Someday Will I Be The Greatest Alchemist? Chapter 86

The adventurer party 『Wings of Norn』 advanced through the dense forest.

「We are underground but we can see the sky in the forest.」
「It's truly a mysterious place.」
「Yes, the environment changing when changing floors is nothing unusual, after all.」

We're in an ancient A rank dungeon in the outskirts of the royal capital in Valkyra Kingdom. We're trying to lure out an attack from the religious fanatics, but above all, we were interested in the dungeons.

Dungeon are ranked by degree of difficulty. From S rank, the highest difficulty, to D rank, made use of by average adventurers to earn their daily keep. Of course, the higher the difficulty, the more the materials and items in treasure chests become valuable.

And so, having obtained the ultimate tank known as t.i.tan, we came to the A rank dungeon 『Forest of the Beast King』.

We had several reasons for choosing this dungeon, but one of the main reasons is that since it's a high rank dungeon, there would be few other adventurers, so the chance we'd be get dragged into anything would be low. Another reason is that, according to Barack-san, gauging only by pure fighting strength, my party 『Wings of Norn』 is competent enough to challenge an A rank dungeon, and so he gave us his seal of approval.

「At any rate, we're only at the 5th level but the variety of monsters that have appeared are a lot.」
「Because it's a forest dungeon, the variations of beast-type, insect-type, undead-type are aplenty.」

We have some leeway to practice our skills.
Sophia with the spear, sword, and magic; Maria with the spear and magic; Laeva with the staff and magic; Kaede with the claw and threads; Me with the spear, sword, taijutsu and magic. We checked our coordination as we fought in rotations.

「So this is a boss room, huh.」

We arrived at the front of an extravagant door on the 10th level.

「What could the monster inside be?」
「According to the doc.u.ments I looked up at the Adventurers Guild reference room and the Volton Library, it seems to have some pattern, but it was reported to have either an Orc General leading a combination of 10 Orc Knights and Orcs, or a superior wolf-type species leading 20 blood wolves.」

Giii. When we opened the door, black smoke whirled inside the boss room, and a 3 meter large Orc General, 3 Orc Knights, and 7 Orcs appeared.

『Guoooooooo!!』

The Orc General made a warcry, then attacked together with the Orc Knights and Orcs.

「t.i.tan! On the Orc General!」
「Sophia and I on the Ork Knights! We leave the rest to you Maria! Kaede! Laeva!」
「「「Yes! (Okaaay!)」」」

In one go, Sophia and I broke into a run towards the Orc Knights. Kaede covered for Maria and Laeva. Stepping heavily, t.i.tan charged.

Gaaaaaaaaaaan!!

t.i.tan defended against the Orc General's sword using his s.h.i.+eld.

Gobaa!! A large mace crushed the Orc General's head from above.
「…that was fast.」
「Well, I believe we won't lose if it is something to this degree.」

「Tak.u.mi-samaaa! There's a treasure chest!」

As Sophia and I were discussing our thoughts on the boss battle, Maria informed us that a treasure chest appeared.

There were no traps on the treasure box, and there were jewels, gold, and a few magic items of intermediate rarity inside.

「The magic items are not better than the ones Tak.u.mi-sama made.」
「Well, it would probably sell for a high price if we sell it.」

For our dungeon attempt this time, we plan to go up to the 20th level. In the further levels, the traps become brutal, so we judged that it would be too unreasonable for us currently.