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Chapter 4 - It's a Trap

|| Name: Naomi Riley Maddison

Job Title: Dungeon MetaCrafter

Classes: Magic Caster Lv. 1

Mana Points: 25/25

Race: Moe Dragon Girl

Level: 2

Training Points (TP): 10/15

Skill Points (SP): 3 -> 9

Aether Points (AP): 350

Dungeon Points (DP): 0 -> 3

Commands:

Inventory: x2 Salmon Steaks. x1 Vial of Hard Apple Cider. x1 Lesser Wand of Flaming Current. x2 Novice Adventurer's Unopened Pouches of Items.

About fifteen minutes had passed since she had punched the wall. The swelling was down, if anything had been broke, it wasn't anymore.

She stood over the water, staring at its sparkling surface.

A small, shallow, smile over her lips. "So... How do I use it?"

[ PING! Weren't you paying attention? ]

"Uh... No? My hand was in too much pain, ya goof!" She snipped and snapped at the system before shaking her head.

[ PING! You know it's not that cute talking back like that... ]

With a bland look, staring into the body water as if it was going to part in two down the center, she scrunched her nose briefly. "Why would I have to butter you up?"

There was no response.

Sighing, she looked at her screen and under Commands, seeing DungeonSettings. "Ah, shouldn't that be two words though? Why'd you squish them together?"

[ PING! Psh! No one likes a Grammar Nazi!" ]

"Uh-huh, how well did you do on your English Exams?"

Silence ensued.

"Thought so."

[ PING! You're a brat. At least you're cute. It's all you got going for you now. ]

Huffing slightly, she glanced to the side before stepping into the pool in the center of the room which she had been staring at. She kept going in until the water was up to her hips, her knee length dress was spreading out around her.

The water was warm, and it didn't feel wet. It felt more like weightlessness, it didn't even feel as if she was really touching anything! In a way, it also seemed like it was moving around her, engulfing her legs.

[ PING! You have entered the Master Controls! Use the . ]

Using the Dungeon Settings command, a new set of screens appeared all around her. Since she was in the center of the pool, she had access to multiple functions at one time!

Her eyes lit up as she could even see multiple screens showing various parts of the dungeon, and indicating what kinds of monsters were there. "Whoah!"

Reaching out her not so aching hand, she started looking through the various locations until she got to the entrance. Tapping that screen, multiple options showed up.

Customization settings, she could add an entry door. Along the main corridor, she could add traps. In the rooms, she could place additional spawners and increase the power of the monsters in them! There were so many choices, that she felt as if her head was going to overheat again.

She wasn't a dolt, but she just wasn't used to this.

Indecision wasn't her. However, since she believed every choice was crucial and mattered, she was using this time to think.

It was One Dungeon Point to set a trap. Two Dungeon Points to add a door or another partition. She didn't know how often she would gain these points, so to waste them willy nilly wasn't a good idea. She stood there in the water, staring at the holographic images.

Tucking a finger under her chin as she did so, her eyes reflected all the information she was taking in. There was plenty to do, too much to have.

Hoarding items, especially shiny things, and eating raw food seemed to be habits she didn't know she had. Or at least, until now, she didn't have them. She didn't question it though, for she was a Dragon, but were these things really that inevitable?

Opening her , Naomi pulled out an item, it looked to be an unopened pouch about the size width of a cafeteria lunch tray with a strap that would go around one's waist. It was an oversized fanny pack it seemed.

Glancing over the string which kept it closed, she pulled it off and popped open the leather pouch. Peering inside was a journal, two sealed metal cylinders, a dagger and two apples.

Hearing her stomach growl, she didn't hesitate to snatch the two apples with her formerly pained hand. She stuffed one of them directly into her mouth, which inflated her cheek.

Blinking in surprise, she flexed her jaw over and over as she crushed the apple with her back teeth. Without further adieu, she ate the entire apple within a minute.

"I... Didn't know my cheeks were so elastic... Or my Jaw could open that wide..." Naomi observed with a bit of a shocked expression.

Opening the trap menu on the window, she would scroll through the available traps. All of them were at least three points each.

However her eyes narrowed on one that caught her attention. It was a classic.

"Giant Bolder Drop..." Her eyes narrowed on the item, it was one way to force people into taking a certain road should they fall for it! Lead them into trap after trap! Evil ideas were popping up in her adorable draconic mind.

Then her eyes shifted towards another trap, another classic, arrow wall with soft weighted floor panel trigger. She could only giggle mischievously at this one, as it allowed one to choose the types of arrows used.

Anything from arrows carved from bones, to poisoned needle tips!

Yet, there was only one hole. She could link a whole bunch of these, but she'd have to keep earning points and pouring them into the one project.

The idea just made her groan.

"Stingy Meta-sama!" Naomi pouted aloud with her balled up hands at her sides, the apple which was once in her grasp, plopped into the Dungeon Nexus's pool of liquid.

[ PING! I am not stingy young miss! ]

"Eh? Young Miss? How old are you?"

[ PING! It's not polite to ask a System their age! ]

"Ah... I see. HEY! That's not the point I was getting at. How do I gain more DP!?" She was shaking with intensity, her unreadable expression seeming to twitch.

[ PING! by completing Dungeon related Milestones. ]

"So... Not by eliminating invading Adventurers? Stingy..."

[ PING! You didn't have the unlocked when you killed them though! ]

"S.T.I.NG.Y. What does that spell? STINGY!"

[ PING! That's not fair! ]

Naomi kicked at the water before looking back at the screen once more. She ended up choosing rapid fire Agony Venom needles. She placed the delivery system, the firing mechanism, near the average location of a human's central mass so it'd be more likely to hit a target. She also placed the trigger panel in the direct center of the corridor with a 0.5 second firing delay.

These Agony Venom needles were poisoned needle darts, rather than arrows, which caused immense pain by simply grazing their targets. They were long, sharp and thin and shattered against hard objects such as the wall or thick metal plate armor.

It couldn't be protected against via leather or chain mail armor, which would likely make it hard to remove should it get impaled into.

[ PING! Good choice! Now, your skills? ]

"Thank you and HUSH THE MufFin UP!" Her voice cracked as she flailed around, splashing in the mellow fluids before pulling herself towards the edge of the circular pool. Stepping out, she would look at her overdress.

She wasn't even stained, she wasn't wet and her boots weren't even weighted.

She turned and looked to the water-like liquids which were glittering from the purple lighting of the room. "Guess I'll go do some crafting?" She looked over herself, as she pulled the cloak in over her shoulders. It almost looked like she was wearing a set of black robes that matched her hair which had an odd white scaly sheen to it. "Or perhaps... Explore outside the Dungeon..."

[ PING! Don't step into your own trap... ]

"Eh?!"