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: Hehe, how's this wave's reward??

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WorldIsCold: I'll survive.

ㄴAntQueen: Huh, weren't you saying you'd kill yourself today??

ㄴWorldIsCold: Because an elf is coming to kill me right now!!!!!!!!! You fucking asshole!!!!!!!!!!

ㄴAntQueen: hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

ㄴNightCrow: Hang in there... bb...

DIP: Honestly, if you're jealous of Newbie's DM, thumbs up lol

GolemKing: I'm a steampunk dungeon master, and fuck, honestly this time I'm so jealous it makes my nonexistent stomach ache...

ㄴOrange★: I hit thumbs up... I'm bawling in all directions... ㅠ_ㅠ

ㄴTVHead: Head Mod, please keep your dignity... If even you lose your mind, our gallery is done for...

IHaveNoMinions: Whoa, already level 55, for real???

ㄴShibganLover: Leveling up really is fast! Did you say last wave's difficulty was madness? Our Newbie really hit the cap once, huh!?

ㄴSkullBones: As for Julius, needless to say, the Marked Elves were generally high-level overall.

ㄴKongKong: At this point, it would've been better to just keep him alive and farm points and levels.

ㄴKingJjangGhost: Newbie is getting more and more corrupted ㅠㅠㅠ

SealedConqueror: Newbie already has five pieces?

ㄴSealedPhilosopher: The traps are three elevators located at the entrance, Area 1, and Area 2, plus a maze generator and a school generator, for a total of five.

ㄴSealedPhilosopher: The minions are a cleaning slime, a doppelganger, and five crying statues, for a total of seven.

ㄴSealedConqueror: It's already starting to feel like a dungeon~

MagicHero: Whether to call this a dungeon or not... s-s-s-s-s-s-s-honestly, I think it's some f-f-f-f-fucking incomprehensible thing...

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

ㄴMagicHero: You're also some f-f-f-f-fucking incomprehensible thing...

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

ㄴDungeonMasterWasDisappointed: I can't believe this bastard turned into a live-stream parrot.

CowHead: No, it's fucking fun... This is a real maze, yeah.

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I leveled up like crazy, literally.

Honestly, I hadn't expected the elevator to pull this hard.

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Hmm.

I bought the elevator simply to raise the difficulty.

So I could send them back and forth between Area 1 and Area 2.

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If I roughly drew the dungeon map.

If intruders used detection magic before reaching the elevator, it would probably look something like this.

│Corridor│

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│ Space │

│ │

│ │

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│ Core Room │

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But it's not completely wrong.

More precisely, it's like this.

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│Corridor│

│Elevator│

│ Maze │

│ Maze │

│ Maze │

│ Maze │

│ Maze │

│Elevator│

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│Sch│

│an elevator somewhere│

│ool│

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│ Core Room │

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The anomalies generally don't get caught by detection magic.

Also, in the case of the maze and the school, they only activate once an intruder reaches the area.

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Most of them would probably assume that all that's ahead is a long corridor and a wide open space, but that was a complete misjudgment.

Even if they got through the elevator safely, the far more vicious school and maze were waiting for them.

Intruders with no information would have a hard time getting past even the elevator.

In the end, the result was my complete, unquestionable victory.

Of course, that's only because things were going my way.

If the bastards had safely used their escape scrolls and shared the information from the start, the outcome could have been very different.

Humans aren't Protoss made of some kind of khala.

In extreme situations, a person's true nature comes out even more clearly.

The Marked Elves are villains whose humanity is nowhere to be seen.

That lack of cooperation was emphasized even more.

Anyway.

Are elevators the strongest?

【Elevator to Another Area (★3)】

【Price : 50000P】

【Tags : Anomaly, Immortal, Passageway】

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

【The password must be three digits, and the digits may not repeat. (Example: 234, 345, 456】

【When an intruder enters the password, they are spawned 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 the same area again. Please be especially careful about this.】

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【Kind example for Anomaly-theme Dungeon Masters ▼】

【Let's say an intruder named Cheolsu used the elevator to arrive at Area 1. Assume Cheolsu had already entered Area 2 first through the elevator at the entrance.】

【The Dungeon Master wanted to teach Cheolsu a lesson for being so brazen about trying to take the mana stone.】

【I changed the spawn area of the elevator in Area 1 to Area 2 to make him work his ass off, but Cheolsu had already been teleported to Area 2 once.】

【At that point, instead of sending Cheolsu to Area 2, the elevator teleports him to the area originally designated, or to the core room if no suitable place exists.】

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【An intruder named Younghee sees Cheolsu disappear, thinks, 'I should follow Cheolsu too!' and boards the elevator...】

【Since Younghee has never been to Area 2, she is safely spawned in the Dungeon Master's changed Area 2.】

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【The elevator is connected to the place designated by the Dungeon Master and the 'nest of the insect from another world'.】

【The insect from another world sometimes boards the elevator, but unless it's in its own nest, it goes numb. If an intruder doesn't move in front of its eyes, it can't distinguish the elevator from them.】

【Only one person can board the elevator. Violating this triggers a penalty.】

【If an intruder boards every elevator installed in the dungeon, they will be moved to the core room.】

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This brilliant color, look at it.

Isn't it badass?

The spawn area can be set however I want, too.

I can even change it during a wave.

I can even scatter the people around.

I can wreck the intruders to pieces, and even that thing called an interdimensional insect comes free of charge.

Man.

It was a real moneymaker.

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

Remember when Lestia visited our dungeon before?

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

Anomalies are basically friendly to me.

The elevator too.

And so is the interdimensional insect living in the mysterious space connected to the elevator.

