Chapter 262

Preamble

I fell asleep, woke up, and started to think .

I’d went about patrolling without any particular reason to do so, but it might not have been needed .

There weren’t any inquiries from Sia even after me looking around, either .

… Calm down, it’s only been a day or two . There’s a good chance that the lord is just building up his strength .

Or maybe he’s trying to make me feel agitated?

Gah! The heck man . I’ll just develop a new dungeon boss to get rid of this feeling .

In truth, it’s an idea I’ve been working on for a while now .

I’ve made weapons using magic tools, but phenomena caused by magic tools are generally stronger when caused by traps . For example, [Water Source] for producing water or [Fire Trap] for producing flames . I can’t really use superior traps from the DP catalog since I haven’t been using many traps, but they are still completely better than magic tools for what they do .

… Oh? I can customize traps now, I don’t think that was there before?

Well, it’s only about as much as being able to somewhat change its effective range when I set it up… alright, let’s finally see if it’s possible for us

It’ll use up quite a bit of DP, but oh well . It should be fine .

I can’t set traps up in the Master Room since it’s in the Dungeon Core, so I’ll do it in the boss room .

First, I’ll test to see if I can put a trap onto a golem .

I brought an iron golem over into the boss room and opened the catalog .

… Yep, no can do . I can’t choose it as the target to set it up on .

Next: can I set traps up on walls?

… That’s normally possible, so I dismantled the iron golem and turned it into and ingot . I then thinned it out and put it onto the wall before trying to see if I could put the trap there .

I’ll try it out with [Water Source] first… . ah, maybe I should use [Fire Trap] instead so I don’t flood the room?

Seeing fire come from the dungeon’s wall , I had the iron roll up into a lid to cover it .

… No luck . I was planning on putting [Flame Traps] into portraits if that worked out, but guess not . Oh well .

Or perhaps it didn’t work because the iron golem was its mount? … Well, maybe I could use this to make a sauna in Succubus Village?

Then, I incidentally noticed that there was an entry labeled [Interior] in the DP catalog .

Taking a look at what it had, I saw various decorations . They’re probably what you would ornament the interior of a dungeon with .

I haven’t looked at them at all since I’ve been making all the decorations myself so far, but there’s quite a lot huh… Pillars, walls, paintings… wait, could I…?

I selected the statue (100 DP) I saw and bought it .

The statue of a goblin holding its sword threateningly before itself appeared in front of me… It cost five goblins’ worth to get a single goblin statue . Normally, there wouldn’t be much of a reason to buy it .

But this was a stone goblin statue . I could place traps on it .

Interior items are apparently considered part of the dungeon, so I could put traps on them .

… Seeing a [Fire Trap] spew flame from the chest of a goblin is so surreal .

I used [Create Golem] on the goblin statue and changed its shape . It looked like it would stop activating if I tampered with the spot I installed the trap to, so I altered everything around it into a simple cylindrical shape . It didn’t activate, though .

Apparently, it recognized what I did as [Destroying] the [Trap] .

And so I tried repairing it with DP .

A moment later, it appeared to be working nicely, spewing flames from where the cylinder was aimed . Oooh~, it’s a flamethrower .

Alright, now I know that traps can be used even if I change their shape .

That was a big step forward . For example, now I could put a flamethrower like this into the mouth of a dragon-type golem or something .

… Ah, but it doesn’t look like I can install traps on things I’ve already altered with [Create Golem] . So annoying . So I can only repair it like that huh?

Moreover, the flame pillar would engulf the cylinder if I made it too thin… I’d end up burning my hand if I did that . Note to self: don’t .

I tried out customizing the [Fire Trap] by how wide its emission is, but it looks like thirty centimeters is how small it’ll go .

I can only do the customization when I first make the traps, so I’ll have to think about it all in advance .

And I discovered another problem .

When I took the flamethrower out of the boss room to show it off, it stopped working . However, it went right back to working properly when I brought it back in .

As a result of a few further verification experiments, it turned out that traps would only activate on the same floor they were installed on .

The boss room was separated from the rest of its ‘floor’ so that I could [Install] more monsters in case of an emergency, leading to it not working when I took it out of the boss room .

I’m thinking that traps are only ever meant to be used as set-it-and-forget-it types and not move around .

It’s a bit confusing, but I should just remember that traps can only be used inside the same floor they’re made on . Move them away from the floor is banned .

Well, so long as I keep that shortcoming in mind, this means that I can make a new golem model that incorporates traps .

Alright! I’m pumped to make a giant fire-breathing dragon golem, let’s do this!

Yeah!

*

I fell asleep . Good morning .

I went back to my room and fell asleep after putting some time into the dragon golem .

I should be able to finish it after one or two weeks of working on it . Either way, no one’s even made it to the boss room .

“Ah, Kehma . Morning . ”

“Morning, Rokuko . Has anyone contacted us from Sia yet?”

“Nope, it’s great . ”

Muu .

I get that I did what I wanted, but now I can’t help but feel anxious over when it’ll happen . Thanks to that, I was only able to sleep eight hours last night .

I told him he could use my name for a month, so maybe nothing will happen if I leave them alone for the next month?

In other words—

—I’m going to feel like this for a month?

Give me a break . Seriously?

“Yeah, let’s attack Sia . ”

“Wait, Kehma? I don’t get what you’re saying, explain please?”

“Sorry, I’ll explain . ”

Attacking them really would be a bit hasty .

But I have to do something from my end, don’t I…?

“… Hmm . What do you think I should do?”

“Leave it alone?”

Rokuko answered like it was someone else’s problem . I mean, that was my original intention…

“But I’ll think about it if I’m thinking about it?”

“I don’t get what you’re saying… but in that case, um, how should I say it? Can’t you forget about it if something else comes up?”

Something else, huh… either way, I wouldn’t be able to sleep .

There being nothing going on is always going to be the best…

“Come to think of it, it’s almost time for Wataru to come by, huh . ”

“Should we give Nerune a special holiday when he gets here? He’s a good way to get information . ”

For some reason, I had a faint, yet certain hunch .

… Wataru was going to be bringing us an extraordinarily unfortunate story .