“Excuse me, Flavia,” a girl student spoke to her, Flavia being busy cleaning one of the rooms at their student club on the second floor.


    “Yes, what is it, Dorothy?” Flavia asked, turning to face her.


    “A few students showed up at our club, demanding to see Narias Talrone,” Dorothy told her.


    “What? Again?” Flavia exclaimed, making a frown.


    “I told them Narias Talrone isn’t here, but they refused to leave, calling me a liar,” Dorothy told her, looking to be a little distressed.


    “Eh? They called you a liar? How dare they? No way I am letting anyone bully our club members,” Flavia stated confidently, clenching her fist. “Thanks for telling me, Dorothy. I’ll take care of it.”


    “I told you we are here to see Narias Talrone and we’re not leaving until we do. Now be a good boy and go find him,” a boy student spoke arrogantly to another member of the Magic Research student club standing in the main room downstairs.


    “We’ve already told you, Narias Talrone is not here. He’s gone into the Magic Dungeon,” a boy student tried to explain.


    “Lies!” The same boy student raised his voice. “That… Narias Talrone hasn’t gone anywhere. He… he refused to take a group from our student club to the Magic Dungeon and now he’s hiding from us.”


    “Yes, he needs to take our group into the Magic Dungeon right now,” a girl student who came together with the boy demanded.


    “What… are you talking about?” The boy student who was a member of the Magic Research student club became very confused.


    “Stop gawking like an idiot and go find Narias Talrone now!” The arrogant boy raised his voice again, glaring back at the confused student in a condescending manner.


    “Hey! Who do you think you are talking to my club members like that?!” Suddenly, the two rude guests were startled by Flavia raising her voice at them from behind.


    “Eh? Who the heck are you?” The boy student asked, feeling a little perplexed someone spoke to him in such a manner.


    “I am someone who’s gonna kick your butt if you’re not gonna leave our student club right now,” Flavia stated confidently, pointing a finger at him.


    “Oh yeah? I’d love to see you try. Do you even know who we are?” The arrogant boy spoke back to her, puffing up his chest.


    “A couple of losers who like to bully people, that’s who,” Flavia stated point blank.


    “What? How dare you call us losers, you… beast of a nobody,” the arrogant boy became irritated, gritting his teeth in anger.


    “You two are the nobodies here. Now get out of our student club,” Flavia demanded, motioning with her left hand to point at the doorway.


    “I’d like to see you try, you, scrawny rabbit,” the other girl student stepped forward, raising her hand in front of her, an ice crystal materializing above her extended palm.


    “What? You want to start a fight here?” Flavia gasped. It’s not that she was afraid of the two intruders, but starting a fight inside their student club building was bad no matter how you looked at it.


    “Hah, shivering in your boots already I see. Who’s the loser now?” The boy student smirked, showing disdain towards Flavia.


    “Flavia…” the boy student who belonged to the Magic Research student club made two steps back, becoming really worried about what might happen.


    “Tss… Don’t think I’m afraid of you two,” Flavia stated, taking an offensive position, readying for a fight.


    “The heck is going on here?” Suddenly, another girl’s voice asked behind Flavia.


    “Huh? Oh, Flamiris,” Flavia exclaimed, turning around to face her.


    “Eh? Who are you?” Flamiris asked, glaring menacingly at the two uninvited guests.


    “Apparently, they came here looking for Narias, starting to threaten us they’ll start a fight if we don’t go find him for them,” Flavia explained.


    “Start a fight, you say?” Flamiris asked, showing a menacing grin.


    “Don’t think you can do anything to us. Both of us come from the tier two families. You’ll get punished if you try to lay a finger on us,” the girl student who controlled the floating ice crystal stated confidently.


    “And I come from the family where everything is forgiven as long as I win,” Flamiris stated back, showing the ‘I dare you’ grin.


    “Tch…” the arrogant boy student clicked his tongue. “Whatever, it’s not like you losers are worth our time anyway. Let’s go.”


    “Humph,” the girl student cocked her head in disdain before following her friend out of the room.


    “Thank you, Flavia and Flamiris. I was… a little scared they would start a fight here,” the boy student said, letting a sigh of relief.


