I had gained many items from the great dungeon, way more than I expected, and much better than which we could create ourselves.
I stood at the top of the big hill my people were hiding behind, I was inside a bush with a toga, two rings, a pendant, and a staff. I saw the humans, I focused on the old man, I felt an aura of danger on him, far stronger than the weaklings surrounding him. Though he seemed to be at deaths door, not literally, but he seemed to have only a few more years to go.
I understood this from the old goblin elders that were the same as him and died a year later of natural causes, it seems the great dungeon has excepted that elderly human into it's midst.
Five seconds after the humans entered the valley all the combatants walked out into the open somewhat quietly, too quiet for the young manlings to hear, though the old one seemed to react the moment we walked out with the other's asking what it was. He said it was nothing, I learned their language from my master since nagotiations with manlings were 'profitable' by his words.
When I saw them getting close to the fake camp, I signaled to start the operation. From both sides goblins planted wooden beams close to the opening of the valley, hobgoblins planted goblins ontop of the beams and then took the weight of that goblin with their stength to dislodge earth and kick the soil that was just about to fall into the valley to speed up the fall, blocking the exit.
Then the goblins inside the valley ran out with a hobgoblin, he had the 'Hob Gob Rob' sword. He was the strongest 'physical' hobgoblin, he also had a sense of honor so he always screamed when attacked. He was also the only hobgoblin except me to learn 'manling' toung, since he wanted to annouce a duel back in old settlement to a human.
"Human warrior, I challenge you too a duel!" I felt frustration at him, he didn't have a name, if we just attacked 'cowardly' we would have easily won.
Unluckily for me, the apposing human accepted the duel. Though the humans arrogantly thought that we were weak so they did not prepare while the duel was progressing, so I took advantage of it and made the hobgoblins and goblins dip their weapons in 'Hypnos's elixir'.
In the beginning the hobgoblin duelist was losing, but it seems the dungeon was irritated or impatient and had guided his moves into him gaining the advantage in a few seconds.
The hobgob instead of taking a strike seemed to flinch from someone saying something and then pushed the sword of the manling out of the way with his own, then clawed at the manling's face. Before the human could get back his footing metaphorically, the hob warrior had kicked his precious little brother.
The foolish warrior screamed in pain, but the honorable hobgoblin warrior picked up some dirt and threw it into the human's eyes. Keeping up the momentum, the hob flinched again hearing the dungeon's voice, and impaled the Hob Gob Rob sword into the indignant human warrior's throat.
This caused the humans to get a little angry and a real chaotic fight to start, I didn't like the mage of the group, tainting magic with the skill system. Never even learning and touching apon the wonders of mana, just yelling '[Fire bolt]' the moment they get their class. I wish I could get a class, most favorably a physical one since I'm not that strong in the muscles department.
I used my greatest spell, [Arcane bolt], a better version of [Magic bolt], the thing that says 'I'm a full fledged shaman, ma!'. This one had a bigger rhomb around the original rhomb with 0.5 cm between the two, it was enough to blast through whatever barrier the female mage made.
This was the sacrifice of using a class to learn magic, you couldn't improve yourself or make quick changes to a spell to fit your need at that moment. Like how I drew my spell circle with the rhombs twice as big to increase damage in exchange for more mana and time, I could increase the distance between the two rhombs to increase the speed of the spell in exchange for more mana by increasing the outer rhomb, or I do the opposite for less mana cost.
I could do more, but enough bragging about how goblin's shaman magic is better than the human's class magic is. I chose to deal with the mage, so I kept her busy with spells. I have far more mana than her, it's more like I'm using my mana better than her. She's a newbie, don't want to scare a new born dungeon, though the great dungeon doesn't seem to be 'new' by any means.
Now it seems that the mage will think that my spells are always stronger than her barrier since she doesn't understand shamanic magic, let's rotate the inner rhomb 10 degrees, that should be enough.
I shot out my spell once more, the mage dodged to the right, expecting a straight trajectory. Sadly the changed [Arcane bolt] blasted her into the face with her barely being able to not die with an artifact. Though her beauty in the human sense had been lost, and would need an expensive potion to fix.
I felt a bit of gratification at this notion, I did my job and took some time to refill my mana pool from the ritual crystal. Everything was going well, all the adventurers were being suppresed. Wait, is that old man putting on fake blood? A sly fox indeed.
"Stop!" He walked infront of the honorable dimwit hob, he seemed filled with rightious will to protect his friends "I will give myself up, take me, the old should let the young ones grow."
The honorable goburai warrior fliched, again hearing the heavenly dungeon's voice "Keke! I'll take you up on that! We've been needing a willing sacrifice for the holy dungeon! Kekekeke!" Sounded like what a human would expect of use goblins, must've been the dungeon's directive, however shamefull.
"Fine! Just take me instead of the youngins!" I felt the dungeon connect to my mind, that's my cue "Worry not manling, since it is for our great divine our promises are not to be broken."
I squated and looked to the humans below "Now be good little human, and get tied up old artificer." I looked behind me, and saw a rope not there previously, I picked it up decisively and threw it to the honorary hobgoblin hunter
I also seemed that Hypnos's elixir did it's job, making the manlings not want to fight. It made our job a lot more easy, I walked down and kicked the human losers down to the floor at the place they entered the valley, letting them taste the dirt.
