Year 7446, Month 8, Day 12
Originally we had intended to spend another day for a total of one week in the dungeon but I told Cathy to return to Baldukk this evening. The {Exterminators} should have carried the supplies to the 4th floor twice and since the {Butchers} have Zenom with them they should have carried all of that to the 6th floor as well. And I guess we'll know on our way back.
When we teleported back to the 6th floor the {Butchers} were all chatting around Zenom in the teleport room. It seems they were waiting and intended on returning with us.
"Greed-kun! Zenom-san is amazing!"
"Yeah! The skill with which he cleaned up that ogre in no time at all, that was~ magnificent!"
Kevin and Jeru were both talking on and on in their excitement. Eh? Zenom cleaned things up in no time at all?
"Firefreed-san, after all he's reliable."
"That's right, thanks to that we were able to concentrate on the remaining ogre with all of us.."
"It was easy to use magic as well."
It seems Misu, Kamu, and Binsu were helped quite a bit.
"Yeah, he's on a different level~"
"Yeah, as expected.."
"After all, when it comes to the sharpness, accuracy, power, and timing of his attacks they're all splendid!"
Ginger, Kimu, and Hisu commented in admiration as well. Including myself all of the members of the {Slaughterers} were making faces like it's only obvious but Ralpha was grinning. It feels just a bit charming.
Up until now Zenom has taken lead over over the {Butchers} and {Exterminators} a number of times. However, he's never fought a opponent on the level of an ogre together with them. They've only seen just a small fraction of the time when I was rampaging. It's not like it's anything to hide but I guess he made perfect use of that axe? Thinking that I tried asking but it doesn't seem like he completely showed off the ability of his magic axe either. Well, even if you just normally use that {Cold Axe.Of.Returning} it's abilities were considerably high though.
Hn? Come to think of it Rokko is quiet and just hanging his head down.
Judging from the state of things it seems they took down a number of ogres so shouldn't he have profited big time?
He's the one who it usually feels like is making the most noise...
"Rokko. The only one who was injured was you. Isn't it that you're lacking in training? How about you running as well?"
Misu started preaching to Rokko with his head down. He was injured?
"Just stop already, Misu. Rokko did his best. The timing of his first step in had all of his strength behind it and was better than everyone including myself. Certainly he ended up taking a hit in passing but if it hadn't been an ogre then Rokko would have been able to endure it just fine. It's true that ogres are idiots but their skill with using the club is that of a first-rate veteran. They're extremely strong as well. Rokko was quite something just being able to take that head on and only suffer a broken armor from the shield he was holding."
Zenom quietly stopped that Misu and lifted up Rokko. I see, Rokko must have messed up somewhere and in order to cover for that Zenom probably had to instantly kill off an ogre. Zenom normally would never push himself and doesn't fight in a flashy way but if the party falls into a crisis he completely changes going super offensive with his blows.
According to Zenom they defeated groups of two ogres twice. Rokko ended up being seriously injured near the latter part of that combat. It seems it was just a bit more than two hours ago. On the basis that we should be teleporting through pretty soon Zenom ordered Misu and Binsu to use the spell {Cure} once each pouring their low remaining mana into it taking them lower than the amount required for recovering it naturally.
This is something that I normally say. In the worst case even if it's the spell {Cure} which only uses 4 MP, in most cases, even if a magician who's acting normal can't naturally recover their MP after that they should have enough leeway use it one more time. There's a lot of food here and in the worst case there's even a rope for tying people up in the survival kit on Zenom's waist.
Fortunately it seems that both of them were fine without exhausting their mana. Also, Zenom said it was precisely because of Rokko stepping in with such good momentum that they were able to stop the charging ogres in the wasteland with good footing as well.
It seems that if Rokko was just a bit later they would have ended up having to fight in the bushes where the footing was a bit bad.
Just, Zenom said, "Even if the footing is a bit bad if it's just that level of situation there's anything that can be done. I don't really get him." and laughed. Even if he has the power to make decisions, he doesn't have the power to make judgements..I guess? I use the spell {Cure All} on Rokko and just in case had Miduchi use {Cure All} as well before whispering, "Actions are things someone is always watching." into Rokko's ear and leaving it at that.
There was over 70 kg in supplies gathered in the teleport room on this 6th floor focused around soap, extra arrows, wheat and soba flour, hen's eggs, olives, and other preserved foods and consumables that last for a while, and it'll largely come in handy on the next time we explore the dungeon I'm sure.
We returned to the surface and after heading towards the Baldoggie cart that Murowa took over from us, the {Exterminators} were already there biting into Baldoggie. Zulu was pleasantly talking with the Laios sis that was acting as the sales clerk about something in a corner of the plaza. Well, it's fine though.
