Chapter 313 Iminent danger (8)
"For how long is this going to last? I can't stand it anymore… I want to stay at home!" Billy protested as soon as he finished his breakfast and noticed that he had to move toward the dungeon.
Kate sighed and facepalmend since her husband was acting so pathetically without caring about that. She could understand his feelings, but... she couldn't spoil him more than he already was.
"You only went to that dungeon for two days…" Kate said and then sighed.
"I guess Billy is getting spoiled since he has been doing whatever he wants lately," Natalie said. "Are things even improving inside the dungeon?"
"Yes, the spawning rate is getting longer," Billy replied. "Paule also said that some people want to see how we fight since we are the ones who stay for the latest inside the dungeon."
"I don't think that many people can copy you…" Kate said.
"I told her exactly that, but some people are insisting on that," Billy said. "Since those people were annoying, I decided to accept their idea and then make them regret for bothering me."
"Don't go too far with your weird ideas," Kate said.
Billy wanted to procrastinate a bit more, but then his wives made him move since they had heard that Sarah was already waiting for him at the entrance of the house.
"Sorry for taking my time…" Billy said and then let out a long sigh.
"You wanted to stay with your kids, huh," Sarah said. "I can understand the feeling since they are cute. Still, I didn't expect you to be the type who would watch them sleep for several hours in a row."
"Their sleeping faces are the most holy thing I have ever seen. I feel that my soul is being Cleansed just by staying close to them," Billy said. "How are things on your end?"
"Same as usual," Sarah said.
Billy gave Sarah a summary of the things that had happened, and he learned regarding the dungeon. Sarah didn't look that excited, but it was rare to see her showing much emotion as of late. So, it was hard to tell if she was looking forward to the clearing the dungeon or not.
"The level is pretty high if even you took one hour to cross the first floor…" Sarah said. "I wonder how many days one will have to walk to reach the last room of the dungeon, even on a straight line…"
That was a good question. In the best-case scenario, it will take six hours to cross the first three levels… Just by thinking about it, Billy was getting depressed. Eventually, and pretty soon, he will have to stay away from home for several days. It was a pain, but it couldn't be helped.
"We will need the horns, so I can't burn down their faces, right?" Sarah asked. "I suppose I can freeze and weaken their skulls with ice and then shatter almost everything by shooting an ice bullet."
"It seems like a pain to do both at the same time. Why don't you just piece their eyes with an ice Bullet?" Billy asked.
"My aim isn't that good. I would rather try to freeze their heads if it weren't for the horns," Sarah said.
Billy decided to let Sarah do as she wanted. To make progress, they would need to fight in their most comfortable way, after all. Still, now and then, even on the first floor, they had to make some pauses because Sarah was using too much mana and not recovering fast enough since the spiritual core levels up when they fought. Billy was the only one who made that skill level up outside battle in the last two years.
"It is amazing that we can use magic for this long, but it seems that you are many more levels above me when it comes to this," Sarah said.
"Your spiritual core will improve now, I can't say that you will catch up to me in no time, but you will be able to fight nonstop using your mana in a few weeks," Billy said.
Although she lacked the recovery of mana now, Sarah wasn't lacking when it came to power. She fired a wave of cold wind that froze half of the face of the monsters and then fired an ice bullet that made the entire frozen area shatter. It was a pretty good strategy against enemies that have high defense.
In any case, things got a bit messy on the second floor because Billy and Sarah weren't as good as Lily when it came to preemptive strikes. When the monsters began to emerge on the front and on the back, Sarah was forced to use even more mana than before to freeze the faces of two of the monsters. At the same time, she created an earth wall to stop their poisonous arrows. As for Billy, he just made lightning bolts fly from his hands and fry the heads of the monsters.
"It might be a bit difficult to cross the third floor with two people alone…" Sarah said while she watched Billy taking out the horns. "Are you using magic to pull those out?"
"Eh? I am… strengthening my grip," Billy replied.
Billy didn't realize, but Sarah had some good magic senses as well… she noticed that he was using some sort of magic when he was using Telekinesis to break the horns. Fortunately, it seemed that she couldn't tell what kind of magic he was using.
In any case, things got a bit slow on the second floor because Billy couldn't see the footsteps on the ground of the other adventurers. It had been a while since anyone had been on the second floor, so their traces had long since vanished. After walking for three hours on the second floor, Billy assumed that they had reached the halfway point. The number of monsters and their levels didn't increase, but their spawning rate still was pretty intense.
