[Fallen Angel: "It's not that great. Without talent, experience barely increases, and you might die."]
[Fallen Angel: "Plenty of Adventurers stay stuck at Level 1 their whole lives—some lack talent, others are just too scared to fight monsters and linger on the very first floor."]
No one knows how many floors the labyrinth contains.
But the first three are definitely the Upper Zone.
Those floors are safe, but monsters are scarce, grant little experience, and drop almost nothing. The Dungeon is pyramid-shaped: the top is narrow, and each lower stratum widens.
Timid Adventurers thus crowd the narrow surface, and many spend a day without meeting a single monster.
Those who dare the Middle Zone face far higher death rates.
[Dokushima: "Doesn't Marushiru's world have resurrection magic?"]
[I Dont Want to Eat Monsters: "Yes, but you need a mostly intact corpse; if the body's mangled, the revived might end up disabled."]
[Dokushima: "Still beats dying forever if your corpse can't be found."]
[Avenger: "If I could resurrect, I wouldn't be scared either."]
[I Dont Want to Eat Monsters: "Some still can't be revived—those dragged into hidden holes or buried under rubble. If you can't find the body… well, okay, I admit our Dungeon is pretty safe."]
[Fallen Angel: "Of course it's safe—cooks take their pots adventuring. In Orari, Senshi's pot would only serve as a shield."]
Meanwhile.
Rosen followed the chat group's discussion.
In many ways, the labyrinth and the Dungeon were alike.
Both lay underground, their monsters respawned after death and dropped loot.
Yet the differences were just as numerous.
The monsters here were a notch weaker, so Adventurers explored with far lighter hearts.
After all, death wasn't final.
Resurrection had become a full-fledged industry.
Daily, corpse-recovery teams combed the labyrinth, retrieved the dead, and resurrected them for hefty fees.
Another point.
In Delicious in Dungeon, most monsters' bodies don't vanish on death.
Hence gourmets like Senshi who love monster-meat cuisine.
Most crucial, of course, was resurrection magic.
Were it to exist here, the entire world order would be upended.
Different worlds have different laws; raising the dead ranges from simple to impossible.
In the world of Dungeon and no resurrection exists—only reincarnation.
Only reincarnation.
After a full tour, Tokisaki Kurumi and Fubuki had calmed down.
Just then, Artemis messaged the group: she was free and could come guide them.
The rendezvous point was the plaza in front of the Adventurers Guild gate.
As one of the most important landmark buildings, the Adventurers Guild was impossible to miss.
When Rosen's party of three arrived, even amid the dense crowd they spotted Artemis at a glance.
Her aqua-blue hair rippled like waves in the wind; her fine figure and skin so fair it shone, her perfectly balanced features placed her among the very top of goddesses.
What truly stood out, however, was that a deity wore armor and weapons at all.
Gods normally cared only about looking stylish, beautiful, and comfortable.
"Over here!"
Artemis was alone; the rest of her Familia had either returned to headquarters or, changed by recent partings, decided to shop till they dropped in Orari.
Spotting Rosen's group, she waved and hurried toward them.
Even though dusk had not yet fallen, the square before the guild bustled with activity.
Artemis's shout instantly drew every eye.
Especially from passing deities.
The reason was Artemis herself.
To most Adventurers the Artemis Familia was third-rate, yet the goddess Artemis herself enjoyed great fame in the Divine Realm.
The cause lay in the "purity" she embodied.
With limitless life and mighty power, most gods daily courted one another, savoring pleasures of mind and body.
Ordinary delights soon bored them, so many set their sights on the more unique deities.
Chief among these targets were the virgin goddesses Hestia and Artemis.
In Heaven, numerous gods had professed love to them, only to be sternly rejected every time.
And while Hestia was gentle, Artemis answered with far fiercer fire.
If annoyed she would even draw her bow and shoot the importunate gods.
Though a virgin like Hestia, Artemis shunned men more vehemently than anyone.
Coupled with Divine Power second to none, almost no deity could defeat her.
Spirit of Time, Bad Woman, Hells Fubuki, Ice Queen, Fallen Angel, I Dont Want to Eat Monsters, Red-haired Demon Princess, Dokushima, Magic Old Man, Avenger, Moon Goddess.