“Alright. Everyone, are you ready?”
The half-elf deputy guild leader, Mordea, called out to the adventurers gathered at the entrance of the dungeon.
“There are a few A-rank adventurers based in this city huh…… It is quite an impressive lineup.”
“Yeah. I guess that’s how high-spirited the guild is. Even the guild leader and the deputy guild leader are participating after all.”
“Rumor has it that he’s still as good as he was when he was active.”
In order to destroy the anti-adventurer guild organization “Rebellion”, the plan was to attack their stronghold which was said to be inside the dungeon. In just two days, in addition to the five A-rank adventurers, ten of the most talented B-rank adventurers were summoned. Among those five are Gain and Emily. On the other hand, among the ten selected from the B rank, there were Fana, Anje and me. By the way, the guild leader, whose name is apparently Ark, is a former S-rank adventurer but he has already retired. Mordea on the other hand is a former A-rank.
When it was time to leave, the guild leader spoke.
“You might be thinking that with this much force, we can win but….. don’t let your guard down. If my predictions are right, their leader is a former A-rank adventurer. I know him well, in addition to his high combat ability, he’s quite cunning and quick-witted. Don’t think this mission will be so easy. Please brace yourselves.”
“““Y-yes!”””
When the tension was high, the guild leader turned to me and said,
“Alright, I’ll ask you to lead the way.”
“Leave it to me.”
The mark hasn’t moved for a while. They probably moved from one base to another shortly after that encounter. After changing their location drastically, they stayed in the same place all the time. In terms of depth, they are around the 10th level.
While giving instructions to Fana, who is holding me, we led the group through the dungeon.
“…..But is it really possible to track someone? Tracking magic is by no means perfect. Even for a skilled magician, the limit is only about one kilometer on a flat surface. And after a few hours, the target gets difficult to track. What’s more, in our case, two days have passed since then. The dungeon has layers, so three-dimensional tracking is required, not to mention, in a place with such strong magical power, it should be even more difficult to track…”
Mordea whispered in the guild leader’s ear.
I can hear you, you know.
“We may be wasting our efforts while gathering this much force.”
“Normally, that would be the case. But that baby is probably not normal. That’s what my intuition tells me. If by any chance I end up wasting my time, I’ll think of what to do at that time.”
“..…”
Eventually, we reached the tenth floor. Various parts of the cave are submerged in water, which is why it is a floor where a half-man half-fish monster called Sahagin often appears.
While kicking off the Sahagin who was trying to attack us while screaming “Gyogyogyo!”, I eventually asked Fana to stop in front of a certain pool of water.
“They are at the bottom of this pool of water.”
“……Do you mean, we need to swim?”
“No, there’s no need for that. Fana-oneechan, just go in.”
“Okay”
I shake my head at Mordea, who looks at me disgustedly, before giving instructions to Fana. As soon as she jumped in, I used water magic to split the pool of water in half. Fana steadily lands at the bottom of the pool. Looking left and right, I saw a group of Sahagin in the water who looked astonished.
“Everyone follows.”
“U-Unbelievable…., I never thought he’d be able to manipulate this amount of water……”
“It’s like the legendary hero who split the sea.”
“Did that baby really do it……?”
For some reason, they are overly surprised. Regardless of the sea, with only this amount of water, I don’t think it’s a big deal. Then we eventually passed through the submerged place. Finally, we arrived at our destination.
“There’s a tent!”
“No doubt about it. It’s their base!”
This is translated by Yume Neiji. Kindly read at yumeineijiworks.wordpress.com.
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