Christina POV

  “Madam, are you sure this is a good idea?” Aneesa asked me after we left the core room.

  “Perhaps it is not, but I o do this. Brian trusts me to be a good dungeon master, and I don’t want to let him down.” I told my maid. “Goddess knows he has been through enough already.” I quietly added.

  “Could you repeat that? I didn’t quite hear you, Madam.” Aneesa requested.

  “It’s fine. I was just saying something to myself.” I told her.

  My ent earlier was referring to Brian’s past. He … entrusted it to me that night. I’m still not pletely vinced what he told me is the real deal, but it might just be the truth. But at the same time, world travel like that should be impossible to a God. And as far as I know, only the first hero was ever a world traveler. And even the Saint and the Great Sage couldn’t send him back, even with the help of the Goddess.

  But back to the present. I o focus on the here and now. To make the dungeon more familiar with me, I decided to go hunting within it. I haven’t really done any monster hunting since my days in the Royal Magic Academy, but I think I still do it.

  I firmed that my maid was ready to go before stepping into the monster area. She was holding a mithril sword that the dungeon had made. And it is the reason I decided to even hunt in the first pce. I need access to ons like that as well. ons like that could affeational security after all. I o make sure Brian uands this as well.

  Aneesa has been my personal maid for a long time now. She was with me even before I married into the Wat family. She has skills in both magid sword. A real bat maid. Even if she de, saying “I’m not skilled enough to be called a bat maid.”

  I was about to ehe room, but I stopped as I heard Brian’s voice speaking to me from somewhere. This was something called ‘Annou’ that I also used. With it, a dungeon master could say something to the adventurers within the dungeon. It is something that would generally be used in emergency situations, like when a strong monster appears in the dungeon.

  {Please don’t fet to summon the monsters.} Brian reminded me.

  I took a close look at the two cards Brian gave me. They are another mystery that he possesses. Dark Magi and St. Joan. I’ve seen Briah of them, but I’m surprised he gave them to me. Even if it is just temporary, they are some of the summons Briahe most, at least as far as I know. Perhaps he really thinks I would die without help like this. I think some lesser monsters would have worked just fine for what I hem to do. Well, I’m not going to look a gift horse in the mouth.

  I pced one of them otle slot on my Master’s terminal. Brian said I could hold a card on it instead of having to hold it in my hand. I know his terminal allows him to hold even more cards, but I guess I ’t have something that powerful.

  “St. Joan.” I called out the first monster. I decided to go with her first, as I need better frontline fighters to keep the monsters busy while I focus on casting spells. If things get out of hand or there are more mohan expected, I’ll summoher one as well.

  As I called her, an illusion-like card appeared on the ground and she rose up from it. This is how the monsters appear from the cards.

  “Oh, it’s you.” She said as she saw me. “What I do for you?” She asked. Her voice was a lot colder than when she was talking to Brian. Perhaps she only wants to serve her true Master.

  “I’m sorry that I’m not Bria me borrow you so I go hunting in the dungeon. Would you help me with this?” I asked the summon. Aneesa o me looked like she wao ent on the way I eaking to the summon, but she kept her mouth shut.

  “I see. I suppose Master would do that.” St. Joan said. “Do you wao do everything while you just sit back?”

  “No. That would be too much. I want to show Brian that I have skills as well. I need you to hold the frontlih Aneesa. I’ll focus on casting magi the back.” I told her.

  “Sure. I’ll try to leave something for you.” She said in a snarky tone.

  The st boss of the dungeon hasn’t respawned yet, after Brian took down that skeletal beast. I guess it’s hat I don’t have to start with a higher ranked monster.

  “Of course Master would clear all monsters beforehand so you would be safe.” St. Joan ented as she saw the empty sub-room.

  “Madam would be more than capable of taking care of some k monsters.” Aneesa quipped back.

  “Oh, I see. Then what does she need me for?” St. Joan respoo my maid with a question. “And what about you? You know that sword is a copy of mine. You only have it thanks to my Master.”

  “I fight without a sword!” Aneesa yelled.

  “You two, stop that!” I ahem.

  “I apologize, Madam.” Aneesa immediately got ba line. I hope my and got through to St. Joan as well.

  “I suppose I could as long as you keep your maid in check.” St. Joan said. I wonder why she has such a big problem w with me? Or is her problem with Aneesa?

  {The room will have some monsters. Be careful.} We heard Brian’s voice remind us over the annou system.

  We made our way into the room and saw it packed with around 20 imp-like monsters. These were the basic mobs of this dungeon, with skeletons. But given that they live this deep, they are strohan your average E-rank imp.

  “Aneesa and St. Joan, you two take the lead. I’ll use magic to support you.” I gave the two their instrus.

  “Yes Madam.” Aneesa answered.

  “Sure, I got it. I’ll try not to kill them all.” St. Joan ented, keeping up her snarky tone.

  I wish Brian could hear her so he could and her as well. Perhaps she would actually listen to him.

  As the imps came at us, Aneesa and St. Joan prepared their swords. I also began to t my first spell.

  “Stones, gather and fly as my spear, Stone Spear.” I fired my first spell.

  A rge stone spear flew through the air and hit an imp iomach area. Then it pierced straight through the imp aually hit the wall of the dungeon. I think I put a bit too much mana into that spell. Perhaps using magic boost was a bit much against an imp.