    “No problem, Carl,” Flavia said, showing a wide smile.


    “Seriously, this is the second time now. What’s their deal regarding Narias anyway?” Flamiris blurted, crossing her arms in front of her.


    “I don’t know. The students who showed up yesterday wanted to see Narias too. They said Narias is supposed to take them to the Magic Dungeon, but he has taken a group into the dungeon three days ago and hasn’t returned yet,” Flavia said.


    “Tss… Stupid. What makes them think Narias would go into the Magic Dungeon with them anyway? Bunch of losers,” Flamiris scoffed, waving her hand.


    “For sure. They were totally rude and condescending. Who would want to go into the Magic Dungeon with them in the first place?” Flavia added, throwing her hands to the sides with a shrug.


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    “Excuse me, Flavia, but… what if more students show up again when neither you nor Flamiris are here? I’m… a little worried about it,” Dorothy said, pressing her right hand to her chest.


    “Oh, yeah. That’d be bad, especially if they were to start a fight inside our student building,” Flavia admitted.


    “I think we should report it to the headmistress,” Flamiris suggested.


    “What? Directly to Miss Sweetbell?” Flavia asked in surprise, not expecting Flamiris to suggest that.


    “Why not? We could talk to one of the teachers, but they will probably report it to Miss Sweetbell anyway, so why not go tell her directly ourselves?” Flamiris said.


    “You have a point,” Flavia agreed before adding. “Do you think she’s still at the academy?”


    “Who knows? Why don’t you go check while I stay here just in case any more of those numbskulls show up?” Flamiris suggested.


    “Really? Ok, but… I haven’t finished cleaning the rooms upstairs yet,” Flavia said, showing a silly smile.


    “Tch… Ok, fine, I’ll go finish cleaning them for you, but you’ll have to clean the rooms in my place when it’s my turn,” Flamiris said, furrowing her eyebrows.


    “Sure thing, girlfriend,” Flavia agreed, smiling wide. “I’ll be off now.” Before quickly running off.


    “Dang it. And here I thought I can workout at the gym today,” Flamiris said, letting out a disappointed sigh.


    {somewhere inside the Magic Dungeon}


    “Fireball. Wind Blade,” Narias threw two spells at two different monsters one after another, his spells killing the monsters the moment they were hit by the spells. “Humph…” Narias narrowed his eyes, thinking about something. “It seems like I’m strong enough to kill level six Pincer Ants and Tailblade Beetles with a single spell even without equipping my Althyme Watch.” He spoke to himself out loud, readying to cast more spells at the approaching bug monsters that decided to leave their hiding spots and join the fight.


    After Narias has left the secret Supply Point room where he met Estella and her student group, he was exploring the third floor of the Magic Dungeon on his own, killing Pincer Ants until he started encountering the second monster that was inhabiting the third floor of the Magic Dungeon – the Tailblade Beetle. The Tailblade Beetle monster resembled an earwig beetle from Anthony’s world, but had a few distinct features of its own. First, it was much larger than just a normal earwig beetle. Much, much larger as a matter of fact. Tailblade Beetles that was living inside the Magic Dungeon were over ten feet in length, had flat bodies and multiple feet. In addition to having two pincers at the front of their mouths, they also had two blade-like pincer claws, if you could call them that, growing from their tails which were from two to three feet in length. Hence, the name Tailblade Beetles.


    The really dangerous part about the Tailblade Beetles was that they were able to crawl on the walls and the ceilings, and they were quite fast on their feet too. The Tailblade Beetles were able to move forward as well as backwards with ease, maintaining similar speed both ways. As Narias has found out, the Tailblade Beetles were rather smart too, using the cave’s surroundings, like larger rocks, boulders, stalactites and stalagmites as their cover, rushing out to attack him with their frontal or backward pincer claws in an attempt to cut Narias into pieces. In addition, due to the Tailblade Beetles having quite a flat body shape, it wasn’t very easy to hit them with the spells either, making them the most dangerous monsters that Narias had encountered inside the Magic Dungeon up to this point.


    “Flamethrower,” Narias released a burst of fire from his hand before leaping to the right side in order for his flames to reach a Tailblade Beetle that was trying to hide behind one of the stone boulders inside the current cave room. With the beetle monster being weak to fire, it had no other choice but to try and get away from it, Narias anticipating for that to happen.


