The moment Yaya erupted, everyone tried to run in response to my voice... but she swallowed us faster than everyone else, and everyone but me fell down.
"Shit!
I don't know what it is, but it doesn't seem to be a poison that will kill you instantly. It's falling down, but everyone seems to be confused.
I was relieved that there were no dead people, but it was dangerous to stay here, so I decided to put everyone in a dimension bag and leave this place.
I noticed that the muzzle faded quite a bit back, and I used the trail to build a room for everyone's treatment, magically swapping the air and then completely closing the hole to prevent the muzzle from entering. Then when I put everyone to bed with just one bed in the magic bag, Grandpa and Lena seemed to have relatively mild symptoms, but their bodies didn't move and their consciousness was still hazy. However, Jin, Galat and Menas are unconscious whether they are serious or not. They also have poor complexion and rough breathing.
Immediately after applying the antidote magic, the complexion appeared to have improved slightly, but there was no change in consciousness or breathing. Still, it seems to have worked for a while, so I decided to use it on myself, Grandpa and Lena to see how things are going.
"I seem pretty light, but the symptoms are 'headache', 'dizziness', 'nausea'... and even so, the sweet smell makes my nose look pretty good."
The wind magic broke off for a moment when the spell erupted, so I wore a spell. Moreover, after protecting the grandpa, he ran through the garment without the use of wind magic, so the sweet smell sticks to the clothes. My grandfather and the jinn were wrapped in a bag, but I put it in the dimension bag immediately, so it didn't smell as sweet as me.
"Ugh... give me some water..."
"I'm begging you..."
When I washed my face and arms and changed my clothes, I noticed that my consciousness had not returned, but it seemed much easier. When I was thinking about the symptoms that attacked me a little, Grandpa and Lena's consciousness returned completely and complained of thirst. I feel more relieved because I have recovered before I can wake up myself.
"Yes, water. How are you two doing?
"That sucks... it's like being swayed by waves on a ship."
"Looks like you're hanging out...."
Drinking water while suffering from a headache seemed, as Lena said, to be suffering from two days of drunkenness.
"... maybe you're really drunk?
As Lena said, she was so much like a hangover that she suddenly murmured about it.
"No, I'm not drunk with alcohol, but I'm addicted to drugs... I don't know if I can say something about the active ingredient in that poison, but is it affecting the human body? And what I have in common with Grandpa, Lena, Jin, Garrat, and Menas is" Are you good at magic? "So" I'm used to magic. "Were we relatively mild in symptoms?
"You mean" magic drunk "? I hear it happens when you take too much medicine to restore magic, but is it something that happens naturally?
"It can't be under normal circumstances. Even if it was a place where magic could easily accumulate, it would have sprayed before it could accumulate. Even if it was a mass of magic, if it was a closed space beyond that wall, there might have been accumulations, but the leakage from there drifted outside. In other words, it is possible that something with magic (...) caused magic drunkenness."
Grandpa took what I wanted to say.
"That's why I think the jinn will recover if they stay calm. But before I do, I think I'll check the place out a little bit."
I don't know what the cause is, but if it spreads through the dungeon because I left it there, it might be useless to attack so far. Grandpa and Lena seem to think it would be better to turn back as they are, but if it's because of that pigeon, there was a better way to deal with it. It's a
"If this way, like when you knocked down the octopus, you surrounded yourself by the wind and filled the air inside with magical air all the time, it wouldn't be like before. Besides, it seems that I am resistant to that dungeon, and if I don't block the hole in the worst way, it may have some impact not only on this dungeon, but also on the dungeon above."
When I convinced Grandpa that, I left it to Jin and the others to look after him and went out alone.
I feel like I'm losing my sight a little bit because of you.
More than before, I said, "Do you have a slightly bad vision? But if this is far away from where the bubble erupted, the bubble may be quite thick in that place.
Unfortunately, that prediction was correct, and there was a hill that was so far away that I couldn't see it from the slope.
"Whether you're going to stir it up with the magic of the wind or blow it off once and then move on... Either way, it's going to scatter the clouds..."
Since it seems that the stones are accumulated on the slopes, using wind magic will scatter a lot of them. That said, I can't find out what caused it if it stays the same. On the contrary, even if I just entered it in its current state, the slope is likely to be overflowing.
"Would you like to build a wall and cover it once you're inside? But then, when something happens, I'm going to be late to escape...."
