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Chapter 288: October Popular Articles, List and Rankings
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October Popular Articles, List and Rankings
No. 1: 【Emergency Video】Queen of the Sky Falls, Briefly Unconscious in Critical Condition
No. 2: Thirty Triple-Ranks Born at Once in Chiba
No. 3: 【Good News】Chiba Dungeon Becomes a Dungeon That Spoils Women
No. 4: 【Breaking News】'Red Shadow' Finally Sets a New Aomori DTA Record! Escaping Aomori lol
No. 5: New Dungeon Survey, Deadline Looming
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'New Dungeon Survey, Deadline Looming'
1:Anonymous Adventurer
With the appearance of new dungeons expected at next year's New Year, the Adventurer's Association has announced that applications for adventurers to survey those new dungeons will close at the end of this month.
Applicants must be Triple-Rank or above, and while that strict bar has drawn some criticism, given what this survey entails it can hardly be helped.
Despite it being a survey conducted at the risk of one's life—with a handful of general-class adventurers excepted—virtually every Triple-Rank adventurer has already declared participation.
On the other hand, there are those who have died pushing reckless level-ups and rank-ups.
The government and the Adventurer's Association have both issued statements in response, but no effect can be expected.
With the deadline approaching, further casualties are to be feared.
11:Anonymous Adventurer
Which dungeon had the deaths?
14:Anonymous Adventurer
>>11
Aichi and Kagawa.
Aichi was Floor 30; Kagawa was one person lost at a Floor 29 camp, apparently.
21:Anonymous Adventurer
Aichi was five, huh......
22:Anonymous Adventurer
Aichi is less a clan thing and more that the Association runs everything and everyone goes in teams.
The campsites are maintained, so leveling is easy—there are quite a few Doubles above level 30 there.
And buses run inside the dungeon lol.
But the promotion waiting list is brutal.
The ones who couldn't make the deadline apparently went off on their own and died.
30:Anonymous Adventurer
Aichi is the Association thick as thieves with the corporations, after all.
Corporates come first, so Triple adventurers there can't even take ordinary requests.
Well, the corporations run the buses and maintain the campsites, so nobody gets to complain.
31:Anonymous Adventurer
Levels went up and they got a swollen head, huh.
Anyone who'd die there would die in the New Dungeon too.
I say turn away everyone who didn't rank up on their own strength.
32:Anonymous Adventurer
Kagawa is that depopulated dungeon with nothing but lakes, right?
Camping on Floor 29 is basically marching off to die.
34:Anonymous Adventurer
Regional dungeons have no campsites anywhere in the 20s floors.
You pick your own spot to camp.
Going all the way back down to Floor 25 is pointless—there's nothing there.
36:Anonymous Adventurer
>>32
Yep.
Nothing but water monsters, so leveling is a slog too.
Keep the Floor 1 factory and move the adventurer-side dungeon somewhere else entirely.
55:Anonymous Adventurer
Easy-to-level dungeon or hard-to-level dungeon, people die either way.
Then where am I supposed to grind?! (;∀;)
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'【Breaking News】'Red Shadow' Finally Sets a New Aomori DTA Record! Escaping Aomori lol'
1:Anonymous Adventurer
Red Shadow is HEEERE! ＼(^o^)／
Video URL (omitted
10:Anonymous Adventurer
Aomori escape success lol
11:Anonymous Adventurer
What's this guy doing about the New Dungeon?
Does he have a party or something?
15:Anonymous Adventurer
>>11
Seems he takes promotion requests without Red Shadow.
Word is things go better when he's not there.
17:Anonymous Adventurer
>>15
Poor guy lol
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'【Good News】Chiba Dungeon Becomes a Dungeon That Spoils Women'
2:Anonymous Adventurer
And this is 【Good News】?
5:Anonymous Adventurer
I want to go to a dungeon full of girls too, you know.
Saitama's crowded partly because there are girls there, too.
6:Anonymous Adventurer
What IS the actual male-to-female adventurer ratio?
8:Anonymous Adventurer
>>6
10:1
10:Anonymous Adventurer
Where's that figure from?
11:Anonymous Adventurer
The Association's PR magazine.
You can view it online too.
URL (omitted
The cover says the Chiba staff include an upper recovery-job holder.
It's written up in that feature article.
15:Anonymous Adventurer
Which one on the cover?
Planning to reel in girl adventurers with this pretty boy?
17:Anonymous Adventurer
>>15
The pretty lady is the 【Healer Mage】, apparently.
Went Triple in that women-only tour the other day.
21:Anonymous Adventurer
Isn't Chiba starting off way too strong?
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'Thirty Triple-Ranks Born at Once in Chiba'
1:Anonymous Adventurer
The 'Her Majesty the Spear King'-hosted women-only Triple-Rank promotion tour has safely concluded, it seems.
4:Anonymous Adventurer
How many participants ended up joining?
7:Anonymous Adventurer
>>4
Thirty got promoted, apparently.
Just saw it on the news.
11:Anonymous Adventurer
>>7
Which channel?
30:Anonymous Adventurer
>>11>>19>>21
Sorry, it was Chiba-local news.
15:Anonymous Adventurer
Women-only is a bit unfair, no?
And it was free, right?
16:Anonymous Adventurer
My heart is a maiden's too—can I join?
17:Anonymous Adventurer
It wasn't free, and it wasn't exactly women-only either.
The request was simply filed by a women's group.
They paid for the escort, and the escort was a man, I hear.
23:Anonymous Adventurer
Where do you people even hear this stuff from?
26:Anonymous Adventurer
I happened to know one of the participants.
Entry fee was 10,000 yen per person.
28:Anonymous Adventurer
Cheap!
