My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer Volume 10 [Parts 1 to 3] by MOJIKAKIYA

Author:MOJIKAKIYA
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 128: The Flower Buds That Covered

The flower buds that covered the hills and valleys bloomed all at once, arousing in everyone the drive to put their backs into their field work. After all, it wouldn’t be long before they celebrated the start of spring.

The snow lingered in mottled patterns on the ground, but the leaves of the wheat in the field grew taller and taller as the crops bathed in the sun’s abundant light. The snowmelt formed several brooks which flowed across the plain, contributing their swirls of murky water when they eventually flowed into the river.

Belgrieve and Duncan walked through the fields of sprouting young grass outside the village. Despite the heavy clouds looming in the west, the rest of the sky was clear and blue.

“We wouldn’t want it too close to the village.”

“Right... But it’ll be hard to manage if it’s too far away. If we want it a safe distance, we’ll have to set up a surveillance post nearby.”

“Hmm... Who would have thought that a dungeon was something that could be made? It never even occurred to me.”

“Same here. Well, I won’t really say we’re making it. We’re just using that orb to emit mana, and that should change the surrounding environment. It’s more like we’re creating an artificial mana coalescence, or like we’re laying bait and waiting for something to fall for it. I doubt we’ll be able to fine-tune it—whatever we get is what we get.”

Dungeons formed naturally wherever mana was dense. If an agglomeration of mana formed for whatever reason, the environment would begin to change around it, distorting space and causing fiends to either be spawned or attracted—and thus, a dungeon would form.

Sometimes the center was a natural pool of mana. Other times, it was a fiend that possessed powerful mana. When the dungeon had a boss, it was usually the latter, and in those cases, defeating the boss would disperse the mana, and the dungeon would cease to be.

Most of the dungeons that had existed since long ago—the ones that adventurers still explored—lacked bosses. The cores of such dungeons were periodically inspected, while herbs and ores influenced by the mana were harvested and fiends culled to ensure they didn’t leave the dungeon’s confines. From these fiends, one could collect pelts, bones, meat, claws, and fangs, among other resources.

There was a time when dungeons were a hell beyond human understanding and feared as nothing but a menace. But that time was long past. Through research, humanity had learned how to deal with them, and with the labor of many skilled adventurers, dungeons and their fiends had gone from a threat to a natural resource that produced resources as long as there was sufficient mana.

Still, until now, adventurers had always had to wait for natural dungeons to form. Naturally, many magicians—all excellent in their fields—had studied to devise a means of producing dungeons artificially. The big issue to overcome was that dungeons were fueled and maintained by mana, and there had been no means of providing a source of this mana.

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