episode_0072
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The fire that struck the commoners’ district did not stop there and also caused damage to the nobles’ district, but fortunately among the misfortunes, our mansion was safe without any damage.
Neither I nor Sarah were very wasteful, so we had enough money to buy about ten mansions, but there is nothing wrong with avoiding unnecessary spending.
When I asked the man guarding the door if anything had happened, he nodded and said.
“A few gremlins invaded, but we defeated them without much difficulty.”
The ant guard in charge of the mansion said that when the body of the gremlin was hung outside the mansion, the gremlin stopped coming.
No matter how faithful a devil he was to his contract, he must have been scared of the house where the corpses of his compatriots were hanging.
Since the goal is to cause chaos in the streets, there is no need to insist on our mansion.
It looks like they attacked a few times and decided that it wasn’t working, so they aimed somewhere else.
“Have you ever had anything else?”
“When you say it’s another enemy… .”
“No, it’s nothing.”
I wondered if the enemy that had hit the streets might have invaded our mansion, but it seemed to be unfounded.
Since loyalists have very excellent detection abilities, any decent familiar will be able to detect them in no time.
The fact that they couldn’t detect it means that it either wasn’t there to begin with, or that it was a high-level enemy that surpasses the detection capabilities of loyalists.
Either way, it didn’t matter because there was nothing in the mansion that could be stolen.
I went inside cautiously without letting my guard down in case of an emergency.
I was worried that the familiar hiding in the mansion might attack me, but as expected, that didn’t happen.
“… I’ll go to sleep first.”
Sarah, who discovered the secret of her birth, entered the room first with a very tired expression.
Usually, around dinner time, he would play card games or talk with me, and he wouldn’t go home until after midnight, but that wasn’t the case today.
The sight of him climbing the stairs with heavy steps felt so insignificant that I thought it was somehow cute.
“Then, should I go to sleep too…? .”
Maybe it’s because something happened today, but I’m a little tired too.
No matter how I looked at the scene of the gruesome massacre, I was not used to it, so I was exhausted mentally as well as physically.
I just want to sleep for today.
I lay in bed thinking that, but that dungeon kept haunting my mind and I couldn’t sleep.
“… Who on earth is this?”
Among the villains who appeared in the original work, I can’t think of anyone who could do something like that.
Before that, there was no one who could create something like an artificial dungeon.
“Artificial dungeon.”
… Artificial dungeon?
While pondering the term artificial dungeon, I realized that I was forgetting one important fact.
There are no artificial dungeons in the original game.
The term artificial dungeon does not exist anywhere, let alone in the dictionary, and artificial dungeons have never appeared directly.
But how do I know of its existence?
The reason is because I saw it in person once.
As soon as I realized that fact, I immediately got up from my seat, opened the entrance to the model garden, and ran towards Woo’s residence.
Since he seemed to know what the Crying Artificial Dungeon was, he might be able to get some clues.
The model garden, where time was linked to the outside world, was so dark that it was impossible to distinguish even an inch in front.
The loyal people and fairies had already gone to bed and did not come out to meet them like usual.
It looks like the dinosaurs have already gone to bed.
The model garden, which was always bustling, was so quiet that I felt like I was somewhere else.
After waiting for my eyes to get used to the darkness for a while, I moved forward to find Woo’s house.
The model garden has changed beyond recognition to the point where it can be recognized even in the dark.
The flowers and trees that were blooming haphazardly were planted in separate areas for efficient management.
Nearby, I saw an interesting honeycomb-shaped castle and a house carved from the inside of a huge tree.
It goes without saying, but the beehive was the home of wasps, and the tree was the home of the fairies.
It is said that ants live underground in mazes, and from what I heard, the maze they are building this time is incomparably more complex than before.
Anyway, after looking around for a bit, I continued along the road towards Wu’s mansion.
Wu’s mansion was shaped more like a gymnasium than a house, and because he placed more emphasis on the interior than the exterior, the exterior was not nice to say the least.
It is a simple cylindrical building. To put it in a good way, it is simple, but in a bad way, it is insincere.
The interior is like a combination of a dojo and a gym. There are a few rooms used as bathrooms and bedrooms, but the rest are all training grounds.
As I carefully opened the door, a sound like a balloon bursting began to ring in my ears.
When I cautiously stepped inside, wondering if they were training, I heard a sound like a balloon popping again, and several water droplets flew in the wind and tickled my cheek.
‘wind?’
As I stopped walking in confusion for a moment due to the sudden wind blowing from inside, purple eyes began to stare blankly at me from beyond the darkness.
“… Felt?”
“Uh, it’s me.”
Wu’s entire body was covered in sweat as he emerged from the darkness, and judging from the way he was panting slightly, it looked like he had been training just a moment ago.
