《I reluctantly became the dungeon master》Chapter 3: Let’s build the dungeon (Again) and future works.
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“Son, the human is the strongest beings. Did u know why? Because of the inquisitive nature of man makes people the most powerful. That’s why scientists wake up in the morning. They find out what is their purpose. If you can’t find out why you have to wake up in the morning, then you just go to sleep and never wake up.” The image my father told me as a child kept lingering in my memory.
“I can’t continue sleeping; I have to find out my purpose, simply to live.” I try to escape from my coma because I would be killed if this keeps up.
I wake up in a daze. Thanks to my father, I can wake up earlier.
The ceiling is still the same, nothing special at all. Oh wait; it likes more blue than before.
Maybe the goblins gave me a lot of mana, I guess.
I try to stand up but I could.
“So, this is a muscle tension phenomenon.” I sigh. “I have never felt this since I worked in company. I have to run to my company because of saving money.”
“I guess I have to sit here for a while.” I think while remembering something.
“Oh, what did we get after the battle,” I say with a cheerful smile.
“System, give me a list of what we get after the battle.”
When you were out:
- +2 dungeon points from the magic inside the earth.
- +225 dungeon points from the invaders. (data rounded)
- You get 2 rusty swords, 1 rusty knife, 1 Shaman’s ring.
- The System is now level 2.
“Excuse me, the Shaman’s ring?” I say with a surprising face.
*You can simply understand it increases your magic power.*
“So if I wear it, I can have magic like games. Cool!” I think with excitement.
*Unfortunately can’t, the normal person wears a magic item not only not increase your stat, but also do harm to you.*
“I guess I have to get a skill in magic.” I sadly think.
Anyways, the most surprises me is the dungeon points.
“But even the goblins can give me 225 dungeon points, why the dungeon core absorbs so ‘many’ dungeon points.”
With these dungeon points, I can start to build the dungeon now. I build a new room and put the core inside. A new room is about 20 dungeon points.
“I should get the boss room,” I say while rubbing my chin.
If you want to know why I can simply say that whenever creatures get in the boss room. They can’t get out unless they kill the boss. And the boss has 3× more stat than the normal one.
I build a bigger room than the chamber one. It is about 50 DPS. I look in the tab to find a good boss.
“As I got to level up, I will get a better creature.” I think with hope.
*Opening the ‘Boss Tier 1:’ tab*.
Name:
Dungeon point:
Rarity:
Requirements:
Giant core slime
50 (157)
Common
(1 star/ 1 star)
- Level: 1
- System level:1
- Creativity (Common)
Giant goblin
75 (157)
Common
(1 star/ 1 star)
- Level: 1
- System level:2
- Creativity (Common)
Giant kobold
75 (157)
Common
(1 star/ 1 star)
- Level: 1
- System level:2
- Creativity (Common)
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Locked
Locked
Locked
“Kobold?” I surprisingly say “if I was right, the Kobold is half-dragon. Maybe I can get a true dragon.” I say with a bright smile.
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*Unfortunately, the kobold is truly a half-dragon but it can’t evolve into a dragon because the differences between two creature are too big.*
“What did you mean?” I curiously say.
*Dragon is a perfect creature, meaning it has a different type of magic. That’s why human can’t kill the dragon, whose magic is so pure, absorbing all sort of magic.*
“So the dragon is one of the most terrific creatures and till now, humans can’t stand a chance against it?”
*We can probably say that. That’s why humanity used the method of teleporting.*
“Method of teleporting.” I do not understand it but immediately ask again.
*You can simply understand that the people, who have been teleported, got some talents. And one of their talents is draconic power, standing against the dragon.*
I got it roughly. So the dragon is one of the most powerful creatures, and for some reason, I have been summoned here.
“Maybe their knowledge about teleporting is not completely done,” I think.
“And kobold is just a half-dragon which means it can’t use draconic power. I have to ask about the stat of it and goblin.”
“System, show me the stat of giant goblin and kobold.”
