Chapter 89: Ch. 86 – Rematch

It is again Thursday, the first dungeon visit since the latest disaster.

Like the past few days, Iris accompanies me when I go to nuke the flood monsters in the morning. She still has to get the basics down but she is making steady progress with her magic skill. With her lower stats, she doesn't gain much exp per trip yet but that will hopefully soon change. Not that she can make more than one per day, she has only the basic regeneration from [Sleepless] to work with and no other regeneration bonuses, which leaves her at full regeneration over about 23 hours compared to my 9 hours.

Well, at least gained a bit more exp per day than the others. The rest got about 180 exp per day, and Iris about 260. And even that is a drop in the bucket compared to my roughly 2000. Area damage really is a game-changer.

We really should focus more on the others learning and improving magic for area damage and therefore exp gain during the flood.

Well, that's a problem for later, first they need a class with something like [Create Food&Water] so we can stay longer in the dungeon and I need something so they can add more classes in the first place. Though I can achieve that already with Summoner level 15, which should only be a month away if my exp gain stays consistent.

Anyway, on to today's dungeon visit, "Looks like everyone is here."

Lydia stays unsummoned for now to not cause unneeded panic, and everyone else stands ready, even our new guy Ephran. Aside from being properly dressed in leather armor this time and wielding a flail, not a thing has changed about him since I last saw him in the vault. Still the same unkempt red beard.

"So, to keep things short, we'll take things a bit more slowly this time to see how it goes with our new member Ephran."

Marca asks, "Do you plan to experiment on monsters again? Last time it almost cost us dearly."

Yeah, yeah, "I know, Marca, and no, I won't. If that is everything, is everyone ready to go?"

They agree and we enter the dungeon again.

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Inside Chloe frees herself from Ephran's embrace for a moment, "Jared, Therese gave me the Class Core you 'requested' for... Iris."

"Ah, good, we'll put it to good use later", she hands me the item and I place it in my inventory.

She warns me, "You know that this isn't right, Jared. The application was for Iris to gain a combat class which she by now already has."

"I don't see the issue, Chloe. I will use it to gain a class that increases the number of classes my spirits can have. And one of my titles will then spread that additional class to her as well. So indirectly the Class Core will be used to give Iris an additional class EXACTLY as intended, or am I wrong?"

Chloe sounds disappointed, "No, you're not. And I know that we can't afford to hold anything back. But-"

I interrupt her, "Happy to hear that, so if that's all, let's get going."

We enter the cave-like floor and start fighting the monsters. We face the usual suspects like Crawlers, Math Rabbits, Rat Bears, Floor Mimics and Trash Bags.

New guy Ephran doesn't contribute too much, he doesn't have any good combat skills, not even a form of weapon training so he breaks a lot of weapons. By the time we reach the boss on the tenth floor he has already wasted a dozen weapons.

Since Ephran isn't a familiar yet - not sure if I really want to keep him around - he'll suffer from sleep deprivation soon, so we agree to fight the first boss and then escort him to the exit, afterwards we'll continue without him for now.

On floor 10 we meet an old acquaintance, a huge green wall made of slime. Though this time it stretches to the ceiling of the room, so even if we still had the skill, we couldn't backstab it with Maria's [Trust Fall] anymore.

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