Dungeon Master Makeup Money (formerly known as Dungeon Master Funding)
Episode 22 Nothing Wilderness
Parent Labyrinth Basement 30th Floor.
The hierarchy that arrived does not need to be explored. The moment it is transferred, it leaves the magic team and tries to reuse it.
But I found a shadow in front of me and it stopped moving.
There is only one group of people we encounter in the current labyrinth, except ourselves.
Three men stood behind him, led by a man in his mid-twenties who had orange hair upside down and looked like a swordsman.
"Vector"
"Whoa, whoa. Nice to meet you, but you've been a bit of a jerk."
Elmer, who knows what he did to Hova's party, doesn't even try to hide his mood.
An attitude that assumes hostility from the outset.
It is dangerous to adopt such an attitude in a situation where you do not know the other person in detail, but hostility is judged inevitable within Elmer.
"You're the new Elmer."
"What's wrong?
"No, I'm just leaving."
There is also a metamorphosis crystal next to the metamorphosis magic formation.
Enough for the vectors to party near the newly transferred Elmers.
"So, when I was ready to go home, the Transformation Magic Team would light up, so I knew someone was coming, so I waited."
"Why?
There is no problem with using both Transformation Magic and Transformation Crystals at the same time.
You don't have to wait all the time.
"To give you some advice. There's really nothing here."
Instead of having a transfer magic team on the 30th floor of the basement to go to the next level, there is nothing in the labyrinth such as a trap or a monster in a chest.
A place where the wilderness really spreads.
--A place where there's nothing.
That was what had long been said, and it was a common understanding among those who were aiming for the deepest reaches of the Palent Labyrinth.
"It's no use looking for this place. We're looking for a way down from yesterday, but we can't find one."
Deep down in the vector's mind, there is a perception that there is "nothing". Then, even if you notice that the entrance also serves as an exit, you can't go to the 31st floor.
What is needed is that the 31st floor of the basement is recognized as "there".
"Thank you for your advice. But we'll try to find it."
I see.
The vector reveals a little dissatisfaction by ignoring the advice.
It seems that you really taught me from goodwill, and when I give you my advice, I try to get out of the labyrinth with a metamorphosis crystal.
"Oh, wait."
"What?
Elmer stopped the vectors from leaving.
"Why did you do that to Hova upstairs?
"Hova....?
He leaned his neck as if he didn't know his name.
Aniki, I'm talking about those guys upstairs.
"Oh, you mean the fish?"
"Miscellaneous fish...."
"That's right. Although it was true that the Magic Sword made me stronger, it was Lizardman after all. It's not the kind of monster an A-rank adventurer would take on another monster. If you're going to struggle with that kind of monster, you're going to have to be a fish."
Hova is being called a jungle fish and squeezing his fist.
I was certainly weaker than my younger self. Still, I was honestly impressed by the way I was responsibly challenging the client to do something about the palent in distress.
The strength of an adventurer is not determined solely by his ability to fight.
"If you can afford it, I wish you could have taken care of it."
I don't want to.
"Brr...."
"You both know they don't make money."
Defeating monsters equipped with magic swords leaves nothing behind.
Without materials to take home, you can only earn as much as you can experience from fighting monsters, but even if equipped with Magic Swords and strengthened, you can still earn lower-level monsters such as Goblins and Lizardmans. Not much, but it's not a monster that can feed A-rank adventurers.
And Elmer avoided the fight for the same reason.
So I can't say it back strongly.
"Apparently you understand like an adventurer. If you happen to have the right people in front of you while you're avoiding a fight, you'll push them."
"We don't do that! Even if I happen to be in front of them, I will be responsible for it."
"I don't get it. There's no point in defeating us."
A vector that doesn't feel guilty about pressing a monster.
Elmer remembers his sense of responsibility in trying to deal with it together.
Both arguments are only parallel lines wherever they go.
"If you're going back to the city, apologize to them."
"Shit, are they alive?"
"You...."
If I had died like that, the fact that I had pressed it could have been erased.
I was moaning because I thought it was more troublesome.
I don't think I'd apologize for seeing Hova in the city.
"Did you guys help?
That's right.
"I see. He seemed to be looking weak."
I was despised because I was nearly ten years younger than them.
However, if we are strong enough to help Hova when she is attacked, we need to change our assessment.
"I remember you."
Leaving words like dialogues, Elmer looks at the four of them and leaves with a metamorphosis crystal.
"... it's gone again."
That's right.
For the second time, I understand instantly.
The vector parties were all confronted by Elmer and the "Four".
"Those people. It would be embarrassing to know that you're accompanied by a guardian."
That's right.
Those people who don't care about annoying others, when they find weaknesses, they come up against them.
Then it's better to say "no" from the beginning.
"No, I'm really glad we didn't get into the fight."
"As far as I'm concerned, I'm glad you didn't have to rot."
He said that he had changed his assessment, but he should have evaluated Elmer's abilities to some extent before that.
He's an adventurer who reached the 30th floor of the basement on his own. It can't be weak.
"Um, are you sure you can go downstairs with this magic team?
Jilly is bending over and observing the Transformation Magic formation.
Nothing in particular has changed from the Transformation Magic Faction I've seen before.
"That's for sure."
When I tried to affirm it, Dear broke in.
"The labyrinth is filled with magic. I can feel the flow, but I can't feel this hierarchy from anywhere."
"I mean...."
This is the crossing point.
"Oops!
Elmer and Gem were impressed to hear Deer's guess.
Somehow he was wearing a strange stunt.
"So if you reintroduce the magic."
I put magic into the magic team while imagining going down.
Then Dear's body metastasizes and disappears.
"You didn't go up there."
Yeah, no.
Dia's eyes saw an unusual pattern floating in a part of the magical formation.
"Let's go down, too."
Once you recognize it, moving itself is easy.
The view in front of you is instantly changed by the transfer magic team moving through the space.
"This is....."
"Cave... yeah, in the volcano?
There is a large space surrounded by rock walls, painful heat, and only a path around the outer periphery, with poking holes inside.
He had visited a natural volcano and soon realized that they were inside it.
Looks like it's not a normal volcano.
I noticed when I peeked into the hot magma.
The magma at the bottom of the volcano is dyed black, not red or orange.
"Special tips. That's who the anomaly is."