Chapter 46: Black Diamond
Character Name:『Kaga Michio』
Current Levels & Equipment:Explorer Lv.45Hero Lv.42Mage Lv.45Monk Lv.45Gambler Lv.8Swordsman Lv.28
Equipment:Rod of OfferingsAlmaHardened Leather HelmetHardened Leather GlovesDragon Leather BootsSacrificial Misanga
For some reason or other, after living the life of going to the Labyrinths for a while now, lately I started thinking that living this kind of life is not as bad as I initially thought it was going to be.
Actually, I think it is kinda exciting.
Exciting, but also life-threatening at the same time.
While in the Labyrinths, you cannot relax your guard for even a second. If you do that, you’re done for. That is why we cannot allow ourselves to start slacking off. We have to constantly be careful. Losing our concentration is unacceptable.
Every day in the Labyrinths is exciting.
Normally you would have thought that that I wouldn’t want to suffer from that kind of stimulus, but it is honestly not as bad as it may sound.
The key here is to know when to take it easy.
The Labyrinths themselves are divided into lower floors and higher floors. If you go to the higher floors, the monsters there are going to be stronger and much more dangerous, but once you go down to the lower floors, the enemies there are going to be weaker and its going to be relatively safer. You’re not being forced by anyone to continue going up the floors, so you’re free to go whichever floor suits you the best.
Sure, the income from the items on the lower floors is not going to be as good, but at least you’d be able to leave the Labyrinth anytime you want while taking care of your Party’s safety.
As I said, it would be dangerous if you were to let your guard down, but it doesn’t mean that you have to be tense all the time as well. You need to find a floor that is going to give you a proper challenge, but not difficult enough to make you feel that your life is in danger.
Vesta says that everything’s alright for her. She also fights in the vanguard now and unlike Roxanne, she receives a lot of the monster’s attacks, but she does not suffer any major damage from them, but maybe that’s because she’s just so much bigger than the rest of us?
Well, it doesn’t really matter now, does it? Or rather, I can just think about it as her being so durable precisely because of her large size.
Right now, even after she gets hit by monsters a bunch of times, all that it takes for her health to be fully recovered is the single use of the 「Heal」Spell. That is all there is to it. I have almost no memory of ever needing to use 「Heal」on Vesta more than once.
Also, I have never tested how many 「Heals」it would take for me to be brought back to full health from a near-dying state, but I’m going to have plenty of time to find out about that in the future.
When you think about it in such categories, I guess that the one who has it the hardest among all of us is Miria. She is not as evasive as Roxanne, and not as durable as Vesta, so even the moderate attacks from monsters could be really hurting her.
That being said, we came here to the twenty-second floor of the West Forest’s Labyrinth in Zabir because of Miria’s request, because she was the one who wanted us to fight against Black Diamond Tuna, the Floor Boss variant of the Mabream monster in order to get its rare drop ingredient Drop Item, so considering that, Miria should also not have any problems here since she wanted to come here herself.
「Sherry, how are you doing?」
I checked up on Sherry to see how she was doing. I left her for the last because most of the time she’s also going to be placed in the rearguard. Well, I should probably say that she’s in the half-rearguard, because she’s not using Recovery Magic or Attack Magic or anything.
At the very least, her duty is not to openly confront the monsters on the frontlines like the other three. Her role is to stab the monsters from behind the vanguard with her spear. In that sense, she can be called the member of the rear guard as well. And what a fine member of the rear guard she is. Like that, she shouldn’t be damaged by any monsters for a good while longer.
Even so, if it’s still going to be hard for them to fight against the monsters of the Labyrinths, then I think I have an idea what to do about it.
Specifically, a punishment in bed! A pretty neat idea, huh? I know, right?
「Thanks to master’s magic, the monsters are always falling down pretty fast. I am still a little confused about the fast pace with which we are clearing the upper floors, but I am not worried about the battles themselves. Everything is fine for now.」
I have received a satisfactory answer from her, so tonight I am going to treat her to something nice.
It is also abundantly clear that the strategy of moderate tension and moderate exercise has a very positive effect on the girls as well.
Yes, they should all be fine as long as we keep this strategy up.