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Volume 10 Chapter 3 Part 6

That is why I followed Sherry’s words with my own, to stress how important it was.

「Yes.」

「Not to mention that ever since we started going up the floors here in Quratar’s Labyrinth, we didn’t have the time for a proper feast celebrating the competition of the floors.」

「Let’s go, desu!」

I gathered yet another supporter for our cause.

「I think that would be a fine thing to do.」

Now that we have come this far, the last member of our Party is going to agree with us without us doing practically anything. With that, it is going to be impossible for our siege against Roxanne to not work.

「Yes. It cannot be helped, right?」

Oooooh! Finally, it happened! Roxanne has finally broke! I have never been so happy in my entire life before! This might be the first time when I am genuinely glad that I have the arrangement with the Duke of Hartz. For the first time ever, I am grateful to him.
「Alright. This should be the end of that.」

Let’s cement the entire thing out before anyone changes their minds.

「I understand.」
Roxanne nodded as well.

On that day, we repeated the battle against the Firebird until near evening, and then we moved on to Bode’s Labyrinth. If I tried to enter Bode’s Labyrinth tomorrow, there is a chance that there would be no Explorers at the entrance late at night or early in the morning, and if that happened, Roxanne would’ve had a perfect excuse to try and force us to go to the thirty-third floor of Quratar’s Labyrinth.

It is therefore necessary to detect the buds of danger and pluck them out in advance. Otherwise, we won’t be able to live in the savanna.

Can this place even be called a savannah?

Anyway, I warped us near the entrance to Bode’s Labyrinth, since I have to ask the explorer at the entrance to take us to the thirty-third floor. Also, I’m curious to see how far has the exploration of Bode’s Labyrinth managed to progress.

If I go to the top floor, then I can go there for free as long as I use the emblem of the Knight Order of Hartz Duchy given to me by the Duke.

That being said, I don’t think that the top floor is actually going to be the thirty-third one, because if that was the case, then we would have stumbled upon that information in the Quratar’s Adventurer’s Guild.

When we arrived at Bode’s Labyrinth, several groups of parties were about to emerge from inside of it. Is it because it’s almost evening?

It seems that I happened to come here during the rush hour of going home. I never really thought about it, but considering the time of day, something like that was bound to happen. After all, even in this world, Humans are not nocturnal animals. If I go home now, cook dinner, eat and go to sleep, it would all be at just about the right time.

Ah, another Party has come out from inside of the Labyrinth.

「Oh. If it isn’t Lord Michio?」

It was the Party of the Duke of Hartz. Unfortunately. Or maybe not really in this case. At the very least, now the Duke himself is going to see that continue to hold onto my end of the bargain and properly enter the Labyrinths withing the territory of his Duchy.

There is one more thing, however. The reason for why I would like to avoid meeting with the Duke and his company whenever possible: because I don’t want them to find out that I am not an Adventurer, because the Duke is convinced that I am one.

If my Intelligence Card is ever checked and my lie about it will be exposed, then I am going to be in a whole lot of serious trouble.

As we progressed to the higher floors of the Labyrinths, it became easier for us to gain EXP to raise our levels.

I am an Explore right now, and soon I should be able to finally become an Adventurer once my Explorer Job reaches Lv.50

There may be other conditions that I will have to fulfill, but no matter what they’re going to be, it won’t be long before I become a proper Adventurer. The day is near when there will be no more need for me to be frightened whenever I’m going to be meeting with the Duke.

Alright. It’s okay. Everything should be fine. Soon there will be no need for me to worry myself with the likes of the Duke.

「Ah. Hello to you to.」

「Are you entering the Labyrinth in my territory?」

「Well, that is the plan. Or rather, we’re just arrived here today with that in mind.」

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I wasn’t inside the Labyrinth until now since we just arrived in here, but I would be troubled if someone misunderstood me and later told me I was wrong, so I decided to correct it myself.

「I’m still grateful for your hard work. What floor do you want to go to?」

「Ah, erm, to the thirty-third floor.「

「Hou?」

「No, uhm, well… In Quratar’s Labyrinth, the thirty-third floor seems to be especially tough, and the Boss battle on the thirty-first floor is frequently being crowded, so until we’ll be ready to challenge the thirty-third floor of Quratar’s Labyrinth, I would like to train at the thirty-third floor of this Labyrinth.」

I didn’t think it would be enough to give an answer different from the truthful one when the Duke asked me to which floor we wanted to go, but now that I think about it, he might start to suspect something since that is one of the floors where it is easy to fight with magic due to the enemy’s elemental weaknesses, and as far as the duke is concerned I’m supposed to be an Adventurer, not a Mage.

In his eyes, it might have been unnatural for me, who should be an Adventurer and not a Mage, to aim for such a specific place. That is why in a hurry I added the story of the crowded thirty-first floor of Quratar’s Labyrinth, since that place is the last stronghold for a Party without a Mage in it, although I feel that it was still rather unnatural because it might have sounded too superfluous.

In that case, maybe I should have gone to the Labyrinth where Non-REM golems are the main monsters on the thirty-third floor?

Well, unlike Quratar, it’s hard to get to the Boss Room in the Labyrinth without a map. Few people would go that far without such a precaution. That being said, the people who train in the Labyrinths may train in the same place for months, so I wonder if the duration of exploring the boss room is within the margin of error.

「Hou hou…」

「Although there was also the option of searching for the Labyrinth where Non-REM Golems are monsters residing on the thirty-third floor.」

If you want to mess around with me, then go somewhere else.

「No, no. It’s really a superimposition. Let me have my Party’s explorers guide you to the thirty-third floor of this Labyrinth.」

「Oh. Thank you.」

If that is what you meant by that, then you should’ve said so right at the very beginning.

「We’ll guide you to the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth floors, since Bode’s Labyrinth is currently being explored up to the thirty-fifth floor.」

「Is that so?」

「This place is close to the capital of the Duchy, so it’s easy for ordinary Explorers to gather. Gozer and his Party had done their best to explore all the way to the thirty-third floor, after which they were sent to subdue the Labyrinth of Tare. Since then, the search hasn’t progressed much.」

I didn’t have the impression that the exploration wasn’t progressing beyond the 35th floor, but on the other hand, I don’t know what the standard is.

Well, it’s fine because the story of me entering the 33rd floor got mixed up into this.

It’s also a good thing that Gozer and the others searched up to the thirty-third floor and not stopped on any of the lower floors. Does it mean that it is easier to gather people because various people can enter the floor that suits their needs?

I don’t really understand the meaning of going up to just the thirty-third floor, but the next division is going to be the forty-fourth floor, and if you go to the forty-fourth floor, you’ll be close to subjugating the Labyrinth itself, since this is the Labyrinth that just recently opened the entrance to the fiftieth floor. Rather than going that far, it’s probably better to go to Tare’s Labyrinth, where it’s difficult for people to gather, first.