Volume 12 Chapter 4 Part 5
「That being said, it would seem that the monsters that appear around here are still going to be a little bit harsh after all. 」
「Hee. You really think so? 」
「This is an assumption based on the reaction of that Explorer by the entrance, as well as what the fishmonger back in the town said about the people being evacuated recently. If we take the words of these two into account, then we might assume that this is indeed the case. 」
「That’s right. 」
Sherry and I chased after Roxanne while having ourselves a little conversation.
When Sherry asked if the monsters in this Labyrinth were getting tougher and if they were starting to appear outside of the Labyrinth, the Explorer at the entrance visibly hesitated for a little before hurriedly denying it.
In other words, this can be taken as a confirmation that the monsters are indeed starting to get tougher.
「It is said that the level of difficulty of the monsters the can be encountered in the Labyrinths is going to start increasing when the number of the floors of the Labyrinth increases to 56 floors. 」
「Oh? Is that so? 」
In the Labyrinths, the groups of monsters that can be encountered inside are changing every eleven floors.
The current highest group for us is going to be from the 45th to the 55th floor, and starting from the 56th floor, it’s going to switch to an all-new, different group that is presumably going to be more difficult to deal with than the previous one.
Or at least that is how the pattern was until now.
It’s still not certain if that is how it is going to be for sure, but for the time being it is convincing enough.
「Yes. In other words, I think that we can safely assume that right now this Labyrinth has at least 56 floors or even more. And since it has been five years since the Labyrinth first manifested, then that seems all the more probable of an outcome. 」
「Oh. I understand. 」
Sherry asked the Explorer at the entrance that question in order to find out about that.
As expected of an intellectual like her.
If there are more than 56 floors in this Labyrinth, then it means that it’s still a long way from being subjugated, so for the time being, all that we have to do is to enter it, and then use 「Warp 」 in order to transport ourselves somewhere else.
「Look, there’s the Waiting Room already. 」
While I was talking to Sherry, Roxanne spent most of the time battling monsters by herself, saving us the trouble of doing so as well, and soon we were already at the Waiting Room in front of the Boss Room.
We go ahead without hesitation.
Looks like the instructions that were saying that on the first floor all you need to do is to go straight ahead were right after all. Or rather, it would be pretty weird if we were to not reach the Boss Room even after following the instructions without deviating from the path even a little.
Now, what were the instructions for the second floor again? Go left, and then go right?
「When we are going to reach second floor, we need to go left, and then we need to turn right. 」
「Understood. 」
In this way, we can ensure that we’re going to keep progressing smoothly, and it’s all thanks to Sherry.
And speaking of Sherry, did she manage tow write down the instructions for how to proceed through all 52 floors?
No, it has to be all the floors aside from the 52nd one, since that floor is the one that is currently getting explored, so there should be no information on when its Boss Room is located just yet.
It makes no difference to us either way.
But I wonder… should we stop relying on the information provided to us by the Explorer and start attacking the floors on our own starting from around the 40th floor?
Or maybe starting from the 44th floor, just to give ourselves that much more of a leeway.
I feel like doing that even earlier should have been fine, or maybe that we should have started attacking on our own starting from the first floor.
「Shouldn’t we be able to deal with this on our own without any issues? 」
Well, I wouldn’t say from the first floor.
We should wait until we’re going to be at least halfway through, because if we’re going to be advancing too quickly, then this place is going to be no different than the Labyrinth of Quratar, right?
「Yes, but since none of the enemies feel like a particularly challenging ones, then I don’t think there’s any need for doing that just yet. 」
I wonder when is Roxanne going to classify any of the enemies whom we are going to be dealing with as challenging?
That being said, maybe we should actually avoid coming into contact with tougher enemies, because if Roxanne continues to fight against stronger enemies and defeating them easily, then thinking about it in such a way, it is only going to lead to her pushing us to go to the higher floors again, just like she was doing before.
If that happens, we are definitely going to die at some point.
After all, Roxanne thinks that we can go to the highest floor and subjugate the Labyrinth because she thinks that everyone can dodge as good as she can, but none of us can do it like her.
「Yes. I thought such a course of action might be the best for us, and that is why I didn’t take notes all the way to the 52nd floor. 」
Whoa. As expected of Sherry. So she even anticipated such a scenario happening?
「Yes, you’re right. 」
「So starting from the 44th floor, we are going to start capturing it on our own, without relying on the map’s help. 」
I wonder if maybe we could start doing it from the 43rd floor?
No, no. I think I’m too drawn to the 44th floor for my own good.
Maybe we could start it from the 40th floor?
Or perhaps even from the first floor?
「Since we have already been to the 45th floor, so there might be a way for us to do it on our own on that floor. 」
Look, do you see that? Even Roxanne is trying to adapt and improve.
She is saying that there might be a way for us to do it on our own, but to tell you the truth, we have no other way but to do it on our own.
「We need to get used to The Labyrinth Behind Nesco, so we’re going to gradually start climbing up its floors, but considering that starting from the 45th floor we’re going to be dealing with th entirely new monsters that we have never seen before, I think it would be good if we started attacking the floors on our own from the 42nd or 43rd one. After that… 」
「Un. From the 43rd floor? 」
Roxanne took over without my permission.
Now that she has locked her own mindset like that, she is never going to accept anything other than that. I know her long enough to at least understand that much about her.
In the first place, what does it even mean to get used to The Labyrinth Behind Nesco? No Labyrinth is going to be different from the other, because they are essentially all the same, so our trek through The Labyrinth Behind Nesco is essentially going to be the same as the one we had in the Labyrinth of Quratar.
No, now that I think about it, it’s not going to be that simple. Different Labyrinths have a different combinations of monsters in them, so we might need to get used to the combinations of monsters present in this Labyrinth after all.
Yes, that’s it. That has to be it. This certainly is going to be the case. This should be the case.
Yes, that might be just the thing we need to do here.
「The combination of monsters is not going to change all that much just by going up one floor. The only thing that is going to be changing is the new monster that is going to be added on every floor, so it would be good to get used to that starting from two or three previous floors. And from the 45th floor, we are going to be facing the entirely new group of monsters. 」
「And on every new floor, the new monsters are going to be appearing the most. 」
Roxanne makes a stern rebuttal to my statement.
Yes, it is exactly like she says.
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I would love to see in animation, how they are taking a nice stroll, while Roxanne curbstomps the low level monsters.