Since it still early in the morning, I decided to greet some friendly neighbour first, telling them the job that Diana asked me to do yesterday. Their reaction were predictable, worrying about me as well as asking me to be extra careful, for which I am glad they do that. Even the clothing shop aunty as well as the innkeeper and his wife said the same thing. This really gives me the extra boost in motivation department in my brain, and finally once I reach the centre of the city, Alice as well as Guild Master Ram were there, briefing the adventure about the scope of their job. Well, since I am not part of the adventure guild, I just went ahead and enter the dungeon, or at least that's the plan but

"Ash, bring you ass here right now" [Ram]

"How long have you been planning to say that " [Ash]

Well, since I had nothing better to do, I just joined the adventure briefing. Ram and Alice introduce me to some adventure, they are mostly veteran and expert on scouting. Well, they do look strong but

"Ram, aren't there any soldier dispatch from the Kingdom?" [Ash]

"Well, Princess Diana and the Ministry of Defense were still on it, it just that the head of the department refuse to let Princess Diana used the soldiers for some "trivial" matter" [Ram]

I see, plus I also heard some of the gossiping adventure saying that they are some internal conflict between Diana and the noble, I wonder what happen, hope that it wasn't because of my rude behaviour. With that said, Ram and Alice begin to assign us the area to be scout, and they assigned me to the third floor of open space dungeon, with few other adventure, and from there, it was left to our discretion on how to proceed

Well, the third floor of the open field dungeon are still what they called as a newbie dungeon, so much so even a kid can enter and remain safe so long as they don't stray far away like I did when training those kids. As for the layout, since most of the dungeon is what connecting two different countries, the middle part of the dungeon are the hardest in term of difficulty. Let take this open field dungeon for example, they connect Estel to the neighbouring country Mas, as you begin moving from Estel toward the middle part of the dungeon, the difficulty level increases, but afterwards, from the middle part of the dungeon to the Mas, the difficulty will reverse. There are dungeons however that follows the traditional dungeon system in game back on earth but that's few in number. Still, as long as you stay on the road, nothing bad will happen (mostly and hopefully)

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As I reach the third level of the dungeon, we begin to split up, and then

"Huh?" [Ash]

The horn that Behe spit out and gave it to me yesterday, it started to glow. Could it be... Let try some experiment shall we. As I point the horn toward a particular direction, it started to glow brighter, but point it out in different direction, it became dim. Well, since I have absolutely no idea how to scout, it's far better to rely on this as compared to scouting blindly. The horn guided me to a spacious cave and once I enter, all of my intuition point to one thing

"It's here" [Ash]

I don't know why, maybe because of the atmosphere, or maybe because of the sudden palpitation that I felt on my chest. Whatever it was, I can somehow tell that the monster is inside of this cave

(Should I go back and tell Ram? No, I should confirm it with my two eyes first, plus my actions were being monitored through the watcher, so Ram and Alice should notify other in case anything happens" [Ash]

Slowly and quietly, I transverse the cave, and once I'm at the depth of the cave

(That's a King Behemoth! Just what on Achalasia is happening) [Ash]

King Behemoth, an S class Behemoth that is said govern the other behemoth, it's usually use darkness magic and boast itself with unparalleled strength as compared to other behemoth, but something amiss. Why is it injured, could it be because, huh

(That is, an adult light behemoth head lying around. No doubt about it, that might be Behe parent and it's fight had injured the king behemoth) [Ash]

Should I go back and wait for the other adventure as well as the soldier and fight that thing together. On one hand, it will be a wiser and safer option to do so, but on the other hand, I can see that the deep wound of the king behemoth showing sign of healing and by the time the soldier and adventure are dispatched, the king behemoth will be fully healed and regain its true strength.

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Safer option?

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Reckless option?

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It's decided, I will fight the king behemoth first, I could always run away afterward, plus I have the advantage of surprise attack here as well as enough time to lay out a few traps. Let set the trap first, from the entrance inward

1. With my earth magic, I dug a large hole near the entrance of the cave and filled it with hydrochloric acid through my water magic. Since I don't even have a litmus paper, I just go with my gut feeling telling me when to stop, plus I also add a little extra ingredient, that's light magic to further damage the king behemoth

2. I will set up some ground trap, using my earth and fire magic, a mini explosion will occur when the behemoth steps on it, blasting out multiple spikes toward the behemoth. I just hope it will get into his wound and prevent the wound from healing normally

3. Ice floor as the first trap, just make it slippery hoping that I can deal extra attack if the king behemoth fall for this trap

With the trap being set, let us hope for the best