When another well was built, the village girls especially liked it. When the water vein subsided, the girls picked up stones to build a boundary stone to complete the well, and gathered to wash their messed up bodies.
They first called carrots and started to wash.
Carrot took off her combat uniform and became naked, and pretty girls gathered around her, filled a pitcher with water, poured it carefully, and wiped her body with a towel.
Ariete, returning from patrol, saw it and opened her mouth.
“Looks like a little princess bathing by the well, doesn’t it?”
“Ah really?”
Decorated with water droplets sparkling like jewels, Carrot smiled happily as she ran through her wet hair.
At the same time, standing in front of a cave on a cliff with Godiv, Crank asked the people who came out through that place.
“How long is it? Is it straight?”
Godive interpreted their words.
“It is said that there are many crossroads. They say monsters sometimes appear.”
“It’s a complete dungeon. Are you coming across this?”
Gustav, who had followed, said a word. Crank asked the young man who came with him to call Carrot. After a while, Carrot, who had washed her hair, hopped over to dry her wet hair with her red hair scattered.
“Did you call me?”
“It is a dungeon search. You need to figure out the approximate length and width, and the fork in the road. Here, the map.”
“Whoa!”
Carrot jumped into the cave with a light ball attached to his chest.
phut-!
“Oh my god, that’s so fast. Are all battles like that? Are they different from the kids we use in the mine?”
“Do dwarves use automatons for mining?”
“Digging for minerals is a noble task. We do those things, and we tend to leave chores at least.”
Crank heard the story and was intrigued.
In the meantime, Carrot was running at breakneck speed inside the cave. I saw monsters from time to time, but I ignored them. Because there was no time or reason to fight. I was driving in a straight line, and when the road forked, I opened the map. Fortunately, there were old signs, so there was no great difficulty in finding the way.
After two hours of caving, Carrot finally raised her arms high in front of the hot windswept desert.
“Kyaaa!! Desert id aaa! It’s all sand!”
After screaming a little and looking around, taking in the unusual scenery, Carrot crouched down on the floor, stuffed a handful of sand in his pocket, then turned around and jumped into the cave.
“Kyaowaaa!”
“Come on! Get out of the way!”
Seeing a large desert scorpion blocking the entrance, Carrot drew an ax and swung it as he ran.
puck!
Ignoring the scorpion that was hit in the head and spurting blood, Carrot found that it hadn’t been there before. Seeing the man on the floor, Carrot stopped and looked at him.
“Hey?”
I crouched down and tried shaking it, but he didn’t move anymore. It seemed that he had lost all his strength and collapsed while wandering inside. Carrot stood up, picked up a stone from the floor, marked the entrance and started running.
Carrot returned 3 hours after entering. Carrot asked as the guards approached.
“How many hours did it take?”
“3 hours.”
“Wow, it took longer than I thought, I ran and came back, but look at this, there is really a desert on the other side. I saw the desert for the first time.”
When Carrot took sand out of her pocket, people looked at it with deep eyes. Gustaf asked.
“How was it?”
It’s a natural cave, but there were signs at each fork. But strangely, there are many ornaments with human hands in between.”
“Is it some kind of ruin?”
“There were many monsters inside. Shall we go into the other side of the nearest fork?”
“Okay. Let’s get a rough idea before the princess comes. It seems that the work to do in that village is almost finished.”
“I want to go too! What’s the inside like?”
When Ariete heard the news and tried to enter the cave, Crank pulled her hair.
“Ughhh?!”
“no. You, stay here.”
Ariete, holding her head and turning a frown, pounced on Crank.
“You are so rude! A woman’s hair!”
puck puck!
Watching Ariete tap the crank, Carrot laughed hahahaha and jumped back into the cave. Godive said.
“It’s really amazing that automata can do dangerous things for you.”
“Isn’t it like the slaves you guys used to have?”
Gustav grinned and shot at him. Godive looked at him with a regretful expression. Gustav, who suddenly had a bitter face, warned.
“You have to tell your grandchildren about this. Got it? A nation that has forgotten its history will have no future.”
Godiv, who understood the meaning of the words, replied with a serious nod.
“Yes, I will never forget you.”
“Well, that’s it.”
Arms folded, Gustav now began to stare at the cave. Then he looked back and screamed.
“You guys do it in moderation too!”
Ariete, who pulled out a shield and short sword or a crank and long sword, looked at each other with fierce faces, measured the distance, and then faced each other again.
bang-! visor!
“It’s a big deal! Suck!”
“This is my first fight with you! Pretty good! How about this!”
Their unexpected performance delighted the eyes of the young people watching. He made Gustav look like he had a headache.
“Adventurers are all insane.”
Then Carrot’s voice was hoarse and shouted from the cliff.
“Whoaaagh! what’s this?! Where are you!”
Gustav, who raised his head and stepped back, shouted.
“Little doll! is it you Where are you?!”
“Here you go!”
Carrot’s face peeks out from a rock crevice on the cliff.
“What?!”
“There is another fork in the road! and! and! And there are traces of people living in it!”
“what?!”
After returning from the cave, Carrot led the men back inside. And showed the traces they found. An old building made of stone was revealed. Gustav, who had been following along, said.
