Dungeon Expansion

Sibgan Saranggae : This bastard Aboralis really talks a lot.

Sibgan Saranggae : If that bastard comes to my dungeon, they're dead.

Sibgan Saranggae : How dare they try to sweet-talk our Newbie?

ㄴDIP : I have no idea what part of that makes you think they're sweet-talking.

ㄴDIP : But from the way you're talking, it seems you know Newbie can go outside

ㄴDIP : you just don't seem to know yet that Newbie helped with Sechaham out.

ㄴGolemKing : It's just like when DIP was happily running his mouth in the Core Room

ㄴGolemKing : without knowing there were still two intruders alive, haha.

ㄴDIP : Why start something with me first?

ㄴGolemKing : Can't I start something too, lol?

ㄴDIP : Where do you live?

ㄴGolemKing : Replicant Automata, yep. Come in if you've got a problem.

ㄴGolemKing : I'll show you a hyper-speed golem punch that can hit 500 times a minute in theory, yep.

ㄴDIP : I'll summon a Death Knight right away, grab your legs,

ㄴDIP : hit a single-leg tackle on you, pound you into scrap metal, and turn you into a lump of junk.

CowHead : Aboralis VS Aboralis

ㄴCowHead : Watching the battle video makes my chest swell like crazy, damn.

ㄴSkeletonBones : This insanely meticulous battle of wits is art, lol.

ㄴMagicHero : Got the battle data, yay...

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This live run's response was well received too.

I recorded a lot of footage just in case, and I'm glad I did.

Because Blessed Ones could also enter other veterans' dungeons.

It seems filming this doppelganger battle scene was a big help.

“Feels good.”

Jutdakk-ham told me.

If I end up helping out other dungeons as a conduit.

Maybe a hopeful future will be waiting for Dungeon Masters, too.

As I said before.

The Dungeon Gallery itself was my social life.

They are as precious as the heart of a dungeon buried in the Core Room.

So.

I reset my goal.

Let's make a terrifying dungeon that even Blessed Ones wouldn't dare think of entering.

And help my friends.

Right now I have 300,000 points.

Now that I've gone over level 100 this time, I can buy 5-star units.

In gacha-game terms, it'd be like being able to outright buy the characters you'd normally have to pay for—and every single one of them has absurd performance.

First of all, all traps come with a tag like this.

【Escape Scroll Nullification】

Until now, I've robbed intruders of their belongings with things like the hall monitor and the merchant.

But I don't need to do that anymore.

If an escape scroll is used in an area where a 5-star trap has been triggered,

the escape scroll will just become a torn-up piece of paper with no meaning.

Of course, if an intruder uses it in the elevator, it'll activate normally.

But by the time they figure that out, plenty of people will have been taken care of.

There's no scam like this scam.

According to the old-timers, performance starts going up from 5-star onward.

The anomaly was already a scam from the start, so I wasn't expecting much.

But they showed me the different tiers firsthand, saying that real scams have yet another layer of scam on top of them.

Still, maybe that's why.

It seems that from 5-star on, traps and minions are bundled together.

In the area with a 5-star trap, there's a school-like gimmick where only the 'designated minion' can be used, but even taking that into account, it feels pretty good.

After all, not every Anomaly minion is good at everything.

In AOS games, there are trash-tier and god-tier characters, and even the items are split up too, aren't they?

Anyway.

So the new traps and minions I'm adding are...

【Ghost Mansion Generator (★5)】

【Price : 175,000P】

【Tags : anomaly, immortal, one-time use, escape scroll nullification】

【……】

【The Mirror That Shouldn't Exist (★5)】

【Price : 70,000P】

【Tags : anomaly, immortal, initiation, untrainable】

【……】

Not bad.

They're a bit pricey, but if you think about the performance, they're more than worth it.

Personally, I'd like them to become Dreamland's finishing move, following School's example.

I decided to place these guys in Area 3.

To counter the Blessed One who has the trap-nullification trait.

Hm?

I'm not planning to throw them away, of course. I'm going to move them to Area 4.

I packed a steel helmet and a shovel.

Honestly, they don't mean much, but I feel a little better every time I do construction work.

