CH.261 Clearing Dungeon 27_001, part 2
<span style="font-weight:400">(Brian. It''s your turn to keep guard.) Laura woke me up with her soft voice. She must have chosen an optimal time to match my sleep cycle, because I was feeling great, despite just having woken up. When she woke me up to activate another copy of Swords of Revealing Light, I was feeling a bit worse, but now, I feel just fine.
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<span style="font-weight:400">I got out of my sleeping bag, used Storage to quickly put my clothes on, and looked around. The Swords of Revealing Light were still up, but I could feel the early warning signs of the card wearing off from my Founder’s terminal, but that means I still have about 5 or so minutes before the card wears off.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hey, Agunan. How was your shift?” I asked the dragon, who had been keeping guard before me.
<span style="font-weight:400">“None of the monsters got through this spell Master used, so it has been peaceful.” Agunan answered. “I even considered leaving this area to have some fun, but that might have woken you up.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Well, I’m thankful that you didn’t.” I responded. “You can go to sleep now.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... are you sure? Master, I can keep guard for you. You don’t have to do it yourself.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Agunan. We went over this already. We all need sleep, and by taking turns, we all get the same amount of rest.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“No, we don’t.” Agunan denied. “You get less than the rest of us, because you have to keep waking up to recast this spell.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... perhaps, but sadly, there is nothing we can do about it. And we have a ten hour rest period anyway, so I’ll still get plenty of sleep.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“You should just sleep the entire night, only waking up to recast the spell. Please, leave your shift to me.” Agunan requested.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... no. I’m not going to do that.” I told him. “Go to sleep, before I force you to do it.”
<span style="font-weight:400">I said that withpassion, not force. I know Agunan isn’t fully adjusted to our sleep schedule, so he would have it the worst. He says that he is fine, but I don’t think he really is. The rest of us should be fine.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... as you with, Master.” Agunan gave in. “But you really are too kind. You should learn to use your servants to reduce your own burden.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... maybe. But at the end of the day, I know my own body the best. I''d rather force it to do something, than force someone else.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Just don’t kill yourself with that attitude.” Agunan warned.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’ll try not to.”
<span style="font-weight:400">As Agunan got onto his sleeping pelt and curled up into the fetus position which he liked to sleep in, I got a System notification.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Eh? … oh yeah… That mission I got when Ria became my ve. … but I really didn’t think it would apply to Agunan. I guess the System did say something about him doing anything I ordered and so forth, so maybe the mission treats him the same as a ve?
<span style="font-weight:400">Yeah. That has to be it, I think. And either way, getting back to the reward. I don’t recognize it, but based on the attribute and looks of the dragon, it has to be the dragon form of House Dragonmaid right? I don’t think it had been revealed before I was … transported here.
<span style="font-weight:400">… now I really want to summon her. But I think that would be a bad idea. While this dungeon’s rooms were big enough to where even Agunan’s dragon form could be inside of it, summoning something thatrge will for sure wake the others up.
<span style="font-weight:400">But I can at least summon something a bit smaller to keep mepany, so after activating another copy of Swords of Revealing Light, and returning the previous copy to my collection, I summoned Rescue Cat and Cat''s Ear Tribe to keep mepany.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Ria… it is your turn to keep guard.” I softly spoke into her ear, as I was shaking the girl a bit to wake her up.
<span style="font-weight:400">Soon enough, she was up and ready to take the watch.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... what are? Brian? Did you summon them?” Ria asked, referring to the cats I had summoned.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yeah. It would have been lonely, if I was all alone, so why not?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... Can you keep them summoned? I want to … have somepany as well.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“You know I can’t, sorry. I’ll give you one, if you want.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... would you, please?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Sure, just a second.” I responded, as I checked my collection.
<span style="font-weight:400">So, a fire-attribute beast-type monster.
