“Well then master, are you using the key right away?”
“No, I want to see what the first floor is like. There’s no information about dungeons immediately after a stampede, right?”
“No, there is not.”
“Then let’s check if it’s safe.”
After coming down the stairs, we see something like a sewer.
“A sewer? No, it feels cool, like ancient ruins.”
‘Gogoh?’
The path in front of us stretches in a straight line, and water is flowing into what looks like a bottomless canal in the middle. There are lanterns on the wall at regular intervals, illuminating the passage with a pale light. It looks like the path splits to the left and right up ahead.
I don’t know what it’s like after that, but the sound of water tells me it must be the same as here.
I look to the left, and see a normal small room. Water isn’t flowing there, and I don’t sense danger. Trap Detection doesn’t pick up anything, and I don’t see anything when I go in. There’s no border line like there would be in a safe room, so I don’t get it.
I go back to the passage, and I’m thinking that the whole first floor is a labyrinth with dead ends like this.
“It really is a labyrinth. It would be hard to try to conquer this with no information.”
“Well, you can do that if you feel like it. Anyway, it’s good that the entrance is safe.”
“Yes. I can sense monsters in the bottom of the canal, but I don’t think they’ll attack unless we get close.”
“The paths to the left and right aren’t that wide, so depending on the monsters’ range of detection, doesn’t it feel like you can go deeper safely in this dungeon?”
“Advancing while not knowing when you’ll be attacked would be draining…”
I see. I take what everyone says into consideration.
“Even coming here is hard, so it makes sense for the dungeon itself to be hard. It’s a lot of trouble, but that just makes me feel even luckier for getting the key. How long would it take to conquer this dungeon the normal way…”
“Yes. I assume that if it is this troubling at the start, its structure will be even more troubling as we go. We have no idea how many floors there are in the first place.”
Yes, it would be terrible if it had ten or twenty.
“Let me just confirm something before we go. Seren. Can you fish one monster out of the water?”
‘~~♪’
Seren pushes out one tentacle, and suddenly a water pillar emerges from the canal, and multiple monsters are launched to the passage. Muddy Stream Control gives me a great advantages against water monsters.
Splash, splash.
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Name: Killer fish
Level: 24
Physical Strength: 180
Dexterity: 180
Constitution: 50
Agility: 150
Magic Energy: 100
Intelligence: 30
Luck: None
Equipment: None
Skills: None
Drops: Killer fish slice
Magic stone: Small
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“Killer fish… The ones in the stampede?”
“Most likely.”
‘Pururu! Puru!’
“Iris saw them. And it says the slices were tasty.”
“Then let us hunt some while you go, master. Will you help us, Seren?”
‘~~.’
“That’s a yes. Well then, here I go. Enki and Enril, hold the fort.”
‘Goh.’
‘Popo!’
““See you later.””
“Good luck!”
“Godspeed.”
I hug everyone in turn, and take a step forward.
Use administrator key.
【Confirming intention of the holder】
【Activating administrator key】
【Control 1086】
【Moving to dungeon core】
Fish slices?
Will they hunt a rare monster while I’m away… No way…
My consciousness shuts down, and when I open my eyes, I’m in a white void for the third time. The same panel as before is in front of me, and when I touch it, the dungeon core…
‘Welcome, administrator.”
“Eh?”
It’s not the usual shape like a math textbook. It still doesn’t have a solid body, and looks like a hologram, but… it’s like a fish person.
Is this what a female merman monster would be like? It’s too bad her chest is hidden by seashells… Ah. It’s Aira’s fault this thought popped into my head.
‘I am the administrator AI of this dungeon, the dungeon core. Congratulations for having two administrator keys.’
“Ah… Do dungeon cores have different appearances depending on the dungeon?”
‘Affirmative. There are over a eleven hundred dungeon core shapes.’
“Uhi…”
Then the beginner dungeon is different too. I can’t wait to see it… I wonder what it will be like.
“Question. Is my administrator level higher now that I have two keys?”
‘Affirmative. Your administrator level is two.’
“Question. Tell me the all the permissions available to a level one.”
I asked this the second time I saw a dungeon core, but I was told it wasn’t possible. But now that I leveled up…
‘Invalid. It is too much information for one answer.’
“Mu.”
So it’s invalid, but different from before. I think it will answer if I change the wording.
Then…”
“Question. Tell me the limits of dungeon settings of a level one administrator.”
‘Valid. Level one administrators can turn stampedes on and off, set the spawn rate of monsters, and change the distribution of monsters.’
“Hou…”
The first time, I was only told about the stampede part, but there’s more. That means that if I found those settings then, I wouldn’t have had to wait for Unlucky Hall to spawn a bunch of slimes.
If I can spawn as many as I want, maybe I’ll stop there again on the way back. I don’t know the distribution here, so I wouldn’t know what changed.
“Turn stampedes off in this dungeon. You don’t have to send a notification.
‘Valid… Done. Stampedes have been turned off in the 1086 dungeon.’
Good. That settles the main reason why I’m here.
Next… What else can I do?
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