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The dungeon expansion feature was already mastered.

I can proudly say I learned from one-shot instructor Nabu and now I'm completely fluent.

Since I'm rather short on points.

For now, I plan to split Area 3 in half and make Area 4.

Terrain modification costs points too, of course, but around 5,000P wasn't that expensive.

Of course, Goblin Cave gets weaker in this case.

But I thought adding the mansion would pay off.

I can expand it again later once I get more points.

I split the area in an instant.

I brought the merchant to Area 4 and laid him down myself.

Ack.

The reason I don't use Malangi here is simple.

While dealing with the Blessed One this time, Malangi also...

ranked up by gobbling up the trash she left behind.

Seeing her rank go up after eating so little.

Malangi's growth might not actually depend on how much she eats.

It might be influenced much more by the Dungeon Master's level.

Maybe she just ate too much back when she was with the dwarves and her EXP bar got hard-capped.

【Anomaly Slime (★5)】

【Tags : anomaly, immortal, harmless, flight, size reduction, ???】

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

Anyway, when an anomaly touches Malangi, that part turns mushy and gets absorbed into her.

I suspect it's because of the ??? tag.

This will probably let me remove useless anomalies later and free up slots.

I feel like Malangi might awaken someday.

But right now I don't have any useless minions, and it's not time to test anything.

Anyway.

After moving the merchant, I brought the strange Goblin Cave generator over and set it up again.

And in the empty Area 3.

I placed the Ghost Mansion Generator and the Mirror That Shouldn't Exist.

If I add one more elevator, that should finish the construction.

I spent the points neatly.

All that's left is waiting for intruders.

Blessed One.

Are they coming in again?

Honestly, I thought the only thing left for me to do in Fireforge was just browse the gallery, sigh.

Could they have become a superstar among the Blessed Ones?

Well, they can come in as much as they want.

If they do, there's no way this newbie's mace can be dodged.

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Two months passed after that, but no Blessed One came in.

Apparently the old-timers' prediction was right.

Orange★ : In the end, I guess they got so freaked out by Dreamland's viciousness that they decided not to bother.

ㄴIHaveMinions : Since it's a dungeon where you can't get any reward besides mana stones, lol.

ㄴIHaveMinions : If we just stay quiet and don't draw attention for a while, it might be okay??

Did I overreact for nothing?

All the time I spent worrying and tensing up suddenly felt kind of stupid.

Sibgan Saranggae : Newbie-yam!

ㄴNewbie : Why are you calling me?

ㄴSibgan Saranggae : What did you install this time??

ㄴSibgan Saranggae : Since the dungeon-related talk went silent after the Blessed One came in, ㅠㅠ

ㄴCowHead : For real, you asked for recommendations and then went to sleep, damn it.

ㄴCowHead : Why hasn't there been any mention of Dreamland after that?

ㄴCowHead : Stand up straight, Newbie.

ㄴSkeletonBones : This is a little annoying, yeah.

ㄴSkeletonBones : What's with the expectation management??

Ah.

Come to think of it, I never talked about the dungeon expansion part.

ㄴNewbie : Sorry, when I get focused, my mind sometimes flies off to Andromeda...

ㄴNewbie : I bought this, haha.

ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : You've got some experience now, and you don't even ask the gallery anymore...

ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : I'm hurt...

ㄴNewbie : No, I just got a dopamine rush from seeing the 5-star piecesㅠㅠ

ㄴNewbie : I'll ask from now on...

ㄴMagicHero : B-b-but looking at the traps and minions descriptions...

ㄴMagicHero : it's enough to make your dopamine spike... lol...

ㄴThe World Is Cold : Escape Scroll Nullification lmao

ㄴIHaveMinions : You brought something terrifying again this time...

ㄴYellYellYeah : RIP in advance to the intruder who comes next

ㄴSquintyEyes : No, why are 5-star pieces so good??

ㄴSquintyEyes : Besides the traps and minions you just bought, there are a bunch of other things that catch my eye, lol.

ㄴSealedConqueror : This is the real fear, yep.

ㄴSealedPhilosopher : I’m looking forward to the next live run...

While I was also dangling the unfamiliar concept of 'TRPG' as bait for the idle old-timers, at one point.