<span style="font-weight:400">… I only have two. And Great Agnus is an absolute no-go. But luckily, the other is perfect.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Here. You can have this.” I handed the card to Ria.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Thanks.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“No problem. I’ll recast the Swords, unsummon those two and go to sleep.” I told Ria, as I went about my business.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes. I’ll summon this one now. Little Chimera.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">What appeared from the card was a huge cat, withrge wings and a tail that looked like a horse’s tail. It had silvery-gray fur, green wings, and a purple tail. And an effect to boost anyone with the fire-attribute, so it was perfect for Ria.
<span style="font-weight:400">Well, I recast the Swords and unsummoned my beasts, so off to dreand with me.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Another two hourster, I once again woke up to recast the Swords of Revealing Light. Lua was already up, and was talking with Ria in a quiet voice.
<span style="font-weight:400">She noticed me, and came to talk to me for a second.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... Brian… can I have one as well?” She asked, looking at Ria’s cat.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... sure.” I agreed and quickly searched for water-attribute beast-type monsters.
<span style="font-weight:400">Sadly the only beast-type one I had is Fenrir, and the only Beast-Warrior I have is Mother Grizzly, not really that cute. So I went with just water-attribute and found a few good ones, like some of the Penguin monsters.
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<span style="font-weight:400">But the one Lua ended up picking was.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Gora Turtle.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">It was a small turtle, with a cute face. And like Little Chimera, it had a powerful effect. While the effect. While not as powerful as it is in Yugioh, Gora Turtle’s effect does still prevent attacks with more than 1900 power from beingunched. But that just means you have to use a weaker attack, and you can get past that problem. In the real world, you don’t always have to attack with full power. But still, it could be a very powerful tool to surprise an enemy with. The only problem was that it would also limit you.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Thank you, Brian. I think this will make keeping watch more fun.” Lua thanked me. “I’ll help you go back to sleep.” She then added.
<span style="font-weight:400">I returned to my sleeping bag, and after giving Lua my arm, she softly bit into it. It didn’t hurt or anything, but I still didn’t expect that. The other thing I didn’t expect was that I fell asleep basically right on the spot after the bite.
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<span style="font-weight:400">This day was spent just like thest. I summoned powerful monsters, boosted them even more with equip spells, and we were rushing right through.
<span style="font-weight:400">That was, until we reached what should be the thirty-fifth room. I guess I could also call them ‘floors’ as they are more like floors in traditional dungeons. Except that eachrge room would always have an entrance from the previous one, as well as an exit. … wait, I just described a dungeon floor. God dammit. TinaWood is confusing me. TinaWood is just so small that it is a lot more like rooms than floors. But this dungeon wasn’t, so I guess what in TinaWood are rooms, are here more like floors.
<span style="font-weight:400">But back to the thirty-fifth floor.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... a forest?” Alice questioned. “Also, what is that sky? Aren’t we underground?”
<span style="font-weight:400">We were in fact on a dungeon floor that resembled a full on forest, with a fake sky. At least I assume that it is a fake sky.
<span style="font-weight:400">(This is just a dungeon floor.) Alice, Lua and I heard the voice of Dan … I mean Kekri, in our heads. (It has just been made to resemble a forest to disorientate those who seek to conquer the dungeon. It also allows for better habitat for the monsters.)
<span style="font-weight:400">I didn’t know that dungeons could do that. TinaWood just looked like a cave, so I assumed all dungeons would be like that. Even this dungeon had been like that until this floor, so …
<span style="font-weight:400">(Is the sky an illusion then?) I asked. It must be, because even though I haven’t flown around the Ever forest that much, I should have covered enough of the areas nearby to have spotted an opening like this.
<span style="font-weight:400">… oh, and the sky is in the shape of a dome… so it can’t be a hole to the surface. … I asked a dumb question.
<span style="font-weight:400">(It is indeed.) Laura confirmed. (If you want to test it out, then grab a rock with telekinesis and throw it at the sky? It will crash into the fake sky.)
<span style="font-weight:400">I did as she told me, and doing that did tell me one thing, this room was a lot taller than all the previous ones. They had been around 50 meters high, but this room was a bit over 200 meters, in terms of height. Also, judging by the dome shaped ‘sky roof’ this room was massive.
