|Cave of Echoes|

"Ah man!"

Erika shouted as his sword broke after an attempt to damage the golem's foothold.

"Don't waste your time hitting it with physical attacks! Imbue your weapon with any kind of magic and begin your offence!"

"Enhancement magic?" ←Erika

"Have you been paying attention to our lectures about creatures?! Enhancement magic will strengthen your weapon but it will not apply magic damage! To damage this golem, we need your slashes to become magic-like!"

Fiona lectured Erika while running around the body of the golem.

"In other words, imbue! Not enhance!"

David shouted towards them.

“R-right!”

Erika responded as if she understood what they were trying to say to her, however, in a path like an assassin with mainly physical fighting attributes, it would prove quite difficult for her to apply that sort of understanding. Fortunately enough, there’s someone who can provide that sort of support amongst their current team.

“Here, I’ll give you some -!”

Athy weaves her hand, which produces white smoke that covers Erika’s entire blade.

“That’s the best I can provide you with. It’s my own particles of frost magic now imbued into your blade.”

“Thanks Athy-chan!”

Erika once again charges into battle as the golem begins to crush everything that surrounds it, making all of them to back off for now, with the exception of King Crow who blocked the crush with his toughness.

“HAHAHA!! You hit hard, you lump of rock! Good, good! I’ll give you a taste of mine as well!”

Despite all of their efforts telling him that physical attacks are ineffective, King Crow still throws powerful swings towards the golem’s body. It might have an impact, but it does not contribute much to defeating it.

The golem then joins its hands together and slowly raises it up high. As soon as they saw it, their eyes widened-

“This is bad…this is seriously bad!” ←David

“No way it would not affect us. Not only the cave has no room to contain that impact, we have no way to shield through it completely even if we dodge!” Meiren surmised.

Meiren, Fiona, and David then looked at each other as if they had thought of the same thing.

“LORD KING CROW!” The three shouted in unison, resulting in King Crow to turn towards them whilst tightly gripping his axe.

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Meiren then gave the instruction:

“King Crow, you’re our only hope here! We believe in your physical strength and endurance, we’ll give you all the supporting skills we got!”

“FUHAHAHA! Well I can’t say no to that can I?! Lo and behold the strength of the Crimson King!! !” King Crow casted a skill on himself which doubles his gripping strength and endurance. He wore a terrifying yet gallant smile as his dominant eyes glared at the giant Rock Titan which was charging its crush.

“Athy-chan! Please imbue your magic into Lord King Crow’s weapon and assist him in crushing the golem’s hands!”

Athy nodded in response - “Got it! It’s on us now huh!”

Erika then comes running towards King Crow with her imbued blade in front. After seeing this, Fiona shouted towards her-

“Erika! What are you trying to-”

“I’ll assist him! Fiona, you know I’m good at adapting right? I think I have the grasp of this magic thing now.”

“Tss! !” David puts his hand forward and casts the skill towards them.

Fiona clutches her hands and glances at Erika with a focused look. She then raises her sword and casts her support skill, exclusive for a swordmaster-

“!”

Erika’s blade shines brighter, the aura of the lingering ice magic expands. Fiona’s skill amplifies the target’s sword-type weapon depending on the result that the owner wants to achieve. In Erika’s case, she wants to cut through the golem, which results in the amplification of the blade’s imbued magic. Meiren then lifts her orb-

“!”

Raising Erika high up in order to execute her finishing move.

Though the giant has finally swings down its flattening double crush, everything has been finally set as King Crow bravely clashed into it with his own heavy swing-

“Fuhahaha!!!! Come and get some!!”

BAAAAM!!! It was a destructive clash as their attack met, a huge surge of shockwave permeated the whole area. Erika then on the other hand did not apply strength, but instead, she focused on understanding her blade, in order to cut through the huge lump of rock in front of her. The shockwave barely did anything to her as she was too high up in the air. Her eyes seem to be reflecting a pointed edge, as sharp as the most refined swords forged by the highest blacksmiths. She was in her own zone.

King Crow is steadily winning the clash as he pushes through the heavy crush of the Rock Titan, as well as showing some damages to its exterior due to magic imbued towards King Crow’s axe.

“Fuhahaha!!! I have to thank these guys here for the support, else I’ll be on a pinch - Nevertheless! I’ll still win no matter what! Fuhahaha!!!”

CRACK! BOOM!

The land he’s standing on slowly crumbles even more due to how heavy the blow he is currently tanking. After a while, the result finally shows.

BREAK!

The Rock Titan’s hands have been pushed away, while also showing heavy cracks due to King Crow's valiant offense and defense. And then–

Erika’s breathing changes. As if the atmosphere around her becomes her own. A spark in her eyes then emerges, as if she has finally grasped the killing blow she needed to take down what’s in front of her.

“Die, and regret trying to hurt my allies”

“.....”

“.....”

Without any use of skills, without any more enhancement– Erika lunges like a quick blood-thirsted assassin with her blade pointed forward. The Rock Titans body did not even have a chance, it was like…the softest thing that Erika’s imbued blade has cut. With one stab through its center, the core of the Rock Titan has split open, causing it to crumble and ultimately lifelessly fall.

“Haaaah…”

King Crow lifts his axe and rests it on his shoulders, not even letting out a sigh of relief nor showing a sign of exhaustion.

“Now that’s what I call an assassination! Quick, silent - deadly!”

Everyone then walks towards them with their eyes glued towards Erika, not speaking a thing. But then, she turns around with a radiant smile and her dagger broken.

“We did it guys!!!”

“.....”

As if her smile was contagious, everyone looked at each other and smiled as well. They then announced:

“No more presences. Dungeon cleared!”

|Moonlight Cave|

Meanwhile, the clueless Zephyr has been faced with an unusual foe that might even be more powerful than the Rock Titan. As his cat call did not do the trick, his sense of danger was finally raised to high alert, making him put all of his effort into surviving. Thus-

“RUUUUUN!!”

He ran towards the exit.