It took Tobias's party just over a week to complete all of the challenges on the right side of the dungeon. Most of the challenges were able to be attempted until they were successfully completed, which saved them from having to make too many additional trips to the dungeon. However, in general, they tried to make it through a minimum of three new rooms per day before leaving for the tavern.
Thodin was a heavy drinker while Mirabella didn't like to drink at all. As for Tobias, he'd have one or two pints of ale, but he had to hold himself back most of the time to ensure he was sober enough to jot down notes regarding their progress in the dungeon. The guild had been disappointed by how long they were taking to complete the job for a brand new dungeon, but had been more understanding after learning about how quickly it had unlocked a second floor. It couldn't be helped, after all, if they had to take an entire month's break in the middle of their exploring. Still, they were quite confident they could knock the rest of the challenges out in just a week or two, even before they returned to the dungeon on the second day.
The right side ended up being much more tame than the left. The first room hadn't even been a challenge or a [Monster] field. Instead, it was just a pretty pond room that Mirabella had been quite captivated with. Tobias couldn't blame his sister, it really was quite pretty. However, they only had time to capture a few specimens before they had to be on their way. Tobias was quite sure that the guild would be happy to know that there were edible fish and frogs in such a safe room right off the entrance. It was likely to be quite helpful to the locals and adventurers alike.
The next room was the wildflower meadow, which was originally the first room one would enter when visiting the dungeon. How the times had changed! Now, there was no longer any sign of a kodama being in the room, according to Mirabella. While they now knew the [Monster] was harmless, it was still a bit off-putting to have it disappear like that. It just brought up the question of where it had gone and what it was doing. However, they wouldn't find that information out until much later.
As Mirabella needed the experience the most, she was left to her own devices as she defeated the five basic slimes in the room. Tobias lit a torch to put the bees in the beehive to sleep then got to work harvesting the honey. Meanwhile, Thodin helped out by collecting some of the plants in the room to serve as samples to send to the guild. Matthias didn't tend to collect any plants he didn't have a personal interest in. However, the sorts of plants he needed for his poisons didn't tend to be the sort Violet kept in her dungeon, so that wouldn't be happening today.
Finally, before wrapping things up for the second day, they completed the rainbow ball sliding maze challenge. That one hadn't changed much, but it did have a new reward of sugared pecans, which came in a brown wax paper cone. Since they had completed it once before, it was simple enough to organize everyone to push the dyed wooden balls into the correct order on the platform and they completed the challenge in no time at all.
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The next day, they returned to complete another set of challenges. Luckily none of the ones they had completed the day before involved locked rooms, so they could easily just walk through the ones they had previously finished and move on to the new ones. Well, they only ended up coming across one puzzle that was new to them, but they hadn't completed these puzzles during this run-through.
First up was the wooden slime jigsaw puzzle. Despite the name of the puzzle being displayed through their system prompts, it was still hard to make out the actual image when they were doing the puzzle. The slightly different shades of brown on the wooden puzzle pieces were not nearly enough to make completing the puzzle easy. Still, it did help that they now knew the general idea of how to complete the puzzle. It just took them a while to complete the challenge was all.
Getting four whole loaves of iced carrot bread made the time spent completing the puzzle well worth it, though. They would have to send another on off to the adventurer's guild, even despite doing so once before, but that still left three loaves to eat over the next week or so. Unfortunately, having the dungeon reset meant the researchers with the guild would want to ensure none of the ingredients and such had changed with any of the rewards. It still felt a bit frustrating to give up so much of their rewards, though, even if they were being well paid for their efforts.
The hay meadow was the next up, which wasn't anything new either. Mirabella didn't end up being the only one fighting, though, as the whole party found the chameleon slimes a bit annoying. Even if they weren't trying to engage them in battle, the [Monsters] seemed to enjoy playful jumping out at you, which often ended up with them accidentally being killed as they lashed out to protect themselves. Well, they weren't really in danger, but jump scares being reacted to by violence was a common occurrence for those who had the power to defend themselves, such as themselves.
Finally, they came across one of the newest additions to the dungeon: a giant Jenga tower of wooden blocks. This challenge seemed to require them to remove three blocks or more without toppling the tower and only one attempt was allowed per day. In order to increase their odds of finishing the challenge in one day, they decided to only have one of them enter the room at a time while the others waited in the hallway. When the tower, inevitably, ended up falling over, they would exit the room and share their findings with the group.
They didn't end up completing that one on the first day they attempted it. However, much like the slime parkour could be practiced at home, something similar could likely be set up for them to practice with when not in the dungeon. They wouldn't have time to do such a thing, but it would certainly be the strategy they planned to recommend to the guild once they wrote the report for it.