Even if there’s going to be a difference in the power of physical attacks and the area of effect magic, then if we were fine on the twenty-second floor but ended up getting one-shotted on the twenty-third floor, then I feel like the twenty-third floors would be filled with nothing but corpses, and its mortality rate would be horrendous. I know this because I need to attack the monsters with Durandal to recover my health more and more often.
That would be pretty bad.
「Well, if we go there and it turns out to be too tough for us, then we can always go back. In the worst-case scenario, we might be forced to use our Sacrificial Misangas, even though I really don’t expect it to be so tough for us to die after getting hit just once. But either way, in order to see how tough is it going to be, we have to actually make our way there and start fighting. No matter how much time we’re going to be spending on the twenty-second floor, everything’s going to start from the next one.」
「That’s right. We all have Sacrificial Misangas, so in the worst-case scenario we’re going to be able to survive one blow that would otherwise kill us. That being said, I don’t think that the monsters on the twenty-third floor are going to be using area of effect magic in rapid succession, but I cannot guarantee it with absolute certainty. I also never heard of anyone entering the twenty-third floor so quickly after starting to entering the Labyrinths for the very first time. But now that we have Vesta as a Dragon Knight in our Party, its stability should greatly increase, even though she’s pretty new to entering Labyrinths herself.」
Sherry, please clarify if you want to reassure me or make me feel uneasy with your words.
Well, I guess that in the case of the ordinary people it would really take many years of training before they could reach the twenty-third floor, but since we have the benefit of earning many times more EXP than the normal people, then there’s nothing wrong with us getting there this early.
Even Vesta has already reached Lv.25 as a Dragon Knight. But even thought it has only been around half a month since Vesta started to come into the Labyrinths with us, I feel like she should have a little more sense of danger. However, Vesta was getting attacked by the monsters on the twenty-second floor as well without getting damaged all that much, and even though she was a bit confused about it at the beginning, she must probably be thinking that it should be fine for us to move on to the twenty-third floor.
「Let us be on our way then. Roxanne, can you smell where the Gummi Slime is?」
「I have never encountered it before, but there’s a smell that I have never smelled before, so maybe that’s going to be it?」
「Are there many such smells nearby? If so, then guide us to where there is going to be only a few of them.」
「The closest group to us consists of a smell that I have never smelled before, but their numbers are a little large. I think it’ll be better to try the other side.」As expected of Roxanne, her sense of smell is as helpful as always.
Since there is a possibility that the enemies might start using area of effect magic, it would be dangerous to pick a fight with a lot of them first.
A group of five Gummi Slimes, all shooting out area of effect Spells all at once. I can’t even imagine it.
Sherry is probably going to cancel some of their Spells with her spear, but she won’t be able to do that with all of them. There was also this one time where we couldn’t cancel the enemy’s Spells in time because they were being fired at us in rapid succession.
I understand Sherry’s points, but I wonder if it still wouldn’t be better for me to receive the area of effect Spell at least once to see how powerful it would be, but that might actually be harder to pull of than I thought.
For the time being, I just told Sherry what I wanted to do. I was planning to take a single shot to measure its power, but if I end up getting hit with a series of shots instead, then that definitely wont be pretty.
I guess Sherry’s suggestion is the right thing to do in this case.
I thought that if I’m going to receive that magic attack there won’t be the need for me to rush over to the enemy, but it’s entirely possible that while I’ll be waiting for that first shot to come my way I’m going to be attacked with a second magic attack.
As I was thinking about such possibilities, we have arrived at the group of enemies that Roxanne was guiding us to.It was a group of two: one Gummi Slime and one Clam Shell.
Well done, Roxanne.
This group is pretty much the closest to what I wanted to fight against right now. Four people began running towards the enemies, and in the meantime I shot 「Sandstorm」 towards them, since Earth Magic is the Clam Shell’s weakness.
This battle is supposed to be a trial against a Gummi Slime, so naturally we should dispose of the Clam Shell first.
Gummi Slime has many elemental weaknesses, not just Earth Magic. Clam Shell, a monster native to the twenty-second floor of Quratar’s Labyrinth is also a monster present on the twenty-first floor of Quratar’s Labyrinth together with the Kettle Mermaid whose weakness is also Earth Magic.
The twenty-third floor of Quratar’s Labyrinth does not look like a good hunting ground.
If it shoots Earth Magic towards me, then I will repay it with the same thing. When the 「Sandstorm」subsided, I stopped and launched another shot of magic towards them. As expected, releasing magic while running is a considerably difficult thing to do.
I need to concentrate. I shoot my spell, and then I run again.
Roxanne and the others reached the monsters before then could get hit with the area of effect magic.
Gummi Slime is a nostalgic-looking, gelatine-like monster. It looks exactly like I remembered it. Roxanne stands in front of it, and Miria slashes at it from the side while Vesta was dealing with the Clam Shell.
Sherry stands slightly behind the two monsters and thrusts her spear at the Gummi Slime. This battle is supposed to be atrial one against it, but is it really okay?