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Volume 10 Chapter 4 Part 4

The first Earth Magic Spell is from Mage’s 「Basic Earth Magic」and the next Fire Magic is from a Jobless’s Skill that has not yet been activated?

Was the first Earth Magic Spell activated by a Mage’s 「Basic Earth Magic」, and the next Fire Magic Spell exploded by the Jobless’’s magic that had not yet been activated yet? Makes sense to me.

I guess this means that the Spells really are activated in the order of the Jobs that you have equipped first. There is also the problem of what happens when the level of the equipped Jobs is the same.

As for the order of the Mage and Jobless, it is better to put Jobless as the first one. If I do that, then I won’t have to worry about the order of magic at all.

By the way, changing Jobs didn’t seem to reset the Jobless’s Skills and Effects, so you can’t use the method of changing Skills and Effects by removing Jobless from the list of your active Jobs.

I should have tried this trick sooner. Instead, I ended up not being able to do it anyway.

「Whole Fish, desu.」

One of the Mabreams left a second Whole Fish upon death, and Miria gladly brings it over to my side straight ahead.

「Okay. Then let’s go to the thirty-third floor next.」

I was about to say that we should go collect some feathers on the thirty-second floor, but if we’re talking about Rock Birds, then they should normally appear on the thirty-third floor as well.

However, if I want to hunt Rock Birds now right after hunting Mabreams who are weak to Earth Magic, it might be difficult to do with the current settings of the Jobless Job because Rock Birds are resistant to Earth Magic.

I think that coming up with some measures against it is going to be necessary in the future.

I also wish that I could go and make the quilt futon soon. Shall I shut myself up in the thirty-second floor of Quratar’s Labyrinth until the quilt futon is going to be ready?

I’m not confident that I can persuade Roxanne to do it though. Well, if I order her to do it, she will do it without question, but I am still going to need a good pretense for it.

Having a good pretense for doing things is always important, since too often I am finding myself in trouble because I don’t have any.

I was able to defeat Marbreams just fine even before I got my hands on the Jobless Job, so worrying about the functionality of the Jobless’s Skills against them is nothing more but an extravagant worry on my part.

In fact, even now I’m able to get the Whole Fish with almost no struggle.

From now on, things will get easier, but they won’t get harder, so is there really any need for the countermeasures?

I threw away my unfounded worries and moved to the thirty-third floor.

「Alright then Roxanne, I want you to guide us to the smallest group s of enemies possible first.」

「Of course, master. This way.」

At this point I don’t think I even need to give her directions, because Roxanne knows what she should be doing.

However, there is still some anxiety left in me as I fear that she might suddenly take us to a place with a large number of monsters without any warning because she might’ve gotten used to it recently.

That is an example of a bad behavior, so I would very much like her to give it up.

As Roxanne leads the way, three monsters appear in front of us. They are Drive Dragons, and they are floating in the air.

I fired Fire Magic at them in rapid succession, and Roxanne and the others started running towards them.

The reason why there are so many of them may be that there was no other suitable group for us to fight, or maybe it’s because Roxanne couldn’t tell the difference in smell between two and three monsters, but even so, there seemed to be no doubts in Roxanne’s eyes. Because she already got used to it recently.

When I approached the monsters after casting my magic, I saw three elongated snake-shaped dragons with wings and four legs with large claws floating in the air. Is their total length about three meters? They are pretty big.

They also look terrifying. And powerful.

When we approached them, they glided over to meet us. As we approached the vanguard, the Drive Dragon in the middle opened its mouth and bared its fangs at us.

It rushed towards Roxanne, who was standing in front of me, but Roxanne dodged its charge by bending over her upper body. As expected of Roxanne, she was able to dodge it with ease, but when I thought that, a clawed hand appeared right next to Roxanne!

Will she be able to dodge that?

The Drive Dragon rolls back and charges at her again. This time, Roxanne avoided its attack by only moving her neck. The dragon’s head does not come forward more than before.

When I thought that, Roxanne stopped its front leg with a shield. This seemed like an equivalent of stabbing your little toe on the edge of a furniture, only this time, the furniture was a shield. I am sure that it hurt like hell.

That alone seems to be enough to defeat the monsters. The two other ones on both sides also attack Miria and Vesta respectively. Miria dodged the attack by a large margin, and Vesta received it with her sword.

I don’t think that either of them are going to have too much of a problem dealing with them either. Miria is more agile than the Drive Dragon, and Vesta can take her fair share of enemy attacks head-on.

As expected, Drive Dragon is bigger than Vesta. Still, when I saw it, I got the impression that she was majestically striving for her cause. She is evenly matched with a giant dragon, and she’s definitely not going to be defeated by it.

As expected, Vesta is reliable.

While the three of them are occupying the Drive Dragon’s attention, I fire magic at them whenever I can.

「Did it, desu!」
No, while the two of them were occupying the Drive Dragon’s attention.

The first petrified Drive Dragon turned to smoke, followed by the other two.

It falls to the floor and disappears in smoke.

That battle took a long time.

It makes sense that Drive Dragon is by far the strongest enemy we have faced. Even though we challenged this fight with my two magic-type jobs, Jobless and Mage, it was still longer than the other ones.

Our opponent was definitely a mighty one this time. With that, I think it’s going to be impossible for us to challenge the Floor Boss battle today,

「These Drive Dragons were the strongest opponents we have faced up to date.」

Whoa there! Roxanne is also thinking like that? What a surprise… a good kind of surprise. It’s great to see her voicing such an opinion.

「The battle time has also become longer than ever before.」

「You think so? I think that if we were to compare it to the time of the battles with the Rock Birds on the thirty-second floor, then not that much has changed.」

「Maybe so.」

It’s not a good thing to be getting too full of yourself, you know?

「Ah. Come to think of it, was that so?」

「The Drive Dragon should be a tougher enemy, but the time it took us to defeat a single one didn’t change all that much. As expected of master.」

「………. Uh-huh.」

I wanted to say that doing the Boss battle would be impossible for us today, but I guess that is no longer an option, huh?

「It’s definitely been longer than it was on the thirty-second floor. After all, Drive Dragons are resistant to all types of magic, so that was to be expected. Under the normal circumstances, this battle would have been much tougher than it actually was for us.」

I get a follow-up from Sherry that can’t even be called a follow-up. The Drive Dragon is resistant to all types of magic, so it should be tougher than the Rock Bird, but its difficulty was largely offset by the combination of my two Jobs, Jobless and Mage.

The battle with the Rock Birds when I had no access to Jobless was certainly long. Isn’t that much compared to that?

I may have taken it too easy on the thirty-third floor of Bode’s Labyrinth.

「I see.」

「Since master fights using magic, then the thirty-fourth floor may be easier for us now.」

This time, this horrible suggestion came not from Roxanne, but from Sherry instead.