Basement Dungeon ~Poor Siblings become the Strongest and Enjoying Exploration~

The characters that appeared out of nowhere were very strange to me. [T/N: If you read it, it would literally sound like “Weapon Selection”. However, we are discovering this along with the characters so let’s try to do it this way.]

“It’s a very strange set of characters.” (Kei)

I’ve seen a lot of different characters in this dungeon so far. The first time I entered the dungeon, the proficiency selection was all in katakana.

I can’t use it, but when I used my sight-reading skill, I felt words being sent to my brain. I heard that it was more like hearing voices rather than letters.

And this time. In addition to the fact that everything was in hiragana, the characters looked somewhat messy. No, it’s more like they’re not very good.

The characters I had seen in the dungeon before were as inorganic and precise as the characters in a computer text. I don’t know what it is about this one, but it looks as if someone who is not good at writing tried to write it carefully. I used to write like this when I was in elementary school, or maybe middle school.

“Brother, I can move them!” (Haru)

Haru is using it as a computer, or is it just a computer now? When she touched the touchpad of the computer, a diamond-shaped cursor appeared on the screen. It’s like a game. At the same time, the characters [しんりゃく] and [ぼうえい] also appeared. [T/N: First: shi-n-ri-ya-ku (Aggression, Invasion or Raid) Second: bo-u-e-i (Defense or protection).]

“It’s like a game.” (Haru)

“That’s right.” (Kei)

The characters were surprising just because I began to think about a sword or a staff, which is said to be a kind of weapon [T/N: Bukishu or ぶきしゅ or weapon, Shi and yu makes the shu sound.].

“I’ll choose [Shinryaku]/[Raid] for the time being.” (Haru)

Haru seems to be accustomed to moving the cursor to move across the Land [T/N: ri-ku] character. When the cursor hovers over “Land”, it glows three times and the screen changed.

At the top of the screen, as before, [Raid] is written, and below that, there are numbered items from 1 to 5 and the characters alongside them are written.

“What’s this?” (Haru)

1: へいきそうぞう [T/N: he/e-i-ki-so-u-zo-u] 3/10000

2: しんぐん [T/N: shi-n-gu-n] 998/1000

3: しんか [T/N: shi-n-ka] 6/100

4: ひとがたしょうかん [T/N: hi-to-ga-ta-shi-yo-u-ka-n] 0/1000

5: しょうごうじゅよ [T/N: shi-yo-u-go-u-ji-yu-yo]

“[へいきそうぞう] means ‘Weapon Crafting’, right?” (Haru)

“[しんぐん ] means ‘Army of God’ or ‘Invading Army’. [しん か] is probably ‘Evolution’ like the evolution of living things.” (Haru)

“[ひとがたしょうかん] and [しょうごうじゅよ] might be literal. I don’t know much about details on ‘Hominid Summon’ and ‘Title Conferment’. Brother.” (Haru)

“What?” (Kei)

“Well, you know.” (Haru)

Haru had a tight smile and pointed to the screen we were looking at.

“Well, it was 998 until a while ago.” (Haru)

2: Invading Army 999/1000

“That’s right.” (Kei)

When I saw the letters Haru pointed to, I felt a cold sweat break out. The number increased for [Invading Army]. If our thoughts are right, the phrase ‘Army of God’ or ‘Invading Army’ is a dangerous phrase.

“Haru, can’t you check any further?” (Kei)

“I’ll try.” (Haru)

Haru gingerly puts the cursor on [Invading Army].

2: Invading Army 1000/1000

As the cursor flashed three times, the number increased and the screen changed.

Invading Army

Location: Outside

Target: Living Creature

Are there any changes

Execute   Return

“Wow!” (Haru)

“Haru, change the destination for the time being! I have a bad feeling about this.” (Kei)

“Done!”

Once she hovered the cursor over the place where it says [Outside], it immediately, lit up three times again, and the place where it says [Outside] became blank.

“Well, make it [Forest]!” (Kei)

Invading Army

Location: Forest (0 Floor)

Target: Living Creature

Are there any changes

Execute   Return

“What is the 0 floor? Never mind, we’ll change [Target] to [monsters] for now.” (Kei)

“Did it!” (Haru)

Invading Army

Location: Forest (0 Floor)

Target: Monster

Are there any changes

Execute   Return

“”Start!”” (Kei & Haru)

It has been activated.

When that sentence is displayed, the screen switches and returns to the original screen.

1: Weapon Crafting 3/10000

2: Invading Army 0/1000

3: Evolution 6/100

4: Hominid Summon 0/1000

5: Title Conferment

[T/N: We know what’s there so I changed it to English words.]

The difference is that the value of “Invading Army” has returned to zero. I had raised the value by 2 in a small amount of time, but as far as I can see, the value is still at 0 and has not moved.

“This was operated by someone, right?” (Haru)

“That’s what I mean when I say the increase suddenly stopped. Let’s take a look at the Forest and then go back home.” (Kei)

“Yes!” (Haru)

When we left the room, of course, the entrance to the room had disappeared. We couldn’t touch or push our way back into the room, so we gave up and went to check out the Forest.

There was a hellish landscape.

Rimdobmur was flying around at ease, but the monsters on the ground were eating each other and killing each other.

If we returned to the front of the Cave coming down from the 15th floor, countless monsters were pouring into the Forest from there. The monsters running toward the forest attacked each other as they ran, not paying attention to us beside them.

We tried slashing at them with our swords from the side, but they didn’t fight back, and the monsters killed each other.

The fact that we had changed the target from Living Creature to Monster must have had an effect.

As soon as I returned to the first level, there were no shadows of monsters, and since it was the first floor, there were no traces of dead monsters.

“Maybe all of them went to the Forest.” (Haru)

“Looks like it.” (Kei)

We returned to the house and opened the computer without removing our gear.

“It’s a global stampede all over again. No attacks on explorers?! Monsters are running deeper into the dungeons.”

That’s what I thought. The stampede is happening in all the dungeons. Monsters in all dungeons are heading into the forest without attacking people, and monsters are killing each other.

“Someone also a caused the previous stampede.” (Kei)

Somewhere in the world, there is someone who knows the location of that room before anyone else. Someone who has uncovered the secret and is exploiting it. I couldn’t help but be convinced of that fact.