236 Chapter 16-14 Tactical Interruption

"Grandpa, this way."

As a result of the discussion after the yakiniku, we talked about going to the place where we could go in a month, and after about three days off, we dived into the dungeon again.

"Hmm... but even so, I'm walking the path where I don't run into monsters."

In order to shorten the time, I use "exploration" and "appraisal" to go through the path with few monsters, but because the explanation is cumbersome, I decided to go along the road that was safe when I went before.

"Wait a minute. There are three goblins a little further."

"You haven't noticed us yet. Jeanne, Aura, you guys should try it."

"Yes"

Jeanne and Aura hid in the shade of a nearby rock with their grandfather and waited for the goblins to approach. Amur and Surlin hid in the shadow of the rock a little away from the three of them, ready to move as soon as something happened.

"Now!

"No!

"Haa!

Grandpa threw a stone, lured the goblin, and signaled them to attack when they reached the range.

"Gi! Ga, ahh...."

"I'm sorry, temper!

However, it seemed impossible for the two of them to defeat three at the same time, and the third one who noticed the attack tried to call his friends out loud. I thought it would be better not to raise my hand as much as possible, but it seemed impossible for one of the two to defeat the other before the third one spoke up, so I threw the knife at the mouth of the goblin to buy some time. In the meantime, Jeanne cut off Goblin's neck.

"We need to be able to process this a little faster. Well, it was two against three, and I didn't get hurt, so I was just saying,"

"Mmm... Grandpa is sweet"

"Well, Jeanne and Aura are basically non-combatants. Unlike Amur, these two are at least able to protect themselves to a certain extent."

As long as it's about Goblin, three or two of them will be fine, but it's still hard to say you can beat them as fast as two or three. While Grandpa was careful about it, he noticed that Amur had made a rather sweet assessment.

"Then there's no choice. Tenma, next time the monster shows up, I'll do it. I'll set an example for you both."

That said, Amur turned his weapon into an unusual sword, not his usual spear or Valdish. Maybe they thought it was easier for both of us to understand.

Speaking to the grandfather who came back, he agreed to set an example and asked them both to do the same. But...

"There are no monsters..."

Only then will monsters and monsters not appear. Well, that's because I chose a route that avoids monsters, but I couldn't find a convenient small swarm of goblins like the one I was looking for. Even if there was a large herd nearby or organized with top species, there was only a herd that was likely to take extra time if I succeeded.

"Grandpa, let's take a break if we leave this level. There's a place to take a break right next to where I got off."

The next level is seventy-five, and it will be reached on the second day after diving again. While training Jeanne and Aura, I thought it would take longer than when I was alone, but because of the increase in combat power, it didn't differ much from when I was alone so far.

"Let's take a break here today. Because of the size, it should be okay to put out the carriage."

Jeanne and Aura were delighted because getting out of the carriage meant taking a bath.

"I'll leave a sentinel golem outside, so no monster around here will be killed instantly."

We take a break in the usual way of building walls and simple rooms, but if we notice the presence of monsters like Minotaur inside, a single blow could break the walls. So let the Golem, disguised as a rock, wait outside and stop or buy time if the monster tries to break down the wall. While Golem is working on it, I or my grandfather will go out and deal with it.

"You can finish the meal with the one you bought, so you can eat as you like. When you enter the bath, close the carriage door and lock the bathroom."

I try not to enter the carriage when the female team is in the bath, but there are times when something unexpected happens, so I told them to leave only the keys to the bath.

"Speaking of which, Tempura, how strong was the Knight Golem? I've seen an orc match, but I've been doing that with a regular golem match."

The orc is weaker than a regular golem, so it will not be enough to measure the strength of the Knight Golem. So it's easy to understand,

"Strong enough to hit and push back from the front with a Minotaur and break the head with a single blow."

"Can't you stop the A-rank monster..."

When I was diving alone, I discovered a Minotaur near the bottom, so I tried to fight it, and the Knight Golem took the rushing Minotaur from the front and pushed it back, breaking the sky with a knife that he returned to where he was frightened. Well, during the battle, there was an abnormality in the left wrist and shoulder joint, so it wasn't completely intact... but it was also an abnormality that could be repaired on the spot, so it might be comparable in strength to an S-rank monster.

