"We dropped the receptionist and miss Maria on the way too, the manager is going to help keep them safe."
In the rooms of the Asahi estate, the two adventurer bros were here to give me reports on the state outside. Sharky continued with his words, a hint of seriousness that wasn't present before in him evident.
"The dungeons that you're targeting would be accessible by all of the ones you brought by the day after tomorrow. Oh, and, the receptionist said she pushed Iffy and Philip's team on a slightly tougher dungeon."
"Well, they're princesses so as long as they don't die."
Sharky shrugged.
The two princesses along with Jin Mandom and Min Mandom, two more from our class, were paired with Iffy and Philip.
We had little to no conversation with the two Mandoms, who, by the way, were not related at all. But they had no choice other than being collateral damage in my plans.
Too bad.
"I see the manager is back, huh?"
"Yeah, the Keith-Dawn and Temp-Swamp duo have also set out. Tempo especially had a lot to say to you."
I bet he did.
But well, they were all good people. I was rather proud of the connections I had ended up making.
"I would like to talk with the manager sometime…"
The sealing ability. The best way to use it would be to consult the manager who had also been my master for two entire years.
There was no one as good as him when it came to being 'weak.'
I had learned to fight without using most of my mana and Ki thanks to him, which made my usage and efficiency shoot through the roof. If there was anyone who I could consult in this situation it was him.
But before that.
"You guys should rest for today," I told Sharky. "I'll be attacking Goemon's tomb three days from now. It should take a day at most."
"Then, we'll be taking the Sneaky Snake Shrine."
"Remember, efficiency. Alright?"
"Zzz."
"Not convincing, but alright."
***
It wasn't like there had never been any research on how dungeons worked. People were a curious kind by nature, back on Earth people knew how ants had sex and how their social hierarchy worked, and they were literally that, ants.
In that sense, dungeons were a great mystery that dominated most of people's lives, unlike ants, which made them prime target for research.
The only thing that made it tough though was the fact that dungeons themselves were extremely tough. No one had reached the bottom of the Deep Down Dive, Kaiser was yet to break the record of the deepest dive which was made seven hundred years ago at that.
The Elysium Tower was a different beast altogether and the Pandemonium and Sanctuary in hell and heaven were similar beasts.
What brewed at the core of these strong ones was unknown, but the weaker ones were abundant like here in the east and people who could conquer them were not lacking either.
What we were planning to study on was change. All dungeons faced change.
From the emergence of new monsters inside to the way some were formed or discovered all of a sudden, like in the Hall territory. What we assumed was that with the emergence of the Outer Gods just an year away.
If.
And that was a major if.
If. These dungeons were the way the outer gods were going to come here. The gateway to their la la land, then it was more than likely we would notice some changes.
For this off chance, this If, I had called in a bunch of favors.
Hopefully we were going to find a way to them, a cue on what made these outer gods come about. If we could discover that then it would be more than possible to go inside and kick their ass myself.
And kick their ass I was gonna.
Well, now I strolled out in the Asahi estate. As I stepped out of the gates and toward back where the clearing for the barn and the training grounds were made just after a short walk through the coppice, I could hear a bunch of screams and shouts.
More units had come up from just the single infantry earlier in the morning. Poor Albert wanted to try his hand at teaching but Marissa wasn't planning to let him go for the slightest second.
No one else was really willing to teach them. Albert only wanted to see it to check if he could improve it.
With that…
"Move!~ Your! Bodies! Not enough motion in the hips, you idiots!"
"Yes! Lord!"
The Lord of the Asahi Family himself was here to teach them. Both Ikuro Asahi, his younger brother Yukito Asahi, and his two sisters were all with the lord as well.
I had forced them to teach their entire army the technique within the three days. With me being their high and mighty savior, they were willing to gladly come and lick my boots and then cut off their tongues to preserve it as a family heirloom right now.
They thought I was just being cautious.
But the facts were completely different.
I was preparing them for war. A war that they didn't know yet they were going to paerticipate in, but war nonetheless.
"Move it! Move it like a samba dancer!"
Hips had nothing to do with the spell though?! What the fuck was this guy teaching them?
"Hey! What are you doing, Lord Asahi?"
I ran into the clearing and broke a bamboo when my shoulder slightly brushed it. Getting suddenly taller and stronger was a little hard to get along with.
"Ah, you're here, Lord Eugene!"
All of the members in the army got to their knees.
"I was just in the process of teaching them as you told me to."
"What the heck does samba have to do with this? Do you know what kind of devilish image you are putting in people's minds? Can you imagine muscular horse-like neighing army bastards dancing a samba?"
The blow seemed to have hit the culprit just as deep as it would his unwitting victims.
"I-I apologize, Lord Eugene, I was actually teaching them a celebration dance. Composed by yours truly."
"What the fuck are you celebrating?"
"You! We are celebrating you and the great fortune you have brought us!" Lord Asahi smiled, I could just tell he smiled, and turned over to the army. "Take it from the top. Show the Lord our appreciation."
The entire army screamed and in agreement, stood upright and started stomping their feet to make a tumultuous, ugly beat.
All of them grinned, I could just tell they grinned, and started waving their hands and hips.
"E is for the way you are emazing! U is for the way you are uweseom!"
"Eugy… my eyes… my ears… they have defeated me! The evil queen has been defeated."
I was losing too! What was this, anti life-support? Was this something that forced well living people to die?
Before it could kill me. I slapped the living shit out of Lord Asahi, half of the strength was on instinct and the other half out of my control as his face formed seven funny faces at mach speed and he flew off like a cartoon.
The dancers' dance grew lamer and lamer until it almost slowed into a lull.
My eyes were on them.
"D-d-d-d-demon…."
One of them murmured.
"Me?! You are the fucking demons."
They were beat up.
Badly.
Almost to the point we would have had to suspend their training, but there was someone here who could heal as good as an angel.
Lilymon came to the rescue and used her healing abilities with a look of disgust. It was all super effective and all of them were up and running again.
This time, a plastered and bandaged Lord Asahi was put in charge once more and left with the responsibility of teaching these little fucks what exactly they had to do.
The trick here wasn't something ground breaking, but rather intriguing.
The crux of magic came from the circles and the symbols. I had mentioned this before, but the circles guided the mana and the intensity while the sigils and totems in a magic circle defined its properties and their functionality.
The tougher an attribute you were using the more difficult it was to balance and use the mana circle.
What this ancient Asahi archmage did was something very clever to praise it or lazy and slightly crazy to complain about it.
He turned the giant mana circles for the difficult spells into a property itself. Making it more difficult to use and balance, but all the more easier to summon and draw.
For example, six triangles had been turned into single star. It was much easier and compact to draw than six triangles but at the same time more complex. Just like that, entire magic circles were turned into attributes and then used.
It was something quite intriguing. Almost like a stamp.
What mattered the most right now, though, was the fact that they were learning the right thing.
And within the next two days, the Asahi Army was equipped and ready with a new way to battle.
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