Chapter 93

Now For Some Remodeling

Well now, even though it’s good that we’ve gotten 200,000 DP from Haku-san, I still haven’t decided what to do with it yet .

By the way, saying, “This is a large amount, so it wouldn’t be good if any were lost,” Haku-san transferred the 200,000 DP mouth-to-mouth . Thanks for the meal .

Since it was a special, how about let’s give summoning and raising a slime a go… with that, I looked through the DP catalog .

In this world, there were roughly two varieties of monsters that would have been called slimes in Japan .

One is the jelly . It is genuinely weak . Jellies move their semi-transparent bodies with jelly-like movements, dying quickly . They hardly have any offensive power at all as well . And they’re 1 DP each, bizarrely cheap… They also seem to be edible . Maybe they’re some kind of pudding or gelatin substitute?

Despite goblins becoming the targets of subjugation commissions, these guys are small fry to the point of being ignored .

Well, the other one is the slime . By being sticky and slimy, they have freely-manipulable bodies that can nullify physical blows . They are 10,000 DP a piece . Their weak point is that they are strangely weak, but they are omnivores that can eat anything . Naturally, they can eat people .

That is what people refer to as a slime in this world . Come to think of it, there were magma slimes in our neighbors’ [Flame Cavern] huh .

… As a dungeon for beginners, let’s try deploying a few jelly spawners in the dungeon for now . Even though they are one hundred times the monster’s initial cost, it’s still just 100 DP . Incredibly cheap .

Seeing as how they can be eaten, it’s not a waste . Maybe they’ll turn into snacks for adventurers and the goblins?

And for no reason at all, definitely no reason, I summoned a single jelly into my hand . Then, I tried out rubbing it to experiment… Ooh, yep, as expected . It jiggles .

I suddenly thought up something . Abruptly . Since I just came up with it, I made the jelly into a pillow and laid down on it . Oooooh, its softness is considerably pleasant . This incredibly good pillow probably wouldn’t even lose to the heavenly pillow . To get it for 1 DP… cheap…

*

I woke up from my nap since the jelly was crushed, my face was covered in a crust . Looks like the weight of my head caused its body fluids to gradually leak out . This is a point that absolutely needs to be improved . Wrapping it in a cover made with the vinyl wrapping that comes with the sweet buns might work? The jelly would still be crushed though .

“Hey Kehma, are the hero countermeasures good?”

“Nn, to be honest, they aren’t really needed . ”

“They aren’t!? You’re not going to do anything with the 200,000 DP Haku Ane-sama gave us!?”

Yep, it was all for hero countermeasures, but there isn’t even really a reason to do anything . At most I just needed to make it so that he can’t get to the jail .

Even if he makes it to the dungeon’s innermost floor, destroys the boss iron haniwa golem and steals a few blade magic sword golems, there’s no need to worry since he won’t destroy the core due to Haku-san’s training (brainwashing) .

To begin with, the one at the innermost of the dungeon is a dummy core, the real one is in Rokuko’s room in the inn . Rather, it’s to the point that I don’t think it’d be bad to have some crime prevention in Rokuko’s room . I’ll know immediately if there are any intruders though… I can use castling whenever, I’d usually put it somewhere in the dungeon . I wonder if I should use deployment if the hero comes? [1]

With all of that, it’s important to not bring too much attention to our dungeon by overdoing it . It might be a good opportunity to assess just how capable the hero is .

Speaking of necessary preparations though, it’ll probably be fine just making iron haniwa golems and magic swords .

I’m taking a pretty easygoing stance on the matter .

“Well, we did get 200,000 DP, so let’s go forward with strengthening the dungeon… To be precise, let’s make some new areas . ”

“Un, what kind of areas are you going to make?”

I’ve been thinking about two things . A coliseum area and a meadow area .

Without hesitation, I put the coliseum area in front of the boss room, also making it so that you could go from the warehouse area to the meadow area .

There was a boss room if you advanced to the coliseum area from the warehouse area, and it would be a dead end if you went to the meadow area .

And for the meadow area, when I was talking with Haku-san, she’d told me about the geographical feature facilities for human farms, so I planned to install a [Sky (50,000 DP)] and [Meadow (500 DP)] . They didn’t appear in the catalog until she told me about them, but it’s probably because there was some kind of condition for them .

Geographical feature installations are applied to the entire floor . For example, [Sky] provides a stream of sunlight, as well as a proper night . It even rains occasionally, it really is a [Sky] huh .

Other geographical features you could get with DP included things like [Coast] and [Volcano] . [Volcano] is a cheap 100 DP, but [Coast] is more than 100,000 DP . I think it’s probably so expensive because a sea is something unnatural in a mountain .

It seems that if you make a geographical feature using DP, you could even make it like it was the outside world . Although they’re probably installations meant for providing for monsters that rely on certain terrains, you could also use it with the intention of making a human farm that humans won’t really want to leave because there’s no stress .

