Let get rid of this feeling of depression by fighting with the Floor Boss.
I apply 「Status Ailnt Resist Down」onto the Oyster Shell and move on to fight the Rub Shrub that appeared alongside it as I begin the bloody festival. The Boss is up next. Tonight, Durandal is especially thirsty for blood.
「Did it, desu!」
While I was thinking that, Miria managed to proc petrification once more. Consider yourself lucky, monster, but it won’t change the fact that you’re going to be killed by my Durandal all the sa.
Well, Oyster Shell is a giant clam, so even if Miria managed to petrify it, it was not imdiately apparent. Our only indication was that it stopped moving. And since it’s not moving, it’s a clear sign for that I can start hacking away at it. Once I started doing that, it quickly disappeared after turning into smoke.
「Go ahead and keep it, Vesta.」
「Of course. Thank you very much, master.」
Volley was the only thing that the Boss dropped. I didn’t have a Cook Job equipped, so it didn’t leave any oysters behind.
「Do you have enough Volleys for the ti being?」
「Yes, I should still have a hefty amount of them.」
「So we don’t have to go around gathering more of them?」
「No, I believe it should be more than enough to last for a while.」
Vesta still seems to have a fair amount of Volley left. Now I know that she won’t have to be fore to endure it when she eventually runs out of it. That being said, she should still be careful about how much of them she consus at once, even if it’s just the beginning.
「Let’s see… yes, I don’t think we’ll need to go around for it anymore.」
For so reason, Roxanne cut into our conversation.
「It would seem so.」
「This ti we were lucky enough that there was no people around, but if we’re going to be repeating the Floor Boss battles many tis, then we’re sure to bump into so of them eventually.」
Ahh, I see.
She was probably thinking that I was getting worried about how crowded the Waiting Room was going to be if we continued to farm the Floor Boss here on the twenty-second floor? That is exactly why I didn’t want to get involved in any disputes. That, and I also know that Roxanne’s wish is to fight against the enemies on the higher floors.
Should I evaluate it as reliable?
「Well, it’s only been a while since we entered the Labyrinth, and I never heard of any Party made out of commoners that managed to reach the twenty-third floor so quickly. Floors from one to eleven are considered the ones for beginners, and floors from twelfth to twenty second are considered the ones for those who are only a little bit better than beginners. The floors from the twenty-third onwards are considered the ones for interdiate Adventurers, so I wonder if we’re going to keep up our current pace? Personally, I think it might be good for us to challenge the Floor Boss here on the twenty-second floor many tis, and if we’re not going to be struggling, then we might as well, go and proceed to the twenty-third floor.」
When I looked back at Sherry, she shared her own theory with us, but I never would have expected that Sherry of all people is going to be in favor of farming the Floor Boss on the twenty-second floor of Quratar’s Labyrinth.
「Let’s do it, desu!」
「I think we’re going to be okay.」
Judging by their responses, these two must have not given this matter much thought.
「That’s right. We should be fine on the twenty-third floor.」
I didn’t think about that either to be honest, but let’s just pretend that I did.
「The monster native to the twenty third-floor of Quratar’s Labyrinth is a Gummi Sli. Even though it uses Earth Magic, it is not resistant to it, and it is also not resistant to any other types of magic.」
Once again, I have received a briefing from Sherry.
「Gummy Sli, huh? Talk about nostalgic.」
「If you have ever fought against them, then you know should know that even if you were to attack them with a sword or a spear, it is quite difficult to pierce them with physical attacks. And if it happens to eat soone and then you attack it with sothing other than magic, then the person that has been eaten will also receive damage.」
「And the eaten person is going to lt?」
「Yes, that is what happens if you get fully eaten by a Gummi Sli. It must be defeated before it fully digests you if you don’t want to die.」
Gummi Sli was one of the first monsters that I have fought against when I first ca to this world and Durandal was my only weapon. If you were to ask about it now, I still would’ve said that this is a pretty troubleso monster. And now that it is going to appear on the twenty-third floor, it’s definitely going to be stronger than the one I fought before.
「Even if it’s not a monster that appears on the first floor, is it still possible for them to appear outside of the Labyrinth?」
「If they appear on the first floors, then there is a possibility that the monsters might appear near human settlents. However, if there is many people around then they usually don’t try to venture too far from the place of their appearance and they don’t attack people aggressively. The sa thing can be said about the monsters from between the twelfth and twenty-second floors. Monsters that are on the twenty-third floor and above can also appear outside of the Labyrinth, and when they do, they can travel across long distances in search of food and can also attack people aggressively.」
「Hou?」
Is that the case?
I do understand that people would not want to live in a place where the Labyrinth would be created and move on, but in that case, how does the Labyrinth that remains in an uninhabitable place feed itself, and how? The answer is obvious. Such Labyrinths would inevitably resort to sending stronger monsters outside of the Labyrinth to attack humans.
The Gumi Sli that I fought against on the way to Vale must have made its way there from sowhere far away. I felt that it was annoying back then, but knowing that its not all that uncommon makes feel a bit better about it.
「Also, the monsters from the twenty-third floor and upwards are going to start using area of effect magic, dodging which might prove to be difficult, and they probably won’t go down in just one or two hits.」
Sherry spoke so truly ominous words.
Area of effect magic, huh? Well, I am using 「Fire Storm」pretty often, so I guess monsters are going to start doing the sa from now on.
And since that is sothing that even Roxanne might not be able to avoid, then those are terrible news indeed. Also, what did Sherry an by saying that the floors from the twenty-third onward are considered the ones for interdiate Adventurers? That if we’re not going to be careful and keep our guards up, we’re going to get obliterated?
「Are we going to be okay?」
「If it’s master, then we shouldn’t have any problems.」
「I still have my own worries, but as I said earlier, since we can deal with the Floor Boss on the twenty-second floor just fine, then we should also be able to handle the twenty-third floor.」
「Let’s do it, desu.」
「I think we should be fine.」
If Sherry says that we should be fine, then that’s probably true. We are definitely not going to let ourselves be killed in just one hit, right? And if there is such a possibility, then I feel like there should be more warnings about it.
Not only Sherry, but the Adventurers Guild should also be calling more attention to such matters. For example, they could post sothing like the mortality rates between the twenty-second and twenty-third floors to call this problem out.
Sherry must have said that because she wanted to calm down a little and not think about the Labyrinth so much.
Based on my own experiences, the damage that we received from the monsters on the twenty-second floor wasn’t even that fatal. As expected, going up by just one floor shouldn’t an that the enemies will suddenly be able to kill us in one strike alone.
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