229 Chapter 16-7 Zip

"Every single rock looks like it's gonna be hard to get around... well, it doesn't really matter because I don't do it myself"

In the meantime, I tried to do something about the rock, and I put out about five large golems to get the rock out of the way. The rock is stacked with ten things the size of which I manage to lift with a few golems, and even the smaller ones seem to be slightly over 10t.

There was a vertical hole there when I got all the rocks out of the way, and when I dropped the pebble, the sound rang far, so it seemed like there was a wide space like a basement or a long space like a road.

"Well, what do you got?"

The hole was almost perpendicular at the beginning, but turned into a gentle ramp about three to four meters down.

"I'd like to go down, but there are signs of some creature walking, and once back..."

Back on the ground, I thought I might want to report to my grandfather and the gin, and I heard something coming this way from a distance.

There are two kinds of sounds that you can hear, a sound that feels like kacha... kacha... and a sound that feels like beta... beta... Both seem to be footsteps, but rather slow compared to the average person's speed. Besides, it also smelled with the footsteps, so I somehow figured out who the Lord of that sound was.

"'Fireball'...... Skeletons and Zombies after all...... Zombies? Is that a zombie?

One was a skeleton as I thought it would be, but the other seemed similar and different to the zombies I knew.

"'Appraisal'"

He showed up in the light of "Fireball." If you "appraise" that (...),

Race...... Golem of rotten meat

And out. Maybe it's a naturally occurring golem with a collection of rotten meat. It was the first demon I've ever seen, but it doesn't make me feel like looking into it.

"Maybe this was Hydra's bait?

With that in mind, when I visited the 'fireball' on the golem of rotten meat that was at the head, it burned up and collapsed easily...... but from the second one I decided to chop it up with an 'air cutter' as it burned and at the same time had a tremendous stench. The "Air Cutter" ones weren't as effective as the "Fireball," but they couldn't walk if they aimed at their feet, they were soft, so they were easy to penetrate, and they were efficient because they could involve a few in one shot.

"I don't need a golem, but I need a few samples from Skeleton."

Both Skeleton and Golem just came straight up, so they focused only on Golem and magically targeted him, and Skeleton let him stay close. And

"Oops!

He destroyed Skeleton's head, which came nearby, with "Stonebrit," and recovered his demonic nucleus where it collapsed. Skeleton won't move if he removes the nucleus of the demon from his bones, so if he knows how to deal with it, he's not that threatened. Most importantly, there are occasionally skeletons that are considerably stronger than common skeletons, so there is no way to be alarmed. Now, once every few years, we hear stories of new adventurers wiped out or fled by their skeleton opponents…

"Well, looks like these guys aren't that strong"

He didn't have a weapon, and he was such a weak skeleton that even his bare hands could take him down, that from the second body he decided to take out the demon nucleus with his bare hands and secure it in beautiful condition. It's a dangerous act, but it seems likely enough given the difference in strength, and most importantly because we needed something as unbroken as possible to look into this skeleton.

"We've secured ten bodies, and then we'll take them down together."

I was able to secure enough samples, so I magically blew them up with the golem and decided to get out of here.

"'Airball'"

He unleashed an 'airball' the size of a passageway critical and blew the rest of the skeletons and golems to the back of the passageway. There were quite a few of them, so I felt like the Devil's Nucleus was a waste, but as far as the Skeleton's Devil's Nucleus is concerned, it feels low quality, so I decided to give it up. Well, I think if you leave me alone, I'll be back, so you can come back and get it if you really need it.

"Do you want to retrieve the Golem's demon nucleus..."

I don't like it, but I'd better take a few home as samples, so I swung the flesh pieces of the golem I knocked down on the first one with skeleton bones to look for the demon nucleus, and likewise used skeleton bones like chopsticks to remove the demon nucleus. The demonic nucleus of the removed golem was washed with water magic, then wrapped in the cloth that was in the bag and apart from the demonic nucleus of the skeleton. By the way, the bone I used to find Golem's demonic nucleus and the bone I used instead of chopsticks, I threw it away because it was dirty.

After collecting the Demon Nucleus, he also remembered to collect samples of Skeleton and returned to the top with the magic of "Flying Sky".

"Later, cover the lid the same way you did the first time..."

To the golems who had kept them waiting, they moved the rocks again to plug the holes, and then covered them with earth-magic, rock-by-rock domed lids. Now you won't be able to go outside with that skeleton or the golem, no matter how much you raise.

"Hey, it's time to go back -!

