CH 87

Chapter 87 There Are Times When You Don’t Like It Even If It’s Rational

By covering ourselves with Air Curtain, the wind and snow are gone, which makes it a little less cold.

But well, it’s only a little, from about minus 30 degrees to minus 10 degrees, so it’s still cold.

「For now, is everyone okay?」

They seem to be fine for now.

They don’t open their mouths, but they are all nodding their heads.

「As you can feel, it’s terribly cold on this floor. Let’s keep the fighting to a minimum and get through this quickly.」

Because of the weather, it seems that few adventurers actively hunt on the ice floor.

As a result, the materials from Snow Tigers and White Crocodiles are in short supply, so the purchase price is high despite their ranks.

In a way, it’s a perfect hunting ground since there won’t be any troublesome adventures, but… we don’t want to risk freezing to death to earn money, so we’ll pass by here as well.

「We made a windbreak, and it would be a little warmer if we lit a lamp and keep walking.」

The temperature would be about minus 5 degrees, though….

If we just stay cooped up because of the cold, we’ll never get out of the ice floor.

It would be a waste of time to complain, so I concentrated the Presence Detection buff on Ian and made him the guide, while I worked to maintain the Air Curtain as we moved forward.

As for Esther and Nina, they each have two lamps that were sold as anti-cold goods.

It’s a bit careless to go through the labyrinth where monsters are roaming around with this formation, but it’s better than being frozen on the spot and unable to move.

As time passed, the three seemed to get used to the cold, and they seemed to be able to afford to be vigilant.

However, we don’t talk because our throats feel like they’re going to freeze if we open our mouths.

We encountered snow tigers and white crocodiles several times, but Ian cut off their necks with Air Cutter.

Air Cutter itself is a low-difficulty magic, but depending on how you use it, it can be a one-hit-kill magic.

It’s irrelevant in the labyrinth, but… if it’s outside, the materials will be in good condition and the purchase price will go up if you cut off the monster’s neck with a single attack, so I think it’s a very cost-effective magic.

「Onii-sama, how are we going to camp today?」

「I know it’s hard, but we will go to the boss room on the 30th floor without taking a long break.」

「Understood!」

We might be able to rest a bit if we made a snow hut, but with our speed, we can reach the 30th floor in two days even if the snow slows us down.

In the labyrinth, the size of the floor increases as you go down, but the 30th floor is still not that big.

After two days of desperately moving forward in silence, we somehow managed to reach the boss room.

「Finally, I can be free from the diaper life…」

Nina, I’m sorry.

……. I feel the same.

We couldn’t even use the restroom on the ice floor, so I gave all the members underwear enchanted with an item box, thinking that it would be useful….

In fact, the effect was outstanding, but the mental burden was too great.

Still, we reluctantly used it since it was better than letting things go naturally and having our crotch freeze…

If we can get through this, we can say goodbye to the cold and humiliation, so I want to beat the boss and get out of here as soon as possible.

Completely different from the snowy area, the boss room is a cool stone room, so I quickly take off my winter clothes and get ready for battle.

The boss this time is a small dragon called Acrocanth.

Acrocanth

Rank: A

Skills: Body Strengthening 94, Bite 71, Rush 28, Intimidation 28

「It’s completely a physical-type monster, huh? You’ll die instantly if it bites you, so be careful. It also has an intimidation skill, but it probably won’t work on us.」

Other than that, I can’t find anything particularly troublesome about the monster….

It’s an A-rank monster, but I don’t feel scared at all because the battle against the ants was too shocking.

「The scales of Acrocanth are traded at a high price as materials for armor. They are surprisingly good at defense, so you need to be careful.」

I see, it’s a defensive type, huh?

「Water Tornado.」

「Air Cyclone.」

Esther and I unleashed advanced magic together.

I loaded a lot of MP and took a long time to activate the Water Tornado, so it was quite powerful.

If this doesn’t work, I’ll try to brute force it with Water Storm that I just learned….

「Gyaoooooooo….」

Huh?

「We beat it, huh….」

「… That’s right, Onii-sama.」

It’s good that it’s easy, but it’s kind of disappointing….

「………」

Even Ian, who was talking about its defensive power, was at a loss.

「Well… the ice floor was tough, so isn’t it a good thing that it’s balanced?」

Also, we were able to obtain the scales and magic stone as drop items.

We were all quite tired after two days of hard work, so we decided to take a nap in the safe area at the back of the boss room before going to the 31st floor.

「The accuracy of the map and information drops significantly from here, so let’s brace ourselves and do our best!」

「「「Yes!」」」

When we entered the safe area… for some reason, there were about 20 adventurers sitting while leaking bloodthirst.