Carried by my allied goblins like a portable shrine, I mercilessly bashed the screaming goblin with my GobGobSlaSla Club.
"Oraa!!"
"Gyapi!"
The enemy goblin turned into smoke in an instant. If I keep slaughtering them at this rate, I can get experience pretty efficiently without getting tired myself... Wait a minute!!
That goblin just now gave 54 experience points!?
"Nine times efficiency...?"
The GobGobSlaSla Club and me make 5x. Add the four goblins I'm using as legs, and that's exactly 9x.
So does that mean the four goblins carrying me count as me using my legs?
Or does experience also go to any tamed monsters in contact with me at the same time?
I want to test this. Depending on the results, I might try wrapping slimes around my body too.
"Oh, hello."
"Eep!?"
Another explorer.
I've never seen anyone here before, so I assumed there were no explorers in Aomori Dungeon at all. Even for a depopulated dungeon, it's not strange to have one or two people.
It's not good that someone saw my method, but they probably won't understand what I'm doing anyway.
I should come up with an excuse in case I run into another explorer.
Something like: I'm a goblin-loving explorer who adores goblins, so being stuck to goblins gives me strength. That should work.
It's not far from the truth since I do use goblins a lot.
I really like seeing that messed-up face they make when I tame them, and I quite enjoy harassing goblins. So I guess I do like goblins.
Anyway, I said hello, and there's no need for unnecessary conversation. Actually, we passed each other without time for any.
Let's move on.
"Hey, stone collector. Come to my left hand."
"Gyach."
I took the stone collector goblin in my left hand and defeated the next prey.
But as a result, the experience efficiency stayed at 9x. It's not simply about being in contact with monsters.
To increase experience efficiency, it seems I need to involve the monsters in the action of attacking.
"You can go back to being stone collector."
"Gyach."
I put the stone collector down on the ground.
I'll think while defeating goblins. Maybe something good will come to me in time.
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In the end, no good ideas came to me after that, so I just kept defeating goblins while being carried like a palanquin.
Thanks to the newly learned Monster Enhancement skill, the goblins serving as my legs moved faster, making leveling even more productive.
The experience efficiency was so good that I got carried away and extended my exploration until 7 PM, even though I had stopped at 5 PM yesterday.
Thanks to that, I defeated 163 goblins in the afternoon. My level reached 23, and I'm in a great mood.
"Status."
Status
Name: Sakura Kikyo
Class: Monster Tamer
Lv: 23 (Up 4)
HP: 64 (Up 13)
MP: 104 (Up 18)
SP: 8
Skills
Monster Taming 9, Monster Recovery 7, Monster Enhancement 1: New
Tamed Monsters
Goblin Lv23, Slime Lv23, Goblin Lv23, Slime Lv22
Goblin Lv21, Goblin Lv21, Goblin Lv21, Goblin Lv21
Goblin Lv21
Experience to Next Level: 2298
"Now, what to do from here."
I jingled the bag of magic stones collected by the stone collectors and thought seriously.
In typical dungeon exploration stories, when I bring a huge number of magic stones to the buyout counter, they say something like "But you're a solo backline class, aren't you?!" Or when I report my level, they say "Do you have an undiscovered growth-type skill?!" That's the usual pattern.
I don't want that. I want to be the only one who benefits. Why should I tell others about an idea I came up with?
No way, even if they paid me. No way to being copied by other Monster Tamers. No way to catching the eye of Dungeon Association bigwigs or advanced explorers.
The officially recognized highest-level explorer in the world is America's George Kennedy, level 224.
He said this: "Just because I had a good skill, people kept pestering me to form parties, and advanced explorers tried to crush me before I could grow. It was tough, ze! HAHAHA!"
He climbed to number one in the world over 20 years, and his autobiography describes how much he struggled.
In his autobiography, he was harassed by the mafia more than once or twice. He was even attacked by the military.
That kind of story is only enjoyable from a third-party perspective. If I had to go through the same struggles, I wouldn't enjoy it.
If I hide my current leveling method from the Dungeon Association, they'll misunderstand that I have a growth-type skill, and I can expect to suffer the same fate as George Kennedy.
George Kennedy survived being attacked by the mafia and military because he was already around level 200 at the time. If I were attacked now, it's clear I wouldn't stand a chance.
"It's a waste, but I'll only sell a certain number of magic stones and throw away the rest."
Fortunately, yesterday I only defeated 42 goblins. That's just "a bit high for a backline class."
If I don't want to stand out, the best move is to sell only about the same number of magic stones today and throw away the rest.
Since I found out the receptionist lady isn't interested in me, it was a good move not to report that I leveled up a lot.
"Yeah. Right now, there's no risk of being found out."
That explorer uncle I met earlier saw me, but he probably just thought I was a weirdo.
I doubt he thinks I'm efficiently earning experience by using monsters.
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Interesting Dungeon Explorer Thread 34
128: Anonymous Explorer
Haven't seen much activity lately, huh?
129: Anonymous Explorer
Of course not. No one's trying to make money as an explorer these days.
130: Anonymous Explorer
Yeah, it's known that explorers can't earn much.
Oh, except for dungeon streamers with lots of subscribers?
131: Anonymous Explorer
Exactly.
It's a gentle world where only a select few with strong skills get preferential treatment lol.
132: Anonymous Explorer
Doesn't sound gentle to me?
133: Anonymous Explorer
Hey, listen. I found a new type of monster today.
134: Anonymous Explorer
Liar, go away.
135: Anonymous Explorer
Liar, go away.
136: Anonymous Explorer
134 >>135 I'm not lying!!
There was a monster that looked like multiple goblins fused together!!
137: Anonymous Explorer
No way something that gross exists.
138: Anonymous Explorer
Come on, let's humor him.
136, where did you find this new monster?
139: Anonymous Explorer
Come on, don't actually respond.
No new monsters have been discovered in the last 20 years.
Meaning it's a lie.
140: Anonymous Explorer
138 Aomori Dungeon.
That thing was seriously dangerous. It casually said "hello" to me.
141: Anonymous Explorer
Alright everyone, case closed.
142: Anonymous Explorer
That was quick.
143: Anonymous Explorer
There's no dungeon in Aomori.
144: Anonymous Explorer
No, there is.
It drops apples instead of magic stones.
145: Anonymous Explorer
Apples lol.
146: Anonymous Explorer
Just to check, is 133 intermediate? Or advanced?
147: Anonymous Explorer
I'm a beginner. My company went under recently and I lost my job.
So I became an explorer. Changing jobs at 50 is hard.
148: Anonymous Explorer
So it's a lie after all.
149: Anonymous Explorer
Yeah. Beginners can't earn much, so they lie a lot to get attention.
Plus, 133 is an unemployed old guy, right? Then it's definitely a lie.
150: Anonymous Explorer
"Unemployed old guy discovers new monster, goes viral with lie!!"
Old guy: "I guess I did something haha?"
151: Anonymous Explorer
I'm only telling the truth.
Stop with the taunting, it's pissing me off. I'll kill you.
152: Anonymous Explorer
Doesn't hurt or itch coming from an unemployed old...
Oh, actually I'm hurt, so I'll request disclosure. I'm hurt because he said he'd kill me.
153: Anonymous Explorer
152 Requesting disclosure from an unemployed old guy won't get you money.
Just drop it.