Earth Dungeon 22

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Chapter 22. Hunting

I got Shingen's community. Charara~.

In one stroke, I got nearly 1,000 subordinates, and Amatsugahara Corporation became a huge company.

[Normally you would only count working employees in the headcount, right?]

"Except for the kids, they work, so it's okay to count them as employees."

I reply to Shizuku's tsk tsk, looking in the direction of the day after tomorrow. It's good, isn't it, a big company?

[Salary is paid in kind, right?]

"Ahhhhh, I can't hear you."

I don't need further tsukkomi, Shizuku-san, or anyone.

So, I am Amano Sakimori, who defeated Shingen in the last stampede. I'm now on the hunt. Did I beat him, or did I make him one of my members, with my human skills? I might call myself Liu Bei. I shouldn't. I hate Liu Bei. He's a man who wastes good people. And you can't survive in an abandoned town on Charm alone.

I'm gathering in front of the forest. We're all here to hunt, about 30 young men waiting nervously with long spears in their hands, produced by attaching knives to the ends of clothespins.

"Sakimori, we are ready here!"

Shingen mounts his horse and shouts to us. Thanks to his [Cavalry] skills, Shingen won't fall from the horse he has created, and the horse will move according to his will. It is truly a "man and horse as one.

We are now in front of Shingen's field. We are waiting behind the fence.

"All right, let's do it."

"Hey!"

Ooki-kun, who was holding a gong next to me, banged it as hard as he could. Where did you get that gong from? A pot would have been fine, though. And, I also cook some monster incense.

The sound of the gongs echoed around us. The forest becomes noisy, and the sound of something approaching footsteps comes from the grass.

"Choo-choo!"

About 30 big rats come running toward the young men at the fence, but they fall into the empty moat dug in front of the fence. Shingen raises his spear and gives the order.

"Spear squad, charge!"

"Oh~!"

The men with long spears poke at the group of rats that have fallen into the moat and can't move. The rats ran around, but couldn't escape, and the spears kept knocking them down.

"Here comes the next one!"

The goblins come. There are about 50 of them. Archer is behind them, its bow at the ready. It is about to fire an arrow at us, and my allies are slightly frightened by its sight. It's not surprising, since there are no archers here. And it turned out we can catch goblins with monster incense near dungeons. I thought that wasn't the case from the stampede.

"Hugoh!"

Among the goblins, I could see 3 hobgoblins. They were standing still, intending to charge after archer shot at us. They are cunning bastards.

With a whoosh, it unleashed the arrows and flew at our allies. But no problem.

"[Shadow Snake], defend me from arrows."

The shadow on the fence moved in time from Sakimori's words. The figure was a snake. With its long, long body, the snake stretches its body to encircle the fence.

The arrow stops moving when it passes through the shadow and falls to the ground.

"Gugg?"

The hobgoblins shout in surprise as they see archer's arrow fall. They quickly regain their composure and come running in unison with a thud and the sound of footsteps, along with the goblins.

They stop when they see an empty moat. It is about two meters wide. It is two meters deep. The hobgoblins hesitate, but the moat is not a threat to them.

If the goblins have the muscle strength of an adult, the hobgoblins have the power of a truck that would hit us. They could easily jump over 5 meters and leap over fences.

"[Shadow Tiger], kill it."

Sakimori, who had predicted this, sent a thought, and a 3 meter tall jet-black tiger jumped out from behind the fence and struck the hobgoblin trying to climb over the fence.

With a bang, it blows him away. Two others do the same. The shadow tiger leaps into the hobgoblin and knocks it down.

Spinning dexterously in the air, the shadow tiger pounces on the hobgoblin and bites off its neck instantly.

Then, as if in stitches, it passed the other goblins and pounced on archer in time.

Meanwhile, the goblins, unsure of what to do in front of the moat, jumped to the moat and put their hands on the wall, trying to get to the fence.

"Now! Spear them!"

I'm now an old man, just like a warlord.

With a shout, the soldiers pointed their spears at the goblin and thrust with all their might. The goblins screamed in agony and fell.

The shadow tiger easily defeated archers, and archers fall to the ground as corpses.

With a war cry, Shingen's army defeats the goblins and a large group of rats.

"The verification is a success. The shadow tiger does not take the hobgoblins by the teeth."

[Originally, you should only produce the shadow tigers on even strength. The shadow familiar you make at level 3 can only produce power about even with an enemy one level lower. But thanks to Sakimori-san's overwhelming magic manipulation, you can overwhelm them.]

Shizuku says with squinted eyes as her astral body float by. She has already fully recovered and is full of energy.

"Nyaa!"

With a purr as cute as a kitten's, I hear the shadow tiger give a triumphant yelp.

[The meow is nice, too. After all, the cat type must have a cute voice, right? Nyan~]

Nyan-nyan Shizuku-san is very cute today, waving her hands in a pretend cat-hand stance.

"Well, it's a series of battles. Get rid of the enemy's corpses and fight the next one."

I fold my arms and think whether there's anything wrong with the current battle, but it looks fine. We can take care of most of the enemies with this.

