Hello, itâs Anri.
This is a bit sudden but⦠I was driven out of the inn.
Strictly speaking, my five days at the inn were up, and when I asked to extend it I was refused.
I hadnât noticed it myself, but the innkeeper obasan was terribly afraid, so we probably accidentally had eye contact at some point.
And though I did think that this would happen before long, being driven out this early was beyond expectations.
And the fact that I wasnât forcefully driven out, but that they entreatied me âIâm begging you, please leaveâ pierced my heart, so Iâm pretty depressed.
Perhaps I should be looking for a replacement inn, but the shock was just so great that I canât find the motivation for it.
And in a way, it might be perfect timing.
Since I havenât solved the problem of balancing my income and expenses, you could say that this is a good chance for me to think about really doing something about it.
Itâs just that if I donât think about it like that, I wonât be able to go on, though.
While taking a breather in the central plaza café that I ordered a black tea in last time, I thought about my plan for now.
There are two general paths that Iâm considering.
The first is that Iâll guarantee some other income source, and the second is doing something about the âshelterâ issue that takes up most of my expenses.
I considered the former when I signed up to the Adventurers Guild too, but because it was too hard I ended up giving up.
In both personality and skill abilities Iâm devastatingly unsuited for the hospitalities industry, and itâs not as if I have the know how either so jobs in production are impossible.
Thereâs basically no path for me to take in trying to earn money except for adventuring.
Alchemy using my divine enchantmentââbuying cheap things and selling them after enchanting them with divine protectionââis something I considered as well, but because thereâs a high chance that the weapons and clothing I enchant turn into cursed items, to begin with I wouldnât be able to sell it, and even if I could sell them, itâd be an extremely eyecatching thing to do and would probably bring me trouble.
As for the latter, finding a place to live is difficult too, and since I only have 5 gold with me I donât have enough to buy a house, and because renting a house and staying at an inn both have the risk of being driven out, I wouldnât be able to settle down.
In the first place, living in an environment with other people means that Iâd always have to be careful so that I absolutely wouldnât meet eyes with anyone, so to begin with it was impossible.
Ideally itâd be âa place with nobody aroundâ, ânot rented, but owned by meâ and also âhas a fairly decent living environmentâ.
Since Iâm stating my desires, itâd be best if it comes with âa way to make moneyâ as well.
âAs if such a convenient placeâ¦â
could exist, was what I wanted to say, but the truth is that if I donât care about what methods I use, there actually is such a place, which is why Iâm so troubled.
Do I take principles, or do I take profits� That balance has probably already tipped in my heart.
You canât deal with an urgent problem without sacrificing something in return.
Mn? A samurai pretends he has eaten well when he has no food, you say?
Iâm not a samurai, so thereâs no problem.
Gathering my thoughts, I headed to a store to stock up on food.
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Three hours later, with a large amount of food stuffed into my item box, I came to the dungeon from the other day.
Iâve twisted my ideals and chosen the path of profits, in order to live in the dungeon.
âa place with nobody aroundâ â¦From the town, it takes two hours to get here on foot, and there are no oddballs that have taken up residency here
ânot rented, but owned by meâ â¦I am the dungeon master after all
âhas a fairly decent living environmentâ â¦Itâs not that great now, but I can expand it and remodel it as I please
comes with âa way to make moneyâ as well â¦Thereâll probably be plenty of easy targets with money from now on
The demerits are âobstructions to my peaceâ and âthe pain to my conscienceâ but the former can be fixed by strengthening the dungeon, and as for the latter, even in the worst case scenario, Iâm going to compromise and make it a rule in my heart not to let anybody die.
Having made up my mind like this, I entered the dungeon.
I could grasp this vague and delicate feeling of âit feels like I can do this for some reasonâ with my ability as the dungeon master.
For example, since the dungeon is the area ruled by the dungeon master, as long as itâs within the dungeon I can move where Iâd like, and although this is limited to when Iâm inside the dungeon, I can see and hear all the places inside the dungeon.
I used teleportation to move to the room with the dungeon core.
In a small room of about 6 tatami, a blue crystal of about 50 centimetres was floating in the air.
This was probably the dungeon core.
I touched the dungeon core with my hand as I muttered.
âDungeon Master.â
Name: Holy Land of the Evil God
Attribute: Darkness, Death, Pestilence
Floors: 3
Mana: 1532
My own status was the same, but the dungeon status couldnât get any more sinister.
Iâll pretend that I didnât see the name and attributes, and look at the other entries.
Having three floors means that it probably took over the beginners dungeon as is.
A lot of the fundamental structure has been changed, but I guess the separation into floors hasnât changed.
It seems that the mana value is the amount of mana thatâs been accumulated by the dungeon, and it seems that using this I can expand or maintain the dungeon.
There are two ways to accumulate mana in the dungeon core; either when the dungeon master personally fills it with mana, or when invaders die in the dungeon and their mana is sucked away.
The dungeon core serves as a piggy bank too, and if the dungeon master puts in mana every day, they can utilise mana above their capacity.
For example, an average dungeon masterâs mana value is 10 to 20 thousand, and since it costs 1 million to add a floor, at that rate theyâd eternally be unable to add floors to the dungeon, but if they store it in the dungeon core then regardless of their capacity, if they store 10,000 each day, a simple calculation will tell you that itâll take them 100 days per dungeon floor.
But actually putting all your mana into it would probably be bad, and youâll probably need to use mana for other things as well so it wouldnât go so simply, and youâd need a longer amount of time to add a floor.
Having learned all this information from the dungeon core, I smiled bitterly.
As expected, it seems that a mana value of 3 million is abnormal.
Just having a nights sleep will restore most of my mana, so each day I can add three floors, meaning that in 100 days I can add 300 floors.
No, I mean, even if I add that many floors itâs just going to get impossible to manage, so itâs not like Iâm going to do it though.
Mm~mm, I want to stop saying âmana value of ___â and give it some kind of unit. Maybe points?
Anyway, I poured 3 million mana points into the dungeon core, and used 2 million from that to add two layers.
It seems that the floor with the dungeon core automatically stays the furthest down, and right now itâs become the 5th floor, with a new 3rd and 4th floor above it.
I made the 3rd and 4th floor orthodox and typical labyrinths, but I used the remaining 1 million points to remodel the 5th floor into a base.
I divided it into a few rooms and created a bedroom, living room, kitchen, bathroom, toilet, storeroom, and an office with the dungeon core in it.
While I was at it I used mana to create a pseudo-sun and established a day/night cycle.
There was an off feeling about having the light come from directly indoors rather than from outside a window, but Iâll probably get used to it before long.
Whatâs left is to use one of the larger rooms to create an indoor vegetable garden⦠itâll probably be a while before any harvests though.
Because I was remodelling as I liked, the 1 million points were used up in a blink, but for now Iâve made it look like the bare minimum for a residential section.
At the end, I instructed all inhabitants to intercept intruders, but I made sure to give a strict order not to kill them and only knock them out.
With normal monsters thereâd probably be dissatisfaction and a chance that theyâd ignore the orders and go with their instincts, but the inhabitants of this dungeon are all non-living monsters with no sense of self, so theyâll probably obey my orders absolutely.
Because I used a huge amount of mana, Iâm feeling sleepy, but somehow overcoming it with willpower, I headed to the bathroom.
Itâs the first chance in a while for me to get in a bath, so I canât fall asleep until Iâm satisfied with the bath.
I was really thoroughly soaked in the first bath Iâd had in days, and while still in the water, I fell asleep.