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Translator: Kazumi
Editor: Kabur & Silavin
About half a month had passed since Haku arrived at the Tower.
During that time, Haku was mainly working with Sylvia and the others as a guard.
To perform the administration of the Tower, fighting was inevitable on each floor.
Except for Sylvia, who has very little fighting ability, the other members of the team were capable of fighting up to a certain level.
However, since they didn’t know what to expect, they asked Haku to follow them.
Haku’s fighting ability was almost on par with Kouhi and Mitsuki.
Although Kousuke was told that she would never surpass Kouhi or Mitsuki while he was in the Divine Realm, that didn’t mean she wasn’t close to them in power.
That was why he asked Haku to accompany them to the Floor of each Tower, mainly as a guard.
Of course, it was also so she could learn how administration of the Tower worked for later on.
Thanks to the fact that she was able to work with each member and move around a lot, Haku got to know them quickly.
Due to her origins, Kousuke was nervous at first about what could happen to her, but he was somewhat relieved by the result.
The first thing to do was to set up Amamiya Tower with four kinds of Fairy Stones in the same Floor as before.
The conditions for this summoning were still unclear.
However, Kousuke believed that Divine Power was definitely the last condition, as it was currently impossible to summon without his intervention.
The conditions to get there were also not known at all, so there was very little information about Fairy Stones.
As for Amamiya Tower, he hadn’t set up anything other than Fairy Stones.
Except, of course, for the summoning circle for defeating the summoned monsters.
Meanwhile, aside from Amamiya Tower, there had been developments in the other Towers.
First, during this period, the Tower level of all Towers except the Northwest Tower, which had not been modified in any way, went up to LV3.
At first, the condition of increasing the level of each Tower was thought to be something different, but it seemed to be dependent on the size of the Tower.
The conditions were different in the northeast, southeast, northwest, and southwest Towers among the small types, the north and south Towers among the medium types, and the Tower in Amamiya.
Once the conditions were known, it was just a matter of gaining experience under similar conditions, and then increasing the number of tasks to do.
Divine Power separates the items obtained from Amamiya Tower, World Tree, and Vermilinia Castle into their respective Towers, so in a sense, administration could be done without considering the costs.
Furthermore, the experiments that Kousuke had requested for the northeast, southeast, and southwest Towers were also in progress.
Wraiths were being summoned in the northeast, slimes in the southeast, and goblins in the southwest.
Kousuke had not chosen them, but the members who were the Administrators of their respective Towers had.
“So? So, what’s it like?”
Kousuke asked Floria, who happened to have returned from Administration.
“Floor’s control rate is up to about 80%, but beyond that, it’s difficult to enforce.”
“Difficult, you say?”
“There are always gaps, and we can’t seem to control the monsters that spawn naturally.”
It would be easy if they could cover all the gaps with a barrier, but that would defeat the purpose of the experiment.
It was to see how the naturally spawned monsters were doing.
“Hmm… How do you maintain the summoned monsters?”
“We have no problem with that currently, since we can feed them with monsters from the summoning circles. And we haven’t had any conflicts with other monsters.”
In the southwest Tower, where Floria was in charge of administration, she was summoning small Goblins, but there was one that had already evolved into an Oni Kijin.
Their appearance had become more human-like, or rather, more like a small person.
Their intelligence was also much higher than that of goblins, which made it easier to give them instructions.
“Since Onis came out, I’ve been able to take control of them, so there’s less wasted hunting.”
The Goblins who used to hunt relentlessly, not even for food, now hunted only for what they needed.
“Hmm. Is that efficient?”
“Hm? I wouldn’t say it is, but it saves us from having to summon additional ones?”
“That’s true, I suppose. If we consider summoning higher tiers in the future, being hunted for food would be a problem.”
If he could set up a summoning circle for intermediate monsters, he would be able to reliably generate Divine Power.
That would naturally increase the more summoning circles they could set up.
However, if the summoning monsters had lower efficiency when hunting, then their performance would be limited.
“I see that too. But you know, this isn’t something that’s teachable, right?”
“Well, I don’t mind that. But, I want to avoid training them to become fighting machines, so I think it’s better to teach them now.”
Hunting, but not for food or materials, was just a killing frenzy. Especially when it came to monsters.
“Is that how it works?”
“We don’t want them to go berserk and out of control, do we?”
“Oh, I see. So, that’s what you mean.”
Even though he was only working in a limited area called the Tower, Kousuke didn’t want any subordinates to go on a rampage.
“Also, some Oni can understand human language. Thanks to that, it’s easier to communicate with them.”
“Wow, is there more than one of those?”
“Yeah, it looks like there are several of them out there?”
“Then why don’t you take those individuals and build a base on another Floor?”
At present, as long as the intermediate monster’s summoning circle couldn’t be set up, there was not much point in keeping evolved individuals around.
If that was the case, he wondered what would happen if he took them to other Floors and let them act freely.
“Well, you’re the one who does the Administration, so you’re free to do whatever you want. There’s also the setting up of the summoning circle and stuff.”
At Kousuke’s opinion, Floria pondered.
She was probably thinking about many things.
“It’s certainly worth thinking about. Once we have a certain number of them, we can build a base in the middle tier.”
“Right, right.”
If intermediate monsters could be defeated on the Floor where they naturally spawned, then Divine Power could be obtained from there as well.
As long as the deficit in Divine Power was decreased, even if only by a little, it would be a welcome addition to the Divine Power that was currently being obtained from other Towers.
“Well, you can set up a lot of summoning circles, but don’t overdo it because it won’t do you any good if you can’t operate them.”
“I know. I’ll make the necessary changes.”
Just as it seemed like the conversation was about to end, Peach, Sylvia and Haku came over to where the two of them were.
“Oh~? Is there something you want to discuss?”
“No, it’s not really a discussion, it’s more confirming the current situation.”
“If that’s the case, I’ll report it too~”
It was Peach who said this, but Sylvia had to report at the same time.
As a result, it was found out that the same kin could only occupy about 80% of each Tower’s Floor.
If it was more than that, it would inevitably lead to the situation that Floria reported earlier.
As a side note, Sylvia was summoning slimes, but it seems that the slimes that became her subjects had some sort of change that prevented them from being easily defeated.
“Hmm, so maybe it’s best to keep things the way they are, but if the Tower level goes up and intermediate monsters can be summoned, the situation might change again.”
The results of the three Towers suggested that no matter how hard they tried, they would not be able to suppress the number of monsters that were naturally spawned.
As long as they were getting food from the summoning circle accordingly, it would only be a matter of time before the levels of naturally occurring monsters would be increased.
If things went wrong, there was a possibility that the monsters that spawned would eliminate the low-level monsters.
From now on, it would be necessary to pay attention to the naturally spawning monsters.
I decided to leave the rest to the administration of each Tower.
This experiment was only at Kousuke’s request, and each Tower’s Administration was left to their own devices.
Besides, it was enough for him to know that he could not do the same thing for Amamiya Tower at this point.
The cost would be entirely different, and the risk of gaps would be even higher.
If possible, it would be better to wait until each Tower could summon an intermediate level monster, but after that, depending on the results, it might be better to disperse the followers from each Floor to other Floors.
Kousuke told them to be careful of the monsters that spawned naturally because he somehow felt that the possibility of their monsters getting exterminated could happen.
