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Chapter 109
The Mimic Puzzle
“We’re finally arrived…”
After having a beef feast in the farm of Frank-san’s acquaintance, we were able to continue our journey favourably while defeating some monsters that appeared occasionally.
And finally, we’ve arrived at a town located just before the Earth Labyrinth.
This Alde town quite flourished, being the place where adventurers, wanting to enter the Earth Labyrinth, would stop by to arrange their equipment.
Moreover, there were several weapon and armor shops, and the adventurer guild that did trades on the ingredients they brought from the labyrinth was the largest.
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What I thought differed it from ordinary towns was how the people who were passing by had sharp expressions in their eyes.
“That’s because sensible people won’t think of living in a place near a dungeon where monsters were around. The ones living in this town would be adventurers or retired adventurers.”
According to Frank-san, it seemed that this Alde town was originally an ordinary town where adventurers gathered. Then, it slowly expanded from there, and even now, it still continued to develop.
Before long, this town earned the name of ‘labyrinth city’.
“If one wants to pass through the Earth Labyrinth, they’d have to be properly prepared, right?”
The first one we were headed to was the inn. We had been sleeping outdoors recently, so I’d like to slowly take a rest in a room.
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We took three rooms to be occupied by two people each, as per usual. I would be in the same room as Amanda-san.
After being applied with the clean magic by Amanda-san as we entered our room, I dived into the bed as hard as I could.
“Haa~. So tired~…”
Though we were sleeping outdoors, we properly set up some tents and rested in there. The tents in my item box functioned the same as in the game—they would be broken after being used once—, so we were using the tents belonging to the Izel Fort, designed by the chivalric order in the frontier, that Ar-niisama brought along in his storage bag.
…The mechanism didn’t have to be as faithful as the one in the game, but alas, they were so faithful. Sobs sobs.
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Incidentally, there were also tents made for use in the dungeon. This type of tent could be used many times over without being destroyed, but its flaw was that it could only be used in the areas called as safety point.
And then there was a problem with whether the so-called safety point existed in the Earth Labyrinth or not.
Frank-san and Virna-san said that they both didn’t know about it, though…
For the time being, Frank-san would put a simple barrier during our time sleeping outdoors so it was fine, but I wonder if it’d have any effect in the labyrinth?
“Yuuri-chan, you’re tired, aren’t you? Do you want to eat something?”
“No, I’m alright~”
“Really? Don’t overdo yourself, okay?”
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While I was still lying on the bed, I felt the bed next to my head sunk and then, I felt that my head was caressed tenderly by someone’s fingers.
As I turned my face a little to the side, Noir rubbed against my cheek, still with Purun riding on top of its head.
Hwaaa. This is happiness!
Besides, I felt awfully happy being on the bed after a while.
“A soft futon is something this good, huh…?”
As I said earnestly, I felt like I heard someone laughing.
“That’s right. I had trained to be able to sleep anywhere as a knight, but being able to sleep on a bed like this made me feel relieved.”
“Amanda-san also feels like that, huh?”
“Once we enter the labyrinth, we won’t be able to sleep on the bed for a while, after all.”
“That’s right.”
Just in case, I had a cot inside my item box, so even if we were to camp outdoors, we didn’t have to sleep on the ground.
But would we have the luxury to use the cot and set up a tent inside the dungeon?
First of all, it would be impossible if it didn’t have enough space to accommodate it, so I wonder about it.
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“If it’s the room that contains the treasure chest, it’ll be safe.”
“Is it, really?”
“Yeah. There are a lot of traps being set up, but once you manage to release them, the monsters that can put traps won’t appear, so we only need to be careful in the entrance.”
“Monsters that can put traps?”
“Yes. The treasure chests in the dungeon are mostly ‘Mimic’1. Sometimes, there are inactive treasure chests, so those are safe.”
“Inactive treasure chests?!”
“The Mimics that originate from the dungeon’s upper floor tend to be inactive because they could only absorb little magic energy. However, Mimics that are deep in a dungeon will be able to absorb plenty of magical energy, so they can attack people.”
Until just now, I had never thought that it was strange for treasure chests to exist inside dungeons, but in reality, they were all Mimics, huh?
Hmm? But if they were inactive, why would there be equipment or money inside them?
As I began to wonder, Amanda-san explained it to me.
“Aah, that is to attract people.”
“Attract people, huh?”
“The Mimics that contained nothing inside would have its cover open. The Mimics that lived in the deeper level would create its own weapons or amors in order to lure the adventurers, but the Mimics in the upper floor didn’t have that kind of power, so when the patrolling guild staff found the Mimic with open lids, they would try to put a dagger or a shield inside. If they were lucky, they might gain a special effect.”
“The guild staff would put some treasures inside the Mimic?”
Whoa, it’s my first time hearing it!
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“Big dungeons like the Earth Labyrinth are under the guild’s management, so in exchange of them taking the entrance fee, they’d record things such as who entered and to what floor were they planning on going and when they’d intend to return. They’d dispatch a search party for the adventurers who didn’t return.”
I see… It was certainly a big dungeon, so some adventurers might run out of power midway through it.
It wasn’t like in the game where you could just die and return to your last save point.
“I think it’s better for you to ask the details to Frank or Virna.”
It was true that those two were dungeon specialists. I should slowly listen to the details later, then.
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