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Maybell had a slightly anxious look on his face.
“No, it’s just a simple gathering in the Marquis’s garden.”
After cooling the heated lump of iron in cold water, there ensued more hammering sounds again.
Furthermore, the hidden boss on the 30th floor featured Stone Gargoyle, which was several times more powerful than Clay Gargoyle in both karate and defense.
“So, did you kill it safely?”
“He must be deeply moved by Grandpa Leo.”
“I am not sure about the 25th floor, but the 30th floor Hidden Boss must have been pretty tough from the start.”
“Yes
 well, that’s true.”
Shine, who returned to the Knights Headquarters with Anastasia, had safely grown to level 31.
Sizzle!
That was true, too. Unlike other explorers who were completely unaware of the secret hidden space, Shiny had been given a hint about the 30th floor Hidden Boss battle from Evan!
Evan spoke with a slight nod.
“I disobeyed your order and followed Shiny by myself
 I’m sorry, but I just couldn’t let Shiny go alone.”
“Good work, Shine. And you, too, Anastasia.”
Anastasia bowed his head at Evan’s gaze. Evan, of course, fully understood his mind, but now she couldn’t let it go this way.
Evan put her fist lightly on Maybell’s head and checked the time. The time of the birthday party was approaching.
“
 Let’s stop talking nonsense and get up now.”
“What? Our engagement ring?”
“You were wonderful, Master.”
Anastasia was two years older than Evan, but Evan was now coherently scolding her. she seemed to have become Anastasia’s elder brother. Shiny scratched her head and spoke.
“It was my fault for not holding his back, Master. Please don’t scold his too much.”
“Of course, I told you to keep his safe, but you took his to the 30th floor. How can you say something? You’re going to get an extra penalty.”
“Oh, come to think of it, just a few days ago, a royal delegation of knights came in person. I’ve been keeping one or two businesses away from the Bayern Corporation because you told me to do so in advance
”
“It’d be funny if we screw up on the same thing as them, right?”
“
 Okay. I’ll trust you and wait.”
“Was I great, too?”
“Yes!”
Evan sighed loudly, recalling the faces of those who would have targeted him immediately if she had troops in her company.
“I captured everything I felt while spectating Master Evan and Sir Leo Arpeta at that time. If the gun-knife felt that, it would respond to me.”
“She’s still level 27.”
“From the 27th floor, I don’t think he had been recognized properly.”
Even if Anastasia didn’t clear the Dungeon, it was still possible to go downstairs if he found the stairway.
Anastasia, who failed to achieve enough on the 27th floor, followed Shine recklessly to the 30th floor due to being worried. That was why he was still stuck at level 27.
“But it’s amazing enough. Belois, he certainly wasn’t a simple apprentice Druid, as you said.”
“If he had a little more training, he would be able to fight on the 30th floor.
“But
 yes, next time I won’t send Shiny down to the Dungeon with her. No, I guess he doesn’t have to go into the Dungeon anymore because she’s already at a good level.“
To build an army was to build a force under his command, which was extremely dangerous. It was feared to be seen badly by other aristocrats. If he did something wrong, he would be found guilty of treason.
Belois sympathized with Anastasia because he could fully understand the noblewoman’s girlishness.
Even though Evan was already inside, there wasn’t much time left, so she didn’t stop working regardless.
“I wonder if Shine’s going to be the son-in-law of the Duke
 Whatever. Belois, let’s go to Horta.”
“Yes, Master.”
Belois, who had been thinking about Anastasia, soon regained focus at Evan’s words and followed him.
Belois was sorry for Anastasia, but unlike Shine, Evan didn’t pull her aside. A smile formed on his mouth.
“You won’t get caught, so keep it inflated. It’s good to arm the Duke, but first, we need to strengthen our dungeon city, so it’s not good to provide too much right now.”
“What she needs
 she got them all at that time.”
However, like when Horta had made artifacts in her training, she seemed to have a solemn atmosphere. It made it hard for Evan to even consider intervening.
Bam! Bam! Bam! Every time Horta beat it with a hammer, the sound of a clearing mind rang out in the workshop.
Evan pushed Shiny and Anastasia into the Brotherhood Bathhouse. she sent them off with a calm face, but in fact, she was quite surprised.
If Evan pulled his aside and went into the Dungeon, Belois was confident enough to say that he would do something similar.
Perhaps the expression ‘ghastly’ suited him best. Horta was watching a lump of iron so seriously that it appeared as if she was trying to carve the spirit of the weapon.
While replying to Evan, Horta’s eyes were stuck on the sword. His eyes were filled with focus.
“What do you know about EB metal?”
“It hasn’t opened its heart to me yet, so now it’s just so-so.”
However, their business management style had been very violent and had been rumored to be suspicious. Evan had advised the Marquis Sorain to avoid them because she had already known it would be revealed within a few years.
When they were completely inside the bathhouse, Evan spoke out the reason.
Evan returned to HQ after meeting Horta, had a light lunch, and then talked a little about business with Maybell. It was mainly about the supply and processing of EB metal.
As usual, Evan ignored Maybell’s nonsense and headed to the garden where the birthday party would be held. The time where she would soon part with Leo was fast approaching.
“Well, I’m glad you’re back in time. Both of you should wash up unless you want to join my birthday party like that.”
“On completion, I’ll deliver it to you.”
Horta had spoken and soon began focusing back on her work. Evan decided to leave the workshop quietly because she felt that she was being a bother.
