《My Birthday Wish to be a Dungeon Master was Granted!》 Hello Dungeon! ¡°Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday! Happy birthday! Happy birthday to you! Make a wish dearie!¡± As my mom told me, I made the same wish over the past years after I blew the candle. Only this time, something unbelievable happened. {Your wish is granted!!} Then after that, my memory was cut. ***** ¡°What happened? Did I pass out from drinking too much again?¡± When I got up, I wasn''t assaulted with the usual pain I got during my past birthdays, instead, I had a clear head. ¡°Wierd.¡± I looked at my surroundings and realized that this wasn''t my home. ¡°Is this a dream? I am dreaming right?¡± Interpreting my situation in a convenient way, I stood up and once again observed my surroundings. Only this time, I saw a crystal the size of a volleyball at the corner. ¡°What is that?¡± When I got close, the crystal shined and a note fell down from above. ¡°Huh?¡± When I looked up, what I saw was a ceiling a meter taller than me. ¡°Where did this come from?¡± I took a step forward and picked up the note and read it. {Dear Daichi, If you are reading this, then it means that the transfer worked. I was intrigued by your enthusiasm about being a dungeon master. I mean seriously. Wishing for it every year, on your birthday no less! So I decided to grant your wish. Right now, you are inside a dungeon core room and have been registered as a dungeon master. The crystal there is the core. Now, I''ll explain the rules so read properly.} I nodded about 5 times when the note said to read properly.This tale has been unlawfully obtained from Royal Road. If you discover it on Amazon, kindly report it. {First, touch the crystal with one of your hands.} I touched the crystal and a floating window appeared in front of me. {Now there should be a floating window right in front of you. That is called a Dungeon Menu. You will mostly spend most of your time managing the dungeon with that menu. Next is the currency. On the upper-left of the window, there is something called DP. It is called Dungeon Points, the currency for buying stuff in the dungeon market.} When I took a quick peek at the amount, I saw I have about 5000 DP. {Next are the dungeon tabs. There are five tabs, namely Dungeon Market, Dungeon Management, Dungeon Customization, Dungeon Statistics and Dungeon Storage. First, let''s take a look at the Dungeon Market.} I excitedly pressed on the Dungeon Market tab and new options came into view. {There should be about 3 new options. The monster option, item option, and the treasure option. The monster option, as the name dictates, sells monsters. The item option sells all kinds of items ranging from swords to skill scrolls. And the treasure option sells treasures such as gems and money. Next should be the Dungeon Management tab.} I backtracked from the Dungeon Market tab and went into the Dungeon Management tab. {There are a few options in this tab. Those are Add Floor, Create Passage, Create Room, and Create Trap. The Create Passage and Create Room are pretty self-explanatory but beware of creating these. Because the larger and longer you create a room or passage, the larger the DP used. Also, adding floors increases the cost of adding a new one. The Create Trap is used for creating any kind of trap you can think of in the dungeon. But the more complex the trap, the higher the cost. Next is the Dungeon Customization tab.} I backtracked again and went into the Dungeon Customization tab and continued reading the note. {The Dungeon Customization tab is used for designing the dungeon. This is just optional so you can go ahead and experiment. The next is the Dungeon Statistics tab.} I went back and went into the Dungeon Statistics tab. {This tabs shows the status of your dungeon. The number of intruders daily or weekly, the kill count, the death toll, and some other stuff. Last is the Dungeon Storage.} I came back from the Dungeon Statistics tab and went into the Dungeon Storage tab. {Simply speaking, this houses all of the loot you put in it. I got you a little something for your birthday present so go ahead and open it up. Also, good luck! From: Unknown Sender} I selected something called [Birthday Present] in the Dungeon Storage. It appeared in front of me out of thin air. It was a color blue gift box with a red ribbon. I unwrapped the gift and inside was some kind of tied scroll. When I untied it, the parchment rolled down and I felt something coming inside me. Some kind of voice entered my head and declared that I have learned some skills. This is real right? If this is real, then I thank you so much whoever did this to me. Thank you so much! For the best birthday present and birthday wish! * My name Daichi, and this is the story, of how I became the dungeon master of the largest and hardest dungeon in the world! Chapter 2: Building the Dungeon ¡°Now that I''m a dungeon master, I have to set up some defenses.¡± I placed my hand on the dungeon core and accessed the dungeon menu. For now, I took a look at the Dungeon Statistics tab to learn more about my dungeon. Dungeon Name: Nameless Dungeon Master: Yanagi Daichi Dungeon Level: 1 Dungeon Type: Not yet specified Dungeon Difficulty: Non-existent Dungeon Age: 0 Floors: 1 Number of Rooms: 1 Intruder Count; Daily: 0 Weekly: 0 Intruders Killed: 0 Monsters Lost: 0 Daily DP Income: 100 Hmm... I really want to retort about the dungeon difficulty, but now I need to start creating my dungeon. I then backtracked and opened the Dungeon Management. I then selected to add a room and a passageway to take the core room farther from the entrance. Create Room - 500 per 15m3 Create Passage - 250 per 20m x 1.5m x 3m It really is more expensive the larger it is. For now, I spent about a 1000 DP. Creating a 15m3 room and a 40m x 3m x 6m passageway. (Length x Width x Height) Now that the core room is deeper, I want to put some defenses like traps in the passageway and monsters inside the room. I opened the Dungeon Market tab and selected the monster option. Then, a prompt on selecting a dungeon type appeared. [Earth] - Sells Earth-based monsters. Strong against Water, weak against Wind.Support the creativity of authors by visiting the original site for this novel and more. [Fire] - Sells Fire-based monsters. Strong against Wind, weak against Water. [Wind] - Sells Wind-based monsters. Strong against Earth, weak against Fire. [Water] - Sells Water-based monsters. Strong against Fire, weak against Earth. [Dark] - Sells Darkness-based monsters. Strong against Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water, very weak against Light. [Light] - Sells Light-based monsters. Very strong against Dark, weaker than Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water. [Normal] - Sells Normal-based monsters. Has no strengths nor weaknesses. [Random] - Randomly selects a type. I thought for a moment before selecting the Normal type. Since it is a well-balanced type, I thought that it would suit me very well. After selecting the Dungeon Type, the monster list appeared. Slime - 5 Horned Rabbit - 10 Goblin - 20 Kobold - 30 Orc - Must be Dungeon Level 2 to access. Goblin Swordsman - Must be Dungeon Level 2 to access. etc. The available monsters I can buy now are only slimes, horned rabbits, goblins, and kobolds. I can also buy a monster''s monster spawner for 10 times the price of a single one. So for now, I bought 1 slime spawner, 1 horned rabbit spawner, 1 goblin spawner and one kobold spawner and place them inside the first room. The spawners can spawn infinitely but the spawners have a limited capacity based on the monster being spawned. The slime spawner has 10 capacity while the rest have 5. The total cost for the monster spawners was 650 DP. Next is to add the traps. I opened the Dungeon Management tab and accessed the Create Trap option. A list of deadly traps appeared. But unfortunately, only one trap was available since my Dungeon Level is 1. Pitfall Trap - 50 DP per meter deep. It is actually a harmless trap, but couple it up with monsters and you have a fine trap. Well, actually, I have a couple ideas on how to use this. But for now, let''s place about 5 4-meter deep pitfalls adjacent to each other. A total of 1000 DP. The total expense of building my dungeon today is 2650 DP. I have 2350 DP left. Now that the first line of defense is complete, I opened the Dungeon Market tab and accessed the Items option. What was listed were common items from fantasy worlds like daggers, swords, tunics, ponchos, robes and many more. Sadly, because of my Dungeon Level, I can only buy rusted weapons and tattered rags for clothes. But for some reason, the food I can buy with DP resembles the food back in Japan. No, let me rephrase that. It really is the food from Japan. When I bought a bowl of ramen for only 10 DP, it tasted like it was made by a gourmet chef. Meaning, it was extremely delicious! The food bought with DP is freakin'' cheap! I can actually live here for free, but I don''t want that. My dream is to build the biggest and hardest dungeon in the world! So right now, I will strive and struggle. Even if it takes my whole life to become the dungeon master I dream of, I will reach it. Suddenly, a note came falling down from above. Another note from ''Him''? {Oh yeah, I forgot to mention this, but dungeon masters are immortal. Of course, you can still die, but if you aren''t killed, you can basically live forever. Also, the yearly meeting of dungeon masters will be held a month from now, so try to expand your dungeon until then! See ya!} After reading the note, it burned up and turned to ash. ¡°A month from now huh? Then, I will expand this dungeon into one you can be proud of! Mystery man!¡± And thus start the dungeon building montage!! Chapter 3: I Hate Thugs It''s been a day since I became a dungeon master. I wanted to try customizing the dungeon so I accessed the Dungeon Customization tab. Apparently, my dungeon looks like a cave. Actually, scratch that... It is actually a cave. A cave with an entrance big enough to fit two grown men. Since I still didn''t feel safe if ever I got invaded, I added another room, the same size as the previous one. Inside, I placed 2 goblins spawners and a horned rabbit spawned. A total of 500 DP. Add that with the expense of the room and passageway, then it totalled 1500 DP. My remaining DP equaled 920. Why 920 when it should have been 820? (Food expenses = 30 DP) Because of my daily DP income and my skill [DP Generation]. It should have been 20 DP/day, but with this skill at level 5, I earn five times the value for a single person. A pretty good skill for a dungeon master. But at this rate, I won''t be able to expand my dungeon into a good one a month from now. So, please adventurers! Please come inside my dungeon so I can eat your delicious DP!! ***** About half a day passed when finally, I saw some movement at the entrance. They numbered five, and are all males. Each of them is equipped with a short sword and daggers at their waist for backups. One man was carrying a child-sized burlap sack on his shoulder while the others are bringing small pouches. D-- did the child-sized sack just twitch!? It must be my imagination... No, it really did twitch! Is this a kidnapping or something? Then why are they coming into my dungeon? Hold on... I accessed the Dungeon Management tab and checked how much a microphone costs. Each of them costs a hundred DP so I placed about five of them. One in the entrance, one in each passageway and one in each room. Now... Let me hear what you guys are planning... ***** ~Thug Leader POV~ ¡°Oi! Hurry up will ya!!¡± I and my comrades were going back to our base after a successful theft from a carriage. They even had a cute little beastkin girl slave! She is gonna sell well. ¡°We''re here!¡± We finally arrived at our cave. When we went inside, however... ¡°Wha---!?¡± ¡°What the hell!?¡± The room that should have been there vanished and was replaced with a long passageway. ¡°Oi oi oi!!¡± ¡°This ain''t right!¡± ¡°Impossible!!¡± The cave us 5 were used to were gone. And what replaced it was something else. ¡°Boss... How should we move?¡± One of my comrades sent me a questioning gaze. Should we move ahead, or find another spot. But it''s getting dark now and I don''t want to get killed by a monster so I decided.If you stumble upon this tale on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. ¡°We''re heading in. Everybody ready your weapons!¡± Each of my comrades unsheathed their short sword and went into battle position. ¡°Don''t damage the goods! She might sell for a fortune if she''s unharmed!¡± ***** ~Daichi POV~ ¡°Don''t damage the goods! She might sell for a fortune if she''s unharmed!¡± One of the guys, let''s call them thugs, called out to his ally who was carrying the child-sized sack. Now I know what I''m going to do to these assholes. I gave a command to my monsters not to harm the person inside the sack. For now, I''ll deactivate the pitfall traps to lure them into the monster room. They slowly advanced through the passage, and finally reached the monster room. When they went in, however, the room was empty. Not a single soul in sight. Why? Because I told the monsters to hide and surround them. Even if they are weak, they are still numerous. And when the thugs reached the center, the monsters showed themselves and the fight began. ***** ~Thug Leader POV~ ¡°Damn they''re not letting up!¡± Right now, we were engaged in mortal combat with slimes, horned rabbits, goblins, and kobolds. All of them numbered 25. ¡°Fuck! When did these guys learn to use tactics!?¡± One of my comrades gave a retort before getting stabbed by the horn of a horned rabbit. ¡°Guuhhaaa!!??¡± ¡°Gozo!! Damn you!!¡± I swung my sword towards the horned rabbit that stabbed Gozo and lopped it''s head off. It''s head danced in the air as blood painted the ground. Right after I killed the rabbit, Gozo was assaulted by a goblin. ¡°GUAAHH!! GGAAHHH!! GIIAAHH!!¡± Gozo was stabbed over and over. Blood scattered here and there while Gozo''s body went limp. A blood puddle formed underneath him and the goblin got up. It readied its blade and swung it down, chopping the head of dead Gozo. ¡°You fucker!!¡± I dashed towards the goblin who killed Gozo and stabbed its body. The blade pierced through its heart and the goblin fell. ¡°Haahh... Hahh...¡± I then brandished my sword and blocked an incoming attack from a kobold. I put strength in my arms and sent the dagger of the kobold flying. ¡°Oryaaa!!!¡± I brought down my sword onto the kobolds head and split its head in half. It''s brain matter flown out and landed on the ground. I then spun around and lopped off the head of a goblin behind me. I sidestepped right and avoided a charge of a horned rabbit and stabbed its abdomen. Just as I was fighting with monsters on my side, two more of my comrades died from the attacks of the monsters. The last of my comrades tried to run away but was met with an attack from two kobolds. ¡°Shit!!¡± I need to get out of here! But what about the loot? I''ll just manage! I tried to find an opening, and lucky for me, I found one. I then turned tail and ran with all my might towards the exit. I got out of the monster room and the exit is in sight. ¡°Haahh. Hahh. Haahh..¡± I can get out! I can get out!! Just as I was celebrating my escape, I fell down. ¡°Ehh??¡± I... Stepped on a trap. And fell down for about 4 meters. *Crash* ¡°Uuu...¡± I need to get out of this hole. I tried climbing up but was stabbed from behind. ¡°Ehh?? Guufuu!??¡± When I turned around, what I last saw, was a goblin stabbing me with a sword... ***** ~Daichi Pov~ The last of the thugs fell down the reactivated pitfall trap. Also, in each pitfall trap, there is one goblin hiding at the bottom. Of course, I made an extension to let the monster at the bottom avoid getting crushed. Right now, I commanded the goblins to cut open the sack to release the person inside. When the person got out of the sack, however. ¡°Hi-- Hiiiiiii!!!¡± She screamed and fell down. She wet herself and fainted. She was a little girl with the age ranging about 7 - 9 years old. She has a tail and cat ears. The very definition of a beastkin. She had pure white hair that rolled down her back until her waist and had blue eyes. She was wearing rags with slits on the side. To be kidnapped and then used sold as a slave by them, such a poor girl. Hmm, she has a collar on. I commanded the monsters to bring her to the core room. When she arrived, the monsters went back to their respective rooms. I used appraisal on the collar and I found out what she was. Slave Collar - anyone wearing this will have their class forcefully changed to slave. She is a slave. I used appraisal on her just to check her name and status. Name: None Race: Beastkin - White Cat Age: 8 Class: Slave Owner: None It''s good that she has no owner. For now, I''ll buy a blanket for her and when she wakes up, I''ll give her some sushi. Chapter 4: Your Name is Shironeko Right now... I am in a pinch... In my bed... There is a monster... A cute monster... She is strangling me to death... I can see my life flash before my eyes... Is this the so-called revolving lantern? This is actually pretty nice... Wait... Stop showing me my dark past!!! No!!! Not me wearing a cape pretending to be a dungeon master!!! Stop it!!! ***** Hours earlier... After the deaths of the thugs, I gained 5000 DP. Each thug generated 20 DP per day. So it turned into 100 DP per day. And upon death, I gain ten times the value of the daily DP income of said man. Meaning 1000 DP for each thug. Right now, I have 5420 DP. I plan to add one more floor to my dungeon. I opened the Dungeon Management tab and took a look at the price. Add Floor - 1000 DP It costs 1000 DP to add one floor. Even if I add one floor, I''ll still have 4420 DP left over so I didn''t spend another second waiting to add another floor to my dungeon. When I selected the Add Floor option, the dungeon shook for a few seconds and returned to normal. When I opened the Dungeon Statistics tab, the new status of the dungeon appeared. Dungeon Name: Nameless Dungeon Master: Yanagi Daichi Dungeon Level: 1 Dungeon Type: Normal Dungeon Difficulty: G Dungeon Age: 0 Floors: 2 Number of Rooms: 4 Intruder Count; Daily: 5 Weekly: 5 Intruders Killed: 5 Monsters Lost: 7 Daily DP Income: 150 My daily DP income increased by 50. Maybe because of the slave. Also, when adding a new floor, it comes with a 500 DP room. And the Dungeon Difficulty changed to G. If I compare this to the novels and manga I read about fantasy and isekai, it''s probably the lowest difficulty. But this is just a speculation, not the real difficulty of the dungeon. I mean, take a look at the thugs earlier, if this dungeon has the lowest dungeon speculation, then why were they annihilated? That''s the logic I came up with anyway. Back to the topic, I still have 4420 DP so I added 3 kobold spawners and 2 goblin spawners. The spawners total DP expense equaled 1300 DP, and now, I am left with 3120 DP. I added two new rooms and two passageways connecting the three rooms. The expansion costs 2000 DP. I have 1120 DP left over so I saved it and moved some spawners to the new rooms. Namely the 2 goblin spawners to the first room and 1 slime and 1 kobold spawner to the second room. Why a slime and a kobold you ask? Well, the two has great chemistry. The kobold used their slings to catapult the slime onto the enemy and while the enemy is distracted, the kobolds attack them. And also, I will research the slime because when I appraised one slime, this came out.You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story. Species: Slime Name: Nameless Type: Normal Level: 1 Evolution Points: 0/100 I''m gonna research on how slime gain evolution points and what will happen to the slime when the evolution points max out. Just when I finished expanding my dungeon, the slave woke up and stared at me. ¡°Muuu.....¡± ¡°Oh, you''re awake?¡± Maybe because of her slave upbringing, she immediately stood up and bowed. ¡°Please forgive me, master. Please do as you like to me and my body.¡± This little girl just said something outrageous. I slowly walked towards her. She didn''t want to show it but she is trembling slightly. When I got in front of her, she undressed. ¡°Oi oi! Put your clothes back on!! I''m not into little girls!¡± Maybe because I shouted, she inched back and trembled in fear. She then hurriedly put back her clothes and did a dogeza. Seriously? How are slaves treated here? ¡°Please forgive me.Please forgive me.Please forgive me.¡± She repeated her apologies three times before she shut up. For now, I accessed the Dungeon Market and took a look at the items. Damn... Still tattered rags. It''s the same as what she''s wearing. ¡°You, do you have a name?¡± I asked her a question and she replied immediately while still dogezaing. Just how are slaves treated here? ¡°I have no name because I am just an animal.¡± Okay... I have no retort to that. Just how was she treated by her previous master. That''s just horrible. ¡°For now, stop your dogeza and sit here.¡± I accessed the Dungeon Management tab and created a chair and table for 35 DP. I then bought some sushi because I thought she would like fish because she''s a cat. I then placed it on the table and urged her to come and eat. She silently stood up and slowly walked towards the table. She took a seat and waited for further orders. ¡°Hm? Aren''t you going to eat?¡± ¡°Slaves aren''t supposed to eat with the same table as master.¡± Man slave life is harsh. ¡°Don''t worry. Please eat until you''re full. I made this for you.¡± ¡°For... Me...?¡± She whispered something I didn''t hear and slowly took the fork. She didn''t use chopsticks because maybe she doesn''t know how to use them. She pierced through the fish and guided it to her mouth. She then took a bite and started chewing. ¡°Nom nom... Delicious...¡± Without her noticing it, tears rolled down her cheek. She then vigorously ate the food I gave her as she continued crying. ¡°Are you still hungry?¡± When I asked her that, she nodded vertically and I bought another serving of sushi. After she finished eating, she put down the fork and stared at my direction. ¡°Thank... You... Sniff...¡± She expressed her gratitude for the food to me. ¡°You know, I am not your master.¡± When I said that phrase, she stiffened up and began crying. She then did a dogeza and requested me to make her my slave. ¡°Pl- please, make me your slave! I don''t want another master except you!¡± She then expressed her feelings about being my slave. Hmm... What should I do? ¡°Do you want to stop being a slave?¡± When she heard that, the slave twitched before giving me a response. ¡°No. I want to be master''s!¡± She really wants to be my slave, huh? Well, I don''t have another choice so accepted her request. ¡°Okay... But how do I become your owner.¡± ¡°Put a drop of your blood on the slave collar and the contract will be complete.¡± I then bit my finger and pointed hovered it over the collar. My blood dripped down and landed on the collar. ¡°You, do you want to have a name?¡± ¡°!? Yes!!¡± ¡°Then... How about Shironeko?¡± ¡°Shiro-neko... Yes! I am Shironeko!¡± ¡°Then from now on, your name will be Shironeko!¡± ¡°Yes!!¡± Mann... That was embarrassing!!! Me saying something a chunni would say! But anyway all''s well that ends well!!¡± ***** When we were about to sleep, Shironeko wanted to sleep together with me. Not in the erotic way mind you!!! I accepted because I wanted to treat her as a hug pillow. ~1 hour later~ ¡°I-- I can''t breathe!!!¡± Instead of treating her as a hug pillow, I became the hug pillow. And she is literally squeezing the air out of me. Man this girl is strong. Chapter 5: Creating a Source of Income A week passed since the incident. I have 21 days left to prepare and yet, no one entered my dungeon! I''m saving my DP for now but this continues, I won''t be able to create a dungeon worthy to show the mystery man that brought me here. But what can I do? ¡°Master? What are you thinking about?¡± Shironeko who was sitting on my lap asked me a question. ¡°Ah. I''m just thinking about how to get a source of income for my dungeon.¡± ¡°Income? What is that?¡± I forgot she was an 8-year-old. ¡°Shironeko, income is where you get money. And right now, we have little income.¡± Shironeko tilted her head with a questioning look. I''ll stop discussing with her about my dungeon from now on. I then directed my gaze towards the screen. I saw a pair of women at the entrance. One has green hair and is holding a staff. The other is a redhead wielding two daggers. A mage and a scout based on my observations and experience reading novels. The two slowly advanced through the passage and arrived at the first trap. The redhead noticed it and warned the green-haired girl. They walked around it and advanced slowly. They then arrived at the first room. The girls went inside to be greeted by 5 goblins and 5 horned rabbits. I moved the other spawners to the other rooms. And in the first room, those two are the only spawners inside. I listened in to their conversation. ***** ~Redhead Girl POV~ ¡°Mia! Hurry up! I can''t hold them back any longer! I blocked another attack from a goblin with one of my daggers and kicked the goblin away. I stabbed a charging horned rabbit in the head. I then kicked it away and blocked another attack from a goblin. ¡°Mia! Hurry up!¡± I spun around and stab the neck of the goblin attacking me. And another horned rabbit came charging at me. I sidestepped and stabbed its abdomen. ¡°Get back! [Mega Fireball]!¡± The [Mega Fireball] is a tier 3 spell that can decimate a huge number. I jumped back to avoid the area of effect. The fireball landed on one of the goblins and exploded, causing the nearby monsters to burn. What was left was ashes from the burned monsters and scorched ground. ¡°Fuuu...¡± ¡°Finally. Took you long enough.¡±A case of content theft: this narrative is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation. I breathed a sigh of relief before taking a rest. ¡°Neh neh Kahami-san? What request did you take back at the guild?¡± ¡°Hmm. I think it was hunting 10 goblins... ... Uwwwaaahhhh!?? The proofs!! They''re all gone!!¡± After realizing the mistake we made, I cried in anguish. ¡°Mia!! Don''t use any more spells that can destroy the body of a monster!!¡± ¡°But you told me to get rid of them in one spell because of how numerous they were.¡± When I remembered what I said to her earlier, I shut up and spouted excuses. ¡°I- is that so? Then let''s just find another goblin nest.¡± ¡°Right right.¡± We stood up and headed deeper into the dungeon. ***** ~Daichi POV~ The two girls headed deeper into my dungeon. Both of them generated 500 DP per day. Delicious! They then reached the second room. The second room is composed of only goblin spawners. This time, they will complete their request I thought. But then they made their same mistake as earlier. ¡°Seriously? They made the same mistake again?¡± After giving my retort, they rested once more. What should I do to these two? Human imprisonment? Hmm. I''ll trap them inside for a day. I created a secret passage and room right after the second room on the first floor. I made them twice as small as the normal rooms and passage. Then made a trap that will isolate them for a day. I also didn''t forget to put an empty treasure chest to lure them in. The total cost was 750 DP. 500 for the room and passageway, 200 for the trap, and 50 for the treasure chest. Now, what will they do? ***** ~Kahami POV~ While we were resting, a hole opened up on the north side of the room. When we checked the hole, there was another room up ahead and inside was a treasure chest. ¡°Mia! There is a treasure chest in here!¡± ¡°Really! Then what are waiting for? Let''s go!¡± We excitedly hurried into the room. We then opened the chest and... ¡°What!!??¡± It was empty!! Damn it!! And just when I thought we could make a huge sum of money! ¡°...!?¡± And without us noticing, the room closed up and we were trapped inside. ***** ~Daichi POV~ Is this real? Is this really real? Daily DP income 5150. Seriously? Just being isolated gives five times the Daily DP income. Now I want to keep them there forever. But I can''t. Wait, let me do something. ***** ~Kahami POV~ While I and Mia were contemplating on how to get out of this trap, some kind of writings appeared on the wall. {Dear travelers If you would be so kind to stay here for three days, I''ll give you a very grand treasure when you leave. Of course, you will get free food and some kind of entertainment should you wish for it. And don''t worry about a toilet I''ll make one for you. But if you decline, then stay here for a full day without the services and leave tomorrow without gaining anything. So travelers, what will you choose?} This writing on the wall gave us two choices. Either stay here in three days, get free food, a toilet, entertainment, and treasure when we leave. Or, stay here for a full day without any of the above-mentioned services and leave here without the treasure. For me, I''ll definitely choose the first option. ¡°Mia. What would you choose?¡± ¡°I''d choose the first option. At least, we will be able to live without worries.¡± ¡°Then it''s decided.¡± ***** ~Daichi POV~ The two girls agreed to the terms I gave them. I then accessed the Dungeon Management tab and created two beds, a restroom, a square table and two chairs. Also for entertainment, I gave them a checkers board with the instruction. Now that should be enough for now. The total expense for their room was only 250 DP and I''m gaining 5000 DP per day for three days. That may be cheap to you, but for them, its just enough to live another three days. I also didn''t forget to give those two food. I gave them a curry dish each. Phew... For now, I secured a DP source for three days. But what about the next day after that? Well, I''ll just cross that bridge when I get there. Chapter 6: The [Create Entity] Skill is OP as Heck!! The three days went by in a flash. I gained a total of 15000 DP from the two girls. By the way, Shironeko is sleeping in my bed. And when the time came to release the two of them, I opened the Dungeon Menu and accessed the Dungeon Market tab. When I accessed the items option, More items were now available. I shouted ''What the heck'' in my mind. I backtracked and accessed the Dungeon Statistics tab and saw the new status of my dungeon. Dungeon Name: Nameless Dungeon Master: Yanagi Daichi Dungeon Level: 5 Dungeon Type: Normal Dungeon Difficulty: F Dungeon Age: 0 Floors: 2 Number of Rooms: 7 Intruder Count; Daily: 2 Weekly: 2 Intruders Killed: 5 Monsters Lost: 27 Daily DP Income: 5150 My Dungeon Level went up by 4 for the last 3 days. Why didn''t it level up when I killed the thugs? That was my question for the past days but now, I think I know the logic now. The Dungeon Level will increase the longer an intruder stays inside the dungeon. Since the thugs only stayed for about a few minutes, the experience points gained were low. While the two girls stayed for three straight days. That must have boosted the experience gained by a huge margin compared to the thugs. Anyway, back to giving the two girls a reward for staying in that room for three days. I accessed the Dungeon Market tab and selected the items option. I tried finding a suitable reward to give but all of them were not suitable to the ''grand reward'' I think of, so instead, I selected the treasures option. What I saw left me speechless. All of them are priced on more than a million DP! There''s no way I could afford that, so I backtracked. I was at a loss on what to give them, so I took a look at my status to check on my skills. I forgot to do check them because I was busy managing my dungeon. Name: Yanagi Daichi Race: Human Age: 18 Level: 8 Class: Dungeon Master Skills: Appraisal lv Max Create Entity lv Max DP Generation lv 5 I also didn''t think of it, but when I appraised Shironeko, I didn''t see any stats like the ones on RPG games like STR, AGI, etc. I better not think of it now because I want to give those two their reward but what? Hmm? Can I appraise my skills? Appraisal - shows the details of the target. Create Entity - can create any non-living thing but consumes enough mana to kill the user. DP Generation - generates extra by multiplying the base daily DP income of someone by the skill''s level. That Create Entity is scary, but why bother giving me this skill in the first place. If I rely on my experience from reading manga and novels, a dungeon is a place that is abundant in mana. Maybe that''s why he gave this skill to me. Because I live in a dungeon. Well, I trust that man so it''s now or never! "[Create Entity]!" A voice entered my head on what I would like to create. I then chose something that would make life easier in this world. When I finished stating my wish, a bright light enveloped the room and caused Shironeko to awaken. "Nnn???" Shironeko tilted her head in a confused manner when she saw what I held in my hands. "Mashter? Whatsh ish thatsh?" Shironeko asked me in a polite but clumsily manner. She must be a slow riser. What I held in my hand was a bottle. When I appraised it, I was shocked to read its contents. Unlimited Elixir Bottle - This bottle can generate limitless elixir. Elixir is a potion that can heal any kind of wounds no matter how fatal and cure any kind of sickness even if it is incurable. Item Grade: God Oi oi... Isn''t this too much? If I gave this to the two of them, who knows what may happen if another party caught wind of it. So I have no other choice, I''ll have to ask those two. Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit. ***** ~Kahami POV~ It''s been three days and today is the day we get out of here and claim our reward. I''ve got to say, Living in here was not bad. Free delicious food, A comfortable bed, no threat to your life, you just have to bear the boringness in here. But since I had Mia with me, I can bear that for three days. "Mia. Are you done packing?" "Yes. You?" "Done. Now, we''ll just wait for the writings to come." While we waited for the writing, it appeared. It read... {Dear travelers Now that you''ve completed our agreement, You may now go free. But before letting you go, I would like to ask you what kind of reward would you like for the each of you. Just say it because I can hear you.} I and Mia glanced at one another and closed the distance between us. "Mia, what would you like?" "For me, I would like a new staff that can boost my magic power. How about you Kahami-san?" "I would like a cloak that can grant invisibility to increase my potential as a thief." After voicing our desires, we both nodded at each other and stared at the writing. "We would like a staff that boosts magical power and a cloak that grants invisibility!" A few seconds later, the writings disappeared and a new one replaced it. {Very well, I shall grant your desires!} A few seconds later, two magic circles appeared in front of us. What emerged from the two was a cloak that was a black as the dark sky and a wooden staff. I used my skill appraisal to appraise the two items. Cloak of Invisibility - Item Grade: Epic Cane of the Sage - Item Grade: Epic When I read the status grade of the two items, my jaw was left hanging. Epic item grades were very rare and scarce and yet, they were rewarded with these two just for staying in a safe room for three days complete with a professional''s inn''s service. There were too many things she wanted to retort to but she was silenced by a question from Mia. "Kahami-san... What did you see?" "I-- Item grade... Epic..." "..................... Ehh? EEHHHHH!!!??? Are those two items seriously Epic items!?" I nodded in agreement weakly towards Mia''s question. We then walked towards the two items and equipped it. The cloak can turn me invisible by my will. Now, I can do reconnaissance easily! "I will make this staff a family heirloom..." Disregarding the words of Mia, another set of writings appeared on the wall. {Also, since I am in a good mood, take these with you.} Another magic circle appeared and what emerged during this time, were brand new daggers, food, a tent, some food we ate during these three and some new ones, and a... golem? Species: Golem Level: 80 Wha--!? What is with this strong golem!? {I also gave you both a golem to follow your commands. It''s fairly strong so you can add that to your fighting force. And also, please spread some rumors about my dungeon. Until next time!} And with that, another magic circle appeared, this time, it spread across the room. When I came to, we were at the dungeon entrance. along with all the things they gave us. "So, he was the dungeon master huh?" I made a sigh under my breath and called out to Mia. We prepared for our travel towards the city. Also, I would like to pay back the dungeon master of this dungeon by spreading rumors about his dungeon. "Mia! Let''s go!" "Right!" ***** ~Daichi POV~ After sending the two girls out of my dungeon, I experimented with my [Create Entity] skill. I created a television and a DVD player. Also CD''s of some animes I watched. Shironeko might love this. I also made a traditional Japanese futon. My lifestyle just got better with the use of [Create Entity]. Chapter 7: The Floodgates of DP Open!!! A day after I sent the two girls away from my dungeon, more and more adventurers came visiting. Right now, my daily DP income is through the roof reaching about 25000 DP per day. I can''t really complain about this DP gain, but this is a dungeon. Not a hotel. Maybe after hearing about where those two girls got their Epic class item, adventurers came and tried to do the same. Of course, I''m happy that I could get all this DP for a day, but seriously, this is a dungeon. Not some kind of hotel. Well, they''re just probably here for the reward, so I guess I can use them. I created 2 new rooms like that and 2 parties entered inside to take the three-day challenge. Well, it''s more like a free-living service instead of a challenge. I am thinking of how to get more adventurers to come to my dungeon and stay inside an isolated room and I got an idea. I''m going to create an inn and have the adventurers that want to enter my dungeon rest there when they are tired. But there is one problem. I don''t have the staff. I can use intelligent monsters but I still can''t buy them because of my dungeon level. So I''ll have to postpone that idea for now. ***** The next day, when I took a look at my Dungeon Statistics. Dungeon Name: Nameless Dungeon Master: Yanagi Daichi Dungeon Level: 14 Dungeon Type: Normal Dungeon Difficulty: F Dungeon Age: 0 Floors: 2 Number of Rooms: 8 Intruder Count; Daily: 9 Weekly: 7 Intruders Killed: 5 Monsters Lost: 47 Daily DP Income: 25150 My Dungeon Level increased by 9. Maybe because of a lot of adventurers are now staying inside the rooms. Now, let me see the Dungeon Market tab. Select the monster option and there we go... I can finally buy intelligent monsters. On the list, there is a succubus, incubus, fairy, dryad, etc. What I want is the one that can talk freely with the adventurers. The succubus is a good pick, but her appearance is a problem. But with my OP skill [Create Entity], I can get rid of the problem easily.Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more. For now, I''ll focus on the construction of the inn. I made the foundation using the Dungeon Management tab. Created the flooring, walls, windows, doors, and the interior. The inn''s structure is complete! Now to create the furniture and decorate. ***** After decorating the inn, I summoned five succubi. All of them were wearing erotic outfits, ranging from S and M play, to string type underwear. ¡° ¡° ¡° ¡° ¡°Greetings, master.