Chapter 68
There is a word in the Dungeon Gallery called revolution.
It’s used when a minion, out of some grievance, stages a coup against the Dungeon Master.
Most Dungeon Masters die at the hands of intruders.
But there have also been those killed by revolution, and one of them was Yongyonggari.
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : Newbie, did you maybe read Yongyonggari’s post?
ㄴNewbie : I think I saw a post about the helper when Max came in earlier.
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : You asked what that Yonggari bastard’s identity was, right?
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : His name is Dragred, and he was Yongyonggari’s minion, yep.
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : An ungrateful bastard who bit the hand that fed him.
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : Seeing him again like this really pisses me off, lol.
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : The kind of bastard who wouldn’t be enough even if you tore him apart into a thousand pieces.
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : He stabbed Yongyonggari in the back, and then even crawled back into the Newbie’s dungeon?
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : He’s truly a creature that should not exist.
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : Can’t we just toss him outside the anomaly and kill him?
ㄴSkeleton Bones : That bastard shouldn’t be allowed to die cleanly.
ㄴSkeleton Bones : He should be killed as painfully as possible.
ㄴDIP : Personally, I think he’s worse than Julius.
ㄴDIP : We raised him, fed him, gave him affection, and put a lot of care into raising him.
ㄴDIP : Honestly, half the reason I’ve come to hate sentient minions is because of that bastard.
ㄴNewbie : Guys, please calm down for now;;
The enemy you hate more than an enemy is a traitorous ally.
I don’t know the details, but he seems to have stacked up a lot of bad-rep points.
They’re reacting even more strongly than they did with Julius.
What on earth happened?
ㄴNewbie : Leaving the past aside.
ㄴNewbie : Since he’s an intruder, that bastard is my enemy too, yep.
ㄴNewbie : If he can be dealt with, then it’s better to deal with him.
ㄴNewbie : But I can’t let the rules get leaked...
ㄴNewbie : Unless I’m sure of the situation, I’m going to avoid using the anomaly outside as much as possible.
ㄴNewbie : An innocent person could get caught up in it, yep.
ㄴNewbie : And if, by some chance, people ever learned how to clear the anomaly
ㄴNewbie : that’d be troublesome in its own way.
ㄴNewbie : And if the anomaly touches Malang-i’s body, the anomaly melts.
ㄴNewbie : So I have to go set it myself.
ㄴNewbie : I have to avoid being seen, and retrieval is tricky, so...
ㄴNewbie : Anyway, it’s a hassle.
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : Okay, okay... Sorry.
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : I got a little heated...
ㄴSkeleton Bones : Sorry, sorry...
ㄴSkeleton Bones : You’re the one holding back the wave.
ㄴSkeleton Bones : I’m basically some third party sticking my nose in where it doesn’t belong...
ㄴSkeleton Bones : I’m sorry too, Newbie.
ㄴNewbie : No need to apologize, yep.
ㄴNewbie : I think that’s completely understandable.
ㄴNewbie : Anyway, give me the story in detail.
ㄴNewbie : I’m curious what got you guys so worked up.
Kingjjang Ghost replied with a link.
It was a post by Yongyonggari.
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Title: As They Say, the Axe You Trust Bites Your Foot
Author: Yongyonggari
I’m going to die soon.
As you all know, the dungeon was almost completely ransacked by An, the Blesser.
My condition is basically at death’s door.
Even if I somehow survive, I’ll die once the mana stone is ripped out.
I barely escaped the core room.
The remaining minions are fighting hard.
But it doesn’t look like they’ll hold out much longer.
Don’t ask why I sound so serious.
I’m serious because this is the last time I’ll be speaking.
I’m writing this because I have something I want to say to you.
I should’ve listened to you from the start.
Raising one minion more than necessary is like raising a tiger cub, and that saying really was right.
I thought I’d be different from the dead Dungeon Masters.
That’s because I thought of Dragred as my child.
As you all know, Dragred and I have been together since level 10.
I invested in him as much as I invested in myself.
I gave him love, affection, joy, and sorrow, and always shared everything with him.
Because that’s the kind of guy he was, that kind of bastard.
So I cherished him more and took even better care of him.
Only now do I realize how foolish that was.
Dragred betrayed me.
The moment things went bad, he joined hands with the Blesser and tried to kill me.
More than the fact that I’m dying right now.
More than the fact that my dungeon is collapsing.
The fact that that bastard betrayed me hurts more.
I don’t know.
It doesn’t matter anymore.
I’m just going to think of it as my karma.
I ignored your warnings and kept saying, "Our Dragred wouldn’t do that."
That was my mistake for sticking to that attitude.
Don’t make sentient minions.
You’ll regret it like I do.
Damn, I didn’t expect to die before that Secha bastard lol.
At this point, even Oblivion probably doesn’t know how my dungeon life will turn out.
Anyway, thanks for reading this long post.
Below is information on the Blesser, An, so check it when you have time.
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Noona’s off.
I’ll be greeting the bastards who went on ahead of me in heaven.
For the record, don’t come after me, there’s no room for you lol.
Everyone, please survive for a long time.
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ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : Nabu told you this before.
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : Don’t make minions you can’t control in the first place.
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : Yongyonggari is the textbook example of that.
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : We are the creators of our minions, but
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : that doesn’t mean the minions will ever move the way we think.
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : Even if a Dungeon Master dies, the minions don’t disappear.
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : That’s the absolute reason a revolution can happen.
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : Because once the dungeon collapses, they become free.
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : Well, anomalies are mostly kind to you.
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : There are exceptions, of course, like undead minions in death or winter themes, or steampunk automata, and so on.
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : In the first place, most of the veterans who’ve survived this far use minions of that sort, yep.
