Third Dungeon Battle: Onset of War

I was sleeping with Meat as a hug pillow by the time I came to. Alcohol is scary.

Its be a good idea to build an alarm clock golem for stuff like this. Lets use [Healing] on my head. Aah, much better.

But its a good thing I clocked out so fast. She mightve had me drink until I died of alcohol poisoning if not. Haku-san got drunk midway too since she drank out of her machined crystal jug, saying stuff like, Drink! Drink Beer-sama!

For now, I just pressed down on my bedhead and poked Meats squishy cheek.

Nuu

Meat woke up and let out a voice that sounded like it was stuck in her throat.

Still yawning, I left the room with Meat, who was still rubbing the sleepiness from her eyes.

Heading to the conference roomour meeting placeI joined up with Rokuko.

Morning, Kehma. You woke up on time, huh.

Morning, Rokuko. Its a good thing I had an alarm clock haah, its the first time Ive been woken up by an alarm clock since I came to this world never again Rather, youre looking energetic.

Eh? Its because I recharged my batteries so much yesterday with the banquet.

Rokukos skin looked all shiny.

Being able to actually recharge from a banquet like that, isnt that some kind of talent? It just made me tired.

Ichika was already waiting by the time I made it to the meeting room too. It appears she was the first one here.

Ichikas skin was glowing as well, so its obvious enough that she felt recharged too ahcome to think of it, Meats fur looks a bit glossy too. Am I the weird one here!?

Ichikas unexpectedly diligent. There was plenty of time to take your time.

Being punctual for commission deadlines and stuffs the mark of an excellent adventurer after all. Its common sense.

That so maybe I should quit the adventurer stuff then. I only started being one to be able to enter the town.

Even if it was from takin a shortcut, we made it to B-Rank, lets keep at it, yeah? Yeah?

And then Haku-san arrived. Just on time.

Haku-sans footsteps feel light, like shes really looking forward to the Dungeon Battle. After all, win or lose, shell be able to be physically closer to Rokuko.

Im more or less thinking of this as a war-by-proxy between Haku-san and the other upper ranking Cores though.

Oh dear, Kehma-san, do you think youll lose?

I feel like well win.

There shouldnt be any problems with me relaxing then. Us upper cores (seniors) are only meant to give advice from the backseat in this Dungeon Battle. Give it your best.

Yeah, well, Ill give it a shot.

Rokuko-chan, Ill give you tender guidance even if you lose, alright?

Please treat me well if that happens, but Kehma wont lose.

Temporarily returning to the arena in [Cave of Desires], we passed through a gate that went directly to [White Beach]s core room. After arriving there, we went into the Master Room inside of the Dummy Core that was placed there.

I then first used [Summon Gargoyle] to summon ten Gargoyles and had them go to the place scheduled for the Dungeon Battle Gate to be. Summon-types have the flaw that when their summoner faints, theyre sent back. Thats why I waited until just before the battle to summon them.

When I finished looking over and tidying up all of the gimmicks I have scheduled to be active today, it was finally time for the Dungeon Battle to begin.

[Noooow then, its time, everyone. You ready to start the Dungeon Battle?]

I suddenly heard an unfamiliar voice reverberate through the Master Room we were waiting in. It felt lackadaisical, yet somehow had a gravity to it that made it so that you couldnt oppose it. Its a voice you wouldnt know what to think of. One of the walls turning into a monitor, a man dressed in a navy blue robe with swarthy skin, black hair, and golden eyes appeared. Half of the mans face was hidden behind a mask.

This is [Father]? He looks younger than I expected.

[Team Demon King, prepared, father.]

[Team Dragon King, no problems, oh father.]

Team Sovereign. We are ready, Otou-sama.

The three teams seniors responded Haku-san also bowed her head, he really must be great.

[Alright, lets start thenah, before that. Do any of the junior cores have anything they want to say?]

[This is 666695, this is our duel!]

[Hey! Ah, 650 here. I just want to say that well be the ones winning. Even if both of you cores work together, we have three! Three! Were set to win!]

This is 695, but I dont really have anything to say. Please hurry up and start, Ill be the one to win.

Rokuko said that? Thats pretty self-confident.

[Hahaha, everyones pretty motivated eh? Well then, lets start In 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 3-Team Dungeon Battle, START!]

At the same time that [Father] said that final word, two gates opened in the room specified beforehand with a, Bwoon!

I prepared plenty of Golems in the room. There are even some Golems carrying boxes on their backs. Inside those boxes are scouting personnel.

Moreover, immediately after that, an overflowing wave of snakes, each the thickness of an arm, poured vigorously out of one of the gates. Looks like that ones the gate for Team Dragon King.

From the other one came piles of human bones, moving with a clitter clatter noise Skeletons. So the Demon Lord Team went with those?

While dealing with the snakes and skeletons that appeared with the Golem Corps, I gave Meat instructions.

Guess were starting right away. Invoke the submerging gimmick.

Understood. First floodgate, opening.

Meat operated the monitor.

Dodododododododo dobaaa!

The floodgate that connected the dungeons floor and the ocean opened up. A vast volume of seawater flooded in through the opening, submerging the bottom most floorthe floor with the gates in itin seawater.

The thing that was just opened was the flood gate that connected the bottom floor to the ocean.

In truth, I made sure to think about the dungeons shape to properly make use of the submerging gimmick for this Dungeon Battle.

Its probably understandable just by me calling it a tower-type dungeon. With the entrance on the bottom floor, you have to capture it while moving up. Then what would happen if water came down at you from above?

Well, I had it so that the water would come at invaders from above. Water flows towards downwards after all.

So thats why I built the dungeon downwards like this. Having the entrance at the bottom floor and the core at the first floor, its the opposite of the normal layout Youd have to get to the bottom floor by first entering the top floor though, so its the same as a normal dungeon in the sense that it is the farthest in though.

Really, Kehma-sans way of thinking surprises me.

Hahaha, with the water pushing them back like this, we can block intruders better than just submerging them!

Just submerging them wouldnt affect opponents like golems that dont have to breath. However, if its something more like a flash flood, itll work like shacklesno, more like an attack.

Seeing the water flood in so strongly on the monitor, Im confident that their self-confidence is going to collapse.

When I checked out the map, 90% of the bottom floor had already been flooded. I made sure to come up with a way to funnel the water so that the majority of the seawaters momentum would eventually rush towards the room with the gates in it. Its best to think of the gate room as being a ditchs final destination.

Choosing the timing, I opened the door to the gate room.

Seawater flooded into the gate room, water raging like a tsunami. Swept away by the current, the snakes, skeletons, and golems were all pushed into the enemy gates.