Chapter 241

Chapter 241 Strongest Sage, Discovers Sloppy Construction Work

" . . . Wha?"

Right after dodging the attack, I suddenly lost sensation of the ground .

–The dungeon's floor had fallen off .

Floors of a dungeon are far sturdier than the walls .

The outer layer could be soft in some cases, but not soft enough to have it fall off from monsters' attacks .

Dungeons would have been full of holes if an attack by mere a Floor Boss could break it .

It could very well happen on very shallow floors . . . But it's just impossible on Floor 27 .

I recovered my posture in the air while thinking that .

"Mathi-kun!?"

"T-the floor!"

I dropped down as the girls were panicking .

However, the fall wasn't really long .

My feet hit the ground after falling merely three meters down .

『I'm fine! You three be careful where you step, don't fall down!』

I check the surroundings .

Looks like I didn't fall down to Floor 28 .

The fall wouldn't have been cut so short if I fell to the floor below .

Distances between Floors differ depending on dungeons and Floors, but this one should have been 10 meters .

The problem now where is this place I and Crash Grizzly have fallen in anyway .

This space did not exist in my previous life . I would have absolutely noticed if it did .

This space was created after I had reincarnated .

As I looked at the ceiling while thinking that–I realized the nature of this space .

–Monster House Increment Plan .

This floor was a hugely popular farming spot back when I was alive .

As such, there was always a shortage of Monster Houses and the quarrels were intense .

So people came up with a plan to dig out the dungeon's floors and artificially create more rooms, aka the Monster House Increment Plan .

This First Dungeon Floor 27 is a special floor whose environment promotes the occurrences of Monster Houses .

By artificially creating rooms in the shape of Monster Houses, mana would likely converge in those rooms, giving birth to Monster Houses .

The plan didn't go forward when I was still alive due to reasons like safety and such–but it seemed like it was carried out after I had reincarnated .

"Do it right if you're gonna commit dang it . . . "

I muttered while gazing at the broken ceiling (which was a floor to me just now) .

The ceiling was only 10 inch thick .

Ordinary dungeon floors are meters long thick .

No need for Crash Grizzly's claws, even some slightly strong magic would break that .

Of course, the ceiling had been reinforced .

It did, but they used an alloy which was very common back then, the [Hardened Magic Alloy] .

This alloy might be good, being cheap yet strong . . . but it's not an alloy well suited to reinforce dungeons like this .

Since the magic augmented on the alloy to strengthen its structural integrity would gradually degrade if left in places where mana flows intensely like dungeons .

The floor must have broken down because of that degradation .

. . . Sloppy construction work .

People in my previous life should have known that [Hardened Magic Alloy] would deteriorate in dungeons .

They probably used stuff that would eventually break on purpose to cut cost .

Back then, the passage would never see an intense battle, so they probably considered that using cheap stuff below it would be fine .

When I was still alive, using Hardened Magic Alloy in dungeons was a big no no, but it appears that common sense(?) had been overturned after I had reincarnated .

I dodged the Crash Grizzly's claws while thinking that .

"GAAAAAAAA! GURUAAAAAAAA!"

The Crash Grizzly wasn't perturbed at all by the falling floors and kept trying to attack me .

I've been dodging it as usual . . . But it can't go on .

"Mathi-kun, mana reaction!"

"Yeah! I'm falling back!"

I used magic and jumped out of the hole on the ground .

Looks like the Monster House Increment Plan was a success .

Evidenced by–hundreds of monsters that manifested all at once inside the artificial Monster House, triggered by the collapsed ceiling .

I'd like to avoid fighting in a cramped space like this .

"What just happened really . . . "

"A secret room created by an ancient civilization was buried in the ground, and collapsed . . . . Thanks to that, we've got ourselves some nicely trapped monsters there . "

I gaze down at the hole .

The sloppily-made Monster House has become a form of pitfall .

Thanks to that, Crash Grizzly has been confined inside the Monster House along with other monsters, free to pick on .

. . . This is a good chance as any to explain the method to efficiently farm exp in this dungeon .

"Now that we don't have to worry about the Floor Boss, let's go beat all these monsters with it . "

I knead the mana inside my body .

What I'm going to use now is a spell bluntly named [Monster House Annihilation Flame] .

Befitting of the name, it's unusable in ordinary battle .

First of all, it takes too long to cast . Slow to the point that even chant magic used in this era is faster in comparison .

Next, its firing speed is slow . There's no way it could hit its target in ordinary situations .

Just these two are already fatal, but it's got more flaws .

Once it lands, the spell needs ten seconds before it could demonstrate its full power .

Even the slowest of spells only needs half a second .

I mean, your enemy would easily get out of its effective range if they have 10 seconds to spare .

In addition, since I'm a Disqualified Crest, the firing range is also short .

Considering this spell's effective range, I've got to immediately get out of the range once cast if I don't want to get caught up in it .

All those sacrifices are for the sake of raising firepower and attack range .

Its range is precisely a whole Monster House wide .

The power is also enough to kill all monsters on Floor 27 .

Not powerful enough to kill unhurt Crash Grizzly, but it is now the Crash Grizzly has been weakened .

"You hurl this spell inside, close the door and wait for the roasting . Such is how you farm exp on this Floor . "

Then, I toss the Monster House Annihilation Flame into the artificial Monster House and step back .

After a slight pause, a flame flared up inside the artificial Monster House .