Chapter 152 – Kobolds and Catacombs

“How are these bastards going to be treated like this?”

Stew was fucking overpriced.

These 10 idiots were ripping off the adventurers. Do you dare to eat the people who came to attack the dungeon that threatens the safety of the village? You’ll come to your senses when you look around. All of them must be skinned.

What tourist attraction is this?

With the unexpected appearance of the dungeon, seeing these thugs robbing the pockets of adventurers like a school of fish out of water, uncontrollable hatred soared. All human beings are trash, unworthy of salvation.

“Saints. Then go to another store…”
“No. In a place like this, everything is the same everywhere. You should just eat it, Sea Pearl. Chef! Four servings of stew!”

Normally, 4 people would not pay even 10 coppers for a meal like stew, but surprisingly, the money we had to pay was 20 coppers. That’s 5 coopers per person. Only then was it impossible to predict how expensive the inn would be.

Fuck you, you should just be homeless.

“Are you mad Kat?”
“I can’t be angry at this. These bastards have to be crushed by the kobolds that popped out of the dungeon to wake up.”
“Calm down Katt. That could be the case. No matter how much you pay, it’s as long as you have the taste, wouldn’t it?”

Cloudy, who was sitting next to me, massaged the back of my neck.

“Uhh… There. Good there.”
“Right, right. Good, good. Let’s calm down.”

Well, yes As long as it tastes good, it’ll be fine. But you have to eat something delicious besides the food sold at tourist spots. It is a tourist specialty that tastes as good as it is expensive. I couldn’t figure out what the heck those pups were eating on a regular basis.

After waiting for a while, the waitresses each brought out a bowl of stew.

“It smells good.”

The smell wasn’t bad. Elise prayed before the meal, so I prayed to Buddha and Hwanung in moderation, and Winia was the first to taste it.

She asked her for her taste of her.

“How are you?”
“Just the way a bastard likes it.”
“Is it my favorite flavor?”

When did you figure out my taste buds?
It sounded delicious, so I poured a spoonful of stew.

“Yeah. It tastes like some kind of cattle feed. It’s perfect for feed for bastards.”
“No, this year?”

Don’t forgive

However, once I tasted it, it tasted like cheap soup sold at a shabby inn for about 1-2 coppers in the evening. It’s not so bad that you can’t eat it, but it’s also true that it’s not enough to eat 5 coppers.

It is no wonder that Winia, who is picky about her taste her, is not satisfied.
But it’s strange that stew and soup taste the same. Actually, I don’t even know the difference between the two.

“I can eat just like that.”
“Does your sister have the same taste as a bastard?”
“Whoa, do you think so? Come on, cut. Aang.”

When Winia picked it up, Claudy smiled slightly and held out a spoon to my mouth. No matter how tasteless the rice is, if you eat it like this, it will become delicious in an instant. She gobbled it up right away.

“Aang.”
“Oh, bastard fucking sucks! What are you eating?”
“Dogs are delicious. Do you want to feed them too?”
“…”

Winia blushed as she munched her potatoes and nodded her head.

Take it well

So we finished our meal and went out.

“It wasn’t a bad taste. Then let’s start. Adventurers are flocking over there, so I guess I’ll just follow them.”
“Let’s do it.”

It was the right time.

It must have been only around 4 o’clock, and the sun was still floating in the middle of the sky. A procession of adventurers continued out of town. When I asked roughly, it took less than an hour on foot. With nothing else to pack, we set out.

Here and there, male and female adventurers carrying swords and axes were walking in the same direction. I looked around to see if anyone knew, but there was no one.

“It is said to be a fairly large dungeon. We presume that the kobolds used existing underground structures rather than digging their own burrows.
“The existing underground structure?”
“Yes. I don’t know the details, but it seems that there was an underground facility of some kind, and a kobold queen made a nest there. It seems that it was discovered this time after being called up like that.”

Elise explained coherently. It’s all what she heard at church, she says. Unlike the adventurers who are freelancers, you can feel the trustworthy appearance of a true member of society. I get more and more curious about the identity of the Gwangmyeong Star Cross.

We finally arrived at the front of the dungeon.

More than a dozen adventurers were camped in front of the entrance, which should have been the original entrance for the kobolds, and just in time, one party entered without even ringing the doorbell without permission. I have less manners.

The entrance was quite large. Kobolds do not make large entrances like that. It’s because they only have to come in and out. Apparently, the height of about 3 meters, and the width of the same size as the height.

They wouldn’t have made such a big entrance, so it seems like the kobolds are occupying and using the original underground facility without permission, as Elise said.

Since such a large entrance could not have been discovered only recently, it must have been buried and then revealed by some means.

“Do you want to go right in?”

Elise looked around and said.
The fact that he had already pulled out the mace was already only motivated.

“I do not care.”
“You came with the intention of going in in the first place. Let’s go in quickly. Winia. Are the saved lights enough?”
“Stored light? Bastard talking weird again. I’ll take care of the magic, so don’t worry.”

Elise and I entered the dungeon as the lead.

Well, speaking of entry, because of the adventurers here and there, the inside was bright as if a light had been turned on, and there were many people. I don’t know, but there must be dozens of adventurers who have already entered.

In this situation, the adventurers who find the treasure room first or find something worthwhile are the winners. There are only three things that can make money in a kobold dungeon. If you were to look at these one by one,

The first is also a keepsake of adventurers who have gone backwards.

