Chapter 42

Let’s Build an Inn

“If I assume Goshujin-sama’s a dungeon boss, it makes sense… Not wanting to stand out, the secrets, and yer hidden background . ”

Honestly, Ichika’s train of thought was on the right track .

The dungeon master is the dungeon’s ruler, in other words you could call them the boss .

Still, dungeon masters don’t exist in the [Study of Dungeons] . Instead, there were things called dungeon bosses . They were strong monsters summoned by the core itself to be bosses—Rokuko was a human-type, but there were other kinds like dragon-types too—it was that kind of thing .

Additionally, you could say I am a monster (?) that Rokuko summoned . You wouldn’t be too off saying that I’m a dungeon boss now .

“Hey, what would you do if I’m the demon king?”

“I’d do anythin’ if you give me delicious stuff to eat! How ’bout destroy Sia? Ah, that’d be a waste of good food huh, let’s make it a conquest . ”

There’s a woman that would betray the human race for tasty food right here .

“No, I want to have good relations with the town there, I don’t want them to die . ”

“That so~ . But, if ya conquer the world it’d be an all-ya-can-eat of tasty food y’know? It’d be great… How ’bout we do it soon?”

Correction, rather than betray the human race, she would embark on world conquest proactively .

“World domination… t-that sounds amazing!”

“Right~? I want to eat all the things~”

“Kehma! How about making our dungeon’s goal world conquest!?”

And now the dungeon core’s pumped herself up .

“No, what would we do after the conquest…? For now, we play it safe . Don’t think about unreasonable things like that . ”

“So yer reservin’ strength?”

“Those that stand out are killed . So, rejected . ”

I don’t know when god’s vanguard (the hero) will come .

If they’ve gotten one or two cheats from Kami-sama, the hero probably equals death .

“Well, how about we take a rest after that run today? We’ll be remodeling the dungeon tomorrow… to be exact, building an inn… ah, right . How about some food?”

“Oooh~… . wait a sec, in here? There a kitchen or somethin’?”

“Hmm, something like that… my power, let me show you it . ”

I pretended to gather my strength and quickly took out a [Sweet-roll Assortment (5 DP)] .

To this dungeon that’s getting 100 DP a day now, this is already just small change—err, DP…!

I showed off the [Sweet-roll Assortment (5 DP)] with a flourish .

“What’s… this? Bread?”

“Fufufu, Meat-san . Please eat some . ”

“Yes . ”

Meat tore off the plastic wrapping from the curry roll .

A spicy fragrance particular to the curry roll drifted through the air, stimulating her appetite .

“What the!? My drool isn’t stoppin—! This bread, the heck… mugu—!?”

“It’s a [Karie Roll] . It’s spicy, but tastes good . ”

Ichika was gagging a bit violently from Meat shoving the curry roll into her mouth .

“Oh—, t-this is… mmm, mmm—… haah, t-this smell, dangerous, my mind’s goin’ blank…!”

“Here, go ahead and eat more without holding back . This is Goshujin-sama’s affection you know?”

“Mmm, nom, nom—… mmm, aah, sho gewd, this, this is, the besht~…♪”

As for Ichika, since the curry was spicy, or maybe it being delicious despite being spicy, was melting into a smile with teary eyes .

I get the feeling that eating shouldn’t be like that .

“I was born to come heeere…♪”

“That’s good . If you follow Goshujin-sama, you’ll get a lot more than that, you know?”

“I-I-I’ll do anything for Goshujin-sama… so, mooore . ”

“Goshujin-sama . ”

Looks like she’s already finished them off .

E-even though I expected it and am happy, I still didn’t expect her to be that fast . Let’s up the level a bit .

“… There’s various other things you know? Rolls aren’t the only thing . ”

“Aah… so unfair… now that I’ve tasted something like that, there’s no way I could be satisfied by normal things…”

“It was just a normal roll, a roll!”

“Ichika, how about my favorite, the [Hamburger]?”

“Reaaally? Aah, I’ll do it somehow… ehehe . ”

Am I the only one here that thinks it’s too late already?

When I caught a glimpse of Rokuko, she was ignoring us and chewing on a melon roll .

“… I-I won’t give it to you you know!?”

Ah, yep .

*

Noon the next day .

Hmm? Why didn’t I get up in the morning? I comfortably went back to sleep .

Time to fire myself up . Let’s make an inn today .

It’ll be right next to the cave entrance . I had the manufacturing golems, Tester included, dig holes for its foundations starting last night .

