With his new room almost setup, all thet was left was to give his instructions to the new bones within the room. "New bones, this room is your responsibility. your job is too repel any attackers away from this room! if you do well you will be promoted and given a better and deeper room within the dungeon. I expect great things from you."
After finishing his small motivational speech, Skuggir walked off. his slip up of not telling them any strategies, was no mistake at all! He hoped that the Skeletons which now guarded the room would fail and let some adventures through, he had even not built side passages for the archers.
With his first andsecend room now occupied, Skuggir needed more room. Luckily his maze was finished, with an average completion time among his elite troops of fifteen minutes. while the maze was small their where a few pitfalls and even an now empty treasure chest.
But he and his elite troops consisting of the now upgraded Clacker, his two original palls, the six Eclipse archers, and the three new hoplite, could not just stay in the maze, that wasn't classy enough, no no, they needed their oen room.
their new room need work to be dug out from the harsh stone walls of the Dungeon, and so the group of Skeletons and a lich, put down the armaments and picked up a pickaxe or similar magic and started to mine away at the walls.
it. took close to the rest of that day and night in addition to fighting off one group that made it past his Initial group of skeletons, who where subsequently revived by the rise of the moon outside, before they had cleared out the room.
The room was small for now but it was large enough for them to let their bones rest and fight. Its walls where separated by twenty foot gaps of space either way, and floor flattened with the [Mould Earth] spell.
But this was not the end. With all the dyeing humans, Skuggir felt his gold reserves had grown significantly! Even after paying off his remaining debt of 550 gold, the fifty coming from the interest of 10%, Skuggir still held 490 gold!
with all this gold in his hands he needed to exspand his trap network within the small maze he had built before their current room. but with his current money he could not buy many traps, as the the traps where super expensive.
But Skuggir was not stopped by his ongoing financial problems and instead built his own traps with supplies from the shop. Spending ever last gold until the last coin, Skuggir was able to build a pitfall lined with illusion magic runes, a battering ram that would swing from the walls, and even a pit full of cold water. While not all the traps where exstrodinarily lethal, they all had a chance of killing someone, especially if they did not know ho to swim.
After completing his trapping extravaganza, Skuggir brought two Eclipse Hoplites as guards and went to check on how Lokis followers where doing. Surprisingly they had adapted well and even set up diffrent, albeit small, areas within the room.
As he inspected the new constructs within the room, the fiery haired women came up to his again, with a smile stretched wide across her face. "Sir Holy Creature-"
"You can just call me Skuggir." Skuggir interrupted her, as he figured they would be living in his dungeon, or him, the less he thought about that the better, they might as well know who he is.
"Yes Holy Cr- Ahem, Skuggir, everyone calls this one Enya. I would like to ask you a Question if you don't mind." Enya said with a subservient tone but her excitement to learn a holy creatures name almost masking it.
"Shoot"
"what do you mean, Sir Skuggir?" Enya panicked afraid she had angered him, as he was a skeleton and hard to read.
"Ah, it means go for it or go ahead." Skuggir explained to the frighted priestess.
happy she had not angered him, and relieved to still have her life, Enya sighed in relief. "Thank you Holy one, we would like to expand this room freely"
"while I can't let them do that as they will hit the other parts of the dungeon, I should still be able too let them expand about a hundred feet forward and then build a kilometer and Six hundred meter in diameter city after the initial lengthening." with his plan Made Skuggir shared it with Enya, even telling her that she didn't need to be so formal as they would all be living within his domain, and where in his care now.
With Enya acceptance and agreement to the layout for their expansion, a system Message popped up.
[would you like to accept Enya as a subordinate?]
[this process is permanent and will bine the creatures soul to the dungeon for eternity. they will be able to function similar to Minions but retain their free will.]
"uh, I should probably ask first."
calling out to Enya just as she was leaving to spread the good news, Skuggir gave her an opportunity. "Say, Enya,"
"Yes?"
"Would you like to become a subordinate of the dungeon? your soul would be eternally bound to me the dungeon, and never be able to escape it for the rest of its existence. But you would be able to gain equal benefits."
"Sir, Skuggir" Enya started but was interrupted.
"please drop the Sir." Skuggir said, having already given up on sounding cool in the eyes of others.
"I'm sorry but I refuse to be so casual with a holy creature. As for you previous question Holy one, it would be my Honor to server the child of god for the rest of eternity!" with her convicted shout of loyalty the towns folk, made up entirely of Ormr Followers for now, all stopped what they where doing and turned to watch their talk.
not used to all the attention, Skuggir froze for a secend before he coughed and tapped the air right in front of her, accepting the system prompt, before resting his hand on her head saying, "from this point forward you shall eternally server me the dungeon a child of god and strive for the betterment of my halls and inhabitants." , trying not to cringe at his won mention at 'child of god' as he might as well have three parents then.
but I guess calling them my parents would no be wrong... they did give me this life. Wait! I they are my parents that means that only Loki really cares as they are the only one that has been messaging me!
as if to prove him right, a system mail immediately came in.
[yup, I'm the only one that's cares about you. also I will only let you be my child if you call my mom.]
Skuggir could feel the smirk coming through the message like the aura of stench from a trashcan filled with shit, rotten eggs, and rotting food. the Antics of this god of trickery where not making him have fun.
not wanting to piss of the only god who seemed to care about his current lives escapades, Skuggir tried to play it off by talking to Enya. "Yes, mother would be proud."