Chapter 357: “Arrival at Nasadok Town” |
After the usual evening cultivation session, Lin Mo lay on his bed, continuing to recall information about the Nasadok Dungeon.
As one of the currently known largest secret realms, the Nasadok Dungeon possesses extremely high stability. Therefore, after countless adventurers' long-term and continuous exploration, the situation of the first 30 floors of this secret realm has now been basically fully understood.
In the adventurer towns near the Nasadok Dungeon, detailed maps of the first 30 floors are also sold, which record the relevant information of each floor very comprehensively.
This is also one of the reasons why this dungeon attracts a wide range of adventurers.
High stability and clear information mean the possibility of accidents and encountering risks will be reduced somewhat. For professional adventurers, this is a very important thing.
The vast majority of adventurers ultimately die on their adventures.
Even those powerful Heroic Realm or even Legendary Level adventurers may not meet a good end.
And a relatively stable adventure environment is undoubtedly the most precious gift for them.
It's like getting a stable job. According to one's own abilities, accept tasks and proceed step by step, and one can live a very good life.
But no matter what, such a relatively stable secret realm is already one of the best choices currently available for the vast majority of adventurers seeking a stable life.
Moreover, because the Nasadok Dungeon is a level-progressive dungeon, there are very significant differences in both form and level between the magical creatures of the deeper layers and the shallower layers.
The magical creatures in the first few floors of the Nasadok Dungeon are generally below level 5. Even Bronze-rank adventurers can move through them with ease.
Furthermore, the structure of the Nasadok Dungeon seems to be an inverted pyramid. The shallower the layer, the larger the area, containing very abundant magical creature and material resources. According to rough statistics, the first ten floors alone are enough to support a million-level number of adventurers!
Among them, the largest first floor of the Nasadok Dungeon, according to data measured by the Mage Association, has a terrifying area of one million square kilometers!
So, rather than calling this a dungeon, it would be more accurate to say it's a small world.
If you add up the area of each floor of the Nasadok Dungeon, the total sum even exceeds that of the Violet Empire!
Such an incredibly vast adventure holy land, Lin Mo had yearned for it for a long time.
Now, since he needed to go there anyway to forge a weapon, Lin Mo naturally wouldn't miss the opportunity.
He planned to settle down there and explore inside the Nasadok Dungeon for a period of time.
This dungeon is suitable for adventurers of almost all tiers. Except for newcomers who have just become adventurers and haven't even reached the Professional level, adventurers of any other rank can find a suitable floor for adventure within it.
If nothing unexpected happens, as long as there are no other goals, Lin Mo could explore this place for a very long time.
The number of tasks inside the Nasadok Dungeon is also very numerous. Whether you want to make money or improve your adventurer rank, it's a very suitable place.
Imagining the future adventures within this huge dungeon, Lin Mo felt a long-lost excitement, as if he had found the feeling from when he first set out on his adventure journey.
Yesterday's first half happened to be Sherfilia's turn, so after waking up in the morning, the little maid beside him naturally started her work.
Hmm, it's proper work, not starting to sneak a taste early in the morning...
The Dwarf forging master Andre seemed to have not slept all night. When they saw him again, he already had dark circles under his eyes. However, being a forging master after all, his constitution was also very robust, so there was no need to worry at all.
Although he was completely incomparable to combat professions in terms of combat power and had no offensive skills, as a forging master, Andre's base attributes were enough for him to deal with magical creatures below level 15.
But Edgar beside him looked much more miserable. Unlike his father, he didn't have such a sturdy body, yet like Andre, he had been too excited to sleep all night, so he looked somewhat listless at the moment.
For the Dwarf race, matters related to forging are what they are most interested in. Witnessing a quasi-Legendary Level material with their own eyes yesterday and possibly seeing this material forged into equipment was undoubtedly a very exciting, even somewhat sacred event for them.
If they weren't in a hurry to travel, they even wanted to hold a grand banquet to celebrate properly.
Seeing Lin Mo and the others come out of their rooms, Andre couldn't wait to urge them to set off.
As a forging master, Andre naturally also had a very good carriage, not much worse than Lin Mo's.
Arriving at the city gate, boarding the carriage, they quickly headed along the official road towards the Violet Empire.
Next came several more consecutive days of travel.
Lin Mo recalled that the last time he went to the Violet Empire, it was through the teleportation array at the academy.
But this thing wasn't something you could use just because you wanted to. Even though the academy wouldn't refuse to activate it because of his huge contribution from the previous Academy Grand Competition, the materials needed to activate such a large-scale teleportation array once cost millions of gold coins. This money couldn't possibly be borne by the academy or the kingdom.
Otherwise, he would owe a troublesome favor instead.
Although Lin Mo had money, and Andre had money, they weren't fools. Wasting so much money for a few days of travel wasn't worth it.
If only there were those small-scale teleportation arrays.
The materials needed for small-scale teleportation arrays were much less than those for large-scale ones, probably only costing tens of thousands of gold coins per use.
Unfortunately, there weren't any.
The Doria Kingdom was, after all, just an insignificant small kingdom, and its development was still too poor.
Once they reached the Violet Empire, they might see them often.
Of course, the best would be to learn Teleport magic himself, that would be more convenient than anything.
It's just that among all Space Magic, Teleport magic is also considered extremely difficult... Let's not discuss this for now, as difficulty isn't really a problem for Lin Mo, at most it would just take more time to research.
The key issue was still the lack of a learning path.
Just like before, on the surface they entered the carriage. In reality, after pulling down the carriage curtain, they directly returned to Lin Mo's Portable Space.
Now, with the level increase of the [Spatial Creation] skill, not only did the size of the Portable Space become increasingly vast, Lin Mo's control over the Portable Space also became much stronger.
