Year 7444, Month 10, Day 8
【Paralysis Drug】
【State: Good】
【Value: 200/g】
【Ability: Applies a magic-based paralysis when absorbed and inhibits voluntary movement.】
One day later, after finishing my usual running, it was a short while after we all entered the 1st floor of the dungeon to do some training with spells. Toris and I were 200-300 meters away gathering the magic stones from corpses of gnolls while recovering from mana. Since Miduchi and Bel returned to the inn about an hour ago to recover their mana, Ralpha and Gwine are close to the teleport crystal taking shifts as they train.
"Al!"
The lowest was 4.
It's difficult to imagine that these sort of {newbies} (probably) would suddenly attack the famous {Slaughterers} of Baldukk. In, which case I wonder if the idiot picked a fight again? How troublesome~
"Hey~ you all. I don't know what happened but those two women are our party members. If anything rude happened on our side then I'll apologize. Would you please forgive it?"
I said while calmly returning my long sword to my scabbard on the sword belt of my plain clothes. I don't have my armor or protectors on. On the bottom I have something like high-grade long underpants as underwear on and rubber-sole combat boots so if you were to go off my own individual sense then I probably look pretty strange. Toris has his shield with him but he's casually dressed in just a shirt and some pants as well. Of course, Ralpha and Gwine have their weapons as well but they're dressed casually as well.
They're dressed casually but..suddenly the blood raises to my head.
Ralpha's appearance was something like a kimono (yukata?) like shirt on the above part that opens on the front. She's wearing pants below that. Gwine is wearing an expensive button-up shirt and pants as well. Though everyone is wearing rubber-sole boots.
2-3 buttons from the that Gwine's shirt had been torn off. He must have realized that, Toris started yelling.
"Hey! You bastards! What is the meaning of this! What did you do to them!"
Seeing Toris yell with an tremendously threatening attitude not only did they not get afraid the adventurers just started grinning with unpleasant smiles on their faces. I looked at their equipment and was surprised, it wasn't just leather armor or even banded-mail and scale-mail, but there's even a guy wearing splint-mail. In just looks that appear strong.
"He~ what can you do with just four of you? We have ten people over here~"
"Hey, this elf's shield and sword seem pretty high-quality as well~"
"Ora~ you~ all. Obediently leave your weapons. We won't particularly save you though."
"However, these guys, they spent so much money on their weapons that they're just wearing normal clothes~ just clothes."
"Since it's dangerous after all~! Gyahahaaha!"
"Hey you all. I'll put it obviously so even you can understand, putting your hands on these two women was a bad move. If these two were to seriously take you on the ones who die would be you all."
""Uuwa~ what the?""
""It's cold!!""
""Sa..Save me~!""
"Hey, Ralpha, Gwine. What did they do to you?"
"Ah, since they suddenly teleported in we tried to open up the path for them but this guy suddenly started saying Gwine's spear was high-quality so.."
Ralpha pointed at one of the guys frozen in ice while replying. The guy who was pointed at is saying something like, "n..no.."
"And then one them grabbed around my shoulder and pulled it."
Gwine starts looking for the buttons that fell off while saying.
"Hmph, you all, do you have anything to say?"
I turned and asked the adventurers and one of them opened his mouth.
""Misshi is his majesty Thomas's illegitimate child!""
I grinned and smiled and looked at Ralpha and Gwine. Just in case I need to say it.
"I don't know if it's true or a lie but they're saying this. Would you leave their treatment to me for a bit. Well~ it'll be no problem~"
And then I turned back around to the adventurers before continuing my words.
"Ah, I see. But you know. If it's the illegitimate child then you're not royalty after all. Now go to sleep. Good night."
I said that and used the spell {Sleep Cloud} to put them all asleep without waiting for a response, then erased the ice.
"Well there's no need to go as far as killing them right?"
Since either way the only ones listening is our members I can say whatever I please. I thought that Ralpha and Gwine didn't have any intention of killing them either. Both of them nodded.
