《A Curious Case of Mobs Extra》Interlude One - Yukino Frostborne, Yui Somerborne & Hikiguya Hachuman - i
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Yukino seems to wonder what when wrong about this training incursion. It start to go down hills after some mishaps of Yui interfering a little bit too early during Hikiguya's first fight. Hikiguya must felt a lot of gratitude from Yui saving his life. Because of that, something changed between those two. They are more friendly and a little bit closer than before. The awkwardness between both of them from being separated for a long time has gone.
Surmise to say, Yukino doesn't like it a little bit. Hikiguya supposes to be hers only. No matter if he's in this world or he's in the old earth. Hikiguya will always belong to her. Yukino should never fall for Yui's reasoning when they found out about Hikiguya for the first time. Yui said Hikiguya don't belong to Yukino anymore, because this world Hikiguya is completely a new person. For that reason, Hikiguya should and can choose a new person he want to be with. So Yui said she should have an equal fighting chance to have Hikiguya for herself too. Yukino also wonder why on earth she agreed to have the competition to win Hikiguya again when he already belongs to her before. Right now, Yui seem a little bit chummier around Hikiguya so Yukino not knowing what to do, she decided to take a drastic action. To crash her flying carpet onto Yui and disturb the conversation flow. Yukino still felt a tinge of remorse about what she planned to do. Don't get her wrong, she loved Yui like a sister but this is a fight for her love life, for her soulmate, she willing to throw her 'sister' under the bus and enjoy the loving embrace of her future lover.
Yui never more frustrated about Yukino before until both of them found out the loved of theirs live are breathing again. Yukino keep trying to use some old logic that she married with Hikiguya before, so Hikiguya should belong to her again. Yui Somerborne will not relent this time around. She lost her love for Yukino on the old earth before. After both of them found out Hikiguya also came here, Yui decided to never give in about her love life anymore. She can not bear again to see her soulmate choose another woman again. Even if she loves that woman like a sister before and on this new world. Yui felt blissful right now. Hikiguya already showing his past talent to be a perfect husband and partner by offering to cook breakfast using the rabbit which Yui killed yesterday. She sincerely hopes her 'sister' will get stuck teaching some guy she can even remember how he looks like. In the mean times, Yui decided to tease Hikiguya by holding his hand close to her assets. The deadliest assets given by nature to all woman in this universe. An asset to 'kill' all men and eat them.
Unknown to those three, the wheel of fates turns once more. The plot bunnies as term by certain extra character already start to hops searching for its mate. The extra character which people can't seem to remember what he would look like was right. No good thing will happen to those main characters' life.
The collision was mild in comparison. But Yukino knows how to make it more severe than it looks. Her target was true and right on. She started her act right away and successfully attract the Hikiguya attention. Her cry for help got a response from Hikiguya immediately. Yukino should count herself lucky and fortunate because even with a mild collision, Yukino's left hand somehow got dislocated. The possibility she dislocate d her arm on her own is quite high since dislocation is just a minor inconvenience for both Yukino and Yui. Yukino certainly knows how to realign the dislocated arm on her own. However, there is no point in enduring the collision if she can't take advantages about what happened to get closer to her ex-husband.
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"Ahh..." cried Yukino when Hikiguya tried to move her arm. "It hurt," she cried again, her eyes glistening with tears. No man will capable to keep down their primordial desire to be an alpha male when looking at a girl who cried for help like that. Even more, if that man is the ex-husband for said girl. That girl knows for sure which button to push to make the man felt like a man. Hikiguya holds the girl in a princess carry and rushes toward his shelters to realign Yukino's arm. His impromptu shelter erected last night.
