《RE:tombdungeon》 prologue what the fuck are you doing stupid godess Prologue I''m currently working on the fields of my family, caring about the cannabis plants like many families in this area. Today¡äs a really hot day, but I have to continue working, or else we won¡¯t get money to buy the things we need¡­ Luckylee I¡¯m not the only one working on our field my three little brothers and my dad are helping me. We have to work hard, so we can pay for the school expenses from my little brothers, but I think it¡¯s worth it because they learn reading, writing and maths. I never was at a school, I was always working at the fields or the workshops from my relatives. Not that this was bad, I¡¯m pretty happy with my life, I know everything about our environment- well maybe not like an biologic researcher who can tell you how many proteins are in something- but through observing I was able to get known to the habits of animals and the growth rate of our plants. Ah right I actually now numbers, all up to 20, because we have 20 goats, not more, so I don¡¯t need more numbers. My mother is currently cooking together with my bigger two sisters, they are the only woman in the area who aren¡¯t married to someone, because my parents say that their children should be happy, and shouldn¡¯t do things as forcefully marrying someone like noramly in Afghanistan. Ahh, weren¡¯t they in the house a moment ago, well they might still be there, the only problem is that it doesn¡¯t stand anymore. I feel hot pain suddenly swelling up inside me and with that I¡¯m dead¡­ seriously? Yep, totally dead, I see the place where I and my father were working a moment ago, but not our bodies, they were completely destroyed by something. I¡¯m something like a little glowing ball, some would call it a soul. I can¡¯t see if there is any other ¡°soul¡± near, because I¡¯m getting quickly sucked up. Suddenly I feel immense pressure, so much that I am losing consciousness. But somehow I feel really calm now, maybe something like heaven? Not that I believe in God Allah or any other guy who may sit on the clouds. It¡¯s somehow the same like getting hugged by an person who stands close to you, you relax. Like this I drift off into sleep. You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story. After I don¡¯t know how long, I wake up and see a womanly figure hovering before me, she has no facial features, it¡¯s pure white, like the rest of her body. I can¡¯t see if there she wears clothing, it¡¯s all a bit blurred, but I am clearly able to see that it¡¯s a woman. ¡°so it¡¯s a woman, huh? ¡° a sarcastic voice echoed in my mind. I quickly try to see who spoke, but well, I can¡¯t turn my head cause if don¡¯t have one. luckily I¡¯m able to somehow see from every point on my ¡°soul¡± so I alertly try to figure out who spoke. Well there was no one there¡­ ¡°hey, you stupid country bumpkin !¡± the voice shouts, while I feel immense pressure starting to come from the white thing¡­ ¡°white thing? well you are stupid, but do you really not know who I am ?¡± the voice echoes ¡°who might you loud creature be?¡± I ask while getting a headache, ah no I don¡¯t have a head anymore, but somehow my concentration fades away. ¡°I am the Goddess of life and Death, well I was till my brothers and sisters have sealed me in an mortal Body, 3572 years ago.¡± says the ¡°Goddess¡±. I don¡¯t really care about Gods and myths, I only want my peace¡­ ¡°hah, bad luck, I summoned you to help me break the seal¡± really, this loud thing annoys me, don¡¯t know why, but my character has somehow changed¡­ ¡°of course your character has changed, I summoned you as an Dungeon core, so I had to add some evil aspects to your soul¡± the loud thing explains proudly. I¡¯m getting really annoyed at her, but she seems to be strong to be able to add things to my soul, so I ask ¡° What do you want?¡± She suddenly starts to laugh, stupid thing, she explains proudly ¡°I¡¯m currently stuck in the dead Body of a sorceress, and have summoned you with my remaining Magic Energy to resurrect me and help me to become a god again. You have to be my house,castle and personal Dungeon to help train my skills ¡± really? you a ex Goddess of Life and Death are stuck in a Dead body ? I can¡¯t hold it,I start to laugh at such a stupid Goddess, till I feel immense killing intent coming from her. Seems like she comprehends that I laugh about her stupidity. ¡°I can also read your thoughts you idiot!¡± she exclaims angrily Ohh that explains a lot of things ¡­ ¡°How do you want me to help?¡± I ask a bit nervous, looks like she really wants me to help resurrect her. ¡°you are going to be a Dungeon core, and as that you have to build some cool stuff and kill people, while giving me the luxury a Goddess needs, like building my castle, making my food, and cleaning the rooms. You are also allowed to keep a few slaves and monsters to fight for you.¡± stupid Goddess says. ¡°How should I do this? I don¡¯t even know how to write or read let alone build castles ¡° I ask her worried. She stares at me with a loss of words, and then exclaims ¡° I¡¯m going to teach you¡±. Why are you such a caring stupid being? Just let me be, and do something else¡­ ¡°Not possible I don¡¯t have any magic energy left¡± she cries. I sigh an say ¡±okay, then teach me how to read¡±. The Goddess which was down spirited looked up at me and made a grin ¡° okay, and I¡¯m also going to teach you how to use magic to summon lots of cool stuff, also how to revive some dead stuff, but that¡¯s for later¡±. With that our lessons start, me learning how to read and write, while at the same time learning how to build, craft, forage, defend and attack all to secure my safety as a future dungeon. And as our last lessons, we started with reanimating the dead. With that the stupid Goddess sends me to my ¡°Dungeon¡±. Not sure what I have to expect there¡­ 1 The tomb guard Chapter 1 When I opened my eyes I saw that I was in a little stone room, with two lines of benches, a few long windows -most of the Glass broken out- and me floating a few centimeters on top of an altar. With a second glance I see a man standing on the opposite site of the room, half covered by the stones at the entrance to my little -I gonna call it chapel-, he was staring at me with inquisitiveness and curiosity in his eyes. ¡°Who might you be?¡± I called out to him. He ducks a bit, and while beeing in a defensive pose he comes a few steps closer to me. ¡°Can I ask what a being like yourself searches in the holy tomb of the Royal Family?¡± the man asks. What? Royal Family? really? looks like I¡¯m going to have a few problems, but nothing beats a honest answer right? ¡°Good day, dear sir whoever you might be. I¡¯m a newborn Dungeon core without a name that is important for a being as high as yourself to know¡±. I finally said, flattery is a skill I learned while talking to one of my uncles back in Afghanistan. The man was obviously shocked at my answer, is it bad to be a dungeon? ¡°Oh high beeing, I am truly sorry to trouble you, I am the Leader of the Tomb Guard, the humble beings who are guarding among other things the place you choosed to bestow your gift upon¡± with that the man knelt in front of me with his head lowered, while I don¡¯t know what to do. Was a Dungeon really so special? Well, I just have to ask¡­ ¡°Dear Guard, I am truly sorry, but I do not know what you are talking about, is being a dungeon this special?¡± The guard raised his head and says ¡°yes it is definitely special, most of the dungeons I heard of aren¡¯t able to talk, the ones that were able to are long gone...¡± with a sad voice he continues ¡°while the Dungeons who are not able to talk are aggressive towards outsiders, the ones who are able to speak aren¡¯t, says the legend.¡± I see, but why am I in a Royal tomb? didn¡¯t the stupid Goddess said that I will create her a castel? ¡°Dear Guard, do you perhaps know why I am in this Royal Tomb?¡± I asked him because he is the only one here who might be able to answer me. The man seems the be a bit astonished, but after a bit of thinking finally answers me ¡°I¡¯m sorry, but I do not know why, the only thing that I know is that the Dungeon Core searches itself a place to be.¡± Okay, this might become a problem further on, firstly I have to search the vicinity for potential threats¡­ How do I do this without legs? So next question. ¡°Dear guard, do you happen to know how I am able to look at the outsides of this little chamber?¡± with this question the guard makes a small smile, and answers ¡°Of course, you have to say [Status] and you will see the Status of yourself.Unauthorized content usage: if you discover this narrative on Amazon, report the violation. ¡°Okay, [Status]
Dungeon Core of the stupid Goddess
Level 1
Health 10 Mana 20
Skills
summoning Level 1
description with this you are able to summon undead, use more mana for stronger undeads
expand territory Level 1
description with this you are able to expand your territory, use more mana to expand more
make treasure Level 1
description with this you are able to make treasures, use more mana to make better treasures
building Level 1
description with this you can build/repair structures and decorate your dungeon territory, use more mana to make it sturdier
Looks like I¡¯m the Dungeon Core of the stupid Goddess, she must be really stupid, or else whatever is behind these texts wouldn¡¯t write my status like this. That part taken of my curiosity taken care of, I feel the urge to make this place more beautiful. Well I seem to be able to repair the windows, so let¡¯s try it. After concentrating quite a bit on the windows a message pops up and asks
Do you want to repair the windows?
Yes No
How should I choose? I don¡¯t have fingers!!! I try and think yes, and luckily the screen vanishes and I see the windows repairing themselves, which cost a total of 4 mana, isn¡¯t that rather costly with my little amount of Mana? Well I don¡¯t care, it helps fulfill my previous urge. On top of that the guard also seems to be happily astonished that suddenly the windows got repaired. Well apparently I control these blue boxes entirely with my mind, good to know. After that I want to make something that can make the guard more supportive of me, who knows how the others of his order will react if they know that there is a Dungeon Core in the Royal tomb? How could I gain his favour? He looks rather shoddy and not well armed. That¡¯s it, let¡¯s arm him! So I try to imagine a sword, as good as possible. A new window pops up!
What kind of sword do you want to create?
Iron short sword
Steel short sword
Copper short sword
I think Steel is the most sturdiest out of those options, so I concentrate on the Steel sword. A few second later a Steel short sword drops on the ground, after looking on my mana bar I see that it has cost 3 mana, well might be worth it. ¡°This sword is for you dear soldier please take it and use it well.¡± I say while the soldier is eying the sword curiously. ¡°thank you, o high being this one doesn¡¯t know why he get this, but I shall gladly accept it.¡± The soldier takes the sword and makes a few test swings to get used to the weight, seems to be a good sword, because he looks really happy at the moment. ¡°So, soldier please answer me, what do I have to expect from the Royal family for being in their royal tomb?¡± I have to know if these guys will just kill me, the armies which invaded Afghanistan over the last centuries were extremely brutal, maybe the Royals in this world are as them? The soldier flinches, and then starts to speak ¡°to be honest the Royal family is completely wiped out, and their remains sleep in this tomb, I am the only one left of the tomb Guard which is Guarding this area, the previously glorious capital where we are at the moment is only a little town from a big empire, which has defeated the sorceress that once ruled this lands.¡± He seems to be really down because of this things. But is this sorceress maybe the stupid goddess which summoned me here? She said that she is also in this tomb lying in a dead body and doing nothing. Should I try to revive her? No, she would only let me do more work, won¡¯t do this¡­ 2 the outside world Chapter 2 So, I¡¯m now able to produce treasures, without using materials? I have to investigate on that matter later on¡­ At least I have to know if I am allowed to stay here ¡°So, dear guard, might there be any problems with me being at the royal tomb?¡± The guard thinks a bit about that, and says ¡±the city is controlled by an governor from the empire, other possible threats are the adventurer from the guild and the thieves and thugs from the slums, who might want to raid your dungeon and get your treasures.¡± Shit, looks like I have to build up some defensive mechanism or I will be destroyed when they discover me¡­ ¡°might there be any allies who will help me in this town ?¡± cause I really need them, at least at the beginning¡­ ¡°if you work for an noble than you get the patronage of him an his family, or you try and get the adventures or thieves on your side¡± the guard says with a worried look on his face. ¡°for which organization are you working dear guard?¡± It¡¯s best if I don¡¯t lose his protection, because he looks rather strong and seems to know a lot about this kind of political power play. ¡°I am from no family, you might count me to the servants of the family of the previously rulers but their family is like I said destroyed.¡± he says with sad look in his eyes. ¡°I see, well at first I have to get stronger or else I won¡¯t be able to get into any kind of group.¡± So first task will be expanding my territory, I at least want to know how it looks on the outside of this little room. [expand territory]
Do you want to expand your territory ?
Yes No
Obviously I choose yes and concentrate 10 of my remaining 13 mana into it, well I just think use 10 mana to expand territory, because I don¡¯t know how to regulate it, might as well just try¡­ And with that suddenly my field perception nearly doubles, the room was about seven meter long and four meter width, so about 28 m2, now I have about 50m2 and can see from the outside of my little room, which seem to be in the back of the churchyard in form of an little chapel. The chapel is isolated from the rest of the churchyard by some small damaged walls that are built around it. Ican see that there is no one here, who cares about the dead, because thorns and bushes grow everywhere on the ground. When I look further outside of my dungeon territory, I can see a little town, which is build around a castle that seems to be one of the only buildings which is cared for, the others are some manors near the castle, which seem to be from the noble families¡­If you stumble upon this tale on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. All in all the city looks rather dirty, not like an ¡°capital to be¡± should look like. In my Dungeon territory I see a dead rabbit, that probably died because of an disease, why do I know that? well it looks rather bad with half its fur black and peeling off ¡­ I have to put it somewhere, not that something infects itself with this disease, so I concentrate on it and
Do you want to absorb ¡®Dead Rabbit¡¯ ?
Yes No
I really seem to be able to absorb dead things, so I think [Yes] and the rabbit begins to glow and starts to disappear. What do I even get for absorbing things ?
You have gained 7 mana through absorbing a deceased
Holy shit, that¡¯s awesome, that¡¯s the cost of the sword and the windows together. I look more around and see a that the chapel isn¡¯t the newest anymore, so might try and begin repairing it.
Do you want to repair the walls of the chapel of the Royal family ?
