《D.W》 prologue - my live , is the worst possible. The world is a cold harsh place, that¡¯s just how Mother Nature intended things to be. Yeah she¡¯s one cold hearted bitch, just take how she¡¯s treated me for instance. I lived with my parents and they both died within minutes of each other. This is the story of how I went into a dungeon with my parents and became an orphan in the process before eventually becoming a part of the dungeon. My name is Ryan Colours and unlike my name I¡¯m kind of a Goth. Personally I¡¯ve never really cared about anything unless it would actually had an impact on my life. I come from a 3 person family consisting of myself and my parents who by any standard are reckless adventurer wannabe maniacs. My father thinks himself as a warrior when he can''t even lift a wooden sword, my mother believes she¡¯s a cleric even though she¡¯d faint whenever there was a drop of blood and in their delusions they think I¡¯m their ''mage'' since I¡¯m the only one is this family that can actually manage money and read. I¡¯ll explain how I can do these things, my father''s family is part of the high nobility in a kingdom called ''Dravis'', it¡¯s basically a sub-kingdom to the military superpower called the ''Axis of Flamar'', due to this my father and mother both lived in a large mansion with butlers and maids. Untill a few years after I was born when troubles started to arise with my parents who stated they didn''t want to stay with the main family anymore they wanted to travel the world as adventurers. The main family was strongly opposed to this and threatened to keep me with the main family. My parents then did the most unexpected thing possible, they gave me to the main family to pursue their delusions. I ended up living with the main family until I turned 8 where I excelled in all my studies. I ended up making it to college standard mathematics. My life was nice and peaceful. This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.Until the day my parents returned to ''collect'' me. During the night of a new moon the Colour''s house was broken into and I knew by who. 4 days prior to the break in my parents returned in dirty clothes and with smiles on their faces. They asked for money to continue on their journey, all the while I was looking at them from a distance behind a door. They spotted me and their eyes opened slightly before asking for what they left behind ''me'' and in an instant the representative of the main family that was with them called the guards to remove them from the building. But this did not stop them. When they broke in they stole only 2 main things a bag filled with 300 gold as well as ''me'' while I was asleep. It¡¯s been 2 years since then and all they have to show for their adventures is the 3 of us in a damp cave hiding from the falling snow with no money and no food and only a campfire to keep us warm. Of course I¡¯m the one forced to tend to the flames while my parents are exploring the inside of the cave. I heard loud scream from inside the cave before a second one joined the first. I ran towards the screams to see a hole in the floor with 2 sets of hands hanging from the edge. The closer I got the more I could hear the squirming of my parents trying to get out of the pit. Then I heard the end of an argument, where my mother convinced my father to let her climb up his back so that she could then help lift him out of the pit. Unfortunately my father was too weak to hold both of them up and his arms gave out sending both of them to their doom. I heard them scream as they fell and I heard the thump as they landed at the bottom of the pit. When I finally got to the edge of the pit I looked into it and confirmed my worst fears, they were dead. And now I was all alone. . . prologue 2: Dungeons and you. as the sight of my parents leave my mind I start to return to the entrance leaving the corpses of my terrible parents behind, once i reached the the caves entrance a dread inducing thing is see in-front of me the entrance of the cave has now been replaced by a wall of boulders and rocks. this is just god spiting in my face or is it my terrible luck manifesting to a kick in the dick. from this sight the only thing i could think of at this time is the need to find another exit of the cave, to this end I grab one of the burning wood from the fire before walking back into the cave''s depths, with the shadows surrounding me with only this one torch keeping them at bay. the further i enter the cave the more and more the cave walls start to become more structured in and flat, more like that of a building over the walls of a cave till the reason hits me straight in the head, this place is a dungeon! further and further i go till i reach the pit that consumed my parents, to double check that their dead i lean into the hole with the torch overhanging it to look into the hole, at the bottom is the the corpses of my ''loving'' parents with there bodies impaled on a multitude of spikes. Showing no remorse for them I walk on. the more and more i walk into the dungeon the more and more i can see that this place has not seen the light of day with most of the walls being ruined and crumbling as well as past traps being worn down to barley being operational, where in the world is this dungeons manager. let me explain many years ago even before i was born there were natural grown labyrinths that spawned randomly across the known world they were abbreviated into the term dungeon since most of them were underground, for a dungeon to form 3 things are necessary, one a large vein of mana that passes though out the world, two a gem that is either a diamond or a soul gem is present when it forms to create the dungeon heart and finally a dungeon requires a human brain to be placed with the gem for the dungeon heart to be created. Once the dungeon heart is created it requires a caretaker or magical creature known as a manager to help improve the dungeon''s capability, this is not a requirement for a dungeon but it is a standard one recorded in the dungeons found, the manager is sometimes known as a herald of the dungeon since once it takes the role it can communicate with the dungeon to a extent that they can understand its feeling''s. other information found out about the manager job is that its a lifetime job with them sustaining themselves by using a small percentage of the dungeon hearts power that can make it so as long as the dungeon heart survives but it will lead them to dying when the dungeon heart dies, with the initiation ceremony needing either a human corpse to be consumed by the dungeon heart or a healthy brain that hasn''t aged for more than 2 hours after death, but to the dungeon heart this arrangement isn''t for ever with if the manager dies due to other causes than the dungeon hearts death, the dungeon heart will not be effected drastically. as I slowly invade the dungeon corridors though forks in the roads that either have 2 or 3 new paths to take, after using a technique that i heard that was useful in a dungeon I followed the left wall till i reached a room, this room had 2 entrances with that it having crumbling pitfall opening scattered about on the floor while on the walls were obvious signs of arrow traps with the holes being shown like a black spot on a blank piece of paper, for this room held no monsters or danger to the wise I just dodged the activators for the arrows traps making it so the room was a piece of cake, after taking the other exit the corridor that I traversed looked of better quality, the corridor opened up into another room but in this room there wasn''t another exit but a podium that held a tiny glowing crystal that was embedded into it, in front the podium is the first monster I ever saw in this dungeon, it was a single grey dog that looked like it was on its last legs from old age sleeping silently on the lap of a skeleton. sensing my presence the dog gets up weakly before facing me with eyes that still burned with fury. Unauthorized reproduction: this story has been taken without approval. Report sightings. Walking slowly to the dog I pull out a dagger that My parents got me for a birthday present , the blade was dull when they got it for me but after I got a weathers tone I used it to sharpened the knife it till i could be passable as a blade that could be used to hunt animals, the weathered dog bares its fangs before stamping his front-right paw down onto the ground limping to try and intimidate the enemy before of it, reluctantly this has little effect on me with me instead of feeling fear but pity for its state. I walk to the dog and bend a knee so im at the same eye level as the elderly dog with my right extended with the palm open to show that i mean no harm. from this the dog limps to my hand slowly and weakly before its right in-front of it in which it licks wistful to get any caring attention that it could still have, without a hint of remorse careful take the knife that im holding in my other hand and stab the dog in the torso, as the blade penetrates its hide the dogs eyes open wide before shading over with a grey hue as the life fades from its aged body, once the last the its life is extinguished, i carry the dogs corpse to the ground before taking the knife out. (this will be brain surgery so if screamish skip this ) Spoiler : Once the knife is out i place the knife against the neck of the dogs corpse,turning my face away from the act I sever the head from the rest of the dogs body, as the head is severed the sound of cracking can be heard as the spinal cord is severed making it so the head is cut off more smoothly before the neck is fully cut through, the blood that lazily escapes from the neck and the knife wound paint the floor with a red mucus, taking the skull away from the body i take it towards the pedestal where i place it down gently. using the knife i skin the dogs skull till all that is left is the white hue of the bone shining in the damp cave, with the pristine skull i smash it upon the podium, from this the skull shatters completely leaving the brain exposed deposited on the podium, the brain glows with a black hue before disintegration into the podium its self. the gem that was embedded in the podium starts to glow in a eerie pink light that targets me as a searing pain is sent though my brain, signaling i am the new dungeon manager. . .