I bit into one of the spicy gems that is the type with chili in it as I contributed to Murowa's sales. Different from the {Slaughterers} cart which only had children Murowa's cart was serving beer as well. After all you've gotta have some beer with sausage right. Though it's not chilled. It might just be my imagination but I feel like the Murowa cart has a lot of customers. Ah, I guess it's because there's 30 of us?
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 16
After taking a three day break, we're entering the dungeon once again.
Since we have the support of an abundance of supplies this time and we can get a replenishment of fresh food if we just return to the 6th floor so we've planned to stay inside for two and a half weeks(half a month). We won't come out until the end of the month.
It means we'll be spending two consecutive weeks on the 9th floor.
Furthermore, on just the final day August 30th, we'll finish things up in the morning and during the break after that I've already said that Miduchi and I would be going to the company in the capital.
Miduchi reluctantly accompanied the {Butchers} while Angela obediently accompanied the {Exterminators} as they support the exploration of the {Slaughterers}.
I told Cathy to properly take a three day break one week later(Of course she doesn't need to go to the trouble of returning to Baldukk), and tore her and Basutoral apart who were clinging all over each other to the end.
"Then, everyone, let's go."
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 17
We've arrived at the teleport room on the 6th floor.
I was just a bit worried about it but all of our precious supplies were fine without any abnormalities.
Tomorrow we'll go up to the teleport crystal on the 8th floor and after beating the Mino and leaving our bags we'll return back to here again.
And then after carrying some more bags again it's necessary to take them to the 8th floor.
If possible I'd like to catch the Mino off guard so we need to return within 17 hours.
For that sake, we'll move under the assumption that we're going to arrive deep in the 8th floor before tomorrow evening and return right away.
And then, without resting we'll clear through the 7th floor in the middle of the night and then get some rest in the teleport room on the 7th floor.
If it's possible then I ideally intend on moving to the teleport room on the 8th floor without resting and then taking a slow break after that.
Even if we end up losing some time in the worst case I don't even mind if we waste one day though.
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 18
We departed for the 7th floor at 5 in the morning.
Because we had good teleport luck, we managed to arrive at the teleport room on the 7th floor at 8 in the morning.
After taking a one hour break we proceeded onward to the 8th floor.
It was just past 1 pm or so when we arrived in the teleport room on the 8th floor and defeated the Mino in good time.
17 hours later is 6 am tomorrow morning.
While taking a break I discussed it with everyone but we ended up deciding to push ourselves a bit today and do one more round trip.
...
In one day we did both the 7th and 8th floors twice.
I guess if you try it can be done.
Just before the date was about to change I wrapped myself up in the blankets on my bed in the teleport room of the 8th floor and relaxed thinking, "Even thinking about the change of shifts everyone can sleep for four and a half hours."
It's fine if I just stick Zulu and Giberuti who can't use magic into the middle.
Zenom and I both sleep for six hours.
I was tired so I quickly dozed off.
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 19
Now then, it's the 9th floor.
Starting today for the two weeks until the end of the month, we'll have to return to the 6th floor once midway through to get some more provisions, but we can explore the 9th floor in full.
I raised my fighting spirit while taking the magic stone from the Mino and dragging it's corpse into the distance.
The only harvest for today was filling in some blanks on the map.
We didn't run into altar rooms either.
We ate a bento for lunch but in the evening we brought back a crab Gwine finished off and had crab shabu.
If Toris kills the crabs using {Flame.Tongue} somehow they don't feel like they're fresh.
Though I'm sure it's just my imagination that the ones Gwine finishes off with a single blow destroying their brain with the {Spear.Of.Piercing} are the freshest.
We end up finishing off a considerable number of them so the ones that are as cleanly killed as possible are best right.
If you keep eating them consecutively for every meal it ends up feeling complicated but if you just keep it at crab cooking about once a week then it feels tremendously delicious.
Though the trash stinks so we end up having to take it quite a bit of distance to throw away.
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 20
The exploration is proceeding with a good feel to it.
We didn't run into an altar room today either but there was a gold ore sticking out from the wall in a room with a boss.
I'm glad we brought the pickax along with us.
It was a splendid gold ore that was close to 100 kg.
As expected we couldn't carry it around so I ended up having a nosebleed again as I took the time to change it into gold bars.
8 of them at the 10 kg size.
It's of a considerably higher purity than the gold ores we've previously obtained on the 6th floor.
I was getting full of myself as I even carved the characters "K24" in English and Arabic numerals but Toris and Bel retorted on it so I returned it to normal.
They sure are fellows who can't take a joke.
Even though the idiot Ralpha said, "It's pure gold!" and was greatly pleased.