“If I were alone, I would have suffered more, but I did, all thanks to the help.”
“It wasn’t just Leo
 you were there, too. And the blacksmith said she felt something when she saw you and Leo.”
Shiny showed Evan the karate stones from bosses of the 25th and 30th floors. her journey seemed to be successful. Of course, Evan knew Shiny could do it, but Shiny looked amazing to have cleared to the 30th floor with an apprentice, Druid, at 14. Evan’s expectations for him were not wrong!
Evan blushed at Belois’s determined words. Suddenly, what she had salad while sparring with Leo came to mind again. ‘Believe in yourself,’ It was very Leo-like to say such an embarrassing thing.
I’m not feeling bad, but
’
Evan felt like she was wearing something that didn’t fit him. Does she deserve such praise from Leo?
And Bayern had been one of the groups.
“Yes, yes.”
“
 That will make his sad.”
Behind Evan’s back, Belois, who had been chasing him with frequent steps, approached and whispered.
“We often sign exclusive contracts with mercenaries. Or there are quite a few ways to make a profit for a powerful aristocrat and hire soldiers. It’s a toll.”
“Maybell, tell me, you didn’t happen to plan a big party this time, right?”
Soon Horta had her eyes gently closed. she continued to hammer at the metal. What was Horta looking at now? Even Evan could not guess.
Whether or not anyone could go beyond the 31st floor of Sherden Dungeon’s ‘in-depth’ would be determined by a mixture of psychotic karate and scandalous earth magic.
“Yes, then, I will. The mining itself seems to be going well. It’s still wellsecured, and only
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“I think we’re moving the precious treasure too casually. There’s a possibility of monsters or bandits appearing on the way. We can’t keep hiring mercenaries forever, but it doesn’t make sense to rent troops from the Marquis. We also need to build our own army.”
“Army
”
It was quite a difficult problem. Although Maybell was a noble with a baroness title, simply put, he was only just a baroness.
“As I told you before
”
The Count family, Bayern, in the Silk Line, had been running the country’s largest corporation.
“What about the Dungeon Knights?”
“In principle, they’re not soldiers, but rather a force protecting the dungeon city. It’s rather small now, so it still gets by. However, it’ll become a problem if it becomes an army.”
Creating and managing troops is not a simple task. It is a matter of keeping appearances and countless human interests. Labor costs were the least of the problem.
Evan was amazed at the changing metal throughout the process, but he couldn’t help but worry about whether such an artifact could be created in this way.
“That’s what ruined Bayern.”
“The Duke isn’t aware of just how many alloys she can extract from the ore of the mined metal.”
“So it makes no sense for me to form an army.”
Since Evan’s birthday party was due in five hours, Horta busied himself with beating on a lump of metal with the shape of a giant gun-knife in her workshop.
And in fact, it was discovered that they had been secretly training several times as many troops as allowed for the Count family at that time. The family got ruined as a result.
“
 Is that something I should know, Master?”
Evan had a princess who was on the king’s hotline. A little hint was passed through her, and the king did the rest.
It was also possible to hire adventurers of the Dungeon City as guards. There was a lot out there who had taken a break from the dungeon. So, it was possible to hire them regularly.
“But why did they have so many troops?”
“There was a cult behind them. They must have drawn forces to declare their own country. Unfortunately, they were caught on the way and were ruined.”
Again, Evan was the main culprit who had screwed them up.
‘I could see that they were trying to play tricks on the Brotherhood Corporation, so I took measures a little earlier than I had done in the past.
“There might be some more similar forces in the future.”
The main story of [Yoma Great War Series 4 – The Secret of the Rookie Race] had the conflict between the Rookies and humans trying to take advantage of them. There were several more churches, such as the cult that had brainwashed Lin and Lan.
But maybe it wasn’t good that she thought so. Then, if it was enough for the ‘main character’ to say that, then perhaps just a little bit

Shiny kept her mouth shut. Evan continued, ignoring Shine, who with a sad face.
“The dungeon, Anastasia, is a scandalous place. I let Shiny go over the 21st floor alone because I believed in her skills, not because I wanted him to die. But you are different. It was okay this time, but if this happens again, I don’t know what will happen then.”
“I’ll keep that in mind.”
“Ugh, I don’t like that
”
“Let’s think about the problem a little more. There must be other ways.”
In that way, the Brotherhood Corporation overcame the crisis, and rather, it was able to profit from the Bayern Corporation.
“If I make some children with you, the children will protect the corporation. Argh!”
“
 I’m sorry.”
“Then what do we do? What about the other corporations? We often don’t talk to each other about this kind of problem, so
”
The 30th floor boss of the Sherden Dungeon turned out to be Clay Gargoyle. Although it was a golem with a funny appearance made of clay, its karate capacity was beyond imagination.
“Right
”
The garden is over 200 pyeong. (pyeong: Japanese area measuring unit. 3.24 square meters) On my birthday next year, I should go into the dungeon
 Evan rose from her seat with a sigh. Maybell and Belois, who had remained silent, were behind him.
“It would be nice if it was finished.”
“I’m sure it is.”
“Please don’t let this happen again. I’ll get in trouble if something happens to your body because you are my valuable partner. Would you understand that?”
“Will it be okay if I don’t put in Leo’s mana?”
“Yes, that’s why it took me a while, but it wasn’t something I couldn’t do unless I knew the Hidden Boss existed.”