“Is this the old dwarven form?”
“Wow, isn’t this like the old dwarf village?”
The young man who followed Gustav, who had been thinking for a long time, offered something in an awkward Liznet language.
“Pick this up. excuse me.”
Everyone’s eyes widened at the glittering gold coins. While the others searched around, Gustav looked into it and said,
“It’s the first gold coin I’ve ever seen. Let me know if you are an older inspiration. Hey, stop going back.”
Gustaf, who stopped the search, stood up.
“There is a possibility that it is a ruin here. For an accurate investigation, look for some data.”
“Then a dungeon? Will this become a ruins dungeon?”
“yes. A ruins dungeon full of free artifacts.”
Ariete’s eyes widened as Gustav spoke while holding up a gold coin. But Gustav drew the line.
“If it’s really a forgotten city of dwarves, we’ll preoccupy this place. There will be no concessions to you. Let’s talk about the details when the princess comes.”
“You are doing too much! Can’t you just give me a little permission!”
“You are tenacious! What are you doing!”
With a thump, they moved on, looking down at the pioneer village, which has now definitely developed noticeably.
Without knowing that a black shadow appears through the cave… … .
The incident happened in the evening. After a day’s work, I was preparing a meal when suddenly a group of soldiers burst into the village’s main gate.
When the Cyphers soldiers sent to catch runaway slaves and commoners during the civil war aimed their weapons at their hands with stiff faces, the girls recognized them and started screaming and running away.
“Kyaaagh!”
Between the girls who ran away, an arsenal of dolls wearing green heat-resistant wigs stepped forward to greet the visitors.
“Don’t come in any more. who are you?”
Venus, drawing a longsword, stood in their way. The soldiers facing Liznet’s battle automaton were nervous, but the commander in the lead only smiled sharply.
“Call the person in charge.”
After a while, the people in charge of the village (?) gathered. The adventurers, including Crank, and the representatives of the village, including Godive, were called.
“Who is that?”
Godive answered Aple’s question.
“They are Cyphers soldiers. came to find us. Maybe in that cave… … !”
“Oh!”
Carrot clapped her palms and said.
“I marked it so you don’t get lost inside.”
Everyone looked down at Carrot with horrified faces. However, Crank only looked ahead and his eyes lit up.
Is that gunpowder ordnance in your hand, a gun?
“What are you doing?”
“Our people, we have come to get it back.”
Godive, who was terrified at the words of the Cyphers military commander who came with about 10 soldiers, began to tremble. Crank stepped forward and looked down at him.
“People here will soon become citizens of this country. How about you too? Wouldn’t you like to stop fighting and live in peace with people? translate.”
Godive interpreted. Then the commander laughed, drew a pistol from his waistband, and pointed it at him.
“If you give me this town, I will think of it.”
Crank, wearing a helmet, frowned.
“I hate that.”
Crank reflexively lifted the shield on his arm in front of the muzzle as tendons grew in his wrist as he gripped the pistol.
The commander pulled the trigger as if laughing.
tick-!
In an instant, the man’s expression changed. In a panic, he pulled back the hammer of the pistol in his hand and pulled the trigger again, but it did not fire.
As Krank’s angry eyes were revealed over the shield, the commander snatched the long gun from the soldier beside him and pulled the trigger.
tick-!
The embarrassed commander shouted something and switched guns one after another, but no shots were fired. Crank lowered his shield and now raised his fist. His actions spread around, and people began to open their eyes wide and slowly club and raise bats.
Gustav, who was watching, giggled.
“I was the one who passed that. Guys, do you think they gave it to you without any defense? It doesn’t explode in this area. What are you doing! Come on and hit me!”
“Wow!”
Puck puck puck!
A big fight broke out. Before they could pull out the swords they carried as sidearms, they were beaten with thunderous clubs by the people who attacked them.
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The captured soldiers were tied tightly with ropes.
together with Carrot
“Oh wow! free me! I didn’t know these guys would come over!”
People gathered and started a meeting.
“Let’s send them back tomorrow and block the entrance for a while.”
“That would be nice.”
Crank asked, examining the rifles he had taken from them.
“How is this fired?”
“I won’t teach you. don’t wonder stop watching and give it to me you too,”
Adventurers, including Crank, regretted it and returned it.
The next day, Crank went back into the cave with Carrot. All the soldiers who talked with Godive decided to stay. So I took only the commander who was about to pull the trigger first. Looking back, he roared in an unknown foreign language, but was knocked out by Carrot’s punches.
Turning around, Carrot gave a thumbs up, and all the villagers with me gave their thumbs up along with the little doll.
“This time I will go too!”
“Yes.”
The three bravely entered the dungeon and soon experienced various hardships such as battles with cave monsters, Ariete’s distress, and Crank’s disappearance.
Carrot with an axe eye opened her arms first and let out a meaningless scream.
“Oohhh!”
Ariete, too, was moved by the desert landscape she had never seen before and raised her arms and screamed.
“aaa!”
Crank turned his head to the desert horizon, belatedly leaving the stunned commander in the shadow of a rock some distance away.
Crank, who had been staring at the vast sand desert he had never seen before, turned around.
“It is a desolate place with nothing. I don’t want to come a second time. Let’s go back.”