Chapter 8 – Moving
Hello, it’s 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 hadn’t 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 wasn’t forcefully driven out, but that they entreatied me “I’m begging you, please leave” pierced my heart, so I’m pretty depressed.
Perhaps I should be looking for a replacement inn, but the shock was just so great that I can’t find the motivation for it.
And in a way, it might be perfect timing.
Since I haven’t 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.
It’s just that if I don’t think about it like that, I won’t 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 I’m considering.
The first is that I’ll guarantee some other income source, and the second is doing something about the “shelter” 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 I’m devastatingly unsuited for the hospitalities industry, and it’s not as if I have the know how either so jobs in production are impossible.
There’s basically no path for me to take in trying to earn money except for adventuring.
Alchemy using my divine enchantment──buying cheap things and selling them after enchanting them with divine protection──is something I considered as well, but because there’s a high chance that the weapons and clothing I enchant turn into cursed items, to begin with I wouldn’t be able to sell it, and even if I could sell them, it’d 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 don’t 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 wouldn’t be able to settle down.
In the first place, living in an environment with other people means that I’d always have to be careful so that I absolutely wouldn’t meet eyes with anyone, so to begin with it was impossible.
Ideally it’d be “a place with nobody around”, “not rented, but owned by me” and also “has a fairly decent living environment”.
Since I’m stating my desires, it’d be best if it comes with “a way to make money” as well.
“As if such a convenient place…”
could exist, was what I wanted to say, but the truth is that if I don’t care about what methods I use, there actually is such a place, which is why I’m so troubled.
Do I take principles, or do I take profits…? That balance has probably already tipped in my heart.
You can’t 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?
I’m not a samurai, so there’s no problem.
Gathering my thoughts, I headed to a store to stock up on food.
◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆
Three hours later, with a large amount of food stuffed into my item box, I came to the dungeon from the other day.
I’ve twisted my ideals and chosen the path of profits, in order to live in the dungeon.
“a place with nobody around” …From the town, it takes two hours to get here on foot, and there are no oddballs that have taken up residency here
“not rented, but owned by me” …I am the dungeon master after all
“has a fairly decent living environment” …It’s not that great now, but I can expand it and remodel it as I please
comes with “a way to make money” as well …There’ll probably be plenty of easy targets with money from now on
The demerits are ‘obstructions to my peace’ and ‘the pain to my conscience’ but the former can be fixed by strengthening the dungeon, and as for the latter, even in the worst case scenario, I’m 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 “it feels like I can do this for some reason” with my ability as the dungeon master.
For example, since the dungeon is the area ruled by the dungeon master, as long as it’s within the dungeon I can move where I’d like, and although this is limited to when I’m 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.
“Dungeon Master.”
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 couldn’t get any more sinister.
I’ll pretend that I didn’t 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 hasn’t changed.
It seems that the mana value is the amount of mana that’s 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 master’s mana value is 10 to 20 thousand, and since it costs 1 million to add a floor, at that rate they’d 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 it’ll take them 100 days per dungeon floor.
But actually putting all your mana into it would probably be bad, and you’ll probably need to use mana for other things as well so it wouldn’t go so simply, and you’d 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 it’s just going to get impossible to manage, so it’s not like I’m going to do it though.
Mm~mm, I want to stop saying ‘mana value of ___’ 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 it’s 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 I’ll probably get used to it before long.
What’s left is to use one of the larger rooms to create an indoor vegetable garden… it’ll 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 I’ve 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 there’d probably be dissatisfaction and a chance that they’d 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 they’ll probably obey my orders absolutely.
Because I used a huge amount of mana, I’m feeling sleepy, but somehow overcoming it with willpower, I headed to the bathroom.
It’s the first chance in a while for me to get in a bath, so I can’t fall asleep until I’m satisfied with the bath.
I was really thoroughly soaked in the first bath I’d had in days, and while still in the water, I fell asleep.
u pumping these out light speed tyvm
LikeLiked by 2 people
next one is long, and i have dinner now, so it’ll be a while
will possibly be my last for a while, or possibly not depending on my mood.
LikeLiked by 3 people
I love you so much for bringing those chapters! Thank you very very much! Hope to be able to read more chapters X’3
LikeLike
Haha this is great I love it, and thank you for translating!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks for your hard work and for bringing us this interesting histories.
LikeLike
This is the most interesting story you have translated I think. Thanks for your hard work!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Another one nice
LikeLike
300 million? Thought it was 3 million.
Also, cant she just make dungeon material and sell it to the town?
LikeLike
yeah, its 3 sorry
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you!
LikeLike
Can you try to switch between two LN/WN to translate, instead of starting new ones/translate more of the teasers every other week?
Well, I would like to read more of TILEAS WORRIS and EVIL GOD AVERAGE?
LikeLike
no.
LikeLiked by 2 people
i’m not translating for you to read. i’m translating because i want to translate.
LikeLiked by 3 people
Girl just dont have ambition. Or interest to play world-building.
With two floor a day… hell, using the renewed mana to invest more into each floor’s features…
I drool to think of the possibility of playing around~
LikeLike
Well considering all she wants to do is live and enjoy life without hassles. I don’t really blame her for just wanting to hide away.
LikeLike
No no, I also dont dislike that she’s preferred to lay low. The matter is that she doesnt seem much interest in the dungeon. It’s a huge resource for such as her.
LikeLike
Haha well given her circumstances I don’t blame her for wanting to lay low.
LikeLike
do you hate translating maou this much? :3 jk thanks for chapter xD
LikeLike
no, it’s just that i want to translate too many things too badly.
and my time is limited, so i need to make difficult compromises.
LikeLiked by 3 people
Its ok i still love you imouto chan <3
LikeLike
Thanks for the chapter.
