Chapter 27: Great Spirit Dungeon and Trash Cleaning (1/2)

After passing by the side of a number of monsters, we went up the stairs to the 1st Floor.

The 1st Floor is structured like a city, so there’s a lot of rooms that no one comes to.

“It should be fine here. I would like to ask you a few questions as the price for that potion. Is that okay?” (Hikaru)

“Nya… I don’t mind that… Onii-san, are you a Spirit User? I haven’t seen an ability like this before.”

“Are Dark Spirit Abilities rare?” (Hikaru)

In the point exchange, fire, earth, water, light, and darkness had the same price.

I don’t think darkness is especially rare or anything though.

“I don’t think there’s any around-nya. I have seen a number of Light Users every nyow and then though… Maybe it is just me not knowing about it-nya. Can’t really say for sure…”

Fumu. In that case, would it be better not to show my abilities that much?

As someone who wants to avoid standing out, this is information I am glad to have stumbled upon.

I asked the questions I wanted to know from the cat beastkin while maintaining the darkness, and the cat beastkin seemed to be unexpectedly knowledgeable, she told me about a variety of things.

Putting it all together…

First, the dungeon.

A dungeon is a warp in space that is born at the center of a location where more than 3 Great Spirits are gathered at and positioned in a certain manner, and this city had a pretty big dungeon that was made by gathering 4 types of Great Spirits.

On top of that, because a dungeon city has Great Spirits, chances of an invasion are lower and it is safe.

That’s why people would gather from the surrounding settlements, and it would steadily get bigger.

“Then, that means there’s Great Spirits in this city?” (Hikaru)

“There’s the Fire, Water, Wind, and Earth Great Spirit-samas-nya. My objective is to save money and make a contract with the Wind Great Spirit-sama-nya.”

“Hmm…” (Hikaru)

I knew there was a method for someone to be able to use Spirit Abilities in this world, and it seems that method is to make a contract with a Great Spirit.

Well, that’s already none of my business, and I’ve got no good memories of a Great Spirit, so let’s not get close to one.

“What was that about the Hungry Beasts Underground Prison you were talking about before?” (Hikaru)

“The nyame of the 2nd Floor-nyan. I don’t know who was the one who gave the name, but that’s what it is called.”

“Then, what about the 1st Floor?” (Hikaru)

“The Dusk Hades Street.”

They are probably taking the traits just like that and turning them into names.

Is it easier to understand than calling them 1st Floor and 2nd Floor? I can’t really tell.

“And so, why were you barefooted?” (Hikaru)

I had that question on the tip of my tongue and ended up asking.

Did she not have the money to buy shoes?

“A scout myust erase the sound of their footsteps or there’s no point. But the 2nd Floor is dark, so there’s times when one can get cut by things on the ground…”

“Aah, so it was to erase the sound of your footsteps, huh…” (Hikaru)

Of course, it must also be in part because she is a cat beastkin.

But whichever the case it is, the fact that cutting your feet means the end for you just doesn’t sound like it is worth the trade.

…Well, she must be going barefooted while still understanding this, so there’s no need for me to say it out loud myself.

“You should properly choose the people you team up with from now on. You simply were lucky I was around that time.” (Hikaru)

“We are hired scouts, so we are nyot in a position where we can choose our customers.”

“What a harsh world…” (Hikaru)

It is to the point that you suddenly get dismissed in the middle of a dungeon, so I could tell she had a low position, but even if that’s the case, that’s just cruel.

This time around she was saved by me coincidentally passing by. Cat beastkin being sacrificed like that might actually be an everyday thing.

After that, I heard information about dungeon exploration from her.

It was apparently basic knowledge that you must have before entering a dungeon, so she was surprised I didn’t know anything at all.

It might be lucky of me that I managed to get this information while not revealing myself.

I managed to avoid standing out as being strangely ignorant.

Info like people only leave Spirit Stones and their bodies disappear when they die in a dungeon, how Spirit Energy tends to become a spiral and goes underground in a dungeon, and how monsters get stronger the lower the floor is.

The fact that ‘monsters’ show up in dungeons.

Monsters are different from animals in that they are beings that have taken form from Spirit Energy.

About the fact that monsters don’t leave a body and only leave a Spirit Stone.

However, monsters that come out from dungeons gain flesh and can become Monstrosities.

Explorers sell Spirit Stones to earn money.

The ‘excavation’ of Spirit Stones is managed by the country.

The explorers are mostly in charge of the excavation of Spirit Stones.