RImuru's Elegant Escape Play

Chapter 13

The morning of the fourth day.

The light of the sun was blinding yet warm, which made it hard to believe that there had been such a fight last night.

The intense battle with the poison tiger had gone on all through the night.

They had somehow been able to drive it away, and now everyone was sleeping deeply as if they were dead.

No one had died in the fight, but many were heavily wounded.

The casualties had stopped there because Moss had been ordered to protect everyone, but it would not have been strange if the outcome was one of a majority death, had I not intervened.

It wasn't so much that Julius was a bad commander, but that the enemy was too strong.

It was like asking an elementary school student to defeat a soldier. There was too much of a gap in basic combat abilities.

In fact, it was one of the strongest on the island.

Semi-Demon Lord rank power was nothing to scoff at.

But nevermind that. A much more important incident has occurred...

So let us go back for a moment, and I will explain what it was that had happened.

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The combat teachers stood in the forefront and faced the poison tiger.

Unlike the time with Laplace, they were fully prepared.

Physical boosts through magic and skills, physical boosts through items. And completely equipped with unique equipment.

Their power was equal to an A-rank... However, an A-rank could be quite diverse.

A-rank. It was proof that you were at the strongest level in this world.

There was an enormous barrier to being admitted as an A- enough to set yourself apart

from everything that is beneath it. It was the seat of the strongest.

However, that was before–before the great war.

Now that the Tempest unique rank equipment was circulating, it had become quite easy to achieve an A-rank.

People who have conquered different layers inside of the labyrinth often sold their acquired items on the black market, which meant that people were able to buy them with money.

Of course, acquiring unique equipment through such means would not allow you to use the equipment to its fullest potential.

If your base level had not reached a certain point yet, then you, of course, would not be able to break through the A-rank barrier.

Because of all of this, each school had a number of A-rank teachers employed there.

And yet...

With the threat of the monsters in front of us, it did not seem excessive.

Hazard rank, Calamity rank, and the old Demon Lord level, which was Disaster rank.

In the end, there was even the Catastrophe rank, which no one would touch.

As we were the only Catastrophe ranks, it wasn't really something we had to consider, but the Hazard rank monsters ruled their territories in many lands. And so allowing a degree of the unique rank equipment to circulate was partially in order to increase the number of people who could fight them.

Because of this, damages from monsters all of over the world had decreased dramatically.

As for comparing the teachers and monsters in terms of power, we were at a great disadvantage, just as I had predicted.