Chapter 16: Fix The Damn Hole!
DING! [Day 2 observation is starting •••]
A gentle sunlight poured into the bedroom through the cracked window and Lucien slowly opened his eyes with a blank stare.
Hmmm...something is strange.
His body was so sore and his head throbbed so much before, but how come after a night’s sleep, he suddenly felt super energised?
Is this house an automatic energy recharge station or something?
Lucien blinked as he slowly stood up and subconsciously checked Mumu’s condition with his 360° vision.
Ah, what a clingy boy. He even needs to sleep together with his parents.
Lucien shook his head and immediately summoned the two slimes back into the slime dungeon.
It would be bad if neighbors saw the giant slimes because the dungeon should have been destroyed already.
After cleaning up the "evidence", Lucien also dived into the pool to heal his surface injuries.
In less than thirty minutes, he already felt the pool’s superb effect.
Wow. If an F-rank facility is already on par with high-level potions and can even substitute low-level healers—
Can’t imagine what will happen when the rank is higher.
Hehehehheeheh.
With a villainous grin on his face, Lucien scooped the floating Mumu on the pool and stepped out of the pool naked.
"Okay. Recovery complete! Now...Mumu, it’s time to work!"
First, find out what the hell the place last night was—
Gurgle.
Hungry. And thirsty.
"Ughhhh..." Lucien dragged his body to the living room, grabbing a chocolate milk from the small refrigerator next to the TV cabinet.
The carton had the image of a miniature Minotaur with a label [Contained 1% of Minotaur milk]
"Slurpp. Ah!"
Lucien felt his stomach full, his mood lifted when TV suddenly booted on its own.
[Civil Awakener Morning news]
"The Death Zone reclamation expedition has arrived at the outer city and is now entering Yale Street— "
A blurry recording appeared on the screen and Lucien caught sight of the familiar pink heart neon sign.
"Pfffttt!"
Lucien spurted his milk all over the TV, his face instantly turned red and purple.
"Cough! Cough! Cough! What the hell! Isn’t that—"
The place he was in last night??
The Death Zone?
"Impossible!"
Lucien patted his chest hard and stomped the floor anxiously.
Even a newly-minted transmigrator like him knew about that place!
After the gate apocalypse, countless cities fell and humans were forced to abandon those cities.
The Death Zone were all those fallen cities full of rampaging monsters and uncontrollable dungeons.
Unfortunately, the death zone can appear inside the neutral zone such as the last three surviving continents.
If there was no barrier from the World Guardian, one of the founding heroes’ four world pillars, the nearby Civil City would have been breached!
But...what’s his house gotta do with that crazy place full of evolved monsters and unstable dungeons??
Wait. Unstable dungeons.
...is it because of his near-failed awakening that his house...is unstable?
Did the space distort or something so his house moves erratically like those instant dungeons?
Possible.
Lucien’s soul instantly flew out of his body and buried himself in a pyramid.
"Hahaha...I’m done for."
If he had to return to that place every night—
Swish....
The wind blew from the big hole and Lucien sneezed, his face darkened.
With such a big hole, his house will always be in danger— and he too, will die!
Damn.
He had to repair that damn hole!
Ordinary materials definitely wouldn’t work— oh, there are those worms’ shells....but what if it’s not enough??
Lucien tossed away his milk, rudely whisked away the sleeping slime cub on his bed and rushed to the computer desk next to his bed.
"Let’s see..."
Click. Click. Click.
Lucien’s fingers danced on the keyboard and entered a website he opened the first time he came to this world—
NewWorld.
The computer screen immediately flashed and a system-like panel popped up.
[Lord_Luluen, welcome back to the New World]
The screen suddenly shifted, showing a 3D animation of the world map.
Swish.
The camera zoomed out, showing 7 continents that Lucien was familiar with.
Flash. Flash. Flash.
Four pitch black continents flashed by and the camera glazed over a glowing golden continent before crossing half of the world map to a continent glowing in silver.
