In the middle of the most prestigious underground labyrinth in the Lapps Mountain Range.
A three-member adventuring team was walking through the dimly lit tunnels.
Here, the sunlight had been completely blocked.
The elementary lighting magic that the adventurers had mastered could only barely illuminate their outlines.
Diana, the only female member of the group, mouthed an incantation.
Another Primary Illumination spell was renewed in her palm.
She glanced back at the guy at the back who was grinding and making various marks on the wall, and urged with dissatisfaction:
"Please! Uncle, can you move faster, illumination spells also consume physical strength!"
The man called "Uncle" was named Galen Aldun.
He was about thirty-five or thirty-six years old.
He had deep eyes and three-dimensional features.
Combined with a strong and muscular body.
Even if he had already reached the age of an uncle, he was still a rather flavorful uncle.
But that plain to somewhat cheap full-coverage armor limited Galen's charm.
It made him appear a bit plain.
Galen raised the torch in his hand and sincerely suggested:
"Illumination spells are actually more effective with torches if you have a lower level."
The voice came out through the face armor, appearing a bit dull.
"Heh."
Diana rolled her eyes dismissively.
"No way no way? As a lower level adventurer actually using torches? Uncle ah, you wouldn't even be able to scrape together the money to purchase an elementary lighting art, right?"
Using words to squeeze this old-fashioned uncle.
It was Diana's newly discovered method of amusing herself on this journey.
"Oh sorry, I shouldn't have asked such an obvious question. When I was in the recruitment hall of the Adventurer's Guild before, I was impressed by your information board, Uncle ..."
Diana giggled.
"Shield Block, Shield Throw ... these old-fashioned skills can only be seen on you, Uncle, right?"
"Cut the crap, venturing in a scene like the underground palace, leaving a mark is also a necessary behavior."
A young male voice rang out.
The one who spoke was Ivo, who was walking alongside Diana.
Ivo was wearing a shiny silver armor.
The matching helmet hung at his waist along with his cross sword.
The lion-like blonde hair was deliberately revealed.
The matching of the blonde hair and silver armor made Ivo look heroic and full of valor, but also set off a few points of aristocratic temperament.
In terms of selling looks alone, it definitely crushed Uncle Galen.
"This is just a lower level quest, with Ivo's strength of you being close to a mid-level adventurer, completing the quest is still not easy."
When facing Ivo, the silver-armored knight.
Diana's tone obviously became softer.
She intentionally or unintentionally leaned her body next to Ivo's.
While her plump body came into contact with the cold silver armor, Diana could feel Ivo's increasingly hot heart.
Diana face hung worship expression.
In her heart, she secretly laughed: Hmph, a prudent noble brat, when this mission is over, I will see you still not on the spot.
Galen O'Shield, who was following at the end, was also observing his two temporary teammates.
The equipment and skills of these two young men were not bad.
However, the professional quality of being adventurers was really worrying.
First was Ivo, who was a battle position.
Not to mention not wearing the most important helmet properly, he didn't even maintain the basic tactical formation.
There was also that Diana.
As a law job girl specializing in healing.
Running alongside a battle cleric, is she afraid that she won't die fast enough?
If this were to be placed in his former team.
The leader of the group would definitely use his Legendary quality belt to educate these two young people ruthlessly, right?
Just as he was thinking, Galen suddenly saw the darkness in front of him.
There were several fiery red lines that were rapidly traveling in the air.
The two adventurers who were walking in front of him also discovered the strange situation ahead at the same time.
Ivo drew out the cross sword at his waist and smoothly pulled out a series of gorgeous sword blossoms, confronting the things in the darkness from a distance.
Diana consciously took a step back.
For not worrying about the difficulty of an inferior quest.
Diana did not withdraw too far, merely hiding behind Ivo.
The torch held by Galen suddenly shook.
The oxygen supporting the burning flame seemed to have thinned considerably in an instant.
Galen's heart fluttered and he loudly warned, "Quickly get out of the way! It's fire magic!"
At the sound of his words, Galen was already lunging towards the side, tumbling against the wall.
Almost at the same time, the spell in the darkness was also brewing.
A crimson light instantly dispelled the darkness.
A fireball the size of a man's head came whistling.
With a high speed that caused people to fail to react, it crashed hard in front of Ivo.
In the instant the flames reached his body, the necklace Ivo wore close to his body suddenly shattered.
At the same time, a light blue barrier unfolded to protect Ivo in it.
