280 - - a moving search

After repeatedly defeating the three heads twice a day, I have learned a few things.

First of all, they seem to have a habit of eating rocks from the wall and accumulating minerals in their bodies.

They do not only collect them, but also compress them inside their bodies.

It seems that it is because of this strange habit that the vajra stones crystallized.

In some cases, more than a dozen fist-sized gold nuggets were found, and on rare occasions, vajra crystals as small as the tip of a pinky finger were found.

A gold nugget was worth about 20 gold coins, and a small vajra crystal was worth 10 gold coins.

However, each time they were not so tasty, and there were times when only iron ingots and copper grains rolled out after we tried our best to knock them down.

It seems that there are different types of minerals that can be extracted depending on the location of the cavities.

Furthermore, the three-headed demon will reappear in three to four days after you defeat it, but if you defeat it immediately, nothing will come out.

It seems that you have to wait for them to accumulate.

Naturally, Thor and his friends, whose goal is to move on, are not willing to wait that long.

Kugase and Kikiriri, who had been fighting with great vigor at the beginning, looked completely fed up by the end of the day.

However, it is clear that the removal of the obstacles has made it easier for them to go back and forth between the cavities.

Thor and his teammates work together with Rummelera to make the search more efficient.

Although the burnt ground and walls of the fire-hell hierarchy were troublesome, there were no troublesome traps in the natural caverns, and basically only the demons needed to be cautious.

As a result of Rummella's excellent memory combined with Sora's accurate mapping with , the vast labyrinth-like hierarchy is unraveled at an astonishing speed.

Thanks to the optimum paths that have been derived, movement becomes faster, and the speed of the conquest increases day by day.

However, it is not so easy as promised.

The lower the floor, the more demons there are.

Not to mention the guard dogs that sensed an intruder and ran out into the corridor, the number of fire heads in the middle room sometimes reached up to three.

There were many difficult moments, but we managed to get through them because the number of Thor and the others had increased to two parties.

And as the number of dogs increased, the battle became easier and easier.

Toward the end, we were able to defeat them with a little time to spare, without any shouting or yelling.

Besides, the demon seemed to be a good opponent for earning skill points.

Thanks to this, Thor's easily reaches level 10.

Level: 10 / Number of uses: 13 times per hour / Activation: instantaneous / Effect: within 13 seconds / Range: visual.

The effect time of is 33 seconds, and I had hoped that it would be extended to 33 seconds, but it was only 13 seconds.

But, to our delight, the only one who can predict the future is Thor himself so far.

It was impossible to estimate the future only from the point centering on himself.

Now, however, he is able to know the movement of any visible object up to thirteen seconds from now.

With the addition of this skill to , , and , it is almost impossible for Thor to be knocked down in melee combat.

Unfortunately, however, we could not confirm the occurrence of any new branch skills.

Sora also brings four branches to level 9, including .

No new skills are found in this case either.

However, a surprising fact is revealed.

The four branches of the girl's tree of skills still have more to come.

She was in the same realm of divine power as Thor - level 10.

The upper limit has been released.

A situation that should make us happy, but the problem is the amount of skill points needed to reach that level.

Level 9 is the state where the upper branch skills are fully developed, and once reached, one is recognized as a master of the skill that will go down in the history of the world.

To reach this level, one must spend a lifetime to earn 90,000 skill points.

And the amount required for the upper limit of Sola's lower branch skill was 100,000 points, which is even more than that.

The amount was about ten times more than that of Thor, perhaps because the previous ones had been too powerful.

Thanks to Mu's good earning, the middle branch of the magic skill, , finally became a full branch.

Since the lower branch is also now complete, the finally bears its fruit.

Thanks to this, Thor and the others' movements are greatly improved.

Yuril is now able to activate three upper branch techniques at the same time.

This is probably the highest level that no one in the western part of the central country can master.

Perhaps because of this, he is beginning to look a bit out of the ordinary these days.

The equipment has also been strengthened.

In exchange for giving away gold nuggets and vajra crystals, Thor has been given priority in getting his hands on vajra iron ore, and has finally succeeded in collecting enough for a sword.

He has already placed an order for an exceptional sword from Tolok's workshop.

In the meantime, the Kikiriri had also called silversmith Hila from Bossalia to order a crystal vajra necklace.

Because of the large number and lack of time, they had to be of a matching design, but for some reason they were well received by all.

The lack of heat only made the search go further, and at last Thor and his friends broke the record for the highest labyrinth reached.

They also searched the nineteenth floor, and even found a passage to the twentieth floor.

Thor, sensing the unusual atmosphere that was wafting through the labyrinth, suggested a rest day to rest his bones and prepare himself for the next day.

Exactly one month had passed since they had entered the level of the fire.