The hero magician wants to relax. He was too active and targeted for his life, so we'll start over.

The place became noisy.

Between the altars on the fourth basement floor of Fort Louine. Behind it, a hidden door opens and the aisle opens flatly.

I saw Yuna.

"What about this passage?

"No, I've never seen it before. It's not even on the map."

Yuna doesn't look too surprised, but that's the face she originally looked like. Mr. Bell peeks into the aisle.

"You have a light in the back..."

If I look in the aisle too, the blue light is dotted to see if there are demonic stone lamps of the same kind as between the altars.

"It's not on the map, it's a secret passage"

If you say you want to go, Olivia disagreed.

"This time, wasn't the purpose of the inspection until between the altars? Isn't it dangerous to go further without a map?

"It's a school exercise in this basement, and the students are supposed to come."

I shook my head to the side.

"Don't you need to check? If it's dangerous, we'll have to look at changing the exercise grounds as well... What do you think, Yuna?

"Sure. From the school side, I think prior confirmation is necessary to avoid putting students in more danger than necessary"

"Lord Jin, I think you, too, are that student..."

"Before the students, I was an adventurer."

Though, is it a thought to take Early?

"I'm coming too, Jin."

The Early said in a strong tone.

"I mean, I think it's more dangerous without Jin. Well, I think it would be safer to be by the gin.... Yeah, it's kind of a pity story."

A prince who smiles embarrassingly and bitterly. No, no, no, no, no, no. You're a weak girl.

"Well, don't think Ouila would be safer to have gin."

Mr. Bell walked out toward Tokotoko and the aisle.

"In the first place, it's not always a dangerous place to be. If it's like a treasure trove, you need to watch out for traps, but if it's a hidden room or a temple of some kind of religion, it's not gonna set up a dangerous trap for anyone who goes through it."

"Go some further, and turn back if you're a nasty cousin. So what do you say?

Olivia and Yuna nodded, as I said. All right, if you decide so.

"Mr. Bell, please lead the way"

"Aye."

After the black cat who's already ahead, we go on. The passage eventually reached a spiral staircase that stretched downward. There is no top, so follow the stairs and go further underground. Because of the blue light source, the walls etc. also look blue stained.

The stairs are over, probably equivalent to the fifth basement floor. I walked through the aisle onto a wide floor.

"Hey, Mr. Bell. The passage behind the altar is a secret way out, isn't it?

"Probably, yeah"

"It's usually closed. Or it won't open unless you do something special. Don't you?"

"I guess."

"Then why..."

I set up an oak staff.

"So there's a monster here!?

What we have is a bunch of lizard-faced subpeople with blue-purple skin - Lizardmans - running towards us at the top of the floor, down the stairs. You have axes and spears in your hands, and you can clearly see the will to engage.

"Intercept!"

If I unleash Lightning Sequence Mode (Rapid Fire), Yuna will raise the Raptor's Staff and activate the Explosion Magic. Early shot Airvalet.

A Lizardman warrior who falls and falls down the stairs, hit by an electric shock and a blow of the wind. Yuna's blast. A magical blast and heat blow up, and a few who are burned. But even if his people get hit, a successor, Lizardman, pushes over. Most importantly, they Lizardman are relatively tough as a subrace. It is far more durable than goblins and the like, and can withstand an occasional magical blow.

"I said there is no danger!?

If Olivia stood in the front row with her shield, Mr. Bell returned it in a state of concern.

"I told you it wasn't necessarily, but I didn't tell you it wasn't dangerous, did I?

That's a lot of people, though. But the enemy is climbing the stairs, so the route is limited. If...

"Water."

Down on the ground - my short chant, water dripping from the tip of my wand. Water flows along the stairs, and Lizardman and others climb as they step and crush its thinly flowing water.

"Jin......?

Ask me what I do, Early, as I shower Airvalet accurately into the lead enemy. When the water layer reached all the feet of the Lizardmans.

"Ice fangs!

Bari, and the layer of water froze bright white. Lizardman and others' feet freeze and their feet stop. No, they stopped me.

"Breath of ice, eat the fire of life, trap it in the cage of ice"

Since when have you cast a proper spell? By my ice magic, the Lizardmans are eating not only their feet, but also their bodies by ice. Foot to torso, and ice swallowed his head, ice marinating a dozen lizard subhumans who were there.

"... over, of?

If Early says so, I snort.

"Hey, Mr. Bell. What do you think this is all about?

Why there was a group of Lizardmans in the basement that should only be able to come in a secret way.

"Reason number one. There's a hole somewhere in this basement where you can get in from the outside, or there's another route."

The theory that holes were drilled by years of crust fluctuations, earthquakes, etc., and influxed from them.

"Reason number two. Dungeon Possibilities Here Has Dungeon Core"

"Sounds like the best to me."

There are also ecosystems in the dungeons, but there are also environments that sometimes ignore them. In that case, it can be mostly a dungeon with a core.

"We came in, so the core started working?

"If you're going to take the Dungeon Core theory, it's possible."

Usually dormant. If there's an intruder, it's like reviving a function. It was once a pattern common if a dungeon master existed and controlled the core.

"When it comes down to it, is it treasure or dungeon core that's deepest?

"That's possible. But what are we gonna do?"

Mr. Bell looked back together.

"Whatever the horizontal hole theory is, if you're going to adopt the dungeon core theory, there's going to be more monsters out there, right?

"Then..."

"Naturally, go!

blocking Olivia from saying it, Early said.

"I don't know about the dungeon core, but if we go back, is it something that stops us?

"You can't be sure. It may stop, or it may carry out its activities vigorously"

If Mr. Bell answered, Early nodded.

"If it's the type of activity that activates, I think if we don't stop it, the exercise site in three days will be dangerous. If we're going to stop it, we might as well do it now."

"Well, it's not yet confirmed in the dungeon core."

The black cat looked at me. Hmm, there's a way to make sure of that.

I take the DC rod out of the leather bag (storage). Early has seen it once, but Olivia rounds her eyes on that big wand of demonic stones she sees for the first time.

"Master, the wand..."

Yuna's eyes become faintly irritated.

"Maybe, dungeon core -"

"Well, isn't it your fault?

I don't think it makes sense, but I fell in love with vegetarians and I hit the DC rod on the floor.

"Start Scanning"