I had succeeded in evolving my Crown Prince title to the Crown Prince of 40F. The rumor that the Crown Prince had appeared on the 40th floor began to spread among other continents’ explorers, and my party instantly filled up whenever I created a party. Since I hunted the reaper three times every day, I was allowing up to twenty-seven explorers to advance to the 41st floor every day. That was assuming that everyone did their jobs and managed to survive. In reality, the number of people that advanced every day was less than half that number.

From what I saw, there were about 1,500 people who were stuck on the 40th floor without being able to advance. In other words, after about a hundred days, most of the explorers would have advanced. However, two weeks after I started, my parties were no longer full.

“They’re content as it is.”

An old magician who left his party behind to join mine told me after the raid ended.

“They’ve stayed like this for dozens of years. Imagine if you were in their shoes and you...