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Room Movement Dungeon (1)
Seoul Songpa-20210406-0103 Dungeon entrance.
Initial report rating D.
In a way, you could say that my life became like this because of this dungeon.
The fundamental reason is the Ark and Noah Michelle. But the starting point of everything that remains in my memory was this dungeon. The Bangi-dong dungeon. The very dungeon that Yu Ji-eun insisted on conquering.
Even now, when I think of Yu Ji-eun, I feel wronged. If you had given me a logical reason other than that damn hunter’s intuition, I would have pretended not to see it and allowed it. If you mention Yu Ji-eun’s name, I can do that much. It’s not like I’m delaying the dungeon raid that needs to be closed, I’m closing the dungeon. If you had just said something reasonable, I would have just covered it up by saying it was an internal dungeon evaluation.
Even though she knew that, Yu Ji-eun just kept on crying. It means that she herself had no confidence. That made me even more upset. It was like she was trying to pass the responsibility on to me.
Because I sound like an annoying aunt.
“December 9, 2021.”
Hong Seok-young slowly opened his mouth into the recorder.
“Seoul Songpa-20210406-0103 Dungeon. A total of two people entered. Hong Seok-young and Woo Hee-jae from the guild Mimi.”
The dungeon level has not changed for twenty years. D-class. Small monsters that resemble foxes are not aggressive. Their body fluids have a very slight toxicity, but not enough to affect the Awakened.
A small and cute dungeon that can’t even be used for training. As Hope said, it’s like an empty cookie box full of bugs… A cradle.
When the guild managed the dungeons, they thought it was a waste of manpower to conquer these dungeons, so they left them alone. Now that the country is managing the dungeons, the easy-to-conquer dungeons below D-class will be closed one by one. It was one of the first tasks after the establishment of the management office.
But this dungeon was not closed. This was because magic grass was growing naturally in the dungeon. It was a stable dungeon where the size and danger of the dungeon did not change. There were almost no monsters and magic grass grew rapidly.
Even though she knew the situation, Yu Ji-eun was stubborn. Instead of saying that she didn’t like it, she could have just said that she had destroyed the core and then closed it because the monsters inside the dungeon were attacking the hunters. Even if someone had suspected her, no one would have been bold enough to mess with Yu Ji-eun. Even if she wasn’t Hong Seok-young’s favorite disciple, Yu Ji-eun’s influence was great.
It’s all in the past.
“What time is it now?”
“It’s 10 a.m. 10:14… 15 minutes.”
“The current time is 10:15. Entering the dungeon.”
* * *
When you pass the gate, you can smell the grass. It is a wide open meadow. Feel the grass brushing your ankles and when you raise your head, you can see the sky full of stars. Even if you go to a remote place far from human civilization, it is hard to see that many stars.
‘That’s because this isn’t our world! The cradle is a replica of our world’s environment as much as possible… Is this proof of that?’
The dungeon is brightly lit by countless stars. It could be that the dungeon is as bright as day because of the starlight, or there could be separate lighting in the escape pod.
‘That sky is just a decoration anyway! It’s not real. Oh, this is quite sentimental. The sky of my hometown that I can’t see anymore? Sandra, you used to like this kind of thing, didn’t you?’
‘Please don’t call me there… .’
‘Don’t you like it? It’s like a spring day in a ruined hometown that will never return.’
‘What is spring like…?’
‘The novel you were reading a while ago.’
‘No, I like you, but I told you not to call me!’
“Have you ever been here?”
Hong Seok-young looked around and asked.
Hong Seok-young had entered this dungeon only a few months ago. It was not long after the dungeon had been created. Thanks to the clues that Wooirok had written down in the lab, he was able to turn his attention to the Bangi-dong dungeon.
Of course, this dungeon is now managed by the state, not the government. I hope you don’t care why Hong Seok-young entered a D-class dungeon that isn’t worth anything.
I shrugged.
“What… . Just once?”
“once?”
I looked around.
There is a forest at the end of the meadow around the gate. Except for some special environment dungeons, most of them are structured like this. Especially, the lower the level, the more similar the dungeon structure is.
So… it’s called a food warehouse. Monsters don’t put much effort into their warehouses either.
“Magic grass grows here. I’ve been here before to check on it for work-related reasons.”
I slowly walked through the meadow and entered the forest. As soon as I entered the forest, the climate changed to feel like I was in a jungle. I frowned.
“Hmm… When was that?”
“About fifteen years later.”
“It’s been a long time. Has anything changed?”
“What’s different is….”
“They say that mountains and rivers change in ten years. Dungeons can change too.”
Basically, the dungeon has its own ecosystem. Although it is impossible by Earth’s common sense, the monsters inside the dungeon somehow manage to survive.
After hearing Hope’s explanation, it all made sense. If they had created an artificial environment, then it could be possible. How embarrassing would it be if the food warehouse were to go bad on the way?
“It hasn’t changed much.”
“So you’re saying something has changed?”
I looked between the trees. There was a civet crawling, looking like a miniature version of the giant civet I had seen in the burnt-out city of Seoul.
Normally, in places with such a thick vegetation, you can hear the sounds of insects. Whether it’s insects or birds. Common sense tells you that you should hear them.
But in this dungeon, the only sound you can hear is the sound of a fox crawling and shaking leaves.
