POV: Mithril Party "Crystalline Calamity"
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Adventurers could be split into ranks and grades. The ranks start at Iron, then Copper, and continued upward to Silver, Gold, Platinum, Mithril, Jade, Emerald, Diamond, and finally, the elusive Orichalcum. Each rank based on a material of higher general magical conductivity for those in higher ranks. Each of these ranks are split into 10 grades for finer detail.
Why is this important? That's due to the party that's currently entering an unexplored dungeon.
"Isn't weird for a dungeon to pop up less than a day away from the capitol?" asked the party's [Treasure Hunter], a 4 foot tall Gnome covered in a black and blue monster leather armor.
"I've seen weirder." atoned their Dark Elven [Frostfire Witch], Joanna. Her visage covered by a purple robe with a collar made of what looked to be lavender flowers. Her familiar, a [Royal Psy-Constrictor], hung around her neck protectively as always.
"Elves, no matter what kind or how old say that. What could you all have seen?" sarcastically asked the party's [Priestess of Knowledge], a human woman who wore oversized glasses and a blue and green robe, carrying a Silverwood Staff with a open book rested at the top.
"Quiet, we're here." stated the team's hulking [Paladin of Order], a wolf-like humanoid belonging to a race called the Wyldin. Her glowing golden armor lit the mechanical double doors to the dungeon's first floor.
The team quieted as they got into old habits, weapons readied, with a double check to their supplies, they opened the doors and prepared to fight.
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POV: Valoria, the Voidborn Dungeon
Valoria was a little bit pissed. Not enough to make it someone's problem, but she was none the less.
The first party to enter her workshop were powerful and experienced in using said power. She knew their classes and levels as soon as they entered and knew what she made wasn't going to challenge them.
The only things that ever came into the dungeon up to this point were wild beasts who never realized that turning their backs on the Manakins were a mistake they were willing to capitalize on.
As they talked while clearing her floor, Valoria worked on another new defender. A little something to see what would happen if she placed the raw energy that she turned into endless Mana into a creature? The stuff didn't have a name, so she'll call it 'Nullstuff' for now.
Just in case, she put the Manakin she was experimenting on into a 3×3×3 meter box of an alloy between tungsten and the metal she used as armor. After it was inside, she took the Nullstuff inside herself and funneled it into the box, all while thinking about how if this could result in a Jack-in-the-box monster of some sort.
The team has just finished the room in front of her first floor Bosses when she finished.
The box shook as muffled, but clearly insane laughter came from inside the box. A gloved hand on a arm that moves like it has no bones opened the latch and the box, revealing a colorful clothed female shape wearing a jester's hat, collar, and a leotard that was half white and golds, and half blues and blacks. While the womanly humanoid upper half was visible, there seemed to be nothing below the waist. Arms similar to the main body's momentarily extended outside the box.
The creature's face looked like an opera mask where one side was comedy, while the other tragedy, but still seemed to function as a face.
"At your service, Mistress~!", the monster giggled out, "What do ya need me for~?"
Then Valoria got a prompt and knew that maybe taking things slower will help her out.
Congratulations, [Unnamed Dungeon]! You have created an entirely new race! Again! Please name the race you created and what their instincts are to do.
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