Three years after D Genesis Dungeon

The 21st layer is a wetland.

That said, the whole area is covered with water, and it seems to include not only places where water oozes from grass when stepping in, but also places like lakes and marshes. The place that appeared on the 21st floor was a place like a so-called bog (* 1), and its feet were covered with poor grass and ferns.

Soon after, we moved away from the SDF's communication base, moving along a route that would not be entangled with a demon, while choosing a place where our feet were open as much as possible.

"The main demons that appear in the 21-level wetland area are Loved Fispison, Water Reaper, and Witch Needle."

Loved Fispison is a waterside snake that goes from 2m up to 5m. In other words, it's a huge Yamakagashi. The water reaper is a toad measuring about 50 cm, but has no limbs, but instead has wing-like fins and pointed tails. From a different perspective, it may be a small dragon with a frog face.

"Python and reaper understand snakes and frogs, but what is a witch needle?" "In a word, a dragonfly that is about 50cm." "A dragonfly?" "But the wings seem to be as sharp as a razor. It looks like the jaw is almost the same as a human finger. "

Wheat, who had never heard of such an exchange, muttered something.

"Who, what ...? Oh, what should I do? Co-corundum is an iron plate, quartz series I want to complete, there are beryl, chrysoberyl, and garnet, and I can't decide!"

She was holding her head and spinning her eyes. This was the reason why we chose a route that would not be entangled in the demons, with our greatest aim at hand.

Soon after she left the telecommunications base, when she tried to find and approach a demon, she suddenly put on a wait. I was surprised at what kind of inconvenience had occurred, but who was so delighted at the 20th layer who wondered if she was just worried about what she would drop, and her eyes ticking.

Life detection does not know the surrounding environment, even if it can capture the position of the demon. This is a wetland anyway. While escaping from a monster coming from behind, he lost his way into a place like a thin neck surrounded by water. A terrible, large reaction to life detection appeared a little farther in front. With 21 layers this size would be Python. There are swamps on both sides of the challenge and demons behind. This cannot be helped.

"Well, wheat? It looks like we're going to encounter it soon ..." "Oh, wait, wait, wait! Hmm, oh, that's right!" "Oh, have you decided?" Oh, another candidate ... there's an amorphous system like opal. "

When I thought it was decided, it simply increased the number of candidates. The python in front of him couldn't help Mr. Wheat dropping his shoulders, and it easily crossed the final line of defense. Lyraps, who had been patient until then, stepped on his neck and squeezed the head of Loved Fispison. 4m is a big thing.

"Oh!"

At that moment, something dropped under Wheat's feet. She picked it up softly and said,

"Crystal clusters ..."

On the palm was a lump of crystal crystals.

"Like Magmel's dad" "Magmel?" "The name I gave to a stone I first obtained when I was a child. A mineral fair that my father took me, a small little crystal cluster I found when I got lost. I got it from a mineral dealer for 500 yen. "

She named it an island full of the joy of Celtic mythology. "I felt like riding on a micromount looked like an island," she said. "I'm still the best friend, of course," she laughed happily.

"Senior. Perhaps her LUC is unusually high ..." "No, the idea of powerstone is scientifically resistant." Do you think this can be explained by science? "

Luck depends entirely on how the recipient is perceived. The event itself is only a coincidence. Even if the same thing happened, some would feel lucky and some would feel lucky. In fact, it should be that much. It should have been--

"The status of LUC is strict ...."

LUC is difficult to interpret. Because luck is bad but subjective, LUC may simply be a force that makes it difficult for unlucky events to occur, regardless of luck. In other words, a force that works in a direction that increases the entropy of a certain probability space. When the LUC reached infinity, all the events would occur with equal probability.

"In such a world, everything melts into chaos." "Is it just one of the parameters in dungeon calculations?" "Dungeon calculations ..."

Then it should not work for real luck. For example, a lottery or a lightning strike. There is no denying that Mr. Mizuru's phone call is just a coincidence. Rather, that would be a more reasonable interpretation. No matter what happens, no matter how lucky or bad you can't deny that it's just a coincidence.

"Let's try using it with a card next time."

For example, if you try to draw one by using one piece of two, two pieces of three, four pieces of three, and five pieces of four, you may know to some extent whether the LUC is twisting the real probability. .

"Senior. Believing is helpful. Even a sardine's head is useful. Crystals must be 100 times more effective."

That the line without the word "ka" in "scientific" resonates more than I guessed, is it just a sign that science and religion will become one ...?

Mr. Wheat gently poured out, seemingly apologetic, while gently putting the crystal cluster he had picked into his backpack.