¡± ¡± ¡± ¡± ¡± The five succubi greeted me in a polite manner. I asked them if they knew about this world''s currency and this is what I learned. Currency Unit: Gilla Copper coin: 1 Gilla Silver Coin: 100 Gilla Gold coin: 10000 Gilla White Gold Coin: 1000000 Gilla Platinum Coin: 100000000 Gilla Convert it into Yen... 1 Gilla = 100 Yen That''s the currency here in this world. When I asked the succubi how much is it for a cheap inn, they told me about 50 copper coins a night per room without meals. I started thinking of how will the inn run. ***** After thinking up a plan for the inn, I decided to test it. I sent the 5 succubi to the inn and prepare to work. Of course, I created an item to conceal their succubus appearance. But they are still bewitching. My nether regions became all stiff when I summoned them. I better not let Shironeko see this. The first adventurer party arrived. They were dumbfounded by the inn at the entrance. When they went inside, they were greeted by beautiful ladies. They were succubi though. The men were bewitched by the beauty of the girls and decided to take a rest for the night. Not what I was expecting but at least they stayed the night. One room for one night is a silver and 30 copper coins. This includes a meal and the room also was luxurious. When the adventurer party went inside the room, the DP per day income skyrocketed. Yep, with this, I can accumulate a lot of DP. Another adventurer party came, but this time, they asked where did this inn come from. Finally. Someone who asked about the origins of this inn. I wonder if the history I planned will work. The history I fabricated was "This inn was created by a sage who wanted to try running an inn near the entrance of a dungeon. He wanted to try if the inn can serve as a place as a resting point and a strategic location for the adventurers. The five girls were his familiars whose race is a secret." That is the story behind this inn and apparently, they bought it. I don''t know why but maybe it is common for sages here to do as they please around the world. Oh, and by the way, I am the sage. (Do you get what I''m hinting at? *wink* *wink*) Another adventurer party came and the redhead and the green-haired girl yesterday were with them. I see the redhead using the cloak, while the green-haired girl was wielding her staff. The girls were shocked to see a new inn built here when it wasn''t even a day before the left here. They were then explained about how this inn came to be blah blabla... ***** When night came, DP gain rose through the roof. The DP I can gain daily was approximately 58150 DP. That''s too high no matter how you look at it. I guess building an inn was a really good decision. Oops, turn that screen off. I''m not showing you guys any 18+ development here. No way, nuh-uh. ***** Morning came and when I checked my DP, My jaw dropped down to the floor. DP = 305250 How the heck did this happen. When I looked at the screen that shows me the inn. Countless adventurers were partying inside. The succubi were having a hard time servicing all of them. And some adventurers complained that there were no more rooms in the inn. I''ll need to buy more succubi and expand the inn. Man, I''ll be busy. Chapter 8: A Dungeon Challenge!! A week passed from when I mad an inn. Adventurers, mostly new ones, come by and entered the dungeon. After exploring, they come back to rest at the inn. And while resting inside one of the rooms, My daily DP income rises greatly. I opened the Dungeon Statistics tab and checked the current status of my dungeon. Dungeon Name: Nameless Dungeon Master: Yanagi Daichi Dungeon Level: 27 Dungeon Type: Normal Dungeon Difficulty: D Dungeon Age: 0 Floors: 8 Number of Rooms: 29 Intruder Count; Daily: 28 Weekly: 186 Intruders Killed: 13 Monsters Lost: 135 Daily DP Income: 20850 With the inn alone, I can make this kind of profit! Just what more if this becomes a village? Or a town! The dream is expanding! "Master... is happy." Shironeko stared at me with a huge smile on her face. Apparently, the good mood I gave off made Shironeko happy. She climbed on my lap for who knows what reason and laid her head on my chest. "Master... Warm..." She said one last thing about me before dozing off. I can spoil her to this extent, but if this goes way more, then I''m punishing her. By making her seiza depending on the fault. I checked the screen in front of me and new adventurers came inside my dungeon. Since I''m in a good mood today, let''s issue a challenge to the adventurers. ***** ~Random Adventurer POV~ While I and my party were chatting inside the inn, a clamor was heard outside. We went outside to check what it is just to be greeted by a crowd. They were all looking at something. When we looked at the direction they were facing, we saw some floating words. {Dear Travelers I am the dungeon master of this dungeon. Since right now I am in a good mood, I''d like to play a game with you all. Don''t worry as your lives are not in danger. What I want you all to do is reach the last floor and reach the boss room. The first party or individual to reach the room will be granted a single item of their wish. If you or your party were defeated in my dungeon, you will be thrown out and be unable to enter the dungeon until the game ends or a week elapsed. Well then, happy dungeon diving!} Once the adventurers around us finished reading the text, they immediately prepared while some headed inside to get a head start. Since this dungeon''s credibility was proved by the two Dungeon Sisters, all of us were fired up. "Oi you guys! We''re gonna get that prize! All of you follow me!!!" " " " " OOOHHH!!!" " " " ***** ~Daichi POV~ After I finished writing those texts, adventurers one after another excitedly prepared and entered my dungeon. Shironeko was still sleeping peacefully in my lap with her head against my chest. Cute, I thought. I made some golems with my [Create Entity] skill that are stronger than the average golem. The golems I made were faster, stronger and smarter than other golems. First, I made a normal-looking golem, but then I thought how about making human-looking golems. I then made some golems that looked like humans. They were all wearing clothes designed for battle and are wielding scary-looking weapons. One was wielding a scythe, the other a morning star. I also made some golems capable of using healing magic to heal the adventurers that fainted. And some golems that are capable of space magic to teleport them out. I then scattered them in my dungeon. The golems I made numbered a hundred. When I deployed the golems, adventurers here and there were defeated and transferred out of the dungeon. Aren''t these golems a little bit too strong? I opened the Dungeon Statistics tab and checked the current status of my dungeon. Dungeon Name: Nameless Dungeon Master: Yanagi Daichi Dungeon Level: 27 Dungeon Type: Normal Dungeon Difficulty: B This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. Dungeon Age: 0 Floors: 8 Number of Rooms: 29 Intruder Count; Daily: 28 Weekly: 186 Intruders Killed: 13 Monsters Lost: 135 Daily DP Income: 20850 Oi oi... Did the dungeon difficulty raise by two levels when I added the golems? Just how strong were these golems? I checked the screen again and apparently, 9 out of 10 adventurer parties were defeated and thrown out. They didn''t even reach the 2nd floor before getting thrown out. At this rate, they won''t be able to clear this game. I better change the rules. ***** ~Random Adventurer POV~ What the hell were those golems? They were too strong for a low level dungeon! And I lost my chance to gain the prize. Just when I was getting ready to head home, new floating words appeared. {Dear travelers I apologize for the sudden increase in difficulty so I took of the rule stating you can only try one. So I removed the rule so go ahead and try again. Also, parties concerning on what to do with the prize, don''t worry. As the party members that reach the boss room will each get a prize. Happy dungeon diving!!} Once I finished reading, I quickly went back to the town to recruit party members. ***** ~Daichi POV~ Looks like some adventurers tried to challenge the game again while some went on their way. Maybe to recruit some new adventurers to his party. "This is fun to watch..." Shironeko, who was just dozing off right now, woke up and stared at the screen. She then gazed at my direction and smiled. Cute. Just then, a golem that looked like a young girl wearing a maid costume appeared. Shironeko then glanced at her and then looked at me all teary-eyed. "Master... Replaced me?" Tears then rolled down her cheek and clung to me. "Please don''t throw me away master!! I will do anything! So please don''t throw me away!!" Shironeko then shouted some words to me to appeal not to throw her away. "Don''t worry Shironeko. That is just a golem. A golem can never replace you." I hugged Shironeko and wiped her tears away. She then stared up at me with blushing cheeks. "Uuu... Sniff..." This girl, just what did she go through? As Shironeko topped crying, she let go of me then went back to dozing off. She really is like a cat. When I looked at the screen, the two adventurer girls from before, along with the golem I gave them were challenging my game to. They were already at the 3rd floor. They made a good balanced party. The golem for the vanguard, the redhead for support and the green-haired girl for rear-guard. I didn''t know that the golem I gave them was also strong. [Create Entity] is just too reliable when you are a dungeon master. I made a new golem, probably the stronget one I created. It lookWhen I appraised it. Species: Automata Name: Deus Ex Machina Level: 250 Skills: [Megaton Punch lv 9] [Agility Up lv 8] [Hard Body lv 9] [Strength Up lv 8] [Magic Resistant Body lv 9] [Nimbleness lv 8] [Dual-Wielding lv 8] "............." Didn''t I just create a boss class monster that can rival a giant monster. This skill is broken. For now, to avoid creating some suspicions, I''ll be limiting this items for my own convenience. But isn''t that already too late? You know what? I''ll just create golems weaker than this golem to defend my dungeon. And right now, when I just placed the boss golem in the boss room, I checked the current status of my dungeon. Dungeon Name: Nameless Dungeon Master: Yanagi Daichi Dungeon Level: 27 Dungeon Type: Normal Dungeon Difficulty: S Dungeon Age: 0 Floors: 8 Number of Rooms: 29 Intruder Count; Daily: 30 Weekly: 188 Intruders Killed: 13 Monsters Lost: 145 Daily DP Income: 21350 Oi... just what kind of monster did I create??? Chapter 9: Slime Evolution and a Hero??? 5 days passed since the start of the game I proposed, only two adventurers were able to reach the floor where the boss room was. They were the redhead and the green-haired girl. Of course, they only reached the 8th floor, not the boss room before getting kicked out. The two of them voiced their complaints about the difficulty of the dungeon when compared the last they visited. Shironeko was serving me tea while wearing her maid outfit. I have to say, props to me who gave her that outfit. "You look good in it." Shironeko blushed for a while and went back to serve me some tea. She really has an air of a maid. But still, the green tea she served is simply superb! The aroma and the taste of sweetness were just excellent! I could get used to that. "Delicious..." "Thank you, master." Right now, I am still managing my dungeon. I have accumulated over 250000 DP, but I still won''t expand it until the week is over. The inn business is going great. Also, some merchants came and started seeling around the dungeon. I guessed that the merchants smelled profit for coming here. I also found out about how slime evolution points grow. I only found out about it 3 days ago. Apparently, the points increase when the slimes partake something and absorb it. Meaning, when the slime puts something inside its body, the material inside will be digested by the slime and the slime can accumulate evolution points. Right now, one slime is on the verge of evolution. I was feeding it rocks until now. Who knows what might happen when the slime evolves. When I fed the last rock, the slime jiggled and a white mist enveloped the slime. When the mist dissolved, what was left was a ~~~~ rock? Is that a rock? Species: Rock Slime Name: Nameless Type: Earth Level: 1 Evolution Points: 0/100 The slime evolved into a rock slime. The rock slime can use its body like jelly. It looks like clay, but when I touched its body, it was hard. I commanded it to eat another rock and the rock went inside the body of the rock slime. When I commanded the rock slime to change its form into a rod, it changed form and when I held it, it felt no different when holding a staff. When I swing it, the rock slime didn''t bend nor break its posture. I made some wood with [Create Entity] and used the rock slime to hit it. The wood was destroyed while the rock slime was unharmed. Isn''t this something good? Instead of creating some overpowered items with my [Create Entity] and buying from the Dungeon Market, could I just create something to feed the slimes and have them evolve? And after that, reshape them into weapons and use them as treasures. Because I don''t want to carelessly give away items that were created with [Create Entity] as maybe I would destroy the balance of this world, and also to avoid using a lot of DP for treasures, I can use this as a substitute. Okay, with this, it''s decided! I opened the Dungeon Market tab and accessed the monster option. I then bought about 10 slimes. I also accessed the item option to check for rare metals. I saw the famous fantasy metals Mithril, Adamantite, and Orichalcon. Also, something called Phonite. If I compared these four metals, Phonite was undoubtedly the most expensive metal. It had the characteristics of extreme hardness and magic conductibility. Simply speaking, an overpowered fantasy metal that is even stronger than Adamantite and Orichalcon combined. I used [Create Entity] to create some Mithril, Adamantite, Orichalcon, and Phonite. Also, a lot of iron, silver, gold, and steel. After that, I made the slimes eat them. It may take a few days before they evolve so I let them be. After creating all those metals and making the slimes eat them, something appeared on the screen with a warning icon. Eh?? Hero?? "Shironeko. What is a hero?" I called out to Shironeko who was sitting on the bed while playing with some slimes. "WHAT!!! A HERO!!!" For some reason, Shironeko seems excited. "A hero is someone who is destined to defeat a demon king!! Also, they are sent to dungeons to conquer them for training! And they are very very very very very very strong!!!" Shironeko was excitedly describing the traits of a hero. But still, to make Shironeko describe a hero in complete detail, a hero really is something huh? I checked what floor is he in now, but it seems he is still on the first floor. When he encountered a golem squad I created, he effortlessly destroyed them all. Oi oi... Isn''t he too strong? He blazed through the floors with ease. It took him about 30 minutes to reach the 5th floor. At this rate, he will reach the boss room in no time. I created more golems with [Create Entity] and sent them to defend the sixth floor. All the golems I sent numbered 50. With this, it might take him more time to reach the boss. For now, I appraised him with [Appraisal] Support the creativity of authors by visiting the original site for this novel and more. Name: Philip Race: Human Age: 17 Level: 120 Class: Hero Skills: [All Attribute Magic lv 5] [Swordsmanship lv Max] [Expert Swordsmanship lv 3] [Holy Might lv 5] [Divine Strength lv 1] Seeing his status let my heart skip a beat. But I still doubted whether he could defeat Deus Ex Machina in the boss room. The hero had a hard time dealing with the golems, but the golems still weren''t enough. It took him another 20 minutes to reach the boss room. A new record. The fastest record before was 5 hours with the redhead and green-haired girl. And now, it was beaten by a very huge margin. The hero then opened the door to the boss room. And when he met the boss, he hurriedly got into a battle stance. {Woah!! Hold up there!!} I hurriedly wrote some writings and released them in the boss room. The hero read the writings that were floating and stared in bewilderment. I then continued writing. {Hello hero. You are the first one to have made it this far in the dungeon. In accordance with the rules, I have to give you one item as your wish for you reaching this place. Now state your wish!} The hero stared dumbfounded at the writings then tilted his head with a questioning gaze. Don''t tell me, he came here without prior knowledge about the game? {Perchance, you haven''t heard about the game I made?} The hero that was staring at the writings then raised his voice. [My name is Philip! The hero of the Lifruit(Li - fru - it) Kingdom! I came here on a quest to subjugate this dungeon!] {Subjugate my dungeon you say? On what reasons? I haven''t killed any adventurers in my dungeon you know?} When the hero read the part where I haven''t killed any adventurers, his jaw dropped. But he immediately regained his composure and raised his voice. [The kingdom issued a request to subjugate this dungeon due to the danger level it possessed! They found out about the dungeon difficulty with a mage very skilled in appraisal! Its about the boss, huh? Well anyway. {I don''t care about that since you won''t be able to defeat the automata there. However! The game rules state that the first person or party to reach here will be given an item of his wish. So state your wish or be thrown out by the boss. You can challenge it later so state your wish for now.} Since I said about something with a wish, the hero contemplated hardly whether to challenge the boss before making a wish. He then decided and stated his wish. [My wish, is a sword that cut through any metal and is indestructible!] A good wish. I then used [Create Entity] to make his sword. When the light disappeared, I read its stats using [Appraisal]. Weapon Type - Sword Weapon Name - Sword of Complete Stupidity Item Grade - Epic Can tear through anything like paper and cannot be destroyed. What is with the name? Well, I can relate to it since it is very broken. It might be a bugged weapon. No, it is a bugged weapon. I mean, what the heck? Cut through anything like paper and cannot be destroyed? It really is stupid. Well, I can''t go back on my word now. I used the transfer option in the dungeon menu to transfer this sword to the hero. When it appeared, he grabbed it and grinned. Next, he readied his stance and attacked Deus Ex Machina. When he attacked, however, he was punched by Deus and sent flying outside the boss room. Ah! He lost consciousness. He was foaming at the mouth. I ordered some newly created golems to carry him out of the dungeon. He was then kicked out and gathered attention. I wrote something about the game outside the dungeon. {Dear adventurers The game has been completed and the reward has been taken. The person who completed the game was none other than the hero! Though, he tried to attack the boss of the dungeon and was sent flying. But anyway. Congratulations Philip! the hero of Lifruit kingdom on completing the game! May the reward I bestowed upon you be helpful in your journey.} When I finished writing, the surrounding adventurers were all shocked to see a hero defeated by a dungeon boss. Some of them carried him into an inn while the others had a look of disappointment due to missing the chance to get an item of your wish. I wrote something to cheer them up. {Next time, I will also hold another game like this, so please come when I hold another one of these games! Have fun! Also, there is no need to fear death when inside this dungeon except if you are a criminal. All law-abiding citizens are welcome to come here to train and raise your levels! Enjoy!} With that, the adventurers raised a shout and went inside my dungeon. Are safe dungeons scarce? Well, at least I gained a lot of DP from this encounter. The daily DP income from the hero equaled 10000. Well anyway, 6 more days before the meeting starts. I better hurry up and prepare my dungeon. Chapter 10: Events Before the Meeting Continuing the events after the hero was thrown outside the dungeon. I used the [Create Entity] skill to create a golem with insights on how to be a dungeon master to manage the dungeon when I am away. Well, I made his style the same as mine when managing a dungeon. I don¡¯t want to come back seeing that the adventurers diving in my dungeon becoming a bunch of corpses. His image was that of a duplicate me, a doppelganger so to speak. ¡°Greetings master.¡± Woah¡­ Looking at myself kneeling while greeting in a polite manner made me feel weird, doesn¡¯t it? ¡°Mu¡­? Master¡­?¡± When Shironeko woke up from sleeping in my lap, she saw my doppelganger kneeling, at my, at our direction. ¡°Fu- Fueehhh!!?? M-Master!!! P-Please raise your head!!¡± She raised a cry and politely asked him to raise his head¡­ Cute¡­ ¡°Shironeko, it¡¯s okay, that person is a golem I made to supervise the dungeon, and also take care of you when I am away.¡± ¡°M-Master!? Eh¡­? Eh¡­?¡± When she noticed my presence, she twisted her head to my direction, and then back again to my kneeling doppelganger. She repeated this about 5 times before her brain overheated and fainted. ¡°Shironeko!?¡± ¡°Lady Shironeko!?¡± Both I and my doppelganger raised shouts of worry when we saw Shironeko faint. But when we looked at her face, both of us made a faint smile, she had a face that was smiling while blushing. ¡°Two¡­ Masters¡­ Best¡­ Day¡­¡± She was quietly murmuring those words while unconscious. But I was still taken aback by the politeness of my doppelganger. It made me cringe seeing myself kneeling and talking in a polite tone mostly used from the Edo Period, seriously, I haven¡¯t even spoken like that before. Holding up Shironeko¡¯s light body, I carried her to the bed and laid her down. Covering her body with a blanket to avoid her body temperature lowering, I looked at the direction where my doppelganger was. ¡­ He was still kneeling¡­ No wait¡­ he is changing his pose from kneeling¡­ to a¡­ DOGEZA!? ¡°Stop!! Stop that at once!!! I don¡¯t want to see myself doing a dogeza with that pitiful face!!!¡± ¡°Master!?¡± My pride won¡¯t allow that to happen!! I quickly ran towards my doppelganger and lectured him on what to do, and also told him to stop all this polite nonsense to me and Shironeko. I mean, who can stand seeing theirself being polite to theirself? At least I can¡¯t. And so spending half the day on lecturing on what to do when I am away during the meeting, I created another room where my doppelganger will stay, along with Shironeko. As I thought, I can¡¯t bring her to a meeting where scary dungeon masters will gather. The next day, I was busy checking the dungeon while Shironeko was watching TV behind me. She was watching an anime with a certain pirate MC who can stretch his body like rubber. She was watching it with sparkling eyes. I thought what she was doing was cute, well, until that happened. She was watching it like always until the scene where the MC did one of his moves. Shironeko also copied the MC. She made the same pose as the MC, with her fist straight in the ground while crouching. I thought it was really cute, until I saw her skin turning red and steam rising from her body. Oi¡­ is what I¡¯m seeing real or not? She readied her body and jumped. She inhaled a huge amount of air and¡­ ¡°G*mu G*mu no J*t Pist*ol!!!¡± *BANG* The cave room shook and the TV that was just there, playing the anime show earlier, was now lodged 2 meters inside the wall. Shironeko, noticing what happened, turned pale and looked at my direction. ¡°¡­¡­¡­..¡± ¡°¡­¡­¡­..¡± For a few moments, the only sounds that were audible were the sounds from the dungeon via microphone. ¡°S-Sorry!!!!¡± With quick movements, Shironeko dived down and did a dogeza in front of me while her body was still steaming. ¡°I-It¡¯s okay Shironeko. I can always create another one, so cheer up okay?¡±Did you know this story is from Royal Road? Read the official version for free and support the author. ¡°Uuu¡­ Hiku¡­¡± With teary eyes, Shironeko came up on me and went back on my lap, just to doze off seconds later. ¡°¡­ She really is cute¡­¡± *** Another warning popped up on the screen while I was enjoying the BGM of Shironeko watching anime. ¡°¡­ Again?¡± I opened up the Dungeon Menu and took a look at my dungeon. A familiar face appeared, along with some other unfamiliar faces. ¡°He¡¯s back, and with a party?¡± Correct, the hero is back, and with a party nonetheless. It was composed one male and three females. ... Riajuu¡­ Die and explode a million times!!! I became enraged at the site of the hero, who was thrown out of my dungeon like trash, was being accompanied by three girls, moreover beautiful ones!!! Looking at their clothes, their breast sizes were ordered from biggest to smallest, with biggest starting from the left. The leftmost girl was wearing revealing clothes, emphasizing her chest. The cleavage was clear, even through the screen!! Ahh¡­ Boobs¡­ Boobs are justice!!! She was wielding a staff, with a book on her other hand. If appearances can decide the class of a person, then she must be a mage or magic user. Next was the average size boob girl. She was wearing clothing a priest would wear. On her right hand, a staff with golden embroidery, and on her left hand, a silver cross. She is, without a doubt, a cleric or healer. Last was the girl with a pitiful chest. Mind you, I am not deciding their worth using their breast sizes! And I am not saying that pitiful chests are bad either, okay! All of them have their strengths and weaknesses, but in no, under no circumstance, I am saying that flat is bad!! I¡¯m just saying ¡®pitiful chest¡¯ to make it look like I am sympathizing with her¡­ yeah¡­ That is the reason¡­ yep¡­ Anyway, she was garbed in light metal armor, with a short sword and some daggers dangling at her waist, along with a couple of items. Most likely, she is thief or scout. Their team composition is good, if they are trying to dive a dungeon with a cave¡¯s appearance and interior. Considering their gear, it is almost good for a cave. Short weapons to use in narrow places, magic instead of arrows, I just hope that the mage doesn¡¯t use fire magic. I don¡¯t want to deprive my dungeon of oxygen. The party of four entered the dungeon with caution. Even if they entered recklessly, they won¡¯t die. Wait¡­ Let me use this as a test for my doppelganger. I stood up and went to where my doppelganger was. *** ~ Philip POV ~ Damn the dungeon master¡­ Making me experience that humiliation, I will never forgive him!!! ¡°Sandra, scout ahead and contact us if you see any golems.¡± ¡°Understood!¡± Sandra rushed towards the room with no sound. As expected from a high level thief. I¡¯ll use you until you I find no more use for you hehehe¡­ These commoners think that they can party with me, the hero who will one day save this world from the demon lord? Just because I was recruiting, doesn¡¯t mean that I will treasure them as teammates. They are just fodder and stepping stones for my growth hehehe¡­ ¡°I have returned Hero-sama. I have spotted about 5 golems inside. Judging from their appearance, they are high golems.¡± ¡°I know that much Sandra. I just want to know how many there were. Now that we know, let¡¯s destroy them.¡± ¡°Certainly.¡± ¡°Understood.¡± ¡°Roger.¡± The four of us rushed inside the room and destroyed the golems using the elements of surprise. Easy! ¡°Let¡¯s continue.¡± An hour later, the four of us arrived in front of the boss room. I was 10 minutes earlier when I was alone. Just goes to show how useless commoners were. ¡°Inside here is the boss. Last time I was here, I was beaten in an instant, so don¡¯t let your guard down.¡± ¡°¡°¡°Yes!¡±¡±¡± The three of them nodded and raised their guard. At least, they can be useful as meat shields. With the sword you have given me, I will kill you dungeon master, hehehe¡­ HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! The four of us opened the door and were greeted with a large room. Inside was the dreaded automaton that knocked my lights out in just a moment. It stood up and looked at us like it was looking at garbage. Don¡¯t fucking joke with me!!! ¡°Keeja! Ready your spells!! Sandra! Use hit and run tactics, use items if need be! Leila! Cover us with enchantments and healing!¡± ¡°¡°¡°Yes!!!¡±¡±¡± After giving the commands, I dashed towards the automaton and used a feint. The automaton took the bait easily, and I jumped out of the way. A moment later, fireballs with the size of two diameters assaulted the golem. Smoke covered the automaton¡¯s body. Looks like Keeja was able to conjure up high-powered spells in a moment, not bad for a commoner. I just might take her as a concubine to produce a powerful heir. Next, Sandra came in close and threw some items at it. It had the shape of knives. It stuck to the automaton¡¯s body and exploded a second after. ¡°Increase thy strength and soar like the wind, [Agility & Strength Increase]!¡± The next moment, green mist covered my body, and I felt really light. This must be Leila¡¯s enchantment magic. I¡¯ll reward you plenty later hehehe¡­ I dashed towards the smoking body of the automaton and raised my sword. ¡°TAKE THIS!!! [HOLY MIGHT]!!¡± My sword was enveloped with a bright light. Those who gaze upon this skill will marvel at the sight of this. A fitting skill for a hero blessed by the gods! The sword was swung down and my sight was dyed white. Few seconds later, my vision returned and there was nothing left in front of me. ¡°Hehe¡­ HAHAHA!!! Next is, you, dungeon master!¡± While making a smile as if I had completed an impossible quest, my consciousness faded. *** ~ Daichi POV ~ ¡°¡­ Haaa¡­¡± A sigh leaked out of my lips as I looked at the screen. The sight of the hero foaming with the whites of his eyes exposed was really disturbing. His party members were also unconscious. Deus was able to dodge the attack from the hero using his [Nimbleness] skill. During the time when the four of them were blinded by the skill of the Hero, Deus, using that time, knocked the three females out. After that, Deus knocked the Hero out after his declaration of killing me. Is he seriously a hero? He has good combat instincts, I¡¯ll give him that, but when he lowers his guard, he is nothing but a strong ordinary person. ¡°Golems, escort our guests outside.¡± After Kaze¡¯s instruction, the golems with space magic teleported the four of them out of the dungeon. By the way, Kaze is the name I gave to my doppelganger. ¡°Good job Kaze.¡± ¡°Yes, master. Nothing can bring me enough joy than to show my worth to you.¡± ¡°¡­ Yes, well, erm¡­ Continue on! And make sure to properly manage my dungeon during the time I am gone.¡± ¡°Yes!¡± I left the room while cringing at the sight of me kneeling with tears dropping to the floor. I mean seriously!? Why the heck would you cry at the drop of a hat when your master congratulated you for a small achievement!? At most, that was just something you can be proud of, not cry tears of joy!!! ¡°¡­Haaahh¡­ Anyway, just a few more days before the meeting¡­¡± I returned to my room to sleep. Just visiting Kaze makes me feel tired. At least, Shironeko soothed my soul. Just seeing her mimicking the moves of anime characters heals my heart. Good night¡­ Chapter 11: Meeting Few days later, I am now standing in front of a giant castle. The giant castle towered above the clouds as its majestic appearance continued to grace my presence. "Beautiful..." Was the only word that left my mouth, I carefully headed towards the giant, majestic double doors. Estimating, its height reaches about 5 meters high. The double doors opened slowly when I reached a few meters before it. The next scene caused my eyes to pop out of my eyes. *** Earlier... "Shironeko, Kaze will be your guardian while I am gone." "... Is master leaving...?" With teary eyes, Shironeko came to me with a downtrodden expression. "N-no... I''m not leaving you. I''m just going for a trip for a few days." "...Uuu..." ...Dang... I stuttered... I must have made a weak impression on coming back... "Don''t worry lady Shironeko. Master is just going to see some friends. Also, he is the master of this dungeon, so it is impossible for him not to come back." "...Really...?" "T-that''s right! I''m just going to go and greet some friends and I''ll be back after a few days." Thank you Kaze for that follow-up!! Anyway, what''s up with me and my stutterings today!? Is it because of my nervousness? Minutes before the appointed time, I, Kaze, and Shironeko were gathered in a single room. I was dressed in formal clothes, as expected, I couldn''t go to the meeting without wearing formal clothes. It''s like going to school without wearing your uniform. Back to the present, the time to go was nearing, so I readied myself, wearing formal clothes, making myself look neat, and also saying goodbye to Shironeko and Kaze. Kaze''s main purpose was to be Shironeko''s guardian, so I thought to make him in my image, to make Shironeko calmer. Well, at least it works, save for when Kaze calls Shironeko, lady Shironeko. I told him countless times to address her as just Shironeko, but his pride, his automaton pride doesn''t allow him to call his superiors with an informal attitude. I was dressed in a black tuxedo that complements my black hair and eyes. It had a feeling of being highclass. The last thing I need is to wear a bowl hat to make it look like I was a mafia member, but I refrained. The clothes totaled to about 50000 DP, this suit was really expensive, at least for other dungeons. With my earnings, I can gain 50000 DP in just 2 and a half days, a sign that my skill is broken. Just then, a magic circle appeared beneath my feet. "I guess it''s time. Kaze, take good care of Shironeko and tbe dungeon, Shironeko, be a good girl and follow Kaze''s words. Also, you can watch anime if you want, just don''t destroy the TV like last time. I won''t be able create another one while I''m gone." "Certainly master." "Y-yes! Please be well!" With a worried voice, Shironeko saw me off. As for Kaze... "Kaze, I command you, stop kneeling..." "Forgive me master. I am but a sevant---"If you discover this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. "Yeah yeah, I get it... Anyway, Kaze, I leave the dungeon and Shironeko in your hands." "Understood!" With a strong and determined voice, I bid the two farewell and my vision was blinded by the intense light. The next thing I saw after the transfer was a huge valley of green, with a giant castle towering high above the clouds. *** Presently... The scene I saw had my jaw dropped to the ground. A majestic ballroom stretched through the castle''s interior. In the ballroom, countless of people, animals, and creatures with different races were mingling with each other. The scene where a huge red dragon talking with a human like me was surreal, the human was wearing formal and luxurious clothes. The human''s age based on appearance looks about his early twenties, but I know that isn''t true. We dungeon masters have eternal youth, so appearances can be deceiving. Well, that doesn''t even matter. I headed inside with clear strides while trying to hide my nervousness. When I entered, only a few dungeon masters looked at my direction. I guess some of them are new dungeon masters, while some might be looking for easy prey. That''s just how mortals are. Once you feel superior for a long time, it starts to get to your head and you become arrogant. Back to the present, I felt out of place inside the castle. Looking around, the first thing I wanted to do was to try out the food. I headed to where the food was located. "... Wow..." The food here looks good!! Bread, beverages, pasta, cake, anything you cam find at a very luxurious restaurant can be found here. I took a plate and filled it to the brim with food. Once that was done, I searched for an open table. Upon finding one, I seated myself and began to partake on the food. I gulped down my saliva and brought the spoon to my mouth. "...!?" ... What happened? Did I just lose consciousness for a second? If this was because of the food, then... I took another spoonful of food, and once again, my tastebuds was blown away. T- This is freakin'' delicious!!! As I was eating and savoring the food, a person seated himself across my seat. Actually, not himself, but herself, she had radiant gold hair that reflected the light from the chandeliers, and deep blue eyes that can suck you in as if a blue vortex. Her face had features that can put any top model to shame. Moreover, she looks like she was in her early twenties. "Greetings fellow dungeon master, my name is Yvonne." With a voice as pure as a clear lake, the girl, Yvonne made a smile. A smile that looked like it can charm any men once seen, but sadly, it won''t work on me. During the time I was preparing for this day, I made sure to study on how to guess the other party''s intentions. Dungeon masters are people too, so they are not exempted from the information war, much more if they are competing against each other for territory. The smile that I can see on Yvonne''s face is none other than a smile that looks for any kind of weakness and strength it could find. Judging from her behavior, she must be an old and cautious dungeon master. ¡°Hello Yvonne, my name is Daichi. I just started being a dungeon master a month ago.¡± I told Yvonne my name and also how long I became a dungeon master. This must be enough to end her probing about my dungeon. I don¡¯t like giving away information about my dungeon you see. Much more if it is a dungeon master whose personality I don¡¯t know. ¡°Is that so? Well, let me congratulate you on your start on being a dungeon master. If you need any help, don¡¯t hesitate to contact me, okay?¡± Saying that, she left an item on the table and went on her way, it had a form of a rock tablet. Looks like that worked, Almost no dungeon master would actually notice month old dungeons as they are just new and can be crushed with just a few days. And the item she just left. Help she says¡­? [Appraisal] Item name: Surveillance Bug Item Grade: Rare Item that can disguise itself according to the user¡¯s preference. Can only be transformed once and gathers information in a 25 meter radius, and sends it back to the Surveillance Receiver linked with this item. Haahh¡­ Looks like she really is cautious, I¡¯ll be throwing this when I get back to the dungeon. Wait¡­ What if I created a dummy dungeon to send false information to her, that way, when she tries to do anything funny, she¡¯ll be surprised about the false information, right? I took the rock tablet and put it inside my pocket. Its size was that of a smartphone, so it made a perfect fit inside my pocket. With that done, I went back to eating. I want to savor the taste!!! *** ¡°Fuaahhh¡­ That was really fulfilling¡­¡± After eating, my belly was bulging out. Eating those kinds of food was really satisfying. I hope I can buy this using DP, or make some golems who can cook that can try and replicate the food here. Just then, the sound of a gong resounded through the ballroom. Some dungeon masters who heard this gong had a grin up their face while others were momentarily stunned. Right after that, a giant, holographic screen appeared at the end of the hall. Inside the holographic screen, there was a man in his youths with a majestic appearance. His looks that is far ahead than those of male models, body that is slim, yet sturdy, and a clear voice that can suck you in. He had silver hair and silver eyes, and looked at us as what you would call a father looking at his children. ¡°Welcome, my children, to the annual Dungeon Games!!!¡± Chapter 12: Dungeon Games Dungeon Games¡­? What is that¡­? I thought this was a meeting of dungeon masters, but apparently, this is a day where dungeon masters gather and compete against each other. The meeting part wasn¡¯t wrong, I just interpreted it incorrectly. The roars and cheers of the other dungeon masters reverberated through the hall. This is seriously noisy¡­ ¡°Calm yourselves my children. We will start momentarily, but first, let us welcome our new dungeon masters.¡± With a snap of his fingers, I, along with several other dungeon masters, were teleported onto a stage that was made in just a blink of an eye. Is this castle a dungeon? I mean, if he is the father of dungeon masters, then he must be maintaning a dungeon as a dungeon master right? Beside me were about 20 dungeon masters with different appearances and races. There were some humanoid dungeon masters, those who looked like humans, and those who looked like animals such as a lizard, a cat, etc. I stiffened in place. Just thinking about setting foot in a stage in front of many people, much less a thousand, just makes me feel anxious. But right now, I am experiencing it, the feeling of stage fright. The nervousness of now knowing what to do, heck, what I want to do now is to jump of the freakin¡¯ stage and hide in a hole!!! There were some others like me, while the others had an air of calmness. They are probably those who are confident in their dungeons and management. ¡°Please give a round of applause to our new dungeon masters!¡± The sounds of clapping from a thousand people, actually, some people, others animals, could be heard, along with some roars and cheers inside the hall. It was deafening. My eardrums could give out any second now, but the others who have increased hearing capabilities have it harder than mine. All of us can¡¯t cover our ears because it can be an act of disrespect, so I bore with it. ¡°Now, new dungeon masters, please introduce your selves to the whole dungeon community.¡± ¡­Ehh¡­? Did I hear that correctly¡­? Are you serious¡­? NO NO NO!!! WHAT THE HECK AM I SUPPOSED TO SAY IN THIS SITUATION!? I CAN¡¯T JUST GIVE MY NAME AND THE DUNGEON INFORMATION HERE!! CRAP!!! Just as I was suffering from nervous breakdowns, a dungeon master with an appearance of a lovely human girl walked forward, in her hand, an item that probably could count as a microphone. She had green hair that flowed down her back, yellow eyes as pure as gold, and two pointy ears. Appearance wise, she should be an elf in her late teens, probably the same age as me. ELF IS HERE!!! EROFU!!! WAIT, I NEED TO FOCUS ON MY INTRODUCTION!!! I could introduce myself normally if they can¡¯t see me, even if it is the whole world, but it is a different story when they could see my every move. This is impossible for me who have level 10 Stage Fright¡­ The elf held the item-cum-microphone and brought it near to her lips. ¡°Good day to you all dungeon masters!!! My name is Liz Tanya! 