[Shadow Armament] [Inferno Resistance Potion (Moderate)] [Various Spell Buffs] inflicted on [Young Stygian-Scaled Fenrir, Saori Segawa]

[“Buffs applied!”] Tasianna announced the recast of her buffing spells.

[“Fire and lava threads, everyone. Create an opening for us to deal decisive blows!”] I gave my garms their orders, who took out their mana threads from the satchels Grimnir made for them to hold their tools with. Situations like these, ones where I can’t prepare properly, are exactly why giving my garms a preset loadout is valuable.

“My hammer is ready! I won’t fall to another beast of this shitehole! Umslid kain, kawuk kaan, fie Crustacia!” Myriad runes on Grimnir’s armor blazed in action, shining brightly as an aura of mana wrapped around his skin. According to Grimnir, the runes engraved in his armor were primarily there to boost his stats as well as his ability to act as a bulwark.

With his horns and my [Shadow Armament] covering his body, Grimnir already looked pretty frightening but, from the looks of it, his runes seemed to have caused his body to temporarily bulk up. He spat out some fire once the process ended, shouting a warcry loud enough that the volchark stopped moving in the magma lake.

And for good reason, since it’s time we make it pay for toying with us, as if we were its next snack. As for the payment, how about Hestia’s birthday present: its heart!

Dismounting Song, Tasianna returned to her [Elvinized (Moderate)] form, revealing her butterfly-like wings. With both her [Fairy of Winter] wings and her natural fairy wing flapping wildly, she flew up into the air, floating above the volchark and the lake before materializing two blue-colored magic circles.

Water formed around them, shaping into giant tentacles of the level five [Torrent Magic] spell [Kraken’s Destruction]. At her command, Tasianna had these watery appendages slam into the lake, releasing an explosion of steam to cover up the small segment of the lake in front of us. Although everything was blinding white when I used [True Wolven Instinct]’s [Heat Vision], the flailing I could see made it obvious where the shark was. However, similar to how Hestia sometimes got overwhelmed using her [Mana Eyes], I couldn’t keep the heat vision up for too long due to a headache.

Thankfully, I didn’t need to. Provoked, the volchark once again did one of its giant jumps out of the lake, mouth wide open to snatch Tasianna from the air like a bird. Without blinking, she used [Wind Blast] on herself to dodge the attack, shooting a few ice daggers at it with her catalyst. Unfortunately, they melted upon contact.

Without wasting another second, I went into action, Diving into Uno’s larger shadow, I used [Shadow Dash] to reappear on the ceiling — the shadow the volchark cast, caused by the bright glowing magma. When it slammed its jaw shut, failing to catch Tasianna, it snapped its head over to me, probably noticing my appearance with its [Enhanced Enemy Sense].

[Humanization (Minor)] inflicted on [Young Stygian-Scaled Fenrir, Saori Segawa]

Shadow Dash Eruption.

Having transformed back into my werewolf-like form for the higher stats, I activated one of the Job abilities I received from my [Shadow Warrior] Main Job, as half of my body was still stuck inside the shadow. Only usable in tandem with [Shadow Dash], [Shadow Dash Eruption] created a small black eruption at the location I teleported to, not only damaging everybody adjacent to it but also shooting my body forward like a missle.

Upon channeling mana into my arms, black lightning crackled as it wrapped around my daggers. Further empowered with [Shadow Armament], I used [Shadow Pierce], aiming for the volchark’s left eye. With high Strength and Agility, my dagger sliced through the air as if there was barely any friction, flying towards the volchark’s eyes as the monster released a small grunt in surprise.

However, the shark reacted in time, closing its rocky eyelid to protect a squishy weak spot. Yet, for the member with the highest Strength, before buffing spells, the shark’s high defence wasn’t durable enough to block all the damage. The crust on its eyelid cracked, splintering in the process.

The lightning can’t flow like this. I need a better hit.

Aiming to stab the monster with my second dagger, I grabbed onto the shark and was prepared to attack again; however, I stopped and kicked off the moment my [Foresight] warned me of an attack. In the next second, the volchark’s pores stopped oozing magma to discharge clouds of volcanic gases, hot enough to burn skin.

Tasianna’s [Air Shield] was still active around me and my [Inferno Resistance] prevented any damage, but the push back was unexpected. Unable to stop myself with [Air Walk], the gases slammed me into a wall, leaving me hanging there in my own indention. I groaned for a moment before jolting my head up, noticing that the shark’s elastic belly bloated, a sign of its magma spit attack.

