Reincarnation ~ From the Upper World to the Lower World

The entrance of the dungeon is in the outskirts of the capital city, with better facilities than the one at Koper. Although it’s just have simple beds, several inns had been established, so it seems that a lot of adventurers staying overnight here. With this it seems natural for merchants to gather trying to earn some profits. One of the merchants advertise his products in a loud voice, as it seems like he was selling an interesting tool.

“This is a new lantern. The consumption of the monster cores are less than the normal lantern, not to mention the light produced is far brighter . You won’t be disappointed if you buy this.”

Is it like the difference between fluorescent bulb and LED? Its 3 silver coins when I asked the price. Since the lantern we’re using right now is 1 silver coin, it’s only a little bit expensive. However, lets buy it for now since it looks interesting.

The procedure is the same like the dungeon in Koper, where you give your name and rank, as well as whether the rescue unit is necessary afterwards. Since we have no intention of returning until we achieve our goal, I won’t decide on the time limit. Of course the search unit is unnecessary too.

All of us hide our intentions of defeating the floor master,and when we descend into the dungeon’s 1st floor, it’s jammed full of people.

“What the heck is this…”

Anyway, there’s too many people. There’s adventurers and baggage carriers of various levels. There’s also group of soldiers that seems to be the search unit. This situation is too hectic even for inside a town. Even if you discover a monster, it will just get scrambled by the adventurers. Even if we defeat it, there’s going to be a lot of troublesome thing to settle. It really looks like some kind of Online Game.

“There’s too many adventurers, it’s going to be troublesome to raise our levels with our low reputation.”

Lelena complained while looking amazed. In this kind of situation, its useless unless we go down on the lower floor right? We head towards the lower floor with tired feelings. When we finally thought that the people had decreased, we already  arrived at the 10th underground floor.

“It finally looks like a dungeon. Is it alright to suddenly start from the 10th floor? There seems to be considerably stronger monsters here.”

Although we cannot be sure since we haven’t found any enemies yet, the surroundings feels a bit better with the new lantern. As expected people will get stressed easily while being surrounded by darkness. Since there’s no safety zone, we decided to rest for a bit at a slightly large pa.s.sage.

Half a day had pa.s.sed. We haven’t encountered any monsters, this is likely due to the road are maintained as there are a lot of adventurers. We should still be able to survive with our food.

We also met a couple of parties while we’re taking a rest. There’s several huge bad looking men, a brown girl with silver hair that have a slave crest, totaling 5 people, including a Beastman little girl that looks like a 6 years old. While I observe thinking that it’s the usual combination, the huge man glared at me. What’s wrong with this guy? You wanna fight?

He clicked his tongue with a “tch” and left after I glared back. As I’ve confirmed that all of their members haven’t reached Level 20 yet, they might have thought it’s going to be bad having to go against us.

“Have you seen that guy just now?”
“Yeah. I’ve once gone with them on a party. You’ve seen that slave right? He used the slave bought with money as a shield and use them till the end of their lives.”

According to Amyl’s explanation, there’s that kind of circ.u.mstances.

They first buy a slave that can fight for them. However, the slave with high fighting power had high pride and possess great mental strength. There’s a chance that they won’t obey the orders. Although I heard that the slave that go against their master’s orders will receive various type of pain on their whole body from the slave crest, the slave with strong willpower might be able to overcome it.

Therefore one of the effective method to control the slave is by using a hostage. They’ll kill the hostage if the slave refuse to obey. Thus they’re ordered to fight even if they hate it.

“The party from a while ago, the hostage seems to be the beastman little girl. The dark elf seems to unwillingly had to fight for her.”

Dark Elf!? That girl form a while ago is a dark elf?

“You didn’t noticed? She even had such an outstanding ears.”

I messed up! The elves that I saw before are just the normal elves and not a dark elf. What a lifetime blunder to overlook such a thing! If I have a chance to meet her again I’m going to give a her a hard look. However, that guy is pretty bad to held someone hostage and ask her to fight.

Since the break is over, lets restart our search. For the time being I decided to head in the direction that the party from a while ago headed. According to the map they’ve advanced pretty far, if you take the distance in a straight line they’re around 500 meters ahead of us? But the situation suddenly becomes weird. When the red dots indicating enemies appeared, the blue one runs towards us in confused manner. There’s likely a fight.

Only two of the blue dots remained there, while the rest seems to have come running towards us. When I see a shadow of a person gradually approaching us, I only saw the huge men from before running in a panic. I don’t see neither the Dark Elf nor the Beastman little girl.

“Move away! You’re in the way!”

I shove one of my foot towards the men who’s going to pa.s.s us while shouting.

“Dowaaa!?”

The men got piled on top of one another while raising exaggerated screams. While stamping on the back of those guys, I decided to ask them questions.

“Oi you people. What did you do with those girls who’re with you?”
“Huh!? It got nothing to do with you right!? Since they’re just slaves I decided to make them as shield! I can just get a new one when I get back to town! If you understand that then stop blocking my way!”

I see, they’re garbage as expected. It’s useless to hesitate with these kind of people.

“These people really- ”

Amyl was about to get enraged, but I’m the one that acted first. I turned in front of them after jumping from their backs, kicking their faces one by one while they’re still struggling. They lose consciousness at once. Since I kicked pretty seriously, there should be a considerable damage. Not like it matters since they’re garbage anyway. That’s what you get for leaving children behind.

“Let’s go everyone!”

They nod, and thus we began to run towards the place with the reaction from a while ago.

T.N: Was hoping she would not be a slave…