Malangi

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LV. 55

Class - Dungeon Master

Dungeon Theme – Anomaly

Population – 7/50

Device count: - 5/50

Point - 250000

STR - 58

DEX - 58

CON - 58

MP – 58

UN – Newbie

UC - dm_6_666666666

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Newbie : ㅎㅎ How are the rewards for this wave??

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The World Is Cold : I'll survive.

ㄴAnt Queen : Why aren't you saying you're going to kill yourself today??

ㄴThe World Is Cold : Because an elf is coming to kill me right now!!!!!!!!! You fucking bastard!!!!!!!!!!

ㄴAnt Queen : ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

ㄴNight Raven : Hang in there... bb...

DIP : Honestly, if you're jealous of Newbie, hit recommend ㅋㅋㅋ

Golem King : I'm a Steampunk Dungeon Master, and fuck, honestly, I'm so jealous this time that my nonexistent stomach hurts...

ㄴOrange★ : I hit recommend... I cried rivers in all four directions... ㅠ_ㅠ

ㄴTV Head : Moderator, please maintain your dignity... If even you lose your mind like this, our gallery is doomed...

I Have No Minions : Wow, is level 55 already for real???

ㄴShibgan Love Dog : You really do level up fast! Wasn't the last wave rated Madness? Our Newbie just hit the ceiling once!?!

ㄴSkeleton Bones : Julius aside, the Marked Elves were generally pretty high-level this time.

ㄴKongKong : At this point, it would've been more profitable to leave them alive and farm points and levels, right?

ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : Newbie is getting more and more formidable ㅠㅠㅠ

Sealed Conqueror : Newbie already has five devices?

ㄴSealed Philosopher : Three elevators located at the entrance, Area 1, and Area 2, plus a maze generator and a school generator, for a total of five.

ㄴSealed Philosopher : The minions are the cleaning slime, the doppelganger, and five Weeping Statues, for a total of seven.

ㄴSealed Conqueror : It's finally starting to look like a dungeon~

Magic Hero : I don't know if this should be called a dungeon... h-h-h-h-honestly, I think it's s-s-s-s-s-something fucking incomprehensible...

ㄴShibgan Love Dog : Isn't that the charm of Newbie's dungeon?? I want to live there every day ㅠㅠ

ㄴMagic Hero : You're also s-s-s-s-something fucking incomprehensible...

Cowhead : So when's the next live run??

ㄴDungeon Master Was Disappointed : I can't believe this bastard has become a live-run junkie.

ㄴCowhead : No, it's fucking fun... This is a real labyrinth, yeah.

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I literally power-leveled.

Honestly, I didn't expect the elevators to play such a huge role.

Hmm.

I bought the elevators simply to increase the difficulty.

To send intruders back and forth between Areas 1 and 2.

If I roughly sketch the dungeon map,

this is probably what the structure would look like if the intruders used detection magic before reaching the elevator.

│Hall│

│ │

│way│

│ │

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│Open│

│ │

│space│

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│ Core Room │

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I can't say it's completely wrong.

But precisely speaking, it is as follows.

│Hallway│

│Elevator│

│Maze│

│Maze│

│Maze│

│Maze│

│Maze│

│Elevator│

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│Sch│

│Elevator somewhere│

│ool│

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│ Core Room │

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Anomalies are basically undetectable by detection magic.

Also, the maze and school are structured to activate only after an intruder reaches the area.

Most of them probably assumed there was nothing ahead but a long hallway and a wide open space, but that was a complete mistake.

Even if they safely made it past the elevator, a far more vicious school and maze were waiting for the intruders.

Intruders without information had trouble even getting past the elevator.

In the end, the result was an indisputably perfect victory for me.

Of course, that's because things went in my favor.

If the fucking elves had safely used their escape scroll and shared information from the beginning, the result could have been very different.

Humans aren't Protoss linked by the Khala.

Extreme situations are when people's true nature comes out most clearly.

Since the Marked Elves are villains with no trace of humanity,

their lack of cooperation was emphasized even more.

Anyway.

Are elevators the strongest?

【Elevator to Another Area (★3)】

【Price : 50000P】

【Tags : Anomaly, Immortality, Hallway Classification】

【The Dungeon Master can set the elevator's password directly.】

【The password consists of three digits, and duplicate numbers are not allowed. (Example : 234, 345, 456】

【When an intruder enters the password, they spawn in the area designated by the Dungeon Master.】

【The Dungeon Master can change the elevator's designated area during a wave.】

【However, if an intruder has already spawned in a designated area once, they cannot be spawned in that same area again. Please pay particular attention to this.】

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【A Helpful Example for Dungeon Masters with the Anomaly Theme ▼】

【Let's say an intruder named Cheolsu arrived in Area 1 using the elevator. Assume that Cheolsu had already entered Area 2 through the elevator located at the entrance.】

