
“Preserve your formation! Hey, don't you go too forward! If there's a monster ambushing you, we won't be able to protect you. Hey, you don't get too behind either! Protect the dealers damage well!”
Olo with his loud and booming voice was cast as the leader in the party extermination of the wild dungeon.
“Can I use sihi blast just once, Junior?”
“Hah! Senior Nunu too. Please hold yourself Senior do that because we are underground! What does Senior do if his roof collapses because of Senior's magic and we get buried under here for good?!”
“Ah, that's true too, Junior. Sorry I didn't think about it.”
Adrenaline Nunu was instantly spurred as she watched the many long ones standing upright and hard around them. There was only one on his mind, what if his explosive magic knocked down something solid and sturdy and long.
However, he soon realized that it was a bad decision since they were inside the cave.
Nunu also used the spear given by the master to split each part of the body of the giant ant monsters.
“All support the damage dealers well.”
“Ready!”
Olo momentarily gasped at Nunu's enhanced abilities, which previously in his village were just an eccentric, reserved innocent girl who was obsessed with explosion magic. Olo was fully aware that Nunu used to resist his disappointment of having a flawed magic circuit so that he could only perform one magic, but with tremendous impact, once a day.
Helios's spear of giving really helped Nunu overcome his shortcomings and now Nunu finally began to be interested in other magic that did not give the impact of a great explosion. Nunu could now use his mana bit by bit thanks to the arrangement of the spear artifacts.
“If you look at her like this, I'm guessing Senior is beautiful.”
“Eh, what were you saying, Junior?”
Olo let his guard down so unconsciously expressed what was in his mind. Unfortunately it happened when the commotion was temporarily muffled by the atmosphere. Nunu could hear Olo's words clearly.
“Senior is indeed eccentric, I had expected from Senior who had damaged the festival held by the chieftain.”
“You!”
-rubber.
“Ouch.”
“Once again you bring up the embarrassing incident, I will push you to amnesia and no longer remember the incident.”
“Don't dong, Senior. It was a beautiful event for me.”
“You?!”
“Hahahahahaha.”
The ant monsters were easily overcome by Olo's party and friends. After the boss of the dungeon monster lost, the dungeon instantly closed itself off from the ground as if it had never existed from the start.
However, it was not the only wild dungeon that had formed in the southern city since Dungeon Apes was wiped out. There were still a hundred more other wild dungeons.
“Chairman, is this our wise decision to clean it one-on-one like this?”
“I also agree, Chairman. It will save more time for us to divide the troops into smaller teams so that the eradication can be faster.”
Olo listened to the advice of his subordinates wisely. But after careful consideration, Olo gave the answer, too,
“No. Twenty people in a team is the minimum amount that should be applied where one of them should be a scout. We don't know what kind of danger awaits inside the dungeon. Maybe we were lucky all this time for obtaining an easy dungeon. We could have encountered a monster stronger than we predicted. The more people in the team, the more we increase our chances of surviving together in a dungeon.”
“I also agree with Junior's opinion. Although the wizards could predict the strength of the monsters within the dungeon through which pressure, there would always be ambiguous monsters whose abilities could be greater than the amount of mana. Or can we also be wrong in predicting which number is low as a weak monster when it is because the monster is little, but very strong.”
Nunu supported Olo's opinion so that there was no more debate within the team.
“After all, the main order of His Majesty Emperor Helios is safety, not to finish off his monsters. We just do it to the maximum of our ability and then we leave all decisions to His Majesty. And as I've said before, if anything happens and it looks like the team will be annihilated, the scouts are tasked to be able to run out safely from inside the dungeon to report the incident to the outside world.”
“You said something creepy, Junior.”
“That's how it is. Since we became warriors, it means we are ready to sacrifice our lives for the sake of the empire at any time.”
“Hmm.”
Nunu's hand immediately shook as he remembered that in every fight, there would always be death waiting whenever they were caught off guard.
Olo who saw that immediately snorted and then patted the hair of Nunu who was shorter than him firmly.
“Take it easy, Senior. Your Junior is not a weak man. Whatever happens, I will definitely protect you.”
Olo smile. For some reason at that time, Nunu saw that junior's smile was so shining. This was only the first time since Helios, there was someone who could make her heart flutter.
The Olo party of 13 swordsmen, 5 wizards, and 2 scouts began to enter the next dungeon.
Then from within the swamp, the lizardsman kept popping up.
“Ah, I am most afraid of slimy creatures! Junior, quickly get rid of those creatures!”
Nunu immediately hid behind Olo's body, while Olo immediately thrust his spear forward.
“Party, get ready for C!” formation
“Ready!”
The party members responded to Olo's remarks. Shortly thereafter, Olo mounted his spear and slashed swiftly at each slimy lizardsman. The formation is formed in the form of arrows where the fighters protect their wizards.
Olo can be a little mana, yet he is weak in aura comprehension. That was why that had all along blocked him into the realm of swords master. But in terms of battle agility, he was not as great as the swords masters. The lightning attack was quite deadly. That is why Helios was able to appoint Olo as the leader of the palace army without any significant opposition.
However, this time his opponent was the lizardsman who was also famous for his agility. The Olo party who was usually able to win by relying on his agility, this time could not be so.
At that time, a lizardsman managed to sneak into the Olo blind spot area and was about to cut off his throat.
“Junior!”
Nunu thoughtlessly ran over to ward off the attack in place of Olo. Fortunately, the automatic protection of the Helios fire spear artifact gifted to Nunu was activated by itself so that the lizardsman's attack did not succeed in hitting Nunu.
The lizardsman bounced backwards. Nunu also fired a valuable magic cannon.
-prang.
The magic cannon instantly pierced the belly of the lizardsman as well as the wall behind him.
However, the lizardsman who saw the opportunity around them, immediately paid attention to Nunu who was careless then immediately came forward to attack him.
“Senior!”
slash, slash, slash.
But before those lizardsmen had a chance to injure Nunu, they had to feel the sharpness of Olo's spear first.
“You are so careless, Senior! Why did you just jump before a monster?!”
“Finally Junior will get hurt.”
“You think I am so weak that I must be saved by you?! Besides why are you using your precious mana just to eradicate a small monster that is nothing?”
“But..”.
Olo instantly woke up. He shouldn't be angry. Nunu did so because from the beginning he showed his weakness.
“No. My fault. Sorry, Senior.”
“Junior..”.
“How many more magic cannons can Senior use?
“Because now I can use a maximum of 8 cannons per day and now I only use one, so there are still 7 pieces left.”
“Thank God. Please skimp. Our fight is still long.”
“I understand, Junior.”
“We must endure until reinforcements from the capital arrive.”
Nunu just fell silent. He could not focus on listening to his junior's instructions. There was a palpitating feeling in his heart that he could not explain.
In addition, he was astonished by his own attitude that dared to use his own life as a shield because he did not want Olo to get hurt. Olo's brownish face with white hair that shines from when it caught Nunu's attention.
Nunu only realized that he no longer saw Olo as his junior. Olo, who was once small, has grown into a mature 21-year-old man. Nunu had unknowingly fallen in love with the junior who had always been with him.
“True. We have to survive because there's still something I want to make sure of with you.”
“Hmm?”
The words clearly confused Olo.
“No, it's nothing. Because I myself am still confused about everything. I hope Junior won't let me down.”
Nunu's gentle smile instantly calmed Olo's heart.