<span style="font-weight:400">… I should really call it a floor, not a room.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I think we should trade to flying monsters.” I told everyone. “If we walk through this ce, it will take us forever to clear this floor.”
<span style="font-weight:400">No. I’m not suggesting this because I want an excuse to summon Sheou. You are wrong. … okay, maybe not, but I still think it is a good idea, and everyone agreed with me.
<span style="font-weight:400">Anyway. Let’s just summon the dragon.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I activate Polymerization. I fuse together Dragonmaid Tinkhec and Tri-Horned Dragon to fusion-summon Dragonmaid Sheou.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">Since Sheou’s materials were what they are, I decided to use Tinkhec as the Dragonmaid for the summon. I could have used Kitchen, but in case something went wrong, using Tinkhec was just a bit safer, considering that Kitchen is the one who gave me a copy of Tinkhec. And Tri-Horned Dragon is just … well, it is a dragon, with a level of 7 or higher.
<span style="font-weight:400">As for Sheou. She was about 24-ish meters high, measured while standing to her shoulder level as I do with dragons. Sorger than my regr Blue-Eyes and even Twin-Burst, but not asrge as Shining.
<span style="font-weight:400">{Pliso. Svanoa nomag si faestir wux?}<span style="color:#ff9900">(Master. How may I serve you?) Sheou asked in draconic. Now with the Language Comprehension (draconic), I could understand it just fine without Laura having to trante for me. I could even speak it … but it was quite difficult to make some of the sounds with a human mouth.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I need a ride. You’ll also need to kill some monsters.” I answered the dragon.
<span style="font-weight:400">{Yes. I shall do that.} Sheou answered in the regr humannguage.
<span style="font-weight:400">She lowered herself to the ground, so I could get on.
<span style="font-weight:400">Alice mounted her Red-Eyes, Lua her Hyozanryu and Ria was on her Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Agunan on the other hand didn’t revert to his dragon form, because it apparently took a lot of energy to go back and forth. Instead, he just pped his wings and flew besides us in his humanoid form.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Soon after taking flight, we ran into the first set of monsters. They wererge B-rank monsters, called rain birds. You might be able to figure out why they are called rain birds. Yes. Whenever they pped their wings, some amount of water fell off of them, causing some rain to fall down. If they weren’t so darn aggressive, they could be seen as rain gods, but they attack basically anything on sight, so they most definitely aren’t something to y around with. They can also use powerful water magic, so that is also a threat.
<span style="font-weight:400">Because of the opponents, I summoned the dragon I thought would have the best time dealing with them.
<span style="font-weight:400">“ck Skull Dragon!”
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<span style="font-weight:400">While ck Skull Dragon might be more known for its fire attacks, it was still half Summoned Skull. And Summoned Skull is a lightning demon. That meant that ck Skull Dragon could still use those lightning attacks. And the lightning seemed to be super effective against the birds, because they quickly fell to the ground, as the lightning attacks hit them.
<span style="font-weight:400">I thought about collecting their corpses, but I would have had to fly quite close with Sheou, so I decided to just leave them. After the dungeon bes mine, I can just use the admin tools to absorb them all.
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<span style="font-weight:400">After we cleared the floor’s boss, the A-rank rainstorm bird, we ran into our next problem.
<span style="font-weight:400">Our dragons, and Ria’s winged beast, were toorge to fit through the passage to the next floor. We would either have to shrink them or, wait I don’t actually have Shrink yet. Well, I could Micro Ray them, but Micro Ray has a limited time it is active for, so if they grow back to full size too quickly…
<span style="font-weight:400">So yeah. We just had to unsummon our dragons. And just as I feared, the next floor was basically the same as the previous one. Another huge forest. And with the dragons on cooldown, we would need something else.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Brian? Can’t we just use that ship? The Big Core? Or that Crystal Core?” Alice asked. “We can just get in, fly to the boss and get out, right?”
<span style="font-weight:400">… Alice, are you a genius or something?
