Talk:Elder Tale/@comment-153.143.55.110-20140516113031/@comment-918376-20140516165415

The ability to purchase areas was only available post-Apocalypse; it did not exist prior to that, which is why Shiroe made a point to mention it.

Also, you're forgetting the upkeep of these places. Purchasing a dungeon would cost an enormous sum to keep; the guild hall building alone was millions, and by the time of volume 7, was too difficult for the Round Table to maintain. It was never stated, either, that monsters cannot respawn in purchased dungeons; we assume that to be the case because it would be private property, but at the same time, no known character has purchased land outside of Adventurer Cities, which is defended by a magic barrier to keep monsters from entering (or spawning).