He could now clearly perceive the situation outside while inside the Portable Space, so there was no need to leave anyone in the carriage for reconnaissance at all.
A day's journey passed in a rush.
Because they were traveling very urgently, with the carriage speed pushed to the maximum, after traveling like this for a whole day, Edgar's expression was somewhat distorted when he got off the carriage.
While holding his sore and almost numb buttocks, he rubbed his waist, looking quite depressed.
Looking at Lin Mo and the others' relaxed expressions, he couldn't help but glance suspiciously at their carriage.
Are noble carriages really that comfortable?
The answer is both yes and no.
The comfort level of the Oxivis Family's carriage was indeed very high, far beyond that of ordinary carriages, but it still had its limits. During long journeys, the expected backaches and soreness would still occur.
But Lin Mo and the others actually didn't ride in the carriage at all, but spent a very leisurely day in the Portable Space.
Drinking tea, meditating, sparring...
They even had time to take a bath and hone their skills.
In short, they lived quite comfortably.
In the evening, everyone got off the carriage and lit a campfire in the wild.
Lin Mo took out some magical creature meat from his Portable Space, grilled it over the fire, and also gave some to Andre and the others who were preparing to eat jerky.
"Your Spatial Ring's storage space is quite large..."
Andre said meaningfully. Of course he could tell that the ring Lin Mo wore on his hand did have considerable space, but it probably wasn't extravagant enough to store large amounts of magical creature meat.
He probably had other storage equipment...
Andre didn't inquire further. This belonged to personal secrets. Although he was curious, he also knew that this kind of unspoken rule among adventurers shouldn't be broken.
So he thanked them and also started grilling the meat.
The days passed like this, and before they knew it, they had entered the territory of the Violet Empire.
The area where the Nasadok Dungeon was located was in the western part of the Violet Empire, quite far from the Imperial Capital, considered a relatively remote region.
In fact, there really weren't any ordinary civilians living nearby, nor were there any large cities. There was only a large-scale adventurer town. The number of people in the town wasn't particularly large, but basically all of them were adventurers. Added together, there were about two million people. Called a town, its scale was actually equivalent to a decent city.
Moreover, although the land area wasn't very large, because the population consisted almost entirely of adventurers, and adventurers were relatively wealthy, the town's development level was very high, with related facilities no worse than those in the Imperial Capital.
This town was also named after "Nasadok," simply called Nasadok Town.
After entering the territory of the Violet Empire, about two days later, they arrived at this town named Nasadok.
Looking at this town from afar, just like the information Lin Mo had learned along the way, although this town in front of them was called a town, its prosperity level was completely no worse than the Imperial Capital he had visited before.
It was just that the scale was indeed much, much smaller.
Approaching the town, they could see adventurers coming and going.
They were all the kind of people who looked like adventurers at first glance, gathering in twos, threes, or more to chat and banter. They all wore armor and carried weapons. Many people's weapons and armor had bloodstains, and quite a few were injured, grimacing in pain.
This town almost, or even could be said to have absolutely no ordinary people living in it. Even miscellaneous tasks like transporting supplies were handled by bottom-tier adventurers.
However, most of those appearing before them now were adventurers with not very high levels.
Although this town wasn't large in scale, it was still divided into several districts.
The Black Iron Bronze District, the True Gold Silver District, and the Hero Legend District, corresponding precisely to adventurer ranks.
The largest in scale and population was, of course, the Black Iron Bronze District, accounting for over seventy percent of the town's total population!
The remaining people basically lived in the True Gold Silver District.
As for the highest Hero Legend District...
Calling it a district was actually just a luxurious mansion. Only about twenty or thirty people lived there in total, and many didn't live there permanently, having gone to other places.
Heroic Realm adventurers were still too rare.
The number of Heroic Realm powerful experts across the entire continent wasn't large. The Violet Empire had less than a hundred registered. Adding up the three great empires, plus those in numerous medium and large kingdoms, the total number probably didn't exceed a thousand.
As for Legendary Level powerful experts, there were even fewer.
So strictly speaking, Nasadok Town could basically be viewed as divided into two districts.
Among them, the Black Iron Bronze District accounted for seventy percent of the total area. In this district, whether it was basic infrastructure or the number of various adventure-related shops, they were far behind the True Gold Silver District.
Correspondingly, aspects like commodity prices and accommodation costs in the True Gold Silver District were also considerably higher.
Actually, Lin Mo and the others didn't have very high requirements for accommodation now. But for convenience's sake, they still tried to get as close as possible to the entrance of the Nasadok Dungeon, and accommodation prices in this area were inherently very high.
So they directly passed through the town's Black Iron Bronze District and came straight to the area near the Nasadok Dungeon entrance, finding an inn in the vicinity close to the entrance.
Andre's father was one of the most famous blacksmiths here. He ran a forge called the Master Craftsman Forge in the prime location of Nasadok Town, with very high popularity.
However, because it was getting late, the forge was already closed now, so they would have to visit tomorrow morning.
That was fine too. After traveling all the way here, they needed to rest first.
Before that, Lin Mo still went to the Adventurers' Association first.
It wasn't to accept tasks, but to buy some books containing information about the Nasadok Dungeon.
Although he had learned much about this dungeon before, that was after all general, relatively broad content, not very detailed.
Since he planned to adventure in this dungeon later, he naturally needed to understand it in more detail.
Although Nasadok Town was just a town, the Adventurers' Association here could definitely rank among the top three in the entire Violet Empire in terms of scale, feeling no different from the Adventurers' Association in the Imperial Capital.
This was normal, after all, it was established near such an adventure holy land...
After buying what he wanted, Lin Mo returned to the inn. After eating an ordinary dinner, he returned to his room, planning to first sort out the gains from this journey.