Chapter 554 There's Other Rejmars Here
?"... And then all of you really decided that scattering and fighting by yourselves would be the best choice of action?" Sebastian lectured.
I felt a little awkward as I watched our Head Butler discipline the others for the sloppy battle we went through just now.
Unfortunately I agree with Sebastian on this one...
If this was a normal Dungeon dive, I would normally be the one giving instructions from the back since I would have the clearer picture of the fight as the support. But Sebastian intentionally removed me from that position and, while the girls are very capable in their own right, they seem to have differing ideas on how to fight around me.
Well... Considering the fact that they would most likely be with me most of the time anyway, it wouldn't be a big problem... But I guess Sebastian isn't going to allow the scenario where they can't function without needing my input remain a possibility.
The girls were all seated on their knees in a row, accepting their lecture silently as they reflected on their past mistake.
They had first tried to point out that they managed to defeat all the monsters anyway until Sebastian mentioned that it placed unnecessary stress on the support with their actions, which made them all quiet down immediately.
I felt a little bad because I was of the idea that it was my duty to adapt to my party and support them but Sebastian said that this would just encourage them to be more reckless in the future.
He continued to lecture them for a good half an hour before he finally turned to me.
"Aster, please do use your authority when you need to and be firm when you do it. You are not a follower and their lives depend on you as their leader."
I nodded, "I will keep that in mind."
Sebastian seemed satisfied by my answer and gestured for the others to get up, "Alright. I think that's enough from me. I believe all of you already figured out your flaws by now so I want to see how all of you work on it. For the next floor, I shall be the one navigating and all of you are to respond to any threats we face on your own."
All of us answered affirmatively and returned to our formation with Sebastian at the front this time.
We descended to the next level of the Dungeon and I was quite surprised to see a group of Dungeoneers camped there.
I almost thought it was that Self-Proclaimed Harem King again, but it was a completely different party this time.
The first thing I noticed was that all of them were Rejmars and judging by the quality of the armour and weapons they had, all of them should be veterans.
I did a quick check using [Screened] and it seems like none of them were Off-Worlders and the average stats in this party was around the three hundreds range. They're pretty good.
The Rejmar wearing an armour that had a blue sheen perked up when he saw us.
"Oh? Pretty rare to see non-Rejmar Dungeoneers down here. You guys would normally just head to Dungeon City instead."
Sebastian waved at them, "Please don't mind us, we are merely just passing through."
The Rejmar raised an eyebrow, "What's with all that getup though? You guys have some kind of costume thing or what?"
"Godamnit! Didn't we talk about this just now you twat?! Stop smashing up the monsters!!" The spear Rejmar roared.
"Huh?! You asking the guy with the big hammer to not smash things?! How about you don't poke things with your spear you stupid twat?!" He roared back.
The Iatromancer was frantically wiping his robes, "Ughhh... I just cleaned myself after the last one too... Bleh... I think some got in my mouth..."
The tank was about to say something until he realised that we were standing behind them.
"Ah, hello. Sorry, are we blocking the path? We'll get out of your way now."
The warhammer wielding Rejmar wasn't as courteous though as he pointed his weapon at us, "What are you looking at? You wanna fight or something? That monster is ours so if you wanna steal it from us, I'll--"
The spear user smacked him with the butt end of his spear, "Shut up, dude. You're always like this... This is why you're still a fucking virgin. Not to mention why no girls want to join our party."
"Sh... Shut up! This has nothing to do with it!!"
"Yes it does!"
The tank ignored his two teammates and gestured for us to pass them.
We walked by them quickly and the sounds of their argument could still be heard even as we turned the corner.
That's... Interesting. I suppose the Dungeons I've been to so far have been relatively empty so I don't come across other Dungeoneers while I'm diving in them, much less see how the other teams work in a Dungeon setting where I was not a part of their party.
I wouldn't have minded seeing how those Rejmars were going to process that monster though.
And as though the universe heard my wish, we turned the corner to see another group of Dungeoneers gathered around a defeated golem while hacking away at it with pickaxes.
This group was also Rejmars which made me wonder if only Rejmars would come to this Dungeon under normal circumstances.
This party even seemed to have a designated porter as well since they were placing all the rocks mined from the golem into one of their party member's bags in particular.
That porter in particular noticed us, "Hey, you aren't here to rob us, right?"
That prompted the rest of his party to stop and turned to us with their pickaxes still raised in the air.
Sebastian raised his hand in greeting, "We are just passing by. Although I wish to ask, there seems to be more Dungeoneers in here than usual, is there a reason for that?"
He shrugged, "We're just accepting a quest to get down here to gather materials. Dunno about the rest though. Client's paying us a pretty penny to do it too.
"I see... Thank you."
The Rejmar grunted and went back to disassembling the monster.
Oh, so there's normally not supposed to be this many people around huh. So what's going on here?