Chapter 131: Alabatrost City’s Dungeon

Just as I took one step to enter the city, 

Murmur* murmur*

Dik dok dik dok *horse step SFX

Grararararag *dragged carriage SFX

Murmur* murmur*

[Ah, Mr. adventurer over there? Did you plan to explore the Titan Dungeon like that? Looking at your gear, I suggest you buy the dungeon drop weapons here~ you're lucky, we have new goods just freshly came this morning!]

[The young miss, we have dungeon accessories here~ you can checking our goods out, I guarantee all of it has a status enchantment option!]

[The Mister over there, your armor is already too old for exploring the dungeon! throw that useless shabby armor out and buy a new one here, you have to cherish your life more, so are you interested to look at our dungeon drop armor?]

The crowded bazaar-like atmosphere suddenly hit me.

The strong-looking adventurer and multiple crossing carriage aside, these weapons and armor merchants, as well as the accessories merchants shouting at the passing adventurers really blow my mind!

'T-this… are you guys selling cabbage or what?! Why are these weapons and armors merchants shouting like a street vendor?! And that shabby shop of yours! Are these guys really sell combat gear here?!'

Chali, who seemingly noticed my flabbergasted expression after seeing this scene, suddenly speaks.

[Master, in this Dungeon city, there's a lot of small merchants selling the battle gear from dungeon drop, it's quite common here.

Be careful though, 80% of these small merchants is swindler after all.

It's quite common here, in this city]

[Right, these guys really know no shame!]

Anna added.

[Is that so? Well, since I have an appraisal, I think they can't swindle me though~]

After I said this, I looked at the ladies who followed me around.

Chali obediently stays by my side like a secretary, Anni and Silvi who having a friendly conversation behind me, Anna who still looking at the merchants- I mean swindler, in contempt, as well as the Silver Wolf members who acted like our escorts by following behind us.

[Anyway, is that okay with you guys following me like these? It's okay if you guys want to act individually or enjoy this city in a small group you know?]

Hearing my abrupt question, the ladies turning their heads into each other for a while before looking at me and smile(I can't see the Silver Wolf members though since they have a mask covering their face, but I just know instinctively that they are smiling).

[I think they all want to accompany master more rather than having fun by themselves~]

Chali smiled at me and said.

Looking at their expression, it seems what she actually said is not completely wrong.

Since they didn't mind accompanying me who know nothing about this city, then let's enjoy the tour with them and spend our time together happily!

Hence, we started roaming around the city.

During our sightseeing, I found a lot of weapons and armory shops, magic tool and potion shops, as well as the accessories shops, lined up on the side of the road in this city.

From the Chali and Anna information, apparently, since there's a lot of veteran adventurers exploring the dungeon, there's a stable supply of the dungeon drop as well as the treasure in the form of a potion, weapon and armor, and accessories.

The latter is quite rare though.

As the accessories rarely drop from the monster inside the dungeon and only have a slight chance to appear inside the treasure chest, the real dungeon accessories are usually sold at the luxurious store rather than the shabby tent near the city entrance.

Fix, the one that is sold at the entrance is 100% counterfeit goods.

In any world, as long as there's a chance, people tended to take a shortcut way to gain more riches after all.

So, I'm not that surprised if those scammer taking advantage of new and naïve adventurer.

'That aside, the architectural building in this city sure is quite different from the one in Arkhaim town…'

When I observed the shop as well as the building in this town, I realized this strange thing.

For some reason, the architecture here reminds me of the ancient greek, rather than medieval Europe one like the one in Arkhaim town.

Since I'm quite curious about this thing, I decided to ask Chali who was checking the surrounding area with a bright face.

[Chali, do you know why the Architectural here is different from the one in Arkhaim town?]

Chali who heard my question observed the surrounding building for a while before answering me.

[Ah~ about that, I'm not sure that this was the truth or not, but from the story, it seems this city originally an ancient ruin that being rebuild once again. Since most of the building in the ruin not that damaged, the Lord of this city at that time decided to just fix it as it is, maybe Master should ask the City Lord for the true history~]

[Nah~ I just slightly curious, so it's better for me to bother asking this stuff to him. Anyway, did the dungeon is found at the same time as the ruin?]

[It is, it said, the ruin of the city already here when the first founder of the dungeon found it. Originally, when the founder saw that giant pillar structure that piercing the sky from the distance, he found a ruined city around it when he walked closer]

Chali pointed at the Giant pillar-like structure that resembled of pisa tower from my previous world, as she told me this information.

[Is that tower the Dungeon in this city? I thought Dungeon is placed under the ground... what is it named again? It's called Titan Dungeon, is it? I overheard that the merchants near the city entrance mention it before]

[Um~ like Master said, the giant pillar over there is the dungeon. As for its name, because of how big the structure was, and also a lot of Titan race sculpture found inside it, people decided to call it the Titan Dungeon for that reason]

[Titan? What is the difference between them and the Giant?]

