Major Renovations

By the way, this is a service.

Saying that, Haku-san passed an [Introduction to the Study of Dungeons] to me.

The author written on it was Haku Raviero. I get it now. Since a dungeon core was the one to write about dungeons, there probably wasnt a need for a primer after it.

Humans should have lot of gaps in what they know, so pay attention. If I recall this is popular among other dungeon cores I think?

Haku-san indicated an entry labeled [Safety Zone] with her white finger.

Quickly scanning over it, it read as [Monsters cannot enter, a safe place to rest].

This is what dungeons call [Production]. Preparing what looks like a magic tool, they tell their monsters to not enter the area. Doing that, humans would go ahead and think at their own convenience that theyd entered a safety zone and let down their guard.

I see, thats pretty clever. Youd even get DP from the adventurers while they waited in the safety zone. Above all, the [Safety Zone] really wasnt that at all. With no witnesses, if the adventurers were completely off guard they could cover up all evidence. Of course, since adventurers didnt leave evidence that theyd entered safety zones, people would think they just died in the dungeon normally.

Since information media is scarce in this world, a book from a big shot in the Imperial Capital would be given a high level of confidence. Like mass media.

Sooometimes, when a monster is arranged to enter the [Safety Zone], they would clamor about with A variant species appeared!. I would just dye their fur a different color to keep it interesting you know? When I pretend to be a diviner and teach them their traits and they give me their thanks, its hilarious you know?

Wow, I know what thats called. Its called swindling.

But definitely, something like that is convenient. I can also see that it has plenty of uses. I gratefully accepted the book.

By the way, the contents felt more like a way to tell dungeons apart than a primer. Things like famous dungeon capture guides didnt really pop up.

Since youll be studying and preparing, how about we start in three days? Good luck, alright?

Is that enough time to return to the Imperial Capital?

Although I dont go out of my way to learn things from humans that are at best [Crops], since Im an adventurer I learned [Teleport]. Ah, the scroll of teleport is 50,000,000 DP you know? Though even if I used it, I dont use it casually since it uses a quite a bit of magical power. Since its normally used by the mage division, I dont use it alone.

But you just said youd use space-time magic to connect the entrances for the Dungeon Battle.

Theres a dungeon function in the [Menu] that does that. When I let scholars examine it they said it was some kind of space-time magic, but even though I understand it somewhat despite understanding if I look at it like connecting spaces, I dont really get it? Mysterious.

Looking at it from my side, isnt it a bit late to call space-time magic mysterious?

Well, Im looking forward to three days from now Follow my memory, fasten my path to the far-off distance. Dash through the sky, dash through time. That place is this place, over there is right here. Intersect, overlap, connect together[Teleport].

When Haku-san recited the aria, both she and Chloe-san floated upwards and in an instant, disappeared in an intense light.

*

Rokuko, who had grown slightly giddy from Haku-sans appearance, came back here after a moment. Sobering up, she looked at the DP and was astonished when she saw the 110,000 DP.

So, is there a chance to win?

There is. There are some rules but for the most part, they are beneficial to us.

When I said that, she stared in puzzlement.

Really? Are you talking about using the 10000 DP from the service?

There were no rules against using resources we already had, so to give an extreme example, the rules have no problem even if we put a Dragon in the dungeon, so long as [it doesnt use DP]. Though I wont go that far, giving monsters magic weapons wouldnt be odd.

Putting her hands up, Rokuko sighed.

Haaah. Kehma, leave it to you to make a loophole like that what should I call you, sly?

Your beloved Onee-sama was the one to make the rule. It was amazing.

As expected of No. 89 Ane-sama!

Seriously. Shes a considerably amazing person alright. In a good way. [1]

Though I probably wouldnt poke through loopholes in the rules if my opponent were Rokuko, I wont go easy on others. If my opponent was essentially me yep, I wouldnt go all out ah, I want to sleep. I want to give everything up and sleep already. Itd be hard to sleep after losing though. The [Futon] is already unpleasant enough.

So, Rokuko, Meat. Your job.

The first thing I took out by using some of the 110,000 DP.

Was a shovel and pickaxe.

*

First of all was expansion. Dig the hole. Dig is with a bang. I can get golem materials as well as being economical by excavating from the dungeon.

I steadily added golems to the materials gathering operation. I had Rokuko and Meat on site to give the detailed instructions while I produced the golems My natural recovery couldnt keep up, so I drank a [Mana Potion (150 DP)]. Yep, bitter. It gets absorbed into my body when I drink it, and keeps working without filling my stomach no matter how much I drink. Preferably, I want a barrel. A mana potion barrel.

