The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want A Fourth Time: Rise Of The Demon Knight

The next day we entered the , unclearable' Dungeon and got through it quite fast with only the mid-bosses costing us a little more time but it wasn´t for very long.

And so soon we reached the 16th Floor with its mountain blocking the way and I was at a loss for words to describe it

„How does this thing even fit in here?" I asked in my daze

„Well it´s a dungeon we should expect such things," Neria said nodding and we close into the foot of the mountain looking for a path at first and for monsters only to find a swarm of Rank 4 evil birds which we fastly killed using magic and the sword´s bow form

„Say Val this sword does it can form other things too?" asked Neria

„It can but this isn´t important now we need to overcome this mountain we can talk afterwards" I said looking for good footholds and came up with an idea

„Hey, Neria how much do you trust me?" I asked her

„Depends on what you want," she said skeptically and I explained her my Idea to simply climb the mountain by jumping from point to point

„You must have lost your mind what do we do if the monsters attack us?! And do you have an idea how long that will take?!" she said out extremely loud „Any better guesses … should I carry you and jump from spot to spot while you keep the monsters away?" I asked her and she looked at me to figure out if I was serious or just mocked her a little and then said

„Yes but under one condition," she said raising her finger , please nothing cliched' was my only thought but I got disappointed

„You carry me like a princess in the stories" she puffed her cheeks and I gave in

And like that, I jumped upwards without holding back. We came forward pretty smoothly the only monsters that attack died on one-hit by an excited Neria who seemed to enjoy the ride, God how much cliches have I already seen or will see' I questioned myself but I didn´t really want to count or think more about that so I concentrated on moving forward.

We crossed the mountain after an hour or so and got again attacked by many monsters which died pretty fast and we reached a decorated door

„Is this really a part of the dungeon or just a joke of the A-Class party from 10 years ago?" I said looking at the unfitting door with was build in a little hallway that we found at the other side of the mountain

Neria seemed to share my confusion and said „Well it should be a bossROOM after all but I am with you in this regard it´s totally unfitting here"

And so we decided to open it only for me to question the sanity of the god that built this dungeon as we saw a wide plain with a temple in the middle of it.

„This is quite unexpected who the hell does something like that," I asked but no one gave me an answer and before Neria could answer we saw the Boss of the dungeon a Rank 7 Sky Dragon with 12 Rank 6 Wind Wyverns as support.

„Nice opponents," I said drawing my sword while Neria began to pin the wyverns down with wind magic through only 2 got caught in her spell I could get the twos head and shout Fire and Water magic at the wyverns.

„Shit they´re fast as hell" I complained

„These were monsters specialized on speed from the very beginning so this is to be expected," Neria said while trying to stop the wyverns „Tsk, their abilities with Wind magic make it nearly impossible to pin them down" she complained and I switched my sword to its bow form

„Then defend us while I shot them down," I said and we switched the strategy but my low level in Archery made it nearly impossible to hit them

„Val any ideas or little tricks?" Neria asked saying the, little tricks, part a little sarcastically

„Who do you think I am?" I answered her and took out my stinkbombs my throwing technique might be only one level higher than archery but I slowly saw through their flying pattern and I hit the first wyvern in his face splitting the contents in his eye.

The wyvern lost his stability and crashed with another wyvern hitting the ground and met with Nerias magic which gave them the rest.

„Nice one let´s see what these bastards are up to now," I said and I regretted saying anything as the wyverns used their highspeed to attack us as they came near but this also meant that they came into my swords reach.

„Neria hold the dragon occupied for a while," I said readying my sword

„Wait I should do what? We can be happy that the dragon kept spitting his breath at us and you want to provoke him?" She said in a little disbelief

„Yep, so if you would please," I said and swung my sword at a flying wyvern cutting out an eye „Quiet the reflexes" I murmured to myself and concentrated on my surroundings and slowly the wyverns slowed down from my perspective which made it quite easy to hit them.

But I couldn´t kill any of them only injuring them as

„Val watch out!!!" Neria shouted and the Dragon came right at me

„Hehe hello you giant lizard" I mocked the dragon and threw a stinkbomb at him and since he was a little pissed he couldn´t evade it in time receiving a hit on his eyes. He roared in agony

„Val, what was that?" Neria questioned

„A bomb filled with extremly spicy plant juice I´m sure it hurts if it gets directly into the eyes"

I explained as a wyvern lost his head before my blade and the next ones followed quite quickly

„As I thought he accelerated them," I said and the last two wyverns got into distance

„Wait you knew it and didn´t tell me?!" Neria shouted in anger but remained calm enough to keep her guard up

„I thought so since the dragon himself didn´t really attacked us," I said and shout down a wounded wyvern while Neria killed the other one

„Say such thing earlier," she said rather angry and I walked towards the dragon which seemed to have regained his composure

„You calmed down huh impressive as I mixed this stuff I thought I would die," I said to the dragon that faced me

„Don´t ignore me!!!" Neria shouted from behind but I had different things in mind and charged at the dragon whos sight shouldn´t have returned by now and I was right the dragon concentrated on his hearing and smelling senses

I used wind magic to silence my steps and cover my smell

But still, the dragon had a really good intuition and swung his tail around under which I slide through cutting the muscles in his hind legs which collapsed right after

„I hope you will die rather painless" I prayed and sliced thought his head splitting it in two.

„Puh now we are finished aren´t we?" I asked and turned around walking towards Neria who already started to loot the wyverns

„Hey I was in a fight with a dragon just now and you calmly start looting the wyverns?!" I shouted and couldn´t believe her calm attitude in near a dragon

„You seemed not to need my help and you wouldn´t let a dragon move from the spot so I already started," she said with a cold voice which froze my blood

„Did I anger you?" I asked her and she denied it but her eyes spoke another language I clearly pissed her off

All I could do was to apologize for whatever happened which costed us nearly half an hour and the promise to go on a date' through the definition may differ here as she stated we would go to eat in the guild and I had to pay as compensation for ignoring her and not telling her my guesses and well I couldn´t deny that I made mistakes regarding the fight in a team.

We then entered the treasury and hell here were quite the magic items.

I was rather happy I got a magic bag as it allowed us to bring nearly all the stuff with us.

Including a new armor and coat for me as my equipment rather suffered from the fights with the Goblin King and now the Dungeon boss, Sorry Sulian that I didn´t treasured it better' I sent an apology to the crafter.

But well he didn´t really stated what materials he included and if my usage of the equipment was ok as I used magic to strengthen it. But well hopefully I can get an answer to this when I see him the next time whenever this will be.

Neria also got new stuff though it was only a newer robe and a staff with which she could better catalyze her magic.

We were on the verge of leaving as I saw a black mask lying in a corner and picked it up it looked like a skull and I put it on only to hear Neria scream at me to which I quickly put off the mask

„What is it? It isn´t that ugly you know?" I said to her and she stared at me as if she looked at someone who said the most stupid thing one could say

„This is a magic item which let all who look at the wearer feel fear," she said still shacking

„This isn´t a magic item I can´t sense any magic from it at all" I replied and so on our way back we discussed how this was a magic item or not

Luckily we found a secret way from the boss room beyond the mountain leading us right to the staircase and we made our way out as quick if not quicker

Then after we left the dungeon and immediately headed to the guild and made quite the ruckus as we where the first adventurers that cleared the dungeon since 10 years and made quite the fortune through Neria was cruel as she made me through around for everyone and even through I wasn´t broke it was still much money it costed me

Talior was quite happy and kept smiling creepy but I tried to ignore it

And so we let our day cling out and right on the next day we entered the guild again

„A new quest please," I said and like time flew away 2 years passed like nothing.