2 month old dungeon master!! As I am a new dungeon master, I hope that you would all take care of me!¡± ¡­ B- BEAUTIFUL!!! CUTE!!! W- WHAT THE HECK IS WITH THIS GIRL!!! WAIT¡­ NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR THAT!!! Calm yourself me¡­ You can do it¡­ Deep breaths¡­ Hi hi fuu¡­ Hi hi fuu¡­ DA HELL!? I AIN¡¯T PREGNANT!!! As my nervous breakdown continued to get worse and worse, several dungeon masters were done introducing theirselves. The number of dungeon masters who have yet to introduce theirself numbered 3, me, a bipedal dragon, and a cute little slime. The bipedal dragon took a step forward and used the item-cum-microphone and introduced himself. ¡°My name is Ignis Profundis!! 4 month old dungeon master!! I will be in your care for the many days to come!!!¡±If you find this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the infringement. With a gallant self-introduction, Ignis stepped back and gave the stage to the cute little slime. The slime hopped forward, making little splashing sounds. C-Cute¡­ This calmed me down a little. ¡°Hello, my name is Limus Bellus. I am half a month old dungeon master. As you can see, I am just a slime, so naturally, I am weak. I do hope to be friends in the future.¡± ¡­ SUPER CUTE!!! If there were any slime lovers here, they would surely worship this slime as a god. While I was in my own fantasy about how cute the slime was, the item appeared in front of me, meaning it was my turn to introduce myself. WOAH!!! TIME-OUT!!! TIME-OUT!!! I¡¯M NOT READY YET!!! It was too late for a time-out. Resigning myself to the inevitable, I slowly walked forward and brought the item to my lips. ¡°I-I am Daichi¡­ 1 month old dungeon master¡­ Um¡­ Erm¡­ Please take care of me¡­¡± ¡°¡­¡­¡­¡± ¡°¡­¡­¡­¡± ¡°¡­¡­¡­¡± ¡°¡­¡­¡­¡± ¡°¡­¡­¡­¡± ¡°¡­¡­¡­¡± *Cricket Sound* ¡­ WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST SAY!!!??? WHAT KIND OF LAME-ASS SELF-INTRODUCTION WAS THAT!!?? AHH!!! I WANT TO HIDE IN A HOLE AND SURROUND IT WITH BEDROCK SO THAT EVEN TNT CAN¡¯T DESTROY IT!!! I slowly backed away while their painful eyes directed their gazed on me. Please¡­ No more¡­ ¡°Don¡¯t worry mister, we all have our strengths and weaknesses.¡± ¡°That¡¯s right. Don¡¯t let it get to you!¡± The two who introduced themselves before me, came towards me and comforted me. Ahhh¡­ I¡¯m healed with this slime¡­ But you dragon, don¡¯t smile, it¡¯s creeping me out¡­ It looks like it¡¯s looking at me like dinner¡­ ¡°Y-Yes¡­ Thank you¡­¡± ¡°No problem!!¡± ¡°Sure thing, mister!¡± This slime really is cute. I want to bring it home, except I can¡¯t. ¡°Now that the introductions are over, let us start the Dungeon Games!!! There are three events, first is [Dungeon Master Race] where dungeon masters race against each other. The winner will be granted a random skill of Epic Grade! Don¡¯t worry as only dungeon masters with the same race will compete. All the winners of the race will get their reward so do not fret.¡± Hmm¡­ If I can win that event, then, I could get a random Epic Grade Skill huh¡­? I¡¯ll be competing in it then. At least, I¡¯ll just be up against dungeon masters with a human race so there is no problem. The only problem is if they are fater than me or have skills that boost their speed. ¡°Also, killing is legal. But do not worry. You will be revived when the race is over.¡± SAY WHAT!? THIS JUST TOOK A TURN FOR THE WORSE!! WHAT DO YOU MEAN KILLING IS LEGAL!? Well, at least we will revive when killed. I just hope there are no side-effects. ¡°Second is [Dungeon Master Survival]. This is an event where dungeon masters fight against each other to the death. Again, you will be revived when you die, so go all out! This is a battle royale so all of the participants will be transferred to the arena. Again, only those of the same race will compete againt each other to avoid gaps in strength. There are no rules in the match so use everything you can to win! Deceive, surprise, and kill!! The winner will be rewarded with a random skill of Legendary Grade.¡± ¡­ I have a lot to retort to this. I thought dungeon masters were supposed to be the managemental type, not the straightforward type. Well, maybe this can serve as a test to improve my combat abilities and wits. ¡°Last is [Dungeon Battle], the main event of the Dungeon Games. This is where your management skills will be put to the test. The usage of skills is forbidden, only the usage of DP will be allowed. Breaking this rule will be an instant disqualification. The winner will be given a random skill of Mythical Grade. Also, you will be given a dummy dungeon core and dungeon for this event.¡± Finally, a dungeon event where the management skills of a dungeon master will decide the outcome. Also, how you strategize and how you put it in real time attacks. I will definetely join this event. ¡°Mister Ignis, what event will you be joining?¡± ¡°Hmm¡­ I¡¯ll be joining all of the events, can¡¯t hurt to try them all out.¡± ¡°So will I, how about mister Daichi?¡± Hmmm¡­ If I join all of them, I have a chance to win the three, but also risk myself to be stressed during the main event. For the race, I have a sure win plan to win, and even if I fail, there won¡¯t be any losses. For the survival, I think I¡¯ll just join for the sake of improving my survival instincts and combat proficiency. But there is also a chance I can win. Last is the dungeon battle. This is the main event that I would really like to join. The years of experience playing dungeon simulators will now bear fruit. I¡¯ll make sure that I can win that event. ¡°I¡¯ll be joining all three of them, can¡¯t hurt to try, right Ignis?¡± ¡°Hahaha!!! That¡¯s the spirit Daichi!!¡± ¡°Then it¡¯s settled. While at it, let¡¯s make a bet.¡± I raised my eyebrow in response to Limus statement. ¡°A bet?¡± ¡°That¡¯s right. How about, loser gets to follow the winner? That sounds good right? By the way, the loser can only follow the winner¡¯s demand if it has no harm to the loser or dungeon, deal?¡± If that¡¯s the case, then it is okay, a bet as newfound friends. ¡°I accept!¡± ¡°So do I.¡± Both I and Ignis accepted the bet. Now I really need to win the games. ¡°Then, here are the rules, the one who wins most of the events, wins, simple right?¡± ¡°Sure.¡± ¡°I¡¯m fired up!!!¡± The three of us smiled at each other¡¯s silliness and idiocy. ¡°Well then, let¡¯s register over there.¡± The three of us headed to a counter where the registrations are ongoing. I¡¯ll show that mystery man how I grew up in this past month. Chapter 13: Dungeon Master Race Start!!! After the registration, the three of us seperated into different blocks, each block houses one race. Where I am headed is block 7, the block where humans gather. Upon entrance, several dungeon masters with a human race were seen getting ready for the race. Most of them looked at my direction and went back to their own business, while others sneered at me. The others who didn¡¯t pay any attention to me were just busy gearing up. The room housed many human dungeon masters. Some were just kids, the middle school ones, while others were in their late teens, appearance wise that is. Judging from how they carry themselves and study each other, they must be veteran dungeon masters. It seems like this room is already a battlefield, a battlefield where we probe each other¡¯s strengths and weaknesses. Those who judge by appearances only are likely to get the short end of the stick. I headed to my designated area, while bearing with the gazes of some onlookers. The area I was designated to was a locker and a changing room. According to the rules stated back in the registration area, each contestant must wear the prescribed clothing and gear. I opened the locker and inside, I find futuristic gear. Just like those from the movie or game ¡®D*ad Sp*ce.¡¯ I took the gear and headed inside the changing room to gear up. ¡°Not bad¡­¡± The gear was simply superb. Hard yet comfortable, durable yet smooth, I want to create this armor when I get back using [Create Entity]. I looked at the mirror when I equipped all of my gear. ¡°¡­¡­¡­¡­¡± ¡­ I look just like a protagonist of some sci-fi action movie, there was even a helmet. All I need now is a laser gun and I¡¯ll be complete. I headed outside and what greeted me were unrecognizable people. Heck, almost all of us looked identical. If they made the gear like this, then they maybe making it harder to team up. I mean, if you don¡¯t have any special skills or good eyesight and memory, you just might knock out your temporary teammate. ¡°Everyone, please gather around!¡± A staff member appeared out of thin air in the center of the room. Actually, it was just a hologram so it was understandable. ¡°There are approximately 32 contestants in the human race division. Only one may be the winner. The race will begin in 5 minutes. I repeat¡­¡± The hologram repeated its statement in a monotonous voice before vanishing. Apparently, there are 32 contestants, and only one will be the winner. If all of us form teams of two, then there will be 16 teams competing with each other just until the last leg of the race, if we are going for that approach. But I am sure that there will be solos, like me, who will do it by their own power to win so cross that situation out. Next, there may be some who will team up with each other, but one will ditch the other upon seeing that they have the chance to win, a leech so to speak. But the most dangerous are the confident solos, meaning that they have the confidence to win by themselves alone without any help.This story has been unlawfully obtained without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon. ¡°2 minutes until the race starts, all contestants of the human division will be transported to the race area. I repeat¡­¡± Again, the hologram appeared in the center of the room and announced the announcement in a monotonous voice. Just then, a magic circle appeared beneath our feet and we were transported to an area where the race will be held for the human division. ¡°¡­ Are you serious¡­?¡± In front of us was a race track that resembled that of a game with a blue hedgehog as the main character, except there are no rings in this race, and no extra lives. There were also red robots with the logo of the antagonist of the game. Are they freakin¡¯ serious about this? If this was a game, this would be discontinued because of plagiarism. Anyway, back to the present. All of us were lined up in an orderly fashion, so all of us were equal at the start of the race. But since skill usage is allowed, who knows how long it will last. ¡°Attention all contestants, the race will begin in 30 seconds. I repeat¡­¡± Again, the same hologram, the same announcement, when the hologram was done, a timer appeared in front of us. It showed 00:28 meaning that 28 seconds are left before the race starts. I tensed myself up to get the adrenaline pumping. I see that the other dungeon masters are doing it too. The timer ticked down, as if to say that once it reaches zero, there will be bloodshed. 10¡­ 9¡­ 8¡­ The timer slowly ticked¡­ 7¡­ 6¡­ 5¡­ I calmed myself and focused forward¡­ 4¡­ 3¡­ 2¡­ I readied my legs, my arms, and my head. I readied my whole body¡­ 1¡­ 0¡­ RACE START!!! I quickly shift into high gear and began running. The others too did the same. Some others are already using their skills to their advantage. With a boom, the sound of splashing meat resounded behind me. I peeked behind me just to see a disfigured lump of flesh. ¡°Blu¡­ Rghh¡­ Haa¡­ Haa¡­¡± Before my retch came out of my mouth, I forcibly swallowed it. Remember that I am wearing a helmet, what would happen if I vomited while wearing it? I should use my skill now. I hesitated earlier because of the anxiousness, but seeing that lump of flesh behind me really did a number on my SAN value. I don¡¯t want that to happen to me. ¡°[Create Entity]!¡± *** ¡°AAHH!!! Where am I!?¡± I got up observed my surroundings. I was inside a room with multiple beds placed adjacant to each other. Some of the beds were also occupied by sleeping people. ¡°¡­ Uhh¡­ What happened¡­?¡± I tried to recall what happened earlier. Luckily, it seems my brain is still intact. ¡°Ah! I was participating in a race and when I used my [Create Entity] skill¡­¡± ¡­ The next memory was blank. Huh¡­? What happened the next after that¡­? Did I die? If so, then how¡­? While I was contemplating on the reason for my death, I remembered the description of the skill. Create Entity - can create any non-living thing but consumes enough mana to kill the user. Ahh¡­ Now I remember¡­ When I used [Create Entity], I consumed all of my mana and died. I was so used to using [Create Entity] that I forgot that I can only use it inside a dungeon. So the race track wasn¡¯t a dungeon, meaning I can¡¯t use this in the next event. Damn¡­ What a blunder¡­ That¡¯s one loss. I just hope that the other two didn¡¯t win either. I got up and headed towards the exit. Just as I was nearing the door, a familiar person, actually, a familiar slime came into my view. ¡°So you also lost, mister Daichi?¡± ¡°Yeah, you too Limus?¡± ¡°Yep¡­ During the last leg of the race, I was stepped on by a red golem. A complete blunder on my part¡­¡± No kidding, I mean, I can just step on you right now and kill you, but I won¡¯t. ¡°How about Ignis?¡± ¡°He lost too¡­ But he was the first runner up in the race. If he didn¡¯t bump into a red golem, then he would¡¯ve won the race.¡± ¡°Is that so¡­¡± What is with the red golems? Are those the robots? Lucky for them, they were stopped by the robots, while I committed suicide. ¡°How about you mister Daichi, how did you lose?¡± ¡­¡­¡­¡­ ¡°Mister Daichi?¡± ¡°¡­Umm¡­ Err¡­ I died, by a skill.¡± ¡°Oh is that so?¡± I just can¡¯t tell Limus that I died by committing suicide!! That would make me look pathetic!! ¡°Well anyway, next is the survival right?¡± ¡°Yes. Oh right, I better get ready. See you later mister Daichi!¡± ¡°Yes, see you.¡± I saw Limus off and went my own way. Damn¡­ I will win next time!!! This time, I will not commit suicide!!! Chapter 14: Dungeon Master Survival Begin!!! I went towards the block where participants of the Dungeon Master Survival were on standby. The registration before the first event also registered those who wished to join the survival and the Dungeon Battle. Upon entry, I was greeted with probing gazes, again, but this time, it was much more intense, intense enough to burn through your skin. What the heck¡­ Is this even a friendly competition? I went towards my designated area where I will be gearing up. The area was still the same as the last one, a locker with a changing room. Opening up the locker, I find a¡­ What the heck¡­ No seriously, WHAT THE HECK!? WHY IS THE GEAR RIGHT NOW LIKE THIS!? I WOULD LIKE TO FILE A COMPLAINT!!! WHY THE HECK WOULD I WEAR UNDERWEAR ONLY!? Inside were clothes one would find a tribesman would wear. Only a clean, hanging loincloth could be seen inside, along with some body paint. ¡­ Haahh¡­ Let¡¯s just get this over with¡­ I grabbed the loincloth and brought the paint inside. I took of my clothes, and wore the loincloth, applied some paint on my body to look more tribal. Heading outside of the changing room, I find¡­ ¡­ Is this heaven¡­? This is heaven right¡­? Boobs!!! A lot of boobs!!! Bouncing up and down with the torn rags!! Women and men in their tribal gear, the men only had a loincloth so the only thing they were covering is there nether regions, while the females¡¯ exposure was high. I can even see some men trying to get close with a beauty with huge ones!! The female troupe was only covering their chest and nether region area. It¡¯s just like exposing your body to a lot of people. ¡­W-Who knew that this event would rewards me this early in the game. But I still won¡¯t lose without fighting!! The girls were obviously embarassed, but others were nonchalant like meh¡­ While I was busy admiring the sight of beautiful girls with their revealing clothes, a hologram appeared in the center of the room. I bet it¡¯s another announcement. ¡°Attention all participants, there are approximately 100 participating in this event. In 5 minutes, all of the participants will be transferred to the battle area. I repeat¡­¡± Again, with monotonous voice and repeating announcements, hologram-chan continued for about 10 seconds before vanishing. I go over the rules once more before we start to head out. All of us will start in random places about 500 meters away from each other. We will be provided with no food, water and weapons, only a rough map about the area. It is up to us to procure said items, by crafting, pillaging, stealing, forging, anything as long as it is not in violation of the rules. Well, the only rule is to not die if you want to win and only the last man standing will be the winner, so anything goes. It is a survival anyway. Oh yeah, this is the most important part of the event. There is a time limit of three days, and every hour, the area of the event becomes smaller, with the center as the last area of survival. Those who go out of bounds get an instant disqualification in the form of a gruesome death. While simulating on ways to survive, the hologram appeared again and we were teleported to the survival area. Spread out within my vision is a grass land, with a forest to the east. Checking the map, I found my position in the southwest. Around here was a giant forest, filled with ferocious animals and monsters, and inside the forest, was a giant spring lake.Did you know this text is from a different site? Read the official version to support the creator. My best bet to survive is to, head inside the forest and make a base inside, create traps and defenses to repel intruders, and hunt some animals for food while using the lake as a source of water. Also, the lake is near the center so I can take it easy for about two days, with the last day for travel. Somehow, I was transferred to a good place huh¡­ While waiting for a minute, a timer showing 00:30 appeared in front of me. I stood up from my sitting position and readied my legs for jogging or running. Before any dungeon master reaches the lake, I need to arrive first and claim the territory. Also, if there are any dungeon masters there, I will have to take the territory from their hands. The timer ticked zero and I dashed towards the area where the lake is. I double-checked the map so that I know which direction I should go. I slowed my pace down when I reached the forest as I don¡¯t want to exhaust my limited stamina. For some reason, after running for such time, I don¡¯t feel that tired, is it because of my level rising? After jogging for about 10 minutes, I reached the lake, but right now, I am inside a bush. In front of me was the lake alright, but beside it was a wolf drinking from it. I forgot to craft some weapons before moving. I have been so focused on reaching here that I forgot to create some weapons for self-defense. I backed away and picked up a stick. Finding some vines, I picked up a suitable rock with a size that can be supported by my stick. I tied the rock using the vines and voila! A makeshift rock cudgel! I just hope that this cudgel will still be in one piece after a swing at that wolf. I carefully crept towards the unaware wolf. Thankfully from running through the forest, the smell of the forest rubbed on me, making it harder for wolves to smell me. I just have to becareful from making any soun---- *Crack* The wolf¡¯s ears twitched and looked at my direction. ¡°¡­¡­.¡± ¡°¡­¡­.¡± The two of us had a staring contest for a few seconds, after that, the wolf quickly lunged at me. ¡°!? Shit!!!¡± I quickly changed gears and readied my stance. The wolf was quickly closing in on me at my right, so I dodged left. The wolf pounced at me while I was dodging, and its paws scratched my arm. ¡°Ghh!¡± Swapping the cudgel to my left hand, I swung it at the wolf beside me. The cudgel hit its right flank, and I also heard sounds of breaking, must be the bones of the wolf. The wolf landed on the ground near me and retried its attack on me. This time, I¡¯ll kill you! Dodging again with the same pattern, I swung at the wolf with my cudgel¡­ Eh¡­? I didn¡¯t feel any resistance. It was weird. When I took a look at my cudgel, I found out why. ¡°WHAT THE HELL!?¡± A sharp pain assaulted after and I lost my consciosness. *** ¡°¡­¡­¡± After I got up from the familiar scene, I went silent. WHAT THE HELL, ARE YOU FUCKIN¡¯ KIDDING ME!? DYING BECAUSE I SNAPPED MY CUDGEL WHEN I SWUNG IT AT THE WOLF, WHAT THE HELL!? ¡°¡­ Haahhh¡­¡± A sigh of defeat escaped my lips. The reason for dying is because the cudgel snapped when I swung it at the wolf for the first time. The stick must have been not durable enough to withstand the impact. That must have been the sound of breaking I heard when fighting. I got up from my bed and headed towards the exit. A feeling of d¨¦j¨¤ vu assaulted me when I reached the exit. ¡°Hello again, mister Daichi, you lost again huh?¡± ¡°Yeah, to a wolf no less.¡± I quickly come clean. I don¡¯t think it is shameful to die from a wolf. ¡°A wolf huh¡­ Well, I was stepped on.¡± ¡°Again!?¡± Are you serious!? The first event, Limus died because of being stepped on by a robot, now Limus died because of being stepped on again!? ¡°Yeah, being stepped on by elephant was terrifying¡­¡± ¡°¡­¡­.¡± ¡­ I have no way to retort to that¡­ ¡°How about Ignis?¡± ¡°Ignis? He was the first runner up again.¡± ¡°Again?¡± Wow, what is with this chain of events? I died on the race because of my negligence. I also died on the survival because of my negligence. Limus died by being stepped on by giants in the race and survival. ¡°How did he lose?¡± ¡°By bumping into a rock.¡± ¡°ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? HOW DO YOU BUMP INTO A ROCK!?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t know, during the survival, he saw a cute bunny and wanted to eat it, after that, he bumped into a rock and fell down about 200 meters into rock spikes at the bottom. And that all happened during the one on one in the center.¡± ¡°¡­¡­¡± ¡­ Umm¡­ Huh¡­? ¡°I can take your silence as shock, of course. The first time I heard it, I was also speechless. You normally don¡¯t do that during the final part of an event.¡± ¡°¡­ I guess¡­?¡± ¡°Anyway see you! The winner of the last event will win the bet alright?¡± ¡°¡­Huh¡­ Ah yeah!! Good luck!¡± ¡°Good luck to you too!¡± With that, we parted ways. ¡°¡­ You know what? Let¡¯s just focus on the final event. Forget about Ignis¡¯ stupidness, I will win the Dungeon Battle!¡± Psyching myself up, I head back to the halls where the Dungeon Battle will start. Chapter 15: Preparation Arriving at the hall, I was greeted by a giant holographic screen. The same silver haired youth was displayed on it, holding a glass of red wine. ¡°Gather around, children whose aim is to win the [Dungeon Battle]! We will be starting momentarily so please, help your selves to some fine dining before we start!¡± The moment he said that, the hologram vanished into thin air. Just like he said, dungeon masters all around started feasting to their hearts content. Following his words, I helped myself to some food on the table. Ahh¡­ How I want to learn how to cook this food. I ate with great relish until my belly could support the food no longer. Just as I was wiping my mouth with a napkin, the hologram reappeared, along with the silver haired youth. ¡°Now that all of you have satisfied yourselves, let us start the main event! Let the [Dungeon Battle] begin!!!¡± Roars, cheers and applause resounded through the halls. The loud sound nearly ruptured my eardrums, damn¡­ Just then, a magic circle appeared beneath my feet, along with some of the other dungeon masters. Perhaps they are some of the other dungeon masters who will participate in the Dungeon Battle. A moment later, I found myself in a pure white space with nothing inside except for myself. Actually, scratch that, there is a pedestal right in front of me. It screams ¡®Touch me!¡¯ I held out my hand and touched the pedestal. Soon after, a holographic screen opened up with the number of my current DP and three input choices. [Dungeon Market] [DP: 50,000] [Dungeon Management] [Dungeon Customization] It appears to be the three most important functions in a dungeon creation, along with the currency to operate. I opened the Dungeon Management tab to start with the appearance of my dungeon. Selecting my preferences, all of it for free since this is just how your dungeon looks like first, I clicked the OK input and my dungeon began to take shape. The space around me distorted and the next moment, what appeared was a cave-like texture, actually, not cave-like, but literally a cave. I customized it to look the same as my dungeon back home. Now that I established the looks of my dungeon, I started creating the floors. First, I created three floors with the total cost of 2,000 DP. Second, I created the typical 15m3 rooms, about 3 of them per floor, and also the passage ways, three on the first floor and two on the second and third floors, bringing it to an expense of 6250 DP. Next is placing some monsters and spawners. On each room, I placed some orc spawners, each costing 500 DP on each room, bringing it to 4500 DP for all orc spawners. I also placed goblin swordsman spawners along with the orc spawners. Each of them costs 400 DP, bringing it to 3600 DP. Now that I have placed the spawners, next is placing the sure-win strategy in my dungeons, traps. Dungeon difficulty may vary not due to the monsters, but the traps, if the traps are lethal, and hard to discover without a high level scout or thief, than you can say goodbye to your life.This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience. Looking for the trusted pitfall traps, making all of it 4 meters deep and also commanding some of the goblins to dig an area for them to position themselves and throw away the corpses. I placed them all over the dungeon, totalling about 60 pitfall traps, totalling 12000 DP. And in those traps, I placed two goblin swordsmen in each pitfall trap, equalling 6400 DP. I added another floor with the same three 15m3 rooms with two passages, added an orc and goblin swordsman spawners in each room, placed 20 4-meter pitfalls with two goblin swordsmen in each, totalling to 15300 DP. My extra DP now totals 11950 DP. Using all of that DP, I summoned some things and items that can help in the Dungeon Battle. *** All of the participating dungeon masters were given about 2 hours to create and cutomize their dungeons. Some had their dungeons as majestic castles. Others had the plain dungeon such as swamps, marshes, and caves. Mine is of the cave types. Now, let me explain the rules that were given to us while we were busy creating our dungeon. There is a time limit of three days, the same as the dungeon survival. Also, there was a rule stating that the 50000 starting DP was only to be used in the creation and management of the dungeon, nothing else. A new rule was given to us as we were creating our dungeon. It states that we will be given 15000 DP to use for the attacking force. I¡¯ll save this for a later as I will wittle the attacking force of other dungeon masters so that their attacking force will not merge with their defensive force. The style of the Dungeon Battle is a battle royale. If you want a simpler explanation to this Dungeon Battle, it will be like fighting against all countries in a free for all. No rules, just strategy and strength. Well, except for the rules about using skills. All of us will be staying inside the core room and are not allowed to go out until the Dungeon Battle is over. The dungeon masters will be given food three times a day, the same as the food from the feast back in the ballroom. To knock out a participant in the Dungeon Battle, you must either kill the dungeon master, or destroy the dungeon core. Also, those who died will be revived so there are no worries about dying. For each dungeon you knock out of the battle, you will be rewarded with another 15000 DP to add to your attack force. Because of this rule, I will play the police. (Game language in the PH where you come in late in the battle and steal the kill) Dungeon masters are advised to not resist nor attack so all of the races will be participating in one battle royale. The last dungeon master standing will be the winner and will be crowned champion of the Dungeon Battle of this year¡¯s annual Dungeon Games. After reviewing the rules once more in my head, I focused my eyes on the timer. It showed 00:01:00, meaning one more minute until the start of the battle. I commanded the defensive troops to prepare themselves. Those in the pitfalls stood ready and pointed their swords at the place where the enemies will land when they fall in the pitfall. The orcs raised their huge clubs and the goblin swordsmen readied their stances. Making it seem like they are prepared for war. 00:00:30 30 seconds left before the battle starts. I stood attentive and looked at the screen. There were some black shadows moving about in the corner of the screen. They were ninja goblins, a sub-species of goblins where stealth and information gathering are their forte. They numbered 50, each of them costs 80 DP, totalling about 4000 DP. Along with them were goblin assassins, a sub-species of goblins where stealth and killing their target are their forte. They might be the same as their brothers, the ninja goblins, but assassins are different. A skill of theirs, can intantly kill an unsuspecting enemy, as long as they were able to hit the vitals. They numbered 50, also costing 80 DP each, totalling to 4000 DP, bringing my 15000 DP for the attack force to 7000 DP. Their jobs are to relay information to me, and the goblin assassins, and the job of the goblin assassins are to follow my orders to kill a dungeon master or destroy a dungeon core, or make use of a chance to bring an early result. It not need matter the process, the result is important in this battle. But process is important sometimes if you want to minimize casualties. 00:00:10 10 seconds left. The silent room, make it seem that the ticking of the timer was louder than my heartbeat. 00:00:05 I calmed myself and lowered my heart rate to ensure that I can give out precise orders. 00:00:00 ¡°Now, without further ado, let the [Dungeon Battle] start!!!¡± The voice of the silver haired youth marked the start of the battle where the management and strategy skills of the dungeon masters will be tested. Chapter 16: Dungeon vs. Dungeon vs. Dungeon ~ Third Person POV ~ A certain dungeon master¡¯s core room¡­ ¡°Tch¡­ Damn Kindley, rushing me at the start of the battle. Skeletons! Form a barricade! Let no one pass!¡± An undead lich could be seen spitting out commands on the screen. On said screen, skeletons, one after the other, picked up some rocks, sticks, anything as long as it can hinder the advance of the enemy forces. The dungeon of this certain dungeon master was a crypt type, with a cemetary at the entrance, and a labyrinth inside the tomb. Their enemy¡¯s attackers consisted of several bipedal frogs and amphibious creatures. The frogs wore worn leather armor and held stone-type weapons, they are called Frogmen Militia. The other amphibious creatures only had their bodies as their weapons and their defense. They mostly consisted of Murlocs, Walking Fishes, and Lesser Nagas. Estimating from their opponent¡¯s lineup, the dungeon master must be an amphibious user. ¡°Skeleton Mages, use fire magic! Create poison inside the labyrinth!¡± The skeletons, which were busy creating the barricade were now lining themselves up and readying their spears behind the barricade. Behind them were skeletons garbed in worn out robes, the skeleton mages. On their hands, fireballs, the size of a volley ball, formed and were thrown at the enemies. The fireballs came in contact with the amphibious enemies, but only suffered little damage. Because of their moist skin, they were able to lessen the heat damage from fireballs. ¡°Don¡¯t stop! Continue firing!¡± With another command, the skeleton mages continued conjuring fireballs and hurled them at the fast approaching enemy force. This continued for about 3 seconds, and just when the enemy forces were about to reach the barricades, their movements visibly dulled. Looking closer, their breathing was ragged and they had trouble breathing. This was the poison the lich dungeon master said earlier. If they knew atomic theory, the lich may be able to understand why there was poison. In this world, creating fire inside a cave, closed off long passage, or labyrinth results in poison. This was brought due to the lack of oxygen. Since oxygen in closed off spaces were limited, the fire burned it up until only very little, or until nothing was left. This was disatrous to living creatures which required oxygen to operate, but for undead, which had no need for oxygen in their bodies the lack of oxygen meant their advantage against living creatures. ¡°Now, skeletons, charge!!¡± With one command the skeletons with their spears ready behind the barricades, charged forward and skewered the sluggish amphibians. The skeletons numbered about 25, while the amphibians numberd 40. But because of the lack of oxygen, the strength of the amphibians took a drastic decrease. The amphibians were able to take some skeletons to their deaths, but were completely annihalated by the advantageous undead. Looking at the results of the skirmish, the lich sighed and calculated within its mind the losses and formulated a plan. ¡°13 skeletons lost from the defense troop. All of them are from a skeleton spawner. It will take about five hours to spawn all of the lost skeletons. Based on this result, the best move is to isolate this part of the labyrinth for five hours until the skeletons spawns.¡± Taking the plan into action, the part of the labyrinth where the skirmish concluded was closed off. This was possible due to a gimmick in the dungeon¡¯s mechanisms. ¡°50000 DP to create and modify the dungeon¡­ If this was any higher, I could have placed traps, but this mechanism dropped my starting DP to half.¡± The mechanism the lich stated was ¡®Moving Dungeon Walls¡¯. Its features featured controlling the wall of the dungeon to move in one direction, and cannot be used again until 3 hours has passed. While the passage was closed off, a new passage appeared just beside the closed passage.A case of content theft: this narrative is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation. ¡°Well, this is necessary for the defense of my dungeon.¡± The ¡®Moving Dungeon Walls¡¯ was a gimmick where you can confuse the intruders on which path to take, but used inside a labyrinth, all it takes is one moved wall, and the intruders will be in dire straits of being lost inside. ¡°Now then, let¡¯s commence the attack--- hmm? What is that?¡± Just then a black shadow moved at the corner of the screen. The lich was perplexed at this oddity. ¡°Skeleton Knights, guard the entrance to the core room, do not let anyone enter.¡± Giving a command to the high-leveled Skeleton Knights, the lich worried about what was the black shadow he saw at the corner of the screen. *** ~ Daichi POV ~ While I was stressed about the attackers of my dungeon, a report came to me from a goblin ninja I summoned. ¡°A crypt huh, also, moving walls to confuse the attackers and used as a means of troop replenishment? Moreover, using fire to create poison in the passageways? Good work.¡± The goblin ninja nodded and quickly ran back to his post. ¡°Huh¡­ The loss of oxygen is referred to poison in this world huh? The goblin ninja probably didn¡¯t stay too long in that area, unless he risked himself to be victim from the loss of oxygen.¡± I leaned back on my comfortable, rock-hard chair. Ahh¡­ I want to go back home, this chair is killing me¡­ I contemplated on the plans to use for attacking. Based on the intelligence gathering of the goblin ninjas, most dungeons have low-leveled monsters on the first floors. Meaning the traps play a more active role in their dungeon¡¯s defenses. While other dungeons have stupidly strong monsters on the first floor already, they are probably those who use brute force to defend their dungeons and attack their enemies. A certain bipedal dragon came into mind while I was thinking about the compositions of the other dungeons. I quickly got rid of it and focused back on the screen where my defense was ongoing. There were orcs and goblin swordsmen inside each room, along with pitfall traps. I thoroughly hammered into those orcs and goblins the strategy and locations of the pitfalls. The orcs were hiding behind thick walls, along with a goblin swordsman. Using the excess DP, I created walls inside the rooms to create a pseudo-labyrinth. Each room had different patterns in which way to go to reach the end. I had to bleed my brain into making these pseudo-labyrinths. The orcs and goblin swordsmen were taught the patterns of their corresponding room to use the room to their advantage when fighting against intruders. Right now, the orcs were defending against an onslaught of numerous four-legged lizards. All of them had the same size as komodo dragons. Their scales were hard, but not hard enough to completely nullify the attacks from the orcs¡¯ clubs. One lizard¡¯s head was smashed by an orc. Since they had scales, I had the orcs deal with them and had the pitfalls to suspend actions until the untruders were dealt with. Edged weapons would just chip and break in the future if they were used against this kind of enemy after all. After about thirty minutes, the komodo dragons were repelled and annihilated by my orcs. Using the terrain to their advantage made it easier to deal with them. Who said orcs were stupid? I want them to say that to my face right now. ¡°Good job.¡± I praised the orcs who survived, of course, it is impossible to get out unscathed from an equal enemy. The orcs roared a roar of victory before going back to their posts. Just then, a report came from a ninja goblin. ¡°Now then, I guess it¡¯s about time to mobilize the assassins.¡± *** ~ Third Person POV ~ ¡°¡­ What the hell¡­ WHAT IS GOING ON!?¡± The furious shout of a lich reverberated across the room. In front of him was a screen showing the massacre of the lich¡¯s summoned monsters, pile of bones and cracked skulls were scattered on the floor. The enemy force this time wasn¡¯t a measly 30 amphibians. This time, they numbered a hundred, and they brought along a huge amount of water. The water they brought was from a water creating monster known as Aquas. It wasn¡¯t a type of magic. It was the use of its internal organ known as ¡®Alveus¡¯. The organ ¡®Alveus¡¯ can create water from the air it sucks into its lungs. After that, it can spit out water just like a hose, a literal water dispenser. The reason for the lich¡¯s uneasiness was because of the appearance of Aquas. Aquas is a monster that can destroy a town by itself, and a high threat monster if ever seen. Because of its strength, it can cost about 10000 ¨C 15000 DP, and from the lich¡¯s calculation of the ongoing attacks, the lich estimated that the expense of the enemy already surpassed 15000 DP. The reason why he is this stressed is because there hasn¡¯t been an announcement about a knocked out dungeon master. ¡°Shit! Skeleton Knights! Join the battle at passage 8!¡± The lich gave out commands in a furious tone. Heeding their master¡¯s words, the Skelton Knights rushed towards the battlefield. ¡°Shit! Shit! That damned Kindley!¡± While spouting insults and curses, the lich never noticed the impending threat approaching him. With just a swipe of a blade, the lich¡¯s head seperated from its skeletal body and rolled on the floor. *** ~ Daichi POV ~ {15000 DP has been added} ¡°Attention all dungeon masters, a dungeon master has been eliminated, I repeat¡­¡± A voice echoed inside my mind the moment the goblin assassin cut off the head of the lich. ¡°So that¡¯s how they announce the eliminations, feels weird.¡± Looking at the results, the goblin assassin, with the help of goblin ninjas, was able to knock out one dungeon master. Because of the joint efforts of the two, it was easy to bypass security and avoid monsters in the dungeon. It was even easier when there was a defense ongoing. ¡°Well then, that¡¯s one. Let¡¯s keep this up!¡± Feeling elated from my first elimination, I continued giving instructions to my summoned monsters. Chapter 17: Crisis or Chance? After eliminating a dungeon master, my summoned goblin assassins and goblin ninjas were able to continue their jobs of scouting and playing police. They have approximately stolen 2 kills, not counting the lich, rearing in an additional 30000 DP to add to my forces. ¡°Now that the plan to play police is working, I should probably use the rewarded DP for an assault force instead of a covert one. Who knows how long this tactic will work.¡± After deciding to summon an assault force, a report came to me via a goblin ninja. ¡°Is that so, all the more to summon an assault force.¡± The report from the goblin ninja consisted of the following¡­