Name: Giant goblin
Level 1/10
Title: None
Class: goblin (humanity)
Rarity: Common (1 star/ 1 star)
Variable Stat:
Health: 145 HP
Mana point: 0 MP
Strength: 55 (45)
Vitality: 9
Magic power: 0
Agility: 30
Invariable Stat:
Intelligence: 0/10
Persistence: 0.265/10
Luck: 0.615/10
Charm: 0.645/10
Skill:
- Slash (Common)(level: 1)
- The rookie warrior (Common)(level: 1)
Special Skill: None
Talent:
Fertility fast (3× growing rate)
Potential: 84/300
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Name: Giant kobold
Level 1/10
Title: None
Class: kobold (humanity)
Rarity: Common (1 star/ 1 star)
Variable Stat:
Health: 65 HP
Mana point: 100 MP
Strength: 10
Vitality: 5.5
Magic power: 10
Agility: 25
Invariable Stat:
Intelligence: 1/10
Persistence: 0.25/10
Luck: 0.765/10
Charm: 0.45/10
Skill:
- Sneaking (Common)(level: 1)
- Hunter form I (Common)(level:1)
Special Skill:
- Rage (Rare)(level: max)
Talent:
The half-dragon body (give ability ‘rage’)
Potential: 50.5/300
After examining both stats, I can conclude:
“The goblin is good at melee. With its high strength, vitality, it can easily become a ‘hard wall’. And I am an archer so it is necessary.”
“But the kobold is good at ambushing. With its skills and high agility, it can easily eliminate an enemy without leaving a clue.”
Both are good but the one that suits me right now is the goblin. Because I need a living ‘wall’ so that I can shoot arrows in the distance.
“Ok let’s get a giant goblin and 2 goblins (approximate 40 DPS).” I think
With those preparations, I can now breathe the fresh air of peace.
*The boss has appeared on the first floor. The boss has 3× higher health, mana, and variable stat than the normal.*
“And 5× more bigger.” I cheerfully smile. With this, I can work out now.
Let’s see how many my DPS left.
“Stat” I shout.
*Showing John’s stat*
Notifications:
- As you ran in total 12,324 meters, increase 1 Agility point.
- As an explosion hit you, increase 0.1 Strength and Vitality point.
- As you activate the ‘Time Arrow’ for the first time, incredibly, your body can stand the side effect of the skill, increase 1.2 Strength and Vitality point.
- As a flow of magic enter your magic through the scratch in your muscle, increase 0.5 magic power.
- As you suffer a fireball from the Shaman, increase all your stats by 1.
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- As you are in a very dangerous situation, and your unyielding will power makes you overcome adversity, acquire a new skill ‘The will of the human’.
- The will of the human: you know the will of the human.
· When your will of surviving is too high, you will even more power (+200%)
- As you are in a very dangerous situation, and your unyielding will power makes you overcome adversity, acquire a new skill ‘Overcoming adversity’.
- Overcoming adversity: When you are in a terrible situation, there will be a way to flee.
· When your health is below 5%, increase all variable stat for 10%.
- As killing a group of goblins in silence, increase 0.5 SP points.
Name: John Mullard
(SP: 11,5 points), (DP: 42 points)
level 1/100 (42%)
Title:
- The first human dungeon lord (Gain a great deal of intelligence ‘+0.5’)
- The blessing from the God (Gain a small amount of luck ‘+0.13’)
Class: Dungeon Lord
Rarity: Ancient (0 star/10 star)
Variable Stat:
Health: 60 HP
Mana point: 15 MP
Strength: 12.3
Vitality: 7.3
Magic power: 1.5
Agility: 174
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Invariable Stat:
Intelligence: 5.279 (5.229)/10
Persistence: 3.040/10
Luck: 2.032 (2.019)/ 10
Charm: 1.002/10
Skill:
- Sharpshooter master (Exceptional Rare)
- The will of the human (Exceptional common)
- Overcoming adversity (Exceptional common)
Special Skill:
Eternal Eye of God’s System (Exceptional Legendary) *
Ultimate creativity (Exceptional Legendary) *
Mastery of all language (Exceptional Legendary) *
Talent:
2× Magic Absorption *
2× experience gaining *
Potential: 38/20000
“OMG!!! That’s ridiculous!” I can’t believe my eye.
“Well, that’s deserved for risking my life.”
“And it seems like when I was at the limit, my stat will crazily increase” I have a bold idea.
“But before that, I need to put some magic ore inside the chamber room to increase my daily dungeon points.”
If you say why, it’s all because the radius of the core’s absorption is too short, about 5 meters in all directions.
There are two ways to increase my daily DP.
First is leveling up the System. So that the radius will become larger.
Second is changing the material inside the chamber room. I will put tiny magic crystal in there to get more magic and my dungeon core will transfer those magic for DP. “What could possibly go wrong.” I laugh.
