"{[Fire Ball]}!"
The young noble man fired an ball of fire at one wooden mannequins and burning it alive.
"See? I told you; these guys are nothing to me." – said the young nobleman.
(Well, according to the informations, these guys are the weakest monsters in here… And you used [Fire Ball] instead of [Fire Bolt].) – though annoyed first soldier.
(Still, its quiet shame that his talent fallen….. Well, "in his hands".)
(He has both good affinity to the fire magic and a lot of mana…. But he isn't developed at all, pretty much he is an total newbie when it comes to magic…. Oh well, his father pays us well, so we can't really complain.)
"Hey! What are you waiting for?!" – said annoyed noble man as he started walking, without even waiting for his two escorts.
"…"
(Calm down…. Calm down…. Good money.) – though the escort as he picked up the drop and fallowed behind the nobleman.
"!"
(Huh, another one. Easy.) – though the nobleman as he noticed the human mannequin approaching.
(Considering how easy it was, I guess the [Fire Bolt] will just do.)
"{Fly and Burn: [Fire Bolt]}!" – the young man fired at bolt of fire at the mannequin that began rushing towards it, securing an direct hit.
"And another easy- "
However, even after getting hit directly and being on fire, the puppet still tried attacking the man, catching him off guard…. But before the club could hit him, the first escort soldier rushed in and stopped the weapon with his blade, before then kicking and knocking away the puppet, fallowed with the man swinging down his sword, destroying the puppet.
"…"
"Sir. Those monsters aren't living creatures. They don't feel pain or fear death." – said the escort soldier.
"They will keep charging at you, trying to kill you, as long as they can move."
"So please make sure you to not let your guard down, understand?"
"…. Y-yes." – said the nobleman with somewhat scared, but also slightly annoyed expression.
After the little mistake caused by the nobleman, the group continue head deeper into the dungeon, slaying more and more monsters.
Sometimes the young nobleman was able to handle it all on his own, but sometimes his escorts needed to step it to support the man or give him just an moment of the rest.
But overall, the group did not suffered even an single injury at all…. And before long, their path was stopped.
"!?"
"Wow?! Who the hell is that thing?!" – said the scared and panicking nobleman as he saw an tall puppet standing, making the man to prepare his fire spell, only to get stopped by on of the escorts as they grabbed the man staff.
"Calm down and don't attack it." – said the first escort soldier.
"This is the dungeon master of the dungeon. People call it "tall puppet" or "Long limb puppet"." – said the second escort.
"It cannot attack, since it cannot be away from the dungeon core, so it's just standing here."
"It cannot reach you or attack you. But once you get too close, it will definitely drag you in."
"Not only that, we were forbitten from even trying to attack it or even worse killing it."
"Eh? Why?" – asked the nobleman.
"Well, it depends on the dungeon, but that is lesson for another time." – said the second escort.
"For now, all you need to know that we are not allowed to hunt it…. Anyway, it seems this is the end of the dungeon, so we should go back for today."
"Eh? Wait, is that really it? I though we would be longer or something?!" – said the nobleman who sounded disappointed.
"…"
(For fuck sake…. He wasn't listening AT ALL?!) – though annoyed first escort.
"Because this is new dungeon and low rank dungeon, my lord. An low rank and newly born dungeon are not BIG at all!" – said first escort who tried to keep his poker face.
"…"
"Meh, lets hunt this thing." – said the nobleman.
"!?"
"Wait?! Didn't you just said a word I just said!?" – asked the confused first escort.
"Yea, yea. I heard about it, but I don't want to bother with the whole hunting over and over…. So, let's just kill that guy and level up a bit faster instead." – said the nobleman.
"!?"
"ARE YOU INSANE?! WE CAN'T- "
"2 time." – said the nobleman, confusing the first escort.
"I will pay you 2 times of the original pay that my father promised you, if you help me kill this thing. It will also finish the job way faster, right?"
"!?"
"Are you mad?! Do you- "
"And can you promise to pay us?" – asked the second escort, cutting off the first escort mid question.
"!?"
"Dude?!" – asked the first escort before moments later the second escort pulled away the man.
"Look! This is our chance!" – whispered the second escort.
"We are talking about big money here."
"I know he is annoying and stuff, but once we do kill the dungeon master here, this guy cannot back away from the deal."
"And if anything, we can just take money and run away. The mayor will be only one held responsible for this."
