406 Episode 0406



The morning approaches its end, and soon it's time for noon. Adventurers are much less visible in the guild than they are in the morning and evening.
 Guild receptionists and other staff are also looking forward to lunch. The guild door opened and two male adventurers walked in.
 Of course that's not all that unusual. There are not many adventurers, but there are no adventurers who will dive into the dungeon in the afternoon, or they may have come to get paid for accomplishing some kind of request, not the dungeon.
 The receptionist was thinking that way, but when she saw the two faces coming to her counter, she had a bad feeling.
 I don't want to bother you at this time of day when lunch break is near, so I would like you to go to another receptionist's counter if possible. The receptionist thought so, but unfortunately the two adventurers went straight to the unfortunate receptionist.

"I'm sorry, but I have something to say about Dungeon."

 The adventurer with the hammer on his back says so, and the adventurer with the bow and arrow barrel next to him continues with stern eyes.

"It's urgent, so I'd like you to contact my superior, if possible."
"But, I'm sorry, but in that case, I'm supposed to listen and then decide whether or not to report to them. Otherwise, my superiors would be out of their control."

 In Egzil's guild, the receptionist had previously caused a major incident without raising reports of people he didn't like. For that reason, I tried to contact my superiors as soon as something happened, but this time the number of people who called them up increased, and the person in charge at that time collapsed from overwork, and in the end, the receptionist made a decision.
 Naturally, the receptionist who caused trouble without contacting her was sentenced to severe punishment and to 20 years in prison.
 Because the receptionist's report was delayed, it's only natural to think of the damage that Egzil suffered when a monster came out of the dungeon.
 Anyway, for that reason, it was the current guild of Egzil that was supposed to leave the one cushion at the counter first and then report to the top.
 The Hammer Man and the Bow Man, Energaea and Menos, must have figured it out. After we look at each other, we nod softly, and Energaea, the leader of the party, speaks.

"Today we headed to the sixth basement and the monster we fought there was an order of magnitude stronger than the average Stone Puppet. It's not the kind of monster that comes out on the sixth basement at least."
"So... did you hear that from anyone else?"
"Oh,"
"…is that so?" Could you show me your dungeon card?"
"All right,"

 Energia and Menos place their dungeon cards on the counter.
 When the receptionist sees the dungeon card, he decides that at this point he should listen to the information from Energia half-heartedly.
 In fact, parties with little experience diving into dungeons often decide that their opponents who fight monsters are stronger enemies than ordinary monsters and report them to the guild... but not entirely.
 And as far as the dungeon cards are concerned, the two in front of them were newcomers who had just registered their dungeon cards in Egjil. Of course, Guild Rank has a certain level of ability, D, but conversely speaking, it is because they have half-baked ability that they were unable to face their weaknesses. That's what I'm going to judge... but then I'm going to change my judgment right away with words from Energia's mouth.

"I'll tell you, we didn't make this decision on our own terms. I met a party led by crimson, and that's what the woman at that party told me."

 The words of Energaea, who saw the receptionist and realized how they were judged. When the receptionist hears it, he is a little breathless.
 a party woman led by crimson The lady in charge came to mind when she was told so, because Elena, the princess general.
 It may not be in a sense that we misunderstood each other here. The receptionist thinks Ray and Elena are having a party alone, and Energaea didn't know Vihela and Bune were a wild party.
 Furthermore, the receptionist judges that it is impossible to ignore the opinion of a person nicknamed "Hime Shogun" and nods in small ways with the other guild staff members who were listening to her.

"All right. I'll call my superior in a minute, so please wait a little longer."

 After this, the receptionist's boss will be summoned to tell us more about their experiences.
 Also, when guild staff learned the information and spoke to some adventurers, they discovered that they encountered monsters that were stronger than those that appeared in the same class, and they were busy dealing with this phenomenon.





 The Ray's party, unaware of what was going on in the guild above ground, were still going down the sixth basement.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

 With the voice of Elena's spirit, the connected sword swings, the whip-like point thrusts forward, entangles with the limbs of the Stone Puppet, and the next moment it is cut off by a magical blade.
 The amputated stone papet was naturally unable to move any further, and a series of thrusts broke most of the stones that made up the body and killed it.

"...it certainly feels much weaker than the Stone Puppet that Vihela fought against a while ago."
"But that's all that was wrong, and that's the normal Stone Puppet."

 a viola muttering while looking at Ray taking out the magic stone
 The expression on his face was not the frustration of not being able to fight hard, but the strange appearance of the current dungeon.
 It's not an anomaly that's only happening on the sixth basement, it's a concern that something is happening to the entire dungeon.
 ...however, it seems that the reason why I'm worried about this is that I can't fight a strong monster if the dungeon continues to spread and I can't go inside.