    “Wind Blade,” as soon as the Tailblade Beetle left its hiding spot, hurrying to go around the stone boulder to hopefully get to Narias from the other side, it was cut by Narias’s Wind Blade spell in an instant, the Wind Blade spell slicing part of its head and killing it on the spot.


    “Phew, that’s the last one in this cave I think,” Narias relaxed after checking his surroundings before lifting his right hand up to look at his palm. “I have really become strong it seems. Must be thanks to eating the Crystal Hornhead’s meat too. Humph. I might as well explore more of the third floor of the dungeon then.” He smirked to himself.


    Narias felt pleased with himself and how well he was able to handle the monsters on the third floor of the dungeon, deciding to stay and see how far he could go into the Magic Dungeon. He has found a Supply Point room not that long ago and was contemplating whether he should turn back and go home, but since the Supply Point room had some extra food and water left in it, Narias decided checking out a few more cave rooms wouldn’t hurt. Besides, he knew what the current time of the day actually was thanks to his Althyme Watch, giving him several more hours before the actual nightfall. He thought he’d use the few extra hours to explore more of the Magic Dungeon in hopes to maybe find additional treasure before going back to the Supply Point room, taking a long rest and going home for good.


    “Fire Wall. Fire Wall. Fire Wall,” Narias set the cave room he currently was on fire, almost literally. The tunnels and caves on the third floor of the Magic Dungeon were massive, and since he was by himself, Narias was free to cast multiple Fire Wall spells around him without worrying he might hurt someone. He was literally cooking and frying big bug monsters left and right, also saving time and energy thanks to such an efficient way of dispatching multiple monsters within a short period of time.


    “Eh? I guess… I’ve overdone it this time. Good thing no one’s around,” Narias scratched his head, looking at the huge flames burning in front of him. He decided to equip his Althyme Watch again since it boosted his magic and helped killing the monsters faster, but he went over the top with his last barrage of fire spells, needing to wait a short while until the flames subsided. “Right, let’s look around the cave now.”


    After the flames settled down, Narias took his time to check if the TailBlade Beetles have dropped any Magic Crystals, being lucky to find two this time. He has also found a deposit of the Hard Steel Ore, becoming happy Growly’s dad would be able to craft a new weapon or a piece of armor out of it. Once Narias was done with his treasure hunt, he decided to check one more cave before turning to go back simply because there was only one other exit leading out of the current one.


    “Eeh? What? Woah,” Narias exclaimed, instantly ducking down and hiding behind the closest big rock near him.


    No way, did I just find the third floor’s boss monster? Narias thought to himself before taking a peek from behind his cover. That’s a… really, really huge insect. Huh? It has resemblance to a mantis insect from my previous world only looks… scarier.


    Narias was right on both accounts. The massive insect monster was indeed the boss monster of the third floor of the Magic Dungeon and it had certain features of the mantis insect from Anthony’s world too, but just like with the Tailblade Beetles having resemblance to the earwig beetles, the insect monster in the current cave had certain features that original mantis insect didn’t have.


    Other than its enormous size, it must’ve been over twenty feet in height and over thirty feet in length easily, the current insect monster had six legs and four arms where the normal mantis insect had four legs and two arms respectively. Its legs were basically pure bones, but looked strong and tough, with its the four arms looking like long blades that could cut through rocks easily. Another feature of the creature was that it had flat long, maybe two feet in length, head and six eyes, with all six eyes being pure white with no pupils.


    The main monster’s body somewhat resembled mantis insect’s body, being slim and long, but it was also covered with sharp, up to one foot in length bone spikes. Narias wasn’t surprised to see it also having two blade-like pincer claws growing at the end of the creature’s tail too. The pincer claws looked to be similar to the ones that the Tailblade Beetles had, but were much longer, probably five to six feet in length and had a more curved shape each. Overall, the enormous insect monster looked extremely tough and dangerous.


    “Right, aah… so… do I turn back or do I try to…” Narias whispered quietly to himself, sliding down the rock to hide again after taking another peek at the massive insect monster, expression on his face showing he was trying to solve a very serious dilemma.