“I was … banished.” The merfolk girl admitted.

  “... I see. I’m sorry.” I apologized. “But still, why attack the fishermen?”

  “... I … I he fish… to leave.” She told me.

  “’t you just swim away? There are a few rivers leaving this ke.”

  “No. This is … a prison… as long as I have this,” She used her right arm to point at her duerminal. “I ot leave.”

  A dungeon which the master ot leave? Is that possible?

  (Laura?)

  (Check the dungeon out with Dungeon Founder.) She told me, and I did as ordered.

  Dungeon 21_013: Nixie ’s Hallow Prisoatus: Weak (Sve) (k iasma Status: MinimalMoatus: NoneFounder: Aminah Nixie (deceased)Current Master: Cailie (captive)Oh yeah. That is new, by the way. When I look at a dungeon status with Dungeon Founder, I tell the rank of the core from it. I also see the status of the founder, deceased, present, near or away. I got that ability after I became a Founder of the Chaos God Dungeon. Didn’t know about that ‘captive’ part.

  So, sidering there is a current master, and the fact that she has a terminal, her name should be Cailie. But still, this expins nothing. How is the dungeon holding her captive?

  (This is a sve dungeon. It was made that way by the Fouhat means that there is a stronger dungeon in some other pce, which be used to remotely trol this dungeon. It was then turned into a prison. That means that the Dungeon Master is trapped in here, until they earn enough Geion points to buy their freedom. If they try to leave before that, the core will teleport the Master back to the core.)

  (Oh? Alright. I think I get it. So she is attag the fishermen so that she take the weak fish moo the dungeon, and absorb them for points, so she leave. Am I eveely correct?)

  (I believe you are, but you should just ask her.) Laura firmed.

  “Are you… trapped… in this dungeon?” I asked.

  “Yes. I ot leave. If I try… the dungeon forces me back here.”

  “I see. … and you he fish moo buy your freedht?”

  “... how? … how do you know that?”

  “I’m somewhat familiar with dungeons.” I said, as I rolled up my sleeve enough that my terminal, with the Ground Assault Bugroth still on it, was revealed.

  “... are you also… a prisoner?”

  “No. No. Of course not. Do I look like a prisoner? I’m someone who founded a dungeon.”

  “... founder… Founder… evil? Founder Aminah made this prison… so did you found a prison?”

  “No, I didn’t. There are good dungeons too. Not all of them are prisons.”

  “... I see. Good prisons…” Cailie said. “I… trapped here. Not allowed to go home… until I suffer punishment. For that… I o hunt monsters… and give them to the dungeon…”

  Okay. I still don’t think I have the whole story, but I think I uand. Somehow, this girl was imprisoned here and she ’t leave. And she o hunt monsters so she leave. So I think as long as she meets the point requirement to leave, everything should go back to normal, and she will stop attag the fishing boats.

  “Cailie. If I help you get the points you o leave, will you let the fishermen start fishing again?” I asked the merfolk.

  “... but how? No monsters, but fish?”

  “Don’t worry. I have plenty of monsters with me. I give them to you, as long as you promise to let the fishermen fish iure.”

  “... I … I just … want to go home… so if you help… I’ll leave the fish.”

  Good. Sure this will be a bit of a waste, but I do have plenty of monster corpses from our run through HomeBase, so why not? I’d only use them for materials, or absorb them for quicker miasma gains anyway.

  I quickly expined everything to Alice, because while she could uand me, she couldn’t uand the merfolk. Then I asked Laura to rey the info to Lua, so she could also go to the Yomi Ship to tell Agunan and Ria that the mission was a success. At least I hope it will be. Well, I guess the Yomi Ships purpose was to help us identify the target, and we did that just fine. But still, Ria will soon-ish have to unsummon Yomi Ship, so better to get that message going.

  “Alright. I’ll bring out some monster corpses now. You just absorb them all.” I told the mermaid… merfolk girl, before I began piling some i corpses on the floor. Both Alid I had unsummoned roths, just to hopefully have the merfolk girl rex a bit more.

