Chapter 131 (1/2)

Volume 2

Chapter 132

Ch 132 Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi

Ch 132 — Reunion in the Middle of a Dungeon

We moved into the dungeon, advancing quickly through a series of stone-walled passageways . Monsters that appeared as we approached were dealt with by Fer and Dora-chan with no apparent effort . I felt the rate at which we were moving was a bit too fast, we should be more careful but Fer and Dora-chan wouldn’t be dissuaded . I was proved right a moment later .

Hyun— . “Waah!” An arrow flew past my eyes, bouncing off Fer’s Barrier . Some kind of dungeon trap?

“Oh, this dungeon has arrow traps . ” Dora-chan commented as he skilfully dodged around the deflected arrow in mid-flight . “The big guy’s Barrier will come in useful after all . ”

“There’s no problem with traps because that guy has Perfect Defence, he doesn’t really need my Barrier . ” Fer said telepathically, continuing to sprint down the corridor . Huh? Can Perfect Defence protect me from inanimate traps? I thought Perfect Defence was ‘a Skill that completely protects against physical attack and magical attack from hostile forces’ . How could a trap be a ‘hostile force’? I thought that meant some person or monster had to be hostile to me for the Skill to protect me .

“Ah, that’s right . You’re ignorant about dungeons and how they work . ” Fer said . Well, I had a vague idea about dungeons from the games I had played, if you defeat monsters you get valuable drops, there are treasure chests here and there, traps and pitfalls and the like . Fer went on to explain how dungeons worked in this world .

“A dungeon attracts people to enter them with drop items and treasure chests that can be obtained by defeating stronger monsters . Sometimes the people are killed by the traps and monsters . Those dead people are absorbed by the dungeon as nourishment and the dungeon grows . ” Another group of monsters fell to Fer’s magic attacks, Kobolds? it happened in a blur and then we were around a corner before I could look back to check, and he continued his explanation . “Because of this, a dungeon is considered to be a living being . So, you see, a trap is a hostile attack by the dungeon creature and so Perfect Defence protects you from them . ”

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Oh I see . Fer’s explanation made it clear the dungeon really was a living thing . Fer went on to tell me about the dungeon’s core . It was the heart of any dungeon and meant the dungeon would live and slowly grow unless the core was broken or captured whole and removed from its dungeon .

“If you break the dungeon core or remove it, what happens to the dungeon?” I asked as more unidentifiable monsters appeared before us, were dealt with and left far behind as Fer rushed through the dungeon . Dora-chan was flying alongside us and keeping up with no apparent difficulty .

“It means the dungeon dies . It becomes merely a hole in the ground that produces nothing, no monsters, no treasures . However the dungeon core is always moving around in the dungeon so it’s almost impossible for most people to find it . ”

“When you say ‘almost impossible’ and ‘most people’, would you be able to find it, Fer? After all you have that monster-detecting ability of yours . ” I asked . Fer agreed that he could, with some difficulty and a lot of effort, find the dungeon core if he wanted to, but as he went on, “It would be stupid to kill an entertaining playground like this dungeon” .

From then on I didn’t worry about the traps we triggered in our rush through the dungeon passageways . Arrows and spears bounced off Fer’s Barrier and he jumped easily over the pitfalls that opened in our path . Each level’s boss was dealt with in a passing blow by Fer or Dora-chan and we didn’t even slow down as we descended the stairs behind the dead monster . By the way, Sui-chan was fast asleep in her leather bag hanging from my shoulder as usual .

After getting down to the 10th level we finally noticed traces of other Adventurers .

“What will we do now?” I asked as Fer stopped for a moment .

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“Hmm, there are no enemies here worth fighting seriously . ” he said grumpily . “The level boss is a Venom Tarantula . ” I could understand his disappointment, Fer had effortlessly knocked down eight Venom Tarantulas in a single attack in the Forest of Ishtam so this level’s boss was just another ‘small fry’ as far as he was concerned .

“Okay, just go straight for the boss then?”

“Nuuu, let’s do that . ” Fer agreed so we skipped exploring the tenth level and instead headed directly to the boss room using Fer’s monster-detecting ability to guide us there . Outside the boss room we found four muscular guys, obviously a party of Adventurers, patiently waiting . When they saw Fer and Dora-chan approaching they reached for their weapons in a practiced manner but they stopped when they saw me on Fer’s back .

“Ah, a Tamer, right?” one of them called . I nodded, not wanting to bother with the long explanation and they put their weapons away .

“Is that the boss room?” I asked and the one who had spoken, the party’s leader I presumed told me it was .

“Can’t you go in right now?”