  1. A large amount of enemy troops is heading towards our dungeon.
  2. There has been a high leveled monster sighted within. It appears to be a Firedrake, a lower being than a dragon. Comparing those two, a dragon is leagues above a firedrake, but a firedrake is comparatively stronger than a wyvern; and,
  3. Taking our defensive force, it is impossible to repel, much less defend if they land an attack against me.
I should probably summon an assault force at once, equalling, if not, no less weak than the assaulting enemy troops. I should also prepare a monster that can best a firedrake in combat. I thank the goblin ninja and the ninja quickly went back to its post. Is it me, or did it seem like it was happy? *** ~ Third Person POV ~ Outside of the dungeons, a vast land with forests, wastelands, oceans, and brimstone are mixed together, forming an unrealistic scene. This is the battle grounds where numerous dungeons compete against each other in the [Dungeon Battle] event. In these lands, there are clearly no monsters which can bring about an advantage using the terrains. Actually, it is at most, impossible to use the terrain to your advantage. This battle ground was chosen in order to give no advantages to any particular dungeon master¡¯s specialty. For example, if this battleground was mostly lava, fire type monsters would be advantageous while water types will be weakened, thus the choosing of this unreal battleground. On it, a large gathering of monsters could be seen marching towards a certain direction. They numbered at least 200, and a B-rank monster could be seen within its ranks. The B-rank monster was called a Firedrake. With scales red as lava, standing about 3 meters high and about 5 meters in length, this is what you could call, an organic tank. It can breathe fire from its mouth, and its fire breath can decimate a hundred human soldiers. This was truly a fear-inducing foe when one is against it. The monsters surrounding it were also noted for their high offensive capabilities. Fire Lizard, C rank, can breathe fire from its mouth and have scales as hard as iron. Flame Wolf, D rank, very dangerous when in packs, can burn their surroundings when increasing their body temparature via fire magic, can usually escalate to C or B rank when packs exceed a hundred. Alpha Flame Wolf, C rank, the leader of the flame wolves. They can breathe fire and use their body temperature to scorch their surrounding or adversaries. There were also other monsters, but they mostly filled up the E or F ranks. Right now, as they were single-mindedly marching towards their destination, they were met with another force. They were comprised of several D, C, and B ranks. In terms of power, the Firedrake forces were superior. Both of them were about a hundred meters away from each other. With a sound of a horn echoing through the lands, numerous arrows flew up. Using that as a signal, the flame wolves, using their speed, ran through the lands and charged towards the enemy force. The enemy force had high goblin archers (D-rank) in their ranks as the rearline. Their vanguard was mostly made up of orc crusaders (C-rank). With towering shields in hand, the Orc Crusaders made an impenetrable wall of iron. Behind them was the cavalry made up of Orc Riders (C-rank). The Orc Crusaders marched on, one step at a time towards the charging Flame Wolves. Each step sounded like beating drums, raising the tension in the battlefield. 50 meters until the two forces clash, the arrows raised pandemonium upon the charging wolves. Since the Orc Crusaders only advanced a few steps, they were not subjected to the arrow rain. Arrows, simultaneously, lodged themselves on the flame wolves¡¯ body. One particular flame wolf had its eyes pierced by two locky shots. It raged about until another arrow pierced through its body, robbing it of its life. Even if the flame wolves raised their body temperature, they couldn¡¯t burn the arrows just before it pierced their bodies. If they were able to do that, then flame wolves would rise up in rank to B-rank. It¡¯s just impossible to burn wood in an instant with only 150 degrees celsius. Even the Alpha Flame Wolf, with practically double the heat radiated from its body, couldn¡¯t get out unscathed. Even with its agility and speed, it can¡¯t run from the arrow rain encompassing a 50 meter radius with the Alpha Flame Wolf as the center. When the arrow rain subsided, the flame wolves had their numbers reduced significantly. Counting those which were lucky to get out unscathed or with minimal injuries, they only numbered about 20 out of 70. Since the flame wolves were practically of no use in the starting battle, the others retreated to their army¡¯s side. As if it was planned out, the Orc Crusaders opened a path for the Orc Riders to charge. Each Orc was riding a giant grizzly bear, making it a daunting enemy on the battlefield. The Orc Riders charged towards the enemy without fear. The retreating flame wolves which were injured was caught up with and brutally massacred. The flame wolves lucky enough to dodge just had its body trampled by the other Orc Riders.This narrative has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. If you see it on Amazon, please report it. The Firedrake army, seeing that their initial attack failed, they switched gears and had the Fire Lizards take the front and spew fire. A fire breath from a single Fire Lizard can at most, burn a person with no counter-measures against fire, but with tens of them, can easily create a massive forest fire. A raging inferno formed in front of the charging Orc Riders, but as if to say ¡®TO HELL WITH THAT FIRE!!!¡¯, the Orc Riders continued charging, plunging into the inferno. About 12 Orc Riders died inside the inferno, but the others were able to advance with only minimal injuries. The reason for that is the Orc Rider¡¯s skill [Fire Resistance]. For Orcs to become Orc Riders, they must befriend a Fire Bear. A Fire Bear (D-Rank) is a giant bear that can breathe fire, hence the name Fire Bear. To befriend one, one must be able to take the breath of the bear numerous times without fighting back. The Fire Bear will then acknowledge you as a rival then continue fighting with you until your bond grows deeper. Once that is done, both of you fight until one is down, whether you win or lose, the bear will offer you its support. The Orc Riders, upon coming in contact with the Fire Lizards, trampled them to death, bashed them with their iron clubs, and rampaged within enemy lines. The Firedrake seeing this went into a rage and personally joined the front lines, along with the other monsters. Flame Turtles (C-rank), Magma Slimes (D-rank), Inferno Zombies (D-rank), and Fire Elementals (C-rank) joined the battle at the front and launched a counter attack at the Orc Riders. The Orc Riders seeing that numerous monsters charging at them began a retreat. While bringing along the charging army of monsters, another rain of arrows barraged the area where the Orc Riders were passing, along with the charging monsters, using the their huge shields at their back, the Orc Riders were able to block against the arrows coming their way and safely got out unscathed. The charging monsters however, didn¡¯t. Some monsters that had a bad compatibility with arrows were either killed or wounded, halting their advance and being trampled to death by their allies. But none of that affected the Firedrake. Boasting scales as hard as pure steel, it charged against the rain of arrows as if it was just playing under the rain. The arrows bounced of its scales, having no effect against the Firedrake. Seeing that, a single silhouette stood behind the wall of Orc Crusaders after the Orc Riders succsessfully retreated from the charging enemy force. Its height was about child and it had green skin. It wore an eyepatch and had a white cape on its back. It was a Goblin Strategist. ¡°Gueh!! Gugyaa!!!¡± Shouting in a voice a human cannot understand, the Orc Crusaders charged against the charging monsters. With their spears raised and towering shields upfront, it could only be described as a giant moving wall. Behind them were Orc Berserkers. In exchange for defense, they can release a fury of attacks unthinkable for something their size. With two huge battleaxes in each hand (Huge for a human), they charged along with the Orc Crusaders. When the monsters neared a certain distance, the Orc Crusaders stopped almost instantly and created an immovable wall. When the monsters reached about a meter before the Orc Crusaders¡¯ shield, the Orc Berserkers behind them jumped over the Orc Crusaders and commenced the bloodbath. Chunks of meat and slime mucous scattered along the ground, along with some Fire Elemental¡¯s screams. Normally, you couldn¡¯t hit an elemental physically, but the Orc Berserkers¡¯ axe are magically enchanted with [Spirit¡¯s Edge], making it possible to harm elementals. Thanks to the Goblin Strategist¡¯s division of troops, they were well balanced in terms of strategy and formation, unlike a mob of monsters. There were three divisions for their army, a Support Division, an Offense Division, and the Healing Division. The army of goblins, orcs and others were only one-third of the complete army. The complete army numbered more than 600, while the Offense Division numbered more than 200. There were some Orc Berserkers that were killed in combat, but each one brought along more than 10 along with them, dealing a huge blow against the Firedrake¡¯s troops. ¡°GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHH!!!¡± Sensing that they were in the disadvantage, the Firedrake roared as if to stop the movements of everyone in the roar¡¯s effective range. Every monster in that area was stunned, until they were aware of what the Firedrake¡¯s actions were to bring about. A huge amount of air gathered in the lungs of the Firedrake. With a huge bellow, a raging inferno, stronger than what the Fire Lizards breathed out combined enveloped the whole area. Several Orc Berserkers and Orc Crusaders were burnt to ashes, along with some Orc Riders. With just a single breath, more than 50 were killed. ¡°---Gu¡ªGugyahh!!! Gugyahh!!!¡± Shouting out of desperation, a huge silhouette appeared behind the destroyed Orc Crusader¡¯s formation. Its height was about 3.5 meters and had a physique of a human bodybuilder. Its skin color was red and had two horns protruding out of its head and in its hand, a giant steel club. It wore nothing but a loincloth covering its genitals, exposing the huge muscles on its body. It was a Demon Troll (A-rank). ¡°GROOOOOOHHHHHH!!!¡± With a single roar, the ground shook and the ashes of the burnt corpses flew away into the air. The Firedrake flinched under its roar, and roared a roar of its own. ¡°G- GRAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!¡± The two exchanged roars for about 5 seconds before the noise faded into nothingness. With this the battlefield was quiet, very quiet as if nothing had ever happened, but tension was really high. In a moment, the Firedrake spread its wings to take flight. Seeing this, the Demon Troll dashed forward, closing the gap with just a step. Using its huge arms and steel club, it swung at one of the wings of the Firedrake, smashing it to pieces. ¡°RAAAAAHHH!!!¡± The pained scream of the Firedrake echoed through the battlefields. Sensing that its one advantage that is flight was taken away from it, the Firedrake gave up on it and inhaled a huge amount of air. Because of that move, the Firedrake¡¯s fate was sealed. At that moment, the Demon Troll clasped tightly its mouth, sealing the air movement within, and brought its head to the ground. The Demon Troll then stepped on its mouth and swung its steel mace at its other wing. The remaining wing was decimated and chunks of its meat splattered on the ground. The Firedrake was unable to scream because of its sealed mouth, and because of that muffled scream, the air inside its lungs that were brought to its organ to breathe fire, went up its windpipe. Having no way to exit the body, except for the two small openings of the nose, the fire went back inside and burned its insides. The Firedrake squirmed as it felt the pain of being burned inside, trying to get away from the clutches of the Demon Troll. A few seconds later, the Firedrake stopped moving and lost its consciousness for eternity. *** ~ Daichi POV ~ While I was waiting for a report about the outcome of the battle, a goblin ninja reported in. It seems that the enemy army was obliterated, while my army suffered about 50 losses. I can understand since it was from the Firedrake, but still, more than 50 with one breath, such a frightening gap. If it wasn¡¯t because of the Demon Troll I summoned, I wouldn¡¯t be able to win against that and I would¡¯ve lost the game. But seriously, 25000 DP FOR A SINGLE DEMON TROLL!? Well, anyway, counting in its battle potential, It is way too OP. I would like to use appraisal, but I¡¯m sure that would count as using a skill and I could be disqualified. Well, now that that¡¯s done, let¡¯s attack whoever attacked me. Chapter 18: More Trouble Having the Goblin Strategist take command on the attack, my summoned army advanced towards the direction opposite of what the enemy army took. Since I have no strategic skills, why not let a monster specializing in tactics take the lead? Now that the army is steadily marching towards the enemy dungeon, I focused again on the defense of my dungeon. The casualties on my side numbered more than 50. On the first floor where about 30 Orcs and more than 50 Goblins Swordsmen are defending, this is a huge blow to the first floor defenses. The reason for the 30 Orcs on each floor was because I used the leftover DP to double the numbers of monters for defense, and add some gimmicks, making it harder to traverse the dungeon. But now that more than 50 have been killed in my dungeon, the first floor has pretty much paper defense right now because of the loss of manpower. But thanks to the DP rewarded when I eliminated three dungeons from the game, I was able to supply extra manpower to the defense of the dungeon. The only problem is they are unable to enter the dungeon and I can only spawn up to 30 meters from the entrance of the dungeon. One bright side is I am able to place spawners, making it inexhaustible and being able to buy time for the monsters inside my dungeon to replenish. ¡°Haahh¡­¡± While sighing to point out my mental tiredness, out of thin air, a tray containing food appeared complete with, utensils, beverages and a dessert. The tray gently lowered itself onto the table I created using the excess DP, as if saying ¡®EAT ME!¡¯ *Grumble* The sound of my stomache rumbling made me realize that I hadn¡¯t eaten in about 10 hours after the start of the game. Scooping the food with the spoon, I brought to my mouth. ¡°! Delicious!¡± Starving like a wolf, I greedily feast on the tray of food in front of me. ¡°Haah¡­ I¡¯m full¡­¡± A few minutes later, the tray filled with food has now been reduced to only scraps. Putting down the spoon on the tray, the tray vanished, along with the scraps and utensils. ¡°Haahh¡­ *Burp*¡± The sound of a burp, portraying a satisfied stomache echoed through the damp cave room. I leaned back on the backrest of the chair and relaxed for a moment, even just to ease a little bit of stress. Sadly, it only lasted for a moment. On the screen of my dungeon menu, a huge monster forced its way through the first floor, crushing all in its way. Because of the less manpower on the first floor, the monsters there were hardly any use to delay, less stop it. Also, because of its size, the pitfalls were rendered ineffective. ¡°UUUUUOOOO!!!¡± The roar of a raging monster echoed through the passageways. I was shocked for a moment, not because of its size or my summoned monsters unable to stop it, but because its roar was able to reach the core room. Even with the microphones scattered throughout the dungeon, I was able to distinguish the natural roar from the roar picked up by the microphones. Because of that roar, it dawned on me that the lone monster raiding my dungeon was no ordinary monster. I was tempted to use appraisal on this monster, but again, the rules forbid it and I may be disqualified. ¡°All monsters, gather on the third floor! Abandon the first and second floor!¡± I commanded all defending monsters to gather on the third floor instead of the fourth floor. Counting in their stamina and time to move, the third floor is the best choice. I don¡¯t want to let the monsters expend their energy from running all the way down to the fourth floor. Also, they can rendezvous and set up defenses earlier to stop the raiding monster. Using the first floor monsters to delay its movements, even just a little, the second and the fourth floor monsters rushed to arrive at the third floor, while the third floor monsters started on setting up barricades, traps and defenses.Support the author by searching for the original publication of this novel. The traps used were an oversized bear trap, something I bought using my excess DP for defenses against large tyoe monsters. Using the darkness of the cave and using a paint mechanism to color it black. The traps blended perfectly in the dark. I just hope that the monster doesn¡¯t have night vision. Of course, the defending monsters were notified about traps, via my self, to ensure they don¡¯t fall victim to it. Thankfully, ten minutes later, the monsters from the second and fourth floor were able to arrive at the third floor and readied theirselves for the disaster to come. The first floor monsters were also able to delay the monsters not by attacking, but confusing it in the maze-like rooms. The tensed atmosphere increases and spread through the defending monsters. I too, am also included. Butterflied continued to swirl in my stomache as cold sweat ran down my back. We waited for a few minutes, and then, it appeared. With a figure boasting three meters in height, with muscles that looks as hard as steel, and a club as huge as a full grown tree. It quickly ran towards the barricades, not noticing the oversized bear traps. The monster triggered a bear trap, causing it to slow down. While struggling about with the pain, it stepped on another bear trap, causing it to fall down. Now that its mobility has been taken, Orcs and Goblin Swordsmen ran out of the barricade to assault the grounded monster. The Orcs moved ahead of the Goblin Swordsmen in order to try and stop an attack if the monster retaliated. Because of its figure, I can predict that if it swung its weapon at the small-statured goblins, even if it has its mobility taken and is lying on the ground, there is no doubt that the Goblin Swordsman will be sent flying. ¡°UUUUUUUOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!¡± The giant monster seeing that my summoned monsters were advancing at a fast speed, roared out a shout of intimidation, causing my summoned monsters to stop in their track. With just that small of a margin, the monster broke free from the traps and stood up. My summoned monsters regained their senses and immediately tried to attack. The giant monster swung its giant weapon towards my summoned monsters. The Orcs quickly formed a line and tried to block or negate the giant swing of the monster. The weapon collided with the Orc group, resulting in the sound of metal clashing against metal. The Orcs were forced back about five meters and some fainted due to the impact. But because of the time gained from the blocked swing of the monster, the Goblin Swordsmen were able to reach the monster¡¯s body and repeatedly launch attack after attack. Cuts formed on the monster¡¯s body and blood seeped out of it. The monster seeming annoyed at the attacks of the Goblin Swordsmen, twisted its body and used a sweeping kick like that from a fighting game. The kick launched several Goblin Swordsmen to the air and knocked them back, some of them even died due to a bad landing posture. The weapon also drew a circle arc around his body and hit the Orcs from behind, crushing them because of the impact. Chunks of meat and blood scattered on the dungeon¡¯s floor and wall, a scene straight out of a gore movie. My summoned monster retreated from the front lines and back behind the barricade. The monster had a grin on its face and chased the retreating monsters, crushing those unlucky enough to not be able to run away. When my surviving monsters reached the barricade, they retreated once more. Seeing this, the monster had a vulgar smile on its face, chasing them even beyond the barricade. When the monster charged through the barricade, the barricade was destroyed and debris scattered on the ground. But this action proved fatal to the monster. Because of the barricade¡¯s size, it was able to hide a pitfall big enough to fit giant monster. Its body fell because of gravity, but its hand grabbed on the ledge to avoid plunging down into the depths. The pitfall was about 6 meters deep and 4 meters wide, and at the bottom, spikes made of rock were scatted about. One wrong step and this trap can annihilate an adventurer party. The hand that grabbed the ledge was attacked by the retreating monsters. Orcs bashed at it with their clubs, and Goblin Swordsmen slashed at it with their swords. The monster didn¡¯t give up and used its other hand to grab on the ledge and pulled itself up, but this action sealed its fate. Because of that action, its head went above the pitfall, but both its arms were occupied with grabbing the ledge, making it impossible to defend itself, swords pierced its eyes, and clubs smashed its nose, while blood sprayed on the Orcs and Goblin Swordsmen. Writhing about in extreme pain, the giant monster lost its grip and plunged into the deep pitall riddled with spikes. ¡°GRAAHHHHHH!!!!¡± The monster roared a cry of anguish one last time before meeting its demise. *** I slumped back on my chair as I felt relieved from the passing of a dangerous threat. If I didn¡¯t place a giant pitfall trap there during the building stage, this would have been checkmate. This was also another reason why I designated the third floor. ¡°Note to self, always keep extra DP in case of times of crisis.¡± I engraved that on my heart so that I never make that same mistake again. I tend to use all of my points when building dungeons in the game ¡°Fantasy Dungeon Simulator¡± back at Earth and also use my money to buy new phones, game consoles, and games. But now that it happened in real life, I now understand what it means to save in times of unprecedented rain. While I was reminiscing about the past, a report arrived about my attack force reaching the enemy dungeon. Now, I wonder how will they attack? Chapter 19: Rampage of the Demon Troll ~ Third Person POV ~ The large army of humanoid monsters marched through the unrealistic lands. Each step caused a rumble in the earth, making little tremors within a hundred meter radius from each end of the army. While this was ongoing, inside a platform which was carried by several Orcs, a strategy meeting was held by the tacticians of the humanoid monster army. There were a Goblin Strategist, Kobold Tactician, and an Orclet Commander surrounding a wooden table. ¡°Gyuuhh. Gya gyuhya.¡± ¡°Wau waunnan. Wan wan.¡± ¡°Pigii gii gu gii.¡± Talking in a language incomprehensible to the human brain, the three of them continued creating strategies that will work when raiding the attacking dungeon with only few or no casualties. Because of the order from their master, ¡°All of you are to prioritize your lives¡±, they became enthusiastic by the kindness of their master. But this was a misunderstanding brought due to not clarifying the reason why to not create needless losses. Anyway, disregarding the misunderstandings, the three continued to brainstorm on ways to lessen the casualty numbers. After marching for about 40 minutes after fighting the Firedrake monster army, a dungeon with an appearance of a volcano appeared at the horizon. The volcano merging with the forest on one side and desert on another side made it seem really surreal, not that it has anything to do with the current circumstances. The monsters took a little rest a kilometer away from the dungeon to replenish their stamina, while some scouted out the entrance. Needless to say, the scouting monsters were Goblin Ninjas, and in case there are any chances, the Goblin Assassins were also accompanying them. One particularly large monster had an impatient look on its face. It had red skin, two horns protruding out of its head, stood for about 3.5 meters, and had the body of a full-fledged bodybuilder. It wore a loincloth over its waist, covering its private parts, and had a steel club resting on its shoulders. It was the Demon Troll that brought an end to the Firedrake with its enormous strength. As if to say that it wanted to fight, the Demon Troll expressed its displeasure by snorting through its nose and glaring at the three strategists. Naturally, under that kind of glare, anyone would flinch. The three strategists were no exception. While waiting impatiently, the Goblin Ninjas returned with a map of the dungeon in hand, along with the Goblin Assassins. Sadly, there were no openings for the Goblin Assassins to exploit, so they came back. With the map in the hands of the strategist monsters, the three monsters began cooking up methods to deal with the dungeon¡¯s interior and monsters. The map was completely detailed, comprising with the number of monsters, traps, the layout, there was also the route for reaching the core room faster. Taking this into account, the three strategists grinned and ordered to start the raid. Actually, they wanted to hurry up under the glare of the Demon Troll, so they rushed the march, reaching the dungeon in about 10 minutes. At the entrance, there were some monsters taking their posts. The strategists deduced that they were monsters spawned by monster spawners. Since there were just Fire Lizards and Flame Wolves, it was not a problem because of their war potential. Without sustaining damage, the monsters guarding the entrance were anihilated. The entrance was in the guise of a cave, but do not be fooled by the cave appearance. Inside, where the magma of the volcano flows, it is very easy die just because of the heat. Thankfully, for the Demon Troll and some of the Orcs that were resistant to the heat, it posed no problem. There were two parts of the main attack force for this particular raid. Because of the heat emitted from cave walls and magma, only about 50 were able to enter because of the [Fire Resistance] skill. Since heat is directly related to fire, it seems that heat is also resisted.Support the author by searching for the original publication of this novel. The two parts were the Raid Force, and the Lookout Force. The Raid Force¡¯s job is just like its title, to raid the dungeon and kill the dungeon master or destroy the core. The Lookout Force is to check whether there are any approaching monsters from another dungeon and protect the Raid Force from two-sided attacks. With the Demon Troll as the leader of the Raid Force, the 50 so monsters entered the cave and advanced while killing the monsters in their path. Thanks to the [Fire Resistance] skill again, the damage sustained from the enemies were little, but they must take note that they have no healer. When injured, they must rely on their natural healing. Well, this is no problem for the Demon Troll as its regenration can actually recover lost limbs, even the head if the heart is still beating. While the Raid Force was advancing through with quick steps, the Lookout Force encountered a problem of their own. An opposing dungeon¡¯s attack force came and assaulted the Lookout Force. Thankfully, they were able to endure the attacks because it was just from low-leveled monsters. If there was a monster in the same league as the Firedrake, then there would be no hope to the Lookout Force which consisted of about 100 battle troops, 300 support troops, and 100 healing troops. The reason why there were no healing troops in the Raid Force was they were unable to stand the heat. If they were to enter, they will only endure up to 30 minutes inside before dying because of the high temperature. The number of support troops were numerous than the two because of the maintenance of equipment, the supply of food, water, and sometimes shelter, along with the most important mission of reporting to their master. Also, how they are able to report is via telepathic communication, and also a crystal ball that conjures the image of the receiver. The frontline mostly consisted of Orc Crusaders while the backline, Goblin Shamans and Kobold Archers. Using the Orc Crusaders as the wall, the Goblin Shamans and Kobold Archers launch attacks after attacks to keep the enemy at bay. While the Lookout Force was protecting the backsie of the Raid Force, the Raid Force was also dealing in its own set of problems. In front of them, were numerous monsters that can reach up to 800, and opposing them were a measly number of 50. The huge numerical gap of the two forces was extraordinarily huge that it can be said that the 50 monsters will face annihilation in the face of numerical might. Sadly, in this world, there is the phenomenon called status, a phenomenon that bypass common sense that it can be said to be ridiculous. Take for example five-hundred level 1¡¯s ganging up on a single level 500, the side with numerical advantage will be no doubt annihilated by the dominating force of the level 500. That is what is happening right now. With a swing of its steel club, chunks of hot meat flies through the air, with just a stomp of its foot, tremors resulting in the shaking of the cave, with just a simple roar, enemies and allies alike froze on the spot in fear of the cause. Its huge frame towering 3.5 meters, red skin as if blood flows on the skin instead of the veins, horns that protrude out its head as if to symbolize a tyrant and strength that could rival that of a high dragon. This is the time, this is the dance, this is the song ¡­ ¡­ This is the rampage of the Demon Troll¡­ ¡°UUUUOOOOOOO!!!!!¡± *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *BOOM* *BOOM* *BOOM* Thundering sounds echoed through the caves, and with each sound, ten monsters are crushed or sent flying through the sheer force. The Demon Troll, with its huge build, mercilessly trampled on the surrounding enemies. Even if they run, even if they fight, even if they defend, nothing can stop its rampage. ¡°GAHAHAHAHA!!! UOOOOOO!!!¡± With a laughing face as if to say, ¡°SLAUGHTER IS THE BEST¡±, it continued crushing, mauling, trampling the surrounding enemy monsters. The 800 or more monsters were now reduced to a pitiful 200 in just half an hour. In just half an hour, monsters that would take more than 200 adventurers of B-class were defeated in just half an hour by a single Demon Troll. Demon Trolls were never this strong, it was just that the Demon Troll summoned was a variant. The red skin and two horns represent a ruler in Troll culture. With these two charecteristics, the Demon Troll rampaging is equal to a Ruler type of its species. Also, its full name was not a Demon Troll, it was a Demon Troll Tyrant. With 20x the strength of an ordinary Demon Troll that could devestate a about 2 villages in a day, a Demon Toll Tyrant could devestate a capital city of a nation within a day. The Demon Troll Tyrant is also considered S-rank because of its strength, and its love of battle and slaughter just made it to the top of subjugation lists if ever spotted. ¡°UOOOOO!!!!¡± Another roar echoed through the cave, just how many times had the monsters felt fear against this type of opponent where death is the only outcome. Those blindly charging in had already lost all hope and wished for a quick death. *BOOM* The club was swung another time and made a 2-meter diamter crater on the ground filled with smashed flesh and fresh blood. In just another 10 minutes, all 800 monsters disappeared from the cave. Actually, what disappeared were their lives, but their physical body, albeit unrecognizable, was still inside. Fresh blood scattered on the floor and ground, chunks of meat from living monsters decorating the cave¡¯s interiors, burn marks and drops from the ethereal type monsters, everything, lost their lives to this single Demon Troll Tyrant. Chapter 20: I Can See the Ending!! It¡¯s been about two days since the start of the game, and nearly 9/10 of the dungeon masters have been eliminated. Forunately, I am one of the surviving dungeon masters, with about 10 eliminations aside from the first three, resulting in a bonus of 150000 DP. When I thought that one dungeon that I attacked was annihilated by only my Demon Troll, I summoned two more, only to see different types emerging from the magic circle. One Demon Troll had blue skin, had no horns emerging from its head, three meters in height, wields a wooden rod, and is garbed in a robe you would expect a magician to wear it. The other had purplish skin, had only one horn protruding from its head, nearly three meters in height, wields a giant bastard sword instead of a steel club, and is equipped in silver armor, making it hard to discern its body type. I was baffled when the two emerged from the magic circle. When the red Demon Troll came back, I had them spar with each other. The result, the red Demon Troll was in another dimension compared to the two, the blue Demon Troll was well versed in magic combat, and the purple Demon Troll, instead of fighting like a wild brute, had skills using a sword, just like a knight. I really wanted to use appraisal on these three, but the rules¡­ The rules¡­ ¡°ARRGHH!!! Let me use appraisal just once!!! Please!!!