Welcome back.


　After making small talk with Lorena for a while while while looking at the God's Table with Lorena, she bought an article written by a labyrinth maniac and returned to the Clan House, where the apprentice greeted Tsutomu with a hurried look on her face. It seemed that Oli had already pointed out the roughness of her cleaning, and she was hurriedly dusting off the dust that had accumulated in the gutter with her flap. And Oli also wrapped a drawstring around her mouth and seemed to be cleaning the clan house as soon as possible.

　When Tsutomu went into the living room after wishing them a good night, Amy, who had been chatting with Diniel on the sofa, pinned up her white cat ears.


'Tsutomu!　I'm surprised you made it through the checkpoint!　Where have you been?
I've been to see God's table.
Move fast!　Oh, by the way, as we speak, the guild leader is coming to the clan house today, is it okay?
'No, that's fine. Oh, and I'll take today and tomorrow off, so you can spend your time as you please.
Yay!
Yay.


　He took his gaze off Amy and Diniel, who were happy to raise their hands at the words, and asked Hannah, who was slumped over, the blue wings on her back stretched out lazily.


'Do you have any idea where the others are going?'
Well, Garum and Daryl are in the orphanage. Also, Zeno went to his wife's house and Amira went somewhere with the guild leader. The others are probably here.
Yes.
Are you a master?　Is it Kamidae again?
'No, I'll just stay in my room today. The only people on the divine table were all mid-level clans. If that's the case, we can look at the article on Labyrinth Mania later.


　At the cold manner in which the article she was holding flickered, Hannah gagged and twisted her mouth and began to lie down and put her hands behind her back to groom her wings.

　As soon as he cut his gaze from Hannah, who was warped and vicious, Tsutomu went up the stairs to his room and took a breath of relief when he saw the unchanged decor. Putting the bundle of articles he was carrying on the desk, he threw himself on the bed and closed his eyes for a moment.

　Then he snapped his eyes open as if to switch, and got up and sat down in the wooden chair and began to look at the article written by the labyrinth maniac.


(I thought he was in a mood of self-restraint during the Stampede, but surprisingly, the whole hierarchy is going on.)


　Right after the previous stampede, there was a mood of self-restraint, but this time there was no direct damage to the labyrinth city, so apparently it didn't occur that much. And now that the major clans had all vacated the labyrinth city at once, the mid-level clans were desperate to take this opportunity to crawl up to the top divine platform at all costs.

　The hierarchy of the entire searchers was progressing well, and some of the mid-level clans had crossed seventy levels. Besides, the spectators must have been refreshing to see people they wouldn't normally see. Even from the article on Maze Mania, it seemed to be full of fun somehow.


(Has the Silver Beast broken through the eighty levels? You're catching up soberly.)


　That and the Silver Beast had also broken through the Winter General within the stampede. It seems that the settlement was a phase battle just like the previous fire dragons, and there was a picture of Misiru's face in the article with a half-hearted look on her face after missing the ice giant magic stone that the Winter General had dropped.

　Plus, this time the Winter General showed another harrowing fight like he did with the fire dragon, so it seems that the crowd's popularity is re-heated. Lorena, the running healer, is also very active and popular, and when she said she was busy, it's not entirely untrue.


(From the article, I don't think she's going to make it through the Winter General.)


　Neither Tsutomu's and Labyrinth Mania's opinion of Silver Beast was high. Although Tsutomu appreciated Silverbeast more than Labyrinth Mania, he still didn't think he could break through the Winter General.

　They didn't have unique skills like the other major clans, but that didn't mean that they were able to perform military-like training like Aldoret Crow. In Tsutomu's perception, the Silver Beast is an enjoyment force itself.

　There is no division into first or second armies or anything like that to begin with, and other than Misir, they basically form a PT with whomever they want and dive into the dungeons of God. Even the levels are only for reference, and it's quite common for seventy levels to explore the swamp hierarchy together with twenty levels.

　Only the clan leader, Misil, has some combination in mind, but as a rule, all clan members are equal. As such, Misil doesn't have the authority to force a PT, and he himself doesn't want to do so. As a clan leader, he only has the minimum amount of control, and that hasn't changed in the past or since.

　Therefore, the clan members were spontaneous explorers, diving into dungeons after taking care of the orphans and training the lower levels, etc. As expected, the members who had broken through the eighty levels of the stones had dived there, but even so, the amount of time they spent on the divine dungeon was not much different from an endless circle of two days off per week.

　Normally, there is no element of Silver Beast's ability to beat Aldoret Crow, who spares even a day off to train, or the Golden Probe or Red Demon Clan, whose clan leaders are those blessed with the talent of unique skills. However, Silver Beast has defeated the Winter General as a result, and he's in line with Aldoret Crow in the Infinite Circle.


(You look like you're having a lot of fun.)


　Tsutomu looked at the Silver Beast clan members in the article and suddenly thought so. The Silver Beasts in the photos usually have bright faces. Among them, Lorena had a much happier expression on her face as she was captured in the photo running around the dungeon.

