Chapter 209: Spectators & The Demon King’s Army of Immortals

Inside the master control room while Merdie and the girls were being surrounded by the monsters on the 11th layer —

“Whoa, the number of maho gnomes is just insane…”

Youko could fire a powerful magical beam so if it was her, she could easily annihilate all the maho gnomes not withstanding their resistance to magic.

However, one wouldn’t normally think that they would be surrounded by over a hundred B-ranked monsters inside a dungeon, so she sympathized with Merdie as the latter desperately fought against them.

“It’s really a nuisance if crenus paired up with maho gnomes.”

“I-I don’t think... I can do the 11th floor.”

“Indeed, that might be possible. If Leaffa will challenge this dungeon, then let’s ask Halt to lower the difficulty level for a bit.”

Leaffa and Tina were having a discussion.

“O-Oy, Halt! Seira’s safe, right?! I didn’t know you’re gonna send her to a place teeming with B-ranked monsters!!”

“Don’t worry, Elmia. If things get dangerous then I’m going there to rescue them right away. Besides —”

“Merdie is there, so we believe she will be alright.” (Mai and Mei)

“That’s how it is ~” (Hakua)

Halt’s intuition told him that Merdie would be able to clear this floor.

It’ll be a fierce battle, but she would come out stronger if she managed to overcome this floor.

Right now, Merdie was lacking in the ability to shorten the necessary breaks she took whenever she released powerful magic and unleashed her attacks.

If she encountered an enemy that was as strong as her, or perhaps even more powerful, there was no way she would be able to win if she couldn’t unleash a decisive blow without having to take the time to build up her power

Moreover, Halt believed that if she couldn’t do anything about the duration, then she could do the opposite, lengthening the time to accumulate enough energy that would obliterate her opponent with just a single blow.

The current Merdie was still half-baked with regards to both attack speed and the power she could unleash with each strike.

“Halt, I’m not sure if I’m imagining things, but those monsters look like they’re being controlled by someone.”

“Yup yup, that’s what I thought too. It’s like they're all aiming for Merdie, and they’re focusing their attacks on her. Normal monsters usually attacked the weak first.”

“Yeah, Sylph and Hakua got it right. I’m controlling all of them.”

“EH?!” (All)

“I want Merdie to either shorten the stops between her attacks, or be able to do a one-hit kill and obliterate all of her opponents in a single strike. If I push her to the limit, she’ll definitely improve.”

Halt prepared this floor to aid Merdie’s progress.

— Merdie’s yell suddenly resounded from the monitor.

“I’m going with all I got!! Take this, meow!!”

All the monsters in that area were annihilated with Merdie’s attack.

“See, told you Merdie can do it.”

Halt looked satisfied as he stroke Sylph’s head while she sat on her lap.

It was an unconscious gesture brought about by his happiness at Merdie’s progress.

“Y-yup, I also think she’s amazing.” (Sylph)

Sylph agreed with Halt, happy that he was patting her.

“Halt, I also know now that Merdie is so amazing. That’s why pat me too!”

“Hmmm. I’m going to praise Hakua a lot if you can clear the floor I’m going to put you in next time.”

“Eh, then this time… you won’t?”

“C’mere, just a bit, okay?”

Hakua looked sullen because she thought Halt wouldn’t pat her head, so Halt gave in and stroked her.

“T-thankie. Next time, when it’s my turn, I’m going to do my best too! I’m going to show the previous Dungeon Master’s true strength and have you praise me, Halt!!”

“Yeah, good luck.”

Halt was planning to let Hakua battle the warlock that he tamed in order to gauge its power.

Hakua didn’t have an inkling that she would be pitted against a warlock that had been strengthened to the level of a demon king.

“Merdie’s attacks were truly astounding so it captured all my attention, but now that I think about it, aren’t you amazing too, Halt? Being able to tame more than a hundred B-ranked monsters….”

“I agree with you, Luna. Halt isn’t a Tamer in the first place, and yet he can use those monsters as he pleases; and see, he’s still as cool as a cucumber even though all of those monsters had been destroyed. So unbelievable.”

Luna and Ryuka calmly analyzed the degree of difficulty of Halt’s accomplishments.

Usually, tamers would form a bond with monsters when they tamed them.

It was precisely because of that bond that the monsters obeyed whatever they said.

However, forming a bond with the monsters wasn’t always a good thing.

If the monsters they tamed were slain, it would also have a damaging impact to the mental health of the tamer.

Halt tamed a hundred monsters, and yet he didn’t receive any damage when they were all defeated.

His method was a power play, forcing them to submit using his colossal amount of mana, after all.

As for the reason why he didn’t receive any damage —

It was because [Static Status] curse of the Evil God.

It was also the same when he accepted the master-servant contract with Youko.

Youko needed to obey Halt because of the contract, but Halt didn’t have an ounce of overwhelming the desire to protect her as an effect of the contract.

Halt tamed the monsters, so the monsters formed a bond with him, but he didn’t form a bond with them.

Nonetheless, all the monsters in the dungeon were emotionally attached to Halt.

He wasn’t a cold-hearted guy that could use them without regard.

Thus, Halt incorporated the Resurrection spell into the Dungeon Core so that all the monsters in the 11th layer of this dungeon and beyond would be revived again even if they were to be defeated.

This Dungeon Ruins not only revived the challengers, it also revived the monsters.

By the way, everyone apart from Halt could get EXP and level up if they defeated the monsters here.

Halt created a system that allowed him to convert his own unlimited mana into levels for his comrades.

Moreover, all of the approximately one thousand monsters on the eleventh and subsequent layers were under Halt’s control, and all of them could also be revived.

In short, Halt was raising an army of a thousand immortal monsters within this Dungeon, but —

Apparently, he wasn’t really aware of this fact himself.

The final boss of the dungeon was a warlock whose power was at par with a demon.

He also possessed an immortal nature.

In terms of difficulty, this warlock was worthy to be ranked among the demon kings.

Halt had raised the Demon King’s army of immortals in order to train his comrades.