What a manipulative woman is the thought that floats on Yui's mind when she saw what just happened in front of her. Even as a mid-level Mana Gathering Stage Cultivator, detecting the attack of Yukino's collision magnitude is not quite easy. Yui only realize the 'attack' only at the last second before they collided. Yukino know this well enough, and she took advantages of this weakness and succeeding to separated Hikiguya from Yui's influence. Right now, she is the one enjoying the sweet moment with Hikiguya. Even detecting the 'attack' at the last second, Yui reflex is fast enough to avoid the attack and see Yukino flipping her hand toward her. Damn manipulative woman.
Both of them will keep upping the ante until another third party interventing their 'friendly' competition. The event is not isolated and have happened before when both of them first met each other at some poor kid's birthday party. The competition escalated when Yui bragged about her family's recent investment when the got a substantial amount of return. Belittling about Yukino family fortune, Yukino in response do the transmigrated people magic and pulls a fortune making ideas and got a large profit from the investment. Yui somehow feels challenged and it preludes the most intense trade war that raises both of the clan standings onto a new level and somehow generating a substantial amount of enemy too. Both of the clan ancestors finally put a stop into the trade war because of the collateral damages became too much. Because of that, both of them were sent to studies under Teacher Shizuka. Since Teacher Shizuka is a second-generation disciple of both clan ancestral master.
However, luck or more accurate saying is, the plot bunnies interfered. Preventing both of them from crossing the no return land for Hikiguya. You can say that this misfortune, is a fortune in itself.
"Yuki! Yui!.... Hey!" shouted Hikiguya when both of his seniors somehow argue non-stop while ignoring what happened around them completely.
"What!" both of them replied from Hikiguya nagging.
"Look down, Something weird happened," answered Hikiguya.
"Dungeon summoning circle!" both of them said in unison.
"Hikki! grab your bag fast," warned Yui toward Hikiguya since it is known that dungeon will not allow for them to exit unless you died or cleared the dungeon. Most of the known dungeon on Marra will need at least a month to be cleared and in the event of someone clearing the dungeon summons without their supplies is abysmal. "Throw my bags and grab my hand fas...."
Yui never finished her sentences when she disappeared from Hikiguya sight. He barely has enough time to throw Yui's bag to her when she suddenly was gone without even holds her thrown beg. Hikiguya move to see what will Yukino asked him to do but what he saw frightened him too. He saw what really dreaded him. He can't bear to lose both of them again. Whatever Hikiguya does in this new world since finding both of them again is to make sure he never loses them again but he knows he failed to do it when both of them disappeared in front of him.
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The Frost and Somer clans are terrifying on their own. However, both of them contend on staying at the edge of the Sky Crow Sect most powerful clan power influence. However, the status quo bound to change with the emergence of certain main character which suddenly becomes both of the Frost clan heir and Somer clan heir target of affection.
Both of the clan enemies know the severity toward their lives if the allows certain event came to pass but they still hesitate to act. They don't want to be the one taking the brunt of an attack from both of the clan even though being the one to act first will stop a lot of their possible future problems. That the politics of the powerful, the game of mutual destruction and the check and balance of the influential.
Except for a small merchant family which severely affected by the trade war eight years ago. They become one of the rare collateral damages which lucky enough to rise again into a decent merchant family. However, no matter what they do, they will always be branded as a washout merchant family. The only solution is to move away into another sect area of influence. The cost is quite high, so the head of the merchant family decided to ask for help from another clan, especially the enemy of Frost and Somer clan. The price for the help is to hire an assassin trying to assassinate the source of future problems. A guy named Hikiguya Hachuman.
Even though the merchant family is very hateful toward the Frost and Somer clan, they value their survivability more. When the enemy of Frost and Somer agreed to help them with the condition of hiring the assassin. They hired the cheapest assassins the can find. Although, they still do their job to the best they possibly can by hiring the most skilled cheapest assassin. Since the assassin is not quite experienced, he revealed himself when the dungeon summoning circle appeared. The assassin rush toward the circle to join the summoning too since the assassin's reasoning is quite straight forward. Even the job is only to kill the guy, he should just kill all three of them. Then he can take the time to clear the dungeon and claim to be the one summoned by the dungeon. Maybe he can enjoy the beauties too since just killing them seem quite a waste. The thought brings no small amount of joy to the assassin and that will be his last enjoyable notion in his life.