I was barely able to push myself out of the wall in time before the volchark’s magma ball exploded against the wall. “Arrgh!” I let out a cry, having been caught by the attack’s shockwave.

[“Miss Saori!”] Tasianna called for me the moment one of her [Frozen Shield]s flew to catch me before I could fall into the magma. Groaning, I looked at my right arm where some magma had splashed onto me. Although I wouldn’t call it an experiment, seeing it unable to drain my Health as it sat there, I concluded that having [Magma Resistance Lv. 5] and [Shadow Warrior]’s [Penumbral Armament], increasing [Shadow Armamnet]’s natural defenses, made it possible for me to fully resist some form of magma and fire damage.

However, let’s not be stupid and jump into the lake willingly or stand in front of that B rank shark’s attacks. I can’t heal tank like Hestia.

Cleaning off the magma spit on the ice shield, I witnessed the volchark landing back into the lake, sending molten rocks splashing around like a fountain. Unperturbed by it, I could see Grimnir shouting at the monster as he began walking on the lava lake. Literally. I’m not joking.

Two red runes on his boots glimmered in action, shrouding them in a red mana veil, enabling him to walk on the lava, or so I presume. The rune [Defensive Rune: Pavise] on his hammer shined as well, constructing a barrier around him, blocking any magma while he advanced forward to a pocket of ground, acting like an island in this lake.

Damn, I should have asked Grimnir more about his runes. Seeing him demonstrate pavise for the first time, I should’ve expected him to have runes on his armor, just like Davison had on his robe.

Information was key to fighting together, and while I knew about my teammates’ capabilities, I knew little about Grimnir’s fighting abilities outside his axe and tanking abilities. He called himself a runesmith. Now he was demonstrating the full power of those runes.

“Come at me, you piece of shit! I’ll show you what these tazong arms and legs will do to a filthy disrupter! Nobody disrupts a taz while he’s inside a bladdarg mine!” Grimnir suddenly shouted from the top of his lungs, such that even the lake’s eruption was nothing against the power of his voice.

Why is he shout-Oooohhhh! Its attention!

The second the volchark turned away from me towards Grimnir, his intentions dawned on me. It’s hearing. When the shark closed its eyelids, they were as hard as a shell. If it even considered closing its eyes, then they must not be as resistant as the rest of its body. Even now, from the shaking waves, I could see that it must have kept its eyes closed, that it was tracking its prey through sound alone. That’s how we got into this situation in the first place, from that crying rachychephalarus.

Even without the [Taunt] ability, Grimnir was acting like our party’s tank. Drawing the aggression towards him and away from Tasianna and me.

“Mana battery bomb out!” Grimnir shouted, taking out a mana battery from his backpack and throwing it towards the shark. At the moment of contact, the battery exploded, causing a similar destructive blast like the one Davison did.

While it didn’t crack the shark’s rocky skin, it did cause the volchark to flinch, enabling Grimnir to reach the first island. “Tasianna! Water, now!” he shouted to the sky. Tasianna’s look of confusion only lasted for a second as she figured out his intention, calling down a storm of [Torrential Rain] onto the lake, creating a never ending steam wave.

The volchark recovered from Grimnir’s attack and charged forward, far faster than its size should allow it. Grimnir reached his hand towards the pathway, where multiple black tendrils wrapped around his arm and pulled him away from the shark’s attack. Sarasa, standing on the edge of the lake, was the one who cast it.

Her tendrils dissipated mid-flight before Grimnir was caught by Song’s [Dark Tendrils], who, similarly to me, was floating on one of Tasianna’s [Frozen Shield]. Supported by the momentum, Grimnir jumped into the air, aimed his blasthammer into the air before swinging it down onto the volchark’s head, echoing the cracking of rock throughout the room.

The volchark attempted to retaliate, but Uno jumped out of a shadow on an island, throwing a number of Hestia’s white flame bombs at the shark, wrapping it in fire strong enough to cause it to panic a bit. The Health damage was minimal, but the shark seemed shocked that the white fire was able to harm it at all.

[“Miss Saori, Mister Grimnir suggested a plan, although I didn’t understand it from the single-word sentence he shouted. However, I believe he wants to keep the monster’s attention on him while we continue buffeting it with damage!”] Tasianna informed me through [Telepathy].