We split them up and returned to the 8th floor once carrying them.
After piling up the sparkling and shining gold bars in a corner of the room, everyone ate a bento before we returned to the 9th floor again.
Spellbound,
"It's a radiance I want to look at forever."
as Gwine said that we struggled to tear her apart from them.
The afternoon ended with just exploring.
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 21
We obtained another tungsten ore.
It was from an altar again this time. The size seems to be just a bit bigger than last time.
It was just one so we continued exploring.
...
Hmn.
This area is probably that.
Just like the center of the 8th floor it's probably the center of the 9th floor.
We came out into an awfully spacious place.
We tried moving along the wall for a short while but we didn't run any the crabs that are usually wandering around in the halls at all.
I wonder if there's a boss?
After all there probably is one~
It's fine to fight it but either way I feel like we'll end up not being able to use our skills again.
I'm not so optimistic that I would bet on being able to use them.
In that case it would be best to do it at a time when Miduchi is together with us.
It's still just past 10 am.
We should explore a different passage from here.
We started moving down a different passage connected to the room.
Along the way it was connected to a point we previously stopped short at after running out of time exploring.
I see.
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 22
We returned to the teleport room on the 6th floor.
There's some new food that's been left there.
It's meat.
And vegetables.
Oh~ isn't there even some dried meineiji!
Angela sure is thoughtful.
As expected of my slave.
..Hn?
Huh?
Chi..So even {Black.Topaz} has cleared through the 6th floor and started showing their face here huh?
There was a new set of camping tools installed in one of the open corners.
Inside of the shower bucket there was money just like with {Verdure.Brotherhood}.
Also, there was a small new bucket inside of the shower room which had "Let's get along" written in charcoal or something.
I made a bitter smile.
We took our time on the 7th floor finishing off about 40 ogres.
We didn't encounter {Black.Topaz}.
Of course, we didn't encounter {Verdure.Brotherhood} either.
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 23
Exploring the 9th floor is proceeding smoothly.
It's a good feeling.
Toris's {Flame.Tongue} is thirsty for the blood of trolls once again tonight~
We didn't run into an altar room but we've explored quite a bit.
I suppressed everyone's opinion that pot cooking would be good and decided on dried meineiji.
No matter when I eat dried fish it's delicious.
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 24
We obtained a {Magical.Weapon}.
It's an arrow.
There's a total of two dozen, 24 of them.
【Arrow.Of.Blindness】
According to my 【Identify】 any living creature that this arrow stabs into regardless of the size or where the wound is located, if the entire arrowhead stabs in deep enough to be hidden then it seems the target will fall into a completely blind state for at least 5 minutes.
However, once the effects have been used once the arrow loses the potency of the magic and changes to no different from normal arrow.
A consumable huh?
Shall we use them?
No, when it comes to swords, axes, and other {Magic.Items} I think it's fine even if we sell them.
But, I feel like these are no good.
"Judging from the name it seems like they crush the eyes of the target they hit."
"It's hard to imagine them having any other ability than that right."
Basutoral and Bel were talking.
It would be a surprise if they had any other ability than that with this sort of name.
"Hmn, depending on how you think about it they seem pretty good against opponents that use magic like ogre mages."
"Oh, I see. That's a good idea."
Certainly Ralpha's viewpoint was good.
If your eyes can't see you can't use most magic after all.
Particularly attack spells which almost all of them require setting a target.
It's not like it's completely impossible if you touch something and fire it off at almost zero distance from that but opposite to that when you try to send an attack spell bullet flying from a close distance unless you have a considerably strong image it won't manifest.
If they have a skill level like mine and don't do anything else at all(not even breathing) while concentrating even then wouldn't it take several seconds to several tens of seconds?
Though when it comes to {Cure} and {Light} even if you can't see with your eyes(even if you don't have visibility of the target) as long as you're touching them you can use it just like status open.
I'll hand these over to Bel. Since there's a lot of them including the spares it should be plenty if she mixes two of them in.
But, it's going to be troublesome trying to explain how they lose their effect after being used once.
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 25
Through another different course we discovered a path that leads to what seems to tbe the center plaza of the 9th floor.
There was an altar room but it was empty.
How boring.
It's boring but we're still properly filling in the map so it's fine.
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 26
Once again today we ran into an altar room and it was empty as well.
Hmm, bad luck!
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 27
Nothing at all.
Hey~?
Aren't you getting bored of it pretty soon as well?
Eh?
Is that so?
Then that's fine though.
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 28
We went to the 6th floor in order to replenish our food.
There was no one in the teleport room but there's clearly some signs that the camp of {Black.Topaz} is evolving.
