Oh~ I forgot an author's note on the last chapter but he got a lot of comments about magic items that are often mentioned so gave details on those. The ones adventurers often find are split into: Magic Weapons (1 in every couple of years. At least 2,000,0000,000 Z), Magic Armor (one in every couple of years, including shields. At least 2,000,000,000 Z), Magic Items (2-3 per three years. A variety of types and prices), Magic Tools (10 per year or so, includes clocks, lighters, cheese bowls. Anywhere from several tens of thousands to hundreds of millions of Z).
Also, a lot of the magic tools and items being found are pretty vague in use, things like {Magic Lanterns} or {Refrigerators}, {Freezers} that eat up excessive amounts of magic stones so only high end nobles use them, so the prices vary heavily. The cheese bowl is like the type where once per day it automatically refills with cheese type of item.
Once Again to the Fairy Village 2
After that several groups of adventurers entered the teleport room on the 1st floor and took short breaks, or started teleporting to the 2nd floor. It's a big help that I was able to doze off for even two hours.
Since I was using the alarm clock {Cantrip} I was able to wake up just before midnight. After confirming with the clock magic tool that the date had changed past midnight, I slowly stood up from the wall I was sitting against and approached the teleport crystal.
Number 84. It's no good...
There's various things said about the rules in regards to where you appear in the room but no one has been able to come to a satisfying conclusion. It's said you just return to a randomly open area in the room. Since it's about 30m in every day direction, a reasonable large space it's almost never completely packed.
Number 26. It's no good huh?
In the worst case all of today, I intend to test it out for an entire 24 hours.
"Fokubo"
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Year 7444, Month 5, Day 1
I think I've done it at least 20 times.
They're a group that I saw enter the room from a glance after I had repeated teleporting a number of times.
If I remember correctly they're a party of just non-humans that came to Baldukk a short while after we did and the leader is the second or third son of a high ranking noble from Kanbitt.
I can't say much about other people but they're newcomers of 1.5 years or so. A considerably skilled group.
"Hey, Joni, ignore him. He's exploring alone. It's kindness to let him choose the course he wants to as many times as he pleases."
"Yeah, and things about other people don't matter at all right?"
"Tan belu"
I teleported to the 2nd floor...This place is different as well. I don't think the humidity was this high. Just in case I check the symbol on the pedestal but after all it was pointing further into the hall.
"Matozo"
I returned to the 1st floor again.
"Hey, you! Even though someone is talking, what's up with that!?"
The Tiger-man named Joni who just called out to me stood up. How annoying~
"You talking to me?"
I face Joni and say.
"That's only obvious! There's only us and you in here!"
"I see, it's not like I'm causing any sort of trouble for you. Just ignore me."
I said that and started walking towards the crystal rod again. It's a waste of time.
"Hey now, don't fuck with me! Show me your face! Covering it with something like that!"
He started running at me.
"Joni! Come back! Stop already!"
Someone in Joni's party said that but Joni continued running at me ignoring the voice.
"Sehotogu"
I teleported to the 2nd floor.
There was a group of gnolls gathered together about 5m from the teleport crystal rod.
I wipe the blood on my sword on the dirty leather of the gnoll and finally created a bit of water to carefully wipe it out before putting it in the scabbard and checking the symbol on the pedestal.
..So this place is wrong too.
"Wakermosshu"
Joni returned to the place where his party was and was sitting down. I glanced once in their direction then walked towards the center of the room.
"Che."
I heard an obvious click of the tongue echo out but it's not like he's directly picking a fight with me so it doesn't matter at all.
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I continued teleporting another bunch of times but I can't get to the place I'm aiming. It's still not the time to get impatient. There's no choice but to take it easy as I go.
While I was continuing to teleport Joni's party finished their break it seems.
Of course since they've already finished preparations to depart they'll teleport soon as well. With this the annoying one will disappear.
They must have noticed I was waiting, the leader who stopped Joni raised one of his hands to me.
I return to the teleport crystal again and while waiting for the incantation to float up I teleported to the 2nd floor for the several dozenth time.
..It's no good again. I sighed after finding the number "216" on the wall.
I return to the 1st floor and repeated teleporting to the 2nd floor.
It was around the third time I teleported to the 2nd floor after that.
There was a group happily gathering the magic stones and equipment from the group of gnolls I killed several tens of times earlier next to the teleport spot.
They all returned to their own work.
"What is it? Do you have some kind of complaint?"
Joni said towards me while cutting open the chest of a gnoll.
Ah~ it's seriously a waste of time dealing with you.
It's because I thought I wanted to see the faces of his parents after checking his family name.
He's two years older than me huh?
Never heard of them before.
The second son of Marquis Rokis huh?
Come to think of it Kanbitt Kingdom is the same as Korakut Kingdom and they were founded by adventurers was it?
