450. カリホルニウム enter




 Rocking the carriage, we made our way through the empty (、、、、) wilderness, and gradually the liveliness began to feel on our skin.

 From the empty wilderness, I could see the dungeon and the buzz of adventurers.
 It's similar to the relieved feeling of coming back from a space that was too quiet and my ears wanted to stay the other way, to a place where the sounds of life were there.

 I lean out of the carriage and look toward the dungeon.

'That's the californium?'
No, it's a fermium.
"Fermium?
One of the two dungeons in Actinid, the counterpart fermium.
There were two dungeons?

 Cell nodded quietly.

'Which one is the minting dungeon?'
It's a bit of both.
'Hmm. What kind of transparent, effeminate monsters are there?
It's a fermium.
And then I can go there?
A little different.

 Cell denied it softly.

 A monster that looks like a female ghost.
 It's a monster I learned about right after I learned that I could make different things drop from hagremonos.

 I knew that banknotes and coins were also dungeon drops, and when I made them into hagremonts, I got that monster.

 That's why I thought they were monsters from Kalifornium, a gold-dropping dungeon managed by Cell's clan.

 By the way, status-boosting potions drop from the money haglemono.
 Paper money is drop +3 and coins are drop +1.
 Neither can go up above A, but it's pretty easy to go up to A, so I produce a lot of them and give them to my friends.

 As it is.

'I don't know what it is. Can we just go to Californium and find out?
I'm sorry for my negligence in explaining it to you, but ...... seeing is believing, as they say. It's a special dungeon, so I thought it would be a good idea.
I understand that.

 Cell's is more of a caring thing.
 Often times it's better to have no preconceived notions about things.

 In the dungeons of this world, it's better to have no preconceived notions of how to "attack" a dungeon, and it's better to have an overabundance of information to "go around" it.

 This time I'm here to "capture" the game.
 So it's better to have no information.

'Whoa, now we're seeing the city.'
'Actinides. It's a city with two dungeons, Kalifornium and Fermium.
Those are the only two things you've got going for you?
There used to be another one, but I dared them to move the un-minted dungeon to another location.
To?

 I could see my eyebrows jumping up and down.
 It was because the Vanadium one popped up in my head.

 I'm still too traumatized to ask for details, Vanadium - the death of Erythronium.

 Is that the same thing he did?

If I had done that,

 Cell laughed bitterly.

'I can't ask Master Satou for help.

 Cell, who also knew about the Vanadium one, sensitively understood the change in my expression and what it meant, correctly.

'I see,'
I had it amicably moved elsewhere. Only I didn't do anything about it when I was close to death.
Oh, I see.

 It reminded me of Arsenic.

 The dungeon would "die" at regular intervals and be reborn elsewhere.
 That's what happened to Arsenic once, and me and Emily stopped it.

 It seems to be the story of the dungeon's lifespan, the thing that we dared not to extend its life.

 Cell doesn't hide anything from me about this kind of thing.
 Now, among adventurers, there is a widespread belief that if you do something unreasonable, Ryota Sato will come out and spank you.

 In fact, I've worked out some of those things.

 I'm well aware of those things, and for some reason, Cell, who is a big fan of mine, wouldn't keep me in the dark about this kind of thing.

'Where's the californium?'
The heart of the city - literally right in the middle of it.
Did you build the city for it?
Hmm.

 As we talked, the carriage went further and entered the town.

 It feels different from any other town I've ever seen.
 Most of the buildings are made of white marble or something, and all of them have a stately, formal feel to them.

 It's like a business district - no.
 It is a town where the ministries and agencies are concentrated.

 After entering the town, the carriage went further and eventually came to the center of where the cell was located.

Is there a dungeon in there?
That's the dungeon.
What about it?

 I was so surprised, I looked at it.

 It was like a huge maze with walls made of plants.
 No, it's a giant maze.

It's an open-air craft. It's a dungeon.
It's like this now that no one is in it.
Wouldn't it be different if someone else was in there?
I'd like you to come in once, including that part.
Okay.

 I didn't ask any more questions, if that's what the cell said.

 The carriage went further and came to the entrance of the huge maze.
 It felt like a thing.

 Roughly ten people at the entrance.
 There were soldiers standing guard.

 We got out of the carriage and headed towards them.

"We've been expecting you, Master Cell!

 In unison, the soldiers saluted the cell, heels aligned, and saluted the cell.

'I don't see anyone inside,'
Ha, I'm stopping completely today, as Master Cell would have it.
Hmm. So, Mr. Sato.
Yeah.

 I nodded, took a light deep breath, and then entered the dungeon.

 The moment I entered, I felt once again that, ah, this is a dungeon.

 After the Vanadium one, I began to understand the structure of the dungeon.

 It's like a mini-map is always somewhere on the screen in a game, and that's what I see in my head.
 So you can clearly see if it's a city or a dungeon.

 As soon as I entered the giant maze, it was clear to me that this was a dungeon.

 Californium dungeon, I can't feel the stairs, it seems to be just this one floor above ground.

 I wonder if it's similar to Sarfa? And so on and so forth as I proceeded through the dungeon.

 I had a mini-map in my head so I wouldn't get lost, but I went, even if it was a dead end, to look around at everything.

 I met a monster.

 The one that appeared in front of me was a goblin the size of a schoolboy.

 The goblin with a club immediately pounced on me.
 I readied my gun and first used a normal bullet to see how it looked - I defeated it.

 I knocked it down, and it's gone.

 I knocked him down too easily, but is that right?

 Next thing I know, I'm going to be even more surprised.

 Dropped from the goblin, tightly mouthed.
 Bivalves - it was.