Today, after selling his gathered materials as usual, Ryu planned to go hunting outside the city.

However, before heading to the dungeon, he decided to take care of a goblin horde.

Goblins are monsters that can be defeated by ordinary people if they are alone, but the difficulty increases when they gather in numbers.

If a large settlement forms, with a goblin population reaching four digits, it becomes a matter for high-ranking adventurers and knight orders.

Usually, they are exterminated before they grow that large, but sometimes they go unnoticed in the depths of the forest, leading to the formation of large settlements.

However, even such a large settlement is just a side job, a "trivial task," for Ryu.

Ryu activates his "Divine Eye."

In an instant, he locates the goblin settlement within the forest.

He teleports to the location.

Ryu's physical abilities allow him to crush hundreds of goblins with his bare hands, but that would take too long. Instead, Ryu uses "Space-Time Magic" to deal with them quickly.

He pinpoints the location of every goblin in the settlement.

Not only their location, but also the position of their magical stones within their bodies is revealed by his Divine Eye.

In the next moment, he transfers all the goblin magical stones to a subspace, storing them away.

Without magical stones, monsters cannot survive. Removing them instantly kills them. In an instant, all the goblins in the settlement turned to corpses. There were nearly a thousand of them.

Simultaneously with the magical stones, Ryu uses dimensional tearing to cut off the left ear of each goblin – their proof of defeat. He stores them all in subspace.

He can sever any substance, including living beings, by storing a part of it in subspace and "closing" that subspace. Anything that cannot exist beyond dimensions can be cut off.

This technique is called "Dimensional Slash", as it seems like a substance is instantly cut off when stored in subspace, then instantly closed and reopened.

He had stored all the magical stones and proof of defeat in subspace, but the rest of the goblin corpses didn’t have any particular value as materials. He decided to leave them as they were.

Normally, human or monster corpses should be buried or burned. This is to prevent them from becoming undead. However, in this case, he decided to leave it to the adventurers who would come later. Those adventurers would be tasked with handling the pile of goblin corpses, devoid of magical stones and proof of defeat.

Ryu knew that a party of C-D rank adventurers had accepted the extermination request for this goblin settlement. These were the adventurers who had participated in the raid and left Ryu behind. He had no qualms about letting them do some free work.

If they failed to handle the corpses, Ryu could simply store all of them in subspace. He planned to pack them all into their rooms later if they didn’t dispose of them.

After the extermination of the goblins, Ryu noticed several human women imprisoned deep within the settlement.

Goblins can reproduce with human women. They kidnap human females and bring them to their settlements to impregnate them.

This is why goblins are extremely disliked by humans, especially women.

The imprisoned women needed protection, but Ryu’s Divine Eye had already seen the adventurers who accepted the request approaching. He decided to leave that to them and teleported himself into the dungeon.

Inside the dungeon, Ryu’s routine remained the same.

His Divine Eye could see through the maze structure, the location and type of monsters, and even their internal structure.

As soon as Ryu entered a dungeon floor, he would instantly remove the magical stones of all monsters and then store their corpses in another subspace.

In a matter of seconds, he would finish exterminating and storing the monsters on that level.

※ He had tried storing a monster alive in subspace once, without killing it. As time stops in subspace, they don’t rampage inside, but since they don’t die, they start rampaging again once released. He had to kill them after releasing them from subspace. It was impossible to constantly kill them while submitting them at the purchase counter. He decided to kill them before storing them in subspace from then on.

This way, Ryu could finish "hunting" in the dungeon in an instant.

Even after hunting through several floors, even when hunting true dragons, not mere imitations, on a deep floor, it was an easy job that took only an hour or two at most.

The dungeon itself was extremely large and dangerous, but because Ryu had been culling monsters from several floors every day, they never spilled out and caused trouble.

Ryu made a point of not hunting on the first three floors for the sake of low-ranking adventurers. Those floors didn’t have very dangerous monsters and were perfect for rookie adventurers.

Thus, thanks to Ryu, the dungeon was kept under control.