
For the past 2 years I have served as a commander, I have also formed my own personal army that I chose myself. They're strong enough, but I'm not just looking for strong people.
I am looking for someone who is capable in battle and has good coordination and is capable enough to take care of himself and the rest of the army.
It took us a year to reach the 25th floor and within that one year, I had gathered the troops I needed, probably a smaller group rather than an army.
They only contained magicians capable of using high-level light magic for anticipation if we were to face an undead-type opponent. In addition, they can also use recovery and various other magic. For the rest, were the soldiers as in general and the Vanguards.
Well, since I was not used to fighting in groups and also I had no experience commanding soldiers, I gave all of that to Braun, who was now the deputy commander in my army.
Braun was a very capable man of organizing the troops and also intelligent enough to make a very great strategy until Priscilla was amazed by him.
For Priscilla herself, her strength was great. He was just like me as an unsuitable person fighting in a group because most of his attacks had a wide range and if he fought in a group, he was worried about injuring his comrade unintentionally.
However, I have never seen him change the form of his little boy. From what Anastasia tells us, if Priscilla fights seriously, she will change her form, which was originally a 9-year-old child into an adult woman in her 20s.
It might be only natural that as long as we climb to the 25th floor, he does not fight seriously. Because the opponent we faced was not too difficult, even I was able to defeat him alone.
Now that we have gathered with the main force and our long preparations are complete, we will finally begin the expedition to conquer the floor and break through to the 26th floor, he said, for this reason, we will be facing the first prince, Azazel.
I continue to strengthen myself and the army I created if only Azazel had guards like Arch Licht did. Because of that, we have prepared everything. There were also the backline soldiers who had to transport a lot of recovery potions and others, there was also a wide variety of snacks as well as drinking water.
"Good morning, boy. Are you used to your new hand?"
Braund.
"Good morning Braund. Well, although it still feels weird but I can already move it like a real hand."
Reply Rigel.
Before, when we defeated the floor doorkeeper who headed to the 25th floor, we were faced with an army of full armor that moved itself as if alive, yet had nothing in its armor.
The armour troop moved using magic like a thread puppet. They are controlled by a giant armor monster who becomes a floor guard. It's not hard for me to face the keroco that she controls, I just need to cut the flow of magic.
When her conquest was complete, Anastasia found a drop item in the form of a left arm made of Adamantite, a very hard metal. Since he still had an intact arm, he gave it to me who only had the right arm.
Thanks to a skilled craftsman from the Region guild, he connected the iron arm to my body allowing me to move it like a real arm.
In this way, I was able to bring out my full potential in my first fight against one of the princes of hell.
This is no longer the time for me to hold back. I will exert all my strength in this fight and take the key protected by Azazel.
In preparation, I have absorbed at least two thousand medium-sized human soul cores as well as one dragon soul core that was as big as a fist silently.
"How did you and the others prepare Braund?"
Ask Rigel.
"Although there were some obstacles before, but now it is settled. Our preparations are perfect."
Reply Braund.
"Good job."
Rigel.
Braund is my right-hand man, he's a man I trust a lot. My guess is correct regarding him being a spear expert but for some reason he chose to become a Vanguard and wield a sword. I once trained a match with him using a spear to try my left arm.
If I can, I want him to remain my trusted right-hand man. Because, there is no guarantee that we will come out alive after entering the gates of Azazel castle.
"You see how many times, it's still awesome."
Braund Mumbled.
I nodded in agreement to Braund's murmur and got up to gather with Priscilla and the others. But before that...
I took two items from my infertory and gave them to Braund.
"Use this, Braund. I hope this will be useful to keep watch if something unwanted happens."
I handed over a spear that I could say out loud that this spear was stronger than any other spear. I created this spear using the dragon fangs as the blades. For the stem, I diluted the adamantite and used Wyvern bark as a grasp.
With my Creator Weapon skill, I don't have to work hard to make it manually, I just need to prepare the required materials and hand the rest over to my skill. Well, since I'm a Creator hero, creating is my main skill.
"This..? I can accept this great spear, but why did you hand over this dragon soul core to me?"
Braund asked confusedly.
"As I said, just keep watch if a situation arises that you don't want."
Reply Rigel while patting Braund on the shoulder.
"We better hurry up because the expedition will start soon."
Braund continued to stare at the dragon soul core that I had given him, and he slowly followed me behind and gathered with the rest of the army.
I stood behind Priscilla who was right in front of the door and faced the conquering soldiers to say her speech.
"Now will be our big step to complete this labyrinth! We're gonna be dealing with one of the four princes who control the Labyrinth."
Priscilla said loudly and loudly.
All the men including the commander and the other higher-ups silently listened to Priscilla's speech. There were also people who lived on this floor coming to deliver our departure.
They hoped that we would succeed in defeating Azazel because, if Azazel were to be defeated, the floors 1 through 25 would be a no-man's floor that made the soul core fee to climb the floor would be eliminated.
"You may already know this, when we enter this gate, only hell awaits us. However, I'm sure you're my troops, my comrades-in-arms, won't be daunted by this hell! Death is not allowed, let us all return safely because we are all a family! Every member of the Region is a family so don't let anyone of our family disappear!!"
"Wooo!!!"
Everyone was shouting.
"Let's shake this hell!!"
Priscilla roared.
Making everyone including the people living around roar because of the awesome speech made by Priscilla.
Priscilla touched the gate with both hands. He looked towards the other higher-ups and his gaze ended on me. I nodded as his gaze stopped on me, he replied to me by nodding then slowly opening the gate.
Kiee.
The sound of the gate creaking.
"Forward!!"
Priscilla Shouted.
We all ran to get inside. What awaits us inside. Will this be a fierce fight or just a one-sided massacre?