420 Lesson 7

"... voice?

"Voice, right..."

"From where..."

While each surprised by the words that resonated directly into his brain, the three of them look around.

"I'll be a dungeon core."

If the harsh voice is right, the dungeon core in front of you will speak to the three of you.

"You mean this blue dungeon core is talking to our heads?

Yes.

A dungeon core that shook the light to echo Ethereal's doubts, staring at the dungeon core in front of him, affirms.

Deena, who said the dungeon is alive, is also greatly surprised at what Dungeon Core has been talking about.

"Uh, that Mr. Dungeon Core......?

"Ask what?

A pale dungeon core answers to the bewildered call of Deena.

"Um, would Mr. Dungeon Core have trouble if he said we were taking Mr. Dungeon Core? I've heard that dungeons are made up of cores..."

Often silent dungeon cores slowly answer the anxious Deena question.

"... vague questions, so I judge and answer. If you take me from here, surely this dungeon loses its power. But that doesn't bother me. 'Cause I don't have feelings for trouble.'

Worried about how he answered, Dungeon Core explains what would result after he disappeared.

"When that happens, what happens to the dungeon? Gone?

'No'

Answer Aotearoa's questions without hesitation.

"Without me, a new dungeon core will be generated. It is the role of the dungeon core to direct the dungeon, but it is not that the dungeon core is the life of the dungeon '

Both Ethereum and Deena marvel at that answer given by a harsh voice.

"Really... when I heard the dungeon was alive, I wondered if it would die without it, just like the demon if it had a nucleus"

"Yes, I was thinking the same thing..."

That idea, originally envisaged by the two of them, will take overshadowed form. But that didn't disappoint the two of us, it made the next question come to mind.

"So what happens when the dungeon dies?

A longer silence comes to that question than earlier. The Ethereals waited in no hurry for an answer that the dungeon core that was answering to us so far would not ignore their voices.

'............ I don't have an answer to that question'

No matter how much you think, you decide you're inconclusive, and when you answer that, Dungeon Core is quiet as if you didn't say anything from the beginning.

"Uh, well, if the dungeon never breaks, take it. Seems to have a lot of power, so I think I can use it for gear and stuff."

While clapping out a little, Aotearoa reaches for the dungeon core and takes it out of the altar.

The altar, which had emitted light until earlier, weakens its brilliance.

At the end of the day it was almost like there was no light, but when I gazed closely at it, a small dungeon core had been born at its center as far as my fingertips.

"I see, when you lose your core this way, a new one is born? The dungeon itself may weaken, but it's good not to die"

Aeta was relieved because she did not know what the impact would be if the dungeon disappeared.

"The dungeon itself could be attacked lightly. I care about those people..."

Deena thinks like she cares about something.

Knights who were around the water dragon on the way to the dungeon.

I didn't ask who they were, but I was sure someone was after the dungeon core.

"If we were around the dungeon, we might see each other again sometime..."

That hunch that Aotearoa snapped with Bosori would be meddling, but that would still be a story ahead of us.

"Shall I think about those people again the next time I see them? In the meantime... let's get out"

Deena sent her gaze to the entrance to the room, looking slightly heavier considering going back the same way.

"Right, for now, I'm gonna get rid of the dungeon core," he said.

As Ethereum tries to store the dungeon core in the sub-empty vault, a glimmer of light is ejected from the dungeon core to reach the back wall in the room where the altar is located, as if it were something.

And when the light crashes against the wall, it slowly subsides.

"... what?

When Ethereum, who sensed something, approached the wall indicated by the light, and put his hand on the wall as he explored, the wall in front of him disappeared softly so that it melted.

And beyond the wall there is an area about half tatami, with magic formations painted on the ground.

"This magic formation... is the magic formation of return, isn't it? Maybe we can go back to the entrance."

I went inside and checked on him. Deena deciphers the magic formation.

We just had a little conversation, but I don't think that dungeon core would have the idea of deceiving people.

"All right, let's go"

When the object is tried, Ethereum steps into the magic formation first.

Then, Ethereum's body is wrapped in light and instantly disappears from the spot.

Confirming that, Deena, it follows in turn with Atra, and everyone is transferred by the magic team.

"... here is"

When Aotearoa felt the dazzling light subside and slowly opened her eyes, she was in the area just after entering the entrance to the dungeon.

"Good, Sota... is this room at the entrance?"

Deena, relieved to be able to rendezvous safely, also saw that there was a dungeon entrance nearby and understood where this was.

"Looks like he's not here."

Even as Atra explored the signs around her, the figure of the man who interrupted and stunned the Ethereals' progress at the entrance was not there.

"I guess my buddies took him. I'm glad the captain or whatever they called him is the one who understands the story. I want to avoid futile strife"

"Hey."

With such interaction, the line goes out of the cave.

"... hmm? Was that blind thing lifted?"

This dungeon, which was initially applied at the entrance to the dungeon, had disappeared and was normally pompous and revealed to exist.

Perhaps that trick was done by one of their knights, and it can be assumed that he disarmed it on his way home.

"What shall we do?

Deena asked Ethereum if she could keep it up.

"Deena, can you give them a little more powerful eyeliner than they did?

"Right. I think I can handle it."

What they did was make it hard to see from afar, and as soon as they could see the loosening of magic, they noticed the change.

Deena nodded with a fluffy smile after being told she had a little idea of what was above that.

"Mr. Sota would like a little help, too. Because I'm going to do it physically."

"Okay."

With that word alone, Aeta understands what Deena wants to do and activates dirt magic.

The entrance, which is like a staircase leading down to the basement - Ethereum magically hides it directly.

Of course, homogenize the soil so you don't know it's been dug up.

"And then, like this,"

While Aotearoa was working, Deena was gathering grass like it was also growing on the surrounding ground.

Plant it one after the other on the ground where Ethereum made it.

"And to this."

And on the grass, Deena puts a healing magic on it.

When it comes to healing magic, it's not like healing an injury directly, it's activating metabolism.

As a result, the grass grew all over the ground where Ethereal Tai was made, and no one would think there was a dungeon underneath it.

"Let's do one last finish"

Compared to the surrounding grass, Ethereum mows the long stretched grass lightly with a sword and adjusts the length.

Already there became uncomfortable ground to a level where even the Ethereal Tails, who applied new tricks, did not know if they would notice.

"This will do."

"Nice. Yeah, I don't know about this."

The two of them smile gently, looking at each other satisfactorily.

The purpose of the dungeon exploration, and the two of us who executed it, were concerned that taking the dungeon core weakened the dungeon's power.

When it comes to taking a core that has grown so much over the years, if someone breaks into a dungeon, they won't be able to counter it.

Then he was trying to reduce the likelihood of that intrusion by hiding the entrance.