[Reberu] ga Arunara Agerudesho? Mobukyara ni Tensei Shita Ore wa Gēmu Chishiki o Ikashi, Hitasura Reberu o Age Tsudzukeru - CH 128

[Thank You for the Experience Points]

If you make a mistake in the order of this replacement puzzle, the monsters sealed in the forbidden books will be released, but come on, we’re talking about me, a reincarnated person, here.

After unhesitantly replacing the books in the correct order and making the hidden door reveal itself, I take out the book stored beyond it.

The old book doesn’t have a title, and it’s actually more like a booklet with multiple parchments bound than a real book, indicating how old the book is.

But thankfully and strangely, the letters used in this book—which may have been made hundreds of years ago—are no different from the ones used in this era, so I’m able to read it without a problem.

Just that, the content is not much different from what I saw in the game. The point is, “The dungeon is actually a monster!”

The only difference this book has from the one in the game is that it describes in more detail the history which led the human beings who were protected by the gods came to coexist with dungeons and the path that they had taken to start drawing history with their own power.

By the way, it says that the reason why the gods left this world and mankind be forced to narrow their living sphere and unite into one nation was because the ‘Evil King of the Night Sky’… or in other words, Iris’s dad, ‘Babi Niflheim’ went on a rampage and brought many nations to ruin.

Because of him, the joint line of defense which was put up by multiple nations turned to shambles, resulting in many nations destroyed by invading monsters. Many were sacrificed to subdue him, and more and more people begun to reject the idea of having gods rule their nations. It was a really chaotic age.

“Seriously though, that guy sure is a good-for-nothing. He should have thought about others for a bit.”

I know it’s no use to say this now, but it’s exactly because he was like that everyone turned into his enemies and ganged up on him.

This is why I hate selfish people.

By the way, the gods then left this world in response to the voice of the anti-gods (dwarves), thus the divine power that kept monsters away from the nations disappeared. As a result, the human beings truly reached the brink of extinction.

In that situation, a certain monster tamer miraculously succeeded in communicating and negotiating with a dungeon, earning the mankind a new living sphere in the dungeon’s territory.

Having begun to revive by relying on the protection of the dungeon, the mankind then purged the anti-gods (dwarves) who had drove them to the brink of extinction till none of their members left alive.

On top of that, the mankind tried to seek forgiveness from the gods who had already left the world by once again worshipping them.

This’s the beginning of the religion, and it was the First Saintess, Ethel’s ancestor, who founded the organization that sort out the teaching of the gods in a scripture, solving various problems that took root in the community and building a foundation that continues to the present day.

Though as time went by, there gradually began to appear people who took advantage of the saintess’ modest lifestyle to their own benefit, causing the saintess become a twisted position as it is now.

Tut-tut, this is why people who reach high position but neglect self-discipline (leveling) are no good.

“Still, a monster tamer succeeded in negotiating with the dungeon, eh.”

Monster tamer refers to a character who have the ‘Monster Tame’ skill, and as the name suggests, it allows you to tame monsters.

The strength and number of monsters that can be tamed are proportional to the skill level; the higher the level, the stronger the monsters that can be tamed—you may even tame those whose level is higher than your character’s level.

But as a matter of course, even if dungeons are categorized as monsters in the setting of the game, they cannot be tamed by ‘monster tamer’ because they are basically just maps in the system.

Additionally, even if the skill level is raised to the maximum limit, ‘Monster Tame’ can never target powerful monsters such as boss-class monsters or dragons that live outside the wall.

So, the most monster tamers can do is taming monsters that spawns in dungeons in the nation—of course, excluding the bosses.

Exactly because I know of that fact I can’t help but envy this monster tamer who’s said to have succeeded in negotiating with a dungeon.

I mean, if I can tame a dungeon in the truest sense, then I’d be able to close the entrance to the dungeon and hole up in it to grind as long as I want. What would you call it other than the best leveling environment?

If I can go back to the past and meet the monster tamer in person, I’d most definitely ask them how to tame a dungeon, or what sort of threats or coercions would be best used to take over a dungeon… as I’m thinking, I realize something.

“Taming a dungeon… wouldn’t that cheat bastard be able to do it?”

Things that had no effect in the game—such as the backstory of potions—have an actual impact in this world. The backstories are not extras, but facts.

Meaning dungeons, which was only maps in the game, are likely to be actual monsters in this world.

And since dungeons being monsters was only a backstory and didn’t have actual data in the game, there is a possibility that they aren’t attached with the attribute of not subject to ‘Monster Tame’ here.

In that case, dungeons would satisfy the condition of ‘monsters inside the nation, except the bosses’ that is the subject to ‘Monster Tame’ skill, and if you succeeded in negotiating with one, you’d be able to tame a dungeon.

Needless to say, in order to tame a dungeon—the second place in the food chain after dragons, the apex predator—a very high level of ‘Monster Tame’ skill is required, and the maximum limit in the game would be nowhere near enough to do so.

However, that bastard, Nanashino Katsumi, has access to the cheat ‘World Intervention, which allows him to ignore logics.

If he finds out that there is a person who successfully establishing communication and negotiating with a dungeon in the past, he’d definitely try to get ‘Monster Tame’ on the same or higher level of that person’s with the power of ‘World Intervention’ and tame a dungeon. I mean, that’s the only logical course of actions anyone in his position would take.

“But he said he doesn’t get experience points because he’s possessing the body of a boss character… what would he get from taming a dungeon?”

I only think of dungeon as ‘a thing that can greatly contribute to my earning experience points’, so I can’t figure out the benefit or motive to him taming a dungeon with a body that can’t get experience points.

Unable to come up with anything, I just shove the idea into the corner of my mind.

I mean, even if he really has tamed the dungeon, it doesn’t change the fact that I have to find a way to enter the dungeon and release the blockade.

More importantly, ‘World Intervention’ sure is very convenient to be able to make illogical things possible.

When the time to pin the crime on Nanashino arrive, should I let him off if he says he can give me the ownership of the dungeon with ‘World Intervention’? Let’s keep this in mind.

“Anyways, is there really no way to directly go inside the dungeon written here?” While mumbling out complaints, I continue to flip through the book, but unfortunately, I can’t find any useful information even after spending an hour on it.

Is my method wrong, or does the book not contain useful information in the first place?

I can’t tell which it is, and I’m gradually getting tired of it. So I go make a mistake on the bookshelf puzzle on purpose, take out the forbidden book containing a monster, and defeat the monster released from it.

“Goga (wait)! Gagigo (human)! Garaguganigao (I’ll make your wish), Naragiraba (come true)!” so it says, but I don’t have ‘Monster Tame’ skill, so I don’t understand what it means. In the end, I have it obediently turn into my experience points.

Well, from the gestures it was making, it might be saying something along the line of ‘I’ll grant your wish’ or something, but even if that were the case, I would have wished for experience points, so its fate would have still been the same.

In other words, offering himself to be my experience points is his chosen path of life.

Thank you, o’ monster. I’ll forever remember you. Even though I don’t know your name, I’ll never forget the number of experience points you gave me.

The monster dropped a healing potion. I wish it dropped a more useful item, but well it’s better than nothing. When I pick it up and go sprinkle it on Cordelia-san’s wound—

“Ugh… where is… this…?”

“Oh, you’re up.”

——Our saintess slowly opens her eyes, though the wound on her back hasn’t fully closed yet.

Now then, what would be a good excuse for the opened hidden door?

Would she believe me if I say I happened to push the bookshelf open while I was browsing through the books…? I hope she would…