[“Understood!”] I simply said, quickly thinking of an idea while Grimnir and my garms fought in unison. [“Tasianna, how is your mana?”]

Chugging a mana potion, Tasianna then replied, [“I have enough potions left. My catalyst is still full with mana, so I have enough reserves.”]

[“Good! Please, support my garms with more [Frozen Shield]s or even just floating platforms. That way we can keep them mobile. Tasianna, prepare to fully unleash your new custom spell’s potential! I will get it into position!”]

As Tasianna and I were consolidating an attack plan, Grimnir and the garms suddenly cried out. The volchark, having enough of everybody, released magma from its pores at an explosive rate, creating something like a miniature volcanic eruption. Standing with its four legs on Tasianna’s self-made island, the volchark made it impossible for anybody to approach it without getting damaged by its magma.

Grimnir could endure magma well enough as a taz, but both Uno and Song were mildly burned by that attack, the magma burning through their [Shadow Armament] and singeing their fur before Tasianna extinguished it and healed them with [Ocean Healing].

Jeez, getting anywhere close to that thing will just prompt it to use its gas or this eruption.

Close-ranged or long-ranged, the volchark had a solution for anything, but it's not like it was impossible to fight against it. My strongest method of attack was being up close and aiming for weak points for critical damage, but I still had ranged options.

[“Tasianna, leave this to us.”] I then jumped off from the ice shield and used [Air Walk] to relocate myself around to the volchark’s magma spewing mouth. An obsidian ring on my left hand back began glowing, agitated by my mana. Although I couldn’t use its special function anymore, this ring we looted from those grimgarian shamans would serve me well as a temporary catalyst to boost my abilities.

Ring of the Shadow Guardian

A ring made to gain favor with the God of Darkness, Marsven. An alchemical stone was attached designed to channel a dark mage’s mana to cast spells faster. A protective charm was enchanted on this ring, caused by a shamanic ritual in the worship of Marsven by granting a sliver of his goldy power as a shield of shadow. Drains 90% of the caster’s maximum mana as a cost and can only be used once. It resonates with any other [Ring of the Shadow Guardian], amplifying the strength of the shield.

Skill: [Dark Magic Efficiency Lv. 5] [Mana Efficiency Lv. 8] [Dark Amp] [Dark Resistance Lv. 5] [Ring of the Shadow Guardian (Broken)]

Once again channeling mana through my arms, my white fur stood up from static shock as black lightning jumped from hair to hair, loading into my hand like a battery. Forming my hand into a spear, I pulled my arm back and then threw it in front of me, sending a stream of electricity into the shark’s mouth.

Stygian Lightning!

Its skin might be tough as hardened rock, but that didn’t include its mouth, eyes, or internals. The volchark stopped exuding magma rivers from its body, instead, it was recoiling from my attack, struggling to numb the electric pain it was feeling inside its mouth. That was an opening.

Dusk Bombardment! Dusk Bombardment!

[Shadow Warrior]’s Job spell [Dusk Bombardment] first materialized a black magic circle before releasing enough small black bombs to carpet bomb the area around the shark into a smokey haze. “SlarrrrghhhHHhh!!!” Its cries resounded throughout the area like a shrill engine, proving that my attacks were doing damage.

As I was preparing my next set of spells, Grimnir came flying in with Sarasa’s help, slamming his hammer onto the shark’s head once again, fearing nothing of what happened before. “I can handle it, keep shooting! Hahahaha!” he shouted with a hearty laugh. Acknowledging his bravery, I continued my assault with [Stygian Lightning] and [Dusk Bombardment]. Even my garms began shooting [Dark Slash] at the volchark.

“SlaaaaaaarghhhHHHHhh!!!” it cried out even more. Our attacks were proving successful, as I could identify spots on its rocky hide cracking and crumbling, revealing the red skin beneath this behemoth.

“Sgarlagh! SglaaaaarrrrrrghhhhHHHHh!!!” Another volcanic eruption came from the volchark’s pores, but before I could once again stun it with a lightning bolt, the shark shook off its pain and dived into the lake. Seeing how my [Detection Sensor] informed me its signal was going further away, I clicked my tongue, thinking that it seemed to have escaped, but that was naive to think.

The cry it did wasn’t out of pain… it was out of anger.

Like a torpedo, the signal rushed closer and closer, causing my [Foresight] and [True Wolven Instincts] to ring louder and louder to the point I flinched from the mental pain. However, I was still capable enough to kick the air with [Air Walk] shooting myself out of the trajectory of the attack. However, the ringing didn’t stop.