This time, I was out to avenge Chongchong Sage.

When I was moving toward Area 2, I once ran into the interdimensional insect.

The interdimensional insect bowed its head to me.

Then, as if it were a gift, it handed me something unidentifiable.

It was a soft, jiggly jelly with a multicolored rainbow sheen, and it smelled sweet.

"What is this, some kind of rice-cake giveaway...?"

I didn't eat it.

In case something went wrong.

Maybe I'll feed it to Malangi later.

I'll only try it once, when curiosity truly overpowers reason.

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

Riding the elevator alone.

Not going out into the hallway without lights.

Ignoring the insect man.

Entering a three-digit password.

It sounds really simple just from the explanation....

And yet more than twenty Marked Elves had died in the elevator alone.

"I haven't even shown them everything in Area 2 yet."

Julius, who killed Chongchong Sage.

That bastard who bragged about having an escape scroll.

He boldly stepped into Area 2, but in the end he got properly put in his place by the school and the evolved statue combo.

In my opinion, the place with the strongest defensive power in Dream Land right now is Area 2.

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【Strange School Generator (★3)】

【Price : 50000P】

【Tags : Anomaly, Immortal, Single-use, Minion Evolution】

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

【The school has its own time, separate from real time. You can check it with the clock hanging on the wall.】

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

【Arrival Time】

【Lasts from 8:30 to 9:00.】

【A minion with the Student tag freely roams the school.】

【Class Time】

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

【A minion with the Teacher tag sometimes appears in the classrooms.】

【Break Time】

【Literally break time. It lasts for 10 minutes after class ends.】

【Minions with any tag can roam the school freely.】

【Lunch Time】

【Literally lunch time. It lasts for 50 minutes starting at 12:10.】

【Minions with any tag can roam the school freely.】

【After School】

【Lasts for 7 hours and 50 minutes, from 4:10 p.m. to midnight. When after school ends, it returns to arrival time.】

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

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

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【Crying Statue (★3)】

【Price : 15000P】

【Tags : Anomaly, Immortal, Trigger, Detection Activity, Untrainable】

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

【However, if even one intruder keeps their gaze on it, this minion does not move.】

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Ta-da.

When you look at it like this, it's a somewhat fishy minion and trap.

It has an instant-kill ability, but the countermeasure is basically easy.

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Looking at it this way, it feels worse than the doppelganger & maze combo at first glance.

Didn't that faceless girl once extort the Marked Elves' belongings and store them in the teachers' office?

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That girl was the crying statue that evolved into the school generator.

Her unique personality disappears, but she gains traits suited to the school and well-matched to it.

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Maybe it's because the rank is higher, but the school is definitely tougher than the maze.

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The maze feels like slowly bleeding you dry,

the school feels like it'll scorch and fry you hard.

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

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"Julius was the big boss, right."

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I stared at the scroll I had taken from Julius.

I had snatched it back in a hurry before Malangi could gobble it up.

He'd also brought back a lot of valuable stuff, like weapons and healing potions.

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Actually, I had planned to just quietly swipe the escape scroll without dealing with Julius directly, but when the owner is still alive, the item can't be recovered.

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

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Anomalies are generally kind to me, but it seems there's a certain line they can't cross.

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Anyway, that's not the important part.

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The Marked Elf boss died in the dungeon.

He couldn't even use an escape scroll.

Would there still be bastards who'd want to come to the dungeon?

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I don't think so.

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That part was a little disappointing.

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In this world, there are beings called the Blessed.

The dungeon also needs a lot more reinforcement than it does now.

That's why I feel like leveling up and gathering more points.

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"...Did I kill him for nothing?"

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Actually, even an escape scroll counts as a successful defense.

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Tsk....

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No.

If the guy had taken information outside,

a much more troublesome situation could have happened.

Let's think about it positively.

There was no guarantee he'd come back in the first place.

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"Eek."

"Malangi. You already ate it all?"

"Mwoot."

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By the way.

There's something I've been really curious about lately.

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"Why did you get so big...?"

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"Eek?"

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Malangi had gotten huge.

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

Now it was almost at the level of a gym ball.

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【Anomaly Slime (★3)】

【Tags : Anomaly, Immortal, Harmless】

【It quickly cleans up trash inside the dungeon. It obeys the Dungeon Master's orders.】

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Newbie: Do cleaning slimes usually evolve?

ㄴShibganLover: No? Why?

ㄴNewbie: Just take a look at this once, please ㅠㅠ

ㄴShibganLover: ??????

ㄴShibganLover: Don't tell me that's Malangi???

ㄴNewbie: It went from a comfort plush to a mini bed... ㅠㅠ

ㄴShibganLover: You need to grow it nice and big until it's queen-size!

ㄴNewbie: Why?

ㄴShibganLover: That way Newbie and I can lie down on it together!

ㄴNewbie: Huh?

Malangi had gotten chubby.

Had it eaten too many corpses and trash?

Come to think of it, there was one thing I could point to.

Malangi's behavior had started getting a little strange from some time ago.

For example.

It would carry trash away without digesting it,

and feed it to the maze generator's mouth.

From the observer's standpoint, it was a little strange.

But when I checked the status, its grade had gone up by two stars, and its stats had increased too.

The description also had the line, 'It obeys the Dungeon Master's orders.'

In fact, the reason I was able to stir up trouble by handing out notes to the Marked Elves was mostly thanks to Malangi's growth.

Every day, I hugged it.

And patted it.

So I thought we'd gotten close, and it was listening to my commands....

ㄴShibganLover: Come to think of it, there isn't an Untrainable tag... Normally, a regular slime has the Untrainable tag attached.