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Chapter 11 - Dungeon life isn't that peacefull.

"But look at this one, I'm sure he could be a good boy. Or girl, it's actually a girl." He pointed out.

"It's a fire elemental, even if it looks like a puppy it is not worth it to risk it running rampant when it reaches the intermediate stage." His wife said, imediatly refusing.

"But you said the same thing about the electric tiger!" He complained.

"And you said raising the ranks of a wolf would be too time consuming and ineffective."

"It was not cute at all and hated me!"

"Then let's just give up on this and think about it if we ever get our hands on a griphon or dragon egg."

"Not yet, I have one more idea, clerk, does your store sell slimes? Preferably poisonous ones." He asked. The tired store clerk simply nodded and showed them the back of the store

"We have around a hundred and twenty poisonous slimes since they reproduce quite fast." She explained, hoping they'd at least pick the jelly and go away.

"Yosh, I want a hundred of them." Aki excitedly said, baffling both women.

"I would recommend you don't dear costumer." The clerk worriedly said.

"We're not poisoning any city or the like." His wife pointed out, more to him them the clerk.

"It's fine, I have an idea. Anyway, here is your fifty gold." He said, deciding to use all his budget on this now that he didn't really need anything else at the moment. His job had not even maxed out after a week of slaughter, but their pockets did. "And here's a gold piece for having to deal with us." He apologetically said as he passed the clerk another coin, not hiding it at all. She looked between the coin and him a few times.

"I'm not sleeping with you for that gold piece." She said, face and tone flat.

"Believe me when I say you'd need to go bankrupt to sleep with me. No, this is a tip for dealing with bad customers." He smirked, pretty sure he could actually perform the act even without magic if given enough time.

"Yeah, right. It's your money anyway. Let's get your slimes." She sighed.

And so Aki left the store with one specially big purple slime in his arms.

"You know this is going to be trouble later, right?" Said his wife, who'd also been surprised when the slimes suddenly fussed together into the one her husband now held, which was only just a shade deeper than the original hundred.

"This much is fine, it's just a slime." He said, hugging the Slime while giving it some mana, which made it wiggle and send happiness through their bond, which was stupidly easy to make as long as someone had mana.

The shop also has a direct connection to tamer's guild, so there wasn't even a need to go there register the Slime because they'd get the papers done.

By the way, Xera had gotten better armor with her part since now Aki was able to access metals and easily forged her a new spear because it was actually pretty easy, only taking eight tries for him to properly activate the metal's properties while not interfering with the weight, balance, magic properties, enchanting channels... Did I mention he modified each prototype at least three times?

"I mean, we don't really need those maps to the ogre's cavern, and enchanting is surprisingly easy, so we don't have many possible spenditures that will need to dip into our daily fund, nevermind the emergency or retirement funds." He said, already feeding the donkey and putting his hand inside the slime on his lap, which rapidly started losing color.

There was no need for a sarcastic system message to know that Aki had just poisoned himself successfully.

"Maybe it can help me get to level three of the resistance as is? Well, it will be killing a lot of things, so probably more." Though it looked like he was about to die from a fantastical poison, no one with 1,5k vitality would actually drop dead from something like this.

*****

"Hello you two, I am a guild representative sent to watch over you." Said a good looking cutie with shining armor and a partisan lance that was almost bigger than him. "Name's Sieg, B-rank adventurer."

"This is because i agreed too quickly with stopping our long delve and mentioned going to another dungeon imediatly after, Didn't I?" Aki sighed, extending a hand to shake, which was quickly responded by the smaller man, he'd say around 1,60 maybe. "Just a warning though, don't get between me and my wife." He said, sending reverse healing over the man's hand and not letting go, before imediatly healing his hand from the necrotic damage. "That way we will have no problems." He'd not dropped his smile through the treath, but after that, Aki started walking inside the dungeon, ignoring the highly alarmed man and his snikering wife.

"He is just a bit jealous, don't take it to heart." She quickly said, taping his shoulders and giving him the donkey's reins, leaving behind the completly surprised adventurer.

"I got myself in trouble without the party again, didn't I?" He murmured, following behind and entering the cave system full of rock ogres, rank five monsters with specially tough defence, just in time to see Aki lifting one of the two and a half meter's tall beasts into a middle sized box that definetly shouldn't have the nescessary space for the thing before it was thrown in his personal storage spell.

"These should be perfect to sell, but i think we're going to need more boxes to enchant with the amount we will fight from here to the third floor and back." The husband pointed out before roaring and going deeper into the dungeon.

*****

"You know that the stairs are safe ground, right?" Sieg pointed out to the mage making their camp a bit before the stairs.

"I know that people believe that, but i really don't want to try it for myself. Besides, i'm going back to town since i maxed out my current job. I imagine you brought provisions of your own?" He asked.

"Well yes, but how long are you planning to stay around?"

"Five or more days. One per floor. More if we don't find the stairs." The revelation made the lancer frown. "Since you really didn't see that one coming them just come with me and get more at the guild." Aki waved him off, getting inside the stone cot he'd made in under ten minutes after his wife had done so, coming back just to make sure Sieg was not following them inside.

"Crazy bastard." He cursed before going to the stairs. Feeling a breeze pass him, he figured one of them had cast a detection ward.

