Awakening
“Hello there i see you are awake, i have a few quick questions before we start.”
Ok what would those be, and where am i, i can't see anything am i blind. Oh no am i.
“No no nothing like that, you are fine. Everything is normal. Now for my questions. What would you say is your greatest motivation?”
Umm i don't know, i just want to live a simple life and make the lives of those around me better i guess.
“Ok good start, now say you have to defend an area from people trying to take something what would you do?”
I guess try to find out why they want the thing and talk them out of taking it if possible.
“Not standard but good, now say you are given the choice of the four basic elements as magic which would you pick and why.”
Earth, as the other ones can not build things as well as earth can.
“Describe your greatest fear.”
That would be harm and willful destruction just to destroy, of those around me.
“Describe what a perfect body”
Tall, well balanced, good night vision, able to have a big family and protect it.
“Would you rather take a slow but safe path, or a fast but risky one.”
Slow and safe, why take risks when they are not needed.
“Well thank you for your answers, with that we can get you started in your new body and role as a dungeon core guardian, your assistant will be with you shortly.:
Wait what new body what do you…
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“Wake up sleepy head, oh i thought they would have given you some cloths to start with oh well, better to get used to being naked sooner than later.”
I felt the cold ground on my skin as a voice from above was talking to me. I stood up and looked at the thing talking to me, it was a small creature with gossamer wings and a clearly female shape with not a bit of cloth to cover herself. I looked down and saw that it seems i too was female and in a similar state of undress.
“Where are the clothes?” i asked and covered myself. She waved a hand and dismissed the question.
“Only thing here is us, the core, the rest of the cave and a single entrance leading out. And now i welcome you to your new life as a dungeon core guardian. You managed some great feat in your last life and by the grace of the balancers are set to guard this new dungeon. You will decide how this area grows and changes, and i will be here to help you as you need it to start with, and once you gain a greater understanding i will be a companion so you will not be lonely.
“Ok that is a lot to unpack there, dungeon core? Guardian? Balancers? Last life… you mean i died and now i am this?” i moved my hands and showed off all that i now am to the little flying thing.
“Hmm true, it is a lot to dump on someone, even more so when you wake up with no memories in a full adult body. But don't worry for i am here!” the little one proudly said as she put her hands on her hips. “Let's start slow with just us, i am a pixie, and you can call me...umm ya that will work ahaha. *caugh* you can call me titania or just tia for short.” titania said and looked over her shoulder and just smiled back at me.
“Ok tia but what am i then, and what is my name?” i asked the pixie.
“Oh ya call out or think status and that should pop up, i have a guess as to what you are but only you know who you are. I will wait while you find out.” tai said and just looked around the cave.
“Status” i simply stated. And a block of text showed up before me
Race demon, subrace succubus
Name alexander….
Name alexandrea
Age 32 years….
Age 10 mins
“Stop. what is wrong with this?” i said as the text changed before my eyes. Tia gave me a quizzical look. “It says my race is demon subrace succubus ok i get that even if i don't know what that means. But it says my name was alexander then it changed to say alexandrea, then it said age was 32 but then changed to 10 mins. What is going on?” i desperately asked.
“Oh that was likely the system correcting some old data, you can change your name if you want to be a whole new person,after all why try and be a person you don't even remember not to mention you don't have the same body or likely race now anyway. Oh how about for a place holder you go by lilly, that sounds like a good name.” tia said and bounced in the air with excitement over the new name idea. I sighed in resignation.
“Fine i will go by lilly for now, but if i feel like it i will change it latter. Status” i said and looked at my screen once more.
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Race demon, subrace succubus
Name Lilly
Age 15 mins
Titles dungeon core guardan
Abilities
Core Point Command
earth magic level 1
Seduction level 1
Soul Siphon level 1
Flight -locked-
“Ok so i have questions, like why do i have the ability so siphon souls. And what does that even mean.”
[Soul Siphon- as a succubus you have the ability so siphon the souls out of those you are physically intimate with. This can have the effect of making them fatigued, exhausted, or dead. It depends on what your intent is. A soul is only truly taken if you kill the subject. Souls can be converted to dungeon points. Even just fatiguing someone will grant you partal soul points to turn into DP]
“Ok well that sounds scary, better not use that.” lilly stated.
“Oh tell me tell me what is scary.” tia asked flying in loops of excitement.
“...soul siphon. It looks like it can kill people, not exactly what i am looking to do in my new life. But it might have a peaceful application, i guess.”
“Ya being a demoness of seduction and sucking the life out of people does kind of limit your options. You can't kill any intruders with brute force, that will make things hard indeed.” tia stroked her chin. “But don't worry let's go out and see where the cave exit leads to, and we can work from there.” she flew off and went down the cave tunnel to the exit.
“Fine i have no idea what else to do right now anyway.” i walked to the exit with slumped shoulders. When i got to the exit i was blocked and could not leave the cave. But i saw a endless expanse of sand before me, just outside of my new home or cage it as it now seems.
“Well this makes things a bit different,” tia said as she flew into the cave from above. “I flew up and all i could see was sand all around us, and i went up to the clouds. You are kind of a slow walker for me to do that and get back just as you got to the exit.”
“Ok why are things different then what you would expect?” i asked ignoring her mention of my slowness.
“Well normally there would be a town or at least a few cottages near or best case a city. That way you could get points faster by killing those that come into the dungeon an-”
“No killing, not if we can avoid it.” i interrupted her.
