Grinding and Associations

“…… Yeah!”

Having defeated the seven demon flames, I level up to level 40.

But even at this level, I’m still leveling up to level 40. Well, that’s right. Maybe it’s because I’m up against a reinforced B-rank monster boss!

But this time, the chemistry was good.

Most of the attacks of the seven demon flames did not affect me, and I could defeat it almost unscathed.

Even if it had powerful and special attacks, because it didn’t hit me, it was meaningless.

“For now, let’s just collect the drop items.”

I went to the seven demon flame, and there I found the ashes, the corpse of the seven demon flame, and a rather large demon stone.

Yeah, as expected of the magic stone of a B-rank monster. That is the first time I’ve seen it, but it’s huge.

And in proportion to such a demon stone, the pile of ashes is also quite large.

“That’s a lot~……”

That pile of ash was hard to see from a distance, but when I got closer, I could see how big it was. That pile is bigger than I am, and more importantly, there is a lot of ash.

That amount was far greater than the ashes I could get from defeating the demon fire and twin demon flame. That is a much larger harvest than I expected.

“Well, let’s collect it first.”

I approached the pile of ashes and stored the ashes in the [Item Box] from one end to the other.

I put a good amount of ashes into the [Item Box], but there is still plenty of room in the [Item Box].

I knew I was right to raise the skill level of the [Item Box]. This ash is only in demand, so I don’t care how much there is.

“Is this what I have?”

I put all the magic stones and ashes into the [Item Box], then I leave the boss room. Then, wh I left the boss’s room, the door that had opened by defeating the boss was automatically closed.

“Whew…”

I catch my breath, take out a towel and a plastic bottle of water from the [Item Box], wipe off my sweat, then drink the water to rehydrate myself.

“Phew! I e back to life!”

After all, water tastes good after exercise or bat.

But I wasn’t drained, and I wasn’t that tired. Well, to put it simply, it was pretty easy.

I still have plenty of time to spare.

“So let’s go …… grind the boss!”

I walk through the door that opened during the break and into the boss room.

Then, I get ready to defeat the seven demon flame with a backdoor bo of [Lock-On] and [Magic Arrow].

Alright! For now, the goal is ten rounds. Let’s go!

“Kuaaa~…… sleepy……”

And the next day. Today, from this morning, I came to the Explorers Association branch.

I could not only defeat the boss for ten rounds but fifteen rounds. For a total of sixteen laps.

And when I left the dungeon, there were followers of a certain religion, which has bee a usual sight these days. As usual, they were making negative motions, but I’m getting used to ignoring them after all this time.

“But lately, I’ve started to see them a lot.”

The first time I started seeing them, the only sightings were near F- to D-rank dungeons, but recently they’ve been spotted in C- and B-rank dungeons, and even some A-rank dungeons.

“…… Well, I don’t know if I care, and I don’t expect to be involved in the future. Sorry~.”

I enter the branch and head straight to the reception desk before asking for the purchase of the ashes.

The ashes from the demon fire, twin demon flame, and seven demon flame are all the same, just in different quantities, so I’m supposed to be able to beat the boss now. It’s nice that they don’t think that I’m not.

“Aren’t you knocking down a little too many demon flames?” I don’t mind that they looked at me like I was a weird guy.

The association is remending that explorers take down the demon fire, and I’m not going to let them refuse to buy it.

So I’m done selling the ashes, and the purchase price was substantial.

As expected, the ashes were equivalent to eight fairly large metal boxes. I took it out of the [Item Box] at the warehouse, but it was a good amount.

“Well then, thank you very much~.”

“Oh, I’m sorry, Amamiya-sama. May I have a moment of your time?”

I received the money for the ashes and was about to leave. Then I was stopped by the woman at the reception desk.

Yeah, did I do something ……?

“No problem.”

“Thank you. I wanted to talk a little bit about some work for you.”

The woman then began to talk while looking at the materials in her hand. Then, while listening to the woman’s story, I looked at the written material.

The conversation content was that she wanted me to participate as an instructor in a briefing session about dungeons and explorers at some high school, which they’ll hold in a week.

“……Why me?”

“For our part, we thought that Amamiya-sama was the right person for the job since you have a lot of experience teaching novice explorers and has a track record of diving solo into C-rank dungeons as a Silver qualification holder explorer.”

“No.”

Honestly, I don’t want to get involved because my trust in the dungeon association has been so-so since the recent problems they’ve caused.

If they’re only asking me alone for this or something, then it’s over. I really want to worry about (the head of) the Association.

“By the way, are there other explorers attending that briefing?”

“Yes. One party that usually dives in B-rank dungeons and one person from a pany are participating.”

“Heh, heh …… By the way, what kind of “Oh? Amamiya, isn’t it?” yeah?”

I was about to ask the woman what kind of people are they. When suddenly someone speaks to me in a loud voice from behind.

I looked in the direction of the voice and saw a man there who looked familiar.

“Huh? Examiner-san?”

That familiar man was the two-handed axe user, a silver-qualified explorer in charge of the practical skills test I had taken the other day.