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âThe demon on Quratarâs 23rd floor is the Gumi Slime. It is weak to fire, wind and water magics. It doesnât have a resistance against any magic. It uses earth area of effect magic, but it doesnât seem to have any resistance to earth magic.â
We arrive on the 23rd floor.\n
Sherry gives us a briefing.
âThe Gumi Slime? Thatâs nostalgic.â\n
âItâs difficult to fight because itâs resistant to swords and spears. It will also absorb a person into it, and the absorbed person will suffer damage when it is attacked, unless itâs a magic attack.â\n
âCan you melt it away?â\n
âYes, and it needs to be defeated before the absorbed person is digested.â
Itâs a troublesome demon that Iâve encountered before.\n
Since Iâm on the 23rd floor now, they will be Lv23 and stronger than last time.
âDemons other than those one the 1st floor can appear outside?â\n
âIf there is a village near the labyrinth then only the demons on the first floor will appear outside, thatâs because there are lots of people nearby, and the demons wonât need to move far from the entrance. They also wonât be very aggressive. Demons from the 12th floor will show up if there isnât many people nearby, and theyâll travel further from the labyrinth. Demons from the 23rd floor will come out if there is nobody nearby, and they will travel long distances and aggressively attack people for food.â
That happens?\n
I understand that a labyrinth eats people for food. So thatâs what a labyrinth does if there is nobody nearby?\n
It sends out stronger demons to travel and attack people.
There were Gumi Slimeâs near Vale. They must have come from a long distance.\n
It didnât seem like it was unusual, and the route was patrolled.\n
It seems like a nuisance.
âRoxanne, can you find a group that just has one or two of them for us to fight?â\n
âI think so.â
Iâd like to set the skill of Jobless to one of the Gumi Slimeâs weaknesses, but I wonât be able to change it for a while after I set it.\n
Basic Earth Magic will do for now as the skill of Jobless.\n
Earth magic is the weakness of the Clamshell on floor 22, and the Kettle Mermaid on floor 21 in Quratar.\n
We could keep hunting here until breakfast, but the hunting speed might not be that good.
The Gumi Slime has a lot of weaknesses, just not Earth magic.\n
Weâll fight to test it out a couple of times, and then we might go to Haruba.\n
The first time you encounter a demon you should be wary, but Iâve fought a Gumi Slime before, and Iâve already experienced Lv23 with the Scissor Lizards.\n
There shouldnât be a problem.
Roxanne guides us to a place with three Gumi Slime Lv23.\n
Itâs a nostalgic gel demon.\n
There are no other demons either, so each vanguard can take one on.\n
As expected of Roxanne.
Four people start running at once.\n
I use Lava Hell, the combination of earth magic and fire magic, and then run after them.\n
The Gumi slimes didnât use their area effect magic before the vanguards met them.
The three vanguards confronted the three Gumi Slimes.\n
Roxanne easily avoided the body slam of the Gumi Slime.\n
Vesta drove both her swords into the Gumi Slime.
âIt really doesnât feel that effective.â\n
âDonât worry about attacking it Vesta, concentrate on defense and evasion.â\n
âYes, I think so too.â
Vesta nods to Roxanneâs opinion.\n
Though itâs possible to evade even if you arenât focusing on it if youâre Roxanne.\n
Since Miria has the Estoc of Petrification, she should attack it.\n
The skill will work even if the damage doesnât have much effect.
A magic formation appears under the Gumi Slime on the left.\n
Did it try to use area effect magic or regular magic? I donât knw, because Sherry cancelled it.\n
The Gumi Slime in the center shakes wildly as it attacks Roxanne.\n
Roxanne sways and parries it.
âI did it, desu!â
The Gumi Slime to the right is petrified.\n
The slime becomes hard.\n
It has a strange shape like itâs defying gravity, probably because it was petrified in the middle of an attack.
It seems the petrification skill does work like normal.\n
Miria moves around the back of the petrified demon, and attacks the demon in the center.\n
I destroy the Gumi Slime with magic.\n
After the Gumi Slime that had become a stone, I defeated the other two as well.
The combat time was longer than it was with the Scissor Lizard, but thatâs probably because Joblessâs skill was earth magic.\n
That will be the standard as we move up in floors.\n
If both the Scissor Lizard and Gumi Slime appear, I can only focus on one.
âRoxanne, was the Gumi Slime going to absorb you?â\n
âYes. You need to be careful not to be absorbed.â
Sherry asks Roxanne after the combat ends.\n
Was it that thing where the Gumi Slime shook wildly?\n
Is that how it absorbs you?
