Chapter 46 – Dungeons

ㅡ He goes!!!

Shortly thereafter, the fourth Skeleton Mage was found. The Skeleton Mage, beaten by us, tried to scream, but she couldn’t scream because she had no vocal cords, so she was only sad.

We gathered the friendship of four people and shattered the Skeleton Wizard. I was happy to get four wands, and more than anything, I got bored and stressed out when I had four of them.

In other words, it was a bit of an extreme celebration.

“Should we go back now? Hehe… How much will all this be?”
“Tin glasses, staffs, and ancient trinkets. I’ll touch a lot of money, yes.”

Most of the ancient trinkets seemed to be just junk, but if you sold just the tin cup and staff, you could get a total of 10 silver. To be honest, I don’t expect jewelry.

“There are also two daggers and Mimic teeth. Imp horns are a bonus.”

The dagger was taken from another adventurer’s corpse, and the imp’s horns were cut off earlier. My body was heavy, but this would be the weight of my wallet. I gnawed at my cheeks and suppressed the urge to roar. I was that happy.

Elise put a staff on Meria’s back. Looking at it like this, it gave off a feeling like a 4-member wizard gang. Power went into my shoulders.

“Then let’s go back now. Sister Elise, are there enough maps stored?”
“Yes? Stored? What are you talking about?”
“No, I’m just kidding, and now that I’m back, I think the time has come for Elize-sama’s map to shine.”
“If that’s the case, leave it to me.”

Elise, who opened her map, strode out of her stride. We laughed and followed him. Perhaps it was because she came while slaying monsters, there was no raid on the way back. What greeted us was just the bone mounds of already smashed skeletons.

Then I went back up to the third basement floor. It was a place where a huge room and a waterway connected like the chapel of the church.

“Ahhh, this older brother has become completely white.”

In one corner, the body of the adventurer we had collected was still there. The only difference is that all the flesh has disappeared. It seems that someone came and ate them all.

“Isn’t this happening all of a sudden?”

I did think that too.

“I cleansed it myself, so that won’t happen.”
“Hmm, I guess so when I think about it.”

Anyway, contrary to Elise’s messy map, the party safely got out of the third floor and went up to the second floor. How the hell did you know that? I didn’t know, so I asked.

Of course, why the hell do you know the map so well when you’re so fucking crazy? I didn’t ask. I asked politely and politely.

“I’ve been trained like that.”
“Training?”
“If I die, there may be a situation where the heretics can capture and misuse the map, so the map is designed to be as unrecognizable as possible.”

My mouth fell open. No, junior nun?

What the hell is the Gwangmyeongseong Cross Society doing? It would not be an exaggeration to say that they were a sacred group of special forces just by listening to their actions and words.

“That, that means! I’m really sorry that you thought I couldn’t draw!”
“What… Did you think? But it’s true that I can’t actually draw. Still, it’s kind of heartbreaking.”
“Damn it!! The snout!!”

Unbearable, I hit my mouth three times with the palm of my hand. How can I hurt her!

“Whoops. Please stop.”

Elise smiled lightly at my eccentricity.

“You’re crazy.”
“Oh, what.”

I was a little embarrassed that Copson picked it up.

After walking in a relaxed atmosphere because no monsters appeared, I finally reached the first basement floor that I had longed for. The big hall. Somehow I felt like I had been in this dungeon for a very long time. It actually seems like it’s been a while.

“Let’s go up quickly. Ugh. I’m tired for some reason.”
“I did such heavy labor, but of course I’m fucking tired. I want to go to bed soon and wash up.”

That’s how I tried to move towards the ground where the sun was shining. Then, on the stairs going up to the ground, people’s voices were heard. Are they other adventurers? I climbed the stairs while maintaining proper tension.

“No?”

Other adventurers were right. He was a middle-aged adventurer with a shaggy beard. We stopped for a moment in the middle of the stairs. He asked while looking at us.

“Is it coming from inside you?”
“Is that so?”

Feeling vaguely uneasy, I answered.

The party didn’t seem to care, but basically I didn’t trust the adventurers that much. It’s because they don’t bat an eye at immersing a person if it’s profitable when they measure it here and there.

I know because I can.

“A wand? Four identical wands? Did you find them all inside?”

As if looking at our party, a middle-aged adventurer brought up a topic about a staff.

“That’s right. Isn’t it a dungeon? Various things are sleeping. Go down and take a look.”

I walked past him while answering appropriately. Behind him were two more stern-looking men. We have more. It’s safe if this is the case. I called the party with a relieved heart.

“Come on, let’s go up quickly. I want to wash up quickly.”
“So do i.”

That’s how we crossed over, and nothing unsavory happened. Finally on the ground

ㅡ The sun is shining!