I was gonna put the brain surgery bit in a drop down tab but i couldn''t find a way to work out the coding, sorry <(_ _) (_ _) (_ _)> chapter 1: A Mutual Understanding as the revelation of becoming a dungeon manager fades A high pitch voice sounds inside my head screaming to me "Finally a new dungeon manager" As that irritating sound left my mind I scream "Who''s there and get out of my head" in a tone to express my extreme rage in the situation the high pitched voice rings again but not in my mind like last time but from the dungeon core "Sorry abut that its just Ben so long since I spoke with another so I forgot that other species use sound not mind contact,anyway where''s Francis hes my friend an I can''t sense his presence" With this sentence I can presume that this Ryan is either the old manager or likely the dog that I just used for the ritual so I replied with. " that depends, is Francis a dog or was he your old manager" In the next instance the core answers with "Francis was both, he was a pet of a adventurer that came here to take me away but Francis stopped him before he even touched me and weirdly the adventurers body died against my pedestal that turned the closest living thing into my manager" From hearing this I am sadden by the story of Francis the dungeon dog manager but this also explains the state of the dungeon since all of the improvements needed for a dungeon need a sentient beings mind to operate so this lead to the stagnation of this dungeons growth, without beating around the bush I outright tell the core. "well that is saddening since for the ritual for me to become the dungeon manager I used the old grey dog that was here when I arrived so i have to tell you Francis is dead" Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon.at the moment i say dead the sound of tears falling can be heard from the core but not a single of droplet is formed, this causes me to show guilt upon my face before the core replies with the light sound of sobbing mixed into its voice. "that''s sad to hear, he was such a good friend with him telling me of the outside world but he was a old with little life left in him so he was gonna die soon" A inhale sound can be heard " but i would guess he would be happy to help me one last time, so who are you" I reply to the grieving core with "my name is Ryan colours, I was a human noble before my parents kidnapped me and here I am your new dungeon manager." the dungeon was silent for a moment before saying " well hello Ryan my name is core 5837 but when Francis was alive he gave me the nickname Megan" the naming taste of this dog must of been really weird if he called a dungeon core Megan but it is a lot quicker than calling it core 5837 so I''ll stick to using the nickname. "So Megan how old are you as a dungeon anyway?" She responds too quickly for any other person to actually respond with "I''m around 7 years old and my core type is F-287-EN which means my personality is a female variation with the current capacity too hold up to 287 monsters an my core is embedded in my pedestal" With the sudden dump of information given by Megan this leads to even more questions about her so I reply with. "Well it''s nice to working with you now" I say with the first smile on my face in the years of my life where i was abducted by my parents. . . chapter 2: set-up sorry this chapter took so long, it was because of stuff in my life and the fact i only work on this one when im over stressed by ruby eyes butI digress, thank you for reading <(_ _)(_ _)(_ _)>
After my smile fades i look towards the exit corridor and spot the ruined walls and floors, turning back go towards the pedestal before saying to Megan. "so Megan you said earlier that you could hold 287 monsters but how many monsters are in the dungeon right now?" She replies immediately with " 1 " Shocked at thisI question her again with " only one where is it ? " Megan replies with " its right in-front of me known as Ryan colours" From hearing thisI just sag before saying, " so im the only thing in this dungeon at the moment." "yes" So this dungeon is 7 years old and it has no monsters with its only trap being a pit fall at the entrance, in despite of this Ireply with "ok thenMegan, lets get started, first of all monsters what can we use." AsI say this something similar to the status screen appears. in front of me.
dungeon starting monster breed classes
Reptiles Beasts Invertebrates Demon-kin
lizard rats slime Imp
goblin cats spider undead
snake wolf insects wisp
From the table show its easy to see that some would be easy while others would be extremely hard but in this case there would be two main variables that would effect his decision one was overallstrength and the other is spawning rate from the top of the list its spawning rate and the bottom is overall strength Wisp/Insects Goblin/Rats/Imp Spider/Slime Wolf Cat/Lizard Undead/Snake I listed them like this because of what they are to the situation. since this dungeon has little to no defenses even if the entrance is blocked by ruble the only thing that could be used for defense to us at the moment are monsters but some of the monsters on the list would basically do nothing for defensetill they could be powered up so monsters with little to no attack power would be bad while monsters who have high attack would be good, but the high attack type monsters have really low spawn rate so its counter balanced, so with this in mind the best choice would be one that is between the strongest and weakest. So the only real choices as a first species would either be spiders , slimes or wolfs. The spiders and slimes are small and slow butboth havelarge evolution trees that are very strong later on while wolfs is a average in strength and spawn rate but the down side is that their evolution tree is tricky to implement since everything requires a certain situation to occur like for a werewolf it would have to evolve on the night of a full moon and the next version of that requires a blood moon which is like twice a year at most, but it just means its a challengeso after thinking it over one more time I decide on wolfs since who doesn''t like a challenge and it would be my way of thanking Francis the dog. " Iwish to select wolf please Megan " "Dungeon startingmonster Wolfselected, because i have been active for 7 years without a dungeon manager that could increase my mana efficiency i already have510 DP would you like to see the current possible upgrades Ryan?" This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience. Without a hint of doubt i reply with " yes please Megan" because this entire process indicates that this is the first step in many, after a few seconds a new screen appears in front of me.
dungeonupgrades upgrades description DP cost
Dungeon mapping dungeon mapping lv2this is the upgrade that dictates the variety of rooms the dungeon can generate. (current: corridors, rooms: small) cost: 50
Trap knowledge lv1 this upgrades increases the amount of trap typesthe dungeon can generate. (current: hole''o''spikes,) cost: 10 DP
dungeon materials lv1 this upgrade is to start producingmaterials in the dungeon, e.g. iron cost: 25
dungeon floors: current 1 this adds another floor to be used for the dungeon, unless specified the new floor will go downwards. this is immune to the double cost effect cost: 100 per floor.
dungeon monster upgrades
add a new race add another race from the starting monster race list to your dungeon. cost: 1000
wolfevolution tree lv1 this upgrade allows the usage of other evolution''sfor your wolf''s(gain on upgrade buying; grey wolfs, brown wolfs, black wolfsand the gain on monster variantAlpha wolf) cost 100
wolf tactics lv1 this upgrade increases the effectivenessof the wolfs in your dungeon with the lv1 upgrade allowing them to roamthough thedungeon floorinstead of being stuck in a single location. cost : 100
wolf pack mentality. this skill makes it so the wolfs will work together more efficiently when taking down a foe by working in groups cost 50
for every upgrade level it would cost double the last levels cost to buy so if a level 1 was 50 DP, level 2 would be 100
from the facts that we have 510 DP means we can get a lot of upgrades right away. at this time the most effective upgrades aredungeon mapping, monster evolution and pack mentality but other upgrades like trap knowledge, extrafloorsand wolf tactics will be necessary in the futurebut for now its not required till we get adventurers appearing at our doorstep. "For now Megan please buy wolfevolution, pack mentality and dungeon mapping to level 3 please with putting the rest into dungeon materials because in a book Ireadabout dungoneering it said that dungeon mapping at level 3 allowed for 2 key rooms, a dungeon station as well as the nexus which are both extremely useful right now." The 2 rooms described are basicallyhubs in a dungeon, one for me and another for adventurers, the station allows me to monitor the whole dungeon easily, while the nexus is the location of the dungeon where the adventurers can work, in this place human golemnaturally spawn which are golemsmade of earth that copy human appearance toact as merchants inside the dungeon but after a set amount of realmerchants appear the golems disappear, for this reason Iwanted to get dungeon materials soI can sell the materials quickly before the dungeon gets openedto get gold coins because the golems are the only way to get gold early on and sinceits highest level possible which in this case is level 3 which makes it so Megan can spawn small mana crystals of the earth, light, and darkelementssince they are the mana affinity of wolfs, this is also true for the past 2 levels which on level 1 gives simple depositslike salt, coal and clay but level 2 gives metal ores like iron, copper and gold making it super good for early money. "ok Ryan the upgrades are done how do want to proceed?" Ireplied with the most logical choice "start with the layout because it was super easy to get to you andI want to add the upgrades to it" "would you like to see the upgrades you gained, or was it all said in the book?" "show me for the sake of reference or the chance there could be difference" "ok then Ryan"
bought upgrades
wolfevolution tree lv1 this upgrade allows the evolution''sfor your wolf''s(gained uponupgrade; grey wolfs, brown wolfs, black wolfsand monster variant:Alpha wolf)
pack mentality This skill makes it so your wolfs work in groups of 3-5 while huntingin your dungeon, the pack size will consist of only one alpha wolf an a specific type of wolf e.g. grey wolf. due to this skill the variant: alpha wolf can be of any wolf type now
dungeon mapping. upgrades gained from level 2; large rooms, treasure room andmine unique monster room: wolf den
upgrades gained from level 3;room size limit removed, trap room, nexus anddungeon station.unique monster rooms:forest room,crag room and tundra room.
