172. Secular




 Cyclodungeon Association, President's Office.
 I visited this place with the help of Aurum, recovering the dungeon debris installed in the Aurum Dungeon - the Grand Eater's Stone.

''Six in total, huh?''

 Looking at the six dungeon debris on the table between them, sitting across from each other, Cell's brow furrowed.

'As I recall, Aulum is ......
The whole floor.
Were there two of them on each floor?
Yeah.

 I nodded clearly.
 The dungeon's master, Aulum, had sensed or searched for me, so I'm pretty sure it was these six.
 They couldn't be left in the dungeon without being found.

 Looking at the six dungeon debris, Cell made a serious face.
 Eventually, he looked up.

'Someone.'
You wanted to see me?

 A woman walks in from outside the room.
 A clean-cut, clean-cut, cleverly clipped shortcut, a suit-like outfit that fits her shrewd good looks.
 It's Cell's secretary, the one I see when I visit here.

Have them search every dungeon in Cyclo again. "I want every single one of Cyclo's dungeons to be scoured again, one at a time, one level at a time.
"As you wish.

 The secretary bowed reverently and left the room.
 After seeing it off, Cell turned his attention to the six dungeon debris again.

'I was careless, my mistake. I assumed there was only one for each level.
'Don't worry about it, it's normal to feel that way. I thought so too.
Then why?

 Cell asks back.

'There were only two Nihoniums. So oh? I just thought. I thought, "Isn't it possible that each level of the hierarchy has more than one? In fact, some places have more than one.
"Hmm.
'That's why I asked Aulum to check out the Aulum dungeon.
Yes, Satou-sama can use the spirits in the dungeon as well.

 Cell's eyes were a mixture of admiration and respect.
 It's not that I'm a messenger, but I didn't dare to excuse it, so I let it pass.

'As you can see from the adventurer hunting system, the spirits in the Aulum ...... dungeon can find out what happened in their own dungeon. You can find out if there are foreign objects and where they are. That's how they found me. So it's no longer in Aulum.
Satou-sama's words. There's no way I would ever doubt them.

 Cell said and stared at the dungeon debris again.
 Six dungeon debris, six Grand Eaters, installed on the three levels of the Aulum.
 A clear killing intent (,) could be felt from them.

 Two nine-tenths of Nihonium, which drops nothing, compared to two-nineths of Nihonium, which drops sand gold - six-thirds of Aulum, which is a gold mine, so to speak.

 I could sense a strong intent to kill Aulum at all costs and skip the dungeon elsewhere.

...... maybe.
"Hmm?
Do you know who you're f*cking with?
Mm, ninety-nine percent confirmed. We just don't have the scene and the person who did it yet.
Who are you? I did that.
"Same-Chen Dungeons Association.
...... I see.

 I'm convinced.
 I'm so convinced.
 It made a lot of sense to me.

 The Sametjenrein Dungeon Society, Awrum and Indor, whom we've had a run-in with.

 The village of Indor, where Ahrum is located, was built with the help of a city called Samethylen.
 Sometimes the town will fund a village in the form of a settlement in anticipation of a new dungeon being reborn, and the same goes for Samethylen.
 Sametilene is the same, and Indor was the first village to be built with the initial funding.
 But Samethylen then left Indor alone, and when Indor got in trouble, it asked the Cyclo Society for help, and I was sent to help.
 The problems of Aulum were successfully resolved, and Indor became independent of Sametilene and became a part of Cyclo.

 So from Sametilene's point of view, it's very uninteresting to have Aulum there.
 What's more.

''It wouldn't be surprising if they tried to annihilate not only Aulum, but all of Cyclo's dungeons as well.
It's a snobbish idea. But it doesn't make sense anymore. The Grand Eaters are indeed evil, but if you keep the hand stuff resident in your dungeon, it doesn't make sense.
Yeah.

 I fully agree with that.
 In the same way I defeated the first Grand Eater, no matter how strong a monster is, you can't deviate from the rules of this world.
 As long as there's always someone in the dungeon, the haggler won't hatch.

''...... hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm.''

 I thought I was staring at him, but now I looked up at the heavens and laughed out loud.

'What's the matter with you, all of a sudden?'
It's funny. The snobs have miscalculated.
Miscalculation?
''Mm, all of Cyclo's dungeons were planted with dungeon debris, or ground eaters. The main target is probably Aulum, but I guess they plan to kill the other dungeons if they can.
Yeah.
But it was discovered by Master Sato. It was Satou-sama who first discovered the dungeon debris. It was also Satou-sama who discovered that there could be more than one in the hierarchy, not one, but two. Thanks to Satou-sama, Ciclo's alert was fully prepared. Now that we're in this situation, we can't afford to have a single haggler rampaging through our dungeon.

 Cell said with merriment.

''It means that all of the snobs' plans have been thwarted by Satou-sama.
I see.
And,
And?

 What's going on again?

Leaving items that are not on the relevant level in the dungeon is a serious offense.
''Yeah. If you leave the stuff in that tier, you'd rather have more monsters and more drops, but there are a lot of adventurers who specialize in the monsters in the tier, so it's just too dangerous to get different monsters.
Hmm. It happened to a man once. That time it was an accident, an adventurer dying in a deserted area with a bad piece of equipment.
I see.

 I tried to imagine it for a moment.
 If I died in the corner of a dungeon, I imagined the scene when all the equipment in my body hatched into a haggler all at once.
 A total of over a dozen dungeon masterclass and rare monsters, and I always have a lot of bullets at the ready, so the monsters of Nihonium would show up in an army.
 It's going to be the ...... equivalent of a tragedy, attacking the adventurers who specialize in laps.

With that, an agreement has been reached between all dungeon associations. That it is a felony to knowingly dump stuff from another dungeon, another tier, and so on.

 I can see that in my case.
 It's lightly attempted murder.
 Hmmm, what kind of charge would mass murder be?
 Either way, it would be a terrible felony.

'Thank you Lord Satou,'
Gratitude?
'The dungeon, not to mention the fact that he protected the adventurers. I can beat the ringleader for using the Grand Eater class for a story.
You're going to hit it.
'It's even more convenient if the opponent is in the association class. We will hit them thoroughly to strengthen the agreement. We can also create a system that won't abuse Hagremon in the future.
Okay.

 That's pretty important .......
 Laws are only a deterrent when there are penalties.
 If you crush a Dungeon Association class opponent thoroughly, that's a pretty good deterrent.

 I looked again at my equipment.
 Considering the number of casualties that would occur in the dungeon when these things became haggled, I thought more and more that I should have the cell do a thorough job.
 Create a system where adventurers can hunt around and hunt with more peace of mind than ever before.

'Anything I can do to help, you can always tell me.
Thank you.

 Cel put his hands on his knees and bowed his head.
 I was impressed by the fact that he was a big person who was able to take care of the people in the field despite his high position - but.

 Goton.
 Something fell out of Cell's pocket as he bowed his head.
 I'm firing a single gun in rapid succession, just as I was when I defeated the Grand Eater.

'Why do you have that too!
'Hon! Oh no, thank you Satou-sama, and the snobs will regret messing with you where Satou-sama is.
'You're starting to look like the biggest snob I've ever seen!

 I gave it a big shove, but Cell was already back to his usual sullen face.