CH 80

"Tenth Level"

Translated by Dawn

“Tenth Level”

“Yes, finally.”

I arrived at the boss room on the ninth level and killed the boss there in an instant. The boss of the ninth level was a Goblin Knight, a goblin about twice the size of a normal goblin, and it was surrounded by about 30 goblins, including a Goblin Leader and other higher-ranked goblins, and a group of normal goblins.

In terms of rank, the knight was C-rank and the higher-ranked species were D-rank, so a single shot of range magic was all that was needed. The battle time with the boss was five seconds from the time I met them. …I think there was a visual medium with a similar title……something, but is it my imagination? It was 0 seconds after encountering……no, let’s not go any further.

Anyway, I didn’t have enough information to talk about the opponents I had killed instantly in such a short time, and the result was a simple post-event report.

At any rate, after completing the registration for the transfer portal after the 9th level challenge, I descended the stairs to enter the double-digit levels.

The tenth level was apparently a grassland-type area, but it wasn’t a grassland as far as the eye could see. In places, there were forests, rivers, and other areas that were found on other levels, with the most prominent being a large mountain. It appeared to be a mine, and it was necessary to enter the mine in order to complete this level.

“Let’s go to the forest first.”

For now, I decided to enter the forest that lay ahead of me. The forest was not the jungle-like forest that I had challenged before, but a forest that looked like it would be just right for a picnic. However, when I checked my Scouting skill, I found that the monsters in the forest seemed to be orcs, so I was not in the mood for a picnic.

While defeating the oncoming orcs and gathering herbs and mushrooms that grow on the ground, I arrived at a place where there was a river. The sound of the babbling river was soothing, and I gazed at the place while listening to the sound for a while. There were stones in the river that had been formed over a long period of time, and when I picked one up, it was a beautiful whitish ball-like stone. Analyzing it, I see some interesting results.

[Magic Quartz]: Magic Quartz, turns transparent when imbued with magical power. It is popular as an ornament and also has the role of a charm to purify negative energy.

Well, apparently it was not just a white stone, but a purifying stone. Come to think of it, I had heard that quartz was sometimes used to purify power stones such as lapis lazuli and tiger’s eye in my previous life, and quartz in this world might have a similar effect.

What I was a bit curious about, however, was why there was so much magic quartz, the material for such popular ornaments, at the bottom of such a river. If it was so popular as an ornament, wouldn’t it be profitable to bring back the stones and sell them to jewelers and accessory makers?

The possibilities were that they didn’t know that these stones were of such value, or that for some reason the stones couldn’t be taken from this river. In any case, there was no reason not to take these stones home with me, so I decided to take about a hundred well-shaped ones for the time being.

Orcs came while I was picking up the stones, but I quickly had them put in storage. With this, I would not have to worry about meat for the time being. Long live pork.

For a while, the negative ions of the river healed me, and I felt like a child again, spending a meaningful time. After being healed for about 30 minutes, I was satisfied, so I continued exploring the 10th level again.

My next destination was the mine, the most conspicuous entity in the area. It seemed that the final destination was that mine, and the adventurer’s party I saw on rare occasions seemed to be heading for that mine as well.

With the goal of reaching the mine, I stopped at a safety zone along the way to unlock a transfer portal and then started walking toward the mine.

Dashboars and horned rabbits appeared along the way, all of which attacked me, so I decided to let them all become materials for me. I would not reject anything that came to me.

When I arrived at the foot of the mountain, which was the entrance to the mine, there was a transfer portal near what I thought was the entrance to the mine, so I immediately registered there.

“Now, let’s explore this mine from here.”

I felt no sense of urgency in calling it an exploration rather than a search, but since no monsters appeared to be a threat to me at this point, I entered the mine undaunted.

The mine had been artificially repaired in some places, although I didn’t know who had dug them, and it seemed more appropriate to describe it as a coal mine or a digging site rather than a mine.

The interior of the mine was surprisingly bright, so bright that torches and other lights were not needed to illuminate the mine. It seemed that the moss growing wild in the mine had the property of absorbing light and emitting light, and my brain was fantasying that it was called ” luminous moss”.

I thought that if I brought this moss back with me, it would be worth some money, but after analyzing it, it seemed that it emits light only in the dungeon and not in other places, so it would have no use whatsoever.

As I continued down the tunnel, which looked as if it had been artificially created, there was a response to the scouting that had been triggered. It seemed that a spider monster was ahead, and I proceeded with some caution.

The destination was a slightly open cavity, and in the center of the cavity was a spider monster about 50 centimeters long. It was not doing anything in particular, and if I were to use an RPG analogy, I would say that it was in an inactive state.

The monster’s name was “Poison Mine spider,” a spider monster with rank C. Compared to the C-rank orc, which specialized in physical weapons, the Poison Mine spider had a higher magical power, dexterity, and resistance. Compared to the C-rank Orc, so it could be surmised that they are classified as magic-type monsters

Its skills were spider-like, such as [Thread Spitting] and [Jumping], and among them, one should pay attention to [Poison Attack] and [Earth Magic], indirect and long-range attacks.

