“…Ahh.”
“You look sleepy, darling.”
“Hn…”
It’s eight in the morning. I just had breakfast, but I still don’t have my usual energy.
I would go as far as to say I look emaciated, and the four girls look slick. I know exactly why, but even I think we went too far yesterday. After beating a strong enemy, I kicked around a lot of rare monsters to vent the elation I was feeling, but I don’t think that would be enough. No, this is clearly the result of being fed too much orc meat.
And surely this exhaustion is because even after eating all that, I was a little short from satisfying the girls.
With these feelings I can’t quite describe whirling inside me, I look at the girls who are looking more beautiful than usual, and my eyes meet Aira’s.
“We are feeling quite well thanks to you. Here master, some black tea to wake you up.”
“…Did you put anything weird in here?”
“You will be fighting now, so I would never.”
She’s admitting she would otherwise, but let’s not touch on that now.
I drink it in one gulp, feel the taste I’m accustomed to, and it fills me with energy to a strange degree. Seriously, what was in there?
“I did fill it with love.”
“That’s not what I’m suspecting.”
“Is that so? I used a special blend of the same golden nectar as always, and the red potion you discovered. It should not affect the taste, but I am glad to see the effect was as expected.”
“So you did put something… Although it did help.”
Even with Perception Strengthening, I didn’t notice the bitterness of the potion. Is that just how sweet the golden nectar is? Or is Aira just that good at mixing it? Well, I can’t imagine something Aira made failing.
As we talk, we get ready to go, and I see Enki in its small form surrounded by female adventurers.
“Enki’s so cute~!”
‘Gogo!’
“Me next! Let me hold it! Yahn, it’s so smooth!”
‘Goh.’
“I can’t believe this is a golem~!”
‘Gogo~. Goh…? Goh!’
Enki lets out an entranced voice as it’s pampered, but then it notices me and waves.
“Good morning Enki. Popular as always, I see.”
‘Gogo!’
Enki is a lot more popular than I expected, and it’s been surrounded by female adventurers like this since yesterday.
After dinner, I received impromptu training from Aki and Aira, but Maki and Ayane went around with Enki doing something like an extension of its previous hero show.
It sounds like a lot of trouble, but it seems Enki doesn’t think it’s so bad. Well, if it doesn’t mind doing it, it’s fine. I guess we’re not alike in that sense.
“We should go hunt soon. And Enki needs to come with us.”
“Ah, already?”
“See you later, Enki~.”
‘Gogo!’
They don’t feel like parting ways with Enki just yet, but let it go without arguing.
Enki starts stacking its blocks, and going to a pile of rock to absorb it. Like yesterday, it’s in its three meter tall heavy armor form.
‘Gogo!’
“All right. Ready?”
““““Yes!””””
We finished yesterday with close to eighty percent of the fourth floor mapped out. The missing areas are around the orc settlements and a corner we didn’t get to before wrapping up yesterday.
“I heard there are four orc settlements.”
“Yes. There are also reports of orc rare monsters, but no rare II.”
“Hm, we should check if there’s a rare III. My Intuition tells me there’s only one monster like that one in a dungeon.”
“…If that’s your gut feeling, we gotta go with it, Shouta.”
“Darling’s Intuition is reliable!”
“Thanks. But we won’t know for sure until we try. Anyway, let’s go to the corner I didn’t map out yesterday, and then to the settlements. Let’s try to aim for two hundred in the meantime.”
‘Goh!’
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We run not too fast, matching Enki’s speed, and I leave the goblins to the girls while Enki and I take down orcs.
Incidentally, orcs don’t have jobs or classes, they’re all just orcs. I figured humanoid monsters would all have a lot of jobs like goblins do, but I guess not.
“Aira, do orcs appear in other dungeons?”
“Yes, they are the most common after goblins. In fact, it would make sense to call them the superior version of goblins.”
“Really? But these ones don’t have jobs.”
“Master, do you recall that on the first and second floors, goblins were just goblins? The same applies here.”
“…Ah, so it’s like that?”
“Yes, it is like that.”
So the fourth floor is their first, so normal orcs appear because they are treated as superior to goblins.
“So in the high rank dungeon…”
“Tons of skills.”
“Uhe…”
It sounds nice, but remembering that pile of skills also reminds me of the exhaustion from compressing them.
Compression uses quite a bit of Magic Energy too. Using it a hundred times is tiring, not to mention that message appears every time.
But only regular orcs appear in this dungeon, and I have pretty much all the skills I want from goblins. I don’t plan on hunting them for a while…
Let’s leave that hard labor aside and focus on something else.
As we head to a settlement while kicking monsters around, Aira warns me of something.
“Master, four more to a hundred.”
“Okay. Let’s go into the settlement, and if a rare monster spawns, keep it busy, Aira. Then we can gather orcs and I can hunt them!”
““““Yes!””””
‘Goh!’
The first orc rare monster. Will it be like the Hobgoblin? I’m looking forward to it.
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Thanks for the treat.
I could satisfy four women with no problem. I got two hands and a mouth that won’t get tied. That means I can do three at once. Them they fourth can rotate in.