Pretty sure I incorrectly translated one part of the gun last chapter as like barrel or trigger/mechanism last time but it was actually probably referring to the receiver. The hell is a receiver? Anyways, I still make no guarantees on gun parts. Hard enough trying to figure them out in English let alone their Japanese counter-parts. Next chapter in 4-6 hours.
Towards the 10th Floor 4
Year 7446, Month 10, Day 29
In the end we decided to stay in the teleport crystal room of the 9th floor and take look in the 10th floor before defeating the Minotaurs by attacking them from behind when they respawned. I thought all 9 of them would respawn at the same time but that wasn't the case, first off 7 of them respawned with only a few minutes difference between, and then when the remaining 2 finally started to respawn the fog just started whirling around where they would have been and there's no sign of them appearing. For over 30 minutes it continued in that state just like that so we attacked the 7 that did respawn from behind and finished them off instantly.
After I tried Identifying the corpses all of their levels were 8 or 9 in the single digits.
They weren't quite to the level of wazamono, but even then we obtained another 7 high quality weapons and it was before the mana recovered in Ralpha's bracelet so we couldn't help but drag the corpses behind the pillar and pile them up there.
Here I ended up having to go into thought again.
The first skilled Minotaurs that Angela the others and I fought against, mine was level 32, and Angela and the others was level 30. In all of the monster groups that we've fought against up until now there's never been a level difference this big. Even when it comes to the respawn of monsters the only ones I've directly observed were a few types of room bosses on the 1st floor. Whether it was slimes or giant spiders, in a group or otherwise, the levels were all either the same or only 1 level difference.
Certainly while the sign of them respawning, the fog appears at the same time, there was a vague difference in the time they actually appear but it was at best several seconds to at greatest a few minutes so I just thought it was a measurement error or that amount.
What I can think of here is that maybe the levels of the monsters have relation to the respawn.
I guess it would be proper to think that the higher the level is the longer it takes for them to respawn.
Though in order to verify the theory it would require a maddening number of samples of them respawning. It's necessary to keep the theory at nothing more than a theory and guideline.
Also, in regards to the 10th floor we took a look at but just from a glance it doesn't seem any different from the 8th and 9th floors. Since the 2 remaining Minotaurs still haven't respawned we decided to just take a peek and then immediately went back.
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Year 7446, Month 10, Day 30
Already, we're reaching the limit of our stock in emergency use preserved food.
Let's head back today.
The same as usual the fog that appears when the Minotaurs are respawning is still whirling around.
On the side of that the other 7 Minotaurs respawned again. It can't be helped worrying about it.
There's no accomplishment to it but we ended up finishing them off by attacking them from behind again.
Along with the corpses from yesterday Ralpha changed 14 Minotaur corpses into water and then we decided to take another look at the 10th floor.
I wonder if more crabs and crickets and what-not will come out? It's fine to use the spell {Audible Clamor} to lure over monsters but sometimes it might be good to move around a bit. Since we've just been sitting in the teleport crystal room waiting for the Minotaurs to respawn walking around should be fine.
I return my feelings to the initial resolution and we carefully advance forward.