Meikyuu Toshi no Antique Shop

Having finished her shopping, Soara stopped at the 'Land Dragon Looking Up at the Sun' pavilion.

It's a destination tavern where the seekers gather.

Looking in the store, I quickly found the person I was looking for.

She was a round table in the corner, seemingly immersed in some sort of task.

Instead of a rule, they draw lines with coal.

They carefully transfer drawings and notes written on blurry straw half-papers to brand-new straw half-papers spread next to them.

Soara sat softly in the opposite seat to keep out of the way and watched for a while.

"Still don't write beautiful lines."

Speaking up where I set it apart, they finally noticed there.

Lynne looks up and scratches her head in embarrassment.

What my partner Lynne was doing was a clean book on the map.

I couldn't afford to write carefully while I was exploring it, and I was rewriting it again because I could hardly read it.

Lynne's mapping skills (mapping skills) are very high.

Apparently it's because my sister is an explorer and she's used to writing because she was scattered around helping me with a clean book.

"A map is important."

Yes, the master said.

'No matter how many handlers get together, if we don't know where we are and where we're headed, it's just useless. About half the fruits of dungeon exploration depend on mapping. "

Then the successful exploration of Soara and the others now will undoubtedly be Lynne's accomplishment in producing this precise map.

"Soara, hey. Hey, look at this."

Lynne pointed to a part of the map.

"Right here. I wrote a clean book, but it's still suspicious."

At the top right edge of the map is written a letter indicating the basement fourth floor.

That's a hierarchy called the Labyrinth.

It is a place where a passage blocked by thick stone walls continues, branches, and is connected to another passage or is at an end.

However, the strategy itself is relatively easy, as long as the map is on the back of the name, you don't have to worry about getting lost.

Lynne's fingers are placed around the middle of the map.

That was a blank area surrounded by squares with stone walls.

Doors are provided in places like this, without exception, which should be structures with rooms inside, but doors do not exist anywhere but here.

Try to remember when you actually went through here, but there was certainly nothing.

This is how I cleared the map, and it does make me uncomfortable to check it again.

"There may be a 'hidden door (secret door)'"

That's what Lynne said with intent.

"Hidden Doors".

It's about doors that exist in the dungeon that you can't recognize at first sight.

According to the story of the veteran explorers, there are numerous underground fourth floors.

And there's a good chance there's a treasure chest or a drop item of high rare value in there, he said.

They're just going to need a good idea or a little trick to find it, and the two of them have yet to come across each other.

"How do we find out?

"I've heard it's hard to find amateurs."

"When this happens, you're going to want a bandit."

"Yeah. I want it"

But it's not like we can make friends that well.

Soara and the others decided, as usual, to go shopping and seek advice from a familiar shop.

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"... Hmm. How to find the 'hidden door'?"

Fujiwara, shopkeeper of "The Age of the Good Old Mages", specializing in grant tools (antique shops).

He looks sleepy as usual, sipping a bitter cup of coffee, then cutting it out as usual after arm-wrapping and thinking tricks.

"First of all, did you know that there are roughly ni types of hidden doors?"

Soara shook her head as she sipped the offered cafe ole.

He was very knowledgeable.

I know more about dungeons and monsters than skilled seekers, not just about items.

Besides, he explains it carefully so that Soara and the others who ran out can see it, so it's very helpful to hear it.

Lynne and others were taking notes next door.

"One is if the trick is applied."

For example, there appear to be several patterns, such as those that do not appear without pushing a projection somewhere in the stone wall, those that are hidden in the closet, those that are hidden by a hanging shaft or a wafer.

"Then, if the other is covered up by witchcraft"

This seems to refer to spells such as' pseudomorphism (camouflage) ',' cover-up (hidun) 'and' phantom (fantasm) 'that are rendered impossible for ordinary people to discover.

"The former is also possible to find if carefully examined, but at the same time you will need trap unlocking techniques, as well as bandit techniques such as unlocking (lockpick). And the latter will be essential for magic skills such as' cover-up destruction '."

Soara is discouraged to hear that.

Because neither of us possessed bandit skills or mastered the magic of 'cover-up destruction'.

"Doctor, can you handle an item or something?

Lynne raised her hand and asked a question.

"I have a few candidates. For example," Light (magic lamp) exposed under daylight ". This can be uncovered not only by closing in on hidden doors but also on the identities of invisible enemies and the like. Others are this' magical map '. With this, you can easily show what's around you, so you can see where the hidden doors are."

