Someday Will I Be The Greatest Alchemist?

The first thing I sensed when we descended to the 2nd floor was that the ceiling was higher.
Even more so, it was different from the first floor.

「It looks like a cavern.」
「Yes.
Though it is still dim, it’s faintly bright.」

Sophia surveyed the surroundings, examining this strange space.
There are dungeons that have no source of light where one must absolutely bring lamps to, but there are also dungeon that are dimly lit by the walls and ceilings shining by themselves like this floor.
And the fact that the path widened and the ceiling rose tells another fact.

「It looks like superior goblin species, or perhaps orcs would appear, wouldn’t they?」
「Yes, superior goblin types mixed with orcs would appear frequently.」
「Orcs? Master, orc meat feast?」
「Sure.
I suppose we could dismantle the orcs for their materials.」

When Kaede heard the word “orc”, she looked happy and excited.
To Kaede, orcs were meat on legs.

Fugo fugo

「Oh, they showed up immediately.」
「I’m go~ing!」
「Ah, Kaede!」

We discovered three orcs at the turn ahead.
Then, Kaede merrily rushed out.

The first orc was decapitated without knowing what had happened to it.

「Ei!」

Using the wall and jumping, she then swung her claw weapon at the second orc, and at that moment, the third orc was entangled in Kaede’s threads.

「Yah!」

Kaede dismembered the third orc to pieces in an instant.

「Master! Meat, meat~!」
「I get it, I get it.
I’ll dismantle it right now.」

Kaede, who killed the three orcs in an instant, waved her hand, asking me to come dismantle them.
Reluctantly, the girls and I nimbly dismantled it, then stored the choice cuts and magic stones.

「Okay, let’s hurry up.」
「Ka~y! Master!」

We resumed our exploration of the 2nd level with the lively Kaede at the lead.
The monsters in the 2nd floor were the higher ranking Goblin Mages, Archers, General, and Orcs in addition to the Goblins that appeared in the 1st floor had begun appearing.
As always, we only took the magic stones from the goblins, and the orcs became food for Sophia’s Thunder Eagle Gloam, Akane’s Luna Wolf Ferryl, and Laeva’s wildcat Serval Seru who were on standby in Kaede’s and my subspace.

The subjugation itself went smoothly, partly because of the levels of the monsters that appeared on the 2nd floor, and it didn’t take much time to find the stairs to the 3rd floor.