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Volume 10 Chapter 4 Part 2

「For people who enter the Labyrinths, this is common sense.」

「I-I see. So magic can’t be used continuously because the chants interfere with each other, well, that doesn’t really matter to me.」

I look away from Sherry, and let her think about it on her own.

「As expected of Master.」

Roxanne offers me the warm words of praise as usual.

Hearing them is quite comforting. Yes, I want to call you the soul mate of my heart, Roxanne.

「It’s still at the experimental stage, so I’ll continue testing it a bit more.」

Now that I managed to patch things up, I kept testing the Jobless Job. Now that I know that it can definitely be used, the time has come for me to test the continuous magic attacks.

I covered the next three enemies, the Cape Carps, with a sea of fire.

「Did it, desu!」
One of them got petrified by Miria’s attack, but it got destroyed along with the other two after it got subjected to the overwhelming power of two 「Firestorms」at the same time.

This is wonderful. With this, even if things are looking almost the same as they did before, the time of the battle got effectively cut in half.

This floor where you can deal with anything by using Fire Magic alone is the perfect one for using Jobless.

We easily get through the next group of monsters, and the next one after that as well. With this, I think it would be fine for us to go to the higher floors even if Roxanne was not there with us.

However, this is a trap, because once the monsters that possess different types of weaknesses start showing up in a single group, things are going to get much more difficult, since Jobless can fit only one Skill of a selected Job.

That is the real issue here.

I’m not asking for three or four, but it would be nice to have at least two Skill that could be set at the same time.

If I had two, I could set one for the weakness of the monster native to the current floor, and one for the weakness of the monster from the previous floor.

Well, there’s nothing that I can do about it now. At the very least, as long as we are on the thirty-third floor of Bode’s Labyrinth, I can make do with using just Fire Magic. Since this is the thirty-third floor there is a possibility that up to six enemies might appear in a single group, but even if we happen upon such group, we should be able to push through them because all six monsters are still going to be weak against just one type of magic.

If I were to name one problem with this approach though, then it would be that with how the time of the battles has shortened, Miria didn’t have as many occasions to petrify our opponents.

But this is just a luxury issue.

We boldly march through the thirty-third floor of Bode’s Labyrinth. With the battle time halved, this floor is not a problem for us at all anymore.

「The results of the experiment look wonderful. As expected of you, master. With this, I don’t think we’re going to have any problems fighting against the Drive Dragons on the thirty-third floor of Quratar’s Labyrinth… no, right now, I feel like we could go way higher than that! I wonder which floor we would be able to reach?」

Oi, cut that out you idiot! Roxanne-sensei is going to get the wrong idea again!

「Y-Yeah. So, once we finish clearing this floor up, you want to go to the thirty-third floor of Quratar’s Labyrinth?」

「Yes, that’s right.」

Are we really going to be alright there? Despite my doubts, I agreed with Roxanne-sensei’s words and accepted her request. We would have to go to the upper floors anyway.

「I think that’s going to be a good thing to do.」

「When I looked at Sherry, she also agreed with that decision. If a rational person like her agrees with that, then it should probably be fine.

「We also need to break through this floor to get some Whole Fish.」

「Let’s do it, desu!」

「I think we’re going to be fine.」

Yeah, it doesn’t really matter what these two are thinking at this point.

「Ah, the next group should be this way.」

This is not good. I cannot help it but to think that Roxanne has entered her demonic search mode once again. She probably wants to make yet another beeline straight up the floors of this Labyrinth as well.

In fact, we managed to reach the Waiting Room on this floor without much delay. Is this Roxanne’s current obsession? Or is it not?

If we keep on roaming here and there in search of prey to fight, then our search is only going to get delayed, and if we ignore all of the surrounding monsters and head straight for the Boss Room, the speed of the search is going to increase, so it all boils down to what Roxanne wants to do right now.

Personally, I feel like there’s no need for us to be forcing ourselves to do anything, and we should just fight however we please.

In addition to that, now that I have changed the effect of the Jobless back to 「Increase INT (Medium)」and raised the level of the Jobless Job, the battle time has become even shorter. And since neither Roxanne nor Sherry pointed anything out about it, then I think it should be fine.

But I said to them myself that the battles might be taking longer, and not shorter… why the hell did I have to say that?! If only I had told them that the battles might be getting a bit shorter, then I wouldn’t have to worry about anything at all.

「Should we stay her and go to the thirty-fourth floor of Bode’s Labyrinth, or should we go and move to the thirty-third floor of Quratar’s Labyrinth? Come to think of it, the Duke of Hartz wanted me to come and visit him before I go to the thirty-fourth floor, and since I don’t want to go meet him just yet, then should we go to the thirty-third floor of Quratar’s Labyrinth after all?」

I asked Sherry after we finished the battle with the Floor Boss. Even though I am using Durandal to fight against the Floor Bosses, I’m also using magic now, so the battle against the Floor Boss on the thirty-third floor of Bode’s Labyrinth was easier than the battle against the Floor Boss on the thirty-second floor of Quratar’s Labyrinth.

There are almost no problems with this, so the truly important part is going to be what’s going to come up next.

What should I do next? We can repeat the battles against the Floor Boss of the thirty third floor, but that doesn’t make much sense.

Now that I effectively have two magic-using Jobs, I guess I could try fighting the Floor Boss without using Durandal at all, but sooner or later we’ll have to continue going higher.

Floor Boss battles are much more difficult than the battles against the small fries, so whenever possible, I want to go all-out with them.

In terms of EXP, it would be better not to use Durandal at all, but I’m worried that if I limit myself like that, then I might place us in unnecessary danger, even more so since in case of failure I won’t be able to simply load my game and start over.
Power-wise, an attack with a single-target Spell with my Rod I stronger than an attack with Durandal, so it might actually be a good idea from me to consider fighting without Durandal when I will obtain three magic-oriented Jobs.

「Right. I don’t think there’s much of a difference between the two. We should be fine on the thirty-third floor of Quratar’s Labyrinth. No matter how strong the Drive Dragon is, it’s more troublesome than the monsters from the thirty-fourth floor, excluding the Kobold Kampfer. That, and we have to continue climbing up the floors of the Labyrinth eventually.」

Sherry gave me her calm opinion. Is it reasonable to say that there is not much difference between the two?

However, thanks to having the Jobless Job, we managed to defeat the Floor Boss of the thirty-third floor of Bode’s Labyrinth relatively easily, so there really might not be that much of a difference between the thirty-fourth floor and the thirty-third floor, which is supposed to be slightly tougher.

If all goes well, then it looks like I’ll be able to get my hands on the Adventurer Job pretty soon. So, where should we be heading off to now?