Episode 18.11-12 (1/2)

The next day, Lecan spent the whole day sleeping.

He got up in the evening, had a light meal at the inn and went back to sleep.

The day after, he took a walk together with Heles to sell the dungeon items.

They've been doing this often already, but since they've got a lot to sell this time around, many stores won't accept everything and some even attempt to lower the price. As for Venom Sacs, they go to specific purchasers.

The 44 carcasses of mid variants were worth 16 gold coins. It's a lot of money, but Heles complained to the shopkeeper at the first shop. It's way too cheap, she said.

However, the shopkeeper explained that he had to lower the price since there's a lot more damaged legs than expected.

Where'd those damages even come from, it was the result of Heles's reckless charges paired with her powerful magic sword. In other word, she reaped what she sowed, thus she could only hang down her head halfway through the shopkeeper's explanation.

For the two giant variants, they had left them on four shops right after they got out of the dungeon, and they came out to worth nine large gold coins.

It's because you rarely ever see legs of giant variants from those floors in such a flawless state.

Each of Lecan's group gets 62 gold coins.

Eda's eyes almost popped out during the money splitting.

Another day afterward, Lecan spent most of his time sleeping and took his meal at the inn.

Lecan let Eda go shopping.

She had used up half of the 100 arrows she brought already.

Since she was all out of poison too, Lecan had her buy twice the previous amount.

She hasn't shot an arrow enchanted with paralyze curse yet, but Lecan told her to have another five enchanted. Since the shaman was apparently an unusual one even for a town with many shamans like this, his work must be pretty good, and his fee is cheaper than most.

The day after, Lecan went out to purchase food and firewood. He bought many yellow potions that undo abnormal status in particular. The break is for four days. Meaning, today's the last.

Lecan was keeping his focus on <Life Detection> the whole time he strolled the town and shopped around

<Life Detection> is an ability to detect living beings in a 1000 step radius.

Red dots are humans, green dots are birds, fish, insect, and blue dots are magic beasts.

In his former world, everyone possessed mana with variations in the amount, but in this world, those who possess mana are the uncommon ones.

Hence, many humans only get displayed as very faint red dots.

Even though you can detect presences of humans with this ability, you can't tell them apart.

However, the ways these dots are displayed have subtle differences about them, you can sort of distinguish who is who in some cases.

Fortunately, since Eda, Arios and Heles all possess mana, Lecan has been tracking these four since morning as a practice to distinguish individuals.

He had been dabbling in this kind of practice a few times before, and he could only be grateful to have been given an opportunity to do this now.

He's lost sight of Arios's red dot for quite some time already. Since this town houses many individuals with mana pools akin to Arios's, Lecan lost him the moment he mingled in crowd. There's no way to tell who's who by then.

Heles possesses a far larger pool of mana than Arios. And although there's a lot of individuals who rival or even exceed hers as expected of a dungeon town, he's managing to keep tracking her somehow.

Eda's red dot stands out due to her huge amount of mana. Lecan feels like he's gradually getting familiar with her dot's characteristic. He could now find her out even after looking away.

Lecan noticed the unnatural movement of Heles's red dot.

It's been moving together with three other red dots for awhile now.

At first he thought they would eventually disperse since they were in the middle of the town, but they wouldn't.

The four red dots are advancing toward the suburb.

(They're moving too fast together.)

(A wagon?)

(Are they traveling on board a wagon?）

Heles's red dot is gradually going far away.

Suddenly.

A chill ran down Lecan's spine.

(Not good!)

Lecan ran off.

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Dungeon Ninae is located in the heart of the town.

Or rather, a town has been established around Dungeon Ninae.

The town lord's mansion is located to the south of the dungeon, with other nobles' mansions around it.

There's a mountain range to the north of the town, and at the base, quite a distance away from the town, gorgeous mansions stand erect here and there.

These are mansions owned by high-ranking adventurers who earn their keep in Dungeon Ninae.

The wagon is heading toward one of those mansions.

Lecan ran and ran as his <Overking Bear> overcoat fluttered intensely in the wind.

He made use of <Gust> wind to accelerate further once he was out of public eyes.

Once he got in a mountain path, he pushed his back even stronger with <Gust>, leaping atop trees, chasing after the wagon.