Moving up one floor from the bottom floor, I called the slurrins who were supposed to be playing around here. While I was collecting hydra, the slurrins couldn't resist the smell and fled upstairs. Well, it was Shiloumal and Solomon who couldn't stand the smell, and Slalin who didn't feel the smell had nothing to do with it, but when I left the two of them alone, I didn't know what to do, so they followed Slalin as your guide.

Using "Exploration" while calling the names of the slurrins, all three were headed toward those with warp zones. Maybe Slalin is giving instructions to head over there. At this rate, you're going to arrive before me.

"Sularin, I need to hurry up and let Grandpa know...... Oops!

The suggestion was that the slurrins were ahead of us, so when we turned the corner on a small run to rendezvous in a hurry... In front of us was Minotaur, a man-shaped demon with a cow's head. He hurried to distance himself and set himself up to unleash magic, but when he looked closely, Minotaur was bleeding out of his mouth to death. Behind it were Slalin, who shakes his body with regret, and Shiloumal and Solomon, who looked like the prank had succeeded. By the way, Minotaur cannot be eaten unlike oak...... but it is not suitable for consumption because it has a lot of muscle and stiff meat and does not taste good. However, the muscle part can be used as a material for weapons and protective equipment (and then, when dried, it becomes an animal snack), as can bones on the skin and corners for a variety of things. Besides, Minotaurs are rare among A-rank demons, so guts and the like may also be sold for experimental use.

"You guys, not if you're naughty! Shiloumal and Solomon will be skipping snacks for awhile!

When Minotaur was recovered into a magic bag and declared snack unplugged, Shiloumar and Solomon began to sound pitiful with their heads as low as a dugout in great haste.

"Sularin, something unexpected has happened, so we'll be right back up there. You'll be running around looking for your grandfathers, so stay in the bag from now on. Shiloumal and Solomon too, if you really don't want to get snacks pulled out, put them in your bag quickly!

If that's what I say, the two of them tried to get into the bag so they could compete. And I got hooked at the entrance and exit.

The two of them managed to stay together.

"Sularin, I'm sorry..."

Slalin put the two together and took them into her own body before I ran out. And Slalin, who couldn't get in the bag, I decided to take him.

"Good! I was here!

The first thing I headed out of the dungeon was the Adventurer's Guild, where I could drink and get information, and since Agri, my grandfather's drinking buddy in Seigen, has a high probability, it felt like I was going to start here, but Grandpa was here as I thought. Finally, the gin and the others were drinking here too, saving them the trouble of looking for it.

"Grandpa, Jin, I need to ask you a few questions, so follow me to the dungeon"

The grandfathers looked surprised, but when I hurried they followed me in silence. I mean, we... or some adventurers (full of people) came in to see how Jin and Jin were, and they were funny and they called out, but when I glanced at them, they went back quietly.

"So, Tenma. Why did you bring us here? I pretended to be angry, but you weren't really angry, were you?

My grandfather, who had been quiet so far, had asked me what it meant to come to the bottom level instead of the Jins trying to remember why they had been brought here.

"Before I do, I'd like to ask, is there ever more than one dungeon?

"What are you saying...... I don't think so, but you say this dungeon is!

He was a grandfather who showed his face for a moment, stunned by what I was saying, but soon he seemed to understand what I was trying to say, and he got excited and grabbed my shoulders and began to slurp abusively.

"Hey Grandpa, calm down! So, is there anything in the dungeon that a dungeon can do?

"At least I've never heard of it. You may be able to do it if the conditions are right next to or inside the dungeon, but in that case, it's going to be absorbed by one of them..."

With that said, Grandpa thought a little, and at the end of the day, he seemed to decide to leave it to the King to say, "If you let Alex look into it, he might know what it is". And I asked the Jins, too, but they told me there was no way we could know, even though Grandpa didn't know.

Then I opened the sealed vertical hole again and went ahead with my grandfathers to see it before the first time, but all that came out was a skeleton and a golem of rot, and all the other normal creatures that weren't demons who said bugs and rats.

"Hmm... looks like this is a different dungeon than the one above."

I walked around for about thirty minutes and found a hole leading down there. Since skeletons and corrupt golems were crawling up through that hole as well, it's likely that it's the same as this floor under the hole, and the fact that a dungeon nucleus was found upstairs, Grandpa had determined that this hole was a different dungeon.

"I'd love to keep exploring, but I guess we should stop for today. But not until you're ready and fit and ready."

I don't have enough information to say at all, and that's not what I was going to come by, so I decided to pull it up today just to make sure of the hole that follows below.

"I'll have to report this to the king when I get back to the capital. Then we'll find out if there's any other precedent, and we'll get everything ready before we dive in? Jin, I'm going to find out after I get to the bottom on my own, but don't worry about the Dawn Sword."

