Chapter 12
Satou here . It's hard to notice when you live in it, but even my home town which I thought was unchanging, surprised me when I compared photographs in the span of 10 years . A series of small changes is hard to notice, isn't it .
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"It's so peaceful~"
"Yes, peace is best . "
I'm enjoying a tea time together with Aze-san while gazing upon a beautiful meadow of blooming flowers .
High elf of Boruenan Forest, my sweet Aialize-san is as lovely as ever today, I'm healed by just being next to her .
"The hectic times a few months ago feel like a dream now . "
Half a year has passed by since I visited the Realm of Gods the second time .
I finished testing anti-god barrier-generating devices and all kind of countermeasures in half the first month then successfully mass produced and installed those devices near Purple Towers all over the world in the latter half of the month, yet peaceful days continued on without any critical moment occurring afterward .
The towers I had destroyed were restored back as mounds when I got back from my second visit to Realm of Gods . They've grown as big as other towers now .
Even the tower that ended on floor 30 the last time we conquered has gained additional floors up to 50 now .
"Satou, here, for candy . "
"Candy, tasty . "
Winged Fairies came flying in, demanding candy .
I took out a pile of candy I had stocked and made good use of it to veer these mood crushers' attention away .
"Huh huh? Nana, not here?"
"Nana, where?"
"Nana is currently away on training, so she can't come here today . "
"Huum . "
"'Kay then . "
Looks like even the winged fairies who usually acted annoyed at Nana's excessive attention felt lonely when she stopped dropping by .
"Are Mia and the girls going to the tower again today? Aren't they pushing themselves a bit much?"
"Oh don't worry about that . I've made sure they get some rest as well . "
I told the kind Aze-san not to worry .
The golden members are in charge of culling out monsters on upper floors which also serves as their training, while the silver members are taking care of the middle floors .
At first, without the support of Sera's holy magic every battle was exhausting and not really worth it, but then about a month later, the Purple Towers' God's Gauges were unnaturally filled up and battles got easier, making the towers a more efficient spot to level up than labyrinths .
Now that I think about it, that initial stage was probably a tutorial stage by demon god used to elevate God's Gauges exponentially .
At first, we went in and out the towers with the help of my or Arisa's teleportations, but two months later, the towers got a new teleportation device called Elevators, which anyone could use as a shortcut by obtaining an item called [Crest of Purple-Blue] from defeating bosses found on every ten floors .
And now, all I need to do is regularly checking on the girls' status and send out some support on some occasions .
"It will be fine, Aze-sama . They all come by here every ten days, don't they . "
Miko Lua-san said so while bringing in more tea .
Unlike with labyrinths, the monsters in those towers won't die out even if you keep hunting them up, hence Liza and Arisa would have continued raising their levels without a pause if I left them to their own devices, in order to counter that, I have them take a stroll in the forest regularly as a refreshment .
"You'd better let them rest more . Those girls work too hard . "
"Ooh, isn't it fine, Shiya . Gotta get to the limit while they're young, would be good for their growth . "
"Poa's just too sloppy . "
The elven masters were here enjoying tea before I knew it .
"So, have Pochi and the girls reached level 99?"
"Hahaha, of course no, not yet . "
The golden members have reached the latter half of level 90 while the silver members are around 70 after half a year worth of training .
Fwoon, with that sound, a teleport gate appeared, and the girls in question came out of it .
"We're back!"
"Backie~"
"Back we are, nanodesu!"
"Welcome back", Aze-san gently welcomed the lively return of the girls .
"Master, look look! Look at Liza-san and Hikaru-cchi!"
--Oooh .
"Congratulations on reaching level 99!"
"Thank you very much, Master . "
"Ehehe, thanks . "
All other golden members besides Mia who's at level 96 have reached level 98 as well .
"Just so you know, we didn't do anything crazy okay . The tower in the neighborhood of Saga Empire's Capital got additional floors up to 70, you see . Thanks to that, there were more strong monsters we could fight for even better leveling . "
"We thought the limit was floor 50, but at the rate it's going, those towers would get to floor 99 or 100 . "
Arisa explained the reason for their rapid level up, and Hikaru added her expectations .
Checking with Space magic, no other tower even had floor 51 .
"We've brought back some super nice souvenirs today! The A5-grade marbled beef of Bahamut Mammoth!"
I have no idea whether it's a dragon or a mammoth from its name, but the meat that Arisa took out from her [Garage] looked so good my drool almost fell out just looking at it .
Gotta put my back into cooking this one here .
"There's Burning Pig amengugugu meat too nodesu!"
"And also Bear Shrimp~?"
Tama and Pochi went inside the Garage and brought back their recommended drop items .
Apparently, this meat was dropped 10kg each, we've got enough on hand .
I think Pochi mistook [Amazing] for [Amengugugu]?
All the meat had miasma seeped inside, so I unleashed the full power of my Spirit Light to disperse it away .
This trait is shared with meat found in labyrinths, so it's not a problem unique to Purple Towers .
"I'll go prepare our meal with Nea-san . "
"Lulu-sama, we shall lend a hand as well . "
"Thank you . I really appreciate everyone's help . "
House Fairies (Brownies) gathered around Lulu .
