The [Animal] Dungeon Lord Lightcrest suddenly declared.

“Building a Dungeon is very important but making monsters is equally as important. Monsters protect our territories and us Dungeon Lords from other dungeon lord monsters plus other free monsters.”

Yeah, that makes sense. From what I could see, monsters were fighting inside the dungeon, now I don’t know what free monsters are but it’s safe to assume that her monsters wouldn’t be fighting each other like that.

“Okay, here’s how it works, there are two main methods to obtain monsters. The first is to use DP and buy them. There, however, is a downside to this, monsters have ten ranks of strength, from SSS rank to G rank, and the monsters that you can buy with DP are only those of ranks E, F and G.”

“Um, does that mean that I can only buy weak monsters?”

“There is an exception. When you create a monster without exchanging DP, monsters that are of the same type but are below two ranks of that monster can be bought. For example, I have created the A ranked Fenrir, so then, I can buy the C rank monster Skoll with DP.”

After hearing that statement, I suddenly understood, if I wanted to have powerful monsters, then I would have to create them with means other than using DP.

“I’ll now show you the way to make your own monsters that don't use DP. It’s done using what’s called your Dungeon Lord’s Attribute cards. Now watch, [Draw]”

Upon saying the word, a card that depicted Lightcrest with a wilderness as the background. I could sense that the card held an intense power magic power.

Lightcrest passed that card to me. The instant I held it, information flowed into my mind.

[[Animal] Attribute Card. A rank. It can grant the characteristics of an Animal to the monster about to be created. Greatly improves instincts and vitality.

“Once each month, every Dungeon Lord may Draw one Attribute card from their collection, these cards are engraved with the dungeon lords own image within it. In my case, it’s an [Animal] Attribute card. When you combine at least two cards together, a monster is born. Why don’t you try shouting out [Draw] yourself?”

“Interesting. I’ll try it. [Draw]”

A card appeared in my hand. I was on that card with the image of the sky as my background.

I then verified my attributes.

[[Sky] Attribute Card. S rank. Grants the ability of flight to any monster about to be created. There is a fixed possible for monsters created through the use of this card to gain attributes of the sky. The chances are

Cloud 47%

Rain 20%

Wind 18%

Thunder 7%

Lightning 4%

Storm 2%

Moon 1.5%

Sun 0.4%

Sky 0.1%

These chances are out of 100 and are separate cases e.g. Cloud has a 49% chance to awaken but a 59% chance not to. To create a monster with this card, you must use at least two other Dungeon Lord Attribute Cards

I was excited and wanted to combine my cards but was stopped by Lightcrest

“Calm down, there are some things about monsters you need to know before you create your first monster, first, as I stated before, you need to use at least two cards to create a monster but you can at most use five cards, Monsters are stronger the more attribute cards you use. You also can’t use two of the same attribute cards when trying to create a monster”

“Oh, why is that”

“Well, it’s simple, more cards mean more possible attributes within one monster, not to mention the probability that it’s a higher class monster. Let me give you an example, if you were to use two A class attribute cards, the chances of it being an A class monster is 70%, B class 25% and S class 5%, however if you used 5 A class cards, A class is 40%, B class 15% and S class 45%”

Hearing that surprised me.

“So, will I get another card or did you just tell me that for the hell of it?”

Hearing that, Lightcrest just laughed

“You won’t get just one card, but two”

Lightcrest said then made a weird smile that kind of worried me, she soon handed me two cards

[Earth] Attribute Card. A rank. It can grant the characteristics of an Earth to the monster about to be created. Greatly enhances dexterity and strength

[Emperor] Attribute Card. A rank. It can grant the characteristics of an emperor to the monster about to be created. Greatly improves charisma and leadership skills’

Looking at the two new cards, I was quite surprised, even more so when I looked at the four cards I have now, 3 A class cards being [Animal], [Earth] and [emperor] with one S class being [Sky], what the hell is this going to create

“Now say combine and the names of the four cards you want to combine”

“Um, okay, combine [Sky], [Animal], [Earth] and [Emperor]”

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As I was saying those words, the names of the cards came out in a different voice, a deep dark male voice that sounded both hollow and full of life, it creped me out. Also, the cards started to glow and fly into the sky in a circle, they then shot together and once they touched, a bright light flashed blinding me

The light stopped.

And then it appeared.

A majestic humanoid monkey with snow white fur. Large claws as hands and a long monkey tail. Wrapped around the top of his head was a simple golden crown.

This site was majestic beyond compare.

“Interesting. I don’t recognise this monster but I can tell just by looking at it that it’s strong, it’s some kind of beastman from the looks of it and its S rank.”

Lightcrest looked at it then gave a slight smile.

Even I can’t help but feel excited when sensing its hidden power.

“……”

The monkey slowly opened its eyes; it had blue eyes with a golden sun in its right eye and a silver moon in its left.

Those eyes stared straight at me.

The monkey slowly opened its mouth and said.

“Father!”

The monkey then lunged at me, nearly scaring me out of my skin before he wraps around me and gives me a bear hug

“Father, Father!”