As a courtesy of the adventurers, I went from the hierarchy I was interrupting to the bottom and decided to dive at the time I stepped on it, but the jinns had already reached the bottom on their own, so I told them not to hesitate.

"As for us, I can't stop wanting to explore... I can feel the temper's new dungeons being explored first, and I can't help myself with the rocks I keep for sealing in the first place..."

Even though only relatively weak skeletons and rotten golems emerged as compared to demons around the bottom, until the place I checked, I can't say that there are only the same demons ahead, and given the nature of the dungeons that demons become strong enough to go down there, it's not surprising that there are demons stronger than hydra.

Given the possibility of such demons, Jin seems to think that the vertical hole that is the entrance should remain sealed until the next time it comes. Now, as a result of the on-the-spot discussion about what to do with this dungeon,

"Then it's good to know that after 'Oracion' arrives at the bottom level, we will begin our exploration jointly with 'Sword of Dawn'"

I decided to say. Normally, it would take a few years to calculate that it was from the hierarchy I interrupted, but the Gins would lend me the map they made during the attack, which would mean it wouldn't take a long year, and the Gins said they would wait until then.

This doesn't mean you're reluctant on me, but that attacking the dungeon would make noise around you for a while, and that you originally planned to take a long rest for the purpose of healing years of fatigue. Well, I think if I were you, I'd give the new dungeon priority over rest, and I think that's with the Gins, so I guess I'm kind of shying away for a reason.

"I'll have an engagement announcement in four months, too, and we'll work hard to get to the bottom level by then."

"No matter how many maps and information you have, there's usually no way you can step through the bottom dozens of layers there for four months... well, it's tense. And there's Master Merlin."

It seems that with me and Grandpa, they'd be convinced around. Furthermore, Jin was kidding, "If you say anything, I'll tell you it's a monster that has arrived to the bottom with a little advice".

"Then return to the king's capital."

"That's the thing, Tenma... you do the reporting to Your Majesty. In the first place, only Tenma discovered a new dungeon, and it's enough for us to be added to our first exploration."

And Jin said, and the galats were snorting,

"The real deal is that it's tough to be surrounded by kings twice in a short period of time?

Pointing that out, the jinns nodded all together.

When it comes to reporting on the new dungeons, you will be standing in front of not only the kings, but many nobles in the royal castle, and I know the jinns who are unfamiliar with the nobility will say they are tough, so they decided to report it with me and Grandpa... I don't want to be a pain in the ass if I can do it either, but I'll just be comfortable with it for having clear allies like the Duke of Sanga and the Marquis of Sammons.

"Well, I'll take that one, but I'll have you to come to Wang Du. Maybe I'll tell the Jins I want to talk to them."

"It's... well, I know, but try not to be that way as much as you can."

Jin pleaded hand in hand in front of him, and each of the galats had his head bowed.

"I'll do whatever I can, but the king will act as soon as he thinks of it, so be prepared enough to meet informally."

The Kings' assault must give up more than sleeping at our house. Speaking of which, Jin and Garratt said to look for a lodging house or something when they got to the King's Capital, but Leena said, "If that's the case, I think I moved to the lodging house because I don't want to see His Majesty," so I was going to continue to stay with us. Well, Leena's right. I'm not wrong to look for a place to stay to escape, and I don't think I'd be angry about that, but I'm likely to be blamed for being disrespectful by other nobles.

"That's right, Tenma, was there any gain other than the new dungeon?

Moving to the nearest warp zone, Grandpa asked me that. So when it comes to finding nothing particularly rare at the bottom,

"Hmmm... if there was such a powerful demon as Hydra, it wouldn't seem strange if there was such a thing as Mithril..."

"I'm not saying it's a substitute, but the Shiloumals were tailoring Minotaurs. I also feel it's unnatural to be in a dungeon that big, but what's going on there?

My grandfather felt that the lack of misrills did not fall on his heart, but as soon as he heard about Minotaur, he seemed to drive him to the corner of his head.

"That's not a name I've heard for a long time. The meat is hard, but the material is user-friendly, and most importantly, that muscle saved my life several times."

Anything. Some of the old adventurers took some of the big demon muscles like Minotaur for an adventure and made it an emergency meal when they said they had to. They don't taste much as it is, and they don't chew it out, but they're somewhat hungry by chewing it over and over like gum. Others said that simmering for a long time would soften them up and allow them to be used in cooking, but they said they would have to simmer for hours, so I didn't recommend them during the adventure. Incidentally, I don't like the taste even when it gets soft, so I don't recommend it even when it's normal.

"I don't know where it comes from, but you're a nasty opponent when you're in a dungeon. When you're in a narrow corridor, you can't take the back because of that big figure."

