Chapter 66

After the quick trip down to Rivira that saved us more than a couple dozen hours of trekking and fighting through the dungeon, we directly went to the nineteenth floor rather than mess around in Rivira due to the insane prices of crap within the small town.

As we walked through the eighteenth floor, Ryuu began explaining the monsters we would be seeing the Large Tree Labyrinth floors that were from the Nineteenth floor down to the twenty-fourth floor, and my gods there was both a great variety and the actual danger level of them had spiked up as there was a monster for every scenario the dungeon would need.

Plenty of large strong monsters like Bug-Bears, Battle Boars, Lizard Men, and the Mad Beetles for just front liners. For more long-range there are things like Firebirds Gun Libellula, which are dragonflies with guns attached to their backside to shoot people with. And that's not counting all the venomous monsters and toxic.

"You know, I honestly thought my minigun was going to be out of place in here the dungeon. But-" Before I could continue Ryuu cut me off.

"Jake, whatever method you have to kill monsters, use it. In the end, the slaughter of monsters is the goal, and you get Excellia even if you have skills like Hunter to make monsters easy to kill." She said strongly and I nodded in understanding so back to bunker slaughter, I guess.

"So..." I drawled out as Bell groaned as she knew exactly what I planned. "If I had a way to slaughter thousands of monsters while being in a safe area where we could slaughter the hordes of monsters attracted to our location would that be alright?" I asked Ryuu and her eyes twitched as she wanted to scream that using some kind of super monster bait was stupid as hell, but she just said to do whatever was needed.

"Uhm Jake maybe we can see what your plan is first." Anya offered wryly and I nodded and quickly threw down a couple of stone blocks making a little tower three blocks tall.

"Break or even scratch these stones and we can do your slow and steady method," I said, and the level fours tried.

Oh, they tried... Anya dashed with blur-like speeds to stab her spear into it but only broke the tip of her spear Ryuu even cast her magic upon it but nothing they did broke the stone due to it being an out-of-context item that didn't have something as banal and stupid as fucking durability of all things.

"Here Anya," I said giving the sniffling cat girl a new spear so I could take hers and put it into my inventory. "That spear is made by me and obviously won't break. So, what we will be doing is this. I am going to build a bunker so that we can cast spells and other things outside the bunker. Which with the bunker keeping the monsters out we can easily kill them without issue!" I said excitedly as I handed over a Shadow scale spear made from the scales of the Eater of Worlds.

"What will you do when a venomous monster poison's you due to an enclosed area?" Ryuu questioned and in response, I took out my Bezoar I had equipped and the one I had for Bell. "These are Bezoar's, magically attuned stones that feed and absorb toxins and poison, so we don't catch or get such afflictions," I said handing Bell one and Ryuu took a deep breath.

"I cannot gainsay you at this point as it well-known that your... Objects that you work with are all but indestructible. Even to forge gods trying to break down your creations to learn their secrets, so I will trust your judgment this time." Ryuu said nodding in assent to me as we began our trek down into the nineteenth floor and just as we landed on the floor, we were greeted by a Mad Beetle doing its business not far away from the entrance.

"Bell here." I said passing Bell a flame thrower and then I took out my Mini-Shark "On three pull the trigger. One. Two Three!" And thus, a scene born out of a war movie played as Bell shot, slime gel-infused flames that coated the screaming Mad Beetle in basically napalm while my Minishark roared to life laying a spraying deluge of musket rounds down range that shattered the heated exoskeleton of the truck-sized beetle.

Within a couple seconds, the Mad Beetle collapsed to the ground as Ryuu and Anya uncovered their ears with Anya looking at me sorrowfully. "Nyah! That was too damned loud!" Anya cried massaging her brown cat ears atop her head.

"Yes, Jake although your method was indeed effective, but it was in fact far too loud for the dungeon... As is evidenced." Ryuu finished dryly as a small crowd of monsters came streaming out of the thick jungle foliage filling the floor but in response, I did the mature thing to Ryuu's point about my methods being too loud.

I threw several sticks of dynamite into the approaching crowd and while the explosives blew them up to high hell I quickly spoke to Bell. "Watch out for me Bell," I ordered as I did what we always did when we went into the dungeon while I created a simple pillbox bunker Bell jumped atop a little stone pillar, I made for her so she could use her dual space guns to infinitely shoot due to her meteor armor fueling the guns mana needs.

"Get in the bunker now!" I ordered the girls who had actually taken out a couple of monsters while Bell acted like a turret laying a suppressing hail of laser fire onto the monsters, I quickly finished up the only like six or seven feet wide and eight feet tall, little bunker before I sealed it up as we got into it.

"Jake... You didn't account for Ryuu and Anya. And just made the normal quick bunker didn't you." Bell said dryly as we were truly a bit squished into the bunker I went into auto-build mode mentally and just built the bunker me and Bell used while delving into the dungeon as I could build it in less than two minutes.

I could only nervously giggle as I saw through the light of the torch, I mounted on the wall that Ryuu and Anya weren't all too happy being so squished, so I just passed to Anya and Ryuu a couple of my old magic staffs I wasn't using anymore.

"Here, now stick the end of the magic staff in the little peepholes I left open and push your mind into the staff to use it." I said and Anya instantly followed my directions and screeched as the bright blue bolt of magic that blasted out of the staff shot out and collided with monsters outside that began crowding outside the bunker and began screaming in pain.

"Nyah I am now a wizard! Hey Ryuu does that make me stronger than you now seeing as I got magic hehe." Anya giggled and Ryuu actually twitched as she held the staff that matched Anya's and I saw a bland look pass over her face before a massive blue magical bolt shot out and wiped out a whole Bug'Bear.

Ryuu just snorted and flipped back her hair as she nonchalantly spoke. "No, I am afraid that being able to shoot a bolt of simple mana that even Jake and Bell level ones and two can match makes you nowhere near my equal Anya... I am afraid you just aren't on my level."

Bell held my arm as Anya looked over at Ryuu with glowing amber-slitted eyes before she hissed and whirled back, and her staff began shooting a cascade of magical bolts that unerringly collided with the monster's weak points as Anya replied. "Well my magic is far more efficient and I don't need to blast in the whole chest of a monster to kill it!" Anya replied haughtily and Ryuu didn't like that...

Honestly, until Ryuu and Anya emptied their bodies of Mind/Mana me and Bell were barely able to score some kills but once I took out a Water Candle and a battle potion that increased spawn rates... Once the monsters stacked too high I would just throw grenades out to blast them off the bunker so more monsters could approach as the bunker got literally buried at some points.