It's even developed up to the same level as {Verdure.Brotherhoods}.
Of course, it's not to the same level as ours but even then they've carried in plenty of equipment.
In the evening we returned to the teleport room of the 8th floor and proceeded to explore the 9th floor.
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 29
Ah.
This is.
Is this that!?
Is it the extravagant version of the altar room!?
And just as I thought that it was different.
It was just two monster rooms stuck together consecutively.
Shit.
That's misleading.
Not to mention there wasn't even a normal altar in them.
Since we haven't found anything since obtaining the 【Arrow.Of.Blindness】 it seems I'm a bit irritated.
Calmly thinking about it and you could say we've already gotten actual results above the amount of time we've spent exploring this time.
Two ores and the {Magical.Weapon} 【Arrow.Of.Blindness】.
We've never found this much treasure in such a short period of time up until now.
Though I say that, the only thing we can sell is just the gold bars.
Even those have that much quantity.
It's a total of 80 kg.
Previously when we refined it just 20 kg or so ended up being sold at a price of over 30,000,000 Z.
This time it's four times that amount.
It'll easily exceed 100,000,000!
We've made plenty of actual results.
Though I say that, according to Ralpha this is still insufficient for the gold zombie that I am.
And just as we were saying things like that we found a {Magic.Item} from a new altar.
【Refrigerator】
【Beech Wood.Iron】
【Condition: Normal】
【Manufacture Date: 29/8/7446】
【Value: 13500000】
【Durability: 678】
【Ability: Internal temperature 4 degrees;1490 value/1 day】
【Effect: Capable of refrigeration of goods stored inside. No function for adjusting the humidity.】
Since the Durability is a bit higher than the previous one we found it's value is a bit higher.
It's a huge burden so I guess we'll return right away huh?
Uhihi~
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 30
Now then, today is the final day.
We're finishing up in the morning.
Mu.
We started off by teleporting into a place we've been to previously.
That's a bad omen.
We teleported back in once more.
This time it was a place we haven't been to before.
Let's get into the mood and go!
It's {Let's go}.
Ralpha and Gwine didn't react at all but I was told "That's old" by Basutoral.
Is..Is that so?
Soon after the area we teleported into there was a forked path.
For the time being I guess left?
Though there's no basis for it.
Mu.
There's a teleport crystal.
I guess this was the right answer?
...
.....
Again soon after there was a teleport crystal.
...
.....
Ho.
A room with an altar.
Shall we end things here for today?
We made the {Green Poison Lizard} that was summoned into namasu, burnt away the Kobolds, and then cut off the heads of the gargoyles.
Well now then, it's the last try.
I wonder what will come out?
Or maybe nothing will?
"Ah!!"
Since we don't have Angela like usual this time I have Zulu searching the shrine but it seems something was there.
"Master! Congratulations! It seems to be a ring!"
""Oh~!""
I spontaneously let my voice out as well.
Magical rings are famous after all.
If it's that much then even I know about it.
Rather~ I'm getting flashbacks of the time I was bullied by teacher Mila.
After descending from the altar Zulu held out the ring in the palms of both of his hands to me.
Seeing a tall Laios hunch over while preciously holding a small ring was a bit humorous.
Hohou.
Just from a glance it looks to have a width of 5 mm and is a dull gold ring covered in scratches.
It has a gem embedded in it.
It's not standing off but embedded directly into it.
On the opposite side of where the gem is embedded it's small but there's a gap opened up in it.
I see, I guess it's free size?
It's a ring after all, just in case.
I use the void magic {Detect.Magic}.
There's a reaction.
I take off the glove on my right hand pick it up with two fingers.
Zulu already touched it without his gloves on so it should be fine.
"{Status Open}"
【Ring.Of.Protection】
"Ooh!!"
I spontaneously let out my voice again.
This is a name with a good feel to it.
"What?"
"What is it?"
"What kind of name did it have?"
Everyone seems to be greatly interested.
Though that's only obvious.
Wait just a moment.
【Ring.Of.Protection】
【Gold.Sapphire】
【Condition: Normal】
【Manufacture Date: 30/8/7446】
【Value: 1】
【Durability: 50】
【Ability: Damage Reducing;1 HP】
【Effect: In the case that the target who equips this ring undergoes something where they receive damage to their HP, through the mana in the ring it will reduce the damage taken by just 1 HP. The amount of damage it's possible to reduce is up to 1 HP per day.】
That's pretty dull.
"The name is amazing. It's supposedly the 【Ring.Of.Protection】."
""Ho~!""
Bel was nearby so I dropped the ring onto the palm of her hand.
Everyone is looking at the name of it while saying Kya~kya~
Isn't this the ideal thing to try selling?
