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Volume 8 Chapter 1 Part 8

「It is possible, because in the Boss Rooms, the position where the Floor Boss appears is always fixed, and Floor Bosses naturally possess more magic power than the regular monsters.」

 

Sherry explains. Respawn points do appear to be fixed, indeed. And because respawn points are fixed, the place where the Floor Boss collapses is always guaranteed to be nearby, and this in turn helps magic to build up in the exact same location. That, and the Floor Bosses have more magic power than regular monsters, huh?

 

I was always under the impression that the rate at which the magic accumulates in a Magic Crystal is the same for every monster, but it doesn’t seem to be the case here at all. Should I undertake another experiment in order to confirm the credibility of that claim? 

 

「Girls, I’m sorry to be asking this of you after we just finished the battle, but can we try and fight this Floor Boss again? There’s something that I want to confirm.」

 

I asked apologetically.

 

After we arrived on the sixteenth floor, I immediately made that suggestion; and once the girls expressed their approval, we backtracked to the fifteenth floor again – where I took out my backpack and checked on the Green Magic Crystal that I have been keeping there. As it turned out, the Green Magic Crystal has already turned into a Yellow Magic Crystal.

 

I repeat: the Green Magic Crystal has already turned into a Yellow Magic Crystal, after less than a day of accumulating magic power.

 

As expected, the effect of 「Crystallization x64」 is every bit as amazing as I would have expected it to be. Or perhaps it had already accumulated enough magic until now and I just didn’t realize it sooner because I didn’t even bother to check on it earlier? With「Crystallization x64」, I will have to kill just one hundred and fifty-seven more monsters in order to accumulate magic power equivalent to that of ten thousand monsters. At this rate, obtaining a White Magic Crystal doesn’t seem to be that far-fetched of an idea as it was before.

 

「It changed its color to yellow already. As expected of Master.」

 

said Roxanne.

 

「Thank you.」

 

I replied. I put the Black Magic Crystal which Miria found in my backpack and put the Yellow Magic Crystal in my Item Box. I put the newly formed Yellow magic crystal carefully in the innermost part of the Item Box to make sure that it’s not going to just up and disappear on me or fall out of it while I’m not looking.

 

I have two Yellow Magic Crystals. They may appear the same on the outside, but they are completely different on the inside, so I don’t want to make a goofy mistake of forgetting which one is which, thus losing precious magical power. I then perform a Character Reset and reduce the level of 「Crystallization」to just 「Crystallization x52」and then move on to defeat the Floor Boss of the fifteenth floor once more.

 

As to why I didn’t keep it at  「Crystallization x64」, that’s because there are two monsters to take out in the Boss Room now. After I take the accompanying Sarracenia out, we then go and finish the Madame Butterfly again.

 

When that was done, I dropped my backpack and checked the Magic Crystal inside of it once more. It has turned from Red Magic Crystal to Purple Magic Crystal.

 

「Purple Magic Crystal already? I was expecting similar results, but to actually see it happen, that’s starting to feel kinda ridiculous.」 said Sherry, surprised at how fast the Magic Crystal has changed its color.

 

「This definitely proves that what Sherry was saying was right: Floor Bosses do seem to possess more magical power than the regular monsters.」

 

「I did say that defeating one Floor Boss is equivalent to defeating many monsters, but to  actually go and get a Purple Magic Crystal out of a Red Magic Crystal by defeating just one Floor Boss…」 

 

「That’s just the kind of amazing achievement that we should be expecting from master.」  said Roxanne proudly.

 

「Amazing, desu.」

 

 Miria agreed.

 

「Well, this much is nothing.」

 

I replied humbly.

 

Since Roxanne offered me a straw to grab onto, then I gladly decided to grab onto it. 

 

The Black Magic Crystal turned into a Red Magic Crystal with the magical power of more than one hundred defeated monsters, even though I defeated only around thirty two of them. And although I defeated only two monsters with「Crystallization x52」instead of 「Crystallization x64」, the amount of the magical power that was accumulated was equivalent to that of one hundred slain monsters, so that was actually not suitable for experiments. It means a Boss possesses over twice the magical power of a normal monster. Now those are some pretty impressive numbers, if I do say so myself.

 

If we assume that Madame Butterfly possessed twice the magic of Sarracenia, then it should have accumulated magic equivalent to that of ninety six monsters with 「Crystallization x52」. However, if magic of four monsters was already accumulated in the Black Magic Crystal that Miria found after the initial Madame Butterfly was defeated, then it’s possible for it to turn Purple with magic power of ninety six monsters.  Further investigation of this matter is definitely required, but is going to be bothersome. I can definitely do it, but not right now. I simply don’t feel like doing it.

 

As to how much magic Madame Butterfly possesses compared to normal monsters, it can be accurately calculated. If magic equivalent to 100 monsters can be accumulated from a single battle against the Floor Boss of this floor, then I can keep on killing Floor Boss monsters until the magic crystal turns all the way to White Magic Crystal….

No, wait a minute here… When I kill one hundred monsters, then to which color would the Magic Crystal turn? Into a Blue Magic Crystal? Or perhaps Purple Magic Crystal? 

 

Also, I am currently not at a level where I could defeat around thirty or fifty monsters in rapid succession in order to see how much magical power I would get out of it, but even if there was, then I would not bother trying to test it. 

 

In any case, I managed to confirm the thing that I wanted to confirm the most here: that it is going to be entirely possible to turn a Yellow Magic Crystal into a White Magic Crystal before the slave auction with the usage of  「Crystallization 64x」.

 

「Haa…」

 

「So, which monster appears on the sixteenth floor of Haruba’s Labyrinth?」

 

「Ah, umm… the monster native to the sixteenth floor of Haruba’s Labyrinth is called Clam Shell. It cannot inflict poison upon its prey, but its attacks might inflict paralysis. It also splashes water as a long-range attack. However, the thing worth noting is the fact that while it does use water to perform that long-ranged attack, the attack itself is not classified as an instance of Water Magic. Instead, it is considered to be a purely physical attack with digestive properties, so it might function similarly to Sarracenia’s digestive juices attack. As for its resistances and weaknesses, it is resistant to Fire Magic and weak against Earth Magic.」

 

Sherry briefs me on the information about the monster native to the sixteenth floor of Haruba’s Labyrinth with a somewhat disappointed expression. 

 

「Clam Shell… Clam Shell… does that mean that it’s going to be dropping Shell Powder?」

 

I muttered.

 

「Yes master, that is correct.」

 

The item dropped by Clam Shells is Shell Powder, which means that as long as we are going to be hunting them down, then I won’t have to buy Shell Powder with money ever again. 

 

「They are resistant to Fire Magic just like Bitch Butterflies. This is the sixteenth floor, however, so that means that we have to avoid running into Sarracenias. Roxanne, search for places with a few monsters first, please.」 

 

「Understood.」

 

Replied Roxanne to my asking her to guide us to the smaller groups of monsters first.

 

Fire Magic is the weakness of Sarracenias, while Bitch Butterflies and Clam Shells are resistant to Fire Magic. If there are going to be more Sarracenias in the groups that we’re going to be fighting against, then that means that we’re going to have to fight them first and foremost so that I wouldn’t be wasteful with my MP – but even then their presence is definitely going to make things irritatingly difficult. Because Bitch Butterflies and Clam Shells are resistant to Fire Magic, the overall time needed to finish the battles is also going to be that much longer.

 

From the sixteenth floor of the Labyrinths and onwards, the maximum number of monsters that we could encounter at once is going to be five.