“So, what are your pns from now on?” I asked Diamond Sword after we had finished our meal. They actually didn’t ask any questions about Mystik Wok, as Alibarded me with them. I guess when someone asks fifteeions quickly, most of the things you want to know will get answered.

  They did actually notice the healing effects, but as they weren’t at full HP after going through a dungeon, I just said that the cookihod added some healing power to the food. Diamond Sword had also picked up some of the Emergency Provision crackers from the dungeon’s trade point, so they khis dungeon could make healing food.

  “We will try out some of the restricted entry rooms. We couldn’t do it st time because there were so many monsters.” Jack said.

  “Yeah. It was crazy. Even with the healing areas between the rger rooms, we almost had to turn back.” Rayan, the main tank of the party, said.

  “Sure the skeletons fall easily to light magic, but I ran out of mana super fast just because of the numbers.” Wolf, the long bow user, said. He could apparently also use light magic.

  “And then you add itle imp jerks that want to e in and backstab you. I really didn’t like having to look out for them.” Kalem added. Kalem was the member of Diamond Sword that had once died from sprites, but got resurrected. He was armed with a one-handed m star and a small buckler. He also could use some fire magic.

  I’m still surprised that Zay chose him over Rico, but I’m not going to say anything. I let him make the choid he did.

  And I’m not an idiot. I did notice that he wao thank me for it, but probably didn’t want to say it in front of Alid Ria, as the two of them might not know about my abilities. Perhaps I should make an artificial situation where he thank me.

  “Oh, the challenge rooms. They drop some uff, but I think they be quite dangerous.” I said. I hadn’t actually seen ary o, so I’m not sure, but acc to the info I have, they spawn up to a B-rank monster. Or 5 k monsters. And you have to fight them alone.

  “If you call them dangerous, perhaps we shouldn’t go in.” Jack said.

  “Well, you would be the first to try them. I never did as you have to enter alone and I’m not sure if I could summon something ihe room.” I admitted.

  “Couldn’t you just send in one of your summoned monsters? If a summohey’ll recover in a few days right?” Laith, the final member of their party and their resident mage, suggested. He was skilled in fire magic, especially rge scale fire magic, but as that isn’t something to use in a dungeon, he had just been firing simple fire spells.

  Firing fire. That sounds funny.

  “... I probably could. I just didn’t think of that.” I could even see ihe room with my Dungeon Founder powers, so it’s not like I won’t know what happens ihe room. “That’s actually a great idea. If you have to test them out anyway, I perform the first test with a summon, so in case it is too difficult, no one will die.”

  “But as long as you are here, it won’t matter if someone dies, does it?” Alice blurred.

  “Miss Wat, you shouldn’t say something like that. Didn’t you learn anything from what happeo your dragon?” Jastantly jumped to reprimand her. And bringing up the dragon that she had let down just a few ho clearly got to her and she realized what she said.

  “Brian? What was she talking about?” Ria asked.

  “I’ll expin some other day.” I answered Ria.

  Before we left the core room, I made sure to get a magic fsk for Ria. I also made another four of them and pced them in my Iory. Uh putting a space-extee deviside of another space-extee device, I could put any sort of fsk inside my Iory. But they wouldn’t stack, uhey were in the exact, or near exact same state. So four empty fsks could stato the same slot, but a full fsk, a half full fsk, and ay fsk would each take a slot of their own.

  I also got Ria her own personal maginy pack, as well as few t-shirts and underwear, including some of the more … iing things the dungeon had added to its repertoire when I named Christina a dungeon master.

  Ria looked at some of them with a hint of embarrassment, before putting it all into her new fanny pack.

  And I didn’t fet to get the fabrics I had po give as a birthday gift to Earl Sawyer. I got one bolt roll of each of them. They are 1 meter tall and about 90 meters long, for a total of 90m2. But I thought that was a bit too little, so I got awo rolls of the tricot in different colors, as well as a sed cotton roll, for a total of six rolls. I might put all of this inside a fanny pad give it as a gift. Maybe add a on or something as well, if this isn’t enough.

  Lastly, I made another 2 fanny packs to hold inside my iory, in case I use one as a gift and if someone uses one. I’ll ask Angelina or Paulina if my gift is appropriate, or if I’ll have to add to it. Also some more clothes for myself. But now I had officially burned all of the points I got from that A-rank sword-horn bull. I still had some from today and the monsters absorbed oravels, but not that much. I o earn more if I’m going to make a magic fsk for every vilger in the dhampir vilge.

  (Or we could make them with a normal fsk that you install a Different Dimension Capsule into.) Laura reminded me that I have other options than just this dungeon.

  And o thing. I promise. I got a … strongly worded ‘letter’ from Christina through our terminal link, enting that I brought Alito the dungeon without even stopping by. I got around that problem by saying that we would stop by the house on the way back.

  “What to use? What to use?” I eaking to myself while bing my colle for something I could send into the challenge room.