"Scorpion Golems aren't monsters, but Knight Golems are not directional monsters like Scorpion Golems."

The strength of the scorpion type is greater due to the size and weight of the body than the performance of the golem core, so it feels like 'big squid (...) et al. (...) strong', but in the case of the knight type, the performance of the golem core is prominent, so it feels like 'big and (...) strong'.

Grandpa was quite surprised to see the Minotaur with his head broken, so that he could see what it actually felt like. And behind that, he looked at us with his eyes and said that maybe he could get something.

"Ugh, temper. How long do you think Tenma will be able to dive in the past month?

"I'm wondering if I could make it to the 90th floor."

It hasn't changed much since I was alone, but from here on out, Jeanne and Aura will be in a pretty tough situation, and it may be tough in Amur. In that case, the attack speed will be slow, so it would be nice to say that you can reach the ninety floors.

"I wish I could go up to eighty-five levels, but what would happen... by the way, how fast did you go during the tent?

"Er... basically, I tried to avoid or hide the monster, and when I was found, I ran away. Sometimes I had Golem train me to fight, but when I defeated them, I immediately retrieved the Golem and the monsters, scattered the monsters that came after me, and avoided the battle."

When they fought, the monsters came closer to each other with the sound of battle, so it felt like they were escaping from the Golem and the collection of the defeated monsters. If you keep fighting the second herd, the third and fourth herds will come right in front of you while you're fighting, so it's best to run when you think about time. Besides, approaching me with sound means that there will be more space without monsters, so if we pass the nearest herd, it will be easy to escape later.

"I took three or four breaks a day, but otherwise I basically moved around."

"You might want to look at it four to five times a day with us when it's three times a day alone. In that case, it looks like we're still going to be able to reach 85 levels."

Grandpa said, it's fine now, but Jeanne, Aura, and Amur's fatigue will increase further and further, so nature and tactical speed will slow down. Otherwise, if you go with five or three people, you'll be more likely to be spotted by monsters, so the number of fights will increase. As the battle increases, the fatigue of the three of them and Grandpa increases, and the speed falls again. It's as if I don't know how tired I am, but it seems that fighting is many times more tiring than running around, so I can't feel it when I dive alone.

"Then I can't help it... Worst of all, if I dive to the bottom as the representative of Orasion, I won't complain even if I take my grandpa, so let's go slower with more emphasis on safety."

I've been acting alone for a month, and I've been pursuing my strategy with a focus on speed, so it seems that the feeling of party behavior has shifted considerably.

"Well, I can't help feeling off, and I know I'm in a hurry if I think about future plans, but if Jeanne and Aura have anything, maybe they won't be able to congratulate me wholeheartedly. Otherwise, since Tenma is the leader of Olasion, you should always keep the party members in mind."

Mysteriously listening to Grandpa's advice, for some reason, Silomar and Solomon moved next to Grandpa and stared at me. So think about it a bit.

"... are you hungry?

When I heard that, they all shook their tails out big.

"Bake the oak."

The most stock I have right now is oak meat, so I used it to make dinner for the zebras. Well, it's just baked meat mixed with a little vegetable and cooked rice.

"If you spit out the zebras, the solomons and the vegetables, the meat-vegetable ratio will be reversed from tomorrow."

When I advised the two animals who were trying to gently spit out the vegetables, I swallowed the vegetables in my mouth with a disgusting face.

"Tenma, give me some meat too."

As they were making food substitutes for the siroumarus, the amulet that had come out of the bath smelled. Looking at the carriage, Aura is peeking at us from the shadow of the door, so Jeanne will be here soon.

"It's no big deal."

I was going to make it easy with what I bought, but I wondered why I was supposed to cook the meal, so I decided to stir-fry vegetables for the number of people.

"Listen to me while you eat. In the future, the plan is to leave for King's Landing in 25 days. So if you think about taking a break before you leave Seigen, you'll be diving into the dungeon in about 20 days. With that in mind, the goal is 85 hierarchies."

