Three days since I achieved 9x experience efficiency. It's already been seven days since I started as an explorer.
Exploring the second floor equipped with the GobGobSlaSla Club and GobGob Legs went smoothly, and I was able to level up at a speed unthinkable by common sense.
After casting Monster Enhancement on the four goblins serving as my legs and the stone collector goblin, their running speed changed to slightly faster than my own pace, which also contributed to the increase in experience efficiency.
Of course, nobody has found out yet that I'm exploring with 9x experience efficiency.
However, there's one thing concerning me.
Lately, the receptionist lady has been talking to me a bit too much.
The timing coincides perfectly with when I started getting multiple times experience, so I don't know how, but she might have sensed that I'm growing stronger at an abnormal rate. I hope it's just my imagination...
It's just his imagination.
Anyway, I don't want anyone to find out about this.
Because I'll definitely get dragged into unnecessary trouble, as the world's highest-level explorer, George Kennedy, said in his autobiography.
Yesterday and today were especially strange. She talked to me in a friendly manner while wearing revealing clothes.
Considering her attitude on the first day, this is absolutely impossible. She must be setting a honey trap for sure.
If a beauty like that is setting a honey trap, then I can't trust the Dungeon Association itself.
Until I reach an overwhelming level, I should stop renewing my explorer card.
If I renew my card, my level will be exposed.
"Status."
Status
Name: Sakura Kikyo
Class: Monster Tamer
Lv: 36 (Up 13)
HP: 110 (Up 46)
MP: 199 (Up 95)
SP: 15
Skills
Monster Taming 9, Monster Recovery 7, Monster Enhancement 7, Monster Synthesis: New
Tamed Monsters
Goblin Lv36, Slime Lv36, Goblin Lv36, Slime Lv36
Goblin Lv35, Goblin Lv35, Goblin Lv35, Goblin Lv35
Goblin Lv35
Experience to Next Level: 2908
The newly acquired Monster Synthesis skill is just a skill that synthesizes monsters together and combines their experience.
For example, if I synthesize two goblins that just reached level 3, their total experience becomes 100, and a level 4 goblin is born. It's a useless skill for me.
I looked it up online, and the monster experience table is the same as humans'.
"Still, look at these stats."
Generally speaking, intermediate explorers refer to people between levels 20 and 49. And my level is 36. I'm already in the mid range of intermediate explorers.
Even for a frontline class, stepping into intermediate rank within a week of starting as an explorer is impossible. If you only hunt goblins on the second floor, it's absolutely impossible, and even if you set foot on the third floor, you couldn't raise your level this much.
Even if you tried power leveling by following another explorer around, if the level difference is more than 10, the party function would block it.
In short, I might be the first in the world, among officially recognized cases, to reach intermediate level in such a short time.
This means I must never let my leveling method or my leveling speed be discovered.
That said, even though I've been this cautious, I think it won't be discovered under normal circumstances. The receptionist lady probably suspects me, but I get the feeling she isn't certain.
Plus, there's almost nobody here at Aomori Dungeon.
Once people reach intermediate level, they usually head to the city, and even more so for advanced explorers. There are hardly any beginners coming to a dungeon said to be unprofitable these days.
The Aomori branch has a reputation for particularly low magic stone buyout prices, so aside from the receptionist lady, I probably don't need to worry about being found out.
As long as I'm excessively cautious around only the receptionist lady, it should be fine.
Poor receptionist lady.
"Now, from today I'll try challenging the third floor... is what I'd like to say, but."
Sometimes you need to get back to basics. By returning to basics, I realized something.
My overwhelming leveling speed is achieved by using original weapons.
Starting with the GobSla Club, evolving into the GobGobSlime Club, then the GobGobSlaSla Club, and now equipping the GobGob Legs.
What's most important is using monsters.
So what am I trying to say?
"Turn the GobGobSlaSla Club into a GobGobGobGobSlaSlaSlaSla Club."
Put two goblins together, attach another pair of goblins on top of them, then cover them with four slimes.
That would create a magnificent weapon combining four goblins and four slimes. Combined with myself, that alone gives 9x experience efficiency.
Add the GobGob Legs on top of that, and it's 13x.
"First, I need to complete the GobGobGobGobSlaSlaSlaSla Club."
That's a mouthful. I'll call it the Quadruple GobSla Club, since it uses four goblins and four slimes.
Quadruple means fourfold.
"Wait a minute?"
Get back to basics, me.
Why did I think there was no room for improvement with the GobGob Legs?
If, instead of two goblins supporting each of my legs, I made it like a cavalry battle horse with three goblins holding it, that would be five goblins per leg, which would increase experience efficiency even more.
If that were possible...
"Total experience... 19x?"
Time waits for no man.
I must do this. Absolutely.
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In the morning, I caught an additional 8 goblins and 2 slimes, leveled them up, and finally completed the Quadruple GobSla Club and the Quintuple Gob Legs.
Quintuple means fivefold.
When I tried using the Quadruple GobSla Club and Quintuple Gob Legs, just as I thought, 19x... defeating a single goblin gave 114 experience points.
Because I spent time catching goblins and slimes, the morning ended with me defeating 100 goblins.
I'm constantly surrounded by goblins now, but strangely, their smell doesn't transfer to my clothes, so a nose plug is enough.
"Status."
Status
Name: Sakura Kikyo
Class: Monster Tamer
Lv: 37 (Up 1)
HP: 114 (Up 4)
MP: 204 (Up 5)
SP: 6
Skills
Monster Taming 19, Monster Recovery 7, Monster Enhancement 7, Monster Synthesis 1
Tamed Monsters
Goblin Lv37, Slime Lv37, Goblin Lv37, Slime Lv37
Goblin Lv36, Goblin Lv36, Goblin Lv36, Goblin Lv36
Goblin Lv36, Goblin Lv20, Goblin Lv20, Goblin Lv20
Goblin Lv20, Goblin Lv20, Goblin Lv20, Goblin Lv20
Goblin Lv20, Slime Lv20, Slime Lv20
Experience to Next Level: 1194
This is legitimately strong.
"Monster Tamer can't just be a simple backline class..."
Because the same experience I get also goes to my monsters, the more I have, the more my combat power increases. Putting efficiency aside, just looking at combat power, fighting normally is plenty strong enough.
Information on floors that advanced explorers go to isn't publicly available, so I just don't know yet. Maybe even if I stack numbers, I'll lose starting at a certain floor.
"Level is everything. Level solves everything. I'll keep leveling up in the afternoon too."
Leading my goblins and slimes, I started eating a rice ball on the stairs between the first and second floors, the safe zone.