Yes No
Thinking [Yes] I see that the chapels walls are getting made anew, and now the walls look like they were just built a second ago, which in a certain sense would be true. With a quick check I see that the complete repair did cost a total 8 mana, so I have only two mana left. I wanna have more mana so I start looking around the area and find some dead plants and bushes, but they totally only give me 4 mana, so I have now 6 mana. maybe the soldier can bring me some dead bodies and I¡¯m able to build some new things. I have to do something or else it would be boring, right? ¡°Dear Soldier, is it possible for you to bring me a few dead bodies?¡± Hopefully he doesn''t say just ¡°no¡±. ¡°What do you need the bodies for, Dungeon Core?¡± the soldier ask me while inspecting the newly repaired walls of the chapel with glittering eyes. ¡°I want to bring the city back to it¡¯s old might and glory, for this I need more ressources¡± I answer him with absolutely no ulterior motives like for example revive a dead sorceress, or rule this city. Life comes in the soldier''s eyes and he says with new found power ¡°of course sir, I bring you back as many dead bodies as I can, because of an illness there are enough at the moment.¡± Maybe the rabbit had this illness? yeah, probably¡­ ¡°that would be great dear soldier, if I can help with some other things please tell me¡± If I have the possibility to expand his need of me, then maybe he will become my loyal follower¡­ ---- After about 2 hours the guard came back with a group of 6 man, pulling an cart with dead bodies on it, and began to unload them at the side of my chapell. After the other man left with the affirmation that they can bring more bodies here, the soldier began to speak ¡°Dear Dungeon Core, please take these bodies and restore our lands, the people who were with me have lost their families and friends to this illness, please help us¡± he began to kneel in front of my Dungeon Core. ¡°fear not, I plan to restore these lands, you only have to swear loyalty to me, then I will help you and your people.¡± ¡°thank you my lord, I swear to follow you till my death¡± the knight said while kneeling like an western knight would do in front of his king. ¡°I will take you up on that later on¡± I have my first knight now, but his armor is really poorly made¡­
What kind of armor do you want to make ?
light leather armor
chain mail armor
heavy iron armor
[chain mail armor] I think, after which it drops on the ground in front of my newly acquired knight, who is totally speechless. ¡°wear this armor, I don¡¯t want you to die because of an arrow or sneak attack¡± I told him. Who knows how dangerous it is in this city. ¡°thank you my lord, I will wear it and I will do as you say¡± the guard says while equipping the new armor. So let¡¯s absorb the dead bodys... 3 expansion, flowers and servants Chapter 3 There are a total of 12 dead bodies lying in front of me, definitely too much to absorb in one go. With a quick look in my status, I see that I have only 2 mana left which means 4 mana for the chainmail armor. So I am going to absorb the bodies one after the other, and expand my territory with each one of them. with only 10 mana I was able to add about 25m2 to my territory so with this much to absorb I will really have some growth and may be able to get my mana pool higher somehow¡­ ¡­ About 10 minutes later I have absorbed the first 6 bodies and made some area extension. I got 15 mana for each person so 90 mana + the 2 remaining mana from before. It seems to be the case that every unit of mana I use for expanding my territory results in 2,5m2 of new territory, which means with my newly invested 92 mana I got a whole 230 m2 so now I have a perception range of 280m2 in form of a radius around my core. In this newly acquired area I find a few interesting things, which are of course tombs,skeletons and more bushes and thorns, but also a few interesting shiny things, and even with the bigger radius I am not able to get anywhere close to the town, so no getting dead people by myself¡­ Before I absorb the remaining 6 people, I clear the bushes near the area I¡¯ve already cleared, which gives me a total 18 mana. Because I think size is not everything, and in Afghanistan we have been honouring our deaths I want to make their resting place a bit nicer, so some flowers, maybe restoring nearby standing broken tombs this kind of thing, so concentrate¡­
What kind of flowers do you want to grow ?
red helast the red helast flower can be used for healing purposes only
blue manos the blue manos can be used for mana regenerating purposes only
violet rasha the scent of the violet rasha flower makes you feel happy, but has no other purposes
I seem to be able to choose from these 3 flowers, but to be honest, why should I choose? flowers look the nicest when they grow between differently coloured flowers, so let¡¯s try and concentrate on all 3 of them¡­ Ohh nice flowers, before my imaginary eyes (I¡¯m a Dungeon core remember?) the flowers come sprouting from the earth, and are now filling the places between the graves. They might have grown a bit too quickly to make me believe that they are normal flowers, but might be my magic, right? From the 18 mana I had from the thorns, this cost me only 6 mana, so I use the remaining 12 mana to repair the tombstones in the nearby vicinity.If you encounter this story on Amazon, note that it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it. So back to absorbing, 6 boys remaining which means a lot of area increase ¡­ After absorbing 4 bodys and making the gained mana into dungeon territory something strange happen
You have gained a new skill through absorbing an mason
Masonry your buildings can be build much bigger, and are sturdier
So with absorbing someone with a special skill, I gain the skill? So I just need to absorb as many educated beings as possible right? No, better not, I don¡¯t know if there are any strong guys out there, and hey that was not something I as an Afghan boy would think, must be these ¡®evil aspects¡¯ the stupid goddess added to ¡®my soul¡¯. I really must be careful with the things I do¡­ After absorbing the last guy and expanding my territory with the gained mana I have a total of about 510m2 dungeon territory, my vision has really expanded. So what to do now? Until the guys with some new dead bodies return, it¡¯s still some time¡­ I¡¯m know absorbing the remaining bushes and thorns in the area, and mostly on the places near the way. Making the whole area look cleaner, and at the same time easier to traverse. Because of this the guys should have it easier with their carriage full of new mana, ehh dead bodys of course, poor people...well somehow I¡¯m happy that there is this kind of disease. So with the first 18 mana I absorbed I made the road, or should I better say path more easy to walk on, so putting gravel on top, making some gutters on the side of the path who are leading in the earth all 10 meters, so something like a gully. That cost me a whopping 15 mana, and of course that was only the way till the end of my territory. I want more people at this place, I want them to come here and help me, so I need to make it more comfortable to live here. Back to absorbing the last remaining thorns and bushes¡­ with the gained mana I restore the tombs, and grow some more flowers, then fill the smaller paths that are all over the graveyard with gravel, because they are leading to the bigger path, I make it so they bring the rain water -if there comes some- to the main path. Finally the soldier and his helpers come back, with a new carriage of dead bodies, faster this time¡­ At the moment they see the changes, the gawk in awe even if there is still not much grass on the ground, so you see much brown between the flowers,tombs and paths. The soldier seems to be the first one to recover and comes to my core followed by the other guys -who haven¡¯t really seen me before- and kneels before me. ¡°My lord, we have brought the requested dead bodies, do you have any further orders?¡± ¡°Yes, bring me every dead person in this town, so I can use their energy to help the remaining ones.¡± I say, somehow I really like this kinda ¡®Lord play¡¯. ¡°As you wish my lord¡± the guard says and stands up, to move out of the chapel, but gets stopped by the other guys, who are eying me curiously. ¡°What is this, Gerad ?¡± one of the man asks the guard, to which he answers ¡°this guys is the Dungeon Core of the Royal tomb, the one whom I swore my allegiance to.¡± With this he bows to me an leaves the room. The remaining man are dumbstruck, till the one who asked Gerad the question comes up to me and says ¡° I don¡¯t know who you are, but I have never seen the graveyard as beautiful as now, as a man who honours the dead, and now can see some hope for the future, I want to swear my allegiance to you like Gerad did¡± he finish and drops to one knee, followed by his 5 companions who repeat his swear of allegiance. Troubling things, but I have to see the good sides, some new servants for my dungeon. ¡°I¡¯m glad that people like you live in this area, serve me and obey me, then I will protect and feed you.¡± with that I absorb the first of the dead bodies on the carriage and make the first of these guys the ¡®standard armor and sword¡¯ like the ones Gerad is wearing. ¡°wear these and do your duties¡± I command them. ¡°¡°As you wish my lord¡±¡± answer the man in one voice, take their new equipment and after a last bow leave to room to put the remaining 9 dead bodies on the ground. I absorb them body after body and use the gained mana to further expand my territory. Sadly I do not get any skills... With this last expansion I have now the ¡®ownership¡¯ of the entry to the churchyard, sadly not the complete path to the gate because of some curves in the path, but that wouldn¡¯t take this much longer with now 7 servants bringing dead bodies to my place. 4 houses in my territory Chapter 4 While clearing my new territory from the thorns and bushes, I start filling the now empty places with flowers, and repair the damaged tombs. while doing so, I find something like a secret entrance under one of the tombs, which one can open with pressing at one of the molded letters of the name ¡®Valcius Grenada¡¯. of course there is no skeleton in this tomb, it¡¯s only the entrance to 3 secret chambers. While searching through the chambers, I find a interesting book.
Do you want to learn the skill ¡®appraisal¡¯ ?
Yes No
A new skill ? of course I want to learn it.
Appraisal
through observing, you are able to see the condition of the observed object/person much easier
Okay, seems to be something helpful, let¡¯s test it on the flowers right now. Getting outside, I start staring intensely at one poor little red flower. Well seems the observing before an appraisal takes some time, because I¡¯m concentrating on this red helast flowers for at least 20 minutes now¡­ But finally¡­
Red helast flower
A little, about 5 centimeter high flower, its blossom has healing properties, must be processed by an alchemist
Okay, so I have to become an alchemist to work with these flowers, or I have to get one to work for me. With that I might be able to control this deadly disease, let it flourish, but not destroy the city. In the case that the disease gets completely healed, I won¡¯t get more mana. But I also want some more of the townsfolk to become my servants, just because it¡¯s cool to order people around. So it¡¯s a no to kill the complete city¡­ Back down into the hidden rooms, to inspect what else there is. I don¡¯t know who has installed himself in these secret rooms, but he was a real history freak it seems. Sadly I have no time at the moment to go through these books, so I just remember them being here and leave, ahh wait, there is some kind of map, looks like it shows the country we are currently in, so the ¡¯empire¡¯. Honestly it looks like a really big country, at least two times bigger than afghanistan, which in my opinion is a big country. I don¡¯t really know about the other countries on earth, the only map I have ever seen was of afghanistan... I get a feeling that my servants are back, currently entering the churchyard and with them many corpses. So I leave the secret rooms, and close the entry which leads to them. Then I get back to my Core and await the arrival of my new mana. ¡° my lord we are back, and have brought the corpses you wished for¡± Gerad kneels before me and shows me the carriage in front of the chapel. ¡°good job, unload them and get me new ones, but leave them at the gate to the churchyard !¡± Did you know, that commanding people is really fun ? Gerad stands up and leaves the room, to give my order to my other servants who are waiting outside of the chapel. After they had done their job, and left the churchyard to get new corpses, I begin absorbing the dead bodies and start expanding my territory, till there is no corpse left and my dungeon territory includes a few abandoned houses on the street from the churchyard to the town.Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on Royal Road. Maybe I should keep my servants in my territory, so let¡¯s try and restore the houses¡­
Do you want to rebuild 3 destroyed houses ?
Yes No
After choosing yes, my originally full mana pool drops to zero and I feel really tired (mentally of course), but after absorbing a few thorns and bushes, I can watch the 3 houses being rebuilt. Nice earthen walled shacks, with a chimney each and a basement which you can enter from behind the house. From outside the houses it¡¯s still a minute walk or so to get to the real city, which is build from stone for the basement, wood in different processings and bricks for the housetop. I can see humans doing their daily business on the streets, sadly they don¡¯t seem to have a high security because I witness some crimes, robbery, a few dead people -why can¡¯t they bring them to the churchyard?- Somehow there is no rape and no grabbing, maybe because the woman living here have a higher status than the man, but that is not confirmed, only something I put together after seeing some workers bowing to women, while others ignore them while keeping their distance. What I was also able to see, is that They do not bow to all woman, but always keep their distance to all of them¡­ Back to the 3 houses, they are empty, and with empty I mean really empty, like no carpet, no pillow, and the most shocking, no tea set. Do you know what that means to me a house without a tea set? Ahh, I forgot, the houses were just restored a few minutes ago, don¡¯t annoy yourself because there is no tea set here¡­ After absorbing a few dead animals, who seem to be more at the outskirts of the town than in the land around it, I start equipping the houses with the needed things: pillows, carpets, tapestries and the most important a tea set for each house. Then, I start making a garden behind the 3 houses, only a few plants, some trees and some tuberous plants. I make a new and mana costly system,that has 5 big stone tanks for water, which they get with the help of a few pipes from the churchyard sewer system.The tanks are set up, so the water enters the first and has to flow through all 5 tanks in order to flow into a little pond I roughly made. In each tank there are water plants, to filter the water and with the fruits the plants bring you, you have a bit extra to eat and some leaves you can use for essential oils and relaxation purposes. Of course you get clean water at the end, so you can use it for cooking, washing or of course for the newly made fields. This is a system we used in afghanistan, and is one of the beginning parts of permaculture, which is a system many of the families in our area used, to grow their own food. The most important part is to combine the different characteristics of the plants and plant them so that each plant has the best conditions to grow. Permaculture is also a system where you don¡¯t have big fields for the plants -of course we had our cannabis fields, but they were for the money of my little brothers education- because the more for example wheat there is an a field, the higher is the possibility that the crops get some kind of deadly disease, which happens whenever there is too much of something in an area. I have witnessed this with many plants, whenever there is too much of an imbalance, suddenly locusts or other ¡°bad¡± things happen to the fields. Because we didn¡¯t have the money to buy extra toxins or whatever some guys spray over their plants, we lost much of our harvest, till a cousin of mine told us about permaculture. Of course it was hard at the beginning because we didn¡¯t know that much about the plants we were growing, but after some years and my and my father¡¯s good observation, we were able to mostly optimize our system. To get my servants to a healthy and strong body, both of which they clearly don¡¯t have at the moment. I think having their own garden is a good first step. But I need to get more plants and trees, so that I have a bigger variety. Some absorbed animals later, I placed some cooking utensils in the houses, and made a dry toilet for each house. The idea behind the dry toilet is this, you don¡¯t use water to sweep away your shit, instead you use sawdust and sprinkle it above your ¡°business¡±, so it does not stink. Instead of dropping the toilet paper, which in afghanistan we almost never had had, you put it in an extra trash can, so you can dispose it later on. The thing is that when you use paper to rub the remains off of your ass, drop it into the pit and put sawdust on top of it, the whole thing will stink and many bees,wasps and other things will come, and disturb you the next time while doing what needs to be done. -except for me in my current state of existence- Then when the whole thing gets too filled up, you open a sidegate from outside and start digging the stuff out and store it in place somewhere outside. Then you can continue doing your happy business. After a few years the poop, and whatever else you leave there becomes a good mold, that you can use for the fields, so a really good invention, isn¡¯t it? While making a place for fertilizer, my servants come back, bringing a new cart with dead bodies. Honestly guys, where do you get so many of them from ? They see the restored houses and the field behind them and put the cart down, while observing everything. After a while of them gawking, I speak to them and without any interruption show them what I have done in their absence. Together with an explanation how to use the things I made, because it seems they never did drink tea -what kind of crazy people are they?- everyone should know that tea is one of the best things of the world, but these guys didn¡¯t even know how to make it¡­ After explaining the concept of the garden to them, they quickly understood, but every once in a while during my explanations, one of them will look at the houses, so I ask them what the problem is. ¡°my lord, we know that you are more intelligent than us, but might you have the mercy and explain to us stupid folks why there is a mud wall around these houses?¡± Gerad the spokesman of them said while dropping his head. -Are they idiots?- Ahh, yes they said so themself¡­ ¡°The building is like you have seen completely build from dirt, which is much cheaper than wood, and has a good isolation ability, so it won¡¯t get too cold, or to hot inside.¡± I hope they didn¡¯t hear my slightly annoyed tone¡­ They look really dumbfounded, and Gerad tries to find his words ¡° you see my lord, this is a kind of building they use in the south, but we are far too high in the north, you have to have at least two layers for the walls, or you have to dig into the ground and make your house there protected by the earth.¡± Ohh, I see, I have wasted about 100 mana, and have to waste maybe another 100 to build them so one can live inside, suddenly I want to kill these guys.... 5 rebuilding the houses Chapter 5 After a few minutes of thinking, I come to the decision and order the servants to bring the furniture outside before the houses. In the time they were doing this, I begin making a stone wall around the gardens, so there won¡¯t be any wild animals destroying it¡­ I also make a few little wooden shacks, for various things, like storing equipment and housing animals. Finally my servants finished bringing out the furniture from the houses, so I am able to absorb the mud walls. Then with a full mana pool, I start building a foundation for the first house, followed by a basement accessible from outside under the stairs to the entrance , both build with mostly stones and only a bit gravel used for the foundation¡­ ¡°Gerad do you know any craftsmen in this area who might be willing to work for me?¡± I have to get a few more followers, so why not really good ones? ¡°Yes my lord, there are three blacksmiths in town, one for the nobles one for the creatures from the slums and one for the normal villagers, I think the last of them might be willing to work for you. We have some farmers and a few magicians in town,but they work for the nobles or the adventurers guild.¡± He says while working with the others on the cart (seems to be damaged a bit) and only bows shortly towards me. ¡°Ask the blacksmith if he wants to help make this a more comfortable town, if he wants to, bring him to me.¡± with this order Gerad leaves hastily. I start building the walls of the ground floor with stone bricks, on top of that, I place some wooden beams at the corners and important places like the doors,windows and the (planned) staircase to the first floor, and ¡°nail¡± big planks on the outside of the whole construction. The same made on the inside and then suddenly¡­
Do you want to fill the gap with magic insulate material?
