Episode 7.4-5-6 (1/2)
Captain Doug made an exaggerated bow when he went into the room.
”I have brought adventurer Lecan with me!”
”Henjit-sama has granted his permission for that person to enter this room.”
”Sir! Lecan-dono, if you would.”
Lecan hesitated whether to get in the room or not for a bit.
After all, there are one knight with needlessly pompous equipment, two knights that aren't, and two men who wear exaggerated attires like that of officials occupying the majority of spaces inside not the relatively small room.
Captain Doug even had to get close enough to a soldier in the corner of the room that their shoulders touched to make enough room for Lecan to enter.
”Show your respect to Henjit-sama!”
One of the knights shouted, but Lecan just kept standing there silently.
”It's fine, it's fine. He must have forgotten himself being in the present of a high ranking knight all of a sudden. I forgive you. Lecan or something.”
Lecan silently looks down at Henjit.
Henjit has the lowest stature in this room. Compared to Lecan, it's like comparing an adult to a child.
”I hear you have dedicated dungeon items found in the lower stratum to our household. Very admirable. Keep up your good work. Be sure to put up articles with Graces in this town's auction. You hear me. You may leave if you do.”
Lecan left the room without bowing even once. He could hear Henjit shouting behind him.
”Captain. Has my elder brother not come out of the dungeon yet?”
”Yes, he hasn't come out yet.”
”Departing for lower stratum himself in a quest for Grace items, truly he is the model man of a military family. Employs everything you have to make sure that nothing happens to elder brother.”
”Sir!”
Lecan left the guard station while thinking that safety is the last thing you expect in a dungeon.
Lecan went past the first ten floors without engaging in a fight.
However, if he neglected magic beasts who chased after him, a crowd of them would have formed in the area right before the stairway down, hence he cut off legs of said monsters to keep them from moving.
He didn't run at full speed like last time in the stairways. Yet, Lecan leaped over two stairsteps with each step of his, thus his pace still exceeds that of other adventurers.
He found absolutely no challenge up to the tenth floor, he had no plan to ever set foot on those floors again.
He took a short break and had a meal in the area before the stairways that led to floor 11.
He took out the silver ring and equipped it in his left middle finger.
Then he took out the handbook he got from Captain Doug last time and skimmed over it.
On the list of magic beasts that appear on each floors of this dungeon, there are simple explanations detailing about those magic beasts.
There's an explanation about the dungeon's traits at the beginning.
”Golbul dungone is a medium sized 30-floor dungeon, however this dungeon houses a huge variety of magic beasts, and we have confirmed that all kinds of magic beasts could spawn inside except for Merfolks and Dragons. Anyone can choose which magic beasts to hunt to match their fighting style in this dungeon. Floor 1 to 10 are cave shaped, floor 11 to 20 are infinite fulcrum shaped, floor 21 to 30 are consecutive stone hut shaped.”
Upper stratum, or in other words, floor 1 to floor 10, are suited for beginners, either solo or in a small group. Middle stratum, floor 11 to floor 20 are suited for a group of intermediate level explorers.
However, lower stratum, floor 21 to 30, host magic beasts that are too strong to fight alone yet too narrow of spaces for a group of people to fight in. As such, the lower stratum is unpopular among adventurers.
And that's exactly where Lecan is going for.
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He got down on floor 11.