[For Master information, the Titan is an Ancient race that already extinct today. From the Olimpia Church scripture that I heard from some priest friend in the past, the Titan race is the ancestor of the almost extinct Giant race in this continent. 

According to the statues found inside the Dungeon, the Titan more looked like a towering elemental bipedal creature rather than a humanoid one like the Giant]

[Is that so? Hmm… interesting….]

'I didn't know why, but after hearing Chali's story, I suddenly recalled the movie of Hercules. I mean the cartoon one that produced by Disn****y'

'Isn't the Titan, the ancestor of the Olympian God, being sealed in the past, and released after some plot before Hercules come to stop them? In the cartoon, the Titan appearance seemed to match with the Titan in Chali's description…'

'Is that some connection between these two Titan? Hmm…'

[Master?]

Chali who seeing me suddenly being silent called me intriguingly.

[Ah? Nothing, I just recalled a cartoon that I watch when I was still a kid]

[Did master mean the animation movie? Is there any story that tells about the Titan? If so, I think I want to watch it too~]

[Hahaha~ yes, there's one, I'll show you later when we have some free time~ for now, let's go and enjoy the scenery~ you guys too! If you all want to buy something just tell me okay? Today we will spend our time to enjoy and explore this city]

[[Understood]]

The other ladies nodded their heads in affirmation.

Thus, we continue sightseeing the city with a lighthearted feeling.

For some reason, our group always attracted a lot of attention wherever we go.

I didn't know why, but maybe, the Silver Wolf attires stood out too much for the inhabitant of this world.

'What the hell is wrong with these people?! When I wearing modern clothes you guys didn't bat an eye! Why you guys bothered with a fantasy-like design, Assassin costume that my woman army wears?! Isn't that too strange?!'

As I have this stupid thought, I glared back at the people who glance at us whenever we passed.

However, when I decided to casually appraise them, I became dumbfounded instead.

'The heck! Why so many Gold Ranker class adventurers here! Huh? Some of them even have titanium rank strength! Ah! even a saint class appear!'

To my surprise, in this city, there's a lot of strong adventurer littering around like a cabbage!

When I moving my gaze to where these people come from, I saw a big four-story building nearby.

Looking at the plank above the entrance, I saw the word Adventurer Guild, written on it.

[Huh? Is that really an adventurer guild? it's surely looking grander and fancier than the one in Arkhaim city]

Anna who hearing my surprised voice turned her head to me and started explaining.

[Ah, is this your first time seeing the adventurer guild in Dungeon City? There's a reason the Adventurer Guild in Dungeon city look bigger and fancier.

After all, a lot of upper-rank adventurers prefer to make their base in Dungeon city rather than an ordinary city.

To give them good treatment, the Adventurer Guild always build a bigger building that has a training facility inside it]

[So, that's why a lot of strong adventurer littering around here. Hmm… as expected, Dungeon is the romance of all adventurer!]

[I prefer hunting a wild monster in the wild though…]

As we ignored Anna's remark, we continued walking past the Adventurer Guild vicinity, to roam around and exploring the city.

Even without her saying that we all already know that this woman really loves to hunt a wild beast and monster in the wild, as her unique job gave her an advantage to doing it.

Among the woman I brought with me, she's the only one who has a low tension after knowing that I want to bring them to train in the dungeon.

Anyway, leaving Anna aside, I suddenly realized that this city has a lot of population!

It seems this city will be a good spot to expand my second Fast Food branch and raking tons of gold!

'Maybe I should offer that Bastian old man my franchise~ 

as a wise people once said, "the more connection you have the smoother your business run"'

As I was engrossed with this thought, before long, we arrived at the Dungeon entrance vicinity.

Here, we saw a lot of party of an adventurer standing around seemingly discussing something.

Not only adventurers, but I also saw people selling something that looks like a map, offering their goods for one adventurer party to another.

For some reason, the way these guys doing business reminds me of shady brokers who sell concert tickets in my previous world, a lot.

These things aside, when I observed the Dungeon structure closely, I glued my eyes on it as it's really that breathtaking!

The unbelievable height, piercing toward the sky.

The beautiful carves and artistic small pillar of the structure rim around it, enhancing the grandiose and majesticness of it.

And the Olympian temple-like ruin surrounding the ground part of the structure, giving a mysterious feel to it.

Among the temple ruin there, I found an almost complete temple that looks similar to Athena temple in my previous world, that has group adventurers coming in and out busily.

It seems it was the entrance of the dungeon, as I also saw some city guards guarding it for some reason.

Leaving that aside, it seems is not only me who look at the dungeon structure in awe.

It turned out when I turned my head to the woman that I brought with me, I found them stunned and staring at the grand and majestic sight of the giant tower.

[Even though I already have been here before, but the sight of this majestic tower is always amazed me every time…]

Anna, who always looking unmotivated and uninterested throughout the trip, suddenly said with an appreciating smile plastered on her face.

The others seemingly agreed with her, they nodded their head while still have their eyes glued on the giant tower.

.....

'Titan Dungeon, I wonder what fantasy stuff that I can find inside!'