Chapter 32

Chapter 32

The cherry tomatoes ripening plump emitting gloss were like jewels.

Pshuuk-

One slime absorbed water from the pond then started spraying above the field. Touching the light of the luminous stones a faint rainbow was created and the surroundings were moistly dyed.

“Lee Gyuseong Gyuseong! Here is all done!”

Ara who gripped cherry tomatoes with her small hand ran to me and shouted.

“Yeah? Here also almost done.”

I put tomatoes in the basket and casually looked beside. Other areas also seemed gradually ending.

“Shall we go to the storage?”

“Going!”

The harvested tomatoes mostly entered the slimes’ stomachs right after harvesting but the remaining headed to the storage like this.

Originally I was going to finish only tomato harvesting and examine the secret space where the stairs going underground were but I recalled what I had forgotten for a moment.

‘Dry tomatoes.’

What Jaeseong asked when briefly visiting the dungeon together with Seona. Since Jaeseong prepared all the materials and left what I had to do wasn’t much.

First I started cutting the harvested tomatoes in half. The slimes and Ara who finished work whether curious that I was doing something fidgeted and watched beside.

Snip!

I neatly put the tomatoes cut in half on the prepared cloth. Ara seeing that appearance said she would do too and helped.

“Then I’ll cut so Ara put them prettily here.”

“I can do well!”

Beside the storage there were also luminous stones.

Because I had to dry the tomatoes I worked under the luminous stones. Before I knew it I could line up tomatoes to the extent of filling 3 large cloths full.

“This degree is enough.”

“What do you do with the remaining tomatoes?”

“Shall we eat?”

“Uwa! Eating!”

We rolled tomatoes in the mouth like candy and ate and moved to the next work.

‘One sprinkle salt, one apply olive oil, one just.’

Jaeseong had one worry and that was whether there was wind. Originally wind had to blow for tomato drying to be easy but in the dungeon such couldn’t be hoped for.

“And finally appearing Ambergrill!”

“Ambergrill!”

Ara not knowing what it was for now followed my words and did a hurrah.

Soon I took out the Ambergrill that had been well dried and stored until now from the storage. A dungeon plant same as Leila and at the same time a spice used as herb.

[Ambergrill imbued with mana LV.1]

Faint mana is contained.

Upon intake, mental strength rises for 1 minute according to the amount of mana possessed. Stress is faintly resolved.

“Sprinkle sprinkle on the tomatoes applied with olive oil.”

“Sprinkle sprinkle!”

I even gave Ambergrill to Ara’s small hand.

Then she sniffed and smelled then soon brought to the mouth and ate in one bite.

“Um!”

“...Delicious?”

Since herb it’s edible but I didn’t know she would eat suddenly.

“Delicious!”

“Yeah? For now let’s sprinkle sprinkle on the tomatoes. If gripping tightly like this...”

Rustle-

“Like this it becomes powder right? Sprinkle this on top.”

“Ooh!”

Ara who became sparkling as if discovering a fun play gripped Ambergrill in hand.

Soon immediately crumbling and laughing.

“Fun!”

“Now sprinkle on top.”

“Hoi!”

Spreading both hands wide and scattering but because it didn’t fly far more than expected the Ambergrill powder fell fluttering to the floor.

“There’s more here so let’s do together. If you want to eat you can eat.”

“Hihi! Good!”

Sprinkling Ambergrill powder on the tomatoes like that finally I could roughly finish the work Jaeseong told.

Since no wind blows I don’t know if it will be completed as Jaeseong wants but trying once doesn’t seem bad.

‘Gradually shall I prepare seeds of other crops too.’

The strawberries and eggplants, and cucumbers planted in advance haven’t been harvested yet but looking at the appearance of fruits hanging it seemed harvestable soon.

Rather the harvest was delayed more than thought so somehow expectations became bigger.

Like that after harvesting all this 1st crops I was thinking of planting what Jaeseong wanted too.

Chili peppers, beans, onions, pumpkins, green onions were candidates for 2nd crops for now.

‘Others aside chili peppers and green onions are unconditional.’

Not particularly preferring Korean food but as a Korean crops that couldn’t be separated.

Curious what taste it would be if making chili oil or gochujang with the chili peppers I grew.

‘Exactly curious about the cooking... Kimchi stew with the chili peppers I grew entering? Can’t endure this.’

Having resolved the tomatoes now it’s really time to explore the secret space.

Maintaining a bit of tension I said to Ara who was munching Ambergrill beside.

“Ara, let’s go to the stairs.”

“Um!”

Just in time since Ambergrill’s effect is mental strength rise I also chewed one dried leaf following Ara. A subtle scent circled the inside of the mouth and passed.

“More than expected... there’s addictiveness.”

“Delicious! But the stomach is hungry!”

Since not a plant grown for filling the stomach it can’t be helped. Anyway excluding Mark Two and some slimes who would manage the field I joined Dokdok and 5 slimes in the expedition.

“Let’s go!”

“Going!”

Ara seemed just fun with a grinning expression.

I knew in advance from Ara that it wasn’t a dangerous place but just in case something happens I packed the bag and finished all preparations.

Arriving at the damp space I visited once before like that suddenly Ara tightly grabbed my pant hem.

“Ara?”

“U, um? A, nothing! I’m not scared at all!”

At the appearance of confessing scared that anyone looking would know I ended up smiling without knowing. Ara watching such me made a tearful face as if why smiling but thanks to that the tension eased a bit.