LikeLike
Thanksm you very muchhh
LikeLike
Sleeping in the tub huh… Wakes up sick? Wonder how much more the dungeon will change when she wakes up.
LikeLike
ow I imagined Anri while playing with the dungeon core
LikeLiked by 3 people
OH BOY now it begins for real! Today this dungeon, tomorrow who knows? Hahaha dungeon master Anri begins her rule. The first order of business… To curse the bathtub? X.x at this rate she’ll have a hyakki yakou of cursed future XD. I wonder how long it’ll take before she can find another character to interact with. There had to be at least one person somewhere that can resist the eyes! Or maybe she could wear some special glasses? It worked all enough for Tsukihime’s protagonist Shiki. Regardless this story is still headed in an interesting direction.
Thanks for translating! Man is a Sheeprabbit some kind of magical phantasmal beast?! It seems so from your pace of release! Such superluminal speed is unprecedented.
LikeLiked by 2 people
If she hadn’t asked to be ‘average’, I don’t think she would have gained the powers of an average evil god and just held the powers of a normal human. That trickster god gave made her average in the perspective of himself.
LikeLike
Is that really it though? I think if she hadn’t asked to be “average”, she would be even stronger and have more sinister powers…o.o… Because technically, in the end, wouldn’t she still have had that Child of the Evil God title or something? And if she didn’t ask, she would have been such a strong character since, in the MC’s case, she wouldn’t have had a handicap…o.o… that’s just my opinion though :3
LikeLike
“…while still in the water, I fell asleep.”
I’m pretty sure she’ll produce cursed water.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Unholy Water~
LikeLiked by 1 person
Aaaaaanndddd…I’ll drink it.
LikeLiked by 1 person
congrats on being a perv!! XD
LikeLiked by 2 people
I really like her personality. She kept looking away from reality while making everything sounds simple
LikeLiked by 1 person
I have to admit, this was very average at the beginning. Now I quite like it! It reminds me of Dungeon Keeper. Will she play Dungeon Master for a while or is this a novel one sort of thing?
LikeLike
I wish she visots all dungeon so all of it levels up. imagine if all the dungeoms in the world have lvl 100 grunt monsters.
LikeLike
Maou no Hajimekata would most likly be intresting for you if you want a Dungeon Keeper like story but beware it content is more adult than this ones.
LikeLike
No thanks. Looks shit.
LikeLike
this is great! super interesting! It annoys me though that she hasn’t bought a pair of glasses or something similar to cover her eyes!! an hour in her hands would probably turn the glass black like sunnies. Problem solved…unless they get knocked off.
LikeLike
knowing her luck, the cursed glasses would cause fear upon sight as well
LikeLiked by 2 people
At the worst, the glasses would be cursed into Japanesse Hanya Mask or Balinesse Rangda Mask.
LikeLike
I’m really liking this story. How do you keep finding these?
LikeLike
idunno
LikeLike
i think other translators find them too, but they aren’t interested in translating because it doesn’t have a male harem mc
LikeLike
how does she think she can run a dungeon without killing anybody? she should just decide shes gonna be one bad ass dungeon master and collect interesting adventurers.
LikeLike
Thank you for the new story :)
LikeLike
Thanks for the new chapter!
LikeLike
“the pain to my conscience”
I’m fairly sure the MC murdered her conscience a long time ago. Otherwise she would’ve tried out the bodyguard job, since she’s like a repel spray….
LikeLike
Thanks for the chapter! Liking this the most out of your translated series so far. :D
LikeLike
like can do > like I can do?
that using this> that by using?
I kinda hope that she took the bed with her, no point leaving a perfectly “innocent” bed that no one would know was hers.
Somehow i can just imagine all the intruders being stripped naked and leeched of their mana before being dumped at the entrance. How else can she earn some income?
LikeLiked by 2 people
I was waiting for this. The time when she actually does something useful with her powers. Thanks for the chapter!
LikeLike
Thanks v. much! All these teasers give me ideas for my own writing/plot bunnies.
A bit worried about perception of creating something similar (I guess?) to what I read, but there doesn’t seem to be many (or any) English equivalents, so… yeah.
LikeLike
yay yay yay yay yay yay!! I love this one!!
LikeLike
what kinda dream job is that..???
LikeLike
I can’t help but imagine that group of adventurers, whom after fighting through floors of darkness death and pestilence, finally arrive at… the veggie garden…
LikeLiked by 3 people
Thanks for the chapter
LikeLike
I lol almost as much at the comments… XD
LikeLike
___∧_∧
\_(。>﹏<。)_/ Raph
LikeLike
I’m surprised she never commented on the panties or baby doll lol she probably ignored it
LikeLike
Just asking, did she never think of buying a house?
LikeLike
Well, I should’ve read the chapter first…
LikeLiked by 1 person
hmm, well, way OP… a normal DUNGEON MASTER seems to have like 10-20k, a dungeon master is surely really really powerful compared to the standard, so can’t we assume that a normal adventurer has like 1k mana or something? 10k should be a top ranked adventurer, or at least high ranked if nothing else… and here we have a mc with 300 times that… haha.
LikeLike
…what’s going to happen with the water? O.o?
LikeLike
Benefits of owning a dungeon~?
-Can be modified anytime~
-Can create anti-intruder to your house~
-Uses only mana for creating things~
-Usually silent
Disadvantages of owning a dungeon~?
-People~
LikeLike
Me pregunto entonces por que no convirtió toda la tierra en su posesión si la esta tocando, si toca la pared mientras camina no es la misma materia, a diferencia a cuando usa ropa o un arma, lo de la cama también es raro, debería ser solo las sabanas a lo mucho, y al ser un personaje femenino y que tenga la mentalidad de no matar en la mazmorra le quita seriedad.
LikeLike