Chapter 211 Where is my exit button?
"You are not the tutors of the academy."
Santa Claus, no, it was Kale who looked at Japar and the others and said:
"He doesn't look like a student. Never mind. He doesn't look like he'll attack me. Do you want to buy some things?"
He just sat quietly behind the counter of a street house, looking like a real businessman.
There was a faint noise coming from inside the house. Was it an ambush monster? In fact, it was just a donkey-like mount that he used to carry goods.
[It’s an afterimage]
Tulsi’s voice suddenly came to people’s minds.
[It looks like they are selling things. Do you want to buy something?] Roger's voice sounded, [But what currency do you use? I don't have any money on me.]
There is a character called Afterimage who sells goods. There are also such characters in other dungeons.
But in other dungeons, selling things is often just a prerequisite for unlocking the next event, and the currencies required are also varied. Some require money, some require shells, and some only require monster materials. In short, no unified system has been formed.
The vast majority of dungeons don't need to do business with adventurers.
[Buy some and see what happens next] Tulsi also regarded Kale as the afterimage of relying on selling things to start events.
"Do you have anything good? Bring it up and let me see." She walked to the counter and knocked on the wet chopping board.
"Please have a look." Kale handed her a somewhat worn handwritten list, and everyone gathered around to take a look.
"Tool leather bag, fire grease, anti-magic liver jerky, strong meat jerky, sweet brewed fruit jerky, forge stone. What do the numbers after the forge stone mean?"
There seem to be a lot of items on the list, but if you look closely you can see that what are used to expand the list are fats and livers with several properties. There are three types of dried fruits alone, taking up three rows, and there are not many things that are really different.
"What is Anti-Magic Liver Stem?" Tulsi asked.
"Food made from wild animal livers can temporarily increase resistance to magic after eating it." Kale answered truthfully: "The teachers used to forbid the sale of this kind of thing, but now there are not so many taboos."
"Why?" she demanded, but the other party remained silent.
The other party will only speak when asked about the effects of other products, and will repeat the description of the same product.
Tulsi looked at the others and suddenly felt relieved.
The fact that he could repeat what he said showed that this Kale was a true afterimage. After all, if events did not continue to develop, basically all the afterimages in the dungeon would just become ruthless repeaters in the end.
For example, Solar in the painting world Wolf Knight seems a little too intelligent, like a living person. This has been mentioned in the reports of adventurers who have entered this painting world. After that, everyone who enters the painting will consciously talk to Solar, wanting to see to what extent the other party will repeat what he says.
But so far Solar has not shown any repetition, so people speculate whether the afterimages in the painting world will be different from those in the outside world?
"The currency is souls," Roger said. Each item was marked with the required souls. The tool bag was the most expensive, costing five thousand souls. The cheapest was dried loya fruit, which only cost ten souls for a handful. It looked like it was for the poor to fill their stomachs.
Well, who would buy these things with no special effects in the dungeon? Even if you are hungry, you can go back and have a good meal when the dungeon is closed.
Then he saw Japar buy a handful of dried roja fruit, stuff it into his mouth, chew it, and then spit it out with a "wow".
"It doesn't taste good and I can't digest it." Japar frowned and spat on the ground.
Because this stuff is for cattle and horses, which can be obtained as mounts in the future, and humans cannot digest it. The real meat for humans to eat is the dried meat.
Tulsi asked about the efficacy of all the products before he was satisfied. He thought the afterimage in front of him was very novel, because the other party looked like he was really selling something and would not trigger other events.
"These things are quite unique," she said to herself, and spent a huge sum of five thousand dollars to buy the tool bag.
According to Kale's introduction, this is a magic prop that will automatically produce a finished product when raw materials are thrown into it. However, if you stuff everything into it at once, the raw materials will become garbage residue and the leather bag will be damaged, shortening its service life.
As a gift, he gave Tulsi the production notes of [Fire Resistant Dried Liver]. The raw materials needed include the liver of any beast, dried roa fruit and Martian butterflies.
Tulsi tried to stuff some random materials she collected on the road into it, but she ended up with a bunch of garbage.
Roger also bought some things. Everyone bought anti-magic dried liver. In the world created by magicians, having a way to resist magical damage is very precious, and everyone knows its importance.
When everyone had bought something, Kale spoke again.
"My name is Kale. I come from a nomadic family. I do business while traveling."
"The magicians of Rhea Lukalia moved their land to this enclosed space. I was traveling here at the time, but I didn't have time to escape, so I was trapped here."
