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

To sum up Sir Partridge's story, the inhabitants of the region say that many die after their bodies have darkened in a raindrop as long as it takes, their hands and feet have keratinized, and eventually they have swelling in their guts and suffer. In addition, he said, more and more people have suffered from severe vomiting, diarrhoea, abdominal pain, oedema, etc., over the past decade or so. This alone is difficult to narrow down the cause, but there was something that occurred to Crowe the other day, who had tested the weapons that Theodoram's adventurers had.

"In the last decade or so, have you not developed mines or anything in the region? And whoever complains of a severe medical condition, does not live near that mine?

When I heard that, Sir Partridge looked away. Is it still...?

"You know that. Sure, an iron mine was developed about ten years ago in the liver of his country... but wasn't wind and earth disease itself before that?

"I know about that mine, too. There seems to be a lot of people getting sick and a lot of people are losing their husbands, and they seem to be hitting criminal slavery on it or even compulsory expropriation these days."

Theodrum is not a country...

"I've never been there before, so this is just a guess... there are substances that often exist with iron - which I used to call arsenic in my country - and when I take them in for a little while longer, I get the same symptoms of wind and earth disease as I said before. Perhaps there was trace amounts of arsenic in the soil and well water."

Perhaps a tumor that can be made into the gut is cancer. One of the toxicities of arsenic was carcinogenicity.

"This arsenic (hissing) has iron and familiar properties, and naturally it is also found in the iron ore produced there, but the high content of arsenic (hissing) reduces the quality of iron. So we need to get rid of this, but the quick way to do this is to burn it before we select a mine. Since the smoke that comes out at that time contains toxins, acute poisoning symptoms naturally appear in humans who smoke this in large quantities. It also contains toxins in the dust and rock discards used during mining and in the water used during mining, so there will also be damage to humans who directly or indirectly mouth this water. If we were running this water into the river, there would be damage downstream, but has there been any reported damage such as mass death of fish?

They were both listening to me with a blue-eyed look, but at the stage where I talked about the mass death of the fish, Norris was able to pinch my mouth.

"I've heard that story before. The Royal Army came out to investigate, and after a while, the fish stopped floating, but those involved were shut down very strongly. Well, I guess I couldn't completely seal up the rumor just about anything."

"After that, there's no fish damage, is there?

"Don't listen to that hand."

"Well, I guess I stopped discharging the treated water directly... but I doubt that effective removal is possible. If you just store contaminated water somewhere, the groundwater will soon be contaminated. There is also the possibility of damage to the area downstream where wells are used… Are there still people complaining about symptoms such as diarrhoea and vomiting?

"... at least we're not talking about less."

"Norris?

"Same. There must be an increase in the number of forced expropriations."

"… So, knowing the existence of the mine damage, you continue to mine without striking any hand…"

Don't you two look worse and worse. Well, I can't even do it.

"Mr. Crowe, do you have any medical help?

"It's the same thing as long as you're in the land. It's best to get out of here."

"Come on, you're guilty of leaving the village on your own, huh? If you suck, you're executed."

"You're going to suffer and die as long as you keep living there anyway. If there's any chance, you'd better get out of here while your body moves. If I were you, I wouldn't leave the country."

"It's the same thing when you just left the village..."

"As I said earlier, if the mineral poison contaminates groundwater, the damage could spread to downstream areas. If you're running, you're upstream."

If someone you know is in that country, advise them to get out of there. Yes, recommend them to the two of them. They changed the subject, and they broke up with each other that day after having a little chat.