Volume 3 Chapter 6 (1/2)

Departing a little later than Kuina and her platoon, we headed toward the ominous-looking tower dungeon.

I led the second platoon which comprised of Ancient Elf first and foremost; the Mythological Foxes and the Dwarf Smiths who all were B rank monsters; some of the Griffon aerial bombardment corps to carry out a special task; and some of the monsters I created using various imitation medals— the slow-moving but powerful ones— that I put within my [Storage].

Other than the Griffon and its corps, all were equipped with guns, enabling them to shoot at any time.

There were a fair number of ready-to-use ammunition loaded into the backs of the Griffon corps and I myself could make additional bullets if need be so as far as bullets were concerned, there was nothing for us to worry about. The platoon could liberally fire to their heart's content.

It didn't take us long until we had crossed the white space and entered into the dungeon.

The inside was a vast, open space made out of stone where the numerous demon and demon beast types of monsters were gathered. Upon taking notice of us, they there were immediately startled.

Judging from their appearance, it seemed that my guess was spot on and that this was indeed [Evil]'s dungeon. Even if my guess was wrong though, we'd simply be stumping on [Steel] earlier than planned.

”GYUAAAAAA!”

”BYAAAAAAA!”

The demons and demon beasts simultaneously roared at us.

[Evil] must have had something in mind to easily deploy this many monsters to an open space. Perhaps, instead of dwindling our numbers with traps or stalling our progress with a maze, he intended to crush us outright by having the greater number of fighters here.

Really though, how convenient is this? It was the best time to try something I really wanted to try out.

Also, basing on the fact that he gathered this many monsters here, I now had a rough idea of what their side's strategy was.

I raised my right hand to signal the attack. The Mythological Foxes and Dwarf Smiths threw something that looked like a metal pineapple. In truth, it was often referred to as a pineapple. It's formally called a hand grenade though.

Of course, these hand grenades were no ordinary ones. It was a size larger than normal and had mithril powder within it.

The ones to throw it, the Mythological Foxes and the Dwarf Smiths, were B rank monsters. Thus, their attack power made the hand grenade all the more destructive.

Despite the focus on destructiveness and thus making it heavier, if the ones throwing them had the strength of the Mythological Foxes and the Dwarf Smiths, the grenades would still fly straight as an arrow for over 300 meters.

Enemies within ten meters of the center of the explosion were blown away.

After the Mythological Foxes and the Dwarf Smiths had each thrown their grenades, they picked up their MK-417 assault rifles and began suppressive fire. Their rifles sported the slightly larger 7.62mm bullets which guaranteed firepower for the gun.

[Evil]'s monsters who should have won simply with numbers were assaulted by powerful and continuous gunshots. They were around 500 meters away, a distance [Evil] thought his monsters could easily shorten. That being said, their numbers were still too much. Little by little, they were inching their way to us.

”Ancient Elf, can you take control of the sky?”

”Yes, it'll only take me a while against this bunch.”

The monsters moving in the ground were being kept in check by the Mythological Foxes and the Dwarf Smiths while the ones flying in the sky would be shot down by Ancient Elf one after the other.

Her main weapon was an anti-materiel rifle. It was a rifle that even normally would be able to shoot through armored vehicles. But this, the one she wielded, was modified by Rorono the Elder Dwarf through technical and magical means as much as possible so that it may have even higher capabilities to the point that it was ridiculous.

And thus, with that ridiculous gun, Ancient Elf very accurately sniped her enemies several meters ahead.

This was possible due in part to her skill the [Shooter of Magical Projectiles] that gave bonuses to the power and accuracy of her long-distance attacks.

It was also in due to her beautiful jade green eyes. [Clairvoyance] that gave great kinetic vision and allowed one to see clearly from far away; [Future Vision] that allowed one to see the world one moment in advance; and [Spirit Vision] which allowed one to see the spirits and the flow of magic power. All of these were included within one of the strongest—to the point of being broken—magic eyes: her [Jade Eyes].

Furthermore, thanks to her full control of the wind, not once did her bullets—from the moment they were fired to moment they made impact—ever slowed down.

Each time she fired off a bullet, the flying monster that received the said bullet burst open. It wasn't just pierced through, it burst open due to the excessive power the bullet had.

There might not be a monster that could hope to match Ancient Elf in a long-distance battle.

”Master, I will have full control of the sky soon enough. You can go and send them out at any time.”

”I see. Then, I guess the star performer is about to enter stage, so to speak.”

I then snapped my fingers and each member of the aerial bombardment corps here flapped their wings and took to the sky.