After finishing a task in the dungeon and returning to the mansion, the first thing I did, no matter what, was take a bath and refresh myself.

Then, I headed toward Liesel’s office, but… it seemed like everyone was gathered in the lounge connected to the office.

I was planning to drop off a letter I had received from the Adventurers’ Guild and then head back to my room…

I had heard that there was going to be a meeting today with people gathered from within the territory.

It seemed that Luban, even though he had returned to his village, had come back to attend the meeting.

I too had returned earlier than planned from the dungeon, but it looked like it had wrapped up quickly.

However, I wondered what they were talking about?

The members gathered were too few… Kalos and the others weren’t there… And since no alcohol was being served, it might be a serious discussion, but Zighart had spread tea leaves out in front of him…

“Hey, Sera-kun. Was the dungeon okay? I don’t think you’ve been out for even two hours yet, have you?”

“Oh! Right… Master, this is from the branch manager.”

I handed the letter I had received to Liesel.

I was aware of the contents since I was with him when it was written, so I could answer any questions that might arise.

“…Princess, over here.”

“Huh?”

I had planned to float in front of Liesel, but Teresa was beckoning me.

“You should let them fix your hair… I don’t have a comb, but it’s better than doing nothing…”

Seriana said this and sighed.

I wondered if my hair was that bad… I had wiped it off with a towel before coming here, but… well, whatever.

I decided to leave it to her.

“Sera-kun, it says here that you were at the scene. Can you tell me more about it?”

As I was getting my hair dried, Liesel, who had finished reading the letter, looked at me with a serious expression.

Well, given the content, it was understandable.

The others were also waiting.

Alright… Let me explain.

“To put it simply, there was a small accident in the shallows, and many people got seriously injured. However, Alec and Zighart weren’t there today, right? It was difficult to get the injured out of the dungeon and to bring anyone capable of using healing magic to the scene.”

I didn’t know what kind of meeting this was, but since important people were gathered, the members of the second party exploring the dungeon were all on standby above ground today.

Because of that, the forces were primarily adventurers, and overall, they were lacking.

“So, I ended up carrying potions and such.”

I had planned to go hunting on the upper floors, but after all the potion-carrying, I was too tired and returned home a little earlier than expected.

While I was explaining, Alec, who had finished reading the letter, asked a question.

“Sera, it’s unclear from this what exactly happened. What kind of accident was it?”

“Hmm? Was it hard to understand…? A wild boar avoided a collision and crashed into a tree growing in the shallows, and that tree broke.”

That was the trigger.

The broken tree first fell toward a group of monsters that had been watching from nearby, and the monsters, startled, scattered in different directions.

Then, it crashed into a party that had been fighting other monsters, injuring one person.

The shield-bearer, distracted by this, took a blow from an orc, and the party was partially wiped out…

The situation snowballed, almost like a chain reaction… or an avalanche… in a Pythagorean switch kind of way, and in just a few minutes, we ended up with a lot of seriously injured people.

At the time, I was passing right by, but it all happened so suddenly that I couldn’t do anything.

The fact that there were no fatalities was a small mercy, but… it reminded me once again that we mustn’t be careless against monsters.

Adventurers who could easily clear that floor ended up with serious injuries just from goblins.

“It wasn’t that the rescue was delayed… it was more that because it happened over such a large area all at once, we didn’t have enough people…”

Even now, adventurers dispatched from the knights and warriors’ guilds were stationed in the shallows to prepare for any future incidents, while also hunting monsters.

“Yeah, the visibility isn’t great, right? I don’t think it was possible to assess the situation from above ground. In the end, I was the one leading the way.”

In the shallows of the Riana Dungeon, you have to be careful of poor visibility and moderately strong monsters.

When those two factors collided in a bad way, things escalated.

After we cleared out the surrounding monsters, we gathered the injured in one place to tend to them… but the real problem was that there were far too few people who could use healing magic.

When you’re inside the dungeon, you have to rely on potions, and that ends up being limited.

On the other hand, it’s not easy to carry out armed adventurers.

If it were to be opened to the public, the number of users would increase, and it’s unclear whether the damage would go up or, on the flip side, whether more rescuers would reduce the damage, but it became clear that the environment easily lends itself to these types of incidents.

Well… I’m glad it happened during the pre-opening phase.

“So this is the content, huh…”

After hearing the explanation, the men started talking among themselves.

There were several things mentioned in the letter, but the most significant one was the plan to set up a potion storage facility in the hall in front of the dungeon entrance.

It seemed like they wanted to organize an emergency rescue team.

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Sera ・【Hideout】+1【Prayer】【Mira’s Blessing】【Wind’s Garment】・【Floating Orb】+1【Shadow Sword】【Scarlet Bee Needle】【Fairy’s Eye】【Dragon’s Lung】【Amber Sword】【Danrem’s Thread】【Serpent’s Tail】【Ankle Bracelet】【Amber Shield】【Purple Wings】・7 cards

Seriana ・【Range Identification】・【】・28 cards

Elena ・【】・【Green Fang】【Amber Sword】・3 cards

Alec ・【Power Strike】・【Red Shield】【Fierce Horned Trumpet】・7 cards