"We kept on defending and attacking the dungeon crawlers as they came at us.
And right now I am doing my most mentally painful job of all, nursing the guy who wants to beat me up.
"Haaa." I sighed as I healed most of his injuries and it didn't take long for all of it to heal with all the potion I have made except for some of course.
"Everyone I'm done, all that's left is for us to wait until he wakes up."
"I see, thanks Anglos."
"No problem. Anyways, does anyone want to repair their weapons?"
"Nah, I'm good."
"Me too."
"Me as well."
"It's embarrassing to say this but mine is currently in tatters and all I can only do is fight with my fist."
Suddenly one of BK's group mates said awkwardly as he showed me his ax.
"Yup, it's tattered alright. Give three minutes."
"Huh"
Taking the ax from him, I activated my abilities and along with simple tools it took me a little less than three minutes to fix the ax.
"Here you go."
"Oh thanks."
"He gave a skeptical look but still tried to use it."
"Hiyah!"
Swish.
"Eh."
And it cut right through a dungeon crawler
"Oh I guess that was good enough. Although it was a rank-E Dungeon Crawler it still sliced through."
"What?"
"Good enough?
"THats betteR ThaN Enough!"
"Oh my weapon seems to have a chip here can you fix it? Also please sharpen the whole thing."
Suddenly James casually said those words to me
"Okay sure." But seeing as I am done with the barricade and nursing BK I agreed
After all I can't reveal my true strength to them just yet so helping them like this is better.
"Mine too."
"Also mine."
All of a sudden everyone wanted to repair their weapons.
I guess they like my handiwork huh.
So in the following hour I fixed their weapons as well as repaired the hastily made barrier.
~~~~~~~~~
"So are there still students inside?"
One of the teachers asked. Along with him a group ready to dive the dungeon with him to save the students and save them from their current predicament.
"Yes Sir, here are the students inside."
As he was handed the list he read it and went pale.
"Let's go, we can't waste any more time!"
He yelled to the group as he rushed down to the dungeon.
"What's the hurry?"
"The berserker knight is there. What else can I do other than hurry?"
"I see, but is it true that dungeon crawlers are nesting the place?"
"I don't know? You were supposed to be the one supervising this."
"Yeah that's true."
"Plus there was a sighting of a rank three dungeon crawler."
"Good thing it isn't higher than that. So I guess the students will be safe until we get there."
"I hope so too, but there are some unknown variables at play that we can't expect to happen so instead of relaxing ourselves we take time going down it is better to do what we can and prevent any troubles from happening."
The two along with the group of people that is with them hurried down.
~~~~~~~~~
We were on a roll as we survived against the huge wave of dungeon crawlers.
And with the weapon repair that I did earlier and now everybody is doing their best as they are now capable of taking down rank one with a few strikes as well as soloing rank two's.
But now that I took a closer look at the dungeon crawlers they look like the no eyed monkey dog which is also hairless. Along with it are spiky thorns that popped out at certain parts of their body which are different from each other.
Anyway these monsters are really creepy and strong.
They are called dungeon crawlers for many reasons like how they appear from the top of the ceiling or how they walk.
But what sets them aside from other monsters is that they are the cause of dungeon outbreaks.
The reason for this is that they are not restricted by the dungeon floors.
Because of that, when they reach outside the last barrier of the dungeon preventing the monster's escape will be destroyed when they reach a certain threshold of number or strength.
Once that happens monsters will be released as for them they will undergo transformation and will not be able to set foot in the dungeon again.
Still no one knows the reason for their existence or how they came to be.
But one thing for sure is that they needed to be killed before they reached the surface.
So why are they here and what purpose do they have in letting them live?
"Nnngghh."
As I was contemplating the reason for these monsters to be her, BK suddenly woke up.
"Oh good you're up. Saying that I moved far from him."
"Who, what? Where am I?"
As he was surprised by the sudden situation everyone in his group greeted him.
"Everyone, Richard is awake."
"Really? Richad thank goodness you're awake."
"What happened, why am I here?"
"Well we don't know you just flew here and the next thing we know is that we were surrounded by Dungeon crawlers."
After explaining the situation to BK he suddenly asked them about their guide.
"What about Senior Jester?"
"We also don't know."
"You were the only one that came flying here."
"But we still believe he is still stalling that big monster right now."
As they gave their own thoughts about this matter BK said something surprising.
"That's impossible."
"Eh, what do you mean?"
"That monster is beyond what we are capable of at first we thought it was a rank three monster and we can deal with it but."
He paused for a while to recollect himself and continued to tell them the reason.
"But it turned out to be a rank four. and before we could realize it we were pushed into a corner. And that might be the exact moment in which I flew right here."
"Oh no."
"Senior."
They suddenly gave out a voice of concern for their guide. But an unexpected encouragement came from someone.
"Don't worry."
Jame said that as he faced BK and his group.
"What do you mean?"
And finding it hard to believe his words they asked and in return James gave a confident answer.
"Jester, even though he is like that he won't go down without a fight."
As he said that a sound of weapons clashing resounded outside.
Ting ting
bash
"Aaaah!"
"What was that?"
"Jester."
As everyone was concerned about what was happening outside James gave out a simple reason.
"Eh it is him."
We looked outside and we saw how jester evaded the monster's attack as he gave his own as he retreated.
And when he ran away he noticed us and his group. and with great concern he yelled at us forgetting to defend.
"You guys I told you to run aw- Bafuh"
"Raaarrr!"
As he was flung away he found his footing and balanced himself.
While James arrived near him as if he was about to take turn and fight the monster in Jester's stead.
"What a rude guy."
"So it's like looking at a mirror?"
"Shut up, why are you guys still here?"
"We were surrounded."
"Pfft, how lame."
"Yeah, yeah, whatever."
As they argued James summoned his familiar and used Beast Unification.
"Unification"
"What you're gonna steal my thunder?"
"Say that when you're at the upper hand."
"Who said I'm not
"With your current state."
"Tch fine."
"Good that we agreed on something."
Even as they argued they worked together as they fought against the rmonster.
"I'm going to help them."
As they were fighting, BK Stood up ready to help the two.
"Good luck then."
So without arguing I said my farewell.
"Eh, you're not going to stop him?"
"The faster they kill that thing the better."
"Well you do have a point."
They were suddenly surprised by my casual way of saying okay even though he just healed.
So I will just give a good explanation for it, in which they agreed with an awkward feeling.
~~~~~~~~~~
As the battle continued they noticed their shortcomings against the monster.
"That's no ordinary rank four monster"
"We are already fighting it together but we still barely hurt it."
They were surprised at how durable the monster was.
"Raaarrrr!"
As the monster was gettin ready they also prepared themselves for another clah.
"Here he comes."
"Let me help!"
"Richard!"
Suddenly Richard attacked at an unexpected time which caught both the monster and the two off-guard.
Bam!
"GRRRrrrrr."
Because of the sudden attack the monster staggered which was a good sign for them to attack
"Now!"
"Alright"
boom!
Without wasting time they gave their strongest hit but to no avail. The monster stood up strong and mighty.
"RRRrraaaarrrr!"
It's still going strong.
"No worries we can do this."
"Yeah a little more and we can beat that thing."
"Raaa-"
Swoosh
Boom.
"Eh?"
"What?"
"Huh"
"Is that a teacher?"
"Alright then just leave it to us kids."
As they were about to attack again a teacher suddenly arrived blasting off the monster.