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Chapter 5 – Instakilling Bosses is Fun
The receptionist Oneesan handed me the adventurer membership card.
「T, then, Karuna-sama, I wish you a good fortune…… I, I will pray for you」
Oneesan is completely freaked out by me.
Maa, can’t be helped after seeing that.
By the way, my rank is C.
They seem to be going from F to S, but no matter how skilled, one can start on rank C at best.
Also, I have changed my clothes.
I have received them after the bloodstained guild master woken up.
His memories didn’t disappear, but he didn’t pursue the matter anymore.
I have also given a sword.
And was told to never do something as stupid as catching a sword with my bare hands.
It’s too late now, but I wish I had poured fighting spirit to my hands that time.
I have〈Pinnacle of Fighting Spirit〉skill, after all.
I have noticed〈Pinnacle of Information〉weak point because of this incident.
It tells me everything I could wish for, but it’s not like it will tell me the answer I expect.
In other words, if I was stupid,〈Pinnacle of Information〉would become useless.
Ah, there also is〈Pinnacle of Prediction〉.
Should I have used this instead?
To be honest, there’re so many skills it’s hard to manage……
There are also many skills which I don’t understand even after reading the description.
For example,〈Pinnacle of Sleazebag〉.
Which band is that?
Maa, putting that aside.
Since I have finally become an adventurer, I should accept some request.
I walk towards the bulletin board.
…… Uun.
There are posted various requests, but nothing really seems that interesting.
Isn’t there a dragon subjugation~
Oh, what about this one?
Difficulty: S
Non-captured dungeon request. Reach the top floor of『Tower of the Great Sage』and obtain the data the Great Sage Owen has left behind.
Reward: 1,000 large gold coins.
Client: Alsara Kingdom’s King.
「1,000 large gold coins…… is enough to play around for the rest of my life」
In addition, the king is the client.
The Great Sage Owen seems to be a super famous mage who thoroughly researched essence of the magic.
Despite being a human living two hundred years ago, his research in magic apparently surpasses that of present age mages.
This research data must have preposterous value.
『Tower of the Great Sage』is a huge tower in which he was confined for his last years.
With countless traps and powerful monsters prevalent, the Knight’s begun venturing to the tower fifty years ago, but not a single person has reached the top floor yet.
「Sounds interesting. Rather, it’s capturing a dungeon when it comes to a different world!」
I decided to go to the dungeon full of excitement.
I will capture you~!
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The dungeon『Tower of the Great Sage』is located on a plains north of the capital.
「Huge」
As expected of a hundred floor building.
It seems to be piercing the heavens.
「However, this. Couldn’t I just get to the top with transfer magic?」
Normally, I could transfer only to the places I have visited before.
That is because I have to form an image of the destination in my head.
But, with the use of〈Pinnacle of Detection〉, the problem gets solved.
Ah, but since this is a tower made by a great mage, wouldn’t it have a barrier or something?
After approaching the outer wall, as expected, I found a magic prevention barrier.
Quite a strong barrier at that.
I could rip it apart, but it would take some effort.
That method of capturing is boring, so in the end, I have decided to capture the dungeon the regular way.
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「This is a complete maze~」
Dungeon, first floor.
Countless roads on which one would get lost without a map.
But, it’s easy for me to find the right direction with the use of〈Pinnacle of Detection〉.
I advance by the shortest route.
Oh, first monster discovery!
「It’s a goblin! Indeed, a goblin should be first!」
An ugly monster with a green skin and club in its hand jumps at me.
One backhander.
The goblin gets flung into a wall and gets reduced to ashes.
Apparently, monsters defeated in this dungeon get reduced to ashes.
They seem to be forgeries made by the Great Sage Owen.
It helps that they don’t leave corpses behind.
Something like a red jewel is among the ashes.
Seems to be something called magic stone which allows the monsters to move.
As it seemed to be profitable if sold, I picked it up.
After defeating around ten goblins, I found stairs leading to the next floor.
「Nevertheless, the number of item drops is too high」
Not only the stones but goblin bones, skin and many other items dropped in large amounts.
Maa, that’s probably because of my skill.
〈Pinnacle of Fortune〉
A skill which blesses me with luck. Just like that.
「What to do? Throw it away? …… Ah, there was〈Pinnacle of Storage〉wasn’t there? 」
A convenient skill which can store my belongings endlessly.
I store all the items I have picked up.
I became lighter and advanced on the second floor.
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I arrived at the tenth floor before I noticed.
To be frank, it was a piece of cake so far.
Aside from goblins many more famous monsters such as kobolds, ogres and lizardmen came out, but every one of them vanished with a single punch.
And then I arrived at this spacious room.
「Oh, is this the tenth floor’s boss room」
It seems a boss is located on this tenth floor.
A huge monster with the body of a human and a head of a cow is blocking the way to the eleventh floor.
Minotaurus.
The height easily exceeds three meters.
It’s glaring at me while holding a ridiculously big battle-axe and angrily breathing through its nose, it’s ready to charge at me anytime.
It looks quite strong.
Maa, it ended with one punch after all.
Bumo~ Mino-chan cried and started charging at me, I poured fighting spirit into my fist and driven it into its abdomen.
It ended like that.
Mino-chan transformed to ashes after crashing into a wall.
「Crap. Instakilling a boss feels so good」
I collect the drop, Horn of Minotaurus and advance to the eleventh floor.
After that, I climbed up the tower.
20th floor’s boss, King Manticore, settled with one punch.
30th floor’s boss, Metal Golem cut in half with a single stroke of my sword.
40th floor’s boss, Red Gryphon hunted with a single Advanced Grade spell.
I often saw other adventurer parties up to the 20th floor, but I have seen only monsters since the 30th floor.
Apparently, the record of this dungeon is only the 34th floor.
I exceeded that without noticing.
And then, I arrived at the 50th-floor boss room.
「Are, is there a preceding visitor……?」
A huge three-headed monster――Cerberos was engaged in a combat with a girl in a mage-like clothes.
The three heads attack the girl one by one looking to bite the seemingly delicate body to death.
However, the girl evades them with nimble movements.
At the same time, she chants a spell and a magic circle appears at the pointed tip of her staff.
A lightning magic activates and roasts the Cerberus.
That was an Intermediate Grade magic.
It directly hit, but there’s no way for it to be a fatal wound.
The girl understanding that makes a distance and starts chanting immediately again.
Rather, a mage with such movements.
She has quite a physical ability.
Still, the opponent is a three-headed beast, there’s no room to be careless.
In addition, her movements are gradually slowing down.
She’s breathing roughly, she must be exhausted.
The girl casts Intermediate Grade magic attacks many times, but the Cerberus is obviously tough.
「U!」
Seeming hitting her limit, the girl stumbles.
Cerberus doesn’t miss this chance and the three-heads rush towards the girl.
「Let’s help her?」
Shukuchi.
I instantly close down the distance and get in front of the girl.
「Wha……」
I swing my sword full of fighting spirit while hearing a surprised voice from behind me.
Zubashu!!
With an exhilarating sound of slash, the Cerberus’ huge body splits into parts.
Immediately after that, the lumps of meat transforms into ashes.
「Upe! It got into my mouth! Pepe…… Ah, are you all right?」
I spit the ashes that got into my mouth and turn around.
The beautiful blonde girl looks at me covered in ashes with a dumbfounded expression.
Moreover, when I look closely, her ears are tightly sharp――
Elf has appearedミミミミ!!