“It’s late. Could it be that you were training?”
“Yes. During the day, the dinosaurs deal with you, but at night, everyone falls asleep.”
It seems like he always trains alone like this at night because he has no partner.
“You work hard even at night. It’s really amazing――.”
“Stop.”
When she was about to approach Wu, she suddenly stretched out her hand and frowned.
“Don’t come any closer.”
“Why, why?”
“No, that… . now… .”
“If it’s because of body odor, don’t worry. Much lighter than when I was in that prison――.”
Before I could finish speaking, I held my breath and closed my mouth as the tips of my feet flew out from the tip of my nose.
At that time, did I faint from this kick?
I was literally overcome with the urge to lick the foot that was right in front of me, but if I did that, it wouldn’t end in me fainting this time.
While I was suppressing my desire with desperate determination, I smiled at an old memory that suddenly came to mind and continued speaking.
“Reminds me of the old days. At that time, I thought the world had suddenly turned upside down.”
“If you don’t want to experience the world turning upside down again, it would be better to refrain from saying anything.”
Although she said that, she also smiled faintly, as if she was remembering an old memory.
“So what is your business? It seems like today was definitely the day of the devil worshipers’ attack.”
“Yes, it’s related to that. Actually, today… .”
What happened today.
And when I explained what I saw today, Wu, who closed his eyes tightly, nodded and said as if he understood something.
“Artificial dungeons were certainly not as common in the Yeo era as you guessed, but they were not that rare either.”
“It wasn’t rare?”
“Yes, it was mainly used on the battlefield. However, it would not be a space isolated from the outside world where one would feel trapped, but would be directly connected to this world.”
“Directly? It’s a little hard to understand.”
“I’ve never seen a dungeon that wasn’t quarantined, so it’s not unreasonable. A dungeon that is not quarantined is closer to a device that summons monsters rather than a dungeon.”
When creating a normal dungeon, you must set a person or monster as the core of the dungeon, but in this case, there is no need to do so.
The core of a dungeon does not have to be a person, but can be an object or even land.
“However, in this case, I couldn’t hold on for long and the dungeon collapsed. I think there was something about the circulation of mana, but I’m not a magician so I don’t know.”
“If the dungeon collapses, what happens to the person who became the core of the dungeon?”
“die. In an ordinary dungeon, if the core character dies, the dungeon collapses, but if a non-isolated dungeon collapses, the core of the dungeon dies.”
So usually, a dungeon was summoned using an object or land as a nucleus.
However, if you do that, the monsters summoned from the dungeon will be reduced to runaway ordinary monsters because no one has control over them.
If a person was used as a nucleus, control of the dungeon would be transferred to him, so of course he could not use a prisoner as a nucleus.
“In addition, a dungeon was placed on the battlefield and everyone present was isolated in the dungeon, or the dungeon itself was summoned and used as a fortress or trench.”
“What I saw today was towards the fortress, right?”
“If you felt that way, it must have been these days.”
“But why has no one used this convenient magic until now? I think there are a lot of people who would covet it.”
“They probably got rid of it. Imagine if this kind of magic was used in a city. Those in power are so scared that they can’t even breathe. Because the kingdom he created will collapse in one day.”
The royal capital was almost destroyed by a swarm of gremlins, so it wasn’t hard to imagine what would have happened if a dungeon had been created.
The same goes for fortresses.
Even though this world is a fantasy world, it wasn’t that common for a superhuman to jump over a castle wall and cut off an enemy enemy’s head.
The fortress was helpful enough in the war, and there is no need to say how much of an obstacle it would be if the fortress were a dungeon.
It may not be common for people who can use such magic, but it would not be strange to say that those in power who were afraid of dungeon magic erased it from the world.
However, the problem is how the magic, once used, returns to this world.
There are certainly beings with longer lifespans than humans, and they appear several times in the story, but I have never seen them use dungeon magic.
Regardless of whether I could or couldn’t use it, I couldn’t think of a reason why they did something like this because they had never used it before.
“Or is there someone else?”
“But felt… .”
While I was lost in thought for a moment, Woo suddenly asked me with a dissatisfied expression.
“Did you come to her for the first time in a few days just to ask that question?”
“… No way.”
In fact, I had slowed down because I had a lot of work to do, but I felt like I would lose my mind again if I told him that.
“Of course it is. Well, I guess I should hang out a little while I’m here this time.”
“Does it suit you?”
“Okay. As I said before, it was difficult because there was no one to talk to me at this late hour.”
As she said that, she started clenching her fists.
I couldn’t tell her that today was too much for her as she looked like she was going to run at any moment.
ha… .
I should have come in the morning.
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