After defeating the demon king in another world and returning to Japan, a dungeon appeared on the ground. - Chapter 24
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“To be honest, I’m surprised, Ando-san.I never thought your skills were this amazing…”
Since then.
After defeating the goblin leader, I resumed advancing with the supervisor, aiming for the third level.
As we walked, the supervisor complimented my skills quite a bit.
“I have accompanied more than fifty new explorers as a supervisor, but this is the first time I have encountered a prospect like you. Excuse me, but are you really just a high school student?”
“Yes, that’s right”
“I see… High school students these days are amazing…”
[T/N No… I don’t think that’s the case…]
Apparently I impressed the director quite a bit.
So far, my evaluation seems to be quite high.
If things go smoothly like this, I should be able to pass the training without much problem and become an official explorer.
The only thing I need to be careful of is… doing something careless, like when I used the subspace storage without thinking earlier.
“Now, we are approaching the third level. When we reach the third level, let’s head back to the ground. That concludes the first day’s training. By the way, by the fifth training, you will have to reach the tenth level once, so please be prepared.”
“Understood… Hmmm?”
“What’s wrong, Ando-san?”
“Can’t you hear anything?”
“Eh…?”
While the supervisor was explaining the training, I noticed many signs approaching from afar.
At the same time, a set of footsteps that seemed to shake the entire dungeon approached.
“It’s true… I can hear something.”
Even the director seemed to notice something unusual.
He puts his ear to the wall of the dungeon and checks the sound.
While I was doing that, the sound was getting closer.
“Isn’t that bad?”
I said, having a bad feeling.
The director nodded.
“That’s right. Just to be sure, we are immediately leaving. You never know what will happen, so always ensuring safety is the cardinal rule of dungeon exploration.”
That’s when the director who said that turned around and said, “This way.”
“RUN, QUICKKKK, RUNNNNN!!!”
I heard voices shouting from behind.
It was coming from the direction toward the behind us…in other words, the third level.
“!?”
“Hmm?”
While I and the director were looking at the direction of the voice at the same time, a duo ran out of the basement and jumped out towards us.
One is in a supervisor’s uniform and the other with loaned equipment for trainees.
In short, it was an trainee-supervisor pair like us today.
“What happened!?”
The director in charge of me was panicking, so I asked the two of them in place of him what was going on.
said the manager on the other side.
“It’s a stampede!!”
The trainee continued.
“It’s a stampede!!! Run!!”
“”…!!””
Eventually we realized the seriousness of the matter.
We Immediately follow the two and start running in the opposite direction.
Stampede.
It refers to raids by hordes of monsters.
Monsters of different species usually do not flock together.
However, on rare occasions, monsters transcend species and attack people and villages in large swarms of several hundred monsters.
The name given to this phenomenon, which can also be called a disaster, is ‘Stampede’.
Monsters who have been caught in a stampede are known to become very agitated, and won’t stop progressing.
Therefore, the solution is annihilation or escape.
“I can’t catch up with you!! Run!!”
“Kuh, to be involved in a stampede during training…!”
“Bad luck to each other!”
“Absolutely!!”
The two supervisors, who may be colleagues, are having such a conversation.
On the other hand, the other escaping trainee
“Haa, haa, haa…”
His shoulders are breathing and his feet are wobbly.
It seems that his physical strength is close to the limit.
In this state, he won’t last more than five minutes.
“Wait a minute!! This person!!”
I urge the two in front of me to stop.
“What’s wrong!?”
“Don’t stop!! It’s gonna catch up with you!!”
“Wait, wait… I can’t run anymore…”
The trainee stopped walking while gasping painfully.
Monsters run wild by the stampede are getting closer and closer.
“Well, it’s bad…! What should I do…? Should I carry him on my back…?”
“Then we might get caught up in the stampede… Well, the manual says it’s okay to abandon them…”
The supervisors see the trainee who is unlikely to be able to run anymore and consult with each other.
My director gave me the dreadful words that I have to abandon him.
The trainee who heard that turned pale.
“N-no…! D-don’t abandon me…!”
The trainee shuddered and slumped down.
“Damn it! What should I do…!”
“You have to run!! It’s already approaching!!”
While the directors were showing impatience, I quietly turned on my heels and started walking in the direction the monsters were approaching.
“What are you doing, Ando-san!?”
“Please stay away. I will exterminate them.”
I said so to the unreliable supervisors, and raised my hand towards the monsters that had gone crazy with the stampede.
And then, I released fire attribute magic with maximum firepower.
[T/N Imagine firing fire magic in a cave smh.]
“Inferno”
In an instant, a flaming tornado materialized in front of me.