Seventh: Volume 4 by Yomu Mishima

Author:Yomu Mishima [MISHIMA, YOMU]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2023-07-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 50: Floor Boss

The dungeon beneath Aramthurst was possessed of several characteristics that it was best to keep note of. One of those characteristics was that a boss monster could be found every ten floors. These floor bosses were a pain to deal with—even if you managed to defeat them, they’d just revive after a certain amount of time.

This system could actually be quite convenient, though, based on how you looked at it.

After defeating the boss once, a party of adventurers could optimize their equipment and strategy specifically for battling against it, allowing them to take the creature down more efficiently the second time around. What’s more, the Demonic Stones each boss possessed were quite valuable—they were superior to the Stones of normal monsters in both size and purity.

The point of this explanation is simple, in the end—the thing that should be noted is the fact that these bosses are doomed to be defeated as soon as they spawn, at least on the tenth and twentieth floors, which the floor-transfer devices connect to directly.

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After we reached the twenty-first floor, we defeated the surrounding monsters and then chose a room where we could be assured of our safety to set up camp. At the moment, I was helping Clara put together a...certain something.

“This is...a curtain?”

Clara nodded. “Yes. Pull it up like this, and...then no one else will be able to see.”

To be honest with you, the thing we were constructing in the corner of the room was a toilet. We’d sectioned it off from sight with a curtain, but there really wasn’t much to be seen—just a single, collapsible bucket and a chair with a hole in the center that we’d placed above it.

Having completed the rest of the setup, Clara stepped forward and proceeded to toss something into the bucket.

“What was that?” I asked her.

“Deodorant,” she explained. “It gets rid of the smell. Makes it easier to deal with.”

It certainly wasn’t glamorous, but we were stuck in a dungeon, after all. It wasn’t like humans like us could just eliminate these sorts of natural physiological phenomena... Instead, a bit of wisdom and ingenuity was required.

That reminds me, I heard once before that the reason male adventurers stopped regarding female adventurers as women was because of stuff like this. They said the female adventurers lost their shame after having to deal with such intimate situations around the men, and ended up becoming more masculine as a result. My eyes darted toward Novem. I wouldn’t want that to happen to her... I thought despondently.

Clara gave me a curious look, sensing the downward spiral of my mood, but in the end didn’t ask. Instead, she said, “It’s a basic setup, yes. But it’s better than nothing.”

I nodded. “Oh, I can understand that very well.”

“It’s the same on the battlefield,” the fifth head chimed in indifferently. “It’s pretty common to come across feces or urine, and if you slice through someone’s stomach...”

I didn’t hear the rest—the grossness purged it from my mind. Really, I understand.

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