The chapter title this time was in English.
Also, 2 hours this time... after all chapters are easier to breeze through when they're interesting as I translate them. Next chapter 4-8 hours est.
Year 7444, Month 12, Day 23
The fifth day since we arrived on the 7th floor. Exploration is proceeding smoothly. Even though I say that we still haven't arrived at the teleport room to the 8th floor yet.
Honestly speaking, including myself everyone is feeling a bit impatient about this situation. Even though we've filled in over 50% of the map of the 7th floor. Even then we still haven't found the route to the 8th floor. We've tried discussing it with everyone but other than the fact that deep in a monster room seems suspicious, we couldn't think of anything else that could connect to the 8th floor.
After we defeated that huge earthworm, I'm sure we made a mistake on the route we advanced down...Since the time was what it was, it's regretful that we couldn't explore down all of the split paths after that time. Even though the 7th floor is considerably easy to remain cautious on, even I don't want to camp out in a place other than the safe area here.
In any case, in the four days up until yesterday, we earned 10,000,000 - 15,000,000 Z (10-15 gold coins) in magic stones everyday. Basutoral is smoothly building up some experience as well. Since we're earning quite the high amount, even though we still haven't found the teleport room to the 8th floor everyone's morale is high.
Particularly Basutoral since he's getting used to the atmosphere of the combat and a sharp light has appeared in his eyes. The fact that he's progressively giving it his best is good but honestly speaking I feel like he's got some dangerous insecurity building up in there as well. After all it's certain that Basutoral isn't as strong as the other members.
Even if I say he's getting used to the atmosphere of the combat, it just means he's stopped flinching, and it's definitely not like his combat abilities have increased. Since everyone already understands that, they're souring their words while telling him "be careful" every time something happens.
Since his might gradually increased and when Basutoral started to get more progressive at first I thought it was great, with this the foundations are complete for him to become a new member and put my hand to my chest in relief but since around yesterday I've started to feel a bit uneasy about it, and I even had to give him a considerably strong order not to get full of himself and go out too far on the front line during combat.
This is just my imagination but I think that Basutoral is in ecstasy over the fact that he can really get his hands on an amount of money that could blind you. Obviously at first he was nervous, doubtful, and felt a gap in the abilities of those around him so he was shrinking back but after he realized that there's some difference in the abilities between the {Slaughterers} and the monsters, his feelings have been swelling up.
I don't particularly think that itself is anything bad. I'm sure it's necessary at first to be saved by your surroundings and gain some experience. In any case, he needs to put in effort himself and train, and then make sure he increases his skills as well otherwise sooner or later it's obvious he won't be able to keep it up, as long he's not just an idiot once we return to the surface and he has time for his head to cool down he should be able to understand.
We managed to defeat 17 ogres between the morning and afternoon of this day as well and we returned to the teleport room on the 6th floor after obtaining magic stones that exceed 14,000,000 Z . We all chatted while eating away at the pot of thinly sliced pork roast Giberuti prepared for us.
Around the time the stock disappeared from the pot we added some barley without the husks into it and waited around 15 minutes after putting the lid on. Finally we put some eggs on top and it comes out as egg gruel, we blow away at it to cool it down while eating it. Other than the fact that there's no fish stock it's a menu that Japanese people would generally prefer so it received praise from all of us. Even a western stable pot meal can taste pretty good.
Just like this when you're eating it, while barley is different from wheat which is difficult to eat unless you make it into a powder, its clearly different from rice but if you eat it while it's still in grain form it's quite good is what I'm always thinking. Although, on Orth since things like the water wheel and individual grinders entered households the habit of eating whole grains is rapidly going out of fashion, most people prefer wheat which tastes better when changed into a powder compared to barley. Like Zenom, when he first met me he made fun of barley as something only the poor and slaves eat while still in grain form. As expected he hasn't said anything like that recently though.
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Year 7444, Month 12, Day 24
Around four hours since we teleported into the 7th floor. We found several dead ends while continued to explore. And then, we finally encountered a new monster room. Unlike the previous monster room with the huge earthworm, this time there's thickly overgrown trees around the room. Consequently I don't think the boss of this room is that flashy earthworm. As expected if that huge body is in the ground of this floor it shouldn't be able to dig so easily with all the tree roots.