An intruder came in after a very long time.

【The wave begins.】

【An intruder enters.】

【Confirmed intruders: 15 total.】

【15 humans.】

Naturally, I thought it would be a Blessed One.

Or so I thought.

But why humans, and not dwarves, all of a sudden?

That caught me a little off guard.

“By the way... look at how these damn human bastards all think the same.”

It's not like some Yuben Mk. II or anything.

This time they brought two combatants, and the rest were leading slaves.

“Seriously, I lose all motivation every time I see them.”

As someone who used to be human before becoming a Dungeon Master, this is a truly embarrassing moment.

What the hell do these bastards think another person's life is worth?

They're blatantly making it obvious they don't want to go in.

And yet they're trying to use them as sacrifices to figure out the anomaly.

Newbie : It's time to show the power of a level 105 Dungeon Master ㅇㅇ

ㄴNewbie: But who are those bastards??

ㄴSibgan Saranggae : This is the perfect time for Love Holmes, the human-filth expert, to step in!

ㄴSibgan Saranggae : Those soldiers are...

ㄴAntQueen : Why is this person suddenly acting so damn corny??

ㄴAntQueen : They're just North Kingdom soldiers, whether I step in or not, ㅋㅎㅋㅎ

ㄴSibgan Saranggae : You want to die, for real ^^?

ㄴSibgan Saranggae : Newbie, ignore that gross ant creep and just listen to me ㅠㅠ

ㄴSibgan Saranggae : Anyway, as I was saying!

ㄴSibgan Saranggae : They're North Kingdom soldiers, but more precisely, soldiers from the 'Count Wolfhaufen's domain'!

ㄴSibgan Saranggae : That wolf emblem on the shield is Wolfhaufen's symbol, you know.

ㄴSibgan Saranggae : Luckily, there don't seem to be any knights... and no one who looks especially high-ranking either!

ㄴSibgan Saranggae : Newbie should be able to overpower them easily!

ㄴNewbie : Thanks!

ㄴSibgan Saranggae : If you're thankful, you have to kiss me when we meet (serious)

ㄴNewbie : Hehe... but if they came in that deliberately, did they get caught by the lord again this time?

ㄴSibgan Saranggae : Who knows?

ㄴSibgan Saranggae : It's a little hard to figure out right now...

ㄴSibgan Saranggae : They probably know about the dwarves, too...

ㄴSibgan Saranggae : Personally, I'm pretty curious about why they came in.

Whatever, I guess it doesn't matter.

Maybe I should stretch my hands a bit for the first time in a while.

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I dusted my hands off.

The fight ended with my victory.

Leveling up really is the truth.

I toyed with the soldiers as if they were little kids.

By my reckoning, two ordinary soldiers are now, what should I call it.

They're goblins to me.

But.

Even though I won the fight easily, my expression wasn't all that bright in the end.

The corridor is full of corpses.

None of the intruders survived.

Even the slaves I personally wanted to save are all dead.

I didn't kill them.

There was no reason to, and I had something to ask them in the first place.

Why the humans from the North Kingdom bothered coming into Dreamland in Fireforge.

That question was not something I could ask a corpse.

MagicHero : It's a magic bomb...

Magic bomb.

The moment the soldiers realized they were going to lose.

The essence of magitech, brought out with the resolve to die together.

The bomb went off with a bang.

Everyone, including me, was swept up in the explosion.

For the soldiers, it was probably a last-ditch suicide attack.

Fortunately, I didn't suffer a fatal wound like they did.

Though I do have wounds here and there, they're healing fast.

I was lucky.

Thank goodness the soldier made a mistake.

I almost wasted the Drake Heart I got from Sechaham.

I still have chills down my spine.

It happened when I let my guard down, thinking it was over.

Next time, I need to stay focused until the very end.

By the way.

I heard something from the soldiers that I couldn't ignore.

“They definitely said I was a calamity...”

They're different from the intruders so far, who only came after mana stones.

The moment they faced me, they burned with nothing but hostility.

-You are the Dungeon Master who will become the North Kingdom's calamity.

-Die, die, cough up the mana stone right here and die!

What the hell is going on?

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