4 days later:
Tank Yukki
Strength: G 251 (+5) G 284
Endurance: G 252 (+3) G 285
Agility: G 255 (+8) G 286
Dexterity: G 254 (+8) G 287
Magic: G 254 (+9) G 287
Cumulative stat: 33
Astrea: In less than a week you have advanced as much. If you manage to achieve a great achievement, you could undoubtedly become the record holder.
Me: Honestly, I think it would be a bad idea.
Astrea: Really, why?
Me: It will drew attention to our famillia. And we do not have a real fighting force against big famillia. Number 2 dont draws much attention than a new number 1. No one wants the second place.
Astrea: I see, we can talk about that when at this moment. What are you planning to do now, you have almost reached the prerequisites to go to the next floor.
Me: Tomorrow I will ask Alise and Lyra to introduce myself to their blacksmith to place an order for a new piece of equipment. I have about 78,000 valis ready to be used. After that I would go down and if I am good to manage the floor well I think I would start exploring alone. Lyra and Neze help me a lot but they sacrifice their growth for me.
Astrea: Good idea but if you need help don't hesitate to ask for it.
me : Of course Astrea-sama.
The next day, commercial district:
Lyra: Do you know what you want to order?
Me: A new sword mainly I kept several shadow claws in basic materials. For the armor, I want light, I like my agility.
Alise: Don't worry, Asta and Cecil create the best of the best ! Here is their workshop.
"The justiciers hammers"
Me: Interesting name.
Lyra: Asta and Cecil arrived in Orario with Astrea to become blacksmiths, joining the famillia Hepahestus were their dreams. Astrea recommended them to Hepahesuts directly. Since then, they provide us with equipment and both have the blacksmith ability. Asta is the armorer of our famillia and Cecil takes care of our weapons.
Alise: You are going to love them! ASTA, CECIL! Your favorite redhead is here!
Asta: Tsubaki?
Alise: You hurt me Asta...
Cecil: She acquines you Alise, you know that you are our favorite. What do you need today?
Alise: We have a new client for you! Here is Tank Yukki the new member of our famillia, he need a better equipment.
Cecil: Nice to meet you, I am Cecil Blackliza, I take care of the weapon of the famillia Astrea and here is my dear wife Asta Knox she will take care of your armor.
Asta: Hi.
Me: Tank Yukki, nice to meet you.
Cecil: Tell us everything, what do you need?
Me: I am going to attack the 7th floor and therefore I would need a new weapon and better quality support tools. And a better armor wouldn't hurt.
Cecil: Ok, out of curiosity, when did you start the adventure?
Lyra: He is a future prodigy, he started less than a week ago.
Me: Don't listen to her, I'm not a prodigy just a lucky one.
Asta: Don't lower yourself like that, you do one floor a day almost. Well, we'll have to discuss size and design.
Alise: Lyra, it's our signal to leave.
Lyra: Ok see you later you three.
Cecil: Show your weapon, seriously another swordsman. Don't you want to use something else?
Me: After the hard training with Kaguya, no, I will keep my sword, but I plan to order a pair of daggers as backup weapons.
Cecil: It's better than nothing. Do you have any materials in mind?
Me: I have 6 war shadow claws at my disposal. After that, I don't know anything about manufacturing, I leave it to the professionals.
Cecil: We will add silver ore from the Dungeon as a complement. An idea for the design you want?
Me: Nothing too flashy please I like to go unnoticed, and I really like the V-shaped guards if possible to block the opposing blades.
Cecil: Of course no worries, I leave you in Asta's hands for the armor.
Asta: So my baby, what kind of armor do you want? Ah I know the best which is a good heavy armor!
Me: Rather a light one that does not block mobility...
Asta: Again! But you are being annoying. When can I forge something big ? But well, you are famillia, so do you have an idea of what you want?
Me: Not really... do you have any models?
Asta: Of course, here are the old armor that we had forged for girls.
Me: Could you manage Alise's by lengthening her arms, the plastron and the leggings? Just leave the joints free?