YesNo
Ohh, there can¡¯t be something as useful as that, but I think I should try it, or else I have to do even more work¡­ It really is possible, as I ¡°choose¡± ¡®yes¡¯, the gap between the planks starts to fill with some kind of jelly. Is that really enough to make it wind and coldproof? well I don¡¯t have to live inside it, so no complaint, it¡¯s easy and it has to do for now¡­ After finishing the ground floors walls, I build a big wooden staircase that leads to a nonexistent first floor, firstly I make the floor with the help of big wooden joists, and on top wooden planks. For the new floor I use the same tactic as before and build the walls and fill them with some magic jelly, I had to make some breaks to refill my mana pool, but finally I finished the first floor. I don¡¯t plan to add another floor, but some extra place might be good, so I constructed a big mansard roof -made out of wooden joists and clay bricks- on top of all, and filled the remaining gaps at the front an the end with the standard procedure of wooden walls and jelly in between them. Now to make some rooms, I simply place some big wooden beam in between the ground and the roof, now I connect the beams with each other which results in some new rooms, that have at least a window opening each. The remaining things are placing windows and doors, so I quickly place them, making them easy to close and open while getting them as sturdy and safe as possible.Unauthorized use: this story is on Amazon without permission from the author. Report any sightings. Last thing to be done before the new house is finished, I make a big fireplace, so they can cook with multiple pots while also allowing them to have a bigger fire going. After I finally finished the first house, I ordered my remaining six servants to get the things back inside. Then I see Gerad coming back and with him is a big dude with short dark hair and a short mustache, wearing some normal linen clothes with an leather apron on top of it, seems to be the smith. Gerad bows towards me, ¡°this is the blacksmith you wanted to see, after hearing what you are, he wants to talk with you.¡± ¡°So you are this new Dungeon, Gerad told me something about how you want to make this city a better place to live in, tell me about that.¡± ¡°I want to recreate the glory from the times when the city ruled an empire, make the live of every citizens as comfortable as possible and help this region thrive and prosper.¡± After I told him that, he eyed me curiously. ¡°If what you say is true than you are an idiot.¡± with that he begins to explain to me where the faults in my thinking are¡­ To make it all short, there seem to be many parties in this town, trying to suppress the others, there are different noble clans, some thief lords and even some sort of secret sect, don¡¯t know how this man knows about them if they are secret, but okay¡­ ¡°To be honest I don¡¯t get why all of that should be a problem, I don¡¯t plan to conquer this country, I only want to help the people.¡± Asking him curiously, he sighs and begins to explain: ¡°The problem is that the nobles and the governor of this city earn a fortune through the suffering of the normal and poor people.¡± At this part I interrupt him and ask: ¡°But why wouldn¡¯t they want to get the population healthy and effective?¡± ¡°They are people who got into their positions through simply being born in the right family, they lived like this their whole live, their parents who educated them lived like this, so why would they make something new, when they can live peacefully like at the moment? That¡¯s too much they would have to do, they are not used to working hard or adjusting.¡± The blacksmith makes his point clear, now I want to know if nobles give more mana than the common man¡­ ¡°You have only mentioned the nobles but not the thief lords, what about them?¡± ¡°They only care about themself, they wouldn''t do anything to help a stranger, let alone a dungeon. The best way to make good results would be either making your own group, to overtake the city or leave this place and search one with better condition¡­¡± He eyes the building in front of him, and looks over all the things that will go into the other two houses. ¡°I see, so I actually have to overtake the city, I hoped there would be another solution¡­. Do you have seen anything interesting, or why do you keep looking over these things there?¡± The Man winces and with a somewhat forced smiling face he turns to me: ¡°Well, I have two children and my wife died because of the disease, so our house isn¡¯t a proper living place anymore, I thought it would be nice to live in such a house as that¡± Perfect, like that he will live under my order: ¡°I don¡¯t mind building a house for you and your children to live in, I only have to finish the other two houses, than I can build you a house with an forge for you to work in.¡± He really seems to be delighted, and quickly bows towards me. ¡°I would be honoured to live in a house build by you, and about the things you want to accomplish, I think we can at least try it, the city has to get some more laughter and colours.¡± I order my servants to accompany him back to his forge and help to get his tools here, afterwards they will get his furniture and then help me getting the other houses furnished. I quickly build the other two houses, exactly the same like the first, so it¡¯s easier and I don¡¯t have to rethink how each thing should be made¡­
Do you want to save the construction plan of the house?
Yes No
Due to building a structure with the same plan a few times, you are now able to place a complete building, if you have enough mana for it, if not you have to make floor for floor.
Ohh, nice little thing, obviously I won¡¯t be able to make a house with my mana pool just like that, but building each floor for itself should be a little faster than doing it completely manually, and it gives me the freedom to make only a basement. The first load comes, some really badass looking hammers and big tongs, together with an anvil and some other things I don¡¯t know because I¡¯ve never seen them before. They quickly look over the new houses, and leave to get the remaining things. I begin to make a stone basement for the forge, big enough so they can store enough coal and iron or with whatever they work with. I plan to make ? of the basement ceiling into the floor of the house, while using the last quarter for the forge, and because of the fire I have to use more stone, which really costs more mana than wood. Because of that I have to often absorb the few remaining bushes. Not that it bothers me to clean up, it¡¯s just that I have nearly no remaining resources. Finally, the ground floor is finished and I begin building the first floor, which I build also above the forge, so the heat that goes up through the smoke outlet does not just go away, instead heats the rooms a bit. I finish everything with the pre-used roof from the other houses, I only have to expand it a bit so it can cover the complete house. Finally making the doors and windows, I can see my servants coming back, but they are more then before aren¡¯t they? 6 gaining and losing levels Chapter 6 As I wait for my servants to come back, I quickly make a new dry toilet for the smithy, somehow, I don¡¯t get any option if I want to save the construction plan, maybe because I didn¡¯t used the exact same length? Doesn¡¯t matter, I make a few fields so they can grow their own food. Children should make the experience to plant something by themself and learn one thing or another while caring for the plants, and no I¡¯m not caring, my servants to be should just be a bit educated.... The group arrived, they use the last sunlight to quickly come over, and with my seven servants the blacksmith and his children 3 other guys appeared, who might they be? The blacksmith and his children, who like every other person here aren¡¯t looking completely healthy, begin to unload the cart, while my servants kneel before me and the 3 new ones don¡¯t really know what to do¡­ ¡°My lord, as you have ordered, we helped bringing the furniture, and we also have 3 new recruits for you, like all of us, they have lost their family and now they want to help making the city a better place for the future generations.¡± Gerad speaks, so that¡¯s why there are some new people who are not dead, I see. The 3 new guys kneel in front of me, and speak in unison: ¡°we swear allegiance to you the dungeon of the tomb, may you guide us to rebuild our city.¡±
Because you have 10 servants you are able to gain experience, and level up when you got enough.
You can earn experience through helping those around you who are in need, or befriending those who would normally attack you.
So I can level up? means I become stronger? thats awesome, maybe I can get a bigger mana pool¡­ After a few seconds of dreaming I realize another message
Due to you helping other people and building them a shelter, you gain enough experience to level up to Level 3
Ohh, so I have actually leveled up, let¡¯s see ¡°Status¡±
Dungeon Core of the stupid Goddess
Health10Mana20
show skills
available skill points2
So no new mana? I tried to get some more information on these ¡®available skill points¡¯ and
skill points can be used to upgrade an existing skill, which makes the skill much stronger
if you want to use a skill point, simple select the skill and think ¡°skill level up¡±
okay, so ¡°show skills¡±
Skills
summoningLevel 1
expand territoryLevel 1
make treasureLevel 1
buildingLevel 1
AppraisalLevel 1
to see the description of a skill or any sub skills, simply think ¡°open ¡± and you will see all information regarding the skill
I think the ¡°make treasure¡± skill and the ¡°building¡± are really important at the moment, so I upgrade these two, takes 1 point each, logically. But something bugs me, why didn¡¯t I get a bit stronger? Like getting more mana or more health? I should become stronger with this level up, right? Let¡¯s see, I could select some things and got info, maybe that''s the same with mana? I gonna try it, ¡°mana ?!¡±
Mana, the magic energy that is in every being, with this you are able to cast spells or make some really cool stuff
due to your allegiance to the stupid goddess, and for only being able to count to 20 in your past life you are not able to raise it
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I¡¯m an intelligent program made by one of the brothers of the ¡®the stupid Goddess¡¯, on this planet better known as ¡®the stupid sorceress¡¯
Whoa, really? I can¡¯t hold it, I laugh maniacally , they actually call her ¡®the stupid sorceress¡¯ on this planet. I have to dig into this,so I can make a perfect story about her stupidity. But didn¡¯t I forgot something? Ahh, right my servants, they look really scared at the moment, hey guys I just laughed a bit, nothing to be scared of, right ? ¡°Uhhm, you are going to get the furniture inside the buildings, and divide yourself over the houses, so everyone can sleep in his own room.¡± ¡°Yes, my lord¡± they answer in unison, stand up and stroll towards their new homes. Poor guys, to have such a master¡­ ¡°Gerad, you remain here.¡± A quick order an he turns around, and kneels in front of me. ¡°follow me, I have to talk to you¡­¡± We begin to walk towards the chapel where my core is, well he goes, I kind of float around¡­ ¡°I want to form a unit of guards, to bring at least a bit of security into the slums, do you think that our people are able to do that?¡± finally I ask him, floating an the altar. ¡°My lord, I think it¡¯s obvious that we have not enough troops to guard the whole slums, and even guarding only a few streets is really difficult. Due to the many agents the thief lords have in the slums, they would just distract our guards with one person while stealing something from their back, if you get what I mean.¡± Gerad says, unsure if it¡¯s okay to tell me his open spoken opinion, not that I care about that¡­ But I see, these thief lords are really a pain, should I try and drive them out of the city? no, is probably impossible right now, with my current powers, I should be happy to be able to defend myself and my servants from all the possible threats of the outside world. But I have another few question right now¡­ ¡°Do you perhaps know a possibility to increase one''s own mana without leveling up?¡± ¡°Yes My lord, in case of a person, one can wear items that help to increase the mana pool, or you make a group, with at least 3 persons, so you can use the mana of all of them, but when you get mana, it gets divided, so each person gets some mana, you should only do this with beings you trust of course.¡± I see, so I can get a big mana pool trough making a group with persons I trust¡­ ¡°And another question, do you happen to know, about leveling up skills?¡± ¡°Yes, If you level up a skill, it gets more powerful, so in case of a fighting skill it gets deadlier and faster, in case of a magic skill, it gets much bigger and more powerful, in case of some crafting skill, your ability to create items gets better, so you are able to make better items.¡± He says without stopping, who the fuck has educated this person? Definitely not a certain stupid someone... ¡°Okay, so last thing for today, what kind of weapon do you prefer?¡± ¡°I¡¯m good with a sword, but was trained to swing an axe.¡± kneeling whenever you¡¯respeaking kind of is really tiring isn¡¯t it? So he was trained to wield an axe? Then the last thing to do try, before it gets night, ¡°make axe¡±.
What kind of axe do you want to make ?
sharp steel axe
polished steel axe
engraved battle axe
I seem to have have 3 options each time I want to make something, well let¡¯s just take the ¡®engraved battle axe¡¯ sound the most epic from all of them¡­ The axe materialized in the air and falls down crrrnk¡­ Okay, good choice, this axe seems to be really good, but it¡¯s kinda stuck in the ground. ¡°Gerad, might you be able to get your new axe out of the ground?¡± He seems surprised, but quickly gets his hands on it, and with a strong pull he has the axe in his hands, and with that the sun goes completely down. Gerad leaves to get back to the houses, and I am just floating, with nothing to do, I can¡¯t do much, because I can¡¯t really see in the Dark. Wait, I was in the Tomb of this ¡®Valcius Grenada¡¯ and there was some sort of light, wasn¡¯t there? Ahh, I have to do this tomorrow, can¡¯t find the entrance now¡­ What should I do for now? Can Dungeons sleep? Or do I have to wait till the sun goes up, to build something again? These questions seem to trigger some sort of reaction inside me, because I fastly lose my ¡®Eye¡¯ sight and begin to drift in some sort of white space, wasn¡¯t this where I had met this stupid Goddess? ¡°Yes, it was, and could you please refrain from calling your master stupid?¡± it¡¯s only slightly terrifying, yes I¡¯m not scared, the voice had just a bit too much pressure in it¡­ ¡°Hrmp, yes, be scared by the great me, and now tell me why wasn¡¯t I reincarnated? Wasn¡¯t that your mission all along?¡± The pressure begins to build up, so I quickly answer: ¡°I am very sorry, but your grave was guarded by some safety runes, so I was not able to resurrect you.¡± A little lie, but she does not have to know this¡­ ¡°I know it, have you forgotten that I¡¯m able to read your thoughts? and just for your information, I am also able to see what you are doing while being my servant¡± Uppsi, well, you see, I had to rebuild your empire first, right? you wouldn¡¯t want to be resurrected in some ruins, right? ¡°Ohh, I get what you mean, you wanted to rebuild my castle first, I see. Then do so and don¡¯t make houses for some plebeians.¡± In the second part, she sort of screamed with so much force that I lost consciousness. Don¡¯t know after how much time, but finally, I got back into life, well at least the white room, with the stupid Goddess. ¡°Well, I sort of nearly killed you again, so it was really hard to regain you. Because I had no more mana, I had to reset your level, in order to make you come back faster¡­¡± Seriously, why do you say that in a proud tone? I lost my precious levels¡­ ¡°Don¡¯t worry about that, when I¡¯m resurrected, I help you slaughtering enemies, so you can level up¡± Won¡¯t really help me, because I don¡¯t get experience through killing¡­ ¡°ehh, why not? You have to, Dungeons function this way¡­¡± Well, she is a stupid Goddess, so maybe it¡¯s natural that she is sometimes not the fastest in thinking¡­ ¡°Hey, I heard that. So explain me, how do you level up then?¡± Is this curiosity in her voice? ¡°I have to help people, with that I gain experience.¡± ¡°What? helping normal people, why would you?¡± As I have said, to gain experience, are you really listening? ¡°But that¡¯s stupid, why should you care for someone else?¡± I think now I know why she was killed when she was a sorceress¡­ ¡°Well, doesn¡¯t matter now, you just have to level up, so you can get about 500 mana in your mana pool, then you revive me.¡± Ohh, 500 mana? well that¡¯s a problem¡­ ¡°Why should that be a problem ? You have to level up, and then your mana pool get¡¯s stronger right?¡± She doesn¡¯t seem to be able to see what her brothers and sisters are doing, which explains, why she doesn¡¯t know about me not being able to gain mana through leveling up. ¡°Ehh, you are not able to gain mana? Ahh, wait sure, he did that. My big brother is so stupid, why has he done that?¡± Ohh, so he¡¯s her big brother,explains a lot. From what I¡¯ve seen till now, he seems to be much more mature than her. ¡°You, I was like I said about 3572 years in a mortal body, so I wasn¡¯t able to mature correctly, okay?¡± So you say, you are not able to mature a bit and get some constructive ideas in this time? ¡°Well, yeah sort of, I am the youngest of us siblings, okay, so I should be allowed to be a child a little longer than the others.¡± For let''s say about 3,5 thousand years longer, sure why not¡­ ¡°Do you want to die again, this time you will not be able to resurrect¡­¡± I have to be honest, I thought a bit about my answer, but hey, you don¡¯t have this much chances to be a dungeon, right? 7 the secret chambers Chapter 7 After leaving this ¡®conversation¡¯ with the idiot and coming back to my senses (as a Dungeon Core I mean) I saw the sun, going up at the horizon. I seem to be out for quite a while¡­ Well, I wanted to check on to this secret chamber, so I leave my servants alone for a bit more¡­ As I open the hidden entrance to the ¡®grave¡¯ of Valcius Grenada I discover a few blue glowing stones sticking out of the walls. They seem to be the only light source except the sun that is shining in from the entrance. It takes a while, but finally I¡¯m able to Identify one of these stones through ¡®Appraisal¡¯
little magic stones (water)
These stones might be little, but through them you might be able to cast better water magic related spells, they shine when it¡¯s dark.