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : But if all Dungeon Masters were like that, why would a revolution have happened?
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : It’s basically a rule written in blood.
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : The reason Dungeon Masters avoid sentient minions
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : is basically because of cases like this, yep.
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : Yongyonggari ignored the rule.
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : And paid the price for it.
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : But I don’t think it was Yongyonggari’s fault.
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : For one thing, Yongyonggari was really good to Dragred.
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : He cared for him like a mother would.
ㄴKingjjang Evil Spirit : And now that bastard has betrayed his Dungeon Master and is acting up under a human lord, so of course I’m furious……………
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So that’s what happened.
If I compare it to my own situation.
It’d be like Malang-i absorbing Dreamland’s mana stone while I was spacing out.
Thinking about it suddenly makes me feel sad and depressed.
Is this kind of like when a girlfriend freaks out because she dreamed her boyfriend cheated?
"Ehk."
Sorry.
I’ll stop with the bullshit here.
"Hmm."
I suddenly had such a thought.
If Dragred were to come to Dreamland himself,
maybe this would be destiny.
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This is a slightly different story, though.
Still, I wanted to give the intruders one last chance.
And while I was at it, I thought I’d write a warning at the entrance to clear up the misunderstanding too.
I don’t know whether it’d have any meaning or not.
At the very least, wouldn’t it have some small effect on people who were dragged here against their will?
With the courage to point your blade at Dreamland.
Something like, "Aim it at the bastard who dragged you here."
Using the dungeon expansion feature, I made a pillar in the center of the entrance.
I made a makeshift bulletin board and posted the notice.
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【The wave begins】
【An intruder enters.】
【Confirmed intruders: 15 total.】
【15 humans.】
Even so, the wave continues.
Wolfhaufen’s raid party does not give up on clearing Dreamland.
Is this the second raid?
There’s no sign of the slaves.
One person who appears to be a mage.
The rest were soldiers.
-Th-this is…….
-Ignore it and keep moving.
They were only briefly startled as soon as they saw the notice.
They chose to press on.
Sorry, but.
human-wave tactics don’t work in my dungeon anymore.
Should I go out and take him out right now?
Hmm, no, I don’t think so.
Fighting 15 people alone would be a bit much, after all.
And I don’t need to do that in the first place, so maybe I’ll mess with them a little.
The elevator can change the spawn zone during a wave.
Of course, there’s a cooldown.
Move one person, change it, move one person, change it.
Naturally, it can’t be used like this, but at least I can split the raid party in half.
I sent 10 to the manor and 4 to the maze.
Then the intruders were thrown into confusion.
-Wh-what is this.
-Why are there fewer people…?
The mage seems baffled as well.
He stopped in front of the elevator, unsure what to do.
The mage is alone.
In other words, only one of them can handle the communication magic.
Once contact with the maze team was cut off,
his expression rotted in real time.
-D-detection magic…….
He doesn’t seem to be a complete idiot.
Unfortunately for him, that was his fatal mistake.
【The door opens】
The mage is in the elevator at the entrance.
He’s concentrating on detection magic.
And above all, he was alone.
"Huh?"
I can use the elevator too, you know.
Taking out the mage with that dumbfounded expression on his face
wasn’t difficult because all the conditions had lined up perfectly.
Squelch.
Thud.
"Well, that’s how it turned out."
The reason I’d been lying low until now?
Because I was ridiculously weak.
Because if an intruder caught me, I’d be taken out instead.
Of course.
Compared to Dungeon Masters of the same level back in the day, I’m still ridiculously weak.
For one thing, I don’t have much combat experience.
And I haven’t put any points into traits or stats at all.
Honestly, my level is fake.
I was confident I’d get absolutely wrecked even if it were 50 of me versus Secha-ham.
But.
If the intruder is just an ordinary grunt A, it’s manageable.
Of course, even I wasn’t free to use every anomaly.
For example, wandering dark hallways during class.
And the insane combo of carrying off confiscated belongings? I can’t do that.
So there are restrictions in many ways.
But against the weak, I can interfere like this.
The anomalies are fair to both the weak and the strong.
But this newbie isn’t.
I checked the inside of the dungeon through the system, not the monitor in the core room.
When the communication magic was cut off, the manor team was thrown into confusion as well.
Judging from the fact that they aren’t escaping, it seems the scroll is only with the mage.
I expected that.
Because it’s insanely expensive, most intruders up to now only brought one.
Then the anomalies will take care of the rest.
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The other raid attempts were mostly the same.
Third raid attempt.
【The wave begins.】
【The wave ends.】
Fourth raid attempt.
【The wave begins.】
【The wave ends.】
Fifth raid attempt.
【The wave begins.】
【The wave ends.】
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Wolfhaufen’s raid party even threw in a staggering 75 people, but
unlike the dwarves who figured out the elevator’s rules, they gained nothing.
You can’t even cheese it.
A raid attempt means putting a lot on the line.
I wonder if they’ve realized that yet.
I decided to spend the points I’d earned so far.
I used them for dungeon expansion.
As a temporary measure, I’d split Zone 3 in half to make Zone 4.
Now I need to return it to its normal size.
"Normalization complete."
"Ehk."
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I monitored the outside through Malang-i.
It was obvious at a glance that the raid party’s morale had been completely crushed.
-What on earth…….
-It’s truly an impregnable fortress.
-Wouldn’t it be better to tell the count and give up now?
Dragred looks very grim.
He looks so serious you’d think he might give up on the raid altogether.
-Next time, I’ll go in myself.
-Then I shall accompany you as well.
Even so,
he announced the next attempt.
"Oh dear."
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【The wave begins】
【An intruder enters】
【Confirmed intruders: 8 total】
【Seven humans】
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.】【One dragon】