âItâs good that we could experience that right at the start. With this, I think weâll be fine on Quratarâs 23rd floor.â\n
âYes. I think weâll be alright.â
I said to Roxanne after she had confirmed the smell of the surroundings.\n
Are you checking to see if thereâs an easy fight nearby?\n
Itâs good.\n
Roxanne picks up a slime starch and passes it to me.
âIt seems weâll be able to fight against the Gumi Slime.â
Sherryâs approval gives me peace of mind.
âStarch, desu.â
Miria and Vesta also bring slime starch.\n
You remember the name because itâs used to fry tempura?\n
If fish are involved, you are strong.
Slime starch doesnât seem to be a rare drop since three were left behind.\n
After putting them in the box, we head to Harubaâs 23rd floor.\n
Weâll explore until breakfast, and then enter the labyrinth again later.\n
The opponents are Scissor Lizards.
Earth magic is the Scissor Lizards weakness.\n
Ma Bream from the 22nd floorâs weakness is also Earth magic, so Harubaâs 23rd floor is a floor which is relatively easy to fight on.\n
Since the demons become more powerful on the 23rd floor, this is welcome.\n
We should be able to adapt to the upper levels relatively smoothly.
Though the Scissor Lizards have gotten stronger, Iâve gotten stronger as well with my earrings and saint spear.\n
We can fight without a problem.\n
The 23rd floor is fine.\n
Our party will be fine even if we go up a few more floors.
Our levels started rising again too.\n
By evening, I became Explorer Lv46\n
For an Explorer, itâs easy to notice that your level has increased when you use your item box.
Explorer reached Lv45 several days ago, but Lv44 was a long time before that.\n
The time it took to pass Lv45 was quite short.\n
With the stronger Scissor Lizards, the experience must have gone up as well.\n
If not, it would have taken longer to reach Explorer Lv46.
I canât hope that the level will go up every day, but it should go up easier for a while.\n
My level became difficult to increase at Lv40, and Roxanneâs slowed down at Lv30, so I think the next wall will be Lv50.\n
Thatâs good.\n
Since Explorer Lv50 is the condition for Adventurer, I can switch to Adventurer when Explorer stops at Lv50.
Roxanneâs level went up yesterday.\n
Roxanne is Beast Warrior Lv32, Sherry is Master Smith Lv35, Miria is Assassin Lv21, and Vesta is Dragon Knight Lv30.\n
Roxanne became Knight Lv33 yesterday, and I changed it in secret with Beast Warrior Lv32.\n
It has not gone up yet since I switched it.
Sherry became master Smith Lv35, so my worries about smithing are becoming less and less.\n
If she fails in the crafting on a new piece of equipment, we can re-try it reasonably soon.\n
We should succeed.
Of course, Miriaâs Assassin went up because itâs level is still low.\n
I think petrification may have occurred more often this evening?\n
Maybe itâs my imagination?
You can consider that Vesta is full-fledged now because she made it to Lv30.\n
She is a reliable vanguard.\n
There is a sense of security that you get standing behind the giant Vesta as she wields two swords.
Demons appear, and four people start running.\n
One Scissor Lizard, and one Ma Bream.\n
I use double earth magic, and start running as well.
Roxanne and Vesta face the demons.\n
Miria goes to the side and attacks the Scissor Lizard.\n
Sherry arrives at the same time, so we donât get hit by area effect magic.
I also caught up after shooting magic.\n
I attack Ma Bream with the saint spear.\n
I attack it from Vestaâs diagonal so I donât interfere with Sherry.
I donât know if attacking with the saint spear will decrease the amount of times I have to attack with magic.\n
Sometimes itâs not enough.\n
Iâd rather do it than not though.\n
I need to keep training.
âI did it, desu!â
The Scissor Lizard became petrified.\n
Itâs petrified with itâs scissors raised.\n
Is it easier for Miria to petrify things?
All attacks concentrate on Ma Bream.\n
Ma Bream was defeated with [Sand Ball].\n
Saint spear is put away in the item box, and Durandal is pulled out with [Character Reset].\n
My MP was getting low.
Iâm the only one attacking the Scissor Lizard.\n
The lizard is killed from the continuous attacks from Durandal.\n
I defeated it with no trouble because it did not move.
âIâll be fighting with the sword Roxanne, so lead us to a place with just a few demons.â
I remove the earing of offerings, and take out my sacrificial misanga.\n
Itâs troublesome, but I have to think of safety.\n
I donât want to regret it later.\n
I make my sixth job Warrior as well.
âUm, Iâll tie it on.â\n
âYou will? Then please tie it to my wrist.â
I specified because Roxanne might try and tie it to my ankle.\n
I hold out my right hand, and the sacrificial misanga gets tied on.