Oh, Mexico.

never really been.

but Id sure like to go.

A Nostalgic Face

Beyond the gate was a big room.

It has a size around that of Rin-chans room, around 20 tatami mats(329 square feet).

It seems to be a room

.A safe zone, probably. If we clear the dungeon we should be returned here

It is as you said. Drifter from another world

Due to the sudden voice behind us, we reflexively turned around.

A nun who wasnt present when we scanned the room, somehow appeared behind us.

The moment I put up a guard stance with my weapon, I notice that shes someone Im familiar with.

Umm, navigator right?

Yes, it has been a while, Drifter Sukuna

The nun smiled at my words. Shes the NPC who guided me through the settings calibrationIf I remember correctly, shes named Iris or something.

Aka, the NPC called the Navigator.

Since its only been 2 weeks since we met I still remembered her, but Rin-chan had to think a bit before remembering.

This is the Interval of Tranquility. Its an area for preparation before you challenge the dungeon

Even if you say to prepare, theres nothing here you know?

Thats normal. The Interval of Tranquility is after all, an area where you unlock functions by paying with Stardust Fragments

The answer to Rin-chans question is basically, to gather Stardust Fragments.

I see, this empty room is a safe zone you can customize.

Aah.got it, understood. If we want to return to Fias, what do we need to do?

After gathering a certain number of Stardust Fragments, you can exchange them for a Return Scroll. This is a safety measure taken so that the monsters in this world will not appear in that world. I would be glad for your understanding

How do we exchange Stardust Fragments?

I will process the exchange, I handle all item exchanges here. If you need anything, please call for me

According to the Navigators explanation, it seems the gate is a one way passage to prevent monsters from escaping. So that means if this passage is connected, theres a chance monsters will invade the towns.

But in the first place, isnt it because the gates are placed inside the towns?

If theyre placed somewhere remote, then they dont really need to be a one way passage right?

I thought of that, but didnt say it out loud.

If its something I can think of, there is no way that Rin-chan cant come up with the same idea. Ignoring the placement of the gate, the reasoning for the one way passage is understandable.

Well, if its like that then its fine. I assume the door over there is the dungeon entrance?

Yes. Please use it to enter the Stardust Labyrinth. Either you defeat the Master of the Labyrinth, or retrace the path you have taken to return here

Okay then. Lets go, Nana

Roger~

May the fortune of battle be with you

Waving my hands towards the Navigator who bowed, we passed through the dungeon entrance.

After passing through the door, what we arrived at, was a prairie where you can see the starry skies. Its a field that doesnt feel like a dungeon.

FuunNana, can you throw with your all, at the sky?

Wait a bit.serya!

Throwing straight up with my all. The steel ball that was thrown with a skill, didnt travel past 100 meters before hitting Something as it rebounded.

ZUDON! echoing out as it landed on the ground. I collected the steel ball while Rin-chan observed.

I see. So this place is Inside the dungeon

Then, what I hit was the ceiling?

Most likely, Its too open to be called a labyrinth but, it allows you to explore with a moderate pace, certainly its quite a convenient terrain

Thanks to the moonlight and the stars, the surroundings are brighter than I would have imagined. The ceiling that creates this Night environment is still very dark.

But other than the woods here and there, this is a very even field.

If its such an open terrain, then I can see very far.

Rin-chan, one km that way. It looks like theres a hole in the wall

Good job Nana. I dont know if its a stairway, but lets go check it out

From my words that I have found a widely opened hole in a wall, Rin-chan happily reacted.

It might not just be limited to WLO, but these things called dungeons, either have distinct layers or be one that lacks it.

For example, the scorching caverns that Touka-chan and I visited, there werent any layers, it was just the type where the insides of the caves expand deeper and deeper as you advance. If I were to forcefully explain, theres a top floor, a middle floor and a lower floor. You can call this separation a type of dungeon.

The floor type dungeon is one where the enemies get stronger as you find stairs or when the environment changes.

This dungeon, the Stardust Labyrinth, is a dungeon released without any prior information.

So we dont know what type of structure this dungeon has, and have no idea what might appear.

All we know is that this is a dungeon for players who have reached Fias or farther.

Most likely, Rin-chan is gathering clues around us at an amazing speed for a strategy.

Since this event is aimed for repetition, Rin-chan should be planning in that direction.

All I can do, is use my five senses to gather information and pass it on to Rin-chan.

NnRin-chan, diagonally behind us, two monsters are coming at us fast

Even without activating a searching skill, I can perceive the movements of monsters from the sound they make traveling through grass.

