The two tanks immediately did their jobs. Radiant Shield smmed into one of the burly demons, whose angry red eyes abruptly stared at him.

  Immediately Radiant Shield’s seingled. He saw movement out of the er of his eyes. The sed demon swung his bare fist at the obstacle in its path.

  Radiant Shield steeled his arm, blog the powerful blow with his shield.

  [Stance -14!]

  Feeling a strong force shaking his shoulder, Radiant Shield frowned. He khat his defense wasn’t perfect. He still had to learn a lot.

  At the same time Silver Bde cshed with the fming demons. Two cws engulfed in fire reached for her.

  The tank didn’t panic. She moved a perfect step to the right, causing the one cw to block the other’s path. The demons, brutal and limited in intelligenever thought about giving in and almost collided in the air.

  The aosition dampehe might of their fists, making them easy to block.

  [Stance -8!]x2

  “Beautiful!”

  Even Liam was impressed. But he didn’t have much time to watch, waving at the others.

  “e guys, follow me!”

  “What are you doing?”

  Except for the two occupied tanks the rest of the party watched with fused eyes as Liam left the marked area.

  “Our mission is to kill 50 demons here! Let’s gather some!”

  “What? Are you crazy?!”

  “Don’t worry, just trust me!”

  Liam’s friends looked at each other, shrugging their shoulders. They quickly began attag enemies outside the circle. One by ing eyes turowards them. With eaemy added the pressure on the pyers increased.

  In no time at all, twenty demons surged into the area.

  “Expert, you tell us noe should deal with these. Please!”

  Cye pleaded Bleary Mirage, watg the ining enemies with fear in her eyes.

  “We don’t!”

  “It’s not the time to joke!”

  “I’m not joking!”

  Before Cye could say more, a familiar voice came from the sky.

  “Oh no! Adventurers! Be careful!”

  Suddenly a ray of pink light fshed before everyone’s eyes. Large holes appeared in all the infernals’ chests. The chaotic creatures had died with eyes wide open, uo prehend the cause of their deaths.

  Even the party members only say their helper wheopped in the air. Major Onrabell carried a thin rapier-like sword, three times rger than herself. She swayed faintly, looking exhausted.

  “In a time of need, we received timely assistance. Dear viewers, who would have thought that this tiny fairy is so powerful!”

  Fortune zoomed ihe major with sparkling eyes, immediately enting for her video.

  “Guys, don’t get distracted! The fight isn’t over yet!”, warned Liam quickly.

  “Oh, got it. Should we gather the enemies again?”

  “No. Unfortuhis trily works once.”

  “Ah, this means fighting normally…”, said Cye with faked distress.

  The blond woman’s ent brought smiles to the party. After the successful start everyone’s mood improved somewhat.

  ***

  Meanwhile in another instance of the dungeon. Star Gazer finished his talk with the major, leading his team towards the marked area.

  As soon as the infernals attacked, Spiked Pen in heavy bck armor cshed with their fists.

  Star Gazer sed the surroundings.

  “Killing fifty infernals, just as the information said. Good, my preparations weren’t in vain.”

  With a face that was assured of victory he pulled out a scroll form his iory.

  “This Are Puppet of minor infinity will quickly put us ahead of the others.”

  Star Gazer unfurled the scroll, revealing the depi of a brown puppet surrounded by multiple magical circles. With a thought mana surged into the scroll, causing it to disappear.

  A puppet suddenly appeared out of thin air.

  “Haha, boss with this little toy we are already at a huge advantage!”, ughed an ice mage called Age of Frost.

  “Ha, I almost feel bad for not having to do anything.”

  Hearing their tank sigh jokingly, a thief wearing a bck mask couldn’t help but ent:

  “Who asked us to work for such a great family. With the information the boss has this dungeon will be ours without fault!”

  “Ok, ok. To down.”, said Star Gazer with a roll of his eyes. “Although a puppet is good, do you know what’s eveer?”

  “Tell us, boss.”

  “Of course it’s two puppets!”

  Everyone ughed as they watched Star Gazer take out another scroll. A momewo puppets walked out of the circle. Each of them attacked three enemies and drew them ba.

