Volume 15 Chapter 3, Current status of the 10th Floor and some Ideas

Kousuke and Kouhi were currently on the 10th Floor.

It had been a while since they started deploying summoning circles, so they came to check if there were any changes in the naturally spawning monsters.

The summons were basically placed to challenge the foxes, but they were also installed in other places.

He also wanted to see how the summoned monsters would behave meanwhile.

“Hmm… I guess the monsters’ levels are increasing on average.”

“Evolution… Even though it’s not quite the same, it seems that there are some leaders who are organizing their respective groups.”

“Does that mean they’re working together?”

“I don’t know. I think it’s based on their species, but… It seems that there are groups that are in charge.”

As he said this, Kouhi was taking down the monsters that attacked them.

“Hmm… Do you think the foxes will be alright?”

“That won’t be a problem. There’s a large number of foxes that have evolved.”

“I see… However, now can we see the cause of the monster level increasing to some extent?”

The first thing to do was to set up a summoning circle that was neither kin of the monsters nor the foxes on this Floor.

He couldn’t confirm yet if the summoned monsters were conditioned to be defeated or not. In any case, all the summoned monsters had been defeated already.

Considering the evolution of the Wraith in the Northeast Tower, Kousuke was convinced that summoned monsters were involved in the leveling up and evolution of monsters.

Kousuke himself thinks that this might be another benefit of being a member of the Gods, but it was actually not.

He had been doing similar things even before he became a God, but Kousuke was not aware of that.

Thinking up to that point, one question comes to his mind.

[Are there any changes to the monsters outside the Tower?]

Kousuke shook his head as he thought about it.

To begin with, the conditions for the naturally occurring monsters were not even known.

Some of them were normal(?). What they didn’t understand was why they suddenly appeared.

Sometimes, they just appeared out of nowhere.

In this case, Kousuke was doing something… In this case, Kousuke suspects that something was summoning them.

But unfortunately, they haven’t found any traces or evidence of summoning.

“Summoning… Is it really a case of summoning?”

“Yeah. I don’t know who it is, though. Maybe it’s the world itself that’s doing it.”

“…And the Gods?”

“Well, I don’t know. I suppose you could ask them, and they’d tell you, but I don’t think they’re doing it.”

“Why not?”

“Because it’s hard to imagine the Gods doing such a thing when they can’t interfere directly.”

Kousuke’s answer made Kouhi look jittery and thoughtful.

“If that’s the case, then who?”

“Well? Well, we call it a summoning in the first place, but I’m pretty sure it’s entirely different from the existing ones. I don’t even know if I can call it a summoning in the first place.”

As for Kousuke, it’s hard to imagine that life can be conveniently born on the spot, so he was trying to explain it as a summoning.

Realizing this, Kousuke shook his head and stopped thinking.

“It’s no good. All we’re talking about is guesswork, and it doesn’t make any sense at all, does it? Let’s just leave it at that.”

“Yes.”

Originally, he prepared the 10th Floor to investigate the cause of the evolution of monsters in the Tower.

As for that topic, it was safe to say that they almost have all the answers.

Just finding out that monsters were appearing from the summoning circles was enough of an achievement.

Of course, there were other conditions, but it’s impossible to check them all out.

There were monsters that evolved normally, and there was no way to check each one of them.

It had been a long experiment, but it had yielded some results, and that was enough for Kousuke.

He decided to end the experiment for the time being.

The reason was simple, since they had acquired the surrounding Towers, there was no limit to the number of new Towers they could experiment.

The future 10th Floor was going to be a Floor for the foxes.

Kousuke and Kouhi, who had finished looking over most of the 10th Floor, returned to the Administration Floor.

Wanri greeted Kousuke when he returned from the 10th Floor.

Since the previous incident(?), Wanri had also been maintaining the site. Since then, Wanri had also started coming to the Management Floor like this.

“Brother Kousuke, welcome back.”

“Yes. I’m back.”

Wanri tilted her head at Kousuke, who replied.

“…Huh? Huh? Did you visit your friends?”

“Yeah. To the 10th Floor for a bit.”

“Oh, you were out there to check?”

Wanri knew that Kousuke had been checking something out in the 10th Floor.

Wanri, who had the authority, can naturally set up a summoning circle.

Although not as powerful as Nana, Wanri also does her own summoning.

“Really? There aren’t many there, so I wanted to increase the number.”

“That’s right. I’m sorry I couldn’t get more for you.”

Wanri shook her head in panic.

“No, no. It’s not that we don’t have enough of them. It’s just that it would be more efficient if we had a few more, so we could hunt more consistently…”

“I see… Anyway, you’re free to do whatever you want with the rest now, so you can summon them as you like.”

“Okay.”

Wanri nodded and left the place.

She would probably summon more foxes using the control room as soon as possible.

Kousuke didn’t head to the control room right away, but went to the relaxation area, which was more like a living room.

In the relaxation area, Peach and Sylvia were there.

They had some business to attend to, and Kousuke, just in time, talked to them.

“Just what I needed. I had something I wanted you two to do.”

“How can I be of service?”

“It’s something I’d like you to do in the lower Floor, or…”

He told the two of them about the idea he had thought of earlier when he was investigating the 10th Floor.

“When did you come up with that~?”

“Well, just now. I came up with it after seeing the results on the 10th Floor.”

Hearing Kousuke’s answer, the two let out a sigh as hard as they could.

“Peach aside, I don’t think it’s going to be easy to make mine happen, is it?”

“Right, so just start out with as much as you can manage. Eventually, though, I’d like you to do what I say.”

“My place isn’t as easy to manage as it sounds, either~?”

“I know it’s difficult, but in terms of size, your place is just right for both of you.”

“I’ll have to agree with you on that.”

The Tower that Peach and Sylvia were managing was smaller than Amamiya’s Tower, each Floor area was also smaller.

It’s much easier to do the experiments in those places, so he asked for that to be done in their Towers instead of doing them in Amamiya’s Tower.

“Then~, what about Floria’s place?”

“Of course, we can do that later. I can’t do anything to the North and South, though, since they’re too big.”

“If that’s the case, I’ll try to make it happen. But it will take a lot of Divine Power, won’t it?”

“That’s just a necessary expense… Well, the truth is that the management of Amamiya Tower has been at a standstill lately, except for the fairy stones. I’m hoping that this will be a good opportunity to start something new.”

They gave Kousuke a dumbfounded look as he blurted it out.

“Isn’t that an assumption that you’ll succeed?”

“No, it’s not. Of course, it would be better if it worked, but what’s important is the process.”

Kousuke thought it would be a blessing if they could find something to apply in the process.

“Well, if that’s the case, I’ll take care of it.”

“Me too~”

Kousuke was relieved when both of them agreed.

If they refused, Kousuke was even thinking of doing the experiment in the Northwest Tower himself.

He was also going to check with Floria, but even if she refused at worst, he wouldn’t have to deal with it since the two of them were there.

Kousuke hoped that Floria would also participate in the experiment.