Chapter 268: Dinner
After the Menagerie cleared the first room of the dungeon before Arwin even had a chance to swing his hammer a single time, it became abundantly clear to him that his guild had improved significantly since the last time he’d gone delving with them.
Gone were the days of cobbling together a fight with a group of individually capable adventurers. The inefficiency had been ground out of them until nothing but teamwork remained. Out of every monster in the first room of the dungeon — of which there had been four red-skinned little imps vaguely reminiscent of Lillia’s summons — not one had even gotten a chance to fight back.
Reya had frozen one in place. Olive had cut it clean in two before it could recover, while Rodrick dashed from monster to monster, drawing their attention. They’d then all been cut down in rapid succession, dispatched like animals rather than true foes.
As stunned as Arwin had been, the expression on Yonas’ face had been so good that he didn’t even mind. The guildsman looked like he’d swallowed a whole egg and couldn’t tell if he was surprised, scared, or just plain confused.
Of course, the first room was just a single room. The improvement was an immense achievement. Their coordination was impressive. It was clearly borne from constant practice and training, not to mention all the monsters that the members of the Menagerie must have killed while Arwin was crafting.
But when they reached the second room, it went much the same.
As did the third.
And the fourth.
Arwin’s delight and surprise only grew. He found himself reduced to a gawking spectator alongside Lillia and Yonas, left with no option but to simply marvel at the progress of his guild.