Lazy Dungeon Master

cean I remember, but I don’t really dislike it.”
“Smells fishy… Hey, Kehma.
Could we use the sea’s monsters?”

Sea monsters huh… maybe.
Something like a kraken or sharks?
I opened the DP catalog from the menu.
… Hohoh, there’s even a shark with two heads.
I wonder if there’s stuff like ghost sharks or flying sharks?

For right now, the ones that stand out are the giant squid, giant octopus, and giant nautilus.
There are ones pretty close to humans like sahagins and mermaids, as well as plenty of sea creatures like jellyfish and sea cucumbers. [2]
… Dagon? Feels like I shouldn’t look to closely at the catalog.
It doesn’t really matter this time though.
It costs more than 100,000,000 DP. [3]

And then I noticed something.
Various sea-type things were cheap in the DP department… In exchange for that, mountain-type things like [Heat Source] or a wyvern, which were both unconnected to the sea, were more expensive.
Even something like the iron golem, which was 500 DP each at Tsuia Mountain, had quadrupled in price up to 2,000 DP here.

“… Could it be that DP changes depending on the location?”
“Heeeh, let me see… Un? Goblins didn’t change, they’re still 20 DP.”

Why was the first thing you checked goblins? As expected of Rokuko.
… Ah, ghost-types are cheaper? I guess they would appear more often at sea.
I would’ve thought that they would in mountains as well though.

“I see, so there’s a difference in DP depending on the situation, matching the characteristics of the area… It seems the dungeon core and master increase or decrease the various costs as well.”
“No no Kehma, what’re you saying… it would’ve been impossible to get another world’s rice if it weren’t Kehma.”

Oh yeah.
So it was my characteristics that made it so I could buy Japanese goods with DP then? Maybe golems as well since they’re human-type? Haku-san was also using humanoid bipedal monsters that used both hands.
… In that case, it’d be better to learn about our opponent.
Looks like we could take advantage of it for some countermeasures.

“Hey, Rokuko.
What is our opponent this time like?”
“Nn? Umm, the first one is Team Dragon’s three cores, a snake, a frog, and a slug.”

What a three-way deadlock.
Reptile, amphibian, and… what was a slug? A shellfish? Seems like those guys would get creepy-slimy monsters on the cheap. [3]

“Well, the Demon Lord Team’s was in human form, but… umm, Core No.
666 is….
what was she? Sorry.
I don’t know!”
“… I’ll try asking Haku-san tomorrow.”

For now I took out the beach chair and parasol I’d put in my [Storage] for just this sort of occasion.
Stabbing the parasol’s pole into the sand, I laid down on the beach chair under the shade.
The sound of the waves made for a really pleasant background sound.
Looks like I’ll get some good rest here.

“… Meat, doesn’t it look like it’d be really fun to make a castle where the sand meets the sea?”
“Yes, I’ll join you.”

By the way, when I woke up in the evening, it might’ve been washed away by the tides or maybe they just didn’t make it, but there was no sand castle.

Footnotes:

She uses a sound effect in her speech here that can also mean [damp/humid] and [gloomy/depressing]. Return Sahagins are a monster from Final Fantasy, as well as from D&D Forgotten Realms, though they are known as Sahuagins there. Return A lovecraftian monster.
Dagon is a deity who presides over the Deep Ones, an amphibious humanoid race.
Also known as Father Dagon, he is a Great Old One and the consort of Mother Hydra. Return The ‘three-way deadlock’ (raw version) is a reference to The Tale of the Gallant Jiraiya–the story that influenced a major portion of the Naruto anime.
There was a reference I’d missed in the Dungeon Core Assembly chapters.