Watashi Ga Betsu No Sekai De Umarekawatta
9-4: Labyrinth Ecprolation 1
"Law, this time the stairs again..."
"Lina, it might be a good idea for you to start weight training or jogging to build up your physical strength…"
"Uy…"
I lightly pushed Lina's back which looked like she was about to cry and advanced on the stairs…
There was a vast staircase outside the entrance of the labyrinth…
This is not a normal or spiral staircase, but a winding one…
Stairs may have been installed in this place with winding sloping paths and high ceilings…
There are crenels along the stairway at fixed intervals to shoot arrows below…
They were most likely used to overcome the monster invasion…
There was a barbette in the middle of each rung, enshrining artillery coated with cloth…
The two soldiers stood on top of each barbette…
They seem to spare because they play a board game similar to Shogi…
This may be better than drinking or falling asleep…
The soldiers were not humans, but wolfkin-like beastkins that looked powerful…
Because I was free while we were going down the stairs,
Broad…
Even compared to the withered labyrinth of the capital Duchy, this was unbelievably vast…
Even only these three labyrinth areas could swallow the entire demon labyrinth of Seryuu city…
The search only ranges from [Labyrinth of Selbira: Upper Stratum], but there are likely hundreds of areas…
Just like the demon labyrinth and the labyrinth of the Duchy capital, the labyrinth had a lower layer that expanded underground, there was definitely at least twice as much area…
In area one, there are about 100 corridors and three-dimensional connected rooms…
There are also areas where there is only one room or one that contains 1000 small rooms just between those areas…
And then, despite its vastness, there are 30 areas that have explorers in them…
Most of them were in the first area and area seven adjacent to it…
Under the ground, there were about 2,000 explorers, 500 soldiers, 300 [Baggage Carriers] and 400 Lost Thieves…
There were also several dozens of people besides them…
Tiane and Lina became exhausted all the way on the stairs, so I took her…
Lina who buried her embarrassed face on my back, the pangs…
Leaving Lina and Tiane aside, I think it is better for them to train his physical strength…
There were many people in the first room of the first area…
The room is bright because there is lighting from objects such as magic tools growing on the wall…
As for its size, I wonder if it is easier to understand if I say that it measures around three standard gyms connected…?
All the soldiers other than the ones on the stairs here in this room…
About 90% of the soldiers performed swing drills commanded by a senior-like person on one part who was at a lower altitude…
Not only soldiers there were also magic soldiers among them, but there were some of them compared to Seryuu city…
However, the previous [Red Ice] people were supposed to report about the monster outbreak, yet they were so without worry…
Maybe something like a monster outbreak just happens every day, huh…
There was also the owner of the stall beside them…
I'm amazed that they do business in this place…
Most of them are food stalls, grinders, equipment repairmen or general stores, but there are also some interesting ones…
"Your peer.same there, do you want to touch someone who bears the gen「Item Box」 before you level up…?"
"One touch is one silver coin, but if you are lucky「Item Box」 might get on your slave or subordinate, you know…? "
It seemed interesting, but every single one of us had already touched the [Item Box] Lina dam Tiane she had, so it was meaningless…
"The same nobility do you bring enough food and water…?"
"It's one copper coin to eat…"
"How's…?"
"Nobles alike, do you have a map…?"
