Chapter 133
Five days after we crushed the Haunt and we’re ready to rumble again. Considering our usual pace, we’ve gotten quite the rest period.
The merchant-guy had done a good job in finding us a Dungeon to conquer. I told him to look for a Dungeon that wasn’t in need of being destroyed since it could be attacked by the imperial army after we take over the place.
This dungeon is a huge mansion-type Dungeon (western one, dammit!!) that’s several floors high. The Dungeon must be at least Lv.5 if I have to judge based on the number of floors alone. And it’s located far from the nearest village without anything fancy nearby. Meaning, most people won’t go out of their way to get here except to visit the mansion itself.
People won’t care if we crush this place or not... is not the deal. Apparently, the mansion is emitting some sort of "presence", as the merchant-guy called it, that scares away the nearby monsters, which makes them come closer to humanoid settlements.
"There’s no great need to destroy this place. Just make it less... scary." - Akemiyama
"Most people would think of crushing the place as the answer to that though?" - Mira
I’m repeating myself here, but this is the perfect place for us to make our base. Just conquer the place and turn off the Fear-thingy that scares the local scaredy-cats, and voila.
"And why has no one done anything about this problem?" - Noire
"Well, the samurai have tried, but no one’s cleared this stupid waste of wood yet. All attempts ended with the samurai being thrown out without any of the items they had when they entered. Even their underwear was taken! The weirdest part is that those guys have no memories of what happened," said the merchant-guy while reading from a set of documents.
Let me see... all sorts of progress recorded by the invaders are halted the moment contact with them was lost? All written journals and such were stolen, of course, but racial-, class-, and even skill levels haven’t been improved at all? There’s even one guy that bought several low-tier skills that’s easy to gain proficiency within the mansion right before entering it and they were still at Lv.1 when he was thrown out.
"See? This place’s weird, right?" - Akemiyama
It’s still better than a death trap. We can just re-enter after being thrown out.