"You idiot! What do you- "
"Hey. Can you pay us instantly after beating the boss?" – said the second escort to the nobleman.
"Yeb. You have my word." – said the confided nobleman.
"Good. Then we have an deal." – said the second escort.
"Glad you understand." – said the nobleman as he started chanting his spell, alarming the first escort.
"Hey!" – the first escort tried to stop the nobleman, only to get stopped by his partner who did not allowed the man to move.
"{[Fire Ball]}!" – the nobleman finished his chant and fired an fire ball at the dungeon master, hitting it and blowing it with the blast of fire that knocked away the dungeon master.
"Common! Lets go!" – shouted the nobleman before the second escort soldier rushed in and entered dungeon master room.
"!?"
(Fuck…. I can't stop them anymore...Fuck it! I will take money and just run away afterwords.) – though the first escort soldier as he gave up and joined in the fight.
The dungeon master wooden body was easily set on fire by the young nobleman fire, but it didn't stopped the dungeon master from counter attacking as it trusted forward it arm, trying to hit the nobleman, only for the first escort soldier to block the attack with his blade and then overpower the puppet attack, knocking its claws away, with resulted in the opening being made for the second soldier to exploit as he rushed in and slashed the creature, damaging it wooden burning body.
The two soldiers were able to completely keep the dungeon master in place.
It tried stabbing, swinging down or attacking from the side, but each and every attack done by the dungeon master was blocked or dodged by two soldiers.
"{[Fire Bolt]}!"
An bolt of fire hit the dungeon master, setting more of its body on fire, making now almost the entire body of the dungeon master on fire.
This made however the two soldiers have hard time doing anything since the fire on the creature body was also getting in their way.
"!"
"LEFT ARM! AIM FOR THE LEFT ELBOW!" – shouted the first escort soldier.
The man noticed an opening that was aimed at the already heavily injured arm of the creature and issued an command, with was quickly fallowed up with the two men launching an simulations attack at the monster arm, resulting in it elbow destruction and with obvious lost of a half of its arm.
But even so, the dungeon master didn't gave up as it swinged its arms around, trying to get both of the soldiers…. But nothing worked.
The dungeon master was able to secure few solid hits, but each one was blocked by the two men. Not only that, but because of the fire, its body was slowly crumbling apart.
And then, another [Fire Bolt] went flying, hitting the dungeon master, with gave two men to rush in and knock down the creature on the creature, before then they both used [Sword Art: Heavy], hitting the creature head at once and shattering it.
"…"
"Its, not moving…. Right?" – asked the second escort.
"Well…. I think we either shattered the core or we had dealt enough damage to it for it to die." – said the first escort.
"Huh?! Wait, I though this would last longer or something!?" – said the disappointing sounding nobleman.
"…I mean…. I've already told you again and again, this is both young and low rank dungeon…. So, it was obvious that the dungeon master would be weak."
(Not only that, but we are not really weak. We are not extremely strong, but we are not weak enough to get easily beaten by weak monsters.)
(Not only that, but that idiot does not realize how lucky he was? An wooden enemy while his specialty is fire magic. Of course this was an obvious outcome.)
(Still…. We went and did it…. We killed the dungeon master...) – though the first escort as he looked at his partner who nodded with his head.
(Yeb…. We are taking money and running away. I don't want to deal with the guild nagging.)
"Hm? What that?" – asked the nobleman while noticing the path.
"Oh, that is probably connected to the core room, an room where the main organ of the dungeon is located….. NO! We are not going to destroy it! We don't want to deal with…..?" – the first escort annoyingly looked towards the young nobleman with annoyed expression and was about say something…. But then he noticed something weird that catched the man attention.
"Em…. Can…. Walk away from that corpse for moment?"
"Eh?" – the nobleman looked confused.
"Just do it!" – said the first escort, confusing the nobleman who then fallowed the order.
"…"
"Em…. Dude….." – said the second escort as he stared at the dungeon master body.
"Yes…." – said the first escort with an confused look.
"Isn't this….. If I remember correctly, the dungeon master bodies are real and they don't disappear….. Right?" – asked the second escort.
"Yes…. They don't….. According to the informations we have." – said the first escort.
"?"
"What the hell are you talking about?" – asked the nobleman as he walked towards the pair…. Before then noticing that the dungeon master body remains started slowly disappearing.
"…"
"Something is wrong." – said the first escort.
"This thing!"
"THIS THING WAS NEVER AN DUNGEON MASTER!"