âThereâs a boss room every ten floors. And we should expect waitinâ lines on the upper floors,â Sword immediately made use of his wireless communication device.
âI suppose thatâs commonplace. No choice. Letâs make a stop at the tenth floor then,â I answered while dashing across walls and ceilings in order to avoid other people.
I didnât plan on killing any monsters. Theyâd probably try escaping anyway.
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I arrived at the tenth floor in the blink of an eye.
âWas it around 5 minutes? Itâd be great if we could have skipped a bit more.â
âWell, yeah. These floors are no problem after all.â
No waiting line awaited us, but the door didnât open as there apparently were people inside.
âIf we keep going at this rate, it looks like weâre going to clear this dungeon by today, butâŠstarting with the 50th floor, itâs going to be uncharted territory for you, so letâs go at a slower pace then.â
âSure. âŠI think weâll be able to keep up this pace down to the 30th floor, but if I remember correctly, the floors in the thirties were jungles infested by insects, so I donât feel like itâll be that easy to get through âem, you know? The floors in the forties were overrun by undead. Anyway, they stank and I got attacked by swarms of âem, so they were a major pain in the ass. I went further down into the fifties as a test, but the floors there seem to be endless plains that thwart any mappinâ attempt. Moreover, the sight is bad down there âcause of the high grasses. All of this made it really inefficient as a solo adventurer, so I pulled back.â
Oh, interesting. That does sound fun.
âCome to think of it, is there anything we should hunt or gather in the dungeon?â
The basics of any hunting game dictate that thereâs loot you can only obtain at certain places.
âParties other than ours usually reach the floors in the thirties, so I think we donât need to bother until then. The fortiesâŠare quite unpopular. Folks capable of usinâ light magic are rare, and they run quickly out of mana thanks to the sheer number of monsters. Besides, the demand for loot from undead is very limited.â
It sounds like itâd be better to simply cut across those floors.
âSo, weâre going to play the hunting game, starting with the fifties, huh? The standard for plains would be frogs and locusts, I suspect.â
Frogs, huhâŠ? If Iâm not wrong, those can be eaten, canât they? I donât want to eat locusts, however. Even If Iâm told theyâre a delicacy or some such, itâs impossible for me.
âNow then. âŠOh, itâs open.â
When we went inside the roomâŠa bear?
Gaooh!
It roared something like that at us. Whatâs this? Itâs kinda cute.
But, just as I thought that, Sword quickly killed it.
ââKay, letâs move on.â
He quickly opened the treasure chest and then urged me on.
ââŠâŠ You call me cold-hearted or some such, donât you? But I mean, even you killed that lovely bear with its adorable pose as it roared âGaooh!â with one blow, showing no hesitation whatsoever.â
âItâs because I wouldnât consider a monster as ăLovelyă. Come on, go, go. Weâre runninâ.â
Why not!? Even though it was so damn adorable!
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We advanced down to the 30th floor at a good pace. The waiting time in front of the boss room took us longer than getting there. Many parties headed back up after that boss.
âQuite a lot of people donât go any further, huh?â
Or to be more precise, itâs all parties who turn back. But, why?
âThings like compatibility with insects depend on preferences. Iâm sure youâll love them, though.â
Hmmmhhmm. Thatâs not really true, you know? Itâs just that the things Iâve built look like insects by coincidence!