In the garden stained with the morning’s glow, two silhouettes faced each other.
“Come at me seriously. If it has a blade like a knife, I have a Gift.”
“It’s alright, Maal. Since Ojou will never miss.”
Towards Maal who was preparing to use the knife, Carlos urged.
Maal stared at Ria, saw her give a firm nod, and broke into a dash.
“Ah~~~, I can’t win.”
Of course, Ria wasn’t even scratched. She wasn’t even sweating.
Even after diving into the labyrinth, she wasn’t able to make use of her endurance.
It was like her perfect opponent was dancing, an overwhelming sense of defeat.
“Because you relied only on your physical abilities, this is what happened. When the exploration is over, I’ll teach you various things.”
Even though she had memories of her past life, Ria’s combat strength was definitely outside of common sense. At this age, she already exceeded her golden years from her previous life.
Since she has knowledge of original martial arts developed from her previous life, she had a large advantage over other people in one on one combat.
“Anego, me next.”
Gig relied on his physical abilities as well. Though he also has speed to go with his strength, there was no skill.
“Today’s target is three more floors, reaching the ninth floor in one go. Withdraw when someone dies, understood?”
Everyone nodded. They looked forward to getting stronger.
When we entered the guild building, Maal felt uncomfortable.
“Ah, Maal.”
“Did something happen?
In other words, it was that.
When people like explorers start out, it’s more than a job, they have big goals in their hearts.
However, over the years they come to understand reality and spend their years in safety letting the years go by. More so here, at the immortal labyrinth.
Then suddenly, a party like a storm appeared.
Going into the labyrinth for the first time and without losing anyone, they defeated the fifth floor’s devil and took his magic crystal.
The impact on them was huge. It ignited everyone’s smoldering fires.
“I see. So then they stormed into the labyrinth huh?”
“That doesn’t have anything to do with us. Then shall we go?”
None of the monsters on the first floor could be considered their enemies anymore.
While destroying the labyrinth walls, they reached the head of the floor. This time, Ria forcibly cut it down with a single stroke of her blade.
On the second floor again, there were many explorers. Though they saw each other, they just passed by each other in mutual understanding.
Carlos stopped its movement and Serge dealt the decisive blow.
The third floor’s golem was an instant kill, and they arrived on the fourth floor. They set up camp there. Despite the labyrinth being made of stone, Ria purposely destroyed the stones and built a bath. It already looked rather splendid.
“Until it becomes really dangerous, I want to have a one on one fight with the minotaur.”
Ria graciously approved it. The next day, Carlos fought with the minotaur as planned.
However, he utilized the power of his new shield well, parrying the battleaxe, and stabbing his sword into its body.
“Oooh,” towards the roaring man, everyone applauded, “congratulations!”
On the fifth floor, everyone advanced in single file again.
“When you get used to this area and when you leave it, it’s dangerous.”
Towards Serge’s casually muttered words, the party firmly nodded.
The head of the floor was different than the devil from before.
While flying in the air, its feathers became like blades.
It also moved fast, magic couldn’t hit it.
“I thought that something like this would happen.”
Though it wasn’t a death blow, its movement dulled and lowered its altitude.
Adjusting the grip on her spear, she stabbed its vitals. Leaving its magic crystal behind, the devil vanished.
Then they arrived in the unknown sixth floor.
As for the enemies, they were golems. The golems’ bodies were made of wood, stone, and some even made of rubber.
Though Carlos’ sword couldn’t cut into the rubber golems, Ria’s katana cut it up wonderfully.
Since, as expected, it was hard to destroy the metal passages, the party finally had to explore the dungeon like normal.
When she confirmed the type of trap, Ria did the manual labor to open it and Maal demonstrated her lock picking skills.
And now they faced the guardian.
It was a gigantic mass of iron.
The floor guardian of the sixth floor, the iron golem. It wielded a huge maul.
“Lulu, reinforce Carlos with magic! Carlos, team up with Gig and concentrate on defense! Gig attack from the left! Serge, aim your space-time magic at its legs!”
Then after Ria issued instructions, she assaulted the golem from the right.
Can I cut an iron golem with iron?
I can. I can do it.
At least, I can tear its armor up like paper if its iron.
Ria shouted, releasing a slashing attack from her stance prepared in advance.
The golem’s left wrist split in two at the joint.
“Alright, we can do this!”
Though it was the same iron, the hardness of tempered steel was entirely different.
It was hard for a katana to deal damage to it with a strike.
“Tararara~n, the minotaur’s axe~”
With the tone of a young cat, she shifted her grip on the looted battleaxe. To say the least, the mass was different.
Though it was difficult for her to balance it with her light body weight, she could still brandish it while rotating, striking the golem’s leg.
On the other side, Gig and Carlos dodged the golem’s weapon.
“LO-N-GI-NUS!”
Though it didn’t completely destroy its armor, it did a lot of damage to an indirect part, arriving at the golem’s knee.
But because of that, the golem stopped moving.
“Phew~, that was tiring.”
“Good work.”
“But how do we get the magic stone and core out?”
Taking out her katana again, Ria cut the golem’s chest.
Inside was a magic crystal and a huge golem core.
Though Ria asked, the presence of magic stones was different between nature and the labyrinth, and wasn’t able to figure it out immediately.
Serge could even store that large size.
At the end of the day, they camped in the floor head’s room.
The next floor would be different from the ones until now, so the Ogre King said to not be careless in this hell.
Though the floor was metal, Ria made us of Serge’s magic to drive the enormous hammer into the floor, hollowing out the floor into a bathtub.
That night, the floor guardian did not revive.