When I came out, the sun was already up in the middle of the sky. The sun rising high in the sky brightened the world evenly. While in the dungeon, I only depended on the light of the lantern, but when I received the sunlight, it seemed like my vitamin D naturally soared.

But what about midday?

“What, is it midday? Didn’t we come in the morning?”
“I must have been inside for another half day after staying up all day.”
“Ah, that’s right.”

It seemed that he stayed up all night as he slaughtered skeletons in a fit of greed.

Was it in about 30 hours or so? According to my experience, it seems like it has been a little over 10 days, but I think I am mistaken. I’ve been in the dark for a long time, so my notion of time might be a little dizzy.

“Somehow, I was really tired.”

Is not sleeping for a day a big deal? Staying up all night is a familiar thing. Still, looking in the bright light, Meria, Copson, and Elise all had dark circles under their eyes. Everyone looked so damn tired.

I want to go to sleep soon.

“Hmm… The scenery outside is the same.”
“Because it’s only been a day.”

The area around the entrance to the dungeon was the same as when we entered. Abandoned encampments scattered here and there. Could it be that he left them all behind? Or maybe he was still exploring inside the dungeon.

If it wasn’t that, I searched all inside.

Still, I’m sure I didn’t look all over the inside. It was hard to imagine that there would be idiots killed by the skeletons. Then I saw a corpse.

“Something like a tent can make money. Shall we take that with us?”
“What are you talking about? It’s someone else’s stuff.”
“No, I’m kidding.”

Elise yelled at me as I tried to open the tent. It wasn’t a joke at all, it was said from the heart, but it was so sharp that it scared me.

“But how do I get back?”

Then she said Meria, who was looking around.

“Huh? Wait a minute, come to think of it, the carriage…”

Wasn’t the carriage one way? Does that mean I have to walk to the city…? I looked at Elise with a frightened face. Elise calmly opened her mouth.

“Come to think of it, I didn’t think of coming back. I guess I’ll have to walk on foot.”
“I’m going crazy and jumping.”

So we made our way through the midday jungle again. When I came this far, I rode a wagon to the jungle area, so I had to cross the jungle again to get out.

“Mom, you’re really fucking hot.”
“I’d rather be cool inside the dungeon.”
“Ah~. I’m sweating too much.”

I felt like my whole body was sweating as I cut down the 10 young plants that had grown so thickly with a knife. It was hot and humid. Inside the dungeon, it was so cool even when I was sweating from intense activities, I felt good whenever the cold wind blew, but now it was just fucking hot.

When we finally got out of the jungle, there was no wagon there.
I was visibly desperate.

“There really isn’t a wagon.”
“Then do you think the carriage would have waited for us?”
“No fuck, if you do, it’s going to get worse.”
“It looks like it’s going to be so damn hot. I can’t understand the thoughts of a savage.”

It took several hours by carriage to come, so I thought that even if I walked diligently from now on, I would arrive at the city only after the sun went down. I’m really going to lose weight. I’m going crazy. Really.

“I’m leaving.”

Elise said in an emotionless tone. She didn’t even seem to feel any hatred for walking from now on.

Our faces turned brown and we walked on the plain like that. The thought of walking from here to Isvant brought tears to my eyes. No, it was already out.

I shed tears behind my back. Meria turned to me.

“Kat, are you crying?”
“Uh. All of a sudden, I’m starting to shed a lot of fucking tears. It reminds me of my hometown.”
“Hey… Since I was a nomad, I think seeing the plains makes me think that way? Actually, sometimes I feel the same way whenever I see a place that is similar to my hometown.”
“No, it’s a bit different.”

When I am exhausted and tired, tears come out.

I walked for a really long time. I was exhausted as the sun went down, but as the sun went down, the temperature went down, so I was able to survive. Eventually, it was only when the day had completely set and it was dark that the walls of the city could be seen in the distance.

“I never thought I would use the lantern again.”

It is a world without street lights. When the sun goes down, the world goes completely dark. It was too dark around, so Copson lit the lantern again. Still, it’s really convenient because it has a lantern.

“You are very late.”
“Yes. The castle gate is tightly closed.”

Arriving in front of the gate, the lofty gate was firmly closed and did not know how to open it. When the sun goes down, the gates do not open again until the sun rises the next day. I couldn’t enter the city, so I had to sleep without fail today.

“Well, there is a saying that going back home is a picnic.”
“What are you talking about? Is that a proverb of the barbarians?”
“It’s similar. Let’s prepare for homelessness.”

We made a flat place for each of us to sleep in front of the wall and spread leaves on it. Then they gathered the wood and made a bonfire.

“Oh, I’m fucking hungry.”

After properly preparing, each person took out something to eat. I roasted a little bit of dried rice over a campfire and made it warm and ate it. And fell asleep. It was in front of the wall, so there was no need to stay vigil.