Ten more levels to target eighty-five levels, so it takes two days to attack each level.

"Tempura, the goal is higher! Tenma got to the bottom in a month, so I think we can go even more!

And Amur asked me to change my goals.....

"If you can keep running all day, in 20 days you'll get change even if you go to the bottom."

"No way! Aim for 85 levels!

and immediately withdrew his statement. Well, I didn't keep running all day, but I kept running for nearly half a day several times. Otherwise, we would not have been able to attack nearly forty levels in a month or so.

"That's why you need to rest well during your break. I'm not going to keep running, but there's definitely going to be quite a nervous scene, so I'll be able to challenge you at that point in time."

That's what my grandfather just said, so I tried to say something a little like a leader. Amur and the others were listening carefully, but Grandpa told them that it was a line to be aware of what the three of them said was a leader, because he didn't want them to know.

"Fumu, I'm finished talking about li (...) da (...), and I'm going to take a bath."

"Ah! Master Merlin, since I washed the bath, the stretched water is also beautiful, but it's probably cold, so I'll warm it up again."

Jeanne said so and tried to go to the carriage, but Grandpa said he would do it himself and went to the carriage. Incidentally, changing the bath water during the dungeon strategy is too luxurious and unusual (in the first place, you can't get into the bath itself), but in our case, there are many people who can use magic, and since we can create a fairly safe rest place like this, it is possible to do such insane things.

"It's good to clean up, so you can rest a little while you're in the dungeon. Especially Jeanne and Aura."

Before going to the carriage, pressing again, the two named people stopped preparing to wash dishes and so on and sat down again.

"I'll keep the Knight Golem on guard, so if you're sleepy, don't hesitate to sleep with me or Grandpa."

Putting out the bed at the end and saying so, they seemed tired as expected, lying on the bed before I got into the carriage. There's a slurrin under the bed, so it'll be fine if the monster breaks in. And Amur is still awake.....

"Don't eat too much. And have some vegetables."

"Hmm! I'll do good!

It wasn't enough for me to make, so I baked and ate my own meat. I put two of my usual animals next to me... I told them to eat vegetables considering their nutritional balance, but I wouldn't eat them if they looked like that.

Afterwards, I waited for my grandfather and took a bath instead. And what I saw from the bath....

"Siroumaru, Solomon... isn't your stomach swelling too much?

It was two people who were dirty around their mouths and whose bellies swelled up and slept in heaven. Looking for where the other one had gone, he slept in the same bed as Jeanne and the others. Put Aura on the pillow.

"... do you want me to sleep too?"

I kind of fell asleep when I saw what was missing between the zebras, so I decided to get out of bed and sleep away from Jeanne.

Then a few hours later,

"Bullshit!

I woke up with someone's crushed voice. I jumped up and looked at the voice.

"Ha, my nose..."

Aura, who seems to have rolled out of her bed, was snuggled down by her nose. I can see something red between my fingers, so I think I have nosebleeds.

"Aura, what are you doing... I'll take care of you, come here"

Like me, Jeanne, who woke up with Aura's voice, rubbed her eyes and took the medicine box out of the magic bag.

Hiya, Hitaka!

"I can't take care of you. Just shut up a little bit."

Aura was about to say something, but Jeanne was angry that she was interrupting her treatment. Between Aura's crushed voice and Jeanne's treatment, Grandpa raised his face once to see what had happened and went to sleep again, and Amur simply turned over and didn't see anything happen.

"Yes, that's it. Don't take your nose plug off for a while."

"Phew...."

The treatment is finished, but the area around the nose is still red, so Aura's face is interesting.

Aura, don't fall out of bed next time.

If you advise me with half a tease,

"No! I didn't fall, I fell to Amur!

The word came back. When I heard the story, I felt a feeling of pressure around my stomach when I was sleeping, so when I woke up, it was said that Amur was on my stomach. Incidentally, the fact that he was riding did not mean that he was being replaced by a pillow, but that Amur's body, lying down, as he said, was on his stomach.

He couldn't sleep, so he put his hand aside, and suddenly he grabbed his hand and threw it under the bed.

"I'll get out of the other bed... and Aura will sleep over there."