  “Ha!” I heard Aneesa yell as she sliced an imp in two. She seemed slightly surprised by the sharpness of the mithril sword. Even for her, slig an imp ly in two is a feat.

  Meanwhile, St. Joan was doing as I asked and pulling the aggro of the imps and gathering them into a arget. She really is skilled even if she doesn’t want to work with me.

  “How about you use your spell? I won’t wait forever.” She said to me. Admittedly, I was looking at her footwork and swordpy. She is likely on the level of a royal guard captain.

  “Yes.” I respoo her before ting my spell. I use spells with quick cast, but they wouldn’t have the accuracy without a staff. “Earth, crush my enemies, Earth Crush.”

  A rge sb of the dungeon floor moved slightly before quickly flipping on top of the imps that St. Joan had gathered. I made sure to trol the spell so that it wouldn’t hit her.

  The spell hit just about half of the imps and they were now buried uhe earth. I’m not sure if they all died, but this should make them uo move for a bit.

  After the dust from that the spell dissipated, St. Joan quickly cut the imps that were not caught in it. Her speed is quite something. It only took her a couple of seds to cut up the eight imps.

  I then spotted some movement in the area affected by my earth crush. Apparently my spell didn’t kill all of the imps caught in it.

  “Stones, gather and fly as my spear, Stone Spear.” I fired a stone spear as soon as I saw an imp trying to get out from uhe rubble. The spear hit it in the head and embedded itself into the imps skull. This time I trolled the power better so it didn’t fly through the imp.

  “You actually have some skills.” St. Joan ented as we were moving in the corridor between the rge rooms. As Brian had cleared the three other ses of the seventh room, we had to go upwards.

  “Of course she does. Madam is the best.” Aneesa said.

  “Please don’t over exaggerate my skill Aneesa. You know very well I’m far from something that could be called ‘the best’.” I told my maid. She has a habit of telling people of my greatness when I do anything worth some credit. And I’m not even the best of my sisters at magic. Mariina, my sister born after me, is an amazih mage. She was titled Witch at 18 when she graduated from the royal magic academy and was ter promoted to Great Witch. She use earth magiake golems, something I ’t do.

  {There is a rge monster in the room. There are also some imps with it. Take care.} Brian informed us over the annou system. A sub-boss. It should at most be k so we should be fine.

  “Ah golem.” I said as I looked at the monster. Just as I was thinking about my sister and her ability to create ohe dungeon showed me that it do that as well.

  “A golem of that size is no problem. Let’s head in.” St. Joan said.

  “Of that size? That thing is quite rge for ah golem. It’s about 4 meters tall. He would it have to be for you to sider it a threat?” Aneesa asked.

  “Over double that size at least. Or one made of metal.” St. Joan responded.

  Metal golem? Those are super difficult to kill as they resist most magid are very sturdy s them with physical attacks is difficult.

  “Well let’s just take it down quickly. I’ll get its aggro and take care of the small riff raff. You two attack with magic.” St. Joan said and ran towards the golem. She shows no fear. Or perhaps she really doesn’t o fear something of this level.

  “Madam?” Aneesa looked at me. “What will we do?”

  “Well at this point it’s better to just go with her p’s cast stone guillotiogether.” I told her.

  “Will that take the golem down?” Aneesa asked.

  “Well there is one way to find out.” I said to her. “But we o stop that thing first.”

  The golem didn’t move quickly, but it could still dodge a spell like stone guillotihat spell is only good on stationary targets, but it does deal massive damage if it hits.

  “Earth, clear away and make a hole, Pitfall.” I casted a spell to make a pitfall for the golem to step into. The hole was only around two meters deep but that wouldn’t matter.

  St. Joan realized my pn ahe golem straight into the hole. This was one of the weaknesses of dungeon spawned golems, they are stupid and move in straight liowards their target.

  Thud!

  A rge thud sound was what Aneesa had been waiting for. The golem would quickly get out of the hole if something didn’t keep it in the hole.

  “Stone, pierce my enemy, Stone Spire.” Aneesa casted a spell to keep the golem locked ihe spell grew multiple stone spires around the golem and even into the golem to keep it from moving. Then she came to my side and joined her hand with mine.

  “A nice, and still target. Madam, are you ready?” Aneesa asked.

  “Yes.” I responded as I let my mana flow into her. This was the first step in using stone guillotihe spell took a lot of mana and even more trol to use, so I couldn’t do it alone, but we could do it together. It was the reason I took Aneesa with me whenever I expected to see bat of any kind.

  ““Earth and Stone, gather into one sharp bde and decimate our enemy, Stone Guillotine.”” We ted together.

  A rge bde made of earth and with an edge made of sharp stones formed above the stone golem, before falling down on the golem.

  CRASH!

  A rge crash sounded as the spell made tact with the golem. With the crash, a rge dust cloud popped up so we couldn’t see the results. Not that I really o. I know what that spell will do to ah golem from experience. I used to test out magic like this on the golems my sister makes.

  After the dust settled, we saw the golem that had been cut in half down to its midse. But something strange was happening in the hole beh it. A reddish glow emanated from it, and I could see heat distortions around it.

  {Be careful. That golem is gathering more power. I don’t think it’s dead yet.} Brian told us over the annou system.

  The earth that had been the body of the golem melted down into va, and sunk into the hole. I got a small glimpse of the golem’s core as it did. I think this only meahing. A va golem is up .