*Core*
[2,000 XP Received!] -what?
[3,000 XP Received!] Ok, so Susan must be killing something… I wonder what? When I take a look at the specifics, wow that is a lot of goblins. Taking a look through the spirits eyes, and it looks like Susan is slaughtering some goblin village? Well that raises some questions. Well, I cannot do anything about it now- might as well use the resources provided to me.
Filling the space on the second floor is far cheaper than I thought it would, but it looks like the houses I was purchasing could be upgraded quite a bit. Interesting, but still so drab. Perhaps if I add a garden? Maybe a park of some kind? Should have a fountain too, and I see it has trapping options- but if I accidentally trap Hailey that would be an issue- so no traps.
The whole place is starting to look like a town! A shitty town, but a town. I will upgrade it later, I guess. But I have better things to do with this mana right now, first, one of the new options that has become available with my new floor!
[Lesser Lich Lv. 1] acquired.
“Oh, my Lord!” The Lich announced as he took form, a floating skeleton in a ragged robe. “How may I serve you?”
“Just guard the Core room for now,” I said, moving on. “I will talk to you later, wait for me until then.”
“As you command my Lord!”
It is really easy to be dismissive of my minions, I will have to be careful- that lich is sentient after all. Maybe I should be nicer? Whatever, the first thing I have to do is take care of a practical thing.
[Sheekol Buri Lv. 1] acquired.
Not sure how I unlocked a spirit that is supposed to be created from young women being drowned, but I am not going to think about it too much right now. Maybe it has to do with Susan’s family somehow? Not exactly something I can really ask…
“Hello my Lord,” the beautiful young woman with slightly damp hair bowed lightly. “What may I do for you today?”
“Well, to be honest,” as awkward as this is… “I needed a maid, and someone to keep an eye on the human visitors to the dungeon.”
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“My Lord has human visitors?” The Buri seemed surprised, but covered it up quickly. “As my Lord says, so shall I obey.”
“The next thing, your species name is simply too unwieldy. I shall name you… Xiangling” Bengal is close enough to China to name a Bengali ghost that right? Does it even matter? Why am I thinking about where a name comes from in another world? Well, I do not know any famous Bengali maids or attendants, and as even in this other world I am going to protest David Hawkes naming sense in this case.
Maybe having people here is a good thing- clearly, my sanity slips a bit in my isolation.
“My Lord!” Xiangling said, “I do not deserve such a thing!”
“It is not about deserving or not, it is a matter of convenience for me and others.”
[Unique monster unlocked: Xiangling, The Palace Maid!]
“Perfect,” that was unexpected, but not unwanted. “Your service will be appreciated, Xiangling.”
“Thank you, my Lord.” Xiangling’s voice was full of emotion- is a name really that important? I have forgotten mine after all...
I left back to go talk to the lich, maybe I should give him a name too? If I have a town, it needs a mayor right? Part administrator, part commader- a creature to control the others on this floor and direct them against invaders. Well, might as well.
“Ah, Master you have returned.” The Lich bowed deeply to me, “how may I serve you?”
“A lich seems like a useful creature to have as a commander, so I am going to give you a name and give you command over this floor. I do not want to have to do it myself after all.”
“My Lord honors me,” the lich bowed again. “But are you sure that you would have a lowly being like me have such a high position?”
Holy shit, the unending humility is infuriating! “I have said as much, no? You are now Sima- command over the necropolis is yours.”
[Unique monster unlocked: Sima, The Palace Strategist!]
And as long as I am at it, I move myself to the first floor boss room. Specy, or one part of him anyways, was inside. A boss named ‘Specy’ is just idiotic I think, so what should I choose?
“Lord Core.” Specy bowed slightly and returned to his post, now this is how a minion should be! If only he was like this when translating and did not editorialize everything!
Hmmmm… This is a bit harder than the others… I rather want to name him after the Spartans somehow, but I feel it would be too cheesy and according to Susan there already is a dungeon somewhere that tells bad jokes, so I would rather not be another joke dungeon…
“Your name shall be Ajax.” I said suddenly as the idea came upon me.
“My Lord!?” This took Ajax by surprise, but I was satisfied with my choice.
[Unique monster unlocked: Ajax, The Stalwart Defender! Max unique monsters created for floor number!]
Wait, what? I have a limit on the amount of minions I can name? I probably should have asked what the effect of gaining a name was for my minions… Whoops.