Chapter 136

Chapter 136 Strongest Sage, Obtains Info

The dungeon city was terrible in various ways .

We"re standing on the entrance of the city, so I have only seen a portion of it, but . . . I can already see what"s wrong about it .

Or rather, it"s choke full of things worth retorting .

"Um . . . I wonder what is the pillar over there? I can feel weird mana flowing in it . . . . "

Looks like Ruli noticed one of the things I found weird .

Ruli pointed at a magic lamp . . . in other words, it"s a pillar that enlightens the vicinity through magic . . . The problem is the source of its mana .

You usually use magic stones as the mana source of this kind of magic tools .

And since this place is a dungeon city, it should be easy to procure magic stones .

And yet . . . The magic lamps here are directly connected to the dungeon"s mana .

And it"s done quite sloppily .

True that you won"t need magic stones by doing this, but it"s an extremely reckless act .

Left alone, they"ll probably explode in about three years time .

"Oy, you two over there . You"d better not get closer to that thing! That one sometime explodes on its own! It"s killed 10 people this year alone!"

A food store"s storekeeper nearby warned us when Ruli and I were observing the magic lamp .

It really does explode . . . .

And there"s already dead victims even .

"Why would they install such a dangerous thing?"

I tried asking the storekeeper since I really can"t fathom the reason why anyone would put this thing .

And then the storekeeper beckoned me while covering his mouth with his hand .

Looks like he can"t say it loudly .

I approached the storekeeper and then he started talking with a voice that was barely audible .

" . . . It"s the order of this city"s ruler . He went and told us to use the thing since he didn"t want to decrease magic stone exports . We had been using magic stones until then . There"s also stuff like heavy taxes . . . I miss his predecessor already . "

. . . I see . It"s used as a subst.i.tute by the new ruler"s order huh .

If this ruler guy is someone like Biffgel, then I can see how this situation comes to .

Or rather, there"s no other explanation to it .

"Also, did you notice that there"s not a lot of people in this city today?"

" . . . Now that you mention it . Is this related to the ruler too?"

This area should be the center of the dungeon city, which should be a huge city .

Judging from the land ma.s.s on the map, the states of the surrounding stores and the dense buildings, there"s no mistake about it .

Yet, there"s too few people here .

The spa.r.s.e figures of people are obviously unbalanced with the number of stores .

Adventurers who should naturally be here in a dungeon city are mostly absent too .

"You got that right . Apparently they found a strong monster in dungeon floor 10, so most adventurers got mobilized to defeat that monster . And this is the result . "

Most huh, just how many adventurers are mobilized .

It"s true that more people is better if you want to beat a strong monster . . . but only if all members have reached a certain level of magic combat competency .

Randomly grouping small fries together will only turn them into a drag .

And I don"t believe that the adventurers of this dungeon city have reached that level .

I mean, the weapons they"re selling in the nearby shops are all awful .

"Both strong and weak ones?"

"Yeah . Every adventurer in this city was made to roll a dice, anyone who rolled any other number than six had to partic.i.p.ate . Volunteering was formally optional, but they pretty much are coerced to . The people who refused to partic.i.p.ate last time were driven away from the city . . . . I wonder how many will die this time . "

They decide by rolling a dice, not by the adventurer"s strength huh . That"s just way too much . . .

Perhaps the ruler of this dungeon city is even more inept than Biffgel .

" . . . I see . Thank you for the information . Let me purchase some of these . "

I randomly bought several spices the store was selling .

I could buy food, but due to the matter with Storage magic, I wanted something light .

"Come again!"

However, if this ruler guy is this incompetent, we might get rolled up in some trouble here .

Demons also might something to do with it, but I don"t feel any presence that points to that .

Well, let"s just how things are while exploring the dungeon .