"Day 221"
Right now, the Female Samurai is the shop manager, working as hard as she can managing the headquarters in the Royal Capital when I'm not around. Even if something unexpected were to happen that the Female Samurai wouldn't be able to handle, she would still be able to communicate with me through the ear cuff, making it possible for her to receive instructions even from far away.
With ≪Solitude≫'s helping hands functioning as the manpower, they're likely to be able to deal with it as long as it's nothing major.
Therefore, it isn't necessary for me to stay in the Royal Capital.
Because it became clear to me that, everything I've done up until now, can be considered as the actions of a simple ogre, my place of activity will, sooner or later, gradually steer away from the Kingdom.
Though there are several reasons, the biggest one is the regrettable fact that the only 【Age of the Gods dungeons】 in the Kingdom are of 【Demigod】 rank, and there only a few of them.
I think that from now on I'll strengthen my main force by conquering an 【Age of the Gods dungeon】 not by myself but with Kanami-chan and the 【8 Demon Generals】 as well. I'm planning to do a 【God】 rank, which is a rank higher than 【Demigod】 rank. I did think about challenging a 【Great God】 rank, but there are only 5 of them in the world. Regardless, I will need to leave the Kingdom whatever I do.
Of course, I am still able to enjoy a 【Demigod】 rank, but seeing as there are so few around here, we'd finish capturing them in no time.
That's why I decided to go to an 【Age of the Gods dungeon】 outside the Kingdom. I considered first diving a 【Demigod】 rank dungeon and then switch to a higher difficulty 【God】 rank one.
I felt that it would be too early for the group, aside from me, to challenge a 【God】 rank dungeon. But I already challenged a 【Demigod】 rank dungeon and because Minokichi-kun and the others knew that, they were set on conquering a 【God】 rank dungeon without fail. And as I wanted to challenge one myself, I didn't plan on changing the difficulty for the moment.
We agreed that if we are unable to go through the early levels of the dungeon the way we want, we would immediately change to a different dungeon.
Because the lower levels of a 【God】 rank are somewhat similar to the depths of the middle layer of a 【Demigod】 rank. It's difficult to pretty difficult to stay alive.
Still, we're only considering going into a 【God】 rank dungeon. Considering the most prominent out of all the potential places, it'll likely be the Demon Empire.
The Demon Empire is on very bad terms with the Holy Kingdom. The 【Age of the Gods dungeon】 there is called 【Flames of the Fire Dragon Mountain】.
Even if the national relations are bad, it turn into a large-scale war that easily. The current situation is more like that off a cat-and-mouse game between spies and some small skirmishes.
The 【Flames of the Fire Dragon Mountain】 has a structure that is different from the underground of a conventional dungeon. It's one of the dungeons classified as a natural enclosure, which I haven't challenged before.
The natural enclosure model can be easily explained as a dungeon that has its exterior and interior separated by a special area called a 【Border Place】, turning it into a huge 【Boundary Range】 of which the entire interior became a dungeon.
A natural enclosure model can come in different shapes and sizes, such as a large valley or a great forest. This time around, the 【Flames of the Fire Dragon Mountain】 is a volcano type that is classified as a natural enclose with a particular high degree of difficulty.
