After eating the unusual bountiful breakfast that was cooked by Daiki and Tatsumaki but hunted by Volk and Volpe, Daiki and Tatsumaki are currently sorting some of their things while Daiki is beginning to resemble a proper adventurer yet somehow their teachers felt that Daiki is being too cautious but didn't say anything about it. Once Daiki and Tatsumaki were done with their preparations Volk and Volpe both picked up their respective students and started to run towards the labyrinth.
Then and there they saw a inscopicous mountain which anyone would normally overlook due to how small it is or by how weak it looks or for it looking like it doesn't have anything useful inside but for those who are strong they will be able to immediately tell that the mountain is dangerous, the stronger you are the stronger the suppression. Numbers also doesn't help since as the number of people increases the ominous premonition the strong has multiplies by the number of people and what's worse is that it takes the strongest one's power and use it as the basis for its strength.
Once they arrived Tatsumaki couldn't help but use Daiki as support due to her being dizzy thanks to Volpe repeatedly turning her head left and right seemingly making sure that Volk doesn't mess up.
"Hmmm... so this is what a dungeon feels like..." Daiki couldn't help but comment as he felt the enormous amount of mana and bloodlust seemingly pouring out of the place which is enough for even him to be scared.
'Tch! if I'm scared of this amount of bloodlust then I'm ashamed of myself, even Volk-sensei can ward this amount!!' Daiki complained at himself for being weak seemingly forgetting about the fact that he is still level one while Volk is nearing level eighty.
'I really do not want to stay near this place any longer... even if thousands of years had passed this place is still the scariest place ever' Volk thought while he found a place to lay down and calm his body down.
'See!!! he is even strong enough to take a sleep here!!!!' Daiki once again complained in his heart about how weak he was.
"Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained!!!" Daiki shouted as he went straight through the dungeon's door.
"D-Daiki!!!" Tatsumaki couldn't help but shout in surprise as she just saw her teammate rush in without a plan which was unlike the usual him.
"Uoooooohhhhhh!!!!!" Daiki bolted straight back through the entrance while sweat continued to fall from his whole body.
"What the hell is that slime?!!!! IT'S GAZE WAS ENOUGH TO MELT MY ICE!!!" Daiki shouted as if he had just been scammed out of his money.
"A weak slime was enough to make you run back here, how pathetic" Volk mocked Daiki while having a smug expression then soon entered.
"Now where is that slime..." Volk started looking around carefully, he wasn't going to make the same mistake as not taking into account what he just saw since knowing his student he wouldn't have run away if he could help it.
After a couple of seconds of searching he saw a weird black blob of viscous liquid which constantly devours the mana, the pests that infested the labyrinth without even leaving a single trace as well as leaving a trail of destruction through the dungeons floor, walls, and ceiling of the dungeon.
'F... even teacher wasn't able to damage the dungeon's walls and your telling me this creature did it?!!' Volk was now scared but how can he return without even trying to face against it? he wouldn't be able to look straight into his teachers eyes if he didn't.
"Come!!!" Volk shouted as jets of water spears appeared out of nowhere and head straight towards the slime.
The slime maneuvered itself quite easily and went straight towards Volk in the blink of an eye.
"Gah!!!" Volk spat out a mouthful of blood as he got hit by the slime tentacle, he jumped backwards in hopes of getting some breathing room but what awaited him was the sight of another tentacle ready to attack him.
'Shi!!!!' Volk wanted to curse inside his mind but the pain of getting hit by the slime could even rival that of an elder dragon's and the strongest ones to boot. Not to mention it was a continuous lashing.
'Run' That thought appeared out of Volk's mind which surprised him to say the least since even if he himself doesn't even remember the last time this happened to him, he can also rule out the use of a mental attack since his instinctswere telling him to also run away.
Volk finally had some breathing room after a full thirty seconds of lashing, he also knew that if the slime really wanted him dead then he would have been turned into nothing without even having the chance to fight back. Volk felt like he was treated as a plaything by the black slime which annoyed him but that was the privilege of the strong.
Volk started to limply head back to the entrance unaware of the huge chunk of slime that was missing from the black slime, in fact it only resorted to eating basically everything due to it being injured quite severely.
"Volk!!!" Volpe shouted with worry as she saw her husband come out of the dungeon full of wounds and even some of his bones were poking out, Tatsumaki had already turned around and head towards Daiki as she couldn't handle seeing one of her family members in that state.
"Volk-sensei, why didn't you just run when you encountered it? Can't say it was a brilliant move on your part" Daiki criticized while Volk wanted to laugh it off but couldn't, Volpe was angered by what Daiki had just said and was about to retort until...
"WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE IF YOU HAD DIED!!! YOU AND VOLPE-SENSEI ARE EXPECTING A BABY!!! TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF BETTER!!!" Daiki shouted, his voice was filled with worry and nagging, Volk and Volpe then remembered a distant memory.
It was a very long time ago when they were only apprentices of the original Volk and Volpe, the original had also done the same thing while he also criticized him for being reckless. Now Volk couldn't help but feel the irony of being lectured by his student the same way he lectured his teacher for doing the exact same thing.
"We're a family aren't we? If so... TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF MORE DAMN IT!!!" Daiki shouted as he sat down and closed his eyes, resting.
Volk didn't hear what Daiki had said in the beginning nor did he notice that he said something since he was contemplating on his mistake while Volpe and Tatsumaki smiled as they saw the bond the two boys... no, men have.
"Volpe-sensei, do you need some help?" Tatsumaki asked Volpe as she also started healing Volk's wounds, of course she still couldn't stand it but once she saw Daiki acting like that she felt her fear dissappear and be replaced by care and the urge to help Volk get better faster.
Volpe
Job: Holy Priestess (Only one rank lower than a Saint but who said that she is weaker?)
Tatsumaki Maeda
Job: Saint (If the person really wished for someone's well being to turn better even miracles are nothing but jokes by how often it would happen)
Volk
Job: Berserker (The more damage he takes the more his stats increase, no drawbacks when using berserker related skills)
Daiki Nakimura
Job: Devil Lord (This job is more commonly known as being a dungeon master however they can't control the monsters that will spawn inside their dungeon, this is one of the big differences between a Demon King and a Demon Lord as well as the number of dungeons they can have)