"Doctor."

Soara raises her hand and asks for the price at the heart.

The answers returned are both as expensive as most people would expect.

It wasn't a very handy substitute, it seemed bankrupt before I got the treasure.

"What do you think of Dr. Anemone?

Fujiwara waved to Anemone, who had listened silently next door until then.

She is a namesake seeker.

The advice seemed to hold expectations.

"I don't think I have to bother finding a hidden door."

"... you say?

"Once you find a suspicious place, you just have to clean it up with cheaper items"

She says, "I'm a little stuck," she goes to the office and the workshop to pick something up, and she comes back.

"Let me introduce you. This is the pioneer number one."

What Anemone took out and showed him was a tool shaped like a bird's mouth.

I can see that it is a used product but well maintained. Height

"That's just a crane mouth, right?

"Some might call it that. But I call him Pioneer One. This is an amazing item that can be shattered by any wall. They can be used to dig in hidden rooms, and they can make shortcuts."

Rejected. Rejected. Rejected.

Even though the three voices were not aligned, they were all aligned.

"Say what. It would be a wall on the fourth basement floor. The walls are still brittle and thin around there. So you just dig a little and it breaks. The further down the dungeon, the harder it gets. The basement, the 10th floor, the walls, the ground."

"Um... why are you so familiar with it?

"In the era of solitude (solo), it was because we could not camp. Instead, he was digging holes and taking a nap."

"... are you a hibernating bear? As I said before, only Mr. Anemone can do that."

"Oh, it's really convenient."

Anemone swelled her cheeks dissatisfied, but even the walls on the fourth basement seem quite thick.

Soara and the others don't seem to be able to imitate it very well.

But that's not why they had other good hands. They looked at each other and thought.

And -.

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A few days later.

At the destination location on the fourth basement floor, the two stood idly by.

Mountain rubble in front of me.

And as much as most expected, there was a small hidden room on that other side of the broken wall.

Behind the darkness is something like a pedestal, where you can see a small box on it.

Probably a treasure.

Though on the fourth basement floor, the market is set when a chest in a place like this contains rare tools.

But we didn't think we'd get a chance to get it.

But above all, they were emotionally impressed that the great feat of breaking down the walls of the dungeon had been achieved.

In other words, what Anemone was saying was not a strong mistake.

It took almost half a day, the skin of our hands could be broken, our arms numb, our shoulders hurt, but we managed to destroy them on our own.

The two stare at the tool in their hands and bite its power once again.

Break face to face.

"Crane mouth sucks!

"Crane mouth sucks!

It goes without saying that it has since become a necessity for them.

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"Handmade maps (not for sale)"

The dungeons beneath this labyrinth city are very vast.

They say it extends to almost all of the island, and you can't walk for days.

Therefore, mapping (mapping) is indispensable for searchers to represent the journey they have taken on their own, to mark what is on the path and sometimes to describe what has happened.

And if I dive into the dungeon again with a map I could do, oh wonder.

It helps you avoid discovered traps, bypass horrible monster nests, collect missed items, step into unexplored land, and return to the ground without getting lost in safety.

That is how you will get your own map as you continue to explore and expand your prints over and over.

It should be an irreplaceable commercial tool, a very strong caged memorabilia, and an irreplaceable one to say that it is the soul of the Seeker itself.

Now, for the record, let me show you two grant tools related to maps.

Start with "Magic Map (Crude/Once a Day)"

This map is a granting tool that allows you to float around terrain, arranged, etc., as a plan.

Using it will make it possible to know the exact terrain, find hidden rooms, stairs, pit traps, etc.

However, in the case of this product, the drawings will not disappear after a day.

Let's use it effectively as a time here.

And "Map of Marauding (Crude)"

This is a grant tool that can also be described as the top compatibility of 'Magic Map'.

How can you be able to sense the life force around you and even grasp the movement of organisms as a drawing.

Please note, however, that motion of inorganic objects such as moving stone statues (gargoyles) and automatic dolls (golems) and immortals (undead) cannot be captured.

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"... the manager. Why don't you introduce me to Pioneer One?"

"Let's do that again (chuckles). By the way, I'm asking you for a second grade, but does number two even exist?

"Of course there is. This is Pioneer Two."

……

"Also known as the broken hammer."

"Yeah. That's the official name (I've never seen anyone alone in charge of a bundled Marutai...)"