Inside the cot, Aki felt his reserves and noted that yes, he was actually regenerating more while inside the dungeon, probably because of the mana density or something along those lines, which helped with the dificult task of digging inside a dungeon, so he could create pockets of poison on the ground and compact the rock it was made out of so as to make sure nothing was actually able to easily break out. That was something that would take a long time however, and right now he should probably be spending the time to make the place's map so his wife could navigate without him.

Turns out having a lot of INT and DEX plus mathemathic and schematic knowlege translated fairly well to drawing and map making. And singing and dancing.

"Harry, did you feed the donkey already? I think we're going to be needing a bigger wagon, so it needs plenty of energy. Maybe we should try and turn it into a monster?" He suggested.

"It already did. Just now. It's grown as big as a horse, and i'm pretty sure donkeys don't normally do that. Do they?" To her, who'd not even know of the specie's existence, they might, so she had to ask.

"No, but if it talks, then we're calling it Baal." He proclaimed, imediatly going towards the little house he'd made for the brave donkey. Confirming that it still had the same gray fur with big white spots and that it was just bigger, Aki was actually surprised to find out that he could properly appraise the donkey now. "What the fuck is a dhenuka?" He murmured, seeing the thing wake up and slowly eat it's feed like it's stats hadn't basically incresed five times over. For some reason, the forest related creature had gotten levels on wagon handling related skills, besides it's attribute enhancing skill and one kicking skill. The most surprising part was that it had learned 'Self-enhancement: loyalty Lv 1' for some reason.

This made his heart beat with some warmth for the animal, it knew how to get food so well!

"It's decided, we're calling it Baal." Aki decided while scratch the donkey behind the ears and give it some mana, which actually made it stop eating and start enjoying the caress. Which lead to his master giving him more feed and some carrots.

It was truly a good day of work.

*****

"So you mean your donkey turned into a monster? A donkey? Wow, I really didn't know that was possible." Exclaimed the tamer's guild clerk.

"I mean, it's theorically possible, but what kind of donkey would be able to survive and absorb enough mana to become a monster naturally?" Aki pointed out, getting a nod from the receptionist. "Well, with this I'd like to register if only because I'm going to need to buy special feed for this guy. I'd also like to submit a report on its race, since I really doubt the civilized races know much about something like this. Maybe the race itself is know, but sharing the info is nice even if I don't really need the money from that kind of thing." He pointed out, having a light conversation while doing the paperwork.

And so he passed through the purchase of a bigger wagon which he'd later enchant since it was made exactly with that intention in mind, so it was more similar to a horse powered minivan than anything, and the selling of the ogre corpses gave him a lot of money, which made Sieg droll. He was being paid per day to watch them after all, so trying to make money from monsters that were not his was a terrible idea.

'The fuckers made a week's worth of profit in my party in one day even though the woman didn't fight.' He sighed. Maybe he should try too?

"Say, do you think there's room for one more in your party?" Aki imediatly turned to look at him like he was an idiot.

"You notice we have our bases covered, right? You notice we are a couple, right? You notice that to us even the donkey and the pet slime are more useful than you, right?" He rapidly fired, his voice cold and sarcastic.

"You don't know what i can do, you..."

"Spear technique level 6, armor technique level 4, mediocre enhancing skills, no regeneration to speak of, a pitifull amount of mana, nine jobs focused entirely on dexterity and strenght. Stuck on his third wall, which is skill based." He continued, not changing his tone of voice. "Shut up, do your job, stop looking at my wife's ass, you're not even man enough to stand by yours." By the end of it, Aki didn't look like he was speaking at a handsome and gentle-looking man, but with a disgusting bug that costantly sweated something putrid.

He only had the time to look back to the road for a couple of seconds before the other passanger snaped.

"Adventurer Aki, i chalenge you to duel, face me if you are man enough." Sieg spouted, his face red in anger. He didn't know who told him his status, but he could not just sit there and look pretty hearing someone violate his privacy like that. He'd beat this guy, find out who told him and then...

"Only if you bet with me." He said, face stone cold as he told Baal to stop. "If you lose them i will have all your equipment, if i lose them you can have all my savings and this enchanted carriage. That much is fine, right?" Aki turned towards the bush to the side, making the rage filled man by his side question if he'd lost his sanity in panic. "If you don't appear or signal something than i will consider it as confirmation of a guild representative watching over this duel, this much is fine, right?" This time a troubled looking female cat-kin appeared while scratching her nose.

"I was found, how strange." She softly said while keeping a smile on her face.

"YOU! It was you that tould this guy my status, wasn't it Mari?! I knew we never saw face to face, but this is too much!" Pointed Sieg, reconising his party's rogue.

"Now now, i met this guy at the same time you did, i have no idea how he knows either, but just quickly take back this duel, will you? You will just get knocked out like those ogress if you two fight!" She quickly pointed out, failing misserably at calming her team mate.

"Would you look at that, she is cute and has a brain, it's not that hard, see." Aki pointed out, turning to Sieg.

"Let's duel. None of that trick you use on the ogress. Till one of us passes out or dies." The man had already gotten out, his face pointing to him being very close to bursting.

Aki took position near the cat-kin, who promptly vacated the area as her team mate walked around the donkey, facing the taller man.

"I accept those conditions."