Preamble

I fell asleep, woke up, and started to think.

Id went about patrolling without any particular reason to do so, but it might not have been needed.

There werent any inquiries from Sia even after me looking around, either.

Calm down, its only been a day or two. Theres a good chance that the lord is just building up his strength.

Or maybe hes trying to make me feel agitated?

Gah! The heck man. Ill just develop a new dungeon boss to get rid of this feeling.

In truth, its an idea Ive been working on for a while now.

Ive made weapons using magic tools, but phenomena caused by magic tools are generally stronger when caused by traps. For example, [Water Source] for producing water or [Fire Trap] for producing flames. I cant really use superior traps from the DP catalog since I havent been using many traps, but they are still completely better than magic tools for what they do.

Oh? I can customize traps now, I dont think that was there before?

Well, its only about as much as being able to somewhat change its effective range when I set it up alright, lets finally see if its possible for us

Itll use up quite a bit of DP, but oh well. It should be fine.

I cant set traps up in the Master Room since its in the Dungeon Core, so Ill do it in the boss room.

First, Ill test to see if I can put a trap onto a golem.

I brought an iron golem over into the boss room and opened the catalog.

Yep, no can do. I cant choose it as the target to set it up on.

Next: can I set traps up on walls?

Thats normally possible, so I dismantled the iron golem and turned it into and ingot. I then thinned it out and put it onto the wall before trying to see if I could put the trap there.

Ill try it out with [Water Source] first. ah, maybe I should use [Fire Trap] instead so I dont flood the room?

Seeing fire come from the dungeons wall, I had the iron roll up into a lid to cover it.

No luck. I was planning on putting [Flame Traps] into portraits if that worked out, but guess not. Oh well.

Or perhaps it didnt work because the iron golem was its mount? Well, maybe I could use this to make a sauna in Succubus Village?

Then, I incidentally noticed that there was an entry labeled [Interior] in the DP catalog.

Taking a look at what it had, I saw various decorations. Theyre probably what you would ornament the interior of a dungeon with.

I havent looked at them at all since Ive been making all the decorations myself so far, but theres quite a lot huh Pillars, walls, paintings wait, could I?

I selected the statue (100 DP) I saw and bought it.

The statue of a goblin holding its sword threateningly before itself appeared in front of me It cost five goblins worth to get a single goblin statue. Normally, there wouldnt be much of a reason to buy it.

But this was a stone goblin statue. I could place traps on it.

Interior items are apparently considered part of the dungeon, so I could put traps on them.

Seeing a [Fire Trap] spew flame from the chest of a goblin is so surreal.

I used [Create Golem] on the goblin statue and changed its shape. It looked like it would stop activating if I tampered with the spot I installed the trap to, so I altered everything around it into a simple cylindrical shape. It didnt activate, though.

Apparently, it recognized what I did as [Destroying] the [Trap].

And so I tried repairing it with DP.

A moment later, it appeared to be working nicely, spewing flames from where the cylinder was aimed. Oooh~, its a flamethrower.

Alright, now I know that traps can be used even if I change their shape.

That was a big step forward. For example, now I could put a flamethrower like this into the mouth of a dragon-type golem or something.

Ah, but it doesnt look like I can install traps on things Ive already altered with [Create Golem]. So annoying. So I can only repair it like that huh?

Moreover, the flame pillar would engulf the cylinder if I made it too thin Id end up burning my hand if I did that. Note to self: dont.

I tried out customizing the [Fire Trap] by how wide its emission is, but it looks like thirty centimeters is how small itll go.

I can only do the customization when I first make the traps, so Ill have to think about it all in advance.

And I discovered another problem.

When I took the flamethrower out of the boss room to show it off, it stopped working. However, it went right back to working properly when I brought it back in.

As a result of a few further verification experiments, it turned out that traps would only activate on the same floor they were installed on.

The boss room was separated from the rest of its floor so that I could [Install] more monsters in case of an emergency, leading to it not working when I took it out of the boss room.

Im thinking that traps are only ever meant to be used as set-it-and-forget-it types and not move around.

Its a bit confusing, but I should just remember that traps can only be used inside the same floor theyre made on. Move them away from the floor is banned.

Well, so long as I keep that shortcoming in mind, this means that I can make a new golem model that incorporates traps.

Alright! Im pumped to make a giant fire-breathing dragon golem, lets do this!

Yeah!

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I fell asleep. Good morning.

I went back to my room and fell asleep after putting some time into the dragon golem.

I should be able to finish it after one or two weeks of working on it. Either way, no ones even made it to the boss room.

Ah, Kehma. Morning.

Morning, Rokuko. Has anyone contacted us from Sia yet?

Nope, its great.

Muu.

I get that I did what I wanted, but now I cant help but feel anxious over when itll happen. Thanks to that, I was only able to sleep eight hours last night.

I told him he could use my name for a month, so maybe nothing will happen if I leave them alone for the next month?

In other words

Im going to feel like this for a month?

Give me a break. Seriously?

Yeah, lets attack Sia.

Wait, Kehma? I dont get what youre saying, explain please?

Sorry, Ill explain.

Attacking them really would be a bit hasty.

But I have to do something from my end, dont I?

Hmm. What do you think I should do?

Leave it alone?

Rokuko answered like it was someone elses problem. I mean, that was my original intention

But Ill think about it if Im thinking about it?

I dont get what youre saying but in that case, um, how should I say it? Cant you forget about it if something else comes up?

Something else, huh either way, I wouldnt be able to sleep.

There being nothing going on is always going to be the best

Come to think of it, its almost time for Wataru to come by, huh.

Should we give Nerune a special holiday when he gets here? Hes a good way to get information.

For some reason, I had a faint, yet certain hunch.

Wataru was going to be bringing us an extraordinarily unfortunate story.