[Brian POV]“I think you might be the best choice.” I said to Christina.

  “Would you tell me why I am over my husband or like the adventurer’s guild master?” She asked.

  “Well your husband has ly impressed me with his attitude towards Alice. And didn’t you hear about the guild master's rea when I told him about the dungeon.”

  “I didn’t hear about it. What happened?” Christina asked.

  “He got mad and threw me out of his office.” I said to her. “He was also threatenih things like ‘You’ll never be an adventurer’. Then I asked Zayaan of Prime Rib for help and he brought me here to meet Brandon.”

  “Well I guess given the guild master’s past it is possible.” Christina said.

  “His past?” I questioned. “Could you tell me about it?”

  “I guess I . How much do you know about dungeons? Dungeon masters specifically.” She asked.

  “I did hear some information from Laura.” I answered.

  “Laura? Ah, yes your system support, right?”

  “Yes.”

  “Well as you know there are two kinds of dungeon masters. Remote and live-ihe guild master Alexander used to be a live-in dungeon master at a dungeohe capital.” Christina told me.

  “Why would that make you freak out when you hear the word dungeon?” I asked.

  “I was just getting to it.” Christina began. “The dungeon he worked at had a shift of 2 dungeon masters. Each would spend a month living in the dungeon and then switch. But the dungeon preferred Alexander over the other master and didn’t want him to leave. The dungeon would purposefully get multiple powerful moo be in the way of the other dungeon master’s escort party, causing them to retreat on a few of the first tries. Eventually the dungeon even mao kill the other dungeon master. This left Alexarapped in the dungeon for a long time, until a new master could be named. And evehey still had to collect high ranking adveo clear a path to the dungeon master’s room.”

  “How long was he in the dungeon?” I asked. If he really was there for a long time, I could see that causing some bad memories.

  “In total over 16 years.” Christina said. 16 years? Holy shit. “And during those sixteen years a lot happened. His wife lunged into poverty and was forced to sell her body for survival. His son was murdered by the dept collectors that she had borrowed money from. And he couldn’t help them at all. He bmed the kingdom for everything and he was nearly executed for treason. But the queen fave him and he ‘retired’ here. Him being a long time dungeon master is also the reason he looks a lot youhan he is. In actuality he is almost sixty, but he looks like he is in his forties.”

  Holy, that’s a lot to take in. Being basically a prisoner for 16 years. And ing back to a dead son and an abused wife. And then the king, or some her up, wants to kill him, because he criticizes you for not proteg his family. This kingdom has some fucked up nobles.

  “Well I guess I should say sorry for him, the ime we meet.” I said out loud.

  “Did you insult him?”

  “Well I might have said something about him losing his job. And called him something like ‘whining old man’. Not my best insult ever, but I’m sure he didn’t like it, given the circumstances.” I told Christina.

  “Yes, I would reend you say sorry to him.” She said to me. “The main reason he came to live here was to stay away from any dungeons. And during his time here, he really has helped in improving this town for the junior adventurers. Things like csses and bat practice were introduced. It’s said around the kingdom that if a person is young and wants to bee an advehey should e here.”

  “Well that most certainly is a lot. But that still leaves him out of the running for the dungeon master position.” I reminded her of where this rabbit hole started.

  “And you still wao do it, instead of my husband.”

  “Yes.” I told her. “And aren’t you the real head of this family? As in the one born to the previous lord?” I just have a feeling she is. Because of the way Brandoed to her ing outside and scolding him.

  “No, I’m not. Brandon is the son of the previous lord.” She answered. But my theory. e up with a backup pn. NOW!

  “But I am the daughter of an earl that happens to be his superior.” She told me. Well, just go on and drop a bomb on me why won’t you. Why would an earl’s daughter marry a baron?

  “But, why would you..?”

  “Marry so far below my family.” She interrupted me. “My father was not blessed with a son for a long time. I have six sisters. He finally mao get a son as his eighth child. He had to find some parry all of us. And the previous lord Wat was able to breed up the boars roaming the pins, creating a great soureat for the kingdom.”

  “And that’s how you two ended up together.”

  “Well that, and also the prophecy of the return of the behemoth.” She said. “The Wat family prioritizes getting blond haired magis to the family.”

  “And you could use the earth magibsp;

  “Exactly.” She said. “And with dear using wind magic, we believed we would have children with great magical abilities.”

  “So it is as I suspected.” I said.

  “What do you mean?” She asked.

  “You two have opposing attributes.” I told her.

  “And why does that matter?”

  “It makes it more likely to have a child with lower attributes, or even no suffit attribute. Like Alice.” I informed her.

  “Is that true?” She immediately asked. “What’s the source of your information?”

  “The system support.” I told her. “I don’t think Laura would ever lie to me. I don’t even know if she lie.”

  (I am incapable of lying to my Master.)

  “I see, but Alice's brother use wind magic.” Christina said. She has a brother? Where is he? I’ve never seen him.

  “It’s not like it’s impossible to have children who ’t do it just because the parents have opposite attributes.” I told her. “If it was that simple, someone would have figured it out already. Laura just told me that the ce of having a child with no attribute is increased, if the parents have opposite attributes.”

  “This is still massive news.” Christina said. “By that logic, would it mean that two people with the same or well bining attributes would be more likely to have a child with strong magic attributes?”

  (Laura, what do you think?) I asked Laura before throwing out my own theory.

  (I do not have full information on attribute passing, but two people with the same one will have an increased ce of a child with strong affinity to that attribute. I don’t have access to information on bining attributes. Sorry.) Laura told me. Well she is still on standard level so I guess she ’t do everything.

  “Acc to Laura, parents with the same attribute should have an increased ce at a child with high affinity for that attribute.” I told Christina what I heard from Laura.

  “I see.” Christina said. “If the system support says so, it must be true. We’ll have to include that in the report.”

  “What report?”

  “The dungeon foundi.”

  “Oh, yeah. You probably would o make a report on something like that.”

  “Yes. And we would appreciate it if you would go with the oo make the report.” She told me.

  “And that would result in me heading to the capital. Would I have to report to the king himself?” I asked.

  “It’s not required by w, but if you want the honorary le that all dungeon founders are obligated, you would have to meet with the king.” Christina told me.

  “Mother, Brian. Are you two ready to see my magic?” Alice came in and asked.