¡± While I was complaining about the rules about using skills, a report came to me via a Goblin Ninja. It said that another army composed of more than a thousand monsters, along with two A-rank monsters were seen marching towards my dungeon. Ever since the last ten remained, the fights between monsters became harder to manage and defend. A-ranks fighting each other had several of allies and enemies dead because of the force of their fight. There was once a battle between a dragon and a hydra that broke out a kilometer away from the camp grounds of my summoned monster army. Their fight even reached my monster army resulting in several casualties. Because of that, I had the three Demon Trolls join in and the dragon and the hydra were defeated by the three. Somehow, I think that the three Demon Trolls had good compatibility with each other. Now that the three were resting in front of my dungeon to defend from any attacks, another army was heading their way. The two A-rank monsters were an Orthrus and a Hell Serpent. The Orthrus was the inferior version of the S-rank Cerberus. The Hell Serpent was like a giant Chinese dragon that spits out flame and lava, and had skin that emits a thousand degree celsius heat, making it hard to approach. I commande my monster army to be ready for an attack, and instead of meeting up with them, defend the entrance. I don¡¯t want another threat entering my dungeon like before if I want to win. Half an hour later, the two armied clashed. Monster bodies here and there were blown away and turned into unrecognizable meat lumps. Thanks to my gore tolerance, I was able to look at the screen without throwing up, but it would be a different story if that happened in front of me. The battle raged on and another thirty minutes, my monster army won, because of the three Demon Trolls. Of course, I also sustained heavy damage, but nothing my DP can¡¯t fix. I still have a lot of reserves from saving my DP.Love this story? Find the genuine version on the author''s preferred platform and support their work! I summoned more Orc Crusaders, Orc Riders, Kobold Archers, Goblin Shamans, and many more. Now that is done, I have my Goblin Ninjas and Goblin Assassins to head towards any dungeon to gather information and, if there is a chance, take the head of the Dungeon Master. *** ~ Third Person POV ~ ¡°DAMN IT!!!¡± A human threw an apple to a wall in a fit of anger. ¡°WHY!? WHY DIDN¡¯T MY ATTACK WORK!?¡± Shouting at the top of his lungs, he threw another apple to the wall. ¡°DAMN IT!! I LOST THE FUCKIN¡¯ ORTHROS AND HELL SERPENT!! IN JUST ONE ATTACK NO LESS!!! WHAT THE FUCK!!¡± Instead, if he tried to find information about the enemy instead of launching a full scale assault, it might have gone better. But because of his pride and arrogance that he is above all the dungeon masters, the result of his actions has led to this. ¡°DAMN IT!!!¡± Opening the dungeon menu, he checked his available DP, only to find about 10000 DP left. ¡°SHIT! THIS AIN¡¯T ENOUGH!!!¡± While howling in fury, a silver glint in the darkness caught his eyes. Focusing on it, his spine shivered in fear. ¡°B- BASTARD!!!¡± That was the last word he uttered after having his head seperated from his body. *** At the same time, in another dungeon situated about 5 kilometers away, a person with human features, save for his pointed ears, could be seen grinning in amusement. His race was that of an elf. ¡°Hoh¡­ So that¡¯s what¡¯s been eliminating dungeon masters even if they still had their defenses.¡± Looking at a holographic screen that showed a silhouette the size of a child and a headless human, he commanded some of his strongest monsters to guard the entrance of his core room. ¡°If your own monsters could enter the core room, it would be better for my sake.¡± Indeed. As the elf stated, in this game, summoned monsters cannot enter the core room of their master. He didn¡¯t know why this was implemented, but since this was an unwritten rule in the form of the monsters¡¯ actions, he didn¡¯t pay it any attention. Since there was only one entrance towards the core room, the only way to defend his defenseless state was to guard the entrance. It would be impossible for a monster to enter without opening the door, and it is also next to impossible to conceal one¡¯s presence if directly next to another. ¡°Let¡¯s see¡­ I should be able to play that tactic even this late in the game¡­¡± *** ~ Daichi POV ~ While slumping on my chair, another announcement entered my head in the form of telepathic communication. It seems I gained another 15000 DP for eliminating another dungeon master, which brings the remaining ones to 4, including me. Fortunately, my three Demon Trolls were still alive so I could still fight. If the three of them died, then it¡¯s game over for me. I mean the battles between monsters now looks like it could literally change the geography. Right now, I commanded my army to just stay in front of the dungeon. I don¡¯t want an army raiding my dungeon with my weak defenses inside. ¡°Haahh¡­ A few more and it¡¯s done¡­ Just a few more¡­¡± While slumping in my chair because of the lack of things to do except look at the Dungeon Menu, I found another army marching towards my dungeon. It¡¯s the third time now. Again, after a few battle moments, my army emerged victorious, but the casualties sustained were enormous. The army of 600 that were just replenished was now brought down to a measly 200. Using the DP I got from eliminating a dungeon, I replenished the army again. But this time, I used all of the DP to raise the army¡¯s numbers to about 1000. The reason for this is one last attack against all of the remaining dungeons in one march. It consisted of the regulars like the Orc Crusaders, but I had the army rest for about an hour because of the injuries of the monsters. The last fight had my two Demon Trolls losing limbs and blood, exhausting them. The red Demon Troll only had light injuries thanks to its strength. An hour later, thanks to the efforts of the Healing Division, the three Demon Trolls were healed and ready to go. With the sound of a horn, my monster army marched towards the horizon, towards the remaining dungeons¡­ *** I looked at the timer at the side of the Dungeon Menu. It showed 08:21:45, eight hours left until the dungeon game ends. And another dungeon was eliminated, but it was not my achievement, another dungeon had implemented my tactics. Chapter 21: Final Stretch ¡°!? Finally, this late in the game and somebody decided to play police.¡± I quickly commanded some of my strongest defending monsters to guard the door towards the core room. Since I found out that there was someone trying to play the assassin card, I can¡¯t let my guard down now that my monster army is marching towards the other dungeons. Right now, because of the probability that my dungeon will be attacked by a monster army was low, I had to keep my guard up on any infiltrating monster. Thankfully, I had some countermeasures at hand against sneaky monsters like them. *** ~ Third Person POV ~ ¡°Hehe¡­¡± An elf continued to laugh softly inside the room. On the screen, what was projected was human dungeon master that had black hair and eyes. Seeing that he became aware that someone employed his tactics, he completely went into cautious mode and quickly applied countermeasures. ¡°In the future, he might be one of the strong dungeon masters in the world.¡± For centuries, the elf had experienced being a dungeon master, and the elf also had experience in the outside world. He was one of the dungeon masters that ruled a dungeon with an SSS-rank dungeon. Using his wit, knowledge, and skills, he continued to survive, unlike others who died by the hands of adventurers and countries. When he became a dungeon master, he was just a slave, an illegal slave at that. During the day of his 12th birthday, he was kidnapped when out on an errand by slave hunters. Three years later, the master that bought him died, and for some reason, the slave collar, which was worn by slaves to submit to their masters, broke. There has never been a case where a slave collar broke, at some chances, when slaves were released, the collars would be removed, not break. When the slave traders saw this, they restrained him and put another collar on him, just to have it break again. With no more chance of slave loyalty, they had to dispose of him. Learning that he would be disposed, he quickly ran out of the building, while shaking off the pursuers. Running through the city streets tired him out, but he had to keep running, if he didn¡¯t want to die. He ran through an alley, but at that moment, the next scene stunned him. What appeared was a cave, and behind him, there was no alley. Feeling that there would be no more pursuers, he flopped down and lost consciousness. The next time he woke up, he saw the same cave interior, but this time, there was a note at the center of the room, along with a crystal orb the with size of a volleyball. He picked up the note, and was able to read, even if he was illiterate. Reading through the note, he shed tears, finally being set free from the slave traders clutches. This was the start of him being a dungeon master. Going back to the present, he was now looking at one particular dungeon master who had a bright future ahead. ¡°A cool head, taking measures against threatening possibilities, kind, and also uses his subordinates to their fullest. I will not be surprised if he has the makings of a king.¡± Laughing while complementing the young dungeon master, he continued commanding his monsters to defend his dungeon and attack others. *** Three dungeon masters were left in this game. One was a human with black hair and black eyes, another was an elf with an appearance of a 15 year-old teenage boy, and the last was a female elf with the appearance of her late teens. In the core room of the female elf, what could be seen was her smiling at the screen. Even though she was smiling, her eyes were not. Her name was Liz Tanya, a 2 month old Dungeon Master. ¡°¡­ Haahh¡­ Even that didn¡¯t work. Honestly, just how good is that dungeon master with the three Demon Trolls to gain that much DP to summon those three? Actually, how did he get the tyrant, the sage, and general variants?¡± While questioning herself what she knows she has no answer to, she looked thoroughly at the screen which shows that her monsters were being mercilessly killed by three rampaging Demon Trolls. ¡°Even so, this was a good experience. I just hope that I die a painless death or instead, destroy the dungeon core to get out of this painlessly.¡± While resigning herself to her inevitable defeat, she looked back at how her monsters lost at the entrance of her dungeon. Her dungeon was built with an appearance of a tower in order to tire out the monsters when climbing up the stairs to the next floors. Even if this had significant effects, who knows how it will affect their next battle.A case of theft: this story is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation. She had two A-rank monsters that can rival a Demon Troll, but the variants just toyed with them until they died. The two monsters were a Magical Holy Beast in the form of a white tiger, and the other was Magical Darkness Beast in the form of a black panther. Even if their bodies stood two meters tall and were three meters in length, their strength were just equal to the Demon Troll Sage and Demon Troll General, but was severely inferior to the Demon Troll Tyrant. In actuality, a Demon Troll Tyrant is an S-rank, but that was only if the Demon Troll Tyrant was able to live for a long time while gaining strength and evolving. There were cases in the past where people summoned a Demon Troll familiar, just to summon a Demon Troll Tyrant and lose control over it, having their countries destroyed in the process. This is one case similar to it, except that the summoner was able to have control over the Demon Troll Tyrant. It is also said that if you successfully summon a Demon Troll Tyrant, the next Demon Troll summons would be a sage and general, following knights, mages, etc. Just like the military ladder implemented in countries. But the dungeon masters in the present have no knowledge of this. With a fight you would consider as that of an adult and child between the Magical Holy Beast and Demon Troll Tyrant, the result would be completely obvious. After that fight, the Demon Trolls, along with some of the monsters raided the Dungeon Tower, and as a last result, used her final trump card, which is using kamikaze attacks using monsters that could result in a destroyed city. But that didn¡¯t even phaze the continuing Demon Trolls. The only casualties dealt were about 75 % of the raiding monsters. With her last trump card rendered useless, Liz resigned to her fate to lose. ¡°Well, at least I reached third place.¡± Moments later, she lost consciousness because of a blade swiping through her neck. At least it was painless. *** What transpired in the dungeon tower was simple. Distract monsters using the Demon Trolls, and the Goblin Assassins, following the instructions of the tacticians and using the information of the Goblin Ninjas, head towards the core room and kill the dungeon master. This was viewed through a holographic screen by a male elf. ¡°Even if the raid force is annihilated, once the covert troops get in deep, then it is over. Not a bad strategy.¡± While grinning, he continued looking at the screen. Everytime he is seen looking at the screen, you could only see a grin forming on his face. ¡°Too bad, you decided to deal with another dungeon master first instead of me. Let me show you that there is a proper order when dealing with enemies.¡± *** ~ Daichi POV ~ ¡°!? What the hell!?¡± While looking at the screen, I saw that my dungeon was being raided by a huge amount of monsters. It numbered about 500, less than the last attacker, but along them, were several monsters that could easily deal with my monsters. Just looking at them makes me think that my Demon Trolls won¡¯t win against them. ¡°Damn! After getting this far! I won¡¯t fall!!¡± Sending a transmission via telepathy to my monster army, I had them quickly rush towards the last dungeon. If I look at the information given to me by a Goblin Ninja, the last enemy dungeon master¡¯s dungeon was closer than to mine. Looking at the monsters raiding my dungeon, I concluded that there would be no more strong monsters at the enemy¡¯s dungeon. I had the three Demon Trolls quickly run towards the last dungeon. With their legs, stamina, and strength, they should be able to reach it in 5 minutes. Also, the core room could be easily reached in another 5 minutes if they hurry. ¡°Damn! Was there a bug inside!? But how!? There were monsters inside that could detect enemy monsters¡¯ presences, how did they get in!?¡± Since there was a bug inside, the enemy might know the layout of my dungeon, making my pseudo-maze rooms useless. There might also be a chance that they know the items I summoned using DP to use against raiding monsters. There was also another gimmick that the door connecting to the passage was a fake, so I hope that that didn¡¯t get noticed. I had to buy time for about 10 minutes or more, and judging by the enemy¡¯s troops, it will take about 9 minutes for them to reach. One reason was one of their monsters. It had an appearance of dog with three heads. Its fur coated a fiery black, with fangs that looks like it can pierce through anything. If this was in history class back on Earth, this monster will be called Cerberus, the watchdog of hell. It disregarded my defending monsters like they were pebbles on the sidewalk while running at a fast pace. On the first floor, it kept on running through the shortest route in the maze rooms. It took about two minutes and twenty-five seconds. Just like I predicted, I need to buy an additionaly one minute. Kicking my brain into high-gear, I quickly gave commands to my monsters on how to delay Cerberus. I had them place the huge-bear traps, oil I summoned using DP to make the path slippery. I also activated some of the giant pitfalls on the third and fourth floor. The Cerberus, just like a raging tornado, quickly ran through the passageways while kicking up a storm. The giant bear traps had no use because of its hard skin. Some were just crushed because of the weight. The oil instead became a double-edged sword because of the flame breaths emitted from the mouths of Cerberus¡¯ three heads. The pitfalls also had become useless because of the information leakage. At this rate, I will lose! ¡°Anything, is there anything I can do!?¡± Finally, I remembered something I summoned using the DP. I quickly had it carried by my monsters and thrown in front of Cerberus. The Cerberus stopped and picked it up with its mouth from the middle head. After that, it left. ¡°I-IT WORKED!?¡± What I had used was something unbelievable. It was a giant white bone. There were too many things to retort to. I mean, the final stretch, ended up being settled by a single bone!? The reason I did that was because I was left with 5 DP after using all of the DP for my defense. And since there wasn¡¯t anything I could summon using the 5 DP, I just summoned that since it would be a waste. ¡°H-Ha¡­ Hahahaha¡­ With this, I¡¯m safe! Even with this raid, I win because it will take another 15 minutes before they reach this room.¡± While I was slumping in my chair out of relief, I never had realize, that I was jut playing into the hands of the enemy. ¡°!? D-Damn it¡­ I lose¡­¡± In front of me¡­ Was a single Goblin Assassin¡­ With a single swipe of its blade, my vision flew into the air until it went all black. Chapter 22: Back to my Dungeon Another unfamiliar ceiling--- actually not. I¡¯ve been staring at the ceiling I¡¯ve acquainted for already three times for a few seconds. ¡°Damn it¡­¡± The feeling of defeat took over my body that was lying down on the bed. ¡°¡­ Haahh¡­¡± I got up and placed my two feet on the ground while sitting. After for a few moments, I stood up and headed for the door. It¡¯s been three times I¡¯va had this feeling of d¨¦j¨¤ vu. Any time now, I will be meeting my slime friend Limus. ¡°Mister Daichi.¡± And here comes Limus. This happened for three times in a row now. ¡°You lost too?¡± ¡°Yep, I lost against a dungeon master that had a Goblin Assassin subordinate.¡± ¡°¡­¡± Wait¡­ What¡­? ¡°A Goblin Assassin?¡± ¡°Yep, so did Ignis. I think he mentioned that his Firedrake army was defeated by a Demon Troll army, and also his trump card, a Berserk Giant (B-rank), was destroyed during its raid against the dungeon master controlling the Demon Troll army.¡± ¡°¡­¡± ¡°¡­¡± ¡°¡­¡± ¡°Why are you silent?¡± C-Crap! But wait, why am I worrying about this? Because this was a competition, so even if they knew that I attacked them, it was all so I could win. Also, even if they knew I was there, there would be no hesitation to attack if there was a chance, right? ¡°Ohh¡­ I see, you were that dungeon master huh. Good job on beating that musclehead. For once, he applied a tactic of raiding your dungeon while the main force was away, but to think you were able defend against the Berserk Giant using only your defensive monsters and traps, well done!¡± Seeing him excited made me want to boast of how I did it, but let¡¯s just save that for next time. I¡¯m still a new dungeon master after all. ¡°Oh yeah, about that Goblin Assassin¡­¡± ¡°Yes?¡± I gulped down my nervousness and opened my mouth. ¡°T-That was mine also.¡± ¡°¡­ Oh! That was you?¡± ¡°Y-Yeah¡­¡± ¡°Awesome!!! I can¡¯t believe no dungeon master tried to do that during the game! I mean, if I had thought of it, I would¡¯ve done exactly that, but how did you manage to let them infiltrate the dungeons without being seen?¡± ¡°Ah yeah, I had Goblin Ninjas to give me a report about the structure of the dungeon, traps, and monster numbers. Also, they were accompanied by Goblin Assassins so that if there was a chance, the Goblin Assassin would kill the dungeon master or destroy the core. Well, all of the dungeon masters were killed instead of having their core destroyed.¡±Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere. ¡°Ohh!!! That seriously awesome!! But, what is a Goblin Ninja? That¡¯s the first time I heard of that Goblin sub-species.¡± Hmm¡­? ¡°You never heard of a Goblin Ninja before?¡± ¡°Yes. I know the monster Goblin, but not ninja.¡± Wait, Limus doesn¡¯t know what a ninja is? But what if only Limus doesn¡¯t know about ninja? ¡°Limus, does the word ninja not exist?¡± ¡°Why yes, that¡¯s the first time I¡¯ve heard of it through my travels around the world.¡± WAIT WHAT!? Well, I can understand why ninjas don¡¯t exist here, but what I am surprised about is how Limus travels around the world. ¡°You travel around the world, even with that appearance!?¡± ¡°Of course I do. If not, how can I be a dungeon master now?¡± What¡­ What does that mean? ¡°What do you mean by that Limus?¡± ¡°Were your memories erased? To become a dungeon master, first you must have a trait among the inhabitants of this world. The trait is to have no place to belong in this world.¡± Well, that¡¯s one. I mean, I¡¯m from another world after all. ¡°The second is to live for about a minimum of 18 years old.¡± Again, another one¡­ ¡°Third, and this is the most important one, is to have a favor of a God.¡± Hmm¡­ A favor of a God huh¡­¡­ WHAT!!!??? Seeing the expression of shock on my face must be surprising for Limus. Well, that¡¯s natural, because of the sudden change in facial expression. ¡°? Is something wrong?¡± ¡°N-No, it¡¯s nothing. Anyway, what will we do now?¡± I quickly changed the topic because of the shock. I¡¯ll tackle that later on, for now, I should really ask what to do now that the events are done. ¡°We¡¯re supposed to head to the hall again for the awarding ceremony. That said, for those who didn¡¯t win, we can just skip that and head to the exit. There, we¡¯ll be greeted by the Dungeon Master God¡¯s clone and be sent back.¡± ¡°Okay, well what will you do?¡± ¡°I¡¯m heading back. I still need to check up on my dungeon.¡± ¡°Is that so? Then see ya.¡± ¡°Goodbye, until we meet again mister Daichi!¡± We parted ways and I headed towards the hall. One reason is to see the dungeon master who defeated me, and the other is to see what skills they will get. When I arrived, the awarding ceremony was starting. Since there were too many winners in the Survival and Race, what was being awarded was the Dungeon Battle winner. He was an elf, a handsome guy that could be the leading model back on Earth, and had golden hair that goes down all the way to his waist and jade eyes. Next, the silver haired youth appeared again, this time, not on screen, but on the stage. He was holding an orb and gave it to the elf instead of a medal or a trophy. The elf then grabbed the orb and it shone a bright white light, dying the area in its color. After a few seconds, the orb lost its light then broke, then the applause of the silver-haired youth reverbarated through the air. Following that, the present dungeon masters then applaud, and so did I. ¡°Congratulations on the win, may you forever strive to be the best. Also, with the new ability you got, use it in the most useful way or yourself, and for your dungeon.¡± After that, the silver-haired youth faced us, the audience, and spoke up once more. ¡°With this, I conclude the Annual Dungeon Games!¡± After that, the silver-haired youth vanished and all of us were sent to the exit through a transfer magic circle. Though most of the new dungeon masters were startled, the dungeon masters who have experienced the Dungeon Games before just nonchalantly walked towards the magic circle that would send you back to your dungeon. Next to the circle, was the same silver-haired youth back on the stage. Actually, he was different. It felt like his body movements were monotonous, and mostly served as a guard for if anything happens. ¡°So he was the Dungeon Master God.¡± While I muttered under my breath, I head towards the magic circle and my body was enveloped in light. The next moment, I found myself in front of the core inside the core room of my dungeon. ¡°Master!!!¡± A girl with cat ears leaped into my chest and hugged me tightly. She rubbed her little head on my chest while making purring sounds, so adorable¡­ ¡°I¡¯m back, Shironeko.¡± ¡°Un!!¡± Finally, I¡¯m back, to my dungeon. ¡°Master!! You¡¯re back!!¡± Then my doppelganger hurriedly ran towards me and did a superb dogeza. ¡°Sorry!! Sorry!! Please forgive me!!!¡± Huh¡­? ¡°P-Please raise your head! What happened!?¡± ¡°Then, please open your dungeon menu and take a look outside of the dungeon.¡± Hmm¡­? Why? Well anyway, not like I have anything to do. I opened the dungeon menu and what appeared on the screen was a shocking scene to me. ¡°WHAT THE HELL ARE 500 SOLDIERS DOING IN FRONT OF MY DUNGEON!!!??? ALSO, WHY THE HELL DO THEY LOOK LIKE THEY ARE ABOUT TO GO TO WAR!!??¡± My shout echoed throughout the room. I glared at my doppelganger and he insisted that it wasn¡¯t his fault. He said that he followed all of the rules I set so there were no deaths inside, but why did tis happen? ¡°Maybe because of the hero.¡± ¡°The one, who kept on challenging my dungeon only to be knocked out by Deus?¡± ¡°Yes. Last time he went here, he was shouting because of rage for not being able to defeat Deus, said something about making the town¡¯s soldiers move.¡± ¡­ Are you serious? Chapter 23: Again, More Trouble This is bad, really bad. If those soldiers raid my dungeon, I can say for certain that they will not be able to get past Deus, but if that happens, my dungeon will gain the attention of the country. Actually, now that I think about it, it isn¡¯t too bad if I want popularity, but the country may set their sights on killing the dungeon master which is me to prevent future threats and also stop the rampage of the hero. The question is why did they mobilize? Did they really move according to the hero¡¯s whims, or did they move because the town mayor feared that my dungeon will go out of control and raid the town. Thinking about it deeply, they have the right to fear the unknown, such is the act of humans. I may be getting my just desserts for not actually trying to gather information about the outside world. Actually, I could have started when gathering it when I gave the two that golem. If I had it report about the outside regularly, I might have been able to predict the future of my dungeon, and the possible movements of the people. Damn it¡­ I really am stupid¡­ Why didn¡¯t I think about it before? I thought that everything will all go smoothly just by managing the dungeon, but reality isn¡¯t that forgiving. I swore in my heart, that I will not the same mistake again. Let me start over from scratch to make up for this mistake. I really do want to do just that, but I think that erasing all my progress in this dungeon will prove fatal right now. I¡¯ll do it until I am able to resolve this current problem. Remember, this is reality. One wrong step and you¡¯re dead. ¡°Kaze, all golems are to be on guard in the dungeon. The monsters are to be used as the vanguards. If possible, don¡¯t make them kill the soldiers when they fight.¡± ¡°Yes master!¡± After receiving his instructions, Kaze hurriedly went back to the dummy core room. ¡°Shironeko, you will stay inside a prison room so that if anything happens to me, they will think that you were kidnapped and imprisoned here.¡± ¡°Fuee!? Master!! Don¡¯t!! I don¡¯t want you to leave me!!¡± With teary eyes, she clinged to my clothes, please stop, it¡¯s making it harder to place you inside a prison cell. I had one golem knock her out lightly, please bear it for a while Shironeko. I head towards the core room and made a prison cell inside the cave and had her placed inside. Since she was knocked out, it was relatively easy to place her inside without any commotion. To make it more believable, I had the golem change her clothes to that of worn out rags and smear dirt all over her body. One more thing, since she had a slave collar, they will treat her as a slave, so I had it removed using a [Slave Collar Remover] that I created with [Create Entity]. Before, she didn¡¯t want it removed because she wanted to let it be known that I am her master, but if she gets caught by the soldiers when I die, then she will be back to her slave life. I don¡¯t want that to happen. Also, I had the prison cell situated further in than the core room. Surprisingly, it was allowed to add a prison cell further in than the core room, but rooms were an absolute no, I wonder why? One last thing, I had a golem be her protector in case of anything bad happening. It was in the form of artificial skin. Since it was just like skin, she will have no problem using it, probably. The strength of the golem rivals Deus so it will be able to withstand almost any kind of attacks. When I appraised it, this showed up. Item name: Artificial Deus Ex Machina Skin Item Grade: Mythical Skin from the god of machines, Deus Ex Machina, when equipped, increases the user¡¯s physical ability, magical ability, and defense capabilities. When worn, it is impossible to remove until death and will grow along with the user, can also block information scanning items and abilities like Appraisal and enslaving items and abilities. The skin feels like human skin so it is near impossible to determine if the user is wearing one or not. It automatically changes color to the user¡¯s skin. When the user is in danger, the skin will automatically take control of the body to defend the user. ¡­ Yep¡­ Broken skill¡­ At least now, Shironeko has strength equal to Deus, so if anyone messes with her, and Shironeko retaliates, they are in for a world of hurt. Shironeko might be surprised though. Leaving the unconscious Shironeko in the prison cell, I locked the door with a sturdy lock. Not sturdy enough to stop the soldiers breaking in though. I went back to the core room and took a look at the screen displaying the army. The inn was also in turmoil as the soldier army march towards the entrance. Adventurers were in a state of panic while the succubi were glaring at the soldier army. Oh yeah, I forgot to add incubi for the female adventurers. Once I make it out of this alive, I¡¯m adding incubi in that inn. My goal for this defense is the succesfully repel the soldier army with little to no casualties. It is actually easy to do just that, but the main problem is to how to send them back while saying this dungeon will not be a threat to the town or country. I don¡¯t want an army of more than 2000 raiding my dungeon because of the nonexistant threat.This story originates from a different website. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there. There are two ways to reach the goal. First is the less risky, but harder to realize my goal. It is to hole up in my dungeon and defend until they report that my dungeon has no threat. If that is done, this may take months or years so I will cross that out. The other is to go out the dungeon myself and negotiate. The only problem is I may be shot or sliced to death just when I come out and say that I am the dungeon master. There is also one very large problem, the hero is with them. If I go out and proclaim that I am the dungeon master, there is no doubt he will kill me in a second. Well, there are a few loopholes. One is to send a proxy to the soldiers, but if I send a strong one stronger than the hero, it might instill fear in the people and make it harder to negotiate. Well, that has already been destroyed because of the rumours about the hero losing against the dungeon boss, but who knows, there might be a change in heart. ¡°Hmm¡­ what should I do¡­?¡± Time is running and any moment now, the soldiers will march en masse towards my dungeon, although they won¡¯t fit if all of them try to go inside. Racking up my brains, I decided on sending a proxy, this time, one that can send its vision to a monitor that I can view, along with the sounds it hears to a speaker. I created a golem with the shape of a human body. The body is neither slim nor fat, neither muscular nor skinny, neither tall nor was it tall, the body was just toned to make it look normal by this world¡¯s standard. Its face was made as the standard looks of the people based on the faces of adventurers inside the inn. I made it wear clothes what a commoner would wear. It was also strong enough to rival the golems I made inside the dungeon. Now that that is done, I made his voice just like mine, but lower, making it feel like I was talking to a grown up version of myself. Finished with making the proxy, I had it go towards the entrance in a rush to meet with the army before they enter the dungeon. *** ~ Soldier Commander POV ~ Inside the tent set up for the higher ranks in the town defense, I, along with several other soldiers were discussing on how to raid the unknown dungeon. Behind me was the hero who was said to conquer countless dungeons by himself, but looking at him now makes him look pitiful. ¡°I say we raid the dungeon with numbers.¡± ¡°Are you daft? How will all the soldiers fit inside that cave dungeon?¡± Across the table, there were two soldiers arguing on how to enter the dungeon. Going by the information from the hero, the dungeon doesn¡¯t kill innocents, but kills criminals. Also, the adventurers were happily diving inside the dungeon for treasure without worrying about death. If I was to take part in judging this dungeon, I would say that this is the most profitable dungeon in the whole world. ¡°Hmm¡­ How about sending out scouts to scout the dungeon?