Chapter 141: The 20th Floor Safe Zone

After extinguished the bonfire and storing the tent in my inventory, I and the Twin prepared ourselves heading to the Safe Zone that was just found by Ra.

Ah…

Talking about my ability to use the Inventory skill, I gradually came into a realization of what type of power that blocks my ability to use Space and Time Magic in this dungeon…

Right! I forgot to tell you guys about a more important thing in the previous chapter! (What is it of a sudden, it's not like I am some protagonist of some novel~)

Joke aside, this is really important information!

Please hear me out! You know the only mythical skill I have? 

Yes, it's the Online Shopping skill!

I also can't use that skill, after getting inside this dungeon!

What terrifying power! To even affect my mythical, the very useful skill that helped me live comfortably in another world!

As expected, maybe there's a very incredible secret lying behind the Ancient Dungeon in this world!

Anyway, by making a conclusion from listing the unusable skill, banned by this Dungeon, I kind of started getting the gist of what type of power that limited my power is.

Yes! It must be a power that separated the space between the inside of Dungeon and the outside world!

I'm not too sure about the "time" part, since Chali told me that the Dungeon's Day and Night system running the same, alongside the outside world.

But I'm sure that space here is separated, and locked from any intervention from the outside world!

In short, like what most people speculated about the dungeon, maybe the dungeon itself is a small separated world, from the Garragania world that I currently live in now.

Maybe, the space system on this dungeon itself is different from the outside world system that my skill knows.

And about why I still could use my inventory skill, I somehow made some conjecture about it.

From the knowledge provided from my Space&Time magic skill, unlike other abilities that mostly manipulated space in the surrounding area, the inventory ability itself is making the magic pool inside my body to create a private space, locked with my magic power. 

In short, my magic power inside my body formed an individual space that could be used only by me, so unlike most of the skill that using the space system in the surrounding, this ability is more like creating its own personal space system connecting with my body.

At least, this is what I perceive after exploring this dungeon for a few days.

Anyway, since I can't confirm the truthfulness of my speculation, let's leave this thing aside for now, and let's go to the Safe Zone on this 20th floor.

Hence, I together with the twin, head to the Safe Zone direction, guided by Ra.

Along the way, as usual, we slaughtered every monster we met, gathered the herbs and ores, and trying to find a treasure chest.

Talking about monsters here, on the 1st to 20th floor, most of them are Satyr, while some are Prairie Wolf.

Specific wolf monster that inhabited the prairie.

From time to time I also could find some goblin or slime.

Hmm… speaking of slime, it suddenly reminded me about the idea I have to use this monster as a Waste Regulation solution at my base.

'The last time Sofia texted me was when I was still at Alabatrost city a few days ago. She informed me that she's already implementing the Slime farm system to clean up the waste and pollution problem in my city, and still in the process of checking for the operating system to see if there'll be any problem rises in this month the Slime waste system running, as trial…'

'Let's trust Sofia and leave this thing to her, I'm sure it will be no problem if she's the one who handles it'

'For now, let's focus on clearing this dungeon first!'

And so, I resume the journey heading into the Safe Zone while continue hunting and gathering some useful stuff along the way.

Our haul of loots and dungeon stuff is considerably goods these days.

So, maybe the suffering of throwing a monster with stone is not a waste after all~(Is not like the way I fight will affect how many loots I got though… at least let me eased this annoyed feeling a little, will ya?!)

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After walking and running past through the group of monsters and ruins for a couple of hours, finally, we saw a silhouette of the Safe Zone from the distance.

Giving my thanks to Ra by giving her favorite snack, Almond nuts, I asked her to go back on my accessory, before proceeding to head to the Safe Zone.

Upon approaching it closer, I saw a glimpse of many tents crowding together, creating a campsite- no, I think a small settlement? Maybe is more fitting to call the place before my eyes right now.

The surrounding of the settlement encircled by a thick wooden fence about 4.5-meter height around it.

Also, In the center place of the small settlement of tents and simple yurt-like structure, a big blue Dungeon crystal silently floating slightly above the ground, making some empty space around it and dimly lit up its surrounding with bluish hue color.

The same as the Dungeon Crystal that I found throughout the journey when I climbed this dungeon, the similar magic circle below it that could be found to the usual Dungeon Crystal also could be found below this floor Dungeon crystal.

But, what took my attention isn't the usual blue Dungeon crystal, but a dark red crystal that floating above it as well as the two enormous weird monster-like statues on the right and left side of it!