Oh, mana potions appeared in the drink(barrel) selection. Seriously, that 1000 DP price is obviously economical. I wonder if those containers were expensive? They were crystal glass-like containers after all.

Then, I used [Additional Floor (5,000 DP)], adding two floors above and below for now.

The mountain cave can extend both up and down so thats a benefit. Its assumed that dungeons dont go both up and down as you go inside. With that sort of feeling, I directed the two.

More and more digging! Stone, dirt, everything is good, since its the gathering of golem materials!

Well, we dug the first underground floor hey, do we reaaally need to dig? Its troublesome so cant we just use DP to do it in one go?

No good. I want more golem materials, even if its just a bit.

I intend for the first underground floor to become the second floor of the labyrinth. There will be fairly convoluted passages.

By the way, it takes more than 10,000 DP when done by DP, but just around a rough estimate of 5,000 DP if we handle excavating the passages ourselves. Furthermore, I also get a lot of golem materials, too.

I have no choice but to have Rokuko, who can use the map like me, dig and give fine commands Im counting on you.

Ugu g-got it

Ah, Id forgotten about it, but was that just now part of the absolute command?

Rokuko Though I have order rights, its only valid when I say its an order. Otherwise, act on your own judgement Well, Im planning on annulling the absolute command rights when this Dungeon Battle is over anyways.

Im using my order rights this time to make sure theres no errors in the detailed instructions. Ill annul them after the Dungeon Battle.

Fueh? Ah, un Is that okay?

Partners are of one body and mind. I want us to be equals as much as possible.

Partner U-un, right! Dungeon core and their master are of one body and mind after all!

Yeah, Ill leave it to you then Thats not an order, yeah?

Leave it to me, Ill to my best!

Rokuko smiled pleasantly, once again heading off to give the golems orders for the excavation.

Well, Meat is digging several pitfall traps near the entrance.

Furthermore, Ill be installing a [Dummy Core (5000 DP)] in one of the passages that are being excavated.

Pitfalls and dead-ends, the classics. Well, Im just placing a dummy core there.

The dummy core has a castling function, it could be used to swap it and the real dungeon cores positions. In other words, the dungeon core can take refuge only if theres a dummy core placed.

Though Haku-san wont use the castling function due to the rules for losing being touching the dummy core, I will use it here. Ill hide what I can hide.

The number of dummy cores that havent been found are like the dungeons remaining HP.

The pitfalls are all dug. Floorboards, placed tightly.

Alright, good depth. Add spikes when youre done take care to not fall in okay? Make sure to put the covers over the pits.

Yes.

By the way, the pitfalls covers were re~ally thin floorboard golems.

Golems are great for things even outside of the workforce, like building materials. Making a golem into a floorboard was the most troublesome so far though. Saving DP is important.

Ah, for the wall golems installed into the labyrinth, they sometimes move quietly and change the route. Amusing things like that. Like a mysterious labyrinth. Ill get in contact with Rokuko in a bit.

Now for the labyrinth riddle area.

There, I placed a [Switch-Style Sturdy Door (1000 DP)]. The switch was hidden by a decoration golem, which would open the door if the riddle is solved.

By the way, if it was closed and couldnt be opened at all it would be a breach of etiquette meaning if it couldnt be opened, its strength would fall to that of an average doors and would turn into a breakable object. I dont really get why it wouldnt work anymore and lose its strength from the dungeon if it couldnt be opened. However, looking at it the other direction, the strength from the dungeon turns it into an incredibly sturdy door.

The switch is its opened easily. Its fine even if the solution to the riddle is something anyone can do.

Though I say that, I just mean that its a door.

Hidden by the golem, the door itself is opened if the switch is pressed, a very simple riddle solution with ridiculously high strength compared to its DP consumption.

The weakness of it is that the golem could be destroyed, but wouldnt you think that it wont open if the solution isnt solved when you saw something like it? I hope so.

Honestly, it looks like it wont be solved with a glance, because its just well, the pitfall traps in the room will open with a wrong answer with the golems, so itll be interesting.

Now then, there are still a lot of traps I havent started on yet.

Ill be sure to mix in plenty of handmade traps with premade DP traps. No premade traps at all if possible, I want to alter them all in some way. If I can think of something.

Ah, my time for sleeping is getting reduced.

Id like to sleep like a log after all this

Footnotes:

He uses (often read as Warui -> Bad, hateful, unfortunate, etc) ironically, kind of like how Sugoi can be both amazing and/or dreadful depending on context. Return