Hellmode ~Gamer Who Likes to Speedrun Becomes Peerless in a Parallel World with Obsolete Setting~ Vol. 5 - Chapter 240 - Golems

My friends and I ran away from the Blood-Blast-Beetle (a.k.a. Beebe) like rabbits.

Since Beebe had recovered all the damage it had received in the fight, we were unlikely to defeat it even if we lost.

I had defeated many magical beasts who had such healing ability in my previous life by moving around and not getting caught.

However, if a party mber were to get caught, the chance of defeating it would drop drastically.

I decided that even if we were to persist and win, it would have been at the expense of soone.

The slower the decision was made, the more the risk everyone was at.

I believed that the party leader had to have the ability to make decisions quickly.

Beebe was highly durable and fast, but we had no problem just running away. We were not going to get sneak attacked by Beebe.

My friends and I were on B-rank Birds who were using their awakening skill [Soar].

And if I wanted to, I could use my summons as decoys to be able to ensure our escape.

I even had ti to choose a place and lead it to a place where there were no adventurers nearby.

After so distance, Beebe stopped chasing us, so I also verified how far it would chase us.

I decided to investigate Beebe while collecting dals by defeating other Floor Bosses.

I wanted to know the search range and how long it had to be left unattended for to respawn about the magical beasts. Since there were no adventurers who were willing to hunt Beebe, it was a good target for such experints.

Apparently, if the magical beats didn't co in contact with adventurers for an hour or so, they disappear and appear randomly at another location.

In my opinion, the S-class dungeon lived up to its na with sothing like that even on the 2nd floor.

And it was no wonder to that half of the adventurers died within a year.

Over the next half day, we hunted the Floor Bosses as best we could and were able to obtain 3 Bronze dals.

After defeating a Floor Boss, a large dal fell to the ground along with the magic stone.

For so reason, we were unable to find the Treasure Chests that I had expected to find.

It was hard to imagine that there was not a single Treasure Chest in a 100 km radius.

I concluded that the Treasure Chest had spawned in a position that was difficult to find with E-rank Bird's [Clairvoyance].

[Clairvoyance] couldn't search over obstacles after all.

"Now, let's leave this damned awkward floor and move on to the next one."

"You're still saying that?"

"Of course. I haven't seen anything like this in a long ti."

"After a long ti, you say..."

Dogora, in dismay, went along with my words.

(We couldn't defeat the Floor Bosses because this floor is like a new map. I will never hunt on this floor again.)

In online gas, new dungeons, fields, etc. were sotis implented through version upgrades. That often caused a rush of players and the number of players often outnumbered the number of enemies.

I felt the sa way on the 2nd floor.

There was a cube-shaped object floating in front of us that was going to take us to the 3rd floor.

"Hello, Abandoned Gars. This is S201, the Dungeon Managent System. Would you like to go to the next floor? Or would you like to go back to the previous floor?"

"Go to the 3rd floor."

"Please give 3 Bronze dals to go to the 3rd floor."

"Here."

I gave 3 Bronze dals to the cube-shaped object.

The dals had patterns of Chickens and Lizards.

I found out when I got a Bronze dal that not all dals were the sa. A pattern that looks like a deford version of a defeated magical beast was carved in the dal, which was made of bronze.

"I have certainly received 3 Bronze dals. Let's go to the 3rd floor.'

The mont the cube-shaped object said so, my friends and I were transferred.

(Hmm, this is the 3rd floor? ...Nothing much different...huh? Hmm? The ground is sand. So it's a desert field.)

I looked at the 3rd floor.

My friends too, who had arrived, looked around to see if there were any changes in the empty space where the adventurers were.

Since the ground had changed from soil to sand, we knew that the 3rd floor was a desert.

"For so reason, there seems to be a lot of dwarves on this floor. Let's take a look at the whole place."

"Yes."

Cecile answered .

Using an E-rank Bird, I saw a square about 1 kiloter long on each side, just like the 2nd floor.

And away from the square, the desert continued, with sand rippling in places.

The terrain looked like a hill dotted here and there with chunks of rock.

(Oh! It's a Golem. There are a lot of them. As usual, they are different from the Golem I was expecting, but is this floor advantageous for Golem Users?)

Compared to the 2nd floor, the 3rd floor had more Golems strutting over the desert.

There were Golems on the 2nd floor as well, but they had little of the chanic feel I was expecting.

They were not robots at all, but were like puppet dolls.

The Golems had shiny copper sheen and weren't too burly.

They had long hands that almost touched the ground.

They had a head, but it would be buried in the chest area, so their hands grew out of the torso area in a flowing curve from shoulder height.

And although I was told they were 100 ters tall, most of them were only about 10 ters.