Okay, so they are magic stones, and they can help casting water related spells? is it hard to cast them, or why does one need help for that? Have ask Gerad later on, he should know about that¡­ With that I want to try and get a stone out of the walls, so I¡¯m able to use them to lighten to living area from my dungeon core. It¡¯s not that I¡¯m scared of the darkness, but to be able to see is always something good, right?Sadly I get interrupted by Gerad, calling me from the entrance. Why does he know I¡¯m in here? A bit reluctantly I come back, out of the ¡®grave¡¯, Gerad looks a bit restless, did he run the whole route, then is there something to be worried about? ¡°My Lord, we need your help, some of the peasants from the slums have tried to rob from the forge, they are currently guarded by 3 of our men, while the others are scouting for more thieves.¡± Ohh, well sure, 4 Houses sort of popped up at the outskirts of the graveyard, an that only in a few hours, so who in his right mind wouldn¡¯t label it maybe slightly un normal? But maybe it¡¯s normal for this world to build their houses so fast, I don¡¯t know¡­ We run back to the houses, well gerad runs and I¡¯m floating¡­ When we arrive there, I can see 6 people sitting on the ground, guarded by my men who seem to be really upset. ¡°So tell me, what happened Gerad?¡± He kneels before me, and tells me how he woke up this morning, and heard someone trying to open the door with force from the outside. So he hurriedly got up and equipped his sword to his waist and took his axe in his right, then stormed out of the room the see who tried to break down the door... In the end, there were 6 peasants who were hungry, and wanted to get something to eat. Why they didn¡¯t go behind the house and just got something from the garden, I don¡¯t know¡­ They seem not to be educated enough to harvest or grow some crops, so they might not even know that there was so much food in the garden. ¡°You tried to steal from me through breaking in on of my servants houses, I think you know that this will have consequences?¡± The guys in front of me nod, they seem to be much more thinner than my servants, maybe some sort of beggars? Doesn¡¯t matter, I¡¯m going to make them into my work force. ¡°You are compensating for what you have done through working for me, you are going to carry out my orders and for that I will feed you and house you¡± Hopefully, my voice didn¡¯t sound to weak. They look happy, or maybe relieved? my my work conditions don¡¯t seem to be that bad, the only thing I can compare my offer to is my past life, and not many would have accepted such a job¡­ But well, they sort of had to accept what I wanted, so yeah, I could have made them into fresh mana, but at the moment I need more servants, mana has to wait for later on¡­ I issue a few orders to my ¡®old¡¯ six guards and the new six ones, so they bring me more dead bodies, after eating their breakfast. After hearing that some of the new guys had watering eyes, maybe the situation in the city is even more poorly than I thought it is. Gerad had to play my educator, so he has to stay with me while waiting for some dead bodies to play, ehrm build with. ¡°Gerad, the tomb I was in as you searched me, can you tell me about the person whose name is on the gravestone?¡± He flinches, maybe I asked about something that one shouldn¡¯t ask ? I only asked about a person, right? If you spot this narrative on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.¡°What¡¯s the matter Gerad, is there a problem?¡± He kind of smiles, and tells me: ¡°Well it is not my task to keep an eye on your hobbies, but can you please make whatever you did inside when it¡¯s night time?¡± What does he think I have done? Does he think I¡¯m doing necrophilia? ¡°Stop, it¡¯s not what you think, follow me¡­¡± with that I float in direction of the secret entrance, while Gerad tries to get himself out of that while following me, with sentences like that: ¡°I don¡¯t have a woman, I¡¯m not as desperate as you might be, so can you please go alone?¡± ¡°What happens if you get ill through your hobbies?¡± ¡°What about a woman? You might have more joy with one, the person you were in is a man as I can see from the name?¡± Really? What kind of society is that? Or is it just him? But firstly, I have to show him what I discovered¡­ ¡°Gerad, shut it. I don¡¯t plan to make such things you suggested, I only want your knowledge for some things I wanted to discuss, first of all, do you know this person named ¡®Valcius Grenada¡¯?¡± He seem to be a bit hesitant to answer, maybe because of all the things he told me he got a bit embarrassed after my answer¡­ ¡°He was the Royal archivar, and an tactician on top of that, but I didn¡¯t know he was buried here, as I know he should have died somewhere in the swamps while fighting, so it¡¯s unlikely that his men brought him back home.¡± he says more serious this time I activate the letter on the gravestone, and the secret entrance opens up. I float down, followed by Gerad, and move straight to the books. ¡°Do you happen to know why he or someone else would hide something like this?¡± Gerad looks through a few books, and looks really astonished, then goes to a map that is stored in one of the shelves. ¡°They are mostly about history, and military tactics, but the tactics are so bad that you can¡¯t expect whoever has led an army like that to survive, must have been someone really stupid.¡± Yeah, and I think I know who it was, she¡¯s currently trying to revive and do it again. My self proclaimed master, the stupid goddess. ¡°What about the maps? are they at least useful?¡± Maybe I can get at least something out of that.¡± Gerad looks over a few maps, but answers quickly ¡° I don¡¯t know who the painter was, but he did a really bad job, the maps are maybe enough to show children that we are currently not in the south, but other than that they are completely wrong made.¡± They are sort of made with the ¡®you stand here¡¯ sign in the middle of the map, that is painted with some sort of watercolors or something similar to that. Maybe the idiot was born as an at least a bit powerful goddess, but added to that completely stupid? Yeah, most probably¡­ ¡°What else is there, that might be interesting?¡± At least something other than the stones should be useful for me, right? ¡°Here are a few books, with the title ¡®Diary¡¯, they have the best paper quality, but I haven¡¯t read them yet, I think I am going to go through them one after the other, so I don¡¯t miss anything that might be important¡± Yeah Gerad, do that, after that maybe you will see the truth about you so beloved Royal family. For me it¡¯s obvious what that is, the secret place of a stupid Goddess of life and death, who somehow was a creative child, that painted awful. So I leave Gerad to do his new job, which is reading Diaries from a stupid Goddess, lets see how long he is able to do that¡­ _______________ If you have ideas for how to continue the story, please let me know, I have got some pretty nice ideas through your comments in the last chapters^^ If you find grammar mistakes or see some hard to understand things and have an idea how to write it so one can understand it easier, please tell me so I can correct them and you can read the story more easily without thinking about what I want to tell you I plan to have Christmas with my family in an house in the Eifel National Park Forest, that has obviously no WLAN, means from the 22.12 till maybe the 27 or 28 of december I won¡¯t be able to update the story, till then I plan to upload a chapter each day... 8 reinforcing the settlement Chapter 8 Leaving the secret rooms, I see my servants coming back with more dead bodies, they have more than normally, because having 2 carts to transport them. Wherever they got the new one from, I don¡¯t care¡­ They unload the dead bodies in front of the graveyard gate, and leave to get more bodies. I begin absorbing the bodies, and with the gained mana I build more houses, so my new servants can live with me. It¡¯s much more easier than the first time, because I simply use the building plans, I used for my other houses.All my ¡®servant quarters¡¯ are on the sides of the way that is coming from the town and going up to the graveyard, the 3 houses I build yesterday are on one side, the forge and the houses I¡¯m currently building are on the other... When I finished the houses, a message pops up
building houses for your servants got you enough experience to level up, you can check your status to get more information, but I already explained the things to you, so don''t expect to much. hope you remember at least a bit
Isn¡¯t the system a bit unfriendly? Well, doesn¡¯t matter, let¡¯s check, which skill I can upgrade later on¡­ Because I have new servants I need a higher food production, and because I have a few remaining dead guys lying at the front of my gate, I begin building some fields, so they don¡¯t have to worry about food, and can work for me the whole day. The fields are made using the permaculture idea, and thanks to the hilly area, I make the fields on different heights,using stone walls. So thanks to the earth that is filled up to the high of the walls, I gain a bit of place, that can grow food.Not that I don¡¯t have enough place, it¡¯s just, that I want to use the place I have to the best extend. After finishing that, my servants come back, with new dead bodies, unload them and go to get new ones. Around the fields I make around two and a half meter high stone walls, and because I build a walkway on the side towards the fields, We can use the walls in case of an emergency to defend our homes. Because of these new structure, maybe some thieves from the town might come, better build a few watchtowers, so my servants can oversee the area¡­ The Watchtowers were built on top of the stone walls. I use the walls as a foundation for them, while extending the tower foundation about half a meter to the outside . On top of that, I build stone layer over stone layer, till the ¡®tower was about 2.5 meters taller than the original wall. Of course I build it so, that you can go under the defensive platform, to reach the other side of the wall.Then I make a stone wall on the outsides of the the construction, that goes up to the hip, so while fighting from the top of the tower, you can duck behind them. At the 4 corners of the stone construction, I place a wooden beam each, so they can carry the roof made with clay bricks. My servants should not get a cold while keeping watch. To get onto the towers, you have to firstly climb the stairs that lead onto the walls, then you go to the ladder, that is leading onto the watchtowers. Finally done, I have no more bodies remaining, so let¡¯s have a look at my skill ¡°show skills¡±
Skills
summoningLevel 1
expand territoryLevel 1
make treasureLevel 1
buildingLevel 1
AppraisalLevel 1
to see the description of a skill or any sub skills, simply think ¡°open and you will see all information regarding the skill
What, wait, my skills also got a set back? Well, should be expected... And because I only have one skill point, so let¡¯s invest it into building. I think I need to build really much in the near future, any help I get for that is welcome. My servants come back, and gawk at the fields that are surrounding their homes, well, maybe not, rather they inspect the defensive structures I made. They seem to be really impressed, now that I think about it, the town in itself does not have a wall, or defensive measures like that¡­ After they had unloaded the dead bodies, they inspected the walls and tower more detailed, so I had some time with Gerad. ¡°My Lord, that is an impressive structure you build there, but I think it will gather the attention of the locals, and maybe even the nobles. They do not have the money, to build an fortress, but they may have the resources to conquer it¡­¡± I see, so the walls and towers make this settlement a goal to conquer, instead of scaring off the thieves. The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement. ¡°Do you think, that we can guard and defend the walls in case of an attack?¡± I don¡¯t want to loose this settlement just because it has a few walls. ¡°Only with our 12 men, that would be impossible, even when the blacksmith and I help them we will not be able to defend a structure this large, but you as a Dungeon, you should have the ability to summon monsters to serve you, depending on what kind of dungeon you are, the monsters will differ thou.¡± Ohh, thats important information, so maybe I can summon some undeads to guard the walls¡­
What kind of undead do you want to summon ?
undead farmerHe died while caring for his crops, if you summon him, he will continue caring for the fields
undead warriorhe died while fighting, if you summon him he will loyally fight for your side
undead dogit died while waiting for it¡¯s owner to come back, if you summon it, you have to cuddle it so it¡¯s loyalty goes to you
poor dog.... But I seem to be able to summon an undead farmer, means he can work, without getting ill or tired? That¡¯s awesome, but at the moment I don¡¯t have enough mana to joke around, I have to expand my territory and help my servants. But firstly I have to secure the walls, so ¡°summon undead warrior¡± and please as many as possible¡­ Black fog comes from the ground in front of me, and about 40 skeletons suddenly stand in front of me, because I had 10 mana that means I can summon 4 skeletons with only 1 mana. But that is also an indicator for the warriors maybe not being the best fighters ... I order them to take position on the walls and towers, and without any resistance they do what they were ordered to do. My servants come back while I absorb the new dead bodies, then suddenly
You have gained a new skill through absorbing a guard
guardingwith this skill, you are always aware of your surroundings.
With that, I can feel the outside of my dungeon territory, nearly as clear as the insides, of course the farther the things are away, the less I¡¯m able to feel their presence. But I can clearly feel into the beginnings of the slums. which means I¡¯m able to defend my territory better against thieves¡­ My servants are kneeling before me, and at that moment, I notice that my new 6 servants don¡¯t have any kind of armor¡­ Of course, I have to make them armor, or else who knows what can kill them I make them the same chain mail armor I made for my other servants, and the moment they put on their armors, I get a new message.
Due to you making armor for your servants, you have gained enough experience to level up.
