Aias: from a world of kaijus to a world of fantasy and magic

Chapter 43

We walked down to the 19th floor, and I saw that it was relatively similar to the previous floors.

The only thing different was a new monster we encountered, which were these owl monsters called bloodowls. Bloodowls have red feathers and red eyes, but they are mainly called blood owls because they have this strong iron smell to them similar to blood.

They were quite a nuisance to deal with if you didn't have anyone with range options like Chelsie, Lucia, and me with my throwing knives and spikes.

After wandering around some paths and fighting monsters for a while, we eventually saw a clearing with wooden walls surrounding a couple of buildings.

We gazed at it; everyone was wow seeing the buildings and how people were able to build settlements inside a dungeon.

There was an open gate with nobody guarding it when I went in. I guess the people staying inside the village don't need protection since they are seasoned adventurers.

Speaking of the season adventurers, they looked tough and grizzled, with an aura of intimidation as they were sizing us up.

They mostly look at us, wondering why children are in the 2nd stratum. Most of them, who looked to be the more seasoned and veteran adventurers, didn't seem to recognize us and wondered who we even were.

I'm guessing it's because they practically live inside the dungeon, so they haven't gotten out and heard any news above ground.

However, the weaker-looking season adventurers did recognize us and did what they usually did and bore holes into Alex with their eyes of resentment.

"Oh god, why did it have to be him?"

"Why is he here?"

"That bastard."

Fortunately, it was only the guys who did it, and the women looking at us didn't have any interest, especially Alex, only glancing in mild curiosity.

We found some makeshift benches made out of logs and sat at them for a while.

I wasn't really too tired and told everyone I wanted to look around. Surprisingly, Alice and Maria wanted to come with me because they also wanted to look around.

We looked around the village; Alice and Maria looked like tourists in a new city. They asked me questions about the village because I was the one who suggested coming here, and I knew quite a bit about the village from the Dradevow dungeon book, and I was giving them bits of trivia like a tour guide.

"So Nyx, how did they manage to build these buildings in a dungeon?"

Maria asked me that question, to which I answered.

"They're made from the trees on this floor."

"In this floor?"

I replied with a yes, and surprisingly, the second stratum was one of those strata where you could interact with it, with people being able to cut down the trees.

Additionally, I began to further explain that people built this village on the 19th floor because of the lake for 2 reasons. One of them was for the next stratum where it was going to be a desert, and the second, which was the more important reason, was that monsters would not approach or spawn near the lake.

The book I read didn't have a reason for why it happens either, just saying unknown, yet to be determined.

Thinking about it, if this was from a game, I'm guessing that the lake is a host to a secret boss, but that is just speculation.

We first went to look at the market on the main road going around the village. I told them that compared to normal villages, they didn't have any buildings for shopping since we were in a dungeon because most of the buildings were owned by high-ranking adventurers who practically lived in the dungeon. Instead, street vendors were showing off their goods on blankets lying on the ground.