Looks like he's an unlucky guy, everyone thought.
"Fortunately, I can still do some business. If I had a soul, I wouldn't lose my mind. But this town has been abandoned for a long time without any customers. You came at the right time. Please take care of me in the future."
"What caused it to be abandoned?"
"I'm not sure. I don't know when it started. There were fewer and fewer people. Neither the instructors nor the students showed up. Maybe something happened in that academy."
He pointed to the Rhea Lukalia School of Magic on the distant cliff and said:
"If you want to explore there, it's best to do it during the day, because magicians are night owls and are particularly energetic at night. It's just my advice. I say so much because I want you to buy more of my things."
Ka Li gave everyone a piece of jerky, "but my original intention was to hope that the important guests could survive."
Wow, this guy is pretty good.
The remnants of the dungeon were once living people, and a kind-hearted person can gain the respect of Japar and others.
However, they really don't dare to eat this jerky made from some unknown animal's meat.
Tulsi tried to continue the conversation and found that Kale then became a parrot again.
"What do you want to buy?"
"Back again? Welcome."
"Goodbye, it was nice doing business with you."
There is no new dialogue. Is this really just the afterimage of a vendor?
This was the first pure "merchant" discovered by people, and the currency required for transactions was also unified, so there was no sense of incongruity at all.
It's worth recording.
"Let's go look somewhere else." She was about to turn around and leave when Kale suddenly spoke.
"See the huge bonfire in the center of town? Light it. The flames will drive away wild beasts and evildoers."
"What?" Tulsi turned around and stared at the other person.
"That was originally the location of the blessing, but many people couldn't see it, and the reason why the magicians fled here was closely related to the blessing, so they hated the blessing and changed it into a bonfire that everyone can see."
Bonfire? It really fits the setting of the Senn dungeon.
The crowd walked towards the center of the town and saw a huge bonfire in the square that was slightly flooded. The bonfire was ten times larger than a normal bonfire and if it burned, it would probably roast people nearby.
The flames had died out, whether from the lake water or lack of fuel, it was not known.
The three magicians worked together, using earth magic to lift the square up a distance, and all the overflowing lake water flowed away. Although it looked rough, it should not collapse if used temporarily.
Anyway, this place will be back to its original state the next day, so just make do with it.
"boom!"
When the sparks created by magic came into contact with the bonfire, a huge flame shot up into the sky and the equally huge spiral sword made a crackling sound.
Along with the flames, people's sense of security rises.
Even Japar had to admit that he felt relieved the moment he saw the bonfire, no, no, when he heard from Kale that there was a bonfire in the center of the town.
Since entering the magic classroom area to explore, he hasn't seen a single bonfire along the way. He even felt that the deeper he explored, the more empty it felt.
Fire represents safety, and it represents a place where one can rest without any worries, without being attacked by monsters like the pavilion just now.
For Gapar, bonfire means a place to rest. For ordinary adventurers, bonfire is a life-saving thing. Seeing it is more exciting than seeing a lover.
I don’t know if it was an illusion, but when the bonfire was lit, the temperature of the entire town in front of the college rose a little. The coldness of the lake was dispelled, and only warmth remained.
When Japar saw the dry ground, he realized that this was not an illusion!
The water in the lake in front of the college has receded!
When the ground returned to dryness, it became a suitable place to live, at least there was no need to worry about being too humid.
"If you calculate the time, it's time for the dungeon to close."
Tulsi has been silently calculating the time. It is already late at night in Lake Lienia, but the sky here actually corresponds to the time outside and changes in sync with the sky.
"It's time," Japar sat down by the campfire. He was not afraid of the fire, he just felt comfortable.
"We have made great progress today, and the harvest is really rich."
The origin story of Star Magic, Magician Set, Kalia badge, Preliminary Exploration Research Area, Tool Leather Bag.
Come to think of it, they did a lot today. It would take other adventurers ten days or half a month to accomplish all of this.
We are really strong.
Everyone sat down by the campfire in the most comfortable posture. Tulsi was still quite reserved, Roger simply lay on the ground, and Hudes, wearing a pyroxene head mask, stared at the moon in the sky. No one knew what that genius brain was thinking about.
For adventurers, relieving fatigue while quietly waiting for the dungeon to close is a rare leisure moment in the day.
The sound of a burning bonfire always brings peace to people, as if all their worries have disappeared, and nothing can make people emotional anymore.
"Wait, it's already past time, why haven't we been teleported out?!"
Roger cried out in surprise.
(End of this chapter)
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