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Major Renovations

"By the way, this is a service."

Saying that, Haku-san passed an [Introduction to the Study of Dungeons] to me.

The author written on it was 'Haku Raviero'. I get it now. Since a dungeon core was the one to write about dungeons, there probably wasn't a need for a primer after it.

"Humans should have lot of gaps in what they know, so pay attention. If I recall… this is popular among other dungeon cores I think?"

Haku-san indicated an entry labeled [Safety Zone] with her white finger.

Quickly scanning over it, it read as [Monsters cannot enter, a safe place to rest].

"This is what dungeons call [Production]. Preparing what looks like a magic tool, they tell their monsters to not enter the area. Doing that, humans would go ahead and think at their own convenience that they'd entered a safety zone and let down their guard."

I see, that's pretty clever. You'd even get DP from the adventurers while they waited in the safety zone. Above all, the [Safety Zone] really wasn't that at all. With no witnesses, if the adventurers were completely off guard… they could cover up all evidence. Of course, since adventurers didn't leave evidence that they'd entered safety zones, people would think they just died in the dungeon normally.

… Since information media is scarce in this world, a 'book from a big shot in the Imperial Capital' would be given a high level of confidence. Like mass media.

"Sooometimes, when a monster is arranged to enter the [Safety Zone], they would clamor about with 'A variant species appeared!'. I would just dye their fur a different color to keep it interesting you know? When I pretend to be a diviner and teach them their traits and they give me their thanks, it's hilarious you know?"

Wow, I know what that's called. It's called swindling.

But definitely, 'something like that' is convenient. I can also see that it has plenty of uses. I gratefully accepted the book.

By the way, the contents felt more like a way to tell dungeons apart than a primer. Things like famous dungeon capture guides… didn't really pop up.

"Since you'll be studying and preparing, how about we start in three days? Good luck, alright?"

"Is that enough time to return to the Imperial Capital?"

"Although I don't go out of my way to learn things from humans that are at best [Crops], since I'm an adventurer… I learned [Teleport]. Ah, the scroll of teleport is 50,000,000 DP you know? Though even if I used it, I don't use it casually since it uses a quite a bit of magical power. Since it's normally used by the mage division, I don't use it alone."

"… But you just said you'd use space-time magic to connect the entrances for the Dungeon Battle."

"There's a dungeon function in the [Menu] that does that. When I let scholars examine it they said it was some kind of space-time magic, but even though I understand it somewhat… despite understanding if I look at it like connecting spaces, I don't really get it? Mysterious."

Looking at it from my side, isn't it a bit late to call space-time magic mysterious?

"Well, I'm looking forward to three days from now… Follow my memory, fasten my path to the far-off distance. Dash through the sky, dash through time. That place is this place, over there is right here. Intersect, overlap, connect together—[Teleport]."

When Haku-san recited the aria, both she and Chloe-san floated upwards… and in an instant, disappeared in an intense light.

counting on you."

"Ugu—… g-got it…"

Ah, I'd forgotten about it, but was that just now part of the absolute command?

"Rokuko… Though I have order rights, it's only valid when I say 'it's an order'. Otherwise, act on your own judgement… Well, I'm planning on annulling the absolute command rights when this Dungeon Battle is over anyways."

Now then, there are still a lot of traps I haven't started on yet.

I'll be sure to mix in plenty of handmade traps with premade DP traps. No premade traps at all if possible, I want to alter them all in some way. If I can think of something.

… … Ah, my time for sleeping is getting reduced.

I'd like to sleep like a log after all this…