The detection feed showed a white spider dragging an egg back to its nest using its web.
Seemingly excited about its big find, it was rolling around happily in its nest, pondering how to taste this egg.
Well, since the egg was abandoned and she found it, what's the problem?
Speaking of which, that Earth Dragon was really scary lately, and seemed very angry. Could this egg be her child?
"Well~ What does that have to do with me… That Earth Dragon is still far away!"
"Hahahaha! After eating so much disgusting food for days, I finally get an egg today!"
"Poke—"
"Clink..."
"...!!!"
The white spider shivered all over, then rolled on the ground, wailing in pain.
"Oww, oww, oww!!!"
"This eggshell is way too hard!!!"
"Hey! With shells this hard, how do you Earth Dragons even hatch!? My own eggshell wasn't even this hard!!!"
Yeah, if her eggshell had been this hard, she wouldn't have been able to smash it with her head or even eat it afterward!
The white spider sighed mournfully. She had finally found an egg but couldn't eat it, and she had put so much effort into dragging it back.
'Damn it!'
'When would I finally get to eat some delicious food!!!'
"Kaito! This monster looks so strange! Its eyes are as big as watermelons and look like they're about to pop out!"
Mamako had been to this floor before, but this green lizard was a first for her. Perhaps it was a rare monster type?
No, it was more likely she hadn't ventured deep into this specific area, only staying near the main corridors leading to lower levels.
"Well... Monsters come in all sorts of special varieties."
Kaito looked at this lizard monster, recalling how Kumoko had struggled against it, and chuckled at the memory of her vomiting after eating it.
The Kumoko he was currently observing was still dealing with that egg, but it seemed she had given up, lying back with her legs crossed, contemplating life.
To be honest, seeing a spider strike that pose was rare, but if it was Kumoko, it seemed plausible.
Because of this, Kaito was increasingly certain that this white spider was indeed Kumoko. However, she wasn't very strong yet.
Well, surviving this long on this floor meant she was quite lucky...
Actually, no.
Interestingly, the deeper he probed into this area, the weaker the monsters seemed.
The powerful ones lingered near the entrances.
Thinking about it carefully...
That wasn't the main issue.
Normal adventurers simply couldn't reach the deeper parts of this labyrinth floor.
The surrounding rock was sealed. To enter, you'd need to carve a passage through over 20 meters of rock.
But for Kaito, he could easily open a passage using his abilities.
True, the labyrinth was huge. Even after a thousand years of exploration, it wasn't strange they hadn't fully explored it.
Most exploration focused on going deeper. They probably only did a cursory survey of the surrounding areas?
He asked Mamako, and she confirmed that many areas were indeed unexplored. Adventurers typically stuck to known areas.
Few adventurers ventured into unknown areas; it was dangerous. You never knew if a newly encountered monster was a known type. If it was unknown, their survival odds would drop significantly.
Besides, wasn't it nice to smoothly obtain crystals by slaying monsters with known weaknesses?
Knowing a monster's weakness, preparing accordingly, and being able to defeat it even if you were normally outmatched—nothing was more satisfying than that.
"So weak..."
Mamako defeated the green lizard with a basic attack.
Chiyo didn't need to lift a finger; she could tell how weak the monster was just by looking at it.
Honestly, even she couldn't fully explore such a vast labyrinth.
The labyrinth's massive magical energy interfered with everyone's detection abilities, including detection magic, making complete exploration impossible.
Only Kaito had fully explored the entire labyrinth.
In terms of area, if considered as a cylinder, it had a diameter of up to 50 kilometers!
With a height of 20,000 meters and about 400 floors, calculating the area per floor, it was indeed difficult to explore completely based on data alone.
Moreover, there were too few dedicated "exploration party" adventurers, as each expedition took months.
Truly powerful adventurers weren't concentrated in this town, exploring this labyrinth.
According to Mamako, many powerful adventurers were gathered in the New Royal Capital.
The Royal Family and the capital were there, and so was the Hero.
Furthermore, the largest labyrinth in human territory was also there, with even more monsters, both weak and strong, and even more abundant resources!
"Oh? What's that labyrinth called?"
Kaito became interested in this topic.
'Was the Elro Labyrinth not big enough? Did it not have enough resources?'
'It even had a Spider Queen.'
'What was so special about the labyrinth under the New Royal Capital?'
"Mm, this labyrinth originally had many names, but after someone gave it a new one, everyone gradually started calling it the Great Underground Labyrinth of Nazarick!"
"What? The Great Underground Labyrinth of Nazarick?"
'Wait, why did that name sound so familiar?'
'I remembered it being called... not the Great Labyrinth, but the Great Tomb???'
"Does it have any other names? Of course, I don't mean the names it had before."
"Hehe, because that labyrinth is huge, with many monsters and resources, adventurers love challenging it. It's not uncommon for some to strike it rich overnight! But because it's equally dangerous, it also becomes a graveyard for many adventurers."
"So..."
"Its other name is the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick!!"
Mamako stated the other name of the largest labyrinth in human territory with a serious expression.
Upon hearing this, Kaito couldn't help but fall silent.
'Wasn't that place a guild's base...'
'Setting that aside, if the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick was the largest labyrinth, and the Elro Labyrinth ranked third in human territory,'
'then the question was: what was the name of the second largest labyrinth?'