The volchark shot out of the lake like a rocket, its belly fully inflated, making it look morbidly obese like a frog who forgot to deflate its air sac. Confused at what it was planning to do, the moment it opened its mouth, I understood.

The volchark released a beam of magma, blasting it at me with extreme speed, which I was just barely able to dodge using [Dark Tendrils] to jump around like a web-slinging spider. However, that wasn’t the end of the attack. With its mouth still open, the volchark went crazy; not mentally, per se, but from the fact that it was flying around the room like a deflating balloon.

Streams of magma burst out from this giant shark’s belly, burning the ceiling, the wall, the islands, the pathway, everything that got in its way. The attack was entirely scattershot, as the blast of the attack caused the shark to blast in every direction from the recoil, bouncing off the walls, lake, and ceiling like an elastic ball. Although it might have looked comical, this chaos was exactly why it was so dangerous.

“Guarrrrghhhh!”

This was what Hestia would call a bullet-hell. Streams of the volchark’s beam, fountain sprays of magma, and rocks falling from the ceiling covered the whole area, buffeting everything in its wake. The only way to dodge all of this was to stay unpredictable ourselves.

Without how many shadows that were cast in the area due to the shark’s attack, it allowed my garms and me to fully use [Dark Tendrils]’s and [Shadow Dash]’s movement capabilities to swing and teleport around the room as we dodged through everything. Tasianna was a fairy and quite a fast one at that, so by returning to her smaller form and buzzing around like a fly, she kept herself safe from the attacks.

Unfortunately, Grimnir was a different case.

“Grimnir!” I shouted as I caught his charred body from falling into the magma lake, the red mana thread cape I gave him was in tatters. The volchark had managed to hit him head on with a full blast of the beam.

While it was possible for Grimnir to join my garms or me into the shadow world with [Shadow Dash], his inability to use [Dark Magic] to keep up with us made it a weakness. And, as he mentioned before, dwarves weren’t able to fully keep their balance on a mount and this issue led to him not being able to keep up with the swinging momentum and getting battered by a glob of molten rock.

“Bl-Bladdarg, urgh,” he groaned. His armor seemed to have blocked the majority of the attack, but its durability had come to an end. It was falling apart from the sheer heat, destroying the runes Grimnir had meticulously engraved on each piece. “Bladdarg, s-shite. C-Can’t believ-ve it finall-urghhHAAArgh-finally broke.”

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Carrying the heavy Grimnir around wasn’t a problem with my Strength; however, what was a problem is that his body was nowhere as aerodynamic as mine. Dodging the volchark’s attack turned from mildly exhausting into stressful, where a few close calls actually led to my shadow armor breaking and inflicting small amounts of damage on me.

Kuso! The beam coming from the shark’s mouth is so much hotter than the magma from the lake!

Eventually, the shark’s belly emptied and it crashed into the lake like a deflated balloon. It was huffing roughly as it laid on top of the lake’s surface, recovering from its attack. Without any hesitation, I trusted my garms to attack the downed volchark while I began pouring my [Health Potion (Major)] into Grimnir’s mouth. I had to save him first.

“Mister Grimnir!” Tasianna finally arrived, once again in her moderate form.

“He’s still conscious, but he’s in pain. The potion should help, but you need to cool his wounds down and heal him, Tasianna!”

“Miss Saori, wait, your legs!”

“It’s just a burn, later!” I threw a mug of water onto the burn marks on my legs before handing Grimnir to Tasianna. Accepting my stubbornness, she began healing our injured comrade while I dashed forward to join my garms.

Although still huffing loudly, the shark forced its body up the moment it saw me approach, diving back into the lake before jumping out from it, charging full-ahead towards me.

It’s still not trying to run?!

I easily dodged the charging attack, but my instincts still told me another attack was coming and, when I saw one of its large pores glow red, I kicked the air to side step the magma shot.

[“Uno, Song, Sarasa. Wrap this thing up, now!”]

It was about time to finish this. I know how to kill you now.

“““Grrrrrak!””” the three growled before preparing the mana threads as they dashed around the new islands the volchark so kindly made for us. Its magma beam might have exhausted us a bit, but it also caused boulders from the ceiling to fall into the lake, creating footholds for us to end this battle.