"Thank you!

I thought it would be better to move Amur to a new bed after listening to Aura, but in a situation where Aura and I are alone, it is Aura's role to move him. Then Aura could be thrown again, so I decided to let Aura use the new bed. Incidentally, Aura seemed to have been able to predict what I was going to say, and she became louder when she stopped worrying about being thrown.

The next day, beware of the waking amur,

"I remember throwing something away. I just don't like the signs."

While acknowledging some of the crimes, he also said that he was not a unilateral perpetrator. That statement gave rise to the possibility that Amur was not a one-sided perpetrator, and one of the jurors, Jeanne, began defending Amur. Apparently, Aura was convinced that she was trying to trick Amur.

"In the future, we will make sure that there is no problem by providing a bed for three people. That's it! Jeanne, Aura, start preparing your breakfast. Amur helped them."

Since Aura's suspicions had arisen, it was about to become a water theory, so I summarized the story forcefully and decided to change the air with breakfast.

Well then, there's nothing to forget. I'm going to hang out today. "

"Whoa!

"Oops...."

Amur raised his voice with pleasure or temperament, but Jeanne and Aura were sad or rather moaning.

"You two are pathetic! Apprentice me!

Amur also seemed to be worried about the two voices, and he said that maybe he was going to scold and encourage them, but from the strength of the two, the goal of aiming for the bottom layer might be helpless even if he became depressed. Well, if there's nothing I can do about it, I'll evacuate you into Slurrin, but for now, Grandpa and I have been able to follow you up enough, so I think it's a good experience and I want you to do your best.

For about a week from that date, the target two-day one-tier pace of attack was maintained, but gradually Jeanne and Aura's fatigue began to exceed their resilience, and after two weeks, they managed to reach the eighty tier, and the attack was suspended.

I feel sorry for the two people who caused the interruption, but I knew from the side that the limit was close, so Amur honestly followed my decision to return without making fun of me as usual.

"Well then, Jeanne and Aura will rest until the day after tomorrow. You don't have to do your maid's work while you're resting... Prioritizing body tone. Until then, there will be no change in the scheduled date of departure. However, be sure to report any dives or requests in the dungeon! That's it!"

Jeanne and Aura were ordered to take a full rest until the day after tomorrow, but the date will change in a few hours, so we only have two days. I really think it would be better if I gave them more rest, but I extended the order by saying that they could rest in one day. Well, if you're not feeling well in two days, you can order an extension of the rest period, so "rest is until the day after tomorrow." I didn't tell them.

Well then, shall I hang out appropriately from tomorrow? I won't dive in the dungeon or take orders, so don't worry if you don't have to come back. "

I may be trying to reduce the burden on my grandfather and grandfather, but I have trouble not coming back, so I made him promise to come back to the carriage even if it's late.

"I... look at the weapon, go around the stall, maybe dive in the dungeon, so I'll tell you when I want to."

Amur is basically going to hang out in the city. And I said,

"I'm going to go shopping in the city tomorrow and dive into the dungeon the day after tomorrow. We're looking for materials around the middle, not near the bottom."

I wandered around the dungeon appropriately and said I'd be glad to find Mithrill... I'm going to use Exploration to avoid fighting as much as possible, so it's kind of like a dangerous walk.

I would like to take the Siroumars for the walk, but I decided to leave them for Jeanne and Aura to support and escort them when something happens.

"You can use the bath freely at any time, but don't forget to lock the carriage while you're using it. Surlyn, I'm sure you'll be all right, but be careful. And if there's a fool approaching with malice, I'll handle him. I'd like to catch him alive as much as possible, but I don't mind killing him in the worst way. Don't let anyone else know."

Jeanne and Aura looked stunned at my instructions, but Slurrin nodded reluctantly. Now we can rest Jeanne and Aura slowly while keeping them safe.

"I'll leave you what you were supposed to eat in the dungeon, so you can eat whatever you want."

Now that you don't have to prepare any meals, you two can rest as long as you like.

I spent a few days before I left like this… Eina, who knew about the events of those days, was surprised that Jeanne and Aura had been over-protected.