"I'm sorry I had you expect. Quartz is cheap. It wasn't worth it." "I don't care so much."

After all, if we converge vaguely, we have the confidence to drop iron.

"Is it okay to attack?"

Miyo-san looked back and said so. Speaking of which, there was a reaper who was chasing from behind.

"Okay. You can do it as much as you want."

With that said, when Mr. Miyo shot the bow quickly, it seemed that something small was rolling shortly under her feet. She picked it up and said with a strange face.

"Well, this came out, is this also a crystal?"

It was an equiaxed octahedral crystal of less than 1 cm. By the way, quartz is usually shaped like a hexagonal prism. Wheat saw it, and made a surprised voice.

"Eh? That's a soavable ?!" "Soavable?" "Rough octahedral diamond. Just cut it with a saw and it's shaped, so it's called sawable."

I looked back with a strange face. What is that? Wasn't it a crystal cluster floor? Wheat, who had converged on this floor, couldn't decide what to drop until the end.

"No way ..."

I quickly found the closest witch needle for life detection and shot it down with water magic. That's why I dropped it at hand-

"Jewels ...? Ores?"

Touch the item to know its name. Nevertheless, Ms. Daishiro did not know if the item was crystal. I thought it was weird, but it was natural.

That's because the item you dropped was marked "gemstone".

"Blue-violet, polychromatic, and brittle ... probably tanzanite gemstones," "What is this floor ... will gemstones drop?"

Wheat's worries, and he couldn't focus on any of them, so the “gemstones” drop into them all? No, but ...

"Isn't it just one kind of floor, is there something like this?" "No ants or pears. It's actually dropping." Rough gemstones "are also counted as one kind. "Isn't it possible to make a floor where" metal "can be dropped?" "It may be possible if you love all metals with a metal love comparable to wheat's jewelry ""……That's impossible"

Floors where you don't know what to drop in the first place are significantly less attractive as mines. It can be said that the more types of objects, the less valuable they are to those who are looking for something. It is difficult to aim and hunt anyway. There was the pain of aiming for something specific with gacha.

"What about shackles like nickel, cobalt, and magnesium?" "I don't think it's likely to be one kind." "Do you need some kind of conceptual squeezing ..." "Isn't it possible if you really need it, but can you get that image with some sloppy content?"

Certainly, unlike "gemstone", it is not a common concept of mankind ...

"Well, how about elements?"

Lanternoids, actinoids, alkali metals, precious metals, transition metals, base metals

"I know what I want to say, but I can't tell exactly where it belongs to me," "I'm suspicious," "I think it's probably impossible for such a person." …… ”

Wheat, who had been depressed a while ago, was picking up rough stones that Ustura would drop one after another with excitement. I am still glad to see the deep pink diamond-shaped crystals.

"It's a very nice floor!"

Well, it's heaven for wheat.

"The drop rate is quite high. It's about 80 to 90% because she drops almost all the time," she said. But it's almost like that. ''

The rough is reasonably heavy compared to pre-cut gemstones, but lighter than metal. If you can beat the number of monsters, layer 21 will be a good place to make money. However, the variability in the value of what was dropped seemed very large.

"It may be subtle as a mine, but it's a super first class for entertainment."

The problem is whether there will be as many people as possible up to the 21st, but I feel like this will motivate me to increase the number of people who come to the depths. It ’s fun to say anything –

When I thought so, a rough green stone dropped below Miyoshi's feet. Did Arsulz also hunt?

"Emerald?"

Speaking of green stones, I only knew that and picked it up. He looked into the gemstone and replied, "It's the same place that turns green with chromium and vanadium, but this is tsavorite. It's a green garnet."

Huh. There are various kinds of green.

"Emerald gemstones are blue, so they can be distinguished by color alone, but garnets are monorefringent and emeralds are birefringent, so they can be distinguished there. In addition, tsavorites are usually more glaring I do. "

She looked at it and said without using a loupe.

"Ah, but this tsavorite is cute." "Kawaii? Is it worth it?" "Is it expensive? On the right side

She took out the loupe and gave me to look at that part.

"It looks like a face and it's cute!"

I used an unfamiliar hand and moved the loupe to focus. The inclusion, which was on the magnified stone, certainly looked like a blurred Miffy face. It seems that each natural gemstone has a different face and is fun. It's up to the designer or cutter to take advantage or cut it off.

The diamonds I converged in Yokohama were all ideal. Ingots are also uniform drops. However, the ores she has converged are all of the highest quality, and each one seems to have its own personality.

"The power of the image is amazing ..."

The rough on this floor must have been because Wheat wanted such a thing. Miyoshi, like me, noticed that and muttered so impressed.