As the volchark landed back into the magma, before it could initiate its next attack, I threw a mana battery I had just snatched from Grimnir’s backpack, knowing we needed this explosion to settle this. Just like before, the moment the battery touched the lake, it blew up right in front of the shark face, stunning it long enough for my garms to surround it and begin tying mana threads around it.

In the meantime, I took out one of my favorite Hestia-made tools: a bottle full of her corrosive slime. With its mouth wide open this time, no magma or fire spewing out, I threw the open container into the monster, forcing it to consume the toxin in full. It began to jerk around, spasming from the effects of the purple liquid. It vomited a mouthful of molten rocks from its mouth, gasping for air in vain.

However, looking at the maximum Health of the thing, it’ll probably level up its resistances before the poison will kill it. Thankfully, that wasn’t my plan.

Stygian Lightning!

My actions bought enough time for my garms to restrain the volchark’s legs and tail in Hestia’s magma elemental mana threads, which are proving themselves to be greatly resistant to the magma lake as long as the garms were holding and pouring mana into them. With the shark held on land by my garms while it spasmed, it was time for me to do some work with my new skills.

The shark instinctively kept its mouth shut despite struggling for air and it had its eyes shut to protect itself from any attacks, but those weren’t my targets in the first place. Looking into the pores of this “Volcano Furnace” volchark, I unloaded streams of lightning into the body of the shark through this one weakness.

Seeing it shaking violently from the dark-elemental electricity zapping every single of its fiber, I nodded in relief that the idea worked out. This wasn’t a monster to crack from the outside, this was a monster you had to crack from the inside! Lightning raged around my arms as I eyed the volchark’s other pores. With it too paralyzed to counter attack, I was eager to make it regret not swimming away the moment it could.

In fact, the shark was practically a punch bag at this point. The scale carapace around my legs I had in my fenrir form was non-existent in my moderate wolfkin form — only my white fur was there. However, I did have those scale gauntlets while in [Humanized (Minor)] form.

I am the one with the highest Strength. I am!

With lightning wrapped around my arms, I stepped back, assumed a boxer stance Hestia had shown me, and punched the volchark’s shell.A loud crack rang out; the volchark’s rock hide was nothing against my power. Punching two more holes into its body, I dug my daggers into its exposed flesh and channeled my black lightning through them. [Shadow Armament] appendages allowed my stygian electricity to flow through my shadows as if they were wires.

The roars of thunder continued, not stopping even for a second as I unloaded everything I had. Not only was it spasming from Hestia’s slime, but a current of black lightning was also flowing through its entire body, electrifying its internals. Using [Identify] on it, I could see its Health dropping, but this thing was built to endure any sorts of attacks.

However, I was happy. The damage I was dealing and the new moves and styles of fighting I could create from this experience using my new evolution made my brain go into overdrive; my imagination was going crazy with ideas. Intelligence was still a bottleneck for my overall damage, even with the grimgarian shaman’s catalyst. Regardless, I’ll overcome that with some creativity later on.

For now, though, let’s finish this monster and get some levels and that heart!

[“Tasianna, your turn! Go!”] With everything set up, it was time for the cryomancer’s turn to shine.

[“I understand…”]

An enormous cyan-colored magic circle appeared on the ground, even comparable to Hestia’s [Symphonie des Feuergottes] in size. The different parts of the magic circle began to move, a warning for my garms and me to get out of the spell’s range, otherwise, it could end very badly for us.

Tasianna was flying above us all with her two pairs of wings, having just finished healing Grimnir up. Like a winter angel gazing down in the land, her glare pierced the volchark mere seconds before she uttered the name of her second custom spell.

[“Tor Eiclere’s Finulaflei.”] (Ice Age’s Paradise)

And with those words, the ice age began.

“SlllaaauurrrrgrhhhhHHHaaagslieeeeeekkk!”

The temperature instantly dropped inside the area of influence, cooling the magma lake inside of it so fast that even the steam was instantly frozen in the process, dropping small icicles on the now solid floor. A blizzard encased in this spell was raging on, buffeting the poor volchark as pure instincts finally kicked in for it. The cold was freezing it, its body was desperately fighting for life as it began to consume the ground around it to fuel the engine inside it.

Cold rocks entered the body of the shark, all used to create the life-essential magma it needed to survive in this frozen hell. It might have lived inside a flaming hell all its life, but its life will now come to end in the winter angel’s paradise.