  Oh? That will… (How about testing Sorcerer of Dark Magic?) Laura offered.

  (And now you tell me. I just found something else. But I want to test out Sorcerer as well. What to do?)

  “Hmm. Blue or Bck?” I wondered aloud.

  “Bck.” Alice said.

  “What?”

  “Bck. Bck is better than blue.” Alice said.

  “Because of dark magic?”

  “Yes.”

  “Then blue is better because water magic is better than dark magic.” Ria said.

  “No it isn’t.”

  “Yes it is. Dark maginot be used to heal.”

  “But it is stronger.”

  “Water magic has more utility.”

  “Stop. Just stop. Ria, you don’t eveer magic. Why are yuing for it?”

  “Why did you ask us about colors?” Ria asked.

  “I was just thinking what moo summon, the be or the blue one.” God that sounded wrong. The bck monster. He isn’t even bck. He just has a bck robe.

  “Thehe be.” Alice said.

  “But I want the blue.” Ria said.

  “What do you guys think?” I asked the Diamond Sword members. They were standing guard, even though the room had just been cleared.

  As they thought about it, Alice seemed to try to use her eyes to signal something to them, and it might have worked because all of them, except one, ended up saying bck.

  “Well, I guess bck wins this time. Now I just need some tributes.” I said as I searched for level 6 her spellcasters. “Oh. These will do. Now just the trade in…” A couple of Summoner of Illusions, Gravekeeper's Guards and Fire Sorcerers, so that I have 9 spellcasters for the trade. “Now just get a toploader on it … good.”

  As I got the three cards out of my colle, I realized that everyone was staring at me.

  “What?”

  “Nothing.” Jack said. “You just muttered some strahings.”

  “Oh? Did I? Sorry. Well, I’ll summon my monster now.” I said. “I tribute two Neo Aqua Madoor to summon Sorcerer of Dark Magic.”

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  [colpse]As I did, a nine-poiar looking thing appeared on the ground. Thewo Neo Aqua Madoor quickly appeared, before being ed by the star.

  The star lit up and shined brightly, before my monster appeared from it.

  A tall man dressed in a dark robe appeared and with him came an aura that no other monster had carried. He felt even more powerful than my Master of Oz, even if Master of Oz does have more attack points. He was holding a staff with a rge magic sto its end. Just based on the size, that magic stone is made from an A-rank or S-rank monster core.

  Thump.

  I heard a little sound as Alice fell to the floor. Her legs had just given up from underh her.

  I turo look at everyone and all of us were affected by the aura my monster had. While Diamond Sword seemed to deal with it somewhat, Ria looked like she was ready to colpse like Alice had.

  (Brian, order him to turn down his pressure.) Laura said.

  Pressure? What is that? This aura?

  “Sorcerer of Dark Magic, turn down your pressure.” I ordered. If Laura says that’s what it is, I’ll believe her. I’ll find out ter what this ‘pressure’ is and how to ter it.

  “Ah. My apologies. I shall do that right away.” He answered as the invisible force that ushing on me dissipated.

  “That thing is way to. How you summon a monster like that?” Jack asked after he had collected himself.

  “Well, teically he isn’t much strohan my White Dragon and by destructive strength alone, he isn’t my stro monster.” I defended myself.

  Yes, I will 100% agree that Sorcerer of Dark Magic seems more powerful when you feel that aura, but Master of Oz is stronger is we just go by attack points. And even in terms of just attack stat, he is the fifth stro, behind only Master of Oz, Gate Guardiaeor Bck Dragon and Shinato, King of a Higher Pne. He does also share the fifth spot with Bck Skull Dragon and The Masked Beast.

  “No, no, no. Stop. You have to be joking, right?”

  “Well kind of, but not actually.” I said, feeling like a criminal being questioned.

  Sorcerer of Dark Magic caught my disfort and walked up between me and Jack.

  “Do you have a problem with my Master?”

  As he asked that, I visibly saw Jack shrink down. SoDM probably activated his pressure aura again.

  “no. no problems.” Jack said, seeming like a child talking to an adult that was lecturing them, after he had done something wrong. Or maybe a dog getting scolded by their owner after they did something bad.

  After that, Jack seemed tain some of his strength, but he was still keeping quiet.

  “Now then. Master, what have you summoned me for?” SoDM turo me and asked.

  “Yeah. That.” I realized what I called him here for. “I need you to test out this challenge room. Just go in, some monster, or monsters, should appear. I just need you to kill it and bring back whatever reward you get.”

  “As you wish.” He said as he ehe Dark Door room.

  “Dungeon Founder, open.” I said t up a camera feed that everyone could see.

  I think it might help Diamond Sword on their report about the dungeon, so better to show them the inside of the room. I had already navigated it in a way where they only see the camera feed and not any other information, as they don’t o know that.

  “I didn’t know you could do that.” Laith ented.

