I’ve Became Able to Do Anything with My Growth Cheat, but I Can’t Seem to Get out of Being Jobless - Volume 7 - Chapter 153

Chapter 153

(153) Monster-less labyrinth

Translator: Tseirp

Since it was a hot spring, it really stung my eyes when I dove in with my eyes open . No matter how much I trained my body, the pain felt by the eyes could never be negated . Although I do know that pain is the body’s danger signal and it should not be negated .

Furthermore, even though the ice was cooling down the surface, perhaps the effects weren’t conducted deeper down as I felt it steadily get warmer .

After diving vertically down all the way, I found something like a cave tunnel . It had taken roughly 40 seconds . I felt that I still had about 1 more minute left to dive so I decided to peek into the tunnel .

— There’s light shining out of it?

A faint light . It seemed like the monkeys came from there .

Looking at it closely, I could faintly feel the flow of water .

Using my Detect Enemy skill, there didn’t seem to be any monsters .

It was steadily getting hotter .

I made my decision and entered the tunnel .

And then, the upper portion of the tunnel led to a hole and it connected to an underground space .

” … I’m surprised … to think that there’s such an amazing place underground . ”

Stretched underground was an orchard . There were trees heavily laden with fruits like bananas and papayas .

The walls and ceiling were emitting a faint pale light so I guess they used that for photosynthesis .

And there were pipe-like objects around the trees . Hot water was probably channeled through those pipes to adjust the room temperature?

Even though I was in a southern country, it wasn’t a place warm enough for bananas to grow naturally .

I wonder if the monkeys live here?

“Petite Wind —”

I plucked a coconut with wind magic, opened a hole with a pocket knife and drank a little .

It was coconut juice .

“Petite Ice”

I used Ice Magic to freeze the surface just a little and tried drinking . It was cooling and extremely delicious .

Nevertheless, what exactly is this place?

The metal pipes were clearly man-made but the walls and ceilings indicated that it was a labyrinth .

But even though it was a labyrinth, I couldn’t detect any presence of monsters .

The mystery remained but I guessed that it was safe to call Carol out .

I took off my wet clothes and kept them in my item bag, took out new clothes and wore them before casting 「My World」 .

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“It’s amazing, this fruit called a banana is extremely easy to eat . ”

Carol put the thick and long item into her mouth and chewed .

If it was made into a video, this scene might have been repeated continuously but I couldn’t show it to anyone .

I ate a mango while having such idiotic thoughts .

I roughly ate the fruit and passed the seed to Pionia for now .

When I explained to Pionia the vinyl house-like system here, she eagerly said that it was most likely possible to achieve in My World too . I wonder if Pionia is actually the type that likes inventing and crafting? (TL: Vinyl house system refers to the heating system that uses liquid tubing hidden underneath floorboards or wall panels . )

“I wonder where does this hot water flow from?”

“Don’t touch it, it’s hot enough that you’ll end up with a burn . ”

“Temperature that is only hot enough to cause burns would just be regularly hot after all . ”

While having such pointless question and answer,

“It might be circulating the hot spring . If that is true, there may be a boiler somewhere . ”

I thought it was a natural hot spring but turns out it might be an artificial hot spring .

Labyrinths are originally an apparatus to accumulate and purify miasma so the possibility of this being a labyrinth is high .

However, the fact that there was no monster presence was strange after all .

“What do you think Carol?”

“There has not been any sign of human entry for at least 10 years . Normally an island labyrinth like this would be regularly purified by the Church’s Labyrinth Knights but perhaps this labyrinth’s monsters are being exterminated by those monkey-sans . ”

Said Carol . Monsters would spill out of a labyrinth when the miasma within the labyrinth overflows but given that there weren’t any monsters there, the speculation that the monkeys were not labyrinth monsters holds .

“Perhaps those monkeys were trapped in here . It’s not definite but it would be impossible that they could not swim and return to land before the ice cooled down the hot spring …”

“I guess so . There are no traces of monster leftovers or excrements so it has probably been absorbed by the labyrinth . ”

Ah, labyrinths are convenient in that aspect . Because the fruit trees were photosynthesizing, the place won’t have a lack of oxygen too . It’s not to the extent of My World but this place might be the most optimal place to hole up .

“Those monkeys didn’t seem that strong so if the monsters can be defeated by the monkeys then there’s no worry . To be safe, I’ll go investigate until the end but what does Carol want to do?”

If there was a boiler, I would definitely want to take it with me .

If I could do so, then I might even be able to create a hot spring inside My World .

“Carol will accompany you . ”

“I see, then, let’s go . ”

“Since Ichino-sama has to look for the reason that you were forcefully transferred here . ”

… Ah, now that she mentioned it, we’re here to investigate that .

I was too excited about the hot spring that I completely forgot about it .

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As expected, there were no monsters in the labyrinth .

Moreover, compared to the layered structure we’ve encountered for the labyrinths to date, this labyrinth spread out in a flat plane .

” … There’s nothing . ”

“Yeah . Would this long passage be the last?”

Carol was sketching the map of the labyrinth .

Just like the grid paper mapping I did for old dungeon games .

Apparently, that mapping was regularly performed in labyrinths without maps .

“Ichino-sama has been relying on nothing but Haru-san’s olfaction until now after all . ”

That’s true . Haru’s nose is able to tell if we had passed a certain location before or if a lot of people had passed through there before so there was no need to do this kind of mapping .

“Looking at this map, this place seems to be an artificial space after all . ”

“Maybe there would be something like a hidden door . ”

Carol doesn’t know about it but last time there was a hidden door when I went to save Norn-san . It looked like a regular wall but just like a hologram, there was nothing when I went to touch it .

Maybe there was something similar here .

As we have not encountered a boss room until now, perhaps the boss room or staircase was inside that hidden space .

While pondering that, it happened when we entered the long passage to investigate for now .

— 『Gaban!』(TL: Slam!)

Along with that loud crash, a wall appeared at the end of the passage . Not only at the end . When I turned around, there was also a wall at the place we entered from .

“We’re trapped!?”

Just as I had that thought, the walls started shifting closer .

Moreover, at a considerable speed .

“Ichino-sama, this —”

“Shit, I’ll break the walls!”

I pulled out my steel sword from my item bag .

“「Slash」!”

And released a sword wave with it .

However —

“No way, there’s not even a scratch . Even though I have the confidence to even crush rocks . ”

“Ichino-sama, labyrinth walls are indestructible!”

“Oh right, I forgot!”

I immediately place the sword horizontally .

To serve as a rod .

I also took out other long objects from my item bag .

The walls closed in to about 50 cm when it stopped . Rather, it was still shifting slightly but the steel sword had become a jamming rod .

“Shit, it’s narrow — Carol, are you okay?”

” … I’m okay … since I don’t have anything to get stuck with . ”

Carol touched her own chest and said somewhat regretfully .

“Chest size doesn’t matter at all now … More importantly, wall! Why don’t you give up already! Is there no system that automatically opens when a foreign object is caught like for elevator or train doors!?”

After I shouted that, the steel sword could no longer withstand the pressure — and broke .

“” … . Shi— !””

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The next instant, the walls were almost stuck together, leaving just a minute gap .

Then, the walls returned to their original position and there was nobody left moving in that passage .