However, that wasn’t all the spell could do. With a swift hand movement, the air began to freeze at the edge of the spell circle, turning everything into sharp daggers, swords, and spears all aimed at the monster. With one click of her fingers, an unlimited ice storm descended into the Emerald-Flare dungeon.

“Sliiiaarrrrughhhhh!!!” Poison ravaging its internals, black lightning sizzling its cells, the cold freezing its blood and fire, and thousands of infinitely regenerating blades cracked open its rocky shell, revealing how its red raw skin was slowly turning blue.

“Urgh!” Tasianna groaned as her spell continued, chugging down not only mana potions but also dragorade to keep herself going. She was even using up her catalyst’s reserved mana.

This was Tasianna’s finishing move. Just like how Hestia had [Symphonie des Feuergottes] and [Solar Beam] to end foes, Tasianna wished to create an attack to compensate for a non-destructive spell list. From her training and from spending some SP, she managed to gain [Torrent Magic Lv. 5] for both [Azure Blade] and [Kraken’s Destruction], but neither of those spells could compare to this perilous spell.

However, it came with a cost, of course. Since faefolk survived with their Mana instead of Health, the more she kept the spell active, the less Mana she had and the weaker she would become. The spell also had a distinctively long preparation time, comparable to [Omnictus] or [Prayer], requiring somebody to protect her while she finished the casting time. While she didn’t need to chant, spells just needed time to materialize.

However, even this hadn’t killed the volchark yet. Clinging onto life, the shark desperately began to crawl its way out of the spell, slowly making it to the edge. When my garms noticed this, they were about to move, but I stopped them. After all, somebody else wanted revenge more.

“You piece of shit!”

“Sluierk?”

A naked dwarf stood in front of the volchark, his clothes were burned off and parts of his orange hair and beard were gone, but thankfully, the scars left from his burns seemed to have healed well, although they would require Hestia’s healing to fully disappear. He glared at the giant monster with rage-filled eyes and, in his hand, his blasthammer was in gun mode.

Oh jeez, I can’t believe this is my first time seeing that! I haven’t even gotten a boyfriend yet…

“That armor was the last piece of memory I had from my clan and my dear friend. I spent months making it!” Grimnir shouted before pronouncing one single word in a murmur, sealing the volchark’s fate. “Die.”

“SliSLARRRRRRRGHHHHHRHRHH!!!”

The blasthammer erupted into action, shooting a mana blast right into the volchark’s gaping mouth, blasting off a piece of its skull. Somehow, still not quite dead, the volchark stumbled backwards, falling right onto its back before its struggles finally ceased. The unlimited ice storm and the freezing blizzard claimed its first victim.

Experience has reached multiple breaking points. [Young Stygian-Scaled Fenrir, Saori Segawa] has risen from [Level 0] to [Level 2]

Attributes have increased due to level up

Acquired 1300 skill points

Experience has reached multiple breaking points. [Young Stygian-Scaled Fenrir, Saori Segawa]’s Job [Shadow Warrior] has risen from [Level 11] to [Level 27]

Attributes have increased due to level up

Acquisition requirement fulfilled. [Magic Power Enhancement Lv. 1] gained

Multiple proficiency requirements fulfilled. [Mental Stability Lv. 8] [Mental Warfare Lv. 8] [Health Recovery Lv. 9] [Stamina Recovery Lv. 9] [Enhanced Vitality Enforcement Lv. 5] [Enhanced Wisdom Enforcement Lv. 5] [Monster Tamer Lv. 2] gained

… We did it.

As the storm dissipated, I walked over to the normal quiet corpse of the volchark, it’s eyes frozen solid into two ice balls. When I noticed somebody next to me, I turned my head around to see Tasianna, gazing at the monster similar to me. She also raised her head once she confirmed it was dead.

“We did it,” I said, baffled at the results.

“Yes, we did it…” Tasianna murmured, nodding in agreement. “We did it…W-We DID IT!”

“WE DID IT! TASIANNA, WE DID IT!”

Joy. Elation, like never before. The euphoria running through my veins made me unintentionally jump up in the air multiple times, something Tasianna copied without any hesitation. ““WE DID IT!”” we simultaneously shouted as we embraced each other, our bodies refusing to stop jumping even as we stuck together.

“Tasianna, we did it!”

“Miss Saori, we did it without Lady Hestia! We did it!”

“Damn, I can’t believe I was so scared! Ahhh, the rush~”

“‘Don’t be arrogant, everybody,’ is something you would normally say here, but… Ahh, who cares, we did it! We won!”