After that, I buy 30 tiny magic crystals for 30 DP and put them inside the chamber room. For every crystal, I will have 0.005 magic per hour which means 0.12 DP/day. And I will get in total 5.6 DPS per day.
“That should be enough preparations,” I say with pleasure.
“And now it is time to risking my life again.”
“Now I have 12 DPS left. I will transfer these into mana, letting it flow inside my body.”
I put my hand inside the core and starting to get mana out of it.
The mana strongly flows inside me.
And the moment that happened, the mana strikes my heart. All my body seems to be exploded. My heart is hurting a lot. I immediately collapse on the floor.
For the one who doesn’t what is happening, the mana is a double-edged sword. The more mana you get, the more powerful you are. But that is right for the one who can control mana. And I, don’t know how to control mana, which means mana will destroy my vascular system and internal organ. More serious is damaging my nervous system.
That’s why I chose to do this. This is the fastest way to reach my limit.
“Ha. This little pain can’t kill me. *cough*” I vomit a pool of blood.
*Warning, finding a high density of magic flowing inside you.*
“Aw. I know” I heavily breathe.
My heart hurts more and more. I have never thought it would be hurt like this.
My vascular is going to explode; I have lost my control with my leg.
*Warning, Your nervous system is damaged 25%.*
I ignore the notification and focusing on feeling the mana.
“If I can feel just a little bit, all this pain will stop.” I think and focus on feeling the mana. I ignore all the pain. If I want to be alive I have to be hurried.
*As your will of surviving is too high, activate ‘Will of the human’ skill.*
“Yes, with this I can focus now,” I say as well as happy.
I have focused on doing that for an hour and nothing changes, except my body. It’s getting worse over time.
76% of my body has lost the feelings.
I can’t do anything else but hope for a miracle.
15 minutes passed.
“I’m going to die? No way.” I think.
95% of my body has lost the feelings. This means I can’t even open my mouth.
“So cold,” I think. Even my feelings had gone but the wind seems to freeze my heart and my body.
“So this is the end. Well, I want to give up now. It’s too hurt for me.” I cry.
I remember my dad and all the memories. I have lost my mom because of a car accident since I was 4.
I don’t remember her face, but I can feel it; my mom’s warmness, her love, and all the wishes she gave me.
I want to meet her. To touch her beautiful face and say thanks for giving birth to me.
But suddenly my vision goes black. I can’t see anything except my father’s face.
He smiles at me and says: “Son, you have to promise with me to be saved. You have to be alive until I was dead.”
His smile is so bright that I couldn’t even imagine.
“Yes, dad. I know. So can you please stop annoying me, my friends are waiting for me. I need to hurry.” A sudden, warm voice comes out.
I turn my gaze at it. The little boy is standing there, nagging his father.
It was me when I was 10. I remembered I was kidnapped but soon to escape when I was 9. That’s why my father keeps telling me to be alive.
I can’t disappoint him. I have promised him that I have to be alive. This means I have to survive, to stand in front of him and proudly say: “Dad, I’m home.”
*The skill ‘The will of the human’ have evolved to the skill ‘The will of the super mankind.’*
I try to wake up from the dream. I open my eyes. I look at the notification.
“I don’t have times. System is there a way to recover my body.” I think
*You can use SP to recover. As low-level System, you just can get a low regeneration for 10 minutes, costs 1 SP.*
“Fine, give it to me.” I hurried to respond.
Another kind of magic flows inside of me, it is not violent like the last one. It is curing my body. I begin to gain my control back, my pain goes away.
But the most I happy is:
*As you understand the magic, you gain the ability to control the mana.*
*Acquire a new skill ‘Basic controlling’*
*The skill gives you 10% of controlling the mana.*
I laugh loudly. “Thanks, dad. Thanks for your advice; I could be alive one more time. That’s why there is always something I wouldn’t understand unless I was older.”
I found out my purpose to live one more time.
“Dad, I will be alive and come to meet you.”
I clench my hand while talking. “And to do that I have to survive in this cruel world.”
I relax a bit and begin working more. I try to transfer mana one more time but it seems like my father doesn’t want me to.
*As you use too much your will, you’re now exhausted.*
My vision is getting darker. All my strength leaves my body.
“Not again. I just have waked up from the dream. Well, I guess, resting is not that bad.”
I don’t try to against it and fall asleep.
“I will work out tomorrow. And now let’s sleep.” I say with a bright smile and fall asleep.
Goodnight!
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