Chapter 240: Discussion

"The next course of action..."

Asagiri organized the information they had so far. After a few seconds of thought, he made a decision and spoke softly.

"We clear out the seventh floor. Only our team and Mr. Ichikawa’s team are allowed to remain here."

"Yes, that’s the right move."

Iwanaga Kotoko nodded in agreement. Everyone had just seen how troublesome it was to kill a Player possessed by those fleshy tentacles. Injuries that would have been fatal to an ordinary Player meant almost nothing to them. The only reliable way to eliminate them was to crush the body completely and force the tentacles hidden inside to detach.

"Doing that will reduce the risk for now, but..."

Yuuki Asuna’s thinking was clearly more long term. She frowned slightly and said,

"If Players on the other floors fail to stop those fleshy tentacles from parasitizing them, then even if our floor stays clean, the parasitized Players from the other floors may gather together and come attack us as time passes."

"That is definitely possible..."

Leaning against the corridor wall, Iwanaga Kotoko narrowed her eyes and murmured as she thought it through.

"Should we just kill every other Player in this Dungeon... No, even for us, that risk is too great. Even if we succeeded, it would cost a lot of physical strength and mental energy. If we still don’t know whether parasitism is the only danger in this Dungeon, making that choice would be unwise..."

As Mr. Ichikawa and his two teammates stood at the door of Room 7011 and listened to the discussion between Asagiri, Iwanaga Kotoko, and Yuuki Asuna, they were already stunned.

Clearing out the entire seventh floor alone was already an absurd enough idea. The other Players were not pushovers. Unless they were facing an absolutely overwhelming force, why would they obediently retreat just because someone told them to?

And yet, judging from the tone of the three people in front of them, the matter seemed almost effortless. The girl in the Western style dress had even casually considered whether to kill every Player in the entire Dungeon. And what she had implied was not that it was impossible, but merely that it was not worth the cost.

Just how terrifying was this Player team?

"Can we use that?"

Yuuki Asuna suddenly seemed to think of something and looked at Asagiri.

"If we use that to directly erase the source of the Cursed in this Dungeon..."

"We can’t."

Asagiri shook his head. He clearly understood that what Yuuki Asuna meant by "that" was his ability, Supreme Magic Bullet, which could erase enemies at the root.

"It leans toward conceptual interference. To put it in simpler terms, think of it like a command console in a game. First, I don’t know what the true source of the Hotel’s Anomaly is, which is equivalent to not knowing the enemy’s code. If I don’t know the code, then I can’t input anything into the console." 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

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