They also had their belongings stolen, anything of actual worth was no longer on their bodies. That did not include their clothes, they weren't enchanted or anything, having no value beyond that they were clothes.
I picked up the old man and put him over my shoulder, When the warriors had left the valley I followed the dungeon's directive and put the old manling down. The manling just needed a small amount of movement to snap the rope binding him, that was to be expected of what my instincts told me was far more dangerous than anyone or thing I've ever seen.
An opening appeared in the ground, becoming a staircase. The elderly manling walked down it like it was a daily accourance, after which it closed up. From the ground a bottle popped up with a message in my mind "Your reward, it's not much, but it is."
[Mana water
A bottle of water that will fill your mana pool a bit more, has 200ml of water inside it -Found in the dungeon 'Chaotic miniture worlds'
Effect; 1mp/10ml drunk.]
Worth it, it was all worth it.
{Null again!}
That was fun, it was interesting. Though it was a shame I had to put in a modicum of effort. Like really? Can that hobgoblin not kill a newbie without any experience? That was a level 6 warrior, an E rank adventurer. At least that shaman was good enough to do shit, that was a level 10 wizard, that's someone who had a class evolution, although it seemed to be a common one.
This is all with what I found out from the 'dungeon net', there was even a chatroom that's seperated by 10 dungeons. So every 10 dungeons that got added a new one was made for the next 10 dungeons.
I haven't entered a group chat yet, and I won't join one for a while. If I did I would have to talk to others, most of it is for cross dungeon cooporation, so making every dungeon have one piece of an item set or cross dungeon quests. This all seemed entertaining, but I want to get my dungeon up and running before I go beyond my own creation and rule.
I created a small realm for the old guy with a bunch of stuff in the basement, I made a cabin of 'fake wood', a metal that was manipulated to look like wood since wood was too annoying to create.
Now I have completed the tenth tutorial mission with ease, it's not hard to reach the surface with a bit of ingenuity and saying 'Personal mana, why should I restrict myself to that? To live the life of a commoner?'
Tada! My god my two year long tirade made me rich, you know dungeons transact with mana right? I can get 100 mp in like a minute with some elbow grease, and this isn't even my final form! Formations, magic circles, something like that! Make my dungeon into something like that and increase the ambient mana a hundred fold! 100mp in a second! True privilege aquired!
Call a fortune for the masses a pittance to flex wealth, the rich mindset of 'It's just a matter of not enough mana.', it'll be entertaining for the masses trying to please me for a 'pittance'.
Let's just see what happens with this 'fairy', if it has any real control or authority then I'll kill it.
A weird light entered my vision from the side, but that shouldn't be possible, I don't have a field of vision. Must've come from outside my infuence, let's contain it with null void before it can do anything.
Maybe surround all my fake cores with it too, my own too. Can't be too carefull, you can never trust a god or anything else you don't know a lot about.
The light slowly died out showing a small humanoid, I don't trust it. I don't trust it, I trust it. Wait, what? God damn instincts, your reaching a bit too much. My thoughts are my own and you, instincts that I didn't have think they have the authority to control me!
'Instinct manifestation void' become thing!
Much better, exploit instinct to get rid of instinct! Now, I don't trust that 'fairy'. Should I just kill it? No, not yet... That would be boring.
Dungeon net, 'Fairies 101', 'How to keep control over your dungeon from an out of control fairy', 'How to kill a fairy', 'How to devour a fairy', 'How to tame your fairy', 'All the knowledge fairies have spilt.', 'How to mentally torture/abuse your fairy for entertainment', 'What not to do to anger a fairy'. What is it? Not enough mana? Pfaa! Don't take me as a commoner! Let's just put 100 mp into my balance.
O' great ambient mana, I beg thee for thou mercy!
Now let's see... ooh! So this is a fairy, but a fairy can get 'Out of control' and dungeons don't like that. Some of them even had enough trauma from such an event that they try to kill the fairy and any replacement they're given. Some try to devour the fairy instead of killing it due to greed, it gives the fairy's 'approved' memories, like everything they can tell a dungeon on their own. Having a fairy that doesn't tell you anything is annoying as all hell. Though it's success rate is lower than out right killing it.
At least killing it is pretty easy, more like getting rid of it. You just need to destroy the body and then the soul goes back to the 'Fae', some weird place for fairies. Let's go over there one day! Maybe destroy it if I don't like fairies.
It'd be interesting, and that little fairy was extremely confused, to it. It was inside a void within only itself was able to be seen. Everytime it chose to move it stopped by it's instincts overloading it with pure fear. It was entertaining in the least, and those instincts only activate when there's something that can really kill a fairy not the 'murder' that let's the soul go back home to its parents.
Good to know, good to know "What's going on? I was going to work as a dungeon fairy, then I ended up here. Did I go to the abyss? Isn't that just a scary story, something to scare the newbies? You shouldn't be able to enter the abyss with the 'dungeon fairy program''s teleport. It's 'system supported'!"
So I can understand 'Fairy', good to know. I'll trust it for now, let's just keep the 'Fairy trust void' on top of me for a while.
I released the fairy from it's cage and picked it up with 'spirituality' and threw it into 'time forest', I'm not yet sure of it's story line.
-Written in the 3rd of september, 2022.