The Absolute Speed of a Certain Comic 126

Title: You’re Level 3!

*HU*

Almiraj may seem harmless, but its red eyes make people shiver.

Immediately after, two Almiraj raised the stone axes in their hands in a neat and orderly manner and swung them forcefully toward the three of them.

“I’ll leave it to you later!”

Hoshiharu didn’t have time to pay attention to the Hellhound behind him. He lowered his body and lunged towards the Almiraj.

*CLANG*

The gleaming sword light swung and accurately struck the first stone axe. While the blade continued to vibrate, it also drew a beautiful circle, and hurled the circled stone axe towards the second stone axe.

The two stone axes collided and flew off one by one.

The third Almiraj, holding a stone axe, rushed forward. With agility far surpassing that of a Silverback, it took only two seconds to engage in close combat with Hoshiharu.

*Pu-chi*

At the moment they met, Hoshiharu withdrew his left hand hidden behind his back and thrust with his sword. With his superior arm length, he had stabbed the Almiraj’s chest before the stone axe could come down.

*BAM*

Immediately after, he lifted the Almiraj’s body, swung it forward, slammed the two Almiraj who had lost their stone axes to the ground, and then slashed them one by one, killing them all.

After dealing with the three Almiraj, Hoshiharu turned around.

But it seemed his help was not needed there.

Two consecutive fire arrows shot out like fiery bombs, hitting the Hellhounds from the front and burning their bodies to charcoal. Their power was far stronger than the Hellhounds’ fireball attacks.

Seeing the crisis was over, Lefiya put down her staff and wiped the sweat from her forehead.

Being attacked from both front and back is the most dangerous situation adventurers will encounter on the 13th Floor.

If Hoshiharu had gone in alone, it would have been difficult to escape the encirclement from both front and back, but the three of them working together seemed able to sweep the 13th Floor.

‘With this team setup, I don’t know which floor we can reach the furthest.’

Hoshiharu thought to himself.

Of course, the deeper he adventured in the dungeon, the more training he could get. The more he explored the limits of his own abilities, the faster he could become stronger.

The terrain on the 13th Floor was one stone corridor after another.

What existed as the nodes of these corridors were the stone rooms located on this level.

“This is for you.”

In the stone room, three people were sitting on the ground.

Line took out three lunchboxes from her backpack and handed one to each of Hoshiharu and Lefiya.

“Thank you, Line, is this homemade lunch?”

“Mm, since I didn’t know your taste, I made a little bit of everything.”

“Thank you so much for this!”

“It tastes really good.”

After receiving Hoshiharu’s praise, Line blushed shyly.

In Hoshiharu’s eyes, as long as liquid food wasn’t gritty and looked like paste, it could basically be considered tasty.

“But why did you destroy the wall of the stone room before eating?”

Hoshiharu looked at the corner of the stone room while chewing his food.

This stone room was quite spacious, over seven or eight meters in length and width, and with a ceiling height of nearly three meters, at least much wider than the corridor that led out of the hallway.

A faint glow spread across the walls and ceiling of the stone room, barely providing a bit of light, but still quite dark, only slightly better than at night.

There were more than a dozen stone rooms on the 13th Floor. Because the rooms were relatively spacious, they were easy to move around in, making them a short-term haven where adventurers could rest.

On the wall in the corner of this stone room, a hole half the height of a person was dug, and the debris was piled on the ground like a hill.

“Don’t you know?”

“What?”

“The dungeon repairs itself.”

Line looked at Hoshiharu in surprise, but she felt relieved when she remembered he had just come to Orario, so she explained carefully.

“The dungeon is alive. If the entire dungeon is considered a lifeform, its floors and terrain are like its organs, and those organs won’t change shape. Even if the walls are artificially destroyed, the dungeon will automatically repair itself.”

Hoshiharu didn’t know this kind of knowledge, and it wasn’t mentioned in the anime, so he listened with interest.

The dungeon breeds monsters, including Silverbacks, Hellhounds, etc. The ones they encountered along the way were bred from the walls and ceilings of the dungeon. The entire dungeon is a monster’s nest, and the dungeon itself is their mother.

When they came to this stone room earlier, they saw monsters born from the walls several times.

Now a few people were sitting in the middle of the stone room instead of leaning against the walls. This was because monsters could jump out of the walls of the stone room at any time.

However, compared to breeding monsters, the dungeon focuses more on self-repair.

In other words, when damaged, the dungeon will stop breeding monsters and instead repair its own body first. During this period, the rate of monster appearance will be greatly reduced.

“I see!”

Hoshiharu suddenly realized.

“In other words, when its body is damaged, the dungeon will prioritize repairing itself, and new monsters won’t be bred around this stone room for now!”

Adventurers will take advantage of this short time to eat or rest, treat injuries, etc. This is equivalent to having a chance to catch their breath.

“That’s right.”

Line confirmed with a smile.

Hoshiharu continued to nod.

Sure enough, bringing in experienced veterans makes a difference!

Compared to that—

Hoshiharu glanced to his right.

Lefiya seemed to be starving. She was happily eating with the lunchbox in her arms. When she saw Hoshiharu looking at her, she couldn’t help but give a suspicious look, with some rice grains sticking to the corner of her mouth.

“By the way, you came to the dungeon to practice the technique called ‘parallel chanting,’ right?”

Hoshiharu suddenly remembered his business and asked Lefiya, “What kind of technique is that?”

Since it was Riveria’s request, he should contribute, which was also a reward for Lefiya’s willingness to form a team with him.

“...Yes, I came here to practice parallel chanting!”

Lefiya put down lunchbox, was silent for a moment, and then suddenly came to her senses.

Hoshiharu: “😐”

“Simply put, parallel chanting refers to the technique of performing other actions while chanting spells.”

Line, who was also a mage capable of healing magic, laughed heartily, then couldn’t help but explain aloud.

At the same time, she reached out and used a handkerchief from her pocket to remove the rice grains stuck to the corner of Lefiya’s mouth, which made Lefiya blush.

When mages use magic, they have to be very focused so they can control the magical power in their bodies and weave the magical power into spells through chanting.

Any delay during this process can cause magic activation to fail or even an accidental magical power explosion, injuring themselves. Therefore, mages usually cannot move while chanting spells.