"Hey!"

"Okay, I'll go tell them! I'll go tell them!"

Ooki-kun nodded, and the leader boy who had been waiting with him ran off. About an hour to clean up the corpses, huh?

"Let's see how far we can go in a row and how many enemies we can catch. Maybe this place is going from dead to popping thanks to the stampede. We should be able to get an accurate count."

This is a dungeon in front of us and a dungeon in a distant place. Because it's the intersection of several dungeon pops. Now, how many can you catch?

I started fishing early in the morning, and eventually, the enemies stopped showing up no matter how much monster incense we cooked and gongs we sounded, after we had killed 28 hobgoblins, 487 goblins, and 687 big rats.

"I guess I can sell 200 coupepans every day."

After our demolition has been completed since then, I returned to Izakaya Fuurin Kozan with Shingen and the others, who are exhausted and satisfied with the large amount of cores in front of them. I'm not tired, by the way. My status is up, and I'm not fighting.

"I'll have to fight for a few days, but no more than knights appeared, and that's good. Damn, that's a frightening power."

Shingen sits down and looks at the shadow tiger sitting in the corner of the room and the snake quietly closing its eyes.

"Level 3 can attach simple magic to shadows, you know. I gave the shadow snake the magic of shadow bind. It's too good of a familiar, man."

"It's only a little numb to our touch, but it's ...... It's deadly power for arrows. Now we won't be afraid of archers."

[Shadow Bind] is a spell that was available at level 1. At level 3, I can give it to my familiar. Of course, Shadow Bind is weak. But as usual, it's overwhelmingly strong against arrows. Moreover, if the familiar body is long like a snake, it can protect a wide area.

The shadows I can create have also increased from the level of a puppy to a tiger. Mike, who became a tiger, could easily defeat hobgoblins.

"Mike~."

"Myaamyaa" 

"Hands~"

The children approach Mike to ride on its backs. They're children who don't remember fear even when they grow up. There is also a little girl who tries to climb onto my shoulders. Shizuku-san, you don't have to fight and get on my shoulders.

"Now, I know I can make money. This way, Amatsugahara Corporation will be in the black."

"Yes, it is. And this is the new item?"

Shingen picks up a sachet that is placed separately from the core.

"Yes, that's right. It seems to be the newest item."

Sakimori looks amused as he looks at the sachet in Shingen's hand. Shingen sniffs and reaches into the bag to pull it out.

There was a single potato in there. It was the one he had gotten earlier in the exchange.

"One hundred F-rank cores for just one potato? Isn't that too expensive?"

"I think the store said something like this, right? [Seed Potatoes]."

Seed potatoes. A seed potato is something you plant and grow.

"Hmm, I bet we can harvest many potatoes if we plant these."

Shingen looks skeptical as he holds the pompous seed potato, but what do you think? Maybe it's the kind of seed potatoes we could harvest in a week. It took 80,000 of us to unlock the lock. The speed of growth of the harvested potatoes would be normal, though.

After much thought and consideration, I decided to start with seed potatoes. I could create familiar with a level that can protect the fields if I'm a level 3 guy.

"Well, we'll just have to try it out and plant it. We can wait until the rainy season is over, or we can plant it and see if it has supernatural powers."

"Oh, sure, it came out of the core store, so that's a possibility. ...... You decide you're the president."

I chuckle at Shingen throwing the decision to me, but I think about it. It's to arise from the results of this seed potato.

"Do you think that if we can harvest a large number of potatoes and defend this land? The army will come?"

"Hm, I guess I have to take that possibility into account ....... No."

Shingen's simple answer surprises me. I think that's a possibility.

"I'm sure they must have gotten these seed potatoes in inner town. If they're going to work hard to grow those seed potatoes, they should first go to the inner city. Then they should spread it to the outer town. The abandoned town will be a thing of the far future."

"I see. If we can grow potatoes in the outer town and harvest them in large quantities. It would be a good idea."

Indeed, that's true. Old man Shingen is smarter than I expected. The people in the inner town are likely to act accordingly. Spread out around a little at a time, huh?

We will conquer the abandoned city and join the outer town. To do so, we have to mobilize the army and expand the city walls. If I don't help the government, I'll have to mobilize an army to protect this place. And I'm not going to help the government at all.

"Good. Let's plant them in the field. I'll turn all the cores into seed potatoes this time, too, and give it a try. I can't wait to see the results."

The hard-boiled old man folds his arms like a boss and laughs. The old man is the boss, he always has to be adventurous. I know the outcome, though.

"That's a bold move. No profit this time?"

"Fingers crossed that the seed potatoes will grow. And I'll watch the hunt for a while, and if it goes well, I'll go to the outer city to sell them. I'll call Hanashi and ask her to find someone to buy a large quantity of potatoes.

"Oh, come on. You think you can harvest a large amount already?"

Shingen looks at me as if I'm dumbfounded, and he's right.

"That's how much I'm counting on these seed potatoes. After all, they're from the dungeon."

I give him a wry grin. I know the result, though.