There were apparently so 100-ter tall Golems, but they were very rare.

The dwarves controlled the Golems by sitting inside their crystal belly.

There were a lot of beastn on the 2nd floor.

I pondered why it was.

Perhaps the 2nd floor, consisting of forests and grasslands, was advantageous for the beastn, who were quicker and allowed them to earn money faster.

A floor composed of forests and grasslands where Floor Bosses could be found and defeated quickly.

So there were many beastn on the 2nd floor.

Perhaps the beastn had so ability or sothing that allowed them to find many Treasure Chests that we could not find.

(Co to think of it, I didn't see that beastman Ur again. Well, I don't plan to go to the 2nd floor in the future, so maybe I won't see him again.)

I didn't et the party of beastn that we had rescued yesterday.

He talked about thanking us, but I didn't particularly want to urge them to do so, and there was no use of any thank you that I would get from adventurers who used the 2nd floor as their primary place of activity. Nor did I expect to hear any information about the dungeon from them that I couldn't find.

I didn't even know how many Bronze dals, which cost 100 Gold coins each, could they give us in exchange for their gratitude.

I didn't think we were ever going to et again, as we had no intention of seeking them out ourselves to get a thank-you.

"I see. Is this what Admiral Galara was talking about?"

I noticed sothing as I watched the Golems strolling through the desert.

"What's wrong? Allen."

"Oh, Cecile. Apparently, dwarves have an advantage in this desert."

"What do you an?"

I had noticed sothing, so I gathered to share information.

There were many parties on the 3rd floor consisting of only Golem users.

However there were also so parties with beastn, humans and dwarves.

"What do you an?"

"Well, rle. This desert apparently has a magical beast in the sand that is attacking us. It looks like the Golems get attacked first, and they protect the party."

A scorpion-like magical beast attacked a Golem advancing through the desert from the sand.

While the Golem had its hard armor that blocked the attack, the party's friends moved to surround it and the battle began.

I predicted it was so because the Golem was sturdy and resistant to surprise attacks.

So of the parties had beastn on the Golem's high shoulders, scouting the area from a higher vantage point.

Climbing onto the Golem's shoulders would protect them from danger, killing two birds with one stone.

Admiral Galara must have been aware of the situation on the 3rd floor when he said that on the 2nd floor.

Dwarf Golem Users were very useful on the 3rd floor.

"We'll have to work hard to find at least 5 stone slabs."

"Mm-hmm!"

(I won't say it out loud because of rle, but the Baukis Empire is a rip-off. Like 3,000 Gold coins for one Iron slab?)

In order to use the Magic Board to produce a Golem, stone slabs had to be fitted into the Magic Board.

There were 10 dents in a Magic Board into which stone slabs could be fitted.

To produce a Golem, one needed 5 basic stone slabs called 'Basic Stone Slabs'.

These 5 stone slabs (head, body, right hand, left hand, and foot), when fitted with the Magic Board, the most minimum version of Golem were completed. It was not enough just to collect five, but it was necessary to collect those exact five, one for each part of the body.

The temple would buy back any unwanted slab at 100 Gold coins for any part if it was Bronze-rank and 300 Gold coins for Iron-rank.

But the temple didn't only buy the unwanted slabs, they also sold them.

However, to buy a Basic Stone Slab of a Golem, whether Bronze or Iron, one had to pay 10 tis the selling price for each.

One Bronze Basic Stone Slab for 1000 Gold coins whereas the Iron ones went for 3000 Gold coins.

If soone wanted to buy all Basic Stone Slabs for an Iron Golem, they needed 15,000 Gold coins.

It would require twice of what I had. I couldn't afford it.

"Oh! There's sothing great out there!"

"What? Where?"

I raised my voice, so rle and everyone else reacted.

"There's a Golem gliding on the sand."

""Oh!""

(Is this the effect of a Special Slab?)

I recalled what rle had told about the possibilities of a Golem.

Golems had considerable utility outside of combat.

I had just seen a Golem gliding over the sand through the E-rank Bird.

The lower half of the Golem's body was like a boat, and it moved easily over the sand.

I could also see so adventurers on top of the Golem.

That was the effect of a Special Slab.

So of the stone slabs that could be fitted into the dents of the Magic Board could change the function and shape of the Golem.

rle told that there were also stone tablets for special purposes that allowed a Golem to advance through the sea or fly in the sky.

(At all costs, we need to find a Special Stone Slab that transforms the Golem into a house.)

I had one particular one that I wanted.

So of the stone slabs allowed the Golem to beco a house.

I had heard that it was as solid as a fortress and people could even sleep inside.

"Now, this is exciting. Let's hear the conditions for going to the next floor, and maybe even collect so stone slabs."

At a single word from Allen, his friends moved on to their next action.

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