My consciousness clears up, and I see the same grassy field with nothing else as before. It looks like it’s the same as the second and fourth floors, and I get treasure chests from fighting powered up ones, which is good. If there were treasure chests that even the evolved map couldn’t detect, I don’t know how many days it would take.
Well, if it was like the first floor, I’d have to look for special red dots among the three types of monsters I already found.
“Shouta.”
“Darling.”
Maki and Ayane are clinging closer than usual.
“Why… Are you that lonely?”
“…Just a little.”
“Hehehe.”
“Ah, me too.”
“Then me as well.”
Aki and Aira cling like they’re covering me from above too. It was only a few hours. I think Aira is just reading the room.
Well, we’re always together, so I guess it’s troublesome when we add a bunch of girls we don’t know… No, they just wanted to cling.
‘Gogo.’
“Hn?”
‘Goh. Gogo.’
‘Popo.’
“Eh?”
I turn around after being called, and Enki shifts to the side.
“Hey hey, seriously?”
There was something Enki’s big body was blocking.
“…Eh!? W-why are we here!?”
“W-we were just on the mountain…”
“Eh… Am I dreaming?”
“Older brother, what is happening!?”
It looks like Kasumi’s team got transported here too. Well, I don’t know exactly how close people have to be to warp together… Aki and Maki immediately try to pull away, but can’t move because Aira and I don’t let them.
Still, they were ten meters away, and that wasn’t enough?
Should I ask the dungeon core about it?
“Ah, older brother, I apologize.”
“You don’t need to apologize, Haru. I didn’t know how far away you had to be.”
“So, can you explain?☆”
Izumi’s pressure rises as she gets closer.
“Oh, okay. But this is a secret I’ve only revealed to one branch manager. Are you ready to know?”
“Euh!?”
I intimidate her back and she backs away. Kasumi then raises her hand.
“S-strategy time!”
“Yes. I’ll allow it.”
Kasumi’s team huddles in a circle and starts talking.
That said, they’re speaking loudly enough that with my hearing, I don’t even have to try to hear them.
“So? What will you do?”
“Even if we do not know, you will protect us from any calamity.”
“So you’re either protected while knowing or not.”
“That said, we leveled up a lot, so can’t we fight?”
“If we fight, we will not receive much in the way of drops. We are likely to bother elder brother.”
“Then can we offer Kasumi’s body as an apology?”
“Why!? Ah, big brother, we can’t participate, right?”
“Hn? Hn…”
If it’s like before, these powered up ones don’t have levels and are copies, meaning they don’t drop skills. The powered up goblin on the fourth floor didn’t drop a treasure chest. If there are rewards, they’re just equipment or magic stones.
“You can fight, even take them down. It’s different here.”
“Really? Thanks! But… what should we do?”
“We can fight knowing or not knowing, it makes no difference to me.”
“I’m fine with either too. I’ll leave the thinking to Kasumi and Haru.”
“I want to know. As the commander, information can impact the team’s continued existence. Even if this is a special battle, we never know if we won’t experience it again.”
“I… honestly feel like there might be no going back if we know. But as an exclusive, I want to know what we got dragged into. If this turns into trouble later, I’ll apologize to you older brother!☆”
“What about you, Irina?”
“I’ll follow Miss Kasumi’s decision.”
“I see. All right then! Tell us what you can about this area, big brother!!”
“Ooh, fine. Monsters won’t spawn here, so let’s talk while resting.”
We spread out a picnic blanket, and I explain while we have a snack.
“So basically, rare monsters have these things called powered up versions that have double the level, and appear when certain conditions are met. If you defeat them, you get trophies only you can see?”
“Well, powered up ones isn’t an official name, it’s just what I call them. And it’s not that only I can see them, I’m guessing it’s the person who spawned them.”
I heard people under Sakuya got trophies, so I’m not the only one in this country.
“And when you get all the trophies on a floor, you gain the right to open a hidden treasure chest.”
“These treasure chests can appear through dungeon gimmicks, or you can be teleported to a boss area like this one.”
“And lastly, as you collect keys from treasure chests in different floors of a dungeon, you can reach its core and stop stampedes from happening… Ahh, this is tens of times more than I expected…”
Kasumi, Haru, and Izumi, the more common sense part of the team, are all exasperated and trying hard to process this. Hazuki accepts it, and Irina smiles like she understood everything. And Renka is in a daze.
“Renka, did you not understand?”
“Hm… Hum, so, I didn’t really understand, but I can tell you’re great?”
“Great doesn’t cover it…”
“You’re right, Renka.”
“Miss Renka, that is the truth.”
“Hehehe.”
Renka is happy to be praised by Ayane and Irina.
I see, that’s how Renka is. I’ll pat her too.
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