¡± ¡°Impossible, even high rank adventurers can¡¯t get past the second floor. If our soldiers which, are accustomed to peace enter that dungeon, they will be spit out in a matter of seconds.¡± A man in his 30¡¯s rebuked the proposal of a soldier in his 20¡¯s. True, if high rank adventurers are having difficulty in passing the second floor, our soldiers will never get past the first. Before we were ordered to subjugate this dungeon, the mayor was happily swimming in the profits brought by the dungeon. But when the hero had a talk with the mayor, this happens. ¡°Tch¡­ This damn brat¡­¡± Speaking in an inaudible voice so that none of the people inside hears, I hurled insults at the hero. Just when we were at an impasse on how to raid the dungeon, a soldier came rushing inside. ¡°R-Reporting! A man in his prime came out from the dungeon and introduced himself as the dungeon master! He wi¡ª¡± ¡°So he shows up himself, hehehe¡­¡± The hero cut the man¡¯s word with his monologue, this damn brat. Who would show himself up just to be butchered by the hero? No sane man would do that. Either he is a proxy golem just like the golems inside the cave, or a familiar. The hero quickly rushes out the tent while displaying a vulgar smile. When I and the other soldiers inside made sure he was gone, we sighed in relief. ¡°Good lord that hero. Some hero he is.¡± ¡°I agree. That is not a hero.¡± ¡°Hero my ass, he¡¯s just a tyrant.¡± The soldiers began hurling insults at the hero for forcing the mayor to mobilize us against a profitable dungeon because of his desires. ¡°Anyway, continue the report about the man proclaiming himself as the dungeon master.¡± ¡°Y-Yes! He wishes to negotiate to not harm his dungeon in exchange for some conditions.¡± ¡°Is that so?¡± If I am right, now that the dungeon master wishes to negotiate, we will be able to gain favourable conditions for the town regarding this dungeon. If that happens, then the town becoming a major city won¡¯t be a pipedream. That is, if the hero--- ¡°THAT DAMNED HERO!!! STOP HIM AT ONCE!!!¡± Realizing that the hero was rushing in head first to slay the dungeon master or proxy, I quickly ordered my subordinates to calm him down. If we try to restrain him, our heads will fly off, in the literal sense. The only way is to make him lose interest in killing the dungeon master. ¡°QUICKLY!!!¡± All of the soldiers in the tent, including me rushed outside in hopes of stopping the agitated hero. *** ~ Daichi POV ~ Why¡­ Why did it end up like this? On the screen it showed nothing but black, literally. Black painted the whole screen as if to say ¡®nothing to see here!¡¯ Before this happened, the hero while grinning like a madman came rushing towards the golem with incredible speed, and with a flicker of his sword, the golem was slashed and bisected in two. After that, the screen turned black. ¡°Haahh¡­ This hero is already getting annoying. Good thing I didn¡¯t go out personally.¡± While being annoyed at the hero, I made another golem proxy with the same characteristics and let it go meet the army. This is also one of the loopholes. If I keep on nagging them with my golem proxies about negotiations and peace, they just might listen to my demands. While waiting, the screen displayed something that can make you cringe so much that you feel like you want to stop watching and watch another one. What was displayed was the hero Philip laughing like a madman while kicking the remains of the golem proxy that he bisected. Surrounding him were disgusted soldiers and some adventurers peeking from the inside the inn were grossed out about the hero¡¯s behaviour. Looks like respect for the present hero will very likely go down. The reason is cutting up a person, or something that looks like a person seeking for peace and trying to negotiate for the better of the two parties, but then the hero enters and cuts him up brutally. Maybe next time, I won¡¯t be so lenient against the hero when he tries to raid my dungeon. Cringing at the scene, the hero finally notices the new golem proxy I sent. He hurled insults and curses before bisecting the golem proxy. ¡°Are you kidding me?¡± Chapter 24: Resolving the Problem and Badmouthing the Hero After the second was cut up, I sent another one, hoping to see the movements of the rampaging hero. The real reason why I sent another one was to see how the army of soldiers will move, also, because the surveillance won¡¯t reach the army even if I added new ones. When the third golem reached the entrance, what displayed on the screen were soldiers trying to stop the hero. They were trying to persuade the hero to stop killing, or destroying the dungeon master proxies. Just when I thought the hero would stop, the screen turned black again. ¡°This is getting annoying.¡± It is clear that the soldiers dislike raiding my dungeon, as seen with their persuading pleas earlier, but that still didn¡¯t reach the hero¡¯s ears. Before the third golem was destroyed, I saw the hero brush off the hand of one of the soldiers¡¯ trying to stop him. If I want this to go well, might as well knock him unconscious, but I don¡¯t want to bring Deus Ex Machina out in front. It just might instill fear in the hearts of the soldiers, which will bring me farther to my goal. ¡°What should I use¡­? Tranquilizer? I don¡¯t think it will work against that hero.¡± Because he is covering his body in armor, except for his head, it will be hard to get a dart in. And if I get the amount wrong, the hero might die and it¡¯s a one-way ticket to having my dungeon set on the highest priority to be subjugated. If I use [Create Entity], I might be able to create an itme that can restrain his movements just until I can finish with the negotiations. ¡°Okay, [Create Entity]!¡± Bright light enveloped my hands and spread throughout the room. When the light subsided, my hands felt something long and rough. It had brown color but glows a violet-colored aura. Item name: Coercitio Item Grade: Legendary Rope made by the gods to bind the wicked evil of the Demon Lord in the past. Can restrain anyone while also giving the victim hellish pain until the rope is removed. Also restricts the usage of magic and abilities, and lowers the victim¡¯s physical abilties to a tenth of their power. ¡­ I just made a very scary item. I don¡¯t want this to be used on me. But with this, I can stop the hero from trying to destroy another one of my proxies¡¯. I made two golems with [Create Entity], one being a proxy, while the other one to restrain the hero using this rope. ¡°Please let this work¡­¡± I see them off and hoped for the best outcome. *** ~ Soldier Commander POV ~ THIS DAMN BRAT DID IT AGAIN!!! While I was cursing the hero in my mind, I desperately tried to calm him down. Of course, I wasn¡¯t alone in my actions. ¡°H-Hero-sama, please calm down.¡± ¡°T-That¡¯s right, the dungeon master isn¡¯t strong enough to reach the feet of hero-sama!¡± While forcefully praising the hero, my subordinates and the other commanders desperately tried to calm the hero down. ¡°¡­¡± But looking at his eyes made me realize that it is impossible to calm him down now. The only way to do that is to bring him the head of the dungeon master, or forcefully restrain him. The latter option is the most dangerous. Even is we were able to restrain him, the king of this country won¡¯t take it lightly and take this offence as treason. The lightest punishment we could get off was execution with only ourselves, but the worst was having your whole family executed, along with the children who were still innocent.Reading on this site? This novel is published elsewhere. Support the author by seeking out the original. Desperately trying to find a way out of this situation, I saw another proxy coming out of the dungeon. This time, he was coming out with another one beside him. It looked like a golem and in its hand, was a rope with a violet aura. ¡°YOU DAMN BASTARDS¡­! DIE!!! GYAAAAAHHH!!!!¡± All of the soldiers were dumbfounded before the scene that happened next. The hero lunged towards the two, but was stopped by the golem holding the rope. His feet left the ground with a punch to his chin. After that, the rope, as if it had a life of its own, coiled around the hero¡¯s body, restraining him from moving. ¡°GYAAHH!!! IT HURTS!!!! STOP!!! ENOUGH!!! YOU DAMN BASTARDS!!! AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!¡± After the rope coiled around his body, the hero¡¯s pitiful wails and screams echoed through the area. Well, looks like my respect to the hero, which was already rock bottom just went underground. While the pitiful hero was screaming in agony, the proxy, along with the golem approached us and opened his mouth. ¡°Now that the hindrance is gone, what do you say about negotiating about my dungeon?¡± His voice clearly resounded through the area, while a smile formed on his face. Since we wouldn¡¯t go anywhere if we just kept on staring at each other, I responded with a greeting. ¡°Good day to you, dungeon master. My name is Kelm Corn, commander of the first battalion. Forgive us for coming up to your house in large numbers without a notice.¡± ¡°It¡¯s fine. Anyway, let me get straight to the point. Why would you want to subjugate my dungeon? No adventurers died inside my dungeon up until now. And if I¡¯m not mistaken, this should greatly benefit the populace as maybe for you, this dungeon is like a gold mine with zero percent casualties.¡± He doesn¡¯t want any chitchat huh? But for most of the points, he¡¯s right. The town became prosperous once the information about this dungeon spread. And there was also a rumour where the dungeon master was kind to the divers, except for the criminals. ¡°Actually,---¡± I hesitated. If I let it out now where the hero can hear, I¡¯m sure when he reports it directly to the king, me and my family¡¯s heads will fly into a basket. ¡°Hmm? Ahh, I get it.¡± Noticing my hesitation, the proxy made a sign of understanding. After that, he went towards the golem and gave him an instruction. The golem went towards the screaming hero and unbound him. After that, the golem knocked him out by a punch straight to the face. ¡°Well then, now that the problem is resolved, would you like to tell me the reason why you came knocking at my door with these numbers?¡± Seeing that he made the hero pass out in an instant, fear rose up my body, my hands trembled ever so slightly, and cold sweat poured down my cheeks. ¡°Y-Yes, the hero used his influence to forcefully mobilze the part of the soldiers stationed in the city of Granc to come and subjugate your dungeon. He stated that if we don¡¯t follow his orders, our families¡¯ heads¡¯ will fly.¡± Seeing the proxy make a face full of surprise, I somehow think that the dungeon master is really kind. *** ~ Daichi POV ~ What the hell¡­ Just what kind of hero would declare that kind of order and consequence? The citizens must already hold a lot of disatisfaction towards the hero and the country proactively backing him. I hope when Shironeko sees this side of the hero, I hope she doesn¡¯t crumple down into the floor while weeping since she idolizes heroes so much. Even the animes she watched mostly were about heroes fighting evil. ¡°Well, now that the hero is unconscious, why don¡¯t you take him back and report that during the raid, he was knocked unconscious by a strong enemy and you issued a retreat to save the hero¡¯s life and your subordinates?¡± I wonder if that scenario would work, but sadly, he quickly shot it down. ¡°Impossible. That would work in the short term, but when he reports to the king, the king just might mobilize the royal knights just to subjugate the dungeon. Also, the king might fear the strength of this dungeon because your dungeon is situated in the heart of the kingdom.¡± Seriously? What the heck is with the kingdom¡¯s top? Does he really dislike losing power? Well, anyone would hate to lose power in this world. ¡°Is the kingdom experiencing high taxes?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t know why a dungeon master would know about taxes, but yes. Every year, the commoners pay tax twice, one during the harvest season and the other after winter. Also, the tax is about 70% the yield of farmers and income of the commoners.¡± What the hell is with that high tax!? Isn¡¯t that just a one way ticket to ruin!? ¡°One other thing, the tax is based on the premise of subjugating the demon king, even if the demon king hasn¡¯t attacked in two decades.¡± Yep, typical greedy king, the next thing would be what? Summoning otherworlders to be heroes along with corrupt hero over here? ¡°Hmm¡­ I understand, are you heading back now?¡± ¡°Sad to say but no, if we were to retreat right now, once the hero wakes up, it¡¯s going to be a disaster.¡± This damn hero. I really want to kill him right now. In this world, I need to get used to the common sense in this world, along with the understanding of how life is viewed. But if I kill this hero, the king might take this as a dungeon rampaging and may declare it a threat to the kingdom. What should I do? Oh I know!! ¡°Let me meet the king of this country.¡± Chapter 25: Departing the Dungeon! ¡°Wha-!?¡± Obviously, if one wants to meet the king of a country, they¡¯d have to go through the proper procedures first, but seeing that the golem was able to knock out the hero in just a moment, there is already plenty of reason to have an audience. Well, this is not the main problem, but the problem is why I would like to directly meet the king. Not me of course, but the proxy golem, might as well name the golem Proxy. ¡°Of course, if you don¡¯t want to do that, I¡¯ll just have to keep on defending my dungeon from the attackers, Even if it were you. Furthermore, this dungeon will become a killing machine if the attackers want to have my head. I doubt the numbers of casualties will stay in the lower digits.¡± I know that making a threat right now is disadvantageous, but I have to make myself clear what the outcome will be if they continue diving for my life. With [Create Entity], my dungeon can become an impenetrable fortress. I can also change this dungeon cave into a dungeon castle or tower to make it look daunting. Looking at the screen, I can see the conflicted face of the soldier commander. If I¡¯m not mistaken, his name should be Kelm Corn right? He looks to be in his mid-thirties. On his waist, a sharpened sword could be seen dangling. He was wearing light armor in contrast to his huge body, maybe about 1.95 m in height? In other words, he is a giant. Name: Kelm Corn Race: Human Age: 33 Level: 58 Class: Warrior Skills: [Swordsmanship] 6 [Shield Techniques] 3 [Body Tempering] 5 [Bow Techniques] 3 [Voice Amplification] 3 [Discerning Eyes] Max (Hidden) [Hide Status] 9 So this is how a commander in command of a battalion inside a town, stats looks like. No wonder they were afraid of the hero. If they were to fight, Kelm will undoubtably lose. But what is with that [Discerning Eyes] skill? [Discerning Eyes] ¨C Has a 1 out of 10000000 chance to be obtained during birth, can view information about the target party when eyes are focused on the target. So it just works like appraisal, I wonder what is the difference between appraisal and [Discerning Eyes]? There is also the skill [Hide Status]. [Hide Status] ¨C The user can hide the desired information on the status board using this skill, cannot hide from information gathering abilities levelled higher than this skill. Looks like he doesn¡¯t want his [Discerning Eyes] skill be known to the public. I can tell what the hero and the king would do if they heard about this. Anyway, back to the present, it seems that Kelm was still conflicted on what to do. Luckily for me, another soldier stepped forward and gave his opinion. ¡°I say we let him meet the king. If that power-hungry king were to see someone being able to defeat a strong hero, he just might reward us for our efforts in scouting said talent.¡± You know, even if you were whispering, I can still hear it. Thanks to Proxy of course. ¡°Fine, dungeon master, we will escort you to the royal capital. Don¡¯t show your true body, you might regret going there, just send a proxy.¡± ¡°I understand.¡± Looks like Kelm surrendered and nodded in agreement. Not doing anything in this situation just calls for their heads to fly off.The story has been taken without consent; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. ¡°Everybody get ready to depart!¡± With a thundering shout that can shake the area echoed, the soldiers began hurrying to pack up the things they brought. So that¡¯s the use of the [Voice Amplification] skill. ¡°Listen up, when you meet the king, under no circumstance are you to say that you are just a proxy. If they test out your body whether it is your own or just controlled, just say that this is your true body. I know this is just a golem thanks to my skill, but only I know. Nobody here in this place knows except for me, so don¡¯t do anything that could expose your self.¡± ¡°I understand.¡± Somehow, I feel like I respect him because of his worries about me. ¡°I hope they don¡¯t find out that this is just a proxy. If the king learns about this, my head will fly. Damn it¡­ This damn hero¡­¡± ¡­ I take that back¡­ It looks like he is just worrying about his own life. Well, I can understand wanting to preserve your own life since I am human. But don¡¯t you know that I could hear you via this golem right? I guess he didn¡¯t know what range the golem can hear clearly using his skill. ¡°Please excuse me for a moment. Let me bring along some things I need for the travel.¡± ¡°Come back in at least an hour!¡± I made Proxy wave his hand while entering the cave. First, I¡¯m making sure that the transmission can reach over long distances if ever the capital is out of reach. Next is strengthening Proxy. If trouble arises, I don¡¯t want them gaining the technology on how to create this type of golem, also a self-destruct feature that will only destroy the body. The self-destruct mechanism will only disintegrate the body thus there will be no harm to the surroundings. Another one is the feature for intake and outtake. I want Proxy to be just like a human in terms of biology to fool the king and the others if they want to analyze the body. Last are the countermeasures against information scanning abilities, I don¡¯t want the race to be exposed and let the king know that I sent a proxy instead of my real self. Now that upgrading Proxy is done, next is to pack food for the travel for the sake of appearances. Also, a little bit of money to bring souvenirs back home if ever there are any chances. There might be some items there that may pique my interest and also help in gathering information about this world like books and the like. By the way, I can also use [Create Entity] to create books. The only problem is that the book is blank. I don¡¯t know why, but it also seems like the golems don¡¯t know any information about the outside world. That is one reason why I need to buy books for information. Finally, the preparations are done, last is to send Proxy out. I also made an AI for whenever I am not controlling him. Accompanying him are two golems that looks like humans. They have the same features, except that they look like two bodybuilder men. When the soldiers saw this, they looked at them in amazement while the others trembled in fear. I feel you, if I see a mass of muscle walking towards you with a giant sword at their back, I just might get the urge to run and hide. ¡°I-I see that you have brought company.¡± Kelm had a twitching smile plastered on his face. By the way, here are the stats of Proxy and the golems. Name: Proxy Race: Automata (Human) [Disguised] Age: 0 (25) [Disguised] Level: 100 (48) [Disguised] Class: Proxy Skills: [Negotiation] 8 [Persuasion] Max [Coercion] 5 [Martial Arts] 5 [Unshakable Will] 8 [Poker Face] Max (Hidden) [Hide Status] Max (Hidden) [Camouflage Status] Max (Hidden) [Loyalty] Max (Hidden) *** Name: Paul Race: Automata (Human) [Disguised] Age: 0 (38) [Disguised] Level: 150 (55) [Disguised] Class: Berserker Skills: [Swordsmanship] 8 [Physical Reinforcement] Max [Tempered Body] Max [Martial Arts] 5 [Unshakable Will] 8 [Poker Face] Max (Hidden) [Hide Status] Max (Hidden) [Camouflage Status] Max (Hidden) [Loyalty] Max (Hidden) *** Name: John Race: Automata (Human) [Disguised] Age: 0 (36) [Disguised] Level: 150 (58) [Disguised] Class: Defender Skills: [Swordsmanship] 6 [Shield Techniques] 6 [Physical Reinforcement] Max [Tempered Body] Max [Martial Arts] 5 [Unshakable Will] 8 [Poker Face] Max (Hidden) [Hide Status] Max (Hidden) [Camouflage Status] Max (Hidden) [Loyalty] Max (Hidden) Those are three statuses. Looking at it now, I think the hero will have a hard time against those three in actual combat. ¡°Please wait for about 10 more minutes. We are almost finished packing up the camp.¡± When he said that, I had the three go around while gathering information. The three¡¯s vision and hearing are directly connected to my computer I made using [Create Entity]. They are automatically recorder just like a 24/7 surveillance camera. ¡°All right, are you three ready?¡± 10 minutes later, Kelm came back and asked the three if they were ready to go. ¡°Of course.¡± ¡°Well then, let¡¯s depart.¡± Since there was no merit in wasting time, the army left, along with the three golems and the fainted hero. Of course, to prevent any disturbances, the hero was chained up by the proposal of Proxy, or more precisely, mine. While looking at the monitor, I heard a loud wail coming from the back of the core room. ¡°UWAAAHHH!!!! MASTER!!!! MASTER!!!!¡± Oh shit¡­ I forgot I locked up Shironeko inside a prison cell¡­ Chapter 26: Boredom is Always Solved by the Internet!! ¡°FUEEENN!!!! MASTERRR!!! MAASSTTEERRRR!!!¡± I quickly got up from my chair and hurriedly ran towards the back where Shironeko was locked up. When I arrived, I saw a puddle of tears under her body and snot was sticking to her face, accompanied by the dirty rags. If there was a person who didn¡¯t know my circumstances looking at her right now, I can say that I will be sentenced to death. ¡°!? MASTER!!!¡± Shironeko quickly got up and ran towards me. The next moment, the bars holding her prison broke with a loud sound and scattered on the floor. One in particlar was heading towards me. Because of the speed of the iron bar, it is impossible to dodge. Even if I can move, the worst case is it will pierce through my body. ¡°MASTER!!!!¡± Just when I braced myself for incredible pain, Shironeko quickly came in front of me and blocked the incoming iron bar. Oh yeah, I forgot that I gave Shironeko a broken equipment in the form of skin. I can¡¯t really tell, but she is currently wearing it. ¡°MASHTER!!! DON¡¯T LEABE MEE!!!¡± With the snot and tears in her face making it harder to speak, she made some messed up her pronounciation. ¡°Sorry Shironeko. I will always stay by your side so don¡¯t cry.¡± ¡°Uuuu¡­ Hikuu¡­ Really?¡± ¡°Yes¡­¡± If there was a person back here from Japan, they might be cringing from the scene right now. I mean I would because of the embarrasing words I just said. I lulled Shironeko back to sleep. Even if she just woke up, she is exhausted because of bauling her eyes out. Heck, even the snot was very stick and was clinging to my clothes. I brought her light, unconscious body towards the core room and layed her down on the bed. I also covered her with a blanket to keep her from the cold. Now that I am done with Shironeko¡¯s problem, I went back to the computer connecting towards Proxy as he heads towards the King¡¯s castle. Since, it wasn¡¯t that long when they left, they are still traversing inside a forest while fending off some monsters when they encounter one. ¡°Hmm¡­ It is pretty boring without anything to do¡­¡± Because of the stupid hero incident, some adventurers were leaving and holing up inside the inn. Oh yeah, I need to put some incubus for the female adventurers. I opened the Dungeon Menu and accessed the Dungeon Market. I summoned 5 incubi and had them leave towards the inn for management. Although, only during the night will they leave. If they leave now, I am sure they will be mistaken as monsters coming from the dungeon. Also, for some reason, there can obly be one entrance for a dungeon. I don¡¯t know why this was implemented, but I am not the creator of dungeons so let¡¯s leave it at that. For now, I had them stand by in the room where Kaze is. Right now, Kaze is just like the head of security inside my dungeon so he is just in charge of monitoring the dungeon and he will report to me when there is anything going on. ¡°I also better make some subordinates for him.¡± Using [Create Entity], I created 5 golems to be subordinates for Kaze. I named the five of them Unus, Duo, Tribus, Quattuor, and Quinque. I also had them move towards the room where Kaze is and had them explain the decision I made.If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. ¡°UOOOHHH!!!¡± ¡­ I¡¯ll forget about that cry of happiness that echoed until here. It gives me the creeps when I imagine myself shouting like that. Next is the dungeon layout, but first, here is the Dungeon Statistics. Dungeon Name: Nameless Dungeon Master: Yanagi Daichi Dungeon Level: 34 Dungeon Type: Normal Dungeon Difficulty: S+ Dungeon Age: 0 Floors: 15 Number of Rooms: 45 Intruder Count; Daily: 53 Weekly: 342 Intruders Killed: 20 Monsters Lost: 321 Daily DP Income: 57280 ¡­ What the heck happened to my dungeon when I was gone? The floors increased by 7 and the difficulty rose. Just what did Kaze do in this one week? Anyway, back on track, I plan to add floors but seeing that it reached 15 floors already, I stopped and moved to add some monsters. In the Dungeon Games, Orc Crusaders and Orc Riders were very useful so I plan to add Orc Crusaders in every last room on the even floors and Orc Riders in the last room on the odd floors. The boss room is excluded of course, they¡¯ll just hold back Deus when repelling intruders. Oh right, how much is my DP again? DP: 1,238,210 ----------------------------------------------------- [Dungeon Market] [Dungeon Management] [Dungeon Customization] [Dungeon Statistics] [Dungeon Storage] ¡­ Again, I am speechless at the outcome. Anyway, I summoned Orc Crusader Spawners and Orc Rider Spawners using the DP. Now that I am done with that, I summoned Goblin Ninja Spawners only in the boss room. The reason for being is that I lack too much information around the world. I¡¯ll have them go around and gather information. There is also one problem. They can¡¯t enter town, villages, or cities. Even if they can hide, they can¡¯t stay inside for too long lest an adventurer finds out about the goblin, so I had created golems just like Proxy to gather information about human places. Not just humans, but also demihumans, beastmen or what race they are called here. I¡¯ll have the golems connect to the computer I have in the control room while the Goblin Ninjas will have items that they can use to communicate with me. I also added a feature where if the Goblin Ninja holding it dies, the item will disentegrate to avoid being tracked if there are any tracking abilities. Now that that is done, I have nothing to do thus am free. ¡°¡­ What should I do now?¡± I accessed the Dungeon Management and created a room next to the core room. Inside, there was a hole and a water source. The water was warm and steam rose from the water. In short, I made a hot spring. I head inside and wahed my body. After washing, I dipped my body inside the warm water. ¡°Fuaaahhh¡­¡± Minutes later, I got out fully refreshed and saw a sweaty Shironeko sleeping on the bed. ¡°I¡¯ll teach her how to bathe when she wakes up.¡± I just hope nobody calls me a lolicon after this¡­ I went towards the computer and looked at the progress of Proxy. It¡¯s been approximatly half a day after they left and now, I can see that Proxy is inside a building with humans and demihumans drinking alcohol. There was also a pretty receptionist and waitress. Ohh? There¡¯s a drunk human trying to touch her ass and the next moment, his lips met the floor. If I see that girl, I¡¯ll never try to molest her¡­ ¡°¡­ Haaahhh¡­ So bored¡­¡± Having nothing to do is very boring, so I created some games I remembered back on Earth using [Create Entity]. There was a game called ¡®Shout of Mission: Modern Warfare¡¯ which was an FPS game. There was also ¡®Deceased Isle¡¯, an open world game with zombies as the enemies. I played the games for two hours before loneliness settled in my body. When it comes to games, multiplayer is the best right? ¡°!? What if I create internet?¡± An idea rushed through my brain and I quickly used [Create Entity] to make it a reality. A few minutes and blinding light later, there was a new icon on the screen. Its name was ¡®Smoke¡¯. I clicked on it using the mouse and a login window appeared on the screen. I entered the account I used on the login prompt and the next thing, I was brought to the Smoke window. ¡°YES!!!!¡± I did a guts pose and quickly browsed for games. One game was called CS:IO (Crisis Strike: International Offensive). I clicked on the download button and when I saw the download speed, my heart skipped a beat and my mind went blank. 250 mbps In just under a minute, CS:IO was finished downloading. And when I entered the game, the casual toxic and salt assaulted my ears. They were all talking in Japanese, so it made me feel nostalgia for a moment. The language here is different, but somehow, I can understand them. Two hours later, I suffered two complete defeats and the usual verbal abuse and salt were thrown at me, the useless player. Now that I know I can play online games, for now, let¡¯s share this experience. Topic: I am in a different world!!!
  1. Daichi
GUYS!! I AM IN A DIFFERENT WORLD!!! Chapter 27: Thread and Worries
  1. Anonymous
Yeah right¡­ Like anoyone will believe that
  1. Anonymous
There¡¯s been too much of this kind of topic lately, only to be found out fake wwwww
  1. Anonymous
I ain¡¯t buying this¡­ I¡¯m out.
  1. Na?ve Anonymous
I¡¯ll stick here for a while to check if this is real or not.
  1. Daichi
I am serious!! I am literally in a different world!!
  1. Anonymous
You srious bout that? Show us proof
  1. Daichi
All right, wait for a while I¡¯ll get a camera
  1. Anonymous
We¡¯ll be w8tin
  1. Anonymous Dreamer
I dunno why I am in this thread reading doubts just when it was up and running
  1. Anonymous
U srious? Rly? Who would believe this type of shit?
  1. Anonymous
> 10 I am with > 11 here. Literally, who would belive this kind of nonsense?
  1. Anonymous Dreamer
>11 >12 I don¡¯t know bout u guys, but I¡¯m sticking here.
  1. Anonymous
Wierdo alert!! Wwww
  1. Anonymous
(^ ^)> /<(^ ^)
  1. Anonymous
>15 What the heck is that?
  1. Anonymous
>16 Butt cheeks
  1. Anonymous
¡­
  1. Anonymous
¡­
  1. Anonymous Dreamer
¡­
  1. Daichi
I¡¯m back!! Here are the pics. Had to create a camera with my skill and take some pictures. *** img.url *** *** img.url *** *** img.url *** *** img.url *** *** img.url *** *** img.url ***
  1. Anonymous
Is this a cave? Need more proof bruh
  1. Anonymous
I agree, a cave can be found anywhere
  1. Anonymous Dreamer
W8, why are there empty cup ramens and a stylish desk, along with a PC set there?
  1. Anonymous
What the heck? The PC is on inside a cave? And I can¡¯t see any cords or wires.
  1. Anonymous
It¡¯s just photoshopped.The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.
  1. Daichi
*** img.url *** *** img.url *** *** img.url *** *** img.url ***
  1. Anonymous
WTF!!!! WHAT THE HECK IS WITH THAT CUTE GIRL!?!?!?
  1. Anonymous
Her hair is white, but that¡¯s not the only thing, SHE HAS CAT EARS!!!
  1. Anonymous
LOL completely fake wwww
  1. Anonymous
¡­ With the close up, the ears are too realistic to be fake. The lighting, and the fur, if this was photoshopped, then this guy would be in Hollywood right now.
  1. Anonymous
¡­ Sriously?
  1. Anonymous Dreamer
NEKOMIMI!!!
  1. Daichi
Here¡¯s more!! *** img.url *** *** img.url *** *** img.url *** *** img.url *** *** mp4.url***
  1. Anonymous
Floating crystal?
  1. Anonymous
Holographic? No, it¡¯s solid and can be touched, is there thin thread?
  1. Anonymous
I lowered the contrast of the video, and there was no thread. Even if it was too dark, there was nothing supporting the crystal.
  1. Anonymous
¡­
  1. Anonymous Dreamer
>34 TEACH ME HOW TO GET THERE!!! I¡¯LL PAY YOU ANY AMOUNT!! 40 Anonymous >39 This guy is too believing and too far gone. Call a yellow ambulance!!
  1. Anonymous
>34 Call the police on this guy!!! That girl is clearly too young!!!
  1. Anonymous
Damn itt¡­ So jealous!!!
  1. Anonymous
>42 And this guy too!! Call the police!!
  1. Anonymous
>43 wwwwww
  1. Daichi
By the way, in the world I am in, if you read any novels, then you might be familiar with dungeon masters right? I am in control of one and right now, commanding a lor of monsters. Even Succubi!!
  1. Anonymous
>45 BURN IN HELL!!! EXPLODE!!! GIMME SUCCUBI TOO!!!
  1. Anonymous
>45 ALSO ME!!! GIMME!!!
  1. Anonymous
¡­ Wizards or sages?
  1. Anonymous
>48 SHUDDUP!!!
  1. Anonymous
>48 SHUT THE F*CK UP!!
  1. Anonymous
>49 >50 Too bad, I ain¡¯t a virgin.
  1. Anonymous
>51 RIAJUU!!! DIE AND EXPLODE!!!
  1. Anonymous
>51 DAMN ITT!!!!
  1. Daichi
Calm down guys, anyway, here¡¯s more. Sadly, I can¡¯t go out otherwise, I¡¯ll die. I¡¯ll just have you see the monsters. *** img.url *** *** img.url *** *** img.url *** *** mp4.url*** *** mp4.url*** *** mp4.url***
  1. Anonymous
WHAT THE HECK!! BIPEDAL PIGS!?
  1. Anonymous
ORCS!! KITAA!!! WHERE IS THE FEMALE KNIGHT!!!??
  1. Anonymous
Calm down, this is fake. This is clearly photoshopped. The vido was heavily edited, but I must say, I am impressed by the level of editing.
  1. Anonymous
Call an expert in photoshop! Let him decide!!
