The knights and adventurer start to advance forward and goes deeper in the dungeon. As the kobold start to became bigger and bigger and start to use weapons and armor. But it seems Sheila and Clara manage to easily killed most of the kobolds. Rodney, Damnatio and the Black Prism manage to catch up to them. As they saw Clara and Sheila seems to have fun killing all of those kobold.
"Hah! Not bad clar! You seems to not get rusty even thought 10 years have passed."
"Of course! Why would I lost my strength haha!"
Damnatio tries to steal the stage as he glamorously went in between both Sheila and Clara. Damnatio created an orange magic circle below his feet.
"I'm sorry ladies! But I will take the stage for now!"
[Tier 3 Combustion Magic : Flower Season]
A giant magic circle appear as a giant flower combust and created a heat wave everywhere. The kobold that wear armor start to scream in pain as it seems it heated up it's armor. Damnatio seems to be able to control the heat wave as he focused it on the kobolds. The blooming flower of fire seems to follow Damnatio everywhere.
"Die, FIEND!"
Damnatio plunge forward but it seems he did it differently than Sheila plunge. Damnatio only did one thrust motion but he keep goes forward as he made a kobold skewer with his rapier.
"Viola! Such monstrosity should've been in hell and stayed there!"
Clara is quite impress by Damnatio swordsmanship, it seems rather quite unique. Everyone who saw Damnatio swordsmanship would instantly realize that he is using the rapier like a lance. Even with such small blade, he manage to use it like a lance. That sword style is what made him the head of the Leoparte family now.
"Amazing! Such interesting style of sword!"
"I know right! That Damnatio bastard.. I have to admit he is better than me interm of swordsmanship Clar."
"Wow, so you acknowledge that guy stronger than you?"
"Hell no, I'm much better on other aspect!"
Sheila dash forward as she tries to keep up with Damnatio, while Clara met up with her party member. Rodney tries his best to keep up with both Damnatio and Sheila, as Nolan ran beside him.
"Oh hey! You're the new vice-captain from 4th division right?"
"..." Nolan nods.
"HAHAH! What's your name fellow vice-captain?!"
"Nolan.... Nolan Bolevante.."
"Oh! So you're another of my best friend kid!"
"Huh?"
"Askadorr! Askadorr Bolevante! That's your father name right?!"
"Huh? You.. Know my father?"
"Hell yeah! Your father is my best friend back when he is an elite knight in Aslantan. But now he protect his own village, quite sad that I didn't get to met him again. But hey, 2 of his kids are here now!"
"Wait... Is Noir... On your care?"
"Yeah!"
Nolan began to be quiet as he doesn't seems to be in a mood of talking anymore. Nolan dashes forward leaving behind Rodney with his confusion. The other knights and adventurer tries to take care of the leftover kobold that the main offense team take care off. Some of the knights seems to be slacking as they easily cleared the dungeon so far. Two random knight start to talk with one another.
"Heh, this is the easiest dungeon clear I've ever joined in!"
"You've been into one?"
"Yep, with so many people, we can chill and not waste our energy haha! That's easy pay check Haha!"
As he said that, a bloodcurdling scream can be heard from behind them. 2 knights is flying on the air as there seems to be a hole in their chest. Some of the knight that's right in front of the dead knights are screaming as they see a dark monstrosity figure standing before them. A shiny wide smile can be seen from the darkness. As Rodney turned around and went over to the backline.
"EVERYONE BACK OFF!" Rodney shouted
As Rodney threw a torch with all his might, the torch hit the dark creature as everyone could see clearly what they are facing against. A giant monstrosity can be seen right in front of them. It is as tall as the cave ceiling itself. With a skelly thin body, a long arm and legs with a giant round head with no facial feature other than a wide smile with spiky teeth. It's long arm had a very sharp 4 finger that seems to be used to stab the 2 knights from the very back.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!!!" Rodney shouted.
As the other knight shiver in fear looking at the monstrosity in front of them. Though it seems the creature had two horn on it's head, similar to a goat head as one of the knight screamed out.
"THAT'S THE DEVIL! AHHH!"
Most of the knights back away as they see the monstrosity leaving behind Rodney to deal with it. Rodney began to sweat as he casted a spell, a brown magic circle appear below him.
[Tier 3 Earth Magic : Mother Earth Blessing]
As the ground began to float and form on Rodney body covering most of his body and hammer with stone from the cave ground. Rodney eyes lit up seeing himself facing a big monstrosity all alone. But it seems his bravery made the other knight brace themself up and charge with him.
"RAHHHH!!!"
From the deeper part of the cave, Sheila, Damnatio, Clara, and Nolan turned around as they heard the blood curdling scream. Sheila turned around as she began to quickly dash back to the other knights as a shout can be heard behind her.
"WATCH OUT!"
Clara screamed out and push Sheila down with her whole body as a destructive sound can be heard hitting the ground. A crater now exist at where Sheila stand before, Nolan stop himself as he is the closest to the knight and turn around to shiver in fear on something. Damnatio who is in front of the whole team stop himself from advancing and turned around to also had himself shivering in fear.
As a red glowing eyes can be seen from the ceiling, with a wide devilish smile. The figure goes down as everyone could see a figure as big as average human with a torned apart robe. But all of its body is bandaged up with some sort of dark cloth. Its finger is quite sharp for a human being and his teeth is all spiked up like the monstrosity at the backline. Its eyes is glowing dark red as it turn right and left looking at Damnatio and Nolan.
"Kekekeh... Not bad for a being from earth."
The figure bow down as it seems to introduce himself. While Sheila and Clara is on the ground not too far from the creature that strike them. Sheila could see Clara is sweating profusely as she sees that Clara right leg is gone as blood gushing out from it.
"C-Clara!"
"Where is my manner, keh. My name is Barret! I am a high-rank demon, the underling of The great almighty ruler of hell, sins of pride!"
Damnatio start to sweats but manage to calm himself down "The great almighty sins of pride?! You mean one of the 7 ruler of hell?"
"Correct!" it began to clap happily "Very knowledgeable of you human! You must be quite strong to know the existence of my lord!" Barrret said with a devilish deep tone of voice
Nolan had a longsword as he hold it with both of his hand in a defensive stance. While Damnatio sweats profusely and also in a defensive stance. But Sheila stands up and dash forward to try to stab Barret even though Clara already told her to stop.
"YOU BASTARD DEMON!"
Barret point his right hand finger at Sheila as a small dark brown magic circle appear. Barret just smiles looking at Sheila who is raging, while Damnatio dashes forward to try to sandwich Barret from both side. Barret just smiles as he point with his left hand finger to Damnatio as the same magic circle appear on his left finger tips.
"Dumb human Keh.."
[Tier 1 Hell Magic : Torturous Spike]
As a spike like bullet appear from the magic circle and launch forward with high speed. Damnatio manage to deflect the spike away, but Sheila only care about offense as the spike pierce through her left shoulder bone all the way through. But she keeps charging forward as she thrust with all her might on Barret. But Barret easily deflect the rapier away and punch Sheila on her left part of the face. Sheila got knocked away with just one punch as she hits the wall quite roughly creating crack on the wall upon impact.
"Agghhh!"
As the situation seems to get worsen with Sheila getting hurt quite badly, Nolan not knowing what to do and Damnatio stop for a moment to calmly choose what to do next. While Clara still on the ground with her right leg gushing out blood endlessly. Clara tried to crawl away from Barret, as Rodney tries to hold the other demon with the other knight and adventurer...