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Volume 12 Chapter 5 Part 1

CHAPTER 60: Road to

『Rutina』

Current Levels & Equipment:
Mage Lv.35

Equipment:
Rod of Offerings
Hardened Leather Jacket
Leather Hat
Body Clip

「We managed to find the Boss Room rather easily once again. Does that not mean that this Labyrinth is a rather small one after all? 」

Unfortunately, even though we did make a detour back to the Labyrinth of Quratar, it didn’t stop Roxanne’s rapid progress in the slightest.

Other than that, our climb through The Labyrinth Behind Nesco was also progressing smoothly, which was definitely thanks to all of the strategy information given to us by the Explorer at the entrance that the girls then managed to memorize.

However, even after we reached the floor where we were supposed to stop making use of the strategy information, they were still guiding me in accordance to these information subconsciously, which was both amazing and quite terrifying for me.

Roxanne also said that once she managed to memorize it, there’s no way that she’s going to forget any information that she managed to learn about a given Labyrinth.

But right now, even without her ability to not forget the things that she saw even once, we could all still tell that The Labyrinth Behind Nesco is not as small as she was making it out to be.

「It’s not that small now, is it? 」

「Yes, it definitely is not that small. 」

Sherry seems to be agreeing with her. What should I do now?

Forget about taking an entire day to break through a single floor, it is still early morning, so isn’t that too blatant?

「Today, we will go around doing the Floor Boss battles in The Labyrinth Behind Nesco… or not. Should we go and move to the Labyrinth of Quratar instead? 」

I suggested fighting the Floor Bosses today in order to prevent us from the further exploration of the Labyrinths, which would inevitably lead us to discovering the Boss Rooms on the higher floors, which is definitely what Roxanne would have wanted to do, knowing her.

「I think that going around doing Floor Boss battles is a good thing to do. 」

You say that, but your eyes are telling me an entirely different story. The way I see it, you’re definitely going to try to find the next Boss Room.

That is what the look in Roxanne’s eyes is saying to me right now.

That is why I think that moving to the Labyrinth of Quratar would really be the best thing to do here.

「Umu. 」

「That being said, it would be good to also go to Quratar’s Labyrinth and find the Boss Room on the next floor as soon as possible as well. 」

I knew she was going to say that.

The worst thing here though is that even if we do end up going to the Labyrinth of Quratar instead of The Labyrinth Behind Nesco, we might end up going to the next floor.

「As expected, our speed of capturing the floors of the Labyrinth is just too fast. With that said, wouldn’t it be better to spend the day doing the battles with regular monsters and then spend another whole day doing nothing but the battles with the Floor Bosses? 」

「That would have probably been the case if there appeared a monster against whom we have never fought before and we needed to practice fighting it, but for now, I do not feel the slightest need for us to do that. 」

Well, it would have been much better if you felt that need after all.

「Un. 」

「Well, the speed of our clearing of the floors certainly is fast. 」

「That’s right, that’s right. 」

As expected of Sherry. She understand where I am coming from so well.

She is most certainly worthy of being called the representative of the general public here.

「However, I think that our current situation does not allow us to be so overly sensitive about such matters. 」

「You think so? 」
「Yes, because even if we were to go up by one floor, then that would mean that the monsters are only going to get stronger by one floor as well. 」

「I-I see? 」

Is this really a reasonable idea?

「I guess that’s right. Monsters do not get stronger so quickly and they are also not going to be changing all that much, which makes me wish that they could get stronger along with us. If that was the case, then we would really have to get used to fighting them, but as things are now, I think that the difference in the strength of the monsters located one, two or even three floors above from our current one is going to be well within the margin of statistical error. 」

Well personally, I think that three floors are going to make a difference, but that is just my own point of view. To Roxanne, it might as well not make any kind of difference at all.

Or rather, it is much more probable that by the time Roxanne is going to legitimately feel the need to get used to certain type of monsters, it is already going to be over and we’re going to have to move to yet another floor with yet another set of enemies.

Sherry’s thoughts on the matter are strangely rational like usual, which make sit look like Roxanne’s own thoughts are stuck in an entirely separate direction, but putting tat matter aside, it seems that I won’t be able to achieve my goal of persuading them to have ourselves procrastinate for a few days in the Labyrinth of Quratar….

No, if I leave this matter unattended like that, then it’s entirely possible that Roxanne is going to force us to break through to another floor immediately.

I was hoping that if I can make us spend a day or two in the Labyrinth of Quratar then her memory might fade, but with all the new information that I now possess, it seems like betting on such a possibility might not be the smartest thing to do after all. And all of that because Roxanne so confidently said that she is not going to forget any of the information related to the Labyrinths that she managed to learn.

Moreover, she stressed that she is never going to forget anything related to the Labyrinths.

「Good morning. I see that you have come quite early today as well. 」

When we went out of The Labyrinth Behind Nesco and emerged at the front entrance, we were greeted by the clan’s Explorer.

This particular guy seems to be working at the entrance to this Labyrinth exclusively, so now after we have been coming and going in and out of here for a few days, I can say that we got to know him relatively well.

Just now he said that we have come quite early today, so I guess that has to mean that it must be still pretty early in the morning.

Honestly, I don’t even know if coming to the Labyrinth early is considered to be a good thing here or not.

I don’t even know if anybody cares about it in the first place.

For all this guy knows, it might be that have been ordered to come to this Labyrinth so early by Elder Cassandra herself, but I have to say that if I were in his shoes then I too would start to question just what kind of person is someone who is mad enough to be coming to the Labyrinths even before the Explorers stationed at the entrance will come take their posts every day.
On one hand this is good, because we can do that much more in the Labyrinth, but if we continue coming here so early every single day to the point where it actually becomes a pattern, then I can understand why this Explorer would start viewing it as such, thus thinking that we are actually active in there from early in the morning.

It makes me feel a little bit sorry for this insolent little fellow, since he probably cannot even imagine that we can actually get into the Labyrinth from our home directly and then leave it at the end of the day, all in a span of a few short moments.

It doesn’t even need to be evening. With my 「Warp」 Bonus Skill, we may return home as early or as late as we want, and no one would be none the wiser.

The only possible concern that I might have is that Elder Cassandra would somehow caught wind of our practices of just pretending to be going back home late, but if she could do that, then that would honestly make her one hell of a scary old lady in my eyes.