Having overcome the large-scale monster house, we had a BBQ party after it. As might be expected, alcohol wasn’t consumed, but everyone still enjoyed the BBQ.
「Takumi-sama! The Orc General meat is super tasty!!」
「You’re right, it’s delicious. But it might be a bit too rich for me. Takumi, I want fruits later.」
「Ah, sure, I think I put some in the Item Box, so I’ll bring it out later.」
It seems the superior species of the orc was tasty, and Maria excitedly held an Orc General skewer on each hand. Akane demanded a dessert as if it was natural. This is a dungeon though.
After that, with everyone taking turns as the lookout, we slept like logs in that place.
The monster corpses scattered in the large room were now all gone. Majority of the corpses were abandoned, but after nimbly dismantling and stripping others, they disappeared as though the dungeon floor swallowed them.
As a result of discussions with the rulers of the six nations, we decided to rest in this place for a day. During that time, I would be responsible with the maintenance of everyone’sー the rulers and their subordinates includedー equipment.
It was fine even if we just clean ourselves with purifying magic and lightly check our party’s adamantite alloy weapons and mithril alloy armors, but that definitely wasn’t the case for the weapons and armor supplied to the six rulers and their subordinates.
Laeva and I split the work up and quickly did maintenance on them.
「Though it’s made of magic steel, the weapons Takumi-sama produced are still durable.」
「You too Laeva, you’re now able to do maintenance without a hitch.」
While Laeva and I were working, Queen Fraal and the other rulers turned up.
「Iruma-dono, truly, thank you for everything.」
「Umu, I feel sorry for having to burden Iruma-dono by not only the providing the armaments, but also with the maintenance. But it really helps.」
Queen Fraal and King Gandalf came to thank me for maintaining the equipment.
「Not at all, I made the equipment, so it’s only natural I do the maintenance.」
「No, you human are too strong. We’re being overshadowed. How about it, you wanna be my country’s king? You’re definitely stronger than me.」
「You bastard! No getting a head start! If it’s like that then it’d be my country!」
While Queen Fraal, King Gandalf, and I were talking, King Ryvar and King Deega began talking about some unbelievable things as soon as they came over, and even King Deega was saying similar things.
「Oi oi, just because the job of a ruler is so troublesome doesn’t mean you can wipe it away by passing it on.」
「……that’s right, you guys probably just don’t like paperwork.」
It was King Jairu and King Guzhr who came to my bewildered self’s rescue.
The long and short of it was that King Ryvar and King Deega enjoy fighting freely over having to manage the country. Just how muscle-headed could they be?
「Tsk, the nuisances came. Kings have a mountain of annoying work.」
「Yeah. Try being like me being surrounded by a mountain of documents.」
「No way, all of us are the same.」
「……more like, we work even more than you at domestic affairs.」
Despite being told off by King Jairu and King Guzhr, the two Beast Kings weren’t concerned by it. This seemed to be distinctive of countries where majority of the Beastkin that occupy it were fighting races. Those two countries were always like that.
Since the six rulers have gathered here, we decided on the plan from here on.
Every ruler agreed that the deepest floor of this dungeon was the 10th floor.
「It depending on the floor’s environment, but the passageways and rooms wouldn’t be small beyond this point. If that is the case, wouldn’t it be better if we each explore not too far from the others?」
「I agree with King Gandalf’s opinion. It isn’t likely that there would be another monster house trap, but if we fall into another unforeseen situation, it makes a huge difference whether Iruma-dono’s party is close by or not.」
「It’s frustrating but it’s as Fraal says. We would have probably been annihilated at the monster house trap if it was just us alone.」
「Hou, this isn’t like you, Ryvar.」
「Don’t poke fun, King Deega. You’re thinking the same, aren’t you?」
King Jairu warned King Deega, and King Deega shrugged as though to accept it.
「He’s right. I also think that we’re already past the point of moving around scattered beyond this level.」
For the floors up to this point, we all scattered so that monsters inside the dungeon could be annihilated as much as possible. I have a feeling that it’s about time that the enemies, including the remnants of the former Sydnia, would start appearing. It would be difficult to cooperate all of a sudden, but I insisted that, from here until the lowest floor, we should think of it as training.
「If we rotate which team goes to the front, we could also prevent fatigue from building up. Wouldn’t that be good?」
As the taciturn King Guzhr had agreed, we had gotten everyone’s approval, so once we confirmed that preparations were complete and that everyone’s stamina recovered, we started the main event.
Sphy’s Note:Hello, sorry I’m late. I was unable to upload earlier because I had recently suffered through a lot of the side effects of my 1st dose of vaccine. Sorry again for the inconvenience. Thıs content belongs to 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵✶𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖✶𝓷𝓮𝓽