《The Flesh and Blood Dungeon》Chapter Number Too
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THE STORY OF WHEN "BOAR CORE" WAS TRAVELLING TOWARDS THE HUMAN SETTLEMENT AND REACHED AN AREA THAT DIDN'T HAVE CRAZY SCARY MONSTERS AROUND.
Yes he gave himself a name, although it does not show up on his stat screen.
"hey dungeon system thing, is there a way to make myself more resistant to damage?"
Yes
"How?"
You can reinforce and replace your walls with other materials
"Oh cool lets do that"
He looked at his available materials, and only stone or bark seemed to be strong.
Focusing, he willed his right leg to cover the skin with stone.
And it got covered with stone.
And now he can't move his right leg.
And now he is regretting covering his right leg with stone.
Warning, your DC (that’s dungeon core) mana is very low
"Hmm so I probably can't mess around with this stuff so much"
"Is there another way to increase my DC mana without just absorbing it from the air?"
When items are brought into your dungeon, if there are no humans inside at the time, you will (can) absorb them to increase your mana, and to stockpile materials
"Cool, cool. What do you mean stockpile materials, cant I just make them out of mana?"
You can make them out of mana but the cost is great. It is more efficient to stockpile materials for later use
"Where do all the saved materials go?"
Another dimension space thingy, don't think too much about it
The Boar Dungeon then realized he had a super cheat, an advantage over other dungeons, he is able to consume whatever he can fit into his mouth, turning it into mana and useable materials.
After trying to take off the stone cast from his leg, he realized he did not have enough mana to do so, so he started to eat all the grass dirt and rocks he could find. (it was easy to find them since he is in a forest and the ground is literally made up of dirt rocks and grass.)
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Trying again, he was able to remove the rock covering his leg.
He then tried changing the skin on his leg to rock, with the same result that he could not move his leg.
After turning his rock skin back into boar skin (that is one of the materials in his repertoire), he had a different idea. He turned his leg bone into stone.
And it worked.
"nice, now lets do this for the rest of my bones"
He was able to do it easily, since he had enough mana, and he could see every bone in his body with his dungeon core sight thingy.
He thought about turning his teeth into stone as well, but decided not to for some reason.
It took a little getting used to the extra weight.
Oh also his hooves are now stone. and he added stone claw things to his hooves but that made it harder to walk so he took them off.
"Now I should be a lot more sturdy, and should be able to survive somewhat"
"Although that deer would just rip through my skin and not bother with the bones..."
After stuffing his face for a short while he received a notification.
Your mana has exceeded the maximum limit. You have gained a level
"Awesome what does that give me?"
Another dungeon point, more control of things in your dungeon, more options to unlock
"Can I use the points for anything else?"
No, but you can unlock things with mana instead of points
"So why would I ever use points?"
Asides from saving the points forever like some hoarding adventurers, some upgrades cost a lot of mana.
"Do I have enough mana to unlock anything now?"
Right now you only have enough to expand your stat sheet
"OK lets do that then"
The only changes were that he could see his current and max DC mana, (50/300 BTW), and he could see two xp bars and some skills.
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xp 0/1000
xp 38/250
skills:
Sprint
Gore
Charge
"Why are there two xp bars?"
One is for the dungeon core, and one is for the boar
"Do they both level up together?"
No, one levels up when the boar kills, and one levels up when something dies in the dungeon
"Which one levels up when the boar kills?"
"Wait, don't answer that"
Just then he heard something moving in one of the trees above him, but by the time he looked up, it was too late.
A large snake, 8 feet long, five inches in diameter bit onto the back of his neck, and quickly wrapped around his body.
"Oh CRAAAAAAP"
"Am I poisoned?"
No
"Oh I wasn’t really asking you, just wondering out loud but thanks"
"Now back to the problem at hand!"
He was trying to think of a way out, but nothing came to mind. The snake was strong, but it was having difficulty crushing the boar core, because of the stone bones. Eventually the boars stone ribs started to crack, and snap.
"SQUEEEEEEEEAL!"
He screamed as loud as he could, but that just made him lose all his air, and the snake tightened it's grip on him.
"Activate skill - Gore!"
Moving his head from side to side, trying to poke the snake with his tusks was also ineffective, the snake was wrapped around his body and the boar was almost as wide as it was long.
"I still have a skill point!, maybe it would help to expand the dungeon"
Dungeon expand selected
Boar core was lying on the ground, with the snake wrapped around him, squealing away in pain.
The rapid shifting in his size was too much for the snakes body to handle, and the body of the snake was ripped open in various places.
+ experience Boar has gained a level
"Hey that's not fair, why did the boar gain experience and not me?"
You are the boar, and you are the dungeon core, you can not be jealous of yourself. The boar gained xp since it was involved in killing the snake, and the core did not gain xp since the snake did not die inside the dungeon
"OK, OK"
"Well lets try out my boars skills"
For the next five minutes (till he ran out of boar mana) he practiced activating sprint, charge, and goring trees.
"OK, now what? Lets eat that snake!" (Yep, totally cool with eating a dead, raw, still in the skin snake, hey it's better than deer poop. Didn’t really taste that though)
Now that he was a meter and a half tall, his mouth size also grew, so he was able to bite off big chunks of the snake.
You have gained snake meat, skin...
After he ate the whole snake, he received another notification.
A new species is available - Jungle Boa
"Nice, lets see what that does"
"Create jungle boa"
Jungle boa has been spawned.
He looked around but could not see where the snake was. Figuring it failed somehow, maybe from a lack of mana, he looked around or something new to eat.
"Ooh a berry bush!"
Everything around him looked smaller now that he was much bigger.
You have gained Moogle Berry (poisonous)
"Oh no am I poisoned? (this time I am asking you, status)"
You are not poisoned
"Why not? I ate those poison berries"
Things you consume inside your body will not affect the boar
"But earlier I felt hungry and eating made me not hungry."
When you consume something part of the intake is used to fuel the boar
"Well lets eat more, and get stronger, and bigger... wait I don’t know how much bigger I want to get.."
Boar Core continued to wander aimlessly (towards the human settlement) eating grass, rocks, and dirt.
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