This is the first time I entered a dungeon since coming to this world.

  It has been 1 year and a half.

  It took quite a while.

  I honestly wanted to challenge a whole lot of dungeons as soon as possible.

  But a mage apprentice challenging a dungeon solo and then getting surrounded by monsters…just thinking about it gave me the chills.

  It feels as if my wish has been granted and I am a bit moved.

  “This is impressive…” (Makoto)

  “Uwaa, so pretty.” (Lucy)

  Lucy continues after what I voiced.

  A while of advancing after that plain entrance into the cave, there was now a dungeon where the floor, walls, and ceiling were made of crystal.

  I imagined a dark cave, but my expectations were betrayed.

  A dim light was being released from the whole dungeon, and it made for a mystical sight.

  “Hooh, this is artistic.” (Fujiwara)

  “You find this rare as well, Fuji-yan?” (Makoto)

  “Yeah, the normal dungeons give out a more creepy atmosphere-desu zo. That isn’t bad either though.” (Fujiwara)

  This is my first dungeon, but it seems we have stumbled upon a rare one.

  “This place must have been made by a strong mage. The enemies that appear are all magic creatures.” (Nina)

  “Hm? Magic creatures?” (Makoto)

  That’s troubling.

  Magic creatures are just as the name states, beings created by magic.

  The famous one is the Golems.

  Magic creatures have high magic resistance.

  “Will my magic work…?” (Makoto)

  I feel like I won’t be able to deal any damage to magic creatures.

  “Makoto, cheer up! I will blow them up with my magic!!” (Lucy)

  “Lucy’s magic inside a dungeon…that sounds scary.” (Makoto)

  I feel like we are all going to be burned into a crisp.

  “What’s with you! I am trying to console you here.” (Lucy)

  “Now now, calm down.” (Fuji-yan)

  Fuji-yan mediates.

  “Ah, enemies have come.” (Nina)

  Nina-san points.

  Humanoid wood monsters were coming from that place.

  “Wood Golems?” (Makoto)

  “Right. From the information we gathered before, this dungeon seems to be their nest.” (Nina)

  “If it is wood, we can burn them with fire! It is my time to shine.” (Lucy)

  “Oi, idiot, stop.” (Makoto)

  I covered the mouth of Lucy who was winding her arms and began chanting.

  “Hngh?! What are you doing, Makoto?” (Lucy)

  “It looks like Nina-san will be defeating them for us.” (Makoto)

  “Fufufu, you two can take it easy-desu zo.” (Fujiwara)

  “Here I go~.” (Nina)

  While we were talking, Nina-san jumped out, and lunged into the group of monsters.

  Did she just jump around 10 meters without a starting run?

  “Nina-san, amazing…” (Lucy)

  Lucy had her mouth wide open.

  Nina-san does a roundhouse kick.

  A *bang!* sound like that of a car crashing was made and the golem was sent flying.

  The golem that was sent flying hits the wall and scatters into pieces.

  The enemies don’t just stand there waiting to be defeated.

  They surround Nina-san as if trying to suppress her.

  “Is it okay to not go help her?” (Makoto)

  “No no, it is okay.” (Fujiwara)

  I ask Fuji-yan, but my friend has the face of leisure.

  “Hah!” (Nina)

  Nina-san steps on the ground with spirit, and *boom!* something like a shockwave spread to the surroundings.

  The surrounding Golems are blown away.

  “That’s…earth magic?” (Makoto)

  It looks to me that Nina-san is combining her physical techniques with magic.

  A magic brawler kinda thing?

  “Eh?! That’s magic?” (Lucy)

  Lucy lets out a surprised voice.

  Why is the mage not noticing?

  “Nina-san can use chantless magic too…” (Lucy)

  Looks like she is receiving a shock.

  I don’t think you need to mind it though. I should correct it.

  “Nina-dono isn’t doing chantless magic, you know”, but Fuji-yan said it before me.

