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Dungeon Novel: Chapter Twenty
🕑 Added 2021-01-16 19:03:22 +0000 UTCWith nine of twelve skeletons and the two other Undead still with her, the necromancer walked deeper into the dungeon. Now upon the final floor and walking into the forest floor Unbound wished to strip her of her remaining defenders before hearing out any requests. Plus, this way he could see how the third-floor boss performs.
The third-floor boss was designed as a second-floor boss and Unbound may have to buff it further to reach a good level of strength. He wouldn’t try to change the elemental boss because it suited the floor very well.
The Undead were very badly battered upon meeting even a single elemental, two of the skeletons had fallen to mighty blows of earthen elementals. Unbound was slightly shocked again why the weakest elementals were a starting defender.
“It is because most non-legendary dungeons start with a smaller mana pool and tend to be weaker overall so they can’t summon as many elementals as you can,” Elvinia answered the mental question. “However, the system may create a new lesser weakest elemental with what you have done by partially cracking the core of the elemental. It is also because you can only create affinity only elementals until you receive the elemental source gems, so they tend to be predictable.”
Unbound could see how any sentient adventures would exploit a predictable dungeon, especially when it was firstborn. The dungeon would likely be killed or enslaved because they could not effectively fight back.
It was also something that hadn’t shown up when he was choosing affinities, there may be other benefits in the future for a legendary affinity which prompted another question to Elvinia.
“There is the one I know of concerns me.” She spoke. “The purpose of a fairy is to help the Dungeon core, via advice, knowledge, mental support, communication, and managing the dungeon when it gets bigger. A benefit to being a Legendary Dungeon is that you need less help to manage all of your territory despite near-omniscient sight on your territory directing it all takes a toll. A dungeon fairy is one of your supporters, any others you would need to contract, that you can bestow the ability to use your abilities within your territory.”
That was an infodump, the knowledge that even a Dungeon could not manage themselves completely when they got larger. It was slightly humbling although sensible, a human kingdom needs people to manage different parts of it with one person at the top. A Dungeon was very similar to a kingdom in that sense.
“Part of why I allowed these people in when you get big enough and if you get known as a Legendary Dungeon the sentient races that know about that fact within Dungeons will seek you out.”
“Why?” Unbound couldn’t help but ask. “I would kill their fellows, what do they get out of managing part of my Dungeon.”
“Power. Power and Immortality.” Elvinia replied. “If someone swears to serve and help a Dungeon then a person is gifted the ability to live forever as a result. On top of the ability to use a Dungeon’s abilities. You aren’t there yet and won't need people as quickly as a common rarity Dungeon would be you will eventually.”
“Could that be what this necromancer wants?” He asked her.
“Possibly. It most likely isn’t, most sentients won’t live long enough to use that part of a Dungeon’s power even if she does know. If she is a high enough level, she may survive long enough to request it.”
Unbound was happier again, he felt he knew more about himself and what the future may bring. And the fact he may know what this necromancer may want from him.
The necromancer was about to cross the river, she had gone to the left way around the roughly spherical area. Wrapping around the left she was going to see the broken bridge that Unbound had crafted over there to get someone partially over the river, Unbound was thankful as the bridge was on the opposite side of the third floor to the residents.
The necromancer had lost five more skeletons, bringing her part down to two skeletons, one with only one arm, and the two unknown spiky undead. The spikey skeletons were fighting more now, firing bone spikes off their bodies and regenerating them Any of the animal defenders that charged them got impaled upon the spikes.
They seemed to be resurrected from a tougher type of bone or strengthened when they had been resurrected. The earthen elementals required stronger blows to crack them and the cracks healed with a murmur and flicked hand by the necromancer.
This necromancer from the small pieces Unbound had seen, seemed focused on controlling and affecting Undead rather than the direct damage of the previous necromancer who had invaded. Unbound had ordered the Void elemental to be ready in case she had proved to be hostile. The only thing he had seen to destroy a Void elemental so far is sheer numbers that momentarily overwhelmed the aura of the elemental.
Currently, for the first time, an assailing party was approaching the small underground cavern where the third-floor boss and Unbound’s core was. The necromancer and her three guards, the one-armed skeleton had perished, walked down the root woven steps of the cave’s entrance.
The gloomy light would be a massive hindrance to any incursion party that used their eyes to see but would not be an inconvenience to the Undead who did not use eyes to see.
The remainders of the party walked into the room, the patterned walls, and columns very similar to the boss's form and the shadowy den obscuring the Elemental Bosses movements. Then with a short, swift strike, the elementals stony fist shattered the head of one of the spiky Undead.
Unbound fell upon the pattern with glee but as he absorbed it his mind started itching before it exploded with a burst of pain as the pattern fell into his knowledge banks.
