... Lefiya... let's go..."
The companion behind her tried to pull her away to escape, but the girl couldn't move her feet at all.
Fighting back tears.
Finally, tremblingly, she recited the chant word by word.
"Unleash... the arrow... of light... bow of the sacred tree... I... I... I am the master of the bow... Snipe... Snipe, bow of the fae..."
"Pierce, unerring arrow!!"
"Arcs Ray!!"
The girl burst forth with unimaginable strength in that moment, finally allowing her to complete the magic. The pure white arrow of light collided squarely with the greataxe held high by the "Goblin Guard," followed by an explosive flash of intense light that dyed everything snow-white.
However.
This only caused the "Goblin Guard's" raised hand to pause for a moment. The magic, chanted in haste and terror, gathered chaotic and woefully insufficient magic power, resulting in a potency not even one-tenth of normal.
Instead, the Elf girl and the companion behind her were blown away by the shockwave of the explosion.
Too close. In normal combat training, a rear-guard mage would never be this close to the enemy!!
[Monsters in the Dungeon are completely different from those on the surface. You must be very careful.]
The teacher's teachings still echoed in her ears.
As students of the School District, they had participated in many battles to subjugate monsters during their travels around the world, which was why most of them were Level 2.
But it was different. Subjugation requests with teachers supervising the entire process were indeed different from life-and-death struggles in the Dungeon.
[It's over.]
A complete sense of powerlessness crept over Lefiya's entire body, until, just before the pure white light faded completely, the Elf girl saw the figure of the boy leaping high into the air.
The greatsword was already embedded in the nearby wall, replaced by a massive brass shield gripped in both hands.
Combat Art.
Shield Bash!
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