This certainly surprised me but I quickly tapped on its shoulders signalling it to let me go before I was choked to death, its physical strength is no joke

“Okay, that was a surprise, literally thought I was going to die, anyway I am the one that has created you. My name is…”

 Wait, what was my name? I don’t remember. As I started to think heavily for my name, a sudden stream of information entered my head

“[Sky] Dungeon Lord Onyd.”

The [Sky] Dungeon Lord Onyd… That’s my name. But why couldn’t I remember it?

“Onyd, so you found out your title”

Lightcrest said startling me

“So you knew my title?”

"nope, every dungeon lord is born with a title that has to do with the attribute but no other dungeon lord knows another dungeon lords title, by the way, when you get your true name, don’t EVER say it, if you do, they literally have full control of everything to do with you”

That surprised me,

“So that wasn’t my true name”

“Of course not, are you an idiot, true names only appear after a year when you ...”

Lightcrest suddenly stopped surprising me

So I won’t get my true name until after a year, and why did she suddenly stop, more questions kept appearing in my head, add onto the fact that I don’t remember anything and I’m in a real pickle. And what’s with these strange bursts of information

When I fought with the Gévaudan wolf, information on the skill [Sky] suddenly showed up out of nowhere and now my title suddenly appeared.

“Anyway, why don’t you check out your new monsters stats, I’m sure they will be cool, and don’t forget to tell me about them?”

Hearing her shook me out of my deep thought, I quickly looked at its stats

Race Celestial Monkey S Rank Name: Unnamed Level: 1 Physical Strength S+ Endurance S Agility S+ Magic Power A Special EX Skills: Suns flame

Berserk

Flight Attributes: Sky [Sun] & [Moon]

Earth

Animal

Emperor Description The Celestial monkey: Celestial monkeys are being blessed with the power of celestial bodies and have an enormous amount of physical strength but no magical abilities whatsoever

After reading the description, I was naturally surprised

“Well, what does it say?

“It’s a race called celestial monkey, it has S+ ranked physical strength and agility, S ranked endurance but C rank magic power”

I quickly explained the stats to Lightcrest causing her face to change

“interesting, I didn’t tell you this but all monsters attributes are ranked from F to SSS, now below B rank, it’s purely just lettered but once it reaches B rank, each rank has three sub ranks, B-, B and B+ as an example”

Hearing this causes me to be a bit surprised

“So do the sub ranks do anything?”

“of course, I’ll use the celestial monkey as an example, celestial monkey is an S ranked creature with S+ ranked physical strength, that means that it has SS+ ranked strength if it were an A ranked monster and A+ if it were SS ranked”

Hearing this surprised me, this means that the C ranked magic power is B ranked for an A class monster and A ranked for a B ranked monster

“Anyway, Usono, appear here”

Lightcrest suddenly said startling me, as soon as she did, a beautiful woman appeared, she looked like the type all men dreamed of but she had two fox ears on her head and nine fox tales wrapped around her like clothes

“This is [Sky] Dungeon Lord Onyd first monster, teach him to fight, he is a physical fighter so stick to that, it’s the only strong monster he will be getting until the end of the year so treat it with care”

Lightcrest suddenly says, Usono suddenly disappears and reappears in front of the celestial monkey, sending an uppercut into its stomach causing it to faint, she then picks him up and walks away

“Hey, what are you doing, and what do you mean only strong monster I’ll get in a while?

“All dungeon lord parents are required to give their dungeon lord protégé 3 dungeon lord attribute cards, unfortunately, I’m forbidden from giving you any more cards and you unfortunately just used all of them to create your first monster”

This startled me

“Don’t worry; there actually is a reason why I did this We dungeon lords can only draw an attribute card once a month for making monsters but we are always in constant need of cards.

Moreover, it’s not smart for a Dungeon Lord to use his own card every time we make a new monster. So, trading cards with other Dungeon Lords are also an important strategy.”

What she said is certainly seemed true, as I thought, something suddenly hit me

“I understand, there are three ways to make monsters. Buying ran E, F and G rank weak monsters with DP. Monsters that are in the same lineage but are two ranks lower of a monster that’s been made once could also be bought with DP. Finally, by combining dungeon lord attribute cards.”

Those were the three methods.

Thinking about it, I would most likely use the second method the most. E, F and G ranked monster would just be too weak and the third method was limited to once a month which is good for getting powerful monsters but is rather limited when you need to fill a dungeon.

The second method was like an in-between, you could get moderately strong monsters and could get them whenever you wanted, a win-win

Using my case as an example. I have made an S ranked Celestial Monkey so I could now buy B rank monsters of the same lineage as him. That’s great.

However, there is still a weakness, the variety of the monsters I could buy with the second method if I use all of one kind it would get easier as it goes on so I would still have to continue doing the third method’s card combination.

“Oh, by the way, there is a loophole. Duplicate Cards”

And so, Lightcrest continued her lesson.

Duplicate… If I were to rephrase it, they’re copies but what does she mean? What kind of things could duplicate cards be?