"We sold the map of the first area for one silver coin…"
They promoted it like that, but I refused because I was not interested…
I was a little interested in the take-home food, but since the ingredients were unknown, I refused it…
In this room, there were three large corridors that each had an area of five meters…
Not only was there a large corridor, a small one also existed…
There were more than 10 of them, but none were connected to other areas…
There was an army of Exploring Guild staff before the door leading to the interior of the main large corridor…
There was a spiral staircase that led underground in that interior and continued beyond the map search range…
Let's attack him alone next time…
We walked to the large door leading to [Area 1-4] which Jeje from [Red Ice] had previously mentioned…
The soldiers who had set up the military camp by piling sandbags on the doorstep also warned us not to approach areas 1-4 because there were rumors of an ant outbreak there…
"It's okay…"
"We'll just see things today, we'll be back after touring the first area…"
"Ahh.. then fine…"
I told the soldiers who gave us a warning and went through the door that me and the others had opened…
As we stepped forward through the large corridor, leaving a large door behind, Cronoa verified our formation…
"When we move, the center is Lina with Mia and Tiane by her side, the front guards are you and the rear guards are Ciel…"
With this formation, we will be fine even if we are attacked from the front and back…
Besides, they can definitely fight without me and it might be better if I don't act too overprotective and let them flourish…
"Mia, use magic『Bubble Searcher』and confirm in front, okay…"
"Mrs…"
Mia responds briefly to Lina's request and uses magic…
It seemed like they had always used this first magic and especially at the Spriggan training ground to search for enemies…
This magic produced about 30 bubbles floating in the air…
They are fragile because they break if you just touch them, but you can feel things around them like you feel…
The detection distance is only about 30 centimeters from the bubble, but the bubble can be separated by several hundred meters from the user…
In addition, the effect lasts for about 2 hours if the bubbles do not burst, so it is very useful to explore the labyrinth…
However, the downside is that the magic will be canceled if the user uses another magic…
"Should I use lighting magic…?"
"I don't have a light magic skill, but at least I can do that, you know…?"
"No. there's no problem even though it's dim, so it's okay…"
There was a dim lighting equipment on one side of the corridor that only illuminated from knee-high to the ground…
It might be a Sign Monument…
Just as I heard, the color changed from white to blue as we approached…
In addition, Ciel was able to detect monsters and traps, while Mia's search bubble could detect things approaching from outside their banquet…
There are small hallways and cavities and shelters that are indistinguishable from piles with web spiders and dust on the walls of corridors that appear at fixed intervals…
"Something…?"
"I heard the sound of fighting from off the track…"
"Nn, battle…"
Totona notices the battle ahead and a little later, bubble Mia seems to have captured the battle between six after goblins and five explorers, 300 meters ahead…
There was an air hole in the ceiling of the labyrinth corridor that was constantly emitting low-pitched sounds, as a result, it was difficult to sense the presence of a distant voice…
In fact, even Cirl seems slower than usual to notice her…
The explorers and demi goblins seemed to be in a small corridor branching off from the large corridor we were in…
They were not too far away from the large corridor…
They seemed to have noticed us approaching, one of the explorers raised his voice to warn us…
"These goblins are ours…"
"Go there…"
"Acknowledged…"
I didn't want to distract them too much, so I answered immediately…
It seemed like close combat once the explorers were injured, even though they were only fighting level 1-2 goblins…
These explorers are around level 3, so they might be beginners…
As I expected, they were all soldiers…
Explorers who had magic skills were only about 5% of the total, so they might be rare…
There were hardly any monsters in the first area where we were, probably because there were too many explorers…
There were some corridors where monsters moved inside, but it seemed that they were not connected to where the explorers were, so we never met him…
After observing it for a while, the battle began in a distant corridor connected to that corridor near the tunnel…
I see, so a POP monster with this mechanism…
"Enemy's coming…"
"Insects, three…?"
Yeah, correct…
A fly-type monster came out from a small tunnel around the ceiling…
There are three of them…
Each of them is level 3…
"You're an insect…!"
"So I declare…"
In response to the provocation of the Cronoa fly makes the attack rebuffed…
Although this was the first battle full of warnings, it was already over before Tiane took off the cloth wrapped on his staff…
It was completed with the stone throws of Ciel and Totona and Lina's spear attack…
"The enemy is too weak…"
I comforted the irritated Tiane by slightly stroking his head…
I praised Ciel and Totona and Lina who looked like that clearly but were also a little excited…
After an hour, we were getting closer with a large junction connecting to [Area 1-4]…
We have gathered nine magic cores while passing through several rooms and intersections to here…
Since one person would need five magic cores to raise their rank, it would be two pieces for one more person…
We only found fly-type monsters like the ones from the beginning…
We also found normal mice, insects and bats that were not monsters, but since they did not provide much EXP, we left them alone…
Many monsters were reflected in the end…
About 300 ant-type monsters and 12 people from the three explorer parties and [Baggage Carriers] came to where we were…
