NOVEL FROG Chapter 26: Mages.
I was once again bored; Who knew that being a dungeon could be so utterly slow? I didn't really have much to do, and making a new floor didn't really appeal to me right now. I knew there was something I could do, but not what it was.
I was about to go and start to make a library -because why not- when I felt the presence of a rather strange human enter my dungeon. They looked as androgynous as a human being could be and had a sort of shield of Mana around them making it difficult for me to see anything more than surface level. The difficulty to see made me feel incredibly vulnerable, ever since I became a dungeon I could always simply know what was in my dungeon. Now I couldn't.
It was as scary as intriguing, after all this person was quite different from the soldiers that had come to destroy me before; speaking of soldiers, there were about fifty of them standing behind the strange person.
If I was correct in my assumption of what that new human was, then it seems like the church was finally getting serious.
POV: 3rd person
Gabriel Ler looked at the dungeon in front of him with a bored expression but was in fact quite alert on the inside. Dungeons of this type were not to be treated as harmless; The fact that around one hundred people died the last time it was raided clearly proved that point. The worst part of this dungeon -in Gabriel's opinion- was the random walls of Mana that stopped him from being able to clearly sense everything around him.
Gabriel readied his Magic, who knew what they were going to find inside? He walked ahead of the platoon and entered the dungeon. A slight sting on his head made him look around for enemies, but nobody came.
POV: Lor
I inwardly grinned at my newest defense; It would be unreachable and unbeatable unless you knew about it in advance. I noticed how the 'Reincarnation-Cat' had written a rune of ownership onto the man from the last army. I also noticed the fact that it seemed to actually work.
And so I prepared my entrance with the perfect trap, a set of runes that wrote thousands of {Do not destroy or attack the dungeon core} on the inside of the skulls of those who pass through my door. There would be so many of them, that even with the low effectiveness it would work as if it was a full-powered rune the size of a house!
I had also added some runes to make it harder to notice the runes themselves, better to make sure nobody noticed.
And right now I had all of the platoons under my control, including that strange human.
POV: 3rd person
Gabriel quickly checked his head to make sure everything was fine and didn't notice anything unusual so he continued on his way.
From the report he had received about the dungeon, he was sure that a battle would've arrived already. But none came; It left him on edge, constantly wondering where and when an attack would be coming. The lack of shadows makes everything seem just that little bit off.
This time, the platoon stuck together and made sure to always be on the lookout for monsters; Though the strange gravity did make it quite hard for everyone to stick in formation.
They spent a while wandering around the gigantic room they were in but found nothing of note. And at the back of his head, a few thoughts just couldn't stay silent, 'Why destroy the dungeon? Imagine all of the knowledge I could get from studying it!' But something felt almost... strange about those thoughts, he knew he thought of them himself -it was his mind after all but couldn't tell why he thought of such things. Wasn't this dungeon stealing the divinity of Terse? Why study it if it uses divinity?
But the thoughts kept on coming, and over time he found himself agreeing to them. Why not kill all of those soldiers that came with him? They just wanted to take his precious research!
Gabriel slowly turned around to face the platoon; His hands lit up with fire.
POV: Lor
I watched as the strange person killed all of his soldiers, a burst of deranged laughter coming out of their mouth. I quickly took note of the fact that having too many mind-control-type runes made one insane.
Once they finished killing, I put the strange person to sleep by making a {sleep} rune under them; He'd go into storage until I found a use for him.
[STATS]
[LEVEL: 2 -> 3
EXP: 38/100 -> 11/200
MANA: 39/40 -> 84/90
MENTAL STRESS: 91/100 -> 96/200]
[SKILLS]
[DUNGEON SHAPER: 2/20 -> 3/20
SPACE SHAPER: 6/20 -> 7/20
MATERIAL CREATION: 4/20 -> 5/20
UNDO: 1/20]
