Chapter 49 Strongest Sage, Runs Through Dungeon
A god people believe in has the sa na as the past huh.
With how the swordsmanship god's na is also the sa as a sword nerd I was acquainted with in my past life, these are sure so coincidences.
…It's a coincidence right?
"Even Mathi-kun shouldn't be able to get to floor 25… That floor 23 record is in another dungeon, no one has gone past through floor 20 in this dungeon, so we don't know anything about it you know? If you went without preparation and sothing happened to you…"
"Nothing to worry about. I can probe floor 25's state by using the high magic version of 【Passive Detection】. Though well, I'm planning to go back if it looks like it'll take too long."
By the way, half of that was a lie.
That magic does exist, but I currently can't use it now.
However, up to floor 25, there's not much difference in monster's strength in any dungeon, so I already know what to expect even without actually diving into one.
The world has largely changed during my reincarnation, but fortunately, the inside of dungeons don't change much.
You even can say that the knowledge I have about past dungeons are all applicable today.
Well, I'm still gonna withdraw if it looks dangerous though.
"Hi-high magic…"
"True, if it's Mathi-kun, I feel like he can cos back from floor 25 calmly… Or rather, I feel like he'll co back after defeating a monster that doesn't usually appear…"
"Is that Alma's intuition?"
"Un."
That reminds , Alma's intuition was said to be correct often.
There are people like that in my past life too. I don't understand the concept behind it though.
Well, I will co back for sure, but there's little chance of eting a strong monster.
Such monsters do exist, but you rarely ever encounter one.
The chance increases in a floor that hasn't been or never been treaded upon by people in a while… I'd better keep my expectation in check.
"So then, could you lend a sword we used for mining."
"Ha… I understand. But you have to absolutely co back okay."
Ruli gave a sword with 【Brittle Fracture】 made for mining from among the two swords on her waist while saying that.
The walls get harder as you go deeper in a dungeon, so I'd like to have an augnted sword with .
Half of my objective this ti is gathering tal.
"Yeah. I'll co back for sure. But I can't promise that it won't get prolonged. You two should go back ahead of if I don't return in two hours. Well, I plan to co back in one hour though."
"No! I'm not going back without Mathi-kun…"
"If you don't, the Camp would lose its effect and my chance of returning alive would decrease instead."
This is the truth.
Since I can make a Camp up until floor 20 alone, I can make use of it to restore my stamina and mana if things get dangerous.
Well, getting stuck in such a situation on a re floor 20 isn't even in the equation though.
"…I understand. I'll go back."
Looks like she's assented.
"Then, I'm gonna head off for a bit! Take care not to leave the Camp okay!"
I checked the Camp's and the floor's mana once again and then left after making sure that there would be no problem in the next two hours.
By relying on the flow of mana, I ran straight floor 10 down the stairs to floor 11.
I'm ignoring monsters I et on the way. Fighting them would only waste my mana and ti.
Rush Bulls are the new monsters on floor 11. It's a bull type demon.
It's stronger than a Killer Dog, but they're both small fry.
However I should beat one just in case.
Estimating from the mories of my past life and its mana reaction, I fire a magic with the least amount of mana to kill it in one blow.
One of Rush Bulls died just as expected.
I've no business with Rush Bulls anymore so I ignore the second one.
I can't move at maximum speed while erasing my presence but I've got no choice here.
In addition to Physical Reinforcent magic, I only invoked a mobility magic, 【Friction Reduction】 and ran past the monster.
The Rush Bull imdiately ran after when it saw running past it, but it's slow.
I'm only running, but our distance gradually gets bigger.
It's impossible for a Rush Bull's speed to catch up to and my 【Friction Reduction】.
Thus I reached floor 12.
The ti needed to reach floor 12 from the mont I entered floor 11 was about 70 seconds.
That's about the average when you advance through a dungeon on the shortest route you get from asuring the flow of mana.
By the way. 【Friction Reduction】 is a magic that reduces air friction when you move about, speeding you up.
There's a lot more magic that can make go faster and is easier to manage than 【Friction Reduction】, but this magic is overwhelmingly better at mana consumption. Almost zero even.
Thus, I chose to use this magic since I wasn't particularly in a hurry.
I went down many floors, ignoring nurous monsters just like that.