Dungeon materials. upgrades gained from level 1;stone, marble, salt, coal, sulfer, clay and small quartz.
upgrades gained from level 2; iron, copper, silver,quicksilver(mercury),gold, lead and platinum.
upgrades gained from level 3; generic mana crystals, light,dark and earth mana crystals, ruby, emerald, sapphire, amethyst and diamond.
Now the real fun starts right now. . . chapter 3: A new layout on life from the upgrades gained from spending the 450 DP were enormous upgrades to the single spike trap at the entrance. but at the total amount and the DP we have here it wouldn''t hurt to buy trap knowledge so i ask Megan to do the upgrade, after a while the message appears to me.
trap knowledge, this is the upgrade for the variety of traps the dungeon can deploy gained from upgrading to level 1: illusion doorway, arrow wall and rumbling ground,
from this, i gain an addition to the idea of how I want to set the dungeon out like. after a hour of thinking I turn towards Megan and send to Megan a mental image of what i want the dungeon to look like with some images to tell what room type is where like having 2 large rooms that at the width of the closest city which is roughtly around 2 miles in width. Another additions to the map are Trap placements as well as the location of secret rooms that are sealed off from the main dungeon by illusion gates. After sending this I will have to wait for Megan to start building it. * * * After a few hours of waiting from not disturbing Megan from her natural purpose to expand and consume life, her voice enters my head again saying. -Ryan, the building is complete As well as I kept the entrance closed- The sound rings in my ear before calming down, so I reply with " could you please stop using telepathy, since I don,t have the spell telepathy it hurts to hear" She instantly replys with an apology which I accept kindly and I thank her for keeping herself closed since we need to spawn till we are ready For this reason I ask Megan give me some generic mana gems, a lot of gold as well as other metals with the destination being the newly formed Nexus. Once at the Nexus i take a while to look around, the nexus looks like a natural sphereical cavern with a large piller of a glowing rock in middle seeming to keep the cabern up, the walls of the cavern are riddleled with stone stairway''s with them leading to holes dug into the walls. When seeing this i think of the homes of past nomads where me and my pairents ocupated during some nights, but we i quckly remove the thoght from my mind so with the materials in my backpack I go to find the golems. Stolen story; please report. I spot a large crowd of people who are huddling in the fetal position around the earth pillar in the centre of the nexus.without a doubt these people are the golems.all of them took a human appearance, all of them have different faces and traits e.g white skin, brown hair Etc. After I noticed the golems, they started to stur by shaking lightly before getting up and walking to me. This is the part that I was dreading. For the golems they gain a personality from m3gan but like her they need some general assistance to operate so now I have to assign their jobs in the nexus. * * * After a few hours of job assignment over I walk back to the boss room where I rest for a while.
Here is a image of the current dungeon layout. the dungeon layout, level 1 a key for it is below. tree''s = forest rooms stone pointing diagonally = crag room. snowflake = tundra room. pickaxe = mine. B = boss room. N = nexus. purple dot= a trap. purple line= trap line. blue line= illusion gate. brown box = treasure (all dungeons can spawn dungeon chests). cream line = the border of the special rooms black lump with grey filling = wolf den pink line = entrance/ steps. blacked out parts= empty space plus just for reference the room with the campfire is roughly 50 meters wide by 20 meters long on the map. <(_ _)(_ _)(_ _)> thank you for reading *gives a cookie to the first person to post* chapter 4: finishing touches. this is the layout of the first floor. since it seems that some people are on phones so they can''t see it or something. sorry its so big, its because its 900 pixels squared, and the quality is bad since Iused paint and my art skills are terrible, but i think it turned out well plus i even have the second floor nearly done already >.> >.> >.> btw sorry i havent been submitting ruby with it on a cliffhanger its just i had a light allergic reaction thats lasted for the last 4 days with my hands becoming very bloated and sorry its short.
after my rest in the boss room Igo and travel back to the dungeon nexus along the way i ask for Megan to deposit a lot of gold ore into the center of the nexus, this is becausewithout the mines yet being used this would be the only way to get moneyeasily also this is the easiest way to create an economy inside the nexus. once in the nexus I see the gold, for dungeons it doesn''t cost any thing to create any ore or materials but to create a single room it costs like 1 DP irreverent of room size, the no cost rule is the same for monsters as well but something is bothering me. "Megan whats your core status because if you upgrades and such would the monster limit grow. Unauthorized content usage: if you discover this narrative on Amazon, report the violation. "ermlets see its now at 562 so 562 monsters are available to be summoned, and because of the room sizes Isuggest we put one species of wolf per den, to reduce clan wars" "exactly what i was also gonna suggest, but aren''t you being a bit too passive for the dungeon in this relationship, even if you would be nervous since Iam helping you a lotfrom a simple stand still to this." "sorry its just i don''t know how to communicate with peoplewell" "so your basically ashy, i can''t wait for the moment whenyou have to allow a lotstrangers inside you" "gaahh, why did you phase it like that, you made it sound worse than it actually is" i stop the conversation now before she spawns a sense of hate to me. after the conversation I start the boring task of getting the golem that was assigned to be a black smith to melt the gold down into the Dravis currency known as '' gil '' this would be effective since this is the most circulated currency. this should make it so once adventures come there is a currency so it will be easy to get money. now with the money done next is the assignment of the wolfs but i don''t think i need to so i just asked Megan to do it while i walked to the entrance. after Megan tells me shes done the assignment i ask her to open the entrance again which she does as i enter the room me and my parents camped in. now its time to get the adventurers for Megan . . . chapter 5: A happy day for all thank your for reading <(_ _)(_ _)(_ _)>
(Ryan Pov) As I exit the cave that has become my new home I see the cause for me and my kidnappers coming into the dungeon cave, the mountain blizzard, its still blowing but when compared to last time i saw it, its weakened severely with it now just being light snowfall. the reason us why i''m here was the blizzard that appeared out of nowhere forcing me and my kidnappers to the dungeon while traveling between the 2 city''s, from the road the entrance to Megan''s dungeon was roughly 200 yards (180 meters) up the mountain, with the entrance in clear view of the road and vise versa. the forest blocked the path to the road so earlier Ryan had Megan advance her area to outside the dungeon to absorb the trees surrounding the dungeon to create a clearing and Ryan also told her where the the road was so she could create a clear road to the road she even outdid me with creating lanterns with light mana crystals over a snow removed path that is made of stone steps leading to her entrance. going down the stone steps it goes directly to the road, once at the road i have to make a choice do I go to the right where it goes to a city that is known to be poor because of war waged over the land that is lower down the mountain but its king is wise , or do I go the other way which leads to the richer city which is known as a unpenetrable fortress but its ruled by a idiot king who''s only tactic is charge head on and disregard people who can''t follow, so the choice is between wisdom or wealth after a while of thinking I make my choice even with both kingdoms being very good it would be better to go to the wiser king since with this choice Megan would gain more exp for longer since, the wiser kingdom would understand that the dungeon would be a huge honeypot for adventurers so that means a lot more money for the government and the best thing the offer would be that the location where Megan''s dungeon is actually classed an non-country land meaning no one has claimed it yet because of the blizzard''s harshness, so I take a Right and walk to the kingdom of Ramangi. * * * (4 hours of walking then 2 hours of hitching a ride on a merchant cart, later) I stand in-front of the Ramangi castle wearing my travelers gear, i sigh before walking towards the royal guards at the castle gate and they respond with the usual guard saying of no one is allowed in the castle but I saying in the formal manor that I was taught from my years in the family manor. "I have business with the king of this country it is of up most importance and I think he will be pleased about the News i will give him, since it can fix the country''s financial problems." from hearing this the guards put up a stern face before one of the 5 guards that were present run to the Castle to collect a delegate no doubt. after waiting for around 20 minuets outside the gate the 5th guard returns telling the rest to let me, they led me into the castle where i was made to take a direct right into a side room but in this room sat a middle-aged man in a blue tailored suit making him look obviously like a noble but he starts the conversation with a sentence. "I''m the prime minister Yunis Weldon, who are you and what is this miracle that will cure our financial troubles." I simply reply with "well the answer is simple to both questions my name is Ryan Colors, I was once a noble from the country of Dravis, Till i was kidnapped and one thing let to the other and