Year 7444, Month 2, Day 14
Somehow or other, we ended up going past our original plans, we spent from February 1st until the 5th inside of the dungeon, after that we took 3 consecutive days off, then from the 9th until yesterday the 13th we explored again. The conclusion we arrived at from adventuring during that time was that after all the teleportation on the 6th floor is a type of trap. If you throw a rock while walking it's actually pretty simple to discover them. The width of the passage is about 9m but on the walls of both sides of that there's a fixed stone with a strange symbol carved into it. In between those two stones there's a space of about 6m that's the starting point for the teleportation.
After testing out throwing a number of rocks inside we confirmed it. In other words, you can pass through about 1.5m from the stone. Even if you throw a rock in from the other side it seems to teleport. Other than that, there were still the same arrow and pitfall traps as well. It's actually more troublesome to discover those. That's why we haven't advanced much at all with exploring the 6th floor so far.
Furthermore, the stone with a symbol carved into it seems to be part of a large boulder sticking out so we gave up on digging it up. Also, the symbol isn't uniform. Just guessing but the symbol is probably different for each teleport destination? is the best opinion we could come up with. Even when we tried to carve off the symbol, the stone, or rather boulder was too hard so it was impossible. Well even if we were able to shave it off considering the recovery ability of the dungeon I feel like it would restore to normal after a short while so I don't think it has much meaning. Since we don't know where we'll teleport to on the 6th floor it's not like we're often passing by the same spot after all.
We still haven't tried going inside of one of the teleport traps. There was the far too reckless proposal of Ralpha to go all out and try jumping in but it was immediately rejected by everyone.
Incidentally, we were able to confirm that nothing happens when just sticking the end of a pole inside. If you throw it in it teleports. After carefully observing and it seems that when more half of the object passes the teleport trap it activates. We weren't able to confirm if that's the same for living creatures. If there was a goblin wandering around we could tie one up and kick it in but unfortunately the only thing we've seen is the wild boards {Cave Wild Boar}. As expected capturing a wild boar of this size alive is a bit unreasonable. Even if we were able to I don't think it would budge even we kick it.
In any case, just like this we've predicted that exploring the 6th floor is going to take an extremely long amount of time. There's already no choice but to firmly sit down and make an effort on it over time. The things to be gained are big. After all, even though we've only entered rooms on the 6th floor twice so far but the first time there was about 10 wild boars and no problem at all but the second time, there was an altar like the ones on the 5th floor and what was summoned was a {Cave Great Boar}, after we defeated that an idiotically huge ore of gold came out.
A large ore of gold that was two times the size of an adult's head was immensely heavy and according to Toris it has the weight of above 50 times that of a liter of water so it should have weighed about 50kg. I'm sure the purity of the ore must have been high as well, since it seemed that it would have amounted to 20kg or so of gold after being tempered and if that's true then it seems it will sell for over 60,000,000 Z.
Since it seems that this is the first time this large of a gold ore was brought back in Baldukk in several decades the adventurers were all excited. Since we reported that we found this ore on the 5th floor we succeeded in pulling the top teams to the 5th floor. Particularly {Sun Ray} jumped at this information, today they've even split their party in two and are clearing it at the same time.
Just like we do every year exchanged birthday presents all five of us celebrated that we were safely able to reach our 16th birthday and the fact that it seems one week later the tempering will be done so we'll get our hands on a huge sum of money as well. Everyone got into the spirit and drank a lot. Since as expected things were pretty painful the next day I seriously started to think about using {Neutralize Poison}.
All five of us reincarnated people had an increase in ability values thanks to the increase in age. Everyone's levels increased as well, the lowest Gwine is already level 12, and even though she's in one of the top teams it's no problem at all.
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Year 7444, Month 4, Day 25
After returning to the Boil Manor from the dungeon and brother and the others were there. It seems that brother and the others arrived on the night of the day before yesterday and instead of going to make deliveries to the knight group without me, they waited. I mean, I did get a letter saying they would arrive tonight after all..so I relaxed thought it would be just right. The caravan from Bakuddo this time brought along a huge load. Starting from this month for roughly two years, the Ryogu family of squires from Bakuddo will be living in Rombertia after all, I'm sure it's their luggage as well. After all, there's only two carriages, other than the goods for delivery the carriages packed with their belongings are piled up like a mountain.
That's why it seems they left the village about a week early. Well in the end they were slowed down for two days in Baldukk so it was canceled out but if I think about it, it's only obvious they got here faster.
I thought for a bit and then said to everyone.
"Ah..Sorry but the next time we were supposed to enter the dungeon was April 29, but since there's some conveniences for the company as well I think we'll have a slightly early {Golden Week}. Starting from May the 3rd. That's why I'll make the 7 days until May the 2nd into days off. I know it's a bit abrupt but someone tell Zulu and Angela about it as well..Ah, I guess I'll tell them when we eat dinner."
Since the start of February for this roughly three month period, we've been vigorously continuing to explore the 6th floor but because of caution towards the traps, the exploration is barely progressing at all, it's just our guess but we think we've only proceeded through about 10% or so of it so far. We haven't found any magic items but we have found a total of 4 ores and raw rems, a rate of 1-2 per month, so we're finding them at a quick pace and the fact that it's satisfying is our greatest salvation.
I'm glad I was able to remember at the last moment. May 1st is the day I can try going to Karl's place again. I don't know if I can make it there or not but there's plenty of worth in trying it for almost an entire day. This time I intend to bring along a lot of fish.
