On the second floor, grass grew on the floor and ivy twined up the labyrinth walls.
“There are many monstrous beasts on the second floor. The same monsters as the ones on the first floor also appear, but few of the insects.”
We continued our steady advance.
Using the shortest path, we advanced by breaking walls.
Splitting up the same as before, the groups of two and four defeated them.
It was to raise the lowest leveled person in the party, Maal. Serge also recognized it as so-called power leveling.
The other four also gradually smoothed out their cooperation.
While Gig stops their movement with sheer power, Carlos pierces their vitals with his sword and Serge cuts them apart with magic blades.
Since there were a lot of monsters with fur, it was a lot of work to skin them. Again, Maal was skilled at this.
“How much space do you have left to put things in?”
Furthermore, it seems that the storage capacity increased steadily.
“It would probably just stay as it is. Though I don’t know how much would be in this labyrinth, it would disappear between space.”
“In other words, Serge should be protected with the highest priority?”
“Please.”
Advancing through the labyrinth passageways, they appeared in a huge room.
“There are some big rooms like these among the layers. Since there are strong monsters, please be careful.”
Maal’s previous party seems to have avoided large rooms like this. But these six people judged it wouldn’t be a problem.
“Our sight is limited huh. Let’s advance in close formation.”
“Be careful of surprise attacks. Particularly overhead!”
With a shout, she drew her katana.
Attacking from a tree, a leopard was cut by Quick Draw. Its face was splendidly cut in two.
(This is a good katana~)
Ria wiped down the blade while grinning, looking like a dangerous character in all respects.
Before long they arrived at the mirror in the central part of the room. Serge threw in the towel.
Just like outside, the light in the labyrinth also lowered somewhat. Feels like dusk.
Here, Ria opened her mouth and said something unexpected.
The tall human that had known her for a long time had a cramped smile on his face, while the short human had on a puzzled expression.
Maal’s reaction was the most honest, but she didn’t comprehend Ria.
“This is a pseudo open air bath!”
Maal clapped her hands towards the happy Ria.
For the time being, the sleeping Serge was thrown into the bath with the other men. We got a meal ready in the mean time.
“Maal is good at cooking.”
With Lulu who could only do minimal cooking, to Ria anything is good when put into her stomach. According to the two, Maal’s skill was like a mother’s.
When the meal was finished, she raised the temperature of the bath again and the women soaked in the hot water. Ria was hugging Maal.
Maal said while being drained of her strength.
After this, Ria intended to make baths whenever possible. Though for herself, she practically didn’t sweat nor have blood on her at all.
“Oi, no peeking! You guys!”
“Ah~ nevertheless, Lulu’s breasts are pretty big huh~”
“Isn’t that fine? These breasts are in a good dome shape. Though it’s often said that elfs have small breasts, halfs are different after all~”
Only able to hear the voices, the men slouched forward.
As for the person on guard duty, Ria served willingly. The Sleep Reduction Gift was convenient.
Standing guard alone with a big grin, she secretly polished her katana.
The next day, everyone’s physical conditions were entirely restored.
“… A dog…? It’ll be a bit of a pity to kill it.”
Larger than a bear, the dog was dripping drooling slovenly. Her sense of what she called cute was odd.
From the Identify, Carlos took the front with his high defensive strength.
It was quite a stalemate.
“There’s no helping it~”
Though the hellhound naturally turned around to attack Ria, it was struck by her fist when it tried to bite at her.
Gyan! Though it yelped, it didn’t lose its will to fight. It even tried to snap at Ria again, it does have the brain of a beast after all.
Putting its face between her hands, she flung it away by force. Showing its stomach, the hellhound was pinned down by Ria.
Being given a merciless rubbing attack, the hellhound was panting happily. Though it didn’t lose it’s desire to fight, its instincts as a dog didn’t let it defy someone stronger than itself.
The hellhound neatly waited next to her.
“Alright, then let’s go shall we?”
Then the party headed into the third floor without defeating the guardian.
The look of this floor was about the same as the first floor. In the stone pathway, all kinds of trees were entangled here and there.
“A good enemy.”
“Please get as many golem cores as possible without breaking them. Since they are popular materials for experiments, they are worth a lot.”
We agreed.
When we arrived at the guardian before noon, we assaulted it as we were.
The two vanguards advanced and exchanged blows with it. During that, Carlos’ sword was unable to endure the rough treatment and broke.
“It’s because he didn’t care for it properly,” though Ria thought that, she took out and handed him a spare sword.
Even though he wasn’t accustomed to the sword, it was still a one-handed sword. He was somehow able to to continue fighting against the golem.
But soon, Serge lost interest.
After a short amount of concentrating, the magic was finally put on Gig. His movements were obviously sped up.
He drove his warhammer into the stone golem. Carlos aimed at its joints.
“You could make a personal golem with this~”
By the way, if asked what kind of golem I’d make, it seems one for remodeling rooms would be useful.
The party entered the fourth floor.
The guardian there was a minotaur, Ria heard about it from the Ogre King.
“Alright, then shall we go ahead with the wall breaking strategy?”
No one could stop her anymore.
Ria destroyed the wall bare-handed. Though strong enemies did gather there, their level also rose considerably.
And Ria killed the enemies that had special abilities with a single stroke of her blade.
As a matter of fact, her Swordplay level increased to 8 when she fought the Ogre King.
Lulu restrained the massive amount of enemies with a wall of fire, while Carlos and Gig did the heavy labor of defeating the monsters, raising shouts and fighting.
Serge and Maal did the same as before, taking out monsters who escape from the vanguard with magic and arrows.
Taking a short break, we planned for the future.
“From what I’ve heard, it seems to be a place like a rocky desert. Rather than calling it a labyrinth, it’s more like a series of rooms.”
Ria didn’t miss a beat.
The minotaur was pitiful.
Due to it being far weaker than the Ogre King, and was easily defeated.
She then cut off the tendons of the elbow on the arm it held its huge battleaxe in.
“I wonder if you can eat minotaurs…”
“Ria, minotaurs more or less fall under being demi-humans. You shouldn’t eat them.”
Thus, the party dove into the fifth floor.
Though this was the one wall for explorers, they weren’t aware of that.