【The Dungeon Master was so annoyed that Cheolsu was trying to take the mana stone that he wanted to teach him a lesson.】

【He changed the spawn area designated by the elevator in Area 1 to Area 2 so Cheolsu would have to run himself ragged, but Cheolsu had already been transferred to Area 2 once.】

【At this point, instead of sending Cheolsu to Area 2, the elevator transfers him to the area designated at the beginning, or to the Core Room if there is no suitable location.】

【An intruder named Yeonghui saw Cheolsu disappear and made up her mind, saying, 'I have to follow Cheolsu too!' She boarded the elevator, but...】

【Since Yeonghui had never been to Area 2, she safely spawned in the Area 2 designated by the Dungeon Master.】

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【The elevator is connected to the location designated by the Dungeon Master and the 'Nest of an Insect from Another World.'】

【The insect from another world occasionally boards the elevator, but becomes sluggish if it is not its nest. If an intruder does not move in front of it, it cannot distinguish them from the elevator.】

【Only one person can board the elevator. If this rule is violated, a penalty is activated.】

【If an intruder boards every elevator installed inside the dungeon, they are moved to the Core Room.】

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Look at those dazzling colors.

Isn't it incredible?

I can choose the spawn area however I want.

I can even change it during a wave.

I can split up the intruders too.

It crushes intruders to a pulp, and even provides something called an otherworldly insect for free.

Ah.

It was truly a model child.

By the way, I noticed something while riding the elevator during this wave.

Restia visited our dungeon before, right?

Do you remember how the maze kindly wrote a route on the floor with sprinklers back then?

Anomalies are basically friendly toward me.

The elevator is too.

So is the otherworldly insect living in the mysterious space connected to the elevator.

This time, while I was heading to Area 2 to avenge Chongchong Sage,

I ran into the otherworldly insect.

The otherworldly insect gave me a little bow,

then handed me something of unknown nature as though it were a gift.

It was a soft, jelly-like thing with a colorful rainbow sheen, and it smelled sweet.

What is this, some kind of rice-cake handout….

I didn't eat it.

It would have been troublesome if it made me sick.

I might give it to Malangi as food later.

I'll only try eating it if my curiosity really, really gets the better of my reason.

But is it really this hard to break through? Is it because they're Marked Elves?

Ride the elevator alone.

Don't go out into unlit hallways.

Ignore the bug person.

Enter the three-digit password.

It sounds pretty simple when you just explain it….

And yet more than twenty Marked Elves lost their lives in the elevators alone.

I haven't even shown you all of Area 2 yet.

Julius, who killed Chongchong Sage.

That bastard who swaggered around boasting that he had the escape scroll.

He boldly stepped into Area 2, but ultimately got properly taught a lesson by the school and evolved statue combo.

In my opinion, the place with the strongest defensive capabilities in Dreamland right now is Area 2.

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【Unfamiliar School Generator (★3)】

【Price : 50000P】

【Tags : Anomaly, Immortality, One-Time Use, Minion Evolution】

【When it detects an intruder, it generates a school in the designated area. The size of the school is proportional to the area’s size.】

【The school has its own time rather than following real-world time. This can be checked on the wall clock.】

【The school is divided into five periods: arrival time, class time, break time, lunch time, and after school.】

【Arrival Time】

【It lasts from 8:30 to 9:00.】

【Minions with the Student tag freely roam the school.】

【Class Time】

【Everything in the school except the classrooms disappears. Class time lasts 40 minutes, and there are eight periods in total. When class time ends, everything returns to normal.】

【Minions with the Teacher tag occasionally appear in the classrooms.】

【Break Time】

【As the name suggests, it is break time. It lasts for ten minutes after class time ends.】

【Minions of every tag freely roam the school.】

【Lunch Time】

【As the name suggests, it is lunch time. It lasts for 50 minutes starting at 12:10.】

【Minions of every tag freely roam the school.】

【After School】

【It lasts for seven hours and fifty minutes, from 16:10 to 24:00. When after school ends, it returns to arrival time.】

【Minions with the Student or Caretaker tag freely roam the school.】

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【The school can give a specific minion a new tag and evolve it.】

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【Weeping Statue (★3)】

【Price : 15000P】

【Tags : Anomaly, Immortality, Initiation, Detection-Activated, Cannot Be Raised】

【This minion cannot move more than 100M from its designated location. It activates when an intruder enters its detection range. If an intruder within detection range takes their eyes off the minion while it is active, it breaks their neck.】

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Ta-da.

When you look at it this way, it's a somewhat crappy minion and trap.

It has an instant-kill ability, but the method of countering it was basically pretty simple.

From this perspective, it feels worse than the doppelganger-and-maze combo.

But didn't the faceless girl previously steal the Marked Elves' belongings and store them in the teachers' office?

