Beating the Stone Bridge
"Yeah, ever since we went to the 8th floor..Right~"
"Hn..Well, I guess that's true."
"Yeah, they were saying "young mistress" or whatever."
"Al-san, as expected. You're quick."
"That's right. We're fine."
And they were saying that while watching Giberuti skillfully cook up some food. It's not unusual to take along an exclusive cook or a combat slave that takes care of the cooking in the party but the {Butchers} and {Exterminators} don't have an exclusive cook after all.
Of course Rodricks and my combat slaves take care of the cooking but it's not like they're all that skilled at cooking either. On the days they aren't entering the dungeon it seems they're learning from Giberuti but they still aren't all that skilled.
After finishing up our meals it seems the {Butchers} and {Exterminators} had already decided on the lookouts so we left it to them and all went to sleep right away.
Year 7446, Month 7, Day 10
Yesterday we cleared from the 4th floor to the 6th floor, this morning was the 7th floor, and then right now, we've just finished beating down the Minotaur on the 8th floor with everyone. The value of the magic stone was the same 30,000 as usual and with this it should be fine to think that the value of the magic stone from the Minotaur here won't have any greater value than this. The weapon was just a normal battle axe. This one wasn't worth anything much either. It's close to brand new so I'm sure we can sell it for a decent price but they've completely dropped from the wazamono at the start.
Putting that aside, after putting quite a bit of working carrying the materials this far, I wonder if it's fine to say we've almost completed making the 8th floor into a base? We've installed a kitchen equipped with a stove and have prepared quite a few more buckets than the other floors. Of course, we've already made the benches and foot bath and just in case we decided on a place with beds for up to 14 people as well.
However, in regards to the toilet and shower room we're still currently using the simple versions. It's not a mistake to think in terms making it as comfortable as possible for a living space but thinking about the drainage and bad smell it's only obvious that it's better to have outside of the room.
Now then, from here on out it's a bit of a drawn out battle. Today is already close to 4 pm and we have some amount of fatigue remaining from clearing through the 7th and 8th floors. We should quickly take our showers and eat before properly setting up sentries and then go to sleep.
Ah, the loincloth I gave to Zulu has already been washed but there was still quite a bit of smell remaining to it so it was forcefully confiscated and is in the process of being pickled in a bucket of soap before being washed and dried in the sun right now. While we're here I intend to have it washed everyday. Once we return to the surface I'll buy some perfume or something so just bear with it for now.
Year 7446, Month 7, Day 13
I had Basutoral return to the surface a bit ahead of us. We had plenty of time to discuss things about the factory so we exchanged ideas and in the end after giving him several orders I had him go to his beloved wife's side. I already told him that once we finish this investigation, I'll be going to Rombertia as well.
"I'll make preparations so we can definitely have some delicious "sausage" ready to be eaten by the time Al-san comes."
Basutoral cheerfully said that before teleporting out towards the surface.
Including the first one and the one we defeated just past noon today we've defeated a total of 5 Minotaur. After all the quality of equipment the Minotaur are using is gradually falling and has reached the point where it's not much different from the standard sold in stores. Also, the fact that all of those are weapons with a long handle hasn't changed either.
Year 7446, Month 7, Day 15
I've started to understand most of it. The signs of revival will appear roughly 17 hours after we defeat the Minotaur. And then, for several minutes up to around 10 minutes the signs of revival that is the whirlpool of fog will continue.
And then, while we're inside of the teleport room as long as we don't take any concrete actions towards attacking it doesn't notice us. It's fine no matter how loud of a noise we make. Just, if we throw a bucket of water on it or throw rocks at it then it obviously notices. However, it still doesn't seem like it can see the passage into the teleport room from it's side or it just looks like a normal dirt wall, so even after it notices it ends up giving up and facing it's back to us again eventually.
If we all charge at it we can definitely manage a surprise attack on it from it's back. I've already reached almost full confidence of these things.
It's reasonable tough but since it was already not a big problem defeating it when fighting head on so there's almost no struggle when we can just ambush it. In the first place if soon after revives while it's still crouching down like the terminator you take a battle axe to it's neck with all your strength I'm sure even Giberuti could kill it.
Though I say that, it's necessary to spend another couple of days here and confirm if this hypothesis is really correct. Unfortunately in regards to exploring the 9th floor I've put it off until we can confirm that this area is really safe.
Well, we should be able to reach that stage during this month though.
Ah, No, there's all that trouble with the factory and transferring duties with the company so I wonder if this month is impossible?