Unlike the kobolds that came out, the kobolds inside the burrow gather in three dimensions, crawling on the walls and ceiling. If you are caught off guard by this high-level raid while you are at peace, you will lose your life as you are crushed by the amount.

In this way, the corpses and belongings would be dragged deep into the darkness, but sometimes kobolds with bad eyesight could not pick up the fallen items. It becomes a field drop item and waits for a new owner. If the drop item is a weapon, it will be sloppy.

And the second, as I said, is the treasure room.

All kinds of treasures buried underground are sleeping there… Of course, most of them are just garbage like tree roots, but there are many cases where various useful things are piled up. The items carried by the dead adventurers all went straight to the treasure room.

Finally, the long-awaited third.
This is important.

The third is the Kobold Queen.

The Kobold Queen, which gave birth to babies for the rest of its life in the deepest, darkest underground room, was a unique monster that was worth money just by its existence her.

As far as I know, most of Queen’s body parts are traded for expensive magic materials, and a young female kobold is nearby. In other words, the Kobold Princess is also bought at a high price in the arena. If there are females, the supply and demand of kobolds becomes easier, so turn on the lights in the arena and look for them.

In any case, they are friends who are worth money in many ways.
Land of opportunity. That was the kobold’s dungeon.

And since it seems highly likely that the nest was built based on an underground facility, you might be able to acquire something similar to an ancient artifact like the dungeon you went to last time.

“There are a lot of people. After all, is it a tourist destination?”

Going downstairs, I think I’ve already passed three other parties. I was worried that they would suddenly turn into murderous robbers, but since there were so many people, the possibility seemed low.

ㅡPuss.

As it got dark, Winia cast light magic. A ball of pure white light formed in the middle of the staff’s ring. Well, at least you won’t choke on the cane. Darkness was revealed in an instant.

“What? Are there stairs?”

What appeared in front of us was the stairs going down to the basement.

Kobolds do not build stairs. This made it clear. This crypt was an artificial facility created by a race with 100% intelligence. That too was a long time ago.

Kobolds have taken over the now empty facility… Could this have something to do with the necromancer? It is unknown to me.

“Winia. Can’t you guess what you’re doing here?”
“Why are you asking me that?”
“Because you’re a wizard, an ancient facility that sleeps underground like this? You don’t know that well. On my day off, I do research with my friends. Roughly, according to the history of this area, don’t you know what was there a few hundred years ago?”
“Don’t ask me because I don’t know as much as a bastard is talking stupid right now.”
“Ah, that’s right. You’re going to lose weight.”
“Wanna go after a bastard?”

Anyway, we headed downstairs.

Going down the stairs, I saw a party of adventurers sitting in the middle and taking a break. One woman with an ax and one male wizard with a staff. And it was a three-person party, including a boy with a knife.

I decided to try talking to them.

“H. Hello. Have you seen any kobolds?”
“…Yes?”

The threesome reacted to that.
I asked them with a friendly smile.

“Are there kobolds nearby?”
“Ah… They don’t seem to be around here, and you’ll probably have to go all the way down to see them. It looks like they’ve all fled inside.”

A boy with a sword kindly answered.
Looking at the thick dark circles under the eyes of his, it seems that he has been through a bit of trouble.

“Oh, is that so?”
“It seems like a fierce battle is going on down there… We’re planning to go up now. There’s not much to gain.”
“That’s a pity. Thank you for your words.”

It seems that in order to see the faces of the kobolds, we need to go deeper. Hagi Knights Dozens of adventurers attacked at random, but places close to the ground must have already been annihilated.

They’ll all crawl inside and sit down.
When I went down to what was believed to be the second basement floor, a cavity came out.

It was a very large common, with several underground passageways lined up here and there, and there were about three adventurers’ parties taking a break here and there.

It is moderately wide, so it seems to be exploring using this place as a base. For some reason, it seems like you’re going to enter a street vendor.

“Do you want to go further down? I think I’ll have to cut down one or two kobolds to get a feel for it. I want blood.”
“Hmm… Looking at it, it seems that there are places to rest in the middle. I think it’s okay to go down like this.”
“I think I should go down too.”

Opinions gathered to go down. Winia shrugged her shoulders and chinned me down. Go that way again to the 3rd basement floor. Elise stood at the front, and I came second. And behind it was the form with Winia and Cloudy.

“It reminds me of an underground city. It might be where the dwarves used to live. They are good with their hands, so it wouldn’t be too difficult to build an underground facility.”

When Elise spoke, Winia answered.

“Dwarf, it could be. This dungeon. It seems to be quite old, but looking at how well it has been preserved, it seems to have a lot of durability.”

It is an ancient underground city created by the Dwarves.

We went down for a while more, turned around, went down again, turned around, and then repeated. With that being said, the speculation that it was the underground city of the Dwarves began to be credible. The structure was as complicated as an ant nest.

Making a room at this depth through a passage like an ant’s nest was an impossible story unless there were quite a few technicians. Certainly, being spacious and complex is an ideal environment for a kobold to nest.

“Hey, here’s a kobold corpse.”
“Uh, is that so?”

The corpses of rotten kobolds found in between reminded us that this is a dungeon.
That’s how I continued my exploration towards the underground, which seemed to have no end.

Will we be able to reach the treasure room?