“It was my complete defeat.”
To deal with the postwar affairs, Haku-san visited the [Ordinary Cave] again.
Chloe was wearing the same butler clothing as usual.
“I may have lost, but I learned many wonderful things through the battle. I surely didn’t think that rats would go that far. To turn your scouts into warriors…”
Although she was certain that the rats were scouts, she didn’t think they would be able to defeat the boss even if they got that far.
In truth, she had thought that a second group of Golems would gain control of map pioneered by the rats.
He was struck with the idea of having a midget strategy when he saw the Minotaur. Since he had nothing to lose, he decided to use fifty of the remaining rats to kill Mino-san with a suicide attack.
By the way, since the rats were ordered to limit their living space to the forest to survive, he would probably use them again sooner or later.
“I didn’t think I wouldn’t be able to find even one of the Dummy Cores. Where did you put the Dungeon Core in the end? If you don’t mind, could you tell me?”
“Give me an additional 50,000 DP and I’ll tell you.”
“Oh me, is something so small fine? Then please tell me. If I don’t know, I might not be able to sleep tonight.”
Crap, I said it as a joke but she said she’d pay it.
… No helping it, I’ll answer her. I don’t need to say where the Dummy Cores were though.
However, since the real core was set up in a place that was a huge joke, she might get a bit angry from the answer.
“… To tell the truth, this dungeon continues… around one kilometer away, there’s a small room. I put it there.”
The direction I pointed to? The Goblin Room.
… I thought about bringing it back at first, but wound up leaving it there in the end.
As I thought, Haku-san was speechless… Though, it didn’t feel like she was angry. It was more like admiration.
“… Really, looking closely I do see mana connecting… not just in front of this cave, but extending outside of the dungeon… I didn’t notice.”
“Installing the Dungeon Core outside of the first floor… such a bold move, surprising isn’t it, Ojou-sama.”
“No. 89 Ane-sama’s teachings were right after all!”
Yep, she doesn’t understand why, but Rokuko found the idea amusing.
You just disregarded everything but a single room and made nothing else.
“Haah, the labyrinth was splendid, it was my first time seeing that usage… ah, those pitfall traps were a big gamble. Though I used Minotaurs as primary war potential this time, I could have had my forces comprise of something weightless like Wraiths. The best thing that I saw was installing two floors above and below.”
Definitely, the pitfall traps wouldn’t have activated if that were the case. Well, they also wouldn’t have found the hidden passages inside the pitfalls.
… Ah, the homemade pitfall traps didn’t cost DP, but that might have been impossible to tell just from looking.
Since she especially advised me, I didn’t do something as boorish as correct her. It was better to keep quiet on that.