nice, another level up, means I can upgrade the ¡®make treasure¡¯ skill again, which I of course directly do. After giving my servants the order to bring more dead bodies to me, an idea stucks me. Why not making undeads, that get the dead bodies from the city entrance, with that I could get dead bodies without any delay even in the night¡­ But I would have to make some sort of collection spot, so everyone brings the dead there, instead of taking them wherever they take them at the moment¡­ With that idea I absorb the dead bodies, and begin expanding my territory, till I¡¯m in front of the town''s entrance, well you could call it an entrance, but it was more like the beginning of the first shacks. If you can call them so, because I don¡¯t know how they even maintain this standing position, regarding the things they are made of, they should crumble because of the soft wind alone¡­ with these thoughts, I see my men coming back, maybe I should ask them, if they can make contact with whoever is ¡®living¡¯ here -if you can even call it that- and try to get them serving under me¡­ __________________ If you have ideas for how to continue the story, please let me know, I have got some pretty nice ideas through your comments in the last chapters^^ If you find grammar mistakes or see some hard to understand things and have an idea how to write it so one can understand it easier, please tell me so I can correct them and you can read the story more easily without thinking about what I want to tell you Should I write a POV from Gerad¡¯s point of view in the next days? please let me hear your ideas 9 passive mana income Chapter 9 At first I ordered my men, to unload the dead bodies right at the outskirts of the city, and go back to our fortress, and guard the openings of the walls. I may have build quite a big structure, but it was not able to cover the whole area around the settlement, so there are a few gaps in our defense. While they do this Gerad should go around and ask if there is anyone living there who might be interested in a better live. From my experience, many people who don¡¯t have a good live, think that the live they live is all they can ever accomplish, but that¡¯s only because there is no one who gives them a helping hand, to build something worth living for. I hope some of the living population are willing enough to entrust these matters to people like us¡­ And I myself am building some sort of stone brick surface, where the dead people from the city should be loaded onto¡­ It¡¯s a bit aside from the path that leads to the churchyard, so I make a gravel path to connect the path and the stone brick area, big enough for a cart to be pulled directly to the area, where the dead should be stored¡­ I said that I respect the dead sometime ago, but to be honest, it¡¯s better to directly use them, then burying them into the earth to let them rot, right? So with no moral concerns, I open my first cadaver transit camp. After making the finishing touches, Gerad comes back and reports a few people who want to try living in my dominion, so they will be transported to the fortress over the day. Most of the new citizens have a few things they want to move with them, because of that, we have to make a few loads, or else we won¡¯t get everything with us¡­ With that decided, I have to build many new homes, but I won¡¯t have enough mana for this, even when absorbing the dead bushes and animals in front of the town¡­ ¡°Gerad is there a place in the town, to inform the people about new important information?¡± ¡°Yes my lord, it would be the marketplace, it¡¯s not as well visited as a few years ago, but it will help spreading messages through the town faster¡± So they also have a marketplace, that is important information¡­ ¡°Then please tell the citizens to bring all the dead towards this transit camp, and let them know, that your group will no longer get them from wherever you got them till now. From the area here I can just absorb them, and we don¡¯t have to waste our time with getting more dead people¡± Gerad leaves after a quick bow, so with nothing left to do here, I leave towards the fortress. With the few mana I can gain through absorbing the dead animals and plants in my territory, I begin building shacks, around the walls, so everything together is like a medieval village. For the floor a simple stone base, then with wooden planks, I build the walls and the roof. thanks to me sticking to this plan, I can save the building plan after making two of these houses, so I don¡¯t have to execute every step manually¡­ After building them, I begin to build simpler wooden palisades, to connect the stonewalls. Thanks to stone being a more costly option, I have to stick to wood. The wooden parts of the wall are not as high as the stone parts, so I use stairs to make it easier to navigate from one to the other¡­ As I make a break, I notice, that there are many more new tombs on the old graveyard, so many more then there were at the beginning. after controlling them, I notice, that they are the skeletons of the people I absorbed till now, means when ever I absorb someone their skeleton gets buried in the graveyard¡­ Gerad comes near me ¡°My lord, the message you gave me is now circulating in the town, you should expect the first dead bodies in a few hours, but I have something I have to speak with you about¡± ¡°What is it Gerad? Let me hear the thoughts that trouble you¡± ¡°Winter is coming, and the the town does not have enough food to survive, not enough medicine nor enough warm clothing, can you please help us?¡± That is indeed troubling, if winter is coming, then they would need more food, medicine and warmer clothing, and with helping them I will gain more experience... ¡°I see, I will look into it, but how many people would be expected, to survive until winter? I need to build new homes, so they have it warmer¡± ¡°Ohh, I see, well the current population is about 1,8 thousand people, we once had over 5 thousand, but because of the greed of the nobles many couldn¡¯t afford to buy food or find shelter, so our population drops every year.¡± he seems very sad about that, has he lost someone because of that? But about 1,8 thousand people, that are a lot, I have to give it my all, so the city can once again flourish¡­ ¡°Then can you please gather the refugees that will come over the day, and show them into the houses I build. They are just temporary shelters, but when I have enough mana I will make them a better place to live in¡± Gerad bows to me, and leaves to welcome the first cart with refugees, and show them a shack to live in¡­ At that time, I notice, that there are some dead bodies lying at the stone pavement. My plan works, I don¡¯t have to go and waste time searching for them anymore¡­ After absorbing them, I begin building more shacks, thanks to the building plan, I can build many of them in a short amount of time, and I don¡¯t have to use as much mana as before. I don¡¯t know why this is like that, I only know this¡­ I make the same canalization system as I did at the graveyard, so we have a bit more water. I build the system so the water that got through the tanks filled with the filtering plants goes into a big underground cistern and is accessible through a well. Support the creativity of authors by visiting the original site for this novel and more. A few trees planted, and thanks to my ability, they about 10 years old trees when I plant them, so I don¡¯t have to wait so long till are grown enough to give fruits. Winter is coming, but in the next year, they should bear fruits¡­ Then I make some furniture for all the houses, they may have brought a few pieces, but I don¡¯t think that they have enough pillows, or the most important a tea set. So I¡¯m helping them with that a bit¡­ After a few hours of waiting till there are new dead bodies to absorb, and using the mana to plant some trees, make a few little fields, and making a better road to the fortress, using gravel, finally all new servants of mine are there, have seen their houses, and are now gathered in front of the walls, where my undead warriors keep guard. I see many men, a few children but only 5 women, why only 5? shouldn¡¯t there be more woman in a town? they are important... ¡°Thank you for coming, I hope you are satisfied with your current houses, sadly we don¡¯t have enough resources to make better ones for you, but with the time you all will be prepared for the winter. So fear not our saviour the dungeon has come and will help you out from now on¡± Gerad speaks with confidence, while crowd cheers and cry out their thanks for saving them¡­ Is this some sort of cult? Well doesn¡¯t matter¡­
due to adding people to your community and building houses for them, you have leveled up to level 8
due to having more than 40 followers, you now get extra mana every hour for the beings living in your territory
current mana gain per hour: 12
Whoa that¡¯s a lot¡­ And I only have about 50 followers, when I can get the whole city, I will gain much more¡­ Thanks to these I might be able to finish the house upgrades earlier¡­ But now my 5 newly gained skill points, it seems to be the case, that when I upgrade a skill, the price to upgrade it again gets more expensive¡­ so now 2 skill points for ¡®building¡¯ should I do that? well yeah, I need the skill, and the better it is the better for me¡­
due to getting the skill ¡®building¡¯ on level 3 you are now able to place ¡®little magic stones¡¯
Ohh, so I can make a magic light source, that will be helpful in the future¡­ and about the other skill points, should I use them to upgrade ¡®building again? No, should upgrade everything, and not just ¡®building¡¯... with that I upgrade ¡®summoning¡¯ and ¡®expand territory¡¯ so they both reach level 2 with that my skill window looks like that:
Skills
summoningLevel 2
expand territoryLevel 2
make treasureLevel 2
buildingLevel 3
AppraisalLevel 1
to see the description of a skill or any sub skills, simply think ¡°open and you will see all information regarding the skill
It will get dark in a few hours, so my new followers quickly get shown around the whole area. At that time, I summon more undead warriors:
What kind of undead do you want to summon ?
awesome undead farmerHe died while caring for his crops, if you summon him, he will continue caring for the fields, and he will do the job better than the normal farmer
stronger undead warriorhe died while fighting, if you summon him he will crush your enemies
crazy undead dogit died while waiting for it¡¯s owner to come back, and got crazy because of that. If you summon it, you have to cuddle it so it¡¯s loyalty goes to you
Oh, so better undead? well only the farmers and the warriors, the dog got only crazy¡­ poor thing¡­ I summon about 20 awesome undead farmers, so we do not have to care about the fields that much. Then when the darkness comes, I begin placing some magic stones near my core, so I can do a few things, even in the darkness. And then my ¡®guarding¡¯ skill informs me of something¡­ They haven¡¯t left the outskirts of the town, but why are there armed men coming towards my village? __________ Thanks for reading If you have any ideas for how to continue the story, please let me know. I have some pretty nice ideas but I would enjoy adding some of your ideas in the story^^ If you find grammar or vocabulary mistakes, please tell me so I can correct them and you can read the story easier... 10 the crazy axemen Chapter 10 Gerad POV It had been a long time waiting, but finally the promise was fulfilled, a dungeon was born at the royal tomb. I was the one selected to welcome him, luckily the one I hunt is near me, so maybe I will finally find him, but because it was an order of the upper ones, I had to go straight to the tomb. The event we have waited for generations, happened at the time when we needed it the most, finally he came, the might of the empress will be rebuilt. The Dungeon Core was a friendly one, he doesn¡¯t seem to have any experience being an Dungeon, so I helped him a bit at the beginning. He grew fast, and built us our new homes, eventually he needed to ask about a few things, so I answered him the best I could. I was trained for that, and for much more, I am a member of the secret guard, the ones that will help resurrecting the royal sorceress when the time is right. I am the one to directly help in this mission, and it seem to work perfectly, but after helping the new refugees into their homes, the Dungeon made contact with me again¡­ ¡°Gerad, there are about two dozens of armed man coming towards the fortress, I think they are only thieves, but in case my skeletons are not able to defend against them, can I expect your help?¡± Ohh, why are you so nice to one who should only be a normal servant of yours, order me around, don¡¯t ask me if it will bother me, to help chopping of a few heads¡­ ¡°Of course my lord, they will regret trying to sneak up to us¡± I grin, finally I am able to bathe in blood again, it was so long, that I don¡¯t remember the last time. The Dungeon obviously has no fighting experience, so I have to command the troops, they are only a few skeletons, but at least they can keep a few guys occupied till I can chop them to pieces¡­ ¡°My lord, can I have the command for the troops for this battle? I am confident to defeat them in a short time, so you won¡¯t have to worry about these bugs anymore¡± I bow, bowing seem to please him, so I use it whenever I think it fits. ¡°Of course, but please be careful not to hurt yourself too much¡­¡± Oh he has such a nice heart, ahh no he hasn¡¯t he¡¯s a Dungeon Core, they do not have hearts¡­ The dungeon places a few ¡®little mana stones¡¯ in front of the hastily build earthen walls that are between the town and the new build shacks, so we are able to see better in the dark, I command the 40 skeleton soldiers. At the time my 6 friends that helped me from the start fastly arm themself, while the other residents are evacuated behind the stone walls¡­ Maybe they will lose their homes again, but I don¡¯t think so, we only have 25 attackers, they will be a nice training, I will enjoy them¡­ You may think I am crazy, but that¡¯s not directly correct, I simply act crazy, because I want to make the enemy fear going against us in the future, so we have less casualties in the future fights. They come near us, because of the dark night we weren¡¯t able to see them, but now they enter the light up space, and because we haven¡¯t made a noise till now they probably won¡¯t expect us¡­ They come about 5 meters in front of the wall, and at that moment I jump up, and over the earth, then let my axe swing, one head flies away, 24 to go¡­ Simply put, they aren¡¯t a fighting unit. They have only ragged clothing and are only armed with some knives, only a few of them have clubs and only one has a sword, most probably this guy is the leader¡­ My unit advances, 40 skeletons armed with iron weapons, maybe they would have been able to handle this alone? But that doesn¡¯t matter, I go straight for their leader, hacking at a few guys who are stupid enough to try and attack me... He suddenly grabs into his pocket and then holds a little stone in his hand, I know this stone, stupid guy, to really think that will save him¡­ ¡°Firebolt¡± He screams, you¡¯re doing it too loud, everyone would just jump to the side after hearing what you¡¯re trying to do. But I am not everyone, I simply continue going towards him¡­ The little stone has a rune engraved into it, the rune shines for a few seconds, then the stone breaks and a little firebolt comes flying towards me, it¡¯s really pathetic, why is someone using something so ineffective? I shrug my thoughts off, and lift my axe up, then in the correct moment, I let it meet the little firebolt, and because of the angle I¡¯m striking with it, the firebolt simply gets pushed a bit to the side, so flys into the back of an thief currently fighting with an skeleton, he screams while burning to pieces¡­ The leader screams, suddenly he isn¡¯t as confident as before, and stumbles away. Bad luck boy, using magic runes is tiring if you¡¯re not used to it... I speed up a bit and slash him into the legs, he screams and tumbles down¡­ He is as pathetic as the one I was hunting down, sadly my wife wasn¡¯t strong enough for him¡­ ¡°Who has send you? speak or I might poke you again¡± playing my role as the crazy warrior, I try to make a voice as scary as possible, deep and slow, so he suffers a bit more¡­ ¡°It was the one eyed one, please don¡¯t kill me¡­¡± pathetic, I give the order to the skeletons who have killed about 20 of the guys now (I have slashed a few so they are completely annihilated) to silence him, he is too lowly for me to wast my time on¡­ This tale has been unlawfully obtained from Royal Road. If you discover it on Amazon, kindly report it. But, the one-eyed one, that can only be him, so he is somewhere near, finally my hunt comes to an end, I smile the one who has killed my family at the moment I had to defend the town, now it¡¯ his time to suffer¡­ ¡°Thank you for your help Gerad, we didn¡¯t have any losses, but tell me what bothers you?¡± Oh, so he watched the whole thing, well he is the one I have to serve under for now, so let¡¯s be honest¡­ ¡°I discovered that they were send by one of the local thief lords, we should destroy now that he is weakened.¡± And I get my revenge for the dead of my wife and children, finally after this many years... ¡°I see, very well, than please take this, you should wear lighter armor than the heavy chainmail, so let me make you some decent leather armor.¡± Oh he is to nice, not only is he helping me with some minions, he even gives me some good armor and weapons¡­ A really good looking leather armor suddenly drops on the ground, I lift it up, and discover that it has a few runes to make the wearer stronger. This is a magic armor, something only extremely talented enchanters can do¡­ I equip the new armor, it¡¯s a bit lighter than the chainmail, and it¡¯s a lot easier to move in it. A decent quality armor, I¡¯m looking forward to the armor he makes in a few months¡­ With the final things made, I want to go, and finally bring despair to my enemy, but¡­ ¡°What Gerad why were you this fast, you should have waited for us¡­¡± My six friends finally come, looks like they needed quite some time to come¡­ ¡°Guys I have an mission for you to, Gerad is going to take down one of the thief lord''s, please take a few skeleton soldiers each, and evacuate the citizens from the fights, bring them to us, then I can build them some decent homes¡­ With that about 100 or more skeletons start spawning while some of the dead bodies on the ground get¡¯s absorbed in the process. When looking at them you as an normal citizen will see only skeletons soldiers, but as an warrior, I see that they are equipped with good made armor, and balanced weapons, not the tattered clothes and rusty weapons my skeletons used¡­ With the order to do our jobs, the road to the town gets illuminated in little mana stones, and we begin marching towards our first battle in quite some time. I command the unit of 40 skeletons, and stealthily get near the hideout I suspect the remaining thieves to be in. The house has two stories, and maybe a basement... Then when arriving, I send 10 of my skeletons to the back door, in a little alley on the side, so if someone tries to flee, we will get them. After they arrived, I try to open the door, but sadly it¡¯s locked, so without further wasting time, I break the door with my axe, it¡¯s poorly made, so that¡¯s not difficult. 15 of my skeletons are going to search this floor, and let the ones waiting on the back door in then search the basement. The others will come with me, and kill everyone on the first floor. After storming up the stairs, there are 3 doors to choose from, I open the first and see a few guys waking up because of the commotion, I send 7 skeletons in to kill them. Next door contains a workplace, and nobody''s in here. So to the final door, I kick it open and there he is, laying on the bed snoring. I send the remaining 6 skeletons to help the others and then guard the entrance, so we won¡¯t get a bad surprise when trying to go out. He is sleeping so peacefully, I get reminded of what he has done to my family and lift my axe, but just killing him would be to easy, so I slash at his right foot, and it comes off. His body isn¡¯t really strong¡­ [Note: I don¡¯t want to write the next scene because I want to eat in a hour, just think what you would do to someone who has killed your loved ones, and is completely defenseless in front of you, then make your actions a bit crazier and there you have the part I don¡¯t want to write] After finishing my business, I come back down and give orders to go back to our fortress. We get moving and the moment we come into the slums, I am a bit startled, I have forgotten about the orders my friends got. The whole street is filled with people who are slowly going towards our fortress, this dungeon core really intends to fulfill the old texts¡­
Due to having trust in your friend (the Dungeon Core of the stupid Goddess), you now share your mana pools
______________ Thanks for reading I wanted to make a POV for him, there it is, and thanks for all the ideas for future content^^ If you have any ideas for how to continue the story, please let me know. I have some pretty nice ideas but I would enjoy adding some of your ideas in the story^^ If you find grammar or vocabulary mistakes, please tell me so I can correct them and you can read the story easier... 11 refuges Chapter 11 After Gerad left my territory to kill the leader of those thieves, and the other 12 guys went into the slums, to ¡°evacuate¡± the citizens into my territory, I float to the people who are currently waiting inside the fortress. ¡°Don¡¯t worry, our guards were able to expel the intruders, you can go back to your homes.¡± With that I make magic street lights, consisting of a few stone bricks that are holding an iron pole, that ends in a sphere out of glas. inside this sphere I place a ¡°little magic stone¡± inside of the sphere each time. With this construction, the inside of the fortress is illuminated in soft light, while thanks to a few of the constructions placed outside, the important ways between the shacks are also brighter than before, when they were only illuminated by the light coming out of the windows¡­ With their surroundings lighted out, my citizens go back to their homes. Is it bad to call them my citizens? I mean they live inside of me, don¡¯t they? And a nice thing I noticed, is that the mana I get every hour, is actually divided into smaller portions, so I get 1 mana every few minutes. When I have a higher mana gain per hour, I might get mana every minute or even every second¡­ So then, I will get many new residents, that of course means, I have to build some shacks for them to live in, or big halls that are more like reception camps, because it would be really expensive (I mean too much mana mana) to build a house for every family and single person that might come in my territory. With that, I float outside of the ¡°shacks district¡± outside of the fortress walls and begin building a big stone base to build a hall on. Then I place big stone pillars, to hold the ceiling later on, and make some poorly done wooden walls (I have to save up a bit mana, so they have to bear with it) they reach up to the top of the stone pillars. I actually made the stone pillars too big for just one floor, so I begin building the first floor, using the wooden plank method I used all the time till now. Next thing to do, making a staircase from the ground floor to the first floor, or more accurate from the outside ground to the first floor. Well I actually make two stairs, one on each side of the building, so it¡¯s easier to access. Last part is the housetop, I simply make a nearly flat one, it is bend a bit, so the rain will (if it comes) will be collected by a downspout, and then lead into a collecting tank, that is integrated in the house. So they have a bit water in the house, life might get easier this way¡­ After finally finishing (I had to wait after finishing one step, till my mana was high enough to make the next step) the first refuges finally show up. I¡¯m so lucky that I have the possibility to get some, as I remember some countries on earth had the possibility to get them, but were strictly against accepting them, I don¡¯t know why but I don¡¯t care either. But to be honest, accepting them gives you so many things. they work for you, make your food, and give you more mana, well maybe not the last option for everyone¡­ Not that I am accepting them, I let them be picked up by my minions, there were not enough in the first group (those I build the shacks for), so I had to ¡°hire¡± some more. Luckily I could use the ¡°we are going to fight against the thief lord in the city, evacuate the citizens¡± excuse, to let them come to me thankfully. While the first refuges are shown their place to live in for now, I get a massive mana regeneration increase, so I begin building a second building. They can each maybe hold about 25 people, 30 if some share their rooms, so I have to work really hard for now¡­ A few hundred people are currently in front of the new build halls, I finished 4 for now and am building more at the moment. Thanks to saving the building plan, after building it the second time, and a big amount of mana I gain every minute, I can now easily build more halls. And then a really nice message pops up
Gerad is now your friend, due to that your mana pools are now connected
Your mana pool is expanded by 13, your new mana pool is able to contain 33 mana.
