"I never actually got your names," I pointed out.

"I am so sorry! I am Sorria! This is Kira, Dida and Tensay!" She introduced, gesturing to herself, the tank, the archer and then the mage in that order.

I nodded at her, "I am Aster and my party members here--"

"Unnecessary," Eins interrupted.

I turned to look at Eins in surprise.

Eh? Oh… She doesn't want them to know their names?

That was definitely unexpected… But I guess since we most likely wouldn't be meeting them after this, there was no need to tell them either.

Sorria waved her hand quickly, "Ah, that's ok! I understand why you might want to hide your names! It's alright, really!"

Whoops, she must have thought I was worried Eins offended her or something and she didn't want there to be a disagreement between us.

I simply nodded at her, "Alright then, do you need some time to prepare, Sorria?"

She shook her head, "We're all ready to go at your command!"

"Alright then… Charge!!"

The four girls led the way into the boss room, their weapons drawn and prepared for the boss fight.

Their tank, Kira, had her shield up as she charged while the other three followed behind her.

Right behind them was myself and my Shadow Guards, though we were admittedly more relaxed than they were.

As soon as all of us entered the boss room, the Minotaur Warband Leader stomped his foot on the ground and eight Dungeon Minotaurs appeared at the bottom of the hill.

They let out an intimidating roar before arranging themselves in a line, forming a wall to block us.

Hmm… The number of summons is the same as the number of people here… I wonder if that was a coincidence or was it deliberate?

Heedless of the number of monsters in front of her, Kira charged towards the wall of minotaurs with her shield raised while letting out a battlecry.

The minotaurs in the centre braced themselves to receive the charge, expecting themselves to be able to stop the charging Mahun who was only about three quarters their size. RÃNȯ฿Êṩ

Right before Kira hit the minotaur wall however, she let out another shout.

"[Battering Ram]!"

Her shield glowed and she smashed into the two minotaurs in the centre.

Instead of stopping her, the two minotaurs got sent flying back and that Valour Skill seemed to have an effect of amplifying the area of the shield bash as the two minotaurs that had been standing beside the first two also got sent flying.

The three girls behind her followed after their tank, taking advantage of the chaos to start attacking the minotaurs who were still disoriented from the attack.

Sorria slashed her swords in a flurry of strikes at one of the downed minotaurs, scoring several gashes on its head and neck which were not enough to kill it but definitely enough to wound it.

Dida shot several arrows in quick succession, the projectiles impaling the chest of one of the minotaurs that had not been affected by the earlier shield bash, forcing it to stumble back several steps in surprise.

Tensay then revealed herself as a mage proficient in Electromancy as she unleashed a [Spark Strike] that struck the same minotaur shot by Dida and electrocuted it.

The minotaur let out a pained groan before falling on its back, its body twitching from the electrical currents still shocking its body despite it being dead.

Just like what Sorria said, another minotaur appeared to replace the one that just died albeit higher up the hill, the monster letting out a roar of challenge at us.

Kira seemed to have expected that as she hadn't stopped running this entire time so she shifted her path towards the newly summoned minotaur with her shield still raised.

This time, the minotaur did not just wait for the Mahun to reach him and instead started charging towards her as well.

Right before they clashed, Kira suddenly stopped herself and slammed her shield on the ground.

"[Fortress]!"

The minotaur slammed into her shield but ended up getting flipped over the Mahun to crash into the ground behind her.

She then spun around to raise her shield up in the air to let it hover over the minotaur's head before letting out another cry.

"[Tombstone Drop]!"

There was a loud crash as the heavy shield was smashed into the minotaur's face, pulverising it into meat paste.

At this point, I finally reached the line of minotaurs and I started taking care of the minotaurs that were still left over from the initial blow.

Sorria had managed to kill two in that period of time while Dida and Tensay worked together to kill another one.

Four more minotaurs appeared a little higher up the hill, this time instead of being the normal variants, they were Minotaur Guards.

Kira paused, probably not expecting herself to be faced with four halberd wielding minotaurs so suddenly so she held her ground instead of charging forward like before.

Not gonna lie though, they're doing better than I thought they would.

The fact that they knew that many Valour Skills means this party was actually quite experienced.

The last four minotaurs from the first line tried to attack the four girls from behind but that was a fatal mistake as they had completely forgotten about me and my Shadow Guards.

Each of us simply picked one of the minotaurs and jumped at them from behind, knocking them to the ground and killing them by decapitating their heads.

We then rejoined Sorria's party where we were now facing eight Minotaur Guards, all of them with their halberds lowered to point at us, forming a spear wall.

"Think you can charge this one?" Sorria asked her tank.

Kira let out a wry chuckled, "I'll get skewered, leader… But I might be able to knock down two of them if you need me to?"

"Let me try something…" Tensay injected, waving her staff in front of her as she started to chant. "Anchor of storms I call upon thee, summon forth your lightning's gaze. Bring down the wrath from heaven's high to strike deep into the earth below. With crack and flash this rod I weave, let the enemies that come near it grieve! [Lightning Rod]!"

A metallic spike appeared above the mage which she then shot towards the minotaur in the centre.

Either because it was too slow to react or these minotaurs were summoned to hold firm no matter what happened, the minotaur did not avoid the spike and it impaled itself into its chest.

The spike then started to glow before lightning sparked out from the tip, striking the minotaur to the right of the one that had been impaled by the spike.

Both of their bodies seized up as the electrical currents paralysed them, not even allowing them to scream out in pain.

"Now!" Sorria yelled, charging forward.

Kira also charged beside her, right as another streak of lightning arced out to strike the minotaur on the left of the spike.

Dida pulled back on her bow and sucked in a breath, "[Piercing Gale]!"

The arrow glowed right before it was shot out from her bow with a blast of wind, streaking across the distance and blowing a hole through the first minotaur's chest.

Another arc of lightning shot out from the spike to strike the second minotaur, this time killing it as it was blown back in an explosion of sparks.

Sorria reached the third minotaur that was still paralysed and leapt up into the air with both her swords held high.

"[Guillotine]!"

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Her swords became a flash of red light as her body blurred downwards, cutting the minotaur into three.

Another three minotaurs appeared slightly higher up the hill which consisted of two Minotaur Guards and… Holy crap, is that a Steel Minotaur?!

While the newly summoned Minotaur Guards remained where they were, the Steel Minotaur let out a roar and charged towards us.

Sorria was unfortunate enough to be in his path and it looked like she didn't have time to jump to safety and was about to get crushed.

"[Battering Ram]!" Kira roared, slamming herself against the side of the charging monster with her shield.

That managed to send the monster off its original path, causing it to slam itself into the back of another Minotaur Guard and squashing it under its weight.

Unfortunately for Kira, she did not escape unscathed as she wasn't able to completely negate the impact and got sent flying back.

One of the Minotaur Guards took that opportunity to turn around and raise its halberd, swinging it down right as Kira came into range.

The poor girl was smashed into the ground right before another halberd came thrusting down to skewer her abdomen.

She didn't even get to scream as another halberd descended and lopped her head off, killing the tank.

Oh shit… Are you girls really sure that--

Light enveloped her corpse before she suddenly disappeared to reappear in the air, completely good as new except she was now bound by chains that hung from the ceiling and she looked to be unconscious.

Ok… So that's how that works… Good to know.

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