"It's not at all."

I realized that the power of the dungeon, which creates more natural and complex objects, was also incredible in accordance with the power of that image.

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We continued to search and converge steadily thereafter, but when the 100g ingot of palladium dropped in 24 layers, Mr. Wheat picked it up and said.

"Um, Mr. Yoshimura" "Hmm?" "I think I'll stop around here this time." "Why?" "I think the current image is a bit too biased towards engraving."

Wheat dropped 21 layers of gemstones, 22 layers of platinum, 23 layers of silver, and 24 layers of palladium. It goes without saying that the 24 layers of palladium are more often used as catalysts, not to mention 23 layers of silver.

All metals are 100g ingots. Is the difference between me and her image that vanadium was a 1kg ingot? Even so, the 100g ingot of platinum costs over 300,000, but the 100g ingot of silver does not reach 10,000 yen, so the 23 floors of the adjacent floor were a bit pitiful. In any case, once mining becomes popular, wetlands are likely to become very popular.

"In addition, Usturas also seem to struggle with trolls."

The 21-22 layer was a wetland, while the 23-25 layer was a forest layer from the jungle. Due to its vegetation and conditions, it will probably be called Jurassic Park eventually. Some people are like raptors, and it's just that kind of atmosphere.

And the troll appeared from 24 layers. Ustura feels like this is the limit so far.

After hearing that story, Anubis said.

"I won't lose, but those fat guys are having trouble rebuilding."

Apparently, the damage dealt by Ustura was greatly reduced by the regeneration of the troll, and it seemed to take a long time to defeat it alone. It would be troublesome if other individuals entered the war at that time.

"I see. So how was it? Come and try." "It was like a dream!"

Wheat was a maiden with all his eyes sparkling.

"That really amazing stones drop around!" "So, were you satisfied with our camp?" "Yes!"

With that reply, Wheat's boot camp is over. It was harder than expected, but much shorter than I thought. Mr. Miyo felt worried, feeling the atmosphere of a break.

"Well, what happens to Maitreya? Is it disbanded?" "Eh, Eri-chan, are you going to stop?"

When he heard that, he cried mysteriously.

"Yes? Wheat-san will quit, so what are we going to do?" "I'm not?"

Wheat answered so naturally.

"Certainly, the boot camp is over, but it takes billions of dollars to train me. I can't afford it anyway."

I told her that I didn't have to worry, and Miyoshi was discouraged by the hem of her clothes.

"In addition, I enjoyed exploring with Eri just as much as I did at work, and now I'm going to study the metals I need in Japan, and then go to the lower levels!" I need to raise it, but if I don't like Eri-chan, I don't want to!

Saying that, Mr. Midai took the hand of Mr. Wheat.

"I'm glad. If wheat stopped, I was wondering what to do alone."

They were laughing at each other and deepening friendship.

"Then you have to have a proper investigator contract."

Then, next is the problem of bases. Because we can't always come with us. I asked Mr. Midai, who should come here in the future.

"How was the dungeon moving? How far could you go down in one day?" "Well ... When you reached the 18th layer and the feeling of the ice and snow layer, if you really concentrated on movement only, It seemed to be able to reach 21 layers in a day. "

Normally, if you go over 10 layers, it usually takes 2 days, but Simon also went up and down to 18 layers in one day. Their status is not so inferior to those before the camp.

"Nja, let's build our base on 21 floors?"

Wheat makes a happy voice.

"But seniors. The 21st floor is basically a wetland?" "Isn't the water level changing as expected?" "I guess it is so." "Wetlands, but lakes There seems to be some parts, there seems to be a hill-like place on the shore of a little lake. ''

For Yoyogi on the 21st floor and beyond, only a survey up to the discovery of the down stairs has been performed, and a complete map has not been created. The 21st layer, which was the deepest reaching layer, turned back near the entrance, so only investigation around that was done, and the search for Team I this time may have a strong positive meaning of the monster's strength. Therefore, detailed research was not conducted because the search for the lower layers was prioritized. In the past, other teams would be in charge of searching for that layer, but this time there were 18 layers and there was a shortage of upper searchers and the speed of lower layer search was too fast, This wasn't done because the layers were too wide

Therefore, it was not strange to find such a place in the unexplored part.

"I wish there was a place like a beautiful villa area."

Ms. Midai, who had been active enough in the wetlands where visibility was open, was able to make remarks with plenty of room, partly due to the search power of Ustura. It seems a little bit more confident.

Looking at the clock, it was just past 14:00.

"So, this time, let's go back to the 21st floor and look for a place suitable for our base."

Then we walked up the stairs.