This is pissing me off. Why are these guys so strong? They just finished off the pathways with Megs, and headed toward my boss. They peak in, and the large heavy set man leading the pack says.
“What in the fuck is that?”
He steps into the room, quickly followed by the others where they view my creature. The first four arms are given weapons, one a light spear, one a short sword, one a shield with a spike in the middle, and the last, also being a spear. The muscles bulging in the arms to hold the weapons like the spear one handed.
Milo
Luther steps back, and draws his bow, firing off multiple quick shots, one of them bounces off the shield this monstrosity carries, but two of them bury in it side. The monster, unfettered, skitters forward, the meaty clapping of the hands hitting the floor resonating throughout the room.
Theo steps forward, and squats, planting his shield. The monster simply plowing over Theo. Harkon quickly strikes at the creature, leaving a gash in its side, and intestines spill from the tear. Aeryn also steps forward, and takes a chop at it with her axe, but instead it swings one of its spears like a club, and gashes her chest deeply.
Luther continues to fire his bow, landing *thud, thud, thud* of three more shots into its side before finishing with a blow from an over sized crossbow he had hidden inside his coat, which, by the way, appeared to be far bigger on the inside than the outside.
This still isn't enough to finish the bastard off, Theo, currently buried under the mound of flesh that is this creature punches upward, his blows rupturing flesh, and finally it falls. Its brain, open to the air, spills outwards, and splatters over the stone.
Luther steps forward, and scoops up the brain, before sliding it into a glass jar, and into his coat, once again.
I wince at Luther. “What was that for?” He smiles at me.
“Carnimancers, the freaks they are, would pay a couple silver for a fully intact brain like this.” He grins, and wags his finger. “And, if you don't really care about the morals of it, you can find yourself one of those carnie’s, who like to play with the live ones, and they will pay even more because most of the time they are criminals.” He taps his knows. “You’ll figure it out.”
They turn back to find Aeryn healing herself, while Theo gripes about how overpowered it is. “This fuck, was to powerful for this floor! At least another two floors you dungeon bastard! Yeah! That's right! I'm talking to you. Yeah! Fuck you!” Luther laughs.
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“But yeah, a bit much, am I right?” Luther questions.
Harkon nods along. “Yeah, this would be better for fourth. Not fifth cuz that's where power bosses go.”
DC
“Maybe you were right, Gairy. The guys who just finished beating the boss are yelling about how overpowered it was.”
“Yeah boss. Maybe make a new one, and move that one to fourth.”
I nod along, as my delvers leave the dungeon, I begin working on a new boss. This time, I make it smaller, I copy a Goblin warrior, but mix in some meg, and end up with like a Opposum person. He has a weird long snout, and scary looking sharp claws. He is surprisingly intelligent, and fast. He replaces my Goblin snake, who was in the D ranks. He is at most high F ranks.
Finally I begin working on the fourth floor, and for this floor, I decide to experiment with a couple of new patterns Gairy managed to bring me. First things first he brought me a dear. First, I give it more powerful leg muscles, and the ability to charge said leg muscles with mana. I also grow some big ass horns on top, that should gut most people no problem. These are just slightly weaker than the boss on the third floor. Who I’ve decided to name Bob. He’s chill.
Once again, I make a large floor, but this time it is quite a bit bigger, being nearly 70 feet long, and 30 feet wide. The deer will roam through here, and hide in tall grass, before sneak attack charging any opponents. For the boss, I don't think my Goblin snake fits the vibes, so just use the same deer, but make it stronger, faster, and give it more mana. This just barely pushes it into the D ranks.
I show Gairy, and he comments. “Seems pretty good. Open it up. See what people think.”
I do my imaginary yawn. “Ok.” I quickly open up the new floor, and go back to regenerating mana, quietly.
Milo
I smile, and talk to Luther about something random. I can't believe that the first time I dungeon dived was a couple days ago, and I'm already making such good progress. We just got out of the dungeon, for today, and are going to get food, when i'm interrupted.
“Sir, Sir!” A young man, red faced from running, his face covered in acne scars. “Ivan wants to talk to you.” He falls down, puts his hands on his knees, and breathes heavily. Ivan. talk. outside. tower.” He points.
I smile, and toss him a copper coin, and run off. The only place offering food was a mess area set up by the Oats, and it was just next to the bridge running through the tower. I quickly jog forward, to find Ivan sitting on the bridge. He quickly stands, and walks towards Milo.
“We’ve got a problem.” He scratches at his head.
He quickly turns, and begins moving quickly towards the tower. Milo follows him, until he enters the area where the bridge runs through the tower. Ivan opens a thin wood door, and quickly begins gliding down the stairs. Seemingly ages later, they near the bottom of the tower. The bottom 3 floors are open for storage, with simple stairs running along the side. At the center of the tower is… swirling ball of energy. It's almost 2 stories tall, and is sort of ovular. It has a ring of dark purple magic, which seems to move to ring the ball where you move.
Ivan scratches his head. “I don't know what the fuck it is. But it's radiating a hell of a lot of power.”