Chapter 102
Dungeon Capture (1)
The boat trip did not cause any of the problems I had worried about. The only things I had to do was self-training in magic and a mock battle with Viro for Level 4 of Dagger Arts, and the knights I had saved that time were getting along well with me.
After all, the knights probably had questions they wanted to ask a famous adventurer. A few young knights approached a newcomer like me and asked me about my name.
Elena had no time to talk to me because Amol was always there. Inevitably, the only thing we had to do was to have a mock battle, but Sera was nominally a “lady-in-waiting,” so she couldn’t do that, and it was impossible for Feld and Dalton to have a mock battle on the narrow deck. I wanted to see Mira’s spirit magic, but Viro stopped me from doing so, saying it would sink the ship.
Therefore, I did most of the mock battles with Viro. He was an orthodox light fighter who did not use multiple weapons like Sera and I. When it came to fighting the enemy, I felt the difference in the weight and sharpness of each blow compared to me, who specialized in “killing” the enemy.
“You’re not wrong to emphasize on a simple strike, especially when it comes to fighting the enemy, but don’t get caught up in it all. We are not warriors like Feld and Dalton. If you still want a coup de grâce, you must master one thing and one thing only.”
“Okay.”
Viro, on the contrary, had acquired the “strength” to survive in any hopeless situation by training all aspects of the game. That was why he was able to survive the battle against Grave. I felt that this was the fighting style of a scout skilled in party warfare, which I did not possess.
We arrived at our destination, a remote island, at night. From what I could see with my night vision, I felt that it would be a scenic place in the daytime, but this time, the young royal family’s dungeon attack was considered a clandestine affair, and although some nobles seemed to know about it, they were still undercover.
Similarly, it would be dangerous to enter the city. The town’s residents would know that the nobles had arrived as soon as this huge ship entered the port, but it would be quite conspicuous, not only to the group entering the dungeon, but also to a good number of people, including the escorts and caretakers prepared by the duke of Fudale.
If rumors were to fly in this way, other nobles would notice where the royalty who were not seen in the royal capital had gone.
“You seem to have thought about that. They have a guest house near the dungeon for royalty visiting the area, kind of like the castle by the lake in Dandol.”