“Strange but your the boss, i think we need to cover what your job is now and how you are expect to do it.” tia slowly started to fly to the back of the cave. I followed after her keeping pace this time. We stopped at a marble on the floor, she laned and pointed to it. “This is the dungeon core, and you are its guardian. It gathers dungeon points which you can use for whatever ends you want. If it ever leaves the area of the dungeon or is broken then you die. If you die then it is broken. Simple so far right.
“No but go on.” i waved her to keep going.
“The core gathers points by itself slowly over time, but if given the life force or souls that are inside of it then it gains more points faster. Your goal is to protect the core and make it grow in power to better protect it. The balancers are quiet as to why the cores matter to start with but best not to question those that can destroy you with a thought as i like to say. Anyway there is likely a very good reason behind why you should make the core stronger but we are unlikely to get that any time soon, unless one of the balancers themselves come to visit our little hole in the middle of a desert.”
“Fair enough, so without people around what do you think we should do first?” i asked not really getting the whole balancers bit but it did not seem to matter for now.
“Open up the dungeon core status and look at your options, luckily i can see what your looking at for the core status, as to best help you.” tia said and smiled.
“Dungeon core status” i said flatly.
[unnamed dungeon core]
[location desert]
[ley line minor tributary]
[dungeon points generated per day 2]
[current points 10]
[the following are options to choose from, mobs, loot, environment, personal upgrades,]
I chose mobs
[you are able to pick a one race of monsters of balance at this time current options, goblins 4 dp, fey 5 dp, dragons 50 dp, vermin 2 dp, slimes 2 dp.]
“So what do you think tia?” i asked not knowing what would be best or even worst out of this lot.
“Well depends on what you are looking for, if you want to kill things with lots of weak things then goblins.” i marked them off my list of options. “If you want your monsters to be able to go outside then slimes are not a good idea in a desert,” another one to the no list. “Vermen are hard to control but are able to gather up a lot of points from lesser things they would bring into the dungeon and kill then, but they do there own thing without much input from a guardian, at least not till they hit a hive mind.” i added that to maybe. “ dragons are strong and will keep anyone away by just being a dragon, but they will also make some come here just because they are a dragon and dragons always have great loot. Leading to a lot of killing.”
“Ok fine none of them sound like a good fit for me so far, tell me the last one so we can move on.” i said expecting to be disappointed once more.
“Oh i saved the best for last, my own race the fey.” she stated proudly and puffed up her chest. “There are many kinds of fey, but most of them are helpful while we still have some good fighters in our ranks like the red capps and the boggarts. Mostly we like to help and play tricks, the down side is we are not high on the combat even with our best fighters. We are kind of on the goblin level for the most part, kind of funny did you know goblins were once part of the fey but they broke off and became their own thing.”
“No i did not know that but as you know, i don't know much. But it seems like fey will be the best bet when i pick a race.” i said and moved on to other options this time picking loot.
[you can choose loot to drop when one of your mobs dies or it can be found in a chest, options sand 1 point, rocks 1 point.]
“Ok why does loot only have sand and rocks as options.” i glared at the information.
“That is likely because that is all that has shown up in the dungeon so far, remember it is as old as you are. Whenever something is dropped in here the dungeon can make a copy of it so long as it is an object. And all you have so far is sand and rocks.” tia shrugged.
“Fine moving on then.”
[environment, you can add floors or other features: room 1, floor 20, water 2 points, magma 10 points, plants 4 points, or radiant mana 20 points, ]
“Ok fine i know the drill.” tai said as i just looked over at her to explain this as well. “Like it says you can change the dungeon adding new rooms or new floors, the more floors the harder it will be for someone to harm you or the dungeon, but i think we can wait on that for now at least. You can make little streams or ponds for those living in here to drink from, or use them as a bases for a trap a few of my cousin fey like to do that. You could also just make an area magma but that would kill most things it touches and for you i think it would best be used as a no mans land that no one wants to cross.” i nodded in appreciation at her understanding. “Plants would be good as well as we will need something to eat and it can be used for other things as well.” she looked me up and down pointing out my lack of cloths. “And last is radiant mana, that is a great ability and i am glad it showed up and with such a low cost. It makes it so anything alive in the dungeon does not need any nourishment not matter what they normally eat, they can just be fuled by the radiant mana, the down side for us is it also lets those that attack the dungeon use more of their abilities as they will refill there own mana at a higher rate.”
“Thank you for the rundown, i know that was a lot, but we are now at our last one.” i said and opened up the personal upgrades.
“And to wrap up my info dump here we go. Increase dp generation will up how much we get in a day by 1, and each time we can pick it after that the price goes up and it goes up fast. You get unlocking flight, but i don't think it matters till we have a big room for you to fly in. siphoned slave hmm must be a succubus only one, best guess is you can turn anyone you used your soul siphon on into a slave. And random new skill, that can be great or just pointless, i heard of a guardian that picked that and had bubble snesses. Funny but not very useful. I say save up for dp generation after we get some basics out of the way.”
[personal upgrades, increase dp generation 10 points, unlock flight 5 points, siphoned slave level 1 10 points, random skill new skill 25 points.]
“I am guessing plants and water first then fey, and last dp generation and see where we stand then?” i asked. She nodded sagely
“You catch on quickly.” tia zipped over and sat on my shoulder, the first physical contact i have had since awakening in this new body.
Note I still have to understand how to make the standard blue boxes.