After Marguls suddenly declared that a new party member was coming in, we were on our way to the transfer team to go to the lower level of the labyrinth.

A short walk from the Adventurer's Guild, its rugged looking, still built of old stone, comes into view.

That is the only entrance to enter the labyrinth from this city in the building where the transfer formation is located.

But even when I got there, I never lifted my guard against the warrior man, the new person who entered the party.

Whatever, the man looked like nothing but a hunk of suspicion from me.

The man does have a large body that has been worked out and his strength looks pretty good.

... but the man, wearing a mask on his face, has never spoken a word before.

There's no way I don't find that suspicious.

Besides, the fact that that receptionist had told me over and over again that he was competent about this warrior man was fuelling my distrust.

I have no good image of that receptionist.

That's why I couldn't help but think there was something about this guy the receptionist introduced me to.

Because of that thought, at first I disagreed with the Marguls who said I was going to the lower level.

Indeed, if a brilliant warrior were put into the lightning sword today, he would be able to dive deeper.

If we can stop the Warcraft properly and allow Armia to show her true power, then the lower levels are no longer a threat.

... but that's if this warrior was really good.

Honestly, we don't even know if this guy is really strong.

Whatever it is, I don't have the kind of eyesight to spot the human strength that I had for the first time today.

So at least it's normal for us to see how strong this guy is at the middle level that we can handle.

It seems that my thoughts and Armia were the same, and we desperately tried to convince the Marguls and the others.

But Marguls didn't try to get that our word in.

On the contrary, after calling us cowards, they dragged us into the room where the transfer team was set up and started operating.

"Huh!"

I couldn't hide my anger from that Margulus.

But I take a little deep breath to calm my mind.

If this masked warrior has no use at all or is about to do something detrimental to the lightning sword, it is the avant-garde, Marguls and Serveria who will be the first to be harmed.

If so, you can abandon the Marguls and the others and go back, even if they're in danger, yes, I'll tell myself.

That's how I calmed down a little, and I turned to the masked man again...

"Is that it?"

At that time I felt some sense of vision in the man.

To that feeling I try to explore my memory.

"Wait a minute! Leader, why are you trying to get to such a deep place!

"Ah! Armia, you keep your mouth shut!

... but my thoughts were to be interrupted by the screaming voice that Armia gave at the next moment.

I turn a blind eye to Marguls and Armia arguing about something out of the blue.

"Deep down here, you'll have a boss! We have to hurry back up!

"Is...?

And the next moment, to Armia's words, I was to lose my word.

For a moment in that word, my thoughts stop.

It was then that I finally realized that Marguls was standing to hide the hierarchy with his own body and raised his voice.

"What are you doing!

"Shit!"

Margulus distorts his face and leaks his tongue at that word of mine.

But even with our point, it should be noted that Marguls did not attempt to change the hierarchy that transposes.

"Serveria, you pull out Armia! I'll pull Lyla out!

"... what?

On the contrary, that's how he tried to forcefully get me and Armia out of a room with a transfer formation.

For a moment I tried to resist it, but without being able to resist a warrior with physical enhancement, I'm about to be pulled out of the transition formation forcefully.

"Huh!"

Seeing me about to be taken out of the transfer formation, the masked warrior reaches out, but hesitates along the way.

When humans with physical enhancement skills pull people together without physical enhancement skills, they don't know how much harm can be done to the human body.

Thinking about it, the masked warrior must have thought about it.

Finally, I jumped out of the transfer...

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"You guys,..."

After the transfer, I try to expose my anger to the Marguls and the others.

"... Huh?

I forgot even the anger of the sight that was spreading in front of me.

"RUA-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh!

... because the boss of the labyrinth existed in front of us when we came down.

Being in front of me, it was a giant bird in flames, Phoenix.

And before that intimidation, I prepare myself to die.

The hierarchy within which the boss of the labyrinth exists is never determined.

In a certain hierarchy or less, the boss appears, and in that hierarchy, due to the magic of the boss, an abnormality occurs in the transfer formation, making it impossible to open the door where the transfer formation is installed.

... I mean, there's no escape route.

But for some reason, Marguls and Serveria had a grin on their faces.

"Ha ha! That's good! Phoenix! Then I can go!

"As Amast said, you had a boss in this hierarchy!

"Huh!"

... and hearing the words, I understand that Marguls and the others deliberately brought us to this hierarchy where the bosses are.

But knowing that I couldn't even be angry.

I couldn't remember any emotions other than fear of being in front of me.

Marguls and the others were laughing even when I was afraid and unable to move.

"You should be able to go with that warrior! If you're as strong as Hydra, add another warrior..."

"Yes! Are we strong enough without Laust... Oh, that, that warrior?

... but at the next moment there is a rush in the faces of Marguls and the others who realize that the masked warrior is not in this hierarchy.

"You're kidding me! Why isn't he here? I even gave you the contract money! Keep it up, Phoenix..."

And the Marguls blued their faces, but that was the natural result.

Perhaps Marguls and the others had tricked the warriors into bringing them here, too.

And in that transition, there's no way you don't realize that a masked warrior has been deceived.

If that's the case, there's no need to honestly follow Marguls and the others.

With that in mind, I remember Marguls and Serveria, who involved me and Armia in this suicidal act, even more so now.

"RA aa!

"Huh!"

... but Phoenix didn't even give me time to complain.

Turning to us, he revealed his struggle, and the next moment Phoenix unleashed a fireball on Armia, who he considered the most threatening.

"Armia!"

And the moment I saw it, I was reflexively covered in armor.

Fireballs were about the size of a person's upper body.

And that giant fireball will burn down the armias, the walls named me.

But even though I knew it was futile, it should be noted that I could not abandon Armia.

"Really, idiot"

I mock myself for being helpless like that, and I close my eyes ready for shock.

At the very least, pray for luck and only Armia will survive.

"... really, no"

- But at no time did the shock come to my body.

"... what...!

Horrible, with my face up, I was to lose words to the figure of one human standing in front of me.

It was that masked warrior who was there.

He stood with his back showing us what he could do.

And in that appearance I understand that he prevented the fireball earlier.

"Oh, you..., what the hell!

Something in me can play to that appearance.

With that impulse, I scream to its back.

But the masked warrior did not answer the word.

Instead the warrior spoke in a powerful voice, telling me.

"It's late. It's all right now."

"Uh-huh!

At that moment, for some reason, I was sure I was saved...