Comprehensive Manga: The Master is not here today.

Laos and his companions had communicated with the orcs living on the fifth underground floor.

As the Fire Dragon came near the orcs' village, they urgently moved to the third underground floor for refuge, where they met Laos and his group. After some communication, Laos and his group successfully obtained the location of the Fire Dragon and the route map.

Therefore, their route of action was very clear, and after a few hours, they soon arrived at the last flight of stairs leading to the location of the Flame Dragon.

but……

“Are we really going down from here?”

Looking at the various tentacle monsters growing up and down the stairs, which seemed to have no place to step, Chilchak expressed deep doubt:

"Were we fooled by those orcs?"

"No, I think it should be here."

Laos looked down at the map, confirmed that he was in the right place, and said with a smile:

"Perhaps it is because of the appearance of this road that the orcs chose the village below as their base, because generally no adventurers would walk through here."

This statement does seem to make sense, and he continued with a smile:

"Anyway, let's try walking for a while."

"Wait a moment!"

At this moment, Mashu suddenly spoke up to stop his actions, pointing her finger above her head and saying:

"There are monsters up there. I think it's best to get rid of them first."

"Monster?!"

Everyone was shocked and looked up quickly, but there was nothing but darkness above where there was no light source, and they could not see anything except the tentacle monster.

...Are there really monsters?

Seeing this, they were a little skeptical, but Malucil tried to release a light spell, illuminating the space above their heads. Three giant frogs clung to the tentacles and stared at them quietly.

The moment they were discovered, the three giant frogs started attacking at the same time, sticking out their tongues and aiming at the weapons in the hands of Laos, Sensi and Malucel respectively.

"Oh!"

Three overlapping explosions were heard, and the heads of the three giant frogs were accurately blasted by Malucel. They slid down from the tentacles weakly and fell directly into the hole in the middle of the stairs.

"Humph."

Malucier snorted with some pride, and then asked Mashu curiously:

"How did you find them, Mashu?"

Mashu smiled shyly and said:

"It should be considered intuition, as if I could vaguely sense a sense of malice."

Intuitive?

Everyone had this experience when exploring the maze, and they didn't think it was a problem. However, Marusil seemed to remember something and looked at Laos and said:

"Come to think of it, hasn't your intuition been pretty accurate lately? Why didn't it work this time?"

"This one……"

Laos subconsciously touched his sword and scratched his head awkwardly.

"Intuition doesn't always work. But what I'm more interested in is the meat of the tentacle monster and the giant frog..."

"Stop! I don't want to hear about this!"

Although they had eaten monsters all along the way, Malucier still showed resistance. Chilchak was speechless:

"Okay, let's just go down first and talk about other things later."

Back to the topic, Laos led the way in front, and everyone followed behind, and soon discovered a serious problem -

Because there were so many tentacle monsters on the road, Laos' hands were sore from chopping them, and in the end he only walked less than a circle.

Chilczak concluded:

"It's a waste of time and energy to go this way. It's more cost-effective to take a detour."

"But if we have to take a detour..."

"Then leave it to me. I have a way to get there faster."

At this time, Fujimaru Ritsuka suddenly spoke, and everyone looked over, a little puzzled:

"A faster way? How do you do it?"

"Well, everyone just needs to relax a little."

Fujimaru Ritsuka smiled, then took out the druid's staff and cast a few defensive magic spells for everyone. Then he raised his arm slightly, and a breeze from somewhere swirled under everyone's feet and actually lifted them up.

“Hey, what is this——!?”

Everyone looked at the scene in surprise. Morixi, who was resisting magic, frowned even more. Then, Fujimaru Ritsuka controlled them and landed directly from the hole in the middle of the stairs.

Considering that this might be their first time to have this experience, Fujimaru Ritsuka did not deliberately speed up, but maintained a constant descent speed throughout the entire process. In less than a minute, he reached the bottom smoothly.

"Okay, here we are."

Everyone looked up, then looked at the three giant frog corpses that fell to the ground in front of them, and finally cast their eyes toward the town outside the corridor. Laos shouted in surprise:

"This is indeed the fifth underground floor. It's really fast!"

Senxi couldn't help but shook his head and said:

"I'm really relying too much on magic..."

"And if you use magic like this..."

At the same time, Marlucil looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka with some concern, but saw that his expression was normal and it seemed that he had not consumed too much magic power.

So she paused and asked hesitantly:

"Ritsuka, are you...really okay?"

"It's okay, what's wrong?"

"Hmm... nothing..."

Malucier shook her head vaguely. After confirming that the other party seemed to be fine, she couldn't help but murmur in her heart:

Although the other party has been emphasizing that she has a lot of magic power in her body, isn't this a bit too much?

...Or is it that she actually has too little magic power? !

No way, she was praised as a genius magician by her teachers at school...

Although she felt a little complicated, seeing that the power displayed by Fujimaru Ritsuka seemed to be stronger than she had imagined, Malucel felt more at ease.

"Speaking of it,"

Seeing Fujimaru Ritsuka holding a staff in one hand and a stick in the other, Chilchak finally couldn't help but ask:

"I was actually going to ask you just now, Ms. Ritsuka, you are a magician, right? Why do you always hold a stick in your hand?"

Hearing this, Fujimaru Ritsuka unnoticeably put away the Druid's Staff and replied seriously:

"I only know a little bit of magic, but my real identity is a warrior."

A little bit of magic?

warrior?

Malucier and Chilchak's expressions became somewhat subtle, and Mashu on the side smiled helplessly:

"Please rest assured, at least during the battle, Senior will not drag everyone down."

"..."

So, he's still a magician, right?

Chilchak complained in his mind.

Back to the point.

The fifth underground floor is the urban area surrounding the castle, with a large number of brick and stone houses and stone pavements, as well as various sculptures on the streets, all of which bear traces of the prosperity of thousands of years ago.

It is precisely because of the existence of these houses that the orcs chose to settle in this place.

However, after reaching the fifth underground floor, they did not immediately leave the castle to start exploring. Laos first came to the giant frog's corpse and observed it carefully:

"The meat near the ground has been smashed into a pool, but the upper part of the body is still intact... Well, let's eat the giant frog and the tentacle monster for this meal!"

Malucie's cheeks suddenly flattened, and she sighed helplessly:

"We're going to fight the Flame Dragon next, can't we eat some normal food?"

"Perhaps,"

Senxi suddenly said:

"Since the orcs evacuated in a hurry, perhaps they left behind a lot of food?"

Hearing this, Malucier's eyes instantly lit up.