**Day 29? Labyrinth's End Floor 97**
Floor 97 was littered with magic stones everywhere—Venom Moth-san and friends must have burned to ash. Magic stones scattered in a circle around the holes in the floor.
Since inhaling or getting hit by the scales would be bad, I advance while burning everything clean.
Behind me, Skeleton Class Rep is silently collecting the stones with full jito intensity. Thank you so much.
Of course, I opened holes in the ceiling to check.
Caterpillars came falling.
These must grow into the moths?
"Venom Crawler Lv96"—no doubt.
Spits sticky threads with poison and status effects. Has "Adhesion" too—probably gets you tangled, immobilized, then poisoned and status-locked. Way too nasty.
But dropping them one by one is tedious. Annoying. Caterpillars. Big caterpillars, but still caterpillars. Sticky-thread caterpillars.
Caterpillars, huh?
I head up to Floor 96. Skeleton Class Rep leads. Gotta buy her a cloak when we get back—armor shouldn't show that much body line.
Poison attacks. Status effects would be seriously bad. Well, feeling high-school-boy things from the armored skeleton's back view is already a status effect. Seriously bad.
On Floor 96, I place my hand on the ground and use earth magic to create rollers. Big ones. About 8 meters wide to match the passage? A little over 2 meters tall? Just enough to cover my body. That should do.
Then I roll them forward.
The floor's a maze, so every branch I make new rollers and roll them. Turning was a huge pain.
While doing that, I roll the rollers, crushing caterpillars. Behind me, armored-jito-san collects the stones. Also supplying jito energy.
Caterpillar slime sticking to feet would be disastrous—adhesive poison.
I roll the rollers, then pave behind them. This floor is Public Works Corporation domination.
"Fuu—Floor 96 took effort~? Big struggle? Big hardship? Big construction? Wait, earthworks?"
Intense jito eyes. When we get back, jito showdown. This one's Class-Rep level jito.
No idea what time or day it is now, but rest can wait. Might be rushing, but the worrywarts upstairs are probably worried sick.
From Floor 95 onward, insane presence leaking out. Just one? Not many, but strong. Pit traps probably useless.
Floor 96 passages are paved and clean where I walk, but surroundings are sticky poison adhesive—terrible footing.
Better fight on Floor 95 above. Dropping them here would be inconvenient.
"Strong enemy vibe~? Dangerous aura everywhere. Is Punpun-maru here? Super angry one?"
While saying that, I climb the stairs. Skeleton Class Rep leading seems full of motivation? Probably bored from not fighting properly yet.
Yeah, gotta get her that cloak soon. But does armor really need to hug the curves that much?
Anyway—Floor 95.
"Living Sword Lv100"—hey! Why not Lv95? Another bottom-floor level? Another 100? Read the room! Make it 95, seriously.
Living Sword. Flying swords? Living blades? Lively blades? Perky? Perky pitch? Anyway—ten swords stabbed into the ground. Seven silver rapiers, two black katanas, and one silver greatsword in the center. Total ten.
Radiating dangerous aura. If the bitches were here I'd sic them.
Skeleton Class Rep is also radiating danger? What am I supposed to do? Spread laughter? In a dungeon? Will Skeleton Class Rep team up? Can't talk? Only tsukkomi? Might get stabbed.
As Skeleton Class Rep approaches slowly, swords rise one by one into the air. Illusion? Sword-skewering SHOW starting? Inside is skeleton—won't pierce? It'll pass through? Well, hitting Skeleton Class Rep is probably impossible anyway.
And finally—maybe a proper fight is about to start!? …Probably? …Surely?
**Day 29?**