D Genesis, 3 Years after Dungeon Appeared

"Shit, it's raining."

I sat in the driver's seat of a car parked on the shoulder of the street and watched the rain start hitting the windshield, and I murmured.

So, did you do well?

Beyond the hands-free phone, I hear a moody voice. The Lord of Voices is Yoshimu Hagi. Meet my boss.

I can't help but apologize to the client who made me angry at my mismatches this time... even if I doubt sincerity.

First of all, I'm a researcher, even though it's conveniently used in various departments. It's a sales job, right?

"No... they're closing the deal."

What?! What kind of apology did you make?

If you send it down to a serious incident, it's going to happen. You're an asshole.

I want to say that. I really want to say it.

"I'm sorry."

"Why not? I mean, it's your mistake. You really can't use it. Enough. I've lost an important business partner, so I'm sure you'll get a pay cut and zero bonuses."

I had nothing to do with this mistake, did I? I thought it was you!

When I tried to complain to the boulder, the connection was disconnected from the other side.

"... hah"

It's kind of fucked up already. No pay cuts, no bonuses? I don't know what that means.

If I succeed, my power. If you fail, it's your mistake. I mean, why is he in a superior position?

"... is that why you're here?"

Profiles are a great way to arrange a career.

"Ha, I feel like dying. I don't want to go back to the company....."

The sound of rain hitting the roof gets stronger. I turned the car on and the wipers on.

At the same time, the music that started streaming from the car radio suddenly snapped out.

Hmm?

It's a bulletin. In America, the mid-depth dungeon has finally been attacked. "

Ooh

The news is full of studios. Apparently, there's breaking news coming through.

Mid-depth dungeon. There must have been something amazing. "

It's been three years since the dungeon appeared in the world. Initial confusion subsided, and dungeon exploration penetrated to the extent of fishing to slightly dangerous places.

When it comes to defeating monsters, it feels kind of bad, but the act itself is not very different from fishing and hunting. More or less, both would be in danger of life.

I might as well dive into the dungeon and let the adventure exude stress. How dare I let the car go? [M]

Around here - around the Meiji-Jingu Gaien - there were many Olympic-related buildings, and several large ones were still beginning to be built.

The rain gets a little more intense and the sound of water hitting the roof of the car resounds in the car.

It's been three years since the dungeon spread, right? Today, we are welcoming Dungeon researcher Yoshida Yoriki. Yoshida-san, thank you very much.

Yoshida Yoshinobu.

It's a name I've heard a lot about lately, but researchers are annoying. The D rank (dungeon rank) is not clear either. I wonder if he's diving properly.

Thank you very much.

It's a place, area 36. It was discovered at Summit Lake in Mount Evans, Denver, Colorado, commonly known as Evans Dungeon, and the hierarchy was 31 floors. How about that, Yoshida-san?

"Even a shallow-depth dungeon of up to 20 layers can only be counted as having been trampled, so this would be a pleasure."

I see. By the way, what is a mid-depth dungeon?

"Yes, there are about 80 dungeons around the world that have been discovered so far, but for convenience, they are classified into three categories: shallow/medium/deep."

I've heard of great depth, but that's not true.

Yes, the Department of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism terminology deep underground was not suitable for classification of dungeons because it was a previous concept of underground use. So we created a new concept to avoid misunderstandings. "

I see.

"They are defined by the number of hierarchies, with less than 21 layers being shallow depth, less than 80 layers being medium depth, and more being depth dungeons."

Rumor has it that, as a result of the infiltration of national armies, small arms were decided at a border where they became useless.

Well, Evans dungeon is not that deep even at medium depths.

No, it's just a classification for convenience, so I can't say that clearly. In the first place, the depth dungeon as defined has not been confirmed. "

What do you mean?

For example, in Tokyo, militia countermeasures have reached the 21st floor of the Yoyogi Dungeon. Therefore, Yoyogi is certain to be above mid-depth. "

You don't know that the actual number of hierarchies won't come down?

That's right. If you actually go down and have more than 21 layers, you can see that the depth is medium, but there aren't so many dungeons where the strategy has progressed in the first place. Not to mention the eighty floors, no one has ever reached them, so I don't know if they exist. "

I see. So the dungeon actually only has 31 floors?

"It's possible until someone reaches level 32."

"However, domestic dungeons are announced to have a shallow depth of 5 and more than 4. How do you know this?

That's just an estimate. Today, by observing the special shake called dungeon earthquake that occurs when a dungeon can be formed, it is possible to estimate the depth of the subsurface occupied by the dungeon - in JDA, dungeon depth is expressed as m. "

That's amazing.

"In Japan, which was an earthquake power, Hi-net and GEONET were already in place from the time the dungeon appeared, so by interacting with these records, we estimate the approximate place in the known dungeon."

