A day passed.
I gathered my subordinates at the entrance to basement 1, which I'd kept blocked for over 20 days, on the path from the clearing to the waterfall.
Basement 1.
The basement 1 that opened when the dungeon's facility rank increased still had its entrance blocked. If we'd broken through to basement 1 earlier, we'd have expanded space and capacity to build all sorts of facilities, but realistic circumstances prevented that.
Because it was dangerous.
Because what was down there in basement 1 was too dangerous, I couldn't even go down and had to block the entrance to the underground. If someone asked what I was scared of when we'd even raided Gremory's dungeon, I had no excuse, but plenty of justifications.
"That day, I found the passage going underground and thought I should just block it first. It'd be chaos if slimes suddenly poured out from underground."
"You chickened out."
