Today, I decided that I'm going to capture[God of Algae]'s[Deep Lair: Blessing of the Algae Women]with its entrance located at the bottom of a blue-holed submarine cavern at the intersection of the many canals in the city center. Since it's underwater, I decided to conquer it alone and gave the others free time. I gave them the okay to do special training in[Ship Ambrasm Parabellum], or go shopping and sightseeing.
With only Kanami-chan as a representative of «Parabellum», I asked her to ensure the establishment of our new branch by selecting a suitable building for hidden use such as the building in the Atarakua Demon Empire, the same as the [Snake's Heart - Col Hydra].
With Kanami-chan's charm, she attracts both men and women, so getting a contract would be easy and lead to favorable conditions. Also, it wouldn't be good if, by some chance, my body clone was discovered by the trading company leader of the city. With that, we probably could finish the service quickly and take the children shopping somewhere.
After setting things up, I left early in the morning by riding a [Row Boat] until I arrived near the intersection where the[Deep Lair: Blessing of the Algae Women]is located. There are large numbers of boats that traveled around here. It could be seen that whenever they pass each other they are almost close enough to collide. However, they never managed to actually hit since the boatmen are already accustomed to the area.
This place is the only location where it's quite busy from early in the morning, full of energy and enthusiasm. After entering an alley with some shade, I saw the destination near the area I landed at.
I then used[Recognition Difficulty]so I would be difficult to be noticed, and also activated[Thundershark Dragonlord's Scales]which is one of the[Exoskeleton]types that are currently registered on the[Exoskeleton Suit]. The exoskeleton has some differences from before. It now has a unique luster of blue tones and on the back, there's some kind of a dark lightning decoration made of countless fins that fade in. It also sharpened the forearms with sharp fins, which had increased to 4 with my additional arms.
There's webbing between the fingers, and from the long tail extending from my hips there was a large fin on the end. The change from before is only slight, but since the capability has been improved, I can't complain. After checking to make sure no one saw me switch into my gear, I quietly dove into the water.
[Thundershark Dragonlord's Scales]was gained from Shark Head ・ Bolt Wyrm which is considerably faster than a swimming mermaid and merman, so my[Exoskeleton]made me similarly as fast when equipped.
Moreover, its abilities are significantly increased while underwater. I could comfortably move with[Fast Swimming]and[Aquatic]. The swimming speed also became even faster since I had overlapped effects from invocation abilities such as [Underwater Predator] and [Terrain Efficacy: Water]. I effortlessly passed by a mermaid and merman, and rushed to the seafloor cavern and the enigmatic blue hole that lead to the entrance of the [Deep Lair: Blessing of the Algae Women].
I immediately went down about 10 meters into the subterranean cave. I then went into a lateral hole at the right. If you look within the poorly lit lateral hole, you can slightly make out a light further down. As you move forward, the space begins to spread open and eventually becomes a wide open area. This place is like an underwater paradise. The bottom had coral spread throughout the place becoming a light source shaped like the vine of some sort of [Ocean Grape]. The stock of [Umami Kelp] can be used to make soup with a deep and excellent flavor.
There are [Golden Sea Urchin] that are covered in spikes and needles (splinters), but has high quality contents inside.
There also could be found [White King Oyster] which is referred to as [Sea-flavored Concentrated Milk], and only here can you find the firm and lean [Crown Snow Crab].
In addition, there were big [Black Headed Tuna] which could be sold at a high price as a luxury fish, used for special occasions. All around swam schools of the [Glory Red Sea Bream], and so many more!
You can find a variety of seafood all over the place. Looking at the sight, I was left speechless. On land, there were a large amount of merchant retailers that had expressed their descriptions about this place. After coming here, I found that it was just as described. Here, you can get all kinds of delicious ingredients from this dungeon by reaching out to grab it. I can only think of words like: "here you can be filled to your heart's content."
There is some skill needed to collect this stuff however. If not done well, it can result in destroying the taste. Also, you need to make sure there is no poison in the ingredients so it won't be dangerous. There's an unlimited amount of tasty food and there were still spectacles here that can't be seen in other dungeons.
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Probably because the shallower area is known to be safe, there are spectacles that are similar to that of a group of friendly moms chatting together at women's meetings. The merman's children that look a little younger than 10 years old kids and other mermaids would freely play with visitors around the edges, and eat [Sweet Shrimp] that they caught by themselves.
For these children, they probably considered it as a common snack, but [Sweet Shrimp] is a dungeon ingredient that is quite expensive if sold outside. If you looked at this as a person who cannot swim underwater, the sight might cause you to envy these children.
A couple of merman and mermaid sat down close together on chairs of coral, they're so enamored that they're feeding each other, an atmosphere that would lead you spitting sugars from your mouth. Disregarding the pink romantic aura scattering from them, the things that the couples were eating are called [Ball of Love Jellyfish].
It was a jellyfish that looks like a round pink candy. By mutually eating it with a lover, the love between them will be long lasting. That also is one of this dungeon's food. Therefore, it is quite hard to obtain because of its high popularity and rarity. But couples here seem to have managed to obtain it in abundance.
It is impossible to relax in a normal dungeon but it seems there are a lot of normal people here and it seems that this is a normal occurrence. Honestly, I can say with all certainty that this is a wonderful place.
Due to the fact that there is a huge variety of seafood ingredients, I couldn't go into detail on all of it. So, for the time being, I went around examining what I could. By weaving a net of gold thread and swimming quickly around the area, I managed to collect a large catch of marine fish and seaweed.
Outside of the nets' reach, some shellfish started clinging like reef on to the thread as I swam. I can ask to the locals later whether I picked any unusual finds if I run into one.
As I continued examining and catching the wildlife, I came to the realization that night had come without me having fought a single thing. But all the same, the seafood here is too delicious. I just couldn't stop! While regretting that I had spent the time uselessly, I decided to put serious effort into capturing this dungeon properly tomorrow.