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Volume 12 Chapter 4 Part 6

When you move to a new floor, the new monster that is the native one for that floor is going to be the one that is going to be appearing there the most, so as long as you won’t proceed to another level too fast, you’re going to have more than enough time to get used to that new monster and properly learn all of its behaviors and attack patterns.

「However, the other half of them is going to be the conventional combination that we are already familiar with. 」

Well, I guess that’s true enough.

Roxanne was trying to persuade me, but I must not let myself be fooled by her.

「While it is true that I have never conquered the 44th floor entirely on my own, this is going to be an entirely new experience for me in a way. And besides, I believe that as long as master is going to be with us, then we should have no [problems with the clearing of the 44th floor. 」

As expected of Sherry. She always knows exactly what to say in order to counter Roxanne with her logical arguments.

「But even if that’s the case, I don’t think we should start doing it from two or three floors below it. 」

Sherry then said something that greatly surprised me. Of all the people in my Party, I didn’t expect Sherry to be the one who would praise me only to then block my attempts with her words.

「According to that Explorer at the entrance, this Labyrinth has appeared around five years ago, which means that it is quite possible that the 43rd and 44th floors have been cleared not that long ago, but the lower floors have most definitely been cleared earlier. 」

「Well, I guess it was probably like that. 」

Sherry then started saying something else.

Sherry, you traitor. I thought you’re going to be on my side no matter what!

「If it’s already been five years since the Labyrinth’s first appearance, then I think it should be safe to assume that most of the trap rooms with a lot of monsters inside them have already been cleared out to some extent during the capturing of the lower floors, but on the other hand, if this Labyrinth has not been subjugated for five years, then it is also pretty possible tha these trap rooms have already managed to regenerate themselves, and so they’re going to have to be cleared from scratch again. And that’s why I think that the prolonged exploration of the lower floors might lead us to unnecessary danger. 」

「You might be right about that. 」

Now that I think about it, it might be exactly like Sherry said. As expected of her, she even took something like that under consideration.

「Yes. 」

「Well, in that case we should probably skip the 42nd floor… but what about the floors other than the 42nd one though? Isn’t it going to be too rough if we were to start from the 44th floor? 」

「Un. That part is going to be difficult to figure out. 」

Sherry began to worry again.

I guess that the 43rd floor wouldn’t be that bad of a place for us to start.

No, I wanted to start from as early as the 40th floor… but I guess that under the current circumstances that might be pretty much impossible after all.

「Well, that’s right. I understand. I think it is exactly like master says, and that it is going to be necessary for us to get used to the monsters in this Labyrinth properly. That is why I think it would be best for us to start attacking this Labyrinth by relying only on our own eyesight starting from the 43rd floor. 」

「Really? Well, if Miss Roxanne says so… 」

Looks like Roxanne and Sherry finally managed to reach some kind of consensus.

If it’s like this, then I think it is safe to say that the plan of our attack for this Labyrinth has already been decided, and there is going to be no room for any sort of further negotiations.

「Umu. 」

All that I can do right now is to nod in satisfaction, since that is exactly the outcome that I wanted.

What if it didn’t go so well? Then I would have simply suggested starting our own attack from yet another floor.

45th floor seems like as good of a place as any to start, even if we might not be doing so well. As long as we take things slowly and with our usual caution, then we should be able to advance all the way to the 52nd floor without any issues.

If we could go so far by relying purely on our own strength instead of the clues given to us by the Explorer at the entrance, then I think that could be called a pretty amazing achievement in and out of itself, and something the we could definitely be proud of.

「Let’s do it, desu! 」

「I think we are going to be fine. 」

As usual, Miria and Vest are not adding anything substantial to the conversation.

「Yes. It is a little disappointing that we are going to be doing something for that old woman’s sake, but if it is going to help with the effort to subjugate this Labyrinth, the we should go and do it nonetheless. 」

Rutina also doesn’t seem to have any kinds of objections to our current plan of action.

「Alright then. Just like we agreed, up to the 42nd floor we’re going to be proceeding in accordance with the information given to us, and then from the 43rd floor onward we’re going on our own. 」

「Understood. 」
「Well then, lead the way, Roxanne. 」

And so we began walking forward with Roxanne’s usual guidance.

However, even with all the clues that were provided to us, we were only able to advance as far as the 10th floor on that day due to the information being a little too simplistic, which resulted in us actually getting lost a few times.

It seems that getting to the 43rd floor is going to take much longer than I have initially thought it would. According to my new estimations, it’s going to take us at least a few more days.

It’s hard to say whether it’s going to be a good trend or not.

「It’s almost evening, right? 」

「Rinkape, desu! 」

Since the evening was soon approaching and it was almost time for us to go home, Miria reacted immediately. I am sure that she must be looking to today’s dinner more than anything else, since we’re going to have that freshly-bought fish for dinner today.

「Okay, let’s go back home and have dinner now, shall we? 」

After we left The Labyrinth Behind Nesco for today, I warped us directly to Quratar’s Adventurer’s Guild, but before we did that, we briefly stopped by The Labyrinth Behind Nesco’s entrance to inform the Explorer there that we are leaving, and we should develop the habit of informing them about that every time we are going to be leaving, even if only on short breaks, like the one to have lunch or something similar.

It is going to be troublesome to do it every single time when we’re going to be leaving, but we have to do it in order to not make them suspect us of cheating, like staying in the Labyrinth all night long in order to farm money or something along those lines.

When we finally left The Labyrinth Behind Nesco and went back to Quratar, it was already pretty dark outside, most likely because Nesco is located in the northeren part of the empire, just like Bode, but that shouldn’t be too much of a problem for us.

According to what we heard, more of the people from the neighborhood were supposed to be evacuated in the evening, but I don’t think that w’re so far north for there to be midnight already.

Also, if the time when this Labyrinth is going to be subjugated is drawing close, then I hope we’re going to know when exactly it is going to happen, because it would be pretty bad if we were to be trapped inside of it when the whole subjugation process would start.

Well, whatever, as long as we continue doing our thing, then things like that should eventually sort themselves out.

When we finally reached Quratar’s Adventurers Guild, we left it and went back home while doing some light shopping for dinner in the meantime.

Times like these are really making me appreciate having 「Warp」as one of my Bonus Skills, because all of the shops are located pretty close to one another and not that far away from the Adventurers Guild, so whenever we go shopping we don’t have to actually go that far to get things done.