36. Delicious earning place




 The Duke gave me a 'Golden Seal'.
 It's a reward for defeating the rare monsters on the first floor of the Seren basement, dropping them, and giving 'points' to Ciclo's side.

 In the past, I received a golden seal once at the company I work for. At that time, it was 5,000 yen and I was like, "Isn't that an admonition! I remember feeling very uncomfortable about it.
 After I found out that it was Duke, I opened the envelope and looked inside.
 There was a whopping 100,000 piros in the envelope.

 A pillow in this world's money is worth about the same as a yen.
 I was surprised and a bit happy to see that there was more money than I expected in a gold envelope, 100,000 piro.

     ☆

 We finished earlier than expected, so I decided to hide out in the basement level of the Serenium for a bit.
 I walked around the dungeon.

 There are a lot more adventurers than the tellurian in Cyclo.
 Almost all of them have a gleam in their eye.
 As soon as a monster comes near them, they jump on it and take it down.

 They're all high on defeating it because they don't have to pay taxes and they're making a lot of money.
 The monster was a slime, but not like the tellurian slime.
 Its body is speckled, rainbow colored and colorful.

 As one of them appeared near me, I quickly drew my gun and fired a normal shot.
 The bullets shot through the rainbow-colored slime and dropped the thing.

 It's roughly enough soybeans to grab with one hand.
 The rare monsters are soybean sprouts, and the regular ones look like soybeans.

 I walked around the dungeon to earn some more money.
 I watched other adventurers earn more money as well.

 After 10 minutes of walking around, I've figured out what it's all about.
 It seems there is no difference between me and the other adventurers in terms of what they drop.
 They drop a handful of soybeans whether I kill them or another adventurer.
 The difference is that they always drop a handful of soybeans when I defeat them, but not when other adventurers drop them.

 It's like Seren's basement floor, the drop S advantage is that it always drops.

 I'm starting to get the general idea - and then I see a different scene.
 A swordsman with a windy appearance cut a slime in half, and double the soybeans were dropped from that slime.

''Oh, this is lucky.''
Lucky? What do you mean by that?

 I asked the windbag man without thinking.

'Is this your first time here?'
Yes, I just got here today.
I see. All of these Seren monsters have characteristics, each individual has a different drop point, and if you attack and kill that point, you get double the drop.
That's right.
It's unique here in Ceren, and that's why we're all making so much money right now.

 I see, that's one of the reasons why the adventurers are so hyped up.
 No taxes, and in some cases, double the drops.
 Yeah, that's what makes me excited.

Good luck to you too.
Yeah, each other.

 The windbag snickered and left in search of the monster.
 I ruminated on what I'd heard.

 I remembered the rare monster I had just defeated.

 Similar in appearance, similar in nature.
 You can't defeat a rare monster if you don't attack its weaknesses, but you can defeat a normal monster normally, and if you defeat it in a specific spot instead, the drop is doubled.

 That's the nature of this dungeon.
 So that means.

 I walked around a bit and saw a rainbow colored slime.
 I loaded my gun with tracking rounds and intentionally shifted it a little bit to shoot it.

 The bullet bends and penetrates the edge of the slime's body.
 It penetrated the part that was blue--dropped twice as much as normal.

 I look for more, I shot a tracking bullet into the next slime as well, and this time it penetrated the red part of the center of the body.
 The soybeans dropping were still twice as much as normal.

 I looked for it, found it, and fired a tracking round.
 The drop point was really different for each individual. The location is different, and the color is also different.
 On the way, I shot through it with regular bullets, or even burned the whole thing with flame bombs, but that was a normal amount of drops.

 When you shoot through a single point with a pinpoint, the drop is doubled.
 It was the newly acquired tracking rounds that could do that 100% of the time.

 While I had a feeling that it would be a mainstay in Seren, I killed the monster, with a 100% drop on the drop S and a double drop on the tracking bullet.
 Furthermore, with a 10% increase in buy-in, which was not taxed.

 On this day, I had earned over 500,000 piro in the dungeon.