Chapter 91 Group Level Up ③ Underground 7 to 19 floors (Patreon)

The next day, we went down another floor as we continued to raise the children’s levels and after a few hours, we finally reached 11th floor. Perhaps because of having proper meals and sleep every day, everyone’s complexions have now improved a lot compared to the first time I’ve met them. I asked everyone if they felt any difficulty, but everyone smiled and said it was fine so we continued.

The average level of monsters around here is 60. From here, I asked Mika to join the level grinding. Cielo and the children’s levels also averaged around 50 so it’s just the right spot.

・Average Status of Children

Lv.50

HP 300/300

MP 150/150

ATK   120

DEF   100

MATK  140

MDEF  100

INT  50

SPD  130

Skills:  Throwing（F～D+） Dismantle Trap（D+～C-）

『Throwing』 was expected since everyone mostly used throwing attacks. As for their status, when the children grow up it will be adjusted according to their levels.

Cielo・Folbranad・La Veil Radd (15) Lv.51

Race: Human

HP 560/560

MP 872/872

ATK   314

DEF   355

MATK  746

MDEF  702

INT   310

SPD  374

【Unique Skills】Prophecy, Divine Eyes

Skills: Water Attribute Magic（D-）Throwing（D）

Titles: Saint, Shrine Maiden

Cielo’s status looks better too. Looking at her status before, it was far lower compared to Forna’s status after all. Also, because her growth is more compatible with magic, I’ll also teach her before going to sleep.

「Cielo～」

「What is it?」

「From today, you'll be a stone thrower, a water provider, and a dismanter.」

「Is it alright for me to cry now? 」

This is also a step to become stronger, so it's no good to decline. Now then, about the monsters, the types have already changed after moving past 10 levels. The number of Medium Sized and Large Sized monsters has also increased. If you go in this area, you'll hardly see any adventurers, so it might be a place to earn money. The number of monsters also increased.

Nameless Lv.63

Race: Mad Serpent

HP 1133/1133

MP 588/588

ATK  841

DEF  743

MATK 659

MDEF 591

INT 45

SPD  757

Skills: Earth Magic（C+）Earth Swim（―）

Nameless Lv.63

Race: Vital Frog

HP 1405/1405

MP 399/399

ATK  622

DEF  650

MATK 684

MDEF 631

INT  10

SPD  1010

Skills: Tongue Attack（C+）

Mad Serpent is a slender snake with a body length of about 8 meters. What to be careful about them is that they could approach you and attack by swimming underground. They don’t have poison unlike other snake types, but they could easily constrict a child and squeezing them to death. Soil attribute magic involves manipulating the ground, but it was easy to read because of the vibrations that happen before the magic activates.

As for the Vital Frog which was a common enemy, it’s a big frog with a rounded body……though is that really a frog? Its main attack is stretching its tongue to strike. Its means of transportation is rolling which make it look really weird. I almost kicked one like a soccer ball when it rolled near me. The body length is about 1m, and around 5 – 8 of the same creatures always come out to attack.

「Some of the snakes and frogs were too muscular……disgusting」

「I don’t mind the snakes, but I don’t like the frogs looking like meat balls……」

It seems like both I and Mika have the same hate of frogs from before we were transferred here. After all, if you look closely, the ball of muscle is also covered with a slimy surface, right? As a girl, there’s just a natural reaction to be disgusted touching it.

After reaching between the 10th and 11th floor, we took a short break and talked about the next floor.

「Speaking of which, we are now in the 10th floor, but are there no boss battles? 」

「Boss? Is there going to be a strong enemy master? Can I fight it? 」

「It won’t be a match for you. And so, what do you know about it Ashia? 」

「There is a Floor Boss. On the first 10th floor, the boss is a Red Ogre. Along with it should be a group of 10 Ogres under its command 」

「So 11 in total. How are they arranged? 」

Ogres are strong individually so they usually attack alone, and they are very big. The size of one is around 6 meters. The weapons they use are clubs, and sometimes it uses the trees that grow around the area. Its attack range is wider that La Veils reach. The target is big, so it would be an easy target for stone throwing.

During the boss battle, everyone should have enough status, however to make sure that any unexpected things would be prevented I kept the children in a circle and surrounded them with a water barrier. The water barrier itself is then passed to Cielo to control. It’s training, training~♪

When we stepped into the field, the environment suddenly changed.

「Uwaaah……Were surrounded by stone walls. There’s also a ceiling. 」

It was like we were sent on a small coliseum. Then a small distance in front of us, just as Ashia said, there was one Red Ogre surrounded by 10 Ogres. It was alright because we were still far away from them.

Nameless Lv.95

Race: Red Ogre

HP 3624/3624

MP 811/811

ATK  2241

DEF  2309

MATK 887

MDEF 1234

INT 25

SPD 803

Skills: Stick Arts（B）Superhuman Strength（B-）Shield Arts（C-）

Nameless Lv.65

Race: Ogre

HP 1899/1899

MP 403/403

ATK  1121

DEF  1154

MATK 446

MDEF 623

INT 15

SPD   455

Skills: Stick Arts（C）Superhuman Strength（C-）

The Ogres were similar to the ones we’ve been fighting on the 10th floor. The Red Ogre on the other hand is twice as big as the Ogres and has deep red toned body. It’s as strong as one of the people I’ve fought at the finals of the battle tournament. Because of 『Superhuman Strength』, their attack powers are also relatively stronger. It would be a bit painful if Mika or Arena gets hit by their attacks.

