Chapter 54
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LV. 90
Class - Dungeon Master
Dungeon Theme – Anomaly
Population – 10/50
Device count: - 7/50
Point - 150000
STR - 93
DEX - 93
CON - 93
MP – 93
UN - Newbie
UC - dm_6_666666666
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Newbie: Newbie-chan is almost level 100 now, hehe.
ㄴShibgansa Lovegae: Newbie-yam!
ㄴShibgansa Lovegae: You've really leveled up a lot!!
ㄴNewbie: Yep, hehe.
ㄴAnt Queen: No, Newbie-nim...
ㄴAnt Queen: You're a second-year dungeon master now, you know;; Snap out of it;;
ㄴAnt Queen: Are you really at the point where you can hit level 90 now??????????????
ㄴDIP: Man, the levels and points are seriously ridiculous, lol
ㄴGolem King: Back in my day, I had to carefully defend, stitch by stitch, because I was scared the traps and minions would get dismantled.
ㄴGolem King: This bastard can just sit in the Core Room scratching his balls and the anomalies will block everything for him, for real, fuck.
ㄴKing Slayer: That's just inferiority complex, guys.
ㄴKing Slayer: I'm feeling inferiority in real time too, fuck lolㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
ㄴKing Slayer: You bastard Oblivion, nerf the anomalies already, you piece of shit.
ㄴKing Slayer: Ah, my lost hours────!!
ㄴMagic Hero: Hahahahahahaha...
ㄴMagic Hero: I'm jealous...
ㄴI Have No Subordinates: Everyone's starting to feel a sense of crisis now that Newbie's level is creeping into triple digits, right??
ㄴI Have No Subordinates: At this growth rate, it's honestly insane lolㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
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I guess I shouldn't complain that I only gained 10 levels.
It felt like there were an unprecedented number of waves this time.
The rewards are a bit stingy, though.
Well, I guess someone like Max last time was the exception.
The dwarves were strong, but they weren't the kind of high-value prize a Helper would be.
Personally, it seems dwarves rank just above branded elves.
Above that would be the absurdly out-of-reach tier—Helpers, Blessed Ones, and the like.
ㄴSkeleton Bones: Your leveling will get slower and slower, yeah.
ㄴSkeleton Bones: Once a skill, knowledge, or whatever reaches a certain level, you can only improve it with blood-spitting effort.
ㄴSkeleton Bones: Levels are the same.
Also, the difficulty of the waves is measured relative to us.
After dealing with multiple intruders, Dreamland's combat power seems to have risen quite a bit system-wise.
Maybe huge power-leveling like before will be hard from now on.
That's a pity.
ㄴKongkong: Blood? Spitting? Effort?
ㄴKongkong: So you mean beat intruders up even harder, lol.
ㄴKongkong: Watching the live feed, the cave really is brutal though.
Mm-hmm.
How should I put it.
I still consider School to be Dreamland's ace, for now.
From the perspective of the people in this world, a place called School would naturally be unfamiliar.
And there were so many instant-death gimmicks that, if you got caught, you were dead.
However.
In a limited situation like 'the first time,' nothing is scarier than Goblin Cave.
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【Eerie Goblin Cave Generator(★4)】
【Price : 150000P】
【Tags : Anomaly, Immortal, Single-use】
【When it detects an intruder, it generates a cave and forest in the designated area. The size of this trap is proportional to the area of the zone.】
【Goblin Cave has its own time, separate from real-world time. This can be distinguished by the color of the sky.】
【Eerie goblins are generated in the cave. Eerie goblins identify those who smell different or act in ways no eerie goblin would as intruders.】
【The moment an intruder is recognized, a large number of goblins appear inside the cave. This continues until all intruders disappear from the cave.】
【Intruders who enter Goblin Cave begin mutating into eerie goblins from the moment they enter.】
【If they eat rotten meat or drink muddy water, the time required for complete mutation is shortened.】
【Intruders who fully mutate into eerie goblins will roam the cave until they are judged dead.】
【However, if an intruder escapes the cave during mutation, the mutation is immediately canceled and they return to normal.】
【*Work Time】
【This refers to the time from sunrise to sunset.】
【During Work Time, most goblins work. Everyone who finishes labor, including intruders, receives coins.】
【*Free Time】
【This refers to the time when there is no sun.】
【During Free Time, large goblins roam the inside of the cave. They track down anyone without coins and beat them before kicking them out of the cave.】
【If goblins come outside the cave during Free Time, they vanish.】
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And for good reason.
Because you'd turn into a goblin.
It's not like some witch's curse or anything.
The idea of becoming a goblin with your eyes, nose, and mouth all out of place is horrifying just to imagine.
In a situation where you don't even know if you can turn back to normal.
How many intruders could really keep it together and keep exploring?
And.
There was also the perfect partner to help with that goblinization.
In a situation with no information, it was truly a dungeon fit for a nightmare.
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【Merchant(★4)】
【Price : 50000P】
【Tags : Anomaly, Immortal, Beginning, Untrainable】
【This minion operates within the designated area.】
【If an intruder enters its detection range, it steals all of the intruder's belongings.】
【This minion assigns a price to the stolen belongings.】
【The price is determined from materials that the intruder can obtain within the dungeon.】
【If the intruder pays the price, it returns the items.】
【If the target leaves the designated area, all stolen belongings are returned to the intruder.】
【If an intruder stares at this minion for a certain amount of time, they enter the 'Charm' state.】
【While in the Charm state, if there is no outside intervention, the intruder will keep buying the merchant's goods until they can no longer pay.】
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It's just that dwarves and mercenaries are kind of special cases.
