I’ve Been Reincarnated as a Tentacle Slime~ I Want to Live a Comfortable, Secure Life and Do Whatever I Want~ - Chapter 68

[Michael POV]

When Father is in the human village, I take charge of managing the dungeon.

The newly born younger siblings are training well and should be counted as fighting forces within a few days.

I also taught the younger siblings how to build Monster Houses, so the number of Monster Houses on floors 1 to 15 has surpassed 100, and the Golem floor now has 200 rooms. Soon, we should be able to build the fortress and walls that will become Father’s residence. If possible, I’d like some metal for the pillars…

“Brother Mika, today we’re going to attack the 19th floor, right? Uri is with Father, won’t she complain later?”

Gabe arrives here with the assault team.

“Gabe, huh… I have no intention of indulging Uri’s hobbies. Likely, monsters from floor 21 will be earth attribute. If we get some kind of metal, we can build Father’s residence. There’s no way I’ll delay those plans for Uri.”

“Then it can’t be helped. Uri will probably build a church while at Father’s place, so I guess she’ll have to be satisfied with that.”

“Yes. Shall we go then? Are you ready?”

I instructed the third daughter Mia to take care of the nursery girls and train the younger siblings, then headed to floor 19 with Rafa, Gabe, Ann, Akari, and Jet — six in total.

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Upon reaching floor 19, a few pigs were seen flying through the air…

“What do you suppose that is…? The speed doesn’t seem particularly impressive either…”

“Does it matter? If we devour it… we’ll find out what it is!”

Rafa used [Flight] and [Swift Wind] to leap up, swiftly approaching a pig and slicing it cleanly in half with a fire-element slash as he passed by.

After consuming multiple pieces of flesh dropping from above, we examined their skills, but…

“It seems there are no new skills… They’re not very strong either, so what exactly were those?”

We held off on attacking first and watched their moves; it seems they can keep [Flight] active at all times.

They attack by raining wind magic from the sky in groups.

If we have no anti-air measures, they descend to about 10 meters and cast spells at close range.

When we cast fire magic, they respond with spells from about 30 meters above. We have to remain alert to the sky constantly, which is extremely troublesome.

“I see, they’re troublesome foes for those who can’t fly.”

“But without any skills, they’re only fit as food for humans. Maybe we should just keep them in mind for when Father expands the nursery, Brother Mika?”

“That’s right, Gabe. Father might bring them as food to the human village, so it’s best to keep at least one on hand.”

We judged there was nothing to gain on this floor and quickly descended to the next floor.

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Next is floor 20, but as usual, it’s an unchanging floor where colored floating orbs appear.

The color was green, and the attack method had only changed to wind magic.

“The skill is… [Wind Pressure Detection], huh? The effect is—”

Wind Pressure Detection: Allows detection of wind direction, wind volume, and air density.

“A detection-type wind model, huh… Even if there are more now, I don’t see where we’d use them.”

“This floor isn’t interesting at all.”

Rafa seems dissatisfied with this floor as well.

“This was anticipated, wasn’t it? Let’s move quickly to the next floor.”

“Alright…”

Reluctantly, she transformed into a bird and flew off to search for the black gate.

We ended the conquest of floor 20 without any particular results.

“As expected, the next floor is an earth area.”

I murmured as I looked at the sign beside the black gate.

“We can’t afford to make the same mistake twice.”

Rafa also seemed to be thinking the same thing. We finished clearing the Wind Area while remembering my mistake of failing to check the sign when entering the Fire Area on the 11th floor.

This time’s results:

・Cleared the 20th floor.

・Completed 100 MH monster houses on floors 1-15, and 200 on the golem floor.

Chapter length 1682 characters.