However, the dungeon seems to be a strange space, and I don't really know if there is a strict relationship between the depth of occupation and the number of hierarchies. The deeper the occupied area, the more hierarchical it may be. "

That's right.

"By comparing the dungeon depth obtained there with the hierarchy of the two shallow-depth dungeons that were trampled in Japan, we estimated the number of other dungeons."

I understand very well. By the way, at the bottom of the Evans Dungeon, several skill orbs dropped everything. Unfortunately, it hasn't been announced. "

Of all the products from the dungeon, it's the most understandable dream item.

Skill Orbs...

When the dungeon appeared, the world became a mess. After all, there were monsters wandering around in the fantasy world.

But that's just a slight increase in places like tigers and rainforests where dangerous carnivores lurk for human society.

It was the three items that really shook the world - cards, potions and skill orbs.

The first discovered dungeon cards, commonly known as D cards, flourished the scientist neighborhood with their over-technology.

Nevertheless, it did not have a significant impact on our lives directly.

When I first defeated a monster, a card with his name and a lot of information dropped -

As a phenomenon, it was just that.

Even now, it is only used to confirm the skill level of Explorer, but at the time, it had only the impression that it was even stranger.

The strange characters used in the small fourteen character string engraved on the upper part of the back became a little talked about in the literature neighborhood, but only the types of characters were collected without any possibility of decryption.

When it was later discovered that the string matched the string found from The Ring, which was written on the surface of the changing tablet, it came back to the world.

But the potion that was discovered next was different.

The potion dropped for the first time on the deceased soldier with his lower body amputated, causing a sensation in the world by accident.

The effect was to connect his lower body, as if laughing at modern medicine, and bring him back from the inevitable "death" itself.

That fact alone led the government and the military, as well as leading companies around the world, to start sending people into the dungeon.

Dungeons have been recognized as being like mines of special resources by various items discovered since then.

Meanwhile, the first skill orb is discovered.

In a nutshell, it was an item that would take humanity to the next level.

The person who used it, what a magic trick.

Make the world of fantasy a reality. That was the skill orb.

Whether or not it is hereditary is now seriously debated.

Military personnel on the cutting edge are likely to have registered their genetic maps before exploring. It will be for comparison with after using the orb.

If the first Orb user were to have a child soon afterwards, it would be time to have it, but no such news has been reported.

In less democratic countries, there were rumors of mass production through artificial insemination.

Either way, the world order could collapse if such items appeared and were used by criminals and others.

Fearing it, the rulers quickly launched the World Dungeons Association (WDA) to manage dungeon items.

In the end, however, the skill orb itself could not be managed.

The first Skill Orbs gathered from all over the country were stored tightly, but they disappeared from the warehouse.

Despite the small number of suspected misappropriations and misconduct, it was difficult to attribute everything to an artificial act that occurred intermittently around the world.

As a result of this observation, it will be confirmed that the skill orb will disappear in exactly 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds after appearing in the world.

This meant that off-site distribution was extremely difficult.

The handling of skill orbs was confusing legally.

It is too rare and its economic value is uncertain, and it will certainly be zero after 24 hours. Whether or not to refer to such skill orbs as property on its own was divisive.

Various interpretations have been attempted, but it is now settled that skill orbs are not movable due to incomplete controllability and their free use is not considered a gift or transfer.

Assuming Skill Orbs are considered tangible, all Skill Orbs are natural objects, i.e. movables without owners.

Even if A acquires it, if it does not claim it, it will remain a movable property without owners. When it was handed over to B, A was merely a means of physically moving the movable property without the owner.

Whatever route you take, if all the people in the middle do not declare ownership, they will have to be regarded as the ultimate owners.

Of course, a dungeon tax will be levied if the sale occurs in the interim.

The world then failed to manage the skill orb, but in the end the world order did not collapse.

The number of skill orbs was extremely small, and there were even fewer users of the orbs that the administrator did not understand.

Of course, crimes using the power of the orb may not have appeared on the surface without being recognized as crimes, but such crimes would have existed before the orb appeared, and as a result nothing seemed to have changed.

It was such an orb, but it couldn't be used by people who didn't show up with cards. If we want to benefit from the Orb, we need to defeat the monster once.

As a result, tours to defeat weak monsters became frequent.

No matter how unlikely you are to get a skill orb, if you have only one day of opportunity, there is no need to prepare in advance.

There were quite a few people who thought so. Especially in developed countries.

Initially, all governments were confused by the backward response, but within a year, laws and management systems were put in place, and each dungeon became manageable by the government and the WDA.

"Though it's not a dream to catch thousands of dollars if you discover it, it's not going to happen to ordinary people."

There were rumours that item boxes had been discovered, that there was metastasis magic, and so on, but Orb users' information tended to be hidden, and it was not credible.