  “Well, I . I think any dungeon founder . I think a dungeon master as well, but I never asked Christina. But you should focus on that.” I said as I poi the s.

  After the Sorcerer of Dark Magic had walked into the room, the door had closed behind him. He was now standing there alone, until a monster appeared there to oppose him. It was a liot uhe ohat had been the final boss this time, but this one had a red robe, imitating my red robed Dark Magi. So the dungeon wao copy both versions.

  The lich didn’t wait for SoDM, but immediately used magic to put up a fire wall between him and my mohen he began lobbing fire attacks through the fire wall. It was somewhat simir to how Jonathan fought against my Winged Minion, but the iy and power of the lich’s attacks were on another level. Each of them looked like it could burn a person alive.

  But my Sorcerer didn’t even flinch. He put up a barrier, seemingly without a t, which stopped all of the fire ing from the lich. With each fireball that hit the barrier, the e barrier would have a small blue wave run across it, as if the barrier was weakening, but I’m holy not vi was.

  “Pathetic.” We heard my Sorcerer say through the video feed. “These fmes are at best something for cooking a meal. Let me show you some real fmes.” He said as he raised his staff to the sky. The magic sto the end of it glimmered lightly and the fire wall, as well as all the other fire spells that the lich had cast, vanished.

  “Celestial Bck Burning!”1Yes, that is the Japaaame, but it just sounds better thaial Bst, especially sidering the attaimation. Sorcerer of Dark Magic called out as he brought his staff dooi at the lich. We watched as a massive wave a fire ed the entire feed.

  After our visuals returhe only thi in the room was my Sorcerer.

  “Master, I have brought you the spoils.” He came back to us, holding a treant wood staff.

  The staff looked like an imitation of his metal staff, having a three pronged end with a pce for a magic sto empty. If I end up using this staff, I’ll o get a big monster core and vert it to a magic stohen put it into the slot that is there.

  “Thanks for your hard work.” I thanked him as I received the staff. I k was one of the possible drops and I didn’t have o, so I’m somewhat happy to receive it.

  “Hard? That was barely a . You would least ten liches on that level to cause anything that could be sidered ‘hard’. No, they would wenty.”

  “Well, you aly with Master of Oz in the factory.”

  “I shall. That beast will be a good challeil Master gains one of my true rivals.”

  “Ultimate and Shining?” I asked, referring to Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon and Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon, the two oppos Sorcerer of Dark Magic fought in the movie, Pyramid of Light.

  “Yes, them.” Sorcerer firmed.

  “Brian, would it be possible to make those challenge rooms any easier?” Jack asked, as we were moving up to the sixth room.

  “Probably not, why?”

  “It’s just… that lich. It was a B-rank monster, I think. And fighting a B-rank solo would be something only A and S-rank adventurers do. So the dungeon would be at least A-rank in difficulty.” Jack said.

  “But the early floors are easy enough where just Ria and Alice take them down. And Alice is D-ranked. Wouldn’t it be better to have the different floors at different difficulties? At least the first and sed should be doable for D-rank adventurers. Thehird, fourth and fifth for k. Sixth ah for B-rank and challenge rooms for A and S-rank? And the challenge rooms on the earlier floors should be easier.”

  “Hmm. Well, we o test out the other challenge rooms to find out.” Jack said.

  “Are you sure? What if another lich appears? I ’t take on something like that alone.”

  “Don’t worry. You hold onto this.” I said as I handed him a spell card, which wasn’t in a sleeve. “Now I don’t want you to say it, but it is called Smashing Ground. Remember that. If you say that, the card will activate and it should kill any mohat appears in that room. Use that, unless you are 100% sure that you take on the mohat es to oppose you.”

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  [colpse]“... if you say so. You will help me if it doesn’t work, right?” Jack firmed.

  “Yeah. I will. Any injury you suffer, I will heal. I promise.” I don’t want to have anyone die, just because of a test. Especially when I could just order my Sorcerer to do it. Oh, he is keeping watch. As I have him here, I’ll keep him here until the time is up.

  We watched as Jatered the challenge room and I brought up the video feed again.

  His oppo was a skeletal beast that I had fought before. A skeleton dinosaur. I think it is about k, so Jack should be able to deal with it, even without using the card.

  We watched as Jack fought against the skeletal beast, attag with his huge sword, while defending with water magic. While he did hold his own, he did take a few hits from the dino’s tail. But they didn’t seem to do major damage, as Jack kept pushing and didn’t activate Smashing Ground.

  Eventually, he got a good ssh in, which hit the core of the skeletal beast, shattering it to pieces.

  We watched as Jack walked out of the room empty handed. Well, he did hold his sword, but nothing new.

  “What happened? Did you not get a reward?” I asked.

  “No, I got one alright. It just isn’t an item.” Jack said.

  “... then what is it?” Rayan asked.

  “A skill. Ara skill. Called Card Summoner.” Jaswered.

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