We entered the first of the two Dungeons at long last, this was the Rank 1 Dungeon and the place where the people of the sect got most of their food. It was a dungeon named ”Little Spring Sanctuary ”, which was composed of 10 floors, each floor had few lots of grasslands, a few trees, and rivers and lakes.

They were mostly bright at day, but for some reason as the mana of the dungeon was drained, the artificial sun that it creates to illuminate the dungeon had gone off and it was not working properly, completely ending up in making the place as dark as it can get. There wasn ’t even any moonlight or something, and the usually invisible walls were now visible, making the entire place an eerily wide room filled with creepy darkness and pure silence.

Anyways, originally in this place people used the vast grasslands to plant all sorts of crops, while hunting the land-dwelling Rank 1 monsters here, which were mostly Ice Bisons, Ice Horned Hares and Rabbits, and Ice Wolves, which were all easy to beat for even the most unexperienced of sect disciples. As long as they knew a spell and had some armor and a weapon, they should be fine.

Of course, this newbie utopia also had monsters in the rivers and lakes, especially in there is where people enjoyed the most their food, as there were octopuses, squids, shrimp, and fish monsters usually all around here, even scallops and more, the Lakes were the richest, of course, while the rivers usually only had a lot of fish monsters.

”In this Dungeon is where we usually would fish our seafood! …However, now its all dark and the water seem still… without mana to fuel the entire ecosystem, it has become a barren land in such little time… How unfortunate. I remember having found this dungeon long ago, I was so happy because of the seafood in here… However, it was being occupied by a massive clan of Orcs with leaders up to Rank 4, so we had to put a lot of effort into slaying those guys to have a chance ourselves… Fufu, the fight was arduous, but after we seized this wondrous dungeon, our sect finally began to flourish! ” said Yukihime.

”So that ’s the history behind it… Huh, even more spiderweb… ” I said, as I grabbed some sticky spiderweb from the damp walls. The silky and sticky spiderweb seemed to actually be quite good, like silk.

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”I ’ve never seen spider monsters here… perhaps this is the species introduced here! ” said Yukihime.

”It certainly looks that way- Huh? ” wondered Yuki, as she suddenly noticed several little legs crawling around the ceiling.

I moved the lamp and then illuminated everything with it at long last.