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The Dungeon, Medea Island, Kalenic Sea
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As I deflected a probing strike from Instincts, I sent it yet another message. This is getting us nowhere. Surely you understand that? I insisted, once again trying for diplomacy. If we don't resolve this soon, we are going to die. Both of us.
The dungeon's original soul ignored my entreaties as it had all the others, completely and utterly.
When I'...
2023-04-19 04:02:19 +0000 UTC View Post-0-0-0-0-0-
The Guardian's Throne Room, The Sixth Floor, The Dungeon
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Jerrad looked down at the remains of the Guardian, and despite the fact he should be triumphant at their success, he felt a little cheated. Oh, sure, the fight was brutal.
The Guardian was a fearsome foe and not one liable to go down quickly or easily. But at the same time...
"That was not the same Elemental," he stated quietly, staring at the gradually cooling metal remains...
2023-04-05 04:10:49 +0000 UTC View Post-0-0-0-0-0-
The Eighth Floor, The Dungeon, Medea Island
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"Hallmark!" Auora shouted, her voice bouncing all across the mountaintop. She looked across the snowy plains with squinted eyes, the glare from the snow almost as bad as staring directly at the blinding sun.
"Chana!" Xerat joined in half-heartedly. They'd been looking for the knight and archer all morning and had little luck. The blizzard had raged for the rest of the day and through the night, only su...
2023-03-30 08:44:47 +0000 UTC View PostEdit: Finished editing, and added some extra lines to the final POV
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The Seventh Floor, The Dungeon, Medea Island
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Kata wandered the village and couldn't help but think how empty it seemed without Drake-kin in the training arena. They'd been a constant presence, the noise of steel-on-steel ringing over the village at all hours. They'd taken their loss the day before personally. Even with all of them at once, the guilders had pushed through them and, u...
2023-03-22 08:06:59 +0000 UTC View PostHi guys!
My partner and I have been planning to go on holiday for a few months now, and tomorrow we leave! I'm taking my laptop and plan to write when I can, but I can't guarantee chapters for the next three weeks. I'm very sorry for the inconvenience.
If you cancel your subscription until I return after Easter, I'll understand.
See you later!
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The Eleventh Floor, The Dungeon, Medea Island
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Wave whooped and hollered in joy as he sped across the ocean. The manasun glinted off the water, and the wind rushing by him made him squint his eyes, but they could do nothing to wipe the massive grin on his snout.
It'd taken a few days, but his surfboard was done. Carefully carved and shaped according to the flashes of instinct he felt then. When he was done, he'd called it the most beautiful sight...
2023-03-15 04:05:58 +0000 UTC View Post-0-0-0-0-0-
The Guildmistress's Office, The Guild, Medea Island
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Layla entered her office briskly, her lips pursed and brow furrowed. She was quickly followed by Felin, her aunt, and her uncle. She sat at her desk, and Felin shut the door behind them. A mana pulse into the enchanted metal plate at her desk activated the room's privacy enchantments, and Layla leaned forward on her elbows.
"We have a problem," she started before her aunt and uncle had had a ch...
2023-03-01 03:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post-0-0-0-0-0-
Tear's Arena, The Seventh Floor, The Dungeon
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Tear stared down at the guilders as they fought to reach the final tier, where he stood. They were already halfway across the second tier; more than four dozen corpses and shattered golems lay in their wake.
"They're skilled; I'll give them that. Their strength is almost overwhelming," Tear told the earth spirit looming over him. Tear appreciated his company; Sonum was quiet, preferring silence to mea...
2023-02-25 03:49:20 +0000 UTC View Post-0-0-0-0-0-
Tear's Forge, The Seventh Floor, The Dungeon
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It'd been two days since the humans began their exploration of the Seventh, and Tear could at least say that with every loss... they improved. Every squad not patrolling the mines was training. If they weren't doing either, they were eating or sleeping.
The spark had been lit. He could see it in their eyes; the drive to improve. In that steely glint, the set of their jaw and the tense posture they'd a...
2023-02-19 03:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post-0-0-0-0-0-
The Seventh Floor, The Dungeon, Medea Island
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Auora Isirtine walked close behind Hallmark as they passed through the doorway into the Seventh. The rest fanned beside him when he stopped a few yards into the room. Her first impression was... that it was a mine.
The walls and roof had the tell-tale marks of pickaxes, unlike every passage so far. They'd seen brick construction and natural caves aplenty but no visible sign of digging. The room looked...
2023-02-08 03:25:36 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Ayy Funny number.
