“The city has become weird.” Leah suddenly spoke as we had lunch in the cafeteria. When I looked at her questioningly, she immediately shook her head.

“Ah, I mean, not the city, but rather, the Dungeon and the mood of the Adventurers and the students that come to the Dungeon.” Leah corrected her words hastily.

She continued. “Do you know that wooden boxes start appearing inside the Dungeon and inside the wooden boxes, there are Orange Potions that you sell in the Adventure Guild and gold coins? I know that the Dungeon Masters usually use some kind of treasures to entice people to enter their Dungeon, however, it is the first time I heard a Dungeon do it in this way.”

Hm? I always did it in my previous Dungeon though. Well, the treasure boxes in my previous Dungeon only appeared after you beat the fiftieth floor, so no one found them before. I should really put the treasure chests from the first floor to entice other people, huh?

“Because of that, there are more people entering the Dungeon not to train, but to hunt those wooden boxes! At this moment, the Adventurers call those wooden boxes as treasure chests. Also, the deeper you enter the Dungeon, the more reward you would get from the treasure chests, so people start competing on who would go deeper first.” Leah complained.

I wondered why she complained. By the way, it was just three days ago I put the treasure chests, yet, the rumors had spread this fast, huh?

However, it was the first time I heard people competing on going deeper into the Dungeon. I hadn’t prepared treasure chests on the eleventh floor though. Also, I just changed the Boss Monster on the tenth floor with an Earth Slime. I just summoned her using the Dungeon Function and made her as my Familiar. I should think of a new name for her... Yeah, let's think about that later.

Anyway, would the Adventurers notice that the Dungeon Master had been changed because of it? Fortunately, I ordered the monsters in the Dungeon not to kill anyone, but rather, took their equipment, potions, and gold, and let them returned with their life. I was a kind Dungeon Master after all.

I should start putting weapons in the treasure chests on the eleventh floor and deeper. Oh, also, I should stay in the Dungeon more, in case the Adventurers reached the Earth Slime. If they had the power to defeat the Earth Slime, I would possess, cough, I meant, controlled the Earth Slime to unleash its full potential. I didn’t want the Adventurers to reach the eleventh floor for now after all.

“By the way, Faye, where did you get all those potions? Why did your potions are similar to those from the Dungeon?” Leah leaned closer to me and whispered. The only ones who knew that I was the one who brought the Orange Potions to the Adventure Guild were Leah, Erna, the Adventure Guild, and the Adventurers. The Adventurers didn’t dare to take the advantages from me though. No one reached me directly to buy the potions from me, perhaps because they were pressured by the Adventure Guild, or because of the pressure from their fellow Adventurers.

Anyway, the Adventurers didn’t do anything to me and let me sell the potions to the Adventure Guild. Yep, only the Adventurers though.

“Don’t tell anyone, but I get the potions from Fey,” I replied in a whisper. I would never say that I, Faye, was the one who made those potions. Yep, let’s blame my other persona, Fey. She was someone to be feared in this city after all. So, it shouldn't be a problem for me to make her name more... well, infamous. Let's make Fey does bad things while Faye does good things in public!

“What? You are close to her? No, no, rather, did she threaten you? You should be careful! I heard she is so dangerous that our principal can’t do anything to her!” Leah exclaimed in low voice. I wondered just how exaggerated the rumor about me, cough, not me, but Fey, lately. I wanted to ask Leah about it, but I was afraid my fragile heart couldn’t take it, so I changed the topic immediately.

“Anyway, what is wrong with the potions?” I asked her.

“Mm, if it’s that Fey, it should be alright. I heard the Alchemists from the Alchemist Guild are looking for the one behind the Orange Potions. It damaged their reputation as the number one Alchemist Guild in the whole Empire after all.” Leah informed me.

“…” Did the Alchemist Guild similar to the nobles? They couldn’t let other people become better than them? The people of this city were a bit too... ambitious, weren't they?

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“That is why, if someone tracks you and interrogates you, you should reply that you get the potions from Fey. Fey is… untouchable after all.” Leah gave advice to me. Well, Fey was me as well, but I really should make her into the scapegoat, huh?

“I understand. By the way, how did the Alchemist Guild just know about the Orange Potions?” I asked curiously. I sold the potions to the Adventure Guild for a long time. Well, considering the time, it was actually around a week before I put the potions in the treasure chests in the Dungeon. But they just found out about the potions just now?

“Well, you see, the relationship between the Alchemist Guild and the Adventurers is, you could say that we have no good relationship. Do you know the price of the Red Potion in their place? It is almost a gold coin. And the Adventurers know that to make a bottle of Red Potion, the Alchemists only needed a few copper coins, so the Adventurers feel they were wronged. After all, the Adventurers helped the Alchemist Guild to gather ingredients, so when the Alchemist Guild sell the Red Potion at that price… That is why, when you sold the Orange Potion at the Adventure Guild, every Adventurer appreciates it and no one complains about it even though it is a gold coin for each bottle as well.”

The price was too… expensive. By the way, the Orange Potion used more or less around thirty-five copper coins of ingredients as well. Should I make the price even lower? I felt really bad, taking almost a gold coin just for thirty-five copper ingredients. However, the one who determined the price was not me. It was Erna, or rather, the Master Appraiser in her shop.