Unknown to the assassin, Hikiguya doesn't have a shred of ideas about what is so-called dungeon summoning. He barely heard when Yui and Yukino shout about it before. He only registered the panic look on both of his beloved faces. So when he saw both of them disappeared in front of him again, he snapped.
There is a huge difference between a normal person snapped and the main character snapped. When the main character snapped, they will gain momentarily, the ultimate power they can achieve with their current power base. Even he was ambushed by so-called assassin, it was clearly noticed by him. He reacts to the ambush with the speed far faster than possible for a newbie like him. The speed startled the assassin resulting in him failed to react effectively. In the blink of an eyes, the assassin's neck was held from behind by Hikiguya and then both of them were transported into a dungeon in the next moment.
After the dust settled, the shelter returning into a serene surounding area. What left from their interaction is a hastily erected shelter build by Hikiguya after Yui taking over his fight last night. The nearly put off fire pit and the flying carpet near the damaged wooden tables are among the only thing left after the summoning happened.
Dungeoneering is a very lucrative business venture. However, no matter what the upper echelons of the sect do to control the dungeon business, they ultimately can't. The reason is because of the one fundamental reasoning behind the dungeon summoning mechanics. The fact is, dungeon summoning are only happened to a young people. Even the oldest among them is a twenty years old, but the unfortunate this is, he never survived the summoning. The one who does is mostly around ten to fifteen years old.
The first thing that cultivators need to learn about the dungeon is dungeon clearing and dungeon delving are two different activities all together. Dungeon clearing is referring toward the process of randomly selected cultivators trying to complete the initial dungeon challenges. Mostly happened only on the first floor of the dungeon but several times bigger and more complex than a normal first-floor dungeon after its being cleared. From an interviewed of a dungeon clearer, The dungeon clearing process is similar to playing chess with someone else. They will try to conquer the area and the dungeon will take it back if the dungeon can. On the other hand, a dungeon delving is an act of trying to mine the dungeon resources after the dungeon is cleared.
After the dungeon is cleared, the one who cleared the dungeon will be given an opportunity to own the dungeon. Then all of the party members who cleared the dungeon will be kick out from the dungeon and the dungeon will go into a period of incubation for sometimes. After the incubation period is done, the dungeon will open again as a small dimension which cultivators can come and go mining for resources. Hunting for monsters and magical beast. Having training incursions and many more.
The numbers of dungeon in this world is limited, even on the Sky Crow Sect, there is only a handful amount of dungeon operated on this archipelago. Therefore, most sect usually decided to limit and control how long cultivators can stay on the dungeon. Because of that, the an entrance fee is introduced.
As an owner of the dungeon, they will get a dungeon tab on their system. So from there, the owner can controlled everything about the dungeon as long as the dungeon permitted. The sect will enforce the rules and collect the tax base of the entrance price.
Those who control the dungeon are basically a millionaire and untouchable in this world.
The percentage for dungeon ownership is usually spread evenly among the clearer. However, they can decide to do othewise. Sometimes they give a small percentage of ownership onto other people who indirectly involved on the successfully clearing the dungeon.
After the incubation period completed, the dungeon will become a separate small dimension with a time dilation from the outside. The most normal once is a four-time faster than a real-world time and the more extreme part is around twenty times acceleration. The reason why having a dungeon is precious because if someone is not from that dimension, they will not affected by the time dilation. It means that, even staying in a dungeon four-time faster for four years, you will age only a year.
This advantages signifies that the cultivators can enjoy a four-year training using only a year of his or her life span. Because of this advantages, spending time in the dungeon are very converted by other cultivators. That is also the reason why the dungeon owner is protected by the sect and the reason why the sect will do what ever it take to avenge them.
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