Otherwise maybe it's a part of their countries culture that anyone below the second son can't get a promotion without becoming adventurers.
His grim expression changed and it seems like the color of face got a bit worse.
I looked straight back at Joni who was looking at my face in the hood from below.
"Ah, yes..please do.."
I casually grabbed on to the crystal rod while chanting the incantation to return.
"Defugosu"
I returned to the 1st floor.
It can't be helped if they think it was a bit annoying.
And they're probably still at the level where they don't know the teleport room is a safe area. Since they haven't properly slept, it's not surprising their nerves are on end. There's no point in getting angry over something on that level every time, and I have more important things right now. However, it's not good that they realized the leader of the {Slaughterers} was doing something strange.
It's possible they might start to think that there's some kind of secret on the 2nd floor. It's true though.
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I continued to teleport another couple dozen times.
I'm starting to feel pretty hungry.
Since I haven't properly slept either I'm a bit tired, but hey, this age is durable. Even if I don't sleep at all for two days or so I'm sure I can keep going. I was able to doze off for two hours or so last night, so I can still keep going.
I wash my face with some cold water to disperse the sleep, grabbed the teleport crystal again, and teleported.
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Just doing some rough math and the amount of time it takes to teleport once, check the symbol on the pedestal, find the number on the wall is about 2-5 minutes. Since I can sometimes figure out that it's not my destination without even having to check the symbol, it takes an average of 3 minutes for one trip.
The time right now is about 10 in the morning.
If I were to go off of probability theory then it's likely I should be able to make it to my objective of "356" by 10 pm at night or so.
"Kazuroku"
I teleported to the 2nd floor.
Which direction did I go from the start last time?
I thought I would be able to remember but both directions are a vaguely curved cave with no real characteristics.
No matter which direction I proceed it comes out to a Y shaped split path and beyond that is the room with the {Snake Generator}.
In any case I need to check the bottom of the pitfalls.
Just like usual I use wind magic to blow the dirt away and head towards the pitfall.
It's about 3m in height and has a depth of about 5m, the width covers the entire cave from wall to wall.
I focus my eyes and try to find something like a switch at the bottom of this pitfall.
..There it is.
I discovered something like that in the corner of the pitfall. It's a square rock about 1 cm in every direction.
Even if I use Identify it just comes up as a rock but if it's just using the same type of rock as others in the dungeon then it's not understandable.
Since it seems to be smaller than other rocks from a glance it doesn't look like you could push it but it doesn't seem mistaken that the secret lies in the {Floating Disk}. It might be there's more to it and that's just the only part sticking out.
There might be other switches as well.
There's one on each side of the Y shape split from the teleport destination and then there should be one more a bit past the Y shape area on one side.
After all last time I came up the Y shaped split from the left side.
Most likely that's the first switch?
Doesn't that mean that, the chances at first are 50% for the correct answer, and then the next time is in some meanings 50% as well. Does the door appear with such a high probability?
No clue..Other than the square switch, I can't find anything particularly strange at the bottom of the pitfall.
Hmn, what should I do?
The first time we came we should have come up around from the Y shaped area on the right. In other words, that was definitely the wrong answer. Even then I don't think anything strange happened.
Then, I guess I should bury it with dirt and sink the {Floating Disk}, the moment I thought that I noticed it.
Huh? Isn't the correct answer to sink the {Floating Disk} and push that switch with it? If I'm certainly Ralpha was pushing it were feet as well. But, wasn't this a pitfall in the first place? It's fine that the {Disk} sinks when you place a certain amount of weight on it. However, I've been making dirt on it up until now but the speed it sunk in was slowly. Pitfalls, aren't they supposed to be intended to do damage by putting a lid on them that breaks all at once causing damage from the fall? They increase the damage by putting spears or stakes at the bottom like on the 3rd floor and 4th floor is what I thought. On the 5th and 6th floor it's almost always a sharp mass of needles.
If they were hoping to cause damage from the fall then this {Floating Disk} doesn't have any meaning.
I use earth magic and void magic and put a 1m cube of dirt or so in the middle.
After taking about 20 seconds it reached the bottom.
The portion that came out was around 3 cm or so I guess?
In order to observe it better I jumped down on the dirt I created and it seems there's a similar lever on the opposite side of the wall as well.
Ah, I got it. You need to push these levers down?
Last time I don't think I buried the opposite side.
I continue down the Y shape split and found a hole. Just the same way I sink the {Disk} and look for levers.
..It's there.
This time there's two of them about 1m over on this side and one of them on the opposite.
Hmn, how did I create the dirt last time again?
Then in that case I guess it's to the right from where I'm facing?
There's no hints at all, so I guess there's no choice than to go all out and pull down the right side.
I take off my gloves, touch the door, and took a step into the fairy village.