Arc Eight: The Library-City Dungeon and the Sacrifice

A dungeon grows by drawing energy from the emotions and lives of people (intelligent beings, including Beasts and Asura). For this reason, offering sacrifices is effective, and because the Library-City Dungeon took some 12,000-odd lives as sacrifice in the Battle of Tsukuba and 130,000 in the Battle of Awa-Sō, it has grown to an abnormal scale.

【Arc 1, Episode 009】

One pirate.

→ Executed by burning at the stake. No executions have been carried out since.

【Arc 2, Episode 012】

One resident.

→ Epidemic. Deaths from injury, illness, or old age have continued to occur from time to time since then as well.

【Arc 2, Episode 019】

The Takasaki Pirate Band: Takasaki Kōzukenojō and some ten-odd others, of whom perhaps half were combatants.

→ Crushed to death by books in the entrance hall of the first tier-group (then at ground level).

【Arc 2, Episode 025】

Hiki Jiro and roughly twenty others.

→ Dropped into a pit and burned. One fled.

【Arc 2, Episode 027】

Hiki Uemon-no-jō Taro and roughly twenty others, plus one horse.

→ Electrocuted by 6,600 V high-voltage current on the electric fence around the perimeter of the fields. Taro fell from his horse and died, and his head was put on display. The horse fled.

【Arc 2, Episode 028】

Hiki Komori Niedo Saburō and one other.

→ Gave up and turned the Hiki back. No, turned themselves back.

【Arc 4, Episode 059】

Tsukuba Naiyaku-no-jō and about 10,000 men, of whom 3,000 were combatants.

Foot-soldiers, ashigaru, and footmen numbered 3,000; non-combatants such as menial servants, maidservants, courtesans, and merchants came to roughly 2,000; and the baggage train hauling daihachi handcarts numbered some 5,000. About 10,000 all told.

→ Dropped, encampment and all, into a book-filled pit before the east gate, set alight with rockets, and burned away. Two horse-beastfolk were captured and turned to our side.

【Arc 4, Episode 066】

Tsukuba Naiyaku-no-jō's detached force. A mixed unit of humans, Beasts, and Preta numbering over 2,000, of whom roughly 600 were Preta.

→ The humans and Beasts were crushed to death by a suspended ceiling at the northwest gate. The Preta were buried in a pit before the castle gate, and their heads split open. Some of the beastfolk fled.

【Arc 8, Episode 132】

The Awa-Sō mixed force, about 130,000. The main body numbered some 30,000, of whom around 10,000 were combatants; compared to the Tsukuba army, it had more armed farmers and a smaller baggage train. Some 100,000 hired Preta.

Hosokawa Minbu-no-shō

Satomi Uma-no-kami, Awa-no-kami

Miyoshi Moku-no-kami, Awa-no-kami

Unakami Tenzen

→ Drowned, encampment and all, in a fluidized bed laid at a spot they mistook for being "just outside the dungeon's sphere of influence," their strength drained away until they died. The Preta sank into suspended animation and were crushed.

● Total

Combatants (humans, beastfolk, Asura): roughly 14,000

Ordinary people: roughly 27,000

Preta: roughly 100,000