  Star Gazer nodded his head calmly.

  “Good, three enemies are just right. With the tinuous heal these puppets have they are just enough to tank the damage.

  However, their attack is low. Guys, this will be our job!”

  “Of course, boss! Watch as we take apart these few infernals!”

  The party members ughed fidently as they ehe fight.

  ***

  Phoenix Feather positioned her team around the marked area. With five mages, two healer and three tanks the setup was quite particur.

  “Ok, you all know the p’s start!”

  “Yes!”

  Crisp voices answered her as the taered the circle. Immediately infernals separated from the surrounding fights. They ighe mages outside and directly attacked the tanks.

  “Careful! Rose, take care of those archers! Don’t let Blue Roots do all the work.”

  “Yes, sorry!”

  Phoenix Feather sighed inwardly. She really loved all the members of her team, but they just couldn’t quite test with the top pyers.

  She g her younger sister Cherry Blossom who was the first to begin casting, showing a smile of praise.

  ***

  The position of Phoenix Feather’s ahquake’s teams were almost pletely opposite.

  Earthquake led four burly, battle-hungry men and women in heavy armors into the battle. Oep behind him was Callida with a long spear, coordinating the fight.

  And even further behind stood two mages and two healers, ready to assist the frontline as much as possible.

  The addition of mages was already a cessiohquake made for Callida. If it were on him the team didn’t need any ranged fighters at all.

  When the infernals arrived, Immortal Boulder ughed excitedly. Withard for the type of enemy he directly used a skill to pull the attention of all four demons.

  The other melee fighters carried rge, heavy swords, arriving behind the enemies with a few skillful steps and swinging their ons in wide arcs.

  The battle was violent but also effit, dealing maximum damage with every attack.

  Earthquake’s team once again proved why they were known for having some of the most talent pyers when it es to the offensive.

  However, this came as a price as the team members often disregarded their defenses, keeping the healers extremely busy.

  ***

  At the same time, Fat Tiger stood outside the dungeon gate, feeling quite helpless. He had already seen the skills of those uilds before.

  Although he didn’t want to admit it, he khat his people couldn’t keep up.

  “Hah, well. Maybe we have to be tent with being a sed-rate guild. It’s not that bad…”

  Suddenly he felt a tap on his shoulder. Turning around he found Glorious Sunrise arriving with a few other familiar faces.

  “Brer! No time to sigh, I found our savior.”

  Fat Tiger g the striking woman with short, blond hair walking behind Glorious Sunrise.

  “Miss I never miss? You want to hire meraries?”

  “Why not? We only o add the names of uilds to the achievement. And with the fame brought by a first clear we lure pro pyers to work for us. It’s an iment!”

  “It sounds good, but…”

  Fat Tiger turo Miss I never miss with a skeptical gaze:

  “ you evehe first clear?”

  “We ’t guara but I’m at least 75% fident!”

  “You are quite ho.”

  “I never deceive my ts! Furthermore, you pay half the money in advance. If we don’t get the first clear you don’t o pay more.”

  “How much are we talking about?”

  “Two millios.”

  Hearing this sum, Fat Tiger took a sharp breath. He dramatically held his hand on his chest.

  “Now I know why you came to me, Sunrise!”

  The blond man only smiled wryly as an answer. Fat Tiger furrowed his brows. Eventually he made up his mind.

  “Alright, let’s do it!”

  “Great, I knew you’d have the ce, brer!”

  A few mier the two guild bosses ehe duogether with eight meraries.

  ***

  “Keep it up, guys! Only those two are left!”

  Liam animated his friends while bringing his swords down for a [Double Ssh].

  With skilled movements the two tall enemies were hit, causing the holy marks above their heads to explode violently.

  [-595!]x2

  The two elite demons roared in anger. One fist like a hammer and one ferocious cw smmed into the tanks.

  At this moment other attacks arrived. An arrow and a bolt of lightning smmed into the enemies.

  Their movements stopped abruptly. With unwilling cries they fell to the floor, losing their lives.

  The party sighed in relief as they finally had a short break.