Since I’ll be building an inn this time, it’ll take up a lot of space… Ah, even though Ichika was being treated as an intruder on my map, I was able to increase the dungeon’s range without any problems from in the core room .

I guess it counts as a different floor? I need to look into it .

“Alright, so then… guess I start with its foundations?”

I won’t be able sleep peacefully unless its foundations are done right . Since it’s going to be my bed, I’ll get fired up and make it .

I pulled coarse stone out of [Storage] .

“Stone, change your shape, become my servant and obey me, [Create Golem] . ”

While pouring magical power into the stone, I recited the incantation I had done many times for the dungeon battle .

Even though I could have done it without the incantation and just use the keyword, properly using the incantation makes the magical power consumption a tiny bit better .

[Create Golem] is amazing, all kinds of materials can be processed into shape . It can be used for human-type things or even boards, whatever you want . Its shape can be morphed like clay by pouring magical power into the raw materials, able to be handled without directly using your hands . You could even knead several copper coins into a copper ingot… I wouldn’t do it since it’s cheaper to just buy the ingot though .

Though it more or less turns in to a golem, it just stays as a normal object if you don’t order it to do anything .

This time, I kneaded the stone into a single huge slab, covering the surface of the ground and filling the holes .

I don’t really know how to do actual construction that well, but this is a replacement for concrete for now . Piercing it with iron golems to turn it into a replacement for reinforced concrete, I made the foundation making sure to not mess up the mix .

… Since I’ll also need to make a bath, I’ll need drainage pipes too… well, it’ll be fine if I force a golem through a hole afterwards . It’d also be fine to just make a new area for bathing . I’ll make it for now so nothing breaks though .

I had a normal clay golem help out after that, laying out board-type wood golems and affixing them . I built the hotel as though I were assembling a block… Since I bonded the materials using [Create Golem], I didn’t need nails . It was completely bonded together, so it was very sturdy .

I nailed in some nail-type golems to make it look like there were nails from the outside .

When the walls progressed somewhat after working for a while, Ichika and Meat came out from the cave . Looks like she taught her where the traps were .

“Oh, what’re ya doin’ Goshujin-sam—wait, seriously the heck are ya doin’!?”

“Eh? I’m just building an inn . ”

“No no no, that’s ridiculous, too ridiculous . Even just gettin’ golems to help you, they weren’t here when we came yesterday… a dungeon master huh? They can even do things like this…?”

No, dungeon masters have a construction function… there’s a [House (200,000 DP~)] in the DP catalog . It looks like there’s an inn too, but we don’t meet its requirements for now .

Ah, I briefly explained what a dungeon master was to Ichika for now .

Though I say that, I’d just said [I can do various things by using my dungeon’s DP] . For more detail… . well, I was going to speak more while we ate, but she was like ‘that’ yesterday . I could only speak a bit after she settled down, and I was tired from the exercise too .

“Oh right, Meat . It looks like we’re running out of wood, so please go and cut down some trees and bring them back . ”

“Understood . ”

“Wai—, Goshujin-sama, what about a tool to cut the trees? How ’bout an axe or a saw?”

I silently pointed behind Ichika .

When she turned around, Meat was holding a golem blade horizontally next to a tree that was thirty centimeters in diameter .

When she slowly pressed the blade against it, it let out a loud chainsaw-like sound, cutting through the tree .

Once, twice, three times . After the third time of cutting the tree from its opposite side, it fell .

The fallen tree was simply collected by a golem .

“Woah, what the… I’ve never heard of magic swords bein’ used to cut down trees . ”

“Convenient right?”

“No, even though that’s right, t-that’s bad . Don’t ya know… magic swords can break too?”

“Yeah, it’s actually happened a few times now . It’s fine already now though since she figured out how to do it . ”

“Seriously!? … Nooo, wasteful!”

That being said, the blade golems were just self-proclaimed magic swords, and weren’t actually magic swords .

They just had a vibration function with increased sharpness, it couldn’t be compared to the actual magic sword (spear) that Chloe used in the dungeon battle . Real magic swords could use magic by way of keywords .

It was very cheap since it just cost its materials, so I could just make more if and when it breaks . Its materials didn’t disappear . I could fix a broken blade in ten seconds if it broke .

“How should I put it… how many magic swords has Meat-senpai used?”

“Ah, with the two completed versions Meat and I have… I guess ten if you include the inferior versions?”

“That many!? C-could I have one too?”

… Right, come to think of it, I haven’t made a weapon for Ichika huh .