Asta: Yeah, is it possible, for hands and boots, particular requests? I know that Neze wanted to be able to take out her claws.
Me: Well, the same as her I suppose, my claws serve as a backup weapon when my sword is out of position.
Asta: Ok I will take your measurements, do you have any materials for your armor?
ME: No, unfortunately.
Asta: So you will pay at full rate sorry.
Me: No worries, with the weapons how much will there be for?
Asta: The armor 50,000, the sword, the daggers and the tools 30,000 normally with the materials it removes a third so 10,000. Be a total of 70,000 valis. Will it work or do you need to pay in mutiple time?
Me: I have 78,000 valis right now so that will be fine. How much would a supporter's bag cost?
Asta: Lyra's modele is at 10,000. Do you want me to add one for you?
Me: Potentially, for the moment Lyra and Neze accompany me but I would be able to explore alone so that they can return with Alise and the others. But if Lyra leaves I would need a bag. It will depend on my management of the 7th floor.
Asta: No worries, materials are common, if you need any I should be able to do it for you in a night's work. It's good, I have all your measurements and your orders are ready, half of the payment now and the other half once the equipment is delivered. If you are satisfied, you can form a contract with us.
Me: Aren't you contracted for all the famillia?
Asta: Oh no, well all the girls are our exceptional clients but it's because we knew each other before arriving in Orario. And when Ryu joined the famillia, she was too shy to test other blacksmiths so she chose us.
Me: Ah understood.
If Cecil is as talented in this universe as she is in the canon, there is a great chance that I will keep her, after all she is the one who created Alf Justicia in the original story.
Me: How long will it take you to finish everything?
Cecil: I will have your sword this evening, your daggers, your support knife and your armor on the other hand, we'll have to wait until tomorrow.
Me: Ok thank you, well I'll let you work, see you tomorrow.
Asta: See you tomorrow.
Cecil: He's nice, and he looks good.
Asta: Yeah I am happy to see that Astrea-sama is recruiting again. After all, Orario should know the greatness of our goddesses!
Cecil: Orario already knows Lady Hepahestus but Lady Astrea deserves just as much! And we'll give her children the weapons for that!
Cecil and Asta: We swear it on the wings of justice!
Blue Hospital:
Me: Hello Naaza.
Naaza: Hello Tank, the same as usual?
Me: With two more antidotes, tomorrow I attack the 7th floor.
Naaza: Already, you are moving quickly. So could you take orders for materials?
Me: Uh yes I think. Do you need blue butterfly wings?
Naaza: That's it and some Purple Moth dust. We buy both at a better price than the guild.
Me: I promise you nothing but if I have any I will come to sell them to you.
Naaza: Your usual potions plus two antidotes it makes you 8000 valis.
Me: There you go, thank you Naaza.
Well now the guild, while waiting for my equipment I will go get more information on the next floors.
Me: Hello Eina.
Eina: Oh hello Tank, it's rare to see this in the morning, what brings you here?
Me: Can we talk in private?
Eina: Of course. So tell me?
I handed her my card with my statistics.
Me: As you can see, I almost reached rank F with all my statistics so I'm thinking of going down to the 7th floor. But I know that it attracts quite a few monsters, so I wanted to know if you could give me a little presentation of the 7th floor and beyond.
Eina: Oh, with pleasure happy to see that you take your safety seriously. And congratulations on your stats at this rate, you could maybe even compete with Bell.
Me: Oh no, I already know that I won't pass my level before four months of learning.
Eian looked at me strangely but said nothing.
Eina: Ok, so the 7th floor, strictly speaking, does not change from the 5th and 6th floor, however you are right, it proposes new enemies. The most dangerous is the killer ants, they appear in groups from 3 to 6. Their shell is quite solid, it's before this type of monster that the blades provided by the guild start to lose effectiveness. They can technically hurt them but it will wear them out very quickly. I therefore instruct you to prepare a backup weapon or, if so, buy yourself better weapons.