Year 7446, Month 8, Day 12
Originally we had intended to spend another day for a total of one week in the dungeon but I told Cathy to return to Baldukk this evening. The {Exterminators} should have carried the supplies to the 4th floor twice and since the {Butchers} have Zenom with them they should have carried all of that to the 6th floor as well. And I guess we'll know on our way back.
When we teleported back to the 6th floor the {Butchers} were all chatting around Zenom in the teleport room. It seems they were waiting and intended on returning with us.
"Greed-kun! Zenom-san is amazing!"
"Yeah! The skill with which he cleaned up that ogre in no time at all, that was~ magnificent!"
Kevin and Jeru were both talking on and on in their excitement. Eh? Zenom cleaned things up in no time at all?
"Firefreed-san, after all he's reliable."
"That's right, thanks to that we were able to concentrate on the remaining ogre with all of us.."
"It was easy to use magic as well."
It seems Misu, Kamu, and Binsu were helped quite a bit.
"Yeah, he's on a different level~"
"Yeah, as expected.."
"After all, when it comes to the sharpness, accuracy, power, and timing of his attacks they're all splendid!"
Ginger, Kimu, and Hisu commented in admiration as well. Including myself all of the members of the {Slaughterers} were making faces like it's only obvious but Ralpha was grinning. It feels just a bit charming.
Up until now Zenom has taken lead over over the {Butchers} and {Exterminators} a number of times. However, he's never fought a opponent on the level of an ogre together with them. They've only seen just a small fraction of the time when I was rampaging. It's not like it's anything to hide but I guess he made perfect use of that axe? Thinking that I tried asking but it doesn't seem like he completely showed off the ability of his magic axe either. Well, even if you just normally use that {Cold Axe.Of.Returning} it's abilities were considerably high though.
Hn? Come to think of it Rokko is quiet and just hanging his head down.
Judging from the state of things it seems they took down a number of ogres so shouldn't he have profited big time?
He's the one who it usually feels like is making the most noise...
"Rokko. The only one who was injured was you. Isn't it that you're lacking in training? How about you running as well?"
Misu started preaching to Rokko with his head down. He was injured?
"Just stop already, Misu. Rokko did his best. The timing of his first step in had all of his strength behind it and was better than everyone including myself. Certainly he ended up taking a hit in passing but if it hadn't been an ogre then Rokko would have been able to endure it just fine. It's true that ogres are idiots but their skill with using the club is that of a first-rate veteran. They're extremely strong as well. Rokko was quite something just being able to take that head on and only suffer a broken armor from the shield he was holding."
Zenom quietly stopped that Misu and lifted up Rokko. I see, Rokko must have messed up somewhere and in order to cover for that Zenom probably had to instantly kill off an ogre. Zenom normally would never push himself and doesn't fight in a flashy way but if the party falls into a crisis he completely changes going super offensive with his blows.
According to Zenom they defeated groups of two ogres twice. Rokko ended up being seriously injured near the latter part of that combat. It seems it was just a bit more than two hours ago. On the basis that we should be teleporting through pretty soon Zenom ordered Misu and Binsu to use the spell {Cure} once each pouring their low remaining mana into it taking them lower than the amount required for recovering it naturally.
This is something that I normally say. In the worst case even if it's the spell {Cure} which only uses 4 MP, in most cases, even if a magician who's acting normal can't naturally recover their MP after that they should have enough leeway use it one more time. There's a lot of food here and in the worst case there's even a rope for tying people up in the survival kit on Zenom's waist.
Fortunately it seems that both of them were fine without exhausting their mana. Also, Zenom said it was precisely because of Rokko stepping in with such good momentum that they were able to stop the charging ogres in the wasteland with good footing as well.
It seems that if Rokko was just a bit later they would have ended up having to fight in the bushes where the footing was a bit bad.
Just, Zenom said, "Even if the footing is a bit bad if it's just that level of situation there's anything that can be done. I don't really get him." and laughed. Even if he has the power to make decisions, he doesn't have the power to make judgements..I guess? I use the spell {Cure All} on Rokko and just in case had Miduchi use {Cure All} as well before whispering, "Actions are things someone is always watching." into Rokko's ear and leaving it at that.
There was over 70 kg in supplies gathered in the teleport room on this 6th floor focused around soap, extra arrows, wheat and soba flour, hen's eggs, olives, and other preserved foods and consumables that last for a while, and it'll largely come in handy on the next time we explore the dungeon I'm sure.
We returned to the surface and after heading towards the Baldoggie cart that Murowa took over from us, the {Exterminators} were already there biting into Baldoggie. Zulu was pleasantly talking with the Laios sis that was acting as the sales clerk about something in a corner of the plaza. Well, it's fine though.