As he murmured, he approached the tip of the slope where he couldn't wind up.
"The ground is white... is this who you are?
I noticed that the ground was thin and white, so when I looked at the ground with my fingertips, something like chalk powder adhered.
"I don't think it's lime, but if this is what's causing it, maybe we can do something about it?
I thought that if the body of the jade was like lime, it could be flushed with water, and I put a lid on the entrance of the ramp at the magical boundary of the wind that I am using now, and pushed my arm into it to generate mist with water magic. Well, it felt like fog (...) blowing (...), so it immediately fell to the ground... but since the droplets that fell were mixed with the water and turned white, the fog seemed to have an effect on the water.
I knew it was effective, but it was still thick, so when I increased the power of the fog blowing to the back, the flow formed in the slope accumulated, and the efficiency increased, and the fog gradually became thinner.
This looks like it's gonna be all right.
After the fog continued to blow for a while, the pigeon hardly looked as good as it could be, and instead there were several white puddles on the paper. It seems like you can act without using magic, but just in case, I decided to go to the wall with the wind magic boundary unfolded.
"When we get here, there's still a muzzle left... I can try again, but let's check inside before we do that."
I thought I'd blow the fog again because there was still some water near the wall, but if there was something on the other side of the wall that wasn't too wet with water, I decided to check it as it is first.
"There's no monster reaction in Exploration, so it's not like it's a room with a boss... but it's pretty big."
Before entering, I checked lightly in Exploration and found that it wasn't as big as the room where Hydra had been defeated by the jinn, but it was the biggest room I found in the new dungeon, and it was as big as the top dungeon.
"Let's go inside for now... uhh!
The moment I entered the hole with magical light, I was surprised by the face of the monster next to the hole.
"It's bad for my heart....."
Well, I soon realized he was dead, but if I realized it was a little late, I would have let go of my magic.
"Still, it's a big snake. And there are two of them."
It's almost mummified, and I don't know the exact size because part of my body is crushed with rocks, but both of them seem to be about 30 meters.
I don't think I can expect the materials.
They didn't seem to be sticking together, but rather hostile, with obviously contentious wounds on each body. Besides, mold and moss grow and are above all dirty, so I don't want to touch it very much.
"Is the entrance rock the result of a fight between these two?
As a result of a huge snake struggle in this room, the entrance would be blocked by the rampage, and the two would feel like they were both killed.
"If that's the case, I can't explain it...."
Since there was enough water left behind to go into the back of the room, I decided to give up the worst material and erase it with a mist blow. Unlike on the slope, I can see that the slurry is thinning interestingly because it is blowing near the center where the slurry is accumulating.
"You want to move around a little bit... what's that?
When I kept turning off the lid and began to look thin to the edge of the room, I saw something like a pedestal on the wall opposite the entrance. And when I got closer to it, I thought,
"Could this be a dungeon nucleus?
On top of something like a pedestal was a huge dungeon core. The dungeon nucleus we found was said to be slightly larger than one meter in diameter and even the largest of all discoveries, but the one in front of us is bigger than that... and slightly more than one meter and fifty centimeters.
"This is amazing...!
While being distracted by the super giant dungeon core, I somehow turned my gaze upwards... and saw something huge (...). At the time of the snake's corpse earlier, I was surprised, but I was able to enter a position capable of reflectively attacking, but this time I couldn't. On the contrary, I thought, "Dead..."
"This is a dragon..."
Although he looked at us, he was the Dragon, which was about the same size as the Zombie of the Ancient Dragon (Dragon Zombie) that he had crushed in the past. At the very least, I'm talking about raw (...) and (...) and (...) and (...).
"In the (...) shape (...) of the bone, this might have been as powerful as a dragon zombie when I was alive."
If the bones were so powerful, they might have had the strength of the "Ancient Dragon" class when they were alive...
"There you go again... where did you come from?
I noticed a thickening in the surrounding area.
I looked around to find the source of the yellowtail, but I couldn't find anything that looked like it.
"Let's go back and let everybody know we found the dungeon core."
From the rock near the entrance, I saw something like a tree erupt. When I hurried to the place, I thought it was a cadaver of snakes, and moss was around where something like a snake was supposed to have erupted.
"Is this moss the cause? I don't see anything particularly unusual....."
