Read Adventurer Tale of Pouring 25 Years of Life into a Useless Skill, and Now After All That Time is the Strongest

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　Thor and his team spent the next two hours exploring the walls of the large room on the eleventh floor, but were unable to find a mechanism to open the bars.

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　The first pitfall was the only one.

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　The only thing left to do now is to search the floor of the room with a fine-tooth comb, but the problem is the monsters that are roaming around.

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　We had killed most of the evil spirits, but there was nothing we could do about the crocodile bones that kept regenerating endlessly.

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　Besides, we never know when the spirits of the prisoners will reappear.

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　After much deliberation, Thor and his friends decide to continue downwards.

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"Hey, could it be a woman?"

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"Another one with a different coloring."

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　The monsters roaming the large room on the twelfth floor were, as before, ghosts without substance.

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　However, there were two notable changes.

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　The first was that they were clad in tattered black dresses.

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　And another.

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　Strands of what appeared to be hair were hanging from the skulls of the ghosts, of varying lengths.

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　There were other changes in the room.

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　Thorny plants were sticking to the walls here and there.

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　These were not ghosts, but living beings.

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　Sola looked at the ivy, which was opening small black petals here and there, and squealed in admiration.

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"I didn't know they could grow flowers in places like this..."

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"No, that's probably a trap too."

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"Or maybe it's a monster."

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　The two of us had become completely skeptical, but we were right.

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　The moment Thor approached with his sword at the ready, a black flower suddenly sprinkled pollen on the ground.

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　The area of the pollen was much wider than he had expected, and he inhaled it, though only a little.

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　Thor's legs suddenly become unsteady and he almost loses consciousness, but he barely manages to in time and jumps out of the way.

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　If he had been just a little bit later, he would have certainly fallen into a coma near the flowers.

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　Thor shakes his head in exasperation, and then gives instructions to the three of us.

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"This guy is too dangerous. Let's keep our distance and go around.

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"Yes, sir. I'm coming, Moo-chan.

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"Mwah ......"

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"I think it's time for a long rest somewhere."

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　Perhaps it was because of the repetitive moving and fighting since this morning, but the child's stamina seemed to have bottomed out.

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　Mu's eyes, which were gripping the edge of Sola's clothes, seemed to be returning to normal after the eyelids had fallen down several times.

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"Okay, let's go to that corner and rest.

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"We're almost there, Moo-chan!"

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"Muuu...... muuu......"

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　The group headed for the northwest corner, where there were relatively few monsters, but naturally, monsters blocked their way.

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　Thor closed the distance to the spirits of the dead who were wandering around in the way.

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　But as long as they are emitting life, they cannot surprise the corpse monsters.

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　The skeleton turns around and undergoes a sudden and drastic transformation.

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　The skin of the skeleton rises to the surface like gushing water, and in an instant it regains its human form.

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　The skeleton had a thin face that might have been quite beautiful in her life, but unfortunately, her eyes and lips are still missing, which in turn increases the eeriness of her appearance.

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　When Thor stopped moving due to the unexpected change, the female ghost opened her mouth wide.

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　A terrible scream emanates from the back of her dark throat.

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　Thor, who was exposed to the scream at close range, contorted his face in pain and almost fell to his knees, but he held on just in time this time.

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　He stretches out his arm and slashes at the approaching spirit in one swift motion.

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　A noisy noise behind him made him turn around to see a child rolling around on the floor.

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　Next to him, Yuril is holding his ears and contorting his face as if in pain.

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　Sola seemed to be the only one who could only frown, but Mu and Yuril, who had more senses than anyone else, seemed to have been severely affected.

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　I rush over to them and bring them back with .

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　Moe sat up with a start and stomped his head, his violet eyes flashing with anger.

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"You're too big!　Oh, my God!　Muuuuuuuuu!"

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　Apparently, he had been woken up from his half-asleep state, and his mood had deteriorated even further.

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　After taking turns taking a nap in the northwest corner for about an hour, Thor and the others continued their search of the large room on the twelfth floor.

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　They avoided the thorns that scattered pollen to induce stupor, and the female screams were either slain by Thor or extinguished by Sola by aiming at their heads.

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　As for the screaming ghosts, Yuril came up with a simple but effective solution.

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　He covered Moe's ears with his hands and synchronized his senses with those of the others.

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　This way, Thor and Sora can use their hands freely even during the battle, and they don't have to take the trouble to put on and off the earplugs.

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　We managed to finish our search near evening, although this floor was also full of troublesome opponents.

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　There is only one way in and out of the room, which, like the one above, is blocked by iron bars.

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　Most of the walls are unidentified due to the pesky ivy, but we have already found what we are looking for near the center.

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　Sighing heavily, Sola looks into the hole at her feet with a disgusted look on her face.

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"There's a lot of them, Thor!"

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　The large room on the thirteenth floor was home to ghosts clad in pitch-black armor.

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　And for some reason, even though they were indoors, they were riding astride horses with nothing but their bones.

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　The room is quite noisy with the sound of armor scraping and hooves pounding on the stone floor.

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　However, the presence of armor makes fighting much easier.

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　The ice and the cold air are now understood, even though the sword is not so effective against them.

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　Once the horse is lost and the armor is crumpled, it is just the usual evil spirits inside.

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　The number of spirits in the room was obviously fewer than in the two rooms above, so we were able to finish our search in about two hours.

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　Finally, in the southeast corner, Thor and his friends find what they are looking for.

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　A part of the decoration on the pillar in the corner moved.

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　At the same time, a creaking sound is heard along the wall.

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　Thor exhales deeply from the bottom of his lungs in front of the raised bars.

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　The group then proceeded down a long straight corridor and came to a staircase leading to the top.

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　From the twelfth floor to the eleventh floor, they find a staircase not far away.

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　And then the eleventh floor.

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　It is after midnight when they reach the eleventh floor.

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　While using to restore the strength of Sora, who is approaching his limit, and Mu and Yurir, who have already exceeded theirs, Thor and the others make a map and search for the stairs to the top.

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　Near dawn, they found a narrow staircase leading up to a dead end.

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　A heavy stone lid blocked the end of the stairway.

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　We raised the magic stone lamp to examine it, and found a clasp that looked like it.

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　After removing it, I lifted it with all my might and shifted it to the side.

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　The room that peeked out was familiar to me.

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"Oh, this is it!　Here, here!"

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　An excited Sola pointed out on the map a small room to the south of the tenth floor.

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　It was empty except for a few sarcophagi, and was marked only as a morgue.

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　It was from one of these coffins that Thor and the others stuck their faces out.

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"......There was a staircase hidden here?"

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　Once the current location is known, the rest is not so difficult.

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　Somehow, without the steel doll of the guard, Thor and the others finally reach the stairs after a day's absence.

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　For some reason, the number of bunks had also increased, but they all fell asleep without having time to pay attention to it.

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　A few hours later, Thor senses the presence of something and quietly lifts his eyelids.

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　He looks at the others warily.

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　He grips the hilt of his sword and grips it again.

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　There were two pairs of purple eyes staring into his eyes.

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