I bit into one of the spicy gems that is the type with chili in it as I contributed to Murowa's sales. Different from the {Slaughterers} cart which only had children Murowa's cart was serving beer as well. After all you've gotta have some beer with sausage right. Though it's not chilled. It might just be my imagination but I feel like the Murowa cart has a lot of customers. Ah, I guess it's because there's 30 of us?
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 16
After taking a three day break, we're entering the dungeon once again.
Since we have the support of an abundance of supplies this time and we can get a replenishment of fresh food if we just return to the 6th floor so we've planned to stay inside for two and a half weeks(half a month). We won't come out until the end of the month.
It means we'll be spending two consecutive weeks on the 9th floor.
Furthermore, on just the final day August 30th, we'll finish things up in the morning and during the break after that I've already said that Miduchi and I would be going to the company in the capital.
Miduchi reluctantly accompanied the {Butchers} while Angela obediently accompanied the {Exterminators} as they support the exploration of the {Slaughterers}.
I told Cathy to properly take a three day break one week later(Of course she doesn't need to go to the trouble of returning to Baldukk), and tore her and Basutoral apart who were clinging all over each other to the end.
"Then, everyone, let's go."
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 17
We've arrived at the teleport room on the 6th floor.
I was just a bit worried about it but all of our precious supplies were fine without any abnormalities.
Tomorrow we'll go up to the teleport crystal on the 8th floor and after beating the Mino and leaving our bags we'll return back to here again.
And then after carrying some more bags again it's necessary to take them to the 8th floor.
If possible I'd like to catch the Mino off guard so we need to return within 17 hours.
For that sake, we'll move under the assumption that we're going to arrive deep in the 8th floor before tomorrow evening and return right away.
And then, without resting we'll clear through the 7th floor in the middle of the night and then get some rest in the teleport room on the 7th floor.
If it's possible then I ideally intend on moving to the teleport room on the 8th floor without resting and then taking a slow break after that.
Even if we end up losing some time in the worst case I don't even mind if we waste one day though.
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 18
We departed for the 7th floor at 5 in the morning.
Because we had good teleport luck, we managed to arrive at the teleport room on the 7th floor at 8 in the morning.
After taking a one hour break we proceeded onward to the 8th floor.
It was just past 1 pm or so when we arrived in the teleport room on the 8th floor and defeated the Mino in good time.
17 hours later is 6 am tomorrow morning.
While taking a break I discussed it with everyone but we ended up deciding to push ourselves a bit today and do one more round trip.
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In one day we did both the 7th and 8th floors twice.
I guess if you try it can be done.
Just before the date was about to change I wrapped myself up in the blankets on my bed in the teleport room of the 8th floor and relaxed thinking, "Even thinking about the change of shifts everyone can sleep for four and a half hours."
It's fine if I just stick Zulu and Giberuti who can't use magic into the middle.
Zenom and I both sleep for six hours.
I was tired so I quickly dozed off.
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 19
Now then, it's the 9th floor.
Starting today for the two weeks until the end of the month, we'll have to return to the 6th floor once midway through to get some more provisions, but we can explore the 9th floor in full.
I raised my fighting spirit while taking the magic stone from the Mino and dragging it's corpse into the distance.
The only harvest for today was filling in some blanks on the map.
We didn't run into altar rooms either.
We ate a bento for lunch but in the evening we brought back a crab Gwine finished off and had crab shabu.
If Toris kills the crabs using {Flame.Tongue} somehow they don't feel like they're fresh.
Though I'm sure it's just my imagination that the ones Gwine finishes off with a single blow destroying their brain with the {Spear.Of.Piercing} are the freshest.
We end up finishing off a considerable number of them so the ones that are as cleanly killed as possible are best right.
If you keep eating them consecutively for every meal it ends up feeling complicated but if you just keep it at crab cooking about once a week then it feels tremendously delicious.
Though the trash stinks so we end up having to take it quite a bit of distance to throw away.
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 20
The exploration is proceeding with a good feel to it.
We didn't run into an altar room today either but there was a gold ore sticking out from the wall in a room with a boss.
I'm glad we brought the pickax along with us.
It was a splendid gold ore that was close to 100 kg.
As expected we couldn't carry it around so I ended up having a nosebleed again as I took the time to change it into gold bars.
8 of them at the 10 kg size.
It's of a considerably higher purity than the gold ores we've previously obtained on the 6th floor.
I was getting full of myself as I even carved the characters "K24" in English and Arabic numerals but Toris and Bel retorted on it so I returned it to normal.
They sure are fellows who can't take a joke.
Even though the idiot Ralpha said, "It's pure gold!" and was greatly pleased.