Well in any case, for right now let's just focus on our meal in celebration of our reunion. I said to brother and the others "please wait just a moment I'll go and change" and immediately went inside, removed my protectors, took a quick shower, and changed into neat clothes. Incidentally when I went to the shower room both of them were already in use (probably Bel and Ralpha), so I returned to my room and pulled out my bucket for cooling in the summer to use as a shower.
I put my sword band on my waist as I head towards the lobby where brother and the others are waiting and after hugging Rozual and Wendy who I hadn't seen in a while, I smiled to their daughter Dianne and said, "I've prepared a good place so look forward to it. Ralpha and Gwine came along as I was greeting the other squires escorting this time. So the first ones showering were these two huh?
Brother started talking to me displeased for some reason.
"Al, I've heard about you from the people of the inn, it seems that you're said to be the number one adventurer in Baldukk already. That's quite something. As expected, you're doing well."
I'm being praised right?
That's right, Al-sama. We heard rumors about you during dinner the other night, it seems you're called the {Slaughterers}, and you even managed to wipe out a group of adventurers that attacked you the other day! It seems that it was a crime committed because they were jealous of Al-sama's progress or something..However, as expected of Al-sama. To defeat them instead is quite something."
In comparison Sean is in an extremely good mood. Rozual and Wendy are smiling as they praised me.
There I was pulled into a corner of the lobby by brother and he started whispering to me.
"Al, I have a bit of something to talk about. What's the meaning of {Slaughterers}? It better not be a name given because you're attacking adventurers or something right?"
Brother is looking at me with a stern look. Ah, I see, he was displeased over the name {Slaughterers}. It's not surprising since brother hates crooked things. Since he doesn't come to Baldukk all that often it's only obvious he didn't know.
"Yeah, please rest easy. The name {Slaughterers} is a nickname given to us because we're killing almost all of the monsters we encounter in the dungeon and bringing their magic stones back. Other adventurers normally try to avoid combat as much as possible while progressing further into the dungeon. However, we don't go out of our way to avoid monsters. We're defeat them all and proceeding even further. I've definitely not done anything that would dirty the honor of our name."
I properly looked at brother's eyes while saying that.
"..I see, I feel a bit relieved hearing that...I thought my heart would stop for a moment when I heard you were being called the {Slaughterers} the other night. Of course I had faith in you. The other squires believed in you as well. But, since adventurers are exploring the dungeon..It wouldn't be strange if anything happened. Sorry for doubting you. Forgive me. However, the {Slaughterers} is quite a dangerous nickname. I was surprised. And, if you had changed, I was worried that I wouldn't be able to agree with your objective anymore."
Brother put both of his hands on my shoulders while saying that and lowered his head. I,
"Please raise your hand. But for you to doubt me is mean. I won't do anything that would make father angry. I don't like the name {Slaughterers} all that much either but it's a nickname that comes in handy. It's not all that bad."
I laughed while saying that and separated. Brother,
"Nn..I'm sure. It's a nickname that's hard to look down on. Since there's young girls in your party as well...It's true if I think about it like that it's not that bad huh? But I would have preferred you being called {Justice Blade} or {Royalty Wolves}."
said that and laughed. {Justice Blade} and {Royalty Wolves} are the names of legendary parties from several hundred years ago. They're the subjects for a number of fairy-tales. {Justice Blade} challenged a dragon when it was raging around in the Dirt Plains in order to protect the surrounding villages, and while they were wiped out, they managed to injure the dragon forcing it to retreat. The {Royalty Wolves} were a party of Wolf-people race that existed during the era of the second King and acted as volunteer soldiers during the war with Gulanan Empire, their leader was a direct subordinate of the founder and first King. Since the first King saved the the Wolf-people race during his adventuring days they weren't able to forget that debt and acted as shortstops when he was invading other kingdoms to expand his territory, it seems they played quite a big role in those wars. Since they weren't associated with the army but rather treated as a shortstop organization of volunteer soldiers so they aren't treated as soldiers but rather adventurers.
They're both extremely famous examples of adventurers but not to my taste. If you were to ask me I prefer the ones where they focus not on the group of adventurers but the individuals, like Rombert the First or the adventurer who founded Kanbitt King, King Rogmokk.Za.Pitviper, so that's what I'm aiming for. Since it's a foreign kingdom that's quite far away I don't know the details but it seems that even though he was just an individual adventurer, he took over Kanbitt Kingdom that was a trashy small country at the time and raised it up into a large power in just one generation. He did such a sudden expansion of the country that it could almost be considered founding it new, so it's got quite a few stories about it. Unfortunately he wasn't blessed in children so it seems that he had no heirs but even then it's amazing he raised up a single country. I can honestly respect him.
"But don't misunderstand me. I'm not aiming to be a top-class adventurer...It's not like I want to be praised by someone. If it's necessary than I'll ambush people or even trick them. As a result I might even end up attacking some adventurers. It just wasn't necessary until now so I didn't do it"Yeah, I'm sure. I've already come to terms with that. Since the world isn't that easy. I just, was worried that you were killing just to kill. I mean if you hear that you're being called a name like {Slaughterers}, it's not unreasonable to think that right?"
Brother grinned while saying that. And,
"Ambushing is only obvious. During wars I'm always thinking how to outsmart the opponents as well. Intentionally letting the opponent get full of themselves and after getting nearby, things like tricking them I'll do as many chances as I get. I just haven't done it because I didn't have the chance. I already know that there was nothing like what I was worrying about so that's fine."
said that and patted my head.
"You've gotten big, Al. I'll be overtaken pretty soon."
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