Chapter 32
Four days. It took four days to complete the map.
I'm talking about the Floor 4 map. It was bigger than I expected. Like, triple the original size that I had first anticipated. And that's when not taking the myriads of secret paths and rooms into the equation...
It was a stroke of genius for me to capture the Queen Crushroach. The roaches may be muscleheads, but simply add some guidelines for them to use, such as having their left hand on the Dungeon wall at any time, and any labyrinth can be conquered.
It was a surprise to me the third day when I woke up and discovered that the mental map was plastered with markings for secret entrances. Heck, if I had tried to do this by myself, I'm not sure if even a month would be enough.
After the map was completed, the roaches went to Floor 5, or as I like to call it, the Dungeon's very own water coaster. The floor's one big lake, way too deep and big to cross by swimming.
Above the lake, there's a pipe system that one can use to travel to the other shore or any other place on this floor. You can hatch a ride on the large "boats" made of a material that looks like black pumice. Therefore the "water coaster" part.
Eh? You don't know what pumice is? It's a volcanic rock, look it up.
The boats are durable enough to carry even four roaches before capsizing, but that's seriously on the edge there. And it's not only the wild ride that's the problem.
As one may have noticed, the different floors, except Floor 8, are populated by a specific genus of Glavras monsters. The snakes on Floor 1, the tortoises on Floor 2, the dinosaurs on Floor 3, and while they were extinguished by the macho-roach army, the spiders on Floor 4.
And like a digital clock that reached 24:00, we have reached the end of the line and returned to having snakes on Floor 5. These guys shoot magic on any intruders that they notice using the pumice boats. I managed to sneak past them before thanks to my hiding skills and small body, but that's no good with the macho-roaches.
Since they couldn't sneak a ride, the macho-roaches decided to take it instead. An all-out brawl happened between the roaches and the snakes, which even included some evolved, bigass snakes like the floor boss on Floor 1! They weren't the Floor Boss though. Wonder where that guy is?