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Volume 11 Chapter 1 Part 7

Yes, everything is still the same as it was about her.

Or I should rather say that despite my warnings for her to be careful, she was still trying to guide us towards the places with six enemies in them without any hesitation at all.

「Oh. We’ve finally made it. Then I’ll…」

Since we were taken to a place where there was that many monsters, it was about time for me to start using my AoE Attack Magic again.

Finally a place where I can do something more than just support. Was this Roxanne’s goal? Nevertheless…

「Roxanne, do it now.」

「Be at peace if you make a mistake…」

Roxanne begins speaking the incantation for the Spell and goy about halfway through it… but then a Rapid Rabbit started rushing towards her.

Roxanne stopped her Spell incantation and avoided the monster’s attack, but it seems that she was telling the truth: dodging the attacks of the monsters while simultaneously chanting Spell might really be a potentially difficult endeavor.

「Rest in peace if you make a mistake.」

「Of course. Thank you, Sherry. Rest in peace if you make a mistake… Shrine Maiden’s Blessing!」

Did Roxanne not understand the Spell I taught her after all? In that case, it wasn’t that Roxanne stopped chanting the Spell because of that Rapid Rabbit attacking her… but it got interrupted because her chant was wrong to begin with.

After we disposed of the Rapid Rabbit that attacked her, Roxanne proceeded to recite the proper incantation for the Spell that Sherry gave her.

「I did it, desu!」

When she managed to invoke the healing Spell properly and the recovery was done safely, Miria incapacitated the two monsters in front of her with her petrification, and I was the one who disposed of the remaining monsters with a barrage of my AoE magic.

「It would seem that even when you’re fighting monsters, you can still use the overall healing Spells without any major problems.」

「That is in itself a valuable piece of information.」

「You stood in line with the waterfall in order to acquire Shrine Maiden; I think it’s thanks to that.」

Sherry interjects.

I see. She means that it’s possible to do something like that with a Shrine Maiden Job because of the increased concentration of mind that is a requirement to acquire the Job in the first place.

It’s well balanced.

「Certainly. If I can grasp the flow of the area of effect magic attack of a monster as a whole, I will probably be fine no matter how many monsters I’m going to fight against.」

「I-I see.」

I think it’s impossible to do such an intense training under the waterfall though. For normal people, at least.

Roxanne also seems to have awakened some kind of a strange ability, while all that I did was casting my Attack Magic while standing still.

No, I don’t need to be so harsh on myself, since using Attack Magic is not the only thing that I can do. I can still attack the monsters physically with a combination of 「Rushes」and 「Overwhelmings」

Is there going to be a difference in ease of fighting depending on which of the two I am going to use? Maybe. Or rather, it has to be so.
It must be so.

The most important thing here is that we’re going to have no problems when it comes to receiving healing, even when fighting against greater numbers of enemies.

「With this, we can proceed to the upper floors without hesitation.」

「I-Is that so?」

Roxanne, I want you to be at least a little bit more timid with your ambitions.

「Rather than that, I think that the best way for us to confirm the effectiveness of Shrine Maiden’s healing magic would be to fight against the monsters on the higher floors and see how it’s going to fare against them.」

And just like that, my hopes of putting Roxanne’s plans of advancing even higher up the floors of the Labyrinth have been effectively shattered to pieces. Thank you very much for it, Roxanne.

Was stopping her impossible after all?
「W-Well, I guess we’ll go up soon. S-So, where do we go next?」

「Yes. This way.」

At the end of the day, I guess Sherry is really the only Party Member whom I can rely on.

「As expected of Miss Roxanne!」

And yet, this Sherry whom I can rely on said something like that. I am very much looking forward to your success.

「I did it, desu!」

Oh, yes, I completely forgot about that.
The longer we fight, the more active Miria will be as she turned the enemies to stone with the repeated strikes of her sword.

Boss battles where the two Floor Bosses appear are the battles where Miria’s activity gets particularly noticeable. Since the front of the two Floor Bosses is occupied by Roxanne and Vesta, Miria can freely slash at them from her side.

To her, these battles must feel almost like a Bonus Stage.

In that case, I think I can understand why Roxanne tends to think that we can proceed with going to the higher floors of the Labyrinths…

Oh no. Don’t let yourself be fooled, Michio! Don’t let yourself be desensitized. This is different. It’s not that I’m getting used to going up the floor at such a fast pace!

It is not that I am losing my own sense of danger!

No, that’s not it. I think it is actually the other way around. I think it’s okay for us to move up to the higher floor?

Why do I think like that? Well, that’s because…

I have finally done it.

Adventurer Lv.1
Effects: Increase END (Medium), Increase SPI (Small), Increase DEX (Slight)
Skills: 「Item Box Operation」, 「Party Formation」, 「Field Walker」

I have finally unlocked the Adventurer Job! It looks like reaching Lv.50 as an Explorer was indeed the condition that needed to be fulfilled in order to obtain it. There might have actually been something else as well, like maybe move around through the 「Field Walker」portal made by another Adventurer, but now that I finally managed to unlock it, nothing else matters.

It definitely took a long time, but now, I final have access to the Advanced Job that I desired the most.

No, wait. Actually, my long time waiting for it doesn’t necessarily mean long nor my short time waiting for it necessarily means short.

The people in this world become Adventurers after a long struggle and a lifetime of accumulating EXP for themselves, so I shouldn’t complain. That it only took that long for me.

As for the verification of the Intelligence Card, there’s no longer any need for me to fear it. I can finally live in this world on my own terms and with my head held high without worrying about the Duke of Hartz finding out about my deception or not.

However, for an Advanced Job, I have to say that the Skills of the Adventurer Job are rather weak, being not much different from what the Explorer Job was already offering me. The only difference is that 「Dungeon Walker」has been replaced by 「Field Walker」.

Could it be that I have done myself in by having my expectations for that Advanced Job set too high?

Even though my Explorer Job reached Lv.50 now, its effects and the Skills haven’t increased, which is a little shame, but a part of me was expecting that. So the only difference between Adventurer and Explorer Jobs are their effects, and the effects of Adventurer Job are vastly superior to Explorer. The difference between the two of them is just that big, and since the effects of equipped Jobs affect not just the wearer but the entire Party as well, then equipping all of the girls in my Party with Adventurer Job should make a really big difference in comparison to before.

That’s going to be all the more useful since Roxanne and the others are going to take much more time to reach the levels required for getting the Advanced Jobs, since unlike me, they don’t have a Bonus Skill that grants the reduction to the amount of EXP required to Level Up, so it cannot be helped.

I performed a Character Reset and added a 「Sixth Job」Bonus Skill to my list of Skills, and then I set Adventurer as the Sixth Job.

As for the Item Box of Adventurer, I’ve heard that its size is 50 types of items of items x 50 units of items, which means that It’s probably fixed regardless of the level. The Item Box of fixed size… it’s the same in case of Cook.