It's moss that I've never seen before, but it looks a little unusual to me, and I don't feel like wiping it off.
"Does the fact that the name doesn't appear in the 'appraisal' mean that it's a new species... hmm?
When I looked at the moss for a while, I felt that the moss had moved for a moment. Looking at a place where I felt like I was moving because of my mind, the place began to rise little by little. And then...
"This is who you are!
The uplifted part became a sawdust, and from there, a bubble erupted. The lid became difficult to see because it dissolved in the air, but when I tried to break the boundary and smell the smell, there was a sweet smell, so this would definitely be the identity of the lid.
"So this is like moss pollen?
When I looked at the moss where the rags were found, there was something like a small bag near the surface. Maybe it's like a bud and a tube-like stem is connected to it. The air will be pumped in from this tube and the pollen in the bud will be scattered like clouds.
"Maybe we evolved like this because there were no insects carrying pollen."
Nevertheless, I find it strange that moss could only be found in this room, even though there was enough pollen to produce that much.
"In the meantime, it's good to know what caused it. But you should go back now."
It should be an hour since I started acting alone, so if I don't get back early, I'll make my grandpa worry.
Yes, I hurried back to the shelter.....
"Tenma, it's too late!
I thought it was an hour, but in fact, it was over two hours ago, and my grandfather got mad at me early on when I got back. Perhaps the sense of time was greatly crazy due to the discovery of dragon bones, dungeon nuclei, and the identity of dungeons.
"Hmm. That means if we take that dungeon core, we can accomplish our strategy."
Somehow, I think Mr. Tenma took me to a delicious place.
"No, I didn't think I had a boss either. Rather than that, how were the jinn?
Looks like the gins are looking better than they were when we left, but when I asked them if they had anything to worry about while I was gone, they didn't. Besides, all three of them regained consciousness once along the way, so it would be okay. She said she still has a slumber and is just sleeping normally.
"Once the jinn have recovered, let's all go to the room and collect the dungeon core and dragon bones, then go back to the ground and have a banquet!
Reena was excited to be able to tackle the new dungeon following the dungeon above, but Rnay was a little concerned.
Somehow, the temper isn't willing to retrieve the nucleus, is it?
"Well, I'm a little worried... you remember the" Dungeon Dimension Bagging Theory "I told everyone about? If the theory is correct, I wonder what happens after we recover the nucleus."
"Huh?
"Dimension bags are things you put in an open space. Grandpa knows what happens when the space breaks down, doesn't he?
"Well... the contents can be blown out..."
"So this dungeon is going to blow up under the city of Seigen?
If we were to be smashed, the city of Seigen would blow up.
"Besides, even if my theory is wrong, the dungeon loses the function it had before when it took out the nucleus, right? I wonder if that would create a space that is huge and has weakened the walls?
Even if my theory is wrong, the city of Seigen could sink a dozen levels.
"Both nightmares."
"Both are hypothetical, but persuasive, and not half the damage that actually happens... and we're more likely to get involved."
If we were in the dimension bag state, we would be blown up at the same time as the city of Seigen blows up, and if the strength becomes fragile, we would be crushed as the city sinks... Grandpa is right, it's just a nightmare, either way.
"It is possible to say that I have overthought what I have said in other dungeons so far, but this is the first time a huge dungeon like Seigen has been attacked, and I think it would be better to turn back here and report it to the Kings. On top of that, let's wait for the Kings to decide. Well, if I decided to take out the dungeon nucleus, I'd say no."
Me too!
"Me too! I just wanted to say... but in that case, I'll let Jin-san tell me, and then I'll leave the Sword of Dawn!
Like me and my grandfather, it will be difficult to stand in front of the king from Lena's standpoint, so it will be helpless for Jin to stand on the arrow. And if Jin can't say no, he'll have no choice but to run.
In that way, there was agreement among the three. The rest is up to the jinn.
"Nevertheless, the pollen of moss is the identity of that pollen... the temper said that it was pushing pollen out with air, but perhaps it is not just air, but it may have the effect of 'hypno-gas'. Maybe it's not pollen, but 'spores'. Gas prevents the subject from moving, causing scattered spores to adhere. The subject who inhaled the gas gradually became addicted and died without waking up from sleep. Can't you imagine that the moss breeds on the seedbed with that carcass...? Because the gas was lighter than the air, it drifted upstairs. Besides, I've heard that some of these gases smell sweet."