That girl was the Weeping Statue that evolved through the school generator.

Its unique individuality disappears, but it gains traits that suit and fit the school.

In my opinion, maybe because it has a higher rating, but the school is definitely tougher than the maze.

If the maze feels like it slowly bleeds you dry,

the school feels like it grills and fries you at full heat.

Personally, I wanted to see these guys in action too.

Julius said he was the big boss, right?

I stared at the scroll I had taken from Julius.

I had hurriedly snatched it back before Malangi ate it.

He had also brought back plenty of valuable things, like weapons and healing potions.

Actually, I had planned to slyly take only the escape scroll without dealing with Julius myself, but apparently items can't be retrieved while their owner is alive.

That was why I had stood blankly in front of the teachers' office waiting for Julius.

Anomalies are basically kind to me, but they seem to have a certain limit beyond which they cannot intervene.

Anyway, that's not what's important.

The leader of the Marked Elves died in the dungeon.

Without even getting to use the escape scroll.

Even so, are there people who would still want to come to this dungeon?

I don't think so.

That part was a little disappointing.

This world has people known as the Blessed.

I also need to reinforce the dungeon more than I have now.

So I want to level up and collect more points.

…Did I kill him for nothing?

Actually, the escape scroll also counts as a successful defense.

Tsk….

No.

If he had taken information outside,

a much more troublesome situation could have arisen.

Let's look on the bright side.

There was no guarantee he would come back in, either.

Elek.

Malangi. Are you already done eating?

Mwo.

By the way.

Lately, there's been something I've been really curious about.

Why have you gotten so big…?

Elek?

Malangi had become enormous.

So much so that it was hard to put him on my lap and pet him.

He was practically the size of a gym ball now.

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【Anomaly Slime (★3)】

【Tags : Anomaly, Immortality, Harmless】

【It quickly cleans up trash inside the dungeon. It follows the Dungeon Master's commands.】

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Newbie : Do ordinary cleaning slimes evolve too?

ㄴShibgan Love Dog : No? Why?

ㄴNewbie : Please look at this just once ㅠㅠ

ㄴShibgan Love Dog : ???????

ㄴShibgan Love Dog : No way, is this Malangi???

ㄴNewbie : It went from an adorable plushie to a small bed... ㅠㅠ

ㄴShibgan Love Dog : You have to raise it all the way to queen size!

ㄴNewbie : Why?

ㄴShibgan Love Dog : So you and Newbie can lie down together!

ㄴNewbie : Huh?

Malangi had gotten chubby.

Had he eaten too many corpses and too much trash?

Come to think of it, there was something that came to mind.

Malangi's behavior had started to become a little strange a while ago.

For example,

instead of digesting trash, he would carry it away intact

and feed it to the mouth of the maze generator.

It was a little fascinating to watch,

but when I checked his status, his rating had gone up by a whopping two stars, and his stats had increased too.

The description also contained the phrase, 'It follows the Dungeon Master's commands.'

In fact, the reason I had been able to cause trouble by giving the Marked Elves notes was

mostly thanks to Malangi's growth.

I hugged him every day.

I petted him too.

So I thought he listened to my commands because we'd gotten close….

ㄴShibgan Love Dog : Come to think of it, it doesn't have the Cannot Be Raised tag... Ordinary slimes usually have the Cannot Be Raised tag.

Hmmmm.

It has Immortality too.

It also doesn't have Cannot Be Raised.

And only one can be hired.

Malangi. What do you want to be when you grow up?

Elek.

You little brat.

If you have enough intelligence to understand what I'm saying,

don't just say Elek—try writing something on the floor.

You delivered the notes just fine last time too.

Just grow up healthy.

I lay down on Malangi's body while pretending not to notice.

This is surprisingly soft.

I heard intensive care units use waterbeds. I wonder if lying on one feels exactly like this.

Then.

The Marked Elves had quieted down,

so I wondered a little about how to spend the enormous sum of 250,000 points.

Should I keep saving until I reach level 80 and spend it all at once?

By then, four-star devices will have unlocked too.

Or should I reinforce Areas 2 and 1?

Wait.

Let's go outside once and check on the situation.

The immediate danger had passed, so it seemed like it would be fine.

I did want to show the shut-in dungeon veterans the scenery of the Forest of Life, too.

Newbie : What do you guys think??

ㄴGolem King : Hmm...

ㄴDIP : If you don't wander around too dangerously... it might be okay if you stick to the kind of patrols you did in Rowjinrat, maybe.

ㄴAnt Queen : At level 55, Newbie-nim is above the Marked Elves, yeah, but even so, if the Marked Elves gang up on you, you're toast, so be careful, okay? Yeah.

ㄴNewbie : Okay okay.

I started up Bungbung for the first time in a while.