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The Sixth Floor, The Dungeon, Medea Island
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Auora Isirtine stared at the broken form of the Fifth Floor Guardian. It had taken them so long to get here. Even after they'd been informed of the Guardian's location and how to access the arena... there were so few of them remaining.
After Blace, Titon, and Dorin had been kidnapped, killed, and used in the dungeon's monstrous experiments... The party hadn't fract...
2023-02-01 03:58:40 +0000 UTC View Post-0-0-0-0-0-
Layla's Office, The Guild Hall, Medea Island
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"Wait. You said the dungeon is what?!" Isid exclaimed, shocked. The other two party leaders in the room were too stunned to say anything but obviously wanted answers too. Guildmistress Losat sighed.
"My final question was why the dungeon couldn't answer the questions personally, as it had done before," The Guildmistress answered her aunt. "The Kobold, though hesitant, replied that she believed it to b...
2023-01-25 03:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post-0-0-0-0-0-
The Scorpan Village, The Ninth Floor, The Dungeon
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Skitters-Across-The-Sand was resting on her bed-nook when she heard the thundering sound of legs on the sand, which could only herald the approach of her scorplings.
At the head of the pack of unruly juveniles was Sprints-Into-Danger. The girl was the smallest of the clutch but was the fastest of them all. She was named that for her habit of running directly toward loud noises and movements. Foll...
2023-01-18 04:05:07 +0000 UTC View Post-0-0-0-0-0-
The Guildmistress's Office, The Guild Hall, Medea Island
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Layla Losat was making her final preparations for the evening ahead. She ran through the list, double-checking that they were ready. There was just one thing left to confirm.
"The animals?" She asked Felin. The man hefted the cages of fertile hedgehogs and grunted a 'check.' "Good, then that's everything," Layla stated before she turned to look out the window.
"With about... ten minu...
2023-01-12 04:03:37 +0000 UTC View Post-0-0-0-0-0-
The Drake-Kin Village, The Seventh Floor, The Dungeon
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Kata was going about her day, as usual, when something peculiar happened.
Over a few seconds, every single monster in her sight... stopped. They slowed and paused what they were doing. They all stiffened, and she saw the sudden panic in their eyes. The next moment, they all turned and rushed toward the center of the village. None spoke a word, though they were sprinting in their growing mania...
2023-01-04 03:04:20 +0000 UTC View Post-0-0-0-0-0-
The Dungeon, Medea Island
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As dawn broke on a new day, I decided to perform a top-down inspection of my Dungeon.
The First floor, my first creation. It was minimalist, simplistic, and, by now, trivialized. The Crabs' strengths, attacks, and weaknesses were well-known. Their tactics were simple and easily countered. It wasn't something I was going to change, either. Ultimately, I had always known the first floor would become an introduction, an en...
2022-12-24 04:58:24 +0000 UTC View Post-0-0-0-0-0-
Cliffside Village, The Sixth Floor, The Dungeon
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Bahumet wandered the village in a thoughtful mood. Every so often, his gaze drifted towards the Scorched Plains below, watching the party of guilders slink away. As promised, they'd brought the requested items and traded them for a weight of the villager's wool. Bahumet knew what they'd use the wool for. It was obvious.
They'd use it to fashion more heat-resistant armor and cloaks so they could sta...
2022-12-14 03:05:49 +0000 UTC View Post-0-0-0-0-0-
The Dungeon, Medea Island, Kalenic Sea
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The Eleventh Floor, being an expanded space, felt extremely strange. It was an absolutely enormous space that should reach from the mantle to space and is only half the size of Poland surface-area-wise. On the other hand, the room was only ten yards by twenty and thirty yards. That's the physical amount of space it occupied, despite the interior dimensions.
It was... mindboggling huge, and far more extensiv...
2022-11-30 03:01:27 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
So, I've seen a lot of Patreon creators shout out their patrons in a spoiler section, mostly in Pre-chapter authors notes.
Given that there isn't much Silvers are getting that Coppers aren't... and that i haven't made a poll in ages, I was wondering if you guys would want that.
If yes, I'll message you all individually and ask if you're okay with that, and what name I should use.
I'll probably be making another poll soon about the monsters for the 11t...
AN: Now Edited! There have been some changes at the end of the chapter, specifically regarding the 11th floor and it's... size.
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The Dungeon, Medea Island
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I let my attention settle across the Tenth, watching all its creatures go about their daily routines. The Minotaur population had grown to almost triple the original group I raised to monsterhood. Given the females ' more verbose nature, I had expected them to be a matriarchy. Against those ex...