“Oh, here is the place where I first discovered Puu, no Ara.”

“Ooh! The place where Lee Gyuseong Gyuseong saved me!”

Whether the scary thing disappeared as soon as darkness became a bit familiar soon Ara looking around here and there.

Passing the coffin that looked like an altar like that and arriving at the stairs Ara became a fully excited expression.

“My dungeon!”

“If going down below this there’s another dungeon right?”

“That’s it!”

Does it mean dual structure?

Whether there’s a dungeon inside the dungeon or whether underground exists structurally honestly not well understood.

If going down directly and confirming I’ll know.

Like that I led the slime corps, 6 + Ara, and went down.

The stairs were a gloomy atmosphere same as the secret space. Stone stairs and walls surrounding all sides were made in a color similar to exposed concrete.

“Arrived!”

“Uh? Door?”

Not long after reaching the end of the stairs we could face one door.

“Here is my dungeon!”

“But Ara, if here is your dungeon what is the place we’ve been living until now?”

“That’s also a dungeon! But not my dungeon! The lord’s dungeon!”

Ah, so the dungeon we’ve been using as a field until now is the Slime Lord’s dungeon.

“Then shall we open?”

“Me! I want to open!”

The door was unexpectedly big so the handle was at a height Ara’s hand didn’t reach. I lifted Ara who was tiptoeing and straining to grab the handle so her hand could reach.

Click!

-Confirming the dungeon’s owner, Gluttony Gula.

-Entry is permitted.

-Remaining mana: 8/10

Suddenly an unknown voice rang in the head.

It was a voice similar to the system but confirming the content I realized that if not coming together with Ara entry would have been impossible.

‘The pieces fit well.’

Slowly the door opened.

Then something like a transparent film undulating appeared.

“If crossing here it’s done!”

“This film?”

“Going, Lee Gyuseong Gyuseong!”

I trusted Ara and nodded once then stretched my foot hard. Then the body passed beyond the film and I could cross to the opposite side in an instant.

Whoong-

‘Wind?’

Warm sunlight and cool wind touched the skin.

It seemed a cozy smell was also coming.

Before I knew it slowly opening the eyes I closed without knowing, a scenery unimaginable as beyond the dungeon door unfolded before my eyes.

“This is...”

“Returned home! Here is my dungeon!”

Honestly because it was Ara’s dungeon one of the seven deadly sins there was also a bit of tension. But the scenery before my eyes had nothing to be tense about at all.

Rather a place this peaceful seemed not even outside the dungeon.

Whoong-

The grasses grown to about ankle height swayed their bodies lightly in the breeze. The land widely spread with such grasses created the horizon and the hills visible here and there and huge trees created mystery.

Raising my head the sun unthinkable as inside a dungeon was shining. At the same time a deep blue sky like early evening and clouds floating leisurely...

“No, stars and the sun are floating together?”

There was no moon but the question arose if that was scientifically possible. But the scenery actually visible to the eyes couldn’t be denied.

What became certain due to that scenery was the fact that here is not Earth.

Looking back instead of the door we passed there was a tree. And on that tree there existed a hole one person could enter.

Looking around the surroundings for a moment like that Ara waved her hands expecting my reaction.

“How is it? How is it!”

“Really a pretty place. Even building a house and living here would be fine.”

“I also liked the outside world I went out with Lee Gyuseong Gyuseong!”

“Yeah, yeah. We have to go outside often too.”

I knelt one knee and touched the ground.

Whether occupational disease struck I was estimating first if I could farm here.

Then Ara who was chattering tilted her head then followed me and knelt one knee and touched the ground.

“Hmm.”

“Hmm!”

“Hmm...”

“Hmmm!”

Following not knowing what action it was was too cute.

Ultimately bursting into laughter I stretched my hand to Ara’s tiger ears and kneaded.

Ara as if not losing also stretched her hand and fiddled my ears.

Fiddling ears for a long time like that I lifted Ara and put her on my shoulders. Ara’s voice laughing kyarruk tickled the ears.

“A good place. I can farm here too. The land is also wide.”

“Can farm! But here there is winter! When winter comes it becomes all white!”

“Winter? Ah! There are seasons.”

Thinking about it the farming done in the dungeon until now was similar to vinyl house farming.

That’s why I didn’t care about weather or seasons, and moreover thanks to Mark Two managing on his own I farmed without any problem.

“Wow, rather than a dungeon another world. How big is the size on earth?”

“That I also don’t know...”

Ara who was boasting fully then answering as if lacking confidence when something unknown came out was cute.

For now according to what I heard from Ara in this vicinity, that is within the area Ara was active there were only slimes.

Since the owner Ara was a slime this also belonging to a slime dungeon would be why.

“Occasionally there were times subordinates reported there were other guys but because too far I didn’t care!”

“Dangerous guys wouldn’t be right?”

“Except me my subordinates were all weak! But seeing they were fine it’s not dangerous!”

Come to think of it right.

Even granting Ara is such a special slime most slimes are weak so seeing they lived here it seemed a peaceful dungeon in its own way.

-Ding!

“Uh?”

Suddenly a system sound rang.

Soon a window I hadn’t seen in a long time blocked my field of vision.

[Hidden Quest: Harvest a new crop in the unknown land]

Cultivate a new crop in Gluttony’s dungeon.

New crop cultivation: 0/1