These Familiars Are Strange

After taming the manta rays, we didn't waste any time.

Only we didn't keep heading forward in the same direction.

Instead, we turned around and started moving in the opposite direction, meaning that we were going back to the same place as before.

When we came back, all I did was leave the manta rays with the gnome who looked very uncomfortable at being left alone with the manta rays. Only I didn't care what the gnome thought or how he felt.

The only thing that mattered was gathering our forces in this dungeon and getting as much information as we could.

So other than leaving behind the manta rays, I also dropped off another load of monster cores for the gnome to keep producing sets of living armour with.

With the Scavenger Rabbit's ability, it was easy for me to get all of these monster cores. At a certain point, they were just taking up space in my Storage Ring.

If it wasn't for the fact that I kept them to prepare for the future, I would have already turned them into money.

After dropping off the manta rays, we headed off in the opposite direction of where we went before.

This was the direction that the other monster that the gnome told us about was in.

Once again, it was the sets of living armour that were leading the way, but there were far more of them with us this time. During the time that we had spent going to find the manta rays, the gnome hadn't stopped churning out those sets of living armour.

Though it seemed like the gnome had used a method different from the one that he showed us since there were far more than there should have been. It seemed that he was producing more sets of living armour and at a faster rate.

There were over twenty of them now and we took half of them with me.

It seemed like the gnome wanted to send everything except two to protect himself with us, but I stopped him from doing that.

Too many of these sets of living armour following us would just draw attention.

We didn't want to draw attention while we were slowly gathering our forces.

So even half was actually considered a bit too many, but it was safer this way;

It didn't take long for us to arrive at the place where the monsters were supposed to be.

The moment that we arrived, the same thing happened where the sets of living armour raised their hands to stop us from proceeding any further. It seemed like they were planning on setting up a formation with the way that they moved.

But they didn't get a chance to show off that formation since there was movement that came from in front of us.

It didn't take long for the owner of those sounds to appear.

There were indeed horns that were on the head of these monsters, but they had an appearance that I just didn't expect.

I thought that with the description that the gnome gave us, they would be demons or something similar. But it turned out that it wasn't anything like that, it didn't even fit the fantasy style that the gnome and living armour embodied.

It was an ogre, but it wasn't the normal kind of ogre that would exist in a magic fantasy world.

Rather, it was an ogre that had horns and red skin.

This was the kind of ogre that would appear in Japanese fantasy, instead of medieval fantasy.

Seeing them, I couldn't help being a bit dazed.

After all, it became harder and harder to figure out what this dungeon was with the different pieces of information that I was learning.

At first I thought that it would be some kind of medieval fantasy dungeon since there were gnomes and living armour.

The manta ray threw me off a bit since it didn't exactly fit the theme of magic fantasy, but it was still able to broadly fall under the same categorization.

Then when these ogres appeared, I was just completely thrown into confusion.

It didn't seem like this dungeon had a single theme connecting it, it was as if it was some kind of mish mash dungeon that had a bit of everything…

I still remembered what the organizers had said before we came into the dungeon.

The one clue that they gave us was related to the Boss Monster of the dungeon and what was necessary to clear it. The one that cleared the dungeon would surely be the first place in this competition.

So I had to figure out what the clue meant based on the information that I could get from this castle.

Only I became more and more frustrated as I thought about what this castle was.

"Roar!"

That was the sound of the ogre's roar before it started charging at us and the sound that pulled me out of my thoughts.

I had to admit that I vented a bit on the ogre since it interrupted me while I was frustrated.

"That's enough from you."

As soon as I said this, the Echo Bat opened its mouth and the ogres froze on the spot.

The same thing happened where they just stood there in place as if they had fallen into a daze.

Wang Rong revealed a bitter smile as he slowly brought down the great sword that he had raised above his head. It seemed that he had been prepared to swing this great sword down at the ogres, but he just didn't get the chance to show off at all.

Before even reaching him, his enemies completely lost the will to fight.

I patted him on the shoulder and said, "You'll get your chance soon. Just wait for it." Explore more stories with My Virtual Library Empire

He looked at me with a bitter smile at first, but eventually Wang Rong gave a nod in response.

I didn't wait for his response as I turned around and waved my hand to say, "Let's gather back there and figure out what to do next."