CH 32

Regarding this 'Dungeon' Alma mentioned, apparently nobody knows how they come to be or who make them.

They exist everywhere in the world, and people keep finding new ones each year.

Some dungeons even showed up out of nowhere without any prior signs.

Despite occurring naturally, they host treasure chests and the insides look like they're artificially made by people, they're quite an enigma.

Wonder if it's another of that law of nature thing. Just like with Demon King, it's weird how their origin or nature seem to be hazy.

Each floor in a dungeon is filled with magic beasts, traps, treasure chests and the likes. The deeper you go the more dangerous those traps and magic beasts become, but it also brings out even rarer items to loot.

Also the structure inside will periodically change, so it's generally impossible to plan out your expedition by memorizing the floors. Kinda like roguelike games.

There exist 'Portals' located a certain point past the entrance on every floors which you can use to instantly warp outside the dungeon. Wonder if the creator is a video game developer or something?

Nevertheless, there's a not insignificant number of people who challenged dungeons and never came back so you can never be too careful.

Let's just try out shallow floors today. I don't wanna go straight to risky floors right off the bat.

It's just as Alma said, there really is a small cave with a signboard written with, 'Dungeon up ahead. Entry off limit without permission.' to the south of Dajiel.

No problem for us since adventurers registered with the guild have permission to enter dungeons. Getting injured or dying is your problem however.

After checking our belongings, we set foot inside.

The interior is bright like we're outdoor in daylight even though there's no torches around.

Apparently there are light stones installed on ceilings and walls illuminating the surroundings. Just how convenient can this all be. It's nice how comfortable things are though.

We traversed through the first floor for a bit and found surprisingly few magic beasts.

In the first tens of minutes, we only came across two goblins.

And all the treasure chests we found were empty. Huh?

"Is this just how it's like on shallow floors? Honestly, I'm a bit let down by how sparse things are..."

"Perhaps, there were already adventurers coming here. You can't hunt magic beasts in the forest, so the only ways to earn right now are either exploring a dungeon or moving to another region."

"Oh that must be it. I wonder who."

Hoping it's not that Dasomething guy. I don't wanna see whatshisface again.

Hm? Something's on the ground? An item?

"Hm, isn't this a woman's hairpin? Is this also a type of loot in a dungeon?"

"! That looks like the hairpin Miokusmel had on her...!"

"Mioku... What?"

"Fifraila's party, the silver haired girl."