The Infinite Journey of the Sage

Chapter 116 The First Year

"Yo, Hestia."

A young voice stopped the hurried Blue Ribbon God.

"Ah." The blue-ribbon double ponytail turned around and looked at the god in Western-style gentleman's clothes in front of him, and shouted in surprise.

"Dionysus."

"Hey. Long time no see." The god, who was wearing gentleman's clothes and gloves, gestured to Hestia.

"Uh, oh..." Hestia hesitated and didn't know how to answer the conversation. To be honest, she wasn't very familiar with the other party and didn't know how to talk to him. But it was Bell from her family and Feier from the other party's family. Weiss has a good friendship.

"Are you going to work?" he asked.

"Well, I'm working at a cheese and baked potato stall."

"But the one in your family is obviously the one, right?"

Dionysus gestured, yes, Bell has been promoted to a level 3 adventurer. He is the adventurer who holds the record for the fastest promotion, so his name [Swift White Rabbit] has already resounded throughout the dungeon. .

But compared to Bell, who was the fastest to reach level 3 adventurer, the most eye-catching thing was the one he followed.

——The man named Wise Man.

Although most people now call him a sage, the silver-haired man's strength is still a mystery.

Some people say that he is at least a level 5 adventurer, otherwise Borth and Bell would not be able to follow him. Some people say that he is a powerless person, and his strength only lies in his wisdom.

But no matter which side they are from, they all admire his wisdom.

"Well, I'm already a level 3 adventurer." Hestia said, but there was a hint of loneliness on her face.

"But he hasn't come back to see me for more than a month."

Indeed, after the influx of civilians on the 18th floor, prices on the 18th floor have become more stable. Although it is still more than twice as expensive as Orario, overall, it has become suitable for ordinary people to live in. - Ordinary people earn just as much.

It can be said that ordinary people working on the 18th floor earn much more money than Orario earns in the same job.

Now if this year goes by, there is no need for Kelar to publicize and recruit people. People who come to the 18th floor and recruiters will naturally come to the 18th floor.

On the eighteenth floor, there is a steady stream of farmers plus Orario's labor recruiters, so there is no shortage of population at all.

A large number of people at the bottom of Orario pooled their money to ask adventurers to take them to the eighteenth floor, and the adventurers were happy to do so.

The road conditions to reach the 18th floor have improved a lot now. You can even encounter various vehicles pulling things on the road, either going underground or coming out of the ground.

The road is now widening enough to allow three-meter-tall bullock carts to enter here.

Of course, the ox cart is not as fast as the horse carriage, but the cargo it can pull is heavy.

No matter what kind of monsters humans have tamed, the stable attributes of cows and horses will always be humans' best partners.

Adventurers can go down and earn a penny by escorting a group of civilians, and then continue venturing deeper into the dungeon. When they return to the surface, they can earn another penny for escorting.

Even if the cost of escorting has been reduced to an extremely low level, and it can even be regarded as a daily task, there is still money to be made - especially for newcomers who have just entered the industry, following a car is a risk-free and can be done Earn experience, and if you are lucky, you can get a good profit.

It can be said that this is a completely beneficial and harmless thing for adventurers.

In fact, just as Keilar had speculated, the adventurers' levels began to rise rapidly and steadily.

When the eighteenth floor has become a new starting point, adventurers no longer have much interest in the dungeons within the eighteenth floor.

Most adventurers are just looking for food, and being escorted by cars is enough for them to live. Many of Orario's original level 1 adventurers have become level 2 adventurers and they are just in groups. The team's rhyme with the car is nothing more. One trip back and forth already earns as much as an ordinary professional, or even more than an ordinary professional.

But at the same time, more and more people are really willing to go deep into the dungeon.

This is not difficult to understand.

When the threshold for adventurers becomes lower and the number of adventurers increases, adventurers will naturally be divided into two types - those who eat and wait to die and those who clear the level in one life.

Thanks to the increase in the number of adventurers who surrendered, even if the number of the latter was only one-tenth of the former, the number of them would still be greater than the total number of previous adventurers.

It is precisely because of this that most adventurers who start from the 19th floor live directly on the 18th floor.

——The price of monster materials between the 18th and 1st levels has begun to drop significantly. This is inevitable, but true warriors who go deep into the 19th level can still make money.

After all, before the 18th floor is equivalent to the first stage, and after the 18th floor is equivalent to the second stage.

Less than twenty floors, level 2 adventurers can also go in groups, but they have to bear some risks.

But after the 20th floor, it is a bit dangerous without a level 3 adventurer to lead the team, but it is still an area where you can carefully test the edge of risk. After the 25th floor, it is really only an area for level 3 adventurers. .

"If I remember correctly, your child is already a level 5 adventurer, right?" Hestia asked.

"Well, yes, my child Phil Weiss has changed from a level 3 adventurer to a level 5 adventurer, but she goes home less and less now, which is really worrying." He said with a smile on his face He said with a worried expression.

Hestia nodded in agreement.

Although the adventurers they knew well and even their own families came back later and later, Orario became more and more prosperous.

This seems to be the center of the entire world.

The nobles came here to take a look at the monsters, and the merchants smiled happily as they looked at the materials that were constantly being sent up from the 18th floor.

But what directly detonated the others was the twice-ripened wheat in the dungeon on the 18th floor.

As soon as this news came out, it immediately detonated the entire "friend circle" of nobles and businessmen.

While they were shouting about how this was possible, they sent people over to check the authenticity. At the same time, they increased their "investment" in the dungeon without falling behind others, for fear that their shares would be diluted.

This is natural. I have never heard of food that can be harvested twice a year in this world!