Naturally, the [Sky] terrain effect doesn’t increase the size of the room, it seems that room’s ceiling height is also set by the room’s size specifications beforehand . So I intend to make as spacious a room as possible… Let’s make it at the level where a village can fit in it . It’d be plenty even if they just settled down at the entrance .

Rather, I want to check what kind of thing the [Sky] is even though it’s a ceiling . I intend to install it in the meadow area anyways .

“So, let’s make the meadow area a [Safety Zone] too . It’ll be good if they decide to rest in that area . Let’s have them have an easy time to rest there… Should we set some rabbits loose too?”

“That’s kind to the adventurers . ”

“Yeah . That’s the original role for a [Safety Zone] anyways . ”

The [Safety Zone]’s original role . That is, a place to make surprise attacks against adventurers that have let down their guard, putting things in order .

Of course, monsters normally don’t enter them, so it’s used as a campground to rest safely in the field . It wouldn’t be something good to do every time . It’s only effective since it’s done rarely .

“Before the boss, they’d decide to rest . When they let down their guard, bang!”

“Well it’s like that . ”

With that, I decided to do some splendid remodeling . Since we’ll be excavating a lot of holes with golems first, it’ll probably take quite a while . I had them dig carefully while I looked at the map so that we wouldn’t knock into [Flame Cavern] .

But even though I’m remodeling, right now information for things farther in than the riddle area haven’t been leaked out yet . It’ll probably just seem like there are more jellies when looking at it from their point of view .

*

“Kehma-sama . There is news . ”

The next day, Receptionist-san came from the guild .

“You might know already, but there are signs of a transition phase . Please refrain from entering the dungeon for a short while, please stay at the first floor . ”

“Ah… yes, understood . ”

Right, transition phase huh… Monsters that usually don’t appear come out, that kind of thing… I’m not planning on doing a dungeon battle though… yep, I forgot .

By the way, since they worried about monsters overflowing from the dungeon’s entrance, they appear to have set up a cordon . I was also included in the shift . It was treated as a nominated commission from the guild . [2]

Somehow, sorry .

By the way, since the aristocrat’s search party hadn’t returned either, it turned into something like they got involved in some sort of abnormal event inside of the dungeon . Works for me .

“I see, so that’s the reason behind you deploying the jelly spawners huh!”

“No, that was just by chance . Rather, I didn’t expect it . ”

“Eh, that so? That’s unusual for Kehma huh, are you still half asleep?”

Maybe . I’ve probably been forgetful since I’ve been thinking about various large-scaled things lately and it all caught up to me . Maybe I should get more subordinates to entrust with various things… since I can make as much of a labor force (golems) as needed, I just need people wisdom that can control them . Should I get more subordinates to manage the dungeon?

They don’t even really need to be humanoid like those three girls since they’ll be restricted to being inside the dungeon . Maybe something like an arachne…? Ah, monsters with wisdom as well as fighting potential usually cost around 100,000 DP . It’s at the level of making me hesitate a little . Should I get one?

… Eh, wait a second .

“To begin with, isn’t it fine if I leave noticing stuff like that to my partner (Rokuko)?”

“Eh, I should be aware of stuff like that!?”

Rokuko was plainly surprised . Oi, partner . Oi .

Somehow before I realized it, I became in charge of thinking while Rokuko became in charge of relaxing .

“Yep, I can make mistakes and forget things too you know?”

“Ahaha, Kehma’s good at joking around . ”

“I’m not kidding you know!? You know that if you took away me being a dungeon master I’d just be a normal human right!?”

“… No way~, ever since Kehma kicked those bandits around, in my opinion everything’ll be alright if I leave it to you . I’ve just been practicing moving the golems . ”

I’m surprised she trusts me so much . I just think that I’m a lazybones that just sleeps all the time though .

I should ask for Rokuko’s opinions more often from now on . Or rather, let’s have Rokuko make the dungeon too .

We didn’t have much DP before, but now our wallet’s overflowing from our Haku-san income .

“I got it . I’ll also think about making the dungeon myself . ”

“Yeah . Since I’ll be leaving it to Rokuko, it’ll definitely turn into a goblin dungeon . It’d be interesting to see though . ”

“It’s not like I’m a goblin lover you know!?”

Diverging from the golem warehouse, Rokuko made a new dungeon .

And as for me, I was dragged into working for the cordon for a little while . I didn’t have the chance to look at how she was doing .

… Rokuko’s dungeon . It was after everything was completed that I learned what was in it .

Footnotes:

I don’t really get what he’s meaning by that last part there . Sorry . 勇者が来たらこの配置にすればいいかな。So I still can’t really figure out what nominated/designated commissions are . Haven’t seen them since way back in Sia with the rabbit meat commission I think . They’re something like “you have this commission assigned to you”… I think .