Slave Harem in the Labyrinth of the Other World (LN)

Volume 5 - Ch 5.10

I think we can go there for a bit.

Yes, I think so too.

It was about time for us to finish the exploration for today, but before that, we unilaterally decided to go to the eleventh floor to have a little sneak peak at what was about to wait for us in there.

What are the monsters native to Vale Labyrinths eleventh floor?

I asked Sherry when we arrived at the eleventh floor from the Floor Bosss Boss Room of the tenth floor.

The monsters native to the eleventh floor of Vales Labyrinth are Spi Spiders. We have already faced them in Qutartars Labyrinth, but this is going to be our first time dealing with them here in Vales Labyrinth.

As usual, Sherry was more than eager to share the information that she learned about the monsters on the eleventh floor of Vales Labyrinth.

Monsters that appear from 1st floor to 11th are same for every Labyrinth no matter its location, except that their placement is different in each one. That is why it is exactly like Sherry said: even though we have already fought against Spi Spiders in the Labyrinth of Quratar, this is actually going to be our first official bout against Spi Spiders in the Labyrinth of Vale, because the eleventh floor is the first floor in Vale where they are appearing, whereas in the Labyrinth of Quratar they appeared as early as the third floor, so they were not that much of a threat there.

And much in the same vein as the Spi Spiders here on the eleventh floor, the enemies that we have not yet encountered in Quratars Labyrinth, Green Caterpillars, should be the enemies that we are going to be encountering next on the eleventh floor of the Quratars Labrinth.

Spi Spiders are another type of enemy that has poison on their list of Skills, right?

Yes, but the chances of actually getting poisoned by Spi Spiders attacks is much lower compared to the chances of suffering from poisoning when battling against an NT Ant. We have already fought against them in Quratars Labyrinth countless times before, so we should not have any problem at all dealing with them.

So the chances of getting poisoned do not increase along with the enemys Level?

I have not heard anything about the chances of getting poisoned increasing with the enemys level, so no, they do not increase, at least when it comes to normal attacks. When it comes to Skills, it might be possible to be an increase, but even if it is, then it is probably going to be a pretty negligible one.

Is that so?

Yes, we have already fought against Spi Spiders in Quratars Labyrinth, so we should have their patterns of attack well memorized by now. This is the advantage of exploring more than one Labyrinth at a time, and it is a pretty great one indeed.

I would not go as far as to call it a cheat, but it is definitely a nice quality of life improvement that allows us to always be ready for whatever might be waiting for us on the next floor, as long as we are going to know what kind of enemy is going to be native to that floor and if we fought against them before or not.

And so, we proceeded with the exploration of the eleventh floor of Vales Labyrinth, fighting the monsters along the way. As expected, the patterns of attacks of the Spi Spiders did not change, but because their Level is considerably higher than that of the ones on the third floor of Quratars Labyrinth, they were considerably tougher and trickier to defeat, partly because unlike NT Ants, Spi Spiders did not seem to have any kind of elemental weaknesses to them.

On that front, NT Ants, who are weak against Water Magic, are considerably easier to fight, because at the very least I know that they do possess a weakness that I can exploit against them.

Spi Spider Lv.11 collapsed in seven magic attacks, so it means that the number of attacks required to defeat them has increased by one. With Durandal, however, it takes just two swings of it or one Rush attack, same as with the enemies on the tenth floor of the Labyrinths. NT Ant Lv.11 took four water type magic attacks in order to defeat it. Having faced so many NT Ants, I have reached the point where I can take them out without the risk of getting poisoned at all.

This proves that we can fight against the monsters on the eleventh floor of the Labyrinths without any major issues.

Next morning, we also cleared the tenth floor of Quratars labyrinth as well. We had already beaten Pan, the Floor Boss of the Floor where the Escape Goats were the major enemy, more than twice in Vales Labyrinth, and the experiences that we gained from these battles certainly did not go to waste.

The eleventh floor of Quratars Labyrinth is considered to be quite a difficult one to traverse.

After passing through the now empty Boss Room and advancing to the next floor, Sherry shares the information about the eleventh floor of Quratars Labyrinth with us.

Really? Why is that?

I thought that since the monster native to Quratar Labyrinths eleventh floor is supposed to be Green Caterpillar then that would mean that it was going to be one of the easier floors to deal with.

The monster native to eleventh floor of Quratars labyrinth are Green Caterpillars. They are considered to be the most difficult and dangerous of all the monsters that appear on the first eleven floors of the Labyrinths. And as if that was not enough, the NT Ants from the ninth floor also tent to appear on the eleventh floor quite often.

One of the most difficult and dangerous enemies on the first eleven floors? Are Green Caterpillars really that dangerous of an enemy? Because to me, that sound like an over exaggeration. I mean, Green Caterpillars do not use poison as part of their attacks, so what could be so dangerous about them to earn the ones from the eleventh floor of Quratars Labyrinth such a sinister reputation? Is it about their threads and the Thread Spit Skill that they are using? Is that it? Because if so, then I could say that I agree with that, because that Skills of theirs is pretty nasty indeed.

And I do agree that more NT Ants to be dealing with is always going to be a promise of an especially bad time since the chance of getting myself poisoned while fighting against them is definitely real. Poison is bad. I do not like poison, not at all, not even a single bit. If only I could, I would have removed that status ailment from the game entirely. I still have the trauma from that one time when I got myself poisoned due to my own lack of awareness of my surroundings, and I absolutely do not want to go through that experience ever again.

Because Green Caterpillars spit their sticky threads.

I see, so it is about the threads after all, huh?

Green Caterpillars have a Thread Spit Skill that works in such a way that after a short delay due to the cast time, the Green Caterpillar spits the threads out of its mouth that are so sticky that once they hit you, you are going to have your ability to move sealed and you are going to end up getting pinned down to the floor where the Green Caterpillars will gather all around you and use their highly acidic fluids in order to dissolve you into little more than a puddle of soup that they a are going to drink up next.

Just from that description alone, I cannot possibly imagine that this would be a particularly good way to go. Also, the higher the levels of the monsters in the Labyrinths, the higher the chance that they are going to me using their Skills more and more often, so if the Green Caterpillars Lv.11 are going to be resorting to using their Thread Spit Skill much more frequently than their counterparts from the lower floors, then I can certainly see how that would have been especially troublesome to deal with.

And that is when we are talking just about Green Caterpillars alone, so imagine now, if you will, a following combo: Green Caterpillars Lv.11 use their Thread Spit Skill in order to slow me down and pin me to the floor, and then NT Ants Lv.11 swoop in to inflict poison on me. Normally, even though I do not possess Roxannes godly dodging abilities, I am pretty confident that I would have been able to either block or jump away from their poisonous fangs or their Poison Spit Skill, but if my movements were greatly impeded due to the influence of the Green Caterpillars sticky threads? In that case, I would not have been so sure about that.