Chapter 346
(346) To the Advanced Dungeon
Translator: Tseirp
“I’ll state this first, the basics of creating soy sauce – – creating yeast is more akin to farming than it is to cooking . After all, yeasts are living organisms . ”
Borrowing a room in Suzuki’s home, the homunculus Neete was having a lecture on the manufacturing of soy sauce that they had failed to recreate for many years .
I could have explained the method to manufacture soy sauce as well but I only knew the ordinary method of creating it and didn’t have confidence in answering questions .
So I called Neete from My World . Actually, Pionia was more knowledgeable but she’s a hikikomori after all . She won’t exit My World at all .
Sheena No . 3 had knowledge too but Suzuki had met her and seen her death so by the method of elimination it was Neete .
“Carol is amazing . I didn’t expect her to stumble upon an apprentice from a sprout shop within the town . ”
Suzuki praised Carol . By the way, sprout shops seem to refer to yeast shops .
Neete’s existence was set as a sprout shop apprentice who was taught by a transmigrator who worked in a yeast shop in j.a.pan and we retained her name .
“What surprises me is the number of people . I thought at most three or four would gather but I didn’t expect these many . ”
There were up to 50 people . And I was equally surprised that Suzuki’s house could accommodate 50 people .
Everyone was feverishly taking memo of what Neete said .
There seemed to be some who looked like j.a.panese among them but the majority of the people were residents of this world .
“Among the j.a.panese who transmigrated to this world, creating soy sauce and rice were the two major themes . Among them, rice-making was somehow realized by the Demon Lord Army 300 years ago so now some amounts of it go around albeit at a low quant.i.ty . The taste is inferior to j.a.panese rice as well . ”
I heard about that too .
Well, someday I’ll act as though it was a coincidence and send him some seedlings .
“By the way, Suzuki . What happened to Jofre and Elize . ”
I didn’t see them yesterday at dinner and neither at today’s breakfast .
Weren’t they investigating the interior of the house? I imagined it would take at most an hour .
“Eh? They didn’t tell Kusunoki-kun either? I was convinced that Kusunoki-kun knew . ”
“ … By the way, what about Centaur?”
“It ate about half of my stockpiled food after dinner and breakfast . ”
Suzuki’s home food stock seemed to have taken a large loss .
“In that case, they wouldn’t have left town . Just where are they?”
“Hn- perhaps they found a hidden pa.s.sage in this house and are investigating it . Apparently, there is quite a complex structure below my house that was there before I built my house . According to the records, the structure was made centuries ago . ”
“Why would you construct a home at such a location?”
There’s no helping it, I guess I’ll save them with that method again .
I looked at Carol and said .
“Carol, I have a request – -“
She always received any difficult task I request of her with a smile . This time she had a smile as usual .
But I probably didn’t mistake that her smile looked a little cramped .
“ … We will need 500 tomatoes for the transaction . 300 as advance payment, 200 for success reward …”
Carol had imagined that we would ask Centaur to look for Jofre and Elize and had negotiated .
But the price was greater compared to before .
In actual fact, I antic.i.p.ated something like this happening so I kept a large number of tomatoes in my item bag but it was exactly 500 pieces .
Was that Centaur actually able to accurately ascertain the contents of my item bag?
Upon pa.s.sing it 300 tomatoes, Centaur consumed it in an instant . Just as though it was a magic trick .
Then it walked .
Its destination was the warehouse in the garden . After opening the lock, there were stairs that led underground .
Just as Suzuki predicted, those two actually went underground .
“Then I’m relieved . ”
I left the remaining tomatoes with Suzuki .
“What do you plan to do next?”
Suzuki asked . There were still a few days until the book sale .
We could tour the town and preview the book sale venue but I was worried about the frenzy curse after all .
In order to dispel the curse, you either have to make the person drink a Dispel Curse Potion or cast the Dispel spell . Only a couple of people were capable of using that spell in the world and a Pract.i.tioners level 80 was required to master it .
“Erm, is there a dungeon in Mallegory?”
“Yup, there are three . Dungeon meant for beginners, intermediate and advanced users . ”
Ooo, so there are three .
Just like Florence .
“Then, I’ll send Neete-san to her inn after her lecture is over and then head to the advanced dungeon . Haru and Carol, you guys want to tag along too?”
“Yes, I look forward to it . ”
“Carol will work hard too . ”
The two of them responded, showing their resolution .
In particular, Haru seemed extremely happy . She probably likes dungeon crawls . The dungeon crawl in Goats Rocky was very short and the monsters didn’t put up a challenge so she probably felt it was unsatisfactory .
“The dungeon is located at the end of the magic tool lane at Magic Street . There are street signs around town so I don’t think you will get lost but would you like me to prepare a map?”
“Don’t worry . Carol knows the town’s dungeon locations as well as the tourist attractions, public facilities such as the Adventurers Guild and Mercenary Guild, highly-rated restaurants, evacuation sites in case of disasters, and hotels with beautiful night views . ”
As expected of Carol . But why did she look out for hotels with beautiful night views? We stay in Suzuki’s home at night after all .
“I gathered information on the monsters that appear in the advanced dungeon last night . The advanced dungeon monsters are mainly magical creatures . ”
So Haru went to investigate too . Did she antic.i.p.ate that I would suggest going there or was Haru going to suggest if I didn’t?
“Magical creatures?”
“Slime, gargoyles, and Golem . Also, living armor and type A mimics . Monsters categorized as those who move using magical power . ”
“Type A mimics?”
“Mimics have type A and type B . Type A are monsters that mimic treasure boxes while type B are the type that hides within the treasure boxes set up in the dungeon . Incidentally, they generally take the shape of treasure boxes but some mimic the shape of jars too .
Haru explained smoothly .
So there are different kinds of mimics .
“Do mimics drop small medals?”
“No, mimics are not rare monsters so they will not drop Rare Medals . ”
“Figures . ”
I said with a wry smile .
Incidentally, Neete’s soy sauce making course greatly exceeded the scheduled ending time and in the end, it didn’t end until the afternoon .
Because of that, our departure was delayed until after lunch instead .