“Shaa”

As I approached a certain extent, the Poison Mine spider noticed me and raised its voice in a threatening manner. While I was wondering how to deal with it, the Poison Mine spider suddenly sprayed a thread at me.

I was surprised at the suddenness, but with my out-of-this-world status, it was not too fast to avoid, so I lightly turned myself around to avoid it. I was suddenly curious, so I analyzed the spewed threads and found unexpected information.

[Poison Mine spider thread]: Thread spit out by poison Mine spiders, which is elastic and strong and is popular mainly as a material for clothing and ornaments, but is difficult to obtain because it is a highly dangerous monster.

I see so that means this thing’s thread is worth money…….then, there’s only one thing I have to do now. If you’ve made it this far, you probably have a pretty good idea of what I’m talking about.

“Come on, spit your threads out!”

“Shaa”

Yes, it was to make it spit out as many threads as possible and bring back as many of them as possible. The difficulty of obtaining Poison Mine spider threads might be due to the fact that Poison Mine spider itself was a C-rank monster, and also because Poison Mine spider was poisonous, and if you were not careful, you might be killed by the poison.

Furthermore, the fact that there were no adventurers who were willing to fight Poison Mine spiders for their threads might be another reason why Poison Mine spider threads were considered so difficult to obtain.

Then, if I could make it attack with threads while watching out for poison attacks, wouldn’t I be able to secure a certain amount of threads, if not an infinite amount?

“But now that I think about it, from its perspective, I’m an annoying person.”

Thought about this. Thought about someone who suddenly entered your house unannounced while you were relaxing at home, and then started yelling at you to “give me something valuable”. To put it bluntly, it would be nothing but a nuisance. To the Poison Mine spider, I would be that annoying person right now.

However, the other party was a monster, an existence without even a shred of intelligence to understand my words. Monsters have no human rights, to begin with.

In my previous life on earth, this kind of statement would have been a big problem and would have caused a firestorm on social networking sites, but this was a different world – a fantasy world. I’m sorry Spider, but I’m going to ask you to be a sacrifice for my money-making purposes.

“Okay, this is good enough.”

“Sha, shaa”

I made it spit out as many threads as it could, and as I collected them while avoiding its attacks, it finally reached its limit and stopped spitting out threads. I didn’t think it understood my words, but just in case it did, I asked it, “Are you at your limit, or do you have more?” However, it seemed that it was really at its limit, and it only made weak noises.

Since I had no interest in torturing the weak, I stopped the spider with my sword and stored it in the storage box. As for the spider, not only was it forced to expel all the threads from its body, but its carcass was also turned into raw material.

“I guess this is what they call the law of the jungle. The laws of nature are so strict…”

I know this is not a line that the person who caused Spider-chan to be in the state she is in would say, but if I don’t say it, there will be no one to say it, so I’ll say it anyway. And, Spider-chan…thanks.

Having succeeded in getting quite a bit of thread from the Poison Mine spider like that, I started to explore the area now that the obstacle was out of the way.

Because of its mine-like appearance, I analyzed the stone I picked up in hopes that perhaps it was an ore that was lying around the area.

[Iron ore]: One of the ores commonly found in mines. Iron can be extracted by refining it.

……ah, I see. As expected for a mining area. If so, I guess I’ll have to decide what to do. 

“Let the mining begin!”

Therefore, I analyzed the stones that were found in the vicinity from one side to the other. Some of them returned disappointing results as mere stones, but I decided to keep a certain number of them in storage, just in case.

Because……you see, stones can be used for many things, can’t they? They can be used to damage metal slimes, detonate large ball bombs, evolve pocketable monsters, and so on. What? The last one is a different kind of stone? Let’s not get hung up on the details!

While retrieving the fallen stones in that manner, I suddenly became curious about the walls in the mine, so I used the Scouting skill to examine them and found a response that there was apparently something buried in the walls.

I didn’t have a pickaxe, but I used earth magic, a higher level of soil magic, to turn part of the wall into sand, and took out what was buried in the wall to analyze it.

[Emerald raw stone]: A raw stone that can be processed into a gemstone known as emerald green jade. Due to its rarity, ornaments made from this gemstone are traded at high prices among aristocrats and royalty.

It seemed I had hit the jackpot. I got an emerald in the rough, which was one of the most expensive gemstones on earth. Motivated by the gem in the rough, I searched for more gems, being careful not to cause a collapse.

As a result, in addition to emeralds, I was able to obtain rubies, sapphires, topazes, amethysts, diamonds, and other gemstones in the rough.

Then, with a smug look on my face, I proceeded through the mine, borrowing threads from the poison mine spiders that appeared, and once I released the transfer portal in the safety zone that was inside the mine, I returned to the city.