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Chapter 147 – The Empire that Start to Move.
Chapter 147 – The Empire that Start to Move.
Translator:
Guro&YukkuriOniisan
Editor:
Sam
The Empire that Start to Move.
The door opened with a loud noise.
Three people entered the room.
Yuuki took his eyes off from the document he was reading,
「Yo, welcome back」
He greeted the three.
But,
「Yuuki-san, it was impossible. The bottom zone was extremely hard.」
「Yeah, it went well until the 50th floor.
But, after the 55th floor, Death Knights were roaming together in a platoon.
I think this would be hard for ordinary knight ranks.
Well, the problem started from the 59th floor though.]
「――That was dangerous」
They began to speak vigorously.
Maybe it was because they were excited, they didn’t mind how theylooked anymore.
If you saw the three’s clothes, the ripped chain mail was broken in some parts.
Just by looking at it there was no doubt that it was due to a fierce battle.
The story of the three continued.
「The boss of that floor was a Commander rank Death Knight――Death Lord―― but,
three of them appeared at the same time, you know!
Moreover, they were accompanied by 5 Death Knights each, you see?」
「That was horrible...maybe, we were relaxed until the 50th floor」
「The boss monster with a cow-like face had a strength comparable to an A rank.
Anyway, to have such monsters guarding it, there seems to be something in that labyrinth」
「Hee...then, did you guys give up at the 59th floor?」
「No, we somehow managed to defeated the three sets of Death Knights and their commanders.
But well......」
「The guardian of the 60th floor seems to be a named boss, it was absurdly strong, you know」
「Because we were almost defeated by the numbers on the 59th floor, we were already prepared for a battle of attrition on the 60th floor though...」
「The result was our defeat by a single humanoid type monster」
「It clearly had abnormal strength, to the point of being the superior version of a Death Knight」
「――That was, impossible. Even if we try it many times, we will lose」josei
When the three talked to such an extent, Yuuki sat on a chair, and settled down a bit.
He drunk the served tea, and took a breath.
Yuuki, thought that,to some degree,his expectation was correct,
「Then, there seemed to be something over there?」
He questioned the exhausted trio.
Apparently, the three seemed to have just left the town by foot after being defeated at the 60th floor.
They regrouped with Damrada, who waited at the outskirts of the town, and immediately returned with Transfer Magic.
This was because they feared a pursuit.
They heard that the highest record for the labyrinth was the 39th floor and there seemed to be a stalemate against the waiting boss of the 40th floor before they had challenged it.
Meanwhile, they thought that they certainly stood out by advancing and establishing new recordsright off the bat.
They said that they realized their mission had failed, and they withdrew when they confirmed existence of strong individual guarding the place without re-challenging the labyrinth.
After some considering they,
「There’s no doubt. There should be some kind of facility beyond that place.」
「The size of the labyrinth was quite something.
I think it was expanded through some kind of magic though, but it didn’t seem to be an artificial structure.
In the first place, that place didn’t seem to have something like underground ruins originally, either.
In that case, it was a mystery how they secured a place that wide.」
「――Only in that floor, the defense was abnormally severe.
No matter how you lookat it, they’re guarding something.
Not only the knight that defeated us, there was a skeleton magician, and ghost dragon later on.
I think that the forces there were very different than on the other floors」
「Right.
You could laugh but…
Probably, if all the monsters up to the 59th floor fought against the monster of the 60th floor――
Those guys from the 60th floor would win.」
Shinji and Zhen nodded in agreement with Mark’s thought.
They say that it had such an overwhelming presence.
Yuuki had no doubt that the floors until the 50th floor were originally the labyrinth sections for tourist attraction purposes, while the 51st to the 60th floors and further, were a restricted secure area.
After that, they ate a light meal, and he received the report in calm, eased state.
It didn’t seem that they were able to enter Tempest, but they seemed to have been able to gather information from the openhearted adventurers in the labyrinth town.
They summarized such information, and reported it.
As well as all sorts of thing they had obtained,their spoils of war.
They got a high quality “Magic Crystal” from a monster.
They were able to get some quality equipment from the treasure chest, which could be located in a room inside the labyrinth, or from the floor boss, and so on.
Each one of them were rare class, while the bardiche that Mark had was unique class.
They could sense,that to gather so many people, they needed to set up an unthinkable amount of money and labor.
Meanwhile, there was some worrying information.
That is,
Therewas a city on a certain floor inside the dungeon (Underground Labyrinth).
Or so they say.
「As expected, it doesn’t seem to be a mistake.」
「Yeah. I think it must be.」
「――It is.」「The point though, is that we cannot passed the 60th floor.」
At least, because he judged it to be absolutely impossible with only his group, Shinji reported it obediently.
It was on a level that saving face was of no use, since the boss was just too strong.
「Well by the way, to what extent did you feel that boss’s strength?
Can you compare it with people that belong to the Imperial Guard Army to be specific?」
Shinji and the two were lost in thought at Yuuki’s question.
Though it was called the Imperial Guard Army, in the army there were people like Shinji and his group, who weren’t interested in the Rank Deciding Battle.
They were indebted to Yuuki in various ways after they had come to this world, and had helped under his instructions in various ways…
Since they were not interested in being in the top 100, they didn’t participate in the Rank Deciding Battle seriously either.
Furthermore,since the Corps Commander had been replaced by Yuuki, they had purposefully transferred from their original Armored Corps to the Mixed Army Corps that Yuuki led as Corps Commander.
In this corps, there was no need to participate in the useless Rank Deciding Battle.
There wasa number of people that existed among them that thought like “Otherworlders”.
They weren’t given a large responsibility, and they didn’t show off their power, they were people that lived suitably.
Because the abilities of such people were not clear, it was a mystery whether the Imperial Guard Army was really the strongest group though…
But, on paper, there was no mistake that this group was the strongest group in the Empire.
「Well…At least, around the top 50th rank...?
I think those guys’ subordinate aren’t worth considering」「In the end, it was just that one knight, right?
That knight, we weren’t able to touch him, even with the three of us, you know?」
「――Right. People in the top 30th rank, might fight evenly against the knight?」
「Which reminds me...Wasn’t there an Arc Demon subjugation troop dispatched before the construction?
That time, I participated as the campaign’s doctor...」
「Ah, the “Lake Shore Dyed in Scarlet” incident[1]? Is it true, Shinji was a survivor of that incident?」
「―― I was lucky to survive」