"…This is floor 20 huh."
15 minutes after I went solo.
I arrived at floor 20, the deepest cleared floor of this dungeon in this age.
As I got deeper, the passages beca narrower with many twists and turns, slowing my moving pace down.
Now that it's co to this, it's quicker to beat the monsters rather than trying to shake them off, so I continue the journey while doing just that.
However--.
"They're a bit better now but… still weak as always."
I sighed while lopping off the head of a boar monster with a sword enchanted just with 【Steel Slash】 to save mana.
I an, even Biffgel can defeat the monster if you bundle up 300 of him together.
Since a Killer Dog can probably be beaten by 10 Biffgel, I guess you can still call this a progress.
A gathering of 300 Biffgel is really really bad for my ntal health though, so please no, just no.
It's not all bad since the monsters being weak ans it's easier for to progress on, but that also ans weak materials.
I'd like for sothing less objectionable if possible.
--If this is the deepest cleared floor, the academy's battle force is really low.
The demons' plan to abate humanity power by way of chantless magic seems to be a huge success.
…Even while saying that, I'm stowing magic stones, hides, claws and light but usable materials into Storage magic.
Dismantling them is easy with magic anyway.
In that respect, the War Tiger I t in my trip to Royal Capital wasn't too bad.
It's at a level where I could beat it in one blow, but it's also not too weak.
It's a quite an efficient monster for scraping up exp and magic stones.
"Well, many more monsters of that level will probably co out as I go deeper."
I advance through the dungeon while talking to myself.
I'm paying attention to the mana reaction of the walls instead of monsters'.
Besides mithril and iron, adamantite starts to be found mixed in around this floor.
Mixing even a little adamantite with other tal to form an alloy will grant considerable strength to it.
I'd very much like to get my hand on it.
…Therefore, let's secure it.
I found a place with a good amount of adamantite from the mana reaction, put 【Mana Slash】, 【Brittle Fracture】, and 【Toughening】 on the mining sword, and broke the wall altogether.
And then I recrystallized the crumbled rocks, produced dungeon crude ores out of them and put them into Storage magic.
These will produce adamantite if we refine it seriously later.
That said, refining adamantite is quite tough, the current can probably get around 3% out of these ores. Even Ruli can only get 2.5% currently.
Ruli can probably improve that percentage to 80% in one year, compared to getting to 3.5% in that ti. It's the so-called limit of the Fourth Crest.
Well, 3% is enough for now.
"…Now then. It's an unknown domain from here on…"
It appears that this is the end of easy path to next floors.
The route that seemingly goes to the next floor is simply a hole, unlike stairs up until now.
It's around 10 ter deep I think.
In cases like this, you'd want to use a rope or such, but--.
"Heave…ho."
The simplest way to do it is this. By jumping off.
You won't get hurt as long as you're careful when you jump off, it's quick, and there's no need to prepare anything.
And I've got a nice little cushion this ti. Thanks to it, I can land safely.
"Ga…"
As I jumped down while erasing my presence, I used a monster below as a cushion by trampling down on its head.
I stabbed my sword on its throat while landing, killing it, afterward I got down on floor 21.
It's an extrely safe, and peaceful way to move about.
By the way, the monster I used as a foothold this ti was called Fla Lizard.
Just as the na suggests, it's a lizard that spews out flas.
As always, it's a monster I can beat with a single stab of my sword on the vital spots, but since it's only a tad weaker than War Tiger, I guess it's gotten quite better now.
Even if you gather hundreds of Biffgel together, they won't be able to even make a scratch on it, and will only get roasted instead, so you can't use Biffgel as an exchange rate for Fla Lizard.
And it looks like I've got myself a hit here.
I found a reaction that was obviously bigger than anything else here in one corner of the floor when I used 【Passive Detection】 here on floor 21.
There's no mistaking it. It's a monster called 『Floor Master』 with strength imbalanced with the floor they're on.
The appearance of a 『Floor Master』 was the biggest cause of party getting wiped out in my past life, they were a symbol of nace for adventurers.
Once there was a report of its appearance, several hundreds people would form a party to subjugate it with many dead tolls.
That is 『Floor Master』.
Then what should I do in this situation.
That's obvious of course.
--Charge on.
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