  1. Anonymous
> 58 On it!! *** After a few minutes on the thread, I opened my old social media account. The site was named Facepad. Luckily, my username and password were still the same so I had no problem using it. The only thing that made me cringe at opening my account for the first time was the advertising about me missing. There was my name, picture, and also the way to contact my family and household. ¡°¡­ They really were worried huh?¡± I mean, I can¡¯t blame them. One moment, it was a fun birthday party, the next moment, the missing celebrant. It had been a month and more since I came to this world so they must be really worried. And I can see that they are still looking for me right now. ¡°¡­¡± Using [Create Entity], I created a phone that had the ability to call through very long distances. Who knows how far our worlds are apart? I dialed the contact number listed on the digital missing poster because I don¡¯t know if they changed their old number, and I also had trouble remembering it. The phone ringed and I waited until someone picked up the phone. After a few seconds of waiting, someone finally picked up. (Hello? Yanagi Hikari speaking.) After hearing the voice over the phone, my eyes felt moist. I realized that it was tears coming out from finally talking to one of my family for so long. (Mother, it¡¯s me.) Chapter 28: Long Awaited Conversation (Mother, it¡¯s me.) (DAICHI!? WHERE ARE YOU!?) After my first words, I was instantly bombarded with a question regarding my location. This clearly show just how worried was she when I went missing in that world. (I don¡¯t know if you would believe this, but I am in another world.) (STOP LYING AND TELL ME WHERE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW!! IF YOU WERE KIDNAPPED, DON¡¯T WORRY, WE¡¯LL CALL THE POLICE TO TRACK YOU!!) Hearing her loud voice made me realize just how much I meant to her. I wonder if my siblings are doing okay knowing that their beloved brother went missing during his birthday. (Calm down mother, it¡¯s alright. I haven¡¯t been kidnapped by anyone.) If you call being spirited away by a God kidnap, then you might be sentenced with divine punishment. Jokes aside, I really want to calm my mother down before something bad happens like her fainting suddenly. (Just calm down mother, because I am calling you right now, it means that I am safe so stop worrying about my safety. If you want, I¡¯ll video call you to let you see I am safe.) (¡­ Fuuhhh. Sorry, for acting like that. Anyway, where have you been? It¡¯s been a month since you went missing when you were on your way home from school on the day of your birthday.) ¡­ Hmm¡­? What did she say? (Excuse me, but could you repeat that please, about the part when I went missing.) (Okay, it was during the time when you were on your way home from school on the day of your birthday, why do you need to ask?) This is strange. I am sure that I was transported to this world when I made a wish after blowing the candle. Even though to me, it was pretty childish to do that sort of thing when you are already a grown-up, but seeing that my parents weren¡¯t taking no for an answer, I reluctantly blew the candle, and while I was at it, made the same wish I made during my previous birthdays. I didn¡¯t expect it to work, but somehow, because of the grace of a God, my wish was fulfilled. (No, nothing serious.) I avoided the topic I asked myself by shrugging it off. (Anyway, what time is it now?) (Wait, let me check¡­ It is 6:23, why do you need to ask?) As I thought, there was discrepancy between the time on Earth and here. (I just wanted to know because the time here is different by a huge margin.) (¡­ Are you in another country?) Of course, when there is a time difference back on Earth, and I think it also applies in this world, usually you are in a different place. But when there is a huge gap between the time¡­ most likely you are in a different country so I can¡¯t blame my mother for asking that question. That said, she didn¡¯t believe me when I said I was in another world, and I believe that if someone said that to me over the phone, I would think they were lying.This novel''s true home is a different platform. Support the author by finding it there. (No, as I told you, I am in a different world.) But not stating the truth here is just bound to worry my family more. I also don¡¯t want to worry them too much because of the fact that I lied about my location. (¡­ Are you serious?) (Yes I am.) I can tell by the tone that she seems shocked at the same time worried about my well-being. (But then, how are you able to call here if you are in another world?) (About that, please call the whole family and let¡¯s talk together about that. Also make sure thet Sekai is there. She might understand what I will be talking about next.) (Yes, of course!) Hearing her with a spirited reply made my smile appear on my face. As I thought, a loving family is a good one indeed. (By the way, I¡¯ll end the call now and call you again with video call. I also want to see your faces after so long.) After saying that, I end the call and open the contact list inside the phone and dialed her number again. This time, I clicked on video call instead of voice call. A few seconds later, my call was answered and in the screen, the face of my mother calling the names of the family members appeared. (Sekai! Yumi! Tokuchi! Sora! Come down here this instant!!) It really feels nostalgic, the memories of when I was called by mother back on Earth, I mean. By the way, the name of my mother is Hikari, Yanagi Hikari. Sekai, Yumi, and Sora are my siblings, while Tokuchi is my father. Sekai and Yumi are girls while Sora and I are boys. Also, I am the eldest, Sekai is 15 years old, Yumi is 13, and Sora is 12. Both father and mother are in their early 40¡¯s, meaning they had me when they were still in their early 20¡¯s. Love knows no limit huh¡­ Anyway, back to the presesnt, after waiting and seeing my mother call my father and siblings made me want to go back there just to relive the past. But still, now that I have my dungeon, I won¡¯t let this opportunity go to waste. I will stick to this to the end. *** Few minutes later, now that the whole family was sitting on the sofa, except my mother holding to the phone, I was shocked seeing their faces when they saw my face in the video call. (ONII-CHAN!!!) (Yumi) (DAICHI-NII-SAN!!!) (Sora) (NII-SAN!!) (Sekai) (DAICHI!!!) (Tokuchi) When they saw me, all of them burst into tears seeing my face after a long time. I wonder just how worried were they, then again, my family is a doting one. I explained my circumstances to them via the call. After a few minutes of explaining, my three siblings¡¯ reactions were hugely different compared to my father. The three had faces with excitement while father had a stunned face. A grown-up would never take this explanation seriously. I mean being transported to another world, just the sound of that makes me think the one who told me that had left reality or something. But for me, this was true reality, not a fantasy. (Onii-chan amazing!!) (Daichi-nii-san, please teach us to go there!!) (Nii-san, please take me there!!) As I thought, taking the personalities of my three siblings, I knew that they would ask this. Reading novels, watching anime and playing games really did a number on my three siblings. Well, I am the same as them so I can¡¯t really say that. My father on the other hand, had a face that seems to say that what I said must be a lie. If only I could take them here and show them. ¡­Wait¡­ Take them¡­? (THAT¡¯S IT!!!) (Fueh!?) (Eh!?) (Huh!?) (!?) (Eeek!!) (Oops, sorry for shouting, especially to you mother.) Seriously¡­ shouting with the phone near mother¡¯s ear must have been very loud for her. (Anyway, wait for a while. I¡¯ll make you believe that I am in another world.) ¡°¡­ Muh¡­? Master¡­?¡± While I was talking to my family, Shironeko woke up on the bed. When she got up, her body was visible to my family over the phone. (((((!?))))) ¡­ Ah damn¡­ Looks like I have to resolve this misunderstanding my family has. Chapter 29: To Earth ((WHO IS THAT CHILD!?)) As expected, the first ones to voice their impressions were my father and mother. Both of them are very anti-pedophile, as in the extreme types. I don¡¯t want to think about what happened to a pedophile they saw in the past. Well, I know that it is a crime and all, but somehow, what they did was just inhumane as a human, just remembering about it made me shiver. (I¡¯ll explain later, just wait for me ¡®kay?) ((DON¡¯T YOU DARE TALK IN THAT TONE!!!)) Before it gets any worse, I cut off the call. It may seem that I lack respect to my parents for doing that, but this was needed, otherwise, their rage may travel through worlds, and I am not joking. That¡¯s just how scary those two are in anti-pedo mode. Now that the call had abruptly ended I glanced at Shironeko¡¯s morning face. ¡°¡­Master¡­?¡± ¡­Cute, very cute¡­ But I still ain¡¯t a pedo!! ¡°Shironeko, do you want to meet my family?¡± ¡°MASTER¡¯S FAMILY!?!?!?!?¡± With that one sentence, her morning face vanished and was replaced by a very surprised one. ¡°So before that, please take a bath in the hot spring I made in the room over there.¡± ¡°HOT SPRING!?!?!? AWAWAWAWA!!!¡± Why is she so flustered? My thoughts could not deviate from this line of questioning. ¡°What are you surprised about?¡± ¡°BECAUSE HOT SPRINGS ARE ONLY FOR NOBILITY!! NEVER IN MY LIFE WOULD I EVER HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT BATHING IN ONE!!¡± ¡­ Wow¡­ Hot springs in this world are only for nobility? Once my golems reach the king and have finished their business, I¡¯ll have them register as adventurers to rise up in fame while also having them locate hot springs and share them with the masses, that way, everyone can enjoy the pleasure of hot springs. In case I didn¡¯t say anything about this, the golems I made were all equipped with the skill of [Growth] and [Object Experience Acquisition]. These two skills greatly complement each other if used on an object. Example is a golem. Golems, in this world are referred to as an object as they don¡¯t have a will of their own and are made by materials gathered from the world. The only thing seperating golems from the undead that most of the time, have no wills, are the materials they are composed of. Golems are made of materials like monster hides, stones, metal, and sometimes, flesh to evolve it into automata, while undead are mostly made of rotten flesh and corpses of the once living. Another one of seperating golems from undead as an object is that they have never lived in the first place. Now, back to the skills, the [Growth] skill can increase the experience gained for skills and levels. And the [Object Experience Acquisition] is a skill that enables objects to gain experience for skills. Meaning, golems can improve their already owned skills, unlike golems that were already made and can never grow the skill bestowed upon them. Anyway, back to the present, I had urged Shironeko to take a bath using the hot spring. Of course, I taught her the etiquette before actually letting her bath. Once I was done teaching her, Shironeko had a sparkle in her eyes signifying she was excited. Before she undressed, I exited the dressing room to avoid seeing her immature body. I am still a virgin mind you, but I ain¡¯t that desperate to actually go for a young child. ¡°Now then, let¡¯s get started¡­ Wait¡­¡± I just realized that my skill uses a lot of mana that can normally kill a person. But by being inside a dungeon, I can substitute my mana being used for the dungeon for being a concentrated lump of mana. Before I started making the item that may actually suck out all of the mana inside this dungeon, I made an item that can monitor the mana levels of this dungeon, along with a skill for me to judge whether the mana I will use will exceed the limit or be safe to use. By the way, I learned that [Create Entity] can grant skills to people. My first observation was the golems acquiring skills from using [Create Entity], so I thought that if [Create Entity] could grant skills.Stolen from its original source, this story is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. By using myself as the test subject, I was able to find the expected results. But before going to my status, I used [Appraisal] on the item I created. Item Name: Mana Monitor Item Grade: Epic Can be used to monitor the mana levels inside a specific area continuously. Now that I have the item, I had it show the mana levels inside my dungeon. Mana Levels: 1,821,990,021 ¡­ I didn¡¯t expect to see that much mana inside my dungeon. At most, I would have thought it would reach the millions, but billions is really a lot. Now that the item was appraised, I checked my own status which I haven¡¯t checked for some time now. Name: Yanagi Daichi Race: Human Age: 18 Level: 14 Class: Dungeon Master Skills: [Appraisal] Max [Create Entity] Max [DP Generation] 5 [Overlord¡¯s Rule] Max [Future Sight] Max What can I say? [Create Entity] really is broken. I mean, the first time I used this on myself, I thought of a skill that can increase the capabilities of my subordinates because I am a dungeon master that summons monsters to protect my dungeon and myself. [Overlord¡¯s Rule] ¨C Anything under the command of the skill bearer has a 1000% increased capabilities in all aspects¡­, they are also bestowed the skill [Loyalty] in maxed level to avoid betreyals to the skill bearer. ¡­Yep¡­ Seriously broken¡­ If a ruler of a kingdom had this skill, then he won¡¯t have a problem about betrayals and also those under him have 10 times their original strength. Even the commoners would be stronger than an average soldier of another country not under the skill bearer. [Future Sight] ¨C Can be used to see into the future¡­, always on to ensure the safety of the bearer¡­, ¡­ Again, broken¡­ I doubt there is anything that this skill can make just as normal. Well, anyway, without further ado¡­, ¡°[Future Sight].¡± *** I can see myself in a third person view mode. This must be how [Future Sight] works. Anyway, I can guess that I am checking the Mana Monitor and a bright light encompassed the room. The next moment, a door appeared out of thin air and I once again checked the Mana Monitor. Mana Levels: 105,812 WHAT THE HECK!?!? Just by making that door using [Create Entity], the mana levels of my dungeon did a huge drop from billions to hundred thousands! After that, my consciousness went from third person view, to first person. I quickly checked the Mana Monitor once I got back. Mana Levels: 1,821,990,028 ¡­ It seems I succesfully used [Future Sight]. The mana levels increased by 7 than the last time I checked. It was about a minute ago I checked last time, so I guess 7 mana every minute. By my calculations, everyday I get 10,080 mana. I contrast with the billions of mana, it looks like it will be a very long time before I get the mana inside my dungeon to the millions. At most, it will take about 100 days, meaning I can¡¯t keep on using [Create Entity] without restraints anymore. ¡°¡­ If I didn¡¯t get this item, who knows what would happen to me in the future if I kept on using [Create Entity]?¡± ¡­ Dangerous¡­ dangerous¡­ For now, I buried the thought behind my head and focused on the objective. Since I was able to see the future having no effect on my life, I deemed it safe to go with the plan. ¡°[Create Entity].¡± Feeling a little sense of d¨¦j¨¤ vu, I used the skill to go ahead and create the item that can help me cross the large chasm between Earth and this world. For a moment, I felt that the dungeon rumbled a little and somehow, my body became weak, causing me to stagger before finding my balance after a second. Once I regained my balance, in front of me was a gaudy door, decorated with fine ornaments and gold making it seem like it was made to connect the passage between God¡¯s garden, into his mansion. That¡¯s just how beautiful this door was. Regaining my senses, I checked the Mana Monitor and got a good look at its readings. Mana Levels: 105,812 ¡­ Yep, it really was such a huge consumption, but a small price to pay to see my family again. The strong bonds of our family which was strengthened over the years as a family is extremely hard to be broken, even by distance or lack of presence. After the door was made, I quickly used [Appraisal] on the door to check its name and description. Item name: World Connector Item Grade: Impossible to determine A door that connects a world with another¡­, Allows travel between each world by going through the open door. ¡­ It looks like I succeeded¡­ Once I finished appraising the door, Shironeko came out of the bath while wearing the set of clothes I left behind. It was casual clothes often worn in Japan, so it might not bring a lot of attention to her in public. The clothes also came with a hat with cat ears, not holes, but sewn to fit the ears of Shironeko inside to hide it from the public. Her tail was also not a problem as it was hidden inside her skirt by wrapping it around her waist. ¡°Master! How do I look?¡± ¡°You look cute, Shironeko.¡± ¡°Ehehehe¡­¡± After praising her, she bashfully tilted her head and scratched her cheek to hide her embarrasment. Sadly, it only fueled her cute meter more, causing it to rise through the roof. ¡°Now then, shall we go?¡± ¡°Un!!¡± I held her hand and reached for the door knob. Her slave temperament had completely vanished within my presence. I wonder what would¡¯ve to her if I wasn¡¯t there to save her. Pushing those thoughts away from my mind, I turned the door knob and opened the door. Behind it, was a room with 5 people inside, two males, and three females, the 5 of them were my family who I hadn¡¯t seen personally in a month. ¡°¡°Daichi!?¡±¡± ¡°Onii-chan!?¡± ¡°Daichi-nii-san!?¡± ¡°Nii-san!?¡± Naturally, the 5 of them would be surprised seeing me emerge through a door suddenly appearing out of thin air. But the air froze when they saw Shironeko come out along with me. ¡°¡°Daichi¡­ Care to explain¡­?¡±¡± ¡­ Yep, my father and mother hadn¡¯t changed a bit from the past¡­ Chapter 30: Crossing Over with my Family Now then, how to break out of this extremely dangerous misunderstanding? Both mother and father are staring at me like I committed a very grave sin, while my three siblings are looking at me with a worried expression. They have, after all, experienced firsthand, the wrath of those two regarding pedophiles. ¡°Mu¡­? Master¡­?¡± And Shironeko just had to say that word I was scared of¡­ Yep, I can say goodbye to my life now¡­ ¡°¡°WHAT DID SHE JUST CALL YOU!?¡±¡± Jokes aside, looks like the hurdle to overcome this misunderstanding has just increased in height. Looks like the way to resolve this misunderstanding is to say the truth, not that I plan to say anything other than the truth. ¡°Mother, father, you see¡­ This girl here is a slave in that other world¡­¡± ¡°¡°WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY!?¡±¡± Ah crap¡­ I got my priorities backwards. I was suppose to say that she was kidnapped and then I saved her, instead, I said that she was a slave right of the bat, further increasing the misunderstanding. ¡°Umm¡­ Let me explain¡­ She was kidnapped by 5 men and I saved her from them. I only realized that she was a slave after I saved her though.¡± ¡°¡°¡­ Go on¡­¡±¡± They really are a hard couple to please¡­ ¡°Then, after I saved her, she took a liking to me and wanted to become my slave¡­¡± Ahh¡­ I let it slip again¡­ ¡°¡°Daichi¡­ Shall we report you to the police?¡±¡± ¡­ Where did the feeling of a long awaited reunion go¡­? *** After explaining to them about both my and Shironeko¡¯s circumstances, they both calmed down and finally, the mood of a reunion finally kicks in. ¡°¡°DAICHI! WE MISS YOU!!!¡±¡± ¡­ You should¡¯ve said it earlier¡­ While retorting inside my head, I greeted them both and shed tears. ¡°Onii-chan!¡± ¡°Daichi-nii-san!¡± ¡°Nii-san!¡± I also greeted my siblings, Sekai, Yumi, and Sora sitting on the couch while they were excitedly looking at Shironeko. ¡°Daichi, would please tell me the name of this child?¡± Mother, who was just glaring at me a moment ago like I was some criminal, was now looking at me like a good person and Shironeko as a poor child. ¡°Her name is Shironeko.¡± ¡°¡°¡°¡°¡°¡­¡±¡±¡±¡±¡± Hmm¡­? All five of them went silent when they heard the name of Shironeko. ¡°¡­Daichi, who gave her that name¡­?¡± ¡°I did, why?¡± ¡°¡°¡°¡°¡°WHY THE HECK DID YOU NAME HER THAT!!!???¡±¡±¡±¡±¡± All five of them harmoniously burst into a retort. ¡°Ehh!?¡± ¡°Why did you name a human like what you would a pet!?¡± First was mother. ¡°In the first place, she doesn¡¯t even resemble a white cat, except for her hair!¡± Next was father. ¡°That is what a loser father would name her daughter!!¡± Then Sekai¡­ ¡°Daichi-nii-san, you have such horrible naming sense¡­¡± And then Sora¡­ ¡°Onii-chan is horrible¡­¡±Love what you''re reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on. Last was Sekai¡­ ¡°Ehh? Did I do anything wrong?¡± ¡°¡°¡°¡°¡°OF COURSE YOU DID!!!¡±¡±¡±¡±¡± ¡­ Then what did I do wrong¡­? ¡°¡­Onii-chan, you have a face that says ¡®What did I do wrong¡¯ in plain sight. Then allow me to tell you, it¡¯s the name you gave to that child.¡± ¡­Name? ¡°Why? I thought it was good because she is a beastman.¡± ¡°¡°¡°¡°¡°Beastman?¡±¡±¡±¡±¡± To show them, I took of the hat and had her reveal her tail. Now that I think about it, I forgot to mention that she was a cat-person. ¡°¡°¡°¡°¡°!?¡±¡±¡±¡±¡± When they saw Shironeko¡¯s ears and tail, the five of them were surprised senseless. My siblings were much more surprised than mother and father. What transpired after that was chaos. I did all I could just to calm them down, much more to my siblings who wanted to touch Shironeko¡¯s cat ears and tail. *** After the reunion, the 7 of us went towards the dining room to eat. Mother prepared a feast for my return so the food on the table was plentiful, but with the size of my familiy, plus Shironeko, the food prepared vanished into the pits of our stomaches. I have to say, I really miss the cooking of mother. Their happy faces of finally reuniting with one of their loved ones who went missing were clearly evident on their faces. I can say this proudly to the world, that this family is the best that I could ever hope for. Now that the feast was over, the 5 of them pestered me to bring them over to the other world. But first, I wanted to try using [Appraisal] if it worked here, but sadly, it didn¡¯t. It seems that magic, or the system of skills doesn¡¯t work here, but for some reason, the strength when you level up remains. This was proved by my supernatural strength by showing them that I made a dent on ordinary iron I brought over with just my punch. Needless to say, all of them were shocked, except for Shironeko who already knew my strength. That just shows how strong people are in the other world. Even the goblins might be stronger than normal people on Earth than the normal people in that world. They were also surprised when Shironeko, who was still a child, destroyed an iron block with just her fist. The destroyed iron scattered on the floor and I picked it up and stored it inside a bag that has an infinite amount of space that I created back in the dungeon. Anyway, now that I found out that skills doesn¡¯t work in this world, but strength and items can ba carried over, the seven of us were now standing in front of the door I made that is used to connect our two worlds. The five of them are silent and are nervous for about what is to come. I can¡¯t blame them, if you are about to cross worlds, which is pretty much impossible to do without the help of Gods, there is no reason to not be nervous. ¡°All right, when you get to the other world, please do not leave the cave. The people over there might worry that you were left inside and then taken you to the towns where you don¡¯t know anyone.¡± All of them nodded to my statement, except Shironeko. None of them would be subjected to discriminate killing since they look like humans. The only problems if they are separated from me because it will make it harder to get them back. There is also a chance they might die because of the low value of life in that other world. ¡°By the way, I forgot to mention, but the world is that of a swords and magic world, where life is just valued a little lower than average. But not that low because life is precious.¡± I tried to raise their spirits back up because of the clear anxious expression on their faces. Even my siblings who were excited to cross over earlier were nervous about the other world valuing life lower than on Earth. I reached for the door knob and twist it, causing the door to open. Behind the door, what we could see was the dungeon core room that I have been living in for a month. When the five of them passed through the door, they were stunned at my living quarters. Cave walls and floor, but Japanese standard furniture. They were even surprised about a working PC and TV without electric cables inside. But what really brought their attention, was the dungeon core. ¡°¡°¡°¡°¡°¡­Amazing¡­¡±¡±¡±¡±¡± All five of them leaked a voice of admiration towards the floating crystal the size of a volley ball. ¡°Isn¡¯t it? Let me show something amazing next.¡± I moved in front of them and touched the core. Next, a familiar holographic screen appeared in front of me and I quickly navigated to the Dungeon Market tab. The five of them were attentively watching me navigate through the tabs on the floating holographic screen. Next, I summoned a Horned Rabbit and had it appear right beside me. ¡°Pyu~!¡± It gave a cry as it was summoned towards me, and the other 6. Again, they were surprised, but the next thing that happened was the five of them petting the rabbit. The rabbit was also docile and was happily allowing the m to pet it. Isn¡¯t Horned Rabbits supposed to be a violent type of monsters? Forgetting that question, I happily continued to tour them my dungeon core room. I also had them bathe in the hot springs I made, and I got a positive response from them, who were actually a bath loving type. They stopped being surprised about the little things I showed them, like the surveillance system, and the inn, but they were really surprised about my doppelganger suddenly showing up to report. Two hours later, the five of them were exhausted and were about to leave. Suddenly, mother came up to me with an anxious face. ¡°Daichi, are you sure you don¡¯t want to go back to living a normal life?¡± The question I have been waiting from my mother has finally arrived. Of course, every mother who has the love for her son would ask that in this situation. ¡°Sorry but, I¡¯m not going back, back to the normal life that is.¡± Mother had a face full of sadness on her face. ¡°God has given me this opportunity to be who I want to be, and I¡¯m not going to waste it.¡± With determination and resolve, I stated my answer towards sad mother. She had a look of surprise on her face, before a smile formed. ¡°I understand¡­ Besides, you are already at the right age for independence. I will respect your decision.¡± With a smile, she gave me a hug and a kiss on the cheek. ¡°But don¡¯t forget to visit us every now and then, okay?¡± I hugged her back and gave a reassuring smile. ¡°Yes. Don¡¯t worry. Also, if you are in need of money, don¡¯t hesitate to call on me.¡± I crack up a joke while I am at it and bid her off. With a farewell, the 5 of them returned to Earth through the door, and the space inside the room began to widen. Oh right, I forgot to appraise them. Mmm¡­ I can do that next time they come here. Also, I better let them learn skills while in this world so that they can protect themselves back on Earth. I took a glance at the bed, and I saw Shironeko happily dozing off. ¡°¡­Mnyaa¡­ Mashter~¡­¡± ¡­ She really is cute¡­ Now then, I better get to sleep before I faint on the cold hard floor. I get on the bed and used Shironeko as a hugging pillow. Her warmth permeated thorugh my skin, and it felt very comfortable. ¡°¡­Ehehe¡­ Mnyashter¡­¡± ¡­Really cute¡­ Good night. Chapter 31: Meeting with the King, Proxy that is... ~ Third Person POV ~ Inside a carriage, there were five people sitting on the seats. Three of them looked human, but were not, while the other two were full-fledged humans. The three who were not human were none other than the golems who were tasked to meet with the king by their master, namely, Proxy as the representative, and John and Paul as Proxy¡¯s bodyguards. The other two were Kelm Corn, the soldier commander of the town near the dungeon of Proxy¡¯s master, and the other one was a representative of the King. Since they King couldn¡¯t ignore a request for a summons from a dungeon master who was visibly giving riches to a town, the King reluctantly approved the summons. By the way, the hero, Philip, was restrained in another carriage with the same rope, causing him to cry in agony. But for some reason, he still held a strong will and grudge against the dungeon master, keeping him sane, whereas a normal person would have gone crazy on the first hours. Of course, when they reach the capital, the rope will be unbound by John and Paul. But it is actually too late if they want to reconcile with the hero, and the King who is supporting the hero. ¡°Proxy--- I mean, Jake, we will be reaching the capital in a few hours. When we arrive, we are directly going towards the royal castle to greet the king.¡± Kelm gave a heads up towards Proxy who was nodding off. Kelm called him Jake instead of Proxy since his name was way to obvious if it was spoken in front of the king. ¡°When inside, you will be given a set of clothes to reach the minimum standard of etiquette, and be accompanied by a maid to freshen up. That goes for your two bodyguards as well.¡± The representative followed up on Kelm¡¯s words and gave an anxious gaze towards Proxy and his boydguards. ¡®Do they know the standard when meeting the king?¡¯ Thinking this inside his mind gave him the chills. Almost everybody in the kingdom knew the standard when meeting the king. One must kneel in front behind a line and bow their heads, and never speak a word until the King allows it. They will also not be able to raise their head and stand until the King gives permission. Failure to follow the standard can result in imprisonment or death, depending on the person. If it was found out that the one meeting the King was a golem, all hell would break lose at the extreme disrespect towards the crown. At least, that is what it will look like to the royals and nobles. If that happened, then that dungeon will be no doubt, the top priority in subjugation, making it a loss to the country. If the stuck-up nobles and the corrupt royals can see this, they would think about how to take use of this advantage, but the barrier called the hero is in the way. The hero, in a way, has influence greater than a king of a country. His influence is second only to the church of the Holy Faith¡¯s pope. The pope of Holy Faith is the head of this giant religion that takes up 60% of the world. This religion pushes for human supremacy, making all the demi-humans and beastkin their enemy. The country where the master of Proxy resided is called the Polshia Kingdon and is a follower of the Holy Faith. But for some reason, the town which is near to the master of Proxy¡¯s dungeon, called Granc, is a self-ruling town under the command of the King. How is this possible, is what others would ask, but the reason this is possible is because of the founder of this town, who was known as a SSS-rank adventurer in the past, befriended a mythical creature living in the mountains east of Granc and made a contract to protect the town, even from the same country, to ensure the livelihood of its inhabitants, be it human, demi-human, or beastkin. The contract applies until now because of the succesion of the seat of mayor by the same family. But because of the peace, the sharp fangs of the once strong family had degenerated into that of dull ones, making it harder for them to protect the town. Even with the help of the mythical creature, if the town was destroyed from the inside, then it will surely fall.The genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there. This is also happening in the present, as seen by the hero present in that town. The hero has the strength of an S-rank adventurer, making it harder to try and force him out of the town, and while using the pretext of training, the hero is being used as a tool to restrict the movements of the mayor and his troops. And while the hero is present, there are currently movements in the dark to which no one knows what they are planning. But suddenly, the hero was defeated by a dungeon, causing the higher-ups of the country to be befuddled. They neglected it at first, but when the hero lost a second time and requested the help of the King, they couldn¡¯t keep silent anymore. Thus, the mobilizing of the troops inside Granc, which was beneficial to their plans. The plan to destroy Granc was underway by using riots to not attract the attention of the mythical creature which was said to destroy an entire country in just a day. But their plans met a halt when they got a report saying that the dungeon master of the dungeon wished to meet the King, which led to the current state of affairs. This is what went through the representative¡¯s head who, was in cahoots with the royals, causing a slight crease on his brow. This wasn¡¯t noticed by anyone in the carriage so it was alright. While the 5 of them were just nonchalantly waiting on the carriage filled with tension, they reached the gates of the Royal Capital. A line was formed by merchant wagons, carriages, and people to be granted permission to enter the capital. But the carriage where the 5 were riding was given preferential treatment and was quickly let inside, disregarding the long line. If you looked closely, there was no one there that looked like a demi-human, or beastkin lining up, except for those treated as a slave. Proxy was wondering why his master had gotten hold of a beastkin slave, but it looks like the slaves here that are not human are legalized by the country. Of course, there were beastkins and demi-humans in Granc, but they were few in number because of the chance being kidnapped by slave traders. When they entered the capital, the hustling sound of a busy city entered their ears. Looking aroud, all you could see were humans. No other races were present here. Passing through the main road where curious onlookers caught a sight of the gaudy carriage, they directly went towards the castle. The carriage was silent just like before, in fact, they were silent throughout the whole journey from Granc to the Royal Capital, except for the part where Kelm gave a heads-up towards Proxy. When they arrived, what was in their view was a majestic castle, towering high towards the sky. One had to crane their neck backwards when looking up towards the castle. The 5 of them were greeted by heavily armed knights and were escorted inside. Then, they were seperated, except for Proxy, John, and Paul. They were guided by a maid working inside the castle, and if one looked closely, there were scars on her arms and legs, and collar on her neck that was well hidden by the choker for maids. Proxy thought that this girl was a slave maid of this castle, and was given physical abuse on a daily basis. Judging by her appearance, she seems to be in the latter half of her teens, with a chestnut clored hair and bright brown eyes. But sadly, her eyes were lifeless, as if the girl had no will of her own. If a person were to see this, they would say that what was being done to her was too much, but she was under the royals, so it was impossile to voice out complaints, lest they risk their lives as well. The three of them were guided towards a room where they are supposed to bathe and change their clothes to meet the minimum standard hygiene when meeting the King. This was all done without a word being said by the three. Once they were done, they got out of the room and were greeted by the same maid who guided them to the room. ¡°Please follow me¡­¡± With the same mechanical voice they heard when they first met, they followed her towards the audience hall where they were supposed to meet the king. A few minutes later of walking and still silence, they finally reached the huge, gaudily decorated double doors leading towards the audience hall. On their way here, they were met with curious gazes from the workers, and scorn from nobles, aristocrats, and some of the workers who were pro Holy Faith. The double doors opened when they arrived as if to say, ¡®Come in¡¯ with a huge sound. When the doors opened, in front of them were a line of heavily armed Knights, lines of nobles and aristocrats, and an old man sitting on the throne. He wore majestic clothing fitting for a king with a crown at the top of his head, a scepter on his right, and on his left a young girl who can be said to still be a child. By her appearances, she seems to be about 6 years old. She was looking at Proxy and his bodyguards with great curiosity, while the King had a tired face. ¡°His highness, the King of Polshia, Iquas von Polshia. And her highness, the 6th Princess of Polshia, Fii von Polshia.¡± With a loud greeting, Proxy and his bodyguards stepped forward. Chapter 32: Negotiation Breakdown ~ Third Person POV ~ Entering the large hall filled with numerous high classed people, exempting the soldiers, Proxy and his bodyguards had calm expressions. If a normal person were to enter like this, they would be nervous while sweating a fountain of sweat behind their backs, but for Proxy and his bodyguards, this isn¡¯t enough to shake their mentality. The only thing in the world that would shake their minds was a huge threat towards their master or his death. Proceeding on topic, the three slowly walked towards the throne while keeping calm demeanours. When they reaches a specific distance from the throne, they stopped and kneeled in a position that would give respect towards the King of the country, not that they had any respect in the first place. This was only done to keep up appearances. Seeing that the three had the minimum required ettiquete when meeting the King, the surrounding nobles had a look of curiosity towards the three that could garner such attention from the King, while the Knights were just silently staring and observing the party of Proxy. The other nobles had a look of disgust and contempt towards the three. The reason for being is because they thought that such commoners were not worth inviting inside the royal castle. Nobles, in general, had high status. They had the responsibility of governing over the masses and direct it in a good direction, but others became conceited and greedy over the years, causing them to scorn the masses. They thought of commoners as nothing but money farms and war potential, causing them direct hatred and fear from the commoners. In the eyes of Proxy and his bodyguards, those nobles deserve nothing but death to compensate for the suffering dealt to the commoners. Those who have been in contact with the commoners under oppression would naturally come to know the hardship of the commoners day by day, and Proxy is one of those. ¡°Raise your heads.¡± The daunting voice of the King shook the entire hall, but this wasn¡¯t enough to phaze Proxy and his bodyguards. Once the words have been spoken, the three lift their heads only, their body still kneeling, with expressionless faces. Some nobles, upon seeing this, had a look of anger towards the three, but didn¡¯t have the guts to voice out their complaints. If they did, then they could be subjected to imprisonment, torture, or worse, death. ¡°We give you permission to speak, but first, tell us your names.¡± With the same daunting voice with a hint of looking down disdain, the King gave permission for the three to speak their names. ¡°My name is Jake.¡± ¡°My name is John.¡± ¡°My name is Paul.¡± With voices that a little bit of boredom could be sensed, the surrounding nobles made a fuss. ¡°You!! How dare you speak in that tone with His Majesty!!