Nice, nice, but why was he suddenly my friend? Have to ask him about that later on... Half an hour later, I finished enough halls, to house about 350 people. And then the groups of refugees from the city stop, and the rest of my servants, that remained in the city to get more people, finally come back. So I ¡°give shelter¡± to about 450 people now, well not really I have to build 4 more halls, but I don¡¯t have enough place to do so¡­ So I have to use ¡°expand territory¡±, I gain about half of the slums, when a message pops up.
Warning
Your territory is touching with a sphere of Defense, you are not able to expand further into that direction.
Ohh, so there is such a thing as that, but that also means I¡¯m not able to use the city buildings for my own goals, at least for now¡­ The halls I build until now, were all build near the way, leading from the city to my core, but now I have to expand my territory to the sides¡­ wait, I haven¡¯t expanded my territory to all sides symmetrical? I think I did so at first, but after seeing the city, I wanted to get there, so maybe I unconsciously expanded my territory only in this direction? This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version. Doesn¡¯t matter right now, I only have to destroy this ¡®Sphere of defense¡¯ and expand my territory into the town¡­ No of course not, I have to expand on the sides of the town so I¡¯m able to surround it, and then nobody can leave it without paying a price¡­ I¡¯m going to stick with the second idea, but I think the last part won¡¯t happen, for now¡­ After building the halls, I search for Gerad, he has to be somewhere here, ah, right where are my skeletons, they went into the city, right? wasn¡¯t there the ¡®protection barrier¡¯? There he is, coming out of the city, with the unit of ¡®stronger skeleton warriors¡¯. Should I let him sleep first, or should I bombard him with my questions? Well maybe he can get a bit of sleep next night¡­ When he comes back, I order the warriors, to guard the ¡®fortress¡¯ while the weaker warriors, that helped with the evacuation, will patrol the outer buildings, and the near area. ¡°Welcome back Gerad, I hope your task was successful, I have to ask a few questions to you¡­¡± ¡°I have killed the thief lord, that attacked us, and please feel free to ask, I try to answer the questions the best I can¡± Ohh, he¡¯s kneeling in front of me again¡­ ¡°Good, one person less, to care about, ahh no, I mean it¡¯s good that someone as evil as him is dead¡± I wouldn¡¯t wish dead to someone who can bring me more mana, only to someone who tries to rob or kill me or my mana source.¡±Then about my questions, how were you able to enter the city with the undead, as far as I know, there is some kind of barrier to shield the city against harm.¡± ¡°yes, right, there should be some kind of barrier, but it only acts against non-physical powers, like for example magic, the runes that were used for the barrier should be carved into some big magic stones¡­¡± ¡°What do you mean, carved into magic stones?¡± ¡°exactly what I say, if you carve a rune into a magic stone, and the magic stone has a high compatibility with the rune, in this case it was a rune for magic protection from the outside, carved into a stone that supports the rune, and it should be a big one...¡± I see, so if I carve a water magic rune, into the ¡®little magic stone (water)¡¯ then it might become a powerful magic¡­ ¡°So if I use a rune onto a compatible stone, I can use as much magic as I want?¡± ¡°No, there are some limitations. like you have to cast to activate the rune, and that alone can take quite some time, it depends on your total mana pool if and how fast you are able to cast the magic¡­¡± ¡°So there is someone casting at the rune that protects the city?¡± ¡°No, actually you only have to activate such a rune once,because it is a constant spell, then it will uphold the magic until the stone runs out of magic power, and it turns into magic powder. The runes you use for actual combat on the other hand like ¡®fireball¡¯ or ¡®blizzard¡¯ have to be casted each time they should be used, and another big down of this is, that the magic stones that are used for this type of combat break much easier. If they use a big enough magic stone, the actual casting might be done about half a century ago, maybe even longer.¡± ¡°But that means there are many different magic stones, right?¡± ¡°Yes and the bigger they are, the more powerful they get, but sadly I don¡¯t know how they come to existence, if they grow from little too big over time, or use some other kind of system¡± That explains a few things, maybe I can get some of these bigger mana stones¡­ ¡°Okay, then to my last question, I think you got the message, but why are our mana pools connected?¡± That¡¯s actually the thing that bugs me the most¡­ ¡°After I finished the task given by you, I came back into town, and when I saw the people going out of their shacks and to your territory, I thought about how generous you are, that was the moment the message popped up.¡± So he finished this early, but why didn¡¯t he come back right then? Well, doesn¡¯t matter right now, I¡¯m actually quite tired after all these actions. ¡°Good night Gerad, I¡¯m going to sleep now¡­¡± Nope, he does not get a thanks for answering my questions, he took his time coming back, so that¡¯s his ¡°punishment¡±. With that I float to my Dungeon Core, and quickly drift into a world of dreams¡­ _____________ wup wup, finished the chapter ^^ If you have any ideas for how to continue the story, please let me know. I have some pretty nice ideas but I would enjoy adding some of your ideas in the story^^ If you find grammar or vocabulary mistakes, please tell me so I can correct them and you can read the story easier... Next I want to make a POV of the stupid Goddess and her past, but I hope I can update it at the 31 or at the 1 january, but that¡¯s up to how quickly I get that nasty runny nose of mine under control, have a beautiful day/night I¡¯m finishing my rice and then sleep¡­ after reading a few more stories :D 12 The growing Goddess Chapter 12 The World of the Gods is not in the clouds, like so many mortals think, instead it is in the highest parallel world, the one where power and resources are so abundant, that even a few million years of human exploitation wouldn¡¯t change the overall look of the terrain too much. In this world the gods live easy going lives, in small houses in the forest, the mountains or under the earth surface, depending on what kind of god they are. There are even a few communities of god''s, living all together and enjoying their ¡®existence¡¯. A little bit outside of such an community the house of a god and a goddess stands, they have 6 children, and a few chickens. Unlike most people believe, a goddess does not have to become pregnant or something like that, she simply enjoys the pleasure of her partner, and then gives the power of their act into a plant. This plant grows a few years and the parents have to be carefully guarding the plant or the power will die with the plant. Once the plant is big enough, it grows one and only one big flower, that has to get a daily amount of power from it¡¯s parents. When it got enough power, the flower slowly forms a sphere, that looks like a big apple. Then it grows and grows, until one day it begins to crack, and then a new god/goddess will be born. A being called god is not almighty, nor is it invincible, it has more power than a mortal, but can not be killed. If it exists, then it exists. On another note, there are mostly multiple gods on one topic, for example there is no ¡®god of war¡¯, there are multiple gods, that have knowledge in the art of war, some more some less. The family that lives outside has already six children, 3 boys and 3 girls, they lived happily together and had many friends in the nearby village. The children were as followed: -the God of advancing -the Goddess of the forbidden things -the God of construction -the Goddess of the beautiful things -the God of production -the Goddess of the mystical things As you might have noticed, they do not have names, they are called with the name of their power. When the child is born out of the plant, the plant grows much stronger, and gets a big power boost. Because of that there were 6 big plants with delicious fruits hanging down on them in front of the house, one for each child. But there was another plant growing, in the back of the house, this plant wasn¡¯t sawn there, it simply grew there, while absorbing the power of the inhabitants of the house. The God and the Goddess knew about that plant, but what should they do? It has to be made from their power, or else it wouldn¡¯t grow near the house. So they cared for the plant like they did for the others, they gave it more power to grow. Then after a few years, their other children were all adults by that time, the plant grew a sphere, not as big as from their children before, but enough to give the new forming existence a place to grow. A few years later, it finally began to crack¡­ -POV stupid Goddess- The time I got to see the outside first, was really shocking, everywhere were lightnings going down, I was so shocked I began to cry at the moment. Then a person took me in their arms, and together with another person she brought me into some sort of hut. There, they placed me on some cold plate, why how can you be so cruel? I cried¡­ The woman took me into her arms and fed me some warm things from her body, it¡¯s really tasty. I had to stop crying to enjoy the taste... A few weeks later, I am currently laying on some sheets and observe the person who took me out of the plant, she¡¯s my mother and currently cooking. I don¡¯t know why she would be doing this, the milk she gives me should be much better than these things¡­ The door opens and one of my sisters comes in, they live somewhere else, I don¡¯t know where, but they often come and play with me. I really like playing¡­ After her comes one of my brothers, they also live somewhere else, and always do something, always work, work and more work, they have not much time, but try to give me as much attention as possible, I really am someone special¡­ As I grow up over my first months, I learn more about our house, actually I know every corner. But I¡¯m too scared to leave, who knows when the next thunder will come. I remain in the house, it¡¯s much safer in here. And there should always be someone who guard it, because there are some scary monsters outside. They have white or brown feathers and two legs, they are really fast and sometimes try to invade the house, luckily my siblings and parents always push their forces back, but who knows what they will do when getting past our defense¡­ One thing is illogical though, whenever my siblings leave the house the monsters don¡¯t attack them, instead they try to get inside.Maybe they want to get me first... I have to protect the house, and me crawling away when they come in is simply to hide myself and help my siblings with a surprise attack, when they get near defeat. I¡¯m NOT scared of them!!! I can feel some kind of power in the air, I don¡¯t know what it is, but I try my best to catch it. Not easy when your only possibility to move is crawling¡­ -A few months later- Today was the first time I was able to catch this energy, but it escaped after a few seconds, and my mother somehow knew what I did, I am pretty good, right? Or maybe not, because she somehow made this ability to feel the energy go away, this evening I cried myself into sleep¡­ At the next morning, my sisters comes by and they brought some awesome things for me. Mainly sweets, I love sweets, so I eat a lot of sweets and the bad memory is quickly forgotten. -Some Years later- I am currently going through our garden, picking up some things for lunch, I have become quite a beauty, and these ¡®monsters¡¯ outside are not scary anymore, actually they simply work for us, and sometimes try to get in our house to snatch away something to eat¡­ My mother told me that today would be the day were I would be getting my ¡®magic power¡¯, I think she means this energy, but how does she know that I will get it today? Unauthorized reproduction: this story has been taken without approval. Report sightings. After lunch, she and dad brought me in front of the house, and she told me that she will lift the seal now. What kind of seal? I don¡¯t know¡­ She stands in front of me, and then her hands emit some kind of light, at that moment the sense to feel the power in the air comes back to me. So they have actually sealed my powers, because it could harm the newborns to experiment with these kind of things¡­ My sense of this power is far greater now, so I try to get the the most dense area, where the most of this energy is. I found it, in our kitchen, don¡¯t ask me why, but it¡¯s there¡­ I sit inside of this ¡®cloud¡¯ of energy, and try to grasp it. I succeed with the first try, but it¡¯s too much energy for me to handle, so I try to let it away. Suddenly the kitchen is in flames, I scream¡­ Luckily my parents are in our garden, that is outside of the kitchen walls, and the kitchen windows are open. The flames quickly devour the walls and grow bigger, and I sit in the middle of all that, getting burned all over my whole body. I can¡¯t move, I¡¯m not able to even lift a finger, I don¡¯t know how or why¡­ My parents come in the kitchen screaming my name, I lift my head to see them, and they come running through the flames to me, trying to get to me¡­ Finally, my mother gets to me, lifting me up, and running to the exit. Wait where is dad? I see him, lying under the joists of the first floor that crashed down because of the flames. My mother runs out and places me far enough away from the house, then she runs back inside to help dad to come out. She tells me not to come near the house¡­ The pain wasn¡¯t that much at the time in the house, most probably because of shock, but now, it really hurts, so much that I have to cry because of it, my whole body is burned. I lose consciousness, while hearing my mother scream in pain¡­ When I wake up, there is no pain and no fire near me, I am lying on a bed in a nicely decorated room. Then the door opens and my eldest sister comes in, the moment she sees that I¡¯m awake she stops in her tracks, to jump at my bed and try to suffocate me in her breasts, then she begins to cry. Yeah, you shouldn¡¯t try and harm others with these torture tits. At this moment she tells me in a whining voice ¡°Mom and dad died in the flames¡±, I cry with her¡­ After we hear steps coming from outside the door, we end crying and then my other two sisters come in the room, they ask me what happened so I tell them how mom made the seal go away, and how I wanted to play with this energy and how everything went out of control, at that moment I had to cry again, the pain and how mother left me to help dad, I only can talk about that in a crackling voice... They seem to understand, and for quite some time, we make a hug circle of 4 sisters. We get interrupted when one of my brothers comes in the room, it gets quite cramped in here¡­ He says that he has made some things to eat, so we all go out the room, and go down a floor. When we enter the kitchen of this house, I see all my 3 brothers sitting on the table that has some dishes on it. We claim the free seats and begin to eat quietly. Then my oldest sister tells my brothers what happened, and they seem to understand the circumstances. Then my oldest brother says: ¡°What do we do with her now?¡± The tone he said that was kind of really scary, and my sisters seem to think the same, saying things like ¡°she obviously living with us now¡± or ¡°we have to make sure she grows up properly¡± And then a heated discussion begins, about my future, and how it should continue¡­ It¡¯s too much for me, they simply talk about my next years and how I should be living them, I run out of the kitchen and up into the room where I was sleeping. I throw myself onto the bed, and crawl under the sheets. A few moments later, my youngest sister walks in, don¡¯t mistake her as someone young, she is already grown up, but the youngest out of my siblings. She gets on the bed and under the sheets, there she hugs me and says that everything will be fine, like this we drift into sleep together... -POV oldest sister- ¡°You can¡¯t simply let her into other realms because she has to learn some things.¡± I state, my brother had a stupid idea¡­ ¡°But she has to learn a few things, you know that she is the most powerful of us, but when she makes things like yesterday, only because she wanted to try something, who knows how many will suffer because of this¡­¡± he says, but I know, he clearly wants her to go away, simply because she has some scary powers... ¡°You can¡¯t simply put her in some completely new environment, if you want to educate her, you have to teach her and show her what is wrong and what not.¡± Why should she go somewhere, she has 3 sisters who can teach her all sort of things... ¡°I said we do this, I have to work all day long to get enough money for you 3 sisters, I can¡¯t feed another one, we will send her into a peaceful realm, there she will learn one thing or another¡­¡± He says¡­ I can¡¯t go against this, he earns money and we throw it away, to buy some nice things. That are our powers after all, the will to risk everything, to get some beautiful things¡­ Like this we go into her room, wake up the third sister, tell her about our decision and begin making the preparations to send her into a peaceful realm, where she will learn the things that are important to live¡­ -POV stupid Goddess- The moment I woke up, I was laying on a soft ground, and birds were chirping around me, a soft wind blew over my face, and when I opened my eyes, I saw trees all around me¡­ When I got up, I could see a road between the trees. Where am I? I was in the house of my siblings, wasn¡¯t I? ____________ Hope you enjoyed the POV, the other part of her story (the rise of the sorceress) will be in the diaries that are in the secret rooms¡­ If you have any ideas for how to continue the story, please let me know. I have some pretty nice ideas but I would enjoy adding some of your ideas in the story^^ If you find grammar or vocabulary mistakes, please tell me so I can correct them and you can read the story easier¡­ How about a peaceful city conquest in the future? 