However, concealment is not regulated by law, and if the person discloses it himself, it is free. Even if it results in a slight inconvenience, it will certainly attract attention.

Thus, in the entertainment world, Dg48 was born as a group. It seems that offering a skill orb to "guess" will allow the two of you to date each other until the skill orb disappears.

Speaking of lack of manoeuvre, I was told that the handshake ticket business had come this far, but this means that I will live a fat life.

"I want to be an apprentice, at all. Oops."

When the signal turned blue, I opened the accelerator and started the car, and the feeling of the tire leaving the road came to my waist, and the car bounced.

"Hmm, what is this?!

Cars running at the intersection are bouncing back and forth.

"Yah, yah!

I was forced to cut the steering wheel and pushed from the road to some construction site, and the front wheel was taken and spinned.

There was a deep crack in the ground, and it looks like the tire was taken there. If this happens, we have to put the accelerator back and wait for it to stop.

I felt like a little shadow appeared next to a car that was clean and spinning, but the car's behavior was already out of control. The moment the loud sound of dong resounded in the belly of the car, the cold sweat burst out at once. As a result, the car finally stopped on the verge of hitting a large trailer packed with steel bars.

"You're not a child right now...."

It was quite flashy and if it was involved, it could not be scratched. I stepped on it and kicked it.

I hurried open the door and jumped out into the rain, looking for what hit me.

The rain legs were even stronger and I didn't see them well in the smoke, but something black fell down on the side of the trailer just ahead.

"Hey, are you okay?

As he rushed to the shadow in haste, and tried to reach for his hand, he noticed the anomaly.

I've seen it many times in the video, but I've never seen it live. It wasn't human at all.

"Goblin?

In front of my murmuring eyes, something goblin-like was reduced to black particles.

Then there was a card in dull silver.

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Area 12/Keigo Yongmura

Rank 99,726,438

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Dungeon Cards - These are cards that people drop the first time they defeat a monster.

It was a card full of things I don't know how to get the owner's name or what it says. It was rumored to be a rare metal for a while, but after all, it seemed to be a common material.

The area represents where the dungeon card was displayed.

As a result of the inductive inference from the information of the dungeon card, it was thought that the area number would increase with a width of 10 degrees longitude in the direction of rotation of the earth from around 110-120 degrees west as area 1, and that the area number would turn around in area 36.

In recent years, however, it has been suggested that the Polar Region has been set as Area 0 by an Inuit man acquiring Area 0 cards in Pond Inlet, Canada.

In any case, Tokyo with 139 degrees East longitude is at the eastern tip of area 12.

"Rank 99,726,438."

The rank is said to rank all mankind in order of what was gained from the defeated monsters, which for convenience was called "experience" similar to the game.

Now that I have defeated Goblins for the first time, there are more than 99 million people in the world who have defeated more monsters than one Goblin.

1/70th of humans are already in contact with monsters, which is a number I don't know if there are many or few.

With such a vague thought, I exhaled deeply and murmured.

"Anyway, I'm glad I'm not a kid."

Picking up the card and looking at it, I relieved myself to relax and hit the trailer in the back.

Confused voices and smoke are rising from the intersection. Apparently, it was a big earthquake.

"I wonder if my apartment is okay."

It is a two-storey flat that will be built for fifty years. It is not strange that it was crushed by a big earthquake.

My whole body is already wet. I don't even change when I get back to work, and once I get back home...

When I thought about it, my body slipped behind me and put a butt mochi on the ground.

"Yikes! What is it?"

Looking back at that, I saw a trailer full of reinforcing bars backwards.

"Hmm?!

As it went down, a large and deep crack spread beyond it, whether it had been caused by the previous earthquake or not.

Apparently, I put the last push on the trailer, which had stopped in a tight balance.

Fortunately, the trailer stopped halfway through the crack, but the massive amount of steel - very thick and long - that had been piled up slipped into the hole.

"No, this was spontaneously drunk by the ground crack, right? It's none of my business, right? There's absolutely no way to make amends."

I was watching it with a cold sweat.

It rains all the way from the top of my head to the tip of my feet. Now I was thinking that I didn't understand why it was so cold and sweaty, but I couldn't hear the sound of the reinforcement hitting me forever.

When I approached around the side of the crack, something like a creepy voice echoed from the bottom of the earth and wobbled back and forth.

Ha!

Then, a feeling of being pushed up into something from inside the body occurred continuously, and when it was finished, a beautiful rainbow-coloured bead (orb) appeared in front of you.

When I saw it, I unexpectedly calculated the falling distance in my head and escaped. If the iron had fallen freely at a diameter of 4 cm, it would have been just over 15 seconds... 1,000 meters.

"If the reinforcing bars fell vertically, they're still not going to reach the termination speed."

The beads (orbs) still floated in front of my meaningless murmuring eyes.