Chapter 6: I Was Taken to the Adventurer’s Guild

The night was over, and it was finally time to return to the surface. For breakfast, I ended up cooking dragon steak since Fel said that he wanted to eat it. Even though it was morning, I couldn’t resist and had my fill of it. It was truly delicious.

After a post-meal break......

“I guess we should go up now.”

“Indeed.”

Dora-chan hugged onto my head from behind, Sui was nestled in my arms, and I was straddled on top of Fel. Taking the formation for teleportation, Fel empowered the magic circle on the wall with his magic.

After a moment’s floating sensation, we found ourselves in a four-tatami room with rock walls on top of a magic circle drawn on the floor.

“Where’s the exit......?” I had Fel stoop so I could get off.

“I have seen this before. In these cases, the exit opens when we get off this design.”

When I did as Fel said and stepped one foot off of the magic circle...... The rock walls opened with a low rumbling sound. Everyone left for the outside.

The first natural sunlight in ten days shone down on us.

“Now then, let’s go back to the inn.” I had asked to keep my room before I went down into the dungeon, so it should have been fine. When we exited from the door......

It seemed like we came out of a door next to the normal dungeon entrance. And of course, there was a huge crowd of people around. The soldiers that were guarding the dungeon entrance as well as the adventurers that were lined up to enter the dungeon were all staring at us with their mouths agape.

I’d really appreciate it if you all didn’t stare so much, though...

I was hit by a really intense desire to run away.

The smartest thing to do here would be to just hurry up and leave, right?

“Let’s go,” I said that to Fel and Dora-chan, and had Sui enter my bag before trying to walk off towards the inn.

“W-Wait a second!” One of the soldiers at the entrance tried to talk to me. “Y-You, why did you come out of there?”

Uhhh, that’s......

“Obviously because we defeated the behemoth on the lowest floor.”

Ah, it’s obvious you shouldn’t have said that, Fel! In these cases, you just have to lie and get through the situation!

Once Fel uttered those words, everyone started making a huge fuss, as if we’d poked a beehive.

“A-Anyway, just get a guild employee here!”

“No, it needs to be the guildmaster!”

“That’s right, get the guildmaster!”

“Hurry, hurry!”

It’s looking like... I won’t be able to leave until the guildmaster comes... I mean, when I try to leave, the soldiers tell me to stay and everything.

After a while, I heard a familiar voice.

“Mukohdaaa~!”

Elrand, I wonder if you would refrain from calling my name in such a loud voice, please?

“Mukohdaaa~!” Elrand was waving his arms while calling out to me in a loud voice.

“Hahh, hahhh... I knew you could do it, Mukohda!!” Elrand excitedly grabbed my hand and started shaking it fervently.

Ah, wait, Elrand, you’re hurting my hand.

“But not being able to see Dora-chan was a little... I tried to go down the dungeon several times, but......”

Huh? You tried to do that? That’d just be annoying though.

“The sub-guildmaster was really firm about stopping me so I gave up on that, though.”

The sub-guildmaster? That kinda chubby balding old man? Good job, Sub-guildmaster!!

“Anyway, I want to hear all about this so let’s hurry up to the Adventurer’s guild. Now, let’s go, hurry!”

In the end, we weren’t allowed to go back to the inn, and were instead taken by Elrand to the Adventurer’s guild.

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Taken by Elrand, we were now in his room inside the Adventurer’s guild.

“So? How was it?”

“How was it? Didn’t you see the behemoth too, Elrand?”

“Yes, I did, but not the drop items or treasure chests, right?”

Well, that’s true. But there’s way too much of that stuff. I still haven’t sorted through all of it, so I have no idea just how much of everything I have.

“Well, that’s true, but there’s so much......”

“I see, I see, that’s good news for us, too. That dungeon drops a lot of hides up to the 21st floor, as well as from the 22nd to the 25th floor after that.”

It was exactly as Elrand said. I was currently in possession of an enormous number of hides, furs, and pelts.

“To tell you the truth, I want you to sell it all to the Adventurer’s guild. This is a dungeon city, after all. The demand for monster hides that can become armor is really high. Not only that, but if it’s from the dungeon, it’ll be really tough.”

I see, leather armor, huh? I have so many orc, ogre, troll, and minotaur skins that I can’t even count them all. If the guild wants them, by all means, please, take them all. It’s not like I need them.

“I think you can only start getting decent things out of treasure chests after the 20th floor, but how was it? I also remember that there are spriggans that drop gems when you beat them, too... If you have any gems or magic items, we’d like to buy those too.”

As one would expect out of someone who’s gone all the way to the behemoth. He knows a lot.

“There were several treasure chests, and I have their contents. There were also some mimics, so I have some treasure chests themselves.”

There’s also lots of gems. I’m not a woman, so I have no interest in gems. If they want them, then let’s just sell all of them. Although I should think about selling the magic items first since there might be something useful, like the magic recovery ring that I don’t plan to sell.

“There were some treasure chests after the 26th floor, too. Although, the 26th and 27th floors were forests, and we couldn’t really explore all of it. The 28th was a swamp, too, and the 29th was a desert, so just crossing through them was a real hurdle.”

The forests aside, I really just want to reject going to that swamp or the desert. Field dungeons are way too evil.

“Hm? Wait a minute. What... did you just say?”

What I said? What do you mean?

“The part about there being chests after the 26th floor?”

“No, not that.”

Hm? No? Then... this?

“The part about the 26th and 27th floor being forests, so we couldn’t really explore all of it?”

“No, no, not that either.”

Then... this?

“The part about the 28th floor being swamplands, and the 29th being a desert, so it was a real hurdle passing through them?”

“Yes, yes, that! A swamp?! A desert?!” Elrand was leaning forward aggressively in excitement.

When I asked about it, it seemed that at the time when Elrand went in the dungeon there still wasn’t a swamp and a desert floor. It was all forests from the 25th to the 29th floor, and it took a month just to get through it all.

“So, tell me all about the 26th floor and onwards.” Elrand looked more serious than I’d ever seen him, so I ended up fixing my sitting posture.

And then, I told him in as much detail as I could about the happenings and bosses from the 26th floor onwards. Due to answering all of the questions Elrand interrupted with, it ended up taking quite a long time.

“Then, as for the dungeon’s drops, even I don’t really know everything that I have, so I’d like to wait until tomorrow to come and sell everything.”

“I understand. I’ll probably be kept busy with what you’ve just told me, too, so I’d also like to settle that tomorrow.”

And just like that, I was finally allowed to leave the Adventurer’s guild.

The next day, it was announced that, because the dungeon changes from the 25th to the 29th floors given enough time, the dungeon had been given a high difficulty rating.