Volume One [Complete]
Violet was happy, in love, and had a successful career. She was even hoping to start her own family with her beloved husband. However, all of those dreams are crushed when she comes home to find her husband brutally murdered. T...
Due to how long it was taking for anyone to visit, Violet went to take a nap, which caused her to miss her next guests. It had still been rather early in the day when Theodore had shown up anyway, so she was hoping to catch some of the adventurers who tended to show up later in the day instead. So, by the time Joan and Adam showed up, Violet was nowhere to be seen.
Joan held her son's hand as they both walked to the wildflower meadow. Adam immediately wanted to go off and fight the slime in the meadow, but Joan scolded
"We should always make sure to give our tribute to the dungeon first. Here, you take this one and I'll take the other."
Adam scrunched his face up in confusion as he asked
"But, momma, why would a dungeon want our garlic and ginger?"
Joan smiled indulgently at her son, ruffling his hair as she replied
"It isn't important what we leave as tribute, Adam. The point is that we need to show our appreciation for all that we get from the dungeon by leaving gifts before we do anything else."
Adam still seemed a bit confused, but still nodded obediently before following his mother's lead and leaving the bulb of garlic beneath the tree in the wildflower room. He even politely said
"Thank you, dungeon!"
Joan chuckled, not bothering to correct her son's words. It would make more sense to address any praise to the Dungeon Master, but it wasn't like they had met the Dungeon Master, so there was no way to know how to properly address them, anyway.
This was only the second time they had visited the dungeon, so the pair didn't venture any further than the wildflower room once more. They just killed the slime in the room half a dozen times and collected some resources while waiting for it to respawn. Then they went home, satisfied with their efforts.
Luckily, twelve times killing a single slime between their two visits was more than sufficient for Adam to hit the first level and officially unlock his class system. Joan wasn't particularly familiar with the cleric class, but she did her best to walk her son through the rest of the process of understanding the way the system and his class worked.
Some things were the same for all classes like the process of gaining experience from [Monsters]. One could kill wild [Monsters] or dungeon [Monsters] and their experience would slowly increase until they leveled up. As they leveled up, their stat points would be automatically allotted to whatever was appropriate for their class. In this world, the system didn't allow you to choose where your stat points would be allocated, it was all just based on what class you were assigned.
As you leveled up, you would unlock new class quests that would need to be completed to earn new class skills. All classes would start with one free skill such as healers getting a low-level healing spell or a swordsman getting a swordsmanship skill. Those skills would just allow the class to function, but would be relatively weak and usually ended up no longer being used as time went on and better skills were unlocked.
Joan continued to explain things to her son, trying her best to explain things in a way that such a young child might be able to understand. From what she could tell, her son had been given both a low-level light magic healing skill and a basic swordsmanship skill. This was likely due to her son having a class with multiple different focuses rather than being purely magic, fighting, support, or a craftsman class.
Of course, Violet didn't know about any of this since she had decided to take a nap. While she was a bit disappointed when she woke up and saw she had missed a valuable opportunity, she didn't stay upset about it very long. It wasn't like it was ideal for her to meet every adventurer every single time they showed up in the dungeon. She wouldn't always have [Items] in stock to sell and she wanted it to be more like a special event where adventurers were lucky to have her show up and offer to sell them things or they would have to actively seek her out. Both would likely be good for the dungeon.
As Violet already had ginger before this, she only gained 36 DP from the most recent tribute. Still, she was quite satisfied as she saw she now had a total of 250 DP. That was an entire quarter of the way to her goal! Besides, since she had just told her kodama not to go outside anymore, she needed every bit of tribute she could get.
As Violet didn't want to spend any of her precious dungeon points to research new [Items] she could sell to adventurers, her choices were rather limited. Produce might rot before it could be used and things like her candy apples would be too sticky to just put into a leather satchel with everything else. Violet rather doubted this world had anything like plastic wrap and she didn't have any appropriate containers to store most of these things in.
However, that did bring up another concern entirely. She wanted to purchase things like lollipops and cookies to sell to the adventurers as well. If she just left those in her leather satchel with the bottles of potions, they were likely to end up broken and her bag would be full of nothing but crumbs. So, 15 MP was spent to purchase three empty glass jars. One for the wild violets and honey lollipops to be stored in, one for the lavender meringues, and one for the chamomile shortbread cookies. While Violet had yet to purchase any chamomile shortbread cookies, she still wanted to plan ahead for the future.
Although, maybe that was something she could work on now. Violet spent another 15 MP on five chamomile shortbread cookies and the remaining 20 MP on a healing potion. The lesser healing potions only cost 10 MP, but the next tier of potions cost double, so it was harder to amass a decent collection of them. Funnily enough, both potions came in the same size glass potion bottle. It was just that the higher-tier healing potion had a deeper red color to it with an almost sparkly appearance. Violet could almost imagine the highest tier of healing potion would likely be a deep blood-red color with a very magical sparkly appearance to it.
The mana potions seemed to work the same, but they were a blue color. Violet didn't have a lesser stamina potion unlocked, so she could only assume that it would be the same case there. As for any other potion types, Violet had no clue. Elivyre had mentioned potion-making a few times, but she hadn't gone into much detail on the colors and differences in the potion types. While Violet could ask about it, she didn't want to make her friend feel pressured to talk about anything and risk scaring her away. She was the only one besides Theodore who asked about her well-being and it would be unfortunate to lose that.
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