Me: It's already done, this morning I went to see two blacksmiths that my famillia frequents. They will forge my armor, a new long sword, a pair of daggers just in case and also a better knife for the magic stones.
Eina: Excellent, the killer ants have the reputation of being the new-life killers with the war shdows because many don't have enough quality equipment. Are you sure that your weapons will do the job?
Me: Almost, they will be forged from silver ore from the Dungeon and claws from War shadows. Do you think that's not enough?
Eina: No, it will be more than enough. Finally, to finish on these ants, you must know that if you do not destroy their head quickly enough, they call for reinforcements surrounding the adventurers. So I advise you to kill them by cutting this part or quickly extracting their magic stone. Look, I have a diagram, you see their stone is located here at the end of their head just before the beginning of their neck.
Me: I see, good to know.
Eina: On the 7th floor, purple moth and blue moths also appear. The first one does not have a physical attack but it releases a potted dust. She is not directly mortal but inflicts pain and gradually paralyzes your limbs. The guild advises to drink a sip of antidote when you feel your members becoming stiff.
Me: Ok, perfect, I have already bought two antidotes. Do you think that will be enough for a whole day?
Eina: No, I advise you rather to have 6 or 7. If you have your supporter, you can entrust him with the additional antidotes; otherwise, I advise you to buy a bag for yourself.
Finally the last difficulty of this floor is the blue butterfly. In himself he is not dangerous, he does not attack but he releases an azure blue dust that quickly heals the monsters around him. If you face him at the same time as other monsters, try to eliminate him first.
Me: I have my magic for that it doesn't hit very hard but it is cast very quickly.
Eina: Perfect. Now let's see a bit the configuration of the floor, from the 7th floor the pantry will appear, these are gathering areas for the monsters where they are going to eat. As you can see, they are quite far from the main road, in general adventurers don't go there because it's more interesting to fight more monsters on the 8th and 9th floors. The only exceptions are those who provide medical famillia in materials and ingredients for potion.
Me: Yes, Naaza asked me to sell her the Purple moth powder and the blue butterfly wings.
Eina: If she has already talked to you about it then I am not just developing if you want to fulfill this type of order and if you have the strength, the pantry is a good place to do it.
Me: Thank you for the info, can we harvest the food from the pantry, is it selling?
Eina: Technically you can but there is no market for that, the only ones who could potentially be interested are the famillia Ganesha for their tamers but if they need them they harvest it themselves.
Me: Does it not have any alchemical use?
Eina: Not that I know and no medical famillia is placing an order for this product. As I told you, there is no request. And the guild prefers that adventurers do not touch too much of the pantry because if they are all attacked it can cause monster attacks.
Ah yes, that's what happened on the 24 floors in the original story, when Ais and the Hermes famillia must purify a pantry from the occupation of the Violas. I wonder if these monsters already exist in this universe. With all the changes, I find it hard to reflect on the timeline.
Me: Thank you for that Eina, do you have time to introduce me to the 8th and 9th floors?
Eina: Of course. Visually this floor changes, a fluorescent foam and fine grass cover the walls of the floors. As for the monsters from the eighth floor, you no longer have to worry about purple moth and blue moths; they only appear on the 7th floor, sometimes they go down but it's very rare. On the other hand, all the other monsters seen above appear on these floors and under a globally improved version their statistics go to a higher letter. That is why the architect is advised to have at least one statistic at E before entering these floors. Finally, in addition to the ancient monsters, you will have to face the Needle Rabbit, they are small and only have one attack. They jump on you to impale you with their horn. In general, if you dodge they will die of their own accord by exploding their skull because of their speed.
Me: So against them they are better to dodge and let them die. But since they are small their trajectory must be different from the usual monsters and in combat I risk not seeing them.
Eina: You understood everything. Do you need information on other things?
Me: No, I think that's it, thank you for everything Eina. I'll leave you, I have errands to do for my famillia. See you tomorrow.
Eina: See you tomorrow and be careful.
Me: Always.