Year 7443, Month 4, Day 20
However, there's no other than to take care of this as it comes by and in the end it will connect to your ability to make decisions when your own life is in danger. In regards to this regardless of what you wish for, I can't afford to listen, so in the first place I won't ask your way of thinking on it. I'll use my authority from the contract. Just think of this as an order from your employer. That's why, if you feel any kind of strong stress just think it can't be helped because it's my order."
"Yes, but I think it will be fine."
Gwine properly looked at my eyes while responding. But, when it comes to this there's no other way than to actually try putting it into practice...
"I see, then that's good. Now, since it's Toris and Gwine's first time in the dungeon, you never know what will come out at first.."
I said that and used the spell {Audible Clamor} to call out a group of monsters and they normally stabbed the goblins from the edges, killed them, and gathered the magic stones without a single complaint. As expected it's waste of time to gather magic stones from goblins so I stopped them but it seems my fear was just needless anxiety.
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Since brother and the others should be coming to the capital again near the end of this month to deliver armor, after that's over I intend to start seriously challenging the 4th floor. Incidentally, there's still no contact from the real estate agency in the capital. Since it's not common for a good location to empty out, it seems that they're investigating the owner of building in a good location and searching for those who are leasing the building from it's owner. The management situation of their store doesn't look very good so they're looking even deeper into information on their situation of paying rent. It would be the greatest if they go into default.
If we use that as a reason to negotiate with the landlord and either buy the building or pay several years of rent in advance then it seems something can be done about it. However, I wonder if a store in a good location of that huge city would really fall into enough of a management slump to be unable to pay the rent? I'm a bit doubtful about things around that area.
Well in regards to the real estates acquisition the location meets the conditions, and above else it's a story that already has a candidate. There's nothing that can be done by getting impatient so I'll just hold out on that one. I'm sure there's no need for me to do anything careless. If it seems like they really aren't able to do anything about it this year, then it's just a matter of prostrating myself before the knight group or royalty or something.
Rather than that, what I'm interested in is that one other reincarnated person that I think exists. I thought it was Gwine that I saw at the end of the year but she said, "That might be the case but I don't remember." Of course if it was her then there's no problem. However, it might have been a different adventurer than her.
However, it's my true feelings that I want to secure as many reincarnated people as I can. In the first place what I caught a glimpse of might have been Gwine, and since I have no proof that it was a different person, it's a problem though I feel wasting anymore time on it would be difficult. If I knew for sure it was a different person even if it wastes some time I could have moved to secure them but...
There's the possibility of setting up a net again and trying to search for the adventurer or merchant reincarnated person I saw at the end of the year as well. However, in comparison to previously our numbers have increased by two all at once, and I don't feel we're lacking in any combat potential in the dungeon right now so I can't bring myself to decide on setting up a net again. Although, I think the possibility is low that the same methods as now will keep working enemies on the 4th and 5th floors so sooner or later I feel like I might setup another net again.
The leader of Black Topaz Anderson said once upon a time,
"Be careful of the ice monster. It's an ice monster that's normally on the 5th floor and it breathes an ice breath. In order to oppose it you need at least level 4 high ranking fire magic."
said something along those lines, I still haven't forgotten. If the ice breath is simply something physical, or something magical is unknown but (the fact that it's a breath of ice makes me feel like it's magic though) if it's freezing with magic or something close to that it would be trouble if you were caught by surprise. If it has a large scale or there's a lot of distance between my allies then I don't know if I'd have enough MP for {Anti-Magic Field}.
If it was 10 or 20 times then honestly it's no problem, but if several of them came at us at the same time then it would be quite troublesome. If while I'm erasing the ice with {Anti-Magic Field} (It's fine to use {Fire Wall} or {Flame Thrower} to melt it as well but I'm sure that would take some time) more and more ice keeps being made then my resistance would end up powerless and it's possible everyone would suffocate frozen in ice.
Anyhow since I don't know how much mana the opponent would put into the ice they're making I would have to use a larger amount of MP with my {Anti-Magic Field}, in the worst case, it's in the worst case but if it's ice which isn't magic then the only method for me to melt it would be to take the time to melt it using {Flame Thrower}. Well, in a time like that I should just quickly throw a {Fire Ball} or {Stone Javelin Missile} in to kill it and then slowly melt it...in the case that they're frozen in real ice, and I can't erase it all at once the possibility of suffocating to death still remains huh...
