Did she already know what I would ask her for?

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In the end, my theory was not correct.

Using a weapon with the chain rune in each hand does not allow me to have two chains active at the same time.

So I gave the new Chain weapons to my girls, and we have been using them every time we go to the Golden Labyrinth.

At first, Alessia didn't understand the point of going to a labyrinth to fight weak monsters, until I explained to her and Delia that this is my way of getting money.

The blonde accepted my explanation and said nothing more about it.

But it became clear that she is not in the least interested in bullying the monsters in the Golden Labyrinth to get as many runes as possible and that she finds it boring.

Delia, however, as expected, prefers the Golden Labyrinth to the Altamira Labyrinth.

Who did complain a lot about Delia using a different weapon was Blue Wind.

Apparently the talking spear got very creative with the insults towards me when I handed Delia her new spear with Chain.

To the point that at that moment Delia dropped Blue Wind with a frightened look on her face and quickly put it away in her storage ring without even explaining the reason for her actions.

After a few days, according to Delia, Blue Wind started to be a little more understanding about it.

But surely the talking spear still resents me, because lately Delia has to ask Blue Wind every now and then not to insult me and keeps the spear in her storage ring almost as soon as she sees me.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

At first the spear's attitude bothered me quite a bit, but over time I realized that now I can't worry about that kind of nonsense.

Aside from that, I can't even hear her insult me.

Our days of raiding the Golden Labyrinth haven't done much to increase our levels, even with the 90% discount active, but that changes every time we go to the no man's zone.

That's why most of the time I come alone to the Golden Labyrinth and leave the girls to take care of the clinic, which is slowly starting to become more and more well known.

In the early days, Delia treated only a few people a day, but now there is usually a queue waiting in front of the entrance to the clinic to receive Delia's care.

Alessia at first didn't want to let me go to the Golden Labyrinth alone, even though she obviously doesn't like to spend the day killing monsters over and over again that any novice could defeat.

But I was able to convince her to stay at the clinic by telling her that I could only trust her to take care of Delia while I was gone.

Alessia at the time mumbled, I don't know what about her not liking to babysit, but she accepted my words and said she would do as I asked.

So, since Delia prefers working at the clinic to going to the labyrinth, when I go to the Golden labyrinth, she takes the opportunity to do what she loves most in the world: helping people.

By leaving my girls working at the clinic, I don't have to put up with Alessia's bored look when facing the monsters in the Golden Labyrinth or Blue Wind's negative attitude every time Delia has to use a weapon other than her.

But, despite not bringing my girls with me, I can still get runes efficiently on the higher floors of the Bajamira labyrinth.

All thanks to the clone's clever idea of using the summoning scrolls to conjure friendly monsters to eliminate the monsters I can't eliminate without breaking the chain.

Obviously, the snow wolves summoned by the scrolls are as weak as the monsters that dropped the scrolls.

They have no time limit to stay summoned, but they require a constant supply of mana to stay summoned, since each new summon adds a -3 to the MP number shown in my interface.

This means that I can't recover that amount of MP while the summon is active, even if I take an MP potion.

Apparently the invocations do not take into account my MP storage magic items and can only be maintained with the MP coming directly from me.

These details make the summons useless to help me fight in the labyrinths, as I can only have a few activated at a time, and they are not strong enough to fight alone against the enemies on the upper floors.

I tried to summon monsters more powerful than the humble snow wolf.

But the amount of MP required per summon is too high, and so I concluded that it is not efficient for me to summon them.

At the end of the day, I simply need the summons to deliver the finishing blow to the monsters that I can't personally eliminate without breaking the chain.

So, having two or three snow wolves active when I go alone to the labyrinths is more than fine.

I don't know why the summoned monsters allow me to keep my chain active, as it could be interpreted that they are a tool that I am using.

However, you can't look a gift horse in the mouth.

And speaking of gifts from heaven...

For rune farming, my new great sword with Chain+ is amazing, as it allows me to increase my chain number twice as fast.

Another benefit of coming alone to the Golden Labyrinth is that, being alone, I can dedicate only a few of the days to rune farming in that labyrinth.

And use the rest of the time to dedicate to rune farming in the trap rooms of the Altamira labyrinth, obtaining some runes that are much more valuable than those obtained in the Bajamira labyrinth.

The trap rooms are simple to find thanks to the map in my interface, and I only need to reach them once to acquire the possibility of appearing directly inside them with space travel.

The labyrinth has a cooldown of several days, or even months, to generate new loot bait in the trap rooms.

As a result, the vast majority of the trap rooms I have visited had no bait inside them.

However, monsters respawn every day or two, and there are always at least 100 monsters of the same type in each trap room.

This is great for getting experience and loot at the same time, as I can easily make long chains with the monsters in the trap rooms, and all the monsters on floors 7, 8, and 9 of the Altamira Labyrinth always give a juicy amount of experience.

This is something I could do perfectly together with my girls, but I imagine the experience would not be to my dear Saint's liking.

And Alessia would probably get bored, always having to fight in the same places and against the same monsters.

After all, no one in their right mind would willingly take the risk of entering trap rooms if it weren't for the bait that lures greedy adventurers.

Fortunately, my judgment lately has been in a rather delicate state, probably due to a lack of rest from overusing energy potions.

I imagine this was the smart clone's fear, which is why he was cautious about using them, but I don't think it's that big of a deal.

I don't like leaving Alessia and Delia alone for so long, but I can monitor their safety with my interface map, and there are certain things I need to do alone if I don't want to worry my girls.

Plus, I prefer them to do something different than going to the labyrinth almost every day, as I am doing lately.

During these days, I have occasionally gone to the war zone for a few hours to give Cael maps of the enemy soldiers' positions to keep him happy.

No matter how stressed I am at the moment, I still prefer to keep the stalker commander happy, so I don't have to worry about his stupid threats.

That's the only activity I do, aside from fighting in the labyrinths.

My current day-to-day existence is somewhat sad.

But in desperate times, desperate measures are required.

And it's not really that terrible.

At the rate I'm getting stronger, I know it won't be long before I reach the amount of stats I need, as calculated by the smart clone, so that we can have a little more security if I ever have to fight several people on the level of Dorian Aranis or Samael Entrial.

Then I can finally relax a bit.

Besides, knowing that my girls are content and calm somehow makes the current situation a bit more bearable for me.

And since they've recently gained some experience, even if I go alone into the labyrinth...

I'll take care of our problems on my own, one way or another.