[Current location: Adventure guild – Guild master's office.]
"A dungeon break? Are you sure about this?" – asked the guild master.
"Yeah. There was no mistaking it." – said the young man with the scar.
"I mean, this is the only dungeon with undeads in it, so where else would a large number of undeads suddenly appear from?"
"…"
*Sigh*
"I will put warnings and restrictions regarding the forest…. I will also send out adventures to deal with wandering zombies…. And Adam? He is still there, right?" – asked the guild master.
"Yeah… He is now even more scared after we found out about the dungeon break while we were searching for his brother's party." – said the brown-haired man.
"…"
"I will give words to the people I send to look around for anybody who could have been possible attacked by undeads. If you like, you are allowed to go back… I will give you all rewards later on when all things will calm down, and I will also throw in a bit of a bonus." - said the guild master.
"But for now, dismissed. But it may be a good idea for you two to check up on that idiot Adam."
"Yea, we were planning on doing that. Thank you for your concern, guild master."– said the brown-haired man, before moments later, the two young men left the office.
"…"
"For fuck...*Sigh*" – the guild master held his head in annoyance while the female staff walked towards the man's desk.
"Guild master? If the undead dungeon was really that much unpopular to the point people straight up avoided it, why didn't you allow the destruction of the core?" – asked the female staff.
"Well... Here is the funny fucking thing." - replied the guild master."
"I knew that dungeon sucked and that nobody would really profit from it!"
"And I did request confirmation to destroy the dungeon."
"I did try to get rid of the dungeon!"
"But you know what the mayor and the fucking lord said?"
"No!"
"They... Fucking greedy pigs!"
"MONEY! MONEY! MONEY! MONEY!"
"Fucking only thoughts in their fucking heads."
"They thought that they would earn MONEY from the undead dungeon."
"They thought that people would go there, since people may go and train their skills as well as level up."
"But the location was the worst, and young adventurers also need to care about income!"
"There were many good reasons why I told them we should destroy the dungeon, since it wasn't worth it one bit.... But when I tried to convince them again, they once again fucking both said 'No' and straight up told me not even think about it!"
"And now we have the undead wandering around that was caused by the very same dungeon they told us to leave alone since it would be 'WORTH IT'....."
"For crying out loud, even low-ranking undead can cause many different problems and also a dungeon break on top of it all? Fantastic!"
"There is also a good possibility of the dungeon maybe becoming stronger because of the dungeon break, which could cause it to evolve.... Or even worse, it could make dungeon danger rank increase."
(This isn't some small problem.) - thought worried guild master.
(Dungeon breaks can be extremely dangerous, no matter what sort of rank the dungeon has.)
"…"
"Then don't we have now reason to destroy that dungeon?" – asked the female staff while the guild master took out a cigarette from the drawer.
"Well, technically we do have a good one…. But the problem, again, is the mayor and the lord. They may try and say 'GET RID OF ALL THE MONSTERS AND TAME THE DUNGEON' or some other shit." – said an annoyed guild master while using fire magic to conquer a small flame above his thumb to light up his cigar.
"Tch."
"And to make matters worse, these two idiots may end up becoming greedier."
"The dungeon that usually experiences dungeon break results in the dungeon often mutating and growing strong, meaning that its danger rank would increase…. However, these idiots may think that it's an opportunity, since stronger monsters could be born, meaning an easier time leveling up and better drops."
"…"
"But you know what? Fuck it. I will shut the dungeon down no matter what they say."
"Eh? But don't you need their permission?" – asked the female staff.
"Yes, usually I do. But with the authority of the guild master, I can issue commands myself." – said the guild master.
"Depending on the circumstances, the guild master can sometimes ignore or straight up deny nobles' orders."
"And right now, I have good reason to silence these bastards' votes, meaning that there isn't anything stopping me any longer from breaking that dungeon."
"Their fault, their problem."
"However, this will definitely sour our relationship with the lord and the mayor…. Still, it's either that or more problems later on."
"There is also a problem regarding the dungeon's current state. We don't know what is going on with it right now. Did it evolve, and how many monsters did it give birth to? What about new monster types? Are they also present?
"And there is also the question of how many monsters are right in the forest, just roaming around, waiting for an unlucky victim to be caught in their line of sight…. This is just stupid… If we don't do it right, we may have random casualties popping up."
"And there will be other bullshit along the way….. Just….. 'Perfect'."
With the sudden emergence of the dungeon break appearing, the guild instantly got to work and spread the warning throughout both the adventurer guild and the entire city, warning the citizens and adventurers, as well as restricting access to the forest altogether to some people.
As of right now, the deep forest is currently on lockdown, and only authorized personnel will be granted permission even to enter.
Only adventurers with rank F and above will be allowed to participate in the cleaning-up operation, while a special operation team will be sent into the dungeon with the sole goal of exterminating all monsters inside the dungeon, as well as completely eradicating the undead dungeon with them.
