I cautiously made my way down the narrow spiral staircase, moving slowly in the dim lighting. Ahead of me, Satsuki-chan walked first, her steps steady and practiced, descending without hesitation as if she had done this countless times before.
After several minutes of going down—
A wide, open space suddenly came into view, far brighter than the cramped stairwell above. We had arrived at the first basement floor of the beginner’s dungeon.
“…I’m not going to be surprised anymore.”
Satsuki-chan, who had arrived ahead of me, muttered those words as if trying to convince herself. It was the first thing she said after seeing the sight spread out before us.
“…Whoa…”
A moment later, I stepped into the chamber myself and let out a rather foolish sound as the full scene came into view. This room was nothing like what I had imagined while descending the stairs.
“…What is this place?”
From the entrance all the way to the exit at the far end, a straight path of stone paving stretched clearly forward. But on both sides of that path were small square sections, five on each side.
Inside every single one of them sat a treasure chest. They continued in the same neat pattern all the way to the back—about ten sets in total. A perfectly arranged row of treasure chests.
For some reason, it gave me the strange feeling of standing in a modern cemetery, the chests lined up with almost unsettling precision.
> That’s a Treasure House, right?
> Can’t believe our luck.
> Already at the very start…”
> There are way too many chests, lol.
> Looks like there’s at least a hundred of them.
> Kinda like a perfectly arranged cemetery.
> Let’s open them all!
Once again, I noticed a word I didn’t recognize from the viewers’ comments.
Treasure House?
“Satsuki-chan, this place…”
“I think… it’s a Treasure House.”
Though her voice carried some uncertainty, she and the viewers were on the same page.
So this is… essentially a room full of treasure chests, right?
Judging from everyone’s reactions, though, it probably doesn’t appear in a regular dungeon. And that made sense. I’d never even encountered a room in a game with chests arranged so perfectly and evenly spaced like this.
“This is kind of creepy….”
I couldn’t disagree. The place practically screamed ‘trap!’, and the very thought of it gave me the chills.
> So, how many of these are real treasure chests?
> Feels like more than half of them are mimics.
> I can almost smell traps on them.
> Maybe they’re all empty.
> Start from the front, old man, and open them one by one.
> Can’t you use Clairvoyance to tell, at least a little?
> I’d really like some armor or healing items.
Clairvoyance, huh…
I wondered if that skill would even work on treasure chests.
“Probably a lot of traps and mimics in here… but with my appraisal level, I can’t really tell which ones are real.”
“Do you want me to try?”
“…Huh?”
“I can use something like an appraisal skill too.”
“Eh? Really?? Oh… are you talking about Clairvoyance?”
“Yeah. I’ve had it from the start.”
“From the start huh. I can’t really believe it…”
Her stunned expression was, as always, adorably blank. She had claimed she wouldn’t be surprised by anything, but apparently seeing a low-level cleric start with an appraisal-type skill was enough to shock her.
And from our last battle, my appraisal—or rather, Clairvoyance—skill had already reached Level 3. Maybe… just maybe, I could put it to use here.
“Alright, I’ll take a look.”
“O-okay…”
“Clairvoyance”
The chant wasn’t really necessary, but she was staring at me so intently that I got carried away.
Well… whatever. Time to see if I could actually sense anything.
“Whoa…”
T-This…
> Hey, hey, what does it say?
> What did you see?”
> Any chests you can open?
> Can you really tell with Clairvoyance?”
> It’s such an unknown skill, I don’t get it at all.
“….”
“Um, so… what do you see?”
“Well…”
I focused on the treasure chest closest to me, examining it carefully…
“The surface is just glowing red, kind of hazily. I can’t see what’s inside.”
“Oh… so it works normally, huh?”
“Eh? Really?”
“Yes. The red glow means it’s a mimic.”
Oh, really? I thought you could see the mimic’s stats and even what’s inside. Turns out… it wasn’t that impressive. Still, even just knowing whether it’s dangerous or not is a huge help.
Looks like we shouldn’t open this one.
“Alright, let’s check the others.”
With about a hundred chests in here, at least ten of them should actually contain something. I raised my head, ready to move along the row from right to left, using Clairvoyance to scan each chest as I went.
“Huh? Wait a sec.”
I didn’t need to move so leisurely. Looking around the room, almost every chest in view was glowing red.
“Damn… almost all of them are mimics.”
But the second chest from the passage in the far-right section glowed blue. And the chest in the far back corner…
“Gold! That’s definitely rare!”
Gold always meant valuable loot.
Yes! Even if there’s just one good chest, that’s enough. That one is surely a rare item!
I never imagined I’d get treasure this early in the dungeon.
All the effort so far… it finally feels a little rewarding.
“W-wait, Daishi-san! That’s not gold, it’s yellow…”
“Oooooh!!”
I sprinted to the chest, barely paying attention to anything else, grabbed it, and opened it immediately.
Then, one of the comments popping up from the chase camera caught my eye:
> It’s over. LOL
This is translated by Yume Neiji. Kindly read at yumeineijiworks.wordpress.com.
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