  I started with some of the spiders from the first floor of 27_001. I already stripped the venom gnds, as well as the spis from them, so they would be worth less points than if they were plete, but without those parts, they weren’t that great. Sure you could eat them, but I’d rather a spider, and you could also use their exoskeleton to make armor, but I have better stuff for that.

  As for why I took both the venom gnds and the spis, well, the poison from the spiders is quite potent and it does damage over time, instead of instant damage like my Poison of the Old Man. Mixing the two would make for quite the lethal bo, a big burst followed by DOT.

  And the spis could be used to extract high quality spider silk, and that be quite valuable. And fortable. I kind of want to make some nightgowns for Alid Lua from spider silk, so of course I’ll keep them. Or maybe I should make some tights. Or maybe knee highs. So many options.

  “These… are high level … monsters… I really … have them?”

  “Don’t worry. I already took the most expensive parts out, so they aren’t that expensive any more.” I lied to the merfolk girl. Sure they are stripped from some parts, but each of these spiders would still sell for anywhere from 4 to 6 gold s. With the venom gnds and spis, they’d be a bit over double that, 12 to 14 gold.

  As the merfolk was still looking at the pile of spiders, probably w if she really may take them, I began making a sed pile. This time, from pnt monsters from the sed floor of 27_001. After that, the third floor bird monsters. Then fourth flriffons.

  Click. g.

  “I … I’m … I’m free?” The merfolk questioned as the Master’s terminal opened from around her arm, and ged on the floor. Soon after the terminal hit the ground, it disappeared into nothingness.

  We hadn’t even gohrough three floors worth of monsters from 27_001 wheerminal opened and released her. Acc to Laura, the merfolk got around 200,000 Geion points from the monsters she absorbed, so that was likely what she o be released. Had she do with the local fish, she’d have had to hunt around 1000 fishes for that. In all hoy, quite the reasonable punishment, depending on why she was sent here.

  … I actually never asked why she was sent here… I hope I didn’t just release a murderer mermaid or something.

  Well, I don’t think I did, sidering that all she was doing was attag the s and fishing lines so that she’d have more fish to hunt.

  “... thank you… human. I … Thank you.” The merfolk mumbled.

  “Don’t worry about it. So, what will you do now?” I asked her, but before I got an answer, something began to happen.

  Some sort of magic circle was beginning to form under her … well tail. Merfolk don’t have feet, they have a tail fin.

  “Going home. This,” She said as she poi her feet. “Will take me home. Thank you. e visit… if you .”

  “I’ll see if I .” I answered. “Take care, Cailie.”

  Soon the magic circle was plete and after it was, it shined brightly and then the merfolk girl disappeared. The magic circle glowed for a bit longer, before it too disappeared from sight.

  (Laura, make sure Tahlia has a good picture of that magic circle. I want to know how it works, so otentially use it.)

  (Yes. She already records all that you see, so I’ll have her make a perfect render of it, and I’ll ask the spellcasters that know teleportation to analyze it.) Laura answered.

  Mission: Hunt the Monster of the LakeMission pleteReward: Set ‘Enemy of Justice’ unlocked.

  And there is my reward. I have to say, it was wiving up all of those monster corpses for a new set.

  “Alice, let’s head back. … wait. We should probably e up with a different story first, just so we’ll have something to actually bme. I don’t think the citizens will be happy if we bme a merfolk that is no longer even here.”

  After we came up with a story, which is… believable, I summoned a copy of Amphibious Bugroth MK-3 ah got into it. It wasn’t too bad for two, but it was still clearly meant for one person, so Alice had to sit on my p. Not that she minded.

  Spoiler

  [colpse]I let Alice keep the Spellbinding Circle, as well as her Amphibious Bugroth MK-3. I also handed her her own copy of Monster Reborn, while I was at it.