It may seem like a massive scale incident took place, but by the looks of things, undeads weren't still problematic enough, since the very next morning, most of the undeads had been located and dealt with, giving a clear path for the elite team venturer inside the dungeon to finish off the dungeon.
"Well…. I get that the pay is good and stuff…. But can we REALLY not deal with the undeads?!" – said the girl with a staff and long hair as she and the group of 4 other people walked through the forest.
"I can deal with ANY undeads, but not the zombies! Do you have any idea how much they stink?! I may be using magic and deal with them from afar, but there is straight up no way of avoiding this stench when you're inside the dungeon!"
"Can you please stop complaining already?" – asked the girl with fox ears and tail.
"I also don't like the whole 'stench' and stuff either, since I have a very sensitive nose, but hey! The pay is extremely generous this time!"
"Not only that, the job seems quite easy as well, since the dungeon barely got strong enough to be called a real challenge, according to the guys we passed by a few moments ago."
"Oh, shut it, you money-loving fox." – said the annoyed girl with the staff.
"Honestly, being covered in that rooting stench.... I don't think it will be worth the pay in my book."
"Well, stench is one thing, but she is right about the difficulty. It will be an easy job, and maybe we can finish it fast enough so the stench wouldn't attach itself to us way too much." - said the man wearing heavy armor who was also carrying an axe and a shield.
"There is also the thing about the guild master wanting to get rid of that dungeon ages ago, and now he has a proper excuse to do so."
"So, honestly, it all will….hm?" – the man in the heavy armor noticed somebody in front of the group, a person who was screaming something.
"FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!" – shouted a black-haired man named Adam as he punched the tree nonstop, while his two friends tried stopping him from hurting himself.
"Dude! Calm down!" - said the young man with a scar.
"Calm down?! Calm the fuck down?! We-"
"Hey! Adam!" – said the armor-wearing man, getting the attention of Adam and his friends, who all turned towards the group, with Adam, who looked at the man with an extremely annoyed and tired expression.
"Yikes, you look like you can kill somebody." – said the heavily armored adventurer.
"Mar…. Piss off." – said the black-haired adventurer who tried to walk away, only to get stopped by the armored adventurer's arm.
"Hey, we haven't seen each other for how long and- "
"Didn't you hear me, you fucking overgrown bastard. Piss off." – said Adam as he instantly grabbed his sword handle while starting right in the face of the armored adventurer, confusing him and alarming him by the black-haired man's behavior.
"Mar. Please let him go. He is looking for his brother." – said the man with the scar with both tired and pitied look, which was noticed by the Mar's entire party.
"?"
"Brother?" - said the adventurer named Mar.
"…"
"Tch." – Adam forced his way through and walked past the group of adventurers.
"…"
"The hell happened to him?" – asked Mar as soon as Adam walked far away so he wouldn't hear anything.
"Well….. His little brother suddenly went missing." – said the man with the scar.
"He looked around, and when we came back after reporting to the guild about the break, we helped him out in the search, we even stayed with him for the whole night until the sun rose... But we couldn't find anything."
"Then the backup came, and we started hunting down all the undeads that had spread out…. But…. Well, we didn't find anything."
"He has been searching nonstop and hunting all the monsters in the area that got in his way… But again, no results regarding the search for his little brother or the missing party."
"There are no monsters or anything anywhere."
"We may have thought that the dungeon break got them or something, but if it did, then we would have seen some traces by now after how long we searched around for."
"But…. Nothing."
"And right now, he is blaming himself for everything, even though we did everything in our power to find his lil bro."
"…"
(Dammit! FUCK! SHIT! BITCH! WHORE!) – Though annoyed Adam as he walked through the forest, only to then get suddenly ambushed by the horned rabbit.
However, without even batting an eye, Adam swung his sword, cutting the creature in half without even batting an eye or even stopping for a moment to try to collect his prey, and just continued walking.
(NOTHING! All the stuff we found so far was some random trash that belonged to some adventures that just "lost" it, but besides that, there was not even a single thing!)
(Then where the fuck is he?!)
(I checked every single spot where the horned rabbits can be found, and I've even helped out with dealing with undeads, but nothing also came out!)
(So does that mean he was never in the forest in the first place?)
(The only other explanation would be that he had died and was consumed by the dungeon…. But that is impossible.)
(The stampede in the undead dungeon would have forced him to run away, while there are nonstop people at the beast dungeon, so they would have seen or found his remains before they were consumed!)
"…"
(Or maybe he wasn't in this part of the forest?)
(But that wouldn't make any sense.)
(I mean, that area is far more dangerous, and there is no way they would encounter any horned rabbits in that area. Hell! We didn't find any undeads anywhere near that area either!)
(But.... We didn't do a full search of that place, since there was no need to.....And there would be no reason at all for him to even be there, since.....Since....)
"…"
"Tch."
"Fuck it."
(The chances may be small, but the chance is still a chance!)
(I will find you no matter what, Arthur!)