  “Eh? Really?” (Lucy)

  “By doing a specific action, the spell automatically activates -that is the result of her training. Her stomping the ground makes a shockwave.” (Makoto)

  “That’s exactly right. I am impressed that you know.” (Fujiwara)

  Fuji-yan says with admiration.

  I am a mage after all. I thought one could tell just by looking, but…Lucy-san didn’t seem to have noticed at all.

  “T-Then! Can I imitate that?” (Lucy)

  Is she thinking she can reduce her 3 minute chants with this?

  “You can clad yourself in fighting aura?” (Makoto)

  “…Eh?” (Lucy)

  Swordsmen and brawlers call Aura what we mages call Mana.

  They are apparently covering it on their bodies or weapons.

  Intermediate level and above swordsmen all use it, so Jean must have been as well.

  I explained that to Lucy.

  “Jean’s wind blade was the same type.” (Makoto)

  “Eh? That wasn’t a weapon spell?” (Lucy)

  “That’s also a kind of magic.” (Makoto)

  Rather than magic, it is more like a technique that uses fighting aura though.

  “Nina-dono practiced the same technique tens of thousands of times under a magic brawler master, is what she grumbled once.” (Fujiwara)

  “Figures. The difficulty of obtaining skills that are both physical and magical doesn’t fall behind to that of magic.” (Makoto)

  “…I-I see.” (Lucy)

  You can’t just take an easy path, Lucy-san.

  I wanted to become a magic swordsman, so I investigated that area pretty well.

  What I learned was that if I were to use fighting aura with my mana amount, I would run out of gas in 5 minutes.

  I learned that I could enhance my body to be able to at least swing a sword if I were to clad myself in fighting aura, but I gave up on using it in that way.

  “I am done.” (Nina)

  5 minutes.

  With the unmatched power of Nina-san, the Wood Golems were all broken to pieces.

  “That’s crazy.” (Makoto)

  So this is the power of a Silver Rank.

  “Nina-san, that was amazing.” (Lucy)

  Lucy claps.

  “Good work, Nina-dono.” (Fujiwara)

  “This much is easy.” (Nina)

  Nina-san didn’t even break a sweat from this.

  “These guys get remade by the dungeon, so after a while, they will come out again. We should advance quickly.” (Nina)

  “I feel like we aren’t needed here?” (Makoto)

  “Now now, don’t say that. There might be another enemy here.” (Fujiwara)

  “I wonder…” (Makoto)

  Dungeons are simple and are normally one way.

  There’s tunnels here and there where monsters come out.

  An infinite wave of monsters?

  Nina-san easily deals with them, but there’s quite the numbers.

  Just in case, I generated water with the Spirit Magic that I obtained recently, and tried attacking, but the effectiveness of the attack against the enemies was bad.

  Rather than 10 Ice Arrows, a single kick of Nina-san was faster.

  “This would have been impossible for Makoto and I.” (Lucy)

  “Right. I can’t defeat them with my magic, and you cannot shoot consecutively, so we would have been overwhelmed by their numbers, and lost.” (Makoto)

  Let’s take that as a lesson for the future.

  “The numbers are ridiculous though.” (Lucy)

  Lucy who is not really doing anything seems to be bored.

  “Making these many golems and controlling them would require quite a lot of mana. There’s the chance that what’s serving as the power source of this dungeon is quite valuable.” (Fujiwara)

  Fuji-yan seems to be having fun.

  “Nina-san, how far did you investigate?” (Makoto)

  I speak to Nina-san.

  She has just defeated a group of monsters.

  “There’s a flight of stairs going down further from here, so until there.” (Nina)

  And just as she said, there were big stairs going down just at the end of this pathway.

  The stairs continued on for quite a while, but enemies didn’t appear in the middle.

  After reaching the end of the stairs, we arrived at an open space, and we could see a big door.

  Looks like we are close to the deepest part of this facility.

  “The problem is the thing that’s in front of the door.” (Makoto)

  “Right.” (Fujiwara)

  The alarm of Detection has been noisy for a while now.

  There was a monster as big as the Griffon of before lying down there.