So tired... Once I wake up I'll have time to do chapters consecutively again finally. So probably about 2-4 chapters between today and tomorrow. After that it's about 1 per day.
Looking Into The 8th Floor
Year 7445, Month 8, Day 13
We arrived at the teleport room on the 7th floor(I had been calling it the "teleport crystal rod" but while late I noticed other adventurers were calling it the teleport crystal) around evening. We lowered our luggage we had been carrying and were finally able to take a breath.
This time we passed through the desert room of the 7th floor but a group of large brown colored lizard monsters called {Kuraguzado} came out. Of course, the instant I thought it was our first time seeing them I froze and killed them without waiting to see what happens. The magic stones were about 30,000 each and while they fall quite a bit behind ogres there were 14 of them so they should be around 3,000,000 Z. They were some good earnings. When I Identified the corpses just as expected they had almost no MP and didn't have any magic special skills so it seems the ice was the right answer.
Starting with the small tableware shelves and placing various miscellaneous goods, spare blankets, soap types, buckets for laundry in their fixed locations, while watching Giberuti start making preparations for dinner I had Angela massage my feet while soaking them in the foot bath. Furthermore, in regards to soap there's proper soap produced through the oils of plants and animals as well but it's not of a very good quality. Recently we've putting several of these berries from something called the Soap-tree into a net and using that. I feel a bit like it's returning to the ancient times but since this still seems to be of a better quality as soap recently we've completely moved over to this. Whether we're washing our hair, faces, bodies, tableware or laundry we're making use of these for all of it.
It seems Zenom's finished his shower. I thank Angela and after adding more hot water to the shower bucket took one myself. It's fine to directly use magic from my hand to take a shower as well but it's unpleasant having to concentrate mentally while taking a shower so if we have the facilities then this is better.
Following me was Ralpha and then around the time Gwine was finished taking her shower dinner was ready. Everyone had a large serving of leafy vegetable salad along with the main dish of a pork fry and then after Basutoral the slaves started taking showers in order as well before we started discussing things for tomorrow. After confirming all of the usual attention points in the end,
"Tomorrow morning, we'll enter the 8th floor once just to take a look. The main stream exploring is still a ways ahead. Don't hold your hopes too high."
I particularly said it towards Ralpha. After confirming she had obediently nodded we went to bed early.
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Year 7445, Month 8, Day 14
Just before 5:00 in the morning I awoke to Giberuti preparing breakfast. After leaving my blanket, Basutoral and Angela had already woken up and we're sitting on the bench..and I guess they were the final lookouts huh? One of them must have woken up Giberuti as well.
"Do you want to take a shower?"
"Ah, can I request one?"
Since they should have been keeping lookout since around 3:00 am, they probably want to take a hot shower and properly wake up pretty soon. Soon after I climbed out of my blanket and went to the shower room while scratching my ass and resisting yawns, went up the stairs in the back of it and filled the bucket with slightly hot water. Basutoral entered the shower room right away and it seems he's taking off his clothes.
I put some cold water in the washing bucket and use that to wash my face. Zenom, Ralpha, and Gwine started to wake up hearing the sounds of washing and showering. Everyone's started to put their equipment on. After I put my combat boots on I put on the under armor of my rubber protectors which have recently started to get a bit small and fix them in place with bands. As expected it's started to reach it's limit~ I made them with quite a bit of room but it's already gotten pretty tight. It's about the time to re-make them.
Just going off of height it would be a perfect fit for Miduchi or Angela but since they're women there's also the problem of figure. Ah, you can't just not use the body parts of it. Since all of the arm and leg parts are connected to the body parts in some way or form. Toris isn't all that different from me in height but his legs are longer and Basutoral's race is considerably slender so it doesn't match up at all. Giberuti might be able to wear it..Though I don't intend to let him join the combat so there's not much meaning huh? If he wants it it'd be fine to give it to him though.