If you ask me, I definitely feel that way. Anyway, moss was actually growing in the snake carcass.
"The moss only grew in that room because there were special conditions for the moss to grow, because it couldn't cross the slope, or because the germination rate was extremely low."
"If there are special conditions... is it a dungeon core? I couldn't help but notice that moss was the boss."
and so on, Lena is joking half the time, but it may seem like she would be surprised. In fact, it is highly likely that Grandpa would have been wiped out without me.
"Even if we could get into the room with some kind of countermeasure, the dungeon would break when we take out the nucleus of the dungeon... the attack is almost impossible."
I didn't make sure the dungeon would break because I took it out, but that would make it a truly unattainable dungeon.
Well, shall I tell the king about it? Kings should be able to gather resources in the long run rather than destroy the dungeon, and above all, 'possibilities' won't be able to be weighed against Seigen. "
Although the dungeon core is valuable, it does not mean it has a particularly important use. For the country, the profits that Seigen generates will be much more important.
There may be nobles who disagree with that, but since Seigen is under the direct control of the royal family, he won't be able to say what the king decides... maybe.
Well then, wait for Jin and the others to recover, collect the Dragon Bones, and finish the offensive once and for all?
Lena seems to be looking forward to the bones of the dragon.
"I don't think I can take it very much. Most of them were assimilated with rocks, and the bare parts were badly damaged. And it could be part of a dungeon nucleus. I don't think you should do anything bad."
I think that dungeon core is what the Dragon's Magic Core has changed. But it's hard to honestly think that bones are part of the dungeon nucleus. That's why I think it's much less likely than the theory that this dungeon is in the same condition as the dimension bag. Then why did I say that?
"If you say so, there will be fewer fools trying to get dragon bones."
Because I wanted to put up such a line of defense. If you can hold some of the bones together here, a nobleman will appear who says it is better to have the dragon bones fetched for the kingdom, and if there are many of them, the king cannot ignore them.
"Explain it to the king, and he'll give you a lot of extra rewards, so convince him."
If that's not enough, I'll give you my reward, and in the worst case, you can give it yourself. Well, I don't think the King would let me out if I didn't do that, but I'm so prepared to propose it to Lena. If Lena is convinced, even if the jinn turn in the opposite direction, she can take it to a three-to-three draw. If I can take it to the draw, I can suggest I ask my client later.
"Hmm... I'd love to if the reward increases without risking it, but if that's what you can do with Jin-san, please take responsibility for it.
I'm sure Lena thinks that won't happen, but she wants compensation in the unlikely event. I accepted Lena's terms, and I was able to get an ally just in case. By the way, I don't get your permission because I think you will definitely follow me about Grandpa. Instead,
"Tenma, let me explain why you are so attached to the bones of the dragon."
I was given a condition. Well, the reason for sticking is not that big a deal. Even if I'm wrong, I'm not thinking of sneaking in to collect it later.
"Maybe that dragon is the parent of Solomon. I don't want to look like the dragon's tomb that might be the parents of Solomon."
Solomon's egg was found in a fairly high hierarchy, but I don't think the dragon's bones are related to intermediate or higher Solomon. Rather, it is natural to think that it has something to do with being found in the same dungeon.
"I'd like to take some for Solomon if I could, but I can't even catch my eye if Seigen doesn't work because of that."
That's why I want to be calm at least without roughing it up.
"Then why don't you explain that to Lena?
"No, maybe it's a little embarrassing to say it, and the reason I told Lena is true."
That's why I ended this conversation... with Gin and Garrat who woke up and recovered a few hours later. Menus, like Lena, was convinced that the safety measures would increase the rewards, but the chances of getting more dragon bones than advanced would seem to be once in a lifetime.
Gin and Garrat seemed to understand that they would lose even if they voted for the majority, but they didn't say anything more, but they were a little upset. But when Grandpa exposed my thoughts,
"Well... there was such kindness in the tempura."
"Then there's no other choice... this time, let's avoid the tenderness of the temper."
And then he started looking at me with warm eyes. Because of the feeling of discomfort that I felt earlier, my attitude was completely reversed... but I must have been worried about how to change the atmosphere and feel refreshed as much as possible. So you decided to make fun of me as if you were convinced by standing up for me. If the King were to give me an extra reward, I would give it to Lena and Menus, but they decided not to do it.