''Live Dungeon!'' But those in the top ranks weren't just the cripples who had a lot of time to play anything. Even though they only get three or four hours of in time a day because of work or other games, there were those who made it into the top ranks. It is a fact that such people existed.

　In the beginning when he had joined the efficiency-oriented clan, Tsutomu had hated such people. Someone who was cheating on another game, 'Live Dungeon! I knew there was no way I could beat him in the first place, and I was even angrier when I found out that the person had been chatting up the cripple in a way that made him look like a fool.

　Tsutomu then challenged that person to a match based on his contribution to the raiding battle. And as a result, Tsutomu had won overall, but he had lost one division. It was a category of monsters that Tsutomu was good at. The result was as good as losing to Tsutomu.

　And when I talked to him after the game was over, he said, 'Live Dungeon! It turns out that my passion for the game itself isn't all that different from my own. Nothing "Live Dungeon! Spending time on only one is not the only thing that shows the amount of heat. That person can take the experience gained in other games to "Live Dungeon! But he made use of it, and even enjoyed it more than he did, which he put into it like a job. That's why he got the best contribution in one department that Tsutomu had confidence in.

　After sharing his experience and thoughts of losing to such a person, Tsutomu was aware that he had that kind of strength as well. The path is different, but the destination they're heading to remains the same, and the feelings of the top guys don't change at all. This led Tsutomu to question the efficiency-oriented clan, and in the end, he left and created his own clan.


(From a labyrinth maniac's point of view, Lorena is currently the most highly regarded?)


　Perhaps because of such experience, Tsutomu wasn't that disturbed when he saw the article about Lorena being a better healer than him.

　Before, Tsutomu, Stephanie and Lorena were listed as the three greatest healers in the articles of Maze Mania. However, she seemed to be the most highly regarded and written about in the current situation, probably because Lorena has made a lot of a name for herself while Tsutomu and Stephanie have been gone.


(Stephanie would go crazy if she saw this article.)


　Tsutomu smiled a bit amusedly at the thought of that. He just imagined Stephanie, who has been showing a bit of a scary vibe lately, going crazy, and quickly pulled back his smile.

　As for Stephanie, I can't help but see her as my past self. She's like her old self, abandoning everything but the dungeon of God and focusing on one thing to get that strength. Even as far as Tsutomu can see, she's always practicing her skills, and she's also the one who dives into God's dungeon the most. Perhaps even when you can't see her, she's making a bloody effort.

　That's why even if Stephanie's eyes were somewhat chillingly insane in the way she looked at him, he couldn't think of avoiding her. And since he didn't feel any harm, Tsutomu would let her have her way.

　And he also appreciated Lorena, who was going down her own route of being a running healer. Tsutomu is also trying to find out if he can substitute his running with his fly and do the same kind of standing, but he has yet to replicate it. So I was impressed that healers can do well with this standup.


(It's about time I showed you how good I am too...)


　I'm rooting for Stephanie and Lorena, and I don't have the slightest intention of losing as a healer. But in order for Maze Mania and the crowd to believe that Tsutomu isn't losing either, there has to be a situation where PT is backed into a corner first.

　Stephanie had saved the PT from the Borsayer battle many times, and Lorena had done similarly well in the Fire Dragon and Winter General battles. From a spectator's point of view, reviving and rebuilding PT members was a remarkable display of the healer's skills, and in that respect, Tsutomu was also appreciated in the Mount Golem battle.

　However, in Tsutomu's case, he has not been able to revive and rebuild the PT in any other way. Therefore, he was less impressive than Stephanie and Lorena, who had rebuilt the PT many times.


(It's best if the PT members don't die in the first place, but you don't get to see the details from a spectator's perspective. Sometimes people appreciate it when they're labyrinth maniacs...)


　But from Tsutomu's point of view, he's a second-rate healer when he's letting PT members die in the first place. If you have high quality equipment for each monster countermeasure, plus a tank or attacker that moves with awareness, and a good healer, you can turn it around without anyone dying.

　Of course, Stephanie and Lorena have no problem with this since it's the first time they've seen the monsters themselves, but "Live Dungeon! I couldn't allow a PT member to die except for unforeseen circumstances that I didn't have in the game with my knowledge of


(Though, I definitely don't want to die. It's not something I would do in such a reckless manner.)


　And since Tsutomu definitely didn't want to die anymore after coming to this point, he didn't want to rebuild the PT by resuscitation, which was only a risk. It was actually more difficult to stand around not letting him die in the first place.

　But to say that the crowd and the labyrinth maniacs were also curious about it was an understatement. I wonder what it would be like to be seen underneath Stephanie and Lorena, as long as they are calling themselves masters. But don't bother raising the risk of dying yourself.

　Driven by such a dilemma, Tsutomu was half happy and half frustrated when he saw an article from the labyrinth maniacs praising his disciples.