  After we got to the surface, we rendezvoused with the others, quickly told them all what happened, and what was going to be our pn going forward. I also got three fish from Ria and Agunan, which they had caught during their bait operation, so that was nice. I’ll have Kit Dragonmaid cook something nice from the fish.

  “So you located and eliminated a dark shark?” The guild master questioned.

  “Yes. I believe that was the cause of what happened. It must have been attag the easy prey held is or fishing lines of the fishermen.” Yeah. That was the lie I decided to go with. Bme it all on a B-rank monster. One which is basically invisible to the naked eye anyway, and with the ke being as muddy as it is, there is no way anyone would be able to tell what the true culprit was. And even if they did, when I bring out the corpse of a B-rank monster from my Ste, I don’t think many will question what the true cause was.

  Soon enough, we were in a guild storehouse and I brought the corpse of a dark shark out from my Ste. Before I revealed my status to the public when I was given my le, I cimed I had Iory, but now, there is no point sihe truth is out there anyway.

  “I see… so there really was a monster like this in that ke…”

  “Yeah. Well, no longer, hopefully.”

  “Yes. If more B-rank monsters showed up, we would be irouble.” The GM said. “e with me please. I’ll process you pleting the mission, and pay you. Also, we’d like to buy this shark for 20 gold, if that is fine.”

  20, huh. A bit high for a dark shark, I believe, but I’ll accept it.

  “Sure. That is fine.” I agreed.

  With the problem pguing the town now gohe guild master, as well as Mariina’s assistant quickly got to work. Tomorrow they’d hold some preliminary exams, and then the day after that, Mariina would hold the actual tests. But that is not for me to worry about, so I just headed back to our lodgings.

  I have a new set, and I want to open some packs.

  Use a ‘Pack token’ to open 1 pack of ‘Enemy of Justice’[Yes] [No]Yes. Let’s see what saving a … not a mermaid gets me.

  SpoilerEOJ 1

  Shattered Axe, Celestial Transformation, Elemental Recharge, E - Emergency Call, Destiny Signal, Guard Dog, Elemental HERO Mariner, R - Righteous Justice, Destiny HERO - Diamond Dude

  [colpse]E-call and Righteous Justice, huh. Not bad at all. Diamond Dude is alright as well. Eveal Recharge could be useful in some situations. And I guess if I want a Guard Dog, I have one now. Mariner is just food for the fusion challenge, I should summon my new fusions by the way, aial Transformation is a bit too limiting to be actually useful.

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  SpoilerEOJ 2

  St Wyniny HERO - Captain Tenacious, H - Heated Heart, Destiny Signal, Elemental Recharge, Misfortune, Elemental HERO Mariner, Cyber Prima, Forced Back

  [colpse]Well, well, well. Cyber Prima, huh. Not bad. Forced Back is… potentially useful. St Wynn is alright, as in Captain Tenacious. Heated Heart is not bad either. Misfortune is just… well, maybe it has uses.

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  SpoilerEOJ 3

  Elemental Recharge, Avang Aussa, Celestial Transformation, Majestic Mech - Senku, Dimensional Fissure, Royal Knight, Raging Eria, Cyber Prima, Herald of Green Light

  [colpse]… Don’t tell me Dimensional Fissure does what I think it does. It opens a dimensional fissure, won’t it? Well, I guess Exodia could already do that, so … still. Maybe I should not use that card.

  Also, two more charmers. Well, they aren’t actually charmers, but they are part of that series of cards. How many variants did they have again?

  Royal Knight and Senku are… usable but not that good. Well, Royal Knight is not bad, I guess. Just needs an equip or two. And Herald of Green Light is not bad.

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  SpoilerEOJ 4

  Destiny HERO - Doom Lord, Destiny Signal, Searchlightman, Layard the Liberator, Whirlwind Weasel, O - Oversoul, Avang Aussa, Majestic Mech - Senku, Destiny HERO - Diamond Dude

  [colpse]And now I got the Oversoul. That is all the parts of Hero Fsh, except the fsh itself. Doom Lord is nice, even though I’d rather defeat the oppohan send it to the future. Searchlightman… well, maybe I’ll need a lot of light at some point. And Whirlwind Weasel looks like a badass and his effect isn’t bad either. And because he is a flip monster, I should be able to set him on myself, and have him auto summon himself if I face a magi. I’ll sider it the ime I redo my set cards.

