258 - - a laborious search

Fortunately, the lid of the sarcophagus was not closed.

Descending to the eleventh basement floor, Thor and his friends start clearing out the surrounding monsters and making a map.

While destroying the steel dolls that shoot out icicles, they make sure to go around the corridors to the edges and fill them in without missing anything.

"Well, it's getting pretty big, isn't it?"

"That's true."

Overlapping the map of the tenth floor, it seems to have increased in size by about 30%.

However, the northern half of the room is a large room where evil spirits roam around, so there is no need to check there anymore.

Due to the fact that I took my time carefully, I ended up only exploring the eleventh floor that day.

"I'm back! It's such a relief to be back here, even though I'm in a dungeon!

After unloading her luggage on the stairs, Sola replaces the magic stone of the heating board, which had long since cooled down.

Then she tasted the contents of the pot she had left on top, a stew of turnip and green beans, and nodded with satisfaction.

"Yes, it's simmering nicely.

I had prepared this dish before our departure, and it seemed to be cooked just right before the magic stone ran out.

I cut a slit in the fluffy white bread and put butter between the slices before arranging them around the pot, which had started to warm up again.

Since lunch and snacks are always quick and easy while walking, Sola insists that we at least have a good taste of dinner.

"You're getting good at this, aren't you, Sola?"

Yuril mutters happily as he deftly peels the golden fruit in his hand with a knife.

Hearing these words, the girl proudly flashed her chest.

"Oh, my God. Are you becoming more like an adventurer?"

"Yes, I'm already an adventurer, and I'm not ashamed to show it anywhere.

The two looked at each other and smiled, as if they were mother and son.

After a delicious dinner, the group lies down in each of the three bunks.

Moo, who had joined Thor, looked enchanted at the insect cages and striped leather boxes on the bedside table.

Inside the snakeskin box was the Thunder Ring of Heavenly Majesty.

It was obvious that he would be disobedient if we forced him to take it off, so Yuril had the opposite idea and persuaded Mu to do so.

The child, who had been taught that it was too clean and could be stolen, always kept the ritual utensils in the box when not in use.

They also started to clean up after themselves more often, and it is safe to say that Ulil's idea worked.

Moo slept soundly in Thor's arms until morning, with his precious treasures by his side.

The third day in the labyrinth.

Thor and his team set out to explore the twelfth floor.

"Hahaha! There are a lot of people here..."　　

"Yeah, let's take a break."

From this floor, the number of steel dolls had increased.

The small dolls on the ceiling called for reinforcements one after another, and there were many difficult moments when Yuril's magic techniques were not able to stop them in time.

"Grandma, isn't it cold?　Moo is going to warm you up!"

The child rubbed his small, reddened hands up and down Yuril's back as hard as he could.

The silver-haired woman, breathing long white breaths, shakes the tips of her ears comfortably.

The day ends with us halfway through the mapping of the twelfth floor.

The next day, the fourth day.

When I went to finish the rest of the map of the twelfth basement, I found the stone coffin closed.

I search the passageway and find an evil spirit in a white military uniform, just as I had heard.

After cleaning up the steel doll, Thor quietly approaches with his sword drawn.

At the sight of the man with the sword hanging from his hilt, the skeleton's jawbone rises and falls in surprise, and he turns and runs away in a panic.

"There he goes, Sora!"

"Let me up!"

A girl was already waiting at the corner of Ding Passage.

She stood blocking the way with her staff raised.

If she is startled and runs away to the other side of the road, you have succeeded. If she attacks you, you can threaten her by a part of her body.

When it reaches the end of the road, the ghost of the warden glances at Sola's face, then plunges into the wall in front of it without slowing down.

Then he vanished into the wall like a puff of smoke.

"Oh, my God, is that possible?"

"I'm a ghost, can I use that kind of trick?"

In the end, it took us until the end of the evening to manage to drive the former chief guard into the sarcophagus room.

During the process, it was so troublesome that even the mild-mannered Yuril had to lift his cane silently a few times.

Now we could easily reach the eleventh floor, but time was running out there.

The next day, after a short conversation with the Tengran Alliance who arrived in the late afternoon, Thor and his friends left the underground prison.

After three days of rest and relaxation, they went back into the labyrinth as if they were replacing each other.

If the Kikiriri and the others are still on the tenth floor stairs, they can open the bars from the inside, so they don't have to go all the way to the chain room and save about half a day.

Incidentally, the bars at the bottom of the stairs are basically left open and will not close unless the chains are pulled by hand.

Arriving at the stairs in mid-afternoon, Thor and his group exchanged information with Chil, who was about to pull up, and then asked him to give them their bunks.

The next day, I finally completed the map of the twelfth basement floor.

After dinner, the three of us immediately compared the maps.

"It seems that not much has changed.

Yes, it is. I didn't see any other tricks.

"After all, how do you open the bars in the big room?

The eleventh and twelfth floors had exactly the same structure, with only one large prisoner's room on the north side and an intricate guard area on the south side.

There was no place to get stuck in either of them, and the iron bars blocking the entrances and exits of the large rooms remained unknown.

There was no reason to go to the trouble of entering a dangerous room, however.

"Well, now we can search the thirteenth floor without any worries.

"Yes!"

"Yes, let's get going again tomorrow."

"Moe, I'll do a little bit better!"

The next day, when Thor saw the closed sarcophagus, he kicked the lid as hard as he could.