However even if they're the top team in Baldukk, there's no way they'd have anyone who has more MP than me and furthermore has a higher level magic special skill so I think it's fine not to worry about. Just in case I would make sure we're extra careful..No wait, Black Topaz never said they've defeated the ice monster either. Just the same as other normal adventurers they should particularly be avoiding combat with the monsters on a deep floor like the 5th floor. It's difficult to come up with an idea though.
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Year 7443, Month 4, Day 25
We took orders for the next time as well but this time it seems like they had already organized it ahead of time so there was no chaos. Other than the sub-commander Sub-Baron Bittwaz, first company commander Viscount Gendail (this person seems to be the son of high ranking noble Marquis Gendail), and second company commander Viscount Balkisas, our primary customers this time were members of the first company. Duke Ronbard (the King's eldest son a 26 year old new knight) was included in that as well.
Afterwards I asked sister about it together with brother and I was able to understand quite a bit about the military system of Rombert Kingdom.
And the season is soon to reach summer once again. I'm sure it's thanks to the expansion of 【Gift of Natural Talent】 but my Void Magic has finally reached MAX. We guess that we've already filled in close to 70% of the map of the 4th floor as well. It's thanks to the normal method of using a fire-starter magic tool but Toris and Gwine have started to be able to use Void Magic as well. In terms of level I'm 17 close to 18, Zenom is 17, Ralpha is 12, Bel is 12, Toris 11, Gwine is 10, Zulu is 12, and Angela is 11 close to 12.
I feel like it's about a good time to start aiming for the 5th floor.
However, the matter of my Unique Ability hitting MAX level still remains a mystery.
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【Bernadette.Koloil/4/4/7429 】
【Status： Normal】
【Level： 12】
【Strength： 16】
【Dexterity： 17】
【Unique Ability： Shooting Intuition(MAX)】
【Special Ability： Water Magic(Lv.3)】
【Special Ability: Void Magic(Lv.4)】
*Bel's MP increased a decent amount in the same way as Al during the first level up. Her abilities are slightly lower matching with her racial characteristics.
【Gulinel.Akdam/2/7/7429 】
【Status: Normal】
【Level: 10】
【Strength: 19】
【Dexterity: 23】
【Unique Ability Mapping (Lv. 8)】
【Special Ability： Fire Magic(Lv.1)】
【Special Ability: Infrared Vision】
【Male/14/2/7428 · Elf · Viscount Kalstalan Family Third Son】
【Age: 15 Years Old】
【HP: 117(117) MP: 36(36)】
【Speed: 22】
【Endurance: 17】
【Special Ability： Earth Magic(Lv.1)】
【Special Ability： Wind Magic(Lv.1)】
【Special Ability: Infrared Vision】
【Female/14/2/7428 ・ Human ・ Firefreed Family Eldest Daughter】
【Age： 15 Years Old】
【HP： 121(121) MP： 15(15)】
【Speed： 22】
【Endurance： 19】
【Special Ability： Earth Magic (Lv. 2)】
【Special Ability： Void Magic (Lv. 3)】
*Since none of Ralpha's levels until 7 entered MP her HP and other abilities are a bit high.
【Zenom.Firefreed/5/4/7416】
【Condition: Good】
【Level: 17】
【Strength: 25】
【Dexterity: 27】
【Special Skill: Infrared Eyesight】
【Experience: 693841(810000)】
【Male/24/5/7421 ・ Lion-People Race ・ Viscount Greed Family Owned Slave】
【Age： 22 Years Old】
【HP： 126(126) MP： 5(5)】
【Speed： 20】
【Endurance： 19】
【Special Ability： Instant Speed】
【Experience： 233024(270000)】
【Female/14/9/7422 ・ Dog-People Race ・ Viscount Greed Family Owned Slave】
【Age： 21 Years Old】
【HP： 104(104) MP： 5(5)】
【Speed： 19】
【Endurance： 17】
【Special Ability： Super Sense of Smell】
【Male/14/2/7428 ・ Human ・ Viscount Greed Family Second Son】
【Age： 15 Years Old】
【HP： 148(148) MP： 7434(7434)】
【Speed： 30】
【Endurance： 24】
【Unique Ability： Gift of Natural Talent (MAX)】
【Special Ability： Water Magic (Lv. 8)】
【Special Ability： Wind Magic (Lv. 8)】
【Experience： 807624(810000)】