Chapter 151

Rin’s Parting Gift

Spring arrived .

The snow melting, a warmer air filled the area .

It’s said that spring is a season of encounters, but for [Cave of Desires], it’s one of parting .

“You have to go?”

[Yeah . Thanks, for the care . Kehma . ]

Promising to leave in the spring, the black wolf—the enigmatic black slime (wolf type), Rin, had already decided to leave the dungeon once winter ended .

Although I was thinking about tricking it with something like [Winter is forever you know?], it would’ve been pretty bad if I got exposed . It also would’ve felt like keeping a ticking bomb in the dungeon .

[Ah, right . I made this . Here . ]

“Nn? What’s this?”

Rin handed me an orb . I caught it with the messenger golem’s hand .

It’s a black orb about the size of a baseball . It’s so black that it looks like it’s eating up the light . The heck is this thing?

[It’s a Gravity, Bomb . If you strike it, most enemies, will die . ]

“Oi, don’t give me something like that . Am I some suicide bomber?”

[Kukuku, were you, surprised? It’s alright, I set, a keyword . Hold it with, your hand . After you say it, throw it . The keyword, is [Black Plate] . ]

So there’s a safety… seriously, I still don’t know what this guy is at all .

“Black… ah, it’d be bad to say it now . ”

[Kukuku! You didn’t fall, for it huh! As expected, Kehma is, smart . ]

“Hahaha . Could you give me another? I’d like to try it out against boss . ”

[Sure, try a few, times . I make them, myself, so there’s a limit… But, they don’t work, against me, you know?]

Saying that, five of the black orbs dropped out from Rins black pelt . It rolled them over with its forefoot . Are you some kind of powder keg? Your existence itself is like a bomb, though .

[That’s the limit . Use them, well . Then, see you . ]

“Yeah… when are you coming again? Next year?”

[No idea, but till then, don’t die, yeah? … Ah, Kehma can’t die, so it’s alright, right? Well, see you . ]

Laughing, Rin left the cave .

On this day, Rin, who magnificently left the cave in broad daylight, was seen by adventurers that carried white plates . It ate a ton of white plates as a midday snack .

“… It left?”

“Yeah, it feels like I just put down some heavy luggage . Phew . ”

I sighed .

So I was feeling stressed by the absurd bomb named Rin being in the dungeon after all? I just feel like I finally removed a popcorn kernel from between my teeth right now, it’s a pretty refreshing feeling .

There’s also the fact that our DP income went down since Rin isn’t in the dungeon anymore, so there’s that . It gave us quite a lot of income over the winter . Well, it’s fine .

It gave me these Gravity Bomb things, they seem pretty dangerous… I wonder how strong they are . There’s no way they’re strong enough to collapse a dungeon right? I’m troubled about where I should put them!

… I was also able to advance the dungeon’s development while Rin was here .

I started making the new riddle area after the warehouse area, as well as an arena area just beyond that .

The arena area is a kind of miniboss fight . The haniwa golem is the opponent there .

It’s a bit lonely since there isn’t an audience though .

After the arena area it turns back into what you’d call more of a normal dungeon area . Taking a break there, the next floor has the boss room and the innermost core room .

… By the way, the innermost core room is a two-layer structure, with a dummy core room on one side that conceals a hidden inner room… that also has a dummy core . Why would I make a wasteful thing like that? That’s because I don’t really know where I should put the real dungeon core .

Since the saintess used [Treaty], a skill that could seal off a dungeon core’s movement, I want to put it in safe a place as possible .

On the other hand, just putting it as far in as possible isn’t any good either . Dungeon cores = farthest in . That’s how all adventurers think .

So then I thought about making a two-layer system using a dummy core and the real core and tried it, but… there might be people that can see through the trick . I realized that after I made it, so I decided to put another dummy core there .

So right now the real dungeon core is hidden in the arena area’s ceiling lights . It’s hidden among shining orb light magic tools .

Well, this should be good enough for now . I’ll have to react immediately if people make their way past the riddle area though .

“Ah, right, Kehma . I’ll be away the dungeon for a bit, is that alright?”

“Going away? You’re leaving…? To where?”

Is there somewhere to go?

Maybe it’s some business in Sia or Pavuera?

“To the dungeon core assembly!”

… Which reminds me, there was something said about something like that, huh .

“Can’t I go with you?”

“I’ve never seem dungeon masters get brought, so I don’t think so . I think I’ll be back in two or three days, so please wait here . I wasn’t able to go last year because of the bandits after all . ”

In other words, what she’s doing isn’t different from what she’s always done .

“Got it . So, when are you leaving?”

“Ah, today . ”

Rokuko’s body started emitting a faint light .

“That’s…?”

“Un . I’m off… Not like I want to go, though . ”

At that moment, a magic formation appeared like it was wrapping around Rokuko and, with a bang, she disappeared .

… Tell me sooner, oi .