We split them up and returned to the 8th floor once carrying them.
After piling up the sparkling and shining gold bars in a corner of the room, everyone ate a bento before we returned to the 9th floor again.
Spellbound,
"It's a radiance I want to look at forever."
as Gwine said that we struggled to tear her apart from them.
The afternoon ended with just exploring.
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 21
We obtained another tungsten ore.
It was from an altar again this time. The size seems to be just a bit bigger than last time.
It was just one so we continued exploring.
...
Hmn.
This area is probably that.
Just like the center of the 8th floor it's probably the center of the 9th floor.
We came out into an awfully spacious place.
We tried moving along the wall for a short while but we didn't run any the crabs that are usually wandering around in the halls at all.
I wonder if there's a boss?
After all there probably is one~
It's fine to fight it but either way I feel like we'll end up not being able to use our skills again.
I'm not so optimistic that I would bet on being able to use them.
In that case it would be best to do it at a time when Miduchi is together with us.
It's still just past 10 am.
We should explore a different passage from here.
We started moving down a different passage connected to the room.
Along the way it was connected to a point we previously stopped short at after running out of time exploring.
I see.
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 22
We returned to the teleport room on the 6th floor.
There's some new food that's been left there.
It's meat.
And vegetables.
Oh~ isn't there even some dried meineiji!
Angela sure is thoughtful.
As expected of my slave.
..Hn?
Huh?
Chi..So even {Black.Topaz} has cleared through the 6th floor and started showing their face here huh?
There was a new set of camping tools installed in one of the open corners.
Inside of the shower bucket there was money just like with {Verdure.Brotherhood}.
Also, there was a small new bucket inside of the shower room which had "Let's get along" written in charcoal or something.
I made a bitter smile.
We took our time on the 7th floor finishing off about 40 ogres.
We didn't encounter {Black.Topaz}.
Of course, we didn't encounter {Verdure.Brotherhood} either.
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 23
Exploring the 9th floor is proceeding smoothly.
It's a good feeling.
Toris's {Flame.Tongue} is thirsty for the blood of trolls once again tonight~
We didn't run into an altar room but we've explored quite a bit.
I suppressed everyone's opinion that pot cooking would be good and decided on dried meineiji.
No matter when I eat dried fish it's delicious.
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 24
We obtained a {Magical.Weapon}.
It's an arrow.
There's a total of two dozen, 24 of them.
【Arrow.Of.Blindness】
According to my 【Identify】 any living creature that this arrow stabs into regardless of the size or where the wound is located, if the entire arrowhead stabs in deep enough to be hidden then it seems the target will fall into a completely blind state for at least 5 minutes.
However, once the effects have been used once the arrow loses the potency of the magic and changes to no different from normal arrow.
A consumable huh?
Shall we use them?
No, when it comes to swords, axes, and other {Magic.Items} I think it's fine even if we sell them.
But, I feel like these are no good.
"Judging from the name it seems like they crush the eyes of the target they hit."
"It's hard to imagine them having any other ability than that right."
Basutoral and Bel were talking.
It would be a surprise if they had any other ability than that with this sort of name.
"Hmn, depending on how you think about it they seem pretty good against opponents that use magic like ogre mages."
"Oh, I see. That's a good idea."
Certainly Ralpha's viewpoint was good.
If your eyes can't see you can't use most magic after all.
Particularly attack spells which almost all of them require setting a target.
It's not like it's completely impossible if you touch something and fire it off at almost zero distance from that but opposite to that when you try to send an attack spell bullet flying from a close distance unless you have a considerably strong image it won't manifest.
If they have a skill level like mine and don't do anything else at all(not even breathing) while concentrating even then wouldn't it take several seconds to several tens of seconds?
Though when it comes to {Cure} and {Light} even if you can't see with your eyes(even if you don't have visibility of the target) as long as you're touching them you can use it just like status open.
I'll hand these over to Bel. Since there's a lot of them including the spares it should be plenty if she mixes two of them in.
But, it's going to be troublesome trying to explain how they lose their effect after being used once.
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 25
Through another different course we discovered a path that leads to what seems to tbe the center plaza of the 9th floor.
There was an altar room but it was empty.
How boring.
It's boring but we're still properly filling in the map so it's fine.
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 26
Once again today we ran into an altar room and it was empty as well.
Hmm, bad luck!
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 27
Nothing at all.
Hey~?
Aren't you getting bored of it pretty soon as well?
Eh?
Is that so?
Then that's fine though.
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 28
We went to the 6th floor in order to replenish our food.
There was no one in the teleport room but there's clearly some signs that the camp of {Black.Topaz} is evolving.
It's even developed up to the same level as {Verdure.Brotherhoods}.
