Dungeons for the Devil, Dungeons for the Core (Book Version Title: A Different World Dungeon Made with the Devil)

"Warren, I hear strange stories are rolling in."

It was General Rover, the commander-in-chief of the Royal Illustration Army, who stepped into the first battalion's second lieutenant's office, as usual, without hesitation.

"You have fast ears. Yes, it's from Manastera."

Information about the phantom stampede that took place in Manastera entered the illustration on two routes, the Kingdom and the Adventurer Alliance, but the Adventurer Alliance kept this information in the upper echelons of the Alliance. This is not to say that the guild did not dispose of it, but because the content of the information was difficult to judge. Executive staff should know, but on the other hand, it will only be a source of confusion for ordinary adventurers.

Therefore, the information on this route was not received by Sir Warren, and what was brought to the Royal Palace as a regular report from the Foreign Minister was again notified to Sir Warren - precisely to the Command of the First Battalion of the Royal Army - so the information arrived two days late.

And... General Rover, who reported the information, had the same head as everyone else in Manastera.

"... in short, did you have a stampede? Didn't you?

It was the general's question that pinpointed the essence of the problem, but Sir Warren's answer was short-lived.

"Stampede... I'm a little hesitant to call it that, but it must have been there, at least as long as there was a massive movement of monsters. Misunderstanding and false positives may not be possible, but the Manastella Adventurer Alliance must have checked them out. The likelihood of a plot is lower than the original."

"... hey, the reason why the hypothetical stampede disappeared...?

I felt that all the inconveniences were due to X. I was General Rover, who could not forbid me to think of anything in my heart, but it is also true that I found no other reason.

"Probably.... I was just considering that."

Manastera's Adventurer Alliance suspected a dungeon nest split, but reports of a new dungeon have yet to arrive.

"We were just sending an adventurer...."

"Um... was it the 'Cave of the Hundred Demons'? You didn't see anything unusual?

"According to the Adventurer's report. I didn't see any difference in the monster's behavior or density."

"Hmm... what about that stampede? You didn't see anything like a destination?

"The Manastera Adventurer Alliance was also suspicious of that. After all, they mobilized a few adventurers to check the direction of travel and the area around them....."

"Nothing?

"Yeah, there's nothing to be suspicious about."

--A little different, to be precise.

Manastera's adventurers succeeded in finding the cave Giddos were aiming for - precisely its entrance.

However, since there were no signs of monsters diving into this cave and there was no unusual reaction in terms of magic, I concluded that this place was a shiro. I checked a little bit from the entrance, but because Crowe - at least at the moment - was not making dungeons near the entrance, I could only think of it as a cave. As a precaution, Crowe, who hated to expose the dungeon, had placed Whisp, so the magic specific to the dungeon never leaked.

Manastera's healthy adventurers could not have imagined a dungeon without any dungeon monsters, and were not aware that the cave had already fallen into the hands of the Dungeon Master (Crow).

"Eh... is it reasonable to think that the monsters are in their original sheath?"

"That's the most consistent hypothesis... at least for now."

Only in the case that (...) he remembers that he is involved, is caution hidden in Lord Warren's verbal butt.

"... Warren... is this consistent with the distribution and considerations I showed you before?