now I have a job that I can''t leave , this job is linked to the cure to the money problems by the way." the prime minister reply''s coldly with "well boy what is this job of yours then, tell me before my patience wears thin" "well Prime minister Yunis my new occupation is Dungeon manager" from hearing this Yunis instantly wises up to what Ryan''s plan is so he says openly " so since you are a new dungeon manager that means there is a dungeon nearby, which also means that it can increase the amount of income the kingdom will have from one simple addition" While Yunis says this Ryan simply nods when he finds out more about the plan, after Yunis says the last key point Ryan finally say''s " you want to know something better, the dungeon is on the part of Mt Crem which is under no countries territory due to the fact it has no natural resource except for now with a dungeon being present now." the prime ministers eyes light up with the understanding of what I said. "also the dungeon was already there for 7 years but it didn''t have dungeon manager so its already got a dungeon nexus, which is roughly the size of a large town at the moment. " From hearing this the prime mister jumps out of his seat and runs to my side before saying "wait you mean you already have a city there with no actual country affiliated land, this means your basically giving Ramangi a solid gold cow which could also produce gold indefinitely, this will definitely cure the financial problems out country i facing but what do you get out of it" as he says this the prime minister realizes something " wait are you promoting the dungeon so you can create a philosopher''s stone." (Drogan - the philosopher''s stone for people who don''t know what it is, is a stone that negate many laws of the world in many ways with some of the most known things it can do is draw magic into its self creating the perfect magic battery, as well as the philosopher''s stone is said to be able to change any water its drenched in into a elixir of eternal youth, as well as another use is that its said, in the rarest cast to be able to fully revive the dead but this one is the less known of its uses so basically in shortest words possible : '' glowing rock gives immortality and magic '') from hearing the prime minister mention a high class item like that I waved to the side and said "I would see that as a target but at this moment in time I would say its very very far in the future but for information about about the dungeon is that its a wolf type and at the moment is only got 1 floor as well as for a sign of good will here is a map with the location of the dungeon including a small parchment that shows a quarter of the dungeon layout so you can get to the dungeon nexus quickly." from hearing and seeing the parchments in front of him the prime minister grabs onto the hands of Ryan and says " thank you Ryan colors this is more than enough with you giving land rights to the dungeon but now you also give us the best rough to the dungeon nexus I swear you are a saint hiding in a mans body" Unauthorized use of content: if you find this story on Amazon, report the violation.(all saints in this world are female just gonna say this now >.> >.> >.>) after a while of silence Ryan speaks again " ok then Yunis this deal will go off great but i have 1 request of your country in return" "what is it Ryan?" "for the creation of the dungeon its already upgraded to dungeon materials level 3 making it capable of creating mana gems so for this gain i wish to get the other mana gems of the elements the dungeon already has, in this case the elements would be fire water and air mana gems since we already have earth, darkness and light crystals." "So that''s the price for all this then it''s like paying a cooper for a kingdom, so as a representative of Ramangi I speak to every member of my country we will take this deal but for the final say we have to visit the king so follow me as he says this he walks to the door and becomes both Ryan and a pair of guards to come to escort us. *** (After leaving the room and waling though the castle to a set of double doors) Once at the doors of the king''s bedroom the prime minister speaks up telling Me about how in the black market an assassin mark has been placed on the head of the king so he''s been confined to his room for safety. the doors open wide to show a lavish bedroom that could only belong to the king, around the room are golden decorations and wooden carvings the show their beauty though how complex they were and sitting in a bed that took up half the room was a young man with golden blond hair who looked to be at the age of 19 but actually his age is actually 35. as us 4 people (me Yunis and 2 guards) come closer to the king his attention turns towards us. in the next moment Yunis bows to the king and says " my royal majesty I bring good news from the man next to me but I will allow Ryan colors to explain the news himself." after the introduction I tell the king about the ins and out of the news about the dungeon and the fact hes talking to the dungeon manager but as I was about to finish an event occurs. "That is the situation you Majesty, so i wish to ask your country to provide a ample amount of time to develop your kingdom in the dungeon so for this . . " I never got to finish my sentence due to the window''s in the kings bed room smash as a pair of dark cloaked men appear from them both welding a pair of knifes but the guards Quickly respond to it by charging them, the room quickly turns to chaos in the melee but its obvious to see the guards are being pushed back but this changes as the king and prime minister finally react with the minister grabbing onto the sword that was leaning on a desk with him passing it to the king in a throw before taking out his own sword to join the melee. even with the situation at 2 vs 1 the cloaked people look at each other before escaping the melee and grabbing me in the process, with this I instantly catch what they are trying to do, ''hostage situation'' since they know the assasins can''t win now that the situation is 2 vs 1 they have to take a hostage to just escape but what they didn''t expect was what i the weak looking kid with pale skin did. as they rushed me, i took out the knife that i used for Francis''s ritual and go into a guard stance, with them both charging me they must of thought they could easily grab me but they were incredibly wrong because once the closest one reached for me, i was already below his extended arm and the blade in his chest where the heart should be, seeing this the other one was stunned at my speed before getting cut down by the prime minister who was behind them. after the chaos stopped, the other 4 people present looked at me silently before the king said. "how did you do that, the assassin must of been at least equal to a major in strength to even attempt this but you killed one in no time flat." "well the answer was simple, before I was a dungeon manager I was adventurer of B grade which if i remember in your army is equal to a general, my Nickname even though I don''t care for it was ''Dark Rainbow'' so what about the deal." "oh yeah the dungeon deal, as the king i completely enforce the use of the dungeon and I will send members to accommodate the Dungeon nexus, but because at this time i would suggest you increase the dungeon size because the more people come the more they will want the dungeon heart" "already working on that and thank you your highness you won''t regret it." with the deal struck the only thing left to do was improve Megan and to get the word out about her more. "oh yeah, I have a pair of favors of your highness." "what is it, as long as its within reason i don''t think were in a situation to appose it" "well the first favor is to send this letter to my family in Dravis" as i say this i pull out a letter explaining the situation as well as the current status of my kidnappers. "well that seems reasonable enough and what is the other Favor? " "since your going to become a resident of my dungeon while it only has 1 floor i would like to ask for a deposit to make sure that your kingdom doesn''t go after the dungeon heart, so for this i wish for your youngest daughter to become my compensation if anything is tried against the dungeon heart and if she is killed inside the dungeon due to the dungeon i will submit my self to the kingdom for execution, is that ok your highness." from hearing me asking for his youngest daughter for a hostage, hes slightly shocked but its easy to see that he understand my worry because what is holding him back from taking the dungeon heart so for this it would be better to have a member of his family to reduce the chance of it happening so to this he says. "I will allow it, only if she is confined to the dungeon nexus where she can become the governess of the nexus city with a guard detail at all times , so we have a excuse to not cause a war against the dungeon ." "that would be wise so ill wait for a week for your group to come, so if you excuse me your highness goodbye." from saying goodbye i walk to the door and leave the castle to go back to Megan, now with a new benefactor supporting Megan and me. Chapter 6: A Tour just gonna tell you all im gonna be on holiday so i won''t be submitting a chapter on next 2 week ends so sorry for this, but on the week i get back i am willing to produce 2 chapters as compensation. anyway thank you for reading and this is a big one so be happy. <(_ _)(_ _)(_ _)> also you will need the dungeon map so. the dungeon map
