The force of animals broke through to another part of the second floor and started to explore. Within a large cavern with several tunnels towards spikes and dead ends, the animals gathered together. Almost all that were left were magic beasts, on edge and ready to attack everything.

  The dungeon fairy appeared in the center of the room, charging up an attack for a moment before stopping and fading back into nothing. The animals instantly summoned their magic and attacked, but by then their target had disappeared. Instead, their spells attacked each other.

  They were probably not intelligent creatures before they were sent into the dungeon, and with the divine madness they had only the most basic abilities of cooperation. Many before this were already injured and weak from their grueling invasion.

  A solid number of the animals fell to these spells, and the rest became blinded by rage and attacked back in retaliation. The two powerful earth magic beasts and the powerful plant magic user were the few that didn’t attack back, though they were weak enough to hide and flee.

  Jacob floated in shock at the scene in front of him. He had expected for something more to happen, for the animals to band together or stop attacking each other quickly. Instead, it turned out that he had overestimated the enemy.

  It seemed that the intelligence he had perceived was mostly luck and instinct, or maybe it was some influence from the strongest magic beasts. In the fourth wave and maybe the third, there will be a rank of magic beast called a general who can command and coordinate the animals they fight with.

  Perhaps this was what happened here, only to a lesser degree? He didn’t know, and he was too tired to figure it out. With this, the wind magic bird died or was fatally injured from the crossfire. Most of the magic beasts were dealt with. Now, he had to deal with the final few enemies.

  The three surviving strongest beasts were something he would deal with later, right now he was more worried about cleaning up the remaining weaker magic animals. He had forgotten the strength and power of many weaker spellcasters—something he falsely thought he could get around.

  However, he tried his best to avoid killing when it wasn’t necessary. At the third wave, he would need to have a small army of his own. While the bear would be his strongest weapon, it was hard to resist tens of spells attacking at the same time.

  After all other animals were dealt with, he then planned around the strong deer. The thing had plant magic but it lacked any decent ranged attacks, which the dungeon fairy would be able to take advantage of. This contrasted with earth magic, which did have a ranged spell where they summoned small rocks and pebbles from the ground or walls and shot them.

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  For the earth magic users, it was time for him to introduce the bear. He marked the bear and the dungeon fairy floated off to transport it to the location he needed. Currently, those two were separated from each other. He didn’t want to give them the chance to reunite.

  The bear slowly rose from the ground and the dungeon fairy unwrapped from it. Jacob then gave the bear a command to attack the closest earth user. The bear walked through the cave till it came to the lone magic beast.

  It screamed and summoned a ring of small rocks and dust that floated around it like asteroids around a star. It tried to fuse the pebbles into a larger rock and shoot it at the bear, but its spell took too long to cast.

  The bear roared and almost bumped its head on the low ceiling and swiped with its claw. A very weak magic aura clinged to its striking claws as it lashed out. The basic reinforcement spell combined with its strong claws and carved through the earth magic and into the scaled skin of the magic beast.

  The magic beast cried from its injury and used earth magic to cast its own inferior version of reinforcement. The bear roared again and attacked, its claws still ripping through the earth using lizard.

  The bear was only barely a magic beast. Compared to the enemy it was fighting, its aura of magic was too slim to compare. However, it was naturally strong and heavy, when allowed for it to attack much better. Even without reinforcement, it would still be able to do damage.

  The battle attracted the other earth–using beast, which joined in the battle. During the attack, Jacob used the dungeon fairy to attack and distract these two monsters and reduce the strain on the bear.

  The dungeon fairy’s attack had an interesting effect on aggro. Those hit by it caused them to develop a slight fixation and tunnel vision on the dungeon fairy. This was the reason why the bear didn’t flee as it got injured and why the undead wolf at the beginning stopped attacking the dungeon core.

  This was enough to cause the monster to forget the bear and open themselves up to attack. The bear’s claws ripped through both of the monsters until they were fatally injured. He had no intention of adopting these animals into the dungeon; earth magic would always be troublesome no matter which side used it. He didn’t want to constantly clean up his destroyed dungeon after a battle.

  The plant magic deer though was a different story. Plant magic had healing applications, and it wasn’t too expensive to outright change its magic to healing if he needed to. Plant magic was also naturally useful for a utility monster.

  He wasn’t going to risk it by having the bear get involved, instead he sent his dungeon fairy to reduce its health. The deer’s magic was naturally restricted due to the lack of plants in the dungeon, with it only able to use it through the wood antlers on its head. Leaves and vines grew from the antlers to try and shield from the attacks.

  The deer rushed towards the dungeon fairy to attack. Jacob anticipated in time and the dungeon fairy turned intangible before it could gain new damage. He kept trying but the deer was faster than he expected and while it didn’t have a ranged attack, its vine whips had a longer reach than he realized.

  He led the deer to the upward shaft that led to the dungeon core and floated the dungeon fairy out of the deer’s reach and kept attacking it. He was half tempted to use the bear to help, but he forced himself to be patient. Slowly, the deer got weaker, until it became too exhausted and fell to the ground.