The Gin's collaboration would not be the one or two enemies of Minotaur, but when it comes to fighting from the front in formation in the aisle, they would struggle with the sturdiness and rigidity of Minotaur.

"Whatever it is, I'm glad you got the materials you can use."

As Jin put it, it's a shame Mithril was available, but it's a delightful miscalculation that Minotaur material went in and out. This would be a handful enough to forgive me for not needing silowmalls and solomons, and still let me have a full belly snack...... well, forgive me and let me have a snack after I've had some more reflection.

"Nevertheless, Tenma. Why did you pretend to be angry and take us out to show us a new dungeon?

Menace remembered me pretending to be angry at the guild and asked me like I said I wouldn't fall for it.

"If you pretend you're angry like that, you think the other adventurers made something of themselves with all the gin or galat, or 'dawn sword'? Then nobody would think there was another dungeon at the bottom of the dungeon."

If I told you about the new dungeon over there, it would be a fuss to discover it, and it was possible that the guild staff would tell you to take them to the bottom level to confirm it. There may be other fools dreaming about untouched dungeons and trying to force them to go to the bottom.

Saying you don't want to take Alliance staff to the bottom and not letting adventurers die in vain is the first reason the Gins have asked me to do this. Given that, I think it would be best to report the discovery of a new dungeon to the King first and ask him to put in place some measures. Most importantly, whatever you mean about the guild staff, I think it's entirely your own fault that the adventurer dies, but if you're going to reduce the hassle at all, it's best not to give them information.

"That's true... but I'm not convinced..."

The other adventurers seem to think that it's normal for them to be angry at me, but there seems to be a verse that comes to mind and I didn't say any more. Well, not so many times I got mad at Menace and Leena, but Jin and Garratt have done so many noticeable ways of getting angry that I figured if I had taken the 'Dawn Sword' in anger, the adventurers I was definitely watching would get me wrong.

"If you resent me, resent the daily deeds of Jin and Garat. Then we'll get back on the ground and get ready to go home. I want to leave tomorrow morning as planned."

If you want to hurry, I thought right now... but even if we leave now, the sun will be down in a few hours, and I'm pretty sure the information on the new dungeon should be communicated to the Kings as soon as possible, but I'm not saying it's a report of urgency, so we're going to act as planned.

Grandpa and Jin were both convinced by the explanation and talked about where they would eat (drink) and so on today. Well, I don't think you're gonna drink deeply, but you should say something before you eat.

"By the way, Tenma, what part of hydra do you want?

On the way to the warp zone, Jin asked as he remembered.

At first, I thought I would get a bone because I didn't think I could expect Hydra's skin, but thanks to Hydra's regenerative power, it seemed to take enough to come around for me, so I thought the skin would be nice, but I was able to give it a try, so I decided to choose Hydra's muscle (zipper). If you're a muscle, you have less use than other materials, so given the size of the hydra, you might be able to give me more than I need.

"Is that okay with you? We don't need it because we don't use bows, and your majesty didn't say anything about muscles, so if you don't want your majesty, you can take whatever you want."

I feel like I'm going to take it all just fine, so I'm going to pay some money, but depending on my negotiations with the Kings, I might get enough.

"Tenma... for once, you're not going to eat hydra muscle, are you?

And so on, my grandfather asked me worried. And the Jins, too, look worried about you.

I don't know if the hydra muscle is poisonous, but it would be easier not to eat it because it's almost all over my body. Well like a fugue, "It's poisonous but tasty if handled properly! I can't throw away the possibility of saying"... but let's try that on our own. I'm poison resistant, and this is a biologically valuable experiment!... and when I find out, I'll explain.

You can't do that.

"Tenma... honestly, I don't trust you. You can try it yourself, but if you're wrong, someone else... don't experiment with me."

My grandfather immediately saw me as lying and conditioned me regarding the experiment. Jin and the others, who watched how it was going, moved behind Grandpa and nodded over and over.

"He said he wouldn't do that. But it's delicious to simmer beef sauce or soup made with beef sauce... No, I don't mind."

The grandfathers who heard the words took a step or two back as they alerted me. While the gins are around, let's serve simmering beef broth and soup once. I'm sure you'll have an interesting reaction.

When I was thinking of the reaction of the Jins, my face seemed to burn, and when I realized it, my grandfather and the Jins were further away than earlier.

"That's it for the joke, shall we just go back upstairs? And I'm hungry."

So when I went to the warp zone, my grandfathers followed me a little distance from me.

I'm really hungry, and if I was talking about muscle, I somehow wanted to eat something like rice noodles, so I decided somehow when I looked back, trying to be sure to ask for a simmering dish where I was going to eat today.