11 11. Hunting.txt (1/2)

After finishing the labyrinth exploration with Dia, my experience level had increased by about 100. The experience needed for the next level up was about 600 left.

100 experience in 2 hours .......

Personally, my growth is too slow and yawning.

However, if you look at the skilled adventurers who are about thirty years old and are around level 10, I would say they are growing rapidly. After all, if they did the same thing for another six days, they would be level 5. At this pace, it would take less than a year for them to catch up with those who had been fighting for more than ten years.

However, that's a relative term, and I'll never be satisfied.

My goal is to clear the labyrinth to a hundred layers.

In order to do so, I'm going to revolve my game-like thinking and create a new and efficient search plan.

The first thing I need to do is to prepare what I need to do in the maze.

I am inexperienced, so there are many things I don't understand, but the first thing I felt during my search with Dear was the importance of ”succession ability”.

I finished the search without running out of MP without losing any HP.

In other words, as long as I had a way to recover MP or save MP, I could continue to fight on and on. It would lead to a higher rate of experience acquisition.

Now it would be how to hunt monsters of the right rank for me.

With the current surplus of firepower in Deer, it's more efficient to take on stronger monsters to get more experience and money in your pocket.

It's a common practice.

The point is to secure a means of recovery and carefully select your hunting grounds.

It's the basics of leveling up in online games and the like.

...... The challenge is clear.

With that reassurance, I muttered to myself.

'Oh my God, what's so clear?'

Lin responded to that soliloquy.

''...... no. Since I'm starting to show my face in the labyrinth again, I thought it would be important to know what kind of monsters are where.

The employees of this tavern have a deep knowledge of the labyrinth.

They talk about it without hiding it, hoping to get some kind of advice.

'Huh. You said you failed, and now you've already tried.''

'Yes, I have a free morning. When I have extra time, I can't help but go to the labyrinth: ......

'You've come all the way to the Valt for the labyrinth. It's not much of a choice.

I try not to get hurt so that it doesn't interfere with the shop.

'No, you can focus on your dreams rather than the store. At any rate, this store will turn around. More importantly, I heard you saying something about monsters earlier, but I think you can ask the manager about that kind of thing.

That's what I was thinking too.

After all, the manager is level 15.

He's one of the most talented people I've ever seen.

''That's right. I'm having a lot of problems, so I'm going to talk to the manager about it.'

'Yeah, yeah. That's good.

So much for the lighthearted banter.

The rest of the day was filled with customers.

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--The next day, after work at the tavern.

My second search in the labyrinth with Dia begins.

After listening to the manager's talk last night, I've prepared my knowledge of the strong monsters that appear in the labyrinth. And among the enemies that our abilities can deal with, I've tried to deal with the ones that have as much experience as possible. We're all set.

''Eh. Today, we'll go after a high-ranked monster or a boss monster.

'Ooh, boss. Nice, very nice!

Dia and I met up at church and I laid out my policy for the day, and I got a pretty enthusiastic response.

From what I've found out, it looks like we're going to need an expensive item to solve the MP problem, so I'm going to ...... improve the quality of each fight.

Yeah, I agree. Since we're here, let's go boss. Come on, boss.

After all, yesterday's unilateral slaughter does not seem to have pleased him.

The desire to fight a stronger enemy must be aroused in Dia.

''Well then, I'm going to go a little farther, so follow me.

Okay.

I then 'display' the map.

This map makes it easier for us to explore the depths.

According to the information we gathered in the tavern, we proceed to the area where the boss monster is likely to be.

We try to save MP on the way. I can't afford to loosen up my search for enemies, but I try not to use the magic Dimension when fighting low-ranked monsters.

As I chose monsters that I could easily defeat and walked through the labyrinth, the corridor gradually transformed.

From a featureless stone structure to a green path full of life.

The corridor gradually increases in size and is filled with trees.

As I proceeded further into the corridor, I found myself in a forest.

Gone is the sensibility of the path as a corridor, and there is a huge, dark forest that stretches everywhere.

It's proof that we've entered a special area, one layer deep.

'Well, we've entered a special area for insects (beetles). Now, I would like to snipe the master of this area, the boss monster 'Queen of the Forest'.

”Huh?

I solemnly make a sniper's declaration.

Although I tell them that I will aim at the boss from a safe zone whenever possible, Dia is puzzled.

'No, I'm going to snipe. Sniping sniping.

Oh, wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You're going to have to shoot, right?　Could it be an easy shot from here?

I'll explain the plan.

What the--

Normally, Dia is a strong-minded person, but it was cute to see her more dawdling than I imagined, so I continued to explain without listening to her.

If the information is correct, I can figure out the location of the boss from here as well. And I want you to shoot your magic with all your might towards my pointing direction. Maybe that's enough to kill the boss instantly. I'll also want to pick up some drop items, so I'll shoot and kill the small fry monsters around me at any time. I'm sure small fry monsters will be coming at you, but I'll be able to scrape them off from a distance. And if we come close to them, I'll be the decoy. In that case, I don't think about the cost of MP. I'll do my best to fight it, so Dia will be its backup. --That's all. That's it. Any questions?

'Hmmm... ......?　Can you really do it?

Definitely.

I'm exaggerating to keep the pressure off of Dia, but I'm sure the mission is easy with our abilities.

That's how unusual me and Dia's abilities are in this world.

If there is even one ordinary adventurer in this place, this mission will not work.

This strategy is only possible because my ability to see through my talent has allowed me to have only the non-standard Dia as a companion. Once again, I think. My ability is the same, but the ability to see other people's abilities through 'display' is a foul.

'I get it. I owe Christ a debt of gratitude, and I trust him.

'Don't get too worked up about it. If it's what I think it is, this is really easy. You'll see when it's over. Dia is really strong.

Encouraging Deere to be less mentally upset.

Are you sure about ...... the real deal?

Really. ...... Okay, then, I'm going to search for them, just give me a second.