Moments later, the Ogres finally noticed us. The Red on then released a loud cry which after that was followed by a charge from the surrounding Ogres aiming at me. I see, it’s at least smart enough to command and give orders. However, I also don’t want them to get close to us. 

「Dragon running through the ground, aim and maim my enemies. 」

Suing Earth Magic, I formed a mass of soil transformed to look like a dragon which intercepted the Ogres. Because everyone was close to each other, they were all caught up and were easily knocked straight in a wall. After ramming them with the earth dragon, I immediately restrained them by fixing them in place with earth. Alright, it will be a one on one.

The reason why I don’t use fairy magic this time is that the kids might end up getting caught in it or for them to know about it, and also because I’ve been relying on it too much lately so I’m holding back. I do things as I like most of the time, but I also follow the proper time, place and atmosphere to do it.

「Guuaaaaaaahhh!!!!!」

And now, it the Red Ogre’s turn.

「Aidle～ Can I go at it~? 」

「Eh, Arena wants to go? But won’t that be not easy to disable? 」

「I’ll be fine～maybe」

「If you say so……I’ll prepare a follow up just in case then」

「Ha~i♪」

I let Arena go because she seems to be very motivated this time, La Veil on the hand looked as if she was on the verge of crying. It’s alright because I’ve prepared proper defensive measures. If you are that worried, you can go a bit closer to watch over her.

「Gaaaaauuuu!」

Upon closing in on each other, the destructive blow was immediately initiated by the Red Ogre. Arena easily avoided the attack and dived closer to counter,

「Soryaaaa~~!」

She accurately slashed the tendons of the ankles with her dagger. The dagger has a paralyzing effect, but it didn’t manifest because the target is just too large for it to give an immediate effect. Still, that was enough to slow down the target’s movements.

Annoyed, the Red Ogre attempted to kick her with his other feet, but before it could do so Arena dived under his legs and slashed his thighs. She then followed with a cut on its back this time was a flashier attack leaving behind a cross slash wound.

「Gaaaaaaah!! Guguauuuuuhhh!!!」

Although it was a strong cut on the back, it still had a lot of HP left. Then in order to stop the assault, the Red Ogre flayed its arms around along with it’s body.

「Hassho～～♪」

Without noticing, she already moved on the Red Ogre’s head. With one hand, she gripped the Ogre’s hair and the other holding a dagger.

She stabbed the dagger on the head. Ah, it stopped moving. The paralyze effect was directly activated on the so it fainted. After losing consciousness, it fell down like a stick with its stomach hitting the ground first. Woops, that was a bad fall.

Following the fall Arena rolled away stopping next to La Veil. After that applause rose from the children who were watching.

「Amazing, I never thought that she could win using only a dagger. She looked like a skilled warrior who is used to fighting」

「V~♪」

「Arena-chan,  so courageous～…」

Well, it was more like Arena’s INT was greatly used in the battle. With her high Int value she was able to predict all of the Ogre’s movements and attacked precisely to points where she could deal the most damage. After all, in order for me to win against Arena in a duel, I must over boost my speed to a point where she couldn’t predict it. Though in the case of us actually fighting, I would have already given up before we would even start.

「Alright, let’s finish this and process everything then go to the next floor」

The stone throwing party continued. This time, everyone’s levels went up by 10 so it was a delicious amount of experience. Alright, time to speed things up once more. After taking a lunch break and a little rest, we then moved to the next floor.

After moving, it then took us around 2 days to reach floor 19. The monsters that appeared along the way were Hobgoblins, an upper ranked goblin, the maple sheep which creates some sweet Sheep and fluffy fur and then several dragon types like lesser dragons.

The Maple Sheep have a nice fur and the meat is sweet which is said to be a raw material of some kind which I wanted to hunt a lot, however because it was an extremely rare creature, we were only able to hunt 2 as we moved.

Cielo along with Mika were also aggressively fighting against lesser dragons. They are not the type that flies in the sky since they don’t have wings, but they have long powerful tails that could crush their target. Well, they are still not worth it as an opponent for a Hero.

There were a lot of hobgoblin raids, but La Veil went into a full rampage leaving all of them almost dead. It was a really horrible image to see.

「Because goblin species actively target children. We need to them to raise the children’s levels more to a point where they could rid of it on their own. 」

「Aren’t they considered the lowest of the low when talking about monsters. Well because of that, do forgive me if I end up accidently killed them trying to hold back my power. 」

「Umu, I’ll leave that to you」

It took us a while to move around the 10th floor because most of the area was a forest, however we quickened up the pace from 11th to 19th floors because it was all stone corridors. If it was regular adventurers, then they would have a really hard time in these floors where the average levels of monsters were around 90. 

The next floor is finally the 20th floor. It was a place where even the heroes were not able to break through. I was thinking about it, 

Guuu～

　……Ooops. 

「……Evening already. Alright, shall we set a camp here for the time being? 」

「Masters stomach clock is as accurate as ever. 」

「I'm going to do my best to cook today too!!」

「That’s the spirit Cielo!」

Then following La Veil’s instructions, everyone started cooking properly.

「「Yessir!!」」

Today’s menu will be lesser dragon steak. However when the two did it.

「「Something’s different……」」

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After leaving Ladaria, Cielo's new challenge

「Fuu…nn～～～～Uuh!」

「1」

「Kuh……nguu～～～～Naa!!」

「2」

It was decided for her to do some basic muscle training.