Reporting to Rin-chan, I was about to bring out Kagenui but Rin-chan stopped me with her hand.

So two wolf type monsters

Running toward us were two black furred wolves blending into the darkness of the night.

Rin-chan didnt raise her staff, she wrapped her fingertips with magic and drew something in the air.

Run Oh lightning , Puchi Volt

Puchi Bolt is a binding type magic that paralyzes the opponent for a short moment. Rin-chan bound the closer wolf with it and without a delay, she started chanting again.

Her fingertips continued to draw runes, most likely for activating some sort of magic.

Run Oh lightning , Puchi Volt

Once again she activated a puchi volt targeting the other wolf. The runes in the air started to flicker with light.

Lightning Bolt

The thunder striking from above grilled the two wolves. This is most likely an AOE magic with an intermediate level of power, it dealt the two wolves a massive amount of damage.

Its a powerful attack magic dealing around 80% hp damage to the two wolves. Though alive, it seems that theyre paralyzed and cant move. There is no indication of them launching an attack.

Thunder Ball

The two wolves were pierced through by the elementary level thunder magic Rin-chan cast and died.

Well, obviously the first floor wont be too difficult

Rin-chan stretched her arms out and grinned.

Just what was that right now?

Magics multi-cast no, maybe you can call it parallel cast. In this game, besides chanting there are other ways to cast magic, and they can be combined efficiently

Watching Rin-chans battle, I have no idea what happened. So I honestly asked for an explanation.

According to Rin-chan, besides chanting, it seems there are different methods of casting magic.

For example, the Rune Magic that Rin-chan used, or a musical magic cast by a musical instrument, or a formation magic requiring an item.

While chanting you can simultaneously prepare a high tier magic, and use the opening created by the chanting magic to release it in. Or maybe in reverse, chanting a high tier magic while protecting yourself with a different casting method.

Basically, It is as difficult as playing a piano. I can play the piano, but I dont feel like I can handle a technique where you use parallel cast.

Well, eight Stardust Fragments just dropped. I wonder what sort of value a fragment holds?

Im also curious about the drop efficiency. If the boss is strong, then It might be more advantageous to run this at Tria

I dont want to consider things up to that point

For example a dungeon where you can get ten Stardust Fragments a run, but takes two hours to complete or a dungeon where you get one Stardust Fragment per run, but only needs ten minutes. The latter is more efficient.

The difference might be miniscule, but considering that this event will continue for seven days. The slight difference will pile up.

Though, the difference in efficiency is unknown.

Fias might have a great efficiency different from the other towns, or maybe the GMs unexpectedly balanced each towns efficiency.

Anyway, lets travel to the hole first. Ill memorize all the little terrain details, so Nana, focus only on detecting monsters.

It would be great if theyre not randomly spawned

Even if so, there will still be a pattern. For today, lets grasp the feeling

Naturally, there is a reason why Rin-chan can declare that she can memorize all.

Rin-chan can continuously maintain her concentration for nearly 80 hours. Maybe its because whenever shes awake, she mostly passes time with concentration practice. Her memory ability highly exceeds that of an ordinary person.

This is one of the reasons why Rin-chan can achieve unbelievable results and accomplishments in her studies. Basically, her concentration power is just that amazing.

Thats why, if Rin-chan focused on memorizing it, she wont forget.

Though in exchange, for things that she doesnt need to remember, she has a tendency to only vaguely recall it.

I think the reason she forgot about the Navigator was because she probably thought shed never meet the NPC again.

Oh, looks like its just stairs

Lets head down. Since were going to repeat this, we dont need to explore for now. Lets avoid exhaustion and target the boss.

Yes maam

With stairs of a pointlessly wide width and small step height, we descended to the second floor of the Stardust Labyrinth.

uter nuuts:

Rinne from her everyday streams who talks about Nana, a mysterious phenomenon where the watchers arent that used to her calling her Sukuna is there!! and because of that Rinne is calling her Nana. Since they get all after all, it cant be helped.

Ogre chapter 80 end

9: were finally 80, kinda feels weird to think that I was able to translate this far without taking a break of more than 1 day.

9: coming up with the names for the terms is annoying, cause sometimes the kanji doesnt totally make sense if in english or sometime sounds stupid, so I have to put effort in making things sounds cool and make sense.

Yuki(PR): Really struggling with my instinct to reword sentences so they sound better.

9: you can reword the sentence just dont change the meaning, and there is a lot of things to consider like the message behind the wording and the characters personality

Maddy: 9 doesnt get how hard it isAlthough Yuki is doing a great job!