"Anyway, you're going down to the seventh basement?"
"Yes, I think it's better," Shouldn't Ray and Elena have more layers that can be transferred with a transfer device in case of emergency?"
"... I see,"

 Elena, listening to Vihela's words and exhaling with her sigh.

"What's the matter?"
"No, it's nothing," I just realized again that he was an alert fellow."

 While leaning at Elena's words, Ray puts the remains of the Stone Puppet in a mistling, determining that there would be no particular problem.

(Let Ray and I experience a battle with powerful monsters, and try to see their abilities, as well as increase their fighting power.) Now, at any rate, she's going to be dangerous over time. Is there anything wrong with your attention?)

 While thinking like that, I looked sideways at Vihela for a moment... I felt something cold down my spine.
 She was laughing. Yes, she smiled knowing what Elena had imagined and understood in her own words.
 If this was a feeling of impatience and anger, Elena would have been convinced. However, I have a smile on my face. It's a smile full of confidence and even affection.
 Staring at the smile, Elena still has a strong sense of vigilance about the warm nanica, even though it is superficially impassive and the word fighting instincts that lie in the Vihela.

"What's the matter with you? I'll move on."

 Ray talks to those two without a hint of feeling.
 Yes, that itself was a good indication of the abnormalities of the present situation. Ray is very sensitive to the ill will of others. That's because Ray has not responded to Viehla's smile.

(...I can't do it now, but I'll tell Ray about it tonight... or, if I speak so carelessly, Viehla will realize it, and he may take a strange steps. Ray is basically bad at hiding.)

 He nods, thinking so in his heart, and begins to walk ahead of the dungeon.
 The order is Bune and Vihela at the top, Ray and Elena at the middle, and Seto and Yero at the end, as they did when they came down to the sixth basement.
 Walking like that, Bune occasionally looks to Ray behind her.
 For Bune, who needs to make money, Ray's Mistilling, which can store all the remains of the Stone Puppet, is probably the only one who understood it was Vichela, who has been with Bune for a long time.
 Because of its magical powers, the stones that make up the body of Stone Puppets, which are used as alchemy materials, weapons and protective equipment, or as building materials, were undoubtedly well-earned unless they weighed.

"... Huh? What's the matter?"

 Ray asks Bune if he's worried if he's staring at her.
 However, he turns his eyes on them and continues to watch out for others.

"Did you not like it?"
"Well, that's not the case," Bune needs a lot of money, so he envies Ray's item box."

 The smile on her face is already gone, and Vihela responds to Ray with a glamorous smile as usual.
 Elena remained alert, without a word, as she strained her expression for a moment.
 Of course Ray and Vihela, who continue to have conversations in this way, are equally vigilant.

"Well..."Bune looked up at Ray again, but perhaps because of his expressionless expression, he could not shake Ray's heart.

"You can't put on an item box, unlike the part that proves the punishment."

 He handed over Oak's right ear, which is the proof of his subjugation, but Ray's greatest adventurer... and that's not what he seems to do to hand over a mysterious ring more important than Ray's own enormous magical powers.

"Oh, that's too bad," But if you had a little more money, wouldn't you be able to buy a magic pouch, let alone an item box? You've made a lot of money in the last few years, haven't you?"
"...huh,"

 Viehla's words make me shake my head slightly.
 It is true that Bune has earned a significant amount of money in the last six months as a Rank D adventurer, thanks to his talent and willingness to make money, as well as Vichela's help. That's rank C... no, the amount of money that's like a rank B adventurer.
 However, most of the money earned was spent on maintaining the estate and repaying debts, leaving little to be desired. As for the remaining amount of money, there is little money left for Bune to spend freely, as it disappears into the expendables used to search for dungeons and the repair and replacement of weapons protection equipment.
 Wherever you look, you can't find the money to buy an expensive magic pouch.
 One of the reasons Vune was actually the magic pouch. To be precise, it's a tool with spatial magic.
 The rare number of item boxes is the same as in the past...and in the days of the ancient magical civilization itself. There were more item boxes than there are now, but it's still true that there are fewer. That's why many magic items, like magic pouches, have been created with spatial magic.
 ...Of course, not all of them remain safe, but many of them were destroyed and lost for some reason. It's much harder to permanently add space magic to it than to make a regular magic item, so even if it's not as much as an item box, magic pouch is still rare.

"Well, let's go to the seventh basement anyway." Then we must go up to the ground and show our face to the guild."

 Reyes nodded to Vichela's words, and the party continued to move up to the sixth basement level... they arrived at the seventh basement level, mowing down monsters they had encountered in several battles. They would then all have a late lunch in the magic tent before using the wizards to return to the earth.