But the camera moved further down and plunged into the last continent glowing in bronze—
[Fringe Continent]
The camera zoomed in further on the map, and two different regions, one big and one small appeared.
The camera ignored the bigger region and immediately dived into the smaller region.
[Frontier District]
Then, row after row of words and pictures finally opened.
Lucien kneaded the sleeping Mumu’s body as he entered the "Market" section.
The screen immediately changed from white to golden and rows of posts appeared.
Where to find or buy special building materials.....
Lucien clicked "Create new post" to ask his question but a red box immediately popped up.
[Warning! Authority is insufficient!]
Oh, damn, forgot.
Only certified awakeners and hunters can make new posts on this website.
So Lucien had no choice but to find a post with a similar situation to him.
[Market— Material Request:
Where to buy materials to repair special buildings? I don’t want to enter dungeons myself.]
[Anonymous (Awakener) (Bob The Builder Guild): Come buy materials at our guild— ]
An ads spam?? Go away!
[Anonymous (Hunter): Go to New Era, the biggest and most complete hunter market in the whole world! There’s a branch in our Frontier District, Grindhall City.]
Oh! Grindhall City? It’s right next door—
[Anonymous (Awakener): If you’re not a registered hunter, you can’t buy or sell anything at that market. Come to Rawaken Market instead. All awakeners are welcomed— except for unregistered awakeners and hunters.]
!
Ahhh! But he hasn’t registered yet! And this strange ability...
It’s better to be careful. The bureau isn’t all that trustworthy!!
Any other option...
[Anonymous (Unawakened): I usually just shop online, but the quality is mostly meh. Oh, and be careful of scams~ ]
Ugh, super unreliable. Hell no!!
[Anonymous (Awakener): Pssst. Try the— you know, Black Market. They accept anyone, as long as you have money.]
[It’s also in Grindhall City but you have to find the location on your own. They changed places every single day.]
....it sounds even more dangerous!!
But...this looked like the best option.
He had no other choice, right?
Lucien steeled his trembling heart to try the black market but first—
He needed money.
Tons of money.
Does he have it? No, but...
His slime dungeon is a treasure stove!
Lucien closed his eyes and checked his slime dungeon.
What’s valuable?
Slime jelly skin, slime cores, slime gel—
And slime essence, essentially the blood, used for potion materials.
The stronger or the more unique the slime, the more expensive it would be.
Lucien subconsciously looked at Mumu and his conscience return.
Okay, no slime essence but...
Harvesting the other materials and selling it as an unregistered awakener...where to? Black market?
Lucien searched "How to sell dungeon byproducts at the black market" and articles immediately popped up.
[Anonymous (Awakener): Be careful if you bring dungeon byproducts to the Grindhall City. Only registered awakeners or hunters are allowed! Others have to bribe or smuggle things in! Once caught, heh.]
Damn. Not to mention the black market...even the first step of bringing the goods into the city was already a dead end!
Lucien felt that all roads were blocked, so the only way was...
Find the black market, see how things work first.
As for money issue....
Lucien subconsciously looked at the sleeping Mumu in his arms and immediately shook his head.
No, no, this one isn’t for sale!
Until an emergency— bah. Bah. Bah.
Anyway, there are countless roads to Rome, surely there’s a way to steal— to make money!
He was confident about his "money-making" ability.
Lucien looked at the big hole at the front and wiped his non-existent tears.
"Wait, my dear baby. I’ll fix you soon!"
Lucien immediately grabbed his jacket, hugged Mumu and opened his door.
Let’s go to the Grindhall City and find the black market—
A burst of noises came from behind the white fog around his house.
"Is this the house?"
"Yeah! Look at the white fog! It’s this one."
"Wow, so cool. Quick, take a pic for me— "
? What?
Are the idle citizens coming to see the street that survived a slime dungeon break?
As expected of you, Civil City’s citizens, the number one most awakener-obsessed citizens in the Frontier District!
Lucien quickly used his 360° vision to peek at the situation outside and...
All he saw was a sea of human heads surrounding his house from all sides.
...??
What the hell??