From what people in this world perceive, these statues are the Titan statue in their belief.

Looking at its shape, it somewhat reminds me of some abstract monster covered in strong wind power, with a tornado as its bottom body part.

Yes, it's somewhat looked more like an Elemental monster rather than a Titan.

Anyway, since this world people called it Titan, maybe there's a record of them as the weird elemental giant portrait on that statues.

Earlier, Even though Chali already told me that this dungeon is called a Titan dungeon since I can't found any statue during my exploration here from the 1st floor to the 19th floor, I started to doubt the authenticity of that name.

But after seeing the statues here, I started to believe that they called this Dungeon, a Titan Dungeon for a reason.

Leaving the statues aside, what is intrigued me more is the red crystal above the usual blue one.

From the note provide by Chali, that exact red Crystal in there will force the new challenger of the Dungeon to teleport into the boss room before proceeding further into the upper floor.

'Anyway, since I can't understand how that red crystal actually worked, it'll be better if I experienced directly later after checking out the Safe Zone right there!'

With this thought, I take the Twin with me to enter the safe zone together.

In front of the entrance, I saw two guards standing, observed us for a while before letting us passed silently.

Just by looking at their armor, I know that they're one of the City Guards of the Alabatrost City.

It seems the information about the Safe Zone being occupied by the City Lord, collaborated with Adventurer Guilds is true after all.

Inside Chali's note, she also explained what kind of place, the Safe Zone is.

In her note, it was written that the Adventurer Guild and the City Lord working together to occupy the safe zone of the dungeon up to the 60th floor, providing the place for adventurers to rest and selling their loots.

For the latter part, I think it will be faster if I see it by myself.

Entering the Safe Zone, I saw a lot of simple shop-like things, in the shape of tents and attended by some merchant-like people could be found left and right of the natural grassy road of this small settlement.

In there, a lot of adventurers seem bargaining about something, either selling the haul they get from the dungeon exploration or buying some supplies like food and water, as well as a potion in these simple small shops.

As I keep walking further, I found another type of small shop that offer different services.

Like what was written in Chali's note about the existence called Safe Zone, in here, there's also a people working under the Adventurer Guild who offer to buy the Magic crystal.

As what Anna already stated before, we can exchange 100 small magic crystal we got from this dungeon into a C rank magic stone.

This small Magic Crystal shop there seems to offer the conversion service, alongside offering a bulk-buying of magic crystal from the newbie adventurer who was short on money.

Anyway, since I didn't need the little money I get from selling it, I think it would be better to convert the magic crystal in my hand into C rank magic stone.

When I just approaching the magic crystal small shop and lined up, I saw the nearby shop not far from the Magic Crystal service shop that intrigued me.

Unlike the Magic Crystal shop, the shop in there taking a different service to exchange the Dungeon coins into the Gharam Kingdom currency coins.

[So, we actually can exchange the coin we got from dungeon to real currency on the outside world…]

I subconsciously mumbled this thing after seeing the shop.

Since Chali seems to forget to write this stuff on her note, the sight of this new shop interested me.

Anna who heard my mumbling suddenly add.

[Right, from what I know, there's still unknown use of the dungeon coin here.

Since they failed to find a way to use and spend the dungeon coin here, in the end, people started selling the coin they got in the dungeon into a real currency.

.... Alex do you think we should do the same?]

Hearing her sudden question, I started thinking about the dungeon coin in our possession.

'Should I keep this coin for the time being, and find the way to use it on the unexplored upper floor?'

'I didn't know why, but my gamer instinct told me not to sell this coin yet, as I will regret it later if I really do it…

Anyway, I'm not short of money right now, so it'll be better to keep this coin for the time being'

[I think we should keep it for now, who knows we'll find a way to use it properly later, do we?]

I gave my answer to Anna.

Seeing me already firmed my decision to keep the coin, she just nodded her head in agreement.

Maybe, like me, she also wants to keep the coin and find a way to use it in this Dungeon.

As our goal here is to clear this dungeon, it will be a waste if we found a way to use this coin in this Dungeon by chance later after all~

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Before long, it's already my turn for using the shop service.

After told the shop attendant that we want to exchange magic a bulk of Crystal for C rank magic stone, they smilingly take our magic crystal and gave us the C rank magic stone in return.

Since the number of the Crystals I have aren't completely round in number, there's still some Crystal left in my inventory.

Maybe keeping it some for myself would be better.

Who knows, If I asked the Magic Engineer in my hidden city to analyze this crystal, I could find something useful later~