(Ryan pov) the trip back to Megan was uneventful with the only thing happening was a light snowstorm hitting while I was nearly at Megan. When I got to the T junction where Megan''s dungeon branched from the path there was a group of 7 people wearing a mix of leather armor and plate armor but all of them had capes that held the crest of Ramangi, with them was a wooden cart that had a leather covering inside the cart must be the mana gems that I asked for but I thought they would of come with the princess but this is better I guess. walking up to the group the tallest one calls out to me, " are you Ryan Colors!" I instantly reply with "Of coarse not, I''m just the random person who walked up to you in the middle of a snowstorm in-front of a dungeon for no reason, OF COARSE I''M RYAN COLORS!" From hearing this its easy to see that they were all shocked by my outburst but this just makes me grin before the tall guy reply with "ok then , we have orders from the prime minister to deliver the requested mana gems as well as map a path to the dungeon nexus, but we are stuck here though because of no viable path up to the dungeon, so your assistance please." hearing this i can see the problem, the cart they are using can''t go up the stone steps that Megan had created so they are stuck. "sure then just wait here then" saying this I walk up the path Megan made till I was at her cave mouth and I asked Megan to do an amount of things because I forgot about carts and wagons as well. So first of all I asked her to increase the size of her cave mouth that was as large as double set of doors at the moment which wasn''t very wide. The next thing I asked her to do was to clear cut the trees from the right side of the path to 5 meters creating a path that carts and wagons going both ways and to finally to create a gravel road for them to travel up on. with these additions the dungeon is now wagon accessible. (Drogan: btw the slope going up was at 20 degrees from the road level.) after 5 minuets of the roads creation the group of 7 get to Megan''s mouth and once the cart enters the dungeon she consumes the whole cart down to the wheels before she says to me. Love this story? Find the genuine version on the author''s preferred platform and support their work!"wow there was a lot of stuff in the cart than just the gems, there were other materials like mana bark and a sun stone and all the tier 1 herbs like in the upgrade menu giving me it for free other things were weapons that I couldn''t make before like a twin-blade and crossbow, there was even an unlock gained called mana-saber." to this I smile grandly before telling the 7 to follow me to the nexus the first part of the dungeon that i asked Megan to design was a tight passage maze that held a few monsters in the bigger small rooms while it has no traps by having it like this it would help to increase chance that people could practice in the dungeon since wolfs were very strong in packs but 1 alone would be easy fights for new adventurers. after the maze of small rooms was the big 2 choices but in the layout I gave Megan before I kinda negated the choice by making the right path into a dead end but for this I asked Megan to spawn a group of 3 wolfs that have the special chance to drop a lot of gold coins. after the left turn were fed to the first forest room which is the smaller of the 2, in this room are a average of 3 types of tree''s mainly fora(pine) tree, some yuks(spruce) trees and a single tree that appeared after Megan gained dungeon materials level 3 called a Spike-bark tree, this tree was the largest of the 3 with it having a grey trunk of razor sharp spikes that pointed upwards from the trunk with it producing a purple fruit that looked like a knife in general shape at the end of some of the ground level spikes, once I ate one I could easily seen that my agility improved greatly. because of this discovery I asked Megan to keep a group of 8 wolfs at the tree at nearly all times but this was before the visit to Ramangi so they should be in position now. once we entered the forest room we hugged the left wall which took us for about a half-hour till we got to one of the 4 exits even though 2 each of them lead to the same room just from a different point but we need the second exit when we hug the left wall so we skipped this one and walked more while hugging the wall till the second exit. once there we past thought the corridor till we get to the first den room, in a den room there is a estimate of 16-23 wolfs per den making it become very dangerous because of the pack instinct that they have but since im leading the group and I asked Megan earlier to tell the wolfs to not attack they were passive, once in the room we took a direct right which lead directly to the dungeon nexus. with my job done I walk out of the nexus to the dungeon station that I asked Megan to create when I was away, so i leave the 7 to there own equipment while I take a stroll. chapter 7: Her arrival I am still sad at my family member''s passing but I can focus enough to create a D.W. chapter, It helps that I already made most of it before her passing. hope you enjoy the chapter. <(_ _)(_ _)(_ _)>
(Ryan pov) From the Dungeon station that was created by Megan while Ryan was away, Ryan was monitoring the movements of the 7 men he brought inside since he had nothing else to do. for the most of the time there at the nexus the 7 men were collecting information on the dungeon, such things were: the buying of Dungeon maps that records the dungeon layout that the holder have passed though for them. the recording of prices that the golems charge for their products e.g. mana gems, wolf pelts, a spike bark knife (simply a spike from the tree on a handle). Quality of the living Quarters in the Nexus which were ok for various levels of status from poor to low noble with a single home that I asked Megan to create in the center pillar of the nexus for her Highness and finally the ease of transportation of the materials that the dungeon would produce. In my opinion the only thing lacking would be the transportation but that''s natural for a dungeon but this will easily be solved with the next dungeon mapping upgrade so not a big problem yet. The silence that I cocooned myself was broken by the sound of Megan''s voice, "Ryan, why are you watching them when you could easily talk with them?" "that is complex Megan, it would be easy to describe it as ''I can trust those who are in a situation where I know they won''t betray me while I don''t trust people who I know will betray me''." "How do you know that they won''t betray you?" "well its very obvious, im the caretaker of a new dungeon so while your still at a single floor your easy to be bonded to, but the bond limit on a young dungeon is 1 so to do this they would have to kill me so, this spawns my distrust in other people." "That''s weird" "Whats weird?" "When you said there was a bond limit I looked it up on my status but it says 1/2" "maybe its because your older than you look and you had another bonded partner for longer." when I say this i feel the formation of mana appearing in-front of my in the shape of a hand which proceeds to slap me. "ok I will agree I deserved that, but its nice to know you can use mana formatting now." For the dungeon there are many options that the dungeons things like monster set-up to item drop ratio''s. Though up to this moment I have been guiding Megan but I think shes finally becoming Independent of me, now the only thing I will have to do is the actual job of Human-dungeon relations I sigh just from the thought of it. "yeah, i don''t know how i did that and i didn''t buy anything." I nearly fall over and nearly drop my book with my glasses becoming crocked on my nose when she said this. "so it was a reaction, that''s something not recorded in the books." after saying this there is a passage of silence where i fix my glasses till Megan cuts the silence after noticing my glasses. "Ryan why do only wear your glasses when your with me but you don''t when your with others?" while still reading my book that I got before my parents death I say directly and clearly. "Respect Megan, In the human world people with glasses are stereotyped as scholars so people think they are physically weak, meaning people will think they could easily rob you. so by learning a spell known as focus it stops this whole process from happening so to answer your question I can''t read while using focus and most of my time with you will be time wasting till the dungeon conference every 5 years." "the human world is very hard to understand and whats this dungeon conference ?" "the dungeon conference is where all the dungeon masters come together and discus dungeon politics, its usually wars or trade agreements, what we want at the next one that''s in 1 years time is wolf evolution techniques, level layout and other odds other stuff you can''t form yet." after hearing this another series of silence lingers till Megan cuts into it again. "Ryan there a huge amount of people outside the dungeon coming up the path there is 4 small wagons carrying people and other stuff that are being identified as generic supply''s also there is a carriage that''s smaller with only 1 person in it." when hearing this I get up from my seat and run for the Dungeon Nexus, the princess and the adventurers have arrived a lot earlier than i though they would, from how the king was excited about the dungeon deal he would send his daughter as fast as possible but I say this is too fast. then I realize I forgot the dungeon time effect, basically when your in a dungeon time is 8 times slower than the normal rate so the 5 hours it took for me to get the investigation group to the nexus and tour them of the town before going to the dungeon station would equal 40 real hours giving the king enough time. Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on Royal Road. "Megan im we need a upgrade to the dungeon." i say while running. "which one ? There is so many to choice from." "its called Dungeon Nexus transport gates." "ok let me see" . . . . " ok got it." "good now make a transport gate in the entrance and the nexus." as I finish saying this I reach the Dungeon nexus its self where i see a archway of stone being carved in the center pillar, luckily the 7 men from the investigation group are there seeing it as well. "you 7, follow me though the gate we have to go meet the princess." from hearing my voice the 7 come towards me and we wait till the archway grows runes that glow bright before a translucent veil consumes the archway. after this we just walk though and all 8 of us are at the dungeon entrance in-front of a crowd of people, they must of come in because of the cold then saw the archway appearing and producing 8 men. The large man from the group who talked to me first at the crossroads yells that they are the investigation team and that they returned with information. This sends murmurs though the crowd but the pinnacle is when the same man tells the crowd where im the dungeon manager which enlists the same response but with people giving looks of disbelieve, that is obvious when you see a 10 year old wearing glasses having one of the rarest positions known to man you wouldn''t believe it either. I''m not shocked when a Large muscly man walks forward and tries to intimidate me before trying to push me back with a single hand lazily, you kinda guessed what happened next. I reprimanded him for forgetting the adventurer rule no.3 ''no matter your opponent never underestimate them!'', before he could realize his whole arm was on the floor still bleeding from the shoulder down and my sword was sliding back into its sheath. This scene gave birth to a wave of silence and fear while the man was in shock of his missing arm. I say boldly and clearly "Hello my name is Ryan colors, I am 10 years old and I am the dungeon manager, even though I am young I a certified B rank adventure that''s power is equal to an A rank easily. even though im a kind person I am a stickler for the rules. this man here forgot adventure rule number 3 so I lightly punished him." this sends a series of bemused faces around before realizing that he antagonized a dungeon manager who are all known to be extremely powerful individuals. "ok then with that cleared up I''ll tell you the rules about this dungeon, since at this moment the dungeon has only 1 floor I am substituting for the boss so that means you have to get pass me to get to the Crystal." from hearing this many of the adventurers go pale in the face before realizing they won''t get the crystal easily. "the second rule is no murder is allowed in the dungeon unless in a duel in the nexus is accepted by both parties, any breach to this rule I will hunt you down myself." this sends the last of the people who weren''t already pale in the face to pale, while this happens I mentally record who had a second paling reaction. "finally the last rule is that in this dungeon is that the gate behind me won''t work for people who have never entered the nexus before so you have to pass though the dungeon." this sends a series of groans thought the group but compared to the other rules its extremely tame. "I will tell you this now. if the king hasn''t already handed the quarter to the dungeon map to the adventurers guild yet which you all should have. The first area after that passage is a small maze with extremely tight passages, so if your of a wide persuasion your not getting though it fast and that is all" this sends a series of chuckles though the crowd. after the speech the crowd of around 32 people start''s to separate and form 7 groups of 4-6''s with each being escorted by a investigation team member before they slowly trickle into the dungeon passages, while i have royal visitor to attend to. chapter 8: Hidden details I made a world map, this time without paint (owo)(owo)(owo) Spoiler : http://pre10.deviantart.net/278f/th/pre/i/2016/224/f/0/d_w__world_map_by_drogan2000-dadpcis.png Key Houses = village of 300 - 600 Houses with clock-tower = town 601 - 2000 Castle = 2001 - 5000 Tower = mage compound Ruins = church compound e.g. vaticant Red dot = Megan Blue dot = Ramangi purple dot =Dravis
(Ryan pov) The foot traffic of the adventurers entering the dungeon increases, this is a good thing but the princess takes priority so I grab the leader of the investigation team and take him towards the small carriage that had a full guard detail. Once we get closer to the carriage become easier to see in the dark and its easy to see its the princess''s since its an orichalcum trimmed carriage that is reserved for royalty, I say its a waste of the metal but I digress. once the 2 of us reach the barricade of guards I can easily tell that they all were very skilled, I would estimate I could kill 3 of them before they would get a limb from me but ultimately after around 14 of them I would be dead. the barricade parts to let us though to the carriage where a butler opens the door to let us in, once in we sit down a pair of individuals stand out. The first person, who I knew was coming was the princess. Her highness Velka Roenna Ramangi II''s nationally known information is that she is 14 years old also she holds an Adventurer rank of C which is equal in power to the guards outside but we all know never trust the information of another, from a simple glance I can easily see shes just like me, shes at a higher rank strength but shes hiding it. The princess has black eyes with long black hair in a braid resting on her shoulder making the braid go down her into the opening into her D cup breasted one piece dress that was white in contrast to her hair, she looked very annoyed with this arrangement since its essentially becoming a political prisoner in a huge dungeon. I got a mana slap and normal slap for thinking that by the way. the second person who came was someone I never guessed would come, it was my grandfather, Montgomery Gradus Colors Sr, when I entered the carriage, I swear I saw a tear falling down his old face well there was one on mine too at this point, even after 2 years he hadn''t of changed, his face is more that of a royal adviser than a family head on his face was a small beard that stretch from cheek to cheek, his hair is white with his old age of 62. It was easy to see that the emotions of the 2 were polar opposites but the investigation leader could read the clashing moods and simply did his report and handed the princess the information before leaving us, I send a message to Megan to give him a chunk of gold as a drop for thanks. from the 3 left the person to cut the silence was my grandfather. "My Dear Ryan is that you" he said this with a slight whimper, i can understand why. with tears in my eyes and a smile on my face I reply with "yes its me Grandfather, Its only been 2 years but your wrinkle covered face is undeniable even with all these tears in the way." from hearing me point out his wrinkles he gets a very cheeky smile grows before he gets from his seat and hug tackles me, even though its not very effective since were in a carriage but the sense of family warmth is welcoming. After a while my grandfather lets go of the hug and returns to his seat before putting on a stern face. If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it."when I received your letter the family was shocked, most of them though another family sent it to assassinate us along the trip north but on the letter was the royal seal of Ramangi so it couldn''t of been fake." My grandfather paused, he used to do it when I was younger to grow tension. It still works on me now. "because the remains of the house was divided between thinking it was true or another assassination attempt, I made the decision to rush north to see if the letter was truthful, now that your found we found a heir." from hearing Grandfathers comments of ''remains'',''assassination'' and ''found a heir'' I become worried I reply with. "Wait, What happened to the house while I was kidnapped grandfather." my grandfather sighs before looking down. "The family has been the target of an Dark guild for 6 months now, it started with simple caravan raids, then it escalated about 2 weeks ago with raid on the main house during a Family gathering to discus them, it was a bloodbath. they killed 4 whole branch family''s, they also killed all your uncle who was the only heir. After all the raiders were killed the only survivors were the elderly and some of the branch families young who were quick enough to outrun the raiders." This sends a lightning bolt like shock though me, nearly everyone I grew up with are dead, but the survivors confuse me. "I can see it on your face, your thinking on the result of the raid, only the old and young survived, this wasn''t a simple raid it was an attack on our whole family, so when we were collected together so they could deal the most damage, but now there is a silver lining with you being found we have a heir again." I reply solemnly with "I see so, im the new heir." "Yes Ryan, but I won''t ask you to leave your dungeon but I have made a deal the king of Ramangi." this slightly shocks me but I knew he would have to contact him eventually due to his job. "The deal that was struck was that for the colors family will become nobility in Ramangi if we become assistants to the princess in her govern-ship of the dungeon as her prime minister." This make me look at the princess who has been silent all this time who just shrugs while looking out a dark glass window of the carriage. I actually suspected that since if you have a dungeon mangers family member as a prime minister the dungeon would be less likely to attack the country. the princess turns her head towards me then towards my grandfather. "Could you please leave us two alone Sir Montgomery." After it seems that my family issues are taken care of the princess seizes the initiative to send my grandfather off which is does in a rush, In my guess to inform the family the truth of the letter. "well sorry for ignoring you up-till now princess, even though I just a young noble could I please ask you to allow me to speak with you on a first name basis since we will be working together for a long time to come."I say all of this while bowing in the carriage. she replies with a cold smile, " sure since the deal you made with my father is me becoming your hostage for access to the dungeon so its better to be on a first name basis with my captor." this causes a smile to break on my face, "well with some new information that i have acquired you won''t be a hostage at all." my smile grows when a confused face appears on her face, even more so when I reach towards the door and open it to the butler who was obviously listening the conversation, I whisper into the butlers ear causing his face to widens with a smile that I swear had a hundred teeth before he walks off to the guards to relay the orders I gave him. Closing the door I look back to Velka and place my middle finger over my lips before saying "its a surprise for later."