“Hmph. Youngsters… urgh,”

As crazy as it sounds, in this magma chamber, Tasianna and I were dancing around as if we’d just invented the cure for all the world’s problems. We were that happy that we finally toppled our first B rank monsters without Hestia. We did it.

It goes without saying that it took us a while to notice that Grimnir fell unconscious from the pain he felt. Wrapping a towel around his bare body, Tasianna began to nurse him back to health while I began dismantling the volchark. Luckily, the extreme cold hadn’t damaged the heart far too much; in fact, the moment the cold stopped, the heart began glowing like it was on fire. The beating had stopped, but otherwise it honestly still looked like it was alive.

[Humanized (Moderate)] inflicted on [Young Stygian-Scaled Fenrir, Saori Segawa]

Regardless, to the victor goes the spoils, and our rewards were extraordinary. The elation even made me ignore my students, even if it was only for a single moment. After all, we couldn’t dawdle too much. The moment Grimnir woke up, we strapped him to Sarasa’s back and continued on our trip to reunite with Hestia and my students. Of course, the volchark’s dismantled corpse was inside my storage.

Just as we were about to leave this damnable magma lake room, a roar echoed through the room.

“Guooooooooooooonn!”

Magma Golem

A golem made from earth and rocks, held together with magma. Able to sling balls of fire at targets, these monsters can become a threat both in close-range and long-range. Rank C

Really? Another monster. Give me a break.

We were exhausted from that last battle and too annoyed to want to actually fight something else. While I would rather avoid it, considering how it was blocking our path, it would probably be best if we go-

“Norder Style: White Dragon’s Descent.”

An explosion, neither from us nor the golem. Instead of lightning, ice, or magma, a cloud of dust was now covering our path where the golem had stood. As Tasianna blew the dust cloud away with her wind magic, a new silhouette suddenly appeared.

Instead of a golem, it was a person. A woman, in fact. Armored in armor so white it could blind you, a woman around her late twenties with hair similar to a Scandinavian stood before us. In her hand was an iridescent, ivory spear adorned in silver scales too beautiful for this world, stuck in the ground.

Pulling it out as if it was butter, she skillfully twisted it so fast it produced a vacuum, sending all the dust around her away, leaving only the sight of the women standing in the remains of that magma golem. Brushing her long hair to the side, she opened her eyes.

“Princess Hestia, it is my honor to-Hold on, you aren't my young aunt,” the woman in a knight’s armor suddenly blurted out.

Aunt?

She tilted her head for a moment before retrieving a book from her belt, turning pages until she landed on the one she wanted. She pointed at one area before looking at me, then back at the book, then back at me. “… Uhm, perchance, are you perhaps, Miss Saori Segawa?”

“… Yes, that is my name.” I was so befuddled by the situation that I answered without thinking.

“… Oooh, so you’re the kids’, ooohhh… Why do you smell like Princess Hestia, Segawa-Sensei?”

Huh?

…

“Hold on, the lass is a dragon PRINCESS?!” Grimnir shouted in disbelief.

… What?

Profile:

Name: Tasianna Marina Silverpon

Level: 66

Race: Wind Elf

Age: 88 Years

Job: Fae Whisperer Level: 15/15

Status:

Health: 13191/3191 (+1073) Mana: 9404/9404 (+3895) Strength: 895 (+264) Intelligence: 3457 (+1086) Vitality: 993 (+300) Wisdom: 2530 (+641) Agility: 3108 (+930) Stamina: 3289/3289 (+1811) Effects: [Elvenized (Major)] Skill Points: 3650 Skill:

Magic skills and related:

[Fairy Magic] [Arcane Mind Lv. 10] [Ice Magic Lv. 5] (+1)

[Water Magic Lv. 10] [Torrent Magic Lv. 5] (+4) [Water Amp]

[Water Magic Efficiency] [Wind Magic Lv. 10] [Wind Amp]

[Wind Magic Efficiency] [Storm Magic Lv. 4] (+3)

[Synergist’s Oath Lv. 6] (+3)

[Chant Revocation Lv. 10] [Silent Casting Lv. 9] (+2)

[Magic Power Enhancement Lv. 5] (+2) [Mental Stability Lv. 3] (+1)

[Mental Warfare Lv. 5] [Fluid Cast Lv. 2] (+1)