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  SpoilerEOJ 5

  Bzing Hiita, Grand vergence, Raging Eria, Shattered Axe, H - Heated Heart, Elemental HERO Mariner, Batteryman D, R - Righteous Justice, Guard Penalty

  [colpse]Grand vergence, huh. Too bad it needs Macro os. And it might be a bit too destructive. Hiita is also looking pretty, but she always is. Red hair just looks nice. Isn’t that right, Lua? And Guard Penalty is useless.

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  SpoilerEOJ 6

  Bzing Hiita, Destiny Signal, Elemental HERO Necroid Shaman, Macro ajestic Mech - Senku, Whirlwind Weasel, Bountiful Artemis, Elemental HERO Mariner, Majestic Mech - Ohka

  [colpse]There is the Macro os. I holy thought it was a rare, not a ajestic Mech - Ohka looks cool, it is like a meical winged lion thing, so I might actually use it. Bountiful Artemis is good in ter Fairy decks, but I’m not sure if I’ll need her. Actually, if she activate ter traps, she might be useful for things. And Necroid Shaman, well, it is a fusion monster.

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  SpoilerEOJ 7

  Elemental HERO Necroid Shaman, Misfortune, Destiny Signal, Avang Aussa, Raging Eria, Cyber Tutu, H - Heated Heart, Destiny HERO - Diamond Dude, Clock Tower Prison

  [colpse]Clock Tower Prison, huh. Fitting, sidering that I was in a prison duoday. Also, Cyber Tutu is cute. I wonder if Alice or Lua would cospy her if I asked?

  … let’s ope pack, before I get too degee.

  SpoilerEOJ 8

  Elemental HERO Mariner, E - Emergency Call, Dimensional Fissure, Destiny HERO - Doom Lord, Layard the Liberator, Avang Aussa, Cyber Kiriru of Destiny, Elemental HERO Phoenix Enforcer

  [colpse]Wow. An Ultimate Rare Phoenix Enforcer. might holy be eveer than Fme Wingman for me. The effect is just a bit better uhe rules I py with. Cyber Kirin is also nice. I use it to e Power Bond damage. Aru of Destiny is just … why? Why does it work like that?

  Anyway, two more packs. Let’s go.

  SpoilerEOJ 9

  Bzing Hiita, D - Shield, Cyber Gymnast, Swift Birdman Joe, H - Heated Heart, Whirlwind Weasel, Power Capsule, St Wyniny HERO - Diamond Dude

  [colpse]Wow. Four ons that I didn’t even have in one pack. Cyber Gymnast is not bad at all. Swift Birdman Joe is just an off brand Harpie Lady. Power Capsule need a Victory Viper, but still good to have in case I get the ship, and D - Shield is… well, a card.

  Last pack of the day. Maybe something good, please.

  SpoilerEOJ 10

  Destiny HERO - Captain Tenacious, Dimensional Fissure, Swift Birdman Joe, Misfortune, D - Shield, Royal Knight, Guard Dog, Elemental HERO Wild Wingman, Life Equalizer

  [colpse]Life Equalizer might be, actually, it could have some uses. I have a lot of HP, and if the extra HP from Agunan ts, I might be able to activate it whenever I want, so I instantly heal someoo 3000 HP. Still, I have better cards for healing.

  But still, because of the Ultimate Rare Elemental HERO Wild Wingman, this is a great pack to end on.

  I hope Cailie is doing as well as my packs did, wherever she teleported to. Maybe I should ask around about this Nixie merfolk . Cailie should be a member of it, so if I find out where they live, I could go visit.

  Well, something to do ter.