Ivo, who took the brunt of the attack, was unhurt thanks to the protection of the props.
Diana, who was hiding behind him, was not so lucky.
The sparks burned her skin, causing the adventuress to cry out in pain.
The flames dispersed the darkness and reflected the appearance of the sneak attacker.
It was a humanoid creature less than three feet tall.
The pointed, large ears and trademark long nose indicated its identity - it was a kobold.
A fae kobold with fiery red lines on its skin.
Seeing that the fireball spell didn't work, the kobold immediately didn't dare to stay.
It turned around and ran towards the deeper darkness.
"The Flame Goblin ... is the right target!"
Ivo didn't have time to feel sorry for the damaged props, holding his cross sword upside down and chasing after him.
Diana hastily cast a small healing spell on herself.
She also moved her long legs to follow behind Ivo.
Galen was still at the end of the group.
With his speed, he was able to surpass Diana and even Ivo.
It was just that the tumbling just now had caused his waist to flash a bit.
It wasn't because Galen's body was weak.
It was precisely because his muscle power was too strong.
The violent force under a long time of not taking risks.
It made him somewhat unable to control the force himself.
"Ugh, it's true that after not being on a mission for too long, the body still has some trouble adapting."
Covering his waist and back, Galen struggled to keep up.
He didn't want to become a burden in the eyes of the youngsters.
Turning a corner, Ivo had already caught up with the kobold.
It was wielding a cross sword and fighting furiously with the other party.
Diana, on the other hand, maintained her Primary Illumination to bring light to Ivo.
On the other hand, she was applying Primary Strength, Primary Endurance and other gain spells for Ivo.
"Ivo-chan, I'll help too!"
Galen undid his bindings and removed the wooden round shield from his left arm.
With the help of the faint light from the Primary Illumination spell.
Galen took a step and twisted his waist and sent his shoulders, the muscles under the cheap equipment suddenly bulging.
The small round shield came off his hand, carrying the sound of whistling wind and fast into a blurry residual shadow!
Unfortunately, the sprain in his waist affected his play.
It made the accuracy of the throwing shield appear off.
Bang!
The solid wood and iron clad round shield slammed heavily into Ivo's undershirt.
It directly knocked the blonde swordsman to the ground.
Even the shiny silver armor dented a piece.
The tricky enemy who was in a furious fight one second fell to the ground in the next instant.
The Flame Goblin was also stunned.
Then it seized the opportunity and fled into a tunnel.
Diana hurriedly ran over to help Ivo up and angrily shouted in the direction the round shield flew from:
"Hey hey hey! What's wrong with you people? Not only did you contribute nothing along the way before, but now you're bashing your teammates?"
Galen apologized repeatedly, he was truly feeling a bit ashamed.
Diana got the better of him, "Is apologizing useful? Do you believe I'll go back and report you to the Adventurer's Guild!"
Ivo's face was complicated as he pressed down Diana's hand that was pointing at Galen.
As a victim, Ivo could best understand the weight of that shield throw just now.
In terms of brawn alone, this mediocre uncle definitely did not lose to himself.
"Alright, all stop talking."
Ivo picked up the small round shield and handed it back to Galen.
"Uncle O'Shield, since you are a shield guard, do what you should do in your profession, the output chores will be taken care of by Diana and I."
Galen nodded his head repeatedly, "Ivo-chan, I'm really sorry about just now."
Ivo waved his hand and took the lead to chase after the tunnel where the Flame Goblin had fled.
Galen walked to Diana's side, somewhat embarrassed:
"That ... Diana, can you apply a healing magic to me?"
"Healing magic?" Diana was wary, "You didn't just break your foot just now!"
"No no, I just twisted my waist." Galen hurriedly clarified.
"Oh god!" Diana was a little freaked out.
"Don't learn to come out and take risks when you're older! I must have been blinded by the devil at the time to agree to let you in the team!"
Having said that, Diana still chanted a spell and cast Primary Heal on Galen.
She didn't want to risk her life while being distracted by taking care of a wasted uncle!
After chasing through the tunnel for a few moments, the space ahead opened up.
It was a large fork in the road that connected seven or eight canals.
"Which way did that kobold go?"
Ivo also held up a ball of primary lighting magic in his hand.
Trying to find a trace of the flaming kobold.
Swoosh-poof!
Suddenly, a short spear broke through the air from the darkness.
Before either Ivo or Diana could react.
Galen's small round shield had already caught the short spear.
