The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter - Chapter 140

Chapter 140

Translator: “Pink Tea” Editor: ”Weasalopes”

Arriving to the 2nd floor I first check the place where Emma got kicked .

It seems to hurt, but no bones appear to be broken and the damage is not serious . For now, this is a relief .

『Hey, Noir-kun . Who is this girl! Even though you have me!』

This is the real Master . Unlike the fake she is still bound by chains, and can’t move freely .

I introduce Emma and tell Master what happened . As expected, even she was surprised to hear that there was an attempt to create a copy of her .

However, as expected, it was incomplete . The number of skills it possessed couldn’t even begin to compare with what the master held originally . Even her level lacked some digits .

【Create】and 【Grant】were probably copied before they were inherited by me .

『Edit is a bit special, it probably struggled with it . Looks like the thing is unexpectedly puny . Noir-kun should be able to easily take it down . 』

「That is a harsh thing to say to someone who almost got crushed……」

「Olivia-san, it might be a rude thing to ask, but isn’t there some kind of weakness?」

『Emma-chan, was it? How big is your chest?』

「Eh?」

『It’s bigger than mine, right? Not telling you then!』

Master is a kind of person to jest without caring for time and place . It threw off Emma quite a bit since she wasn’t used to that .

I then asked once again, this time seriously, if there is some kind of a weak point, but it looks like Master doesn’t know as well . She never lost to anyone, to begin with .

「But even you, Master, should have had some kind of a difficult battle?」

『MMMmmmmmmmm………………Ah………………………………I think…………………………I had one…………………………Or not………………………?』

「So you don’t remember……」

『But there should be something! On top of that, I vaguely remember that it probably should be someone from Noir-kun’s town . 』

Well, it was two hundred years ago after all . It would’ve been way scarier if she actually remembered it in detail .

There are a lot of extant documents concerning the teacher .

I heard that many of them are random made-up stories, but among them facts are recorded as well .

『Or rather, you should just ignore something like that . Olivia is fine, just move to the 15th floor . 』

「No . I will definitely defeat her . 」

『……I see . Then I’ll be looking forward to it, just a bit . But please remember, you would make me a lot happier by not dying . Remember that . 』

「I will certainly kill it!」

After promising that, Emma and I leave the dungeon .

After reaching the town we part our ways .

「There is a scholar knowledgeable in history among my parents’ acquaintances . I will ask that person . 」

「Thank you . I will do a research of my own . 」

First, I head to the largest library . Using it would require a bit of money .

Well, it’s about the same as one or two meals, so I have no hesitation . The problem is, important tomes are rarely available to the general public .

I look through the tomes on the history of the city and the history of adventurers .

As expected, Master’s name often comes up in the books on famous adventurers .

Though none had a clear understanding of the nature of her power .

Most of them said that she overwhelmed enemies with mysterious magic .

Going through the history of the town I found a record that upon her stay in one of the famous inns of the town she got into a fight with Litorine and won .

Who is Litorine?

Since the name was recorded, it should be someone important .

I check for Litorine .

Turns out, she was a pretty famous person here . A saintess that greatly contributed to the development of the town .

Though I never learned about this at school, there were a lot of amazing people in the past . Luna-san might be knowledgeable about this .

There seems to be no information on other people that fought the master, so I narrow my search to Litorine .

What I managed to find is the following .

She was good at healing .

Despite being a saintess she had a rough temperament .

A tall woman with an abnormally high physical ability .

So while being a healer she also had a trained body . Since I couldn’t get anything more from the books I head to Luna-san .

Reaching the temple I’m hit with melancholy . Even though it’s a day off, there is a huge line of people outside . Since it couldn’t be helped, I queue as well .

My turn came an hour and a half later .

「Noir-dono, you didn’t have to line up, you just had to tell me . 」

「I thought I would go with the usual order . There is something I wanted to ask . Do you know about a saintess Litorine, who lived two hundred years ago?」

「Of course I do . 」

Nice, so I was right!

It seems that upon taking up the duties of saintess they are made to learn about outstanding saintesses of the past .

Especially if it’s about the saintessess of their own town, they would study and read books on them . And it seems that the temple had a book on the life of Litorine .

I explain the situation and ask if it would be okay for me to read that book .

「Normally we wouldn’t allow outsiders to do that…… Please wait for a bit . 」

Luna-san went to consult with an elder priest . She bows her head . I can’t thank her enough for going that far for me .

「It’s fine as long as you keep it inside the temple . 」

「Thank you! As always, you are a great help!」

The old priest guides me inside a small room . Bringing from another place a book, he then placed it on the table .

Thanking him, I then check the contents . Litorine’s life from her birth to the end of her days .

Stating that she was a rare saintess, that combined both benevolence and fighting spirit .

Many troubles accompanied her due to that character, but there is no count to the great number of people saved .

Well, there is no perfect person .

Lately, I began to think that it’s only natural for people to have good and bad sides .

She had high physical abilities and defeated enemies while making free use of her healing magic . It looks like she had a skill known as 【Sacrifice】 .

This skill allows one to strengthen oneself by sacrificing their own skills .

First time I heard about something like this . It must be pretty rare .

Sacrificing skills would prevent you from using them again . In other words, all hardship that went into gaining skills would be rendered null in one combat .

The price is high . Won’t one run out of skills pretty soon?

The answer to that question was written right there .

For Litorine, learning new skills was simple .

「I see . Since she could learn them one after another it wasn’t a problem . 」

Since they say that she once overpowered even a dragon, she should be the one who gave so much trouble to Master . If I had Sacrifice I might be able to deal with Fake Olivia .

Sacrifice 500 LP

Making it is a lot easier than I thought . But the name is scary, so I’ll check the description .

〈Sacrificing known skills increases physical and magical ability for a certain period of time . Stronger skills give a larger increase . Sacrificing one skill gives one minute buff . Two skills – three minutes . Three skills – five minutes . 〉

The buff time is so short!

Since it uses skills for the sacrifice I thought it would give more…… The contents also look pretty complex .

In conclusion, sacrificing three S class skills would give the best effect . This would give a large increase for five minutes .

Sacrificing each of them on their own would give only three minutes of buff . This calls for good judgment .

Since getting the skill itself is not a problem I spend LP on it .

It has good compatibility with me since I can mass produce skills with【Create】 .

The question is how cost-effective would be its performance . For this I have no other choice but to test it little by little .

By the time I stepped outside it was already dark .

Dropping by Emma’s house, I ask her to let me know if she finds out anything else about Litorine .