Chapter 97: Delving even further

After about the tenth or so fight Simon got into a groove. Especially when every engagement boiled down to getting rushed by stone golems, surprisingly, he barely even thought about the other tamer whom he had helped some time ago. He thought seeing a human in such a situation would affect him somehow. That could not be further from the truth. Only when he took stock of everything that had happened since delving into that thought did the young man even come up to the equation.

Otherwise, Richard was already out of his mind. What took up more of his focus was the random events that kept popping up every now and then. Simon had yet to get a positive one and he had suffered from seven events and up to now every single one of them was a trap. The chance of something like that happening was actually so low that Simon was more amused than annoyed.

The good news was that he had the power to brute force every single one of them which might be the reason he took it so well.

This was another thing he noticed. All the monster girls he had been given were far above what they were supposed to be in strength.

How could he say this?

Simple, he sometimes mingled with the first-year tamers and got to know their monster girls. The prime example of this was his lanky friend. And he could say for certain that the monster girls he fielded could slaughter the others faster than they could blink.

These ones were probably in the same boat. But, they were much tougher, hit harder, and quite a few steps faster. He was even beginning to think the examiners might have rigged the game in his favor somewhat. Or he might have, if not for the fact that the golem he had just gotten was not performing at a significantly higher level.

He was pretty sure that he had the beginnings of a partial bond when it came to this new golem and having to call her with a bland name like Stone when it was highly likely he would bond her irked him somewhat. He would come up with a better one once he completed this delve.

But that was for later, right now he was trying to figure out why his team felt like they skipped a couple of tiers of power and went straight into major power. Another thing he needed to ask Flora he supposed. In fact, he promised himself that after this he would take a significant chunk of his time to do something he had been holding off for so long.

Training to master his powers.

Nobody would even blame him for the fact that he had not bothered. It held very little priority for most tamers given that they usually did not have much effect on the battlefield outside a desperate last ditch.

But those were other regular tamers. He was pretty sure that he had the juice to personally take down their entire party given that he had once gone toe to toe with a basilisk.

For a moment he broke his thoughts when the seat beneath him jerked forward. He shot a quick glance at the... flaming suits of armor rushing him...

That made him stop his ruminations and peer at his opponents.

Normally he would immediately go back into his own head but that was because all the monster girls that had faced till now were golems and his party could demolish them in seconds if not faster.

This time, however, they were faced with green luminescent living flame-looking humanoids clad in very bulky armor rushing their group. Except out of the six that had engaged four were acting as the frontlines with bulky metal armor and massive swords cloaked in a similar fame. The last two that were hanging back were wearing more leather gear and held in their glowing gloveless hands what looked like crossbows except that the arrows were constructed entirely of a similar solid flame arrow.

Said arrows fired as soon as he noticed whizzing through the air at blinding speeds directly at the torso of Bitsy. Simon wanted her to move out of the way at the speed of the projectiles and he was far too late to do anything. However, his spider brought up her two front spider legs at wicked speeds and both bolts hit her leg being stopped dead by her chitinous armor.

They did not penetrate a single millimeter and both bolts winked out similar to a normal fire as the bolts started falling.

Simon had another fight on her hands and this time he did not feel out of his depth.

He was actually feeling excited and all his monster girls felt his eagerness. He in turn felt their battle lust. Even his golem was raring to smash herself onto their foes.

This might actually be fun.