For normal people, if they don't drink water even for a day, it feels like their brains will go crazy.
The merchant makes the food and water disappear, and...
you could say this is an area that, in many ways, really tests your patience by tempting you with muddy water and rotten meat.
Newbie: Even I think it's fucking awful, lol
ㄴKongkong: For real, lol
If it's your first time, your mental state is doomed.
And even when buying an escape scroll, you have to have a kidney extracted before you can leave.
If I were an intruder, I'd feel pretty trapped.
Intruders probably won't come for a while now.
In the end, Chase chose to erase the information about Goblin Cave.
ㄴShibgansa Lovegae: Newbie-yam!
ㄴShibgansa Lovegae: So you're going to hang out on the gallery with me all day now???
ㄴNewbie: Hehe.
ㄴShibgansa Lovegae: Answer.
ㄴNewbie: Anyway, I hope intruders don't come, but
ㄴNewbie: if they really don't come, then I can't farm points or level up, so it's a weird dilemma.
ㄴShibgansa Lovegae: Answer.
ㄴNewbie: Hehe.
ㄴShibgansa Lovegae: Answer.
ㄴNewbie: Okay... let's spend all day on the gallery ㅠㅠ
There was nothing else to do anyway... huh?
ㄴShibgansa Lovegae: Newbie-yam!
ㄴShibgansa Lovegae: Then just put up an income artifact!
Lovegae mentioned a rather interesting word.
Income...?
Could a word like "income" even exist in this Dungeon Master world?
ㄴNewbie: What's income??
ㄴShibgansa Lovegae: Huh?? Nobody told you about this??
ㄴNewbie: Yeah... it's my first time hearing about it.
ㄴShibgansa Lovegae: If you place an income artifact, points come in on a monthly cycle. It doesn't give EXP like a wave, but you can rake in points like crazy!
Is that for real?
ㄴNewbie: No way, I thought everyone only made points by beating up intruders;;
ㄴShibgansa Lovegae: Then Secha would've already been killed by the elves, lolㅋㅋㅋㅋ
ㄴShibgansa Lovegae: Newbie's dungeon has the Immortal tag by default, but...
ㄴShibgansa Lovegae: other theme artifacts aren't like that, you know.
ㄴShibgansa Lovegae: Every wave tears down the traps and smacks the minions around...
ㄴShibgansa Lovegae: There are limits to wave rewards alone...
That's crazy.
So.
So dungeon masters can also receive things like bank interest or dividends?
Fuck, that's seriously amazing.
Right now my dungeon gets more wave rewards than other people's.
I don't know if it's newbie privileges or what, but maybe I can get more income too?
It was time to show off my skills properly.
And who am I?
I don't do stocks or crypto.
I diligently save in fixed deposits and don't even touch the principal.
I was a terrifying newbie, outperforming even the 0%-return 'King Rock.'
All right, let's get in there.
I'll show you what investment is.
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Newbie: Why the fuck doesn't the anomaly theme have an income artifact... ㅠㅠㅠㅠ
Until now, it had been called overpowered, insane, and in need of a nerf.
The anomaly theme, envied by every dungeon master and boasting unbeatable performance, had only one flaw.
It was that there was no way to make money other than waves.
That's kind of really sad.
Skeleton Bones: Oblivion just live-patched it because anomalies are broken as hell, yeah
ㄴDIP: For real lolㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Oblivion's really responsive.
ㄴKing Jjang Evil Spirit: Our Newbie is pitiful, being income-less and all...
Ugh.
These damn Sans bastards, I'll just...
Actually, if you only consider wave rewards, I do get overwhelmingly more EXP and points.
Honestly, the dungeon had expanded just fine even without something like income until now.
Still.
Even if I'm basically an anomaly-theme dungeon master on easy mode.
It's sad that other people can earn points just by breathing, while I can't.
ㄴShibgansa Lovegae: Newbie-yam! Even if you can't make points, big sis will feed you and put you to bed ㅠㅠㅠ
ㄴNewbie: I'm a beggar-yam...
ㄴShibgansa Lovegae: I'm rich-yam...
ㄴNewbie: Fuck ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
ㄴAnt Queen: But, Love-nim
ㄴShibgansa Lovegae: What
ㄴAnt Queen: It's kind of annoying how your speech changes only in front of Newbie, you know? ㅋㅎ
ㄴShibgansa Lovegae: 凸凸凸
ㄴShibgansa Lovegae: What're you gonna do, TV.
Sigh.
What can't be helped can't be helped.
Let's throw away pointless attachments.
It's better for your mental health that way.
Anyway.
After Chase, the dwarves no longer entered Dreamland.
I thought it would be time to mess around on the gallery and play happily with Malrang, but...
Not long after that, shocking news spread through the dungeon gallery.
The World Is Cold: Guys, I think I might actually die now...
The World Is Cold: Thanks for everything up to now... everyone, survive as long as you can...
The World Is Cold.
He, who was famous for suffering at the hands of elves, suddenly dropped a bomb into the dungeon gallery.