Someday Will I Be The Greatest Alchemist?

Chapter 274: Labyrinth of Heresy 4

The 5th floor was configured as the typical cave-like passages and rooms. However, because the width and height of those passages were wide and high, and the dimensions of the rooms were large, it meant that large monsters would begin appearing.

Once we went down to this level, we joined up with the teams of each country. It seems they were in need of extra potions, so we distributed mana potions, heal potions, and all sorts of antidotes to each team, and after a bit of a briefing, we switched our focus to exploring this floor.

A little while after starting our search, Kaede and I almost simultaneously sensed the presences of monsters.

「Master, 3 monsters are coming.」

「Yup, they’re a bit big…… Ogres?」

Before long, 3 meter tall Ogres that grew two horns on their head, had huge muscles all over their body that were covered by red skin similar to those of the Oni Tribe appeared in the distance.

Ogres and the Oni Tribe are entirely unrelated, and saying that they were a cross between people and ogres was a horrible insult to the Oni Tribe.

In actuality, regardless of whether it was an ogre or any other species, when monsters use people as seedbeds, monsters are born 100% of the time.

As for the Oni Tribe, aside from having slightly red skin and the two 5-10cm horns growing from their head, their appearance was no different from humans.

Meanwhile, the Ogres had mean, ugly faces, and tusks, which weren’t teeth, growing from their mouths.

When the ogres saw us, they yelled excitedly and began running.

「Haa, why is it that when Orcs and Ogres see Sophia and the girls, their eyes change color?」

I readied my spear and lunged immediately.

The tip of my spear pierced the throat of the Ogre grinning fully at the lead, and without confirming the results, I made a sweeping stroke aimed at the throat of the ogre running immediately behind the first. Its head fell.

Then when I turned to check on the last Ogre, its four limbs were severed and it fell over.

「Uwaaa, that was merciless, Kaede.」

「We can’t eat Ogres.」

Yup, Kaede doesn’t waver in her belief.

Kaede’s criteria was: Is it delicious? Is it not delicious? It was that simple. So, the way she handles inedible monsters was as horrible as we just witnessed.

「Takumi, is it fine if we just get the magic stones?」

「Hmm, what to do…… we’re not short on money, and there’s no material from the ogres that we want at this point.」

「So we’re only taking the magic stones, right?」

「Yeah, thanks.」

I answered Akane and surveyed the surroundings.

The six dungeon capture teams, including Queen Fraal’s, seem to be doing well. They seem to be advancing at a good pace, fighting against superior Goblin species, Orcs, and Ogres as they cleared the monsters appearing in this dungeon floor.

Incidentally, it feels like we’re encountering monsters even more now.

The floor we are currently on was the 5th floor, and it’s likely that there aren’t that many floors left. At most, there’s probably still 5 more floors. I guess even they couldn’t grow the dungeon to maturity in a short time.

Ogres appearing on this floor meant that the paths were high and wide. That’s why, with exception to Gloam who flies, the familiars and Titan also participated. As it could be expected, there wasn’t enough space for Gloam to fly freely.

Gaaau! Doga!

Ferryl and Seru were in elated being given a place to participate after four continuous floors. Titan also fought steadily as our party’s shield since the 3rd floor. Titans defenses were unyielding against attacks by the likes of Orcs and Ogres. On the other hand, Titan’s giant fists beat the Ogres and Orcs to death. If this was outside of the dungeon, the monsters would have probably run away, but perhaps because of the will of the dungeon, even if there was a hopeless gap between strengths, the monsters wouldn’t run away.

Goooーーーーー!! Doga!!

Sensing two Ogres in the corner ahead, Titan revved the Magic Jet Propeller on its back and glided on the ground over 20m in an instant, then its adamantite alloy fists collided with its target.

Gusha!

「Ewww, that’s gross.」

Akane inadvertently reacted to the face of the highly regenerative Ogre being smashed in and dying.

The other Ogre died shortly thereafter to Ferryl and Seru’s coordinated attacks.

「It’s just right as an opponent for Ferryl and Seru.」

「Is that so? I think they could go for something with a bit more bite.」

「Nah, fighting to their utmost limit is way too spartan.」

Akane looks like she wants Ferryl to become much stronger, and wanted a stronger enemy for it.

With Titan and the familiars participating, our party’s exploration speed rose remarkably, and we were able to find the stairs going down faster than any other team.

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