thank you for reading Chapter 9: A boy and a girl walk into a dungeon. The carriage becomes silent from the dismissal of the butler. With nothing to talk about we just stayed in silence both examining the other for around 5 minuets till a knock was heard on the carriage door, leering out of the carriage window I see the butler with a small trunk that I guessed held what I asked him to collect. "Is this what i asked you to get?" While opening the carriage door and handing me the trunk he nods silently. I take the trunk and leave the carriage while looking around to see if there is anyone else except the princesses escorts, from checking I see no-one, turning back to the carriage I say "my dear Velka I ask you to follow me." From hearing that I wished her to follow she left the carriage and want to my side,"Royal guards I ask you to go ahead and wait at the Dungeon nexus, I will personally escort the princess there." Coming from me was clearly the request for them to leave us alone even so the princess nods and the guard''s and staff go ahead. After all of the other people are gone the princess asks "ok then what is the reason that you sent my guards away ?" I replied with "All will be explained when you follow me." Once I finished saying that we walked towards the transport gate. The princess tries to get an answer out of me while we walk there but I give no real answer to her questions. . . . At the gate to not spoil the surprise I used my mind to send a message to Megan to open the gate to a specific location, I also told Velka that I lied about needing to go to the nexus to open the gate making sure that the adventurers and her staff would leave. Hearing this she just nods, seeing that I took a lot of measures to get us alone but she reply''s since she thinks i would be more open to answers"So Sir Ryan, where you gonna take me in this blasted dungeon, that would need the use of the gate ?" In response to the question I simply say, " follow and see." In the next moment I walk though the gate with the princess right behind me. . . . We both appear in a granite coloured room with cracked walls and floors, the room was roughly 5 meters by 10 meters with single entrance that appeared behind us, on the war side of the room was a Distinct pedestal, that held a large crystal that was embedded into it facing the door. We went from the dungeon entrance, to the Dungeon crystal room. From seeing the Pedestal then Megan, Velka is instantly stunned. Reading on Amazon or a pirate site? This novel is from Royal Road. Support the author by reading it there.It isn''t everyday that you see an alive dungeon crystal, sure you could get dead dungeon crystals for Mana batteries since they suck up mana like a sponge, but once a crystal is removed from its dungeon it loses its artificial soul and losses its capability to grow. The princess turns to me with a face showing slight shock but I expected that, walking towards Megan, me and Velka exchange silence. Just after reaching in-front of the pedestal I pull out the earlier Trunk and open it. At the moment the trunk opens the princess who was observing finally realized the secret. Inside the trunk was the head of the adventurer who tried to push me. At that time no one noticed but instead of just chopping off his arm, I lightly cut into his other arm as well from this I was aiming for all of his major arteries in his other arm, causing him to die thought severe blood loss, but since I did the speech his existence was overlooked quickly, this is why I sent the butler to collect the head. From the Clues given Velka realizes what the surprise was, Ryan wanted her to become a dungeon manager and she was ecstatic, in the history of this world kingdoms and dungeons are counteracting forces but with this, its near impossible for the dungeon and kingdom to go to conflict, its like a political marriage in no other words to describe it more aptly. Without Me even having to say anything Velka grabs the head before walking to Megan, on the way she pulls out a ornate knife and starts peeling it like an apple to leave the pristine white skull once she is at Megan. Like me she does the Quickest way to get the brain out of the skull and that was smash it but unlike how I used my knife''s hilt she just smashed the skull against the pedestal causing bone to fly everywhere but the key part its that the brain starts to disintegrate into the dungeon pedestal with a black hue, after the brain is gone Megan''s gem pinpoints on Velka and she starts screaming, it seemed so painful to the point that she fell to the floor but since I knew the pain already, I was sympathetic slightly. I laugh slightly before Megan speaks. "Hello, my name is Megan, I''m the dungeon, its nice to be working with you now." From hearing a voice in her head Velka looked towards the Dungeon gem directly from her position on the floor."yeah sure it''s nice to meet you. . ."
thank you for reading. <(_ _)(_ _)(_ _)> Chapter 10: Rights & controls From feeling that I got from Velka¡¯s first reaction to Megan was that it wasn¡¯t everything that I wanted it to be. ¡°Well my dear Velka since you¡¯re now a dungeon manager like me, I would really wish you to do something.¡± From hearing my statement Velka turned slightly to me and muttered ¡°and what is this something? ¡°, I easily replied with ¡°well I¡¯ll just send you the privileges.¡± When a dungeon creates a connection with a dungeon manager, the manager gains a series of privileges on how they can operate the dungeon without the dungeons conformation such as topics from dungeon floor distribution to how much coin drops. The privileges are solely given to the first dungeon manager giving them the title of chief manager, any managers after the chief must gain a set of privileges that the chief can provide also included in this is that the dungeon it¡¯s self can limit the privileges given to the chief so it¡¯s a very narrow system. Infront of Ryan a see though monitor appeared infront of him, to Velka this was blank but to Ryan it was like a simple restaurant menu with a series of key words next to empty circles, with the title of the entire screen ¡°Velka¡¯s privileges¡±. The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement.
Velka¡¯s privileges
¡ð Dungeon layout control
¡ð Internal economy control
¡ð External economy control
¡ð Atmosphere control
¡ðEvolution mapping control
¡ð Dungeon mine control
¡ð Dungeon loot control
¡ð Dungeon nexus gate control
¡ð Dungeon disciplinary control rights
¡ð Dungeon nexus co-ordination rights
¡ð Monster co-ordination rights
¡ð Toggle floor boss status (mode: inactive.)
With the options, open I was slightly awestruck by the fact Megan had given all the controls out, these were the privileges that the dungeon could restrict and most young dungeons keep at least the dungeon layout control restricted, since the new manager could simply make it so they would essentially farm to collect a large amount of materials by knowing where all the materials would be. After pressing some buttons. A series of screens appeared infront of Velka this time 4 appeared.
Dungeon manager: rank 2: Velka RoennaRamangi You have gained the control of ¡®internal economy control¡¯
Dungeon manager: rank 2: Velka RoennaRamangi You have gained the control of ¡®external economy control¡¯
Dungeon manager: rank 2: Velka RoennaRamangi You have gained the control of ¡®nexus gate control¡¯
Dungeon manager: rank 2: Velka RoennaRamangi You have gained the right to ¡®Dungeon nexus co-ordination rights¡¯
By the obvious look on her face she clearly understood I wanted her to manage the nexus but with that look showed that she was partly expecting to manage the nexus but not as a dungeon manager but as a captive princess. ¡°Well I think you should be able to handle this without a problem and your safety is guaranteed so no worry¡¯s.¡± this caused Velka¡¯s face to turn less sour than it was to show a slight smile. ¡°It¡¯s nice Ryan but we should be getting down to business and do some work.¡± I replied casually with ¡°well my dear Velka we should wait a bit since if you appear in the nexus before everyone else people will be a bit bitter and try and make trouble for Megan.¡± When I finish saying this an idea pops into my head! ¡°My dear Velka lets retreat to the dungeon station and watch the adventurers while they invade.¡± she nods before walking towards the gate before a screen appears infront of her which is blank to me but to her it should be the set-up gates this action give her a slight sad face as the dungeon station doesn¡¯t have a gate since I ran to the nexus earlier. ¡°Velka my dear its better if we walked to it since it¡¯s not far just around half a mile away though 6 rooms¡± this causes Velka to frown slightly but it¡¯s easy to see that it doesn¡¯t really bother her so we depart. chapter 11: greed is a sin for a reason. The two of us briskly walked to the dungeon station, we were both silent on the journey but it¡¯s easy to see that for Velka the full awe of the situation was catching up to her. . . for better or for worse. We generally walked south of where the boss room was though the 4 rooms where I asked Megan to place the entrances and exits in the opposite corners of the rooms to delay the dungeoneers and make them feel cautious. The reason I wish for them to feel a sense of caution is even though these series of rooms have no actual wolfs the rooms are all trapped rooms with the meaning of the words being thrown out the window for being too underrating as a description for them, even I who placed them still fear them if they were placed against me. Luckily me and Velka don¡¯t trigger traps. . . . The journey to the station for the most part of it was simple. But once we reached the station I asked Megan to make another chair for Velka and making the station monitor larger and multi screened. Even though I said it like that and confused her a bit she still did what I asked which she commented ¡°well that¡¯s weird, it¡¯s like I naturally knew how to do this?¡± the curiosity in her discovery was very easy to understand since it¡¯s been studied that all dungeons have pseudo subconscious that¡¯s roughly the same as each other dungeon, so they each have a standard while being completely unique so like the multi-screen system I asked for even though she didn¡¯t know what I was talking about the subconscious understood and made them. ¡°well my dear Velka here¡¯s the dungeon station from here we can see the entirety of the Megan¡¯s layout.