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes. I think we can do that.” I answered.
<span style="font-weight:400">Sure Big Core and Crystal Core are huge, but so are these rooms. They can easily fit in here. And while we would run into the same issue of the ships not fitting into the corridors, they should make clearing these floors a breeze.
<span style="font-weight:400">… if only that would have been the case.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“WE ARE GOING DOWN!” I called out.
<span style="font-weight:400">Our ship, despite being ‘invisible’, had been attacked by monsters. Arge group of re birds hade and either crashed into Big Core, or just began roosting on the ship''s exterior. Their heat quickly caused damage to the hull and the main reactor, causing us to lose power and now we were on a crash course with the ground.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Agunan, make us an exit!” I ordered. There is no way we would be able to evacuate in time.
<span style="font-weight:400">Agunan did as ordered, and let out a massive fire breath, blowing open the forward facing wall of the bridge.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Let’s get out, before this thing crashes!” I ordered everyone. “Agunan, take me and Ria. Alice, can you carry Lua?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes.” Alice answered.
<span style="font-weight:400">“As you wish.” Agunan also confirmed.
<span style="font-weight:400">Agunan grabbed both me and Ria, holding us under his arms, as he pped his wings to get us out of the hole he just made, while Alice took Lua into a hug, before using Mana Flight to get both of them out of the crashing ship.
<span style="font-weight:400">Wended in the forest, before we realized that we most certainly were not safe. The forest itself was alive. Alive with tree monsters, or treants. Crimson treants, to be specific. Last floor had treants as well, but I didn’t think we needed to worry about them, as we would just fly right over them, but now, we were surrounded on all sides by moving trees. And because crimson treants were resistant to fire, I couldn’t just have Agunan burn all of these ones down.
<span style="font-weight:400">(Use wind monsters.) Laura rmended.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Sure. Armed Dragon LV7!” I summoned my monster.
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<span style="font-weight:400">My monster soon appeared, ready to intercept the moving trees. At least treants were quite slow, so that was something good.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Now, I discard Simorgh, Bird of Divinity, to activate Armed Dragon’s effect. Take these treants down with Genocide Cutter!”
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<span style="font-weight:400">My dragon did as ordered, and soon, hundreds of des of wind flew from his lower stomach area, crashing into the treants. Some of them also went to the skies, clearing out the re birds flying in the sky. In terms of effectiveness, I’d say it was 95% effective, as that was the estimated percentage of dead monsters from all targets.
<span style="font-weight:400">Now, I guess I can summon another monster to help clear out the rest of these treants, as well as those re birds.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I activate Polymerization. I fuse together Elemental HERO Avian and Elemental HERO Burstinatrix to fusion-summon Elemental HERO me Wingman.
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<span style="font-weight:400">me Wingman is a wind monster, so it should fit. And being half-fire, it should also be able to take hits from those re birds. He can also fly, unlike Armed Dragon LV7, so that is a nice boost.
<span style="font-weight:400">… and I just like seeing these two monsters fighting side-by-side, instead of against each other.
<span style="font-weight:400">I then boosted the me Wingman with Fusion Weapon, and also added Dragon''s Rage to help the Armed Dragon.
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<span style="font-weight:400">With those two by our side, we made our way, on foot, through the floor. I guess good part is that I’m getting some crimson treant wood, but the bad part is that we won’t be able to go through that many floors per day, if we have to walk through them all.
<span style="font-weight:400">By the end of our second day, we only managed to clear a total of four forested floors, as well as the two non-forest floors. Two of the forest floors we just ‘skipped over’ with dragons, but the other two we couldn’t. Well, we could have, but decided against it.
<span style="font-weight:400">The lightning birds that made that one floor their home, along with bright-wood treants that shotsers at us, made flying on that floor quite dangerous. It was honestly easier to just go on the ground.
<span style="font-weight:400">Next time, I need to just burrow under the ground with something like Drillroid. Too bad I didn’t get the Super Vehicroid Jumbo Drill yet.
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