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Volume 11 Chapter 1 Part 8

And in case of Sherry, her Master Smith Job.

As for 「Field Walker」, since it can’t be used inside the Labyrinth, I can’t ascertain it now. More than failure, I’m afraid of Sherry looking at me with those cold eyes of hers though. But I better try it soon.

Originally, I didn’t plan on using Adventurer except for during Intelligence Card verification. However, now that I have seen the Job Effects that it has, I decided to level it up after all.

Since I can’t get rid of the Jobless, Hero, Wizard and Priest Jobs, I had to add another Job slot in order to be able to select Adventurer alongside them. I also think that it would be good for me to use the Gambler Job for the Floor Boss Battles, so I might actually have to add 「Seventh Job」to the list of my Active Skills whenever a Floor Boss fight is going to be imminent, or just replace Adventurer with Gambler for the duration of Boss battles.

The thing that I am the most worried about though, is what I should do with the Explorer Job. Considering the Skills of the Job, I might replace it with the Adventurer Job. However, whenever there will be an Intelligence Card check, Adventurer needs to be placed as the First Job, but in order for me to do that, the Adventurer’s Item Box must first be emptied. In that case, I will also need to have the Explorer Job, since I’ll have to use its Item Box. And because First Job is directly connected to the Bonus Points that I possess, I can’t replace Explorer Lv.50 with Adventurer Lv.1.

It will also be problematic if my level as an Adventurer rises too quickly, but for the time being, but for a while now, the difference shouldn’t be all that noticeable.

Now, what should I set as my First Job?

Out of all of my currently available Jobs, Mage has the highest level after the Explorer, so setting it up as the first one shouldn’t make that much of a difference stat-wise, but If Mage was to be placed as my First Job, it would be troublesome to use the magic Skill of the Jobless.

If there are multiple jobs with magic Skills equipped, that of the lower numbered Job is invoked first, so setting Jobless, which can have no more than one skill, before Wizard, which has Skill of all four magic attributes, is not going to be effective.

Not to mention that the level of my Jobless Skill is still relatively low.

But if you think about it, putting Jobless as the First Job after all might be an effective countermeasure against the Intelligence Card checks, but on the other hand, Jobless itself can be considered a pretty rare Job, right? So maybe putting it as my First Job is not going to be a good thing after all?

Then, does that mean that I have no choice but to set my Hero Lv.47 as my First Job?

The Hero Job, huh? I would lie if I said that I am not uneasy at the prospect of putting it as my First Job.

I can change it to Adventurer at the time of any necessary Intelligence Card Check, but there is always a possibility that the one checking my Intelligence Card might possess the 「Identify」Skill, or perhaps some other Skill that allows the user to see the Jobs of other people.

Now this makes me worried about the eyes of the people who’re going to be looking at me.

But that is going to come later. For now, since I have acquired the Adventurer Job, this means that I can finally accept the invitation that I have received from the Duke of Hartz. He personally told me to visit him, so I had to go someday, and I probably stalled this outing for long enough.

Now that I am officially an Adventurer, I have nothing to be afraid from him. Probably. Maybe.

Nah, I think this time everything is going to go just fine.

I have no idea id he’s going to ask me to do something again or not, but even if he doesn’t, it’s stull going to be good, because I can use a request from him as a convenient excuse for Roxanne to suppress her desires of going further and further up the Labyrinth floors.

An ulterior motive for sure, but any motive is better than no motive at all.

And who knows, maybe he’s going to ask me to go and enter the Labyrinth of Bode now after all? Although I wouldn’t want that to actually be true, if I am to be honest.

That being said, if he’ll want me to just enter Bode’s Labyrinth, then any of its floors should be fine, so when that happens, I’ll have us go to the 34th floor at maximum, but no further than that. And just to be on the safe side, I probably shouldn’t say anything about which floor do I want to go to anyone.

「After we finish eating breakfast, I am going to go pay the Duke of Hartz a visit at Bode’s castle.」

「I understand.」

After informing Roxanne about my plans for the morning, I left her and the others behind and made my way towards the Hartz Duchy.

「The Duke is in his office at the back of the castle.」

As usual, when I arrived as Bode’s castle, the Knight that was stationed at the lobby informed me of the Duke’s whereabouts, so as per the usual, I made my way inside toward the Duke’s office on my own, knocking on the door of the Duke’s office when I reached them after a short walk.

「Come in.」

「It’s Michio.」

「Ahh, Lord Michio, how good of you to come. Come in, Gozer is going to be joining us shortly.」

「Of course.」

Prompted by the Duke, I went inside of his office. As usual, he was sitting at his desk alone, engrossed in doing the paperwork laid out before him.

Just like he said, Gozer isn’t here at the moment. I hate to be with the Duke without Gozer present, because his presence was always like a buffer between the duke and myself.

「I’ll try to finish my work before Gozer comes back… but on the other hand, there should not be any problems even if he is not here. To tell you the truth, I was thinking of inviting Michio-dono’s and his Party to the castle for dinner, What do you think about that, Lord-Michio?」

An invitation to dinner for myself and my Party? Is that what he wanted to talk to me about this time?

「An invitation for dinner, you say?」

「Yes, because I thought that it is high time that I finally get to meet the members of the Party that Gozer was praising so much.」

Uh-huh, sure. That reminded me that ever since he first saw her, the Duke seemed to have his eyes on Roxanne.

Does that mean that he’s still not given up on her?

「But I don’t know the table etiquette.”

「Etiquette won’t be a problem when there’s no audience.”

So it’s a problem when there’s audience?

「But my party members are all…」

「I don’t mind if they are all Lord Michio’s slaves. I know that owning them is very much befitting of an Adventurer’s lifestyle, and besides, we even have slaves employed here at this castle.」

So even the fact that I own slaves is not a problem for him?

But if it really is as he says, then I wonder if the Duke and his slaves tend to eat their meals together?

Well, Because he said there’s no problem with, there’s really nothing else I can say.

「Is that really going to be alright?」

「Like I said, there should be no problems with it. I wanted to organize such a dinner party for Lord Michio and his Party earlier, but the opportunity only presented itself now. I also have to say, I am looking forward to meeting the people who traverse the Labyrinths with you.」

Is there any way in which I can postpone this dinner party? Any way at all? I don’t care if the reason is going to be good or not, just give me something that I can use to weasel my way out of this!

No, looks like there’s no way out of this for me. The Duke is totally locked onto me now. I can’t escape him anymore.

I don’t want to accept it, but I have no choice.

However, Even if she were to become Lady Omone Cha, or Lady Cha Omone, the concubine of Tokugawa Ieyasu, I will not let go of Roxanne!