Chapter 103 : A Bountiful Harvest

TL:SummerPeanut

Bonus chapter this week.

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5 Aug 2030.

“Our goal today is to reach the second floor. Reach the safe zone if possible but do note that it is not always on the second floor. Sometimes, for example in Almeria, it can be on the third floor instead so let's not get discouraged if we don't find it!"

““““Ooooo!!!””””

This exchange took place at around seven in the morning.

An hour had passed since Clarice and Ellie woke up and had breakfast, and we were about to leave when I issued the notice.

And half an hour later we were descending the stairs to the second floor... There was a large room leading to the second floor just beyond the passageway where we had camped yesterday.

A few high orcs and kobold lords came out together but they can't even pose a problem now that Clarice has joined the fight.

Of course, I've made sure that Misha has priority in the battle contribution.

I'm a bit embarrassed about the proclamation I just made...

When we went down to the second floor, it was a room the size that I had never seen before.

It must be around 100m square.

There were about 50 high orcs all riding kobold lords, with only one orc of a different color.

Name: -

Title: -

Race: Orc general

Threat: C-

Condition: Good

Age: 1

Level: 5

HP: 67/67

MP: 1/1

Strength: 28

Agility: 10

Magic: 1

Dexterity: 5

Durability: 35

Luck: 1

Special Ability: Spearmanship (Lv 2/G).

Orc Generals are honestly quite weak for a C-.

They are just a target with high durability.

And the combination of high orcs and kobold lords, at first glance you might think they work well together but they have a fatal weakness.

That is that the high orcs are too heavy, which ruins the characteristics of the kobolds, who are supposed to disrupt their target with speed. Honestly, it would be more troublesome if they were not ridden. They must be magic beasts with a considerable lack of intelligence...

“There are so many of them...”

Karen backed away as she muttered so.

Even Misha doesn't go on a runaway suicide mission as usual.

“Then I'll do it since I've only been a baggage handler all this time.”

I say, and I activated Firestorm without chanting.

The orcs and kobolds were startled and attempted to run away from confusion but I force them into the Firestorm with Wind or Wind Impulse.

The inside of the Firestorm is noisy.

Karen who saw this scene.

“I've never seen Fire and Wind combined magic... before, and using a different magic while one is being activated.”

It feels like Karen had only been surprised since yesterday and today.

I thought I had beaten them all but the Orc General had just barely survived.

“Misha, please end him!”

I said, and Misha did just that.

Then Karen commented.

“You did it, Misha! You've raised your level!”

When everyone was congratulating her and saying ‘Congratulations’, I noticed something else.

“It seems the reward wasn't just her level. Look, there's a treasure chest!”

I pointed in the direction of the treasure chest. By the way, this time I opened it.

Of course, I've already checked it beforehand and confirmed that there are no traps.

Name: Wind Spirit’s Spear (Sylph Lance)

Attack: 28

Special: Agility +2

Value: B

Detail: A magic spear made of mithril silver. Enchanting the spear with wind magic increases its attack power

It is a weapon completely dedicated to Misha.

“This is Misha's equipment. Use it.”

When I handed Misha the Wind Spirit Spear (Sylph Lance), Misha asked back.

“Eh? Are you sure? I think this is very expensive, isn’t it?”

"It's fine. Most of the equipment we have are from labyrinths. We think about who can best use the equipment we find and have that person equip it. That's why most of those luxurious pieces of equipment on Clarice's came out of the labyrinth, you know?"

In fact, all of Clarice's equipment, except for the Defender and the Disguise Bracelet, came from the treasure chests in the labyrinth.

“Thank you. Mars. Everyone. I'll take good care of it.”

I had one thing on my mind so I asked Karen.

“Karen. How accurate are you with people's statuses?”

“Umm? I think I have a pretty accurate grasp of it but....”

“Then can I ask you to appraise Clarice?”

“Yes. I've looked at it a few times and... it's definitely a strange number. It's impossible to beat Baron easily with this status.”

The status values that Karen told me were the status values that Clarice had disguised with the Disguise Bracelet.

I have the Sky Eyes, which is a superior version of the Magic Eyes so I can't be appraised by the Magic Eyes.

In the case where someone managed to appraise me, does that mean I can camouflage myself with Disguise Bracelet?

“Can you appraise the traps in the treasure chest?”

“Traps? Are there traps in treasure chests? I don't know, I've never done it before. Or rather I've never even seen a treasure chest before, and I don't think it’s possible to appraise it... for some reason.”

“Okay... got it. Thanks for the answer."

The second floor has many large rooms and wide corridors.

The second floor has many large rooms and wide corridors, and it's a straight road all the way through, so we made good progress.

“I'm completely used to the high orc and kobold lords now. Obviously, I'm not going to let my guard down but I don't feel like I’ll get any hits in from them at all. And I'm getting used to the usage of this illusory robe.”

Yes, in fact, Misha is equipped with the same illusory robe that Guster had since she entered Lister Imperial School.