[Continuous Cast Lv. 2] (+1) [Delayed Cast Lv. 1] [Multi-Cast Lv. 5] (+4)

Senses and movement skills:

[Silence Lv. 2] (+1) [Accuracy Correction Lv. 8] (+2)

[Enhanced Enemy Sense Lv. 8] (+1) [Prediction Lv. 7] (+1)

[Danger Perception Lv. 7] (+1) [Enhanced Vision Lv. 7] (+2)

[Enhanced Auditory Sense Lv. 6] (+1)

[Enhanced Olfactory Sense Lv. 8] (+1)

[Night Vision Lv. 6] [Tracking Lv. 3] (+2) [Presence Killer Lv. 6]

[Evasion Lv. 10] (+2) [Acrobatic Lv. 9] (+2) [Flight Acceleration Lv. 8] (+2)

[Mid-Air Maneuvering Lv. 7] (+2) [Concentration Lv. 10] (+2)

[Terrain Maneuvering Lv. 3] (+2)

Resistance:

[Physical Super-Resistance Lv. 1] (New) [Absolute Pain Tolerance] (New)

[Abnormal Status Nullification] (New)[Mana Leak Resistance Lv. 10]

[Ice Resistance Lv. 6] (+4) [Lightning Resistance Lv. 2] (+1)

[Lava Resistance Lv. 5] (New)

[Holy Resistance Lv. 8] (+1) [Inferno Resistance Lv. 5] (New)

[Torrent Resistance Lv. 1] (New) [Earth Resistance Lv. 7] (+1)

[Storm Resistance Lv. 2] (+1) [Dark Resistance Lv. 7] (+1)

Stat growth and related:

[Health Recovery Lv. 1] (New) [Stamina Recovery Lv. 5] (+2)

[Enhanced Health Growth Lv. 1] (New)

[Enhanced Health Capacity Lv. 2] (+1)

[Enhanced Mana Growth Lv. 9] (+2)

[Enhanced Mana Capacity Lv. 8] (+2)

[Enhanced Intelligence Growth Lv. 8] (+2)

[Enhanced Intelligence Enforcement Lv. 6] (+2)

[Enhanced Strength Enforcement Lv. 1] (New)

[Enhanced Vitality Growth Lv. 2]

[Enhanced Vitality Enforcement Lv. 2]

[Enhanced Wisdom Growth Lv.7] (+1)

[Enhanced Wisdom Enforcement Lv. 4] (+1)

[Enhanced Agility Growth Lv. 7] (+2)

[Enhanced Agility Enforcement Lv. 4] (+1)

[Enhanced Stamina Growth Lv. 4] (+1)

[Enhanced Stamina Enforcement Lv. 2]

Others:

[Singing Lv. 5] [Dancing Lv. 3] [Identify Blocker Lv. 10]

[Identify Lv. 10] (+2) [Cooking Lv. 9] (+1) [Dismantle Lv. 8] (+3)

[Herbalist Lv. 7] (+1) [Alchemy Lv. 2] (+1) [Brewing Lv. 7] (+2)

[Sewing Lv. 3] (+1) [Battle Mind Lv. 6] (+2)

[Terror Aura Lv. 3] (+2) [Fae Talk Lv. 1] (New) [Royal Etiquette Lv. 7] (+1)

[Elvenize Lv. 10] [Frost Body Lv. 2] (+1) [Cryokinesis] [Telepathy]

Spell List:

Custom spells:

[Create Water] [Greater Create Water] [Marine Lungs] [Ocean’s Blast]

[Aifli eir Vintral (Fairy of Winter)]

[Tor Eiclere’s Finulaflei (Ice Age’s Paradise)]

Ice spells:

[Ice Spike] [Frozen Shield] [Icicle Gust] [Glacial Protection]

[Winter’s Golem]

Water spells:

[Water Ball] [Water Wall] [Water Bolt] [Cleanse] [Protective Water]

[Droplet Torrent] [Aqua Prison] [Aqua Beam] [Torrential Rain]

[Ocean Healing] [Azure Blade] [Sapphire Membrane]

[Kraken’s Destruction]

Wind spells:

[Wind Bullet] [Wind Cutter] [Air Shield] [Wind Slash]

[Swift Winds] [Wind Blast] [Featherfall] [Aerial Blitz] [Tornado Bullet]

[Sylphid’s Cloak] [Tailwind] [Cyclone Madness]

Titles:

[Hestia’s Retainer]