The spear head was embedded into the solid wood shield, and the end was still trembling slightly.
Ivo slightly glanced sideways, somewhat surprised at Galen's reaction speed.
Galen's ears twitched slightly, and he said in a deep voice, "Something is approaching, there are a lot of them!"
It seemed to be to corroborate Galen's words.
A short silhouette rushed out from within the tunnel.
Even the tunnel that Galen and the others had come from was intercepted and blocked by these guys.
The dense sound of footsteps, and the strange cries that could not be distinguished from crying or laughing, brought an unknown fear to the adventurers.
It brought an unknown fear to the adventurers.
The weak light from the Elementary Lighting Technique couldn't illuminate those figures at all.
It was only when Galen walked forward with his torch held high that he was able to vaguely reflect the appearance of those things.
It was a full ten kobolds!
The Flame Goblins that were the target of the mission were also listed!
Under the flickering firelight.
The expressions on the kobolds' faces looked increasingly strange and hideous.
They were holding short spears, stones, and various weapons scavenged from the dead adventurers.
In a fan shape, they surrounded Galen and the others.
"Crap ..." Ivo's heart flooded with fear the moment he saw the number of enemies.
The danger grade of ordinary Goblins was lower than Flame Goblins though.
But that was only because the latter had the ability to cast flame spells.
In terms of melee combat alone, the difference between the two was actually not that great.
Just now, just one Flame Goblin had gotten Ivo into a fierce battle.
Now that ten Goblins were all on board, I'm afraid that only the best of the intermediate level adventurers would be able to fight it alone!
"Ivo ... "Diana was frightened by the ferocious eyes of those monsters, she hid behind Ivo, "You can handle them, right?"
"I ..." Ivo, the silver-armored swordsman, opened his mouth.
But couldn't manage to say anything reassuring.
"Something's not right." Galen pulled his short spear out of his own small round shield.
These two young men, even if their professional qualities were poor, were still actual lower level adventurers.
Inside, they were by no means this fragile.
His line of sight swept over the gradually approaching enemies.
Galen's gaze finally landed on the Flame Goblin.
If he remembered correctly, certain fae kobolds could utilize the power of their own kind when acting in groups.
The ability to cast a ranged aura.
With a heartbeat, Galen instantly had a judgment and reminded, "Ivo-chan, cheer up, don't be affected by the fear aura!"
"It won't work! There's no chance of winning if there are so many of them."
Ivo's hand holding the hilt of his sword began to tremble slightly.
The fear aura amplified the vulnerability within him.
It made him unable to raise the courage to fight against it at all.
Galen frowned and said to the Law Vocation Girl, "Diana, cast Courage Boost on Ivo."
The voice that Galen transmitted through his face armor still seemed a bit dull.
But in the ears of the panicked and clueless team members, it carried an inexplicable sense of reliability.
Diana did as she was told.
But because of her fear and nervousness, the incantations frequently went wrong.
How could a simple elementary courage not be cast.
By this time, the kobolds on the opposite side had already completed their encirclement.
Stones and short spears were hurled out in droves, aiming straight at Diana.
After the constant hunting and counter-hunting with the humans.
The kobolds knew that the kind of female humans that didn't wear armor were the best to kill.
At the same time the threat was also the greatest after giving the opponent enough time to cast a spell.
The short spear whistled and Diana let out a yelp of fright.
The spell that was about to be finished was interrupted again.
Bang!
Galen's round shield swung from side to side, snapping the short spears in midair alive.
As for the painless flying stones, they were blocked one by one by Galen with his own body.
"Feel free to cast the spell, and remember to apply a Courage Boost to yourself as well."
Galen's lanky figure was like the most solid barrier, protecting the front of the two team members.
Whether it was short spears or flying stones, they were all easily blocked by him.
Diana's heart was greatly determined, and she finished casting two consecutive Primary Courage.
In the dim light, Ivo's hand holding the sword was no longer shaking gently, and Diana's lips were no longer trembling as she recited the spell.
Under certain circumstances, the effect that Elementary Courage could exert far exceeded other gain magic.
At this time, the Goblins' throwing weapons had also been consumed.
However, there was not a single attack that could break through Galen's defense.
Dusting off the non-existent dust on his hands, Galen was stating his reliability with his overpowering strength!
The kobolds wailed and shrieked as the Shield Guard's Taunt skill enraged them.
They either raised their short axes or dragged their wolfsbane clubs and swarmed towards Galen.