¡± As I finish saying this the monitors finish setting up they consisted of 5, 1 large central monitor with 2 smaller monitors on both sides the central monitor which was sized to roughly 2 meters wide while the others were like half a meter and as I said on the main monitor the layout of the first floor appeared with every detail possible even dungeoneer locations. [3rd pov] From viewing the location of the dungeoneers they seem to finally leaving the maze, it seems no one¡¯s really injured from the singular basic wolfs that were placed in the maze¡¯s small open spaces. When they got to the turning most of the dungeoneers when the left path that the provided map suggested for the dungeon nexus. The more adventurous dungeoneers when the right path that I made for a specific reason, an early weeding optional for some loot to see who were the greedy, I was even kind enough to place on the guild map that there was a treasure chest to the right to make it that they would have the temptation. From the 7 groups a of them were persuaded by their companions to go to the loot, the funniest thing is that the 2 people who persuaded the other 4 members of their party didn¡¯t even try to hide the fact that they were licking their lips at the prospect of the loot. After following the right group, they walked the corridor for 2 turns where they saw the gleaming bronze framed chest in the middle of the corridor at the end but in addition to the chest there were no torches lighting the walls with the only one over the chest to show it¡¯s there. The man who seemed to be the leader who was also one of the people who wasn¡¯t ¡®greed blind¡¯ tried to exercise caution, most of the group agreed to this idea and went to pull out torches but 1 of the ¡®greed blind¡¯ people scoffed at the leaders cowardice before walking brisk fully to the chest, it was easy to see that the man I acknowledged as ¡®GB1¡¯ was a very low grade adventurer with this being his first dungeon experience. Before ¡®GB1¡¯ got even 10 paces to the chest his figure disappeared into the darkness before a blood curdling scream was heard throughout the corridor that the last group to turn left heard it faintly. In response to the scream a woman at the back of the right group starting to casting magic, it was also easy to see that it was a ¡®igneous sphere¡¯ or better known as a fireball, but I could easily that the woman has a leveller head than GB1 since she didn¡¯t fire it off immediately to let her allies light their torches with it. Once they had illumination they started to move the more they advanced the more they could see, the saw that the body of GB1 was now impaled on a spike trap just 3 meters down giving him just enough time to cause the scream, but the leader noticed something about GB1¡¯s body, there were bite marks on his ankles, this caused the leader to yell ¡°everyone there are wolfs in here with us.¡± Easily this caused the group to tense up but it was too late for a trio of wolfs jumped out of flickering shadows from behind the group, all 3 of the wolfs had a pitch-black coat that indicated they were black wolfs. I added the black wolfs here because I made this into a simple ambush, I also made the area into the perfect location for a black wolf to fight since the black wolf excels in the dark with it using ambush tactics, it even has a trait that helps that, the trait it that because of its coat if there is a large enough shadow they can hide in it until a light overwhelms the shadow. The wolf¡¯s rear attack was successful with the leading wolf wounding the woman arms making her fireball dissipate in the air reducing the light drastically. From the sudden plunge into darkness the party started to panic but the leader rapidly tried to control the team this worked to a point when everyone was calm with the injured woman being surrounded by her allies as someone hand-feed her a potion. The Black wolfs weren¡¯t quiet while they formed the circle the wolfs separated in the darkness before lunging from every direction besides the way the dungeoneers came from, in this new lunge caused more damage than the first ambush with the black wolf aiming for the dungeoneers throats before biting down unluckily was that the party estimated the target but a dungeoneer didn¡¯t react quick enough with the wolf getting to their neck.Reading on this site? This novel is published elsewhere. Support the author by seeking out the original. Seeing this the rest of the faces of the party members started to pale before a man who was feeding the potion to the woman rushed to his side to get the wolf but it was too late with the man breathing his last by the teeth of the black wolf, but in that moment the man chopped off the head of the wolf before it could attack again. After that situation the woman summoned a fireball to light the area up again causing the wolfs weaken drastically so the rest of the party killed the wolfs with ease, sadly the man who helped the bitten mad was trying to hand-feed the potion to him was crying for him to wake up to the point of asking the dungeon to help. On Ryan¡¯s end a screen appeared infront of him which held a deep moral choice.
the dungeoneer ¡®Craig Eastel¡¯ asks you to save ¡®Yunis Eastel¡¯, Do you save ¡®Yunis Eastel¡¯
Yes No Turn undead
This is a simple yet reoccurring screen to dungeon managers, that¡¯s always sent to either the closest dungeon manager or the dungeon manager residing in the dungeon station. Without hesitation Ryan pressed the yes button since this early on, if he seems too greedy for DP it would make the dungeon less appealing to people so early lifesaving is nice. Back to the dungeoneer party the man who the system acknowledged as Craig was crying over the body of Yunis, before he felt the body of Yunis start to stir like from a slumber and grabbed Craig into a hug before making a deep groaning sound. This scared the whole party with the idea he became an undead but Craig just slapped Yunis since he knew he was just playing but tears was still falling from his eyes. . . . After the party recovered from the Yunis situation they went to the chest, with the leader opening it a hue of red and blue could be seen, in the chest was pair of crystals the size as a person¡¯s thumb and some pieces of silver, it¡¯s easy to see that the crystals were mana crystals for the element of water and fire, so they took the chests contents before Turing to the dead wolfs to start butchering them for their materials. [Ryan pov] The screen¡¯s display changed back to the dungeon¡¯s layout this made the attention I and Velka had on the party¡¯s fight but before I could start a conversation Velka beat me to it with saying. ¡°well Ryan what¡¯s next.¡± Which I replied casually ¡°well since the first party to go left has just reached the first forest room. I would guess you going to the nexus since you should just arrive before them if you left now.¡± From this comment Velka made a smirk which annoyed me slightly before walking off to the nexus. . . . Well I am now alone in the station again. Because I was bored I asked Megan what her DP amount was and she simply replied with. ¡°389¡± This amount nearly made me fall out of my chair. ¡°wait how did you gain so mu . . . Megan I want to ask you something.¡± ¡°yes, Ryan what is it? ¡° ¡°Do you have status that has a X then a number next to it.¡± this made it Megan¡¯s turn to be stunned, ¡°Ryan I do but I didn¡¯t tell you earlier since I didn¡¯t know what it means.¡± ¡°well Megan what¡¯s the number next to it?¡± I said sceptically since a x means that the DP gained would be modified to give more, but this feature was very obscure and very rare with only 4 known dungeons to have at most a X5 factor. Like it wasn¡¯t a real big deal Megan stated ¡°11¡± From this comment, I nearly fainted, but this also explains that the fact that Megan had so much DP even after the 7 years which I questioned at the start. ¡°well from the amount you have enough for what next I have in plan for you to implemented.¡± Which Megan replied by placing a screen in front of my face.
dungeonupgradesupgrades descriptionDP cost
Dungeon mapping l4this is the upgrade that dictates the variety of rooms the dungeon can generate. (current: corridors, rooms: No -size limit, Trap, treasure,mine, nexus and station. Unique rooms: Wolf den, forest, crag and tundra.)cost: 400
Trap knowledge lv1this upgrades increases the amount of trap typesthe dungeon can generate. (current: hole''o''spikes,)cost: 10 DP
dungeon materials lv4this upgrade is to producingsemi-advanced materials in the dungeon. cost: 200
dungeon floors: current 1this adds another floor to be used for the dungeon, unless specified the new floor will go downwards. (this is immune to the double cost effect)cost: 100 per floor.
dungeon monster upgrades
add a new raceadd another race from the starting monster race list to your dungeon.cost: 1000
wolfevolution tree lv2this upgrade allows the usage of other evolution''sfor your wolf''s(currently have; grey wolfs, brown wolfs, black wolfsand monster variantAlpha wolf. Upon gain the dungeon gains the Trait: lesser lunar evolutions. )cost 200
wolf tactics lv1this upgrade increases the effectivenessof the wolfs in your dungeon with the lv1 upgrade allowing them to roamthough thedungeon floorinstead of being stuck in a single location.cost : 100
Dungeon trait upgrades
The Howler This trait gives the Dungeon the capability to single out an existing wolf type monster in the dungeon to be a floor wide or room wide boss, that has the ability to manipulate the any species of wolf on the same level or below its current evolution regardless of species.cost 300
The Hunt this Trait gives the monsters in the dungeon the ability of whenever an invading entity is attacked in the dungeon that draws blood, that entity¡¯s location becomes always known to wolfs in that current room, this trait loses effect if the entity leaves the room that the trait activated. Cost : 350
for every upgrade level it would cost double the last levels cost to buy so if a level 1 was 50 DP, level 2 would be 100
every dungeon trait is a onetime
That¡¯s a lot more than I thought she should have so I¡¯m going to have to think about this.