Promotion requests go for 2 million these days, right?
That's one-two-hundredth.
32:Anonymous Adventurer
The participants were the freelance women adventurers from HQ and the general-class running shops in the craftsman district.
It wasn't a request at all—'Her Majesty the Spear King' promoted them personally, I'd bet.
I often see that group hanging around on weekends.
33:Anonymous Adventurer
It's the Saint!
More of a saint than the 'Holy Maiden' herself!
36:Anonymous Adventurer
But apparently every participant is joining the Chiba New Dungeon survey next year.
'Her Majesty the Spear King' is a Chiba staffer—was that the trade?
37:Anonymous Adventurer
And here you lot are, whining, when even general-class can join the New Dungeon survey......
For the record, I'm Single.
39:Anonymous Adventurer
I hit level 30, but I don't have the guts to challenge Floor 30.
My party members are split—some say there's still time.
42:Anonymous Adventurer
For me it's the level that won't make it.
Two more to go......
Guess I have no choice but to camp out deep in the dungeon.
43:Anonymous Adventurer
>>42
That part is the long haul.
Give-up-melon (AA omitted
48:Anonymous Adventurer
With thirty people, didn't some rare jobs show up?
Anyone with an acquaintance have info?
50:Anonymous Adventurer
>>48
You know that 【Fortune-Teller】 shop in the department store?
That person went 【Stargazer】, I hear.
That's all I know.
52:Anonymous Adventurer
>>50
Not HQ, so no idea lol.
Wait, does HQ seriously have a department store inside the dungeon?
53:Anonymous Adventurer
That kinda sexy fortune-teller lady, right?
Maybe I'll go pay her a visit after all this time.
55:Anonymous Adventurer
>>52
There's a normal food section that sells sashimi.
The arcade's punching machines all have records of 999—genuinely chaotic in there.
>>53
Sounds like the craftsmen are all packing up their shops and heading to Chiba.
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'【Emergency Video】Queen of the Sky Falls, Briefly Unconscious in Critical Condition'
1:Anonymous Adventurer
It has come to light that around the middle of last month, Uehara Asuka—a member of 'Blue Ocean,' Japan's only Quadruple-Rank adventurer party—had suffered grave injuries.
Known also as the 'Queen of the Sky,' she is famous for flying through the air by way of her special skill.
In a 'Blue Ocean' video released just now, footage shows Uehara taking her injury on Floor 48 of the Tokyo Dungeon.
The footage of an arrow-like object piercing the flying Uehara's abdomen, slamming her into the ground, is quite shocking to watch.
Fortunately her life was saved, and footage of her already back to daily life has been released as well.
'Blue Ocean' is expected to achieve the world's first Floor 50 clear, with anticipation from overseas as well as at home.
Attention now falls on whether this injury will affect the Floor 50 push.
Video URL (omitted
2:Anonymous Adventurer
That "Emergency Video" is last month's news, isn't it.
3:Anonymous Adventurer
Didn't know.
I did see the other members at the surface-side HQ yesterday, though......
10:Anonymous Adventurer
This video opens with "we're going to go look for the motorcycle in the dungeon" lol
15:Anonymous Adventurer
Watched it.
A bow attack? Too fast to tell.
Analysis team, where are you.
17:Anonymous Adventurer
Could this be another country's sabotage?
20:Anonymous Adventurer
>>17
It's Floor 48.
No reason to lie in wait somewhere an attack could come at any moment, and no reason to strike from there either.
And if you're sniping, you'd go for 'Blue Shadow' or 'Sword Saint-chan,' not the 'Queen,' right?
30:Anonymous Adventurer
>>20
Fair.
The 'Queen' would be a kidnapping target, not an assassination one.
No pursuit either, so it was probably just a bow-wielding skeleton.
58:Anonymous Adventurer
The shot came from outside 'Blue Shadow's' sensing range, right? Hitting the flying 'Queen' from a hundred meters or more away?
So skeletons reach this level on Floor 48, huh.
67:Anonymous Adventurer
>>58
A rifle wouldn't be unusual, would it?
70:Anonymous Adventurer
>>67
Plausible.
Past Triple-Rank, the SDF outnumber the adventurers, right?
Floors 48 and 49 are probably full of SDF-equipped skeletons as a matter of course.
100:Anonymous Adventurer
This thread's velocity is dangerous.
Make a separate thread for the conspiracy theorists already.
110:Anonymous Adventurer
>>100
The 'Blue Ocean' thread and the sword thread are completely consumed by this too.
Conspiracy theorists sprouting up everywhere lol.
121:Anonymous Adventurer
Two whole days passed between being shot and getting back to Floor 1—do humans just not die from that much?
I was certain she was dead the moment she lost consciousness partway through.
140:Anonymous Adventurer
>>121
On the surface she'd be dead for sure.
Adventurers don't die inside the dungeon as long as they have HP left—that's what saved her.
144:Anonymous Adventurer
>>121
Normally you'd die twice—taking the arrow, and hitting the ground.
High level is what saved her.
160:Anonymous Adventurer
>>144
"Taking the arrow?" I thought—but then, on top of those high stats she had the 【General】's buff and a wind-magic barrier up too.
If it were me, I might have literally exploded the instant the arrow hit.
170:Anonymous Adventurer
I'm just happy I got a recent shot of the 'Holy Maiden.'
Hasn't she been showing up less lately?
190:Anonymous Adventurer
>>170
She's in those "even if you find a New Dungeon, do not enter" commercials every day, isn't she?
200:Anonymous Adventurer
Living a normal life after THAT injury is pretty amazing.
Without the 【Saint】 it would've been bad, huh.
No aftereffects or anything?