Come to think of it, I haven't appraised it yet...

Name: Robe of Illusion

Defense: 10

Special: Agility +2

Value: B-

Details: Makes it difficult to detect the presence of the equipped user.

Misha mentioned its usage so just equipping it might not make it harder for others to detect the user’s presence.

It might be difficult to detect with just Search so the next time I’ll fight Guster, I’ll do it while focusing on his presence with Sky Eye.

After that, we proceeded smoothly, and to our surprise, we found the stairs to the third floor.

By the way, I left all the magic stones from the defeated magic beasts as we advanced.

If I told Zeke about this, he might get angry but what we need now is not money.

“I really wonder about the meaning of all the troubles I've experienced after joining this party. I wish I could tell everyone about the hardships I had to go through when I was power leveling before I came to this school like... how much money it costed.”

Karen said with a sigh and so did Misha.

“I used to travel with my mum too but I've never dealt the magic beasts this easily. We were a lot more careful.”

“Well, we had a tough time in the Almeria Labyrinth too so we can't let our guard down. In the Almeria Labyrinth, the enemies of the third floor were so strong that we were afraid to go on.”

The difference in strength between threat level C and threat level B is off the charts which is why one simply can't let his guard down.

When I descended to the third floor, there was one kobold and ten orc generals.

Name: -

Title: -

Race: Kobold King

Threat: C

Condition: Good

Age: 1

Level: 3

HP: 38/38

MP: 1/1

Strength: 24

Agility: 36

Magic: 1

Dexterity: 8

Durability: 14

Luck: 1

For something that’s crowned as King, it seems quite weak.

The goblin king had more nasty special abilities but there's nothing special about this one.

It's faster than mother ant yet more fragile...

“That kobold is faster than our previous enemies. Its agility value is higher than Misha's! Watch out!"

“Mars, let me take on that kobold!”

Misha said so and we decided to take out the orc generals first.

Orc generals are just durable targets and experience farms.

It took us a while to beat them but we had time to spare.

Then Misha and kobold king fought one-on-one.

Misha is struggling against a monster with a higher agility value than herself.

However, there is no impatience on Misha's face.

“Ice Lance!”

She fired Ice Lance at the kobold king and the moment the kobold king evaded her attack, she poked it with her Sylph Lance. And as for the kobold king's attacks, she only avoided the bite attack, which is the fatal one, and for attacks that cannot be avoided, such as body blows, she reactively sent herself flying with Wind to reduce the damage.

Incidentally, Misha's Wind can only slightly dampen kobold king attacks so she instead used it to reduce the damage by sending her own body flying.

If she takes any damage, I heal her with my heal.

Repeating this several times, she defeated the kobold king.

“Yay! But next time I'll show you that I can finish it off by myself!”

Misha said joyfully and found a treasure chest in the corner of the room.

“We are having a bountiful harvest today! Maybe the newly built labyrinths are more likely to produce treasure chests after all!”

I said and opened the treasure chest, appraising it as I did so.

I was so happy that the treasure chest appeared that I forgot to ask Karen to appraise it.

Name: Fire Spirit’s Spear (Salamander Lance)

Attack: 28

Special: Magic +2

Value: B

Details: A magical spear made from mithril silver. Enchanting the spear with fire magic increases its attack power

This is a weapon completely for Ike.

I will give this to him. A spear as a wedding gift...maybe not...

“Since we've made a lot of progress, we'll camp when we get to the next room today.”

We proceeded to the next room and the entrance to the next room was glowing white.

“Safety area(Safety zone)! Now we can finally unload our stuff!”

“We did it! Now we have a base and can concentrate on the hunt!”

Karen said and the other three nodded.

I immediately set to work on the bathtubs and beds.

Now I made five bathtubs.

Then I made partitions with clay magic to give them some privacy.

“It's like a room. I could stay here for days.”

Misha said happily.

“Yes, I agree. If I had explored the labyrinth with Mars from the beginning, I might not have disliked the mention of it so much. I really want to wash off the sweat and magic beast blood after.”

I assumed that no other adventurers would be coming for the time being so I customized whatever I wanted.

“If there's anything else you want, just let me know. I'll make what I can.”

I said, and Misha said.

“Delicious food!”

So she said. I feel like that's the worst thing to say in the labyrinth... and then Clarice answered.

“We've still got plenty of portable food but are we eating the orc generals just now? Don’t they say orcs taste good? Kobold king can look like birds if we try hard enough to see it that way so...”

She's a tough cookie... but I was thinking the same thing.

“Yeah, I suppose so. Orc generals are probably tighter than regular orcs so they're not as tender but they might be more nutritious in exchange. The kobold king is...something to try next time....”

Karen and Misha looked a little uncomfortable.

Well, Misha was the one who started it, so she deserved it.

“... orc...delicious...”

Here was someone who had already eaten orc.

We all asked Ellie what orc tasted like and we went to bed.

It is a safety zone but we still built a wall with Earth magic at the entrance and exit, just in case, as we prepare for tomorrow.

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