Having a highly compatible shielding partner to stick to their sensor like a paranoid koala bear helps. This whole process was once a lot slower, before they had Da-eun available to keep the precious sensor safe.

"Entering portal now," says the aforementioned shielding partner on the comms, holding Minseo in a princess carry. There are DRT ahead of her who have secured the other side, but in case of an emergency, literally just carrying her partner is more efficient, both guiding wise, and 'getting out of the dungeon without tripping' wise.

She can feel the shift of going through a portal, and she stops looking through her eyes.

With her left hand, she confirms a little pop-up that the dungeon does not have any 4th dimension surprises, and with her right, she starts sketching the layout with her stylus. When she got started, she used a tablet, but the advancement of the commscreen has gotten rid of such annoying clutter. The stylus, though, she kept, because she needs the buttons on the sides for ease of symbol use and color marking.

Portal location is already marked, as the center of every new map she makes - it just needs a brief twist of her left hand to get the scale accurate, and then she can focus entirely on mapping. Every dungeon has a theme, but Minseo barely notices them anymore. Corridor here, branch here, here, and here, circles around to a larger room here. Mark this wall with grey instead of black because it looks like it's thin enough to pierce with demolition. Monsters here, here, and here, in red monster symbols. Victims here, here, here, in green. Hazardous locations marked yellow or orange or red based on estimated danger level. Locations here and here marked in purple, for non-dangerous but potentially slowing terrain. Most dungeons aren't cooperatively 2-D, so she has to switch which plane she's drawing on with a specific gesture in her left hand as she draws. Pit here, purple marker at the bottom, contains several (green) victim markers.

It doesn't, as these things go, take all that long for her to do. With the way her power works, she can 'pull back,' and get an excellent overview of everything she's looking at, and move her hands as if she's trading the wall lines, flicking back to a view of her own hands to not lose her place as she draws. She has a full decade of practice and muscle memory, of optimizing her workflow and filing off the awkward fumblings of needing the program to do what she wants.

While she works, her partner watches thoughtfully, and starts plotting out how this dungeon will be tackled. She is the one person always available to ask questions about what the marked hazards look like, and makes it her secondary job to do so, without interrupting Minseo's flow. The purple hazardous zone is slippery autumnal leaves, okay, understood. Walls are - trellis of tree bark and granite, expect to be punching through granite if wall-piercing is attempted, but this does also make it harder for monsters to do the same. Future proposed choke points here and here. Someone see about sourcing materials for a barricade to fortify this location, several of the monsters have nonlethal ranged attacks. Could be some sort of poison, currently unsure.

She doesn't need to think about her power, really. It's very simple. She's expanded it to the area that's being held around the portal, and she is not letting anything that is not safe, breathable air, safe levels of the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum dedicated to light that is visible to humans, non-harmful levels of soundwaves, and DRT personnel through. Da-eun generally avoids messing with Minseo's maps while they're in progress, but she does twist around to mark with her finger (in blue) where her shields are located. She notes into the comms that nothing's testing them.

Core located here. Protections in the form of large snake monster and solid walls, but minimal traps around the core. Dungeon officially categorized as C-rank, marked for not requiring active esper assistance. Further victims expected in marked locations if they appear. Projected likely extra monster spawn points here and here, but she could be wrong.

And then: blip! Map confirmed complete.

"Done."

In times that are not a confluence, they often stick around at the portal entrance to offer coordination and sensor assistance to the DRT, but, well.

"No abnormal shielding feedback detected. Be careful, but you should be okay to take it from here, sergeant."

She waits for confirmation from the sergeant, and then out the duo go.

"Good to do another one, or do we need a break?"

"Pfah, no, that one was easy. Onwards, my steed!"

Da-eun snorts. "You picked that up from Ji-woo-unnie."

But yes, she gets to inputting the coordinates for the next dungeon portal.

"No comment~!"

Minseo finishes mapping five more dungeons, four C-ranks and one shifting B-rank, and then they break for lunch.

Real life isn't like one of her tidy video game systems, neatly telling her how her percentages and numbers go up from her efficiency. Which is a pity, Minseo likes seeing numbers go up because of her skill. But it doesn't really matter, anyway. She's a gamer. She'll always be driven to optimize, and she'll just have to guess at how many lives she saves with her efforts, instead of getting a nice number that tells her she's doing the best. Oh, well.

Still a pretty cool day job.