"Since they won't wake up for the time being, shall we teleport them?"
We carried all of them to the teleport room and forcibly had them touch the the crystal rod. Ah, this is annoying. We piled three of them on top of each other and had each of them touch the crystal rod. We gave it our best and tried to have seven of them touch it. Toris uses his left hand to grab the crystal rod and his right hand to hold a couple of their hands on it. Ralpha, Gwine, and I are using both of our hands to hold another six of their hands on it.
When Toris chanted the incantation "botsufunku" to return he and seven of them were teleported to the entrance. Just the same way we teleported together with the remaining three. After returning to one of the small rooms near the entrance and Toris stuck his head out of a different room. We dragged along the three others and threw them all into a pile sleeping like corpses and then we slowly went out to the entrance plaza where the Baldukk knight group was guarding.
It was a party that entered the dungeon a short 10 minutes prior. Even the guards still remembered their faces. That was turned in under charges of robbery by the {Slaughterers}. Obviously we haven't touched their wallets or equipment at all. If you check their status then you can tell they're not dead right away and I explained that I put them to sleep with a spell and they took them in with no problem at all. They'll ask if they really tried robbing someone at the knight group building when they wake up. I think robbery was 15 lashes with the whip right. Since it's just attempted then maybe it'll be a bit lighter?
I don't know if they can endure 15 times being whipped but if this man who calls himself the illegitimate child of the country really is one, I wanted to know how the King would judge him. If he's really a fake then when the knight group is interrogating him then I'm sure he wouldn't use that lie. Even if he tries using that sort of lie, I think an even worse fate is in store for him though.
If he just orders lashings with the whip like that then there's no particular problem. If he uses some sort of reason to make the punishment lighter or heavier, I just want to know that reason. From here on out, I might be able to use it as a reference for something. If he makes it far too light or something, or even innocent, then what sort of reasons he used, it's some interest that's in pretty bad taste.
In the first place if he isn't dragged on the judgement day then I'm sure he'll come to my place to negotiate. In that case it wouldn't be bad to negotiate as well. Though I think that probably won't be the case. Though in my case I would be more relieved if he isn't punished in accordance with the law. I can make it into a favor after all.
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Year 7444, Month 11, Day 29
The time is 2 pm in the afternoon. It might not be half bad to go a bit longer and look around on the 7th floor for a bit.
We quickly advanced forward exploring the 7th floor and every time we enter the dungeon we bring back several tens of millions of Z in magic stones. In total since we reached the 7th floor we've earned just over 100,000,000 Z. However, let alone an ogre mage, there's no monster rooms, and obviously none of those strange altars either so we haven't been able to find any new magic tools or magic items.
However, that's in regards to the 7th floor and last week in an altar room that we passed through on the 6th floor, we finally discovered a magic item. Since the {Bracelet.Of.Dead.Body.To.Water} we found in August, it's our second magic item.
【Oak Wood.Iron】
【Manufacture Date: 23/11/7444】
【Endurance: 15980】
【Effect: Ignores the abilities of metal equipment(The abilities of equipment other than metal, including ones with magic properties are applied normally).】
It's a rather splendid weapon. The abilities are high on it as well. Since the only one in our party using a spear is Gwine, I let Gwine use it. If it's someone who can use magic then they can certainly feel the mana from it using {Detect.Magic}. Against monsters as the opponent it's nothing more than a slightly strong spear but if it's used against soldiers in war then it should play a pretty big role.
According to Gwine it seems it certainly is a bit easier to pierce through wtih it. If we were to sell it I wonder how much it would go for? Since I've heard magic weapons and armor easily go for several hundred million to billions of Z, I'm sure it's worth quite a bit. In the worst case, it should be fine to sell it if we need some money.
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Year 7444, Month 11, Day 30
After confirming everyone had nodded, we stepped foot into the desert.