Surviving in DanMachi: A Fresh Start
Chapter 9

Life Magic

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Upon arriving at the Dungeon entrance, Falan immediately drew the attention of those around him.

Although Orario had many adventurers, only a small number ventured into the Dungeon alone.

Moreover, most adventurers had fought monsters and bled within the Dungeon.

They naturally had an eye for good equipment, so this unfamiliar lone traveler

made every one of them curious. Fortunately for Falan, they merely looked him over before moving on.

After all, Orario was home to tens of thousands of adventurers.

No one could claim to know every single adventurer.

Besides, someone equipped from head to toe in top-tier gear was definitely not someone they could afford to provoke.

The cannon fodder who blindly picked fights in novels simply did not exist, as Falan had imagined.

He calmly passed through the entrance and entered the Dungeon.

The Dungeon was quite dim, but despite being underground, it was not completely without light.

Faint fluorescence lined the Dungeon's passages, and some places were even fitted with torches.

"This is rather surprising. I thought the Dungeon would just be pitch-black tunnels!"

Combined with the Blessing's status values, Falan felt as though this world was a game.

As he walked through the passages, he encountered quite a few forks in the road, but he paid them little mind.

The Adventurer Guild had maps of the upper and middle floors recorded. During his time at the Adventurer Guild, he had not been idle; he had already copied a map of the upper floors.

Compared to getting lost in the labyrinth, he was more concerned with killing monsters and leveling up.

Yet ever since leaving the entrance, he had not encountered a single adventurer along the way.

"Why is that?" As though the Dungeon had heard his words, the labyrinth beside him suddenly changed.

Though he was just an ordinary person with little experience, the moment he heard that abrupt, unnatural sound,

he swiftly drew his longsword with one hand and raised his crossbow with the other, waiting for the monsters to emerge.

This was why Falan thought this world was like a game: the Dungeon actually spawned monsters from its walls.

Soon enough, three Goblins formed out of the wall, only for someone to exploit a bug.

The three Goblins had barely poked their heads out before Falan beheaded them with lightning speed.

With three clinks, the Goblins' Magic Crystals fell out and then vanished.

"What's going on?" Falan was immediately baffled. According to the information he had gathered,

weren't drops only supposed to disappear after being left uncollected for a while? He had only just killed them!

Could it be because those three Goblins had not spawned normally?

A realization quickly surfaced in his mind, and he learned what his magic was.

[Life Magic]: Magic born from the user's obsession with the conveniences magic could bring to everyday life. 1. Backpack: Spatial limit of one thousand slots. By saying "bag," stored items can be displayed in a panel for sorting. 2. Clear: Automatically collects dropped items. By saying "clear," everything within an area can be removed. 3. Recover: By saying "recover," an item can be placed in the Recover slot to restore its durability. 4. Mark: By saying "mark," a single item within one's line of sight can be marked.

"This is quite a nice ability. Is this my cheat after coming to this world?"

As he cut down monsters with his longsword, Falan joked to himself. After all, he had been transported to this world for three years.

It was not as if he knew nothing just because he had not yet become an adventurer.

For example, many people in this world possessed their own innate magic, and his [Life Magic] was one such type.

No matter what, this ability would clearly make his adventures far more convenient.

As he fought his way from the 1st Floor to the 3rd Floor, he never had to worry about picking up dropped items.

Even alone, he could adventure with ease.

"The 1st Floor has Goblins, the 2nd Floor has Werewolves, and the 3rd Floor has Shadow People?"

Of course, those were merely the main monsters distributed on each floor.

Every floor had a variety of terrain, and the monsters themselves also moved about.

Different regions and species caused nearly all monsters of the same kind to gather within the same area.

Of course, aside from these ordinary monsters, there were also so-called mutated species, also known as enhanced species.

They were one of the Dungeon's "abnormal situations," famous for being far stronger than other monsters on the same floor.

Unless they happened to encounter a higher-level adventurer passing by, they could easily cause massive adventurer casualties.

The deeper Falan went, the more insignificant he felt.

After all, even though he had received a Blessing and equipped himself with a full set of third-level gear,

he still found himself somewhat overwhelmed when facing the ordinary monsters of the top three floors.

If he truly ran into "abnormal situations" all the time like the protagonists in certain novels, he would be in trouble.

"Time to head back..." According to Falan's understanding,

reaching the 3rd Floor on the very first day after becoming an adventurer

was already an excellent result for a novice adventurer.

"Twenty thousand Valis?"

Inside the Adventurer Guild, countless people gasped when they heard of Falan's earnings from his first day.

Naturally, twenty thousand Valis was not particularly difficult income for the vast majority of adventurers to earn.

But one had to remember that this was Falan's income from his first day in the Dungeon as a newcomer.

Of course, what shocked them most was perhaps Falan's spatial storage magic.

Why did people normally not enter the Dungeon alone?

Aside from safety while fighting monsters, the main reason was that drops such as Magic Crystals were difficult to store.

Many parties even specifically assigned a "supporter," someone responsible for picking things up.

Furthermore, a supporter's storage space was limited, which made the value of someone's one-thousand-slot "Backpack" all the more apparent.

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