Episode 31.17-18 (1/2)
(That's it!)
Lecan finally recalled something that had been bothering him all this time as he bit on a soft-shelled Moonlight Jumping Crab at the <Bloombright District>'s food court.
The word Shira spoke of once regarding Dungeon Tsubolt.
That was right after he bought <Zaka Kingdom Dungeon Maps> at Vouka. He was asking her on stuff related to dungeons during the Vouka-Vantaroy escort job from Chaney Company. It was Nike, not Shira back then. This was the conversation.
”Dungeon Tsubolt has around 120 floors I suppose.”
”Well, just check it out with your own eye.”
It remained in Lecan's memory because it sounded like she was implying something.
What was it that Nike trying to say then.
Is it the fact that Dungeon Tsubolt is actually deeper than 120 floors?
To begin with, Lecan cannot imagine a dungeon without a boss.
It's just common sense for a dungeon to have a boss even in his previous world. That rule was ironclad even after he arrived at this world.
A dungeon has a boss. Dungeon bosses are wholly unlike other magic beasts, they're deeply intertwined with the dungeon itself. So Lecan believes. That's what he's come to believe at the end of diving in countless dungeons.
Nark mentioned that there was an old hearsay about how Dungeon Tsubolt only has one <Guardian>. That one <Guardian> is the dungeon boss. The true <Guardian> of this dungeon.
(How Dungeon Tsubolt has no boss.)
(And how that's the reason why the dungeon never went dormant.)
(But that's inconceivable.)
(In short, Dungeon Tsubolt.)
(Is a dungeon whose boss has not been discovered yet.)
(So where's this boss at.)
(Probably below floor 120.)
(Alright.)
(Wait for me, you <Guardian>.)
(I'll be taking your life.)
Thus Lecan resolved as he munched on soft-shelled crab, both his hands dyed red from sauce.
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On the 40th of month two, Lecan and Arios fought in four normal variant rooms on floor 112, and went in <Guardians> room afterward, they beat it and got down to floor 113.
”Lecan-dono. I am truly in awe over your stairway flying maneuver. You have completely mastered the art of stairway flying. But, don't you think you have enough already?”
”Enough of what?”
”Let's just walk down the stairs.”
”You're keeping up just fine.”
”I saw it as part of training, but you're going too fast. One mistake could mean death.”
”In dungeons, death always haunts you.”
”I don't want to die from a broken neck due to falling down the stairs. Besides.”
”Besides?”
”At our current situation, shortening the time to walk down the stairs won't make a difference to the number of floor we break through in a single day.”
He's right on the money.
The enemies they're fighting now are very tough. The battle itself only takes a few moments, but the density of it is extremely high. They're completely spent after every single fight. <Recovery> is used, but that doesn't ease the mental burden. Flying down the stairway in that state is simply reckless.
”Got it.”
”Eh?”
”I'm walking down from now on.”
”I just blurted that out loud, never thought you would actually listen.”
”I heard that before.”
”Oh, you did.”
They took a break on the first of month three, the on the second, they fought three normal variant rooms before going up against the <Guardians> on floor 113.