“Oh, right, so, the Alchemist Guild only knows about the Orange Potions because a party of students from Velonia Academy asked them to appraise the Orange Potion they found in the Dungeon. They thought the Orange Potion was a poison after all, so they didn’t dare to drink it to test it. And when the result came out, the Alchemist Guild started investigating about the Orange Potions and finally found out about it being sold in the Adventure Guild for only a gold coin just yesterday. And the Alchemist Guild starts pressuring the Adventure Guild and rises the price of the potions they sell to the Adventurers since today.” Leah explained.

I wondered how much they increased the price of the potions. Oh, by the way, wasn’t this my chance?

“Leah, do you know what kind of potions the Adventurers buy the most?” I asked.

“Hm? It depends on the place they go, but for going to the Acropolis Dungeon, the things that everyone must have are Red Potions or now they used Orange Potions, Antidotes I, Magic Lamp, and Red Cross Potion. If you have more money to spend, you can buy Awakening Potion and Haste Potion.”

Antidotes I was the most basic of Antidotes. Awakening Potion was a potion to increase their sensitivity to danger. Haste Potion was a potion that increased reaction speed. Magic Lamp was made by the Alchemist Guild, something that I couldn’t make at the moment. As for the Red Cross Potion, I didn’t know it at all.

“What is the Red Cross Potion?” I asked curiously.

“Hm? Ah, it is actually a potion specially created for this type of Dungeon, I guess. The effect is to make the Undead stay away after pouring it on the ground. Or on yourself. However, it stenches like blood, so if you used this kind of potions in other places, you would attract other types of monsters instead.” Leah explained.

Hm, Red Cross, huh? Blood? Why did I think of blood donation rhymed with Red Cross?

It must be my imagination. More importantly, after having lunch with Leah and did what I had to do for today, I went to the Dungeon with Slimerin.

There was no enmity between me and the Alchemist Guild, but thinking about how they viciously increased the price of the potions, I wanted to make them eat some losses. For example, I could produce more Orange Potions to sell in the Adventure Guild. As for Antidotes I and Red Cross Potion, once I changed the Undead Monsters into Slime Monsters, they would all be useless. No, Antidotes I would be useless, but I planned on creating Slime that used poison that could only be cured by using Antidotes II, something the Alchemist Guild didn’t sell.

As for Magic Lamp, I had been planning on illuminating my Dungeon by placing lightings all over the place. So, Magic Lamp would be useless in my Dungeon as well. As for Awakening Potion and Haste Potion…

“Let’s make the upgraded version of those potions and sell them cheaper at the Adventure Guild,” I told Slimerin about my plan.

“Master, are you sure you are not evil?” Slimerin commented casually as she jumped down from me.

“What a ridiculous thing you say? Of course, I’m not evil. Can’t you see that I’m helping the Adventurers? Oh, let’s put the herbs for creating those potions on the fifth floor as well. How much DP do we have now?” I asked Slimerin.

“We have 519 DP,” Slimerin replied. Well, 500 DP in less than three days. It was the effect of the treasure chest, I believed. Because of the treasure chest, there was a high influx of the Adventurers entering the Dungeon and because of the number of the Adventurers entering the Dungeon, the more the Dungeon could get DP.

500 DP was not much, but it should be enough for me to do several things. Such as Summoning Monsters (Slimes) of various colors to fill the eleventh floor to the thirtieth floor. As for the first ten floors, I didn’t change much besides setting the lighting so the Adventurers didn’t need to use Magic Lamp. Also, I planted some herbs here and there so the Adventurers could harvest them and sell them to me.

Why didn’t I harvest them myself?

Well, in my opinion, the more money the Adventurers had, the more money they would spend later. If the Adventurers didn’t even have money to buy the potions I created, it would be a great loss for me no matter how many bottles of potions I created, right?

Besides, I didn’t need much money, as the Dungeon was sufficient for me to support my life necessities. I only needed DP, which I acquired from the number of Adventurers entering the Dungeon happily to get money.

Just as I enjoyed planning everything for my Dungeon, Slimerin warned me abruptly. “Master, there is a party of Adventurers reached the tenth level of the Dungeon. Do you want to watch their fight?”

The Dungeon Core had the function to record everything happening in the Dungeon. That meant you would have no privacy at all inside the Dungeon…

Cough, anyway, the point, I could watch the fight between the Adventurers and the Earth Slime that became the Boss of the tenth floor. As the image appeared in my mind, I was surprised to see the Adventurers that reached the tenth floor. There was a person that I knew in that party!

“Slimerin, do you think they can reach our place?” I asked Slimerin. I believed she noticed that person as well.

“Considering the strength of a party that has A-rank Adventurer in that party… I believe they have a good chance to reach this floor after they defeat the Earth Slime. However, Master, don't forget that you have imparted combat knowledge to the Earth Slime, so, she should be alright. Let's just watch it, Master." Slimerin comforted me.

Well, since I also wanted to know how strong the A-Rank Adventurers were, I decided not to possess the Earth Slime and just watched the fight quietly.