I am still sad at my family member's passing but I can focus enough to create a D.W. chapter, It helps that I already made most of it before her passing.
hope you enjoy the chapter.
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(Ryan pov)
From the Dungeon station that was created by Megan while Ryan was away, Ryan was monitoring the movements of the 7 men he brought inside since he had nothing else to do.
for the most of the time there at the nexus the 7 men were collecting information on the dungeon, such things were:
the buying of Dungeon maps that records the dungeon layout that the holder have passed though for them.
the recording of prices that the golems charge for their products e.g. mana gems, wolf pelts, a spike bark knife (simply a spike from the tree on a handle).
Quality of the living Quarters in the Nexus which were ok for various levels of status from poor to low noble with a single home that I asked Megan to create in the center pillar of the nexus for her Highness and finally the ease of transportation of the materials that the dungeon would produce.
In my opinion the only thing lacking would be the transportation but that's natural for a dungeon but this will easily be solved with the next dungeon mapping upgrade so not a big problem yet.
The silence that I cocooned myself was broken by the sound of Megan's voice,
"Ryan, why are you watching them when you could easily talk with them?"
"that is complex Megan, it would be easy to describe it as 'I can trust those who are in a situation where I know they won't betray me while I don't trust people who I know will betray me'."
"How do you know that they won't betray you?"
"well its very obvious, im the caretaker of a new dungeon so while your still at a single floor your easy to be bonded to, but the bond limit on a young dungeon is 1 so to do this they would have to kill me so, this spawns my distrust in other people."
"That's weird"
"Whats weird?"
"When you said there was a bond limit I looked it up on my status but it says 1/2"
"maybe its because your older than you look and you had another bonded partner for longer."
when I say this i feel the formation of mana appearing in-front of my in the shape of a hand which proceeds to slap me.
"ok I will agree I deserved that, but its nice to know you can use mana formatting now."
For the dungeon there are many options that the dungeons things like monster set-up to item drop ratio's. Though up to this moment I have been guiding Megan but I think shes finally becoming Independent of me, now the only thing I will have to do is the actual job of Human-dungeon relations I sigh just from the thought of it.
"yeah, i don't know how i did that and i didn't buy anything."
I nearly fall over and nearly drop my book with my glasses becoming crocked on my nose when she said this. "so it was a reaction, that's something not recorded in the books."
after saying this there is a passage of silence where i fix my glasses till Megan cuts the silence after noticing my glasses.
"Ryan why do only wear your glasses when your with me but you don't when your with others?"
while still reading my book that I got before my parents death I say directly and clearly.
"Respect Megan, In the human world people with glasses are stereotyped as scholars so people think they are physically weak, meaning people will think they could easily rob you. so by learning a spell known as focus it stops this whole process from happening so to answer your question I can't read while using focus and most of my time with you will be time wasting till the dungeon conference every 5 years."
"the human world is very hard to understand and whats this dungeon conference ?"
"the dungeon conference is where all the dungeon masters come together and discus dungeon politics, its usually wars or trade agreements, what we want at the next one that's in 1 years time is wolf evolution techniques, level layout and other odds other stuff you can't form yet."
after hearing this another series of silence lingers till Megan cuts into it again.
"Ryan there a huge amount of people outside the dungeon coming up the path there is 4 small wagons carrying people and other stuff that are being identified as generic supply's also there is a carriage that's smaller with only 1 person in it."
when hearing this I get up from my seat and run for the Dungeon Nexus, the princess and the adventurers have arrived a lot earlier than i though they would, from how the king was excited about the dungeon deal he would send his daughter as fast as possible but I say this is too fast. then I realize I forgot the dungeon time effect, basically when your in a dungeon time is 8 times slower than the normal rate so the 5 hours it took for me to get the investigation group to the nexus and tour them of the town before going to the dungeon station would equal 40 real hours giving the king enough time.
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"Megan im we need a upgrade to the dungeon." i say while running.
"which one ? There is so many to choice from."
"its called Dungeon Nexus transport gates."
"ok let me see" . . . . " ok got it."
"good now make a transport gate in the entrance and the nexus." as I finish saying this I reach the Dungeon nexus its self where i see a archway of stone being carved in the center pillar, luckily the 7 men from the investigation group are there seeing it as well.
"you 7, follow me though the gate we have to go meet the princess."
from hearing my voice the 7 come towards me and we wait till the archway grows runes that glow bright before a translucent veil consumes the archway.
after this we just walk though and all 8 of us are at the dungeon entrance in-front of a crowd of people, they must of come in because of the cold then saw the archway appearing and producing 8 men.
The large man from the group who talked to me first at the crossroads yells that they are the investigation team and that they returned with information.
This sends murmurs though the crowd but the pinnacle is when the same man tells the crowd where im the dungeon manager which enlists the same response but with people giving looks of disbelieve, that is obvious when you see a 10 year old wearing glasses having one of the rarest positions known to man you wouldn't believe it either.
I'm not shocked when a Large muscly man walks forward and tries to intimidate me before trying to push me back with a single hand lazily, you kinda guessed what happened next. I reprimanded him for forgetting the adventurer rule no.3 'no matter your opponent never underestimate them!', before he could realize his whole arm was on the floor still bleeding from the shoulder down and my sword was sliding back into its sheath.
This scene gave birth to a wave of silence and fear while the man was in shock of his missing arm.
I say boldly and clearly
"Hello my name is Ryan colors, I am 10 years old and I am the dungeon manager, even though I am young I a certified B rank adventure that's power is equal to an A rank easily. even though im a kind person I am a stickler for the rules. this man here forgot adventure rule number 3 so I lightly punished him." this sends a series of bemused faces around before realizing that he antagonized a dungeon manager who are all known to be extremely powerful individuals.
"ok then with that cleared up I'll tell you the rules about this dungeon, since at this moment the dungeon has only 1 floor I am substituting for the boss so that means you have to get pass me to get to the Crystal." from hearing this many of the adventurers go pale in the face before realizing they won't get the crystal easily.
"the second rule is no murder is allowed in the dungeon unless in a duel in the nexus is accepted by both parties, any breach to this rule I will hunt you down myself." this sends the last of the people who weren't already pale in the face to pale, while this happens I mentally record who had a second paling reaction.
"finally the last rule is that in this dungeon is that the gate behind me won't work for people who have never entered the nexus before so you have to pass though the dungeon." this sends a series of groans thought the group but compared to the other rules its extremely tame.
"I will tell you this now. if the king hasn't already handed the quarter to the dungeon map to the adventurers guild yet which you all should have. The first area after that passage is a small maze with extremely tight passages, so if your of a wide persuasion your not getting though it fast and that is all" this sends a series of chuckles though the crowd.
after the speech the crowd of around 32 people start's to separate and form 7 groups of 4-6's with each being escorted by a investigation team member before they slowly trickle into the dungeon passages, while i have royal visitor to attend to.