Dungeon of Pride, Laplace

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He had seen many cases inside the dungeon where an adventurer is killed and his things looted by none other than his own teammates. He had seen the good and bad sides of the human, thus it was no surprise for him when he heard that.

However, he knew that things weren't that simple, there has to be something else. When he asked that, the reply he got, even amazed him a little.

It turned out that the few groups of adventurers were working together for a particular guild. They were exchanging information inside the dungeon and were targeting adventurers that dived alone or in small groups.

When Bea captured one and interrogated them for information, it was learned that they were sent here by a certain guild and were on the orders to kill as many adventurers as possible and create uneasiness amongst the adventurers of the tower town.

"Which guild was it?" Annette questioned.

Alice who always had a cheerful smile on her face, suddenly adopted an angry face as she stated the name of the guild. "It's that hateful Sea God's Trident. I didn't understand at first why they were doing this but Miss Irene told me that it is to degrade the dungeon's name".

Sea god's trident… it was them again, Simon narrowed his eyes. The guild was hellbent on making his life difficult, it was like they cannot rest in peace without inciting his anger at every turn.

"That guild needs to be eradicated sooner rather than later" Annette commented, Alice seconded it while the always-silent Bianca nodded her head in affirmative.

"What happened afterwards, did miss Irene wiped those miscreants out?" Annette asked.

Alice shook her head and said "No.. she told us that by doing this, we won't be able to restore our name. Thus she devised a plan to make the adventurers of the tower town aware of these miscreants who were deliberately causing trouble and handed those guys over to them. Unfortunately, these people were prepared and quickly drank something that took their life"…

Simon's group of four discussed when suddenly an attack compressed of a dense amount of mana, came attacking them. Needless, to say the aggressor was Giz-Bozo who had enough of their nonsense.

He was right in front of them; however, they ignored his presence and start discussing something unrelated. He was greatly offended by that and so he attacked without any warning.

The highly compressed mana aura attack took the form of a fierce crimson beast as it came charging at them, ripping through the four of them. Or so should have been the case, but the beast suddenly came to halt unable to progress after colliding with the first person.

Unlucky for Giz-Bogo, the person that he chose to target was none other than Bianca whose defence was something that even people above her level would find difficulty breaking through. Forget about Giz-Bozo who was yet to breach level 600.

The mana aura beast was instead smashed apart by Bianca. Neither the orcs nor the ogres had expected that kind of result. After all, Giz-Bozo was someone who even Berigard's strongest magic couldn't defeat.

It came as a surprise to them that a maid was capable of accomplishing what their strongest general couldn't.

Meanwhile, Berigard laughed, after seeing the slight display of power, he was certain that he did not make a mistake in his judgement. The demon aside, even the maids by his side were incredibly strong.

It was also at this moment that he realised his senses were not wrong, the strong presence of danger that he felt from the maids the first time he met them, was indeed true.

"Alice… we will discuss about that later, let me first clean this mess up" Simon stated turning towards the ogres. He did not forget about them, it was just that he was getting no sense of pressure from them that he slide them at the back of his head.

"Master, let us help you" Annette proposed, although she hid it well, one could still feel the anger seeping out of her body. The fact that the ogre dare to attack them while they were talking, made her absolutely furious.

Thinking that this was a good chance for them to gather experience, Simon nodded his head. However, he also added a few conditions to their powers and skills.

As it wouldn't even be a fight if they were to use their full strength, Simon put a restriction on them to only use ten per cent of their power and banned them from using all of their skills except during life threatening situations.

The Valkyries obediently nodded their head and took out their weapons. Annette held a staff that was a [B] tier [Gacha] item or should he say a [Ga??????]  item.

Bianca just like her class which was a branch of knight, held a sword in one hand and a shield in the other. Of course, they too were [B] rank items drawn from the [Ga??????]. And as for Alice, she held that bow that Simon had given her.

Needless to say, all of these weapons weren't the heirloom meant for them. However, it was powerful enough for them to be using it for a while before the prototypes are complete or he draws a real Heirloom from the [Ga??????].

Simon and the other did not keep their voices quiet thus it was audible enough for the ogres to overhear their conversation.

"Sir Giz-Bozo please allow us to fight them. We cannot let them leave without a scratch after all they said. We must show them the strength of the ogre tribe so that no one can make such a slight ever again" the Gir brothers plead.

Gi-Bogo was silent, that attack earlier he had put at least fifty per cent of his power into it. For it to be smashed apart so easily told him that their enemy wasn't simple. Perhaps they might really have the strength to back their words.

In that case, wouldn't they lose if they started a fight? No, it was hasty to draw that kind of conclusion. He needed more information, Giz-Bozo nodded at the Gir brothers who commanded the ogre army to charge at Simon's group.

After all the casualties that they had incurred, the ogre army was still 37,000 strong. An army this big was intimidating to say no less. However, Simon and his group didn't look the slightest bit fazed. On the contrary, some of them (Alice) already looked eager to start this fight.

The ogres had shown all of their cards, while on the other hand, the strength of this group of new people was still a mystery. This was the first time, that Giz-Bozo was uncertain of starting a battle. Nevertheless, there was no retreat for them, it was either forward or death.

There was no place for incompetent subordinates who couldn't even complete their mission on the ogre army. Forget about the ogre king, Gish-Bagh would kill them himslef on the spot if they returned without accomplishing their objectives.

"Mogo did you eat the nether fruit that I gave you?" Giz-Bozo asked looking at the fuming Mogo.

"I did…I will be able to recover some of my strength in a few more minutes" Mogo replied, his missing teeth and bent nose made him look very miserable. Though it was not a big injury for an ogre who innately possesses the [Super Regeneration] skill.

For a crimson horn like Giz-Mogo, he even possed the superior tier of the skill and other various recovery abilities.

"Good, you would be joining the battle once you are done healing" Giz-bozo ordered.

This made the other ogre confused, he didn't understand why Giz-Bozo was being so careful of these people. Sure they might be powerful enough to fend off an attack from him; however, he did not use any skill nor his full power in that attack. Nevertheless, Giz-Mogo obeyed the order and nodded his head.

The three Gir brothers called upon their mounts, one rode upon a fierce hawk like monster, one on a Stone Hide Mammoth while the last one rode on a Fire Breed Hound.

Each of these beasts could only be found inside the western region of the ghastly winding forest and were a force on its own. Level wise, these monsters were all around level 400 with quite a few skills in their arsenal.

When the orc generals Berirock and Berimond saw that, they couldn't help but clench their hands in frustration. The Gir brothers never used their mounts against them in their battle, which meant that they were still not going full power against them.

Anybody who knew about the black ogre tribe of the ghastly winding forest would know that they become more powerful when riding atop their beasts.

Although the orc generals hated it, they had to admit that, if the Gir brother were using their mounts from the start in their battle, they would have been no match for them.

"Annette, Bianca, Alice… you three take on those ogres. Remember not to use your full strength, this is a good opportunity for you guys to get some battle experience and learn how other races fight" Simon declared seeing the charging ogres.

"What about you master?" Annette asked.

"I'll be taking on that delicious meal of experience there".

Annette could see that Simon had already made up his mind. Though she was a little anxious given that the level of the enemy this time was a little high, she had enough faith in her master not to contradict his decision.

"Andromedas prepare your weapons and fire" Simon commanded. The thousand of Andromedas mk 11 flying in the air using the jet boosters, were set to follow his voice command by the wisp.

Immediately, they brought out their light blasters, blast cannons and opened fire on the ogre army.