13 new levels and a school Chapter 13 At the Time I wake up, the sun comes up, and I hear the first voices from the fortress. I quickly float in that direction, and while doing so, I notice that the walls of the graveyard don¡¯t have any real defensive properties, they wouldn¡¯t even come up to the hips of a normal man, and are only about half a meter high. I have to make them higher and bigger, so my core is not in danger¡­ When I come out of the graveyard and float into the fortress, I see many people standing in front of the walls, they seem upset and are loudly talking with some of my servants¡­ When I come near, and ask one of my servants what kind of problem the people have, he answers: ¡°They are upset about their living conditions, they say it is too cramped living in this houses with more than 20 people¡± he looks rather troubled, but where is the problem? I intended to build more, it simply was to late yesterday evening¡­ ¡°Don¡¯t worry dear people, I will build more houses today, so everyone of you will have more privacy, please calm down and let us talk about your needs now¡­¡± Luckily I was able to speak really loud, so the crowd could hear me, then they calm down, and some people stand in front of the crowd. A woman, maybe in her 40 speaks up: ¡°We are more than 400 hundred people, we need food and more place for ourselves, then we need something where we can work. How do you want to make all of this?¡± The crowd repeats this things with louder voices, hey don¡¯t you know how to make a conversation? It¡¯s about showing your points, not about intimidating the other party¡­ ¡°Please calm down everyone, how can I answer your question, when you won¡¯t let me talk?¡± Thankfully they seem to be able to think at least a bit, stupid peasants¡­ no, wrong they simply are uneducated, right that¡¯s it¡­ ¡°On the matter of food, don¡¯t worry, I will make fields soon, so nobody of you will have to worry about this, nor work for it. I will have some of my servants care for the fields, so they will prosper. On the second point, I intended to construct more houses today, so after you talk with your house members, please tell me how many houses you need to have, I will do my best and build them¡­¡± A short break so the meaning of my words comes through to everyone¡­ ¡°And on the point of work, no, you don¡¯t need to work, you get food for free, and you are able to live for free in the houses, but if you want to work, why not make art? write poems and stories, carve out statues and paint pictures, enjoy your live. You had enough hardships, so live life to the fullest without having to worry about tomorrow.¡± I hope that actually works to calm them down¡­ From the expression the woman in front makes, it worked¡­ So thanks to my brilliant idea, the crowd disperses and the people go back into their houses to eat or whatever¡­ wait do they have anything to eat? A quick check in one of the newly build halls says no¡­ So I quickly make some fields in the back of the big halls, containing mostly vegetables and grow some herbal bushes, so they can make at least a few basic soups¡­ Then I begin building 6 new halls, thanks to the extreme mana gain, I don¡¯t have to make any breaks, I can work all the time. 6 halls should be able to contain about 150 more people, but thanks to the generous distribution, that will come soon, there will be maybe about 10 people living together in a house, so with 450 people, I need 45 houses. will take some time... Of course I also add some fields and bushes in the back of the new houses. Then at some point I see Gerad coming out of his house, I float in his direction, because I have some things for him to do¡­ ¡°Gerad, do you happen to know an influential family in this city, that might want to join us?¡± He bows¡­ ¡°No Sir, there are only a few really influential families in the city, but they wouldn¡¯t want to join you. At that I¡¯m sure because they only care about their personal gain, nothing else...But there might be some lesser noble family, that I can ask to join us. I have some ties with them, so it¡¯s more likely that they will hear me out at least¡­¡± Well, at least some support will be important¡­ ¡°Good, than please go and ask them, and in case they are interested, invite them to our fortress. I¡¯m sure there is enough place for another house¡± With that Gerad stands up and leaves, and I go back into building new houses and fields, I even have to expand my territory again¡­ Then when finishing the last house, and the people who want to live in it go in, a good message pops up
Due to helping people in need you have leveled up x 18
really? 18 levels? that¡¯s my old level 8 + my new levels 18, which results into level 26, awesome¡­ [skills] ohh, I seem to not have distributed all my previous skill points¡­ I was level 8 and have upgraded ¡®summoning¡¯,¡¯expand territory¡¯ and ¡®make treasure¡¯ once which results in 3 points, then I have used 3 points into leveling up ¡®building¡¯ two times, so I have only spent 6 points out of 7, means I now have a total of 19 points. Because each time I invest points into a skill, the cost for the next level up will rise by one, I have to distribute them cleverly... After distributing my new skill points, my skills looked like this
skills
AppraisalLevel 1
summoningLevel 5
expand territoryLevel 2
make treasureLevel 3
buildingLevel 5
I have 1 skill point remaining, and will save it up for later use¡­ The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation.
Due to ¡®summoning¡¯ reaching level 5 you now have more options on what you want to summon. Simply think ¡®summon warrior¡¯ or ¡®summon teacher¡¯ and you will get different options to choose from.
Wait, I can summon teachers? so I can build a school? Let¡¯s do that¡­ With that, I begin making a school outside of the fortress, only a little one, some classrooms, then I change the area around the building into one where you want to relax, and sleep under a tree¡­ I don¡¯t know what else might be important in a school, I never was inside of one¡­ [summon teacher]
undead math teacherHe can teach you the basics of math
undead art teacherhe will show you the beauty of art
undead music teacherhe will teach you music with his bones
I simply summon 2 of each kind, so for now I have enough to fill every room¡­ Then I send out my servants, to tell the families that I have built a school, and their children can come there to learn something¡­ A few parents come, and one of them says: ¡°I really miss the adventurers guild, when I was young, they also had a school for little kids and a training camp for those that wanted to become adventurers¡± Wait, wasn¡¯t there a adventurer guild in the town? I think Gerad mentioned something like that¡­ I have to think about that later¡­ Now then the next thing to to, making more fields. The current number of fields might feed the people for about two weeks, so I have to make more fields¡­ Around the halls, there is much place in between them, I build many more fields, then I summon more undead farmers, or to be more specific, ¡®genius undead farmers¡¯
genius undead farmer
he is able to advance the growth of the plants, so they are able to be harvested more often, and are more abundant than the normal plants
You see the advantage? Much more food, right. Now after finishing I see Gerad waiting at the edge of the field I¡¯m floating on currently. He seems to be waiting for me¡­ I float in his direction ¡°And Gerad, has your mission succeeded?¡± ¡°Yes sir, they will come in a few hours, they only have to pack a few things.¡± ¡°Very good, then can you please tell me about the adventurer Guild, you told me that this town has one, earlier I heard that it doesn¡¯t exist anymore¡­¡± ¡°Ahh right, it actually disbanded a few years ago, we call the ruins that were used by them the adventurer guild, they are some sort of lover place nowadays though¡­¡± I see, so they disbanded¡­ doesn¡¯t that mean, that I can make a new guild hall? Maybe later on, when I have the city under control¡­ ¡°Then Gerad tell me, why don¡¯t the people have fear of the undead walking through the city? I mean they are skeletons, aren¡¯t they scared by them?¡± ¡°Sir, you helped them to regain a live that is joyful, why should they be scared of something you make for their safety?¡± I see, then let¡¯s do a new project, I wanted to test something out¡­ I float back into the fortress, and make a few ¡®magic stones¡¯ of the water element. The stupid Goddess teached me about runes and these things, so maybe I can make this stone into a water dispenser. A few tries, and it¡¯s finally functional. The first try with a ¡®water burst¡¯ rune, nearly made the area in the fortress into a swamp, but with the ¡®fountain¡¯ rune, together with the ¡®steadily¡¯ rune, it works fine the fountain rune alone would let out one big splash of water and then some little drops, so I had to adjust it so the water comes out steadily¡­ The stones only hold for a few hours after being infused with mana though¡­ maybe I have to get some bigger magic stones? Doesn¡¯t matter now, I float back through the evening breeze and into the room where my core is, I build a chest at the end of the room, and put the few magic stones that actually succeeded inside. Then my ¡®guarding¡¯ skill warns of something at the outskirts of my territory, again some troops are coming in the direction of the fortress. Hopefully we can end this peacefully¡­ ______________ Now then, the first school is build^^ I don¡¯t actually know if the level data I wrote in this chapter is correct, I will see into it in the next hours¡­ If you have any ideas for how to continue the story, please let me know. I have some pretty nice ideas but I would enjoy adding some of your ideas in the story^^ If you find grammar or vocabulary mistakes, please tell me so I can correct them and you can read the story easier¡­ my buddy aoj90 begins his first story, if you like to read a story, where a character is able to use superpowers, then check it out¡­ the name is: Life is not a game: Ice 14 fortifying the graveyard Chapter 14 Leaving the room, and floating into the fortress, I notice Gerad standing on top of a tower, looking into the direction of the city. I float near him and ask ¡°Is there some kind of problem Gerad? You seem to be rather tense¡± He is surprised about the sudden voice, maybe he has concentrated onto something else¡­ ¡°I¡¯m simply waiting for the noble family, that wanted to come and help us, they should arrive soon¡± So the guys coming into our direction right now are possible allies? perfect, no bloodshed. But wait I have to build a house for them, right? I hope they are satisfied with an easy to build mansion¡­ ¡°Don¡¯t worry Gerad, there is a group from the city coming in our direction, so you should greet them properly, I have to build a new home for the newcomers.¡± With that I start making the basement of the new house, sadly a field inside of the fortress has to go for that, it wasn¡¯t fully harvested¡­ After making a good foundation, I start constructing stone walls, making a sturdy castle looking mansion. It has a big round tower, that is connected with servant quarters and workshops on two sides. The outer walls of the smaller buildings are rather sturdy and you can walk on top of the walls. The two walls end in a tower each, and make a ¡®L¡¯ shape in the current form. I then close the area into a full square with another two walls being build. these two walls are connected through a bigger tower, that also functions as the gatehouse. Like this the outer hull of the castle inside of our fortress is finished¡­ Now I¡¯m equipping the servant house and the living tower with the most important parts, I don¡¯t have much time because I ¡®feel¡¯ the newcomers in front of the fortress walls. I¡¯m not summoning any undead guards, because the nobles would most probably feel uncomfortable with these things around¡­ At least I in my former life as a human would be¡­ About 25 humans were currently standing in front of the walls, discussing with Gerad. He calmly talks to them and explains the whole situation, that the people from the slums will be given a better live and we plan to overtake the city, then he asks them inside the fortress to show them their new home. Apparently he simply talked this long to gain a bit time for me to build the ¡®house¡¯. They will get a good surprise¡­ Though that is what I want to say, but I forgot two things, firstly making fields for them to live from and secondly preparing some tea to calm down from the long walk¡­ I¡¯m the worst¡­ But well I have to do these things later on, now let¡¯s show them their homes first¡­ Aside Gerad there are 24 other people standing in front of the walls, three guys with rather good quality clothing, probably the heads of the family. beside them are two women, each with a nice dress and golden jewelry, both are holding hands with a little kid, most probably their own¡­ Then there are 7 guys who look like they are guards, and the other 10 people are most probably servants¡­ At least they look like they are¡­ Gerad leads them to the area where their new ¡®house¡¯ will be, luckily I don¡¯t have made any ¡®street lights¡¯ in the direction of the new house, so they don¡¯t see anything from it. Would it be day, you would most probably be able to see the castle from the inner parts of the city, but thanks to the dark night nobody is able to see it, before standing directly before it. When Gerad sees the castle he is more or less awestruck, yeah I have a really high mana generation at the moment, so I¡¯m able to build this crazy things. Maybe I should ¡®upgrade¡¯ the fortress¡­ The other people don¡¯t really notice the castle until they have no more other houses to gawk at, then the moment they see the castle, they are momentarily bewildered¡­ ¡°Why is there a castle? didn¡¯t you say you would lead us to our new homes Gerad?¡± one of the two women asks. ¡°I was told to lead you here, my master wanted to build you a new home that would cover your needs, but you should ask him yourself¡± He says, while admiring the gatehouse¡­ That¡¯s the time where I should begin to talk right? ¡°Whoa, cool, we get to live in a castle!!!¡± one of the two little kids runs away from the woman that is holding him and into the direction of the gatehouse¡­ Suddenly three of the servants run after him and try to catch him, sadly he is rather quick to evade and slips into the castle, there he begins to explore the new grounds while running away from his hunters¡­ A problem child, great¡­ The woman looks apologetic towards Gerad and says ¡° I¡¯m sorry, this child lived in our house in the city for all his live, and hasn¡¯t exited the upper part till today. I hope he doesn¡¯t create problems for you¡± ¡°No Problem, it¡¯s your castle by the way, so when he destroys something you will have to deal with it¡­¡± I answer quickly, startling everyone except Gerad. The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.¡°So let¡¯s go in and I will show you around, and then we can discuss some important matters¡± After saying so, everyone remaining begins entering the castle and looking over to the two houses and the big tower. They only are able to see the shadows because I forgot to make a light source inside the castle, upsi.. fixed, some mana lanterns are now installed on the castle grounds and in the buildings. Like that the whole castle get¡¯s illuminated in soft light, and to be honest, it looks pretty impressive¡­ After showing the servants into the house on the left of the big tower, I enter the main tower together Gerad and the other members of the family. Inside I lead them to the eating room, that contains a big table and many chairs. Everybody gets himself a chair and sits down, except me because I can¡¯t sit, so I float on the table. ¡°The thing I wanted to discuss with you is regarding some sort of barrier, that shields the town from outside harm, do you happen to know anything about that?¡± first question, and currently the most important one¡­ ¡°Yes, we do know about the barrier, it is made through a barrier stone, that is located inside the castle of the governor. We don¡¯t know where exactly but it should be somewhere in the basement of the castle..¡± Again one of the woman speaks, is my theory about them having more status than men correct? ¡°Okay, so next question, am I allowed to use your old house as a base for destroying this barrier stone, I want to station some of my skeletons in there¡­¡± When I succeed in this, then it might be possible to start mission impossible¡­ ¡°Sure, but our house is not that big, so at most it should only be able to contain about 40 people, so you have to select rather good troops for this task¡± This time one of the man speaks, and I think I know why women seem to be important. This man is just to stupid, of course I have to select good troops, this is a mission that will affect all my plans. I haven¡¯t tried summoning new troops since my level ups, only some farmers, so I should have some better troops available now, right?
