Compared to yesterday, are the battles today harder for you?
Yes, they are definitely harder than the ones yesterday when I was an Explorer.
Well, yeah, there is no reason for the battles today to be easier than the ones you were engaging in yesterday, because yesterday you were not Explorer Lv.10 as you think you were, but rather Villager Lv.3 who increased her level to Villager Lv.5.
Do you think you will be able to take on the Floor Boss like that?
Yes, I will do my best.
As much as I want to say something along the lines of That is the spirit, Sherry! or You are so brave, Sherry!but when faced with Rapid Rabbit, the best of a character who has their Job only on Lv.2 might not be good enough. Maybe this is too dangerous to allow Sherry to fight the Floor Boss of the seventh floor while being a Master Smith? Maybe I should switch her Job back to Explorer just for the course of the Boss battle? If this was a test or an exam, then I could have allowed Sherry to try tackling the challenge that was to come at us exactly as she was right now, but this is not a test, and what we are doing now is not a drill. This is the Labyrinth, the real deal. If she goes to challenge the Rapid Rabbit unprepared or too weak to pull her own weight, then the only thing that is going to await her is going to be certain death. Especially since Rapid Rabbit is deceptively fast, and that speed of his makes it possible for him to attack its targets numerous times in a row without them being able to react to its assault fast enough.
Okay then, here is how we are going to proceed: we will go challenge the Floor Boss now, but just to be on the safe side I am going to set Sherrys Job back to Explorer Lv.10 so as to eliminate the risk of you fighting under too big of a handicap, all right?
The next time the Rapid Rabbit closed in on us to attack, it chose Roxanne as its primary target, but as usual, she was able to avoid all of its attempts at biting into her throat by swiftly dodging out of the harms way. For me, it was amazing how she was able to pull something like that off and be faster than Rapid Rabbit with just her own agility alone, while I needed Slow the Rapid Rabbit with Overwhelming if I even wanted to think about dodging its attacks.
Roxanne blocked another of its attempts at attacking her with her shield, and then slashed it with her Scimitar, sending it flying backwards just like I did before, and Sherry was right there to follow that attack up with a thrust of her spear, causing the rabbit to fly even farther back diagonally before it could even touch the ground.
I did it!
Yeah, you sure did, Sherry. That was amazing!
I was not sure if that attack was going to pay off, but now that it did I am really glad that I decided to try it out.
Certainly, no matter how powerful you might be, under normal circumstances no one is going to be able to change the direction they are heading towards after being sent flying, so Sherrys decision to attack the Rapid Rabbit while it was still in the air was a pretty smart one. If we keep attacking it while it is in the air where it is at its most vulnerable, we should be able to take it down effortlessly. That is the strength of the attacks made with the long weapon like the spear, and combined with Sherrys quick thinking it is going to bring our Party the victory.
When it finally recovered from the shock of being sent flying, the Rapid Rabbit started running again, coming towards me once more. Oh yeah, that is right, come at me, monster. And once you do. . . . .