“I told you that magic grass grows. When I came in, from here… all the way to the gate, it was filled with magic grass.”
“Is that so?”
“It was one of the places in Korea where the most horseradish was grown.”
“If it’s a place like that, it’s a shame to close.”
“Are you trying to close it?”
I looked at Hong Seok-young in surprise. Hong Seok-young looked at me as if he found it strange that I was surprised.
“Then? Keep it open?”
“no….”
“The guy who crawled out of here burned down Seoul.”
“… The one who burned it was someone else.”
“anyway.”
“… … .”
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Hong Seok-young clicked his tongue.
“I don’t have the heart to leave something suspicious like this in the middle of Seoul. Didn’t Hope kindly tell you to be careful about this?”
Hong Seok-young kicked a fox that happened to pass by his feet.
“Let’s close it quickly before the magic grass grows. Why, is there a problem?”
“……no.”
I hesitated for a moment.
I forgot that this guy has this kind of personality. But you’re not wrong. If you know it’s a problem, why leave it alone?
of course….
There’s a good chance that the item that sent me to the past is here.
“Other than magic grass?”
“When I came in, there were hardly any monsters.”
“Monster? What is this?”
“yes.”
Hong Seok-young frowned as he looked at the fox huddled tightly under the tree.
“You didn’t organize it to cultivate magic grass?”
“That could be true. This place has been used as a magic herb cultivation site for quite some time. I don’t know how it was managed before I came in.”
I felt something strange while talking.
It’s strange.
Of course, it was a dungeon that had been used before I entered the management office, but it was nothing more than a magic herb cultivation site. There must be management records left. However, I don’t remember seeing it when I worked at the management office, and it wasn’t on the magic clock.
Is it just my bias? Or is it a simple omission?
It leaves a feeling of discomfort. If so, Hong Seok-young’s solution is right. Let’s close it.
“That’s right… Should I just close it and leave it alone?”
“No. Let’s close it.”
Hong Seok-young looked at me quietly for a moment and then smiled.
“Does that make you feel better?”
“… … .”
“No, don’t make such a sour face.”
Hong Seok-young pointed to the space between my wrinkled eyebrows.
“Why are you making such a defeated expression when we’re not even competing?”
“Somehow….”
“Somehow?”
“My pride is hurt.”
“…why?”
“It’s so frustrating to listen to someone like you….”
Hong Seok-young looked at me with a dumbfounded face.
“Heejae. I’m Heejae’s father.”
“That means my pride is hurt even more.”
“… Ahem. That could be the case.”
Hong Seok-young answered my words with a weak voice. I thought he would get angry and rush in, but he surprisingly quickly lost his temper. He wasn’t the kind of person who would do something like that.
He was staring blankly at the raccoons huddled together like baby spiders, and then he felt uneasy and looked at Hong Seok-young, and he was grinning unpleasantly again. His father was also a troublesome person, but this Hong Seok-young was also quite difficult to control.
Hong Seok-young, whose eyes met mine, hurriedly coughed and looked away.
“Anyway, I’m going to destroy the core and get out. While I’m here, I’ll look around to see if there are any clues… So if there’s anything about this dungeon that I haven’t told you about, tell me quickly.”
My mother’s voice was firm, though her words were soft and encouraging. It was as if she knew that I still had a story to hide.
Should I… say something?
It’s not funny. It’s something that should be done.
Anyway, Hong Seok-young knows that I came from the future. According to Hong Seok-young, there are even monsters that have returned to the past.
So does that mean the item is not disposable but can be used multiple times?
If the giant raccoon that jumped out from here really had that item, then that raccoon might have come from the future to the past.
Considering all this, what if not only monsters but also humans could travel from the future to the past?
Wouldn’t it be a lot more successful if Hong Seok-young were sent back to the past instead of me? Even if I fail here and the Ark and Noah Michelle blow up all the dungeons again and destroy the world?
Maybe this is a chance to start anew.
“It’s late to be saying this, but weren’t you really paying attention to this dungeon?”
“… The same goes for you, teacher.”
“That’s right, did you write in your diary like Irok? This dungeon here… .”
Hong Seok-young stopped talking.
Just as I know Wooirok well, Hong Seok-young probably knows better than anyone else about the father I am talking about.
Woo Hee-jae, who was adopted by Hong Seok-young, would not hide such information. If the dungeon was mentioned even once by a researcher, even if it was not through me, she would have destroyed the core right away. She said so herself just now. She had no intention of leaving a suspicious dungeon in the middle of Seoul.
But my father said he didn’t know anything about this dungeon.
Hong Seok-young frowned with his mouth open.
“Is there another reason why you bothered coming here?”
“… … .”
“It wasn’t even the Songpa-gu Dungeon, but you kept calling it the Bangi-dong Dungeon. To be honest, because of you saying that, both I and this hunter ended up searching this place even more.”
“… … .”
“I actually found something fishy going on here. But I know.”
“…What?”
“Your expression right now is exactly the same as the expression you made when Irok dropped my phone and pretended not to notice.”
What is this specific example?
“Mr. Heejae.”
“Why do you look at it like that?”
“If you tell me now, I won’t scold you.”
I didn’t really intend to hide it.
This guy has a strange talent for making you not want to say what you were about to say.
Fantasy, contemporary,