¡±A case of theft: this story is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation. ¡°Behead them under the pretense of lese majeste!¡± ¡°SILENCE!!!¡± With a single word from the King, the nobles all clamped up with fear and shame. Once the area calmed down, the King looked back at the three faces which had disrespected him. ¡°You three, do you realize the situation you are in?¡± This question, could literally spell the end if Proxy answers it right or wrong. And to that question--- ¡°Yes. With just one word, you could execute us here and now, right?¡± Again with those remarks with a tinge of boredom, but the nobles this time didn¡¯t kick up fuss, instead, had cold sweat running down their backs. That just proves how dangerous the words Proxy said towards the King. ¡°Oh hohoho¡­ Indeed, that is correct. We have the power to end you right here and now, but sadly, our daughter is here, so We will refrain from said action.¡± The nobles all breathed a sigh of relief. If that happened, then the halls would be decorated with the blood of three foul commoners. That was the reason why they feared this development. If the commoners realized the true intentions behind the sighs, then they would literally disdain all of the aristocrat families. Of course, the sighs were only done by some of them, who literally had that mindset, while the others sighed because if word got out that three commoners died by the hand of the King because of a single mess-up, the situation could be hazardous. While all this was happening, Fii, the daughter of the King, Iquas, was innocently tilting her head from not understanding the situation. In reality, Fii was not supposed to accompany Iquas to this event, but being the doting father that he is, he approved of her accompanyment. You could say that Proxy and his bodyguards being safe right now, was because of Fii¡¯s selfishness, but nobody knew that, except the King himself. Inside his mind, the King was in a fury towards the three who had no respect towards him, but because of the presence of his daughter, he couldn¡¯t kill them or even restrain them. He didn¡¯t want to let her experience the bad side of being royalty this early. The two feelings clashed inside his mind for awhile, until the winner was declared, and that was his daughter¡¯s development. Although, the King only had love towards his family, but others were just trash to him, including the nobles. ¡°For now, let us proceed with the main topic. Are you not, a dungeon master?¡± To those words, a majority of the nobles gasped is surprisement and shock. A dungeon master meeting with a King of a country was unheard of, even in the past. For those that didn¡¯t know, they were in the faction of surprised people, while the others who knew because of their extensive information network, they were able to keep a calm face. ¡°Correct, I am a dungeon master managing a dungeon near the town of Granc.¡± With those words, the value of the town of Granc has increased. Those who didn¡¯t know the difficulty of the dungeon had malicious thoughts to control the dungeon for their own. If that happened, then they can bring an abundant amount of funds, materials, and war potential into their territory, war potential being monsters. They could also blackmail the dungeon master to give them treasures if they so wanted. For nobles who wanted to deepen their pockets and let their family prosper, this was an infinite gold mine. The definition for dungeons in this world was a spot where a huge amount of mana gathers. A core is made from the abundant mana and the first monster or person that wanders inside the dungeon and gets in contact with the core, they are then registered as a dungeon masters. Dungeon masters are also on the top of subjugation lists. The reason being that is that dungeon masters are criminals that kill people if they are a human, and a threat to humanity if a monster. Also, the reason why dungeons are sought after is because of the treasures found within, all provided by the core or dungeon master. ¡°I see, then, what is the problem for you to directly come and meet us?¡± Another question that could spell doom if answered incorrectly, but as Proxy was designed to stop the hero from bothering the dungeon any longer in the most efficient way, what happened next was pandemonium. ¡°I would like to file a complaint towards the hero for disturbing the order of the dungeon and the town of Granc.¡± Chapter 33: Prelude to War ¡°Fuaahhh¡­¡± Soaking in the hot spring inside my dungeon, I let out a sigh filled with pleasure. Not having to do anything for a week except for managing an automated dungeon, yep, NEET life. After soaking in the hot spring for a few minutes, I got out and dressed myself up. Exiting the dressing room, I saw Shironeko watching anime. She was glued to the TV screen while having sparkling eyes. I just hope that the past incident never happens again. The mana levels in my dungeon are extremely low right now, so I can¡¯t afford to create new things using my skills. I ignore Shironeko who was happily watching the anime and head towards my computer. It¡¯s about time that I check up on Proxy who I hadn¡¯t checkep up on for a while now. Booting up the PC, I quickly accessed the program to show the current situation of Proxy. What came up on screen next got me speechless. *** ~ Third Person POV ~ Earlier¡­ Proxy made a complaint about the hero directly towards the King. The King did not take this lightly and immediately commanded the guards to restrain them and toss them into the dungeon (prison) to wait for punishment. What Proxy just did was similar to throwing mud at the King¡¯s decision, making it intolerable to forgive, thus, the current situation. Proxy and his bodyguards were held up inside a dungeon and chained to avoid letting them escape. Nonetheless, the measures taken were useless against Proxy and his bodyguards, but Proxy never did anything to oppose the King. If he did oppose them the moment they were restrained, it may be a cause to incite a feudal war between the Kingdom and Granc.If you find this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the infringement. This situation was mostly impossible to happen, but because of various circumstances, this was an exception. Guards were posted here and there to prevent an escape. The others were tasked to give them food one time a day only as per punishment for insulting the King. Again, this was useless because Proxy and his bodyguards do not require intake of food or liquid. Spending their time like this, after a few hours, guards came up on the cell bars and called out towards the three. ¡°Hey! Your punishment was decided.¡± A guard in particular spoke to them as if they were criminals who have done an indescribable sin. The guad looked at them like he was looking at trash that should be disposed in this world. ¡°Tomorrow, when the bell tolls at noon, you three are going to be executed via beheading.¡± While speaking in a disgusted manner, Proxy and his bodyguards had indifferent faces. Even if they were slashed or sliced by a high leveled swordsman with a high grade sword, it would at most, just lightly wound them. But the guard took that expression differently as he thought that they must be scared shitless. A disgusting grin formed on his face as he looked at the three with disgust and scorn. After that, the guard, along with his colleagues left and spoke something about going to the brothels. Since this was unnecessary information, Proxy ignored it and quielty kept to himself inside the dungeon. *** ~ Daichi POV ~ ¡­ So, they are going to be executed tomorrow at noon, huh¡­ While thinking about that, cold sweat poured down my back and I nervously let out a chuckle. Why did this happen? The number one question that I want an answer to right now is this. I gave Proxy the [Negotiation] skill, so it shouldn¡¯t have ended up like this. While pondering on what happened, Shironeko came up to me and snuggled with my body. ¡°Mnyaa¡­ Mashter¡­¡± ¡­ It seems that she has just finished watching anime and wants to sleep. I pat her head and soon after, I heard sleeping noises. ¡°Fuu~ Suu~~¡± ¡­ Cute¡­ Feeling refreshed because of Shironeko, I stopped pondering and decided to contact Proxy via telepathy using the computer. It works just like a program, kind of like an SMS type of messaging. First, I sent a message on submitting a report about the important parts. The next thing that appeared was a long essay about a certain religion, along with the events inside the castle. Reading its contents, I understood what would very likely happen in the near future. And because it is necesarry, it looks like it can¡¯t be avoided. I never thought that it would happen in just a span of a month and a week, but it looks like war is coming. Chapter 34: Insurance After reading the report submitted by Proxy, I checked the mana levels of my dungeon using the Mana Monitor. Mana Levels: 136,052 Hmm¡­ It¡¯s been rising steadily for the past three days after I created the door, now, to use [Future Sight] again to check whether it is safe or not. Mana Levels: 10,380 Okay, that¡¯s a no go. If I did that, then it will really come and bite me in the back. My plan was to change the head of the kingdom using a golem in the guise of the King. By assassinating the King, and having him replaced by one of my golems, I could indirectly control the country, but I¡¯m not after that, what I want is to stop the hero from harrasing my dungeon and targeting my head, along with stopping the kingdom with any thoughts of wiping this dungeon off the map. But it seems that it is impossible with this kind of drawback. I also want to minimize the casualties because of the war, but it seems next to impossible. The next thing to do is form a contract with the head of the town, the next most believable thing to do. By supplying his war potential with the monsters I summon using DP, I might be able to minimize the casualties in the town of Granc. The last one, and probably the right thing to do, is to get the help from the mythical creature said in the report in the mountains east of Granc. To do this, I need to give it an early warning to ensure that it will arrive in the nick of time, instead of being late to save Granc, but this will probably create the most casualties, both in Granc, and the Kingdom. ¡°Hmmm¡­ what should I do¡­?¡± After pondering for a while, I had a Golem gathering information in Granc to head towards the east mountains to request help from the mythical creature. Next, I had Proxy and the others break out of the dungeon discreetly and head towards Granc as quickly as possible to inform the Mayor about the events in the castle and about my decision to form a contract with them to supply them with war potential. After issuing my commands toward my subordinates, I had nothing to do except wait for the news, so I played CS:IO, ignoring Shironeko sleeping on my lap. *** ~ Third Person POV ~ The town of Granc, once a lively town, but now, was deathly silent. The incident with the hero spread like wildfire, causing unrest amongst the citizens of Granc. Adventurers and civilians alike living presently in Granc, had anxiety throughout their body. This was expected because if the hero was restrained by soldiers, this could be a cause for purging the unbelievers of the Holy Faith. Inside the town, there was a single person readying supplies for a journey. He bought items for hiking and food just for appearances, why for appearances? It is because the person is not a human, but a golem tasked by his master to gather information within the city.You might be reading a pirated copy. Look for the official release to support the author. Right now, a new command was given, and that was to journey to the mountains east of Granc to give the mythical creature living there information about a possible war, and Granc may be the battlefield. If the creature will uphold the contract, then it will no doubt support the town of Granc and repel the invaders. That was the reason for this golem¡¯s preparation. Once he was done, he headed towards the east gate to start his march. *** At the same time, three silhouettes could be seen inside an alley within the Capital City. These three were none other than Proxy and his bodyguards. As the command was given, they were to break out of prison quietly and quickly head towards Granc to give the mayor the message, although, there is no such thing as a quiet prison break. At least, all they could do was escape without killing anyone and also quickly run away to avoid disturbances and uproars within the capital. The three of them were right now hiding themselves from the guards trying to find them and waiting for night to come. The three of them planned to slip away once darkness falls within the capital and quickly run towards Granc. As they were Golems, they would not feel fatigue so they have no problem with running all the way without rest. And also because of their high levels, they are faster than any horse within the capital, so renting a carriage is not needed, not that they had that option in the first place. And also makes it impossible for the guards to pursue them. Hours passed by while dodging the sights of the guards within the capital, and finally, darkness begins to loom over the capital. Taking this as their cue, the three of them rushed towards the gate in the direction of Granc. Seeing as the gate was heavily guared, they discarded that option and decided to scale the walls. Because it was night time, it will be hard to spot them climbing the walls, and thusm started their climb. Once they reached the top, they checked if there were guards nearby, and quickly jumped down. Again, because of their high levels, the fall didn¡¯t give them a scratch, and they quickly ran towards Granc, leaving behind the capital and the guards trying to find them within the capital. *** ~ Daichi POV ~ ¡°Fuaahh¡­¡± Once again, soaking my obody within the sarmness of the hot spring, I let out another pleasured sigh. Because of working my mind to its limits earlier, I became fatigued and wished to soak in the bath and take a rest. Back in the core room, Shironeko is watching anime again. I stood up after soaking for about 20 minutes and dressed myself up in the dressing room. When I got out, Shironeko was waiting outside, hoping to use the hot spring too. I approved and she happily got inside the dressing room and began undressing. Thankfully, I quickly got out just before I saw her birthday suit, so probobly no one will call me a lolicon if they tried to read my memories. Dragging my heavy body towards the bed, I flopped down and shut my heavy eyelids and drifted into the world of dreams¡­ ¡°Master, a report from a golem gathering data within the capital.¡± Or not, thanks to Kaze. I opened my eyelids and Kaze came into my vision. He had a tensed face, so I quickly got my serious face on. ¡°What is it about?¡± ¡°Well, you see, the King issued an order for an immediate sortie and got the soldiers to march towards Granc ASAP. It seems that their pretext of mobilzing such a force is said to be, ¡°Quelling a rebellion.¡±¡± ¡­ This was too quick. I thought that it would take at least a week before they got that order, but to receive it within the same day Proxy and his bodyguards escaped, it is going to be a tight schedule. ¡°¡­Then, what is the estimated number of troops within Granc?¡± ¡°About 15,000 soldiers, and about 500 adventurers.¡± ¡­ That¡¯s a little bit on the small side, but it is to be expected from a town that governs by itself. ¡°How about the King¡¯s troops?¡± ¡°About 50,000 soldiers, and siege weapons.¡± ¡­ Did I just hear that right? ¡°¡­ Umm¡­ Tell me again, what is the war potential on the King¡¯s side?¡± ¡°About 50,000 soldiers, and siege weapons, master.¡± ¡°WHAT!?!?¡± Chapter 35: Tides of War I slumped back on my bed upon hearing the dreadful information about the war potential of the King. If that huge army attacked Granc, even if it is a siege battle, Granc would not be able to fight back, even with my help. The value for getting the mythical creature¡¯s help just rose in an instant. This could decide whether Granc survives, or is overtaken. And if that happens, I¡¯ll be migrating back to Japan and destroy the door connecting to this world, making it impossible to come back. Although, I might bring back Shironeko, but the golems are impossible, so I would feel sorry for Kaze and the others. Looking at Kaze, his tense face is still there and is waiting for instructions. If I mess up this next move, I could say goodbye to my dungeon life, and I don¡¯t want that to happen, for the sake of myself, and for Shironeko. My family can also benefit from me doing stuff here, so it could be also said to be a money-earning job. What should I do? Think, think Daichi¡­ After what seems to be a minute of pondering, I decided on the direction of my path. ¡°Kaze, when the news of the Mayor successfully signing the contract reaches here, you are to use 9/10 of the DP in my dungeon to summon monsters to supply the town. Don¡¯t forget to include commander-type monsters to command the regular monsters. Also, if that is still insufficient, I grant you permission to use all of the DP. The outcome of this war will decide the fate of this dungeon, so don¡¯t spare any effort.¡± ¡°U-Understood!!¡± With a quick salute, Kaze went back to his post. Lying down on the bed again, fatigue crept up my body and invited me to the world of dreams¡­ *** ¡°¡ªter!! Ma---!!!¡± Hnghh¡­ Ughh¡­ So early, who¡¯s calling me? Opening my heavy eyelids, I saw Shironeko yelling out my name with a tense expression. ¡°MASTER!! WAKE UP!!!¡± ¡°Guh!?¡± A strong impact assaulted my body and jolted my mind, causing me to feel awake, but not the good-type of awake. ¡°Kyaahhh!!!¡± After that happened, Shironeko screamed out in pain. ¡°Shi- Shironeko!?¡± I quickly lept up and held her in my arms. She had a pained expression, but that vanished once I worried about her health and held her. I remembered a manga I read before about a slave harming their master and beeing assaulted with intense pain. Maybe this is the same as that? ¡°Shironeko!? Are you alright!?¡± ¡°Y-Yes¡­ The pain vanished when you held me.¡± ¡°Is that so? Thank goodness¡­¡± I felt relieved upon hearing that she was alright. Now then, what was the reason for waking me up with that tense expression?The author''s narrative has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. ¡°Shironeko, why did you wake me up?¡± ¡°Ahh! Kaze-sama told me that you have a visitor.¡± Hmm¡­? A visitor? ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll go there now, please tell Kaze to wait while I get ready.¡± ¡°Yes master!!¡± With a hop, she quickly went towards Kaze¡¯s room. After I saw her off, I quickly got dressed with my formal clothes. Just because I am a dungeon master, doesn¡¯t mean that I will not use formal clothes. I got out of my bed room, or the core room, and walked towards Kaze¡¯s room to hear about the visitor. When I arrived however¡­ ¡°Master¡­¡± I saw Kaze with a face that felt relieved upon seeing me. Looking further, I saw another person in the form of a beautiful girl in her early twenties, but for some reason, I began emanating cold sweat behind my back. ¡°Looks like he has arrived.¡± !? I felt a chill run down my spine when I heard her talk. My knees are trmbling and my body refused to move¡­ What is happening? ¡°Ara? It seems like even though you had the gall of giving me a warning about an impending war, if you can¡¯t withstand this amount of bloodlust, it won¡¯t be long before you die a horrible death.¡± She made a smile that was as beautiful as the setting sun, but that smile just reminded me of the feeling of death. I forced my body to move and sat down on a chair provided by Kaze in a clumsy manner. Shironeko was glaring at the girl with eyes that seemed to kill. ¡°Hmm¡­ It seems that this young girl has more worth than you, the master. Are you sure that your standings aren¡¯t inverted?¡± ¡°That¡¯s enough!!¡± In just a moment, Shironeko, who was just sitting down on a chair while glaring at the girl, instantly appeared before her and gave her a punch, but the girl just blocked it while stifling a yawn. ¡°Umu¡­ This girl really has potential. If this girl is with a master like you, then she won¡¯t grow. How about it little girl, do you want to come with me? Of course, I¡¯ll get rid of your status as a slave.¡± ¡°No, thank you!!!¡± Once more, Shironeko launched another punch towards her face, but was just blocked again by the girl¡¯s arm. ¡°I am happy with my life with master, so don¡¯t take it away from me!!¡± My eyes couldn¡¯t follow the exchange between them, but I knew, in just under a second, Shironeko launched 20 punches and the girl blocked all of it while having a nonchalant expression. ¡°¡­ Very well, now then¡­¡± After the girl said those words, the aura she was releasing vanished as if it was just air and my body once again responds with my brain normally. Kaze just sat there with a stiff expression. ¡°Shironeko, please stop.¡± For once, I issued a command for Shironeko to stop via the slave collar. ¡°Guh!?¡± ¡°Sorry, but cool down for a moment Shironeko.¡± I had Shironeko sit on her chair earlier, and also commanded her to be quiet. I don¡¯t want her to die because of me. ¡°Even though you look like that, you have brains huh¡­ Any longer and that girl might have been sent to the underworld.¡± Thank goodness I quickly commanded her to stop. ¡°Now then, before we start, let us introduce ourselves. I am Kaze, a golem created by my master.¡± And before anything else escalated, Kaze quickly started speaking and introduced himself. Looks like I need to do it too. ¡°I am Yanagi Daichi, the Dungeon Master of this dungeon.¡± ¡°Umu, my name is Kayl, as granted by the previous hero, and a Fenrir.¡± *** ~ Third Person POV ~ ¡°Finally, we have can get rid of Granc. That town has been a thorn in our side for too long.¡± ¡°Are you sure? Didn¡¯t you hear about that legend where a mythical creature made a contract with that town for protection?¡± ¡°Oh, that bullshit? That¡¯s just a myth, nothing more, nothing less.¡± Two men were conversing between each other in the shade of the night. One was seated on a seat, while the other was standing while maintaining a dignified posture. ¡°This battle will be our victory. Also, about that dungeon near Granc, we extort items and money from that dungeon master while threatening him if they don¡¯t pay up, we will subjugate the dungeon.¡± ¡°But how about the report stating that the hero was beaten black and blue by a monster inside a boss room?¡± ¡°That will just solve as time pass by itself. It¡¯s not like the dungeon can move.¡± ¡°You¡¯re right. By the way, have you found the escaping dungeon master?¡± ¡°Not yet, I fear that they have already fled the capital.¡± ¡°I see, then, that¡¯s enough for this meeting. We already mobilized part of the army right? It won¡¯t be long before the downfall of Granc.¡± ¡°That is right, your Majesty.¡± The two laughed creepily with only the darkness as their witness. Chapter 36: Compromise ¡°Umu, my name is Kayl, as granted by the previous hero, and a Fenrir.¡± Oh? So Kayl was a Fenrir? Is that so¡­? Wait¡­ ¡°¡°EHHH!???¡±¡± Not only my voice was raised in surprise, but Shironeko¡¯s voice was mixed in as well. Kaze was just sitting there with the same stiff expression. ¡°Isn¡¯t it rude to your guest to raise your voice in front of her?¡± Says the extremely rude and arrogant guest we have. ¡°A-Anyway, if my hunch is correct, are you the mythical creature said to hold a contract with the town of Granc?¡± ¡°Umu.¡± I didn¡¯t notice this earlier, but I can see that she has snow-white hair, with two wolf ears sticking out of her head. A white tail behind her waist and is dressed in clothes royalty would wear. Of course, the clothes have a hole for the tail to ensure the comfort of the wearer. ¡°Does that apply until now?¡± For now, I have to confirm whether the contract is still valid. If it is not, then it will be harder to persuade her to help protect the town from the King¡¯s army. ¡°Unfortunately, or fortunately for you, it is still valid. But once the next head is replaced, then the contract will be void and null, setting me free from the responsibility of protecting that worthless town.¡± ¡­ I really want to know how that SSS-rank adventurer, or hero to her, held up with her attitude. Or is it because he dominated her into submision? I ended that train of thought and proceeded to further the discussion. ¡°Then please help protect that town from the enemies.¡± ¡°Since it is still within the scope of the contract, I was planning to protect it whether or not you warned me, but since you went through all the trouble to warn me about an enemy army marching towards Granc, I thought the two of us could make a deal.¡± ¡°¡­¡± ¡­ I instantly regretted my decision in trying to warn the Fenrir. Even if I didn¡¯t do anything, then this girl, Kayl, would defend Granc. But, even if I didn¡¯t warn her, monsters working with humans is unprecedented, so she might just curiously ask the Mayor and lead her here, resulting in this meeting. Well, the early the meet-up, the better, so what the heck. ¡°Hmm¡­¡± Kayl was looking at my eyes pressing for answers. If I decide to accept, then this might just be me subjected in a one-sided deal, letting Kayl get all the benefits while I get nothing. But if I decline, I can guess by her personality that she will not accept that answer and will force me to accept it with harsher conditions. Jeez, who said that being a manager is all easy and stuff? ¡°¡­ Fine, I¡¯ll accept.¡± ¡°Wise decision young dungeon master.¡± With a snap of her fingers, a contract appeared out of thin air and hovered towards me, beckoning me to read its contents. I grabbed the floating contract and took a look at the deal the Fenrir wanted.
  1. This dungeon will be protected by Kayl, the Fenrir, in exchange for housing, food, and other necessities.
  2. The dungeon master, Yanagi Daichi, will have partial control over Kayl, the Fenrir, making commands possible. Do note that excessive commands that are forbidden by Kayl are not allowed.
  3. This contract will last until the death of either, Yanagi Daichi, or Kayl, the Fenrir.
  4. Violation of this contract will result in excruciating pain, enough to render one bedridden for a week.
¡°¡­¡±The story has been taken without consent; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. The contents of the contract was too much, too much that I had too imagine myself wiping my eyeballs for a moment and apply some contacts to read better. Isn¡¯t Kayl just asking for a place to stay in? And even giving me the right to command her, isn¡¯t this deal advantageous, no, extremely advantageous to me? ¡°Umm¡­ Kayl-dono, is this not disadvantageous to you?¡± ¡°What are you talking about? I am a Fenrir, if you want to control me you need to have the strength to do so. Judging by your body¡¯s physique, at most, you can only command me to catch some prey for you and me. Of course, the share is 90:10 in my favor.¡± What is with that cut!? Even in business, that is too much! ¡°... I¡¯m beginning to understand why you want to make a deal with me with those conditions.¡± ¡°Yes, I want food, a place to sleep and some other stuff that I know you will provide with me.¡± ¡°¡­¡± I won¡¯t say that you want to see me grow strong to grab the right to command you. I wonder what was the truth between the SSS-rank adventurer who befriended Kayl¡­ ¡°Okay, I accept these conditions.¡± Once I accepted the terms and conditions, the contract split into two and turned into light particles and entered our body through our chests. Shironeko was still glaring at Kayl, but when she saw the light entering me, she panicked and tried to stop the light from entering my body. Of course, I stopped her with a pat on the head and my signature smile. Once that was over, Kaze stood up and directed his gaze at Kayl. ¡°Now then, Kayl-san, as a new member of this dungeon, we welcome you. Master, please use DP to create a room for Kayl-san. Also, Kayl-san, don¡¯t hesitate to ask for master to spend on the furnitures you want.¡± After his solid end of the conversation, he left the room, or his room to begin with, and headed to who knows where. If I check the surveillance, maybe I can see where he goes, but for now, I still have a matter to deal with. ¡°Shironeko, please leave us for now and go do whatever you want until I get back, okay?¡± ¡°¡­ Muuu¡­ Okay¡­¡± With a hesitating face, she reluctantly left the room, but didn¡¯t forget to glare at Kayl for a second before leaving. ¡°Seriously, can I have that girl? To be able to glare at me upon knowing that I am a legendary Fenrir, she¡¯s got the gall.¡± Again, with her annoying arrogant personality that seems to be looking down on everybody. Just how did the SSS-rank adventurer cope with her in the past? ¡°Anyway, now that that is over, what kind of room would you like?¡± Since this room is linked to the core room, I can access the Dungeon Menu from here. ¡°Hmm¡­ Let¡¯s see¡­¡± *** ~ Third Person POV ~ In the past, there was a Fenrir. It was lying peacefully on the grassland under the moonlight. The beautiful scenery could make any artist¡¯s heart flutter into the wind. The Fenrir looked up into the sky and howled as if to mock the Gods for the fate she was given. That howl reverberated through the woods, where not a life was spotted, even insects. Except for one. A silhoutte emerged from the shadows in the form of a human. It had a giant greatsword on its back and a body of a gorilla. His hair was shaggy and messy, while an unkempt beard decorated his chin. His brown eyes, that looked like black ones under the darkness glowed an unusual amount of light while glaring at the lying figure. ¡°Tch, another one.¡± The Fenrir stood up on its legs and readied itself for combat. The man grabbed the handle of the greatsword on his back and pulled it out of its sheath and made a posture of that of a barbarian. If an experienced swordsman looked at his posture right now, he would laugh at its unrefinedness. But if one were to batlle with him, the only result was that the man¡¯s enemy would turn into a heap of flesh. The Fenrir didn¡¯t let this fact go. One wrong step and its life would be reaped here and now. The only noise audible in this land was the whooshing of the wind. Once it stopped, the battle begun. Craters were formed, trees were mowed down, earth was torn out and thrown, and grasses were flying all over the air. The fierce battle continued all night and finally, when the sun was just about to rise up, the victor has finally been decided. The man with wounds all over his body was still standing up while using his greatsword as a crutch, while the Fenrir was lying down on a puddle of blood it formed on the ground unmoving, but still breathing. ¡°Splendid¡­ Just¡­ Splendid¡­ I have¡­ No qualms¡­ About¡­ This defeat¡­¡± The Fenrir, with the last of its strength, ushered out words of its defeat with pride, but the man next to it had different thoughts. ¡°¡­ Isn¡¯t this just too sad, a life, that was fated to die to fuel the growth of the hero. I¡¯m sick of this. The Gods just think what they want to do because they¡¯re sitting all high and mighty in the heavens while the lives they gave are meant to supplement their chosen ones. A life is a life, no matter how different, that¡¯s my philosophy.¡± While the man was rambling on, the Fenrir had already lost all of its senses, but it was still without a doubt, alive. It was just a matter of seconds before its life perished. ¡°Don¡¯t worry, I¡¯ll change your fate, and once you¡¯re free, you can do whatever you want to do.¡± Even though the Fenrir had already lost all of its senses, it still heard a sweet voice in its mind filled with compassion. ¡°You will live, much, much longer than me. You shall be named as Kayl¡­ From¡­ now¡­ on¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­.¡± The senses that the Fenrir thought would never have again, all came back in an instant. But the very first thing the Fenrir saw was a man wounded all over lying on the ground, breathless and unmoving, never to open his eyes again. Announcement! I''ll be continuing this novel, so this will now longer be dropped (Author WTF?) Also, since I''ll be continuing this, I''ll also think of continuing one of my other dropped novels for the sake of my boredom (LOL sounds wrong), but do know that I am giving my best effort to write a chapter.The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. Well anyway, expect a chapter within a few days since I''m still busy with another fiction. See ya! And this 500 character long requirement... Here it is... asogiadsgiadkjdfgsdjfkspdfjsdogsndsjdnfpsidjfnwsdoghksnpoinsdpifjsnpgijfnpidjfgsidufsodisondosfgho... Again, see ya! Chapter 37: Grancs Fortification Right after creating a room for Kayl, I searched for Kaze using the surveillance of my dungeon. I found him in the dungeon core room along with Shironeko. ¡°Kaze, I need to speak with you.¡± ¡°Sure, master.¡± I greeted Kaze while Shironeko quickly came up to me and rubbed her body on mine. ¡°¡­ Uh¡­ What are you doing Shironeko¡­?¡± ¡°Marking master.¡± ¡°¡­¡± I went silent, but patted her head anyway due to the cute gestures she was doing. In no way is this considered pedophilia, do you hear me!! While Shironeko was busy rubbing (it¡¯s just clinging) her body on mine, I asked Kaze my question. ¡°Has Proxy met with the mayor of Granc yet?¡± ¡°No, not yet master.¡± While petting the busy Shironeko, Kaze gave me an answer towards my question. ¡°Well then, I guess I¡¯ll go check on him. You continue with the monster production, because even if the mayor doesn¡¯t sign the contract for, we still need to help the town of Granc survive to ensure our survival.¡± ¡°Yes master.¡± With that, Kaze left the room and went on his way to do as I instructed, even though it wasn¡¯t any different from before. After he left, I went towards my PC with Shironeko still clinging to me. It seems like she¡¯s sulking¡­ ¡°Shironeko, you can stop now¡­¡± ¡°No!¡± Seeing her determination to mark me, or whatever she¡¯s doing makes a smile float up my face. I patted her head once more and brought her close to a hug. ¡°Don¡¯t worry, I will not be taken away from you.¡± ¡°¡­ Promise¡­?¡± ¡°Promise.¡± I gave her my signature smile while using my signature move, [Headpats lv Max], if it was ever made into a skill. Once she saw me smile and felt my warm hand rubbing her head, she obviously felt at ease and stopped her clinging to me. ¡°Okay¡­¡± She stopped clinging to me, but instead, hopped on my lap. ¡°¡­ Shironeko¡­?¡± ¡°That dog¡¯s scent is still here, I¡¯ll let it go away¡­¡± ¡°¡­¡± If I heard what I heard correctly, then it¡¯s probably best to let her to her thing. I¡¯m not going to stop her, even though what¡¯s happening right now is enough to put me in jail for life. I ignored Shironeko sitting on my lap and booted up the PC. Once it booted up, I opened the application that could let me see through the eyes of Proxy.Unauthorized duplication: this narrative has been taken without consent. Report sightings. <><><><><><><><> ~ Third Person POV ~ It¡¯s the middle of the night, and Proxy as well as John and Paul were running through the dark road made of dirt. The trees were covering the light shining from the moon to the grassy ground, only the road was visible. It has been about 5 hours since they escape from the Royal Capital, and ever since then, the three had been running nonstop faster than a horse could travel. And because of this, Proxy and his bodyguards were able to reach Granc, which would have normally taken two days to travel by carriage. With time not on their side, their current action was just marvelous, causing them to arrive far earlier than the enemy could have ever imagined. When they arrived at the front gate, a guard posted during that time raised his weapon high in an attempt to stop the suspicious trio. ¡°Stop! Who goes there!?¡± When the soldier raised his voice and approached the three suspicious individuals, Proxy and co. quickly stopped like a driver ramming on the brakes. Once the soldier got a good look to the three individuals though, he was stunned to see a familiar face. ¡°P-Proxy!? What are you doing here at this time?¡± ¡°We have news to bring the mayor of Granc.¡± As a soldier who had witnessed the events a few days earlier at the dungeon, he was no stranger to the strength of this golem. And when he heard the grave news that came from Proxy¡¯s mouth, he quickly went into a panic. ¡°What kind of news.¡± ¡°News that would be extremely dangerous to everyone currently living within Granc¡¯s walls, I suggest that you let us meet with the mayor right this instant.¡± ¡°Hold on, I can¡¯t just let you in without hearing a good reason. Either that, or we¡¯ll have to take you three into custody.¡± ¡°¡­ All right, just don¡¯t go spreading this information this late at night. War is coming, between this country, and this town.¡± ¡°¡­ Wait what¡­?¡± ¡°As I said, war is coming. If you don¡¯t let us through to warn your mayor, then my master will not help in your endeavors to protect this place.¡± Although what Proxy was saying is a just a bluff, to the soldier whose life and home was endangered, this was no laughing matter. ¡°I-If that¡¯s true, then why didn¡¯t you say so earlier!?¡± ¡°To prevent a panic and avoid waking the people up.¡± ¡°This is not the time to say that.¡± The soldier was partly correct, because most of the people right now were asleep in their homes, unless a huge voice woke them up, then panic would not be spread. Yes, if a huge hadn¡¯t woke them up. ¡°And you just woke them up. This is why I didn¡¯t want to tell you.¡± Realizing what soldier did, he quickly clammed up. Even though they were far from the houses, the light coming from the windows indicated that they are wide awake. When the doors opened and some dwellers came out to see what was going on, the soldier became flustered. ¡°So, will you let me in now? I really need to speak with your mayor.¡± ¡°¡­ All right¡­¡± The soldier gave passage to the trio and went to the awake people to tell them to go back to sleep. While Proxy was staring at the man who reaped what he sowed, he said to his bodyguards. ¡°Let¡¯s go.¡± Tomorrow morning will mark the day of Granc¡¯s Fortification. <><><><><><><><> ~ Daichi POV ~ A few hours later after observing how Proxy dealt with the nightshift guard, a tired looking man could be seen on the screen. On his hand, he held a feather pen and on the desk in front of him, a contract stating payment for war potential given by me. ¡°¡­ Proxy¡­ He wrung him dry¡­¡± When I saw what the contract stated, my eyeballs nearly popped off.
  1. The Dungeon Master will supply Granc with war potential (monsters) to help in the defense during the Civil War.
  2. During this time, all non-combatants will seek refuge inside the dungeon.
  3. For each monster supplied, Granc will pay an amount equal to the value of the monster.
  4. After the Civil War ends, if Granc is victorious, Granc will have to be a part of the dungeon. There will be no threat to the residents¡¯ lives of Granc.
  5. In case of defeat, the Dungeon Master will hold every right to Granc after saving it from the clutches of the Kingdom; and
  6. The Dungeon Master and Granc cannot, and will not do any actions that may harm each other. If this clause is broken, the party who has broken the clause will be immediately in the custody of the other party.
Basically, this contract was very, very, very, very advantageous to me, and only me. Whether Granc survives or not, I get the the whole town of Granc under my hands, and during the time of war, the non-combat residents of Granc will hole up in my dungeon, supplying me with tons and tons of DP. ¡°¡­ I¡¯ll have to thank Proxy for making this contract. Also, I¡¯ll have to advise Kaze to create a floor solely for the residents of Granc.¡± With those as my priorities, I quickly head on over to Kaze¡¯s room after laying Shironeko down to sleep after she doze off on my lap. ¡°Looks like tomorrow will be busy.¡± And after that, a Civil War will start.