Chapter 38

A bit of a history lesson for the surroundings of Orario. Way back before the gods put the cap on the dungeon that was the Tower of Babel. The surface world was a hellhole with monsters constantly pouring out of the gaping maw into the earth that was the dungeon, it was only when the gods capped the dungeon after some gods went into to explore it, and even with their Arcanum fully being used those gods died and never returned to Tenkai and to this day have never reformed and are the only gods to have truly died.

But with the dungeon being capped, the mortal races along with the spirits and newly arrived gods who blessed the mortals with the Falna system over the course of centuries eventually cleared out the area surrounding Orario of monsters. But in doing so they left hundreds of fortresses in the area surrounding Orario which are now used nowadays to host War Games if the chosen game requires such a location.

Now such a site was going to host several boss monsters.

"Do you think you will be able to summon like... Thirty bosses at once! That would be so cool Haha!" Tiona laughed as she found me and Bell just hanging out awkwardly as everyone set up their stuff.

For a moment I considered the logistics of fighting so many monsters rex's... And then I recalled with Fargo's the mod I was going to get next I would literally be able to do so.

"I can... Just I don't think it's a good idea Tiona." I said wryly and then Ais walked over to us and following the blond beauty was the lesbian elf herself... Lefiya.

"Finn told me you had new monsters. Are they strong yet?" Ais bluntly asked and I nodded slightly.

"Well, they will certainly be stronger than the others but also larger and much more dangerous," I said dryly but Ais only nodded subtly smiling like the battle-maniac she was.

"Uhm will these boss monsters help even level threes like me level up or just get high amounts of Excellia?" Lefiya asked and I just nodded for the umpteenth time before I pulled out a new sparking wand.

"Here Lefiya I got you a gift. Go play with the magic stick." I said nicely and as she took it reflexively and her mind connected with the staff and shot out a couple of sparks, she seemed to somehow miss how I was trying to get rid of her.

"Uhm Jake, Lady Riveria already gave me the Wand of Sparking you sold her. Apparently, it made her really mad because she couldn't figure out how you preset magic within the staff like a Crozzo sword but without the whole breaking bit." Lefiya awkwardly explained to me but then her eyes found Bell who was standing beside me.

"Ah sorry, my name is Lefiya Virirdis of the Loki Familia, it's nice to meet you." She said bowing to Bell rather than offering to shake her hand or anything, as elves were mostly racist against other races and literally didn't want to touch them.

"Hello, Miss Viridis! Uhm is that why Riveria didn't want to talk to us this morning." Bell asked reminding me of how short and brusque Riveria was at the start of the caravan.

While Lefiya and Bell were gossiping about Riveria, Ais sidled up next to me as she spoke. "Could I commission a thinner or less heavy sword? This broadsword is too unwieldy." She asked tapping the Tungsten broadsword she still was wearing at her side.

I hummed in thought as I ran through the sword recipes in my head and realized a true melee sword would probably be for the best for her as she already had her wind magic to give her more range and such. But then I recalled another sword that would fit her perfectly from the calamity mod. The wind blade made out of Aeralite bars and some sunspot blocks would send tornadoes of sharp wind blades to suck up foes and tear them apart with each swing sending a small tornado.

"Yeah... I got an idea of how to make your sword. And it will actually make your wind magic quite a bit stronger as well." I spoke aloud as I thought about how I could kill the Perforator and Hive Mind Calamity bosses that were harder versions of the previous Crimson and Corruption bosses in The Brain of Cthulhu and the Eater of Worlds.

Ais literally gently grabbed my face as I stared off into the distance I tried to with no success think of a way to kill those much stronger bosses. My eyes were all but forced to meet Ais's hard blue ones as she spoke softly. "You are thinking too much... What do you need to make that sword because I need it."

Ais didn't wrench my face around or anything but her gloved hands grabbing me out of my thoughts was a weird as hell thing to do... But then again so long as Ais was the one doing the motions, she had zero compunctions in throwing social cues out the door.

"Miss Ais there is no need to grab Jake's face!" Lefiya yelled building up steam.

But her building-up tirade had its steam released as Ais just tilted her head to the side and replied dully. "I wanted an answer and Jake was too deep in thought. I didn't want him to forget my question."

More than one person face palmed at Ais's answer with myself just chuckling as I shook my head. "Yeah, sorry Ais I can't make the sword till I level up or something. The bosses we would need to kill are too dangerous for me at this time." I said frankly but Ais wasn't having it.

"But you can hide? You can zip across a battlefield or even teleport while stronger people fight them... What is the actual issue?" She asked pressing me with her usual lack of social tact making Tiona cringe as my face twitched with some irritation.

"Aiz let's let Jake go spawn the Monster Rexs for the newbies, they are looking antsy Haha!" Tiona laughed forcefully as she literally just threw Ais over her shoulder as she ran away with the blond beauty who held an arm out to me begging for salvation as the amazon ran off with her.

"Alright, Lefiya if you end up fighting just be careful." I huffed as Bell quickly followed me as power walked away from the situation and towards the area that was designated for me to spawn the monsters.

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As I got there, I saw Finn speaking with the blond elf member of Freya's Familia Hedin something.

"There you are Jake, are you ready?" Finn asked me as the Freya Executive shot me an imperceptible look I didn't understand while I told Finn I was ready. "Alright wonderful, we have taken some measures to give you some room to grapple hook away from the boss, and more importantly when you do we want you to try to get fully away from the boss and see if it will instead focus on the other people in the vicinity so they can get the authentic boss experience," Finn explained and I hummed in thought.

"I mean I will try but this trick will probably only work on the King Slime and Desert Scourge boss. The next ones are just too damn big and have different senses than the last more normal bosses." Well as normal as a semi-truck-sized slime could be anyway.

"Anyway, the Apollo Familia has paid a great price to fight the Desert Scrouge in particular as the first boss to be summoned here for all of Orario to watch remotely in the same style as a war game. Congratulations Jake you have ten million Valis sitting and waiting for you back in Orario." Finn said shrugging as from the opposite of the field came a crowd of Apollo's lower-level adventurers.

"His captain isn't going to take part?" I asked drily seeing the level one and small squad of level two's standing together waiting for me to summon the boss.

"No... Apparently, he didn't deem it worthy of his time and that it was best for his weaker Familia members to fight the boss monster and earn a level up." Finn replied coldly and I looked over to Daphne Laurous Cassandra Llion and hoped they would survive this experience.

Especially Cassandra as she was a true seer, even if her predictions were always disbelieved for some contrived reason around her.

"Pity for them then," I muttered sighing but saving idiots from committing suicide wasn't my responsibility. To be an adventurer here in Danmachi was to walk with death and just because a group of level fives and above could slap these weak bosses around shouldn't give these fools such bravery. They needed a reminder of their place in other words.

With Finn giving the go-ahead as the systems were in place in Orario to watch the coming battles I walked out alone into the middle of the field that was surrounded by woods that I was going to go hide within as soon as I summoned the boss.

As I got closer to Apollo's group, I saw Cassandra was a shaking mess and almost in tears making me sigh as I realized she may have 'seen' herself and the people around her dying... 'Well let's see if I can save another Heroine or two.' I thought wryly as I pulled out the Desert Medalion to summon the Desert Scrouge.