Experiment Start
Even though I told Meat something like, “Leave the rest to me,” it just wound up with me getting eaten as usual.
As her Goshujin-sama, I can’t leave her with a bad example!
“… I wonder what I can do~”
I was absorbed in thinking about it while eating onigiri in the dining room. It was a lunch that Kinue-san made. When I bit into one, it had an omelette inside.
The heck is she putting in these…? Well, I don’t dislike it though.
Rather, I’ve been thinking how to defeat that wolf… defeat Rin. But I have no clue what’d be effective. I want to investigate a little more first. Alright, let’s start experimenting next.
Still, our DP ie exploded upwards with Rin being here. At this point I’m inclining towards wanting to make it arade. I can’t sleep quietly because of the uneasy feeling of having that fellow keep staying for a long while though… yep, I want to hurry up and defeat it and turn it into arade.
… That guy also hasn’t particrly made any moves against the dungeon core (it’s a dummy one though) huh. It’d be great if we could just get it to promise to keep on not attacking it.
If it turned into a situation of Rin going for the real core in Rokuko’s room, it’d be scary. Like how dangerous it is if a burr rushes in—well, I don’t think that’ll happen though.
Hmm, I wonder if I should strengthen Rokuko’s room’s security?
Just when I started thinking about that, Gozoh walked into the dining room.
“Oh, Kehma.”
“Hm? Ah, Gozoh. It’s been a while huh. Haven’t seen you in a while.”
“I’ve been spending time at the bar after all! … I’ve been thinking about epting that investigationmission, but hey. Want to ept it together?”
“Themission put out from the vige? I’m the vige chief though.”
Rather, what does he intend to do if something happens to the vige chief? Well, the bar’s master—the vige sub-chief—would just be the vige chief I guess.
“There’s nothing saying you can’t ept amission you put out yourself. The guild acknowledged themission, so adventurers can ept it.”
Is that really alright? Couldn’t you just put out tons ofmissions without having to actually pay anything and rank up super quickly…? Maybe that’s the thing aristocrat children use to raise their ranks? It seems like they get ranks as nobles if they have a high rank.
“Raising through the ranks like that’s limited at C-Rank though. The guild checks to see whether or not themission is appropriate, so it can’t be too easy of amission for the rank. You need a rmendation to get B-Rank or higher, and there’d be no meaning if you can’t pass the examination.”
“So it was something like that huh… But they can still get C-rank huh.”
“That much is possible from just getting a rare item or something; they just pay arge sum of money to get it.”
But C-Rank huh.
Right now this dungeon’s limited to C-Rank, but thinking about being able to buy the privilege of C-Rank and go wherever… that may be good to do, depending on the price. Ah, but there was talk about there being a written test for ranks above C huh. It seems like people that are irregrly strong are exempted though.
“So themission’s asking for what?”
“Aye, the investigationmission is asking to… investigate whether or not there is the existence of a demon that threatens [Cave of Desires] floors two and three.”
That didn’t answer me at all though…
“Whether or not there’s a demon that’ll be a threat huh, so how do we go about looking for it?”
“Human wave tactics. If we can’t find it in a few days, we’ll assume it went back farther inside. By the way, since the transition phase’s investigation is going to be held along with this, thepulsory participation in lookout duty will be waived.”
“Got it, I’ll do it. Can Mea—… can Kuro and Ichikae along as well?”
Knowing that there won’t be anything showing up makes it seriously hard to get through. Moreover, it’s cold.
It’s troublesome doing work though.
“Aye. I’ll be participating together with Roppu after all. We’ll all get along; it’s been decided that we’ll be separating parties in thebyrinth though.”
“I’d be relieved if Wataru came too.”
… I’d love somehow being able to throw Wataru at Rin… That guy’s a hero. He wins in the DP department. He could use some kind of magic that goes bang! Like Thunder Storm or something.
“What are you worried about?”
While sitting down next to me, Gozoh put up a sk of alcohol to his mouth and drank some. A product of the dungeon, a high performance sk that provides a heat instion function. Among other things, you could put hot sake into it.
“Ah, wait… there was those ‘tamers’. What do you know about tamers?”
“Tamers? Those guys that tame monsters? There’s stories that they’re able tomunicate with monsters, but are you thinking of switching?”
“Converse huh, no… well, it’s all good. I mean, that’s all huh.”
“It’s hard to learn how to speak to a monster! To buy the skill for it, even a single weak monster’snguage is ten gold… ah, right. That much is easy for you to take out isn’t it, Kehma? Then isn’t it fine?”
Eh, so there was a skill for monsternguages after all? I didn’t check!
Let’s check secretly so that Gozoh doesn’t see… hmmm, nope, not there. I wonder if there’s some condition to unlock it?
“So, what about slimes?”
“Slime? Ah, they’re pretty tough, good against blunt attacks. They’re weak to magic though.”
“So they’re like that huh. Another question, I heard something about slimes normally being trained to take the shape of a wolf or something…?”
“Yeah. You can even keep them inside of a cylinder. They’re convenient to carry that way.”
“Heeeh…. Wait, wouldn’t it turn into a magic sword if you put a small cylindrical slime into the sword’s hilt and had it use magic?”
“Hahaha, what d’you think a magic sword it… hmm? Wait, could you? Huh!? W-wait a sec, I need to talk to Kantra!”
With that, Gozoh dashed out of the dining hall, leaving his sk on the counter.
Huh? Why does it feel like I just identally gave him a technological breakthrough? Well, it probably won’t be stronger than a magic sword.
Let’s tell Meat and Ichika about thatmission for now.
… Then maybe I should talk to the guild about me participating in themission just to make sure. Gozoh even forgot about his alcohol after all.
Well, themission to search for the demon that appeared and was menacing the second and third floors was settled, they even gave out maps.
But for them to make such an urate map… they’ve practically found all of the moving and non-moving walls. It’s good that it finished easily, but maybe I need to alter thebyrinth area’s design? Maybe I’ll change some of the wall and wall golems’ positions?
*
While the vige’s stuff is proceeding smoothly, let’s return to the dungeon’s side.
It said something about thinking the vor would be different… maybe I should try seasoning the golem a bit?
Because of that, I made the next haniwa golem with magma in it. Its body’s insides are boiling. Let’s feed this to Rin.
It looked hot enough to turn my hands into charcoal if I’d touched the magma directly, so I had the golem put the magma into the hollowed out area inside of it that I made, paying careful attention so that none would spill.
“Ooi, Rin. It’s lunch time!”
[Kuaaah! You’re still, alive, after all, Kehma!]
Just as Rin started waking up, I walked in with the messenger golem with magma in it.
“Now then, eat me.”
[… Kehma, is your, head alright? Normally, people don’t want, to be food.]
It’s alright, so please hurry up and eat me. The magma’s cooling down.
“Isn’t your stomach getting empty? It is right? Besides, you know I won’t die even if you eat me.”
[Ah, well, then, I’ll eat now, but… Kehma, you taste bad.]
“I remembered you say that, so I changed my vor today. Now then, go on!”
[G-got it. I’ll do it now, so… time to eat!]
With a snap, I was eaten in one gulp. I looked for its reaction on the monitor, but it didn’t look like it really took any damage.
… Maybe its weak point isn’t magma? I was off the mark huh. Or maybe there just wasn’t enough?
Well, it’s fine. There are still more things to try out.
Next is sulfuric acid, then a strong alkali solution, then various sleeping drugs, there’s gotta be something this guy can’t eat and I’ll find it. Whether this guy bes apanion or stays as an enemy, its useful knowing its weak spot.