You know, this is a technology that can be doubled on limited land. As long as there is land, who wouldn’t want it?

But Keilar knows that this is just an inevitable phenomenon among many accidents, and it is one of the wonders that cannot be replicated.

First wheat is not like rice. It does not have the ability to grow second or third crop rice.

The eighteenth floor of the second dungeon has no distinction between winter and summer, and has a constant temperature.

The fertility of the land in the third dungeon was beyond Keilar's expectation.

Fourth, because no one has ever used composting technology, the fertilizer produced by composting is surprisingly effective for wheat that has not used fertilizer.

The sum of these series of effects creates an unreplicable miracle, two-crop wheat.

But that's all. There is no need to continue to dig deeper into the potential of wheat. [Taming] these foods never happens overnight. It requires people with great perseverance to devote themselves to it for a lifetime. For example, people like Yuan Shennong can spend a lifetime. To perfect the great harvest of rice, sea rice, and the taste and nutrition of sea rice.

This is where Kelal feels ashamed.

There is no way around this. Now that all kinds of waste are being developed, it is absolutely impossible for Kelar to focus all his scientific and technological points on the planting industry.

In fact, Kelar has now begun to develop animal husbandry.

There is a lot of land, which is good for pasture. More importantly, diversified planting can easily meet the food needs of most cattle, sheep, and pigs.

Wheat straw can be used directly as fuel, and it is also a good choice to concentrate it for retting. As for cattle, sheep and horses, they can eat wheat straw - this is like ordinary people can survive eating bread, but eating meat is better. .

For cattle, sheep and horses, they can live on eating wheat straw and hay. Of course, eating wheat cakes and bean cakes are even better.

To humans it is like the difference between big bread, brown bread, white bread, and stew.

As for the pigs, they are easier to take care of. Now the entire eighteenth floor produces a large amount of waste food every day - this kind of thing is inevitable. Even if they cherish food very much, the daily excretion and waste of this large cluster of human society All are inevitably huge.

Merchants and nobles may not necessarily finish all the meals, but choose their favorite meals to eat. Hungry adventurers may not be able to finish the remaining food after ordering several set meals.

In the past, it was the common people at the bottom who played the role of scavengers. Kelal used to see the leftovers, some bread or soup and other leftovers laid out at the back door of the [House of Plenty]. After ordering, it will be placed on the wooden barrel in the back alley. Some Orario civilians will go to the back alley from time to time to take a look, take away the bread, and pour the soup out of their own cans.

This is the only mercy Mia's mother can give to the poor.

She is not a god and cannot save everyone.

But Keilal is different. Keilal is a man like a god.

He has solved the poverty problem of tens of thousands of people by himself. Now most people on the 18th floor have escaped poverty. Although they cannot have meat for every meal, it is inevitable that they will have enough food, clothing and water. .

All in all, the entire eighteenth floor was on the right track, and as a result of the butterfly effect, too many adventurers pursuing deeper levels began to camp on the eighteenth floor, and began to return to the ground less and less.

After all, it's not the ridiculously expensive prices in the past. Now you can eat, drink, and wear clothes on the 18th floor. If that's the case, why come back to the ground?

Although Orario is becoming more prosperous, it is becoming increasingly difficult to see the best and best adventurers in their family.

"In that case, how about we go to the dungeon together and have a look?" A man suddenly rushed out from beside him. He put his arm around Dionysus' shoulders and asked Hestia with a smile.

"Hermes, you guy..."

Dionysus looked at Hermes, a little stunned.

Hermes is a playful and versatile main god. To put it in another sentence, this main god is a bit tricky.

The one who seeks death.

He is a bold and unrestrained guy who likes to travel and his whereabouts are unpredictable. More importantly, his position among the Orario gods is wavering. No one knows which faction he belongs to. He is neither a Loki faction. He is not from the Freya sect, and he doesn’t even have any friendship with Garneson and others.

But in the final analysis, as a Familia based in Orario, you must be on good terms with a certain god of a large Familia. But he is not on good terms with anyone, but he looks very familiar. For example, now .

He made a very dangerous suggestion.

"Hermes, you should know that our gods should not enter the underground city." Dionysus, a more upright gentleman, frowned and looked at Hermes who was hugging him, and said with a frown.

This is not only his personal matter, but also the secret of the entire Orario gods.

"Isn't this good?" A voice from the side interrupted.

"I haven't seen the wise men for a long time. I really want to see how they are developing on the 18th floor." A magnetic voice intervened.

The three gods turned around and saw a tall woman wearing a cloak and hood standing next to them, looking at them with a smile.

The three gods narrowed their eyes at the same time.

"The God of Beauty."

"Freya..."

"you……"

They were a little surprised as to why the God who was the second most powerful Familia in Orario, or in some sense the most powerful Familia, was in this place.

Her outfit is not strange. As a stunningly charming beauty, if she didn't dress like this on the street, I'm afraid there would be countless people trying to chat with her. But what's strange is her remarks.

As one of the three giants, it is impossible for Freya not to know how dangerous this behavior is. Since she knows the danger and still follows it, then I am afraid her purpose is not that pure.

Hestia and the other two gods had already guessed this idea instantly, but so what?

Not only was Freya tempted by this proposal, Hestia was also very clearly tempted by it.

The things that drive them are different, but after all, one thing is the same, that is, what they want is all in the eighteenth floor.

These gods looked at each other and saw their own thoughts in each other's pupils. Everyone had various purposes. Do they want to go to the 18th floor to find out?

So, why not just go? !

If there were only four gods, maybe Orario's reaction wouldn't be so intense?

With all kinds of luck, the four gods embarked on a journey to the eighteenth floor.