Of course, it's not to the same level as ours but even then they've carried in plenty of equipment.
In the evening we returned to the teleport room of the 8th floor and proceeded to explore the 9th floor.
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 29
Ah.
This is.
Is this that!?
Is it the extravagant version of the altar room!?
And just as I thought that it was different.
It was just two monster rooms stuck together consecutively.
Shit.
That's misleading.
Not to mention there wasn't even a normal altar in them.
Since we haven't found anything since obtaining the 【Arrow.Of.Blindness】 it seems I'm a bit irritated.
Calmly thinking about it and you could say we've already gotten actual results above the amount of time we've spent exploring this time.
Two ores and the {Magical.Weapon} 【Arrow.Of.Blindness】.
We've never found this much treasure in such a short period of time up until now.
Though I say that, the only thing we can sell is just the gold bars.
Even those have that much quantity.
It's a total of 80 kg.
Previously when we refined it just 20 kg or so ended up being sold at a price of over 30,000,000 Z.
This time it's four times that amount.
It'll easily exceed 100,000,000!
We've made plenty of actual results.
Though I say that, according to Ralpha this is still insufficient for the gold zombie that I am.
And just as we were saying things like that we found a {Magic.Item} from a new altar.
【Refrigerator】
【Beech Wood.Iron】
【Condition: Normal】
【Manufacture Date: 29/8/7446】
【Value: 13500000】
【Durability: 678】
【Ability: Internal temperature 4 degrees;1490 value/1 day】
【Effect: Capable of refrigeration of goods stored inside. No function for adjusting the humidity.】
Since the Durability is a bit higher than the previous one we found it's value is a bit higher.
It's a huge burden so I guess we'll return right away huh?
Uhihi~
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Year 7446, Month 8, Day 30
Now then, today is the final day.
We're finishing up in the morning.
Mu.
We started off by teleporting into a place we've been to previously.
That's a bad omen.
We teleported back in once more.
This time it was a place we haven't been to before.
Let's get into the mood and go!
It's {Let's go}.
Ralpha and Gwine didn't react at all but I was told "That's old" by Basutoral.
Is..Is that so?
Soon after the area we teleported into there was a forked path.
For the time being I guess left?
Though there's no basis for it.
Mu.
There's a teleport crystal.
I guess this was the right answer?
...
.....
Again soon after there was a teleport crystal.
...
.....
Ho.
A room with an altar.
Shall we end things here for today?
We made the {Green Poison Lizard} that was summoned into namasu, burnt away the Kobolds, and then cut off the heads of the gargoyles.
Well now then, it's the last try.
I wonder what will come out?
Or maybe nothing will?
"Ah!!"
Since we don't have Angela like usual this time I have Zulu searching the shrine but it seems something was there.
"Master! Congratulations! It seems to be a ring!"
""Oh~!""
I spontaneously let my voice out as well.
Magical rings are famous after all.
If it's that much then even I know about it.
Rather~ I'm getting flashbacks of the time I was bullied by teacher Mila.
After descending from the altar Zulu held out the ring in the palms of both of his hands to me.
Seeing a tall Laios hunch over while preciously holding a small ring was a bit humorous.
Hohou.
Just from a glance it looks to have a width of 5 mm and is a dull gold ring covered in scratches.
It has a gem embedded in it.
It's not standing off but embedded directly into it.
On the opposite side of where the gem is embedded it's small but there's a gap opened up in it.
I see, I guess it's free size?
It's a ring after all, just in case.
I use the void magic {Detect.Magic}.
There's a reaction.
I take off the glove on my right hand pick it up with two fingers.
Zulu already touched it without his gloves on so it should be fine.
"{Status Open}"
【Ring.Of.Protection】
"Ooh!!"
I spontaneously let out my voice again.
This is a name with a good feel to it.
"What?"
"What is it?"
"What kind of name did it have?"
Everyone seems to be greatly interested.
Though that's only obvious.
Wait just a moment.
【Ring.Of.Protection】
【Gold.Sapphire】
【Condition: Normal】
【Manufacture Date: 30/8/7446】
【Value: 1】
【Durability: 50】
【Ability: Damage Reducing;1 HP】
【Effect: In the case that the target who equips this ring undergoes something where they receive damage to their HP, through the mana in the ring it will reduce the damage taken by just 1 HP. The amount of damage it's possible to reduce is up to 1 HP per day.】
That's pretty dull.
"The name is amazing. It's supposedly the 【Ring.Of.Protection】."
""Ho~!""
Bel was nearby so I dropped the ring onto the palm of her hand.
Everyone is looking at the name of it while saying Kya~kya~
Isn't this the ideal thing to try selling?
