If one had to name the most popular place in Sain Underground City right now, it would undoubtedly be the Gourmet Area.
Weapons, equipment, magic items, and the like were useful only to adventurers, but food was different. Everyone loved good food, especially food they had never encountered before.
As it happened, the Gourmet Area perfectly met those conditions.
No matter what kind of gourmet they were, they were sure to find food to their liking here.
Thus, the Gourmet Area was considered to hold tremendous commercial value from the moment it was discovered.
With the support of House of Bede, an entire street of specialty stores selling Gourmet Area products was successfully established. Caravan after caravan entered and departed laden with goods, carrying the local specialties to every corner of the world while spreading the news far and wide.
As expected, the strangely shaped yet delicious foods became sought-after goods everywhere. Even now, a steady stream of people continued to arrive from other places. Some were merchants hoping to make a fortune, some were adventurers who had accepted commissions, and some were diners who wanted to see what kind of place could truly be called a Food Paradise.
In short, there were a lot of people.
For these people to enter the Gourmet Area safely, there was one thing they could not do without—hiring adventurers.
On the commission board of the Bed City Adventurer's Guild, commissions requesting adventurers to escort people into the Gourmet Area skyrocketed, accounting for a terrifying seventy percent or more of all commissions!
People desperately needed a safe, reliable route to the Gourmet Area. Unfortunately, the locations of monsters and traps along the way were always changing. Even veteran adventurers could only keep the success rate at around fifty percent.
Gong Qiying had this to