Even in the off chance it really is the huge earthworm then it's lucky for us. We can just fire attack spells at him from a distance while he can't move properly and safely finish it off.
Around 100 meters in distance from the monster room we had a simple strategy meeting. Even though I say that since we don't know the opponent, including the number. There's no way of making a plan.
"Bastuoral, you remain here..I guess so, remain hidden in the thicket behind that rock. No matter what happens don't move from there."
"Wa, yes! I understand."
When I ordered him to remain on standby Basutoral was a bit disappointed but he obediently obeyed. Everyone not just me has told him that the bosses of monster rooms are completely different from others. Adding to that, while we freeze the monsters in the boss rooms on the 6th floor and easily kill them to get through pretty often, when it comes to freezing the ogres on the 7th floor he knew they could easily break through it.
Excluding ogres which have already been injured and weakened somewhat, in order to freeze an energetic ogre you have to cover them in a huge amount of ice that they can't break through. A bare minimum of level 6 water and fire magic is necessary. Even then it requires several times more MP consumption as well. Without pouring in an excessive amount of MP in order to be able to solidify them in one hit it's pretty much impossible without at least level 7 water magic.
Rather than something like the powerful opponent that is an ogre, there's an even more powerful monster ruling over the monster room we're about to charge into on the 7th floor is what we're saying. If we have someone slowing us down it's possible the combat could develop into something harsh. Since everyone's lives are depending on it no matter how discontent Basutoral might feel I can't permit him to participate in the combat.
After taking the bags everyone's lunch is packed into Basutoral hid behind the rock I told him to. Each persons bento is about 500 grams, even if you include the rubber cloth it's in I doubt it's over 3 Kg, but I want to make sure we're as light as possible. Well, reflecting on previous times everyone still has one days worth of preserved food and a flask in their bags as well so we aren't completely light.
"Since we don't know what will be there. We're going with {Arrowhead One}. However since the 7th floor is wide. Everyone open up around 7-8 meters in distance."
{Arrow Head One} is a formation where I'm at the front, on the right behind me is Zenom, behind him on the right is Angela, on the left behind me is Ralpha, behind her on the left is Zulu. Toris is situated in the middle behind Zenom and Ralpha as shortstop, behind him is Gwine to follow the whole of us. Then even further behind that is Bel and finally Miduchi to support us and remain cautious of anything from behind. Also, when it comes to combat the picture of an arrowhead changes a bit to more like a zigzag while moving. When it comes to charging into a monster room, since I'm standing at the front rather than attack power it's a formation that's focused more on defensive power. The number decides who stands in the front.
Incidentally Miduchi wanted to name a cross shaped formation the {Imperial Cross} but since no one other than the person herself could understand the meaning in that strange formation we rejected it. Since the rear of a cross shape is the safest so she tried to say that we could rest easy and fight but since the front ends up being in the most danger it takes even more resolve to fight. It's so obvious I thought it was idiotic.
We have plenty of formations with the {Arrow}, {Wedge}, {Wing}, {Trail}, {Line}, and {Circle}. Since it's not like were leading an army into war. Incidentally, in the case of combat in the dungeon, in most cases the formation this time isn't very useful.
When it comes to beating a few number of opponents from every side then {Wing} or if it comes to goblins and gnolls a number of opponents in the passages then taking into consideration shifts between the front line and rear the {Line}, if we're surrounded by an army of {Giant Spiders} in a room then we use {Circle} as well. When scouting things out while moving through the vast passages of the 7th floor we use {Wedge} and the person at the front uses the spell {Detect.Life} though.
In any case, we went into the formation {Arrowhead One} and I used the spell {Detect.Life}. And then we advanced forward 100 meters towards the room once we arrived at the entrance of the room which has a diameter of about 500 meters I used it again. There's no detection of life within the effective range of the spell. It was when we made use of hiding behind the tree trunks as we continued ahead another 50 meters or so. I detected something with the {Detect.Life} spell I used again.
The direction is the center of the room. Since the trees are in the way I can't gain enough sight to use identify. In any case I need to communicate it. I raised my left hand in the air and gave the sign "discovered something". Several seconds later I pointed my finger in the direction ahead where I discovered them. Most likely everyone tensed up in preparations seeing that. I hold my bayonet in my right hand and hang my left hand down at the ready to use attack spells whenever needed as we slowly moved closer to the objective.
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