From the moment he entered the dungeon, Ryuji could feel the dungeon's oppressive force weighing down on him.
However, now stepping inside the boss room, it became more intense. His feet sank into the soft ground, his axe became heavier, breathing became more laboured. It felt like he wasn't fighting against the monsters within the dungeon but against the dungeon itself.
"Alicia, we need to save those two. Do you have any idea?"
His eyes observed the monsters and felt they seemed strange, the sensation they gave almost identical to the two irregulars he had fought so far.
"I will take the small monsters, and you take the big guy?"
Her response is quite normal. However, she didn't seem to sense their difference; each goblin didn't act like a dungeon goblin but like the ones he met outside, where they had free will and acted in the most underhanded way.
Yet this wasn't just a boss, but also the group of over twenty goblins here to support it.