2022-11-16 03:00:32 +0000 UTC View Post-0-0-0-0-0-
The Dungeon, Medea Island
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As the raid of platinum's ensorcelled themselves in a cave, I had a choice before me. I have made a regular pattern of night being particularly difficult for delvers, either by introducing special monsters or increasing their aggressiveness.
For the Sixth floor... and for this group in particular... I won't go too hard. The environment itself is pretty hostile, and with them in that cave... I COULD throw monsters at the...
2022-11-12 00:19:05 +0000 UTC View Post-0-0-0-0-0-
The Fifth Floor, The Dungeon, Medea Island
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Jerrad felt relief when they'd finally fought their way past the hordes of monsters to reach the pedestal, thinking their ordeal would soon be over.
That relief turned to confusion when they found the key missing and glowing red writing on a metal plate.
"Four Fifths? What is that supposed to mean?" Flasa, who had been the first to reach the pedestal, asked in confusion. "What's mathematics got to...
2022-11-02 04:04:37 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Fair warning, this is mostly unedited. I'm short on time right now, but I wanted to get the chapter out today. I'll edit and refine it tomorrow.
Enjoy!
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The Dungeon, Medea Island
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My little spies quickly infiltrated the walls, floor and ceiling of the room being used to 'scan' my Fungal Key. While once I would have worried about them being spotted, after months of careful breeding and modification my rats were quite adept at es...
2022-10-20 05:09:40 +0000 UTC View Post-0-0-0-0-0-
Outside the Dungeon, Medea Island
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Ajaz Drogat stood with his party, currently second in line to enter the dungeon. They'd arrived on one of the merchant ships that had docked the day before, one of three parties who'd paid passage to this little island.
Unlike those other two groups, Ajaz and his party had been here before.
They'd only been Silvers then and were just getting confident on the second floor when the Guildmistress had restrict...
2022-10-12 03:01:39 +0000 UTC View Post-0-0-0-0-0-
The Dungeon, Medea Island
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I turned away from the ceremony on the sixth floor, quite satisfied. It seemed that spirits within a golem gain a greater bond to whatever material it is made of. The Mithril golem's transformation was fascinating. Specifically, the transition from fire spirit to a metal-fire hybrid.
The mana in the sprite's core had been pure fire, while the mana throughout the rest of its body was a mix of fire and metal. When it ente...
2022-10-05 03:01:35 +0000 UTC View Post-0-0-0-0-0-
The Dungeon, Medea Island
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I have a cunning plan for the sheep and rabbits.
To begin, I focused on the series of tiny warrens the small family of rabbits had dug while I was dealing with the Minotaurs. While Neo had given me a breeding pair, the use of mana to speed up their already prodigious breeding rate left me with more than a dozen animals to work with.
I'd given the original two rabbits, who I referred to as Adam and Eve, monster cor...
2022-09-28 03:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post-0-0-0-0-0-
Layla's Office, The Guild, Medea Island
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Layla felt a weight lift her shoulders when she noticed her aunt and the rest of the raid group approaching the hall. She was relieved none of them had died and seemed uninjured from the look of their mana. She turned to the other desk in the office and called out to her old friend.
"Felin. My aunt and the rest of the Platinums have returned. Could you please ask the three party leaders to join me here to ...
2022-09-21 04:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post-0-0-0-0-0-
The Dungeon, Medea Island
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I began by digging out a large cavern, which I feel takes the most time in this process. Compared to the previous few floors, its position follows a curve centered on the island and keeps a wide swath of rock between them and the magma chamber. I'm getting quite deep by now, and given I'm off the continental shelf of Theona, the seafloor is relatively thin.
I'm worried I'll start getting close to the mantle soon, so I n...
2022-09-14 04:01:34 +0000 UTC View Post-0-0-0-0-0-
The Dungeon, Medea Island
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When I started thinking about what creature would be best suited for the Ninth Floor boss, I kept coming back to the same answer. A Scorpan. I'd considered using another monster, such as the Vultures or Sunlions. However, I wasn't sure how to improve them for the role beyond 'larger and tougher.' Thus, using my most intelligent and versatile monsters makes the most sense.
The next thing to do was observe the village and...
2022-09-07 04:00:58 +0000 UTC View Post-0-0-0-0-0-
Layla's Office, The Guild, Medea Island
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"Thanks for giving me your report in person, auntie," Layla said with a smile. Her aunt Isid nodded and returned her smile.
"No trouble at all, my niece. I wanted to check in on you anyway. You've been bundled up in this dreary office for days!" Isid chided, crossing her arms. Layla sighed and made to speak, but her aunt preempted her. "And don't say your work was important and needed to be done. All t...