Defense Specialization and the Towers First Floor4

During the event, the GMs manage both the common field and, in this case, the event field.

The sound of constant typing echoes through their room.

Even though theyre on the highest level of difficulty, theyre climbing it quite smoothly, huh?

A man murmurs while staring at a monitor.

The monitor is showing the current number of players and the highest floor. The players at the top at the list are playing on the highest level of difficulty, and are currently on the third floor of the tower.

Looks like it. Well, its full of troublesome bosses, so the race is far from over.

The other man replies without looking away from his own monitor, as he had no intention in stopping working even for a moment.

Maybe we can kick it up a notch overall The ones at the second-to-highest level of difficulty are advancing quite fast too.

The players are going through the tower faster than anticipated. The reason for this is that the players who could take on the highest level of difficulty are challenging the second-to-highest level instead.

Well, this has only just started. How does it look? Are we looking at some boss room?

Lets take a look at the highest difficulty. They seem to have just entered the room.

Understood. Okay done. Can you see it?

Ngh

After the man looks at the monitor, he groans as he closes his eyes, then shakes his head, and then opens his eyes slightly.

What had appeared on the screen was a girl wearing black armor and another girl in blue clothes.

In other words, Maple and Sally.

N Ngh Look.

The man had been expecting to see a regular players fight, but his wish hadnt come true.

On the screen, Maple and Sally are being attacked by a dragon.

Oh, its tough! Well, we cant have a boss that can be easily defeated with a bit of firepower, can we?

Still, that dragons breath attack has a piercing effect, doesnt it?

There has been a lot of planning poured into its movements too.

As the conversation goes on, the two players on the screen are shown to be engulfed by the dragons breath attack.

The mans expression changes into surprise as he sees that.

After all, Sally did not take any evasive action.

She didnt dodge it, huh? But she hasnt taken any damage. She seems to be quite powerful now.

She is now, yeah. Sally is quite kind, too. Ah, if only

The man covers his mouth with his hand and seems to ponder for a while.

Then, as soon as he opens his eyes wide as if suddenly having realized something, on the screen, Maple jumps into the dragons mouth.

What?

No! The bomb Ah!

A wave of deadly poison overflows from the dragons mouth, then lasers burst out, and lastly the sound of multiple explosions made by the black rocks. Then, as the dragon digs into the ground, a monstrous mouth goes through the dragons body from head to tail.

It It exploded

That That mouth

What went wrong here?

Its because its opened its mouth.

The two men are thinking that if the dragon had closed its mouth, it would not be a motionless rock by now.

Then, they could not help but vaguely thinking that the player who had defeated the dragon also sort of resembles a motionless rock herself.

Why did you have to jump before throwing those rocks? If you hadnt jumped, the dragon would have beaten you for sure!

The man spouts out quite an obvious question, but no one answers it.

The next boss cant open its mouth, so it should be okay something like this cant happen to it definitely not

Next boss? What have you come up with? Whats it like?

The seemingly glittering image of Maple, who had wrecked the dragons mouth, appears on the screen, and the mans thoughts vanish without a trace.

Hey, lets show this to the other guys later. Starting from the one who designed this dragon.

Ah sure.

The man who had suggested that they should share their tragedy with the others is actually the one who had designed the boss of the second layer, the one that Maple had blown to bits.

These men all share a common tragedy.

It wont turn out like this next time!

You say that every time!

The two men then leave the room in order to take a break.

Later, the man who had come to the room to see the footage of the battle with the dragon he had designed lets out a scream after seeing what had happened.