- It's been fifteen years since I've been an adventurer, but I've never been home.

I pushed off my parents' opposition and jumped out of the house, and that was clear.

My father was yelling that you couldn't be an adventurer.

I rebelled at that time with all my might, but here's the result.

My mother said you can come home any time you want.

Which side do you want me to go back to? I feel sorry for you.

"(I wonder what's going on...)"

I'm not going home.

But even though I thought about continuing the adventurer, I couldn't immediately answer yes.

Two weeks in a narrow, dim labyrinth, suffering from hunger, thirst and loneliness, kept me in danger for my life.

The memories of nightmares that would not disappear for the rest of my life were setting me on two feet towards my return to adventurer operation.

"Thank you!

With that vaguely in mind, Sylvia came back with a slippery momentum.

"It's just wheat porridge, but if you were fasting, your mother would like this at first."

"... helpful"

When you suddenly go on a hunger strike shortly after the hunger strike, it causes you to die.

I don't even know the reason, but if I've witnessed the moment.

…………

Simple wheat porridge without taste stains the bottom of the belly.

It was the first time in my life that I thought of wheat porridge as delicious.

Forget that Sylvia is watching you, too, and keep filling your stomach silently.

"Nevertheless, I was really surprised then. I can't believe someone's coming to help me at the bottom of the dungeon..."

"... the bottom of the dungeon? Isn't that in front of the dungeon?

"Bottom, right? Because it was the fifth tier."

"What?"

"Huh?"

Obviously I don't feel the story meshing.

I must have found Sylvia and the others right after I broke out of the labyrinth.

It can't be the bottom of a dungeon.

But it didn't seem like Sylvia was joking.

"... eh. This may be a strange question, but what kind of dungeon was the place we ran into?

"It's" The Day Clock Forest "in the E-Rank Dungeon, right? Look, it's a painting dungeon over there."

Sylvia pointed to a frame that was decorated on the wall.

The frame houses a picture that simplifies the dungeon considerably.

On the left half of the painting, a five-fold circle.

Apparently, it's a diagram of the dungeon from above.

On the right half of the painting, reverse triangle with a staircase and flat bottom on the slope.

This seems to be a cross-sectional view of the dungeon.

Should it also be said to be a rind bowl type, or the same shape as a circular theater?

"Oh...... I see. Was it an open dungeon?"

An open type is one of the shape classifications of a dungeon.

Ordinary dungeons are blocked from the outside world except the entrance and exit, but the open type is not.

So to speak, it's a 'blowout' structure where the interior of the dungeon is exposed directly to the outside air and the sun.

In other words, the forest that was at the end of the stairs spread to the lowest level of another dungeon, not to the ground.

"(What this means is that" The Millennial Corridor of Naruto "and" The Forest of the Day and Clock "were connected by stairs. Sometimes it's unusual for dungeons to be connected underground)"

It's only a long career, so I'm going to be quite familiar with the adventurer industry and dungeons, but there's still a lot I don't know.

There should be information in the world that is not known at the bottom.

"We went to the Sun Clock Forest to pick the herbs that my grandmother used for her medicine."

"You want some herbs? It doesn't matter what you think about amateurs diving into dungeons. Nobody stopped you."

With that said, Sylvia has disputed it.

"" The Sun Clock Forest "just got dungeon certified last year. We've been picking up weeds and herbs for a long time."

"Mmm... open dungeons are hard to notice."

There are two main criteria for the Royal Palace to certify dungeons.

One. That an ecosystem centered on warcraft is established.

One. Must be at a relatively lower position than the surrounding surface.

Therefore, even a soft-bottle-shaped terrain with no ceiling, such as the "Sun Clock Forest", satisfies the conditions as a dungeon without any problems.

"But being dungeon certified means there's a Warcraft, right? It was a dragon..."

"I didn't know you had that! I wasn't even on the Guildhouse hazard information!

Rejected by Sylvia in a strong tone, I turned my eyes to surprise.

The reason for this is unexpected.

"... you didn't even grasp the guild house? You got that big fat ass?

"It's true! I was sooo surprised when I reported it to the guild people!

The Adventurer Alliance holds a variety of outposts, large and small, in various locations.

They come in a variety of sizes and styles, some with inns and liquors, and sometimes have separate buildings.

Of those facilities, one of particular importance and magnitude is called the 'Alliance Branch'.

On the other hand, town- and village-level outposts are called 'guild houses'.

The guild house's main task is to provide good offices for requests from the surrounding residents and to redeem materials obtained in the dungeons.

But that's not all that matters.

Providing the surrounding residents with a variety of information gained through adventurers is also one of the important roles of the Alliance House.

Information fees are to be paid from towns and villages, making them an important stabilizing income for local guild houses.

That is why it is difficult to believe that the Alliance House will be clueless in providing hazard information.

"If the guild didn't know, I can't help it. I'm sorry I said it the way I blamed you."

"Never mind. You worried about us, didn't you? But really, there were usually only demons like little animals."

Even a sip with a warcraft is of a different nature.

Some are mighty extreme like dragons and fenrill wolves, while others are to the point of being eaten to death by ordinary wolves.

If you're a weak warcraft, it's not strange that they think you're a normal animal until experts look into it.

"So, your uncle... uh, before that. What's your name? My name is Sylvia. It's Sylvia from the Spring Leaf Pavilion."

"... it's Luke. Luke in the White Wolf Forest"

Unlike nobles, civilians like us don't have 'family names'.

If you're local, you can just call me by name, or someone's son somehow can call me like you.

In other situations, it is common to accompany your hometown's place name and commercial roommate, as was the case earlier.

In the case of Sylvia, for example, outside of town, she would also call herself 'Sylvia in the Sunclock Forest'.

"How did Mr. Luke end up in the dungeon... that? I fell asleep..."

Early after eating the porridge, I had my eyes closed on the bed.

Bad for Sylvia, but I can't afford to stay conscious any more.

Instinct is complaining about resting your body as soon as possible for a second.

On the verge of falling asleep, Sylvia's soft voice reached her ear.

"Thank you, Mr. Luke"