Lulu lifted up the ingredients with force magic [<<Floating Board>>] and brought them to the kitchen . There's so much of it, but with Nea-san the elven cook and brownies helping, it should be no problem .
"Master, there were lots of treasure chests too, so I inform . "
"Musical instruments . "
"Hee, that's new . "
Mia fetched all kinds of musical instruments from inside treasure chests Nana carried out .
So far, the stuff we found in treasure chests found in towers were equipment that would help in exploring the towers, or simply money or jewels, this would be the first time they found musical instruments in an exploration .
"That seems to be a sort of equipment . It's got 『Raise the effect of Curse Tunes or Curse Songs by 10%』 on its item info . "
Hikaru taught us the result of analyze .
"Curse songs, they exist?"
"Yup, I once met a minstrel who could use Musical Magic before I ascended the throne back then, apparently, this musical magic cast curse tunes by playing instruments . "
Looks like it's a tune and song version of chanting .
Looking at Map search, there's no one with Musical Magic skill .
It's probably some kind of a lost skill .
"Should I ask Core to make a skill orb for it?"
"Don't need . Music is to be enjoyed . "
Mia shook her head left and right .
Her whip-like twin tail hair hit Nana's chest .
"Mia, twin tail attack is plainly painful, so I protest . "
"Nn, bad my . "
Mia apologized while holding her hair in both hands .
"Master, what should we do about these equipment? They're too weak for us or Karina's group, should we sell them to Shiga Kingdom's knights by way of Echigoya Firm?"
"Right . Let's purify the dangerous looking arms and tools and sell the unproblematic ones . "
Due to the close proximity of an efficient leveling ground in the form of Purple Tower near the capital, many of capital knights have been challenging the middle floors of the tower in a shift system .
Lots of the knights lack the kind of equipment on the level of magic swords and such, I'm sure they'd be ecstatic to obtain upper floors' drop items that Arisa and the girls gathered .
"--Whoa, got a Pick-up signal from Karina-tan and the others, gotta go . "
"Should I go instead?"
"Hmm, it was me who received the request, so I should be the one going . "
For some reason, the silver members never asked me to fetch them even though it would have been easy with my Unit Arrangement . They're fine when I'm sending them though, so weird .
"It's not a matter of efficiency, but delicacy you know . "
Hikaru told me an easy to understand hint when she saw me looking confused .
I see, they don't want an opposite sex see them while they're still unclean from their time in the dungeon .
Since Zena-san and Sera can use life magic, I believe they could easily do personal grooming even inside a dungeon, but I have a feeling that Hikaru would be amazed if I said that out loud, so I refrained .
"Come to think of it, have Ringrande and the others who have gone to Saga Empire area contacted you yet?"
"Yea, I got some letters . "
Lady Ringrande and Emperor Sister Maryest--since the next Saga Empire's empress is supposed to be Lady Maryest's aunt, I probably should call her Empress Niece from now on--are currently exploring towers in Saga Empire .
Of course, they're not alone, they're in a group consisting of former attendants of Hero Hayato; light warriors Rusus and Fifi, Archer Wiyaryi, and priestess Loreiya .
Besides the two, other members have also joined my Bridal Knights publicly in order to dodge the ardent invitations to be reinstated by Saga Empire's bigwigs .
Additionally, I've sent silver member-level equipment to those girls through Echigoya Firm .
"Hmm, so they got a new vanguard huh . Ringrande-san had a really high opinion on her . "
"Ah, you mean Brume-san . "
Brume-san is an old lady who's also the mother of Shiga Eight Swords' leader, Julberg-shi .
She was a former attendant of a great hero of the past, a level 53 magic swordswoman when I first met her in Kubooku Kingdom's dungeon ruins back then .
"Those hero boys look to be doing fine huh . "
Lady Ringrande sometimes wrote about the recent states of Hero Yuuki and Hero Seigi in her letters .
Both of them are helping with reconstruction efforts in the cities they visited while exploring towers in the outskirts of the empire .
"Oh and what about the remaining members of Bridal Knights?"
"Princess Menea is learning the basics at Selbira's Explorer School, while the rest are all non-combatants, so they're currently standing by at the Knights Garrison . "
Princess Menea has Erina and newbie-chan as her escorts .
Sometimes they went on an expedition to the capital along with [Pendora] guys and explorer school's kids who wish to enter Bridal Knights and had a joint training on the tower's lower floors .
Transient members like Miss Rina who's working as an acting governor of Brighton City at Muno Marquisdom are members in name only, so they don't participate in the training .
Oh right, the hammer woman I saw last time was really Princess Awayuki herself .
I remember being surprised to see her among explorer school members for some reason .
From a letter Princess Menea sent me, apparently she's been getting along well with Princess Awayuki lately .
I'm a bit intrigued as to how those two of opposite personalities would end up becoming friends . I'll ask about it the next time we meet .
<TLN: If you're reading this novel at any other site than Sousetsuka . com you might be reading an unedited, uncorrected version of the novel . >
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