summon
undead knightstrong knight, not very intelligent
zombiehas flesh on his bones, at least partially
undead axemanthey will chop of your head while clacking with their bones
So that are the possibilities for close combat fighting, let¡¯s go with 20 undead knights, 15 undead axeman and 5 zombies. Gerad will lead the troops, and then everything should work out fine¡­ I summon my ¡®special force¡¯ outside of the big tower in the courtyard of the castle, there they will wait for Gerad¡­ ¡°Gerad I have summoned some new troops, please lead them into the house of the noble and try to do this without getting any attention. ¡° After this Gerad leaves the room and begins with his preparations for his next mission¡­ ¡°Then please let me know if there is anything you need, I am in the graveyard for now¡­¡± With that I excuse myself from the group and float in the direction of the graveyard. I wanted to rest a bit, but that seems to be not possible, so I will use my time and fortify the graveyard. First is making the little stone walls that surround the whole thing bigger. Means higher and wider, till they are about 4 meters high and 1 meter wide, then I construct towers that are integrated in the construction. After summoning some more undead warriors and archers I begin reconstructing the gate and only entrance to the graveyard. Before it was simply a rusty iron gate, but now I demolish the whole thing and begin making a big gatehouse. Then I begin reconstructing the room that I have my core in, somehow I¡¯m not able to change the positions of the dead bodies lying under the floor¡­ I make the room into a tower, that is high enough to let me see the top of the castle that watches over the town. With this the reconstruction is more or less finished, so I drift of into sleep. This whole thing was tiring¡­ Maybe I will build the adventurers guild tomorrow¡­ _______ Sup, finished ^^ Had quite some time to write but discovered the ¡®Riddick/ Against the Heavens¡¯ so I was only able to write now. I know that¡¯s a bad reason ^^ I plan to reconstruct the adventurer''s guild in the next chapter, and I want to integrate a adventurer''s school into that, so if you have ideas what crazy subjects might get taught at the adventurer¡¯s guild aside from the normal hand-to-hand fighting, scouting and magic then please leave a comment with your ideas. I will think of some classes by my own, but would be great to get your help in this case^^ 15 changes in the fortress Chapter 15 The next morning, I begin expanding my territory because I will need much new land soon¡­ After some time all of my servants, that are living inside the fortress are awake, and I let them move out the important things of the houses, then I ¡®destroy¡¯ the 2 houses that I first built. I plan to integrate the forge into the new building, so I clear the most of the field behind the forge, letting only a small part for growing the most important things. Then I begin building a big stone hall, that will soon be the living place of my new knight order. That¡¯s what I want to make out of my servants¡­ I made the stone wall about 3 stories high and with about 40 or 50 meters length, a width of about 15 meters . Then I added more rooms to the sides, leaving only the front and backside without anything added. The back get¡¯s some nice painted glass to at least let some light inside the hall. Then I build something like a entrance tower, that will be able to defend the hall and all the other rooms that are connected to it. Now I plan to integrate the forge that is in front of the entrance tower, with about 10 meters between the two buildings. Firstly I begin building a high wall, that begins at one part of the quarters that are added to the hall, and ends at the other opposite quarter buildings. Then I add some towers, bigger than those at the nobles castle and make the wall wider, so two people can go shoulder to shoulder over it. The forge is not directly touching the wall but it¡¯s not far away from it. Now let¡¯s build some storehouses, my knights have to have enough provisions to be able to operate like I want them to... going straight to the walls, I begin making a stone basement where I might store some wine or beer, I add two more floors made out of stone and end the first storehouse with a mansard roof. Making 4 of them in total, I have now used quite a bit of place inside the castle. Then I build stables leaning against one of the walls, and here comes a genius idea of mine
summon
undead horseit will run until you tell it to stop, maybe will stop, maybe not...
You see what I mean? that are horses that do not need to be feed or cared about, and they can run all day long¡­ They will be one of the important factors of why my knight order will get more and more powerful. Knights have to train everyday, so I have to build a training field right? so I make a little door between two of the warehouses, that leads outside of the castle, there I build up new walls, not as high as the inner walls, but high enough to not be able to simply climb over them. Then I used the newly made secluded area into a training area, making some ragg dolls, building a house along the wall that will serve as a training center, where my knights can hone their skills even when the weather is bad¡­ Ending the whole thing with placing some towers on top of the walls, where I summon some undeads. Now I have to make a good gatehouse, right? It¡¯s a bit complicated, but that won¡¯t hinder me in constructing it¡­ I demolish a part of the walls, to build a new wall on each side, going straight away from the castle. It has protection on both sides, so you won¡¯t get a arrow in the back while looking down on one side. The walls are about 10 meters long, then they end into a big tower each. The two towers get connected and the place where the wall run through before I demolished it get¡¯s the same tower/gate construction, like this I have a double gate. Last thing to do is furnishing the castle and the towers, my servants might have brought some important stuff out off the houses, but they will not be enough to live comfortable in such a big castle¡­ And now the work begins, making beds, setting up the table in the hall all this stuff¡­ I spare you from the explanation but it was a hell of work¡­ And then I notice that I forgot to add fireplaces, nice, so adding about a dozen of them in the quarters, and making a chimney for each of them I finally have finished the castle... With that, I introduce my new unknowing knight order into their new quarters. On another note, the table in the great hall has seats on both long sides, but not a throne or what would be normal at the head, simply because I don¡¯t want these guys to have a leader... Now that my little dream is complete, I plan to build a proper adventurer¡¯s guild. With multiple trainers, a bar or maybe even a restaurant¡­ might take some time, because I don¡¯t think that a skeleton chef will be able to really cook something delicious, but I have time¡­ And maybe some villagers will help¡­ Now then leaving the fortress, I search for a good place to build the guild buildings, and find one outside the current living zone, on top of a hill, near the graveyard. There I begin making a foundation, for the main building, where adventurers will get their commissions and can grab something to eat or drink and maybe some music... The building in itself should be a one story hall, made out of wood, but I plan to connect it to various other buildings¡­ finishing the roof, I begin making a kitchen at the end of the hall, where people will give their food orders. The kitchen will be really professional, not like the one my family had back then in afghanistan¡­ though I will use heating runes instead of gas or electricity for heating up the food¡­ Then I make a three story building, that will be the main school building for new adventurers. I will spawn or organize teachers later on, but no problem for now, because the whole facility is not enterable at the moment¡­ of course I will have to make outdoor facilities, but I will make them later on, so I am able to do them perfectly for their purpose... For now, I tell the inhabitants of the fortress, to gather, because we have something to discuss. After that, I begin making a secret underground chamber where I transport my core to. Now it floats directly beside the coffin of a member of the royal family¡­ With the ground floor cleaned, I install something like a meeting place, where I will consult with my minions about our future plans¡­ After about 10 minutes, they gather together and the meeting begins. purpose of it will be making clear what our goals are for the near future, then discuss about the best approach on how to get there¡­ ¡°Now then let me begin, our meeting will consist of these topics: -the new knight order -adventurers guild -using the area around the city +waterway +reforestation -administration of the town we will discuss these things, and hopefully get to a good answer.¡± With this everybody knows what we will discuss today, and now let¡¯s begin. ¡°So to the first part, from today onwards there will be a knight order residing inside the fortress, and my servants will be the first members, sadly Gerad said that he cannot be part of this knight order, but he said that he will help in the weapon training of the members. I plan to make the knights into an unit that won¡¯t have anything beside their weapon and armor, so no family and no private belongings. They will have their headquarter in the ¡®tomb fortress¡¯, that¡¯s what I decided to call our fortress, for now. The name of the knight order will be ¡®knight order of the tomb¡¯ or in short tomb knights.¡± finally my long explanation is done, the new members knew of that beforehand, but let¡¯s see the reaction of the noble family... ¡°Okay, so that¡¯s the purpose of the new castle, I wondered what it will be used for. I have a few questions, please her them out. First is, are there only man allowed in the knight order, or is it possible for woman to? second, what about a noble that joins the order, will he be allowed to maintain his noble name, or not? third, on which range do you plan to use this order, only in the vicinity of the city, or nationwide?¡± the woman, that I now know to be the family head asks. ¡°For the first question, if a being is powerful enough to be of use for the knight order it may join, doesn¡¯t matter if it is man, woman or child. Secondly, if a noble joins the order, he will lose his title, but may continue to use his surname, like everybody else. Thirdly, I don¡¯t plan to set a limit to the possible mission that they will do. The only part that is sure, is that they will be under the command of me.¡± I hope that answered her questions¡­ ¡°Are there any other questions?¡± If not, I will continue with the next part. everybody shakes their head, so let¡¯s continue with the next¡­ ¡°second point, the adventurer''s guild, only a few moments ago, I finished the main parts of what I plan to make into the adventurers guild, I want to ask you about the last guilds normal tasks, and how it worked.¡± I hope someone knows about that¡­ The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation. ¡°The adventurers divided into the ranks F,E,D,C,B,A,S the higher you are, the more difficult the jobs you are allowed to do will be, they will get you more money though. The guild in itself consists of someone who accepts commissions, and puts them up at the big board that hangs near the bar, for all adventurers to see. Then there is of course the bar personal and the people who will control if you finished your commission. On top of that there sometimes are trainers who will help the new guys to hone their skills¡­ That is everything I know about them.¡± one of the noble males says. ¡°That¡¯s good then, I actually plan to have as many teachers as possible in a nearby school building, the only thing to discuss is what things should be taught¡­¡± I hope to get some tips from them¡­ ¡°firstly you have to think about what kind of territory you want to make out of the vicinity, we don¡¯t have much wildlife, so a hunter won¡¯t have much to do. We also don¡¯t have much trees or farms, so there aren¡¯t many options to get a living out of this¡­¡± again the nobles family head. ¡°then wouldn¡¯t it be better to exactly train the professions that will get us these resources? If we need wood then let¡¯s make a forest, if we need more food then let¡¯s make more farms.¡± That¡¯s the logic I would use to solve this thing¡­ ¡°First tell me what might be used as possible food, then we can decide if we will use that.¡± ¡°The best meat source are definitely monsters, but we also need crops to grow in the area, or we will always have to import them from the nearby villages¡­ for that we need enough resources like wood and stone, but also iron for tools. Currently we are not able to purchase such things¡­¡± family head says. ¡°Don¡¯t worry about things such as money, everything that is needed will be made by me, there will be no problems like no tools or something like that. So you say we should breed monsters for their meat? interesting idea, what kind of monster uses little place, doesn¡¯t need much to eat and gives much edible meat?¡± let¡¯s make a monster factory, muahahaha ¡°There are multiple types of monsters that will be a good use in that case, the more important part is getting enough monster tamers to properly grow and control them. though that might not be a problem if you are able to make such skeletons¡­¡± family head¡­ don¡¯t the others have an opinion on that matter? or are they just to stupid? But to make our talks short, we finally decide on 4 possible education fields, these will be combat, gathering, manufacturing and unspecific fields. each field has different classes that you can choose, for combat these are: -swordplay -hand to hand combat -polearms -sneaking -riding -archery -strategy -different types of magic, that will not be teached for now, due to the lack of teachers, because sadly my current skeletons are not even able to use magic, let alone teach it¡­ the gathering classes are: -monster lore -herbal lore -skinning -farming -ranching the manufacturing classes are: -forging -constructing -alchemy -trap making -butchering -cooking -brewing -woodworking the unspecific classes are: -tree whispering -camping -trap functionality -treasure evaluating As you see, there are some odd jobs and some that may be similar to others, like woodworking and constructing, or trap making. These classes will be taught like they are nonetheless, because they will only teach you some basic things, and not the real skill that will only come with years of experience. Maybe later on I will be able to summon skeletons that will be able to teach better techniques, but not at the current moment¡­ And that¡¯s only the plan like we have worked it out for now, if we see the need of more classes, then we might as well introduce new classes. But because of that I will have to make 3 more school buildings, and make a matching surrounding for them. Then I spawn at least a teacher for each of these jobs, except tree whispering that is a form of magic and will be taught be the old noble guy¡­ Oh, right you don¡¯t really know about the noble family right? there are 5 adults and 2 childs, 3 men and 2 woman, the children are both man. The three adults are the old guy, his two sons and their wives with a child each. The woman of the old guy died due to the recent sickness¡­ because of that the dude has much free time now and will do his best to teach others the magic of tree whispering, that is actually more like plant whispering but he insists on naming the class tree whispering. He says that with this kind of magic you are able to make the growth of trees much faster and with enough people who are able to do this, we could be able to grow a forest in no time. I know I would be able to do this with my mana, but I have to grow each tree manually, and I don¡¯t have the time to do this, so these guys will be a huge help¡­ ¡°Then to the next point, on how to use the area around the city, I don¡¯t actually know if there are any forests, rivers or mountains nearby so I will need your help with that¡± I have to know about the overall situation and then decide, in which direction I will expand my territory and what will be done there¡­ ¡°Yes, right. there is a river south of us, it flows into the ocean after about two days travel. there aren¡¯t any big mountains nearby, only some hills all around us¡­ forests are in the south, up here in the north only few trees grow.¡± other noble woman¡­ ¡°I see, then we will expand further into the southern direction, there I plan to build a port to open up trading routes. I also want as many trees as possible in the nearby vicinity. Any other questions?¡± Let¡¯s finish this quickly, I have to continue with the school buildings¡­ everybody shakes their head, like always¡­ ¡°Then to the last part of today''s meeting, the reason I wanted your family to come to this fortress, is that I want you to help the citizens, speak up for them and inform them of our decisions. would that be alright for you?¡± Would be bad if not¡­ ¡°That¡¯s the least we can do to help to develop the town, please let us know when we can help with other things¡­¡± family head says¡­ ¡°perfect, then I end this meeting, thanks for your assistance today, and please give it your all from today onwards.¡± Without waiting for an answer, I float out of the tower into the direction of the guild buildings, to continue with the construction. ___Govenor POV__ for some days now I get reports, saying something is going on in the city, stupid nobles, can¡¯t they be more responsible and hold the other scum low? I finally am fucked up enough to climb on top the tallest tower of my castle, once there, I see a fortress, no several fortresses¡­ ________________________ Whoa, finished hooray I think that was the longest chapter till now¡­ Thanks for all this good ideas, I hope I used them good¡­ If you have more ideas for new jobs, then please post them, I want adventurers to be something like guys who do everything, not only subjugating monsters¡­ So if you have any ideas what kind of professions might make the life more comfy, please tell me^^ (I plan to make some sort of technical inventions classes, but if you have a better name please tell me) Thanks for reading, hope you two liked how I made the school system Blazingfrost,SRnovels (thanks for the idea^^)