It seemed that Beelzebub had truly been defeated.
Even after waiting for a while, it did not revive, nor did a second boss appear.
“These feathers… must be the drop items, I guess.”
Scattered across the floor were several jet-black feathers, seemingly shed from the boss’s wings. Infused with considerable magical power, these feathers would likely serve as excellent materials for crafting weapons or armor, granting strong effects.
“You did it, you three. The dungeon is cleared safely.”
I spoke to the three girls, still exhausted from the fierce battle.
Even so, I hadn’t expected a strategy like narrowing an entire vast chamber just to restrict the boss’s mobility.
Anje had implemented her bold idea instantly, Fana had immediately understood the intent and used her wind magic to further limit its movement and expose the real target, and Karen had seized the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity with a single decisive strike.
Their performance had exceeded all my expectations.
“Mm… I’m hungry.”
“That’s the first thing you say? Well, I guess I am hungry too…”
“I was warned by Master that it was too dangerous… and yet, I went all-in with a once-or-never secret technique… but it worked! Though… the recoil’s left me completely exhausted…”
Karen lay sprawled on the ground like a flattened frog. It seemed that the secret technique had been unleashed on a whim, without any rehearsal.
I cast healing magic on the three of them.
“Internal-External Linked Complete Regeneration Magic.”
By healing both inside and out, this spell could restore even someone like Karen, whose qi had been completely drained.
“Mm… stairs.”
“I wonder where they lead?”
“This should take us back to the surface. Some dungeons have a direct route to the surface that appears once the boss is defeated.”
The dungeon itself seemed eager for us to leave quickly—probably to prevent anyone from damaging the Dungeon Core.
The spiral staircase stretched endlessly upward, far above us. After descending all the way from the seventy-fifth floor, the climb back was a considerable distance, but there was no need to rush, so we ascended at a steady, relaxed pace.
Reaching the top, the staircase opened onto a corridor just inside the dungeon’s first floor, near the entrance.
As soon as everyone stepped into the corridor, the staircase leading to the boss room vanished.
“Corpses of monsters scattered everywhere… but it’s surprisingly quiet.”
“Yeah… none of the monsters are moving.”
Outside the dungeon, adventurers were busy dismembering and hauling away the fallen creatures. It seemed the cleanup operation was already well underway.
“You’re back.”
“Ark-ojiichan. Looks like the dungeon outbreak has settled down.”
“Yeah. That happened about five hours ago. As you can see, we’re still cleaning up the huge pile of monster corpses. The entire guild is working on it… but there’s so many that it’s nowhere near finished.”
“…Five hours ago?”
Since the three girls had defeated the boss only about thirty minutes earlier, it seemed the dungeon outbreak had already been quelled before that.
“All thanks to that beastman. As a Fenrir… with her in her human form, her power is probably far more limited than it should be, right? But still, she was that powerful…”
“Yeah. At least half her power was suppressed.”
“That’s terrifying… but you, the one who tamed such a monster, is far more terrifying than it is.”
Lill, who had been helping haul the monster corpses, noticed me and came over.
“Master, you’ve returned.”
“Just now. Seems that the monsters up to the fiftieth floor weren’t even a match for Lill in her human form.”
“Of course. No matter how many there were, they were no match for me.”
Surely, it might have been necessary to revert to her original form, but Lill she could have defeated even Belzebub on her own.
“Lill, you say? Effective today, you’re promoted to A-rank. Leaving someone like you at B-rank makes no sense.”
Ark shrugged and announced Lill’s promotion under his authority as guild master.
“That aside, given your nature, I expected you guys to have stayed a bit longer in there.”
“…What do you mean?”
“You said you were going to conquer the dungeon, didn’t you? Yet you returned awfully quickly.”
“Huh? We did manage to conquer the dungeon, though?”
“Huh?”
“We actually defeated the boss. As I predicted, it was exactly the seventy-fifth floor. The boss was a fallen angel, a formidable enemy with a disgustingly fly-like face.”
When I stated it clearly, Ark stood there for a moment, dumbfounded, and then shouted:
“N-n-n… you… you guys actually conquered the Great Vegaltia Dungeon—r-really!?”
His roar made all the staff and adventurers who were busy with cleanup freeze in place, their eyes wide with shock as they turned to look.
“Y-yeah, no mistake.”
“It was tougher than I expected.”
“I was the one who delivered the finishing blow!”
The room in the guild’s basement instantly buzzed with murmurs and astonishment.
“Wait, seriously?”
“This dungeon… no one has ever cleared it before, right?”
“Not a single adventurer has even seen the boss in person…”
Ark’s lips trembled as he stammered:
“I… I never thought anyone would actually clear it… and in such a short time… well, considering your exceptional nature, I suppose it’s not impossible…”
“Ah, of course, as I declared, it was just those three girls who cleared it. I didn’t intervene at all.”
“No waaay!?”
This is translated by Yume Neiji. Kindly read at yumeineijiworks.wordpress.com.
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